In the end, it was Empress Dowager Lu who pulled her son up. When he stood up, Zhu Yun Kang's hat accidentally fell off the ground, and his mother touched his bald head. Empress Dowager Lu was stunned and said: "Yun Kang, what are you..."
Zhu Yunkang hurriedly told his mother about his experiences over the years: "The iron letter, the red box, and the ultimatum and the razor were all left by my grandfather. Maybe my grandfather also realized that the child would one day end up in the world..."
Empress Dowager Lu heard that he was ordained as a monk, and she endured the humiliation under the protection of loyal ministers. At first, she still wanted to restore the country, but then she saw her loyal ministers being smashed to pieces for him, and she gradually became discouraged, and she no longer had the idea of cheering up.
The old lady originally had extravagant hopes that Jianwen could restore his country and take revenge. Now seeing that he was depressed, she knew that it was impossible. She sighed and said: "Everything is fate. Since you have accepted your fate, mother no longer wants to force it."
What do you mean? As long as you live well and be your mother for a hundred years, there will be someone who can burn paper to worship your parents and brothers..."
Zhu Yunkang nodded silently and burst into tears again.
"Normally, my mother should have died a long time ago, but if I died, I would not be able to clean your father's palace and offer incense. So my mother has always told herself that if she can live one more day, she can take care of your father's spiritual place one more day.
...Now that God has allowed us mother and son to meet, I am already satisfied..." Empress Dowager Lu once again touched her son's face carefully, as if she wanted to remember him completely. When she was satisfied, she reluctantly took back her hand, cruelly
He pushed him away and said, "Go ahead. Today, the relationship between you and me as mother and son is over. Don't ever come to this kind of land of tigers and wolves again."
Zhu Yunkang was reluctant to leave, but he saw his mother saying deeply to Chang Sen: "Uncle Guo, the Ai family is asking you to take my son away. You all can live a peaceful life, and don't take any more risks."
Chang Sen knelt down in tears to receive the order. Jianwen choked with sobs and almost fainted. Empress Dowager Lu endured all the reluctance and sorrow, urging them to leave this land of tigers and wolves quickly. Chang Sen kowtowed to the old empress again.
Then he took Zhu Yunkang and left the hall...
Behind her, the old queen mother looked at her son's figure and fell to the ground crying...
Chang Sen pulled the tearful man who turned back three times out of the hall. He suddenly stopped and swayed. He pulled out from behind the pillar a trembling old eunuch carrying a basket. The old eunuch hurriedly kowtowed to spare his life. Chang Sen frowned.
If you frown, you will be silenced.
But I heard the old queen mother behind her shouting: "Uncle, please be merciful. This is Lao He who has taken care of me for fourteen years. He can be trusted."
Chang Sen also realized that the Queen Mother was the only one serving around her. If he killed this old eunuch, the Queen Mother might not be able to survive. He couldn't help but sigh, let go of the old eunuch, and left with Emperor Jianwen.
The two quickly walked out of Yiwen Mausoleum and arrived at the guarded house. Chang Sen said to Zhuang Jing, the old god, who was waiting inside: "Antidote." Naturally, Zhuang Jing was worried that they could move freely, so he made the two of them take the medicine with a scheduled onset.
They were allowed to see the Empress Dowager Lu after receiving the poison. Without the antidote, the two of them would be poisoned and die within half a day at most. At least with Jianwen's frail body, this must be the case...
"I didn't bring that thing with me." Zhuang Jing said with a smile, "If I give you the antidote and you take Jianwen Jun away, I can't stop you." Seeing that Chang Sen was about to have an attack, he quickly changed the subject.
: "But don't worry, general, we'll give it to you as soon as we get back, there won't be any delay."
"Then leave quickly." Chang Sen said solemnly.
"We still have to wait until dark." Zhuang Jing said with a smile: "Although the Imperial Tomb Guards are slack, we will still be discovered in broad daylight."
"Hmph" Chang Sen saw that Zhuang Jing didn't listen to the discussion at all, so he sat cross-legged on the ground and ignored the guy.
Zhuang Jing smiled, then turned to Jianwen with a sad face and said, "How is it, Your Majesty? What do you think?"
Zhu Yunkang's face was tangled for a while, and he was speechless.
"You have also seen the situation of the Queen Mother. As a son, can you bear to see her continue like this?" Zhuang Jing said hypocritically: "There is also the son Wengui, who was deposed as a commoner at the age of two and was imprisoned in Zhongdu.
, he should be sixteen years old this year, right? Do you have the heart to let him be imprisoned for the rest of his life?" He said with a smile: "Oh, by the way, the Zhongdu side is also under our control. Do you want to go and see the Young Master again?"
"No need..." The pain on Zhu Yunkang's face was only one ten thousandth of the pain in his heart. In the end, he shook his head with difficulty and said: "It is better for one family to cry than for thousands of families to cry..."
"You..." Zhuang Jing immediately became irritated. He took a huge risk by bringing Jianwen to see the Empress Dowager Lu. Once someone found out, Ji Gang would definitely be in trouble. The reason why he took this risk was because he really counted on him.
I could see my mother's miserable condition and regain my fighting spirit, but I didn't expect that this guy would turn into a puddle of mud that couldn't even cover the wall.
Zhuang Jing was about to have a seizure when he saw Chang Sen stand up and said in a deep voice: "You go out first, I will talk to His Majesty."
"It's okay for me to listen." Although both of them had taken poison, Zhuang Jing was really worried...
"Go and cool off." Before he finished speaking, Master Zhuang felt someone grabbed him by the neck and threw him out the door.
His subordinates hurriedly helped him up, but the door was already closed after check-in. Master Zhuang was humiliated, but he felt that it would be even more embarrassing to say harsh words, so he had to stamp his feet angrily and endure it.
In Zhilu, Jianwen looked at Chang Sen with a look of disbelief: "Uncle, do you really want to cooperate with these executioners stained with the blood of our loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty?" In fact, it was not that Emperor Jianwen never thought of using Ji Gang's power to restore the country, but once
When I think of those melon vines and Qian Zhonglan, I have no idea at all.
"It's just a temporary measure." Chang Sen lowered his voice, whispered something in Jianwen's ear, and finally said: "If everything goes well, Your Majesty will be able to go to Nanyang with the Queen Mother, and then the family will be reunited and no longer have to be separated.
Bitter. Isn’t it worth it?”
"Of course it's worth it." Emperor Jianwen's eyes finally shone with hope: "But is Wang Xian really so kind?"
"We can only believe him..." Chang Sen sighed: "Do we have any other choice?"
"Then..." Zhu Yunkang had been an emperor after all, so he naturally knew that there was no free lunch in the world, so he asked: "What price do we have to pay?"
"This..." Chang Sen didn't expect Jianwen to ask such a question. He was speechless for a moment. He paused and then said, "Of course I have to do something for him, but it's not too much. It's acceptable."
"That's good." Zhu Yunkang nodded. When he was about to ask what was going on, he saw that Chang Sen had already turned around and opened the door. He had to stop the topic.
This Zhilu was not a specially built house, and there were no eavesdropping devices such as copper pipes. Zhuang Jing scratched his head and ears anxiously outside the door, wondering what Chang Sen and Jianwen said.
Master Zhuang was listening with his ear pressed against the door. He was caught off guard when the door opened. Master Zhuang immediately lost his balance, became unstable and fell in.
Fortunately, after losing someone once, it wasn't that hard to accept this time. Zhuang Jing patted the dirt on his body, got up as if nothing had happened, and asked, "How's it going?"
Chang Sen nodded, and Master Zhuang was immediately overjoyed. He looked at Zhu Yunkang and said, "Really?"
Zhu Yunkang closed his eyes.
Master Zhuang's happiness was based on Emperor Jianwen's pain, and he was immediately relieved. If he hadn't been worried about disturbing Zhu Yuanzhang who was sleeping underground, he would have raised his head to the sky and roared to express his joyful mood at this moment.
The plan is done
Zhuang Jing beamed with joy. He wanted to kneel down to Zhu Yunkang at that time, but then he thought about it, but felt it was unnecessary. This emperor was meant to scare others, so he couldn't take it seriously. Otherwise, what's the point of working hard?
Thinking of this, he bowed to Chao Jianwen instead and said, "Your Majesty."
This disrespect made Chang Sen feel angry, and he endured it again and again before kicking him to the ground.
Jianwen nodded with difficulty, accepting this gesture, and closed his eyes in pain.
Zhuang Jing stood up, turned to Chang Sen and said: "Old Chang, we are now ministers of the same palace, we need to get closer in the future."
"That's natural." Chang Sen squeezed out a smile and said, "Please take care of me in the future."
"Take care of each other, take care of each other." Zhuang Jing laughed and said with eager eyes: "Can you tell me the location of the treasure?"
"Of course." Chang Sen nodded and said, "The location is at Puji Temple in Yuanshan Mountain, Wu County. It was our first stop when we fled."
"Really?" Hearing him say it so lightly, Zhuang Jing didn't believe it.
"Wuxian County is far away from the capital. It only takes three or five days to go back and forth by express boat. You can send someone to see if there is any." Chang Sen said lightly: "If I lied, I would tell a place farther away.
"
"That's true..." Zhuang Jing nodded doubtfully. Chang Sen was right, but how could he rashly send someone to check on this kind of thing? He had to be fully prepared. It seemed that we could only wait and wait.
.
"What do you want us to do next?" Chang Sen asked proactively.
"Well, of course there is a lot to do." Zhuang Jing said with a smile: "But not now, the general only needs to take good care of the emperor. When he appears in front of the ministers, if the emperor looks so bad, others will think that we are mistreating him...
"
"Okay." Zhuang Jing said with a smile: "In addition, I have good news to tell the general. To show my sincerity, I have sent people to bring nephew Ling back from Yunnan. I believe he will be able to arrive in Beijing to reunite with the general soon."
"Really..." Chang Sen's heart sank suddenly. He naturally knew that this guy had no good intentions. He just wanted to use his step-grandfather as a hostage to threaten him not to do anything random. But he still had a look of joy on his face.
Said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Zhuang."
"It's easy to talk about." Zhuang Jing smiled and nodded.
When it got dark, the three of them and a group of guards disguised themselves as patrolling imperial mausoleum guards and left the imperial mausoleum from the back mountain. The guards were really lazy, and they went down the mountain without encountering any trouble along the way.
After he got off the mountain road, he got on the carriage that had been waiting at the foot of the mountain and drove away. Several figures appeared in the grass beside the road.
"I'm really unwilling to let such a good opportunity slip away." The voice that spoke was clearly Hu Sandao's.
"What do you know? This is called taking a long time to catch the big fish," Long Wuye said angrily.
"You know." Hu Sandao glared and was about to quarrel with his old enemy. But he heard a cough and quickly kept silent. Hu Sandao, the leader of the horse thief who was fearless, was not so afraid of Wang Xian. But he said
The one who made this noise was Yang Rong, the head coach of Beizhen Fusi. This old guy was so angry that he casually asked you to run around the capital ten times with a water tank on your back, and he would beat you to death.
"Close the team." Yang Rong gave the order and disappeared into the darkness with his men...