Chapter 130
In the 36th year of the Qing Dynasty, the Khitan people were in chaos, with fathers killing sons and sons killing fathers. The Southern Liang prince Gong Yifu led a small team to defeat the Khitan royal court, and the Khitan prince Galdan surrendered to Daqing with the imperial seal.
"Good! Hahahaha! A tiger father will have a dog son!" The saint was extremely happy to see the news about Khitan. He did not expect that this year he would defeat his two neighbors at once. This year he had a much happier life.
"Where is Gong Yifu? Hurry and get him back! I'm going to reward him handsomely! He truly is a good son of Daqing!"
The Prince of Nanliang was still kneeling on the ground: "Your Majesty, I have failed to educate my son properly. Gong Yifu dared to act without military orders. I beg Your Majesty to punish me."
The sage affectionately pulled the King of Nanliang up and said, "Gong Yifu is a hero of Daqing and a role model for the people!"
The King of Nanliang looked at the saint, who was smiling. He lowered his eyes and stood up.
The sage said, "This young man is full of vigor and spirit, quite like you in your youth. Let him come back and reward me for his merits! Of course, he must also bring me the Khitan Imperial Seal."
Prince Nanliang knew that this was the sage's intention to let bygones be bygones, and a smile appeared on his lips. "Yes, Your Majesty!"
When Gong Yinai received the news, she was stunned. She didn't expect that during the days when Gong Yifu was missing, he had actually run to Khitan and relied on a team of people to conquer Khitan.
She couldn't calm down for a long time. Compared to their quarrels in the court, Gong Yi Fu was the real hero of Qing Kingdom.
The 36th year of Qingguo, New Year.
Zhou Li finally returned to the capital.
The Khitan had been taken over by the border guards, and Zhou Li took Galdan back to the capital.
Galdan looked at the capital greedily. The prosperity of the capital was something he had never seen before. The Khitan capital, Santan, was compared to the countryside. No wonder the people of Qing called them barbarians. Compared with the people of Qing, the Khitan really looked like uncivilized savages.
Galdan dressed himself up carefully. He knew that the Han people valued etiquette the most, but he was also worried that his appearance would scare others. After consulting Gong Yi Fu, he shaved his beard clean, revealing his young face.
Galdan was not very old either, one year younger than Gong Yifu.
Gongyi Fufan was just eighteen years old, and Galdan was only seventeen.
Zhou Li dismounted as soon as he entered the city. As the New Year was approaching, there were obviously more people in the city than before. Although it was not shoulder to shoulder, it was to the point where people were bumping into each other. Worried about hurting anyone, Zhou Li asked everyone to dismount and hold the reins.
The closer to the palace, the fewer people there were. Zhou Li had already informed the Saint in advance that she would bring Galdan to an audience, so the cabinet members, the Saint, and some military generals were waiting in the palace.
From the palace gate, a message was passed to Fengtian Hall, "Crown Prince Gong Yifu and Khitan Prince Galdan are here to see you!"
A long voice of communication spread from the palace gate to the inside of the palace. Galdan walked slowly with Zhou Li, led by the palace maid. He marveled at the majestic palace of Daqing and was completely impressed.
This is my mother’s hometown, the beautiful, prosperous and powerful Daqing.
It is the Pearl of the Orient, a rich land that makes the people of the grassland extremely envious. Although the roads here are not paved with gold, they look extremely flat. Although the houses are not inlaid with pearls, they are also magnificent and cannot be compared with Santan.
Zhou Li saw the palace in the distance and thought to himself that he was finally back.
We have endured hardships and hardships along the way just for this moment of glory.
The Khitan prince Galdan personally presented the Khitan jade seal to the saint in the Fengtian Hall, expressing the Khitan's submission. From then on, the territory of Daqing expanded to the north by more than 100,000 kilometers.
In the evening the saint gave a banquet.
Zhou Li sat with her father, the King of Nanliang. She had a smile on her face when she heard her father talk about what happened after her disappearance, especially the memorial submitted by the Sixth Prince Gong Yinai.
The smile on Zhou Li's face gradually disappeared.
Because Galdan was about the same age as the saint's princes, the saint asked the princes to accompany him.
The third prince was the eldest among all the princes and led everyone to greet Galdan. Galdan was very humble and polite. He just looked at so many princes and glanced at Zhou Li for help.
Galdanhan did not speak well and was worried that his words might be impolite. Among these people, he and Gong Yifu were the most familiar with each other.
Zhou Li didn't want to move and just lowered his head to drink. The King of Nanliang had already walked aside to greet other ministers, leaving the place to the younger generation.
Galdan stammered, "Gong Yi, come back."
Zhou Licai stood up lazily.
She used to be best friends with Gong Yinai, and they could be seen in every occasion. But this time, she did not look at Gong Yinai. Gong Yinai also lowered his eyes and stood behind the third prince. The two of them seemed like strangers who had nothing to do with each other.
The third prince introduced the capital to Galdan. Galdan asked Zhou Li for help when he didn't understand something. Zhou Li explained to him with a smile. Gong Yinai took the opportunity to look at him a few times and found that he was much thinner than before. The wind from the northern border finally blew from the northwest to the capital, and also wiped out the friendship between the two.
After the meeting, Galdan was placed in the guild hall. Zhou Li went home with the King of Southern Liang and did not even glance at the Sixth Prince all night. Gong Yinai also lowered his head and followed the Third Prince in a dull manner.
She was usually very dull, but she looked no different from usual.
When no one was around, the Third Prince leaned over to Gong Yinai's ear and said with a smile, "Aren't you close to the Crown Prince? Why didn't you say a word to him tonight?"
Gong Yinai knew that the Third Prince Gong Yixiang was making fun of her, so she said calmly, "Those with different ideals cannot work together."
The Third Prince laughed, "He is not of the same kind as us."
Gong Yinai lowered his head and continued to drink.
Galdan was granted the title of King of the North by the saint to show Daqing's friendship to those who surrendered.
When he was in the capital, Zhou Li accompanied him every day and traveled with him to many places, and was seen by many people.
Gong Yinai had also run into them on her way back home from the palace. She watched them enter the Jade Pavilion from a distance, with no expression on her face.
However, the Sixth Prince’s Mansion’s founding banquet was originally supposed to include someone, but in the end, no one showed up.
Gong Yinai stood in front of the mansion gate to see his brothers off. Even the Northern King Galdan came to join in the fun, but Gong Yifu was nowhere to be seen. It was said that the invitation had been sent to the Southern Liang Palace long ago, but the Southern Liang Palace did not even send any gifts. This was obviously a sign of enmity.
Gong Yinai stood at the gate of the mansion for a while after seeing off all the guests. She didn't know what she was expecting, but she was disappointed in the end.
But this has nothing to do with Gong Yi Fu, it has to do with herself.
Gong Yinai laughed. Even though she knew the result would be like this, she still hoped that someone would tolerate her mistakes.
The court is like a battlefield. Now that she has chosen a side, the Palace of the Prince of Nanliang will no longer have anything to do with her.
That's fine.
Gong Yinai turned around and went back to the mansion with his sleeves fluttering in the wind. When the door was about to close, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside.
"Gong Yinai." Zhou Li dismounted. She was carrying a package and her figure was straight.
Gong Yinai turned around, and the sandstorm brought from the northern border blew past the corners of her eyes, making her heart sad.
"I wish you success in opening your government, and a smooth life in the future."
Zhou Li threw the package over and Gong Yinai caught it.
Zhou Li laughed out loud and said, "From now on, the sky is high and the sea is vast. You can go your way! I'll go mine!"
Gong Yinai's lips trembled. She knew that she had lost her friend Gong Yifu.
Zhou Li mounted his horse, pulled the reins, turned around, and walked back the way he came. He passed by like a gust of wind, and the wind from the northern border never fell on Gong Yinai's head again.
After the incident in the northern border was resolved, the King of Southern Liang resigned from his post as general and went to his fiefdom with his wife and children.
In the 38th year of the Qing Dynasty, a flood broke out in Southern Liang. The Crown Prince Gong Yifu of Southern Liang went to the disaster area to provide disaster relief. The flood submerged the riverbank and Southern Liang became a swamp. The Crown Prince Gong Yifu disappeared.
It rained for three days in the capital, with thunder and lightning. Gong Yinai sat in the study to choose a concubine. She had reached the age, and although she had delayed it again and again, she could not escape it in the end.
The sky was frighteningly dark, with thunderbolts flashing across the sky from time to time.
Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door of the Sixth Prince's residence, and a servant hurried in to report: "Master, there is a woman outside, saying she has something important to report!"
Gong Yinai put down the album and frowned, "What woman?"
The servant did not hesitate and reported in a low voice: "She said she was the Prince of Nanliang's woman."
A thunderbolt flashed through her heart. She hadn't seen him for two years. Gong Yinai had no idea that Gong Yifu would send someone to find her at this time. She asked her servants to bring the girl here quickly. The girl was wearing a cloak with the hood taken off. She had mourning clothes on her head. It was Hongying, the concubine of the Prince of Nanliang.
Hongying's eyes were filled with tears: "The prince is gone!"
Gong Yinai didn't respond, so Hongying continued, "Gong Yifu once said that if she couldn't help me get revenge, she would let me come find you. She knows you are a woman!"
Gong Yinai's eyes were blank. She asked blankly, "What did you say?"
"Gong Yifu asked me to come find you."
"The previous sentence!" Gong Yinai yelled!
Hongying sobbed, "The prince is gone."
"Nanliang was hit by floods again this year. The Crown Prince led the troops to reinforce the riverbank, but they didn't expect the upstream dam to burst, destroying the river. The people of the entire county, including the Crown Prince, were swept away by the flood."
"My parents were heartbroken and asked me to carry the coffin to the capital to bury the prince in the imperial mausoleum."
"Where is he?" Gong Yinai could no longer hear anything. She didn't want the last time they met to be the last time.
She thought that life was long enough, and when she was able to do so, she would tell Gong Yifu all the stories. She thought that Gong Yifu would definitely understand her.
"She is in the Nanliang Palace."
Gong Yinai could no longer hear anything, so he rushed into the rain, shouting for his family to prepare the horses.
Zhou Li, who returned to the identity of Liu Yingzi, looked at Gong Yinai with compassion. Gong Yifu's story had ended.
The Palace of Prince Nanliang has been covered with white cloth, and the gloomy sky seems to be telling of this unfortunate event.
Gong Yinai couldn't believe it. She was soaked by the rain and walked into Gong Yifu's mourning hall in a daze, with Hongying following behind her.
Gong Yinai looked at the coffin in the mourning hall. The servants of the Prince of Nanliang's Mansion on both sides were all mourning sincerely.
People like Gong Yi Fu as if he were their own family.
Gong Yinai stood in front of the coffin, and the housekeeper handed him three incense sticks, "Sixth Prince, please burn some incense for the Crown Prince." But Gong Yinai pushed them away.
She looked at the coffin with red eyes and whispered, "Open the coffin."
She didn't believe that the person inside was Gong Yifu.
Perhaps they were mistaken. Given Gong Yifu's immense martial prowess, he couldn't have died so easily. He was the man who had vanquished the Tatars and Khitans, a young hero recognized by the sage himself. How could he have died so simply? He should have died of old age, on the battlefield, not in such a child's play.
"Sixth Prince." Everyone thought Gong Yinai was heartbroken over Gong Yifu's death. Everyone in the Nanliang Palace remembered the friendship between the Sixth Prince and the Crown Prince. "Please accept my condolences."
"Open the coffin!"
"I said open the coffin!" Gong Yinai yelled. It was the first time he lost his composure in front of outsiders.
Everyone looked at the Crown Prince's Consort in embarrassment, and Hongying whispered, "Open it."
The coffin lid was pushed open by everyone. Gong Yinai looked at the corpse in the coffin that was swollen and looked like a nobody. At that glance, she recognized that the person in the coffin was indeed Gong Yifu.
Gong Yinai took two steps back, his eyes went dark, and then the world spun around him.
When he woke up again, the weather was clear. Gong Yinai personally carried the coffin and sent Gong Yifu to the imperial mausoleum.
There are no miracles on the road, everything is ordinary.
No one could see the expression on Gong Yinai's face. She asked everyone to step back and personally burned paper and lit incense for Gong Yifu, and placed them on his grave.
A migratory bird flew over the imperial mausoleum, stopped by to rest, and cried a few times, like a cuckoo crying blood.
Gong Yinai looked up and saw migratory birds flapping their wings and leaves swaying gently, as if the dead were responding to the living.
Hongying walked over and said, "Sixth Prince, accept my condolences."
Gong Yinai asked, "How are the Prince of Nanliang and the Princess of Nanliang?"
Hongying whispered, "The prince and princess are in deep grief and are bedridden."
Gong Yinai waved his sleeves, and Hongying almost fell to the ground. She said coldly: "Wait until you take care of his parents, then come find me."
"Sixth Prince!" Hongying shouted, "This is a letter from the prince!"
It seemed as if he had already expected Gong Yinai to be loyal and righteous, so the King of Nanliang wrote a special letter explaining what Gong Yifu wanted to accomplish when he was alive, the doubts about the death of Liu Yingzi's father Liu Boyan, and the inside story that Gong Yifu had found out. Unfortunately, Liu Yingzi's enemy was in a high position and had now entered the cabinet. He hoped that the Sixth Prince could complete Gong Yifu's mission before his death and help Liu Yingzi get revenge, and said that the Nanliang Palace would secretly assist her.
Gong Yinai got what he had always wanted, but he couldn't be happy.
The King of Nanliang was the person that the Third Prince had always wanted to win over, but now he easily agreed to help.
Gong Yinai knew how all this happened. It was Gong Yifu's spirit in heaven that was helping her.
Gong Yinai seemed to have tears in her eyes, but she didn't shed them. "I will help you, but you have to do me one thing." She leaned close to Hongying and said, "Now that you know my identity, you have to die too."
Gong Yinai saw the disbelief on Hongying's face and smiled, but it was creepy, "It was Hongying who died, not you Liu Yingzi."
"There will be no more Hongying in this world. The Crown Prince's wife died with him out of excessive grief."
"From now on, Gong Yifu's parents are my parents. I will help him take care of the prince and princess until their death. As long as you obey me, I will help you get revenge."
"Okay, I'll be obedient." Hongying said. The look in her eyes was somewhat similar to Gong Yifu. Gong Yinai was confused for a moment, but then his confusion disappeared.
After all, they are husband and wife, it is normal to have similarities.
Gong Yinai waved his sleeves and Hongying followed.
Less than a month later, the Crown Prince's wife died of grief and illness along with the Crown Prince. The Nanliang Palace lost its two owners at once and its gates were closed all year round. Meanwhile, the Sixth Prince's Palace had a concubine in its sedan chair, named Li Qiu.
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