He followed the eunuch and left the palace. As soon as he walked out of the palace gate, all the guards and officials kneeling in front of the palace gate looked at him.
"Master Wei, what did your Majesty say?"
Wang Chengen, who was kneeling at the front, asked Wei Zhongxian while kneeling on the ground.
"His Majesty said, everyone should go back immediately. If they are still here tomorrow morning, they will be beheaded at the Meridian Gate!"
After finishing the message, Wei Zhongxian glanced at Han Kedi, got on the carriage and left.
Wang Chengen and the ministers all stood up and left one after another. They came here to ask for His Majesty's forgiveness. They had heard His Majesty's answer and there was no need to stay any longer.
"Qianhu, what should we do?"
Jin Yiwei also had no clue, so he looked at the current leader Han Kedi and asked.
"Go back, don't cause trouble to His Majesty here."
Han Kedi also understood what the emperor meant. If they continued to stay here, others would see him and think he was unkind.
Exactly what the emperor wants to do with them, they can only go back and wait.
The originally crowded palace gate gradually became deserted.
"Report! Gansu Military Report! Gansu Military Report!"
Just after everyone left, a fast horse galloped into the city, and the messenger on the horse shouted loudly at the pedestrians on the road.
Wei Zhongxian, who was sitting in the carriage, opened the curtain and heard the man's shout. He also remembered what Eunuch He said just now and felt that something big must have happened in Gansu.
When the imperial guards saw that it was a military report, they quickly let him pass.
The messenger stumbled into the hall.
"Gansu Military Report, extremely urgent. Cough cough cough."
The messenger fell to the ground, raised the envelope in his hand and shouted.
"Your Majesty, military report."
Eunuch He took the military report and handed it to Chongzhen.
Then several eunuchs carried the messenger down who was lying on the ground.
"What does this Xu Wei do for food?"
Chongzhen read the military report and found that the first half was pretty good. Li Zicheng's rebel army had basically been suppressed. But seeing the news in the second half, Chongzhen immediately smashed the letter on the table angrily.
"What's wrong, Your Majesty?"
Eunuch He, who was standing nearby, didn't see what was written in the military report at all. He just saw that he was smiling at first, but suddenly he became angry and asked him in confusion.
"Hu Yunqing is missing!"
In front of a cliff in Gansu, Xu Wei and Wang Ke were fighting bravely against the enemy. After killing all the rebels, they stood in front of the cliff and looked down.
"General, after questioning the captured people, they said they saw someone wearing black armor falling from the cliff. Besides him, there was another person who also jumped after him. Listening to their description, it was very interesting. Maybe it’s Yuan Chonghuan.”
Wang Ke also reported the investigation results to Xu Wei.
"Go, send the news back to the capital, let His Majesty know the news, and leave a team of troops for me to look for below! If you want to see someone alive, you will see a corpse!"
Xu Wei was on every possible precaution but did not expect that Li Zicheng would attack his base camp. Hu Yunqing led more than a hundred people in a bloody battle, but in the end he could only flee in a hurry and was forced to a dead end.
The other party was not in a hurry. He saw the importance of Hu Yunqing and wanted to capture him alive so as to contain the Ming Dynasty's army.
At this time, under the cliff, there were two people floating on a river, following the current towards the distance.
Finally it floated to the shore.
"My lord, my lord, wake up! Are you okay?"
Hu Yunqing was already unconscious and his armor was badly damaged. Yuan Chonghuan, who was the first to wake up, quickly came to Hu Yunqing's side and saw that there was no external injury on the other person's body.
Maybe he was knocked unconscious after jumping off the cliff and hitting the water.
Seeing that Hu Yunqing still didn't wake up, he took off Hu Yunqing's armor, put it on his shoulders and walked away.
Finally, I came to a cave, took off my wet clothes, and started drying them over a fire.
After drying it, he put it on his body. When he saw a hare outside, Yuan Chonghuan quickly caught one and brought it back. After processing it, he put it on the fire to roast.
"where is this?"
Smelling the aroma of meat, Hu Yunqing woke up in a daze. Seeing himself in a cave, he rubbed his head in confusion and asked.
"My lord, you are finally awake. Hurry up and eat it while it is hot."
Yuan Chonghuan tore off the rabbit legs and handed them over and said.
"Didn't I jump off the cliff? Why are you here?"
After taking the rabbit leg and taking a bite, Hu Yunqing seemed to recall what happened before, and looked at Yuan Chonghuan in confusion and asked.
"You have saved my life. My life is yours."
Yuan Chonghuan also ate rabbit meat and said with his back to Hu Yunqing.
"You didn't jump down after me, did you?"
Hu Yunqing walked up to Yuan Chonghuan and asked with a shocked look on his face.
"Yes, I think if you die, I will give you my life back. If you don't die, I will come down with you and I can save you."
Yuan Chonghuan has always been a soldier and has developed some sense of loyalty in him.
"What are you doing? I can't die at all!"
Hu Yunqing directly covered his head and ate his rabbit legs and said to him.
"Can't die?"
Yuan Chonghuan also learned something about Hu Yunqing from Song Qingsong who was in prison. He knew that the other party had great magical powers, but he knew that he would not die if he jumped from the cliff. This was beyond Yuan Chonghuan's knowledge.
"Hey, I can't explain it to you."
Hu Yunqing didn't want to explain too much about this matter.
Although it was very critical at the time, it did not reach the point of jumping off the cliff. However, Hu Yunqing stood on it and curiously looked at how deep it was below. Someone rushed towards him, and he accidentally slipped and fell.
Hu Yunqing didn't panic at all when he was falling. When he was about to fall, he saw a river below and knew that he had traveled through time. How could he die so easily.
But when he didn't expect it, Yuan Chonghuan, a reckless man, also jumped down with him, and he just stayed with him. This really makes it difficult for Hu Yunqing to understand the other party's behavior.
"Sir, Xu Wei and the others will be anxious if they can't find us. They will send people down to find us. We'd better return to the bottom of the cliff along the river."
They floated some distance along the river, and it was very likely that they would not be found, Yuan Chonghuan suggested.
"Why are we going back there? We can just go back to the camp. If these guys can't find the way down, if we wait at the bottom of the cliff, we will starve to death there."
When Hu Yunqing heard that Yuan Chonghuan was thinking so simply, he slapped him on the head angrily and said.
"Okay sir, let's go now."
Yuan Chonghuan heard what Hu Yunqing said was reasonable and did not refute it.
