In the palace, it was like boiling water for a while, and everyone looked at the direction of the flames in surprise.

"Go away!"

"Go and put out the fire!"

"The imperial concubine's bedroom is gone!"

"..."

Inside and outside the Tai'an Palace, a hysterical shout penetrated the silence of the dark night.

The fierce fire greedily devoured and burned the west side hall, the scorching heat almost penetrated the wall and spread to the main hall, and the burning smell of the burning filled the air, making people feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.

The pot exploded outside, but the main hall was surprisingly quiet. Three people were sitting or standing in the empty hall.

Both the emperor and Gu Zezhi had a calm expression on their faces, but Concubine Fang was pale in comparison.

Concubine Fang was a widowed person, and her clothes were all plain.

She is well-maintained, she is obviously already a person of forty-six-seven, but she only looks less than forty. Can not help but feel pity.

It's a pity that the people she is facing at the moment are the emperor and Gu Zezhi.

Concubine Fang tried her best to suppress the panic in her heart, and pretended to be calm and asked the emperor, "Your Majesty, what do you want to do?!"

"This Tai'an Palace is the residence of the late emperor's concubines. Although you are the emperor, you are also the son of the late emperor. How can you disrespect your concubine!!"

"What's the reason for you to visit without telling me in the middle of the night!"

Concubine Fang is strong on the outside and hard on the inside, and every word is louder than every word.

In just a few words, she felt that the surroundings seemed to be hotter, as if she was in a stove.

The emperor looked at Concubine Fang sharply, as if it was about to pierce into her heart like a sharp arrow, with a lukewarm tone: "Gu Xi came to the capital this time, didn't he just want to take you away? Why didn't he take you?"

"Is it a temporary change of mind, or..."

The emperor paused, his voice a little colder, "Or, did you bring the wrong person?"

Why would the emperor know! Concubine Fang's eyes widened.

In the next moment, it was like a thunderbolt suddenly passing through her heart, and Concubine Fang's already pale face turned even paler, and her body trembled slightly.

She suddenly realized that the emperor knew everything, from beginning to end, he knew everything.

The emperor sighed softly: "It's a pity that Gu Xi came here so hard, but before he left, why did he make a mistake?"

Concubine Fang: "..."

Concubine Fang clenched her teeth tightly, her face as white as a corpse without a trace of blood.

For the past eleven years, she has lived in the capital like a year. She wanted to leave every day, but couldn't, and was detained by the emperor in this small garden of nine fun.

She misses her son, misses her grandson, and misses her past glory.

Now, although she has the title of Concubine, she is trapped in the Jiuqu Garden and cannot leave, while Empress Dowager Liu can be worshipped by all the people in a glorious way. Today she travels with the emperor, and tomorrow she goes to the Taoist temple to burn incense and worship the gods.

Especially after Yongle's death, Empress Dowager Liu took her anger out on herself, and at every turn asked her to copy Buddhist scriptures for the late emperor, or go to the Taimiao to kneel and pray for the late emperor... Until her grandchildren came to the capital this time, she could see from the desperate situation. There is a glimmer of hope.

The grandson Gu Xi said that this time he came to the capital to take her away; he said that King Yu had long wanted to expedition to the north, but because the emperor was despicable and shameless, he took her as a hostage, so he dared not act rashly.

He also said that King Yu had already planned everything, let her stay calm, as long as she cooperated with their plan, she could leave the capital smoothly, and from then on, she would be able to leave the capital smoothly.

Concubine Fang was naturally moved. She has been a caged bird for eleven years and can't wait to fly to Yuzhou immediately.

The plan had been going well before, and she thought she could finally leave tonight...

Concubine Fang's eyes flickered brightly and secretly, and she couldn't say a word.

The emperor sneered and said again: "On the first day of the first month of November, you called Gu Xi and Duan Rou into the Jiuqu Garden to serve you because of your illness, and this plan was made."

"Gu Xi let someone smuggle so much kerosene into the palace, do you really think I don't know anything?"

Gu Xi took the opportunity of the dung truck to bring in the kerosene bit by bit, thinking that this matter was extremely secretive, but, with Concubine Fang in the Jiuqu Garden, how could the emperor relax his vigilance, especially in the palace of Prince Yu The people are still in the capital.

Concubine Fang: "!"

King Yu's plan was to let her escape, Gu Xi and the others took advantage of her illness to live in Jiuqu Garden, and then took the opportunity to follow her with the stand-in they brought.

When the time is right, she will be dressed as her and stay in Jiuqu Garden, and she will quietly leave the capital with Gu Xi and the others.

Originally, the time was ripe.

Therefore, Gu Xicai asked the emperor to return to Yuzhou, and the emperor agreed to them, and the substitute was also arranged.

According to the plan, the stand-in will set himself on fire in anger after "angrying" the Empress Dowager Liu.

In this way, no one will know that she has gone to Yuzhou. When King Yu's Northern Expedition succeeds in the future, she will be able to appear in front of people with the dignity of the Queen. The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. The world will praise her. The humiliation and humiliation of the past eleven years.

According to the plan, she will quietly hide in the carriage for vegetables and leave Jiuqu Garden today. Because the interlayer of the carriage is narrow and airtight, she needs to remain motionless for nearly an hour. Therefore, Gu Xicai specially prepared a medicine for her. She will fall asleep, and when she wakes up an hour later, she will naturally escape.

An hour ago, after she took the medicine, she quickly lost consciousness. When she opened her eyes again, she was shocked to find that she was still in Tai'an Palace. .

She tried to call someone, but no one responded. Following that, she saw that the water was going in the direction of the East Side Hall, and the fire was fierce. She knew that something was wrong and wanted to leave, but the medicinal properties in her body had not dissipated, so she could only lean on the wall to the main hall with difficulty, but the sight of the emperor and Gu Zezhi...

At that moment, Concubine Fang knew that she would definitely not be able to escape tonight!

"The water is gone! The fire is about to reach the main hall!"

"Quickly put out the fire!!"

The shouts from outside were still ringing one after another, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

Concubine Fang could feel the scorching heat waves pouring in, as if the next moment the fire would flood in like a flood.

Concubine Fang was both frightened and uneasy. She held the wall with one hand and barely maintained her standing posture. She said sternly, "Your Majesty, you...what do you want to do?"

Her throat was hot and uncomfortable as if it was being burned by fire, and her voice was squeezed from the gap between her teeth with difficulty.

"You should ask me what that Seventh Emperor's younger brother wants to do." The emperor's brows showed a touch of undisguised sarcasm, and said in a low voice, "Taofei, this kerosene, and this fire are all seven. The emperor's brother specially honored the concubine."

"The Seventh Emperor has always been filial, so the concubine should take it well."

The emperor looked at Concubine Fang coldly, with sharp eyes. Don't they want to set fire to burn the corpse, so that people can't tell the appearance, so that Concubine Fang can die from now on? Then he will complete them!

Concubine Fang's feet were weak and weak, her legs hidden in her skirt trembled uncontrollably, and she said in a trembling voice, "No, Your Majesty, you personally promised the late emperor that you would treat Ai's family well."

That's right, the emperor has promises ahead, and Jinkouyu said, he can't watch her being burned to death.

There was still no ripple on the emperor's calm face, but his eyes were even colder, and he asked in a leisurely manner: "Then the seventh emperor also promised the emperor that he would treat Yongle well?!"

"Who made the promise before the late emperor's hospital bed that he would never let Yongle suffer any grievances?"

"The results of it?!"

"Yongle is his imperial sister, and Jun Han is his niece. They are connected by blood, and blood is thicker than water, but what did the seventh emperor do to them?"

"The Seventh Emperor treats them like this, and still expects me to be filial to his mother?"

The emperor's icy voice was as biting as the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month, and he looked at Concubine Fang sharply. He didn't believe that Concubine Fang didn't know anything.

Concubine Fang's pupils shrank slightly, and even her lips turned white. At one moment she felt as cold as falling into an ice cellar, and at another moment she felt as if she was being tormented on fire.

Her throat was even more difficult, and she tried several times before she made a voice: "Your Majesty, Aijia is your concubine."

A concubine is also a mother! The emperor is so unfilial, isn't he afraid that the world will question him? !

"Yongle is the elder sister of King Yu!" The emperor said word by word. King Yu and Concubine Fang did not care about blood relatives at all, but they wanted to put a tall hat on him.

Concubine Fang: "..."

Fang Taifei almost leaned most of her body against the wall, breathing heavily.

"Hu-hu-"

She felt that the breath exhaled from her nose and mouth was so hot, and dense sweat oozes out from her forehead and body, almost soaking her middle clothes.

She knew in her heart that it would be difficult for her to escape this catastrophe tonight, but even so, she couldn't help but struggled to defend herself: "It wasn't Prince Yu who did it, it was Uncle Dongping... It was the people below who neglected him. Yongle."

snub? ! The emperor smiled sarcastically.

If it wasn't for the acquiescence of King Yu and the attitude of King Yu, who would be so bold that even the dignified princess would dare to insult like this!

Concubine Fang's remarks were nothing more than ignorance and confusion. really thought that he would endure them all his life, and let them fail! !

The emperor looked at Concubine Fang with a stern expression, his pupils were dark and silent, and the cold light was piercing.

"Now this is not what I did. I didn't order you to kill you, and I didn't set anyone on fire."

"It was your good grandson who ordered the fire, and he arranged this 'self-immolation'."

"Tianfei, just enjoy the filial piety of Linglang and Lingsun."

While the emperor was talking, Gu Zezhi casually pushed open a window, looked at the direction of the East Side Hall, and estimated the fire.

Almost the whole of the East Side Hall was on fire, and the raging fire dyed a large area of ​​the sky red, and the flames were about to reach the gate of the main hall.

Gu Zezhi immediately closed the window again and said his first words after coming to Tai'an Palace: "Your Majesty, we can go."

Gu Zezhi didn't even look at Concubine Fang, as if she didn't exist at all.

The emperor stood up and brushed off his sapphire blue robe casually. When his eyes met Gu Ze, he felt a little warmer and said, "Zezhi, let's go."

Originally, someone set the fire here. As the emperor, the emperor should not come in person, but the emperor hated Yu King and Concubine Fang so much that he wanted to see it with his own eyes, so he came.

The emperor went out of the palace with Weifu and Gu Zezhi tonight, and he didn't bring anyone else, just to avoid people's eyes and ears, so as not to be discovered by Gu Xi's people.

At this moment, in this huge Tai'an Palace, there is no one except the emperor and Gu Zezhi. Those palace servants have been secretly subdued by Gu Zezhi's people.

The emperor turned around without hesitation, and his heart was not as calm as he appeared at the moment.

He has always believed in exchanging benevolence for benevolence. In recent years, although his concubine was not good, it was not too bad. He always followed the example of concubines and concubines. He thought that at least King Yu would not treat Tai Yongle. Poor, but he didn't think he was underestimating King Yu's heart after all.

The emperor clenched his fists tightly, hated in his heart, and strode toward the rear.

"emperor!"

Concubine Fang wanted to stop the emperor, to catch up with the emperor, but she only took a step, her feet were soft, and she fell on the golden brick floor, and even the bun on her head was loosened, and there were several messy strands. The hair was scattered on the cheeks, looking messy.

The medicinal properties in her body have not dissipated, and her limbs are completely unresponsive.

The emperor stopped.

Seeing this, Concubine Fang's terrified pupils raised a glimmer of hope, thinking that the emperor was softened, "Emperor..."

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The emperor did not look back, and said coldly: "I promised the late emperor that I would treat you well and not hurt you, and I naturally did it."

He didn't set fire to it, nor did the other concubine give medicine, which was also handed over to her by her own grandson, and she took it herself.

The emperor continued to walk forward again, striding forward, this time, he never looked back.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Concubine Fang shouted hoarsely, but she was too weak now, and the sound she made was like a mosquito, which was not obvious in the noise outside.

"Help, help..." Concubine Fang was frightened, anxious and regretful. She tried to get up with her weak body, but her wrists were weak and she couldn't support her body at all, and then she fell down again.

She could only crawl forward with all her strength, but her hands and feet didn't obey her orders. Even if she tried her best, she was just squirming slowly on the ground like a worm.

The fire outside was getting bigger and bigger. The gold brick floor under her was so hot that it could almost cook people. The fire in the window was getting redder and redder, and the flames began to greedily swallow up the window paper and the window lattice...

Fire is coming in!

Concubine Fang was extremely frightened, her pupils were cloudy, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

A boundless despair enveloped her.

Fang Taifei's eyes were almost stared to the extreme, the eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and the flames reflected her pupils blood red.

A few months before the late emperor's death was already a bed of lingering sickness. He prepared a will for King Yu ahead of time, arranging for him to go to the fief of Yuzhou to prevent brothers from killing each other. When they arrived at the dragon couch, they had to swear in front of them that they would never attack King Yu and her. This was both the father's order and the king's order, and today we can only do it.

After that, the late emperor was going to tell her where she was going, but he breathed out half of the words, and now he just used some ancestral system to force her to stay in the capital and prevent her from going to Yuzhou to reunite with his son. Those damn clansmen and cabinet ministers also turned a blind eye and went up.

She hated it so much, and also hated why the late emperor didn't abolish the prince and set up her son instead.

Since they all treated her like this, then, of course, Yongle had to pay back the sin she suffered. She couldn't fly out of the capital, and Yongle also had to be trapped in Yuzhou.

During the funeral of the late emperor, she finally found an opportunity to whisper a word or two with King Yu, so that King Yu would definitely vent her anger. However, with those eyes staring at her back then, she only said this, and she was separated by the people staring at her.

The next day, King Yu set off for Yuzhou, and she didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to her son, she could only glance at him from a distance through the window.

She knew that this was a goodbye, unless her son could one day be able to expedition north and become the master of this ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains.

At that time, the son said two words with his mouth:

rest assured.

She knew what her son meant, and he asked her to wait patiently. One day he would go on an expedition to the north, and one day he would return to the capital.

In the past eleven years, she has lived like a year, but she knows that Yongle's life must be worse than hers!

Last year, when the news of Yongle's death came, Concubine Fang was so happy that she locked herself in the room and laughed a lot. She also felt that Yongle died too late.

At that time, she vaguely felt that her turn might be coming.

Sure enough, then Fang Hanjun entered the capital to verify her guess. With her understanding of her son, he would never let Fang Hanjun so lightly and skillfully, he must be planning something.

A few months later, Gu Xi and Duan Rou also came, bringing her a solid message that her son was going to take her out of the capital.

but now……

How could this be the case? !

She still has to go to Yuzhou, and she will be the queen mother in the future, and let that bitch of the Liu family kneel at her feet and beg for mercy. How could she die here so silently? !

It shouldn't be like this! It shouldn't be like this! !

At this moment, a deliberately depressed male voice came from outside the hall on the right rear: "Now everyone is attracted to the East Side Hall to put out the fire, and it's just here."

"Come on!" Another male voice urged impatiently, "As long as this torch burns people beyond recognition, and no one knows that there is a fake inside, we can return to the third son."

Fang Taifei hurriedly turned her head and found that there was a finger-sized hole in the window paper. Outside the window, two tall men were reflected on the window paper, dark and grim looking.

"do not……"

Concubine Fang spoke out with difficulty, trying to tell them not to burn, and wanted to say that she was still inside, but her voice was low, hoarse, weak and weak, and the voices outside were too noisy. The sound of water and running staggered together, completely engulfing her weak voice.

"There are two barrels of kerosene left, pour them all!"

After these words fell, the kerosene was splashed on the window, and the fire was lit. Through the small hole in the window paper, you could clearly see the cluster of red flames beating eagerly. To Concubine Fang, it was like a life-threatening talisman!

The flames on the fire box spread rapidly with the window paper soaked in kerosene, and in an instant, the surrounding of the main hall became a sea of ​​scorching fire, and all the windows and doors surrounding the main hall were all burned, forming a An airtight circle of fire.

"Go!" The two men left without any hesitation.

Only Concubine Fang was left desperate and powerless on the ground that was getting hotter and hotter in the main hall, still shouting, "Don't go, don't go..."

She became more and more afraid, however, no matter how she called, no one responded to her, only the sound of the flames burning became louder and closer.

Concubine Fang's eyes flickered brightly and darkly, and scenes from many years ago flashed in front of her like a revolving lantern...

Since she entered the palace, she has been favored by the late emperor. It can be said that she has been favored for a lifetime. At that time, what was Liu's slut, and what was the crown prince? As long as she cried a few words to the late emperor, they would look at her. With a face full of life, she is just one step away... She is one step away from abolishing the prince.

However, in the end it fell short!

Is she really going to die here tonight? !

Suddenly, she seemed to hear the black and white impermanence approaching her with the soul lock chain...

The raging fire finally devoured the main hall completely like a gluttonous glutton who was greedy and unsatisfied...

This fire dyed the sky above the entire Jiuqu Garden red, and even the silver moon in the sky seemed to be stained with a somewhat ominous blood color.

The emperor had already got into the carriage at this moment, and looked at the direction of Tai'an Palace from the direction of the window. From the fire there, he could easily judge that the fire must have burned to the main hall.

Gu Xi still did it.

The emperor's thin lips pursed into a straight line, his heart was complicated, but he felt happy.

Speaking of hatred, the emperor hated King Yu more than anyone else.

He is not a sage who is not to blame for the past, but he is the Son of Heaven, who bears the burden of the world, is in his position, and seeks his government. If he is for his own selfish desires and causes the people of the world to ignore the safety and danger, and insists on fighting with King Yu, he will definitely be early. With tens of thousands of casualties, he will also give foreigners an opportunity to take advantage of it, causing life to suffer, so what is the difference between him and his father? !

All these years after he ascended the throne, he has been holding back, only asking Da Qi to be able to control the outside world and settle down first, and recuperate.

And King Yu's ambition has never been extinguished. Since he intends to take Taifei Fang, his final intention is also very obvious...

The emperor subconsciously turned the jade wrench on his thumb again and again.

Gu Zezhi sat astride a white horse, next to the carriage, also looked in the direction of Tai'an Palace, smiled lightly, and said meaningfully, "Let's ask for interest first."

The emperor nodded slightly, under the moonlight, his eyes were sharp.

Indeed, Concubine Fang is only interest.

Complaints have their own revenge.

The emperor whispered to himself: "I don't know what happens if Gu Xi knows that he killed his own grandmother..."

Gu Zezhi turned his horse's head and looked westward, "I guess he should know by now."

The night was as black as ink, and it was getting colder. Everything seemed to have entered a state of dormancy on a winter night. Outside the Jiuqu Garden and even the surrounding suburbs for dozens of miles were extraordinarily silent, only the sound of the cold wind whistling.

Gu Xi stood outside the main tent in the center, looking in the direction of Jiuqu Garden, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, clenched his fists tightly, and whispered to himself: "Count the time, people will be back soon."

Today, they deliberately walked very slowly, and they set up camp twenty miles from the capital, which is closer to Jiuqu Garden on the outskirts of Beijing, only ten miles away.

"Third brother!" Under the moonlight, Duanrou County Master walked towards him quickly and comfortably, with a bright smile on his face, "Zu..."

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the chief guard: "Third Master, people are back!"

Gu Xi had a happy expression on his face, and said quickly, "Let's bring people here quickly!"

Princess Duanrou's eyes also lit up, and she completely forgot what she was about to say.

Soon, two bodyguards dressed in black came along with the captain of the bodyguard, and gave Gu Xi a fist and salute. One of them gave a general account of the arson just now in Jiuqu Garden, and finally replied. : "Don't worry, Third Young Master, when the two of your subordinates left, the fire was out of control, and the Tai'an Palace was almost completely on fire. Unless there is a heavy rain at this time, it is impossible to put out the fire by manpower."

"The emperor will never find out that there is a counterfeit inside."

Gu Xi raised his eyes and looked at the bright silver moon in the sky. Tonight, the moon and stars are few and the weather is good. Even though he doesn't know how to watch the sky at night, he can see that it will not rain tonight.

It's finally done!

"Happy!" Duanrou County Lord patted his palms and laughed proudly, and said cheerfully, "The emperor is really stupid, cowardly and useless!"

They did so many things under his nose, and the emperor didn't find out. Well, I'm afraid he wouldn't dare to touch them even if he found out. With the emperor's weakness, how could he dare to confront his father, who has an army of 300,000 people. !

The captain of the guard and the two guards echoed Duanrou County Master with a smile, which made her even more energetic.

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