Everyone was dead and Eunuch Xiao Hong was still alive. This incident itself was terrifying.

Hong Zhu stood up and felt a little sad. Yes, he was a slave, but he was a slave with affection and righteousness. So at this time in the palace, he was a little confused. Seeing the depressed land of the East Palace, he was a little sad.

He walked towards Hanguang Palace, hunched his body slightly, but he began to smell like the dead of the old eunuch Hong at the young age.

The officers and soldiers of the Thirteen City Gate Division were vigorously motivated in the heat and carefully checked the customs and defense documents of the people entering Beijing. The army of the Kyoto Garrison Division raised their vigilance at the Yuantai camp, and the thousands of imperial guards guarding the palace stood on the high palace walls, looking at everything under their feet with suspicious eyes.

The defense forces of the entire Kyoto are controlled by these three armies. In such a quiet and weird tense, if you are not careful, you will probably cause chaos.

The three parties did not dare to relax at all, and led the eldest prince to strongly intimidate everyone's unfaithful intentions and movements.

The people of Kyoto are not as nervous as officials and the army. In such hot weather, the people of the prosperous Qingguo are unwilling to stay at home to fight the stuffiness. Instead, they are used to hiding in shaded teahouses, drinking inexpensive herbal tea, enjoying the rope-pulling fan from the production area of ​​the inner warehouse, telling about what happened in the court recently, and telling about the neighbors' family affairs.

For the people of Kyoto, there seems to be no big difference between the imperial palace and their neighbors.

The cicadas were yelling among the trees outside the teahouse. Several of them even stopped blindly on the green banners of the teahouse, painting the big tea character into the tea character. And these hissing and hissing sounds just covered the discussions of the enthusiasts in the teahouse.

Of course, what was being discussed was His Majesty's visit to sacrifice to heaven. The news had been spread for several months. Everyone in the world knew that His Majesty was determined to abolish the crown prince this time. However, the crown prince has shown kindness and stability in the past two years, which is very different from his previous years. Therefore, officials and the people were wondering why His Majesty wanted to abolish the crown prince?

Few people dare to ask these in person, but there are always people who dare to talk about something behind their backs. Overall, the people of Kyoto gave enough sympathy and comfort to the prince of the East Palace, perhaps because people have the spiritual need to sympathize with the weak, or perhaps because they are dead people, they always hope that the world will be more peaceful and unwilling to cause too many storms because of the abolition of the crown prince.

Of course, the people of Kyoto, including civil servants in the court, did not expect that the storm at the turn of summer and autumn in the seventh year of Qingli would rumble like thunder, and it would be swept across all the people and all the land in Kyoto in a way that no one expected.

Suddenly, a strong wind rose from the vast streets of Kyoto and dense houses without warning, passing through and passing by! The wind came too suddenly. The cold hats of vendors who were setting fruit stalls on the street and lowered their hair and were trapped in the street, revealing their dull eyes, and the fruit peels on the street rolled around. The cicadas on the green banners outside the teahouse could no longer be attached. It fell to the ground with a click.

The word "Tu" has become the word "Tai".

The tea shops sitting by the fence of the teahouse looked out curiously, feeling depressed. This day that had been depressed for three months, is it finally about to fall into a timely autumn rain?

Then they saw that it was originally a blue sky, and suddenly it was covered by layers of rain clouds from the southeast. Above the entire Kyoto, it seemed like a huge cover was added, and the shade enveloped the city walls and the people there.

The clouds kept twisting and rolling, like countless giant dragons arranged in formations, and cloud threads were pulled out from time to time, which looked very terrifying. Such thick dark clouds naturally foreshadowed the heavy rain that followed. Looking at the clouds, this heavy rain was probably extremely fierce.

The tea lovers were not surprised but happy, thinking that God was finally willing to make this world clearer.

With a crackling thunder, the rain finally started to fall. The pedestrians on the street walked away one after another. The tea shops upstairs squinted their eyes and enjoyed the unique beauty that had not been seen for a long time and the house fell after being wet.

The rain was not particularly heavy, but it was very cold. In a short while, the tea shoppers began to feel a little chill, and they couldn't help but be surprised. They thought that the autumn rain in previous years was only drizzling, and there were always three events to relieve the heat. Why is the rain so cool this year?

With the knowledge of this era, people naturally don’t know that more than ten days ago, the biggest hurricane this summer rose on the sea surface of the East China Sea. The storm hit Dadongshan, and countless rains fell on the ground more than 50 miles by the sea. Then the momentum did not diminish, and continued to enter the hinterland of Qingguo with the water and moisture vapor and moisture from the sea.

This hurricane was very interesting. It did not cause much disaster along the way, but it brought immediate cooling and rain to the long-heated territory of Qing Kingdom.

The tea guests rubbed their hands and drank hot tea, secretly calling God too strange. Everyone did not bring an umbrella when they went out, and it was even more impossible to carry a single dress, so they had to resist the slightest chill in this building.

"What happened?" Suddenly, a man looked at the direction of the city gate and said curiously.

Hearing this, the lively people came to the railings of the teahouse and looked towards the city gate. Through the layers of rain and fog far away, they couldn't see clearly what happened in that place. They only vaguely felt a noise and the panic of the soldiers. The four gates of Kyoto were guarded by the soldiers of the Thirteen City Division. The troops were always strictly enforced. This situation rarely occurred in the current situation, and all tea lovers were a little curious.

Of course, there will not be an army to attack the city. First of all, no matter how absurd this imagination itself is, even if an army really attacks the city of Kyoto, the outer garrison division will take the lead in meeting the enemy, and the guards set up in the corner tower of the City Gate will also sound the alarm as soon as possible.

The sound of horse hooves was heard, and the rain broke through the long street, and the sound was rapid.

The tea lovers looked closely and saw a horse coming quickly at the city gate. There was only one horse. Everyone understood that there must be a hurry to enter the city, and they all felt relieved.

But looking at the white foam beside the horse's mouth, the horse's knight's face was covered in dust and haggard face, everyone was worried, could it be that something was wrong with the border?

The rain was falling all the time. The extremely tired horse raised its last strength and galloped desperately against the wind and rain. The horse was ragged and the serious knight did not care about the life and death of his mount. He waved the whip in his hand and urged the horse on his body to maintain the fastest speed. He stepped across the long street under the teahouse, splashed the rain all the way, and rushed towards the palace!

Fortunately, it was raining first. The pedestrians and vendors on the road were driven under the eaves next to the street, otherwise the knight would have run wildly and would not know how many people would have been killed.

The tea guests watched the man and the rider disappear into the rain and at the end of the long street, and involuntarily exhaled, digesting the extremely quiet tension before, looking at each other, not knowing what had happened to the imperial court.

"Hand wearing a white towel..." An older tea cook suddenly trembled and said.

The teahouse became quieter. Although the people of Kyoto, where they were born late, had not experienced the war season when Qingguo expanded their borders, they had also heard that the worst time in the three Northern Expeditions that year, the Qingguo army was killed and injured in one battle. The knights who reported the news from thousands of miles of flying cavalry... were also white scarves!

"The knight who reported the news is..." Someone asked in confusion: "Didn't Yan... the Grand Commander. Haven't he won?"

"It's a fast horse in the army." The older tea cook was obviously a member of the army back then, and his voice was still trembling. The reporter tied a white towel. Something must have happened!

The discussion in the teahouse suddenly stopped. Everyone, even the waiter and the shopkeeper, fell into silence. Everyone stood quietly by the railings, looking at the streets in the heavy rain, and secretly praying that something would happen in their country.

"here we go again!"

In the teahouse, a young man shouted anxiously and helplessly. At this time, the city gate was no longer restless, and there was only a slaughter and vigilance. However, the second rider came faster than the first rider. It was like a squirt of smoke, and it quickly rushed past the teahouse.

The knight was not wearing armor, but was just a dark black dress. He held the reins in one hand and kicked his feet quickly. His face was covered with black water stains from rain.

He also had a white towel tied on his left arm, but his right hand held a token-like thing high, rushed directly across the city gate, stepped across the long street, and rushed towards the palace.

Everyone in the teahouse looked at the teahouse with eager eyes, who had known the court style before. I hoped to hear some good news from him.

The old teacook had a pale face and murmured: "Yes... it's the Supervision Bureau."

After a while, the third fast rider who had been sent a thousand miles to force his way through the city gate guarded by the Thirteen City Gate Division and stepped onto the rainy street under the teahouse. The knight was like the previous one, and it seemed that it was really a very hard thing to go thousands of miles away, changing horses and not changing people, and reporting the news to Kyoto as fast as possible.

Then the knight immediately didn't feel it was hard. He only knew that if he could not report this shocking news into the palace at the fastest speed, Qingguo would be afraid... there would be big problems.

The rain washed the knight's face, which was cracked by the sun, and hit his blood-red eyes, but could not stop his speed. The horses ran across the long street and rushed towards the palace.

There was still a white scarf on his left arm.

At this time, the tea guests in the building had become numb by the shock that came one after another. They opened their mouths but couldn't say anything. Although they didn't know which party the third rider represented the imperial court, they knew that the three riders brought news to Kyoto must be the same one, and they had obtained confirmation from these three parties, then... a disaster in the Qing Kingdom must have happened.

The teahouse was as quiet as death, and everyone lowered their heads. The elderly teahouse, with pale face and trembling, sat down, but its eyes turned dark and fainted on the ground.

Everyone rushed forward to rescue, but no one noticed that the rain outside the building was slightly smaller. Although the rain was small, the coolness had arrived. The cicadas who were still showing off their power for a moment finally began to feel the irreversible fate, began to feel the impermanence of life, began to feel the sadness of autumn, and began to burn their lives, chanting the last words in the streets and alleys of Kyoto.

"Hiss...hess...dead...dead..."

The entire Kyoto began to fall into an unknown fear and confusion. People didn't know what was going on. But in the evening, they heard the bell ringing in the corner tower of the Imperial City, and slowly and shockingly beating in the red twilight background after the rain.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

In the deep palaces, there were many people in the vast Tai Chi Hall, but they were silent. The Empress Dowager Qingguo, who was temporarily in charge of the state affairs, had already walked out of the pearl curtain, wearing a phoenix robe, and was always majestic.

The Empress Dowager stood indifferently in front of the dragon throne, and her right hand was supported by the Hou Eunuch. Hong Zhu held a pen and ink to serve him, but saw the Empress Dowager's hand clearly and kept trembling in the Hou Eunuch's hand.

His Highness knelt on three reporters who had been overdrawn to the extreme. The rain on their bodies wet the luxurious blanket. However, they still lowered their heads and knelt down, not daring to speak, for fear that their unlucky crow would eventually destroy the blessings of the palace that had been proud of the world for 30 years.

The empress dowager looked at the three of them coldly, gritted her teeth, and cursed: "Why are you crying?"

As soon as these words came out, the concubines in the hall were crying sadly and constantly stopped their tears, but they could not erase the horror and fear on their faces.

The Empress Dowager, with the help of the Hou, sat on the chair next to the dragon chaise and said, "Get up immediately to close the palace and preside over the guards of the imperial city with the prince. Those who violate the order will be killed."

"yes."

His Highness responded, and the eldest prince with tears in his eyes looked up at his grandmother in surprise, feeling the burden on his body. However, his mood was extremely turbulent at this moment, and he had no way to distinguish what the Queen Mother said in the will of the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager continued: "The two great ministers, Xuan, Hu and Su, entered the palace."

"yes."

"Zhang Jin, the commander of Xuanchengmen Division, entered the palace."

"yes."

"Start immediately and close the city gate. It is not allowed to open without the will of Ai's family."

"yes."

"The Dingzhou army offered prisoners and dragged them back, and Ye Chong was forced to return within two days. The border was difficult, so state affairs should be the priority."

"yes."

The empress dowager suddenly frowned. Although the old man was calm at this time, he still felt his mind buzzing. She gently rubbed her temples, thought for a while and said, "King Xuanjing. Minister of Revenue Fan Jian, Qin...heng, enter the palace."

"yes."

The Queen Mother finally said coldly: "Let the Queen and His Highness move to Hanguang Hall... Ning Cairen and Concubine Yi also came over, and the third child was also taken with her."

The eldest prince lowered his head and his heart tightened. He knew that his grandmother was still worried about him, but in his grief at this moment, he didn't want to care about these things at all.

It was dusk. The bells outside had stopped. The candles in the Taiji Hall were swaying, looking so bleak and uneasy. At this time, the actual controller of Qingguo, the Empress Dowager, who was already old, suddenly coughed twice, a complicated emotion flashed in her eyes, and she said lightly: "Come to the inner court... Please ask His Highness the eldest princess and Princess Chen to enter the palace for a while, Fan Xian... the concubine who was pregnant with her child also entered the palace."

"yes……"

The Empress Dowager did not take matters for a long time, but every decree at this time was so clearly pointed to the hearts of the people. She tried to isolate the entire Kyoto from the outside world as soon as possible and control those who might cause chaos in the imperial city.

Suddenly, a childless concubine shouted wildly: "Fan Xian assassinate! The Empress Dowager wants to confiscate his nine clans, how can he let his family enter the palace!"

As soon as this said, the whole palace was quiet. The queen mother looked at the concubine coldly, as if she was looking at a dead person, and slowly said, "Drag it down and buried it."

Several guards and eunuchs stepped forward and dragged the concubine who was already in a state of madness. They didn't know that they would bury this poor man in the soil under the flower tree in the palace.

The Empress Dowager coldly glanced at the people in the palace and said in a cold voice: "Please keep your mouth and mind well, don't forget... there are still many open spaces in this palace."

Everyone in the hall felt sad, but they didn't dare to say anything more. The sadness and doubts in their hearts were the same as those of this concubine, but they were not crazy, so they didn't speak.

"Where is Chen Pingping? Why didn't he enter the palace?" the Empress Dowager asked with a cold face.

Hong Zhu stopped the brush in his hand, faced the queen mother's questioning gaze, and said tremblingly: "After President Chen was poisoned, he would go back to Chenyuan to be treated by the imperial doctor. I'm afraid... I don't know..."

The Empress Dowager's eyes turned cold and gritted her teeth and said furiously: "Issued an order to this old dog, saying that he would not go to Beijing again, and his mother and son would all die!"
Chapter completed!