Chapter 108 Life and Death Uncertain
The Fourteenth Master stood in silence in the dark night, the backpack on his back suddenly felt heavy.
In fact, he knew that Ying'an was not an ordinary person.
What she thought was also what he thought.
He said: "The Great Tong is prosperous, the world is stable, and I am very happy in my lifetime."
Ying'an in the space looked at the little prodigal lying beside him, and then looked at the Fourteenth Master outside, his eyes full of eagerness to try.
Hengjun Prince's Mansion.
When Emperor Qingling led people in, Hengjun Prince was organizing people to put out the fire. Seeing Emperor Qingling, he hurried to meet him.
"I have seen the emperor."
Emperor Qingling glanced at him and said solemnly: "Where is the old Fourteenth?"
Hengjun Prince pointed to the burnt house and said carefully: "An hour ago, in here, now..."
He didn't say the rest.
Emperor Qingling waved his hand, and Wei Xin led his men to surround Prince Heng in the middle.
"You have imprisoned the royal family and harmed the heirs. Prince Heng, this time, even if the Queen Mother comes, she won't be able to save your life." Wei Xin whispered in Prince Heng's ear.
In fact, he had discovered a lot of Prince Heng's private activities in the past two days.
Prince Heng had been secretly purchasing weapons and gunpowder, and the meaning was self-evident.
After suppressing Prince Heng, Wei Xin came back, knelt down and nodded, saying: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager requests to see you."
Emperor Qingling glanced at Concubine Shu, raised his hand to wipe away the hair in front of her forehead, and slowly said: "I'll be back soon, you wait here."
After that, he said to Zong Yaozhi: "Protect the concubine."
Zong Yaozhi nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty."
After he left, Concubine Shu slowly turned around and looked at Zong Yaozhi: "You must know where Ying'an was taken, right? You are the person who knows Quan Xuezhen best."
As soon as these words came out, Zong Yaozhi's face changed drastically.
He immediately stepped forward and whispered, "Eldest sister, if someone with ulterior motives hears this, and the emperor accuses you of a crime, you will be guilty of disrespect. After all, he is the virtuous prince personally appointed by the late emperor!"
Concubine Shu Gui lowered her eyes, as if she had lost her soul, and said to herself, "What else is there to be afraid of for someone who has died once?"
She actually knew that with the Fourteenth Master around, Ying'an would be fine.
She was afraid of Ying'an alone.
But after all, she was still uneasy because she hadn't seen Ying'an with her own eyes.
She couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts. If Ying'an died in the fire, how would she spend the rest of her life?
Family affection was buried in power, love was buried in the cold palace two months ago, and she herself was buried at the moment she gave birth to Ying'an.
If she had no thoughts, she would be like a walking corpse, and death would be the only relief.
Zong Yaozhi looked at her distraught look and took a deep breath: "Don't worry, elder sister, he dare not die."
Concubine Shu raised her eyes with a light in her eyes: "I feel relieved when you say this."
Zong Yaozhi smiled bitterly and looked away.
He really understood Prince Heng. Although he was law-abiding and kept to himself, he was a dangerous person in his bones and was extremely restless. With Ying'an, a child with strange powers, I'm afraid that the fire in Prince Heng's mansion was started by them.
He ran out of the Prime Minister's Mansion in a hurry because he guessed this and deliberately led the emperor to search Prince Heng's mansion.
Prince Heng was ambitious and this was a good opportunity to kill his temper.
The relationship of Wuya clan is complicated and deeply involved, even involving the emperor and Xuezhen himself.
If it weren't for the sake of the world, he would never drag Xuezhen into this quagmire.
But Xuezhen said something that touched him deeply.
"As a member of the royal family, I don't want to marry a wife, whether I live or die. It's a pleasure to waste my life like this. If one day, I enter the court and my hands are stained with blood, then even if the late emperor is resurrected, he can't stop me from thinking about the world."
Now Xuezhen has thrown himself into the fire in order to expose the inside story of the Hengjun Palace. I'm afraid he has already prepared to be targeted by the emperor.
Xiaoyaoke.
I'm afraid there is no fate in this life.
Even he was dragged into the court and the public by an imperial edict, and he had no choice.
Outside the Hengjun Palace.
When the Queen Mother saw Emperor Qingling, she went to meet him and asked anxiously, "Where is Xuezhen? Have you found him?"
Seeing her so anxious, Emperor Qingling suddenly remembered that when he was young, he was framed by a eunuch and fell into the water, and his mother just took a look and said lightly, "Don't cry. If your father hears it, he will not come to this palace again."
The look of her anxious to cry at this moment was very different from what he saw that day.
His eyes were heavy: "Life and death are uncertain."
After saying this, the Queen Mother almost fainted.
The nanny quickly stepped forward to support her. The Queen Mother slowed down a little, and threw herself on Emperor Qingling with all her strength, raising her hands to hit him again and again, crying bitterly.
"Go and save him, go find him quickly, if he dies, I won't live alone... I'll leave you alone in the world, growing old alone, wasting your life!"
She pulled very hard. She
pulled so hard that Emperor Qingling's dragon robe was wrinkled.
The nanny pulled the empress dowager with all her strength, raised her eyes and said: "Your Majesty, the empress dowager is just too worried, so... Your Majesty, please don't blame me, I will take the empress dowager back to the palace now."
Emperor Qingling was unusually calm.
She lowered her eyes and looked at his wrinkled dragon robe, slowly: "It is because of you that the brotherhood between him and me is so weak that it can't be defeated. If he is not dead this time, I will kill him myself."
After that, he went straight into the Prince Heng's Mansion.
The nanny was in a panic: "Queen Mother, you shouldn't poke the emperor's sore spot. What if he really killed the Fourteenth Master?"
The Queen Mother looked at Emperor Qing Ling's back and said solemnly: "If he can find Xue Zhen, I have a way to protect him."
She knew her son best.
Even though he was unwilling, what he longed for most in his heart was the mother-son relationship.
She could coax him to change his mind with just a few words.
The Prince of Heng's Mansion was raided overnight, and the Prince of Heng was imprisoned. Everyone in the capital was in danger, especially the officials who were close to the Prince of Heng's Mansion. They were afraid that they would be implicated like the Jiang family before, and had already begun to arrange where their children would go.
In a wooden house outside the city.
The Fourteenth Master was eating dry food while looking at Ying'an in the basket. She was sleeping soundly and blowing bubbles from time to time.
A two-month-old baby didn't look like someone who could say the words of universal peace.
But the next moment, Ying'an's voice suddenly rang out: "Uncle Fourteen, you've been staring at me for so long, aren't your eyes tired?"
The sudden voice scared the Fourteenth Master so much that he almost threw away the dry food in his hand. He looked at Ying'an in the basket again, and she was still resting with her eyes closed.
The Fourteenth Master took a few steps back and said solemnly, "Where did you come from, girl?"
Ying'an laughed and said in the Heavenly Palace, "I just came back from the Prince Heng's Mansion and finished the finishing work. Uncle Fourteen, you can only work for me now. You are now an illegal resident." Upon
hearing this, the Fourteenth Master frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
At the same time, in the guest house in the capital, Wei Xin knelt down to report.
"Your Majesty, the Prince Heng's Mansion found the Fourteenth Master's body, and as for the princess... the search is still unsuccessful..."