Chapter 16: Late Night Method of Dispatching Troops
As the footsteps approached, Xue Hengzhao took the spool from Chi Su's hand.
Walk calmly and slowly toward the front yard.
"We two won't be arrested and beheaded, right?" Chi Su asked, and couldn't help but shudder after finishing speaking.
"Are you afraid? How about you hide aside first." Xue Hengzhao's eyes shone in the dim light, like a glass lamp in front of the Buddha.
Chi Su turned her face to the side and said, "It doesn't matter whether I'm afraid or not, I won't hide alone."
She is more afraid of living an unethical life than dying.
"What do you think Qian Sanchun looks like in this place?" Xue Hengzhao raised his head and watched the Kongming Lantern floating in the sky.
Her neck is long and graceful, like a delicate flower stalk.
"What does it look like?" Chi Su also raised his head and looked at the dark sky and said, "It's like a big black cloud, covering the sky above our heads and weighing it down so hard that it makes people breathless.
Come."
Xue Hengzhao smiled and said: "Your analogy is indeed appropriate. Then have you thought about what methods you need to use to disperse this dark cloud?"
"What method?" Chi Su was stumped, and after thinking for a while he said, "What method can we use? Either the sun will come out and burn it out, or the strong wind will blow it away. In short, it's not you and me.
It can be done.
You told me before that if we put this light out, someone will come to save us, but is it true?"
"What you said is correct or not." Xue Hengzhao put away the spool in his hand slightly, "Although only the sun and strong wind can deal with the dark clouds, can't we use the method to call upon the wind and the sun? Isn't our rescue coming soon?
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"You mean..." Chi Su pointed to the direction where the footsteps came from, "These people..."
More than one group of people came, and the first ones to come in were the night patrol guards, a dozen of them.
When they entered, Xue Hengzhao and Chi Su had also arrived at the main courtyard.
"How presumptuous! Who allowed you to set off lanterns privately in the Forbidden Palace?! Are you in danger of dying?!" someone in the Imperial Guard shouted.
Xue Hengzhao took one look and knew that the person speaking was not the leader of these people, but the young man standing at the front.
So she said to the man: "Sir, it is indeed against the palace rules for me to put up lanterns at night, but I have a hidden agenda..."
Before she finished speaking, the man before shouted again: "Since you know it is against the rules, you are knowingly breaking the rules! You should be tied up and sent to the Criminal Punishment Department!"
"Who dares to come forward?" Xue Hengzhao pointed to the Kongming Lantern above his head, "The Three Pure Saints are here. If there is any damage to them, it will be a crime of disrespect!
I was entrusted by the God of Fortune and Righteousness in a dream to send a message to His Majesty. Who dares to stop me, without fear of heavy punishment?"
"You still dare to speak lies!" The man said and walked out of the team, "You are obviously the one who insulted the gods!"
The emperor now believes in Taoism and is obsessed with immortality. Everyone knows this.
Anyone who dares to slander Taoism and disrespect the Three Pure Ones will be whipped at the least, dismissed from office or even beheaded at the worst.
When they saw this lamp from a distance, they did not dare to shoot it down. This was what they were afraid of.
At this time, several people from the Fourth Division on night duty also arrived. Panting, they said to Xue Chi and the other two, "I'm going to die! Why don't you put down the lamp quickly!"
Xue Hengzhao didn't even look at them, but said: "Didn't you hear what I just said? Who can afford to delay important events?"
"You are obviously talking nonsense! How dare you pretend to be a god to fool everyone, I will tell you later that you know how powerful you are!" The man from the Royal Forest Army had a bad temper. Because Xue Hengzhao did not accept his warning, his nose was almost crooked with anger.
Xue Hengzhao slowly tightened the thread, took back the Kongming Lantern and held it in his hand, and said with a sneer: "It's obvious that you don't respect the gods. I have already said that it was the God of Fortune who gave it to me in a dream. As long as you are pious, you should ask the gods to tell you.
What did you do to me?
When I finish speaking, you can verify it again.
If I tell a lie, it will be exposed easily, and I am not in a hurry to punish you at this moment.
Now you are blocking me from speaking out, and you are even saying that you want to punish me and kill me.
You clearly want to interrupt the will of the gods and harm Your Majesty! What is your intention?!"
The man was indeed frightened.
Then two more groups of people came, one was Deng Bao with a few followers, and the other was three eunuchs from Yangze Palace.
Yangze Palace is the emperor's palace, and these eunuchs serve there. Even if their positions are not high, they are not comparable to those of ordinary servants in the palace.
This is the so-called third-grade official of the prime minister, concierge, etc.
The three eunuchs came in and first greeted the young man headed by the imperial guard.
After that, the leading eunuch shouted in a high-pitched voice at Xue Hengzhao, Deng Bao and other people from the Fourth Division: "What's going on at this late in the night?! If the Holy Master is frightened, you'll all lose your heads! You don't know how to die!" The emperor guarded Gengshen, and the eunuchs who followed him often stayed up all night.
A eunuch went outside the house at night and happened to see a lantern hanging in the northwest half of the sky. He quickly informed the steward, so these people came.
Deng Bao quickly apologized and said: "Eunuch Zhang, I'm really sorry. We made an oversight. These two palace maids were fooling around. We will punish them severely when they come back."
"Eunuch Zhang, are you from His Majesty's palace?" Xue Hengzhao asked.
"Shut up!" Deng Bao shouted first, "How can you speak here?!"
"Originally, I have no right to speak, but what I said is what Fu Zhengshen asked me to say in a dream." Xue Hengzhao did not hesitate at all, "Now that someone has come to your Majesty's palace, how long will it take if I don't say anything?"<
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"You little girl, you are so loud. Let me tell you, lying will not bring you any good results." Eunuch Zhang narrowed his eyes and looked at Xue Hengzhao and said, "You have made such a big fuss, and it will not end well if you are found to be lying."<
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"Don't worry, Eunuch Zhang, I will never tell you lies." Xue Hengzhao swore to the sky, "If what I say is untrue, I will cause the Three Pure Ones to be abandoned forever, and people and gods will be disgusted with me!"
"Your Majesty, look..." Eunuch Zhang did not express his opinion, but asked the young man.
"Tell her to say it." The young man seemed to have been holding it in for a long time. He said these three words quickly and heavily, like throwing stones.
He has a very handsome face, but also a very cold temperament.
The eyes contain three spring water, and the eyebrows are filled with nine autumn frosts.
It's as cool as the jade tree in the moon, and as elegant as the orchid in the ancient stream.
Xue Hengzhao didn't recognize him, but when he heard Eunuch Zhang call him his eldest son, he knew that he was of noble birth and his father was favored by the Holy Spirit.
"Then just tell me!" Eunuch Zhang folded his hands in front of him, looked at Xue Hengzhao and said, "Let's listen."
"I was sleeping in this courtyard last night and had a dream. In the dream, an old immortal with a white beard came to me. He said to me that Your Majesty has profound merits and is pious and respectful to gods.
Therefore, the gods will send blessings to Your Majesty and ask me to transfer it to you."
"This is a bit unreasonable," Eunuch Zhang shook his head after hearing this. "In that case, why don't the gods go directly to His Majesty's dream? I have to leave it to you, an inconspicuous little palace maid, to tell you."
"I also had this question at the time, so I asked it in my dream." Xue Hengzhao responded calmly, "The old immortal said that because His Majesty's mortal relationship has not been over and his ordination has not been completed, it is not appropriate to meet him for the time being.
I was chosen because I stay here and am good at painting Sanqing portraits."
"Hmm... It seems that it is barely reasonable to say so." Eunuch Zhang nodded.