The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 93 Missy, She Doesn't Marry (23) (Part [-])
No.20 Three times - the night in the palace becomes the prince's ambition

Three months in a row passed, and it was winter in Jinling City in the blink of an eye.

The cold wind in the air is not like the northern wind, which blows on people's faces like a knife, causing pain.

In winter here, the weather is always wet and cold, and the chill always seems to want to drill into the bones of people.

For the past three months, Jinling City has been as calm as the water in the moat, without a single wave.

All the civil and military officials in court went to court as usual, and after they went down, they got back into the bed to keep warm and sleep in the cage.

The sun was rarely seen in the sky today, an old man wrapped in a padded jacket, took a small stool and placed it at the door of his house against the base of the wall, sitting and basking in the sun.

The old man squinted his eyes, basked in the warm sunshine, smacked his lips and said, "Today is really a good day."

A swordsman in black on the street happened to pass in front of the old man. After hearing this, his footsteps paused slightly.

"Today is indeed a good day."

Because after today, tomorrow's Jinling City may change the dynasty.

The old man heard someone repeating what he had just said in a trance, and opened his eyes.

But there is nothing in front of him, where is there anyone?
Could it be that my family just heard it wrong?

In the imperial palace, under the cold wind, the concubines in the harem no longer traveled far. They were all nestled in their own bedrooms, with their hands warming the stove and unwilling to go out.

It's been a cold winter this year, and people in many places don't have enough grain to survive the winter.Cold waves and frost damage have occurred frequently in various places, and next year's wheat production may be reduced.

In order to deal with these piles of political affairs, the emperor has been busy in his study until late at night.

After hastily eating dinner in the study, the emperor left the study, intending to go to the queen's palace to rest tonight.

In the palace road, four eunuchs carried lanterns back and forth, protecting the emperor in the middle.

Because the emperor himself said that he wanted to walk away, the eunuchs didn't bother to call him out.

The road from the Imperial Study Room to the Queen's Palace is not far, just turn around a side hall and then pass through a small garden.

In the dark night, the faint yellow candlelight shines through the lantern paper and sprinkles on the desolate ground.

As the emperor was walking, when he passed through the side hall and arrived at the small garden, he suddenly smelled an unusual smell.

At this moment, more than a dozen shadows shot out from all around, surrounding the five people including the emperor.

Seeing this, a eunuch yelled angrily, "Bold! Who are you, you dare to act presumptuously in the palace!"

As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, he saw a few darts attacking from all directions in an instant. The four of them hurriedly protected the emperor beside them, but they didn't realize that the darts were attacking towards the lantern.

With the "swish" of the darts, the candles in the four lanterns went out.

The place was instantly plunged into darkness.

For a moment, the surrounding air became extremely heavy and sticky, so dull that it was hard to breathe.No one spoke anymore, and the emperor could even hear his own breathing clearly.

In the darkness, he could feel that the four eunuchs protecting him were being led away by those men in black to fight.

At this time, two big hands came from behind him. This person first held down his arms, then tied him with a rope, and stuffed his mouth with a piece of cotton cloth.

The man dragged him vigorously, and kept walking towards the Taiye Pond next to the small garden.

It was mid-winter at this time, and the depth of the Taiye Pool was about several meters, and the water in the pool was freezing cold.

When the two reached the Taiye Pool, they could clearly feel a deep chill hitting their faces.

The person who restrained the emperor abruptly dragged the struggling emperor to the edge of the pool, and then pushed him into the cold water.

He knew that as long as he waited for half an hour, the emperor would be completely frozen to death or drowned in this pool of too liquid.At that time, he would go into the water to remove the rope and muffler from the opponent's body, and faked the illusion that the emperor was traveling alone in the middle of the night, but he accidentally fell into the water and died by walking to the Taiye Pool in the dark.

As long as the emperor dies, according to the patriarchal system left by Gaozu, the first heir to the throne will be the eldest prince.

In the freezing weather, the poor emperor was still struggling desperately in the water, but his struggle was futile after all, and finally his body gradually sank.

After an unknown amount of time, a swollen corpse began to gradually float up in the water.

The person who stayed in the Taiye Pool stepped forward, picked him up from the water like a dragonfly, and then quickly removed the rope and muffler from the dead emperor, and then threw the person back into the pool.

After doing all this, his figure quickly disappeared in the palace before dawn.

After about an hour or so, the distant east finally began to turn white, and the sun rose from the horizon, swaying its light and heat to the earth.

Because today is Xiumu, civil and military officials don't have to go to court, and for a while, no one noticed that the Holy Majesty in the palace had disappeared.

The concubines in the harem inquired with each other, and after confirming that the Holy One had not come from the palace, they finally concluded that the Holy One must have gone to the Queen's Palace last night, but no one dared to go to the Queen to confirm this.

At this time, the eldest prince had already entered the palace in a carriage from outside the palace.

He entered the palace today to visit his father, queen and queen, and to visit these two.

Just when he passed a side hall and was about to turn around a small garden, he suddenly changed his mind and said he wanted to go to Taiye Pond.

The eunuch who led the way did not doubt that he was there, and followed the eldest prince as usual.

But who would have thought that after a group of people came to Taiye Pool, they discovered that a person had drowned in the pool last night!

After taking a closer look, the First Prince was even more frightened.

Who is that bright yellow figure floating on the pool of Taiye?Why does it look so familiar?

"Come on, come on! Go and pick up the man on the water for His Highness!"

"Yes, First Prince!"

When the person next to the eldest prince jumped into the icy pool to fish out the person in the water, many court ladies and eunuchs had already gathered here, and even the empress rushed here after hearing the news.

The man who was picked up was wearing the nine-clawed dragon robe that only the Holy One could wear. Although his face was a little swollen from being soaked in water, the outline of his face could still be seen. This man was the current emperor.

After confirming that the person who died was his father and queen, the eldest prince's eyes turned red, and he knelt down beside his father, crying loudly.

"Father! What's wrong with you? My son just came to see you in the palace today! Why did you accidentally fall into this pool of Taiye?"

Weeping and crying, he looked angrily at the servants who were kneeling on the ground around him, and cursed angrily, "You dog slaves should be damned! Don't you have anyone to follow Father when he walks at night? If there is a lantern beside the emperor to illuminate the road, it will not be..."

After saying this, the eldest prince burst into tears again.

The queen who saw this scene felt chills all over her body.

She took a deep look at her own son, seeing him crying for her father, but felt a chill in her heart.

You must know that just a few days ago, when the eldest prince entered the palace, he had talked with her about the heir to the throne.

She told her son very firmly that according to the primogeniture system, if the Holy Majesty is gone, the only person who can legitimately inherit the throne is her own son.

The third prince born to that side concubine has no chance of winning the heir.

At that time, she was still afraid that her son would listen to rumors outside, saying that the Holy Majesty could live a long life after taking the magic pill, so she repeatedly warned her son to be patient.

As long as he is not good enough, he will make mistakes, and sooner or later the throne will fall on his head.

But it's only been a few days now?
In this icy and snowy place, the emperor suddenly fell into the lake and died?
Such a coincidence in time really made the queen not to think about it.

It didn't take long for the news that the emperor accidentally fell into the Taiye Pond and drowned quickly spread throughout the palace.

When the third prince heard about this outside the palace, his expression changed drastically. He immediately sent someone to prepare a car and rushed to the palace.

You must know that now that the father has suddenly passed away and the country cannot be without a king for a day, who can inherit the throne?

When the third prince arrived at the palace, he realized that he was already late.

Because some civil and military ministers in the court arrived at the palace one step ahead of him, and these people proposed that according to the patriarchal system, once the emperor is buried, the first heir to the throne is the eldest son born by the empress, that is, the current emperor. Your Royal Highness.

Although the Eldest Prince has not been conferred the crown prince so far, but this time the Holy Majesty passes away, he will ascend to the sky in one step and become the emperor directly!

In the emperor's palace, the eldest prince and the third prince, half brothers, looked at each other from afar across countless officials.The latter clearly saw the joy of achieving his ambition in the former's eyes, while the former saw the shock and disbelief in the latter's eyes.

Faced with the repeated requests from the ministers to beg him to become the emperor, the eldest prince pretended to evade it over and over again.

Until he himself knew that it was enough to pretend to be humble and show filial piety, and it was time to sit in the seat he had always dreamed of, the whole emperor's bedroom suddenly became quiet.

At this moment, the eldest prince was holding the hand of an old minister and talking, the latter was still admonishing him to be a wise king, but he nodded seriously.

But all of a sudden, all the noisy movements around him disappeared, and he couldn't help but raise his head and look forward.

This look made him weak on the spot with fright.

It's just that the big living person standing right in front of him at this moment is the Emperor who was found drowned in the Taiye Pool this morning!

How is this possible?Father, isn't he already dead?He obviously...

At the moment when his eyes met with his father's, the eldest prince had to admit that the person in front of him was his father, and the wisdom and coldness in the other's eyes told him that his father was not dead at all. .

Under the gaze of the emperor, the eldest prince finally knelt down and knelt down on the ground.

The other people in the bedroom knelt down as early as the first moment the emperor appeared.

The moment the eldest prince knelt down, no one dared to say anything.

Everyone knew in their hearts that the emperor had suddenly "resurrected from the dead" and the eldest prince was about to ascend the throne. A catastrophic event was about to happen in this palace today!

(End of this chapter)