Chapter 111:

Gu Xi's eyes were deep, and his joy and anger were invisible.
Next, he had to wait for them and his grandmother to enter the territory of Yuzhou together before he was completely relieved.
Princess Duanrou was still eloquently saying: "Third brother, now the emperor'killed' our grandmother for his own personal enmity, and the father and king is famous as a teacher."
There was a smug smile on her face.
In her opinion, the emperor was weak and cowardly, and it was useless, but he was the eldest son. It couldn't be easier for their father to take down the capital.
Moreover, the father is talented and capable, and he will definitely become a famous emperor, and his name will go down in history.
At this time, Gu Xi turned around and asked Princess Duanrou, "Is grandma not here yet?"
The carriage where Princess Fang was hiding was used to deliver food to Jiuqu Garden on weekdays, and was under the jurisdiction of the Inner Court Division. Even if the carriage left Jiuqu Garden, it could not come directly here. The goal was too obvious.
The carriage must first return to Beijing according to the daily route, and then replace it with another carriage, and then drive out of the capital. Although it is a setback, it is necessary to hide its tracks.
Princess Duanrou remembered why she had come to Gu Xi just now, and smiled: "Brother, I was just about to talk to you. The carriage arrived, and I came out of the South City Gate to avoid people's eyes and went around in a circle. Just came here to make peace with us."
"I just ordered people to put my grandmother up and feed her some refreshing soup. The medicinal properties of your sweat medicine are too strong, and my grandmother is still in a coma..."
"Grandma hasn't woken up yet?" Gu Xi interrupted Princess Duanrou, feeling a little choked, "Take me to see grandma."
Gu Xi had a vague premonition.
Princess Duanrou smiled and said, "Third brother, don't worry. Mother has sniffed for grandmother. She's fine, but she's still in a coma."
Princess Duanrou quickly took Gu Xi to her tent.
At the moment, several maids were squeezed in the tent, some were wiping the people on the couch with wet cloth towels, some just brought the refreshing soup, and some stood aside with their hands on standby.
Seeing the masters coming, the people hurriedly stepped aside. Gu Xi walked to the front of the couch in three steps and two steps. When he looked at the people on the couch, his complexion changed instantly.
"Wrong," Gu Xi murmured, her face pale.
Princess Duanrou hadn't reacted yet, and quickly walked to Gu Xi's side and went to see the person on the couch. Her expression changed and she trembled: "She... she is not a grandmother!"
Just now, when the Tibetan carriage arrived, because the carriage was rudimentary and exuding a peculiar smell, Princess Duanrou glanced at the hidden grid and didn't realize it was wrong. Until now, she realized that it was too big. Is wrong.
The unconscious woman lying on the couch was not Princess Fang at all, but a survivor specially arranged by the father.
This deceased man was chosen by the king of Yu a few years ago, and he was seven to eight points similar to Fang Taifei in appearance and figure.
They went to Beijing from Yuzhou on this trip, and they have been careful not to let this stand-in show up in front of the others who were accompanying them. Only their brothers and sisters know her looks to ensure that this plan is foolproof.
The other people in the tent looked at each other suspiciously. This person is not Princess Fang, then who else?
"Third brother," Princess Duanrou pulled Gu Xi's sleeve, thinking a little confused, "Why is the double here?"
They clearly arranged that some of the cronies around her grandmother would take her out of the palace in the secret compartment of the carriage. The lives of these cronies were in the hands of the father, and they would never betray the Royal Palace of Yu.
Gu Xi's eyes were dark, but he didn't speak.
Yes, it stands to reason that this double should be in Jiuqu Garden, instead of grandmother to die.
If the double is here, what about the grandmother?
not good!
Gu Xi's face was even more ugly, and he couldn't even think about it.
He couldn't help but stepped back, then turned around and shouted: "Come here, ask the chief guard to bring the two who have just returned from Jiuquyuan."
A guard guarding the outside of the tent immediately took the order. After a while, he called the chief guard and the two black guards over. Gu Xi went out of the tent to meet them, and asked sharply, "Is there someone in Tai'an Palace?"
The two black guards glanced at each other, thinking that Gu Xi was questioning whether their errands were done. One of them nodded and replied with certainty: "San Ye, we poke a hole in the window paper. After passing the fire, I glanced into the main hall, and I could see the "Tuofei" lying on the ground."
He said vaguely, meaning that they were sure that the false concubine in the hall had burned to death.
Gu Xi: "..."
Gu Xi's complexion was paler, feeling severe colic in his heart, and could not speak.
His heart was filled with extremely complicated emotions, which could not be said to be resentment, frustration, remorse, or fear.
Princess Duanrou also came out of the tent and asked, "Brother, what is going on?"
The two black guards looked at Gu Xi's complexion at the moment, and guessed what was wrong, they were all worried.
Gu Xi took a deep breath, and the violently undulating chest calmed slightly, and said with great difficulty: "We were tricked by the emperor."
"The emperor must have known that we were going to drop our grandmother, and he secretly changed the person back."
"Now... the person who was burned to death in the palace... is grandmother!"
Gu Xi's words became slower and slower, as if saying these words exhausted all of his strength. His eyes were red and red, as hideous as the evil spirits crawling out of hell, no longer the grace in normal days. Like your son.
He still can't believe that he has been so calculated, and he has been targeted for a long time, but he doesn't know it.
When the two black guards heard the words, their heads were sweating profusely and their heads lowered. If you really want to talk about it, isn't it that they burned the concubine to death by themselves?
Princess Duanrou: "!!!"
Princess Duanrou's pretty face was full of anger, and gritted his teeth and said: "It's too mean! Insidious and shameless, cruel!"
After scolding, Princess Duanrou was a little flustered and asked, "Brother, what should I do now?"
At this moment, she is more angry than sad, and more panic than regret. After all, she and Gu Xi grew up in Yuzhou since they were young. They only met Taifei Fang for a few years when they were young. The memory has long been blurred, and she is not too deep for Taifei Fang. Feelings.
But Princess Duanrou also knew that this errand had made such a big mistake, and the father and king would definitely be furious. By then, several concubines in the palace would want to step on her for fear.
In the final analysis, her dignity first came from her being a prostitute, and secondly, because she was the only princess of the first emperor in the Royal Palace of Yu. After ascending the throne today, the Royal Palace of Yu has never been a princess.
Gu Xi: "..."
Gu Xi's fist on the side of his body was squeezed, released and squeezed, the blue veins in the corner of his eyes jumped wildly, and he did not speak for a long time.
Upon seeing this, Princess Duanrou was even more confused and suggested: "Brother, we simply said that the substitute is the grandmother after we went back. Anyway, the father was specifically looking for someone similar to her grandmother. Over the years, let her I have learned what my grandmother said and acted, and my father hasn’t seen my grandmother for 11 years...
I’m afraid it’s impossible for my father to remember exactly what she is like now.
The more Princess Duanrou talked, the more he felt that his idea was good.
Gu Xi almost laughed at the bad idea of ​​Princess Duanrou, too lazy to talk nonsense with her, and only gave two words: "Shut up!"
He didn't want to bring this sister, because she wanted to show her face in front of the father, and convinced the father and the mother concubine that he could only take her.
Princess Duanrou flattened her mouth a bit wrongly, feeling that the third brother was clearly angering herself.
He didn't do the errand well, he had a good idea, but he trained himself up, and didn't think about it, this errand had an errand, and it would definitely have a greater impact on him!
Gu Xi ignored Princess Duanrou again, and frowned on the whole thing.
Since the emperor was able to make this matter so airtight, that means he knew their intentions for a long time, and had been tactics, so he let them go so easily, and they burned the palace, just to let him Hit yourself in the face and let their own person burn to death the Princess Fang in Tai'an Palace.
The emperor’s plan was so comprehensive that it was impossible for this step, so the emperor next...
Gu Xi's eyes suddenly widened, and he ordered the chief guard: "Quickly, pack things up, and set off quickly."
As soon as the head guard heard Gu Xi's words, he understood that he meant that he would not even accept these tents and leave here as quickly as possible.
"Yes, Sanye!" The chief guard took his order immediately.
Princess Duanrou looked at Gu Xi confusedly, "Brother 3?"
The head guard knew that this matter was not trivial, and immediately passed on this order of Gu Xi, and the guards and people in the entire camp were in a commotion, packing up the things they could bring into the carriage.
No matter how fast they moved, it was already too late, and the messy sound of horseshoes came from both ends of the official road, which seemed particularly loud in this silent night.
From the direction of the sound of horseshoes, it can be seen that all the people here are holding torches, illuminating the flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their bodies.
In the camp, I don’t know who was the first to shout out:
"It's Jin Yiwei!"
Gu Xi also saw the two teams of Jinyiwei coming here, and his complexion became more gloomy, and it felt like a net of heaven and earth enveloped them.
Even if the front-end Roux didn't understand what Gu Xi was afraid of, she understood now. The emperor sent someone to chase them!
The sound of horses' hoofs approached, and the guards had no time to pack their things. They had to pull out the long knives in the scabbards, and surrounded Gu Xi and Duanrou County lord, using their bodies as a wall to block them in front of them. .
Jin Yiwei coming from both sides of the official road soon trapped Gu Xi and the group of people in a dilemma.
Jinyiwei Commander Yuan Minggang rode his horse to the forefront and looked at Gu Xi and Princess Duanrou with a smile, and arched his hands casually, "The third son of King Yu, Princess Duanrou, please follow this commander. Go back to Beijing."
Princess Duanrou cursed bitterly: Jin Yiwei is the emperor's running dog!
"Commander Yuan, what does this mean?" Gu Xi also pretended to bow to Yuan Ming, "It was the emperor's decree that my sister and I left the capital and returned to Yuzhou..."
As he said, he paused deliberately, and his voice rose slightly: "The emperor has promised a lot of money. Could it be that the emperor wants to come out instead?"
"The emperor is a promise of gold." Yuan Minggang said calmly, and the black horse under his crotch snapped his nose. "You ordered someone to set fire in the Jiuqu Garden and kill Concubine Fang. The crime is unforgivable. This commander is to bring this. You will go to trial!"
"Presumptuous!" Princess Duanrou was annoyed. He raised his finger to Yuan Minggang and rebuked proudly, "Have my third brother ever murdered my grandmother? Why do you want to add to the crime!!"
Yuan Minggang, as the commander of the dignified Jinyiwei, would never play tricks with a little girl, nor did he quarrel with her, and directly ordered: "Which is right and wrong, the emperor has his own conclusion. Take all the people from the Yu Palace!"
The Jin Yiwei he brought with him immediately took his life: "Yes, Commander Yuan!"
The chief guard of the Royal Palace of Yu yelled: "Protect Sanye and the princess!"
The guards who accompanied them all bravely raised their swords and rushed up. They were all private soldiers of the Prince Yu’s mansion, and they were also the elites who jumped out for this trip to the capital. They will never and never dare to leave the masters alone. Escape.
For a time, the silver long knives violently collided with each other, sparks shot in all directions, the sound of clank blade clashes one after another, and the sound of the blade cutting flesh and blood, and the sound of killing and screaming. In the blink of an eye, A strong smell of blood spread in the air with the cold wind...
Princess Duanrou had never seen such a scene before, and Huarong was so scared that Huarong was pale, clutching Gu Xi's sleeve tightly, and tremblingly shouted: "Three brothers..."
The number of Jin Yiwei was twice as many as they, and they came prepared again, with two fists hard to beat four hands, and the number of them was very different.
The chief guard also knew that they were at a disadvantage here, and hurriedly said to Gu Xi and Duanrou Princess: "San Ye, the Princess, his subordinates escorted the two away."
"The subordinates used to let people walk around, and there was a small road ahead."
The head guard raised his finger in a direction, and took two cronies to protect Gu Xi and Princess Duanrou and walked into the dark and secluded woods. He didn't care about anything else, and ran away quickly.
The clash of blades in the rear became more and more intense. The group ran for a while, and saw that there was no Jin Yiwei chasing after him. The guard was slightly relieved, knowing that Jin Yiwei should have been entangled by the guards.
To be able to entangle for a moment is a moment, and the most important thing is to buy time for the two masters to escape.
"San Ye, princess, go here!" The chief guard led them to the depths of the woods, while the two guards were behind the hall.
The woods were dark, and only the silver moonlight illuminated the way forward for them.
Afraid of being found by Jin Yiwei, they didn't dare to light the fire, so they could only move forward in the dark by the moonlight.
In the cold wind, the trees swayed crazily with their teeth and claws, as if something was hiding in the shadows staring at them.
Princess Duanrou swallowed, feeling uneasy.
She led the skirt and ran forward. After a while, she ran out of breath and couldn't help complaining: "Brother Brother, what does the emperor want to do? If he does this, won't he be afraid of his father's northern expedition?"
"When I return to Yuzhou, I must let my father send troops immediately!"
Princess Duanrou felt that the emperor was crazy. She and Gu Xike were both grandparents and daughters of the father, and it was absolutely impossible for the father to let the emperor treat them like this!
Gu Xi held the scabbard tightly in one hand and walked forward vigorously, feeling that this sister was really noisy.
According to Jiaoxi's intention, he didn't want to bring Duan Rou to the capital, but the father said that bringing Duan Rou can cover people's eyes and let the emperor relax. Moreover, with Duan Rou, it was more logical that they brought Tang Fengchun together.
But after Duan Rou came to the capital, she hadn't done anything serious at all. Before that, she had ridiculed her many times. It was really not enough and more than defeated!
Gu Xi didn't want to listen to Duanrou's nagging anymore, and simply said: "The emperor has known our intention to come to the capital."
"The emperor is following the trend."
Gu Xi knew that the emperor had not sent troops to Yuzhou in the past ten years. Firstly, it was because of the edict of the first emperor. Secondly, it was because of the constant internal and external disturbances in Daqi. The emperor had already done his best to fill in the caves left by the first emperor, so he I can only endure my father's being free in Yuzhou, and endure his father's hoarding soldiers in Yuzhou, only peace is the most precious.
The emperor had a generous temper, and Gu Xi thought that the emperor would endure it forever, but just after he learned that Concubine Fang had died in the fire, he figured it out.
Now that the external chaos has subsided, only in Anai, the emperor has become more and more intolerable to Yuzhou and his father, so he knows what his father wants to do when he and Duanrou come to the capital on this trip, but deliberately follows his father. The intention, let them leave, let them arrange for Fang Taifei to "self-immolate".
It was not until the critical moment that the emperor took the initiative to secretly close the people, and let the people of the Yu Palace burn to death Fang Taifei.
To put it bluntly, the purpose of the emperor is to let the father send troops first because of Fang Taifei's death, and then the emperor can counterattack naturally. He conquered Yuzhou before he was famous, which is not a violation of the emperor's will.
but--
What Gu Xi couldn't figure out was that the emperor really was so confident, confident that Daqi now has the strength to fight Yuzhou?
As far as they know, the emperor obviously even wanted his courtiers to raise funds for the gangsters in Jinzhou, so he allowed the second prince to lead his troops to Jinzhou!
Because of this, in the past few months, Gu Xi did not hesitate to act in the capital. He knew that even if the emperor saw them at Prince Yu’s mansion, even if the emperor was furious because of the death of Princess Yongle, he couldn’t take them anymore!
The emperor could not fight the war, the imperial treasury was empty, and the king of Yu was ready for everything, only owed to the east wind, and only needed "famous teacher" to act.
Before coming to Beijing on this trip, Gu Xi thought that even Shangtian was on the side of the Prince Yu’s Mansion. He thought that his father would be willing to take the courage for ten years, and finally waited for the opportunity, but didn’t want things to come to this moment...
Gu Xi gripped the scabbard tighter, and as he walked faster, his breathing gradually became thicker.
And beside him, Princess Duanrou ran, while still chattering endlessly: "Insidious and cunning, because he is still Daqi's emperor, do all this shameful things!"
"As long as we return to Jinzhou smoothly, I want everyone in the world to know what his grand son Qi is like!"
"Does he think we can count grandmother's death on our heads? It is clear that he used the knife to kill someone!"
"..."
Princess Duanrou complained all the way, and even the head guard who led the way in front felt a headache, but Gu Xi didn't speak, so he couldn't say anything.
Seeing the exit of the woods appeared in the front, the chief guard's eyes lit up and said hurriedly: "San Ye, the princess, the subordinate is afraid that someone will approach the camp from this woods, so let the three guards guard here. They have horse!"
With horses, it is convenient for them to continue on the road back to Yuzhou.
Gu Xi quickened his pace and said to Princess Duanrou: "Duanrou, you keep up!"
Princess Duanrou is a woman, and she has small steps. When they take two steps, she has to take three steps, and her physical strength is far less than the others. At this moment, her forehead is already sweaty.
Hearing this, Princess Duanrou's eyes also lit up, and suddenly she had strength to support her.
After rushing out of the dark woods, it suddenly became clear outside, and the silver moonlight poured down. Under the moonlight, three horses were eating grass by themselves.
Seeing the horse but not the person, Gu Xi gave a momentary thump.
"San Ye be careful." The head guard's face also changed, knowing something was wrong.
"Wow!"
A sharp arrow shot suddenly from the darkness like lightning, cutting through the thick night, and wiping Gu Xi’s ears. The sharp spirit also carried his hair up. This arrow accurately It hit the eyebrow of a guard behind him.
An arrow penetrated the head, and the arrow tip shot out from the back of the head.
The power of this arrow is evident.
Both Gu Xi and the chief guard knew that it was definitely not an ordinary person who could shoot the arrow just now. The arrow aimed at was originally not Gu Xi, this is a demonstration by someone here!
Immediately afterwards, a torch was lit in front, and twenty or thirty cavalrymen came towards them unhurriedly from ten feet away.
The head was a young man wearing a frost-colored robe and holding a black long bow. The young man's handsome eyebrows were softly outlined by the light of the torch, and his temperament was as cold as a night breeze.
The head guard recognized the opponent and blurted out: "Yu Fuyun!"
Gu Xi's face was even more ugly, and his heart was cold.
Why is Yu Fuyun here? !
"Wow!"
The cold wind in the middle of the night became stronger, and the branches and leaves of the forest behind seemed to be roaring and wailing...
The cold moonlight poured down on the ground, like frost spreading across the ground.
In the early morning of the next day, Jin Yiwei Commander Yuan Minggang reported to the emperor about the passage of water and fire fighting in Jiuqu Garden, and said: "The emperor, the Tai'an Palace was burned down. Find a charred corpse, a crown and clothes Although most of it was burned down, it can be judged from the remains on the body that she belonged to Princess Fang."
There was an uproar in the court.
The officials looked at each other, and many of them whispered in twos and threes.
Some of the well-informed courtiers had actually heard about the Jiuquyuan water supply yesterday, but half of them have only heard of it until now, especially Princess Fang who died in this fire.
They all thought of Empress Dowager Liu's reprimand of Concubine Fang yesterday. The Queen Mother asked Concubine Fang to accompany the first emperor. The Concubine Fang was so embarrassed and angry that she set herself on fire last night?
Some people couldn't help but began to worry, Princess Fang was not an ordinary concubine of the first emperor, she was the biological mother of King Yu.
To put it bluntly, the role of Princess Fang in the capital is the proton. Now that the proton is gone, what will happen to King Yu?
Will King Yu rise up because of Fang Taifei's death? !
This idea emerged in the hearts of many courtiers, and the air on the Jinluang Palace also became dignified, a kind of dignified wind and rain.
Some were worried, some were worried, and some unavoidably felt that Queen Mother Liu spoke too uncontrollably, forcing Princess Fang to set herself on fire, and it also caused unreasonable disaster for the court!
Standing in the center of the hall, Yuan Minggang didn't care about the commotion around him, and continued to report: "...According to Jin Yiwei's investigation, although this Jiao corpse is wearing the dress of a concubine, this person is not Princess Fang."
what? ! The civil and military courts in the court were stunned, and the hall fell into a dead silence for a moment, and the courtiers who had just whispered were all silent.
Some ministers whose minds were turning fast immediately understood something and showed a thoughtful look.
Could it be that……
Yuan Minggang is still orderly reporting: "According to the daily life notes of the Emperor Xian and the pulse case left by the Taiyuan Hospital, Fang Taifei once broke the leg bone of her right calf once twenty years ago, but the female corpse was found There are no old fractures."
"Furthermore, the reason why the Tai'an Palace fire went out of control was that someone secretly poured kerosene around to support the combustion. Jin Yiwei also found several unburned kerosene barrels in the burning ruins. It was roughly inferred that it was at least dumped. A dozen barrels of kerosene."
Upon hearing this, the courtiers were in an uproar again.
With such a large amount of kerosene, if you want to purchase it in Beijing, it will attract the attention of the store. How can you get such a large amount of kerosene with the lady who lives deeply? !
Obviously, these kerosene must have been brought into Jiuqu Garden by others, and very few people can do it.
All the courtiers had the answer in their hearts when thinking of the people in the Royal Yu Mansion who had just left Beijing to return to Yuzhou yesterday.
In the complex eyes of the ministers, Yuan Minggang said his inference: "The minister is sure that it was the third son of the king of Yu Gu Xi and the princess Duanrou who secretly brought the Concubine Fang out of the Jiuqu Garden, and then arranged another person. The arson made the double substitute for Fang Taifei's suspended animation."
As for the purpose of why Prince Yu’s Mansion did this, at this moment, most of the courtiers present had thought of--
Wang Yu wants to start a war! !
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In the name of the king of Yu going to war, the emperor wants to~