After the failed assassination of the powerful minister

Chapter 74 Final Chapter

In the early morning of the second day, Shuo Wang and Cen Xian got up early.

Since ancient times, literati and inkmen have said that Ruanrou Township is a tomb of heroes.Shuo Wang had eaten his marrow to know the taste last night, and he deeply believed in this sentence.

The pruned army soon completed its formation, Shuo Wang jumped on his horse, and Cen Xian followed suit.Jiang and An, wearing armor and leading a cavalry, lined up next to the Chinese army.

Shuo Wang pulled out his sword and pointed at the sky: "All officers and men obey orders! Follow me to serve as king, and punish the rebels!"

The soldiers who had been aroused for a long time shouted three times, and they were well-trained to attack the gate of Shangjing City!

On this day, the whole city of Shangjing was screaming and killing, and the capital of the Great Wei Dynasty was shrouded in smoke and flames.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion guarding the city guarded the city gate, and Wei Chenhe and Zhang Jiucheng each led a team of Jinyi guards out of the Zhenfu Division, weaving through the panicked crowd.

The imperial city was in chaos, a large number of officials fled with gold, and people in the palace were panic-stricken. The guards and eunuchs who had no master in mind didn't know what else to do at this moment. Ornaments run away.

Because of this, the little emperor Wei Mingwen finally got his chance.

He asked the queen mother to take advantage of the chaos to go to the secret road, then changed into a eunuch costume, slipped out of the chaos, and ran towards Empress Cao's residence.

The little emperor's mind was very simple. Empress Cao was pregnant, and it was almost time to give birth. At this time, the palace was in such chaos. This is the palace that was married into as a pawn.Even if this chess piece was used to restrain the little emperor himself, he was worried that Empress Cao would make some mistakes during the civil strife.

Just running halfway, he caught sight of an old man with white beard and hair out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly stopped.

The old man was blind in one eye, and gestured his arms towards the people running around, as if he wanted to ask something.

Unfortunately, under such circumstances, no one stopped to answer him.

Suddenly a horse passed by in the palace road, and the horse's hoof was very close to the old man. Wei Mingwen was startled, instinctively made him fly over, hugged the old man and rolled around on the spot, narrowly avoiding the deadly horse's hoof.

The smoke rose suddenly, and Wei Mingwen coughed several times due to choking, guessing that the old man was probably an eunuch who had escaped from Ye Ting.

Thinking of this, Wei Mingwen stuffed a jade pendant into the old man's hand: "Elder-in-law, it's very chaotic here, run away quickly!! Remember not to go to the Yongshou Palace! There are all the soldiers of the eldest princess!"

After finishing speaking, Wei Mingwen rushed towards Empress Cao in a hurry, and bumped into a cavalry group arranged by Shuowang, led by Jiang Yu'an who had come all the way from the Zhuque Gate.The Minister of the Ministry of War, whose armor was covered in blood, nodded to Wei Mingwen, got off his horse and bowed his hands: "Your Majesty."

As if seeing his own father, Wei Mingwen quickly pointed to the direction and told Jiang Yuan to go to Empress Cao to bring him out first.

At the same time, in the camp outside the city, Brother Fei was so anxious that he was about to cry, he grabbed Luo Erhu and shouted: "My grandfather is gone!!"

Luo Erhu seemed to be struck by lightning, Brother Fei cried and wanted to find someone, but now the entire Shangjing city is in a mess, and there are also smoldering wars outside the city, he dare not let this half-assed boy go out.They could only tell Shang Zhi who was ordered to stay in the tent to protect them.

Then, a fast horse stepped out of the camp and rushed towards Shangjing City!

There was a loud "boom" in the distance, accompanied by the shouts of the soldiers, the gate of Shangjing finally couldn't hold on, and was broken open from the outside!Shuo Wang rode a steed and led a pair of cavalry to penetrate through it. Cao Yong's Shenji Battalion was suddenly smashed by this team that penetrated like sharp knives!

The private soldiers supported by the eldest princess bent their bows and set up arrows. Several iron arrows were fired at the cavalry with lightning speed. Shuo Wang felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes. It was cut in half in mid-air!

With a mask on his face, Cen Xian rode beside Shuo Wang, his long sword dripping with blood.

"kill!"

He gave orders to the soldiers around him.

The red-eyed soldiers rushed forward on horseback. The cavalry had an obvious advantage in harvesting heads, and the infantry who followed quickly started street fighting with the surrounding private soldiers.

On this day, Shangjing was bleeding and drifting.

The prosperous capital of the past no longer exists. In the palace, Wei Changle is holding a Buddhist bead and chanting scriptures in a low voice.

She doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, and now she is reciting this Buddhist scripture, and she doesn't know for whom she is reciting it.She has walked alone for half her life, and she has fallen into the current situation, and she doesn't know whether she should sigh that her life should be like this?

From the moment she received the will, she had a will to die.

Who would have thought that half a lifetime of thinking about it would turn out to be nothing but fetching water from a bamboo basket—all in vain.

Thinking about it now, I just find it ridiculous.

She had already heard the cries from the palace, and she expected that Cao Yong was defeated, and her son who had come back from the dead had already brought troops to attack her.

At the gate of the palace, the young man in black wearing a bamboo hat went back and forth, it was Ling Yun.

More than half of the private soldiers were taken by Cao Yong to guard the city, the remaining 500 people, 100 people went to guard Empress Cao, and the remaining [-] were all on standby at Yongshou Palace.

He stood quietly at a corner outside Yongshou Palace without moving.

Then he saw the palace door opened wide, and a man who looked like a eunuch came out and said to everyone: "The eldest princess told everyone to disperse, run for your life!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but the eunuch had already put the burden he had prepared on his shoulder and ran away in a hurry.Seeing that someone had set a precedent, some of this group of private soldiers also took a step forward. Gradually, the private soldiers surrounding the palace walked all over.

Ling Yun lowered his bamboo hat, and didn't notice an old man walking into Yongshou Palace amidst the noise.

Shangjing City was breached and Cao Yong was captured. The soldiers and horses led by Shuowang headed towards the imperial city.

The Suzaku Gate has been captured by Jiang Yuan, and the rest of the entrances are still in fierce battle.At this time, it was almost evening, and the clouds in the sky became beautiful, and overlapping shadows were reflected in Shuo Wang's and Cen Xian's eyes.

A Jin Yiwei rode over, pulled the reins to rein in the advancing horse, and then cupped his fists and bowed to Cen Xian: "Master! The kid named Fei Ge said that his grandpa is missing!"

Hearing this, Shuo Wang suddenly turned around.

The sky is big and the earth is big, except for Cen Xian, he only has this one relative.

Cen Xian pursed his lips straight, and freed one hand to grab the corner of Shuo Wang's clothes.

Shuowang raised his hand and touched the center of his eyebrows: "Why didn't I think... If he wants to go back to Shangjing, he must come back to find my mother..."

And where is Liu Hui's body, except for the eldest princess in the palace, who else knows?

Cen Xian remained silent, obviously thinking of this.Then Shuowang raised his sword and pointed it at the palace!

The final moment has come!

In the Queen's bedroom, Wei Mingwen took a sword and beheaded the soldiers who tried to take Queen Cao as a hostage, but Pei Ji took this opportunity to hug his lover and quickly retreated.

Wei Mingwen raised his eyes and said "Huh", "Is my noble concubine a man?"

Jiang Yuan holding a sword: "..."

Pei Ji, who was holding Cao Xu, blushed, "..."

At this moment, it was too late to explain what was going on in the chaotic harem of the little emperor, Jiang and An put away their swords: "Empress Empress, your father is plotting rebellion, and your son has already captured him."

The crime of treason is a serious crime, which can implicate the whole family.

Cao Xu tearfully said, "I understand."

"This won't work!" Pei Ji was anxious.

"After that, there will be no Empress Cao of the Great Wei Dynasty, Mr. Pei, don't worry," Jiang Yu'an said, "We have already made arrangements, and please escape from the secret passage with your wife."

Pei Ji heaved a sigh of relief.

They escaped through the secret passage as they wished, and then the little emperor Wei Mingwen set fire to the bedroom, so there was an explanation.After finishing all this, Jiang Yu'an personally escorted Wei Mingwen to leave from the Zhuque Gate.

But at this time, in Yongshou Palace, Wei Changle's door moved lightly, she didn't turn her head, thinking that Ling Yun had come back again: "Didn't you say you left? Why are you coming back? This princess is not short of people to be buried with her."

He hadn't heard anyone answer for a long time, Wei Changle paused for a while as he twirled the beads, turned his head, and saw a very old man with frosty temples, wearing coarse linen clothes standing outside the door, looking at her silently with cloudy eyes .

The thread of the Buddhist beads was broken, and the wooden beads were scattered everywhere. Wei Changle looked at him in disbelief: "Brother Huang?!"

Wei Yicheng didn't answer, he couldn't speak for a long time, and he could only make an ugly and strange sound when he opened his mouth.

He was in Shuomo, and in the past ten days since he came to Beijing, he already knew that his wife had been forgotten and his brothers were separated.The young boys and girls who rode purple lilies in the imperial city and roamed the streets and alleys of the capital, now only themselves and this younger sister who is so strange that he hardly dares to recognize him are left in front of him.

Relatively silent.

It was quiet for a long time, Wei Changle didn't ask Wei Yicheng how he came to Shangjing, what happened to him before, she knelt down on the futon again, and her voice was clear and shallow, as if they were still in those days: "The body is burnt, and I can't recognize it." , but buried them all in the outskirts of the city, Ah Shuo did not die, and he was the one who led the troops outside to the side of Lord Qing."

She bent the corners of her eyes, as if she was coquettish with Wei Yicheng and the others a long time ago: "I am sorry for the things that happened back then, Brother Huang, and now I have done everything that should be done and should not be done, hey, there are endless accounts in the world , I can only go to the underworld to find them."

Wei Yicheng closed his eyes and wrote two words in the air with his fingers: Thank you.

Wei Changle was speechless, and then Wei Yicheng stepped out of Yongshou Palace resolutely.

Let's go and say goodbye, never see each other again.

On the table, the candle was burning high, Wei Changle stood up, poured down the wine, lit the Buddhist scriptures, and threw the lit scriptures on the ground at random.

In an instant, the flames rose.

Not long after, the entire Yongshou Palace was overthrown by a sea of ​​flames.

Shuo Wang and Cen Xian, who were just finishing the battle at Xuanwu Gate, raised their heads, and saw thick smoke billowing from Yongshou Palace straight into the sky, Shuo Wang's heart suddenly went cold!

don't be there...

With this thought in his heart, he already raised his whip and ran towards the Yongshou Palace. Cen Xian frowned and followed behind him!

Inside Yongshou Palace, the palace walls collapsed, Wei Changle was engulfed in flames, and in a daze, she saw a man in black walking towards her.

It's Lingyun.

Wei Changle sighed almost helplessly, and said angrily: "I have learned to lie."

Ling Yun knelt down on one knee, put his head on Wei Changle's knee, and closed his eyes: "As I said, I will be where the princess is."

……

Shuo Wang jumped off the horse, walked forward a few steps and almost fell to his knees, Cen Xian grabbed his hand, their faces were flushed red by the flames soaring into the sky.

Shuo Wang's beautiful peach blossom eyes were full of redness, he was worried that Wei Yicheng was in it!

He lost his voice: "Ah Cen...I—"

Cen Xian clasped his hand, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, Ah Shuo, don't be afraid, I'm here, I'm fine, I'm sure I'll be fine."

Soon, the soldiers who came after them started to put out the fire. Maybe God couldn't stand it anymore. After more than half an hour, it suddenly rained heavily.

Shuo Wang stood inside the rain curtain with a pale face, but his hand holding the umbrella handle was steady, and Cen Xian stood beside him without being caught by the rain.

After the fire was completely extinguished, only two charred bodies were found in Yongshou Palace.

The Wu who was forced to come here has tested it, a man and a woman, the man is very young, not Wei Yicheng.

Jin Yiwei, who came to report the news, just arrived, and Jiang and An sent a message saying that Wei Yicheng had been found.

Shuo Wang breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt his fingers being staggered - Cen Xian firmly held his hand, interlocking his fingers.

It's over...it's finally over...

On the outskirts of the city, Wei Yicheng didn't cross Jiang and An, and didn't ask Brother Fei to accompany him. He came to the mass grave alone, and finally found a small bag of earth.

He sat down in front of the little soil bag, raised his hand to cover his face, and tears slid down between his fingers.

……

The dust has settled, the historical records of the Great Wei Kingdom, in the fourth year of Ximing, Zhongshu ordered Cao Yong and the eldest princess to rebel, Wei Shuo, the son of King Zhao, rushed to attack King Qianliqin, won a great victory, Cao Yong was executed, and the eldest princess was raped in the palace.As a result, the court was in chaos.Jing Wang Wei Chen was ordered to be the regent when he was in danger. Later, the emperor worshiped Mei Yichen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, as his prime minister.

In the next year, the emperor began to rule in person, changed his year name to Yuanfeng, and named Wei Shuo the king of Jiangnan. Wei Shuo refused to accept the title, and left quietly, never returning to Beijing.

……

In the spring of the third year of Yuanfeng, Jiangnan.

Shuowang was inviting a group of children to fish with him, Jiang Jinyue ate melon seeds and said to Cen Xian beside him, "You don't care about him, if this continues, all the children you teach in this private school will be ruined by him. "

There was a little smile in Cen Xian's eyes: "Let's go with him, if it breaks, we'll hit the palms together."

Jiang Jinyue: "..." All right.

In the past two or three years, with Jiang Jinyue and Mu Nanzhi around, their bodies have been recuperated. Although it is difficult to return to their original state, it is no problem to enjoy the life of ordinary people.

Shuowang picked up some fish and said to the shore, "Take this one for Nanyan and Zifu to stew! Take this one for Ms. Ye, this one—"

The fish god dragon wagged his tail, slapped Shuowang twice, and ran away with his brothers!

Shuo Wang: "..."

The children in the water were all laughing, and Jiang Jinyue burst out laughing!

Cen Xian couldn't help laughing either.

Later, Shuo Wang finally came out of the water. He patted the water weeds on his body, and sighed pretendingly, wanting to stick to Cen Xian, but afraid of dirtying Cen Xian's clothes, he finally said: "Oh, Tonight's dinner is all gone."

He was talking about the fish.

Cen Xian pinched his palm, raised his hand and took away a piece of dead grass stuck between his hair: "Then I won't eat fish tonight. Let's rest early."

Shuo Wang's eyes twinkled.

The wind blows the willows, misty rain, on the small road in the south of the Yangtze River, Shuo Wang turned his head, and finally kissed Cen Xian without a trace.

"it is good."

The author says:

Finish!