Linzhi

Concubine An Shu smiled slightly: "Look at what my sister said, even the Phoenix Seal is in your hands, what else can I do?"

Because this place is full of female relatives, there are not many imperial troops coming over, and a small group of people is enough to completely control this place.

A servant hurried over and bent down to whisper a few words to Concubine An Shu. The latter nodded and said to Concubine Yin and the others: "It's cold now, and sitting for a long time will hurt your health. You might as well move into the hall."

Yin Guifei looked at her coldly, but did not move.

Concubine Song De looked at Concubine Yin Gui, but also did not move.

Most of the other female relatives were frightened a long time ago, and they couldn't help shrinking behind Concubine Yin.

Concubine An Shu smiled sweetly: "Why is my sister making such an expression, am I wrong?"

Concubine Yin stood up suddenly: "I'm going to see Your Majesty."

Immediately, the two imperial guards stepped forward, facing each other with their halberds facing each other, their faces stern.

Concubine Yin raised her voice: "I am the noble concubine of the current emperor, and the emperor has no order, how dare you be presumptuous!"

Concubine An Shu said softly: "Sister, why get angry, Your Majesty is not free now, we might as well go to the palace and wait for a while, when His Majesty is free, people will come to summon us."

Now that the matter has come to this point, if Concubine Yin is still unable to guess what happened, it will be a waste of her staying in the palace for so many years.

She sneered: "Mr. An, you two, mother and son, have been dormant for a long time. It's a painstaking effort to come up with today's incident, but there are four guards in the northern yamen in the palace city, and sixteen guards in the southern yamen in the imperial city." , King Qi ever held military power for a day? Do you really think you can succeed?"

Concubine An Shu smiled slightly, obviously not intending to distinguish with Concubine Yin Gui.

She raised her hand, and two imperial guards stepped forward, easily suppressed Concubine Yin's struggle, and dragged her away.

With Concubine Yin's lessons learned from the past, other people automatically follow behind without the other party's doing anything.

All the female relatives were quickly driven into the hall.

The imperial army searched around the Shicui Palace, ransacked the boxes and cabinets, and made a mess of the furnishings. Everyone trembled and dared not speak out.

Concubine An Shu said in a gentle voice: "Sister, please hand over the Phoenix Seal and return it to me."

Concubine Yin opened her eyes: "The phoenix seal belongs to the empress, why did it ever belong to you?"

Concubine An Shu: "Since the queen passed away, I have been in charge of the queen's golden seal for more than ten years. Your Majesty has praised me several times for my ability to manage the palace affairs in an orderly manner. What was my sister doing at that time? Do you worship the Buddha and chant scriptures in the Buddhist hall?"

Concubine Yin was silent.

Concubine An Shu: "My sister picked up the ready-made fruit and wanted to keep it for herself, but she didn't think about how much I had done before."

Concubine Yin: "Your Majesty has asked me to take charge of palace affairs, you can talk to Your Majesty."

Concubine An Shu smiled slightly: "My sister has not asked about matters in the palace for many years, but suddenly she became lively. I guess, King Lu has no mother, no one in the harem, so he needs to use foreign aid. What promise did he make to my sister, so that my sister is tempted?" ?"

She suddenly looked at Princess Pei: "I heard that my sister and Princess Pei are distant relatives. It seems that His Majesty really married King Lu a good wife. Princess Pei, tell me, am I right?"

Compared to other female family members, Concubine Pei seemed much calmer. She stood up and even remembered to salute Concubine An Shu. When I got married, I lived in the imperial concubine's natal family for a while, so although my late mother and the imperial concubine were distant cousins, they had a very good relationship when they were young. Before my late mother passed away, she also let me visit the imperial concubine in the palace a lot."

Concubine An Shu smiled, ignored her, and only said to Concubine Yin: "Sister, hand over the queen's golden seal, don't let me say it again."

Concubine Yin Gui said coldly: "So what if I don't hand over, if you let your Majesty come down, I will naturally... ah!"

Before the words were finished, Concubine An Shu raised her hand and gave her a slap!

The attack was so ruthless that the imperial concubine was knocked down to the ground.

The female relatives present also subconsciously screamed.

Concubine An Shu: "If you don't hand it in, I have no choice but to let them search you. Come!"

"Stop!" It was Xiao Lu, He Xiu's wife who called out first.

She is lively and active in normal times, and she speaks eloquently. No one would have thought that she would show up at this time. Song Shi was startled, and subconsciously wanted to hold her back, but the other party had already stepped out and stood in front of the noble concubine.

"The noble concubine is the head of the six palaces, without the emperor's edict, how can she humiliate people!" Xiao Lu said angrily, "Concubine Shu brought people into the palace, and forcibly asked for the phoenix seal without the imperial edict. Why, what is it!"

Concubine An Shu said coldly: "Come here, take her down and drag her out!"

The soldiers wanted to move forward, but Little Lu was not willing to obediently catch him with his arms tied up. He turned around and ran towards the crowd with his skirts in his hand.

Her movements are not slow, but it's a pity that the soldiers are tall and burly, so they are naturally faster than her.

Seeing Little Lu running in her direction, Song intended to reach out to grab her, but saw that the soldier had drawn his knife out of its sheath. The shining blade made her heart startled, and she subconsciously withdrew her half-stretched hand. , but at this time, little Lu had already grabbed her hand, but forgot that he was still holding the hem of the skirt, and stepped on the hem of the back skirt with his heel, and his whole body fell directly backward.

Before Song could see what was going on, she heard screams from all around her. Her eardrums were pierced and hurt, and she couldn't help frowning.

The next moment, she saw a scene that she would never forget in her life.

Little Lu's eyes were still wide open, but there was a knife on her chest.

She slipped and fell back just now, but the soldier didn't have time to withdraw the knife, so a tragedy happened.

Due to the rapid castration, the knife was inserted from the back and protruded from the chest. As soon as the soldier let go, little Lu immediately fell to the ground without even having time to say a last word.

Song's hand was tightly held by someone, she didn't know who it was, and she didn't have the strength to turn her head to look, she only heard herself screaming, her heartbeat became more and more violent, and suddenly exceeded her body's load, Song As soon as his legs went limp, he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

There were not a few female relatives who reacted like her, and the Shicui Palace was in chaos.

What everyone sees on weekdays is nothing more than love affairs, parents who are short-sighted, and even the intrigues in the back house for favor and status, which are all means of harming others without blood. Where have you seen such a naked, undisguised bloody scene?

"My son!" Little Lu's mother cried and rushed forward, hugging little Lu's body and weeping bitterly.

Concubine An Shu's face also turned pale for a moment, then she calmed down and asked someone to drag out the body of Mrs. Lu. The sister-in-law of Mrs. Lu's natal family was afraid that her mother-in-law would also suffer, so she hurriedly hugged the old man and held her aside.

Little Lu's body dragged a long bloodstain on the smooth bricks and stones in the hall, spreading all the way to the door.

The faint bloody smell permeated the surroundings, and many people couldn't bear it, so they covered their mouths on the spot, almost wanting to vomit.

Without saying a word, Concubine Yin took out the embroidered pouch containing the gold seal from her bosom, and handed it out with slightly trembling hands.

……

A lot of juniors came to pay their respects today, and the emperor also forgot how many people he had received. After waiting for a wave of people, the emperor felt a little tired after drinking the medicine, so he wanted to take a nap and told Ma Hong that he would not see anyone again.

The imperial physician increased the dosage of calming herbs in the medicine. In the past few days, the emperor could basically fall asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, and he was in good spirits, so he was able to wake up so early today.

At this moment, he felt as if he had just lay down and was shaken awake by Mahone.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Ma Hong's voice was a little flustered.

After sleeping for a long time, his hands and feet felt a little weak. When he was suddenly woken up, his heartbeat accelerated. The emperor had to use the willpower he had cultivated over the years to forcefully open his eyelids.

"...why?" His voice was hoarse.

"The villain seems to be a little abnormal in the transfer of personnel outside, and there are too many people patrolling outside the Zichen Palace!" Ma Hong whispered.

The emperor suddenly woke up: "Where are the people outside Zichen Palace?"

Ma Hong hurriedly said: "The people outside the Zichen Palace didn't move, they were still His Majesty's personal soldiers, it was the villain who just took a wrong look, the people who used to patrol every two hours changed twice in just half an hour."

The emperor rubbed his face: "Where's Ji Zuo? Where's Cheng Yue? One of them must be here today, call him over."

Ma Hong responded, and was about to be summoned when he heard voices coming from the door.

He went out to have a look, but it was King Qi who had been ill in bed and hadn't even entered the palace today to pay his respects.

"Your Highness!" Ma Hong ran over with small steps, "Why are you here?"

He hadn't seen King Qi for a while, the latter was pale and a little thin, just because of his illness a few days ago, but his appearance was still neat and tidy.

"I have something important to report to His Majesty, please pass it on quickly!"

Ma Hong's heart skipped a beat: "What's wrong?"

King Qi stamped his feet: "King Wei rebelled and imprisoned King Lu in Taimiao. After I heard the news, I hurried into the palace!"

Even if Ma Hong followed the emperor, he could be said to be well-informed. When he heard the news suddenly, he couldn't help being shocked and lost his sense of control: "This, this...you come with me!"

King Qi and Ma Hong rushed to the hall one after the other.

The emperor was taken aback when he saw this: "Why is King Qi here?"

King Qi fell to his knees and panted, "Father, something is wrong, King Wei has rebelled!"

The emperor only felt buzzing in his ears, and his vision blurred. He wanted to stand up, but he couldn't stand up, and fell backwards.

"His Majesty!"

"Father!"

Ma Hong and Qi Wang rushed forward to support the man, so that the emperor could not fall down.

His chest heaved violently, and the emperor took a breath and asked, "How do you know about this?"

King Qi said: "Elder brother went to Taimiao today to offer sacrifices. I was unable to accompany him due to illness, so I asked Dalang to attend on his behalf. Dalang has a long follower with good skills. I let him follow Dalang on weekdays. See you too Just now he hurried to the palace, saying that King Wei teamed up with Li Kuan, Marquis of Zhenyuan, to surround the Taimiao, and the long follower slipped out halfway because he wanted to relieve himself, luckily he was not caught, so he hurried back to report the news !"

The emperor pondered for a moment, and said to Ma Hong: "Go and call Ji Cuo or Cheng Yue over immediately, strengthen the defense of the palace city, close the nine gates, and prevent idlers from entering or leaving at will!"

Ma Hong hurriedly took the order and left.

King Qi said worriedly: "Father, if Li Kuan is in charge of the sixteen guards of the Southern Yamen, if he really puts all his eggs in one basket and joins King Wei in rebelling, I'm afraid the Beiya's manpower alone will not be able to defend it!"

The emperor rubbed his forehead, only to feel that his head started to hurt again: "Li Kuan doesn't have a tiger talisman or a hand edict, so he can't mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Nanya. At the last stop, his plot was self-defeating, it is impossible for everyone in Nanya to obey Li Kuan's orders..."

King Qi panicked: "Then, what about the eldest brother, Da Lang is still in their hands..."

The emperor sighed: "I know that in recent years, King Wei has not been as low-key as he appears on the surface, and his involvement in the Chen Wuliang case is indispensable, but everyone has selfishness, and there is only one throne. You are willing to settle down, I I will turn a blind eye and close one eye, and leave you two good fiefdoms."

King Qi lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeves: "Father, the child is not filial, so you have to worry about it!"

The father and son waited for a while, and the emperor frowned: "Why hasn't Ma Hong come back yet?"

King Qi: "Son, let someone go and see!"

He was about to get up when he saw Cheng Yue stepping in, saluted and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me for coming late, just now there were soldiers gathered outside the palace city to mutiny, I have dealt with it properly, and all the nine gates have been closed!"

Emperor: "Where is Ma Hong?"

Cheng Yue: "Someone came to report just now, saying that Concubine Song De was kidnapping the noble concubine in order to plot wrongdoings. It is inconvenient for me to set foot in the harem, so I asked Ma Changshi to lead people there."

The emperor frowned: "Why did I hear the movement of soldiers fighting outside? Could it be that another soldier mutinied? As for Ji Zuo, he used to be on duty in the palace every Chinese New Year. It's impossible that he didn't come this year. Go call him come over!"

Just as Cheng Yue was about to speak, King Qi gave him a wink, Cheng Yue kept silent, bowed and withdrew.

The emperor said: "Where are the noble concubines, I will go and have a look!"

King Qi hurriedly said: "Father, your dragon is not in good health. If you have anything to do, you should tell your son to do it! Concubine Song De is a girl, even if she persuades the maids and eunuchs to rebel with her, it will not be a big deal. With Ma Hong, the noble concubine It will probably be safe and sound."

The emperor frowned and said nothing.

King Qi observed his words and continued: "In my opinion, King Wei and Concubine Song De must want Concubine Song De to take the phoenix seal to control the inner court first, and then open one of the city gates to welcome the rebels into the palace. Take it here. Father, why don't you write an edict to Cheng Yue and let him go to suppress the rebellion, so he is famous..."

At this moment, there was a faint scream from outside, although the sound was small, it also spread into the apse, causing the expressions of Emperor Wende and King Qi to change.

"No!" Emperor Wende said suddenly.

King Qi's heart skipped a beat, and he had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, Emperor Wende stared at him closely, and asked, "Where is Ji Zuo, where did he go? Why is only Cheng Yue here!"

Qi Wang forced himself to be calm: "I hurried into the palace when I heard the news from the chief follower. How did I know the whereabouts of General Ji? Maybe he was obsessed with ghosts for a while and plotted against King Wei..."

"Impossible!" Emperor Wende didn't even think about it, "Ji Cuo was single-handedly picked by me. He is loyal and upright, and he will never betray me!"

Contrary to his tiredness and rudeness these days, even his eyes became bright, and for a moment, King Qi almost returned from the energetic emperor of the previous day.

"You said that King Wei and Li Kuan conspired against each other and imprisoned King Lu, but King Lu is not yet a prince, and I am still in the palace city. What is the use of them arresting King Lu? Is it possible that they still want to use this to force me to surrender? Give way?" Emperor Wende looked at King Qi, and said word by word, "If I were King Wei, I would buy off the people in the palace first, control the inner court, and hold me firmly in my hands. Then internally and externally, this is justified!"

In the freezing and snowy weather, King Qi was sweating profusely and his face was pale.

Emperor Wende said coldly: "It seems that I have guessed correctly. It is neither King Lu nor King Wei who plotted rebellion, but you, King Qi!"

King Qi was slightly startled, and all his fears turned into determination to break the boat. He took a deep breath, but calmed down.

"Father is wise, now that Miyagi is under my control, Li Kuan has no tiger talisman and hand edict, nor has he the right to mobilize troops and horses, why don't you just give up the big position to your son, and my son swears to God, it will be like before Filial piety to you, serve you as the Supreme Emperor, and take care of you for the rest of your life!"

Emperor Wende: "Cheng Yue must have been used by you, and Ji Zuo must have been brutally murdered by you, but it is impossible for Cheng Yue to completely control the four guards of the Beiya. Is there only one Cheng Yue who can rely on it? Not to mention all the imperial guards in the palace city, at least 23% of them are loyal soldiers!"

King Qi: "That's right, but the guards outside the palace were all taken care of by Cheng Yue. The rest of the people either couldn't see you with their own eyes, or didn't know what happened. Ji Zuo is dead. As long as Cheng Yue is around , coupled with your seal, they will easily be coerced and become a righteous army against the rebels. If Li Kuan doesn't move, if he dares to act rashly, the name of the rebels will be the first to be impounded by him head."

Emperor Wende closed his eyes: "You have grown up, and you know how to set up such a game, even I almost fell into your way."

King Qi: "In this case, you should rest assured that you will pass on the position to me."

He lifted up his robe and knelt down straight: "Father Mingjian, my son has never thought of disrespecting you. This is all due to helplessness. I also promise that after this incident, if eldest brother and Shiro are willing to submit to me , loyal, and I will definitely not harm their lives."

Emperor Wende looked at him: "Among the three of you, you are indeed the smartest. From the case of Chen Wuliang, I can see that, but these clevernesses are all petty cleverness, and they cannot make it to the big stage."

King Qi's complexion changed slightly, and he couldn't help but said: "Father has always been unfair to me. If I can deceive you today and prevent you from noticing this in advance, it means that I have come out of the blue! Forgive my son for saying something disrespectful. Yes, you were also in the wrong position back then, your son just imitated, if I am smart, then you are great wisdom?"