Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 78

In the prison of the former imperial palace, only Chang Wang Liu Shu was arrested for this.The creaking sound made the cold cell look even more eerie. At this time, Liu Shuai didn't care about the environment of the cell, and concentrated on thinking about what happened today.Liu Xuan thought to himself: "Tian Shaowei is not a meticulous person, it is impossible for him to find an extremely secret secret room in his dormitory; Liu Yuan had doubts about himself a long time ago, but he still has no evidence, so he dare not do anything to him Why did Tian Shaowei find his secret room? Where did Liu Yuan learn about his plan?" These two key questions have been lingering in Liu Shu's head, but Liu Tui couldn't figure it out, and was extremely irritable .

At this time, the slight conversation outside the prison disturbed Liu Shu's thoughts. Liu Shu pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the movement outside the cell. After a while, soft footsteps came from outside and stopped in front of Liu Shu's cell. , Liu Xuan took a closer look, and it turned out that the person who came was his confidante, Mei Ruizhi, the daughter of the imperial general and the most beloved concubine of the former emperor.

Mei Ruizhi held a bamboo basket in her hand, stood outside the cell and said to Liu Shu: "King Chang is doing well in the cell." Liu Shu looked at her and said, "Did Liu Yuan send you here?" Ruizhi pursed her lips and said with a smile: "King Chang, how dare you call His Majesty by his name? Are you not afraid that I will commit a crime of treason against you in front of His Majesty?" Liu Yao laughed and said, "Crime of treason? A joke! Even if I really committed it Are you willing to go to Liu Yuan to expose me for the crime of treason?"

Mei Ruizhi stretched out her hand and pointed at Liu Shuai and said, "Death, you're all imprisoned and glib, stand back and I'll open the door for you, it's too awkward to talk like this." Liu Tuan pushed back a few steps and asked Said: "Where did you get the key to the cell? Did Liu Yuan send you here?" Mei Ruizhi said unhappily: "If you don't trust me, I'll leave, and just treat the ten taels of silver as a waste of money." Mei Ruizhi Zhi turned around and was about to go out. Seeing that she was about to leave, Liu Shu hurriedly stopped her and said, "My dear sister, don't rush to leave. My brother is cold and hungry here. Sister, you really don't want your brother to suffer here."

When Mei Ruizhi saw Liu Yao say that, she secretly laughed a few times before turning around and pretending to be wronged, and said: "Now that I know my good sister, if it wasn't for you, how could I have entered the palace to be a concubine. I I have done everything for you to ascend the throne and win the emperor's favor, but you doubt me, you white-eyed wolf." Seeing that Mei Ruizhi's eyes were reddish, Liu Tui hurriedly persuaded: "Good sister, Thousands of mistakes are all brother's fault. You are not allowed to cry, your eyes will not be beautiful if you cry." Mei Ruizhi rubbed her eyes and said: "If you are not beautiful, you are not beautiful. Anyway, I am the emperor's favorite concubine Mei , this life is destined to stay in this deep palace with someone I don't love, it doesn't matter if I'm pretty or not, as long as the emperor sees me as pretty." Mei Ruizhi couldn't help shedding a few tears as she spoke , Liu Yi took a look and hurriedly said: "My good sister, my brother knows that he is wrong. When my brother abolishes Liu Yuan and becomes the emperor, he will immediately make you a queen and stay by your side for the rest of his life. How do you think?" Mei Ruizhi heard him say this. Talking through tears, he said with a smile: "It's not too bad. It's not in vain for me to come to see you in the prison. I'll open the door for you and eat something first."

Mei Ruizhi took out the key to open the cell, walked in, and handed the bamboo basket on her wrist to Liu Shuan.Liu Shuan had also been in the prison for four hours, and he was already starving, so he opened the bamboo basket and took out the food in Lanzhong and ate it.After eating almost, Liu Shu wiped his mouth and said: "Good sister, can you beg Liu Yuan to let brother out, this is really not a place for people to stay." Mei Ruizhi said with a distressed face: "It's not that easy this time, Since Liu Yuan can find out the things in your secret room, he must know other things about you. I think you should stop holding back and force the palace this time." Liu Shu thought for a while and said: "It is too early to force the palace now, and Today I didn’t admit that the dragon robe and jade seal belong to me, he can’t do anything to me.” Mei Ruizhi saw Liu Tiao’s confident expression and said: “You can pretend to be deaf and dumb, so why would others still keep their mouths shut? Is it? Rebellion will punish the nine clans, and Liu Yuan sent Tian Shaowei to send Dong Liang back to the prime minister's mansion, and asked Tian Shaowei to take care of Dong Liang until he recovered from his illness. Don't you understand what Liu Yuan means?" Liu Yuan She was surprised and said: "You mean that Liu Yuan has planned to attack Dong Liang to find evidence to kill me?" Mei Ruizhi said: "Is this something obvious? Dong Liang fainted when he saw the pile of things Now, Liu Yuan is not a fool, can't he see that Chengxiang Dong knows about you? If you don't dare to force the palace this time, it will be you, not Liu Yuan, who will go to the gate of hell."

Liu Shu hesitated and said: "This... I have to think about it. With my current strength, I am not 100% sure. How about this, you try to contact your father and my uncle to see what they think, and then Tell the housekeeper Guizi to come to the prison at midnight, I have something to ask him." Mei Ruizhi thought for a while and said: "Well, I will contact them, but you have to tell Guizi about this matter Only he can know the matter, so as not to reveal the secret." Liu Shu questioned: "Why, you said there are spies in my house?" Mei Ruizhi nodded and continued: "I don't even know about your secret room, why? Can Tian Shaowei find the mechanism of the secret room easily? And after taking you to the main hall, Liu Yuan didn't ask you about the secret room, but asked why you forced him to abdicate. The things in the secret room were brought into the hall by Tian Shaowei later , don't you have any doubts?"

After Liu Shuan was reminded by Mei Ruizhi, he suddenly realized, and said: "It seems that there is indeed Liu Yuan's spy in my mansion. Then you don't have to tell Guizi to go to prison, let him find out who betrayed me in the mansion. After finding it, kill it immediately, so as not to have long nights and dreams." Mei Ruizhi said: "Well, I will go first, and I will come to see you tomorrow." After speaking, Mei Ruizhi picked up the bamboo basket on the ground, went out of the cell, and locked it with a key. After closing the prison door, he walked out.Seeing Mei Ruizhi leave, Liu Shui was lying on the hay in the cell, thinking about who would be the one who betrayed him, and fell asleep after thinking about it.

The next day, Mei Ruizhi came to the prison again, gave the guard ten taels of silver, and went in with the cell key.After opening the prison door and walking in, Mei Ruizhi said to Liu Shu: "Yesterday I went to my father and told about you, and my father said that he and Mrs. Du knew about it, and that they also agreed to raise troops to force the palace at this time." , lest Liu Yuan get the ministers and personnel involved in this matter from Dong Liang, and come to the palace to rectify, then it will be too late for us to raise troops again. And Guizi said that since you were brought into the palace, Changwang's mansion was surrounded by guards. A servant who was summoned for a few days disappeared mysteriously in the impenetrable Prince Chang’s mansion. Guizi suspected that this person was the spy, and fled from the Prince Chang’s mansion after his success. I don’t think you can hesitate. When will it be?" Liu Xuan thought about it for a while, and he was right, when you, Liu Yuan, get the list of participating ministers to rectify and take back all the power in their hands, what use is there for me to raise troops again?

After making up his mind, Liu Shui told Mei Ruizhi: "Okay. Since Liu Yuan is focusing on breaking through Dong Liang, we'll catch him by surprise. You go and inform your uncle and your father to contact their men, and the Midnight Soldier will be there in three days. Gathering at the Yuanmen Gate, when they rushed into Yongfu Palace and took Liu Yuan's head, I don't believe that Liu Yuan would know our plan no matter how capable he is, success or failure depends on one action." Mei Ruizhi shook Liu Shuai happily when she heard that He kissed him on the cheek and left the cell.

At this time, Situ Rui in Qingfeng Pavilion was talking to Liu Yuan about the news he had just received from Meng Si'er. It turned out that Meng Si'er had seen the housekeeper Gui Erye of Prince Chang's Mansion and was secretly investigating the personnel of Prince Chang's Mansion so as not to reveal his whereabouts. Then he killed a servant who was called into the mansion with him in the same room, and threw it into the dry well in the backyard to destroy the corpse and wipe out the traces, and stayed in Changwang's mansion peacefully.At the same time, he used the magic skills he learned from his master Tian Qizi to listen to Liu Shu's movements in the prison, and thus learned of Liu Shu's plan in three days.

Hearing what Situ Rui said, Liu Yuan was so angry that he had nothing to say, he just breathed heavily.Fearing that he would get angry, Situ Rui hurriedly persuaded him: "Your Majesty, there are so many beauties in the world, why bother to get angry because of a concubine Mei. Listening to my younger brother, the most important thing now is how to deal with King Chang. The death penalty is better to wait three days later to wipe out King Chang and his gang, so as to avoid endless troubles." Liu Yuanshun said smoothly: "Brother Rui is right, there is no need for a lonely king to lose his throne for a little concubine Mei. Is the king of a dignified dynasty still afraid that there will be no beautiful women to accompany him? The lonely king thinks that it is unfair to impose the death penalty on King Chang now, so we should wait for us to make a thorough deployment, give them a catch, and wipe out King Chang's party. The best policy." Situ Rui echoed, "I think so too, but within these three days, you must learn from Chengxiang Dong that all members of King Chang's party must not be left behind for King Chang." Liu Yuan Nodding his head, he said: "Brother Rui is still thoughtful. I will instruct Shao Wei to settle this matter. Let's discuss the deployment situation in three days." Situ Rui replied: "Good, Your Majesty."

The two discussed how to capture King Chang's party in Qingfeng Pavilion three days later, and in General Mei's mansion Mei Qimie, the former imperial general, and King Chang's uncle Shangshu Shangshu preliminarily determined the route and plan to force the palace. Civil strife will soon be staged.

(End of this chapter)