Chapter eight hundred and eighty after the catastrophe
Seeing that Ah Liu's second arrow missed Chu Kuan's self-inflicted dagger, the emperor's expression suddenly changed, and when he swooped forward, it was already too late. He grabbed Chu Kuan and shouted angrily, "You bastard." However, even if he was angry,
Bo Fa, that childhood playmate who would have a calm face and say some words of apology most of the time, now only had an inexplicable smile left on his face, and he was actually dead.
Apart from those words before, there were no other words that could be regarded as last words.
The emperor had previously received a report from someone at the Qin Tian Jian's observatory in the palace, claiming that people in Zhang Yuan were setting off fireworks in broad daylight for no apparent reason, so he felt a little strange and thought for a moment that nothing was wrong, so he hurried out of the palace incognito to see what was going on.
, who would have known that Princess Yongping was able to return to the palace after a long delay after her carriage broke down at Bei'anmen.
After hearing Princess Yongping's hurried explanation that Zhu Ying had been summoned by the Queen Mother of Qingning Palace, Zhang Shou acted strangely, as if something had happened. He simply took his daughter and went straight to Zhang Yuan, only to find that there were fewer people here.
More than half of the time, I learned from a group of ignorant little guys who only knew how to obey orders and set off fireworks in broad daylight. When Zhu Jing made an appointment with Zhang Shou to go to Baiyun Temple, he felt something was wrong.
His son-in-law said that it was inconvenient, but he decided to go to Baiyun Temple? So the emperor immediately sent people and summoned a team of sharp cavalry battalions to come to Baiyun Temple.
When he first came in, although he only had time to catch up with the last fight, he had already realized what had happened. Therefore, the emperor even felt cruel in his heart and was determined to punish Chu Kuan severely, as a warning to others, and to give an explanation to Zhu Jing and Zhang Shouweng's son-in-law.
...and from this, he thought of all the past events, and he even thought about asking Chu Kuan carefully, even if he put aside his old feelings.
But at this moment, his mind was blank, and one scene after another passed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
The next moment, many of the royal servants who had not stopped even when the emperor appeared just restrained their hands. However, their stoppage came too fast and suddenly, so that most of their opponents could not stop in time.
Under the sword, people were killed and injured for a while. But even those who were killed and injured only made a low groan, but no one begged for mercy and confessed.
After a long while, the emperor finally came back to his senses from his trance. With his hands full of blood, he slowly let go of his hand and let the corpse fall to the ground. Then he looked up at Zhu Jing and Zhang Shou and asked word by word:
"What on earth did he say to you?"
Zhang Shou also didn't expect Chu Kuan to be so decisive, but what made him even more unbelievable was that Ah Liu only blocked the sword, but not the sword. Therefore, at this time, he was looking sideways at the young man with a depressed face.
Unexpectedly, he failed to answer the emperor's question immediately. However, he would be so distracted that he ignored the emperor, but Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing did not.
"Yingying, take Zhang Shou out." After saying this, Zhu Jing didn't care whether Zhu Ying agreed or not, and directly ordered, "Others, take away the imperial servants brought by Chu Kuan."
, I have something to report to the emperor alone."
Zhu Ying originally wanted to persist, but seeing the unquestionable determination in her father's eyes, and seeing that Zhang Shou was obviously distracted, she finally stepped forward and dragged Zhang Shou out, but after a few steps
, she turned around and saw Ah Liu sitting there in a daze, and immediately said angrily: "Ah Liu, what are you doing here? Come and carry Ah Shou on your back, you see he is scared!"
Ah Liu was stunned for a moment and hurried over. Without saying a word, he carried Zhang Shou on his back. However, when he followed Zhu Ying out without looking back, he suddenly felt his ears being pulled hard.
After a while. Although he had always been very resistant to pain, at this moment he couldn't help but sucked in a hissing breath, and then heard a sneer behind him.
"You know the pain? But you don't know the fear either!"
Knowing that Zhang Shou had regained consciousness, Ah Liu saw Zhu Ying walking ahead as if she hadn't heard him, so he whispered: "Master, what are you talking about? I don't understand."
"You are still pretending to be stupid? And you are still pretending to be with me? Ah Liu, I have been with you for so many years, how can you hide this idea from me? If you want to stop someone, even if it is Chu Kuan, which hand will he use to kill himself?
Which hand will definitely hit the arrow, how could you miss! Do you think the emperor is a fool?"
Ah Liu muttered in a low voice: "But he must still have poison on his body... and in his mouth too!"
"Then why don't you just wait until he takes the poison? Why should you pretend to be a mistake?" Zhang Shou drank in a low voice. Seeing that Zhu Ying in front still seemed not to hear anything, he couldn't help but slapped the boy again in annoyance.
When he wanted to train again, he heard the young man's low voice, "Even if I have to pay with his life, I will kill him!"
"Who made him want to kill you!"
Zhang Shou was suddenly choked and speechless. Immediately afterwards, he saw Zhu Ying in front of him suddenly turned around, glared at him fiercely, and then asked Ah Liu: "Little Ah Liu, what are you doing?"
Tell me honestly, what did Chu Kuan say before?"
"They're all crazy talk." Zhang Shou really had no interest in mentioning the conversation just now, especially knowing that Ah Liu could retell the conversation verbatim. Therefore, he didn't give Ah Liu a chance to speak, and just spoke briefly and concisely.
After mentioning it, the focus was on Chu Kuan's suspicion that he was born with knowledge. In the end, he only heard Zhu Ying curse bitterly.
"It's simply ridiculous! What's wrong with being born with knowledge? Aren't there always some weird and mysterious things in this world, saying that someone is reincarnated into someone, so a child becomes someone's ancestor in an old-fashioned way? Scholars will even enjoy recording these things.
, it shows that this is not a particularly unusual thing, Chu Kuan, has he eaten enough to hold on? He has nothing to do to bother with this! "
Seeing that Zhu Ying didn't take it seriously at all, Zhang Shou couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then changed the subject and asked: "Princess Yongping said before that you were summoned to the palace by the Queen Mother. Looking at you, did you find out halfway through?"
"There have been a lot of messy things recently, so my grandmother and my mother gave me many warnings and told me to be careful, so I made an agreement with Aunt Yuquan on a message in advance, and I must bring those words when summoning me to the palace. Then
He is really the chamberlain of Qingning Palace, and the reason he made up seems to be the same, but the call he mentioned did not include that message, so I became suspicious."
"I thought it was just someone trying to do something bad to me, so I quietly sent a message to my eldest brother, and then I told that guy that I wanted to buy something and bring it to the palace to present to the Queen Mother. Then my eldest brother just waited and set an ambush to capture the person.
That guy is very difficult to deal with. He wants to die whenever he sees something wrong. He is really a general who can lead whatever troops he wants. He is exactly the same as Chu Kuan!"
Speaking of this, Zhu Ying couldn't help but cursed a few more words, and then raised her eyebrows slightly: "But the eldest brother is still more powerful. He moved quickly and stopped the guy who wanted to die. Later, he didn't know how to use it.
Ask what method you use to tell me."
As she spoke, she glanced at Ah Liu and said as if to comfort him: "But Ah Liu, you did nothing wrong by letting Chu Kuan commit suicide. Fortunately, you didn't get angry and kill him with an arrow. Don't kill him yourself.
, otherwise the emperor will remember you forever..."
Although it is still possible that he will be remembered for a lifetime... Zhu Ying just thought about this in her heart, but would not say it out loud. After all, she understood Ah Liu's reckless behavior just now.
"You are already very restrained. If it were me, with a bow and arrow in my hand, I don't care about him. I would definitely shoot him to death with one arrow! Anyone who dares to attack Dad and Ah Shou must certainly die!"
Just now she praised Ah Liu for restraining herself, but then Zhu Ying's true nature was revealed. She even gritted her teeth, and was extremely upset that when Zhang Yuan's gang broke into pieces and hurried over, they only brought Ah Liu's bow and arrows with them.
She didn't bring her own, so she just lacked long-range attack means, and couldn't just throw the sword out to vent her anger.
Zhang Shou got off Ah Liu's back again and rubbed his temples, which were slightly swollen and painful at the moment. He was thinking in his heart how deep a thorn had been pierced in the emperor's heart after such an incident.
Shouldn't we take advantage of the next opportunity for a large-scale fleet to sail overseas and simply go overseas to cause harm to others?
However, these days, there are thieves and bandits on the land route, and the sea route is even more dangerous. Even a man with incredible luck like Emperor Taizu cannot stop him. He is so young and has not lived enough yet!
He was thinking about where to go in the future, but then he felt a pair of soft hands hugging him tightly from behind. He felt the two plump balls pressed tightly against his back, but he didn't know that they were Zhu.
Ying immediately smiled and said, "It's okay. My father-in-law carried me out on his back before. It was because of my father-in-law's love for his son-in-law, not because I really can't walk."
"Ah Liu is carrying me, that's because you want him to avoid the emperor..."
Before he could continue speaking, Zhu Ying's soft voice came from behind: "I used to think that Ah Shou, you know a lot, and you treat people and things differently from ordinary people. Even the methods you use to solve things are different."
They are different from ordinary people. This is probably why Little Fatty Lu and the others obey you, because you have never regarded them as dandies who need to be feared."
"From the first day I met you, you didn't look like a country farmer. It's not because you are good-looking, but because you speak and do things with such composure, as if we really grew up in the capital.
The children of rich and powerful people are country people! I still remember that you stayed away from me when nothing happened, as if I was a scourge!"
Zhang Shou did not expect that Zhu Ying would turn over old scores at this time, and immediately coughed: "The past is too painful to look back on, Yingying, please don't mention this..."
"What happened in the past? It happened less than two years ago, why can't we mention it?" Zhu Ying was not shorter than Zhang Shou. At this time, her head could almost rest on his shoulder, but her voice was full of joy that could not be concealed, "
Do you know that when I saw the side hall on fire, I wanted to put on my wings and fly in? Do you know how happy I was when I saw dad carry you out!"
"So, at that time, I really wanted to hug my dad and spin him like he hugged me when he was a kid, but it was a pity that I couldn't hold him!"
Zhang Shou heard these extremely childish words, but felt a little unable to laugh.
When he and Zhu Jing joined forces to fight against Chu Kuan just now, both of them seemed to be quite calm and calm. In fact, he himself was at least sweating because he was not sure that the group of people in Zhang Yuan were as he expected.
Such actions, it is not sure how drastic measures Chu Kuan will take...
Because he was completely stalling for time at that time! Fortunately, Zhu Jing was also stalling for time, and his father-in-law, who usually didn't like to talk much, actually presented the facts and reasoned with Chu Kuan.
Especially many!
Therefore, Zhang Shou couldn't help but gently pressed Zhu Ying's hand, but did not repeat Zhu Jing's impassioned words. He didn't know how many pairs of eyes and ears there were near and far, but he didn't actually care about them. He just instinctively didn't want them.
It just reveals the truth about that beautiful era in my wife's mind.
He didn't know where Zhu Jing knew those things, or whether the emperor knew it, but he was certain that in Zhu Ying's mind, that compatriot who was separated from him by more than an era was a great hero.
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Then, let people continue to be a great hero, because that is indeed a great hero!
Therefore, neither husband nor wife spoke, and naturally no one noticed that Ah Liu had already slipped away quietly. However, the young man did not hide in a deserted place, but silently and quietly sneaked back into the blazing building before.
The side hall was burning. But apart from the horrible sound of burning wood, he didn't hear other voices. When he looked around, he found that there was no one there at all.
At this moment, Ah Liu suddenly became annoyed. Just when he frowned slightly and was about to change his place to search, he caught the sound of clothes flying. At this moment, all the hairs on his body stood up.
, almost subconsciously clinging to the wall, and then suddenly jumped up, but came face to face with the person flying past on the wall, with big eyes and small eyes.
When the master saw his apprentice, he was full of surprise, and when the apprentice saw his master, he was also full of disgust.
So, when she saw Ah Liu turn around and leave without saying a word, Hua Qi subconsciously stretched out her hand to grab him. As soon as her fingers touched the other person's shoulder, she saw the person's shoulders suddenly sank, and he was about to break away gently and deftly.
Normally, it would be fine, but he had just arrived in a hurry and wanted to find an insider to ask about the whole matter, so how could he just let Ah Liu go like this.
He instantly accelerated the speed of his attacks, but Ah Liu had no time to accompany him. The young man was still thinking about finding the emperor and Zhao Guogong Zhu Jing who were talking to someone who didn't know where they were!
At this time, the master and the apprentice naturally refused to give in to anyone. They fought back and forth in a lively manner. However, one was experienced and the other was young and strong. When the fight finally got real, they were about to have a real fight.
During the fight, the two heard a voice almost at the same time: "Uncle Hua? What are you and Ah Liu doing? What are you fighting for?"
Ah Liu was obedient when he saw Zhu Ying, but Hua Qi also jumped up and landed in front of Zhu Ying. Just when he was about to ask the imperial servants outside what was going on, he was thrown directly by Zhu Ying.
The news shocked me: "Uncle Hua, Chu Kuan mobilized the imperial servants to kill Ah Shou, and even my father refused to let him go. Now he is dead!"