Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

Shun Wangfu.

"Crack", a purple sand teacup fell heavily on the ground, and the broken pieces flew everywhere. Although the teacup was thrown with the right hand, this forceful action still involved the wound on King Shun's left shoulder, which was so painful. He was sweating profusely, but he was still breathing hard unwillingly.

"The third child, it's the third child again! Why is it him again!" Situ Hui waved his hand regardless of the pain, and dropped the whole set of tea sets on the table to the ground, "How can I be inferior to him?! The third child is just a palace girl who gave birth The bastard, the bastard who can be crushed to death by just stretching out his fingers, why do those old bastards praise him?!"

In the palace, the old emperor was furious at the imperial doctor who concluded that he was paralyzed, and even smashed the decocted concoction. As a result, this action aggravated the injury, and he had a high fever and fell into a coma at this time due to repeated illnesses.

Imperial physicians have always been cautious, wishing to say that even if they were ill, they would be responsible for not being able to cure them. This time the old emperor had a high fever and fell into a coma, how dare they take the illness lightly, although the words were vague, each It's a kind of shirk responsibility, but hearing the ears of the ministers, the old emperor is likely to die, and even if he barely survives, he won't live for long.

As soon as these words came out, the already sensational court was even more one-sided. All the ministers were vying to pursue the crown prince Situ Sheng, expecting him to ascend the throne as soon as possible and rule the world.Can the emperor and the prince be the same?If Situ Cheng was the crown prince, Situ Hui would still have a great chance of pulling him down, but if he became the emperor, Situ Hui's hope might not even be half-fulfilled. Of course, he would be upset and fly into a rage.

Now that Concubine Yang is no longer in the mansion, Situ Hui is the only master in the mansion, who in the whole mansion is so blind and dares to persuade King Shun who is in a rage?Aren't you afraid of dying quickly?All the servants hid early in the morning and let Situ Hui throw cups and pots there, but none of them dared to show their faces.

Situ Hui was beaten all the way, but he couldn't figure out why Situ Sheng, who was so small and humble back then, who was bullied by others, would become the current state that everyone should look up to.

At the beginning, he was just a small wind and cold, which almost crippled Situ Sheng's legs and almost froze him to death.A small provocation by him can make the master in the study severely punish Situ Sheng, making him miserable.But why was Situ Sheng able to stand up like this?

He, Situ Hui, has the blood of a noble family, but Situ Sheng is just the son of a humble court lady.He was well-clothed and well-fed every day, but Situ Sheng couldn't even drink hot porridge.His wife was the legitimate daughter of an aristocratic family that had been passed down for hundreds of years, while Situ Sheng's wife was just the daughter of a dead seventh-rank official.When he was conferred the title of King Shun by his father, Situ Sheng was just an empty prince. He didn't even dare to hang a plaque on the mansion, and he was the laughing stock of the entire capital.

So what if Situ Sheng did a good job?So what if you run more errands?Does anyone fear him?Would anyone take him seriously?A prince was almost killed by a king with a different surname, but his father didn't give him a single look. Even a word of "kefu" put his own sister's life into darkness.

The more Situ Sheng struggled, the more he would sink. No one was willing to save him, but more people were planning to make trouble. Situ Hui even wondered if the third child could be buried with the ceremony of a prince after his death. The mausoleum can't get in.Who would have imagined that such a person could turn over? !

As small as Situ Sheng was back then, he is as tall as he is now.How much he was despised at the beginning, how much he is sought after now.The once bullied bastard turned out to be the well-received Crown Prince, and even the emperor soon.When did he change?

Situ Hui was at a loss.He himself is obviously the proud son of heaven, and he is obviously stronger than the third child, so why doesn't the world belong to him?Why?He refused to accept it, but he had been resisting all these years but he didn't get any benefits at all. He wanted to know why he lost to the humble Situ Sheng despite his noble blood!

Situ Sheng was about to ascend the throne as emperor in a legitimate way, so Jiang Yuan was naturally very excited.At the beginning, he thought that the helpless prince would damage his reputation because of the dispute with the old emperor, but now he doesn't have to worry about anything, the old emperor has been half-dead by assassins, and Situ Sheng can win the support of his officials without doing anything. If he ascends the throne openly, then when Situ Sheng becomes emperor, he can use all his strength to eradicate the forces in the south of the Yangtze River.

At first they were still thinking about how to force the old emperor to give up his control over Jiangnan, use the troops of Zhao, Wei, and Qi to control the land of Jiangnan, and kill all the people involved in the major Jiangnan case. As a result, Situ Sheng himself is about to become a The emperor is now, so the matter of dispatching troops is not so urgent. You can wait for Situ Sheng to issue a decree to send troops after he ascends the throne, so that there will be no more talk.

While King Shun was angry and Jiang Yuan was waiting, Jiang Ning's interrogation made a breakthrough.

The imperial palace, the Prince's East Palace.

Situ Sheng widened his eyes, looked at Jiang Ning with an expression of disbelief, and asked, "Cheng An, what did you just say?"

Since becoming the prince, Situ Sheng's city and heart have grown, and it has been a long time since he showed any expressions of joy or anger, but now, Situ Sheng can't control the surprised expression on his face at all, because the facts that Jiang Ning found out are too much. Unbelievable.

Not to mention him, even Jiang Yuan, who was listening on the sidelines, was shocked. He guessed that the mastermind had gone to Qianxiang Country, and even guessed whether it was Bei Man who did it, but he didn't expect it to be that person.

Jiang Ning touched his nose in embarrassment. He was also very surprised when he knew the truth. It was completely beyond imagination.But facts are facts, truth is truth, whether you want to believe it or not, this is the ultimate correct answer.Therefore, he could only repeat again, "Your Highness, the mastermind that I have found out is—the mother of King Shun, Concubine Hua Chu!"

After making sure that they had no auditory hallucinations, both Situ Sheng and Jiang Yuan looked like they had "seen a ghost".

Chu? !She sent someone to assassinate her son and husband?She wouldn't be so sick... What good would it do her to kill them, even a lunatic wouldn't kill her dependents...

Of course Concubine Hua is not sick, nor has she taken the wrong medicine, nor is she stupid or crazy, and of course she didn't suddenly intend to rebel against/humanity, revenge/revenge/society, and wanted to pull everyone to be buried with her. From the very beginning, she didn't want to hurt the old emperor and King Shun. The target she wanted to deal with was only one person from the beginning—the prince Situ Sheng!

It's a pity that although the plan was good, there were problems in the actual operation. Not only did Situ Sheng, the intended target, remain unscathed, but he also injured the old emperor and King Shun who didn't want to be hurt.To deceive people did not succeed, but to bury themselves, I have to say, this is also a skill...

This New Year's Eve assassination was completely a continuation of the previous assassination in the downtown area. Concubine Hua's purpose was to kill Situ Sheng and clear the way for her son Situ Hui to become emperor.

So she contacted the old eunuch in charge of the Jiaofang Division, and met Yang Diaochan, who was often able to perform dances in and out of the palace, and who had practiced martial arts, and a dozen big men couldn't get close to him, intending to arouse her hatred. Enter the palace to assassinate Situ Sheng for her.

As a result, Yang Diaochan's hatred was successfully stimulated by her, but Yang Diaochan, who was already a little bit extreme, not only hated Situ Sheng who found out the truth and pushed the Yang family into a desperate situation, but even gave up on the Yang family. She also hated the old emperor who had ordered the extermination of the clan, and hated it even more.

In Yang Diaochan's heart, although Situ Sheng was also very hateful, but after all, their Yang family took the lead in this matter. Situ Sheng was just forced to resist, just to find out the source of the assassin, at best to protect himself.What he discovered was the origin of the assassins, and those who found out were Shi Jia, Dongping, Nan'an, and King Shun. He didn't find out the Yang family at all, and he didn't intend to let the Yang family take the blame, so her hatred for Situ Sheng was actually the lightest. .But King Shun is different from the old emperor!

King Shun's concubine is her aunt, so the entire Yang family respects King Shun very much. For so many years, their whole family has been loyally supporting King Shun. Wanting to collude with Qianxiang Country and cause a conspiracy to betray the country, the Yang family voluntarily boarded a pirate ship to help him make contact.

But what about the result?This Situ Hui who abandoned the car to protect the commander-in-chief turned his back on him immediately, abandoned the Yang family cleanly, and charged all the crimes on the Yang family. He didn't even think about it. King Shun today? !

As for the old emperor, he wholeheartedly wants to suppress the aristocratic family, can't he see that others are fools?

When they don't need it, they will fight against each other and suppress them severely, demoting the officials of the Yang family to the border. When they need it, they will use them as guns and use them against Situ Sheng.

The Yang family was thrown out and hacked into pieces, but the other aristocratic families were well protected by the old emperor, just to deal with his successful son!Since the other families are fine, why can't they let the Yang family go?Why can't she let this weak woman go?Shouldn't such a stupid king be killed?

Why is it that only their Yang family should be abandoned by everyone, why should she, a charming and alluring young lady, become an official prostitute, and even be picked and picked by people she looked down on in the past, and she has to put on a smile to cater to their love for her? insult?

Such a life like rotten mud is still the "kindness" and "gift" of the old emperor, and she is still grateful to the old emperor for killing her whole family, just because he didn't kill herself, but let her live a happy life. Life is worse than death, a life of extreme pain...

In order to be able to continue to live, she endured it.So she endured when Mammy forced her to receive guests, endured when she lost her innocence, endured when she was hanged from the beam because of dissatisfaction with the guests and was severely beaten, and was punished for not dancing gracefully. She endured when she was punished to kneel for three days, when the eunuchs in the teaching workshop took advantage of her and disgusted, she endured when she wanted to vomit, and when she was forced to learn all kinds of dirty "methods" of serving people, she endured everything. She endured it, but instead of light, she was ushered in a deeper darkness, and she would only be tortured and bullied even worse...

Yang Diaochan feels that she is no longer a human being, not even a slave, and people around her don't regard her as a human being at all, she is just a thing for others to play with, unless she becomes numb and degenerates into a doll , otherwise it will be destroyed in despair.And at this time, Concubine Hua contacted her...

Jiang Yuan remembered that there was a story in the Arabian Nights that he had read in his previous life. A devil was sealed in a bottle. At the very beginning, he prayed to be released, thinking that if someone would save him, he would be willing to sacrifice his wealth and wealth. , let the person who saved him enjoy it endlessly.But no one has rescued him and let him sink for hundreds of years, so he swore in despair that whoever rescued him would kill him instead...

The devil in this story has always been regarded as a typical case of revenge, but who can understand his despair in the bottle?

When people are in despair, their psychology will inevitably become abnormal, instead of breaking out in silence, they will become abnormal in silence, so Yang Diaochan's character has been completely distorted at this time.Don't say that Concubine Hua originally wanted to use her, and she didn't have any good intentions. Even if she wanted to save Yang Diaochan with good intentions, she wouldn't expect any good results.

Why did the Yang family suffer, and the incense was cut off, while the Chu family, who also colluded with the enemy and treasonously, was still aloof, enjoying the glory and wealth?There seemed to be a voice in Yang Diaochan's heart that kept saying to her: Kill King Shun, kill the emperor, let the Chu family also taste the heart-wrenching despair!

Concubine Hua didn't know Yang Diaochan's thoughts at all, she thought Yang Diaochan was a very useful pawn, and helped her transfer her concubine's younger brother to a good place like Qianqing Palace, trying to bribe this little girl, who knew that she had a good heart The chess piece he used was thinking about how to overturn the chessboard and drag the Chu family who were playing chess into the abyss.

Concubine Hua thought it was a good opportunity for the New Year's Eve palace banquet. She helped Yang Diaochan find a room suitable for disguise, helped smuggle in real knives and weapons, and provided the deadly sea snake.When King Shun was in contact with Qianxiang Kingdom, Qianxiang Kingdom gave King Shun such a sea snake. Although Concubine Hua knew about the assassination in the downtown area, she didn't know the specific situation of that day, and she didn't know that the sea snake had been exposed. The sea snake comes from overseas, so it is not easy to be known by others.

Yang Diaochan may feel that life is nothing to love, and death is nothing to fear. For her, the most important things such as innocence, reputation, dignity, family, and vision for the future have all been lost, and she has been trampled on. Trampling underfoot without hesitation.She experienced darkness and despair every day of her life, and there was no bright future for her. There was no difference between being alive and dead, and even death was quite a happy relief for her.

She chose to be bitten by the sea snake herself, and she would use her last life to drag the old emperor and the Chu family into hell.Why did he drag the eunuch, a concubine who doesn't know martial arts, to attack King Shun and Situ Sheng?Because she didn't have the heart to kill Situ Sheng, and she knew very well that as long as the old emperor who was protected by King Shun died, then even if King Shun didn't follow him to hell, there would be nothing good to eat.Life is worse than death is the biggest "reward" for King Shun!

As for the life of her concubine brother who failed in the assassination, how could she care about such a thing, anyway, this brother can no longer carry on the family, so what use is there for the Yang family?Attracting the attention of all the officials for her is the only meaning in his humble life!

Yang Diaochan didn't intend to hide anything, she deliberately made the assassination full of flaws.Things in Qianxiang Kingdom were so secretive back then, and Situ Sheng's subordinates were able to catch the murderer through clues and expose all the plots. Now, naturally, they can also use all kinds of strange places on her body to catch Concubine Hua, the main envoy hidden behind her!

No matter what, the Chu family can't escape, and King Shun will be dragged to hell sooner or later. Her pain today is their tomorrow!Even if she died, she would drag the entire Chu family to be buried with her!

Yang Diaochan is completely insane, but she is extremely calm when she is insane, she has deceived everyone, no one knows that the person she is going to assassinate on New Year's Eve is not the prince but the old emperor!Only she and the little eunuch knew everything about it. In the end, Concubine Hua was deceived and shot herself in the foot, thinking she had the trick, but it turned out that she was the one who got tricked.

"The reason why I was able to find out the truth so easily is thanks to the assassin Yang Diaochan." Jiang Ning raised the corners of his lips, "She left many clues to drag the Chu family into trouble. I feel that unless no one has been investigating , as long as someone comes to investigate, sooner or later they will find Chu."

"Even if the Chu family can find enough excuses to get rid of other crimes, how can they explain the origin of the sea snake? They can escape murdering the emperor, but they can't avoid collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. This is Yang Diaochan's last gift to them. .”

When all the evidence was presented in front of the old emperor, the old emperor who had just woken up almost spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted again.

But what can he say?Since the winter solstice palace change, he has become more and more distrustful of Situ Sheng who holds great power, so the staff of Qianqing Palace arranged for him to firmly hold it in his hands and never allow Situ Sheng to intervene.

In the end, his confidant was bought by Concubine Hua and let in. Could it be that he blamed Prince Situ Sheng for not being able to control the Qianqing Palace for such an earth-shattering assassination?

The power of the aristocratic family was preserved by him all by himself. The Chu family obviously had contacts with Qian Xiangguo, so he was the one who held Situ Sheng down and prevented him from continuing to investigate further.

It was he who wanted to protect the family and King Shun, and use the power of King Shun to balance the power of the prince, for fear that the prince would fully grasp the power of the government.Who knew that the Chu family, the aristocratic family he insisted on keeping, let the assassins in, and they almost didn't let the assassins kill him?His "better" body just now was made into what it is by the idiots of the Chu family. How could he not hate the Chu family?

"Father, do you want to continue the investigation?" Situ Sheng asked humbly the old emperor who had grown old in just a few days.

For Situ Sheng, it doesn't make much difference whether to investigate or not. He only needs to wait a few more days, and when he ascends the throne, he can send troops to eradicate most of the family's influence in the south of the Yangtze River. Those who were not involved in the assassination There is no one in the family who can run away, does he still care about whether to check things now?

The old emperor only felt his body go weak for a while. He tried to put on a majestic appearance to his son, but his weak and sick body was not enough to make him act like this.With a pale face, he said softly: "No, no more investigations are allowed..." He sighed, "Let's just settle the case with the Chu family, we can't continue the investigation..."

Looking at the old emperor who was "struggling desperately" lying on the bed, Situ Sheng closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the expression in his eyes was still so humble, "Obey, father."

What difference does it make if you don't continue to check?Situ Hui's mother clan was convicted of treason, so how could he, King Shun, ever ascend the throne?I also knew that Situ Hui was over.

The so-called gaining wisdom by eating a ditch, the old emperor thought of the Zhen family who had the same fate through Yang Diaochan's incident. It is conceivable that the survivors of the Zhen family will end up miserable, and maybe those who are sent to the border can still survive. , that Zhen Zhenzhu would surely die.Not only that, after this time, the entire imperial palace and the teaching workshop would have to be washed several times. I don't know how many people died because of Yang Diaochan.

Everyone was remembering the family whose family was ransacked and exterminated, but Jiang Yuan thought of another person.Concubine Hua's Chu family was cheated so badly by Yang Diaochan, he didn't want to be the second guy to be cheated so badly.At first I thought it was a chess piece that could be used, but now it has turned into a hot potato, I can't throw it away or eat it, I really don't know how to deal with it.

Yuehua said a way out, "Since you can't throw it away, and you can't ignore it, it's better to send it out and let someone else handle it..."

"Send it out?" Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up. Sure enough, his wife can always think of a good way. "I know what to do. In short, they have to fight together. As for our Guanyinghou Mansion, and that person, this matter has nothing to do with it at all, so let's just pretend it didn't happen at all."

"Yes, yes, my husband said no, then there is no. Anyway, the nasty things at the beginning made my ears dirty when I heard them. Why should the Hou family get involved? It's better to let them fight on their own. In short, it is with our Jiang family. It doesn't matter." Yuehua smiled, "It just so happens that one of them is down and the other is not getting any better, so it's just right to let them fight. You know, I don't think about those things like you, always A closure is needed."

"Don't think that I don't know if none of you tell me. If there is no such assassination, you and brother... you must keep this important matter from me? Father is on the one hand, and the other two sides will never be forgiven. "Yuehua frowned.

"Don't worry, they won't be just down and out soon." Jiang Yuan raised the corners of his lips and hugged his slightly angry wife, "His Highness has been dispatching people, and they won't be arrogant anymore. Waiting for greedy people not to be forgiven, no one can protect them. They want to die, and even gods can't stop them!"

"As for the end..." Jiang Yuan raised his head, "Hey, wait a minute, there will be a end sooner or later..."