Chapter 71: Daybreak (Part 1)
Daning Palace.
Wei Xianzhi and Qin Caizhen met Ning Yongnian in Concubine Hua's Changchun Palace.
These two people are really amazing. They called the emperor down from the concubine's bed in the middle of the night.
However, the more this happens, the more the Wei family's anger becomes apparent.
“…”
"What?!"
"Is there such a thing?!"
In the luxurious hall filled with fragrance, Ning Yongnian slammed the teacup on the table, his face full of anger.
"I will send someone to investigate right away and find out who is behind this! Whoever it is will be severely punished!"
"Oh, by the way, you still want that mica, right? Someone, come here!"
"I'm here." The old eunuch pushed the door open.
"A while ago, the Tianshan Sect gave me a mica mushroom, which I have kept in my private vault."
Ning Yongnian looked at the old eunuch and waved his hand, ordering him, "Go and find it quickly! Someone in Wei Aiqing's family is waiting for this thing to save their lives!"
"Yes! I'll go right away!"
The old eunuch responded and immediately turned around and walked out in a hurry, but he stopped slowly just after he walked out of Changchun Palace.
The young eunuch who followed him was a little confused: "Foster father, aren't we going to look for Yunmuzhi? Why don't you leave?"
"Mica Zhi is gone."
"Ah? How do you know it's gone without even looking for it?"
The young eunuch was greatly surprised: "Foster father, could it be you..."
"Shut up! How could I accept a useless person like you!"
The old eunuch glared at the young eunuch angrily and explained in a low voice: "The emperor said it's gone, so it's gone!"
"Your Majesty, where is it..."
The young eunuch wanted to argue again, but when he saw the old eunuch's eyes, he shrank his neck and changed the way he asked the question.
"My son is stupid, please give me some advice, father."
"snort!"
The old eunuch breathed out through his nose, stroked the young eunuch's hand and asked, "Let me ask you, when the emperor was speaking to me just now, did you see clearly how his hands were positioned when you were outside the door?"
"ah?"
The young eunuch was stunned, and after some recollection, he reluctantly answered: "I only remember that the emperor did wave his hand at my foster father. How did he wave it specifically...it seemed like this?"
One of his hands was being touched by the old eunuch, and the other hand was waving left and right in the air.
"You have some good eyesight."
The old eunuch nodded and explained: "Today I will tell you about the emperor's habit, you listen carefully."
"When the emperor gives instructions in front of outsiders, if he waves his hands left and right, it means don't do it, and if he waves his hands back and forth, it means do it."
"You remember it?"
"Ah! I remember that."
The young eunuch nodded first, then shook his head, puzzled: "But why is the emperor unwilling to give Lord Wei the mica? Isn't there someone in the Wei family who is waiting for this thing to save their lives?"
"Of course it's because the Emperor is unwilling to save that man's life."
"Why not save him? Isn't this a good time to win over the Wei family..."
“That’s enough!”
The old eunuch suddenly shouted and stopped explaining.
"Figure it out yourself!"
…
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Xuanjingsi.
When Wei Changtian blew dry the rice paper covered with words and put it into the envelope, and then put the envelope into his chest, the jade on his waist also began to get hot.
Sure enough, just as he thought, Ning Yongnian did not take out the mica fungus.
He is very good at exacerbating conflicts.
He sighed softly, stood up and walked out of the room, following the stone path all the way to the deepest part of Xuan Jing Division.
It was already late at night, and there was no one on the road except for the occasional patrolling sentry. Only a small building was heavily guarded.
The architectural style of this small building is different from other buildings in Xuan Jing Si. There are no windows or plaques in the whole building, only a tightly closed black iron door... At first glance, it looks a bit like a fortress in the previous life.
This door has been opened thirteen times in the four hundred years since the establishment of the Xuan Jing Division. The last time was more than sixty years ago, when a five-hundred-year-old monster appeared on the outskirts of the city.
As for what is inside such a mysterious building?
Only one thing - the ancestral jade.
The mother and child jades are items worn by everyone in the Xuan Jing Si. When the mother jade is burned, the child jade will also become hot.
This process is point-to-point, equivalent to a two-way conversation.
But the ancestral jade is different. As long as the ancestral jade is burned, all the sub-jades related to it will react, a bit like the feeling of sending a group text message.
As for how many text messages the Zuyu in this small building can send...
That includes everyone at the Xuan Jing Si headquarters, except for the inner guards who are responsible for protecting the imperial palace.
In other words, if someone sent out this signal... all the officials in the Hualing Guard, Buyi Guard, Zongmi Office, Liuye Office, and Niangan Office who had no missions on duty in Beijing would all need to rush to the Xuanjingsi Yamen within a quarter of an hour and await deployment.
With such a big scene, it is no wonder that this door has only been opened thirteen times in more than four hundred years.
"Master Wei! Why are you still in the government office?"
Seeing Wei Changtian approaching, several guards on night duty immediately straightened up and greeted him, "Isn't today the Double Ninth Festival? Didn't you go to appreciate the chrysanthemums?"
"No."
Wei Changtian shook his head and smiled, "Brothers, please open the door."
"Okay, okay, let's just...what?!"
The officers' eyes widened instantly, thinking they had heard wrongly: "Wei, Master Wei, you just said..."
"I said..."
Wei Changtian looked normal, with a smile on his face: "Open the door."
"Sir, I dare to ask a question."
One of the more clever guards whispered, "Do you know what's inside this door?"
"Of course I know."
"Then...what happened? Did the commander ask you to come?"
"This matter has nothing to do with my father."
“…”
The scene suddenly became quiet.
Several guards looked at each other. Although no one said anything, they all stood in front of the iron gate in unison, forming a confrontation with Wei Changtian.
There are three keys to open this door. One is in the hands of the successive commanders of the Xuanjing Division, one is in the hands of successive emperors, and the other...
"According to the regulations of the Xuanjing Division, if there is a serious emergency and there is no time to report it!"
Wei Changtian pointed at the black key embedded in the keyhole and shouted in a deep voice: "Anyone can open this door!"
"Why are you blocking the door now?!"
"this……"
Now the guards were even more dumbfounded.
Wei Changtian was right. The Xuan Jing Division did have such a rule - if a particularly serious situation occurred and there was no time to report it, everyone could come here to open the door.
The original intention of establishing this third key is to prevent wasting time in reporting at various levels and missing the best time to respond to the crisis.
but……
But since the establishment of the Xuan Jing Division, there has never been a time when anyone other than the commander-in-chief and the emperor came to open the door!
After all, once the ancestral jade is burned, it is equivalent to sounding the highest level of alarm for the entire city, and the consequences that may be caused...
"Wei, Master Wei, why on earth are you…"
"You are not qualified to know."
"Why don't you ask for instructions first..."
"I said, this matter has nothing to do with my father."
Wei Changtian completely lost his patience.
Qiuyun only has more than an hour left to live, and he must get the mica before then.
Taking a step in front of the guards, his eyes fixed on the key on the black iron door, Wei Changtian's tone actually sounded a little ferocious for the first time.
"If anything goes wrong, I will take the responsibility alone. It has nothing to do with you!"
"Now, I'll say it one last time!"
“Open the door!!”
I was delayed by something today, there will be another chapter later
(End of this chapter)
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