"Here comes someone! There is an assassin! There is an assassin! Protect the emperor quickly!"
In the middle of the night, a shrill scream suddenly rang out from the Royal Palace of Yaoguo. Soon, lamps were lit in the nearby palaces one after another. The maids and eunuchs huddled in their rooms, while the guards hurried out and quickly surrounded Ziyun Palace.
"Eunuch Tao, what's going on?" the head guard on duty asked anxiously, frowning.
"Just now, just now I saw someone holding a knife and swishing past over there!" Eunuch Tao looked pale and frightened, patting his chest and crying, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is still inside!"
The captain of the guard took a breath, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "This... the emperor has previously ordered that no one is allowed to step into the bedroom no matter what happens. I dare not resist the order, so I would like to ask Eunuch Tao to go in first and ask.
Bar."
Eunuch Tao swallowed his saliva and hesitated for a long time before saying helplessly: "Then... I'll go there? Don't stay too far away from me!"
There was silence in the dormitory. Eunuch Tao approached slowly with small steps. Behind him were guards holding swords more than ten steps away who were extremely vigilant. After Eunuch Tao gently knocked on the door for a while, the voice of Emperor Yao came from inside: "
I'm asleep, what's the matter?"
"Back to the Emperor, I just saw a suspicious figure coming this way and am worried about the Emperor's safety..."
"I didn't see anyone suspicious. You should all disperse." Yaohuang's tone was a little weak. The captain of the guard hesitated for a moment and then retreated as ordered, not daring to ask any more questions.
When Eunuch Tao saw that the guards had all evacuated, he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, it's almost time to refill the lamp oil. Be careful not to see clearly at night and fall."
The hall was silent for another long time.
"Come in." After a long time, he still responded with a weak voice.
Eunuch Tao quickly opened the door of the palace and walked in. He went to the inner palace door and asked again before opening the door. Unexpectedly, the moment a gap was opened, a black shadow quickly rushed into the room, and then there was the sound of things being turned over.
with the sound of fighting.
Only the evergreen lamp was burning in the inner hall, and the large light illuminated a limited range. Mr. Tao was so dim that he couldn't see who the figures were flying around. He only knew that the person inside was definitely not just the black figure that just broke in. He turned around.
Looking inside the courtyard, the guards had disappeared. Eunuch Tao straightened up and hid behind the door. He changed his panicked state and seemed not to be frightened at all.
After a while, there was the sound of broken wooden windows in the inner hall, and then there was no sound again.
"Are you okay?" Eunuch Tao lowered his voice and asked tentatively.
"Well, one of them ran away." The candle lamp on the table was lit, and the young man dressed in black clothes put away the candle and bowed respectfully to the couch, "The imperial court's rescue is late, please forgive me, Your Majesty and the Empress."
crime."
No one responded.
Eunuch Tao remembered that when he made excuses to come in during the day, he saw that the queen was in high spirits. Why didn't she say anything now? He walked closer in confusion and couldn't help but sigh, and looked at Zhan Ting helplessly: "You can't untie the rope first.
?It’s really…”
"Ah? Oh." Zhan Ting scratched his head in embarrassment and quickly helped Eunuch Tao untie the rope from the queen's body. Zhan Ting's face turned red when he pulled away the cloth that was gagged in the queen's mouth. He was so angry that Eunuch Tao couldn't laugh or cry. No wonder everyone was so excited.
He said that the prince's guard was an idiot. He only paid attention to asking for sins and didn't even look at the gag in the queen's mouth. He was very slow.
The queen, who was freed from the restraints, had no time to care about the two of them. She turned over and fell to Yaohuang's side. Her tone was urgent and slightly trembling: "Huaiyu? Huaiyu? Can you hear me? Can you please give me a reaction!"
Yaohuang's complexion was extremely poor, he was so skinny that only a handful of bones were left. His eyes were closed tightly on his bloodless face, and he rolled his eyes back and forth. After a long time, he opened a small gap slightly, and he let out a grunt in his throat.
"Tu'er..."
"Yes, it's me!" the queen exhaled, wiped the red circles under her eyes, turned around and ordered solemnly, "Tao Shihai, go call all the guards back, and then go to the imperial doctor. Is General I waiting for news?
Contact him as soon as possible and send more people to protect Ziyun Palace!"
"My slave understands!" Eunuch Tao turned around and left in a hurry. After a moment, the guards who had been tossing and tossing returned to Ziyun Palace, and the imperial doctor also trotted over.
After the safety was guaranteed, the queen left Yaohuang and looked around. When she found the body of the mysterious man in the corner, she let out a sigh of relief and turned to look at Zhan Ting: "Fortunately you killed him. This man knows witchcraft, that's him.
He used witchcraft to control the emperor and caused so many troubles. If he is given the opportunity to cause trouble again, I don't know what the emperor will suffer. It's a pity that the other person escaped, otherwise we could ask more questions."
"I didn't kill this man." Zhan Ting shook his head honestly, "I originally wanted to spare his life so that I could question him, but when the other person found out that he was injured and couldn't escape, he killed him to silence him. It was really cruel."
"What's wrong with this? The person who designed this show is a hundred times more vicious." The Queen's eyes darkened coldly, and she clenched her fists silently.
Yaohuang is seriously ill, and the pain in his heart is even worse, right?
The son whom he had devoted half his life to loving was actually the mastermind behind all these conspiracies, and even wanted to kill his father and king.
Ou Suiliang, who carefully planned this "night attack", was waiting in the East Palace of the Crown Prince. After getting the news, he rushed over very quickly. Seeing that the imperial doctors were busy diagnosing the pulse of Emperor Yao and treating the wounds, he walked towards the Queen, a mixture of gray and white.
His eyebrows were almost twisted together: "Is the Queen injured?"
"No problem, they are quite polite to me." The queen waved her hand to signal Zhan Ting to go down first, and led Suiliang to the outer hall. The worry on her face finally showed, "Suiliang, Huaiyu is in very good condition.
Oops, I'm really scared..."
One moment she was still a proud queen, but the next moment she regained her soft side as a woman, Ou Suiliang smiled bitterly: "You two, you obviously care about each other but you still pretend to be indifferent. What would have happened if you could have confessed to each other earlier? Fortunately, this is
This is a near miss, otherwise I will see how long you will regret it."
"Okay, it's not like you don't know about Huaiyu and I. Who can make someone lose face? If it weren't for the critical situation this time, I wouldn't bother to come see him." The queen's expression froze and she turned away angrily.
.
Situations like this were not uncommon when we were young. Ou Suiliang felt half emotional and half nostalgic. He wanted to say something about the past, but he didn't want to ruin his identity as a monarch and minister. He shook his head before he spoke.
There was silence for a while, and the queen's mood gradually calmed down. Everything that happened was running through her mind and she couldn't help but feel scared: "Fortunately, you came up with this method of pretending to be assassins to break in, otherwise the vigilance of those two people would never let anyone approach easily.
, and fortunately, the person who came was Zhan Ting, and I am afraid that any other guard would not be a match for that man. By the way, I have seen that man before, and he is the guard of Princess Lang Hoof of Yanhu Kingdom. It seems that there is a relationship between Yanhu Kingdom and the fifth prince.
It’s hard to break away from the relationship.”
Princess Langhozi... How dissatisfied is she with Princess Yanhu? Ou Suiliang wanted to laugh, but he suppressed it when he saw the queen's serious face. When she heard her mention the fifth prince, she immediately became equally serious.
"The fifth prince is behind this matter? Are you sure?"
"How else can we be sure? He showed up the day I was imprisoned. He had a bad attitude and even uttered arrogant words. He was very different from his usual elegant image." The queen sighed longly and couldn't help but look towards the inner hall.
, "After that, Huaiyu's spirit dropped a lot, and he must have been very sad. I really don't understand what the child was thinking. He was the one who hurt Huaiyu the most since he was a child. Why did he do this? Jing'er
It's his younger brother, does he want to force his father and brothers to death before he gives up?!"
Ou Suiliang did not answer, or could not answer. He only looked at the queen with meaningful eyes and asked lightly: "You always call the seventh prince Jing'er, but you rarely call the fifth prince by his name."
The seemingly irrelevant question made the queen stunned, and her face turned pale.
"General, the emperor has called you in." The imperial doctor came over and whispered, then turned to the queen, "The emperor also said that if the queen has not left, she can come with her."
Did the person who once said that she had never been in contact with each other now take the initiative to call her? This was the first time. The queen and Ou Suiliang looked at each other, and the latter nodded lightly. The queen, who was encouraged, took a deep breath, straightened her chest, and followed the imperial doctor.
Enter the inner sanctum.
On the bed, the haggard Yaohuang's eyes were half-opened, his fingers moved, and his voice was hoarse and weak: "Tu'er..."
"I'm here." The Queen responded softly, sitting on the edge of the bed, holding the Emperor Yao's palm tightly with both hands.
The last time our palms touched was more than ten years ago when we were still young. Things have changed and people have changed, but the temperature has never changed.
Yaohuang did not continue to say some tender words of love, but this was enough. He just called the queen quietly and let the queen sit quietly beside her, holding hands with each other, and no one wanted to let go.
"Suiliang, don't worry about arresting people for now... Hurry up and go find Jing'er..." Yaohuang, who regained consciousness, was so weak that he had to take several breaths to say a word. He stared hard at Suiliang with his eyes, "Xuan
He wants to force Baihao City to death according to my son's imperial edict!"
The queen's hands shook and she opened her mouth in disbelief: "This madman! Madman! Does he want to force the Bai family to rebel?!"
"Rebellion is the next best thing. The fifth prince wants to force the prince and Bai Yatou to turn against each other..." Ou Suiliang's eyes darkened and he suddenly asked Emperor Yao, "There are no outsiders here now. The emperor wants to speak to his heart. Do you still want Bai Yatou to turn against you?"
What do you mean by leaving the prince?"
Yaohuang shook his head vigorously and hooked his fingers. The queen leaned down and pressed her lips to his lips.
"I... shouldn't... be on guard against you..."
They have been married for thirty years, and they have spent most of their time being suspicious of each other and fighting each other, so that they can only hold hands again when they are very old, and there are not many years left to continue to stay together. The queen was silent for a long time,
He let go of his hands to tuck Yao Huang into bed, and then looked at Ou Suiliang with a steady and steady gaze.
"Suiliang, I'm taking care of you here. Go to Zhao Kingdom to see if it's too late to stop me. If the fifth prince is here..." Looking back at Emperor Yao, the queen took a deep breath and gritted her teeth, "Jing
You have watched my son grow up, so you know what to choose."