[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Chapter 170

I saw those Mongolians performing the "golden bell jar". After a few men danced for a while, they greeted the bare-chested man with knives, maces and other tools.

Xing Xiuyan was very surprised that the majestic slash of the saber didn't hurt anyone.And another man beat him with a mace, but there was no blood on the spot. Xing Xiuyan thought how could it be possible, the thorns on the mace must be fake.

Xing Xiuyan smiled and whispered to Tu Yuanyi: "Is it fake?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "That's a great skill in martial arts. You can control the strength just right. It looks like the strength is strong, but it actually disappeared when it hit the warrior."

This kind of precise power control, he can do it now, so he can realize the way.

Xing Xiuyan thought to himself: It would be better to look at the broken boulder on the chest.

At this moment, those men with weapons suddenly aimed at Tu Yuanyi without saying a word, there was a muffled sound, and a cold light flashed in the air.

Tu Yuanyi was shocked, he leaned back slightly, and at the same time lifted the table in front of him with his hands.Even though Xing Xiuyan was brave, she was taken aback, but only after hearing a muffled noise in front of the table, did she know that it was a legendary assassination.

"Dog Emperor! Take your life!" The weapons in the hands of those men all had hidden weapons, and they greeted Tu Yuanyi one after another.

But in the blink of an eye, the table was blocked twice, and Jin Yiwei rushed to escort him. The hidden weapon was very vicious, and two Jin Yiwei were injured and fell down, bleeding purple blood.

Tu Yuanyi was furious: "Take him down!"

Jin Yiwei had a lot of people after all, and Xiao Jingyun also took wine glasses and jugs as concealed weapons and injured two of them.

At this time, Zhungeer's envoys were also captured, and Jin Yiwei had surrounded many Mongolian envoys.

Tu Yuanyi took his daughter-in-law to protect him, and patted him comfortingly. He heard that the assassin tool had been taken down, so he went to have a look.Xing Xiuyan thought to herself that she was sitting next to him just now, if it weren't for the fact that his hearing, eyesight and hand skills are beyond the reach of ordinary people, she would be in danger.

Jin Yiwei was also ruthless, caught the man but also broke the man's hands and feet. Assassinating the emperor left and right is a serious crime for punishing the nine clans.

Tu Yuanyi saw that he had caught the man, and with a gloomy face, he strode over and saw that there were eight assassins in total, and the envoy of the Zhungeer Ministry also yelled: "Emperor Da Zhou! It's none of our business! ! We were wronged!"

Jin Shichao, the king of Xining County, was also worried. In any case, the emperor Beishou had reached the territory he was guarding.

Jin Shichao said: "Suhebalu, your people did the assassination, how dare you say it's none of your business!"

The envoy Sukhbaru bowed and said: "Your Majesty, they are not from our ministry. When we came east to meet the Emperor, they captured our Prince Timur. They said that as long as they can perform in front of the Emperor Da Zhou , so we let our prince go. We had no choice but to take them with us, they are not Mongols, but Han. We thought that since we are Han, we might want to have a chance to show our martial arts to the Emperor of Zhou and seek wealth."

It is impossible for Tu Yuanyi to believe it all, but if he took down the envoys of the Zhungeer Ministry without investigating because of this, the other envoys present would not be convinced when they saw it.Mongolia is now divided, although it is not a country, but he taboos them to cause trouble in northern Xinjiang or be used by Houjin for his own use.

Tu Yuanyi said solemnly: "I will investigate this matter, but you always brought these people. Before you know the truth, you are bound to be involved!"

As he said that, he ordered Jin Yiwei to detain the envoys and entourages of the Zhungeer Ministry.

Tu Yuanyi looked at a few people kneeling on the ground, and saw that they were strong and rough, and their skin color was like Mongolians, obviously they had stayed outside the pass for a long time.

"Who are you? Why did you assassinate me?"

A man with thick eyebrows and a high nose stared at Tu Yuanyi resentfully, and said, "How can the hatred of killing your father and family be stopped? I only hate that I didn't kill you, the dog emperor today!"

Jin Shichao, the king of Xining County, shouted: "You are a bold madman who has no eyes on the king, and you still want to speak evil words at this time!"

The man snorted, but ignored Jin Shichao, looked at Tu Yuanyi and said, "I don't change my name when I'm going, and I don't change my surname when I sit down, so does Ma Jianping!"

Tu Yuanyi was surprised: "Are you Ma Baocheng's son?!" Ma Baocheng, the former Liangzhou Jiedu envoy, and the father-in-law of Prince Lian Tu Yuankang, rebelled against him. Naturally, he relied on the power of Liangzhou. Ma Baocheng was the one who cut off the horse himself. .Killing this world-famous veteran also established his reputation.

Ma Jianping said bitterly: "It's hard for you to remember my father. My Ma family is loyal to your disciples. During your Taizong period, we also made great achievements, so we were born in Liangzhou. But you and your father are two generations of dog emperors. It has brought us to this point. You ordered to kill more than 1000 people in my Ma family. How can you not report this hatred?"

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help but feel terrified, this is really the Zhu family, more than 1000 people were killed, and Tu Yuanyi killed them without blinking an eye.The other side of the emperor's husband is really strange to her. There are two feelings between imagining that the emperor is cruel and merciless, and the fact that it is in front of her eyes.

Ma Jianping was Ma Baocheng's fifth son and was not at home back then.Ma Jiayuan was not an ordinary person, but his soldiers never tire of cheating. Tu Yuanyi cleared up the chaos of the Three Kings, and ordered people from the Jingying Southern Army to pretend to be Tu Yuankang to "reward".After entering Liangzhou, the Ma family was quickly controlled. At that time, Ma Baocheng, Ma Jiansheng, and Ma Jianxiao had all been killed by Tu Yuanyi, and the Ma family army had no leader.Afterwards, it was killing people and establishing power. Tu Yuanyi was ruthless and punished the Ma family and the three clans. However, the Ma family had a big business, and the three clans had more than 1000 people. The entire Liangzhou vegetable market was stained red with blood.

Tu Yuanyi snorted coldly: "Rebellious ministers and thieves, I have shown mercy to the three tribes of Zhuer!"

Ma Jianping said: "It was the old emperor who married my sister to Prince Lian back then! It was your good brothers who fought for the throne! Why didn't you kill them all?! But you asked our Ma clan to die for your tu clan's struggle bleed?"

Sun Yuanwang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, shouted: "It's simply unreasonable! Let alone what they planned back then, Ma Baocheng's entry into Beijing without an order was a death penalty! Could it be that someone forced him to act rebelliously? Now you don't think about the fault of the Ma family. Dare to assassinate the king, it shows that your Ma clan is naturally rebellious, and everyone will be punished!" The Jiedu envoy guarding the place must have an order from the Ministry of War to lead troops out of the place, otherwise it will be a death penalty.

Tu Yuanyi's phoenix eyes are full of gloom. The Ma family has occupied Liangzhou for decades, so the tail can't be lost. Gaozong also intended to marry Tu Yuankang to marry the daughter of the Ma family.

In fact, the "virtuous king" like Tu Yuankang back then might not be able to control them.

What Tu Yuanyi was most concerned about was that the Ma family had some Hu people's blood, but they were not that loyal. After Houjin entered the customs, they kept watching and finally surrendered. Houjin even granted a title of Xipinghou.

Tu Yuanyi was not afraid of risky tactics and tactics, and he also won the bet back then, so he naturally took the opportunity to get rid of him.

Tu Yuanyi asked people to detain him, and he will be dealt with after finding out the truth and finding out the truth.

At this moment, Ma Jianping slumped and bumped into the mace not far away, and saw the mace split into two halves, and a dozen small snakes scattered inside.

Xing Xiuyan was standing at the side at this time, and when she saw it, she screamed in surprise, and suddenly an old man beside Ma Jianping uttered "Hehe Zhizhi".

The little snakes couldn't help bowing up and slipping quickly towards Xing Xiuyan. Tu Yuanyi was shocked and drew his sword in the light of the electric flint. The sword was shining brightly, and more than a dozen snakes were cut one after another and shattered to the ground.But at the moment when Tu Yuanyi was distracted to save Xing Xiuyan, the old man next to Ma Jianping let out a soft chuckle, and a hidden weapon came out of his mouth.

Tu Yuanyi was facing him with his back, Xiao Jingyun's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he blocked the saber flying horizontally, but he didn't expect that what the old man said was a hidden weapon that would strike three times in a row, Xiao Jingyun's martial arts was the best but he could only block it once, But Jin Yiwei's martial arts were not good enough, firstly, he couldn't hit such a surprising hidden weapon so fast, and secondly, their speed was too late to block each other with their bodies.

Tu Yuanyi's sword was pointing at the two poisonous snakes that were about to pounce on Xing Xiuyan. In the flash of electric flint from the hidden weapon, he could not do two things at the same time, unless he turned sideways to dodge, but if he dodged, the hidden weapon happened to be It hit Xing Xiuyan.There was a slight numbness in the shoulder blades on his back, and he knew he had been tricked.

Xing Xiuyan was frightened when she saw the little poisonous snake. She is very courageous and has been afraid of snakes all her life, but those domesticated poisonous snakes are all coming towards her.There had never been such a snake in this area, and it was this kind of snake that bit Tu Hui that day, presumably these people had also been on that hill before, but a snake "lost".

Fortunately, Tu Yuanyi's sword was fast enough that Xing Xiuyan was not bitten.

At this time, I heard all the ministers exclaimed: "The emperor!!"

Xing Xiuyan's hearing is also very good, she exclaimed in surprise, "Saint!"

He held her hand, showed a gentle smile, and said, "Don't be afraid..."

Xing Xiuyan asked anxiously: "How are you? Don't tell me that you are injured, how could you be injured?"

"A little injury, no problem..."

Ma Jianping was soft on the ground, his hands and feet were broken, but he laughed loudly and said: "The dog emperor, there are five kinds of poisons on this poisonous needle. In less than half an hour, you can go to the underworld to give our family More than a thousand people have apologized! Dad, mother, brother, have you seen it? The child has avenged you!"

Speaking of this, Ma Jianping had tears in his eyes, and he seemed to smell the bloody smell of Caishikou in Liangzhou.The dog emperor didn't even spare his nephews and nieces who were not as tall as Che Yuan, and they were all beheaded. How can this hatred be resolved?

All the ministers were shocked and asked each other to show their concern. Xing Xiuyan supported Tu Yuanyi, but he didn't speak when he saw that his face had turned pale, maybe he was trying to protect his heart.

Xing Xiuyan made a decisive decision: "Xiao Shizi, you take the assassin down and imprison him first, do it cheaply, and deal with the saint after he recovers! Xining County King, Qian Shangshu, you first greet the Mongolian envoys on your behalf! Zhou Qing, Xu Yuan, come and carry the saint back to the bedroom ! Li Dequan, please announce that all accompanying imperial physicians are waiting outside the tent!"

At this time, she gave the order, and the panicked officials finally found the backbone, and distributed all the important matters in front of them.

Zhou Qing, Xu Yuan and other Jin Yiwei who had been named hurriedly carried Tu Yuanyi back to the bedroom. Xing Xiuyan felt uneasy, but at this time, there must be no chaos.

Tu Yuanyi was carried into the bedroom and leaned on it, the poison was extremely domineering, it was hard for him to waste energy to speak at this time, Xing Xiuyan should be the one to decide.

Xing Xiuyan ordered everyone to leave the bedroom. He was lying on his side with sweat on his forehead. Xing Xiuyan was sitting on the carpet at this moment so as to be at eye level with him. She was calm and organized just now, but she was already in tears.

Xing Xiuyan asked: "Are you going there to detoxify yourself now, or is Imperial Doctor Xuan coming in to take out things for you? If it's the former, you can blink once; if it's the latter, you can blink twice."

Tu Yuanyi showed a gratified smile, she really considered the matter thoroughly, just like she was the first to take the lead in an emergency and made the most favorable disposal.She is smart, she is confused or confused about small things, but she is never confused about big things.Tu Yuanyi blinked for a moment, then kept his phoenix eyes open.

Xing Xiuyan cried and laughed, and said: "Go, I will take care of the outside affairs, and I will protect myself. If you don't come back properly, I will find Mr. Chunyu and ask him to take me to the rivers and lakes, and then I will find A handsome hero remarried. If you dare to die, try it!"

He couldn't help squinting his eyes, thinking to himself: He must not die, he will come back and punish this lawless bitch.

Xing Xiuyan wiped away her tears and said, "Go while you are still conscious."

Tu Yuanyi looked at her for a while, then closed his eyes, and after a while, he disappeared on the bed out of thin air.

Xing Xiuyan put down the gauze curtain on the bed, then sat on the bed in a daze for a while, she suddenly understood the situation at that time.At that angle, he was able to avoid it by turning sideways, but he didn't do that, just because if he avoided it, she would be the one who was injured or died.

She couldn't help but hate herself for being incompetent.

I don't know if his cheat can cure this huge poison. After all, he is a mortal, different from before.

Suddenly, Li Dequan came to the tent and reported that the imperial physicians had arrived.

Only then did Xing Xiuyan come to his senses, and said: "Let's wait outside, don't come in and disturb the sage's cultivation and persecution!"

Xing Xiuyan wiped away her tears, and was about to go out, when she suddenly saw the Emperor's Sword on the case table, which was brought back by Jin Yiwei when he brought his apprentice Yuanyi back, and put it here respectfully, he did not take it away.

Xing Xiuyan reached out with her sword and went out of the tent, seeing Li Yizheng, Imperial Physician Xu, and Imperial Physician Hu who were accompanying her, said solemnly: "The Emperor has taken three 'Xueshen Baorong Pills' at this time to force the poison, except for me Other than that, no one is allowed to disturb you. Li Yizheng, at that time you prescribed the antidote/medicine for the First Prince and gave me a spare bottle. The sage persuaded the medicine to help, and he should be able to cure the poison."

Although Li Yizheng and the others saw that they were unable to give the emperor a diagnosis and treatment at this time, the noble concubine looked calm and said that she had a nose and eyes, and felt relieved, and hurriedly responded: "Yes!"

But I don't want Xiao Mipian to have experienced the workplace, and has seen a lot of people and things in modern times, and has read a lot of miscellaneous books.Besides, she still has the status advantage at this time, unless Tu Yuanyi doesn't come out all the time, it's hard to guarantee that nothing will happen if the people next to her are confused.

Xing Xiuyan was also not sure when Tu Yuanyi would get well. After all, she was a concubine and had no children. It would be bad if the civil servants and generals had other thoughts.

Mao Tai/Zu said: The first question of the revolution is to figure out who is our friend and who is our enemy, unite friends and defeat enemies.This is not the case with the power of the government. She has read through history books, and most of the losers are defeated by "a single tree that cannot support itself."At this time, she must have someone by her side, so that she can feel safe and temporarily stabilize the situation for Tu Yuanyi.

After Tu Yuanyi fell, who are her steadfast friends?

Xing Xiuyan said: "Li Dequan, immediately send someone to summon Xiaohou and his wife, Chunyu Bai, Ouyang Lei, and Jia Lian to the paddock to wait!"

There is Xiao Hou, although he is a dandy but he and Jin Shichao were childhood playmates, he can make a fool of himself, and she can barely control the king of Xining for a while.And Jia Lian is Wang Ziteng's niece and son-in-law. Although Wang Ziteng was taken away, he still has some prestige and ability. Looking at the relationship between Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng, he can always temporarily feel that she treats him as one of his own. use.In case something goes wrong, these two ministers can also take the situation to the fore.

Li Dequan hurriedly went to do it, Xing Xiuyan ordered the eunuchs of Xichang and Jinyi guards to stay outside the tent, and then he returned to the tent and waited.

In the morning of the next day, Chunyu Bai and Ouyang Lei arrived quickly, and Xing Xiuyan hurriedly met them in the side tent.

After an empty ceremony, Xing Xiuyan asked: "Did Zhang Zhi arrange it? Don't let someone who is interested take advantage of it at this time."

During this period of time, while protecting Zhang Zhi, they were also figuring out what Zhang Zhi knew about the House of Internal Affairs and the queen's cousin, the royal businessman Zhao Jiashun, and secretly checked some connections.

Chunyu Bai said: "We brought him here, he will be one of my followers."

Xing Xiuyan wondered, "Can he handle your speed?"

Ouyang Lei said with a smile: "Mother, forgot what his family did? The Han people are not a race on horseback, but this kid really grew up on horseback. His father has been a kid at the Shuofang Royal Racecourse all his life." Officer, he has been riding a horse since he was four years old, and he knows the temperament of horses very well, especially his riding skills."

This surprised Xing Xiuyan: "I didn't think of this."

Ouyang Lei said: "How is Your Majesty injured?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "The poison is extremely domineering. If ordinary people would be in vain, but the sage has magical powers to protect the body. At this time, his life should not be in danger. It's just that he must enter meditation and slowly use his internal strength to force out the poison. It takes a while. You can't delay, let alone let outsiders disturb you."

Hearing this, Er Xia immediately felt admiration. Their internal strength is not weak, but in the face of severe poison, if there is no antidote, they can only temporarily save their lives. Tu Yuanyi can actually force the poison in the legend.

"Your Majesty is truly amazing!" Ouyang Lei sighed.

Xing Xiuyan said: "I have just experienced assassins, even the Jinyi Guards are good at martial arts, but they still have these low-level tricks. I am also worried. If someone comes to make trouble at the critical moment of your Majesty's meditation, it will be difficult for me to deal with a female class. Two You are highly skilled in martial arts, so I have no choice but to ask you to guard the golden tent for His Majesty."

Chunyu Bai and Ouyang Lei were respectful, half kneeling and said: "I will wait for the imperial concubine's order, and I will not hesitate to die!"

Xing Xiuyan hurriedly helped the second hero to get up, and said: "There are no outsiders here, you two don't need to be polite."

Xing Xiuyan took the two of them to guard outside the tent, but he didn't let them in. Although the second hero is used to wandering around the world, but after he really surrendered, he was very polite.

At noon, Xing Xiuyan had just eaten something, but when someone reported that the eldest prince had come to visit the emperor, Xing Xiuyan frowned.

At this time, the prince is always a sensitive person, and she would not believe it if the courtiers never thought about supporting the eldest son Tu Hui and ascending the throne in case something happened to Tu Yuanyi.

In ancient times, many people died at the mouth of poisonous snakes. In ancient times, there was no such miraculous medicine as antivenom, but human feces, urine, alum, or Qudu powder were used for external application.But the effect is definitely not as good as antivenom.As for the poison that Tu Yuanyi suffered from, Ma Jianping also said that this poison is overbearing and has no solution.

Xing Xiuyan left the tent, Tu Hui was outside, but Tu Xian didn't come.

"... My son, see the imperial concubine and empress." Tu Hui cupped his hands and bowed.

Xing Xiuyan's eyes were cold, as if she wanted to see through him, and said, "The Eldest Prince is in better health, what are you doing here?"

Tu Hui raised his head, seeing her as cold as ice, he couldn't help panicking, and said: "I am worried about the safety of my father, so I came to visit in the past."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Your father has taken the detoxification medicine. At this time, there is no delay in exercising the poison to force the poison. How can I see you? You should go back quickly."

Tu Hui said: "How can I be at ease? If not, I will also stay outside the tent, waiting for my father to recover."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Your martial arts are only mediocre, and you don't know much about medicine. What can you do here? Don't say your father hasn't recovered yet, you've fallen down again."

Tu Hui only knew that she also cared about him, so he couldn't help feeling relieved at the end. He glanced at her, lowered his head and said, "Your concubine, don't worry too much, no matter what...you didn't leave... my son, my son will... ...to protect yours."

Xing Xiuyan didn't pay much attention to him, but Tu Hui finally left with mixed feelings.

Although Tu Hui didn't care about Tu Yuanyi, he also had the idea that if the father... After he succeeds to the throne, if he sends her to the temple to practice first, after a few years he will be in power and he can take over. She came back to the palace.

He felt deeply guilty again, but he still couldn't help thinking about it, and he couldn't tell whether he hoped his father would be better or not.But his idea is also illusory after all.

But he said that as soon as Tu Yuanyi returned to the secret cave, he took a small bottle of spirit spring essence, gained some energy and expelled some toxins from his body.

He made it to the cave-heaven mansion, went down to the spirit pool, and absorbed the spiritual power in the cave-heaven mansion to nourish his wounded body and purify his body with the effect of the spirit pool.

He was injured at this time, and it was difficult for him to complete the cycle, the two needles were still on his body, but the position was not good, he couldn't take them out by himself.

He had to absorb and replenish his spiritual power first, and when he went to the outside world, he didn't have as much spiritual power as he did here.

He has been in samadhi for three days, and finally he is out of danger. Seventy-eight out of ten of the poison have been eliminated, and his heart veins are also nourished by spiritual power.It was only at night that Xing Xiuyan was startled, and he quickly summoned the imperial physician to take out the two poisonous needles on his back.

The imperial doctor saw it for him, and although it was difficult to heal for a while, his heart was not damaged, and he finally felt relieved, and he treated the trauma for him before he retired.

Xing Xiuyan sat by the bed, held his hand, and asked, "Do you feel pain?"

Tu Yuanyi wanted to sit up, but she held her down. She sat on the ground by herself, looking at him.

Tu Yuanyi said: "I am very glad that the poisonous needle hit me."

Xing Xiuyan said: "I'm so glad you are my sister! What kind of happy event is this?"

Tu Yuanyi smiled lightly, and said: "But if it doesn't hit me, it will hit Xiuxiu, and then Xiuxiu will be A Piao again."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Ah Piao is just like A Piao. The first time he was born, the second time he was acquainted."

Tu Yuanyi said: "I'm afraid I will go to retreat for a few more days, what's going on outside now?"

Xing Xiuyan briefly said that she summoned Xiao Hou and his wife from the border town, the Erxia guarded outside, and Jia Lian was waiting here.

Xing Xiuyan said again: "Xiao Jingyun forced him to find out the place where Prince Timur was imprisoned. Prince Ying has already brought people to find him. The envoys from other Mongolian tribes have not left, and His Majesty was planning a military parade. After the delay, I dare not dispose of it on my own."

Tu Yuanyi snorted coldly, and said: "The Mongols are afraid they want to take advantage of it and get more rewards." This time he really didn't give any big rewards, he only meant politely, what is the approximate value of their tribute, Reciprocity is about the same.He thought that there was military power intimidating them, and there was nothing they could do if they were disappointed.

However, if the internal affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty were unstable, they would naturally spend more money to eliminate the disaster. The Mongols were not stupid, after all, they had dealt with the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years.

It is good for trade to solve the urgent need, but wouldn't it be better to have something for free?