Chapter 79: Good Memories
Chapter 79: Beautiful Memories
Su Chen, with Empress Dowager Guo, who had already been dressed in ordinary civilian costumes, was quickly entering from the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
As soon as Empress Dowager Guo saw Zhou Yang, her eyes immediately showed a touching crystal clearness.
However, not leaving Luoyang at this time means that he has not yet escaped from danger, and Dongfang Shuo has not been seen back.
Zhou Yang couldn't help but worry again. When asked the reason, he realized that for the sake of security, he stayed alone in the harem to dress up Empress Dowager Guo to deceive Cao Rui, and gain more time for everyone.
Su Chen said decisively: "No further ado, we must send the Empress Dowager out of Luoyang before dark."
Queen Mother Guo said: "To prevent the partition wall from being heard, starting from this moment, please stop calling me the Queen Mother."
Su Chen nodded and said, "Let's do it."
After Zhou Yang sent Empress Dowager Guo onto the carriage, he also brought the tiger roaring spear and decided to escort her out of the city in person.
Sima Yi believed that if he was escorted by him personally, it would only backfire. If he was to escort a businesswoman himself, it would definitely attract more attention.
Su Chen and the others in the mansion, except for Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua, were almost all known people in the court.
Sima Yi is not the right candidate for bodyguards. Although Zhang Chunhua has been good at swordsmanship in recent years, he is still not reliable. The two just complement each other's shortcomings, so he finally decided that they would only send Empress Dowager Guo out of the city.
Zhou Yang made an appointment with them to meet in the forest near the eastern suburbs. If he still couldn't see anyone before dawn, he would kill him back to Luoyang with a tiger's roaring gun, and insisted on saving Empress Dowager Guo from the city.
Empress Dowager Guo approached her and said softly: "Thank you, Prime Minister Zhou."
When Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua entered the car, Zhou Yang looked at the background of the carriage leaving, and he didn't know whether he was right or wrong in doing so, but since he had already done it, he had to do it to the end and must succeed.
Su Chen said: "It is useless to think too much now. I'd better arrange the information on Luoyang."
Zhou Yang nodded silently, then rode on the Red Rabbit Horse and ran away from Luoyang.
When he arrived on a hillside near the eastern suburbs, he looked back at the ancient capital of Luoyang not far away and felt mixed emotions.
Thinking of the time when he and Cao Cao had just escaped from Luoyang, they walked in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang. The two of them fought a bloody path among the pursuers. Fortunately, Geng Long and his brothers and comrades fulfilled their promise and helped Zhou Yang break through the siege without any chance.
Now, many old generals and ministers have passed away one after another. Cao Cao, who was almost invincible in his life, had to face everyone's last path.
Zhou Yang sighed, waved away the troubled thoughts in his mind, and looked at the gradually brighter sky.
Behind the hillside, the light of dawn appears.
His figure was shrinking and shorter by the sunrise until it disappeared. When he vanished, he squeezed his horse's belly with both feet. The red rabbit raised his front hooves and neighed several times, and rushed down the hillside like flames.
Sure enough, no accident happened, the carriage passed through the east gate successfully and appeared in front of not far away.
Zhou Yang then put down the big rock in his heart and rushed towards the carriage.
Zhang Chunhua and Sima Yi helped Empress Dowager Guo get off the car slowly and handed her back to Zhou Yang safely.
Empress Dowager Guo said with relief: "Prime Minister Zhou is indeed a promise keeper, and I really don't know what to say."
When Zhou Yang was about to call him "The Queen Mother", he immediately changed his words: "Madam, please get on the horse. This is the best sweat-blooded BMW in Dayuan back then. I personally take my wife to travel thousands of miles a day, and no one can catch up with her."
Sima Yi smiled slightly and said, "In fact, no one will pursue his wife. Please rest assured, brother."
But Zhou Yang still felt that it would be more at ease to escort him back to Boling himself.
After Empress Dowager Guo rode on the horse, her heart felt safe.
The two of them ran towards the sunrise, and became safer and safer from Luoyang.
Empress Dowager Guo did not sleep all night, and at this moment she felt relieved and finally fell asleep on Zhou Yang's broad thick back.
The Red Rabbit Horse ran for several days and night. When it was almost time for Chenliu, Empress Dowager Guo suddenly asked him to stop first.
Zhou Yangqi said: "It is still a long way from Boling. I think that as long as I cross the Yellow River and stay away from the sphere of influence of the central government of the court, that area is truly safe."
Empress Dowager Guo smiled and said, "In fact, it is an unlikely dream for me to leave the palace and leave Luoyang. Looking at the sunshine in the outside world and the fresh air that I have never breathed in most of my life, without the intrigue of the court, I no longer need to waste my efforts all day for the sake of rights and self-protection. It's really great."
Zhou Yang felt her words deeply, and was also touched, and asked, "Madam, do you plan to never return to Luoyang this time?"
Queen Mother Guo said: "Since I met the late emperor who was still depressed and unsuccessful, my life seemed to be just living for him. In the past ten years of entering the palace, it was not long, but for a woman, it was the most precious time in her life. But I used it all to stabilize the harem for the late emperor, oppose all kinds of extravagance and waste, and learn from Empress Wuxuan with trembling concentration, so that the late emperor could focus on the government affairs of the Wei State without the need to depose a little god for the opening of the harem and various arrangements."
Zhou Yang said: "Behind a successful man, there must be a woman who supports him. In the past six years since the late emperor ruled, he almost completed the conflicts between the gentry that Cao Gong could not complete, and truly achieved the stability of the entire Great Wei country."
Empress Dowager Guo said again: "The late emperor did not disappoint me. In fact, he also knew that I never liked Concubine Zhen, just because she almost loved the late emperor. However, after Concubine Zhen died, the late emperor not only did not blame me, but also let me go with one eye. From this point alone, everything I did for him in this life is worth it."
Zhou Yang nodded. It was indeed Zhen Fei's son, not Cao Pi, who wanted to take revenge.
How could Cao Pi not know that Concubine Zhen suddenly committed suicide inexplicably? The most suspicious Queen Mother Guo?
However, before he died, he had not mentioned this matter, which shows that Empress Dowager Guo's weight in his mind was still more important than Concubine Zhen.
As a woman who combines beauty and talent, Cao Pi was so obsessed with him, and he was also an uncontrollable male nature.
"I don't want to go to Boling anymore. It's just my hometown." Empress Dowager Guo suddenly changed her mind and her mood changed greatly. She suggested on a whim, "Can Prime Minister Zhou send me to Xuchang? There is the place that makes me miss the most."
"Where is it?" Zhou Yang couldn't help asking.
"Farmland." Empress Dowager Guo laughed, "That was the happiest place between the late emperor and me back then. I remembered that during the autumn harvest that year, we ran together in the yellow wheat fields, feeling the fragrance of wheat ears sliding across our bodies, and the simple and kind smiles of local farmers..."
"Then let's go to Xuchang." Zhou Yang was infected with the joyful aura, looked up at the sky, and smiled, "Although it's still early in autumn, we can wait there."
"Does Prime Minister Zhou actually have time to accompany me until autumn?" Empress Dowager Guo said flattered.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"It seems that Prime Minister Zhou has already been in his heart, otherwise how could he ignore the court's eyes and ears to you?" said Empress Dowager Guo, "I know the things in the court too much. No one has done anything to escape the emperor's eyes, including Prime Minister Zhou sending me out of the city today, and the emperor will know sooner or later."
"Don't worry about him." Zhou Yang chuckled.
I haven't been away from the dangerous land of Luoyang for a long time. At this time, I just felt relaxed, as if everything was gone.
The original hesitation was swept away. Even if you go back to clean up everything and retreat now, or concentrate all the rights in your hands and prepare to compete with the court, it is no longer so important.
Everything has both positive and negative sides. As the saying goes, there will be gains if there are losses.
If you really want to follow Sima Yi's plan and prepare to use your current reputation to compete with the court, you will definitely pay a huge price.
If you give up, then everything you have done over the past few decades will be like being in vain.
No matter what he chooses, he will regret it in the end.
Instead of this, I simply ignore so much. I will do whatever I want in the future and do whatever I want, and I will no longer have so many concerns.
Empress Dowager Guo seemed to feel that he had become relaxed and said in a great mood: "Then let's set off now. This place is very close to Xuchang. The emperor is focusing on the affairs of the northern border. Xuchang will be a relatively safe place, at least it will not be possible to have too many eyes and ears here."
Zhou Yang nodded and said, "As long as our identity is not exposed, everything will be fine."
The two smiled tacitly at each other and couldn't wait to ride on the Red Rabbit Horse.
Although they were close to each other on the horse's back, they had no distractions between men and women in their hearts. They only had a yearning for simple life and their pursuit of missing beautiful memories.
Everyone likes memories, especially Zhou Yang and Empress Dowager Guo.
No matter how wonderful things will be waiting for in the future, or how happy life will be enjoyed today, memories are irreplaceable to anything.
After passing through the past days, as people gradually grow up their minds and thoughts, many things can no longer be recovered, and the only thing that remains is memories.
For example, the marbles I liked to play when I was a child, but when I grew up, there is no fun.
But I still hope to keep it forever, for the simple and beautiful memories at that time.
The two finally arrived at the farmland of beautiful memories. Empress Dowager Guo couldn't wait to jump off the horse and ran towards the field. Zhou Yang rode his horse and arrived slowly.
However, when they can finally share each other's beautiful joy, what awaits them is not warm memories.
It is a person who is the least willing to meet Zhou Yang and Empress Dowager Guo, and is the most unlikely person to appear - Cao Rui...
Chapter completed!