Four hundred and eighty third chapter replace forty-two
Kangxi smiled and said: "Of course. I have already said that wherever there is no one, we will be the same as before. You want to compete with me again, don't you? Come on, come on." He turned his hands.
, and held his hands instead.
Fang Yu said: "I'm not busy with the martial arts competition. I have a secret and important matter that I want to tell my good friend Xiao Xuanzi, and I must not tell it to my master Long live the Lord. After the emperor heard this, he was going to blow my head off. Xiao Xuanzi regarded me as a friend.
Or it doesn’t matter.”
Kangxi didn't know how important the matter was. The young man was in a very interesting mood. He quickly pulled him to sit side by side on the edge of the bed and said, "Say it quickly, say it quickly!"
Fang Yu said: "Now you are Xiao Xuanzi, not the emperor?"
Kangxi smiled and said: "Yes, I am your good friend Xiao Xuanzi now, not the emperor. Being the emperor all day long without a close friend is boring."
Fang Yu said: "Okay, I'll tell you. If you want to chop off my head, there's nothing you can do."
Kangxi smiled and said: "Why should I kill you? How can a good friend kill a good friend?"
Fang Yu took a long breath and said: "I am not the real Xiao Guizi, I am not a eunuch, the real Xiao Guizi has been killed by me."
Kangxi was shocked and asked: "What?"
Fang Yu briefly told his life story, and then told the truth about how he was kidnapped into the palace, how he poisoned Hai Tianfu's eyes, how he pretended to be Xiao Guizi, and how Hai Tianfu taught martial arts.
When Kangxi heard this, he smiled and said: "Damn it, please unbutton your pants first and show me."
Fang Yu knew that the emperor was shrewd, so how could he not verify such a big thing with his own eyes, so he immediately took off his trousers.
When Kangxi saw that he was indeed not a purified eunuch, he laughed loudly and said, "So you are not a eunuch. It's not a big deal to kill Xiao Guizi, a young eunuch."
It’s just that you can’t live in the palace anymore. Otherwise, I will send you to be the chief steward of the imperial guards. Although Duolong is good at martial arts, he is very messy in his work."
Fang Yu put on his trousers and said, "Thank you very much, but I'm afraid it won't work. I heard some big secrets related to the Queen Mother."
Kangxi said: "It has something to do with the Queen Mother? What is that?" When he asked these two sentences, he felt something was wrong in his heart.
Fang Yu gritted his teeth and recounted the exchange he heard between the Queen Mother and Hai Dafu that night in Cining Palace.
When Kangxi heard that his father, Shunzhi, had not died, but had become a monk at Qingliang Temple in Wutai Mountain, he was certainly shocked, and especially overjoyed.
His whole body was shaking, he held Fang Yu's hands and said in a trembling voice: "Is this... is this true? My father... my father is still alive?"
Fang Yu said: "I heard that the Queen Mother and Hai Dafu said so."
Kangxi stood up and shouted loudly: "That...that's great! That's great! Xiao Guizi, as soon as day breaks, we will go to Mount Wutai to see our father and invite him back to the palace."
Kangxi ruled the world and did whatever he wanted. The only big regret in his life was the early death of his parents. Sometimes when I dreamed about my parents at midnight, I couldn't help crying when I thought of my parents. When I heard Fang Yu say this, I still couldn't help but be skeptical, but I was already happy.
Heart overturned.
Fang Yu said: "I'm just afraid that the Queen Mother is unwilling. She has been hiding it from you. There is a serious reason for this."
Kangxi said: "Yes, what's the reason?"
As soon as he heard that his father was not dead, he was filled with joy, but after a moment's reflection, countless doubts immediately emerged.
Fang Yu said: "I don't understand anything about the major events in the palace. I can only tell you the truth about the exchange between the Queen Mother and Hai Dafu."
Kangxi said: "Yes, yes, say it quickly! Say it quickly!"
Hearing Fang Yu talk about how Queen Duanjing and Queen Xiaokang were harmed by others, Kangxi jumped up and shouted: "You...you said Queen Xiaokang...was killed by others?"
Fang Yu saw his expression changed drastically, his eyes widened, and the muscles on his face couldn't help but feel frightened. He said in a trembling voice, "I...I don't know. That's what Hai Tianfu and the Queen Mother said."
Kangxi said: "What did they say? You...you say it again."
Fang Yu had a very good memory. He recounted the exchange between the Queen Mother and Hai Dafu that night, and even the tone and tone of the two were very similar.
Kangxi stayed for a long time and said: "My mother...my mother was actually killed by me?"
Fang Yu said: "Queen Xiaokang is... is... you?"
Kangxi nodded and said, "Go on and don't miss a word." His heart felt sour and tears streamed down his face.
Fang Yu then described how the murderer used the "Bone-Reducing Cotton Palm" to first kill Prince Rong, the son of Queen Duanjing, and then Queen Duanjing and Concubine Zhen, after Shunzhi became a monk.
The Queen Mother also killed Empress Xiaokang, and how Qian Zuo, who buried Empress Duanjing and Concubine Zhen, went to Wutai on orders from Hai Tianfu to report to Shunzhi. How did Shunzhi send Hai Tianfu back to the palace for a thorough investigation, but she said that after he was blind, he was no match for the Empress Dowager.
, causing the opponent to die.
Kangxi calmed down and interrogated the scene of that night in detail, tracing the words he heard. After repeated questioning, he concluded that Fang Yu could never fabricate the matter. He raised his head and thought for a while, then asked: "Why didn't you talk to me until today?"
explain?"
Fang Yu said: "This matter involves too much, how can I dare to say nonsense? But tomorrow I will escape from the palace and never come back. It is extremely dangerous to think that you are alone in the palace, so I can't hide it anymore."
Kangxi said: "Why do you want to leave the palace? Are you afraid that the Queen Mother will harm you?"
Fang Yu said: "Let me tell you, the maid who died in Cining Palace tonight was a man and the senior brother of the Queen Mother."
It was naturally unbelievable that the maid in the Queen Mother's palace was a man, but that night Kangxi not only heard that his dead father was not dead, but that his mother was assassinated by the always dignified and loving Queen Mother.
It was no longer surprising to hear that a palace maid was disguised as a man, not to mention that the young eunuch in front of him was also pretending to be a man. Kangxi asked, "How did you know?"
Fang Yu said: "After I heard the conversation between the Queen Mother and Hai Tianfu that night, the Queen Mother kept trying to kill me to silence me."
At that moment, he told how the Queen Mother sent Ruidong, Liu Yan, and all the eunuchs to harm her one by one. She also told how she heard a man talking to the Queen Mother in the Cining Palace.
The palace maid was killed by the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother was also injured.
Of course, what he said was not entirely untrue. He did not mention Tao Gong'e, nor did he say that he had killed Ruidong and Liu Yan, or stolen several copies of the Forty-Two Chapters Sutra.
Kangxi pondered: "This person is the senior brother of the Queen Mother? From his tone, it seems that the Queen Mother still loves the control of another person. Who could that person be? Could it be... Could it be that this person knows that there is a fake maid in the Queen Mother's chamber, so..."
Fang Yu heard that his words related to the Queen Mother's "treachery" and did not dare to intervene. He just shook his head. After a while, he said: "I can't think of it either."
Kangxi said: "It is said that Duolong is here."
Wei Xiao agreed, thinking: "The emperor wants to fall out with the Queen Mother and ask Duolong to capture the old woman and behead her? Should I run away quickly? Or should I stay and help him later?"
Duolong was worried about himself. Things happened one after another in the palace. Even if the head on his neck was not moved, the hat on his head and the top of the hat were always very unstable. Hearing the emperor's paging, he hurriedly rushed into the Qianqing Palace.
Kangxi ordered: "There is nothing wrong with Cining Palace. You should remove all the guards outside Cining Palace immediately. The Queen Mother said that she was very upset when she heard the guards standing outside the house."
Duolong was overjoyed when he saw that although the emperor's expression was quite strange, but he did not say a word of reproach, he hurriedly kowtowed and went out to deliver the order.
Kangxi asked Fang Yu carefully about all the doubts in his mind. After a long time, he realized that all the guards had withdrawn and said, "Xiao Guizi, you and I will visit Cining Palace at night."
Fang Yu said: "Are you going to investigate in person?"
Kangxi said: "Exactly!"
Firstly, the matter is of great importance. You cannot just listen to the one-sided words of a fake eunuch and have doubts about the mother who raised you; secondly, "dangerous night exploration" is something that martial arts students must do.
, how can you let this opportunity go so easily?
He is the emperor, so he can't go to the palace to try his skills and be a "night traveler" in the palace, but it is better than nothing. It is just that he ordered the guards of Cining Palace to evacuate all the guards, and it would be inappropriate for him to go "night exploration" again.
He is just a "martial arts master".
Fang Yu said: "The Queen Mother has killed her senior brother and is sleeping peacefully to recover from her injuries. I'm afraid she won't be able to find anything."
Kangxi said: "I haven't explored it yet. How do I know that I can't detect anything?"
He immediately changed into casual clothes and wore thin-soled fast boots, the same attire he wore in the competition with Fang Yu that day. He took a waist knife from the bedside, hung it on his waist, and walked out from the side door of Qianqing Palace.
The guards and eunuchs were guarding the outside of Qianqing Palace. When they saw him, they hurriedly knelt down and saluted.
Kangxi ordered: "Everyone, stop, no one is allowed to move." This is the emperor's decree, who dares to violate it? More than two hundred guards and eunuchs stood straight on the spot, motionless.
Kangxi took Fang Yu to the Cining Palace and saw that no one was there. For a moment, his heart was flooded with thoughts, feeling sad and irritable at the same time.
Hearing the Queen Mother's coughing sound, I wanted to rush in and hug her and cry bitterly, but I also wanted to put my hands on her neck and ask sternly, what happened to the emperor's father and his biological mother?
For a moment, he hoped that what Xiao Guizi said were all lies, and he also hoped that what he said was true. He couldn't help but tremble, his hair stood on end, and the chill penetrated his bones.
The candlelight in the Queen Mother's room was not extinguished, and the window paper flickered. After a while, a palace maid's voice was heard: "Queen Mother, the sewing is done."
The Queen Mother said "Hmm" and said: "Put this palace maid...the palace maid's dead body...in a quilt bag."
The palace maid said: "Yes. What about the cause of the eunuch's death?"
The Queen Mother said angrily: "I only asked you to pretend to be the palace maid, you... what do you care about the eunuch?"
The palace maid hurriedly said: "Yes!" Then she heard the sound of objects being dragged on the ground.
Kangxi couldn't bear it anymore and looked through the cracks in the window. However, all the cracks in the windows of the Queen Mother's bedroom were filled with putty, and there was not even a thin crack. He had heard from Fang Yu in the past about the tips and taboos of night travelers in the rivers and lakes.
, which are all paraphrases of what Mao Shiba said along the way when he arrived from Yangzhou.
At this time, the window was seamless, which was exactly what I wanted. I stretched out my finger and dipped it in saliva, lightly moistening the window paper. With a slight exertion on my finger, a small hole was broken in the window, but there was no sound at all.
He opened his eyes and saw the brocade curtain hanging low on the Queen Mother's bed. A young palace maid was stuffing a body into a big cloth bag. She was wearing a palace maid's outfit, but there was no hair on her head.
none.
The palace maid stuffed the wig into the bag, picked up a ball of wig on the ground, hesitated for a moment, stuffed it into the bag, and whispered: "Queen Mother, pretend...it's ready!"