Chapter 18: The Banquet of Thousand Years: Catching Turtles in an Urn 3
The main hall was eerily quiet, and the only sounds that could be heard were the friction of armor and heavy patrol footsteps.
The candlelight and shadows flowed inside the hall, which was completely different from the "lively" place in Feilou.
Running on the wide corridor in front was a thin little internal official, his hat was on the wrong side. He was in a hurry and did not dare to stop. As he ran, he said feebly: "Commander Wei! Something happened!"
Finally, he ran to the entrance of the main hall. Wei Yucheng, who had seen him early in the morning, immediately greeted him and asked anxiously and doubtfully: "What happened?"
The young eunuch was out of breath. He bent down and propped up his knees and said, "Something happened at the Qianqiu Banquet! There was chaos in Feilou. Maybe an assassin showed up."
"Your Majesty, please ask Commander Wei to quickly bring the imperial guards to the banquet for the guests. They are the nobles of the entire Kyoto city!"
The little official screamed from the bottom of his heart, full of anxiety, and just begged Commander Wei to leave quickly and stop asking questions and hesitating!
Wei Yucheng did not hesitate anymore, quickly counted the number of people, and ordered his men: "Take people to guard the main hall and beware of thieves!"
As a result, more than half of the manpower available to guard the main hall was taken away.
When Commander Wei led the imperial army to Feilou, Chu Shou happened to be coming from Zhao Qinghuai's side and squatted by a small pool to clean the blood stains on the golden arrows. She heard the footsteps and immediately hid in the darkness, following the gaps in the branches and leaves.
Looking over, Wei Yucheng ran past with several groups of forbidden troops, and the main hall's standard of five steps and one man was immediately reduced by more than half.
The pond was calm under the moon, but the noise from Feilou was still constant. The crickets disappeared after chirping a few times. Chu Shou looked at the calm water, lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then continued on the road.
It’s just that we didn’t go to the main hall, but to the Fengshui Temple behind the main hall, where the gods of the Wu Clan are enshrined. Even if the Wu Clan is destroyed, the gods will not be destroyed.
"Goddess of Heaven, I haven't come to see you for a long time. Back then... Hey, forget it, my grandson, I don't feel sad about the spring and autumn anymore. Time is urgent, so you can help your grandson again. When this time is over, grandson
I will definitely find you a bigger and more beautiful real body."
Chu Shou knelt on the yellow futon, folded his hands, and looked extremely pious.
The Goddess Empress was kind-hearted, she pursed her lips and smiled, and looked down at her with dignity with squinted eyes. Chu Shou banged his head three more times, raised his eyes reluctantly to look at her Goddess Empress, stood up, and firmly pulled out the
The long burning incense stick in front of me is as thick as my wrist.
Suddenly, the door of the palace behind her was opened. She was startled, and the ash on the incense burner was shaken to the ground.
She held up the incense and turned around, only to see that she was wearing a pair of shoes embroidered with gold threads. It was a strange style and covered with various colored glass and jade beads.
Chu Shou understood that there was no one except the extravagant eldest princess. Only then did she let go of her hanging heart and knelt down firmly again.
The man behind the door leaned out, his face heavily rouged with makeup, and he twisted his face into a half-smiling surprise and said, "I guessed you were right here."
The hoarse voice echoed in the empty hall. Chu Shou frowned and stood up, ignoring her. He walked towards the prayer flags hanging down from the tall pillars beside him, blew on the red incense stick with sparks rising from it, and then turned around.
After inserting it into the prayer flag, after a while, the prayer flag was only scratched with a black edge and a big hole.
She frowned and let out a soft "tsk", attracting Chang Le, who was looking left and right in the hall with a red-edged gold robe. She never made a sound when she got out. As soon as Chu Shou stood up, he found that there was a man leaning behind her.
Get out of your head.
"Oh... if you're fine, just go back to bed." After saying that, Chu Shou turned around and returned to the statue. He opened the black cloth on the altar table and dug inside...
"The palace hasn't been so chaotic for a long time. I'm so happy that I can't sleep..." Changle became more and more excited as he thought about it, and his scarlet lips couldn't help but curl up.
"Hey..." Chu Shou pulled out a barrel of aged oil from inside. The lid was covered with dust. When she was in the palace, she was obsessed with machinery and called the Goddess to accompany her day and night.
While making bows and arrows, this unused barrel of black oil has been hidden here.
Chu Shou thought in his mind that the imperial army would soon resolve the dispute at the banquet. He secretly glanced at the man behind him, cleared his throat and said: "Can't sleep? I'll give you a more beautiful job, pour this oil on these people.
Put the incense on the prayer flag and light it with the incense. When the fire starts, throw away the incense and run away, do you hear me?"
Chang Le looked Chu Shou up and down with a suspicious look on his face, and suddenly his face became serious, and he lowered his voice and said coldly: "Are you trying to pretend to start a fire to distract the imperial army guarding my father in the main hall? Are you crazy? You are using my father as bait.
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Chu Shou raised the corners of his lips, looked at Chang Le with bright eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I think you should enjoy acting, I guess..."
After saying that, she put the incense into Chang Le's hand. Chang Le's cold face suddenly laughed, and her bright red lips seemed to be stained with blood. She said in a low voice: "In the entire city of Kyoto, you still understand me best."
Chu Shou squinted his eyes with scrutiny and threatened: "You'd better not let me find out anything, otherwise..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Shou raised his lips and smiled, not intending to say any more, and strode out of the hall without looking back.
Chang Le lowered his eyes, looking a little lonely, his curved eyelashes trembled slightly, he rubbed the lines of the incense with his hand, took a long breath, and said quietly: "Are you really waiting for me to do it myself, princess?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several minor officials came in one after another from outside the palace. The leader took the incense, and the others held the oil buckets and started to sprinkle oil everywhere.
Soon, the entire temple was swallowed up by the sea of fire. The statue pursed its lips and smiled in the beating flames, squinted its eyes, and quietly looked at the surging sea of fire. The state of great mercy was eternal in the fire.
"Princess, I have to remind you..." A young official hesitated and helped Chang Le sit on a special soft stool.
Chang Le tightened her armor tightly, held her chin up, and her golden armor swept over her white face. Her eyes were evil, like a dangerous flower snake, and her red lips were as bright as a snake's letter. She said coldly: "No, he's doing something.
If you don’t do your best, you should be punished.”
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Changle moved much faster than she did, and the little internal official who was anxious to call for help and move the reinforcements to the main hall ran past her in a hurry.
The flames of the Fengshui Temple soared into the sky, and big flames engulfed the main hall. After a while, the Imperial Guards rushed to support them. In the main hall, as she expected, there were only six people left, and four people guarded the front and back doors.
The two patrolled back and forth.
With such a weak guard, the Assassin should have fallen into the trap.
Chu Shou avoided the crowds coming and going, lowered his head and tried not to attract attention, and stepped on the short steps of the main hall in two steps.
Looking along the windows and pavilions, looking into the hall, the yellowish candlelight is dancing. The heat wave is coming from the back of the main hall because of the fire, as if it is summer again.
"That man's title is Well Centipede, he is one of the best masters in the world. I never expected to catch him alive."
The "alive" in Song Yanqing's mouth refers to the three people in the palace who are alive...
The centipede on the well wall has a slender body, can climb rocks and walk on walls, and has excellent water properties. As the saying goes, it can lurk freely in the water without any trace or sound.
"Then what's the use of putting out a bunch of cigarettes?"
"That is a specially prepared poisonous gas. Once inhaled, if he uses his internal force, his blood will flow backwards, and he will collapse and die."
The centipede on the wall of the well has been lurking in the palace these days. It must be hiding in some water area in the palace. It relies entirely on internal strength. There are not many people in the world who can do this.
However, people can't help but wonder who he was instructed by, and why he was so loyal to that person. He lurked in the palace for a long time, and he took advantage of the chaos in the palace. He must have agreed to act for him and help him.
Put His Majesty to death.
"But it's not like we have to activate our internal energy all the time? Then let him stay in the palace..."
Chu Shou was interrupted before he finished speaking. Song Yanqing said with a cold face: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has the methods of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so the princess will not have to worry about this matter. Those who attend the banquet will be punished."
Arrangements have been made to leave the palace one after another, you should go back too."
The three people in the hall followed Song Yanqing. He was dressed in black clothes, distant and cold, and passed by Chu Shou with a cold face. His flat lake-like eyes showed no emotion, and the familiar fragrance disappeared after embracing him.
Something else was stolen from her heart...
The man covered by the quilt on the bed couldn't stop trembling. When there was no sound outside, he lifted the quilt and sat up. His clothes and hair were wet with sweat. He held the door tremblingly and came out. When he saw
Chu Shou knelt down and burst into tears: "Princess! Princess, you are back..."
Chu Shou hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said: "Eunuch Jinxiao, please get up quickly."
Jin Xiao touched a handful of old tears and finally let go of his hanging heart. Ever since His Majesty's accident happened, he has been trying to get in touch with the princess. However, the imperial concubine and the imperial army were uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. They only announced to the outside world that His Majesty fell from his horse, and there was no information at all.
Let reveal.
His Majesty's condition worsened, and finally all the imperial doctors in the palace asked for advice and asked the imperial concubine to go to Fodu Temple to invite King Xiao Zhongshan to treat His Majesty. Only then did there be hope.
He had been detained in the main palace by the imperial concubine on the pretext of accompanying His Majesty. It was not until the princess was summoned into the palace that he dared to sneak out of the palace. By the time he hid and hid, the princess had already left the palace.
It wasn't until dawn that the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, and he actually met the princess's maid, Miss Sanqian, and then he spread all kinds of news...
Soon, the princess defeated the imperial army and held the imperial concubine hostage, and he was able to relax. The assassin caused panic in the palace, so he helped King Xiao Zhongshan quietly send his majesty to Fodu Temple, and he was ordered to do so.
Pretend to be your Majesty, deceive others and lure the enemy deeper.
"I was called into the palace that day. Can you ask someone to deliver a message to me when I leave the palace?" Chu Shouhu asked. The note in the handle of the bamboo umbrella and the person who was not found in the palace were found.
The little official she had shown kindness to was really strange.
Eunuch Jin Xiao shook his head vigorously and said: "I was detained in the palace for those few days and did not have this opportunity. Except for the old slave, no one who accompanied him that day saw the assassin. The old slave also only saw the pair of pushers.
Your Majesty’s hand is indeed that of a woman.”
That was when His Majesty decided to go to Fei Tower in person, leaving him and Commander Wei to wait below. He looked at His Majesty on the top floor from afar and asked to be careful. However, it was too late, and he saw a pair of hands coming out.
His Majesty pushed him down. When the assassin was fighting with the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he was scared, but he also saw that he was definitely not the one who pushed His Majesty down the building that day.
After hearing this, Chu Shou nodded and couldn't help but frown. One after another things happened that made the situation confusing. Her mind scanned the faces of everyone at today's banquet. Was it the noble concubine who failed to achieve success, or the old princess who was pretending to be the first person?
Or the snake-like eldest princess, Su family? Rong family?...Who is helping her and who is stopping her...