Chapter 295: Help from a Noble Person

The dagger pierced Xiao Jingheng's chest directly.

But the blade seemed to be blocked by something hard and did not penetrate.

Just because of inertia, the skin on Xiao Jingheng's chest was scratched.

The blood instantly dyed Xiao Jingheng's pajamas red.

He was almost sober, and taking advantage of the brief moment of hesitation, he kicked Qu Yanran and sent her flying off the bed a dozen feet away.

Yaopin was also shouting for help.

"Someone come! There's an assassin! Protect the emperor!"

The guards guarding outside the door came in one after another at once. When they saw Xiao Jingheng was injured, they were all terrified.

At this moment, Qu Yanran could no longer pose any threat to Xiao Jingheng.

She ran quickly to the window, and Concubine Yao, who was standing beside her, suddenly remembered to "rescue the emperor".

She threw herself at Qu Yanran and started fighting with her.

However, Qu Yanran stabbed her back, leaving a deep cut on her palm.

By the time the guards reached the window, Qu Yanran had already jumped out of the window and disappeared into the lake.

The cabin was in chaos, Xiao Jingheng shouted angrily:

"Go after them! Leave them alive!"

The imperial physician who was accompanying him rushed in and urgently treated Xiao Jingheng's wound.

Fortunately, his chest was only a superficial cut and was not serious. However, Concubine Yao's hand was seriously injured. The wound was very deep and hurt the tendons. She needed a lot of treatment.

But Concubine Yao didn't care about her own situation at all. Instead, she kept asking Xiao Jingheng with red eyes,

"Your Majesty, are you okay?"

Xiao Jingheng frowned and stared at her, "Why are you hiding in the closet?"

Yaopin stammered, "I... I think something is wrong with Qu. She is a foreign woman, and I am worried that she will do something improper to the emperor, so I don't care about the rules of a concubine. Please punish me, Your Majesty..."

What she said was not entirely true, and anyone who heard it would know it was a lie.

But in the final analysis, she was also credited with saving the emperor, so Xiao Jingheng did not delve into the matter.

"Forget it, let the imperial physician treat your hand first."

The guards who were on patrol on the ship today were all taken to the deck and beaten.

The governor and a group of Lin'an officials on the boat also knelt on the ground, trembling with fear and kowtowed to Xiao Jingheng to apologize.

Today's situation was extremely dangerous, and Xiao Jingheng was also very angry.

"You picked all these women, so how come there were assassins mixed in?"

Then he looked at Jiang Deshun again.

"How do you manage to be a eunuch? You don't even know the details of the person sent to the emperor? How did she bring the dagger in?"

Xiao Jingheng became more and more agitated, and the wound on his chest that had just been bandaged started bleeding again, staining the gauze red.

"Everyone must investigate this matter today! Who selected Qu and who was responsible for bathing and changing her clothes? Put all the people involved in the matter in jail and torture them severely. We must get the truth out of them!"

Seeing the courtier still kneeling before him, he became even more angry and shouted:

"Still kneeling here? Get out of here!"

After sending everyone away, the ship began to dock at full speed towards the shore.

Xiao Jingheng lowered his eyes and looked at the jade pendant with dragon pattern that Song Zhao had given him.

There was a flaw in the middle of the jade pendant, and it was this thing that had just blocked a fatal blow for him.

Thinking about it now, he still feels scared.

I can't help but think of the "charlatan" Tan Yuezhi whom I met in Suzhou before.

The donor Zhi once spoke without thinking and predicted that he would encounter a bloody disaster during his southern tour, but fortunately, he had the help of a noble person and was able to escape danger.

At the time, Xiao Jingheng thought it was just a trick of swindling people by some underworld sorcerer, but now thinking about it, it has come true one by one.

He held the jade pendant in his hand and rubbed it, thinking silently:

Could it be that the noble person that the donor mentioned who could help him escape danger was Song Zhao?

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Second watch,

Song Zhao, who was pregnant, had already rested in Xianyu Villa.

But because it was the early stages of pregnancy and it was hot summer, she slept very lightly.

'Bang, bang, bang'

A few chaotic knocks on the door completely interrupted her peaceful sleep.

"Yunshan, who is knocking on the door so late?"

Soon, she heard Rong Yue's voice.

"Zhao'er!"

When he stood up, Yunshan had already brought Rongyue into the inner bedroom.

Rong Yue looked very flustered and was sweating all over, as if he had been in a hurry.

"Sister Rong? Didn't the emperor allow you to stay at your mother's house tonight? Why are you here in the middle of the night?"

"Zhao'er, something big has happened!"

Rong Yue sat on the edge of Song Zhao's couch, holding her hand and said anxiously:

"The Emperor was assassinated!"

"What?"

Song Zhao was also shocked when he heard this. Rong Yue then told Song Zhao in detail about the thrilling scene that happened on the ship, and then said:

"The emperor was furious when he came back and punished many people. My father was also urgently summoned to see the emperor because of this incident. I heard that the emperor was in danger this time, but Concubine Yao somehow hid in the closet in the cabin and happened to see this scene, and saved the emperor by accident."

She let out a long sigh and tightened her grip on Song Zhao's hand.

"But the biggest contributor is not her, but you."

"Me?" Song Zhao frowned in confusion.

She did not board the ship tonight because she knew that the Lin'an officials would arrange for local women of appropriate age to serve Xiao Jingheng.

She didn't want to spoil Xiao Jingheng's fun, so she went with the flow and did Concubine Yao a favor.

Now that it was Concubine Yao who had done the meritorious service in saving the emperor, why would this matter be linked to her?

Rong Yue saw her bewildered face and explained in detail.

"Do you still remember the dragon-patterned jade you gave the emperor on New Year's Eve? The emperor values ​​his relationship with you and wears it every day. Today, that witch tried to assassinate him, stabbing the emperor's heart with a dagger, but it was your jade pendant that blocked the fatal blow for the emperor, so the emperor only suffered some superficial injuries..."

He lowered his voice and said, "I remember you once told me that when we were in Suzhou, a fortune teller said that the emperor would encounter bloody disasters during his southern tour, but with the help of a noble person, he was able to turn the disaster into a blessing. Now it seems that the 'noble person' was you. This is a good thing for you."

Good thing?

Rong Yue thought it was a good idea, but when Song Zhao heard it, he felt that it was very mysterious.

Song Zhao is not like other people who would simply think that it is God's mercy when they get benefits.

She had crawled out of that kind of hell on earth when she was young, so she understood the truth that my fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of God.

Song Zhao firmly believed that good things like pie falling from the sky would not fall on anyone for no reason.

Now that Xiao Jingheng was being plotted to be assassinated, all the favorable factors behind the scenes were on her side, which made her even more defensive.

She frowned, slowly raised her eyebrows and looked at Rong Yue, and asked solemnly,

"Sister, do you believe in divination?"

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