The shadow of the country

Looking sharply at Yilan, he said sternly, "Don't you understand, Fifth Brother? Even if I can't make the Cloud Shadow Guards work for me, I will definitely find them and destroy them with my own hands. Isn't the Cloud Shadow Guards still stationed in the capital now?" Is it? Then I will send all the soldiers in the capital to search for his hiding place. I will allow you a few more days to consider this matter. Come and prepare a sedan chair to take Fifth Brother back to Prince Rui's residence."

Yi Lan sneered in her heart, turned to the direction of the palace gate, snorted coldly and said: "If the emperor's soldiers can really search for the place where the Cloud Shadow Guard is stationed, then they should search. Minister, please leave first." Then she walked out of the palace gate with a flick of her sleeve.

A eunuch in the palace obeyed the emperor's order just now, and bowed respectfully to invite Prince Rui to return to the mansion.Yijun stood in front of the imperial case with her hands behind her back, seeing the little eunuch respectfully sending off Prince Rui, the level of respect and flattery was even higher than that of the emperor herself.There was another layer of frost on his face, and he said to the left and right: "When the little eunuch comes back, I will stick him twenty." Then he walked towards the inner hall of Weiyang Palace.

Since Yilan returned from the palace to Prince Rui's mansion that day, Yijun began to take extra precautions against the entire palace.But in January, almost all the servants in Prince Rui's mansion were replaced in batches and dismissed with a lot of money. Almost all the people in the mansion were Yijun's people, who were always monitoring Prince Rui's whereabouts.During this month, the entire army of Habayashi guards stationed in Beijing was mobilized, and went door to door in Beijing to repeatedly search for the trace of Yun Yingwei, but nothing was found.Perhaps the emperor had lost all patience, one month later he actually ordered the Habayashi guards to withdraw and surrounded Prince Rui's mansion instead.The emperor claimed to increase the number of guards in Prince Rui's residence, but in reality, he put Yilan under house arrest.Seeing Mu Yan's worries, Yi Lan relieved him that he needn't worry, the emperor would not do anything to him now, and an emperor would not bear the unkind reputation of "killing his brother" when the court situation was first decided.The whereabouts of Yunyingwei is still unknown. Even if the emperor becomes angry, he will only be placed under house arrest and cannot be killed.Mu Yan was relieved for the time being, and silently thought about the countermeasures for the emperor to withdraw his troops.

Another month passed, and the emperor still kept the two of them under house arrest in the mansion, and the several guards outside Prince Rui's mansion also showed no intention of withdrawing.In the afternoon of that day, Mu Yan played the flute alone in the white jade pavilion in the mansion, while a maid hid behind the pavilion and listened quietly.Suddenly, Mu Yan stopped and gently put down the Ling Yun flute in his hand, turned around and said, "Who is over there? Come out."

After calling several times, the servant girl walked out from the back of the pavilion in trepidation, knelt down and said: "The servant girl happened to pass by here after serving tea, and couldn't help but stay a little longer when I heard the young master playing the flute here. The servant girl knows I was wrong, please Forgive me, my lord."

Mu Yan asked: "You used to be a servant of the emperor, right?"

The servant girl was extremely flustered when she heard him asking such a question, and she said tremblingly: "Yes... the emperor ordered the maidservant to come to Prince Rui's residence to serve the lord. Just now the maidservant didn't intend to disturb the young master, and the servant girl doesn't dare anymore, I beg the young master to forgive me! "

Seeing that she kept kowtowing, Mu Yan hurriedly told her to get up, and sighed softly: "Forget it, I don't blame you, you are also following orders. It's cold on the ground, don't kneel down."

Seeing Mu Yan's gentle expression, the servant girl dared to help her up, and said cautiously: "Thank you, Mr. Forgiveness. In the past, the servant girl was in the palace, and she had the honor to listen to the musicians in the palace play when the empress dowager entertained the officials on her birthday. If the young master wants to go to the Yuefu, those musicians will feel ashamed and run away."

Mu Yan smiled silently: "Escape...what's so bad about being able to escape? It looks calm and beautiful on the surface, but in fact there are undercurrents surging, and there may be changes one day...If you can escape...you would have escaped long ago."

The servant girl raised her head in doubt, and said hesitantly, "My maidservant doesn't understand."

Mu Yan smiled lightly, quickly shook his head and said, "It's okay, you can go to work first."

Then the servant girl bowed her head and replied: "Yes, that servant girl will leave first."

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☆, 57. Collar

57、Cross

That night, Mu Yan came to Yilan's room, and through the half-closed door, he could vaguely see the figure of the person in the room standing with a scroll.He went in and closed the door of the hall, and asked: "It's the second watch, are you still asleep?"

Yilan closed the scroll, stepped forward to embrace Mu Yan, and sighed softly after a while: "This is not an option. I heard everything you said in the Baiyu Pavilion today. Others don't understand, I I understand. These days... I really wronged you."

Mu Yan smiled faintly, "Nowadays, there's no need to talk about it... I don't want the emperor to withdraw his troops now. It's fine to be under house arrest here, as long as I can be with you."

Yi Lan closed her eyes and meditated for a moment, the moonlight poured down through the window paper, casting a silver glow into the room.The night when it was about to enter the third watch was extremely quiet, and a few low crows could be heard from outside the window from time to time.After a while, Yi Lan slowly shook her head, "Are you willing to be imprisoned here forever?" He raised his head and said slowly, "Why don't we bet everything for a while."

Mu Yan couldn't help being slightly shocked, he knew how crazy and desperate this gamble was.Bet everything they have now, even each other's lives, in exchange for a free flight... Mu Yan thought quickly in his mind, and finally nodded slowly: "Okay. Let's bet everything on it." Bar."

Taking advantage of the situation, Yi Lan hugged the person in her arms even tighter, "Have you decided? If you win the bet, you can just get out of here. If you lose, you will lose your life."

Mu Yan buried her head in his arms, and nodded slowly but firmly.It is love that washes away all fear and humbleness, and erases all competition for honor and disgrace.Love is a passion that can live and die together, love is the courage that is willing to fight even if you are smashed to pieces.

The night is as cool as water, and the moonlight is like practice.The soft moonlight shines on the two people who are cuddling each other in the house.At this moment, it would be superfluous to say any more words.Just because they have already connected each other.

Two days later, Yi Lan secretly sent a confidential letter and cloud talisman to the Yunyingwei outside the mansion.That night, Yunyingwei 120 and four people all sneaked into Prince Rui's mansion secretly, took out all the money in the mansion, and drugged the guards and maids who were monitoring Yilan in the mansion, and moved them out of the mansion after they fell asleep.On the night of Chou, Yi Lan burned down Prince Rui's Mansion with a big fire.When Mu Yan asked the reason, Yi Lan just smiled, saying that she didn't want to leave a way out for herself, and would never come back again, let alone repeat the same mistakes.Escaping from Prince Rui's mansion, Yi Lan took Mu Yan and galloped westward all the way.Half an hour later, the two rode on the top of the mountain and looked at Prince Rui's Mansion in the distance, only seeing the burning flames inside and outside of Prince Rui's Mansion.Because the fire was too fierce, dozens of eunuchs ran in and out to fight the fire in a hurry, but it was only a drop in the bucket.Yi Lan gazed at the direction of the palace, and whispered in Mu Yan's ear: "From now on, Pan Yun will no longer have Prince Rui and Marquis Zhong Ning." In the silent night fog, the whisper was more peaceful and stable, like A willow leaf quietly floats into the lake.It doesn't seem to be sentimental, let alone regretful.

At Maoshi the next day, the twilight dissipated, and the sky was slightly pale.In Weiyang Palace, Emperor Kangcheng's personal eunuch Zhang Gonggong added a spoonful of gray-black ambergris to the gold-plated incense burner as usual, and then leaned over and whispered: "Your Majesty, it's time, you should get up."

After a while, seeing that there was no sound in the inner hall, Eunuch Zhang took a deep breath to calm down his panic, and then quietly walked into the hall with a cup of tea in his hand.As soon as I entered the inner hall, I saw the emperor with his back to the hall door with his arms outstretched, and was dressed by two court ladies.Yijun slightly turned her head and glanced at Eunuch Zhang, "What's the matter?"

Eunuch Zhang hurriedly knelt down and served the tea, already dripping with cold sweat: "Yes... this servant has indeed reported something. Late last night, Yubayashi's deputy guard came to look for this servant and said... Last night, Prince Rui's mansion was flooded, dozens of people rushed to rescue him The fire couldn't be stopped, and the palace burned until this morning and it has become ruins. The guards inside and outside Prince Rui's palace were drugged last night, and Yulin's guard was negligent for a while, Prince Rui has, already..."

Yijun suddenly turned around and said in shock, "He's dead?"

Eunuch Zhang leaned over and said: "No, Prince Rui just took advantage of the time when all the Yubayashi guards were asleep... and escaped. The Yubayashi deputy guards knew that the crime of dereliction of duty should be punishable by death, so they came to plead guilty to the emperor in person later."

A stern smile crossed the corners of Yijun's lips, "Prince Rui has escaped? Heh, he is relieved. Tell Yubayashi's deputy guard my order, and I will give him a chance to redeem himself. Immediately go and hunt down Prince Rui. If you do not come back after being hunted down, ask him to come and see you." After pondering for a moment, he added: "In three days, I want to see the living Prince Rui."

Zhang Gonggong had a deep friendship with Yubayashi's deputy guard, he knew that it would be difficult to capture Prince Rui alive within three days, but it would be much easier if he only had to present Prince Rui's head to return to his command.Unable to bear Habayashi's deputy guard being beheaded according to the crime, he boldly persuaded: "The emperor is kind and merciful, but there is really no need to keep Prince Rui's life. This slave boldly remonstrated that Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty lost only because of his soft heart, and said, 'Don't Hurt King Yan' words. Why doesn't Your Majesty let Habayashi General Prince Rui directly..."

Yijun looked arrogant and indifferent, and said with a sneer, "You compare me to Emperor Jianwen?!"

Hearing the emperor's simple words, Eunuch Zhang was shocked like a thunderbolt, kowtowed and said, "I dare not! I have made a mistake, please forgive me!" Eunuch Zhang is the number one eunuch in the palace, and he is usually the most alert Figure out what the emperor thinks.Even now, they kneel down in fear and kowtow, and the maids of Weiyang Palace have never seen such a formation before, they all held their breath and knelt all over the ground.

At this time, ambergris from outside the hall floated into the inner hall, and the curl of cigarette smoke lingered for a long time.Yijun closed her eyes and inhaled the distant fragrance lightly for a while, only to calm down the anger and anger in her chest.Ambergris is extremely valuable and is a royal tribute, and now only the [-] gold, which symbolizes the highest position, can calm one's mind a little.After a long while, Yijun said coldly: "I am not Emperor Jianwen, and Prince Rui is no better than Emperor Taizong Wen. Within three days, the living Prince Rui will definitely be captured." After finishing speaking, she turned around in full view and strode towards the Go to the Golden Temple.

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☆, 58. Sumeru