Shengguo Gongfu, Yongfan Garden.
In the middle of the yard, a wooden chair with a windshield was placed. There were several small barbecue stoves placed around the chair, and fine fine charcoal was burning in the stoves.
Zheng, who had put on thick clothes and a thick cloak, was sitting on a wooden chair.
On both sides of her stood a dozen maids.
Some of them carried lamps, some held heaters, some held hot pots, and some held cotton-padded clothes.
Since the housekeeper asked the maid to pass the message, Mrs. Zheng ordered the servants in the garden to get ready.
No matter what the circumstances of her husband and children were outside, all she could do at this moment was to guard her home without thinking too much and wait for her husband and children to come back.
In order to prevent anyone from climbing over the wall and joining the crowd, Mrs. Zheng ordered her servants to gather in the courtyard, and the servants in the outer courtyard and the ladies in the inner courtyard patrolled each other.
Then, she asked Xiaoyao to bring in all the weird things collected by Sister Yuan.
So the walls and corners of the mansion were covered with various mechanisms.
There are the mechanism ropes that instantly lock your wrists when you press the mechanism, and then you are either hung on the wall or thrown to the big net in the courtyard by the joint agency; there are the mechanism boxes that are thrown into a face of iron thorns when you touch them; there are also the mechanism boxes that are stepped on when they fall to the ground. When you arrive, you will be sprayed with paint or chili powder, etc.
The large number and variety of these institutions made Zheng feel a little bit dumbfounded when she saw the sense of security increasing.
How could that little girl figure it out?
Just as she was getting ready, someone came over from the small kitchen carrying several pots and stoves.
The leader of the kitchen, the wife and the chef, along with the maids and boys who helped the kitchen, carried spatulas and knives, expressing their intention to guard Yongfan Garden with the master's family.
"Don't worry, ma'am, it's a good thing the thieves don't come. If they do, we'll have enough hot oil and hot pepper water!"
Hearing what they said, Mrs. Zheng was so relieved that the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
I always feel that these honest servants are influenced by Sister Yuan.
Her side was well prepared, and everything was calm thereafter; but the Anhetang side was filled with turbulent and angry waves.
"Evil!" Sheng Guogong was sitting in the hall wearing armor. He struck the ground with a sword weighing more than a hundred kilograms, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
He glared at the second son who was all tied up in the hall, and the beard on his chin stood up with anger.
"You were supposed to be an official in Guangfu at this time, why did you come back without an edict?! How dare you sneak into Kyoto and get involved with the former Qi Dynasty? How dare you lead the rebels to your own mansion?! You know that the Duke of Sheng's mansion has lasted for several years. For hundreds of years, they have been loyal from generation to generation! How dare you bring discredit to your ancestral family!"
After Sheng Guogong said this in one breath, he became angrier and angrier as he spoke. If he didn't still have some sense, he would have killed this unworthy descendant with a knife!
Sheng Xiangjiang looked at him wishing he could eat his father, and kept complaining.
The prince, Sheng Xiangya, saw his father's anger boiling over and over again, keeping his anger level at full level at all times. He suddenly felt something in his heart and silently looked at his second brother who was kneeling in the hall.
"Dad! Dad! Listen to your son's excuse!" Sheng Xiangjiang quickly walked to Duke Sheng on his knees and wanted to hold his father's thigh to defend him. He didn't want to have his father kick him out just as he hugged his thigh.
At that moment, he did not dare to think about whether he was embarrassed, so he quickly got up and said loudly with tears on his face: "Dad! My son will never dare to collude with the rebels! My son came back quietly and happened to meet the rebels. The reason why he led them , it’s just a temporary measure! All I’m doing is asking you to put yourself in a urn! Dad, if it weren’t for this, your son would either be lying dead on the street right now, or else he would become a hostage and let them threaten you!
Daddy! You believe me! Just trust your son! My son has no disobedience! The reason why my son came to Beijing quietly without an edict was because he was under the protection of King Qin! "
"King Qin protects you?" Sheng Guogong sneered, "Don't you think that I am too old to be deceived by you? If you confess honestly and atone for your sins, I will tie you to the imperial palace and take the blame for you; if you are delusional, If you are deceived and unrepentant, I will deal with you first and take your body to the imperial city to confess your sins!"
Sheng Xiangjiang trembled when he heard the sound. He could hear the seriousness in Sheng Guogong's cold words.
Sheng Xiangya, who had been watching, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at his father: "Father..."
"Shut up!" Sheng Guogong did not think that the eldest son wanted to plead for his younger brother. He also looked over with a sneer and said, "At this time, you are not just thinking about how to keep your hereditary position as Duke, are you?"
"Son, I don't dare." Sheng Xiangya bowed his head.
"Huh!" Sheng Guogong continued to look at the shivering second son and shouted, "Say! Tell me everything you know clearly!"
"Father...father, father." Sheng Xiangjiang looked at Duke Sheng tremblingly, and glanced out the door from time to time.
"Your mother just complained of illness and said she wouldn't come to see you!"
When Sheng Guogong saw that his second son still wanted Chang to plead for mercy, he couldn't help being extremely disappointed. He slapped the table and shouted angrily: "Sheng Xiangjiang, listen! There are not many people in the mansion at the moment. Brother Sun Shu, the heir of the Duke's mansion, you My brother's two legitimate sons, as well as your third brother and Sister Yuan are not in the mansion! And I would rather lose them than find them, why? I just want to pass on hundreds of years of loyalty and responsibility to the Shengguo Palace!"
Duke Sheng Guo pointed at his second son with a trembling voice and said angrily: "All the well-trained guards in the palace have left, leaving only the martial arts servants to guard them. This means that Duke Sheng's palace and the imperial city will coexist!
During the transition of the three dynasties of Yan, Chen and Chu, although the names of the countries changed, they were passed down from generation to generation. I, the Sheng family, guarded this territory, protected the people of this area, and protected the authentic royal family!
But now Qi Qi is counterattacking, A Rong is waiting for it, and even Nuerhan wants to take the opportunity to annex the territory of Chu! Only by going all out and being loyal to the emperor and serving the country can the Sheng family be worthy of the glory that has been passed down for nearly 600 years!
If you dare to be dishonest, the Sheng family will not let you stay! If you still don't repent, Sheng Xiangjiang, I will not only remove you from the family tree, but also sacrifice you to the flag to make up for the Sheng family's sin of raising such an unscrupulous person like you! "
"Father, Father! No! I really don't want it! Listen to me!" Sheng Xiangjiang was frightened to death by the cruelty in his father's words. He didn't care about this or that, so he hurriedly took out the memorial from his arms and handed it to him. Dad, look, "Father, look! I really didn't lie!"
"Huh?" Sheng Guogong motioned to the butler to take the memorial.
Sheng Xiangjiang was so anxious that he didn't wait for Duke Sheng Guo to take a closer look, so he spoke in one breath: "Father, you know your son's second daughter, Sister Han! She is your sixth granddaughter! Since arriving in Guangfu with your son, She often had nightmares! At first, her son thought she was acclimatized, but after repeated verifications, her dreams could accurately predict the future! Her son benefited a lot from this! But since the beginning, her dreams have There are many related to the Kyoto Rebellion!
Although the son was surprised and suspicious, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, so he had no confidence in pursuing the investigation. It was not until the first half of the year that Sister Han's dreams became clearer and clearer. Her son asked her to follow her back because of her eldest daughter's hairpin, hoping to see if it could become clearer. Sure enough... it was only after receiving the accurate letter that his son made up his mind to come in person. of! How dare such a secretly trusted son be handed over to others? Only if you travel day and night and never leave your clothes can you feel at ease. "
"Oh?!" Sheng Guogong was shocked at first when he heard this, and then looked at him suspiciously, "Do you really mean what you said? Is Sister Han's dream true?"
"This..." Sheng Xiangjiang lowered his head with some guilt, "It was all true before, but this time... the time for the rebel army to launch has been advanced."
When he said this, Duke Sheng Guo actually believed him: "Since you already know the reason from the previous article, why didn't you mention it when you returned to Beijing last year to report on your work?"
When Sheng Xiangjiang heard this, his already bowed head became even lower.
Seeing this, Duke Sheng Guo laughed angrily: "You want to take credit for the title?!"
"Father! My son, my son, and I also want to bring glory to our family!"
"Stop talking! You and I go to the palace to meet the saint!" Sheng Guogong didn't want to listen to him anymore, so he directly put the memorial in his arms, stood up, ordered two palace servants to follow him, and asked the housekeeper to find Sheng Han. .
"Father, including Sister Han, there are three of us, and we only have two servants... Isn't it enough with the chaos outside?" Sheng Xiangjiang saw someone untying himself, and he hurriedly approached to please him.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, his father slapped him hard: "Now, how many people are you going to bring into the palace? Do you have any brains!"
Duke Sheng held up his long knife, snorted fiercely, and walked away.
…
Sheng Han from the second room was restless in the boudoir.
"Why is the time advanced? Shouldn't it be before the hunting parade?"
She bit her fingernails nervously and trembled a little: "I just laughed at Sheng Yuan and said that people's calves are too short to reach the prey. Could it be... No! No! This happened many days ago, it can't be related! "
"Could it be that Princess Yongping launched an attack in advance?" Sheng Han suddenly raised his head, remembering the legend in his previous life that Princess Yongping took the opportunity to assassinate the prince and count his sons.
"Could it be... related to Princess Yongping?"
While she was thinking wildly, she suddenly heard a knock on the door and fell to the ground in fright.
(End of chapter)
