The Cannon Fodder and Villain’s Happy Ending

Gu Xi's eyes were deep, and his joy and anger were indistinguishable.

Next, he will be completely relieved until they and their grandmother enter Yuzhou together.

Duanrou County Master was still talking nonstop: "Third brother, now the emperor has 'killed' our grandmother for his own personal vendetta, and the father and the king have become famous under the apprenticeship."

A smug smile appeared on her face.

In her opinion, the emperor was weak and timid, and was useless, but he was just relying on the identity of the eldest son. It was easier for their father to conquer the capital.

Moreover, the father and the king are talented and capable, and he will definitely become a famous emperor through the ages, and his name will go down in history.

At this time, Gu Xi turned his head and asked Duanrou County Master, "Has your grandmother arrived yet?"

The carriage that Fang Taifei was hiding in was to deliver vegetables to Jiuqu Garden on weekdays, and it was under the jurisdiction of the Inner Court Division. Even if the carriage left Jiuqu Garden, it could not come here directly. The goal was too obvious.

The carriage had to go back to Beijing according to the daily route, and then replaced it with another carriage, and then drove out of the capital. Although it was a setback, in order to hide the trail, it was also necessary.

Duanrou County Master just remembered why she came to Gu Xi just now, and smiled: "Third brother, I was just about to tell you.

The carriage arrived, and in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, he deliberately came out of the South City Gate, and came here to meet us after a circle. "

"I just ordered my grandmother to be put up first and fed her some refreshing soup.

The medicinal properties of your sweating medicine are too strong, and my grandmother is still in a coma..."

"Grandma hasn't woken up yet?"

Gu Xi interrupted Duanrou County Master, and his heart skipped a beat, "Take me to see my grandmother."

Gu Xi had a vague foreboding.

Duanrou County Lord smiled and said: "Third brother, don't worry, mama took a breath for grandmother, everyone is fine, but she is still in a coma."

Duanrou County hurriedly took Gu Xi to her tent.

There were several maids and wives crowded in the tent at the moment, some were wiping the faces of the people on the couch with wet towel, some had just brought the refreshing soup, and some were standing by with their hands down.

Seeing that the masters were coming, the servants hurriedly moved away. Gu Xi took the lead in walking to the couch in three steps. When he looked at the people on the couch, his expression changed in an instant.

"wrong."

Gu Xi murmured, his face pale.

Duanrou County Lord didn't react yet, and walked quickly to Gu Xi's side, and also looked at the person on the couch. Her face changed, and she said in a trembling voice, "She...she is not a grandmother!"

Just now, when the Tibetan carriage arrived, because the carriage was rudimentary and had an unpleasant odor, Duanrou County Master just glanced at the dark grid, not realizing it was wrong, until now, she realized that it was a big one. wrong.

The comatose woman lying on the couch was not Concubine Fang at all, but a dead man specially arranged by her father.

This dead man was chosen by King Yu a few years ago, and he was seven or eight similar to Concubine Fang in both appearance and stature.

They traveled from Yuzhou to Beijing on this trip, and they have been careful not to let this stand-in show her face in front of other people accompanying them. Only their brothers and sisters know her appearance, just to ensure that this plan is foolproof.

The other servants in the tent looked at each other in disbelief.

This person is not Concubine Fang, who else is there?

"Third brother," Duanrou County Master pulled Gu Xi's sleeve, a little confused in his mind, "Why is the substitute here?"

They clearly arranged that a few close friends around the grandmother would send her into the hidden compartment of the carriage and take her out of the palace. The lives of these trusted family members were in the hands of the father, and they would never dare to betray the Yu Palace.

Gu Xi's eyes were gloomy and he didn't speak.

Yes, it stands to reason that this stand-in should die in the Jiuqu Garden instead of his grandmother.

If the stand-in 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 took a step back, then turned around and shouted, "Come on, ask the chief guard to bring the two people who just came back from Jiuqu Garden."

A guard standing outside the tent immediately took the order. After a while, the head guard and the two black-clothed guards were called over. Gu Xi went out of the tent to meet them, and asked sharply, "Is there really someone in Tai'an Palace?"

The two black-clothed guards glanced at each other and thought that Gu Xi was questioning whether their errands were completed, and one of them nodded affirmatively and replied, "Third Master, we poked a hole in the window paper, so we can see through it. After passing the firelight, I glanced into the main hall, and I could see the 'toffee' fell to the ground."

He said vaguely, meaning that they were sure that the fake concubine in the palace had burned to death.

Gu Xi: "..."

Gu Xi's face turned even paler, he felt a severe colic in his heart, and he was speechless.

There were extremely complicated emotions surging in his heart. It could not be said that it was resentment, frustration, remorse, or fear.

Duanrou County Master also came out of the tent and asked, "Third brother, what's going on?"

The two black-clothed guards looked at Gu Xi's face at the moment, and they guessed what was wrong, and they were all apprehensive.

Gu Xi took a deep breath, and the violently heaving chest calmed down a little, and said with great difficulty: "We were tricked by the emperor."

"The emperor must have known for a long time that we were going to give up our grandmother, and he secretly changed people back."

"Now...the person who was burned to death in the palace...is the grandmother!"

Gu Xi spoke more slowly, as if saying these words exhausted all his strength, his eyes were red and red, as if the evil ghost crawled out of hell, and he was no longer as graceful as usual. the noble man.

He still can't believe it to this day, that he has been calculated like this, that he has been targeted for a long time, but he doesn't know it.

When the two black guards heard the words, they were sweating profusely and lowered their heads.

If you really want to talk about it, didn't they burn the concubine to death with their own hands?

Duanrou County Master: "!"

Princess Duanrou's pretty face was full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's too despicable! Insidious and shameless, cruel and ruthless!"

After scolding, Princess Duanrou was a little flustered again and asked, "Third brother, what should we do now?"

At this moment, she is more angry than sad, panic more than regret. After all, she and Gu Xi both grew up in Yuzhou. They only saw Fang Taifei for a few years when they were young, and their memory has long been blurred. Feelings.

But Duanrou County Master also knew that this errand had made such a big mistake, and the father and king would definitely be furious. At that time, several concubines in the palace would also like to step on her.

In the final analysis, her dignity comes from her being a direct daughter, and because she is the only county lord appointed by the late emperor in the Yu Wang Mansion.

Gu Xi: "..."

Gu Xi's fist on the side of his body clenched and released, released and clenched again, the blue veins in the corners of his eyes jumped, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Upon seeing this, the Duanrou County Master was even more confused, and proposed: "Third brother, let's just say that the substitute is grandmother when we go back. Anyway, the father was originally looking for someone who looked like grandmother. Over the years, let her I have learned from my grandmother's words and actions, and my father has not seen my grandmother for eleven years..." I am afraid it is impossible for my father to remember exactly what Concubine Fang looks like now.

The more Duanrou County said, the more he felt that his idea was a good idea.

Gu Xi was about to be laughed at by Duanrou County Master's bad idea. He was too lazy to talk nonsense with her, so he only gave two words: "Shut up!"

He didn't want to take this sister with him at first, because she wanted to show her face in front of the father, and persuaded the father and mother, he could only take her.

Duanrou County Master flattened his mouth a little aggrievedly, feeling that the third brother was clearly angering himself.

He didn't do the errand well, and he kindly came up with ideas, but he trained himself, and he didn't think about it, this errand had an errand, and the impact on him would definitely be greater!

Gu Xi ignored Duanrou County Master, and thought about the whole thing tightly.

Since the emperor can handle this matter so tightly, that is, he knew their intentions very early, and has been planning to do it, so he let them go so easily, and let them burn the palace, just to let him They slapped themselves in the face and let their own people burn Tai Concubine Fang in Tai'an Palace with their own hands.

The emperor's plan is so comprehensive, it is impossible to go to this step, so the emperor next...

Gu Xi's eyes widened suddenly, and he ordered the head guard, "Quick, pack up and set off quickly."

As soon as the captain of the 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, third master!"

The captain of the guard immediately took his order.

Duanrou County Master looked at Gu Xi in confusion, "Third brother?"

The captain of the guard knew that this matter was no trivial matter, and immediately passed on Gu Xi's order. The guards and servants of the entire camp were in a commotion, packing what they could bring and putting them on the carriage.

No matter how fast they moved, it was already too late. There were messy hooves from both ends of the official road, which was especially loud on this silent night.

From the direction of the sound of the horse's hooves, it can be seen that all the people who come here are holding torches, illuminating the flying fish clothes and embroidered spring knives on them.

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 face became more gloomy, as if there was a net covering them.

Even if the front-end Princess Rou didn't understand what Gu Xi was afraid of, now she understood.

The emperor sent someone to chase them!

The sound of the horse's hooves was getting closer and closer, and the guards had no time to pack their things. They could only pull out the long knife from the scabbard and surrounded Gu Xi and the Duanrou county master in a circle, using their flesh as a wall to block the front of the masters. .

Jin Yiwei who came from both sides of the official road quickly trapped Gu Xi and his group, and they were in a dilemma.

The commander of Jinyiwei, Yuan Minggang, rode his horse to the front, looked at Gu Xi and Duanrou county master with a smile on his face, and bowed his hands casually, "The third son of the king of Yu, the commander of Duanrou, please also follow this commander. Go back to Beijing."

Duanrou County Lord The County Lord cursed bitterly in his heart: Jin Yiwei is the emperor's lackey!

"Commander Yuan, what does this mean?"

Gu Xi also pretended to bow to Yuan Ming and said, "It was the emperor's will that my sister and I left the capital and returned to Yuzhou..."

As he spoke, he deliberately paused, and his voice rose slightly: "The emperor promises a lot of money, could it be that the emperor wanted to come out instead?"

"The emperor is a promise."

Yuan Minggang said calmly and loudly, the dark horse under his crotch snorted, "You ordered someone to set fire to Jiuqu Garden and kill Concubine Fang, which is an unforgivable crime.

This commander is going to take you to trial for your crimes! "

"presumptuous!"

Duanrou County Master was annoyed, raised his finger to Yuan Minggang, and rebuked arrogantly, "My third brother ever murdered my grandmother, why do you want to add a crime!"

As the commander of the dignified Jinyiwei, Yuan Minggang would not play tricks with a little girl, nor would he quarrel with her, and ordered directly: "The emperor has his own judgment on what is right and what is wrong.

Take all the people from Prince Yu's Mansion! "

The Jinyiwei he brought with him immediately took his order: "Yes, Commander Yuan!"

The head of the guard at Prince Yu's Mansion shouted, "Protect the third master and the county master!"

The accompanying guards all bravely charged forward with their knives raised. They were all private soldiers of Prince Yu’s mansion, and they were also the elites that Prince Yu jumped out for this trip to the capital. They would never and would never dare to leave their masters alone. escape.

For a time, the long silver knives violently collided with each other, sparks blazing, the clanging sound of the blades colliding one after another, and the sound of the blade cutting through flesh and blood, as well as the screams and screams, in the blink of an eye, a A thick bloody smell spreads in the air with the cold wind...

Duanrou County Master had never seen such a bloody scene. She was so frightened that her face turned pale, she held Gu Xi's sleeve tightly, and shouted in a trembling voice, "Third brother..."

The number of Jin Yiwei is twice as many as they are, and they come prepared, their fists are hard to beat with four hands, and there is a huge disparity in their numbers.

The head guard also knew in his heart that they were at a disadvantage, and hurriedly said to Gu Xi and Duanrou County Master: "Third Master, County Master, your subordinates will escort the two away."

"The subordinates let people explore the way around before, and there is a small road ahead."

The captain of the guard raised his finger and pointed in a direction, and with two cronies, he hurriedly protected Gu Xi and Duanrou County Master towards a dark and secluded forest.

The sound of the collision of the 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.

Being able to entangle them for a while is a moment, and the most important thing is to buy time for the two masters to escape.

"Third master, county master, go this way!"

The captain of the guard led them to the depths of the woods, while the two guards were in the rear.

It was dark in the woods, and only the silver moonlight illuminated their way.

Afraid that Jin Yiwei would find the trace, they didn't dare to light the torch, so they could only use the moonlight to move forward in the dark.

In the cold wind, those trees swayed wildly, as if something lurked in the shadows staring at them.

Duanrou County Master swallowed, feeling uneasy.

She led the skirt and ran forward, and after a while, she ran out of breath and couldn't help complaining: "Third brother, what does the emperor want to do?

If he did this, wouldn't he be afraid that his father would send troops to the northern expedition? "

"When I return to Yuzhou, I must let the father and king send troops immediately!"

Duanrou County Master felt that the emperor was crazy. She and Gu Xike were both the direct sons and direct daughters of the king's father. It was absolutely impossible for the king to let the emperor treat them like this!

Gu Xi held the scabbard tightly in one hand and walked forward vigorously, feeling that this little sister was really noisy.

According to the meaning of taking care of Xi, he originally didn't want to bring Duanrou to the capital, but the father said that bringing Duanrou can hide people's eyes and eyes and make the emperor relax. Moreover, with Duanrou, it would be more logical for them to bring Tang Fengchun together.

But after Duan Rou came to the capital, she never did anything serious at all. She had made a big statement several times before.

Gu Xi didn't want to listen to Duan Rou's nagging anymore, so he simply said, "The emperor has long 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. First, it was because of the last emperor's edict, and secondly, because of the constant internal and external turmoil in Daqi, the emperor had to do his best to fill the cave left by the previous emperor, so he I can only endure my father's freedom in Yuzhou, and bear my father's hoarding of troops in Yuzhou. I can only put peace as the most precious thing.

The emperor is kind and generous, Gu Xi thought that the emperor would endure this forever, but just after he learned that Concubine Fang died in the fire, he figured it out.

Now that the external turmoil has calmed down, only peace is left. The emperor has become more and more unbearable for Yuzhou and his father, so he knew exactly what his father wanted to do when he and Duanrou came to the capital, but he deliberately followed his father. It was up to them to arrange Concubine Fang to "self-immolate".

It wasn't until the critical moment that the emperor took action to secretly sack the people, and even let the people of Yu Wangfu personally burn Taifei Fang to death.

To put it bluntly, the emperor's purpose was to make his father take the lead in dispatching troops because of the death of Concubine Fang, and then the emperor could counterattack logically. He won Yuzhou to conquer the famous, and it was not a violation of the last emperor's edict.

but--

What Gu Xi can't figure out is that the emperor is really so confident, confident that Da Qi has the strength to fight Yuzhou now?

As far as they know, the emperor clearly asked his courtiers to raise funds for even suppressing a bandit in Jinzhou, and only allowed the second prince to lead troops to Jinzhou!

Because of this, in the past few months, Gu Xi acted in the capital without any scruples. He knew that even if the emperor looked at their Prince Yu's mansion, even if the emperor was furious because of the death of Princess Yongle, he couldn't do anything to them!

The emperor could not afford to fight, the imperial treasury was empty, but King Yu had everything ready, only owed Dongfeng, and only needed "a famous teacher" to act.

Before coming to the capital on this trip, Gu Xi thought that even Heaven was on the side of Prince Yu's Mansion. He thought that his father had been working hard for ten years, and finally got the chance, but he didn't think that things would come to this point...

Gu Xi tightened the scabbard in his hand, walking faster and faster, and his breathing gradually became heavier.

And beside him, Duanrou County Master ran, while scolding endlessly: "Insidious and cunning, because he is still the emperor of Daqi, doing such shameful things!"

"As long as we return to Jinzhou smoothly, I want everyone in the world to know what his dignified Emperor Qi is like!"

"Did he think he could count our grandmother's death on us?

It was clear that he used a knife to kill! "

"..."

Duanrou County Master kept complaining all the way, and even the head guard who was leading the way felt a headache when he heard it, but Gu Xi didn't speak, and he couldn't say anything.

Seeing that the exit of the woods appeared in front, the head guard's eyes lit up and said hurriedly: "Third Master, the county master, the subordinates are afraid that someone will approach the camp from this wood, 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 the Duanrou County Master, "Duanrou, keep up!"

Duanrou County Master is a woman, and her steps are small. They take two steps, she will take three steps, and her physical strength is far less than that of the other people. At this moment, her forehead is already sweaty.

Hearing this, Duanrou County Master's eyes also lit up, and all of a sudden he had the strength to hold on.

Rushing out of the dark woods, the outside suddenly became brighter, and the silver moonlight poured down. Under the moonlight, the three horses were leisurely grazing on their own.

Seeing the horse but not the person, Gu Xideng froze for a while.

"Third master be careful."

The face of the chief guard also changed, knowing that something was wrong.

"Whoosh!"

A sharp arrow suddenly shot from the darkness like lightning, cut through the thick night, and brushed by Gu Xi's ear. He hit a guard in the back in the forehead.

An arrow penetrated the head, and the bloody arrow tip shot out from the back of the head.

The power of this arrow is evident.

Both Gu Xi and the captain of the guard knew that it was definitely not an ordinary person who could shoot the arrow just now. The arrow was not aimed at Gu Xi at all. This was a demonstration by someone who came!

Immediately afterwards, torches were lit one by one in front of them, and twenty or thirty cavalrymen approached them unhurriedly from a dozen feet away.

The leader was a young man in a frost-colored robe and holding a black longbow. The light of the torches softly outlined the young man's handsome eyebrows, and his temperament was as cold as the cold night wind.

The head guard recognized the other and blurted out, "Yu Fuyun!"

Gu Xi's face was even more ugly, and his heart was cold.

Why is Yu Fuyun here?

!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

The cold wind in the middle of the night became more violent, and the branches and leaves of the woods behind seemed to be roaring and wailing...

The cold moonlight poured down on the ground, like frost on the ground.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Minggang, the commander of Jinyiwei, told the emperor about the passage of water and fire in the Jiuqu Garden, and said: "Your Majesty, the Tai'an Palace was burned down, find a scorched corpse, a bead crown and clothes. Although most of it was burnt down, it can be judged from the remnants on the body that it belonged to Concubine Fang."

There was an instant uproar in the hall.

The group of ministers looked at each other, and many of them whispered in twos and threes.

Some of the well-informed courtiers actually heard about the water leakage in Jiuqu Garden yesterday, but half of them have not heard of it until now, especially Concubine Fang who died in the fire.

They all thought of the incident when Empress Dowager Liu scolded Concubine Fang yesterday. The Queen Mother asked Concubine Fang to accompany the emperor, so Concubine Fang was so ashamed and angry, so she set herself on fire last night?

Some people couldn't help but start to worry, Concubine Fang was not an ordinary concubine of the late emperor, she was the biological mother of King Yu.

To put it bluntly, Fang Taifei's role in the capital is also a proton. Now that this proton is gone, what will happen to King Yu?

Would King Yu be angry because of the death of Concubine Fang?

!

This idea appeared in the hearts of many courtiers, and the air in the Golden Palace also became dignified, a kind of dignifiedness that was about to come.

Some people are apprehensive, some people are worried, and some people can't help but feel that Empress Dowager Liu's words are too outspoken, forcing Concubine Fang to set herself on fire, and causing unprovoked disasters to the court!

Yuan Minggang, who was standing in the center of the hall, didn't care about the commotion around him, and continued to insist: "...According to Jinyi Wei's investigation, although this charred corpse is wearing the clothes of a concubine, this person is not Concubine Fang."

What?

! The civil and military of the court were stunned, and the hall fell into a dead silence again, and all the courtiers who had just whispered were silent.

Some ministers with fast brains immediately figured out something and showed a thoughtful look.

Could it be that……

Yuan Minggang is still in an orderly manner: "According to the living notes of the late emperor and the pulse record left by the Taiyuan Hospital, Fang Taifei once broke the leg bone of her right calf 20 years ago, but the leg bone of the female corpse was found to be unidentified. No broken bones."

"Furthermore, the reason why the Tai'an Palace fire got out of control was that someone secretly poured kerosene around to help it burn. Jin Yiwei also found several unburned kerosene barrels in the burned ruins. A dozen barrels of kerosene."

Hearing this, the courtiers were in an uproar again.

Buying such a large amount of kerosene in Beijing will attract the attention of the store owners. How could Taifei Fang, a woman who lives in the dark, get such a large amount of kerosene?

!

Obviously, these kerosene must have been brought into Jiuquyuan by other people, and there are very few people who can do this.

Thinking of the group of Yu Wangfu who had just left Beijing and returned to Yuzhou yesterday, all the courtiers had answers in their hearts.

Under the complicated gazes of all the ministers, Yuan Minggang stated his inference: "The minister is certain that it was the third son of King Yu, Gu Xi and the county master of Duanrou who secretly took Fang Taifei out of the Jiuqu Garden, and then arranged for someone Set fire to it, and make a substitute to replace Taifei Fang with suspended animation."

As for the purpose of why Prince Yu's Mansion did this, at this moment, most of the courtiers present thought of—

King Yu wants a name to start a war!