"The emperor summons me to the palace for I don't know how long it will take. You go to bed first and don't wait for me!" Huo Zhongting gave his wife Long Yue a serious warning before leaving.
"Well, just take care of yourself!" Mrs. Huo Yuan Longyue, who was delicate, petite and charming, nodded sensibly.
After sending Huo Zhongting and Eunuch Mu away, Yuan Yuyue stopped Zhan Qing: "Vice General Zhan, wait a minute!"
Zhan Qing stood under the red lantern, lowered his head and said, "Is there something wrong, madam?"
Yuan Longyue's deep pupils stared at the car shadow in the distance and said: "I want to ask Vice General Zhan something. Please come to the study with me, Vice General!" She took her maid Wushuang and walked away first. Zhan Qing was stunned for a moment.
He also followed.
The carriages leading to the palace, the horses raising their hooves, strode forward on the deserted bluestone official road.
inside the car.
"Eunuch Mu, why is the emperor so anxious?" Emperor Long Yunze, who had just ascended the throne, occasionally summoned him to the palace to play chess, but he had never been summoned late at night. In the palace, Eunuch Mu was inconvenienced by the presence of outsiders.
Speaking of which, now that he is out, he can always reveal some secrets in advance so that he can be prepared.
Eunuch Mu said: "The Sa family really doesn't know. The general should wait until he enters the palace to ask Eunuch Feng first." Compared with Feng Sheng, Eunuch Feng's importance in the heart of the young emperor was far behind him.
Seeing that Huo Zhongting was silent, Eunuch Mu opened the curtain and looked around, lowering his voice and saying: "When the emperor ordered his servants to come to invite the general, there was no anger on his face. It must not be a big deal!"
Huo Zhongting nodded, leaned against the Cheluan tarpaulin, and closed his eyes in deep thought.
Same time.
Outside the window of Shanhe Zhai, the palace of the Northern Kingdom of Min Liao, Agula's deep voice came: "General... General..."
Yelu Qingge was sleeping very lightly. When he heard the voice, he knew that the deputy general had something important to report. He was about to put down Mei Liangchen in his arms to find out what was going on, but she woke up. A pair of black eyes were misty, still carrying a heavy sense of sleep.
.
"Is it Agula? Is something wrong?"
He leaned over and kissed her forehead, then lit the fire stick. "I'll go take a look."
When he put on his clothes and got out of bed, she hugged his waist from behind and warned: "Don't leave without coming back!"
He smiled and said: "If it were the emperor's order, wouldn't I have to resist it for you?"
She snorted and bit down on his steel-hard waist before letting him stand up.
In the dim night, the snow continued to fall. From the lights on the porch, you could see that the snow accumulated in the courtyard had reached Agulla's ankles.
"General..." As soon as Yelu Qingge stepped out of the house, Agula hurried over.
Yelu Qingge stopped his words with gestures, pointed to the outer hall of Shanhe Zhai, and walked over first.
After entering the quiet hall, Agula knelt down with a pop and said in a sad voice: "The general has just received the news that he went to Beijing. The emperor was buried in Jingyang Palace at noon the day before yesterday!"
Yelu Qingge stared at Agula's face for a long time before asking expressionlessly: "Is the news accurate?"
"The general captured a chamberlain from the Queen's Palace while inspecting the border fortress at night. He wanted to sneak into the post house to find the second prince to deliver the Queen's autograph, but he was intercepted by the general." Agula took out the letter in his arms and handed it to him.
Sing a clear song to Yelu.
After reading it in a hurry, Yelu Qingge said with a solemn expression: "Where are the servants in the palace?"
"I fainted from exhaustion and fell asleep in the cell. However, the last general asked him if he saw the emperor's funeral in person. He said that Jingyang Palace was closed, and no one could except the queen and the uncle who supported the second prince in the court.
Approaching the palace." Agula replied.
Yelu Qingge unfolded the letter, read it carefully, then slowly opened it again.
Agula asked carefully: "What does the general plan to do?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lasu Rong hurriedly walked into Shanhe Zhai with a group of people.
"Sir, someone is coming from the palace."
He is no longer the emperor's personal attendant, Sigdu, but has been replaced by Suoyang, a civil servant whom the emperor relies heavily on.
He bowed slightly, took out the imperial edict delivered by riding thousands of miles away, and solemnly read out: "The King of the North receives the edict!"
"The last general will receive the order!" Yelu Qingge and Agula knelt down and raised their hands above their heads.
According to the imperial edict, on the occasion of Emperor Tianyun's funeral, the throne was passed on to the second prince Yelu Longchang, and the new emperor returned to Beijing to be crowned smoothly by the King of the North with the assistance of the King of the North, and no violation was allowed.
Yelu Qingge sneered at Suoyang and said, "Bring me the imperial edict!"
Suo Yang did not dare to look directly at Yelu Qingge, so he quickly gathered the imperial edict and replied: "To avoid any complications in the future, the queen ordered the ministers to get back their lives after passing on the imperial edict!"
"Don't be nagging!" Yelu Qingge stood up suddenly, and with a move of his arm, the imperial edict was already in his iron palm.
Suo Yang was shocked, "Your Majesty, snatching the imperial edict is a treasonous crime!" He wanted to repeat the Queen's original words, but Agula stood in front of him with a sword, scaring off the timid Suo Yang.
Yelu Qingge lightly swept the imperial edict and threw it heavily to the ground without looking at it carefully.
"False! Come here!" Following the command, the Iron Guards came out in full force. Yelu Qingge's face was as cold as iron, and his calm black eyes said angrily: "Take this important official of the imperial court who faked the imperial edict and send him to death row!"
"Yes!" The roar shook the sky.
Suo Yang was so frightened that his legs weakened, and he sat down on the white snow, trembling all over and screaming: "How can the imperial decree... be false? Your Majesty, please don't wrongly accuse a good person!"
Yelu Qingge snorted, stepped on his combat boots and stepped on the bright imperial edict: "Sir Suo, how can there be an imperial edict that is not covered with a jade seal?! How can there be an emperor who sends a message to the border generals after his death and does not bring military symbols when he comes?"
He kicked the fake imperial edict into Suoyang's face, leaned down, pinched his collar, raised his eyebrows and asked angrily: "Where are the military talismans? Lord Suoyang?"
The rope was stuck so hard that he couldn't breathe. He fluttered his short legs and struggled: "It's unjust! The prince... the general... it's unjust! The minister is just conveying the imperial edict under the order of the queen. Anything.
It has nothing to do with me!"
"Hold it down!" He dropped Suoyang's limp body and stood with his hands behind his back.
Soon, silence returned to Shanhe Zhai.
Agula was about to speak, but Yelu Qingge glanced at a corner of the inner hall, took a breath and said, "Stop hiding, come out!"