When the guards outside heard someone shouting "There's an assassin" from inside the hall, they pointed their fingers at their swords and tried to get in, sweating profusely, but they were blocked by the crowd rushing out.
These were all imperial officials and their families, and they were unable to draw their swords against them.
"Ah, there's an assassin, run!" someone shouted.
"Ah, the Queen has spotted the assassin, run! Or your life will be in danger!"
"What, the Queen is dead?"
"What, the assassin's purpose is to kill the emperor?"
The rumor spread from inside the hall to outside in just a few breaths, but its nature completely changed.
By the end, everyone was shouting, "There's an assassin! The assassin is hunting the emperor!"
Everyone was talking at the same time, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
Instead, Zuo Yexuan and Jiang Qingqing looked at each other, smiled, and slowly fell to the back.
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"What did you say? There were assassins sneaking into the palace banquet? Are the Royal Guards just a bunch of useless people?!"
"Where's Zuo Yexuan? Where's General Xiaoyao? Are they all a bunch of losers? They couldn't even catch an assassin, and yet they let the assassin run and kill the emperor. What losers!"
At this time, in the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, the imperial physician had just carefully bandaged the wound on her head.
When Ouyang Lan heard the message from the person sent by Zuo Yexuan, she was suddenly startled and almost jumped up from the bed.
"Come, pass on my order. Gather all forces in the imperial city and hunt down the assassin! Protect the emperor!"
Ouyang Lan's eyes were fierce and her face was ashen.
The prince is everything to her. If the prince is really assassinated.
Well, the emperor of Xuanlong Kingdom has to be replaced.
No, no, she couldn't allow this to happen...
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