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Chapter 50 Assassinated

The journey was non-stop, and it took more than half a month to arrive at Bianliang City.Three miles away from the outskirts of the city, Xue Liang ordered his subordinates to enter the city and notify the inner palace so that all the ministers and royal family members would put on a parade of honor to welcome them.Originally, because Zhao Zhen's trip solved the major treason case of Prince Chai's mansion, the ministers proposed to go out of the city to welcome them, but the Empress Dowager Liu snorted and said no, saying that it was wrong for the emperor to go out of the palace privately, and it was not worth it to be in danger. Going out of the city with great fanfare to welcome them, just waiting in front of the palace gate is enough to save face.All the ministers didn't dare to say more when they heard it, knowing that the Empress Dowager was still angry with the Emperor, and thinking that Bao Zheng of Kaifeng Mansion was fined half a year's salary for this matter, they all promised to agree.

Zhao Zhen received the imperial edict from Empress Dowager Liu outside the city, and he also smiled wryly, thinking that the empress would have to be criticized by the empress when she went back and forth to the palace.Because Zhan Zhao was going to enter the city, it was inconvenient for Zhan Zhao to stay on the imperial row, so Zhao Zhen agreed to move him to the accompanying carriage, but insisted on sending Xue Liang to accompany him to take care of him.After everything was properly prepared, the party drove into the city.

I thought that since there was no guard of honor, it would be a low-key entry to Beijing, but as soon as they entered the city, the group was blocked by the people.After some inquiring, I found out that somehow, a few days ago, there were rumors that the emperor was out of the palace and suffered a disaster, and by chance, the rebellion in the Chai Palace was suppressed. Those deeds were compiled vividly by storytellers. The whole Bianliang talk after dinner.Among them, the image of Zhan Zhao and others being witty, loyal and brave, and the emperor emphasizing love and righteousness was once widely circulated, attracting the admiration of the common people.The news of this time's return spread like wildfire again, so many people crowded to the outer city, firstly to see if Master Yu Maozhan, who always guards the capital, is safe, and secondly, to see this dearest love The real face of the emperor of Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Liu, who was waiting in front of the palace gate, frowned fiercely after hearing the news, fearing that something might happen to the swarming crowd, so in addition to sending Jingji Guards to accompany her for protection, she also sent Imperial Forest Army to guard both sides of the Imperial Road along the way to watch the excitement crowd security.Along the way, from the bustling outer city to the inner city, it is comparable to a parade to worship the sky.

"Hey, is it that people from all over the capital came to watch the excitement? Why are the people in Bianliang City so gossip?" Xue Liang couldn't help but wondered when he saw countless people gathered around the imperial road from the car window.Hearing people outside the car constantly yelling "Master Zhan" and "Guard Zhan", Xue Liang finally understood Zhan Zhao's popularity in the capital. "I'll go, there are also people throwing flowers and purses at our carriage." Xue Liang turned to stare at Zhan Zhao with strange eyes, and suddenly put his hands together, and sang a Buddhist mantra like a monk. "Amitabha, sin, sin...."

Perhaps it was because of the noisy crowd outside that Zhan Zhao, who had been in a coma for more than a month, suddenly woke up with his eyelids moving.

Xue Liang caught a glimpse and was immediately overjoyed: "Guard Zhan, that's great, you finally woke up."

Zhan Zhao wanted to move his body, but felt that his body was too heavy to lift up. "……What is wrong with me?"

Xue Liang hurriedly comforted him, and told him what had happened these days as briefly as possible.After Zhan Zhao heard this, he felt a bit dazed, and it took him a long time to say, "So, we've returned to the capital now?... Your Majesty is safe and well... That's great." A faint smile floated on his face, As if the first snow melted, Xue Liang's heart warmed when he saw it.

"Guard Zhan, don't talk, you are seriously injured and need to rest. Oh, by the way, that Zi Jin left this when he left, saying that he will give it to you when you wake up." Xue Liang turned around and walked away. He took out an object wrapped in a long strip of cloth from a dark compartment in the car, opened it and looked, it turned out to be Zhanlu Sword.Back then, when Zhanlu left behind on Haoshan Mountain, Zi Jin snatched it back when he sneaked in.

Zhan Zhao gently brushed the blade of the sword with his fingers, his eyes filled with relief.Just as he was about to tell Xue Liang to take a closer look at this "old man", he suddenly heard a horse neighing, and the carriage stopped abruptly.

"What's the matter?" Xue Liang was about to get out of the car to have a look, but was pulled by Zhan Zhao. He waited to listen again, and there was a sound of sword clashing outside the car.Then there were screams and shouts of "Assassin, escort".

"How could it be?" Xue Liang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, thinking that Zhao Zhen was still alive and dead in the eight steeds in front of him, he couldn't help but wanted to rush out to escort him.

"Give me the sword."

Xue Liang was stunned for a moment, seeing that Zhan Zhao was trying to prop himself up, he quickly leaned over to hold him down.With a tangled look on his face, he said: "No, Zhanwei, you are seriously injured, and there must be no more injuries."

"Xiao Xue is right. Zhan Huwei, don't be brave anymore."

The curtain of the car was lifted suddenly, and a figure came in, it was Zhao Zhen.Fearing that Zhan Zhao would be injured, he rushed to the back compartment regardless of the danger, but was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhan Zhao was awake.

Seeing Zhao Zhen coming, Xue Liang said happily, "Your Majesty, are you alright?"

"I'm fine. The Jingji Guards have blocked the assassins in the outer circle, and now I'm only worried that those assassins will harm the people around." Seeing Zhan Zhao's worried look, Zhao Zhen knew that he was worried about the situation outside, so his expression turned serious, and he turned around. And stretched out his hand to Xue Liang. "Give me the sword." Xue Liang handed it over without thinking, but Zhao Zhen pulled Zhan Lu out, got out of the carriage again and stood firmly on top of Che Shi.

"Zhao Zhen's thief is there, come on!" The assassins seemed to have found their target, and frantically rushed towards Zhan Zhao's carriage, but they still couldn't break through the tight protection of the Jingji Guard.Seeing the companions around him fall down one by one, the assassin leader roared. "Prepare to release arrows!" But seeing all the besieging assassins step back a few steps, they took out small guns behind themselves with their left hands, and shot towards Zhao Zhen one after another.

"Escort!" The commander of the Jingji Guard took the lead to shoot down the rain of arrows, but a few of them missed and shot at the onlookers. "Oops!" Zhao Zhen yelled that it was not good.He picked up his proficient Qingling swordsmanship and chased after him, a few sword flowers split off the arrow body.Zhao Zhen fell into the crowd, raised his head and said anxiously to the few people who were close to suffering, "Are you all right?"

"No...no, nothing, it's okay." Several ordinary people had no idea that the dignified emperor would rescue them in person, and they were all taken aback for a while.

When Zhao Zhen turned around on Che Shi again, real anger was already on his face.

"Soldiers of the imperial forest army, listen to my orders, protect the people to evacuate slowly, and organize them not to mess up. Listen, even if you die, you must protect the people behind you with your chest. If another person is injured, I only ask you .”

"Jingji Guard listened to the order. I don't need so many people to protect me. Half of them were assigned to stop the fleeing assassins to prevent them from hurting innocent people."

"But Your Majesty..."

"You don't need to say too much, just follow the order." Zhao Zhen glared fiercely at Liao Guang, the leader of the Jingji Guard who hesitated to speak.

On the other hand, Liao Guang was embarrassed, and he still insisted: "Forgive me, the general will not be able to obey the order, the safety of your majesty is the most important thing."

"What did you say?!"

"Your Majesty has no one to guard him. If an assassin takes advantage of the opportunity to sneak up on him, he will die unforgivably."

Zhao Zhen was still about to get angry, but saw the curtain of the car lifted again, and a long and tall figure slowly emerged.The people who were about to evacuate around saw the commotion and excitement after seeing it, and they shouted loudly. "It's Guard Zhan!" "Guard Zhan is really here." "It's all right now, those thieves can't hurt us." "Guard Zhan took action, haha, those Xiao Xiaoxiao are easy to catch."

As soon as Zhan Zhao got out, his body swayed slightly, and he immediately supported the roof of the carriage with his hands to stabilize his figure.Zhao Zhen knew that his physical condition was so bad that he was barely able to stand up, so he glanced at Zhan Zhao worriedly, but he couldn't match Zhan Zhao's relieved eyes.Zhan Zhao turned to Liao Guang and said, "Commander Liao, with me here, you can take orders with confidence, right?"

Seeing Zhan Zhao's pale and sickly face, Liao Guang wanted to argue something, but after touching his resolute eyes that were as bright as stars, he dispatched some of the Jingji Guards, the leader, to capture the assassin.Perhaps, the existence of this young guard is a miracle in itself, and the involuntary is the sincere belief in it.

Dou Da's sweat dripped from his forehead, and his breathing gradually became heavy during the long standing. Zhan Zhao was so tired that he almost passed out, but his expression was still as firm as ever.Seeing that Zhan Zhaoren seemed to be about to collapse, Zhao Zhen hurriedly grabbed him from behind without a trace.Zhao Zhen stared at Zhan Zhao's side face, almost unable to move his eyes, but he knew that there was a burst of pain in his heart: "Guard Zhan, what do you think?"

"It's okay... I can last for a while."

Zhao Zhen blamed: "You shouldn't come out. Your current body can't stand half of the toss."

"If I don't come out, how can Commander Liao be willing to accept His Majesty's will? Even...he knows that His Majesty is right, he dare not take half a step away from His Majesty's side." The haggard beauty that has never been seen before, that kind of beauty made Zhao Zhen momentarily infatuated.That's right, Zhan Zhao himself is full of magical powers. Even though he can't move a step at this moment, even if he finds it difficult to move his fingers, as long as he is here, everyone believes that things can be easily solved with him.

Another wave of arrow rain hit, Zhan Zhao instinctively wanted to block in front of Zhao Zhen, but Zhao Zhen grabbed him, grabbed his waist and spun into the air to avoid it.When it fell again, Zhao Zhen kicked the last assassin down.Seeing that Zhan Zhao was about to lose his hold, Zhao Zhen hurriedly helped him into the carriage.

"Guard Zhan, are you okay?" Watching Zhan Zhao faint again from panting, Zhao Zhen was completely confused when he found out that Zhan Zhao's pulse was out of order, and shouted at Xue Liang. "Go! Go back to the palace immediately!"

The imperial street is facing the gate of the imperial palace, and at this moment, there are many honor guards and many officials, large and small.Standing at the forefront was the Empress Dowager Liu E. When she learned that the emperor had been assassinated again, she was so angry that she ordered many officials to investigate the matter thoroughly.And as the situation subsided, the people who had been waiting for nearly two hours finally arrived at the gate of the palace.Those eight steeds stopped in front of Empress Dowager Liu in an even and stable manner, and the royal family and ministers who followed behind knelt down to welcome the holy driver.

It's just that after shouting long live three times, there was no movement on the Xingyuan.Everyone was busy and saluted again to meet him, but there was still no response.It wasn't until Empress Dowager Liu sent someone to lift the curtain that they found that the carriage was empty.

"What's going on here?" Empress Dowager Liu angrily asked the attendants who followed her.I saw one of them shaking his body, kneeling on the ground and reporting back: "Return to the Queen Mother, Your Majesty... Your Majesty, let Eunuch Xue... drive into the palace from the Huayang Gate in the southwest of the palace."

Yes, Zhao Zhen and the others are already in the palace at this moment, he doesn't know how serious it is for him to hang everyone in front of the main palace gate and pick up an empty driver, but at the moment his heart is full of Zhan Zhao's thoughts. Safety, how can we still care about those so-called red tape?

The palm holding the gold medal was sweating slightly, and the light car drove all the way to the imperial hospital without any hindrance, but Xue Liang's anxiety reached the extreme. He felt that he must be crazy, so he would accompany Zhao Zhen for a while everyone.Thinking of the thunderous anger Empress Dowager Liu might have, he felt his scalp go numb, and he thought about how to calm the matter down.

Huayangmen was not far from the Imperial Hospital, and when he saw it, Xue Liang immediately stopped the car and informed the emperor in the car.Seeing Zhao Zhen hugging Zhan Zhao and wanting to get off the carriage, he hurriedly reached out to pick him up, but he didn't expect Zhao Zhen to step aside and jump off the carriage with Zhan Zhao in his arms.

"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate, let the slaves send Zhan guards in for treatment." Xue Liang chased after him and shouted.Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhen turned a deaf ear, hugged the person in his arms tightly, rushed all the way into the Imperial Hospital, and shouted "Dong Imperial Doctor" loudly.Many imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital rushed out upon hearing the sound, and were shocked to death by the sight in front of them.

Seeing this, Imperial Physician Dong quickly stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Zhen's sleeve and asked, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

"Quick! Let's see what happened to Guard Zhan." Zhao Zhen said anxiously.

"Your Majesty, please come with me." As soon as he turned around, he saw a group of imperial physicians were startled from ear to ear, Imperial Physician Dong hurriedly shouted: "Don't you need to do anything?!" After finishing speaking, he led them into a room in the room.

Zhao Zhen carefully put Zhan Zhao on the bed, and urged Imperial Physician Dong to diagnose and treat him.After a long time, Imperial Physician Dong raised his head and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty. Although Guard Zhan is extremely weak, it must be that the prescription of Divine Physician Lu has taken effect, and there are already signs of improvement. It's just that his current body can no longer withstand any pain." After tossing, remember to absolutely rest afterward, and absolutely don’t work any more.”

With the assurance from Imperial Physician Dong, Zhao Zhen was relieved.It was just a moment of peace of mind, but when I heard "The Empress Dowager arrives" outside, I was so frightened that I was stunned for an instant.

"What can we do? How did the Queen Mother come so quickly?" Zhao Zhen was in a hurry.On the other hand, Xue Liang had an idea, pulled Zhao Zhen and lay down on another soft couch.After Empress Dowager Liu entered the house, she saw Imperial Physician Dong sitting beside Zhao Zhen to feel her pulse.And Zhao Zhen's face was pale, with cold sweat rolling on his forehead, and his expression was painful, as if he was suffering from some kind of illness.

Empress Dowager Liu originally came to ask for accountability, but judging from the current situation, she only thought that Zhao Zhen was ill and was in a hurry to get a diagnosis and treatment.Caring has long surpassed everything, and the moment of accountability is completely forgotten.She sat in front of the couch, and gently wiped the sweat from Zhao Zhen's head with her sleeves. "Emperor, what's the matter?"

Xue Liang took advantage of the situation and knelt down and said: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. Your majesty's wind is caused by going out to catch the cold. I thought it was already cured, but who would have thought that it would suddenly flare up again in front of the palace gate, and the pain was unbearable. So did the servant. As a last resort, I sent His Majesty to the Imperial Hospital for treatment."

"Is that so?" With puzzled eyes, he inadvertently glanced at Zhan Zhao who was lying on another couch.Empress Dowager Liu got up slowly, and said to Imperial Physician Dong: "Since the emperor is not feeling well, I will trouble Imperial Physician Dong to take care of it first, and the Ai family will send someone to take the emperor back to the palace later. The dignified emperor of the Song Dynasty will leave it to the general manager of the imperial hospital." It's inappropriate."

"Yes, Wei Chen takes orders."

As soon as Empress Dowager Liu left, Imperial Physician Dong, who was the general manager of the imperial hospital, immediately gathered together all the imperial physicians who had just been there, and said sternly: "Keep your eyes and mouths in check, don't look at what you shouldn't look at, and don't say what you shouldn't say! If you let the old man If you hear half a sentence that you shouldn't listen to, you will never forgive me lightly."

The author has something to say: update two chapters in a row, it can be regarded as compensation for January. After that, I will try to update every month, but I am busy with family and work, so I can’t guarantee that I will do it. I hope that if I don’t update in time, everyone Don't blame.

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