Chapter 594: Killing mother with son, bleeding eagle
Inside Funing Palace.
When Zhao Ji, Yang Jian, Lan Congxi and a group of servants walked into the palace, they found that it was empty.
The chambermaids and palace maids who were originally serving the Empress Dowager Xiang have disappeared.
They were still worried and kept searching with their eyes until the Queen Mother leaned on the couch and looked over quietly: "No need to look for it...all my people have been dismissed...it's none of their business...don't harm them..."
Zhao Ji remained silent. Yang Jian and Lan Congxi looked at each other and secretly said to the Queen Mother.
The chamberlains and maids around her knew too much and could not be allowed to live under any circumstances.
The two of them waved their hands behind their backs. Their confidants understood and immediately stepped back.
Queen Mother Xiang's eyes were so dim that she couldn't even notice what the chamberlain behind her was doing. Her eyes were looking straight at Zhao Ji, with confusion, sadness and grief in her eyes.
Zhao Ji's eyes were wandering and he didn't dare to look directly until he spoke to the Queen Mother again: "Brother Eleven...why do you do this to me..."
Hearing this title, Zhao Ji's hands trembled, and anger suddenly surged in his heart, and he said to the left and right: "Stand back!"
Yang Jian and Lan Congxi didn't want to stay at all. After hearing this, they felt as if they were being pardoned and hurriedly accepted the order: "Yes! Officials!"
But when they exited the palace, they couldn't contain their curiosity. They put their ears to it, hoping to hear every move inside clearly.
Such a major event may be traced back to the founders of the dynasty, Taizu and Taizong, and the sound of candle shadows and axes that have been circulated among the people for a long time...
The truth of that incident has long been unknown, but now, in the world, perhaps only the chamberlains know the outcome of the mother and son.
Inside Funing Palace.
Zhao Ji's mind also inexplicably flashed the rumor of the sound of the candle shadow and the axe, and then he came three steps away from the Queen Mother's couch, took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and tried to explain: "Please don't believe what outsiders say,
My filial piety is unwavering, but there are thieves who see the court is stable and the world is at peace, and they want to destroy Zhao and Song Dynasty, so they slander me!"
When the Empress Dowager Xiang heard the other person's title, she immediately trembled with anger: "My son... my son... Haha! This title is really humbling. Why didn't I see it earlier? You are such a frivolous, wolf-hearted beast."
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Zhao Ji's cheek muscles twitched, and he was furious in his heart. However, he had no support since he was a child, and he was born in a bad time. He was tabooed by his parents. He has lived a timid life since he was sensible, but he can withstand such ruthlessness.
He scolded me angrily and just said: "Your Majesty, calm down your anger. My Majesty, please calm down your anger. My sons and ministers will be filial!"
Xiang Dowager narrowed his eyes and said, "How can you bear it? It's because I'm dying and you don't want to tarnish your reputation, so you can't retaliate like this, right?"
Zhao Ji originally thought the same way. When he heard what the other party said, he put away the unnecessary expressions on his face and started the rereading mode: "My queen, please calm down! My sons and daughters are filial! My queen, calm down and my sons and daughters are filial!"
I know that you will not calm down, and you also know that I have no filial piety, but what can you do to me? I deliberately make you angry to death!
Empress Dowager Xiang looked at his handsome and noble face, and her expression became even more sad: "I have been childless all my life. Although the late emperor called me your empress, she had no feelings. It is nothing compared to your previous filial piety, which is just pretending."
When you come out, I am willing to hear you call me empress..."
As she talked, she became more and more sad: "Your mother died young and she was a poor child without a mother since she was a child. Can't you regard me as your mother?"
Zhao Ji fell silent this time, and finally couldn't help but said: "Queen Mother, do you dare to ask if there is a mother who desperately strives to snatch the power of her son without giving him any freedom?"
Xiang Empress Dowager said bitterly: "After all, it is for power. But after the late emperor succeeded to the throne, wasn't it the Empress Dowager Gao Xuan who was in charge of the government in the past few years? You are only eighteen years old, and you are the one who single-handedly supported the throne. Is this all?
Can’t wait?”
Zhao Ji looked at the surroundings again. There was no one else around anyway, so he simply said: "To be honest with the Queen Mother, I was born in a bad age. My mother died early. I have no foundation in the palace. I never thought about becoming an official of the Song Dynasty."
Family, but since you have allowed me to sit in this position of the Nine-Fifth Supreme Being, don't you still allow me to get the power I deserve? There is no such truth in the world!"
The Empress Dowager was angry: "The way you gained power was to kill your mother? In all dynasties, has there ever been an emperor as rebellious as you?"
Zhao Ji explained sincerely this time: "I did not let Tong Guan come to murder the Queen Mother, but I used some means to fight for power. However, it is normal in the internal ban. I don't know how it got to such a point..."
Empress Dowager Xiang didn't believe it at all, and just sneered: "Now that things have happened, you are still trying to quibble, and there is not a single word of truth in your mouth!"
Zhao Ji had a headache, but he figured out the reason: "Yes! Yes! It's because of Gongsun Zhao. If he hadn't been determined to find out the so-called truth, and even went so far as to stir up trouble in front of the Queen Mother and make the Queen Mother think wildly, why would he be like this? This traitor was captured and returned.
Eucalyptus, impose the death penalty to serve as a warning to others!"
Although Empress Dowager Xiang still had no good impression of Gongsun Zhao, she still couldn't contain her anger when she heard what Zhao Ji said: "How can you have the face to say such ridiculous things? You still don't have any regrets in your heart? Really?
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianggong saw so accurately at that time, how can a person like you rule the world!!"
Zhao Ji thought to himself that I am the winner, and your time has come. How can I regret it? But seeing the stern look on the Queen Mother's face, he finally stopped talking back and returned to his original state: "Mom, please calm down! My children and ministers are filial piety."
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He took a deep breath to the Queen Mother, and his eyes showed determination: "Shut up, I called you here just to ask you, as an official, how are you going to treat me next?"
Zhao Ji's visit here was actually caused by Gongsun Zhao's behavior of first requesting a secret edict and then entering the palace directly, which made him feel guilty. He was afraid that the throne would be lost, so he wanted to see with his own eyes the condition of the Empress Dowager in order to feel at ease.
Seeing that her face was ashen and helpless towards him, she became bolder: "My queen, please rest in Funing Palace, and leave everything outside to my subordinates!"
Queen Mother Xiang drooped her eyelids and said feebly: "What are you talking about...I...can't hear you clearly..."
Zhao Ji became more and more proud, walked a few steps forward, stood in front of the couch, and continued to repeat what he just said, to put it bluntly, just wait to die!
But just as he finished speaking, Queen Mother Xiang suddenly opened her eyes. The hand behind her back seemed to throw something back, and then her old body rushed over and hugged Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji was shocked and thought she had taken out a sharp knife, but soon found that the other party just hugged him tightly and made no other moves.
Just as he was about to ask what this was, his nose suddenly sniffed: "What does this smell like?"
Empress Dowager Xiang had been bedridden for some time. The smell of medicine filled the Funing Palace before, covering up other smells. At this time, Empress Dowager Xiang suddenly stood up, and Zhao Ji smelled another unusual smell.
But before he could identify what the smell was, a red light had already ignited in front of his eyes, and the cold palace suddenly gained a bright color.
Zhao Ji's eyes bulged angrily: "Fire! Fire!!"
Empress Dowager Xiang's cloudy eyes seemed to have become brighter than ever under the light of the fire, and her speech became smoother: "I have been in the palace all my life, and I remember every fire clearly, especially the one in Shaosheng's fourth year. There was a fire in the palace, but God helped me in the Song Dynasty. The fuel from that time is still there!"
Zhao Ji finally realized something: "Queen Mother...you want..."
Xiang Empress Dowager's hand was strong, and she hugged Zhao Ji tightly, shouting in her mouth: "Guan family! Official family! I can't help you, I'm blind, and I chose such a traitor... But please don't worry, I'm big The country of Song Dynasty must not be left in the hands of this traitor!"
Zhao Ji knew that the official the Empress Dowager was talking about was his father, Emperor Shenzong. Hearing this, he was so frightened that he became weak and urinated. He actually had no strength to struggle. Instead, tears came out of his eyes: "The Empress Dowager... Your Majesty... My Majesty, please forgive me..."
Empress Dowager Xiang not only refused to spare his life, but also covered his mouth to prevent the chamberlain outside from hearing what was going on.
Waiting for the fire to completely ignite, the two of them can be buried in the raging flames together, correcting the fatal mistake after Zhezong's death!
The flames indeed ignited rapidly, but what made Queen Mother Xiang's heart sink was that the sound of rapid footsteps also came from outside.
Under normal circumstances, if there is no obvious call for people in the palace, the servants outside the palace will not dare to enter.
But luckily, there was a great eunuch named Lan Congxi outside the palace. He once saved the palace from a fire and made great achievements. He sniffed his nose outside and suddenly realized something was wrong: "There is water inside, go in quickly!"
Lan Congxi rushed in quickly, followed closely by Yang Jian, and then saw an imageless person on the ground like two maggots entangled together.
They were so frightened that their scalps were troubled and their souls were scattered: "The Queen Mother... the official family..."
Because this is the empress dowager and official family of the Song Dynasty, and it turned out to be like this?
Seeing the group of servants pouring in, Queen Mother Xiang's eyes showed despair, but she still used her last strength to hug Zhao Ji tightly, and even wanted to send him to the fire.
The chamberlain's hands and feet were cold for a while, and he did not dare to pick up the Queen Mother. He could only block the direction to prevent the two most noble people in the world from perishing together.
But the appearance of so many internal servants emboldened Zhao Ji. He cried and struggled: "Let go! Let me go!!"
Zhao Ji was in good health, and he was still in his youth at the age of eighteen. His strength was very strong. He just struggled a few times, but he couldn't hold the Empress Dowager anymore.
But there was a sob in her throat, and her lifelong weakness and transparency seemed to have turned into unyielding determination at this moment, and she still hugged her tightly.
Then, the chamberlain who was circling around the two people heard the young and strong Zhao Ji, crying like a father calling for his mother: "Come and help me! Pull her away! Pull this old thing away!"
In this case, who dares to pull it?
They could only reach out and push as much as possible to push the two of them away from the raging fire.
Soon, the smoke really started to rise.
"Ahem! Ahem! Ahem!"
The servants around him began to cough uncontrollably, and Zhao Ji's vision was also shrouded in smoke.
"Old man, get out of here! How can I die with you?"
And vaguely felt the hot tongue of fire beginning to lick his skin. In fact, even though the distance was still far away, Zhao Ji finally felt a surge of anger in his chest. He arched his waist, shrank his legs, and then kicked him hard with all his strength. To the Queen Mother's chest.
"puff!!"
Empress Dowager Xiang was kicked until blood spurted out, covering Zhao Ji's head and face. Finally, he couldn't hold on and fell backwards.
Even that thin body was kicked and rolled over, lying on the ground, no longer moving.
The air suddenly became quiet.
Even though the heat wave was rolling in, all the servants felt a chill pouring down from the heavenly spirit when they witnessed this scene. The two tremors were fighting, and they did not dare to breathe out.
Yang Jian and Lan Congxi reacted the fastest, pulling Zhao Ji up with blood on his face: "Guanjia! Guanjia! Let's go!"
At this time, after the official of the Song Dynasty finally realized what he had done, his courage had completely evaporated like a tide, and his distorted voice sounded sharper than a eunuch: "Let's go! Go quickly!!"
When everyone evacuated Funing Palace in great panic, the movement here had attracted the attention of the surrounding people, and the servants who discovered that they were wandering around were also surrounded from all directions.
Zhao Ji didn't dare to look at anyone and wanted to rush forward, but his legs were as weak as two noodles and his whole body was shaking.
But vaguely, he seemed to see a black dot passing from the sky and flashing into the Funing Palace behind.
In the heat wave, Empress Dowager Xiang was lying on the ground, dying. As she was dying, she saw a majestic eagle standing in front of her.
She thought of her two brothers. On the night of her death, the eagle also appeared. She slowly stretched out her palm and called out: "Brother...my brother...did you ask the divine eagle to come back as a soul?"
The eagle seemed to understand these words, stretched out its wings, and gently touched the Queen Mother Xiang's back, its talons unavoidably stained by the blood.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
He showed relief and regret to the Queen Mother, with a very complicated expression: "The official family...I'm sorry...the Song Dynasty...I...can't...protect it for you..."
Say it.
Close your eyes.
Flames shot into the sky.
"Chirp——!"
When a black shadow of a divine horse rose into the sky, spreading its wings and soaring over the palace, everyone below, both onlookers and busy people, heard the loud cry of an eagle.
I even felt the blood falling from the sky, dripping on the ground, all the way.
Passed over the official residence of the Song Dynasty below.
Beyond the silent imperial city of the Song Dynasty.
Finally, we arrived at the capital, an equally lively and noisy scene.
There, a group of Banzhi guards were chasing a wanted fugitive.
Gongsun Zhao was covered in blood, had an arrow in his back, and ran wildly ahead.
Just when he was feeling a little confused due to excessive blood loss, he suddenly saw a figure standing on the top of Fan Tower in front of him.
The moonlight was shining, the long sleeves of the broad robe were slowly fluttering, and the mask had a faint cold sheen.
The raised right arm was empty at first.
Then a bloody eagle fell from the sky and landed on it.
The man in the broad robe spoke, and a loud voice echoed in all directions:
"Killing a mother with her son will make both humans and gods angry!!"