Chapter 17: The Queen Goes Mad
Yuwen Shu held a sharp sword in his hand and killed several farmhands.
Unfortunately, due to old age and frailty, his physical strength obviously cannot keep up.
If Linghu Da hadn't led his troops to provide quick reinforcements, Lao Yu would have almost had his head chopped off by the farmhands.
Old Yang ordered angrily:
"Go and hunt down these two petty thieves. Make sure they come back to me alive."
While commanding the Imperial Guards to attack, he said fiercely:
"I'm so pissed off, you little bastard, you even advised me to rebel."
Lao Yu fiddled with it and said:
"At such a young age, how can he be so arrogant? Seeing others rebelling, he follows suit."
He turned around and looked at Old Yang, whose face was pale. "Boss, how are we going to report this time?"
Old Yang shouted angrily:
"Let's just say that it was that kid who started the rebellion. Anyway, I'm not afraid of boiling water, so I'm just a bunch of them anyway."
Lao Yu thought, "Boss, you brag without knowing when to stop. I can't afford to offend that tigress ."
The farmhands were also defeated, and Li Ji was fucking carried away by Li Ai. What are we still waiting for?
Lao Yu accompanied Yang Guang on the carriage and headed straight to the canal dock.
They returned to the dragon boat panting.
Yuwen Shu stood outside the palace and thought that a storm was about to come.
When Yang Guang arrived at the bedroom, Empress Xiao, who had been waiting for him, came up to greet him directly.
Seeing her husband's panic, she hurriedly asked:
"How is my son?"
Yang Guang didn't even dare to breathe.
"You don't want to tell me, right? Okay, I'll go find Mr. Xu."
Xiao later came outside the palace and saw Yuwen Shu standing there trembling with fear.
"What are you doing standing there? Why don't you go in?"
As soon as Yuwen Shu saw Queen Xiao's eyebrows raised, he knew that His Majesty Yang Guang had not mentioned a mother.
He was so frightened that he fell to his knees.
"Can you confirm that is the child you gave away back then?" Queen Xiao asked sternly.
Yuwen Shu replied with a trembling voice:
"Your Majesty, I have seen clearly. His facial features are very similar to your Majesty."
Queen Xiao asked, "You also saw the jade pendant hanging around her neck."
Yuwen Shu replied: "I did see it. The jade pendant was what Aji wore back then. The jade pendant is a royal item and is rarely seen among the common people."
March of the 20th year of Kaihuang (600 AD).
Prince of Jin Yang Guang was on his way back to Dongdu from Jiangdu with the Queen Xiao.
Queen Xiao suddenly gave birth to a baby boy, and that was when the crown prince was being deposed and enthroned.
Everyone inside and outside the palace knew that the dethronement was not far away.
There is danger lurking everywhere, and the situation is tense and dangerous.
Prince of Jin Yang Guang was eager for the good news and could not wait any longer. He secretly ordered Duan Da, the military commander of the prince's palace, to bribe the favorites of the Eastern Palace.
People spread slander both inside and outside the country, saying that Yang Yong was a man of few evil deeds, rarely seen in history.
The arrow is on the string, between life and death.
Prince of Jin Yang Guang did not dare to leave the baby behind rashly.
The night we waited for the ship to arrive in Liang County.
He had no choice but to secretly arrange for the left guard commander Yuwen Shu to take the baby and entrust it to a fisherman couple named Li in Suiyang.
Yang Guang gave the baby boy the nickname Aji and the name Yang Ji.
Later, the boatman changed Yang Ji's name to Li Ji.
Prince of Jin Yang Guang returned to the Eastern Capital and began to fight for the throne in full swing.
In October, Emperor Wen of Sui deposed Yang Yong.
In November, Yang Guang was appointed Crown Prince.
Empress Xiao returned to the Eastern Capital and missed her children every night.
Especially during the period when Yang Guang entered the Eastern Palace, she was extremely anxious.
Mothers all over the world feel the same way. Who doesn’t miss the piece of flesh that fell from their body?
This time when she went south to Jiangdu, she arranged for Yuwen Shu to search carefully and make sure to find the whereabouts of the child.
On the day the dragon boat team arrived in Liang County, Yuwen Shu came back and reported that he had found a child in the ancient temple who looked like Aji.
Empress Xiao was still worried, so she arranged for Xu Gong Yuwen Shu to enter the mountain temple again to investigate.
Yuwen Shu tried every means to get close to Li Ji and ate and drank with him.
With the emperor's handwritten edict, Li Ji was authorized to try the case of favoritism and fraud in the siltation of the canal.
Through careful observation, it was finally determined that Li Ji was Yang Ji.
However, Yuwen Shu did not dare to speak in front of Queen Xiao.
Queen Xiao took a step forward, her beautiful eyes glaring.
"Mr. Xu, please speak. Where is the child now?"
Yuwen Shu bent his old body and kowtowed like a chick pecking at food.
"You old minister deserves death. That child was scared away by the soldiers."
When Queen Xiao heard this, she was furious.
"Oh, I thought you were also a prudent old official. Why would your mother mobilize the government troops for a child?"
She pointed at Yuwen Shu and said, "Let me say this first. If anything happens to the child, I will not live anymore."
After the flute, there were three lines of nose and two lines of tears. She cried until the pear blossoms were wet with rain in three springs and the wind blew away the withered petals.
Yuwen Shu was so frightened that he was shaking all over.
"Queen Xiao, please calm down. I guarantee with my life and property that I will find the prince back."
Queen Xiao was so angry that her face turned pale, and she hurried back to her bedroom.
Sitting on the couch and crying loudly.
"My poor daughter, your life is so miserable."
"There is chaos and turmoil now. Where have you been?"
Yang Guang was about to say a few words of comfort when he heard Empress Xiao burst into tears:
"You are a loser. You can't even take care of a child. The child was scared away by you."
She raised her orchid finger upwards and said, "If anything happens to Ah Ji, I will never forgive you."
Yang Guang's original intention was just to scare Li Ji, but who knew that the officers and soldiers believed it.
It's too late to worry about it now.
He reached out and pulled the sobbing Queen Xiao, but Queen Xiao didn't give him a good look either.
He felt bored, so he got up and walked towards other villas.
Let me explain this on two sides.
Li Ji was chased by the government troops and had nowhere to go.
He got off his horse.
He whispered to the housekeeper Li Ai:
"I heard that Zhai Facao has gathered his troops in Wagangzhai. You should go to him as soon as possible and wait for the day of counterattack."
Li Ai knelt down three times to Li Ji, with tears in his eyes, then stood up, rode his horse and headed southeast.
As the shouts of officers and soldiers approached, Li Ji ran all the way regardless of the ups and downs of the road.
"Surround the Black Pine Forest. That kid can't get away."
"Come out and surrender, boy! We see you."
Pah!
Li Ji had just run out of the black pine forest when a carriage suddenly stopped in front of him.
Just as he was about to turn around, a cavalry group came towards him from the other side of the mountain road.
Just when Li Ji was at his wit's end, a pair of big hands reached out from the curtain of the carriage.
A deep voice came: "Young Master, get in the car quickly."
Li Ji didn't ask who the owner of the carriage was, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.
He turned over and climbed into the car, where it was pitch dark.
The four horses of the chariot galloped wildly, leaving behind the cavalry and pursuers in an instant.
The carriage turned a hill and drove directly into a manor.
Li Ji got off the carriage and looked up.
Under the tall eaves, the words "Qi Mansion" were written on lanterns along the way.
At this time, an old man got off the carriage.
Under the light, Li Ji recognized that the old man was Qi Kaixiu, the leader of the beggar village.
Li Ji quickly bowed and saluted, "Thank you, Master Qi, for saving my life."
Bang bang!
Before he could finish his words, there was a knock on the door by soldiers outside.
