"Tsk, there are so many men in the world, do you think I will hang myself on a little tree like yours?"
"Shh..." Nangong Jie suddenly signaled her to be silent.
Duoduo sat up straight and saw a woman walking out of the village.
The two of them couldn't help but feel disappointed, because the woman had taken her clothes out to dry them, and because the cottage was full of weapons, they had to set up bamboo poles outside to dry their clothes.
"Hey, what if we guess wrong? Sooner or later, the officers and soldiers outside will attack and demand people."
"Don't worry, no matter how cunning a fox is, there will be times when it shows its tail. Besides, we told the door owner that we want to cooperate, and that person must be eager to inform the people outside."
"Oh, I hope so. I don't want to stay here and feed the mosquitoes."
The two of them were talking in a low voice. Suddenly, the woman drying clothes opened a piece of dry cloth in the basin and took out a white pigeon!
"We can't let that pigeon fly away, otherwise we will all finish playing!" Duoduo said with a panicked look.
Nangong Jie's face turned pale: "Oh no, we didn't bring a bow!"
At this moment, the woman had already picked up the dove and threw it up, and the dove flapped its wings and flew up.
"Whoosh..." Duoduo grabbed a small pebble under his butt and flicked it out!
With a "pop" sound, the pigeon fell and landed three meters away from the woman.
The woman was so frightened that she immediately ran over and tried to take out the note tied at the pigeon's feet and swallow it, but unfortunately, she had no chance.
The Queen had already taken the dove in her hand first.
"Hmph, you are so brave!" The master of the Sword-Forging Sect came out with a group of subordinates.
The woman was so frightened that her face turned pale and she begged loudly for mercy: "Master...please spare me, I am helpless..."
"Spare you? Humph, if the queen and the fifth prince hadn't come to tell you in time, I would still be in the dark. Tell me, have you leaked our gradual essence to the emperor?"
"Master, please spare your life, Master..." The woman's face had completely lost all color. Maybe she had seen the King of Hell and waved to her again.
After the prisoner's wife was executed, the sect master's attitude towards Nangong Jie suddenly changed 180 degrees, and he welcomed them into the village again and treated them as honored guests.
"Your Majesty, thanks to your clever calculation this time, otherwise we would never have thought that she betrayed the Sword Making Sect."
Just when the officers and soldiers stationed outside the Qinghe River Valley wanted to enter the Qinghe River Valley to rescue people, they found that the queen and the fifth prince had walked out. Liang Ran also used rattan and tree trunks to carry a large wild boar. Watching the footsteps,
It's not a light walk.
The officers and soldiers were happy, and the tense atmosphere was relieved. The Prince of Persia ran over and kicked the big wild boar. He laughed and said: "Not bad, you actually hunted the wild boar. Tonight, soldiers
It’s a real treat.”
Naturally, Duoduo and his party were not in the mood to stay in the camp and eat wild boar meat. Instead, after eating something for a while, they quickly returned to the capital.
Outside the Jade Dragon Palace, there were many civil and military ministers standing. Duoduo and Nangong Jie were about to go in to visit, but Nangong Jie was stopped.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Your Majesty has ordered that no one can come in and disturb you except the Queen."
Nangong Jie had no choice but to stay outside. When he turned around and took a look, he found that those who couldn't go in included Nangong Ao and even Situ Nan, the celebrity next to the emperor.
"Fifth Prince, look at this situation, why are you so nervous?"
"Brother Bo, come and take a step to talk..."
Nangong Jie took the Persian cat to a place with few people, and said with a smile: "Brother Bo, can I lend you your soldiers?"
"What?" said the Persian cat, "Are you kidding?"
"Am I joking?" Nangong Jie said: "I said with a smile because I didn't want others to know that the two of us were plotting something big. Haha, looking at the situation in front of us, the emperor probably won't live long. If they are brothers, then
Help me and make a bet, okay?"
The Persian cat couldn't help but feel horrified. This was no small matter. He actually came to ask him to send troops to help with a smile... "How about it? Will you help me with this or not?" Nangong Jie still asked with a smile.
"Ah ha ha ha ha..." the Persian cat suddenly laughed and said: "Okay, okay, that's it, see you later!"
"Thank you, Brother Bo!"
Nangong Ao and Situ Nan watched the two men standing aside and laughing nervously. They didn't know what they were doing, so they didn't pay much attention.
After the Prince of Persia left the palace, he said to Zilan beside him: "You continue to stay in Prince Jie's Mansion. I will be back soon. Be careful and don't create any trap for me!"
"Yes, Master..." Zilan said cautiously.
Duoduo walked into the Jade Dragon Palace and found that the Minister of Rites, the Prime Minister, and the old doctor were also in the palace. Concubine Yan and Concubine Ming were kneeling in the middle of the palace. Nangong Ming was standing directly above the palace with his back to everyone, looking at
The ancestral tablets are in a daze.
"Your Majesty, do you feel better now?"
Nangong Ming turned around when he heard Duoduo's voice.
Duo Duo's scalp became numb for a while, and Nangong Ming's face was thin, his eyes were sunken and his eye sockets were dark, and yellow spots appeared on his hands.
"Queen, are you afraid?"
"Your Majesty, why is this happening?" Duoduo really couldn't bear to see him become like this. Although he threatened her with the lives of Nangong Jie and her son to let her stay with him, his love for her was also true.
.
Seeing Duoduo's eyes full of concern and nervousness, Nangong Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Fortunately, fortunately, my queen really cares about me, but you guys!"
As Nangong Ming spoke, he suddenly shouted at Concubine Yan and Concubine Ming: "You two bitches actually teamed up to plot against me. I must execute you Ling Chi!"
When Nangong Ming became angry, his face suddenly turned extremely pale, and he could hardly even stand still.
"Your Majesty!" Duoduo quickly supported Nangong Ming, and several adults also ran over to support him.
Duoduo said anxiously: "Physician, why don't you control the emperor's condition?"
"Queen, my ministers are incompetent. The emperor's poison is too deep, and the medicine has no effect..." The eunuch said and started to cry.
Concubine Yan and Concubine Ming suddenly stood up and ran out, because they knew that if they didn't run, they would die.
"Bitch!" Nangong Ming suddenly broke away from everyone's support, used up his last strength, chased out after a few steps, stretched out his hand to grab the two women's necks, mustered up all his strength and squeezed hard.
"ah!"
The cervical vertebrae of the two women were immediately severed and they died immediately.
"Ah? Your Majesty..." Duoduo ran over to support Nangong Ming and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down. Your health is important!"
"Empress...Empress..." Nangong Ming reached out and touched Duoduo's face, and his body suddenly went limp and he became unconscious.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you, Your Majesty!" Duoduo carried Nangong Ming to the dragon couch with all his strength. The imperial doctor came over to check his breathing, quickly opened the acupuncture box, took out the longest silver needle, and inserted it straight from Nangong Ming's Zenith point.
of insertion.
As the needle went in, Nangong Ming slowly opened his eyes.
The imperial doctor cried: "Your Majesty, I am incompetent. If you have anything to say, just say it..."
Everyone knows that the effect of this injection has brought back the benefits, and everyone feels sad for this.
Nangong Ming lay on the bed, raised his hand with difficulty, touched the tear-stained face, and said softly: "Queen, are you...crying for me?"
"Your Majesty..." Duoduo held back her tears, but her tears kept flowing.
"Enough, enough..." A smile appeared on Nangong Ming's face: "Although I failed to capture your heart successfully, at this moment, you can shed tears for me, and I am already...satisfied...satisfied!
"
Seeing that Nangong Ming was having more and more difficulty speaking, the imperial doctor cried again and reminded: "Your Majesty..."
Nangong Ming suddenly gasped for air, his limbs began to twitch, and with the last bit of strength, he said, "Li... Nangong... Jie is too... too..."
Before he could finish the word "prince", Nangong Ming kicked off his legs and passed away.
"Your Majesty...ah..." The imperial doctor and the two adults knelt down at the same time, with their heads on the floor, and could not stand for a long time.
Duoduo began to calm down. After all, people have passed away, and those who are alive must work hard to live!
The prime minister stood up slowly and ordered the eunuch: "Let the world know that the emperor has passed away!"
"Yes, Prime Minister..." Eunuch Li walked out in panic.
"Come back!" Duoduo shouted urgently.
After Eunuch Li heard this, he came back and said: "Queen...please express your condolences..."
"Prime Minister, please listen to me once. Your Majesty, I cannot pass away for the time being!"
"This..." The Prime Minister and the Minister of Rites were stunned.
Duoduo said: "If the news of the emperor's death comes out and the world has not had time to be disrupted, our Southern Dynasty will be the first to start civil strife. If I am not wrong, Nangong Ao and Situ Nan are already ready to seize the status.
We have prepared so much that once the emperor dies, a bloody battle will be inevitable."
"But if the fact of hiding the emperor's death is known in the future, how will I explain it to the world?"
"Explain? Prime Minister, a true man should act informally. Think about it, what will happen if Nangong Ao seizes the Nine Dragons Jade Seal? As the emperor and the courtiers, I am afraid that not only this palace will suffer.
, even you loyal people will be persecuted one by one by Nangong Ao's gang members."
The Prime Minister couldn't help wiping his sweat and said: "What the Empress said is very true. Fortunately, the Empress reminded me, otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous. It's just that the matter was concealed for a while, but not for the rest of my life. The Emperor will die and will be buried sooner or later."
"Three days!" Duoduo said: "Prime Minister, you should immediately revise a letter, stamp it with the seal of Jiulong, and send a letter to the general at the border to return to Beijing quickly. Three days is enough. We only have to wait for their troops to enter."
Only by capturing the city and suppressing that Situ Nan can the emperor's last words be made public, and Nangong Jie be made the crown prince. Only by choosing a day to ascend the throne and inherit the throne can we avoid the disaster of destroying the country!"
"Yes, empress!" The prime minister and the Minister of Rites moved the bodies of the two women aside and then followed the queen out of the Jade Dragon Palace.
Nangong Ao and others were waiting anxiously outside the Jade Dragon Palace. When they saw Duoduo walking out with two ministers, they asked anxiously: "How is my father?"
The imperial doctor said: "The emperor is indeed seriously ill and has... rested."
"Father is seriously ill? No, I'll go in and have a look!"
The imperial doctor hurriedly said: "Second Prince, the Emperor is ill. Now that Concubine Yan and Concubine Ming are with you, don't worry. You won't be disturbed easily."
"Get out of the way! I don't need your guidance when doing things!" Nangong Ao said and tried to force his way in.
Duoduo stretched out his hand and blocked his way: "Second Prince, the words of the imperial physician are my words."
"You want to stop me? I'm afraid you don't have the qualifications!"
"Are you qualified now?" Duoduo pulled out the sword that Nangong Ming had been wearing with a clang, put it on his neck and said: "The emperor asked me to come out with this sword, just to tell you,
Now he needs to rest in peace and recuperate, and you can't let you in to disturb him. If anyone wants to force his way in, don't blame me for not showing mercy!"
Situ Nan also asked: "What's going on? Prime Minister, Minister, is the emperor really seriously ill?"
"General Situ, it is indeed the case." The Minister of Rites said, looking at the eunuch Li Eunuch and saying: "Eunuch Li, why are you stunned? Have you forgotten what the emperor ordered?"
Only then did Eunuch Li come to his senses, cleared his throat and said: "The Emperor has decreed that from today onwards, I will not go to court due to physical discomfort. The Prime Minister will take care of all matters in the court, large and small, for me. You must obey the Prime Minister's arrangements."
, if there is any disobedience, the crime is the same as deceiving the emperor and resisting the decree, and he will be executed!"
Nangong Ao knew this woman's temperament. If he dared to break in, her head would really be cut off.
"Ao'er, don't be impulsive. Since it is the emperor's wish, we can only obey. We will wait until the emperor recovers."
The Prime Minister also said: "General Situ is right, everything will be decided after the Emperor recovers. Colleagues, starting from tomorrow, I will have the Prime Minister to do the work for the Emperor in the morning. Don't be late."
Seeing that the situation was like this, everyone had no choice but to obey the emperor's instructions and leave.
After Nangong Ao and Situ Nan returned to the General's Mansion, the more they thought about it, the more something went wrong.
"Uncle, I think my mother may be under house arrest!"
"Yes, I think so too. The problem is that the woman Qian Duoduo holds the emperor's sword in her hand. It's not easy for us to get in. So, we have to think of other ways."
When Nangong Ao heard what Situ Nan said, he suddenly realized: "Yes, that Eunuch Li is most greedy for life and afraid of death. As long as we find a way to capture him and torture him, he will confess in less than half a day! We don't want to do it now!"
Knowing my father's situation, I'm afraid of forcing my way in, in case my father convicts me..."
Situ Nan no longer had time to think so much and said, "Go ahead and find a way to catch that eunuch!"
For two days in a row, although the morning court went as usual and everything in the palace was in order, everyone in the court was worried. After feeling dull, there was a possibility of thunder and rain.
Prime Minister Duoduo mobilized the emperor's personal soldiers to guard the Jade Dragon Palace tightly. Not even a fly could sneak in. What she was worried about now was when the border general would be able to return to the capital.
"Mother, what's wrong..." The Minister of Rites came in and whispered: "General Ning at the border led an army of 200,000. On the way back, he was ambushed by multiple armies. It seems that there is nothing we can do for a while.
I'm back in a hurry, what can I do..."
"Don't panic. The only thing we can do now is to stay calm. Apart from that, there is no other way. No matter what, we must not let Situ Nan know about the emperor's death..."
"Yes, I understand."
"By the way, where is that Eunuch Li?"
"Isn't he in the Jade Dragon Palace?"
"Oops..." Duoduo's face suddenly turned pale: "That bastard, if he is caught and tortured, he will betray everything!"
Duoduo said: "Eunuch Li was probably captured by Nangong Ao. Alas, I should have thought of this, that slave who is as timid as a mouse!"
"There is nothing we can do if we are anxious. I have brought back all the soldiers who camped in the Qinghe River Valley, just outside the city."
"How many?"
"About eight thousand."
"Eight thousand?" Duoduo sighed and said, "A glass of water can't extinguish the fire. I think you should hurry to Xiangyun Palace and take your son out of the palace first, and find a place for Jin Lian to take him with him. In case we have a bad boy, let him
Jin Lian raised our son."
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
"Where are you going?" Following Nangong Ao's strange cry, countless officers and soldiers surrounded him from all directions. The one who caused the most headache was Situ Nan.
No matter how arrogant Nangong Ao was, it was just arrogance, but Situ Nan followed the emperor to conquer everywhere, and his skills were extraordinary. As soon as the grandeur of a general appeared, it completely blocked the light of Duoduo and others.
"Second, brother emperor, you brought so many people here to surround the Jade Dragon Palace, aren't you afraid that your father will accuse you in the future?"
"Hahahaha..." Nangong Ao raised his head and laughed wildly: "Stop pretending here. You are so brave. You actually murdered my father and lynched my mother and Ming Fei. Today, I will let you
You must pay with blood!"
"No one is allowed to move. If anyone dares to mess around, I will stab him to death with a sword. Your Majesty is fine now. Don't listen to that eunuch's nonsense!"
"Stab? You stab, how many can you stab?"
Situ Nan raised his hand and threw Eunuch Li in front of everyone.
"My Majesty, help me, my Majesty..." Eunuch Li had been beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He crawled over and hugged Duoduo's legs to beg for mercy. It looked like he was a little crazy.
Duoduo said: "General Situ, Nangong Ao is ignorant. Could it be that you are also so ignorant of propriety?"
"Property? Madam, for the ministers, I worry about the emperor's safety day and night, so today I just want to take this opportunity to see the emperor without making any noise. Isn't it also inappropriate to do so?"
"No, the emperor has ordered this palace. Apart from the prime minister and the Minister of Rites, only the imperial physician can enter. No one else can be seen."
"Okay, since my father won't let me see you, let's forget it. However, if you say that what this eunuch said is false, then please go in and call my mother out. I have something important to tell you."
"I'm sorry, the emperor is in a critical situation now. He has ordered Concubine Yan and Concubine Ming to be with you at all times!"
"Hmph, you have a lot of money. Do you think it will be useful if you continue to pretend at this time? Come on, rush in!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" After hearing the order, a large group of soldiers rushed forward and fought with the group of soldiers from the Jade Dragon Palace... Soon, a soldier ran out from inside and said: "It's not good.
Your Majesty, Your Majesty has passed away, and the two empresses are also dead!"