Through the Ring of Red Mansions

It is said that Jia Huan thought that Shui Lang did not take his children and concubines out of the capital, and even the two old saints stayed in the Ningshou Palace. He didn't know if there were enough guards left, so he waited for Shui Lang to come in from outside. Quickly asked him, "Is what I just heard true? Don't Zhongshun and Renjing really dare to do something rebellious when you are out of Beijing?! Since you knew it long ago, why did you come out for autumn hunting?"

Shui Lang saw that he was not wearing a coat, although he was not barefoot, he didn't even wear socks, and his hair was loose, so it was obvious that he had found it just after waking up, so he smiled and led him in, "It's so hot here." Liang, you should get dressed before coming down."

Jia Huan didn't care about these things at this time, but seeing Shui Lang's expression was very calm, thinking that according to this person's scheming, he had already arranged a countermeasure, so he absent-mindedly dressed and washed, and listened to Shui Lang said, "I I left Ziqian for dinner at noon, if you don't understand anything, just ask him."

The two went to the flower hall next to the main hall together, Jia Huan realized that there was also a court lady and eunuch missing along the way. When he was dressing and washing just now, it was Shui Lang who was taking care of him.I don't know why, so I heard Shui Lang say, "Just to be on the safe side, there are too many people and it's hard to restrain them, so I locked up those palace maids and eunuchs first. Dongfangying and the others are also watching those escorts outside. Come officials."

Jia Huan was surprised, "Master Dongfang also knew about it earlier? Just kept me in the dark?!"

Shui Lang smiled and didn't answer. When he arrived in the flower hall, Bai Shichen was already there. When he saw Jia Huan, he laughed in a low voice, "You should have heard just now. This prince Teng will be punished by the nine clans. I don't know if you are one of them." ?”

Jia Huan was taken aback for a moment, then he remembered that Jia and Wang's family were originally in-laws, so they included himself, Tanchun, Baoyu, and Baochai, but before he could speak, Shui Lang said, "You know the law well. Even so, when you return to Beijing, you can be transferred to the Ministry of Punishment."

Bai Shichen hurriedly said, "I'm just joking. I haven't made a decree after all. What's more, I have to make a decree and I need someone to intercede. Among other things, how can the old concubine Beijing let her goddaughter be a widow?! "While giving Jia Huan a wink, he said, "It's not that Kuang Sheng doesn't know that Gong Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry likes his disciple very much. If I go, I won't take his temper at all, and something will happen out of nowhere. !"

Jia Huan saw that there was not much anxiety in the conversation between the two people, but he seemed to be confident about the affairs of the capital, so he was relieved and said with a smile, "I'm still very anxious now, you should tell me now , do those people who stay in Beijing matter?"

Bai Shichen smiled and said, "Didn't you see that none of the four county kings came this autumn hunting, and even though the Minister of the Ministry of War came, this one is about to die, and the alternate is guarding the capital, and the generals did not come. The admirals of Gansu and Henan provinces also happened to lead the decree to go to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit, so it’s fine for those two not to do it, but once they do, it’s not necessarily whoever will take advantage of it.”

Jia Huan nodded and said, "Having said that, the two of them are just for that seat this time. If they can't control the situation from the beginning, I'm afraid the two old saints will be disturbed."

Shui Lang smiled coldly, and said, "The Supreme Emperor is very stubborn, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to fulfill their wish."

Because Jia Huan didn't know the layout of the capital, he only said that the two old sages had already guarded the place. When Bai Shichen heard this, he couldn't help but a layer of cold sweat broke out on his spine. The Shou Palace deliberately creates a gap between the two princes and the Supreme Emperor. If the Supreme Emperor personally accepts the rebellion of the two sons this time, I am afraid that he will never speak for them again.

Bai Shichen glanced at Shui Lang with a faint look in his eyes, and didn't dare to mention this again, he hurriedly said to Jia Huan with a smile, "Did you forget what I said, when Yang Xiong had an accident, I didn't see him personally in Shandong, I just thought that King Renjun was going to plan the Jinxiu Pavilion, but later I felt strange why Prince Zhongshun didn't say a word of intercession when King Renjun was demoted, as if there was no such person, Wang Ziteng suddenly met with King Renjun After losing contact, he wrote a letter and begged for a face-to-face debriefing, and the sage may have secretly sent someone back to look for the old troops of the Beijing Daying."

Jia Huan said, "Sure enough, it's your magic. Lord Zhongshun said he was ill for a long time, and I almost forgot about him. I also thought that they might be planning to recruit later, but after waiting for a while, nothing happened. I thought he really didn't intend to pay attention to the matter of King Ren Jun, but it turned out that he was still ambitious after all, and he became more and more daring."

Bai Shichen smiled and said, "That's right! I just think that Prince Zhongshun has been too peaceful for a while, and it makes people feel weird. This time, King Qiu Liren couldn't come if he wanted to guard the mausoleum, and Prince Zhongshun said he couldn't come because of his illness." , wouldn't it be more suspicious."

The three of them talked for a while while eating, but none of them had much appetite, and Shui Lang talked very little, his face was always cold. The third wife, Jia Zheng and Tanchun didn't show their thoughts, they just stayed by Shui Lang's side.

After two days of silence, Shui Lang did not leave the palace for hunting, and the ministers outside realized that something was wrong, but no one dared to speak out, so they had to honestly wander around the forest farm every day.

On the evening of the third day, two fast horses galloped into the Fortress Palace. When everyone saw the two men dressed in plain white and filial piety, their hearts skipped a beat. Sure enough, after a while, they saw Manager Shan coming out to recruit all his followers. Everyone, announced the decree, "The Supreme Emperor Dragon controls Bintian, and today the decree is sent to the lords of the Ministry of Rites to arrange the funeral ceremony quickly, and drive back to Beijing overnight!"

The crowd couldn't help crying, and the officials accompanying the Ministry of Rites became flustered for a while. Some rushed to nearby counties to buy white cloth and paper, and some rushed to take stock of the festive ceremonial guards in the future. The place was all muddy, and he was in a hurry to prepare for the departure.

Dongfang Min still wanted to look for Jia Huan, but the little eunuch in the palace said, "Master Xiao Jia and Lord Bai have already set off with Yujia, and they were in a hurry when they left, so they didn't bother to inform Lord Dongfang."

Dongfangying said, "We don't need to worry about him. It's important for us to catch up with Yujia, these people let them go."

Many military generals also thought the same way, so they walked faster, only the old civil servants had to ride in the car, but the younger ones also endured the bumps and rode on horseback.

When Jia Huan returned to Beijing, it was Shui Lang's imperial driver, naturally he was not the only one there, there was also Bai Shichen and Beijing Jing Wang Shui Rong who came to report the news in person.

Because Shui Rong knew that the Supreme Emperor's guest was a big event, and it was unexpected, so he didn't dare to hide it, and waited for the capital to be settled, so he rushed to inform Shui Lang overnight, and said, "I originally thought that the Supreme Emperor and those two A rebel always has a father-son relationship, or admonishes him to resolve the military disaster, but unexpectedly, the two rebels are stubborn, and the Supreme Emperor is so angry that he vomits blood immediately. For the revised edict, the empress dowager was afraid that the emperor would not be in good health, so she had to give the jade seal to the two rebels and let them do things on their own. Fortunately, the false edict was not issued, and it has now been used as evidence against the rebels. He was imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment. At that time, the doctor of the Imperial Hospital was asking for the pulse of the Supreme Emperor, and said that he was very angry. He immediately asked the Supreme Emperor to take the medicine. The humble minister stayed in the palace. On the second day, he looked fine and woke up at noon. Once, I ordered the minister to invite the emperor back to the palace immediately, but when the empress dowager invited the medicinal soup at night, I found out that the emperor had already passed away!"

Shui Lang then asked, "How is the Empress Dowager?"

Shui Rong said, "The empress dowager is very sad, the imperial doctor said that mourning is necessary, so as not to damage the mind, when the minister came, he had already invited the mother concubine and Nan'an dowager to enter the palace to accompany the empress dowager."

Shui Lang asked about the casualties in the harem and court again, and Shui Rong replied, "Princes and princesses have already gone to the Huguo Temple through the secret passage, and there are heavy guards outside the temple, so it's not a big problem. The empress took the ladies in a hurry Fleeing into the Zhengyang Palace, the two rebels only went to Ningshou Palace, so the ladies were just a little frightened, this time it happened suddenly, although it violated the ancestral system, the minister did not stop it, now Ladies and gentlemen, you have returned to the palace. Those two rebels killed 19 Gong'e, 13 eunuchs, and three imperial guards, and burned down the Western Side Hall of the Imperial Study Room, Shaoyang Palace, etc., so the loss is not serious." said Thinking of what Eunuch Lin told him when he came to Yongchang Palace, although he didn't understand what it meant, but thinking that since Eunuch Lin said it was very important, I was afraid that those few things were the things that the Holy One loved, so he said again, "My minister's order." The people roughly counted the loss of objects in the palace, and the gold and silver and other things that the two rebels had snatched privately have been recovered, but a lot of porcelain was broken. There was panic and crowds, so I accidentally broke a few pieces of porcelain."

Shui Lang paused and asked, "How many pieces of porcelain?"

Shui Rong hurriedly said, "Eunuch Lin said it was six pieces." Seeing that Eunuch Lin's instructions were very accurate, he didn't wait for Shui Lang to ask, and said, "It's four pieces of pastel porcelain, one blue and white, one Ru kiln flower Dendrobium."

Then Shui Lang asked coldly, "Who broke it?"

Shui Rong could hear the faint anger in it, and hurriedly acted on what Eunuch Lin said, and was about to reply without changing a word, when suddenly he heard Jia Huan cough lightly, and said, "The matter is urgent now, why don't you take the emperor with you first?" The imperial army returned to the capital, and listened to the report of the Prince of Beijing while walking on the road, which saved some time, and the Supreme Emperor's important affairs are the most important, and the rest of the details will be released later. It will not be too late."

Both Shui Rong and Bai Shichen heard Jia Huan's intention of blocking, and seeing that Shui Lang's expression did not change, they just nodded in agreement, and then heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately followed Shui Lang.Because it was a long journey day and night, Jia Huan couldn't hold back and got confused in Yujia for a few times. After all, Shui Lang asked Shui Rong who the people who broke the porcelain were.This matter was only due to the ancestral status of the water solution, so he never entered the Yongchang Palace, otherwise, if he saw the word "Langhuan" on the back of the four pieces of famille rose porcelain, the doubts in his stomach along the way would be eliminated immediately.