Book 6 - Chapter 3 – Sui E (1/2)
Book 6 Chapter 3 – Sui E cli Sister Xiao and Xiang Yushan, they entered the city Susu, accoe; they had different arrangeht obtain infor the Palace, Dugu Sheng personally cau Clan– had a rather unremarkable appearance He was about fifty, short and wiry, and looked a bit like an old monkey But his eyes, which looked half open and half close, were deep and bright; the taiyang acupoints on his teh, so that people immediately knew that he was not someone to be trifled with
Toward Kou and Xu, two boys, he was polite, but kept his distance; however, he was quite a Yushan, evidently he did not have too high of a regard toward Kou and Xu
Under the escort of Dugu Sheng and about a hundred izhou
Returning to their ho were immediately overwhelmed with unbearable itch; they really wished to slip outside right away to look for their old friends and foes and say hello, also perhaps to see if Yan Laoda [see Book 1 Chapter 1] was still alive and well
Xiang Yushan whispered in the two boys’ ears, “We are really lucky, today Yang Guang happens to be in the Palace You don’t know it, but since beco on a tour or athe people, angering the Gods and distressing the ghosts; otherwise, the people would not have rebelled”
Big Sister Xiao sighed and said, “Now he is giving the western capital Chang’an to his grandson, Dai wang [wang – king/prince] Yang You, and the eastern capital Luoyang to another grandson, Yue wang Yang Dong, while he hi in here, so scared that he even abandoned the Luoyang’s sixteen-courtyard , Li Zitong is also du Basically there is no happy place for hi Yushan said, “Dai wang Yue wang, one is twelve, the other eleven, unexpectedly they are in charge of western and eastern capitals; won’t the true power fall into the hands of high-rankingand the others? If any , the world will be ten ti to this, Kou Zhong’s eyes lit up, and Xu Ziling could see it clearly
The carriage suddenly stopped
Dugu Sheng spoke fro Palace, wethe throne, Yang Guang issued a decree to build the city of Yangzhou, which fored its official title to Jiangdu Not only the city was expanded, nuarden embellished it, north of the city, where there were mountain on one side and water on the other, he also established Gui Yan, Hui Liu, Song Lin, and the others, the so-called ‘Shu Gang Ten Palaces’
But perhaps thePalace, which was built by the shore of Yangtze River Whenever Yang Guang was pro, he would go there to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Yangtze River
When Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling had an audience with this muddleheaded ruler of the historically shortest, and the fastest to disappear, dynasty, he was having a drinking party on a palace balcony overlooking the Yangtze River, accoui means imperial concubine, so I don’t think it was her actual name], completely oblivious of the ups and downs of the chaos of war outside
Kou Zhong and the others alighted froe at the square in front of the Palace, which was tightly guarded by the Ih body search, which was personally conducted by Dugu Sheng, toany weapons, he led the Sister Xiao had to re theing water of Yangtze River, led with faintpalaces ahead
This was the first tihtly decorated, splendorous andMomentarily their eyes were unable to take it all, and they were quite at a loss
Kou Zhong whispered, “Now this is what I call glory, splendor, wealth and rank”
“Don’t talk!” fro juht and ito live in such noisy, raucous, tacky, and irritating place like this For h if I can live deep in the mountains, in a thatched hut in a secluded valley, with beautiful scenery and birds and beasts as my company’
There were Imperial Guards everywhere, with checkpoints at every entryithout Dugu Sheng leading the way, it would be ile step
When the wangjiang Tai [Riverview Balcony; ‘wang jiang’ ht, an official appeared ahead and stopped theentle and handsome, about thirty-five, thirty-six years old Upon introduction by Dugu Sheng, they found out that he was the interior ’shis unstable, floating footsteps, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling knew that not only this person did not know martial art, his body was scooped empty by wine and women, so that his appearance looked like he was too weak to stand up to the wind
Nor eunuch, but this person’s appearance did not have a real eunuch flavor,it difficult for the up the two boys, Yu shi+ji said to Dugu Sheng, “It’s really the nodded in affir find out that Yu shi+ji was involved in this ’s other favored ht to be key personnel in this operation, which was directed toward the Yuwen Clan, as well
After carefully exaain, Yu shi+ji said, “Give the account book to me first, the two of you may wait in the side chamber When the opportune tihness”
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling exchanged glances; they were unwilling, but finally had to hand the account book over to Yu shi+ji
Yu shi+ji ie, he suddenly laughed aloud and said, “General Sheng, this tier Yuwen Clan will be able to shi+ne”
Hearing that, Dugu Sheng s the tip of his jiang Tai for nearly two sichen [4 hours] They waited until the sun was about to set, still no Yu shi+ji or Dugu Sheng to take the
The palaces, as well as the courtyards, were tightly guarded by I the sat quietly in a corner Looking at Kou Zhong, as pacing back and forth restlessly, he frowned and said, “Could you be a bithalted in front of hi; now even the account book has been taken away, and I still don’t knoe are going to leave this place”
“Don’t worry!” Xu Ziling said, “As long as we are still useful, they will rely on us These people put the cart before the horse, they don’t care that outside the chaos is turning the sky and the earth upside down, they are thinking of fighting with other people around instead No wonder the rebels’day by day”
After a short pause, he went on, “What worriesthat muddleheaded ruler, we must find a way to leave this place and rendezvous with Su Jie, and io as far away as possible Whether Yuwen Clan is toppled or not, wesat down by his side; he said, “You are right If Yang Guang issues in imperial decree to search and confiscate the Yuwen Clan’s possession and have their entire family exterminated, it will incite a teht will all their strength If that happen, it would be strange indeed if Jiangdu does not turn into a et that Ol’ Die and that Li Budong are glaring at Jiangdu like a tiger watching its prey As soon as they know that Jiangdu in chaos, they will iht is really frightening!”
Kou Zhong did not knohat to think
While they were busy with their own thoughts, Yu shi+ji ca, fat official, whose face ide, his eyes thin, his nose long like a wine gourd; in short, a crafty villain look
Yu shi+ji excitedly said, “Two Xiongdi, co hi were rather flattered Thinking that this must be Yu shi+ji’s partner Fei Yun, they hastily paid their respect according to the way Big Sister Xiao taught them
Fei Yun assumed an adi have rendered great merit, these days this official will present a hness, he will reward you heavily”
“Let’s strike while the iron is hot,” Yu shi+ji continued, “High Highness ought to see the account book Right noe are going to take two Xiao Xiongdi to have an audience with His Highness, but youabout the account book Even if His Highness ask, you ”
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling looked at each other in dis the account book would be falsely clai despicable di uarantee you will enjoy endless glory, splendor, wealth and rank We are here!”
The two boys looked at each other with bitter smile; they could only follow behind the two men helplessly
Chapter 3, Part 2
Fei Yun, as leading the way, suddenly lowered his voice The two boys quickly focused their power to listen, ile word He said, “In one day we received three e is really shameful; did he want us to lose our heads? I burned all the documents”
“There is another headache,” Yu shi+ji said, “Just now the Inored me when I tried to stop hihness, reporting so the Imperial Guard arh to eat and are hungry And , they knew that the Li Clan is raising an army to rebel, so they worried that their hodu, so he wanted His Mahesty to issue an imperial decree to pacify the heart of the people”
Fei Yun laughed and said, “Fortunately the person who exploited the ar out his order, so he cannot put the blahness have Si of the tied?”
Yu shi+ji replied, “I don’t know if His Holiness has changed from his excessive stubbornness? Or perhaps he knew that the Imperial Guard Minister General Dou Xian has also led his troops to flee, so he clearly knew that the situation is serious He only ordered Sima Dekan to immediately pursue Dou Xian and have him come back here, or else he will have to present his own head I really wish Dou Xian could go a little faster!”
Meanwhile they had reached the steps leading to the wangjiang Tai Yu and Fei, twoand Xu Ziling behind the definitely was a muddleheaded ruler, otherwise how could he let treacherous court officials like Yu shi+ji and Fei Yun e have arrived!” The herald at the gate announced as the two boys followed Yu shi+ji and Fei Yun toward the stone steps leading to Yang Guang’s dragon throne They kneeled three times and koed nine times [my dictionary has this additional infor the emperor] After the ritual was perforain, “You may rise!”
The two boys followed Yu shi+ji and Fei Yun stood up, and focused their attention to look Immediately they were taken aback
They saw the twenty-zhang wide dragon platform was packed with beautiful imperial concubines; there were at least fifty, sixty wo the the elevated dragon throne, busy feeding fruits to the Great Sui E stood erect with straight face under the platfor around the platfor
After stroking an i looked down the platfor at all, he looked at Fei Yun and said with a laugh, “Fei Qingjia [term used by the emperor for his subjects] is here, quickly help Zhen [an e to himself] solve this problehed to flatter hi Guang impatiently cut him off, “Other matter can wait”
Under the illu’s countenance looked worse than Xiang Yushan before his illness was cured; he was so pale that he looked like a dead person His age looked to be only around fifty, his head and shoulders stood tall; although he earing bright-colored nine-dragon goith a tall crown on his head, he gave a depressing i burial clothes
Anybody could see that his destiny already nearing its end, his days were nuhness, please reveal it to us!”