Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

In this year, except for the two forces of the aristocratic family and the nobles who are in the game and it is difficult to escape, the others have learned to be smart.

In the past few years, the situation has changed, the waves have washed the sand, and those who can continue to stand on the court after the torment are the old fritters among the old fritters, and all of them are foxes who have become fine. All of them are masters and masters.

Seeing that the banquet had been served, all the officials obediently picked up their chopsticks, held their wine glasses, and opened their mouths to eat. Everyone munched on the delicious food as if they hadn't had a full meal for several years. They drank fine wine glass by glass, without even whispering to each other, for a moment the entire Qianqing Palace could hear clearly the dropping of a needle in silence.

Jiang Yuan is an official of the Ministry of War, and there are quite a few military officers sitting not far from his head. These military officers are even more excessive than the civilian officials on the opposite side. Many of them don't even hold chopsticks, and hold a sheep in their hands. Legs, just started chewing, and in this way, both hands and one mouth were occupied by food, except for the sound of swallowing, there was no meaning of quarreling at all.

It can't be said that the palace banquet was indifferent, it was very hot for all the ministers to eat, but the atmosphere in Qianqing palace was almost so cold that it was scum.

To put it bluntly, a banquet is indeed a meal, but has anyone ever seen everyone just focus on eating at a banquet without saying a word?Not even a toast, is this a banquet?With such a cold scene, the old emperor didn't know whether he should bite the bullet and speak.

It's rare for me to preside over a palace banquet, so what's the matter with all of you wretched courtiers just focusing on eating?Didn't anyone come out to say hello to me?Are you still loyal ministers?

Shun Wang Situ Hui really had no choice. Among all the people present, he most hoped that the old emperor could establish his prestige and severely suppress Situ Sheng, who had become more and more powerful recently.This urgent hope is even stronger than the old emperor himself!Even if the old emperor loses his power, he is still the nominal master of the world, and he can still be prosperous and rich until his death.But what about myself?

If Situ Sheng really took full control of the government, what would his life be like?Situ Hui is very sure that if he becomes the co-lord of the world, he will never let his brothers go, so Situ Cheng probably won't let him go if he treats himself like others.

Therefore, he must hold the old emperor's thigh tightly and preserve the power of the old emperor, so that he will have a chance to turn the tables, and will not always worry about the pain of life that would be worse than death in the future.

Situ Hui turned his head, and hurriedly instructed the little eunuch of the Qianqing Palace who was standing beside him to call some official women from the Jiaofang Division to perform singing and dancing, at least to liven up the atmosphere first.The little eunuch quickly walked out of the palace, and not long after, a group of women from the teaching workshop were called in. The clothes were bright and beautiful, and it was the most beautiful time for women.

Jingchao's Jiaofang is not so much a place for dancing and music training, but rather a government-run high-end brothel plus its training institutions.

The people here are roughly divided into two parts, one part is the outstanding entertainers recruited by the government from the people, or the retired maids and mothers in the palace.These people are regardless of gender, male and female, and even eunuchs. They usually only train the disciples in the teaching workshop, teach them dance and music talents, manage the daily work of the teaching workshop and so on.

Although those outstanding entertainers can also perform, they generally only perform for princes and ministers, which is equivalent to very high-level entertainers, performers in ancient times.

Although these people may not all be innocent, they are indeed just performers. They also have official background protection, and they are not afraid of being entangled by people other than officials. The wages are also very good. It's a pretty good job.

The other part of the people is not so pure, they are all women, and their status is official slaves, that is, the family members of the officials who committed crimes were sentenced by the government to serve as Jiaofangsi.

Of course, these people will also receive special training in dance and music performances, and they also need to perform performances from time to time.But they also have to receive customers in a special place on weekdays, greet and send them off, and they are not even allowed to redeem them. To put it bluntly, they are official prostitutes.As long as people with status and money can put them in various...

There are special regulations in the laws of the Jing Dynasty. People with official titles are not allowed to go to the romantic place, but they are allowed to go to the Jiaofang to have fun. Therefore, many officials who pretend to be romantic often call their friends to go to the Jiaofang, but let the Jiaofang There is a constant stream of people in the middle, and they often receive people from the government.The family members of these criminal ministers are naturally more in line with the appetites of those self-righteous officials than prostitutes. It is no wonder that everyone will show ambiguous smiles as soon as they mention Jiaofangsi.

After all, the first type of people in the teaching workshop is only a small number of them. If it is only a small performance, it is okay, but a large-scale performance such as a palace banquet cannot have only this type of people, otherwise it will inevitably affect the scale of the performance.Therefore, among the performers in this wave, there are also some official slaves. Regardless of their status, they lined up and waited to perform dances to the emperor and his officials.

Since there is a banquet, how can there be no singing and dancing performances?All the people present cheered up, and stopped eating and drinking with their heads down. They all raised their heads to see what the girls from Jiaofang were about to perform.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the hall had eased, King Shun quickly ordered the Jiaofang Secretary to start performing, preparing to dispel the embarrassment just now with singing and dancing, so as to warm up the atmosphere for the old emperor's speech to suppress Situ Sheng.

Along with singing and dancing, chime bells and strings sounded together. Jiang Yuan held the wine glass in his hand and watched the performance off the stage with interest.This is an authentic ancient dance music performance. In the past, he could only look at the graphics of the murals or the descriptions in the articles. How could it be as beautiful as the live version?This kind of dance and music performance is completely different from those modern antique performances. It has a special charm that radiates from the bones.

Sitting next to Jiang Yuan was Jiang Yan. Seeing that he was engrossed in watching the dance, he whispered to him, "Qingyuan, did you see the two girls in front?"

Jiang Yuan didn't take it seriously, and glanced at it casually.The two women in front both had peach blossom makeup, revealing a trace of extra charm from the corners of their eyes.Both of them were seventeen or eighteen years old, their lips were painted and their skin was creamy, they were indeed beauties.As the saying goes, the root of the green onion is white and clean, the ear is listening to the bright moon in the East China Sea, the waist is flowing, and the tortoiseshell light is on the head.She is the delicate and delicate Jiaofangsi woman, is there something wrong?

"Is there anything special about the two of them?" Apart from seeing that the two of them are pretty, Jiang Yuan didn't see anything wrong.

"I knew you knew, you are a bit old-fashioned, you never go to places like teaching workshops, and you don't even watch plays, how do you know who these two are? Look at the person on the left, she was originally from Jiangnan The third daughter of the Zhen family is named Zhen Zhenzhu. The one on the right is the eldest daughter of the Yang family, named Yang Diaochan. What a pretty face." Jiang Yan said with a smirk.

He didn't say that Jiang Yuan didn't pay attention to it. Once she entered the Jiaofang, how could a woman keep her reputation? It's fine if Jiang Yuan doesn't know her. Kind of ugly.

The Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River was confiscated and exterminated because of the palace change, and the aristocratic Yang family was implicated in King Shun, so it was unlucky. In the minds of the officials, both of these two families were unlucky because they were related to the royal family. At this time, when they saw the daughters of their two families being pretended to be official prostitutes to perform dances for people at palace banquets, doing such humble things, many people who were a little bit active put their minds back. The road is really too hard, they can't afford it...

Jiang Yuan snickered in his heart, this dance and music performance was really good, no, it immediately scared everyone away from their thoughts that shouldn't be there, seeing that the atmosphere was three times colder than it was just now He wants to see how the old emperor will build up his prestige in a while, and see if anyone pays attention to him...

Situ Hui frowned when he saw that the scene became more deserted. He turned his head and looked at the two women at the head of the row to know what was going on.

Prince Shun is famous for his fondness for messing around, and he has an actor in his family, so there is no woman in the teaching workshop that he doesn't know.The Yang Diaochan of the Yang family is still the niece of his original concubine, and he met him before he entered the Jiaofang. As for Zhen Zhenzhu, cough, he had a drink with her in the Jiaofang.Now that I know their identities, how can I not understand the thoughts of the officials?

Seeing that the atmosphere could not be saved, Situ Hui couldn't help but glared at the little eunuch just now.

The little eunuch shrank back to a corner immediately after being stared at by him like this, and didn't dare to look up at him at all, probably because he was very scared.

Situ Hui didn't care too much, he had never seen this servant before, probably not long after he was transferred to Qianqing Palace, no wonder he was so incapable of handling things and messed up his plan.Now it's the time of the palace banquet, he can't do anything, when he turns around, he has to teach this ignorant slave a lesson!

The old eunuch in charge of the Jiaofang Division was also embarrassed to see the atmosphere of the song and dance performance so cold.After a dance, he quickly replaced the dancing girls, and another group of people performed the dance music, but as long as the officials saw the dance music, they would naturally think of the life experiences of the two people who were in the front row just now. It was a wonderful dance, and they were not interested in watching it.

The old eunuch had no choice but to bring in some people from Baixi to perform. Although Baixi was not solemn enough to be on the stage, but in order to reverse the atmosphere, he could only let people from Baixi come up to reverse the situation.This Baixi is probably the current acrobatics, and it also includes some forms of performances such as magic, tricks, illusions, games, etc. Compared with the dance and music representing etiquette, Baixi obviously had a low status in the Jing Dynasty, but its visibility was low. is good.

At this time, most of the Baixi performances were some skills such as swallowing knives and walking on fire, and they always came as they were thrilling and exciting.Because they are performing in the palace, it is obviously not acceptable to use real knives and guns. The knives used in the knife swallowing performance are actually made of wood, but they are just painted with a layer of silver paint, which looks shiny.

The performer was a middle-aged man in his forties. He took the wooden knife from a woman, held a foot-long straight-edged wooden knife in both hands, raised his head and opened his mouth, and put the knife between his teeth, straight and straight. He thrust the knife into his throat.This performance looked very thrilling, no one dared to make a sound, until he stuffed the handle of the knife into his mouth, the surrounding officials cheered in unison, and the atmosphere in the hall immediately became enthusiastic and jubilant.

It seemed that everyone was attracted by the Baixi entertainer who swallowed the knife. The little eunuch who was hiding in the corner just now approached King Shun's side again, as if attracted by the wonderful Baixi in the arena. attracted the same.The loud applause around him completely overwhelmed the sound of his footsteps. He walked forward slowly, getting closer and closer to King Shun, until when he came close, he suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve!

The blade of the dagger seemed to be made of wood painted with silver paint, but he grabbed the wooden blade and pulled it out forcefully, just like pulling out a scabbard, pulling out the wooden blade-shaped shell, revealing the A real sharp knife inside.This eunuch actually sneaked in a real knife that looked exactly like a wooden knife while being called into Jiaofangsi!

That little eunuch was really too nervous. He was only fifteen or sixteen years old. Before he entered the palace, he was just a pampered son. Where did he do anything dangerous?Not to mention killing people, he has never even killed a chicken. Although he was mentally prepared before the assassination, he still couldn't control his heartbeat and breathing when he really wanted to do it.

He swallowed the saliva in his mouth, feeling his heartbeat like thunder, no matter how hard he breathed, he felt that his breath was not enough, he forced himself to calm down, bit the tip of his tongue hard, and managed to stabilize his mind through the pain, intending to stab Make this knife!

It was probably because he was too nervous that he made the noise, but another eunuch next to him noticed something was wrong. When he saw him take out a dagger, the eunuch was very frightened and hurriedly shouted Shouted: "His Royal Highness Shun, be careful!"

Although it doesn't take much time to say the word "be careful", adding the words "His Royal Highness Shun" will make it much slower. It's not about avoiding, but subconsciously observing the situation left and right, so just as Shun Wang Situhui realized something was wrong, the knife was about to stab him.

Considering that he had been on the battlefield, his reaction was quite sensitive, and he dodged to the right in time, and finally avoided the vital point. The knife did not stab his back heart, but penetrated deeply into his left shoulder.

Situ Hui couldn't bear it any longer, and let out a loud cry of pain, blood flowed from his left shoulder...

The little eunuch was flustered and didn't know whether he had stabbed the opponent's vitals, tremblingly, he pulled out the blood-stained dagger, and then panickedly wanted to stab the prince Situ Cheng who was sitting next to King Shun. .

Unlike Situ Hui, who is a little weak and always neglects to exercise, in order to set an example for his sons who like to practice martial arts, no matter how busy Situ Sheng is, he will find time to exercise his skills every day.

Seeing the knife stabbing towards him, Situ Sheng propped his hands on the ground, and dodged the dagger with a rollover. Then he kicked the little eunuch's wrist with his right leg off the ground with all his strength.This kick was really accurate and ruthless, hitting the opponent's wrist bone.There was only a slight "click" sound, and the dagger in the little eunuch's hand immediately fell to the ground, holding his wrist and screaming in pain, not knowing whether his wrist bone was broken or dislocated.

Just when the little eunuch was assassinating King Shun, the girl who was standing beside her and had just handed the knife to the Baixi entertainer suddenly pulled out a wooden knife more than two feet away from another longer wooden knife in her hand. Long straight knife.Before all the officials could react, she rushed straight to the old emperor on the imperial steps.

The girl's speed is extremely fast, and her speed is not too slow compared to the world-class sprinters of later generations. In the main hall, the place where she was performing just now is only seven or eight feet away from the old emperor on the throne. But the two jumped up and rushed to the steps, ready to rush up.

Since it was near the throne, besides the old emperor, there was only one old eunuch and two maids serving beside him. The bodyguards and other personnel were all on guard outside the hall, and there was no one on the imperial steps to rescue him in time.

There are quite a lot of courtiers below the imperial steps, but who comes to the palace banquet for the Chinese New Year and still wears weapons?Even if you bring it, you won't be allowed to bring it into the Qianqing Palace!At this time, everyone is unarmed, even if they want to save him, they don't know what to use to resist!

Under the urgent situation, it dragged the old emperor's thoughts back to the winter solstice palace change a year ago.Recalling what Jiang Yuan did at the beginning, the old emperor Fuzhi lifted the table in front of him suddenly.I don't know if it was due to being forced to rush, but the emperor, who is usually weak and weak, was able to lift up the table case weighing more than [-] catties, and the thick table top just blocked the narrow imperial steps. .The old emperor himself bowed and hid behind the table case, intending to use the thick table top to cover his body.

I have to say that this trick is really effective. The workmanship of this imperial case is very exquisite. The table top is inlaid with gold and silver. It's not bad, unless you get a legendary sword, you can't pierce it easily.The sword in the girl's hand was obviously not that kind of powerful sword, but who said that the girl would stab it with the sword?

No stabs!The girl who looked very weak did not slow down at all. She put the sword in her hand, turned sideways, and slammed into the heavy desk with all her strength!

Some people may think that such a light and frail appearance like hers can't damage such a heavy desk case at all, but the scene at the next moment frightens them quite a bit, and they slap them hard.A young and thin girl unexpectedly knocked into the table that weighed more than 100 catties!

No, it's not a big deal, the powerful impact didn't weaken much because it hit the table, and then the old emperor behind the imperial case was also knocked out, if the maids on the imperial steps didn't do it for him Back pad, just this one, the old emperor had to slap hard on the wall behind him!

This, this, is this a thin little girl?Even a big man with big arms and round waist can't do this, right? !

It has to be said that the heavy table is still useful. Although the collision seemed frightening, the girl had to stop and stabilize. This time was enough for the generals under the royal steps He rushed over to rescue him.Zhang Dahai and Pang Liang of Gyeonggi Daying rushed to the front, Jiang Yuan followed closely behind, and a group of generals rushed to rescue him with bare hands.

That girl obviously had practiced martial arts before. Although her fighting skills seemed a little rusty, her attacks were quite methodical.It stands to reason that even if an ordinary woman practices martial arts, she often lacks strength and suffers a disadvantage in speed.But this girl didn't know how she trained, not only her speed was astonishing, her strength was even more astonishing, even Zhang Dahai's strength was so great that there was nothing she could do about it.

One force can drop ten times, not to mention that the woman's speed is so amazing.Seeing that Zhang Dahai and Pang Liang couldn't restrain the woman, they immediately stepped out of their positions so that Jiang Yuan could go up to her.

In the hearts of the generals of Gyeonggi Daying, it is impossible for anyone to be more amazing than Jiang Yuan's divine power.When the San Francisco was in chaos, Jiang Yuan often practiced against several of them. The strength of the four of them together is no match for Jiang Yuan alone. No matter how powerful this little girl is, she can't beat Master Jiang... …

Jiang Yuan had already rushed forward, kicked the stone steps under his feet suddenly, and with the cracking sound of the golden bricks under his feet, he stepped in front of the woman in one step.

He didn't use any special moves, just a straight fist, which hit the woman's waist fiercely.Before the punch arrived, the momentum had already started, and the sound of the wind caused by that heavy punch was terrifying just by listening to it.The girl knew that she couldn't receive this steady punch, so she could only retreat helplessly, and Jiang Yuan had already taken the opportunity to jump up to the top of the imperial steps, blocking between the girl and the old emperor.

It's different from the Winter Solstice Palace a year ago. Ever since Jiang Yuan found out about the troubles caused by noble families in the south of the Yangtze River, someone still insisted on protecting the two sides, forcing Jiang Yuan to " He has come up with such a deadly move, and he doesn't want to save this old emperor who wants to die and loves power...

Well, put this "rebellious" idea aside for now.Now everyone present in the main hall knows that Jiang Yuan's force is powerful, unparalleled in the world, and can be called the No. The whole capital has to spread the word that he, Jiang Yuan or Situ Sheng was responsible for the assassination, how wronged they are!

It would be fine if they were really the masterminds, but the two of them clearly had nothing to do with this matter. He still wanted to know what was going on, and why should he bear such a bad name? !You must know that house arrest is one thing, but assassination is another. If the old emperor died in such an unexplained manner, wouldn't all the dirty water be poured on Situ Sheng's head?Can disobedience be the same as patricide?With such a name, it is not known whether Situ Sheng will be able to secure the throne. Wouldn't their past chess arrangements be for nothing?

If that's all there is to it, then how will they deal with the big Jiangnan case, how will they command the Northern Expedition?Wouldn't the long-planned major events be messed up by this inexplicable assassination?

Forget it, this dead old man is Situ Sheng and Yuehua's father after all, and he can barely be regarded as his relative, so if he can save it, he can save it, and treat it as a rare act of kindness.Jiang Yuan comforted himself in his heart, the real thinking was not like this, he and Situ Sheng were thinking about how to say that the old emperor was under house arrest to seize power, why now he came to save him!

Did I go to the wrong set or did the director give the wrong script?Jiang Yuan's mood at this time can only be described in four words - I'll fuck it!