What happened in the city?
how come……
After waiting anxiously in the manor for a long time, Zheng Canjun finally brought someone over. Wu Cuicui took a quick look and found that he was an acquaintance!
"But the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Wang Shilang?"
The middle-aged man could only smile bitterly, because he was under the protection of others, and he was grateful for the kindness of taking her in. He hurriedly handed over his hands in greeting: "It's just that you are so polite, Mrs. Li."
After Wu Cuicui returned the gift, she got straight to the point and said, "What happened in the city? Please tell Wang Shilang the truth!"
Wang Shilang hesitated for a moment, and the bitterness on his face deepened: "It's not that I don't want to tell the truth, but until now, I don't know the true face of Mount Lu - after dinner today, I have rested, and I haven't I thought someone knocked on the door at night to warn me..."
Wu Cuicui looked stern: "Early warning?!"
"That's right," Wang Shilang said: "The man wore a bamboo hat to cover his face. I couldn't identify his face. I only said that I had cleared his grievances when I was the young minister of Dali Temple in the past, so today he also You can't bear to see me die in vain, so I came here to warn you."
"He said that the emperor intends to wash away the capital with blood. The city will be filled with blood tonight. The Jinwu Guards will arrive in two-quarters of an hour at most. He asked me to take my wife and children out of the city to escape..."
Wu Cuicui's brows moved slightly and she said, "Do you believe it?"
Wang Shilang sighed: "It is better to believe that this kind of thing exists than to believe that it does not exist."
He added: "Recently, the wind direction in the city has been different. I think Mrs. Li has noticed it. Otherwise, how could she have left the city to take refuge?"
Wu Cuicui did not answer this question, but continued to ask: "Then, what did Wang Shilang see?"
Wang Shilang said: "There are only three people in my family, and including servants, there are only eight people. At least I found four horses, and two of them escaped from the city."
"We are not as good as the imperial capital. There is no forbidden night, and the security everywhere is not very tight. We dare not go on the main road, but just walk through the small paths. Along the way, we see Jinwu guards wearing armor and holding torches. They are in a hurry. How can we dare to look closer? ? He left the city as if running for his life and came to seek refuge with Mrs. Li..."
Wu Cuicui asked in surprise: "There are only three people in Shilang Wang's family? I seem to remember——"
Wang Shilang was silent for a few moments, and then he whispered: "When the capital fell, everyone was separated. Only the youngest daughter remained unmarried and stayed in the house. She survived with my wife during the escape."
An unspeakable gloom suddenly rushed into her heart, and Wu Cuicui said sadly: "I'm really sorry for talking about this."
Wang Shilang shook his head: "Emperors have princes and princesses who are lost elsewhere, let alone the home of a minister? After all, as a court official, I go to the palace in purple robes. In times of crisis, I managed to save my wife and daughter. Compared to Those people who are unable to escape the imperial capital and are trapped in hell are very lucky."
Wu Cuicui was in awe, as if she had some realization, but at this moment, there was no extra time for her to feel emotional.
She asked the doubt in her heart: "Who is Mr. Wang?"
Wang Shilang looked slightly puzzled: "What?"
Wu Cuicui looked at him and asked again: "Are you from the Emperor?"
Wang Shilang was stunned when he heard this. After a few moments, he became serious again: "If Mrs. Li wants to ask me in which year I became an official and which emperor appointed me, then I am the emperor's servant, but if Mrs. Li wants to ask If you ask me as an official in the court, which emperor am I loyal to? It’s not any one, I am loyal to the world, the imperial court and the country!”
Wu Cuicui's expression moved slightly, but Wang Shilang had already asked: "Why did Mrs. Li ask this question?"
Wu Cuicui hesitated to reveal the truth to him. However, Wang Shilang was an official in the civil service department and was in charge of the promotion of personnel in the world. He was the best among the best. After thinking about it, he quickly came to a conclusion. .
He said in surprise: "The Emperor and the Supreme Emperor suddenly turned against each other, so they want to purge officials who may be loyal to the Supreme Emperor?!"
Wu Cuicui was even more surprised than he was: "The Emperor and the Supreme Emperor suddenly turned against each other - how did you know that they were actually in the same group?!"
Wang Shilang was even more surprised: "If this is not the case, how could the emperor command the Imperial Army that is loyal to the Supreme Emperor?"
Wu Cuicui was speechless for a long time.
I feel ashamed of myself and have a deep sense of shame like dancing a sword in front of Guan Gong.
On the contrary, Wang Shilang comforted her: "Mrs. Li is not me. I have not been immersed in the court for many years, and I have not understood politics like men in the world. It is normal for me not to see through it."
Then he skipped this moment and thought hard: "What are the father and son of the Tian family planning?"
Wu Cuicui hesitated and said: "The Supreme Emperor may have the intention to return to the throne, but the Emperor is probably not willing to be a chess piece in his hands. It was only due to the conflict of interests between the two parties that What happened tonight..."
Wang Shilang was startled at first, and then his eyes became desolate and desolate: "Is this really so? Now, even the imperial capital has been lost to the rebels, and they are still fighting among themselves."
He looked angry again and said angrily: "What do they think of this world, and what do they think of the miserable creatures?!"
Wu Cuicui remained silent.
Wang Shilang quickly calmed down, bowed again, and begged: "Tonight there was a sudden change, but I don't know how many people were killed in the city. Are the officials the only ones who suffered? This purge is just the beginning. I'm afraid there will be a bigger storm." Behind the scenes, please ask Mrs. Li to join my team and allow me to take people to pick up those who have fled out of the city..."
Wu Cuicui was in a state of confusion.
She felt that she was standing on a shaky suspension bridge that was in disrepair.
If you advance, there may be traps, but if you retreat, you may not be able to survive.
Should we accept those people?
If this is really the case, I am afraid that I will immediately fall out with the emperor.
Furthermore, she had some grudge against those people in her heart.
Wang Shilang saw her hesitation: "Mrs. Li seems to be hesitant?"
Wu Cuicui turned away and said: "That's true. You may not know something. The death of my father and brother was closely related to the Supreme Emperor. Those who were purged by the emperor this time were also the Supreme Emperor's important ministers..."
"Confused!"
But Wang Shilang said seriously: "How can there be any people from the Supreme Emperor or the Emperor? There are only people from the imperial dynasty!"
"If I follow this theory, wouldn't I be the one who deserves death? Wasn't the Wu family a supporter of the Supreme Emperor in the past?"
After speaking, he sighed and said: "It is true that officials in the DPRK and the Central Government have shortcomings of one kind or another, but at any rate they have gone through several rounds of screening and are able to overview the overall situation and do something. Mrs. Li, the country has been corrupted into this." Looks like it, just leave a few more sparks if you can, it’s rare to be confused!”
Wu Cuicui lowered her head after hearing this: "In that case, what else can I say? I'll order a team of people for you."
Wang Shilang thanked her sincerely and said: "I know the worries in Mrs. Li's heart. I will not bring them here. I just ask them to take shelter outside the manor temporarily. As for the emperor's possible hatred, don't you stay out of it at this time? Will the emperor be against them?" Are you friendly with General Lee?"
"Sit back and watch as the father and son of the Tian family treat the world as chess pieces and play with them at will. One day, we will also become the chess pieces in their hands that are played with fate! Don't accumulate strength when they first attack, and unite Get up, and in the future, all those who travel with us will be withered, and if you want to resist, there will be nothing you can do."
Wu Cuicui was not ignorant of good and evil. She could hear the hint in Wang Shilang's words and said seriously: "Yes, I have learned a lesson."
Wang Shilang looked at her intently and suddenly asked: "I heard that it was Madam who had the discerning eye to choose General Li as her husband. Didn't you and your wife talk about this when they were together? Something?”
Wu Cuicui was most afraid of being mentioned in the past, and when she thought about what Wang Shilang asked, she felt a little scared: "Sometimes, I will say something, but I am too stupid..."
Wang Shilang was about to speak but stopped.
Wu Cuicui was keenly aware of a bit of compassion in his emotions, and her heart suddenly twitched: "What's wrong? You seem... to have something to say."
Wang Shilang paused for a moment and then said: "It is taboo for people to communicate with each other with shallow words and deep words. Since my wife is helping me, I will take the liberty to say one more unflattering word. My wife and General Li are not like fellow travelers." "
Wu Cuicui's expression suddenly changed, but she bent down and bowed deeply to him: "Can you please clarify?"
Wang Shilang glanced at the brighter lights outside the city and said concisely: "I have talked with General Li before. He is a man who knows the hardships of people's livelihood. Madam, you grew up in wealth, which is completely opposite to him. "
Born into wealth...don't you suffer the sufferings of the world?
Wang Shilang left in a hurry, but Wu Cuicui still stood there in trance.
Is she still ignorant of the sufferings of the world?
In just six months, she lost almost all her close relatives, experienced estrangement from her compatriots, and suffered betrayal from people she trusted, leaving her worried and on tenterhooks.
She learned to be kind to the people around her, even those whose status was far inferior to her own, learned to help those she could help when she could, and also seriously understood silk reeling and silkworm rearing, people's livelihood suffering……
Even so, in the eyes of Wang Shilang, is he still the opposite of Li Qiao?
Wu Cuicui was at a loss.
The fires and killing cries in the capital city did not stop because of Wu Cuicui's trance, and even intensified.
This is the capital, not Kyoto. There are no clearly defined residential areas for officials, and the clan members and nobles will not live neatly in one city.
Jinwuwei is looking for a group of living people to kill, not a group of puppets who can run, escape, and hide.
Once again, people with malicious intentions took advantage of the troubled waters, and the situation developed into an unstoppable situation that turned into a burning, killing, and looting that swept the entire city.
Wang Shilang and his men rushed all the way to the city gate. They saw the three-story restaurant a hundred meters away from the city gate collapsed in the fire. The night wind carried the flames and ignited a group of houses northwest of the restaurant.
Howls, shouts, and the crackle of wood breaking in the fire were mixed together, and besides that, he also heard another sound in the dark.
That was the death knell of a dynasty.
The Tian family's heart is absurd and cruel to this extent. This dynasty has indeed reached the end of its rope.
…
The news that Li Qiao's troops were besieged by the rebels had not yet reached the capital, but it reached Li Shimin's ears first.
There is no way, Shunzhou is further away from the capital and closer to Gyeongju.
Because Li Shimin cared about his sworn brother, he led his men to station in the west of Gyeongju under the guise of worrying about his lord.
In the military tent, Wei Xuancheng frowned: "This battle is not easy to fight. There are no empty warriors under the reputation. Li Qiao can reach this day as a slave. He is by no means an ordinary person. Even if In this way, I am also trapped in Shunzhou..."
Yu Yingying said: "Looking at this posture, I'm afraid it's not just the rebels who want to eat him in one bite, but the imperial court also has ill intentions towards him."
Teng Zhong said: "Save, or not?"
Wei Xuancheng said: "It's too dangerous. I'm afraid the King of Wei would be happy to just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight..."
Everyone was talking enthusiastically, but Li Shimin just sat aside and wiped his knife without saying a word.
At this moment, the curtain of the military tent was opened from the outside, and Xiao Mingze walked in.
Li Shimin turned his head to look, and saw her coming to him, handing him the riding crop with both hands, and said with a smile: "Everything is ready for you. Go ahead, be more careful."
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows at her with an unsurprising smile.
Wei Xuancheng: "???"
Wei Xuancheng said angrily: "We have been talking for a long time, but you haven't taken it seriously at all!"
The others also hesitated to speak.
Li Shimin looked relaxed, stood up quickly, said in a brisk tone: "See you later!" and strode out.
Yu Yingying asked Xiao Mingze in surprise: "How did sister know that he would go?"
Xiao Mingze said matter-of-factly: "Because that's the kind of person he is!"
She smiled and said: "When Li Qiao rescued us, he was a stranger to us and only relied on his loyalty. If Li Qiao is in trouble today and he shrinks back, then he is no longer Li Changsheng!"
Chapter 133
