There was severe pain all over her body, and the shock caused by the fall made Ning Bin relax for a long time.
She climbed up from the snow, fearing that the snow would fall off her body, and watched the girl remove a small piece of wood fixed to the wall.
The rope in Ning Bin's hand was stuck in the wood. I don't know what method the girl used to get such strong traction.
Xia Zhaoyi took off the wood but kept the rope. She turned around and took off the wood from Ning Bin's hand.
Both pieces of wood were ruined, and the internal structure was a mess.
She dropped it under a tree not far away, turned to look at Ning Bin who was rubbing her arm, and said, "I didn't expect it to be so sensitive. Can you still walk?"
Ning Bin lowered her hands and nodded.
"Then let's go." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Ning Bin said "hmm" and looked towards the palace wall, recalling what she just saw in her mind.
When she went up to the palace wall, she glanced at it. There seemed to be a guard lying on the ground over there, but she couldn't be sure.
Xia Zhaoyi had walked a few steps and saw her looking at the palace wall and said, "What are you thinking about?"
Ning Bin shook her head and looked along the palace wall to the end. She couldn't see it at all. It was deep and silent, and there was no sound. The palace was really too big.
She turned around calmly, walked towards Xia Zhaoyi, and said, "Let's go."
The sky is getting brighter, but the ministers outside the palace gate are still guarding.
The imperial street beyond is a long stretch, all lit up with lights as bright as day. All officials of high rank have basically rushed over.
When it was almost time for the morning court, the palace door finally opened again, and it was Liao Lai who came to announce that there would be no morning court today.
The powerful ministers who usually had different political opinions and quarreled with each other were angry this time. Pan Tangfeng pushed away the servant Liao and strode into the palace: "I will go to see the emperor! Ask him what he wants to do!"
"useless!"
Song Du and other officials quickly stepped forward to hold him back.
"Let me go!" Pan Tangfeng was shaking with anger.
Emperor Xuan Yan had been having trouble with scholars over the past few months. When he first searched for storytellers and teachers, he was the first person he looked for.
He heard the hint in Emperor Xuan Yan's words, but he did not agree. The next day, he simply excused himself from going to the morning court because of illness. Later, he learned that Taifu An had been sent to Tiansheng Palace.
Pan Tangfeng didn't have much favorable impression of An Taifu, so he just watched from the sidelines, wanting to see how good An Qiuwan was. He didn't expect that An Taifu could really be cruel to him and kill half of his life by "assassination".
, but no matter what, the emperor's ideas must have come to nothing.
At that time, Pan Tangfeng was worried that he would be sought out by the emperor again, but he did not expect that the emperor would directly condone the army to commit cruel and brutal acts in Kyoto last night, killing people, setting fires, and taking human life seriously. How is this kind of behavior different from that of a tyrant who brings harm to the country?
But all the ministers and officials gathered outside the palace gate, despite the heavy snowfall and cold wind all night, but he was nowhere to be seen, leaving the princes and ministers to hang out.
Throughout the dynasties, even the murderous, mediocre and unprincipled Duan Gaozong, who exterminated the Tianyi a hundred years ago, would never dare to treat the civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty like this! Not to mention the dozens of nobles who are here today.
s home.
This is crazy, really crazy.
Pan Tangfeng is still struggling, but as he is already old, he is no match for everyone.
The ministers tried to persuade him together, trying to appease him, but suddenly there was the sound of horse hooves in the distance.
Three fast horses came running quickly. Immediately behind them were soldiers from the Yanyun Guards, covered in blood, shouting loudly: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
Normally, these soldiers would not be polite when meeting high-ranking ministers, and they would never dare to shout so fiercely, but when they saw the blood on their bodies, everyone hid aside.
They ran closer and closer, and slowed down in front of the palace gate. Yu Shiling stepped forward and shouted: "What happened!"
"Master Yu!" A soldier immediately got off his horse and knelt down on one knee with a plop, "Master Yu! Our General Li is dead!"
"What?"
"Lee Dongyeon is dead?"
"Who killed him?"
…
The ministers asked hurriedly.
"They were a group of assassins of unknown origin. They stabbed the general in the heart with a sword, and the blood couldn't be stopped. The general bled to death!" said the soldier.
Yu Shiling looked at Minister Liao and said, "Servant Liao, do you have any idea about entering the palace now?"
Waiter Liao's face turned gray. He pointed at the soldier and said, "You come with us."
"Yes!" the soldier responded.
Several soldiers followed Lio Nei into the palace gate. Before entering, the soldiers couldn't help but look back at the ministers behind them. The word "fury" was written on everyone's face.
The palace door closed heavily, but snow fell from the sky again. It was not as big as last night, and fell in fine pieces on people's shoulders, hair, and eyelashes.
"I heard before I came here that last night at the famous Qilu Courtyard in Qiliqiao, Huiyang Street, a crossbow was fired and more than 20 soldiers were killed," said Li Jingming, the Minister of Civil Affairs.
"Li Dongyan is actually dead..." Huang Mi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, said in a low voice.
"Could it be the same group of people?" Li Jingming asked again.
Everyone was silent.
Who knows.
"Go back," Bian Shizhi said. "Since it's not time to go to court early, let's go back and rest."
As he spoke, he looked at Zhu Xian standing over there.
"Master Zhu." Bian Shizhi shouted.
Everyone looked over.
Zhu Xian was in a daze. When he heard this, he turned around, raised his hand and saluted: "Master Bian."
"Jingzhao Mansion Office, I'm afraid there will be chaos again. Master Zhu has worked hard." Bian Shizhi said sincerely.
"I don't dare, my subordinates."
"You have to be careful," Bian Shizhi said again in a low voice, "remember to be careful."
Zhu Xian paused and frowned slightly.
Bian Shizhi raised his hand and patted his shoulder, turned around and walked towards the carriage in his mansion in the distance.
What to watch out for?
Zhu Xian looked at him blankly.
Was it because he had learned about the case he was investigating in the Duke's Mansion, or was it because he had taken the decision without permission in Daping Square to save the lives of those "rioters" that the emperor would settle the account, or was it that the Jingzhao Mansion was really going to cause chaos?
, will he be besieged? Or will those elusive assassins who kill people at every turn come to assassinate him?
"It's really fatal." Zhu Xian gently pulled the corners of his lips, "I, Zhu Xian, have a human head, so it is clear that my life is very precarious."
However, just as he was about to turn around and leave, Bian Shizhi was about to get on the carriage, and when the ministers were also saying goodbye, there was the sound of horse hooves rushing towards him again.
Everyone was afraid of the sound of hoofbeats, and their hearts tightened almost at the same time. They looked straight at a soldier running towards him: "Report! Report!"
When he got closer, he discovered that what this soldier was wearing was the armor of the general who was guarding the city.
"What's the matter?" Yu Shiling asked with a trembling voice.
The soldier almost rolled off his horse, his legs were too weak to stand, and he said in horror: "Sir, refugees have gathered outside Yongdingmen City and are running over the mountains and plains. They are shouting that they want to enter the city! They want to break the city gate!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another soldier came riding on horseback from a distance.
"...There are tens of thousands of refugees outside Guangqumen, they are crazy!" the soldier said in a trembling voice after dismounting.
