Don't go back to hometown

The tip of the knife pierced Emperor Wenqing's chest, and everyone screamed in horror.

At the critical moment, Li Yi, who was kneeling by the side, supported the chief eunuch's shoulders, spun around and flew over Emperor Wenqing, and kicked away the assassin dressed as a forbidden army, and stood in front of Emperor Wenqing.

Prince Rui didn't expect that the imperial army under his control would sneak into the assassins, he shouted: "Catch him!"

The assassin fell at King Cheng's feet, dropped his saber, and got up to escape.King Cheng kicked him into the air, and the forbidden army immediately stepped forward to restrain him, removed the assassin's jaw, and stopped him from biting his tongue to kill himself.

Emperor Wen Qing, who was half lying in the arms of the chief eunuch, was startled by this and vomited a mouthful of blood again.

"Your Majesty!" The chief eunuch wiped the blood from his lips while encouraging Emperor Wen Qing with a trembling voice, "Hold Your Majesty! The imperial physician will be here soon!"

Seeing that King Cheng and Li Yihu were standing in front of Emperor Wen Qing, even his imperial guards couldn't get close, his complexion suddenly became ugly.

"The imperial physician! The imperial physician—"

Prince Rui was about to question why the imperial physician hadn't arrived yet, but when he turned his head, he heard the clanging sound of soldiers marching outside the hall.

"There's no need to wait, third child."

King Zhong broke into the palace with a knife, and looked at everyone with a sullen face, "Today is the time for you to die, and it is useless if the king of heaven comes!"

Behind him, the imperial guards with yellow scarves on their arms poured into the hall with armor and blades.The clan officials in the hall retreated in horror and hid behind the pillars of the wall.

Seeing this scene, Xie Cheng and Jiang Xianyu pulled each other back to the side of Emperor Wen Qing.Fang Zhizhou also followed, knelt beside Emperor Wen Qing, and helped the chief eunuch to support him.

Shen Zhui grabbed the abandoned prince by the collar and pulled him to hide at Emperor Wenqing's side.The deposed prince was forced to let go of Empress Shen's body, and looked at the loyal king with red eyes: "Li Shuo! How dare you force the palace to rebel?!"

King Zhong sneered, with a contemptuous look on his face: "Yo, the boss is here too! Just in time, it saves me the time of going to the cold palace to collect your body."

"You bastard! You bastard who killed your father and mother!" The waste prince cursed sharply, and even wanted to pounce on him, but was grabbed tightly by the ugly-looking Shen Zhui.

King Zhong's expression darkened, his eyes swept across the hall, and fell on the wife and children of the abandoned prince who were huddled in the corner.

Immediately, the imperial guards rushed forward and pulled them out, raised their knives and chopped off three heads amidst the woman's screams and the deposed prince's roar.

Blood splattered everywhere, and the deposed prince immediately stopped talking, and fell to the ground as if lost in his soul, his red eyes dripping with tears.

"Who else wants to try, I don't mind sending him on the road first." King Zhong looked around the crowd with a sinister and terrifying expression.

Clan relatives and courtiers hugged their heads and shrank, silent like cicadas.

"Ahem..." Emperor Wenqing barely sat up with Fang Zhizhou's support, and looked at King Zhong through King Cheng and Li Yi who stood in front of him.

"Hey, father, are you still alive?" Zhong Wang couldn't help laughing twice, looking crazy, "That's just right, so that I won't go to war to wash the forbidden palace with blood. You wrote the imperial edict, and I will send you on your way."

King Zhong beckoned, and someone behind him immediately brought a pen and ink and a blank volume of imperial edict.

At this moment, Emperor Wenqing was so angry that he could not even catch his breath, so he could only look at King Zhong with a gloomy expression.

Jiang Xianyu and Xie Cheng exchanged glances calmly: It seems that King Zhong has made up his mind to kill his parents, kill his feet, and seize the throne by bloodwashing the forbidden palace.

The Yellow Turban Imperial Army brought by King Zhong stepped forward holding a blank edict, while the Imperial Army in the hall resisted with their knives, and couldn't help looking at Prince Rui, waiting for his order.

The scene froze for a moment.

"Why, third brother still wants to struggle to the death?" King Zhong smiled lightly.

Prince Rui, who had been silent since King Zhong broke into the hall, raised his eyes to look at him: "It doesn't matter who is dying."

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of fighting against each other outside the hall.

King Zhong suddenly turned his head, and the subordinates guarding outside the hall suddenly rushed in: "My lord, the forbidden army has betrayed us, we are surrounded!"

"Impossible! The Imperial Army has already been captured by this king—" King Zhong's pupils startled, he turned and gritted his teeth and looked at Prince Rui, "So that's how it is! It turns out that Third Brother is waiting for me here!"

He thought he had instigated against the imperial army under Prince Rui's control, but he didn't expect that the other side would stage a trick against him.

It was only now that Prince Rui showed an expression that he was sure of winning, he raised his hand and pointed his fingertips to order the imperial guards behind him: "Catch the traitor Li Shuo, and those who resist in the corner - kill!"

The forbidden army who received the order immediately rushed forward to fight with the yellow turban forbidden army brought by King Zhong, and joined forces with the forbidden army outside the hall.

Everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief, and surrounded Emperor Wenqing with relaxed expressions.

Jiang Xianyu glanced at the immovable Li Yi, then looked at Prince Rui who chased King Zhong out of the palace, and finally squeezed Xie Cheng's hand quietly.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole is behind, but Li Yi has not moved yet, probably because he wants to be the one who hits the oriole with a slingshot.

Xie Cheng turned his head to look at him, and pulled him behind him.

The sound of fighting outside the hall lasted for half an hour before it stopped, and the smell of blood rushed straight into the hall.

Emperor Wen Qing slowly recovered his breath, and glanced coldly at the people in the hall, his eyes repeatedly lingering on the abandoned prince, King Cheng and Li Yi, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while, Prince Rui walked into the hall carrying the head of King Zhong, holding a bloody long sword in his hand.

The female family members in the palace screamed, not knowing whether they were startled by King Zhong's head, or because they were frightened by Prince Rui's blood-stained appearance.

At this time, Prince Rui was not as gentle and modest as before, he threw the head of King Zhong into the hall, and looked coldly at Emperor Wenqing who was behind King Cheng and Li Yi: "Father, the traitor Li Shuo has been executed, everything has been cleaned up outside. .”

Everyone immediately showed the expressions of the rest of their life after the catastrophe, and the chief eunuch quickly ordered the little eunuch who was huddled in the corner: "Quick! Send the imperial physician!"

"Wait!"

Prince Rui suddenly made a sound, picked up the blank imperial edict prepared by King Zhong on the ground, and walked towards Emperor Wen Qing step by step: "Father wrote the imperial edict, and I will invite the imperial physician to diagnose your pulse."

The chief eunuch was stunned, his expression was ugly: "His Royal Highness, what do you mean?"

Prince Rui looked at Emperor Wen Qing who had remained silent all this time: "Isn't Father the clearest about what this king means?"

"Does the third brother want to follow the example of the sixth brother to force the palace to rebel?" Cheng Wang was full of anger, and stopped Prince Rui.

Prince Rui: "This king is just asking my father to appoint a crown prince. The elder brother has been deposed, and this king is the oldest. He has shared his father's worries for so many years, so he is not worthy of the position of crown prince?"

Li Yi asked back: "The third brother's move is no different from that of the sixth brother. How can he be worthy of the crown prince?"

Prince Rui laughed lightly and said, "Ninth Brother, don't think that you can ride on this king's head because of your merits in disaster relief. When this king was doing things for your father, you were still peeing your pants!"

He threw the blank imperial edict and brush at Emperor Wenqing's feet, "Write it, Father."

Then he turned his head and ordered the imperial army behind him: "Go to the imperial study and get the jade seal for the emperor."

Emperor Wenqing glanced at the blank edict on the ground, raised his eyes to Prince Rui, and said in a hoarse voice: "As expected, I read correctly, you and the sixth child...are the same."

Prince Rui's complexion changed, and his expression suddenly became fierce: "What does Royal Father mean by these words?"

Emperor Wen Qing closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said, "You were the one who inflicted the poison today, right? You have worked so hard to pretend for more than [-] years, but today you are still showing your true colors."

He opened his eyes, and the old and cloudy eyes showed a savage light, "You are like the sixth child, vicious and vicious, greedy for power and power, only have the supreme power in your eyes, and treat the people like ants."

Jiang Xianyu raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Emperor Wenqing to see through Prince Rui's nature long ago.

However, Jiang Xianyu thought sarcastically, isn't Emperor Wenqing himself such a person?

"It's just that...you are more calculating than Lao Liu, good at disguising, hypocritical and cunning, and sanctimonious."

Every time Emperor Wenqing said something, Prince Rui's expression became even more ugly.

"Royal father thinks that by belittling my son-in-law, he can slander my son-in-law and commit poison? Can he erase the achievements I have made over the years?!" Prince Rui's face was grim, "So what if my son-in-law is the same as the sixth son? He is already dead. Now, and I am your last choice, is it possible that you still want to choose the two of them?!"

Prince Rui pointed to Prince Cheng and Li Yi: "A reckless man, a trash, if you are not afraid of subjugation, you can choose them to try!"

"Presumptuous!" Emperor Wen Qing snarled angrily, but coughed violently, as if he wanted to cough up his heart and lungs, and blood overflowed from his throat again.

Prince Rui looked at him coldly: "Father, your time is running out. If you insist on not writing the imperial edict, after your death, I will have to clear the obstacles before ascending the throne."

When speaking of the latter sentence, Prince Rui's eyes swept over the faces of Prince Cheng and Li Yi.

King Cheng looked ugly, but Li Yi remained motionless.

At this moment, a long whistle came from outside the hall, and Li Yi raised his eyebrows and smiled suddenly.

He kicked the writing brush under his feet towards Prince Rui: "Third Brother Bujiao, don't worry, you should keep this brush and write the confession in the imperial prison."

"You—" Prince Rui was startled, suddenly realized something, and immediately turned his head to look outside the hall.

The loyal king and the traitor party have already been cleaned up, why hasn't his people come in to report?

He didn't know that when he was showing his true colors and arrogantly forcing Emperor Wenqing to write the edict, a silent "rebellion" and strangulation happened quietly outside the palace.

At this moment, the sound of uniform iron armor resounded outside the hall.

"Gyeonggi Guard Xu Jing came late to rescue him, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Holding a long spear, Xu Jing led a team of Gyeonggi Guards into the main hall, and put the tip of the spear to Prince Rui's neck, "Disarm and don't kill, Your Highness Prince Rui."

At the same time, the two imperial physicians brought by Xu Jing hurried forward to give Emperor Wenqing a pulse.

Prince Rui firmly held the sword in his hand, looked at Xu Jing with eyes wide open: "How dare you betray this king?!"

Xu Jing was unmoved, and brought the tip of the spear a little closer, cutting through the flesh around Prince Rui's neck, "You are you, Mingya is Mingya, the end will be very clear."

He likes Ming Ya, but because of this, he will not help the evildoer to oppress Prince Rui's palace.

At the very beginning when His Majesty asked him to marry Mingya, he had hinted that Prince Rui was not the candidate for the heir apparent, and he betrothed Mingya to him in the hope that he could protect Mingya.

Xu Jing originally didn't intend to agree to this marriage, until he met Mingya and fell in love with him gradually...

He doesn't take sides with any prince, he only cares about Mingya.

Even if Mingya will hate him after tonight.

On April 19th, 27th year of Wenqing, King Zhong and King Rui held a banquet at the Longevity Palace to force the palace to rebel.King Zhong was put to death, Prince Rui was imprisoned, Empress Shen died, Emperor Wen Qing was poisoned and paralyzed in bed.

……

In the palace of the Taihe Palace, Emperor Wenqing lay on his back on the bed, his breathing was deep and shallow, sometimes cloudy and heavy, and sometimes breathless.

"Old Nine..."

"My son is here."

Emperor Wenqing called Li Yi to the bed and asked him, "Do you... want to be emperor?"

Li Yi was silent.

Emperor Wenqing reached out to him, and Li Yi raised his hand to hold him.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Wen Qing tightly clenched his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "Get rid of the Jiang family for me, and I will let you be the emperor!"

Li Yi was stunned for a moment, then chuckled suddenly, let go of Emperor Wenqing's hand and stood up, condescendingly looking down at Emperor Wenqing who was paralyzed on the bed.

"Father, it doesn't matter what you say now, so don't be brave."