Chapter 28 Waiting for an Opportunity(2/2)
Of course, privately Gongsun Xun and Yang Qiu had some opinions. They had agreed long ago that as long as Cao Jie dared to leave the forbidden palace and the imperial guards, they would ignore everything and directly point to the loopholes in Cao Paishi's body.
A 'accidental injury'... In short, we must not let Cao Jie, the leader of the eunuch party, go. Otherwise, not to mention the matter being abandoned halfway, even a violent counterattack may not come as soon as it is announced.
But having said that, the time has come to April, and it is getting hotter and hotter in Luozhong, but Cao Jie is still motionless, like a tortoise, even more tolerant than a tortoise.
You must know that the body of his former partner Wang Fu now not only stinks and is infested with maggots, but also sometimes drips some unknown light yellow liquid... For this reason, Gongsun Xun had to order it to be moved to the city gate.
to prevent it from splashing on passers-by! However, Cao Jie just didn’t move and seemed really prepared to linger in the palace until he died of old age!
However, as the turmoil in the outer court became more and more serious, the critical point that Cao Hanfeng had been waiting for finally came.
The person who caused the trouble was an old man, a native of the Liang Kingdom, called Shen Zhong. It is said that this man publicly petitioned to rehabilitate Chen Fan. Dou Wu did not tell the emperor, but actually asked the emperor to completely abolish the Huangmen system.
Moreover, his words were extreme, and he was somewhat selfish in seeking fame, just like Cai Yong before... At this time, the emperor finally became impatient and directly dismissed this man who claimed to be a man for fifteen years and drove him back to his hometown.
There is no doubt that this is a signal, a signal that the emperor's attitude has changed.
After hearing this, Cao Jie knew that the time had come and finally acted quickly.
"Mr. Cao." That night, a middle-aged palace maid suddenly appeared in Cao Jie's room with a frightened expression. In order not to arouse the hostility and vigilance of other regular attendants these days, the latter has been staying in the North Palace almost all day.
Just sitting in the dormitory.
"Is the matter done?" Cao Jie, who was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, asked calmly without looking back while arranging his increasingly gray hair.
"It was done, but it was not done well!" The palace maid immediately kowtowed and apologized. "I also ask for your forgiveness, Mr. Cao."
"That's interesting." Cao Jie, who had already begun to put on his crown of two thousand stone regular servants, inevitably turned around curiously. "What does it mean to 'do it even if it's done'?"
"Reply to Mr. Cao." The middle-aged palace maid nervously looked back at the tightly closed door behind her, and then replied in a low voice. "The old nobleman drank the bottle of wine, but he also noticed something..."
Even though Cao Jie was very scheming, he couldn't help but panic at this moment: "Did Mr. Yu find out?"
"Yes!" the middle-aged palace maid kowtowed again and replied. "But the noble lady was not angry or angry. Instead, she sent the others away and continued to drink all the wine in front of me. She also asked me to give it to Mr. Cao.
Bring some words."
Cao Jieqian sat for a long time before he trembled and said, "What message does the noble man want you to bring?"
"The old nobleman said... She has always been unlucky. Although she had a son who was established as emperor, he died at the age of two and was not blessed. On the contrary, she incurred the jealousy of the Liang family. She could hardly think about it every day in those days.
She barely survived because of the care of Mr. Cao and the previous deceased servants; and a few years ago, it was Mr. Cao who asked Xiaohuangmen to perform the memorial to seal her and other unnamed ones.
Several of her concubines were nobles and ladies, and she was allowed to be buried with Emperor Xianshun after her death; even in her family, it was only with the help of Duke Cao that several of her children could become officials... Such kindness was repaid with life.
As it should be, let alone at her age, there is nothing to hide between life and death!"
Hearing these words, Cao Jie felt his mouth was dry and his mind was numb. He paused for a long time before he recovered: "You can go down now. Don't tell anyone else about this. I will give him a gift after Mr. Yu is buried."
Your daughter, I will send you out of the palace and return home... I will never break my promise."
The palace maid thanked her profusely, but was also very nervous, so she hurriedly said goodbye and left.
As soon as Cao Jie and others left, he couldn't help but stand up and wander around in the room... He wanted to go to Yu Guiren's palace several times to take advantage of the last chance to apologize, but he still didn't have the courage to go out several times.
In desperation, with his mind agitated, filled with various emotions such as gratitude, shame, fear, etc., this powerful eunuch who had been in charge of the Han Dynasty for more than ten years had no choice but to remove himself from the crown of two thousand stone permanent attendants again and show his gray hair.
He tied his hair into a bun, then stood up in his residence, kowtowed in the direction of the palace, and then burst into tears.
The next day, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, the biological mother of Emperor Chong of the Han Dynasty, and the most senior concubine in the palace, passed away in the palace... Because of her old age, no one cared about him, and because she was Shun.
The Emperor's nobles were buried in the Emperor's Zhang Ling, so the Emperor decreed that all officials should be dismissed for three days, and all the imperial court should wear plain clothes for two days. Following the previous practice, all officials and those with high rank in the internal affairs would be mourned in Zhang.
Mausoleum.
————My legs are still a little painful at the dividing line——————
"Yuan She was a native of Runan. He was considered poor and humble as a Huangmen when he was young. During the reign of Emperor Huan of the later Han Dynasty, he gradually gained power. During the reign of Emperor Ling, Chen Fan and Dou Wu were defeated, the party was revived, Wanluo was in chaos, and the imperial servant Yuan Feng was the one who led it.
As they were from the same clan, they called each other brothers, and the Yuan family was in peace. At the beginning of the Guanghe period, Wang Fu was defeated, and She also lost power and returned to his hometown. He was old and had no children, so he asked his descendants from the same clan to succeed him. By that time, Yuan Feng was already ill.
Zhong couldn't see the matter, so he told his son Yuan Shu. When Shu heard about it, he was furious and slapped him with his hands. He said: "The eunuch has to live under the protection of the Yuan family. How can he ask for inheritance again? You are using your own name to consolidate your name."
Yuan Hu?' Pardon and Great Sorrow: 'I have been born into the Yuan family for decades, and now I know how noble the Yuan family is!'" - "Shishuo Xinyu". Jian Ao Chapter
Chapter completed!