Chapter 21
Xu Boyi held the emperor, the Grand Secretary, the Jinyi Guard, the Five Military Camps, and the Three Thousand Battalions, and the Opening Order with seals and rushed all the way to Ganqing Gate.
This is the imperial palace, and it is not close to any place. Xu Boyi doesn't care about the rules in the palace anymore. He really ran all the way to the Ganqing Gate, panting at General Xiong Wei, who is guarding the Ganqing Gate, and said authentically, "General Xiong, this... this is our family's order to open the door!"
Xiong Wei took the order to open the door, walked into the next room, took out the seals reserved by each party under the lamp and compared them carefully. He smiled and said to Xu Boyi: "No, the seals are suitable, and you can open the palace gate!"
Xu Boyi's nose felt sour and tears almost came down. He had been running for two hours to leave the palace gate, and it was almost midnight now. Xu Boyi quickly said, "Then please open the door quickly, General!"
Xiong Wei said: "Don't worry, don't worry, Xiong is General Emon, and you still need to ask the general of the gate to meet the qualities before you can open the palace gate together."
Xu Boyi said in a trembling voice: "Who is the general of the gate...?"
He didn't want to cry, he was angry.
Xiong Wei said: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, the general of the gatekeeper Li Xinggang, it's not far, it's coming in a moment!"
Xiong Wei said to a guard: "You go, please invite General Li Xinggang here to check the situation!"
The soldier agreed and left in a hurry.
Xiong Wei raised his thumbs up at Xu Boyi and praised: "My father-in-law is so good at it. Since I became the guard of the palace gate, no one has ever been able to open the palace gate in the middle of the night. You are the first one!"
Xu Boyi was anxiously waiting for the General Li. When he heard this, he said in a hilarious and heartless manner: "So, is it going to be quite smooth for our family to leave the palace?"
Xiong Wei said: "That's natural! Daddy, do you know that when Emperor Wuzong visited Nanjing and visited Niushou Mountain, it was late at night when he returned to the city. He issued an order to open the door to welcome him, but the access guard ignored it. Emperor Wuzong had to stay in the Dabaoen Temple outside the city gate! That was Nanjing, which was already a capital, not as important as Beijing, and the emperor was going to enter the city!"
Xu Boyi squeezed out a smile that was even worse than crying and said, "In that case, our family should really feel grateful, haha...hehe...hehe..."
General Li came so fast. After about three incense sticks, General Li finally arrived. He brought the tiger talisman. General Xiong also had half a tiger talisman in his hand. The two of them checked the tiger talisman, and they were fine, and they were not bad at all. General Xiong waved his big hand and shouted, "Open the door!"
Eight strong men stepped forward and lifted the heavy door bolt down. Xu Boyi raised his heels and was ready to run out of the door, but... the huge copper lock was still hanging steadily on the door. Xu Boyi couldn't help but look at Xiong Wei in surprise.
Xiong Wei and Li Xinggang were standing aside and chatting. Listening to what they were talking about was probably comparing the topic of who is better at serving men in Goulang Hutong or Guoer. Such things are different from each other, how can we tell the difference?
Xu Boyi couldn't help asking, "Two generals, this lock has not been opened yet!"
Xiong Wei turned his head and looked at it, and suddenly said, "Ah! My father-in-law, please wait. The key is not in my hand. Another person on duty has entered the counter to store it. Xiong has sent someone to take the order to open the door."
Xu Boyi was already so anxious that he sweated like a slurry. But remembering that Emperor Zhengde wanted to return to the palace in the middle of the night and was turned away, Xu Boyi received some comfort and had to wait patiently.
After a while, the person on duty checked the door opening order and came with the key. A big key more than two feet long, like Yu Ruyi, inserted into the copper lock. With a "click", the lock opened. The two people on duty worked together to remove the lock and retreat to the side, and several guards came forward to pull open the heavy palace gate.
As soon as the palace gate opened, Xu Boyi's heart flew out. He was about to pull his feet out and ran out, but Xiong Wei grabbed him. Xu Boyi looked at Xiong Wei with fear: "What else does the general?"
Xiong Wei said seriously: "When my father-in-law is out like this, be careful of being stabbed by someone in his body!"
Xu Boyi: "Ah?"
Li Xinggang waved his hand, and a soldier walked to the stone steps beside the palace gate and came to a railing. There was a lantern under the palace gate, which was illuminated clearly. There was a decorative stone pillar every three feet on the railings on the stone steps, and a ball on the top of the column.
Xu Boyi had seen this thing. He used to be a eunuch in charge of sweeping the thing. He wiped the thing. The balls at the top of the stone railing were different from those near the palace gate. There were many small holes at the top, but Xu Boyi had never known why it was different from other places and what role it had.
I saw the soldier approaching the stone ball, put his mouth on it, and blew it hard. This thing is actually called "Shibila", a stone alarm. Once it is blown, it can make a loud whine.
Moreover, even if there is a strong wind, you don’t have to worry about blowing the ball by mistake. It must be blown by special methods. Only some special guards or guards and eunuchs from the inner court know how to blow.
The guard blew the Shibila at a special rhythm. In a moment, there was a whimpering sound of the same rhythm from the Baohe Palace. Xiong Wei smiled at Xu Boyi and said, "It's done! Please! My father-in-law, you're all the way!"
Xiong Wei said this sentence after Xu Boyi, because when he said "it's done", Xu Boyi had already lifted his robe and rushed out like an arrow.
Although the access controls in Baohe Hall, Zhonghe Hall, Taihe Hall, Taihe Gate, and Meridian Gate are not as strict as the Qianqing Gate, they are not open immediately. Each place requires two generals to check the symposium, and then the people on duty will open the lock.
However, in this process, the process of going to the cabinet and convening all parties to lead the collegial review and approval was relatively faster. When Xu Boyi walked out of the palace, the evening breeze blew, and the bones became cool, and then he realized that he was sweating.
Xu Boyi sighed long and said to himself: "In this case, it will take me not to know how long it will take when I arrive at Xia Yingying's residence. I have to have a horse to go and go back quickly!"
Thinking of this, Xu Boyi pulled his feet and left. He planned to borrow horses from the Ministry of War. Xu Boyi went to the Ministry of War for the Emperor to pass the oral order twice, and felt that the officials on duty in the Ministry of War might know him, so he could borrow a fast horse.
Unexpectedly, Xu Boyi hurriedly drove out not far away. Before he could reach the Sixth Ministry's Office, a row of soldiers flashed out next to the road ahead and shouted sternly: "Stop! Who is the one who is the common name and name!"
Xu Boyi was startled and shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, you are your own people! You are your own people!"
Those soldiers had no bows or arrows, all of them were waist knives and spears. More than a dozen soldiers surrounded them and raised the lanterns to take a photo. Seeing him wearing eunuch robe, the leader's tone was slightly relieved: "Why did this father-in-law walk here in the middle of the night?"
The little leader looked at Xu Boyi with a warning, thinking that he was a eunuch who escaped from the palace or had stolen something in the palace. He looked up and down with his eyes, just like a thief.
Xu Boyi took out the imperial edict and handed it to the little leader, saying, "Our family is ordered to leave the palace, and there is an urgent matter. There is the emperor's imperial edict here, so the general can take it to check it!"
The little leader looked at it and it seemed to be true, but with a small official of his level, how could he tell the truth? The little leader looked at it carefully on the lantern and said politely to Xu Boyi: "Since that's the case, please let this father-in-law go with the young one and see our new official General Wang!"
Xu Boyi really couldn't bear it anymore and said angrily: "It's midnight now, and our family is ordered to be ordered. Is there any urgent matters to go and get an official?"
The little leader did not dare to get angry at him, but just explained politely: "Don't be upset, there are flag bearers in this imperial city, and the Yulin guards patrolling each of them, each of which is a governor with a thousand families with a knife, and one person in a hundred households. If there is no passport issued by them, the young one will never dare to let it go!"
Xu Boyi had just raised the imperial edict, and the little leader said: "I have never seen the imperial edict before, I only recognize the military order!"
This is really a scholar who met a soldier. It is hard to explain it. Xu Boyi let down his hand in dejection. The little leader kindly reminded: "My father-in-law should also stamp a seal when he goes to the Jinwu Guard again, because there are still Jinwu Guard patrols in the capital. Without the seal of General Jinwu, my father-in-law still can't do it."
Xu Boyi stomped his feet and said, "Since that's the case, take me to see them quickly!"
The palace city, imperial city, and capital city each have their own garrisons. In the 17th year of Yongle, Emperor Zhu Di of Yongle ordered the Ministry of Works to cast bronze talismans for guarding the gate and bronze plaques for night patrols. The inspector held the left half and the guards held the right half, as an inspection object for patrols and passage.
When Xu Boyi arrived at the Jinwu Guard, he was already staggering and weak. The rotating governor of the Jinwu Guard, Wang Haiyu, was a good at doing things. Look at this father-in-law, who looked like a soft-legged shrimp. Since he was a eunuch walking in front of the emperor, he was clearly a popular man in front of the emperor, so he gave him a horse and sent eight guards to escort him.
Xu Boyi just wanted to go to the palace to pick up a beauty. The imperial edict in his hand was covered with red seals, and the front could not be covered with two on the back. Only then did the procedures work together.
Eight escorts accompanied Xu Boyi to run wildly at midnight, drove out of the imperial city and headed straight to the west city. Along the way, they encountered officers and soldiers on duty in the Jinwu Guard, but Xu Boyi had complete procedures and personal soldiers sent by the Jinwu Guard General, so they did not take too long to wait along the way.
But... the capital was too big. When Xu Boyi arrived at the residence of Xia Yingying and her daughter in Xicheng, there was already a white belly in the east.
Xia Yingying and her mother could have lived in the inn, but they were women, and there were many inconveniences in living in the inn. The place in Guizhou is much poorer than that in the Central Plains, but the chieftains there are more money than most wealthy families in the Central Plains. It is naturally easy to rent a house, so they rented a house with elegant houses and beautiful scenery around them.
Xu Boyi had already found out her residence. As soon as he arrived in front of the door, he asked someone to come forward and call the door. Xia Yingying waited until she saw her mother come back very late, and she knew that she must have been staying in the palace by Concubine Chen. The palace can be said to be the safest place, so what else can happen? Yingying went to bed with peace of mind.
The escort warrior of the Xia family heard that the wife was suffering from a serious illness, so the palace sent someone to pick her up. She was so shocked that she rushed to the back house to report the news. Xia Yingying got up sleepyly and was anxious when she heard this. She quickly put on her clothes and rushed to the front house.
Xu Boyi had never dealt with Xia Yingying head-on, and after he became a eunuch, his beard lost and his muscles relaxed. His face had changed a lot. Unless a very familiar person was unlikely to recognize him, but Xu Boyi was still afraid that Xia Yingying would see his identity, so he immediately lowered his head when he saw Xia Yingying.
Yingying didn't care. She was worried about her mother's condition. Secondly, when she entered the palace, she saw the eunuchs, and they all nodded and bowed. She raised her face to see people. She thought they had always been like this.
Yingying said anxiously: "What's wrong with my mother, this father-in-law?"
Xu Boyi lowered his head and said, "Girl, the concubine and Lingtang are having fun chatting with each other, so he stayed Lingtang in the palace tonight. Who would have thought..."
Xu Boyi turned his face and looked at the sky, saying, "Who expected that in the middle of the night, Lingtang suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen. The imperial physician had already called the imperial physician to treat him. But looking at Lingtang's condition, it was..., so the emperor sent a servant to pick up the girl into the palace to facilitate the treatment nearby!"
Yingying was so anxious that she was sweating and said hurriedly: "Okay! Let's go now, hurry up..."
When the Xia Mansion guard informed her, he had already prepared a horse and drove the carriage. At this time, he opened the door, raised the threshold, and drove out. Yingying hurriedly got into the car and hurriedly ordered: "Go away quickly and enter the palace immediately!"
Xu Boyi pulled his saddle and got on his horse. He showed a sinister and proud smile in the night without any concealment, and sang: "Set out and return to the palace!"
Chapter completed!