Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 485 Two Kings
Jia Rui immediately ordered the maid to bring the newborn child over.

Xue Baoqin struggled to prop up his body with one arm and looked at the child lying next to him, with tenderness in his eyes.

Looking at the child who looked a bit like a monkey, Jia Rui also reached out and gently touched his son's face.

"Don't touch him." Xue Baoqin anxiously slapped Jia Rui's hand away with his hand.

"What's wrong? Can't I touch my son?" Jia Rui pretended to be angry.

Xue Baoqin didn't look at Jia Rui at all, only her son was in her eyes. She gently moved her son to her side.

"Your hands are cold. What should you do if your son catches a cold?"

After listening to Xue Baoqin's words, Jia Rui had nothing to say. When you have a little baby like your son, you don't want a big baby like yourself. Jia Rui feels jealous.

While Jia Rui and Xue Baoqin were teasing their son, a bird fell into the palace.

Soon there was a sealed bamboo tube, which was passed up layer by layer, and it was delivered to the door of Qin Shun's room in less than half an hour.

"Eunuch Qin, Eunuch Qin."

Qin Shun had already rested and was about to fall asleep when he suddenly heard rapid knocks and shouts outside the door.

Qin Shun didn't care about being angry at all, because if there was nothing urgent, the kids below would not dare to disturb him.

So he put on some clothes casually, lifted up the quilt, got out of bed, opened the door and saw that it was his confidant eunuch.

"What's the emergency?"

"Ancestor, urgent report from Jiangnan."

As he spoke, the eunuch handed the bamboo tube to Qin Shun's eyes.

Qin Shun took the bamboo tube, returned to the table next to the bed, and lit the candle with a fire sickle.

He first carefully inspected the bamboo tube under the candlelight and found that there were no signs of holes or unpacking. Then he placed the bamboo tube on the candle and baked it slowly.

After a while, the wax sealing the bamboo tube had melted, and he opened the bamboo tube and took out a roll of white silk.

After that, he watched it carefully, and was quite surprised after reading it.

Then he folded Bai Juan again and placed it in his arms.

"Pack your things and I'll go out of the palace to see the Duke."

The eunuch said hesitantly: "The palace door has been locked. The people from Lao Li's side are on duty today. We can't give orders."

Qin Shun was stunned for a moment, then stared at the person fiercely and said: "It is an urgent military situation, why are you talking about it now? Tell this person to open the door quickly. If he doesn't open it, go directly to his master, Lao Li."

The eunuch was startled by Qin Shun, and immediately stumbled out of the door, going out to inform him of some work.

Qin Shun took advantage of this time to quickly get dressed, and then hurriedly left his bedroom in the palace. When he came outside, there were already a dozen eunuchs waiting for him.

After rendezvous, Qin Shun waved his hand and hurried out with the others.

This was Qin Shun, who could still move in the middle of the night in the palace, but if he had been someone else, he would have been beaten to death.

However, this situation ended when we reached the palace gate. The eunuchs and guards who were watching again refused to let Qin Shun leave.

There is only one situation in which the palace door can be opened in the middle of the night, and that is an emergency military situation spread over 800 miles from outside the palace to the palace.

In this case, the palace door will be opened, and it will be convenient for those who convey military information to send military information directly to the emperor's palace.

If Qin Shun wanted to leave the palace in the middle of the night, he would not be able to open the door unless there was an imperial edict from the emperor or a sign from the person in charge, Jia Rui.

While they were making noise here, another group of people hurriedly came this way.

Qin Shun squinted and saw that it was Lao Li.

Lao Li was out of breath from running now. When he came to Qin Shun, he held his knees with one hand and panted for a long time before he could straighten up.

"Eunuch Li, are you leaving the palace so late?" Qin Shun asked with a smile on his lips.

Lao Li was not in the mood to joke with Qin Shun. He said anxiously: "You think you are the only one who has received the information. If I hadn't opened the door, would you have been able to get here smoothly?"

Qin Shun was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and now he realized that no wonder he was able to get here smoothly after being locked in the palace. It turned out that Lao Li secretly opened the door of convenience.

Lao Li had no time to continue talking to Qin Shun now, so he turned to the eunuch guarding the palace door and said, "Open the door."

The man glanced at him, then lowered his head and said, "Without the guidance of the Duke, I don't dare to make decisions without authorization."

Lao Li was stunned for a moment, staring hard at the man in front of him, wishing he could bite him to death.

To say that this person was promoted by himself, he could be considered a member of his own faction, but at this critical moment he refused to give himself face, which made him unable to stand down in front of Qin Shun.

When he was about to have a fit on the spot, he suddenly saw the eunuch below winking at them and looking back at the same time.

Old Li looked behind him and saw that it was the commander of the imperial guard guarding the palace gate.

These guards guarding the palace gate are Jia Rui's loyal confidants, and they were the second wave of people that Jia Rui conquered when he first entered the palace.

These people were domineering in the palace and would not listen to anyone except Jia Rui. Even the two popular princes, Qin Shun and Lao Li, did not buy face. Because Lao Li wanted to leave the palace and did not have Jia Rui's hand, he was rejected by these people.

Therefore, Lao Li was not prepared to continue pushing forward, but turned to Qin Shun and said:
"Eunuch Qin, the rules in the palace are very strict. We can't get out of the palace without the help of the Duke. What do you think we should do?"

Qin Shun looked at him for a moment, then looked away again, standing there with eyes wide open and a steel knife in his hand, looking at the commander of the imperial army on this side.

"First go to the Yangxin Hall to see the Duke's wife and ask her to write a hand metaphor."

When Lao Li heard that this was a solution, when the Duke of Guo was not in the palace, Xue Baochai was the biggest. As long as she wrote a handwriting, the commander of the imperial army should not dare to disobey.

So the two of them had to turn back and enter the Yangxin Hall from the palace gate again.

After entering the Yangxin Hall, the two of them went around to the side hall behind the Yangxin Hall where Xue Baochai was resting.

However, when they arrived at the door of the side hall, they could no longer break in. They could only order the guarding maid to go inside and report.

The palace maid could not afford to offend the two chief stewards of the palace. Although she felt uneasy, she still reported inside according to the rules.

After a while, the lights started to light up inside, and then Hua Lan walked out.

When Lao Li and Qin Shun saw Hua Lan coming out, they hurried up to greet him.

Regarding this aunt, despite their high position and power, Lao Li and Qin Shun could not afford to offend her.

It can be said that among Jia Rui's wives and concubines, apart from Xue Baochai, the one they feared the most was Hualan.

This aunt controls another intelligence force besides the two of them, and the core of this intelligence force is assassination. To put it bluntly, the combat effectiveness is much stronger than those of the two of them.

"Miss Hualan, what did Madam say?"

Hua Lan took a step forward and asked softly: "What happened?"

Qin Shun and Lao Li looked at each other, and finally Lao Li said: "Something happened in the south of the Yangtze River, which may involve the capital. The two of us wanted to leave the palace urgently to meet the Duke of the country, but we couldn't get out of the palace without a hand, so we came here Please see the Duke’s wife.”

Hua Lan nodded and went inside.

After a while, a message came from inside, asking Qin Shun and Lao Li to go in.

The two of them straightened their clothes and then carefully followed the palace maid inside.

After entering, the two people did not dare to look around, lowered their heads and immediately fell to their knees.

"You are going out of the palace to meet the Duke now?"

Xue Baochai's question came from above.

"Madam, the military situation is urgent and there is no need to delay. We two want to leave the palace immediately and report to the civil servants."

Xue Baochai frowned and thought for a moment, somewhat undecided.

Speaking of which, she is not the master of the harem, and she has always been unwilling to accept Jia Rui's affairs in the court. Now she suddenly appeared and wrote a handwriting to the two of them, which was a bit unreasonable.

"Madam, the two of them don't look like they are lying. You'd better write a handwriting. Otherwise, we can't afford to miss something important." Hua Lan persuaded from the side.

After listening to Hua Lan's persuasion, Xue Baochai felt that it made sense, so she asked someone to place the four treasures of the study. She wrote a handwritten metaphor, and then ordered someone to get the seal of her Duke's wife and stamp it on it.

However, Xue Baochai did not immediately hand over the hand metaphor in his hand to Qin Shun and Lao Li, but pushed it to Hua Lan who was aside.

"You take your hand with you and go out of the palace with the two of them to see the Duke."

Xue Baochai did this just in case. With Hua Lan watching over the two minions, they probably wouldn't dare to play tricks.

Hua Lan quickly stepped forward and held the hand in his hands, then said a blessing and took Lao Li and Qin Shun out.

At this time, Xue Baochai was ready to rest again, but just as he was about to lie down, he felt bursts of pain in his abdomen.

Xue Baochai had already given birth to a child. When this happened, she knew immediately that she was going to give birth.

So while holding her belly, she ordered her personal maid Ying'er to quickly prepare the delivery room for her, and at the same time notified Po Wen and the imperial doctor to prepare.

Xue Baochai's current status is almost equivalent to that of the queen of a country. Therefore, when she activates her act now, the entire Yangxin Hall will immediately be thrown into chaos.

If there were still Lao Li and Qin Shun on duty here before, now they are both gone, and there is almost no one left to talk to.

It was at this time that Brother Ying's role came into play.

This young aunt, who was fearless and fearless, took up her power, pointed at this, shouted at that, and turned around the palace maids and eunuchs.

But it was precisely because she was there to give random directions that everyone had something to do and their emotions calmed down.

Xue Baochai was a person who had given birth once, so the birth was very smooth. In less than half an hour, a child was born.

At the same time, a cloud of colorful clouds rose into the sky from Xue Baochai's delivery room.

Another boy was born in Jia Rui.

(End of this chapter)