When the head guard Yao Bing received the news that the assassin was found in Lianchenxuan, he rushed over with his men without even having time to put on his coat, running as fast as he could while cursing himself for being stupid.
The Huanqing Palace was just visited by an assassin the day before yesterday. Why did he forget to send additional personnel to Lianchenxuan to protect him? If something happened to the queen, it would be over with a few scoldings, but the concubine's side would be slightly damaged.
Hair loss is a serious crime! Or maybe he has learned from the past and concluded that those who hurt the queen belong to the concubine Jing faction. Yao Bing scolded himself and felt a little wronged at the same time. He was very sure that not only him, but no one in the palace should be able to
It was expected that something would happen to Lianchenxuan.
The only person in the harem who has the strength to compete with the Queen for power is Concubine Jing. In addition, Concubine Jing poisoned the Queen a few years ago. Who would have thought that these two palaces would be attacked by assassins at the same time?
It’s hard to say whether the murderer who assassinated the queen was sent by Lianchenxuan!
When they arrived at the Lianchen Pavilion, the concubine Su Shiyun had already collapsed in the arms of the old palace maid. The palace maids next to her were holding the prince Yi Chenyu and the seventh prince Yi Chenjing respectively. The two children were a little confused. They didn't know what was happening in Tianmei's sleep.
What happened outside.
"Just now, the servant was about to serve His Highness to get up for the night. Before he could get dressed and go out, he heard a scream coming from the queen's room. When the slave ran over to take a look, he saw the queen sitting paralyzed in front of the door. What was on the tree over there?
Something flashed past, like...like a person..." The palace maid holding Yi Chenjing was also in shock, with tears in her eyes, and she didn't even dare to look directly at the place where the figure was found.
Yao Bing took a deep breath and raised his head towards his guards: "Chasing! Bring more people, we must catch the assassin!" Putting away his livid face and turning around, Yao Bing squeezed out a stiff smile: "Jing Fei, don't worry, I will definitely do it for you."
The assassin will be caught. I will leave a few more teams to guard outside later, so that the concubine can rest peacefully."
"Have a rest? How to rest? During the day, the queen was disturbed by the assassins, and at night it was our turn in Lianchenxuan. You haven't even touched the shadow of the assassins all day long? How can you sleep when people are so frightened?
"A frightened little palace maid cried and complained at the same time. The cry spread like a signal, and soon the whole courtyard was filled with high and low sobbing.
"What's going on? Why are you crying? Is anyone hurt?" An anxious scolding came from the door. Sima Duran was dressed in thin clothes and frowned, showing great anger.
"My servant comes to see the Queen."
As soon as Sima Turan opened his mouth, the maids who were crying all turned pale and put away their tears, and knelt down to salute in a polite manner.
Queen, Sima Duran, this is a noble name that can be used to intimidate the maids and concubines at any time.
Sima Tulan had no time to pay attention to the palace maids or guards. She hurriedly walked to Su Shiyun and looked at her carefully: "How are you, are you okay? Do you want to ask the imperial doctor to take a look?"
Seeing Sima Duran coming through the hazy tears, Su Shiyun reluctantly stood up, shook her head, covered her mouth and shed another burst of tears.
Sima Tulan sighed and said nothing.
She knew that Su Shiyun had always been like this, weak and timid, always panicked and scared to the point of saying nothing when things happened, but Yi Huaiyu preferred such a woman, as if Su Shiyun's weakness allowed him to show his bravery, and she
This kind of hard wood covered with sharp thorns often makes people stay away from it.
"Yao Bing, send someone to tell all the palaces to be careful, and ask Eunuch Tao to bring all the clever little eunuchs with the imperial guard battalion to search for the assassins. No suspicious people can be let go. Also, you have the Huanqing Palace.
Please transfer all the guards here, I will be here with Concubine Jing these two days."
Yao Bing responded and hurried to send someone to make arrangements. Sima Duran helped Su Shiyun up and looked at Yi Chenyu in the palace maid's arms: "Yu'er, you are the elder brother. You have to take good care of your younger brother, do you understand?"
Yi Chenyu nodded vigorously, and then showed a frustrated expression: "But mother, the emperor's younger brother is better than me in martial arts. He always knocks me down every time we compete..."
The prince's cute appearance made several palace ladies couldn't help laughing. Although they still had lingering fears, the panic was much relieved. After that, Yi Chenyu followed Sima Duran's instructions and took Yi Chenjing to sleep in the next room. Sima Duran
Then she sat with Su Shiyun in the room until dawn. After seeing Su Shiyun go to sleep haggardly, she leaned on the table and took a nap. Her fatigue did not subside until the next day.
It was no small matter that Huanqing Palace and Lianchenxuan encountered assassins one after another. Under Sima Tulan's vigorous urging, the harem began to search for the missing assassin. Such a major event naturally alarmed Shen Junfang, and before noon, he walked step by step to Lianchenxuan.
His pale face makes people feel nervous just looking at him.
"Yu'er, Jing'er, please persuade Master Shen to go back and have a rest. Aren't you risking your own life by running around like this?" Sima Duran felt angry when she saw Shen Junfang showing up sick, but everyone
I couldn't say anything too intimate under my nose, so I had to use my two children as an excuse.
Shen Junfang coughed and smiled, holding Yi Chenyu with one hand and Yi Chenjing with the other. Without saying a word, the two children became his support, and three pairs of expectant eyes looked at them together.
Sima Duran: "The emperor is not here, so the ministers should help the former harem solve problems. Now the two palaces are encountering assassins one after another. This is unprecedented. How can the ministers just care about themselves and not come to help? Anyway, I can't go out in this body.
At most, the search can be done here to recall the clues with the two empresses, so it won’t get in the way.”
"Queen Mother, please let Uncle Imperial Master stay here. Uncle Imperial Master is the smartest and will definitely catch the bad guys."
"Uncle Imperial Master is here, so my brother and I can sleep peacefully."
With Yi Chenyu and Yi Chenjing intervening in the middle, Sima Duran couldn't refuse even if she wanted to. She glanced at Shen Junfang helplessly, slightly worried that no one else would notice.
Due to the excessive fright, Su Shiyun was always restless and in a trance. After seeing it, the imperial doctor prescribed some medicine for Su Shiyun to take. After that, Su Shiyun fell into a drowsy sleep. Sima Tulan took the opportunity to exclude everyone else, leaving only
Shen Jun sat outside and talked in a low voice.
"According to Concubine Jing, the assassin stayed outside the door for a long time, for half an hour. It can be seen that the assassin was the same as me at that time. The assassin had no intention of killing us. What I don't understand is the purpose of doing this, risking
Is the danger of beheading just to scare us?" Sima Tulan lowered her brows, puzzled.
Shen Junfang thought for a moment and shook his head: "It is somewhat possible to scare the Concubine Jing, but the Queen's courage is known to everyone in the palace. An assassin with nothing to show for it can't be frightened, so what's the use of sending her?
I think the people behind the scenes have other plans."
What's the point of sending assassins to commit crimes without killing anyone, and sending them into two seemingly hostile palaces one after another?
Before Sima Dulan and Shen Junfang could come to a conclusion after their discussion, Yao Bing's breathless voice came from outside the door: "Empress! The assassin has been found!"