Chapter 94: Darkness under the Lights
Jin Quan has been paying attention to Lu Heng’s movements. The more recent years he has, the more he has been.
When Lu Heng sent his family to the south, Jin Quan knew that Lu Heng was going to attack. There was not much time left. Maybe Lu Heng would come back from Tianjin and would immediately go to Yuan’s mansion to find him.
For Yuan Gongbao, Lu Heng's existence is definitely a good thing in some ways. It has played a role in urging.
It was precisely because of Lu Heng's forced Jin Quan and Yuan Gongbao to speed up their growth and did not dare to delay at all.
Jin Quan sent someone to guard the city gate and keep an eye on Lu Heng's whereabouts. Seeing Lu Heng back, the staggered man rode back to Yuan's house and told Yu Jinquan.
Jin Quan said to Wang Pinqing: "In three days, Lu Heng will definitely attack. I have to drag him down."
Wang Pinqing couldn't help but say, "I'm afraid I can't hold it back."
"If you can't hold it, you have to drag it down." Jin Quan said firmly: "How long can you delay it? You can spread the news to Shandong as soon as possible."
As he spoke, a servant had already brought his coat. Jin Quan took it and put it on and said, "I will leave immediately. If Lu Heng comes to find me, you will tell him that I have something important to do, ranging from seven or eight days to ten or half a month. Please wait a little longer, and I will tell him the truth when I come back."
Wang Pinqing nodded slightly: "Yes."
Jin Quan immediately left Yuan's house and climbed onto a carriage.
Say: "Go to church."
The coachman silently threw away the whip and left.
It was almost dusk, and it was dark in winter, and the sky was dark, and there were few pedestrians on the road.
The carriage walked slowly along the street, crossed several streets, stumbled into many alleys, and stopped at the back door of the church.
The sky has killed the black.
Jin Quan lifted the curtain and got out of the car and told the coachman: "You find a place to settle down and come here to pick me up tomorrow morning."
"Yes." The coachman replied, and drove the carriage again and left.
Seeing that the carriage was in the dark, Jin Quan stood for a moment, looked around, no one was missing. Then he turned around and knocked on the back door of the church.
In a moment, a man dressed in a priest opened the door and let King Quan in.
Jin Quan said: "Where is Eunuch Zhao?"
The priest was not a foreigner, he said: "Eunuch Zhao is not here."
Jin Quan paused and said, "Send someone to call him immediately, it's urgent."
The priest said, "I'll send someone right away."
The priest sent Jin Quan to a room and turned away. Jin Quan sat alone, waiting patiently.
About an hour later, the door opened and the priest walked in with a hunched old eunuch.
King Quan stood up: "It's so cold."
The old eunuch put his hands in his sleeves and nodded after hearing this: "It's very cold."
He said: "You are so eager to call me here?"
Jin Quan said: "It's a fatal thing!"
He said: "The person who wants to kill Queen Mother Cixi can no longer help it. I have to avoid him and delay it."
Eunuch Zhao was surprised: "Then...what do you want our family to do it?"
Jin Quan said: "I want you to take me to see the Queen Mother Cixi."
Eunuch Zhao widened his eyes: "You want to see the Queen Mother?"
He paused: "It's not that our family underestimated you. You are afraid of that person, but the empress dowager is not bad. If she knows what you and I do, she can kill you and me in one meeting."
Jin Quan said: "I only know one thing - Queen Mother Cixi fears Lu Heng as a tiger, but treats us as a lamb. The tiger is ahead, and I am sure to make a deal with her."
He said, "Don't worry. If Queen Mother Cixi wants to kill someone, I will accompany you to die. Your family and relatives have been sent to Shandong and have Gong Bao take care of her, what else can I be afraid of?"
The old eunuch was silent for a moment and sighed: "Yes, our family is already seventy-eighty. Since we have no worries, what else can we be afraid of? Let's go, I'll take you there."
They left as soon as they were told. The two went out through the back door of the church, got into the old eunuch's sedan chair, and disappeared all the way into the darkness.
In the sedan chair, Jin Quan looked relaxed. He said, "I don't know where the Queen Mother Cixi is hiding."
Eunuch Zhao smiled, his face as if it was like a chicken skin was full of gullies: "Don't worry, you'll know when you're here."
The sedan chair was ups and downs, and after walking for half an hour, he suddenly stopped. The old eunuch lifted the curtain, glanced at it, and said, "It's here."
The two walked out of the sedan chair, and Jin Quan looked up and was surprised: "Summer Palace?"
Two little eunuchs had been waiting, and Eunuch Zhao said, "The front of the lamp is shining on the road."
Then he said to Jin Quan: "No, it's the Summer Palace."
Jin Quan was stunned for a while: "This is really dark under the light!"
Jin Quan felt cold for a moment. The Queen Mother Cixi's thoughts were indeed unfathomable. How many people have been hidden from just using such a move!
Walking along Kunming Lake, the Summer Palace was deserted and quiet, as if it was a huge grave. The cold wind blowing from the lake was like a knife and drilling into the cuffs and lapels of clothes. Jin Quan couldn't help but shivered.
I passed by Yulan Hall, to Paiyun Hall, and finally to Buddha Xiang Pavilion.
The door of the Foxiang Pavilion was open, but it was dark, like a beast lurking in the dark and opening its bloody mouth.
The cold is so cold.
Eunuch Zhao took a lantern from the young eunuch and said, "Let's go."
Step by step, I walked into the dark Buddha incense pavilion gate.
Jin Quan took a deep breath and followed in.
The old eunuch was ahead, walking in a zigzag manner. The road was dark and dark. There were neither eunuchs, palace maids, nor guards or attendants here.
The cold wind blew in the aisle, making people's hands and feet numb.
Jin Quan followed the old eunuch into a Buddhist temple according to his thoughts.
The old eunuch came forward with a lantern and lit an oil lamp. Then he put down the lantern, fell to the ground, and kowtowed: "God of Lafayette."
When Jin Quan looked along, he saw a dry figure sitting cross-legged in front of the Buddha statue, motionless like a statue.
The oil lamp on the desk gradually became brighter, reflecting a pale face as white as a ghost. This face was filled with white and greasy powder, and only a pair of sunken eyes were seen, like two inlaid holes.
Queen Mother Cixi.
Jin Quan's heart was raised to his throat. At this glance, he was trembling all over and almost couldn't stand it.
The hollow and sunken eyes stared at him, like a poisonous snake leaping out, burying into his heart, gnawing, making him trembling and unable to control himself.
"Which is this?"
The sound of Cixi is like an old turtle in the middle of the night!
Eunuch Zhao whispered: "He is Jin Quan and Jin Bingjun, an aide to Shandong Governor Yuan Gongbao."
Cixi Road: "Shandong Governor Yuan Gongbao..."
She seemed to have a little slow thinking, and thought for a while, and said, "Is it Yuan Gongbao who trained the new army in Tianjin?"
"Laofu is wise." Eunuch Zhao replied.
"Oh..." Cixi nodded slightly, muddy, like a machine.
"Why is Yuan Gongbao... the person Li Zhongtang values... it's him... it's right. Li Zhongtang said that he is the pillar of the country. He asked the Ai family to promote him, and the governor of Shandong was promoted."
Her thinking gradually became lively, her speech became smoother and her tone became more and more vivid.
Chapter completed!