The moment he saw the light again, Zhu Gaoxu felt as if he had suddenly returned to the world from a long journey in hell. Perhaps the underworld was like this, so dark that nothing could be seen.
He first saw Wang Bin’s dark, rough, round face and fierce eyes, then he took a long breath and quickly climbed out of the coffin.
"Your Highness! Your Highness..." Several people surrounded him happily.
Zhu Gaoxu said nothing, feeling very complicated. This was the closest he had ever been to death since the Ming Dynasty! He didn't know whether to be thankful, surprised, or scared.
He looked around and saw several people lying on the ground, unconscious and unable to speak. This seemed to be an inn, and the funeral procession had already left the city.
Zhu Gaoxu went out without saying anything. When he came back, Wang Bin and others were nailing the coffin. Du Qianrui turned her head and looked at him silently.
"Where are we now?" Zhu Gaoxu aske
An orange-yellow flame burned under the casserole, and Zhu Gaoxu slowly added firewood into the stove."Is Prince Gaoyang's mission going smoothly?" Xu Miaojin said.Zhu Gaoxu replied while watching the firewood burning, "It wasn't very smooth. I almost lost my life several times, but I managed to escape by luck... But before I left, I told Wang Gui that if I couldn't come back, I would release my aunt."After he finished speaking, he slightly side-glanced to observe Xu Miaojin's reaction, but he didn't see anything strange. Xu Miaojin was weak, her face was a little pale, and she leaned lazily on the pillow, just like a girl who had just woken up. She looked a little relieved, relieved that Zhu Gaoxu was safe, or relieved that she had a way out?Xu Miaojin also noticed Zhu Gaoxu's gaze. Her eyes flickered slightly. She pulled the quilt up again to cover her chest and said embarrassedly, "Prince Gaoyang came in suddenly. I am disheveled. It's really no
After catching a cold, Chi Yue couldn't eat for two days and almost always lay in bed, feeling weak and lazy. After lying down for a long time, he suddenly sat up and suddenly felt dizzy. It felt like everything in the cellar was spinning and foggy."Are you okay?" King Gaoyang asked, his figure moving closer.Chi Yue blurted out, "It doesn't matter."She endured the dizziness, sat down on the bed, stretched out her feet to find her shoes, her feet swung a few times on the bed, but didn't touch the shoes. She had no choice but to sit quietly for a while, waiting for the dizziness to pass.At this moment, Chi Yue suddenly felt her ankle being gently grabbed. She became nervous and looked down to see that King Gao Yang had actually squatted down and was putting her foot on his shoe.Suddenly she felt very nervous and her body was so stiff that she couldn't move.In the past, King Gaoyang was quite prudent. Even if he tied her up, he would try
Two years have passed, and the wing room where Du Qianrui lived is still there, and even the furnishings have not changed. She picked up the bronze mirror on the dressing table, blew on the mirror, and wiped it with a handkerchief. It was still so blurry, and the mirror had not been polished. She sat down on a waist-round stool with great familiarity, and looked up. The purple curtain in front of the carved window was still there; the futon on the stool was made of Shu brocade, and she had carefully examined it two years ago.Du Qianrui had only lived here for a few months, but she suddenly felt like she was back home. It was said that girls from wealthy families would stay in their boudoirs for a long time even after they got married.She sat on the stool, resting her elbows on the table, supporting her delicate chin, and was in a daze for a while. After many days of bumpy rides, she felt very tired, but when she arrived at the Gaoyang County Prince's Mansion, sh
The weather was getting warmer, and I didn't know when the insects started to make noise. By the time I noticed the sound, it could be heard everywhere in the grass and in the corners of the walls.The flowers in the garden of Gaoyang County Prince's Mansion had withered, the leaves on the treetops had grown lush and dense, and weeds had grown out of the cracks under the stone path. Zhu Gaoxu walked along this stone path, looking at the rippling lake surface.It was indeed a bit difficult to build this garden in the past, but Zhu Gaoxu seldom visited it, and it looked almost abandoned.There was still no news from the Prince of Yan at the front, and there seemed to be no major battles recently. Without the order from the Prince of Yan, Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to go south on his own, and staying in Beiping was a rare opportunity for him to have some free time.General Wang Bin and others seemed to be dissatisfied with the Prince of Yan, but Zhu Gaoxu kne
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu seemed to hear Xu Huizu's voice again: Perhaps because we don't know everything and can't confirm other people's ideas, it is safer to do a little bit, observe a little bit, and constantly speculate and verify...Those inappropriate fantasies ruined the mood for a moment.Zhu Gaoxu looked at Chi Yue's flushed face like a drunken one and her tangled and confused eyes, but he still couldn't help but test her.He gradually approached Chi Yue, walking very slowly, for fear of scaring her. The cold and aloof look on her face was gone, and her beautiful eyes were filled with a pitiful look, and seemed to be a little charming."King Gaoyang..." Chi Yue sat on the chair, grabbing the corners of her clothes with both hands. Her whole body seemed to be tense, and even her voice changed. "What did you misunderstand or think of? Let me tell you now." ”"I misunderstood your feelings." Zhu Gaoxu spoke softly and moved slowly. Chi Yue
The Yan army suddenly moved south, captured several counties in succession, and then crossed into Shandong. Xuzhou and Pei County were in a state of emergency.At that time, Qi Tai was still in Zhejiang. Upon hearing the news, he immediately rushed to the capital.In the Jiahe War at the beginning of the year, the government army was defeated. In order to slow down the attack of the Yan army, the court dismissed Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others on the surface, so that the King of Yan had no excuse to "pacify the rebellion". However, it did not work later, and Qi Tai took the opportunity of leaving the post of Minister of War to go to various places to raise troops and food.The government troops suffered several defeats on the front lines, and it became increasingly difficult to dispatch troops to various places. Local civil and military officials took a wait-and-see attitude, and the court's policies were progressing slowly. Qi Tai and others had to go down
At the end of July in the third year of Jianwen, the King of Yan led an army of more than 200,000 soldiers to surround the county town of Pei County, and tried to persuade them to surrender by shooting arrows into the city, but was rejected. Then he fired more than a thousand large and small cannons on all sides, and the whole county was filled with smoke.The Prince of Yan believed that the county seat of Pei could be captured at any time, so he sent Zhu Gaoxu as the vanguard and led 5,000 infantry and cavalry from his own army and 3,000 cavalry from the vassal states to march south, with the vanguard approaching Xuzhou.Zhu Gaoxu received the order and led his people to leave Pei County. After walking for half a day, they could still vaguely hear the sound of cannons coming from the north.A large number of troops and horses were moving on the road like a black dragon. No civilians were seen on the plains. They probably hid after hearing the cannon fire. Z
A few days later, the Prince of Yan captured Pei County and immediately led his army south to Xuzhou. At that time, the Xuzhou government troops had lost the battle with the vanguard Zhu Gaoxu's troops and had closed the city to defend it. So the northern army surrounded Xuzhou and built siege fortifications.Two days after the artillery fire, the Northern Army did not use infantry to attack the city, but sent cavalry out to collect food. It was just as Zhu Gaoxu had expected...an army of more than 200,000 soldiers could not march south without food!One day, Zhu Gaoxu led his personal soldiers to inspect the four fields, but he saw a busy farming scene. In the rice fields that had not yet been harvested, many militiamen were busy working, and there were some cavalrymen with bows and arrows wandering around on the ridges of the fields to supervise.Zhu Gaoxu could not help but stop his horse and watch, and was also surprised... After six hundred years, the m