Zhuifeng landed steadily on Zhao Yiming's raised hand, and only flew out of the hall again after Zhao Yiming took the letter off its feet.
Zhao Yiming quickly scanned the contents of the letter and handed it to Tian Mingwu, "Father-in-law, this is An An's letter to report that she is safe."
Tian Mingwu took the letter and saw with his own eyes that it said they were all fine. Only then did he finally let go of his worries and thought that he should show the letter to the emperor first.
Fortunately, the emperor did not blame her. After reading the letter, he praised her repeatedly with joy, "Not bad, not bad. A true father is as good as his daughter! You are worthy of being the Lady Protector of the Nation, whom I personally confer."
Tian An briefly described what had happened in the letter. After they captured the former general, they tortured him and lit the signal flare on his body.
Therefore, the sound of fireworks that King Wenxuan heard was actually set off by Tian An. His purpose was to make King Wenxuan think that his people were controlling the people outside the palace, thus revealing his true identity.
The emperor was so furious that he ordered the letter to be shown to Prince Wenxuan, which really made him collapse and start to go crazy.
"Why, why, on what basis? I've been planning this for so long, carefully planning it, why is it still not working..."
Looking at his mad appearance, Tian Mingwu laughed heartily, "Prince Wenxuan, just because you have done so many evil things, there is no way that God can help you. You are so petty and mean, and you treat human life as worthless. For someone like you, it is the mercy of the Emperor to let you live."
With Tian Mingwu taking the lead, the civil officials began to become restless again, talking to each other one after another, and they almost wanted to pin King Wenxuan to the ground with words and morality.
Prince Wenxuan could no longer bear it and suddenly rushed towards the emperor with a knife in hand, "You bastard emperor, give me your life. Even if I die, I will take you with me."
At the same time, the people around him also raised their swords and started slashing around wildly. The ministers who had been acting so arrogantly just now were instantly frightened and screamed.
"Ah! Someone is killing someone, stop them quickly! Protect the emperor! Help!" The scene became chaotic again.
In the chaos, Zhao Yiming and Tian Mingwu, father-in-law and son-in-law, worked together to stop Prince Wenxuan who tried to get close to the emperor many times.
Under the siege of the two, King Wenxuan suffered a lot of injuries, and his originally gorgeous and exquisite robes were stained with blood.
"Your Highness, let's retreat first! As long as there is life, there will be hope!" Seeing that the situation was not right, his confidant hurriedly advised.
Prince Wenxuan looked unwillingly at the emperor who had not been affected at all from beginning to end, and was reluctant to speak, which made his confidants extremely anxious.
Finally, when their men were suffering defeat after defeat, the confidant finally saw him nod.
The confidant breathed a sigh of relief and quickly called back the scattered officers and soldiers who were fighting. Everyone rushed to the door of the hall together.
However, the entrance was firmly guarded by Tian Mingwu's soldiers, so they had to take a gamble if they wanted to get out. By the time they finally broke through the layers of defense, there were only a few of their men left, and each of them was seriously injured.
It would be difficult for such a team to break out of the palace at this time!
Just when a few people were hiding in an empty hall not far from Cishou Palace, facing the search of officers and soldiers outside the door, they were at their wit's end and were ready to rush out and fight them at any time.
Suddenly, the voice of a palace maid was heard outside the door.
"How dare you! My princess is resting in the palace. Can you bear the responsibility for disturbing her rest?"
"Excuse me, which princess is in the palace?" The leader happened to be Mu Chenke, the commander of the Imperial Guards.
The maid looked up, and even though she was afraid of Mu Chenke, who had hideous scars across from her, she still pretended to be a bully and said, "My master is Princess Yongjia."
Mu Chenke frowned slightly, and said in a calm but humble tone, "So it's the Fourth Princess! It's my fault for disturbing your rest, but today an assassin has sneaked into the palace, and for the greater good, please go and inform her. Please give us some convenience and conduct a routine search."
If it was something else, he would definitely turn around without saying a word and would not easily offend these princesses and princes. But today was different. Even if the Fourth Princess wanted to settle the score with him later, he would definitely search this palace.
What's more, if he remembered correctly, the Fourth Princess should be living in Fanglan Palace. There was a palace banquet today. Even if she didn't stay in the banquet hall, she shouldn't have gone to this empty palace in the opposite direction of Fanglan Palace to rest. He became even more alert.
Seeing that Mu Chenke was reluctant to leave, the little palace maid became so anxious that cold sweat broke out on her palms. She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and slapped him in the face.
"Ugly freak, I think you are just ugly and do bad things. Our princess has been resting here for a long time and has never seen any assassins. I think you have bad intentions. I warn you, if you don't leave, I am afraid that our princess will ask the emperor to chop you down."
As she spoke, she kept winking at Mu Chenke, and her pleading expression was completely different from the attitude of her words.
Mu Chenke frowned and raised his hand to touch the half of his face that was hit, and finally left in anger, waving his sleeves.
Seeing him leave, the little palace maid breathed a sigh of relief, her legs went limp and she fell to the ground.
The next second, he thought of something and quickly got up and stumbled to the side.
After walking a few steps, he saw his own princess coming out from the darkness, being held hostage by the third princess Yonglin with a dagger.
The little maid quickly stopped, knelt on the ground and began to kowtow, "Third Princess, I have done as you said. Please release my princess!"
Yonglin held the fourth princess Yongjia with one hand and held a dagger across her neck with the other. Upon hearing this, he not only did not move the dagger away, but moved closer.
"Stop talking nonsense! If you, a slut, don't obey me, I will kill you immediately."
Princess Yongjia cried out in pain, and a tiny cut was made on her smooth neck by the sharp dagger, and blood rolled out.
"No, Third Princess, whatever you want to do, I will do it. Please don't hurt my princess." The little palace maid was immediately frightened and said in panic.
Satisfied with her reaction, Eirin pointed at the door in front of him with his chin, "Open it."
The little palace maid quickly got up from the ground and did as she was told.
After the door opened, Yonglin didn't enter. Instead, she said, "Eighth Uncle, I'm Yonglin. I know you're in there. Grandmother sent me to find you. Come with me and leave here. Those soldiers will surely be back soon."
However, the room was pitch black and no one answered her, as if there was no one inside at all.
Yonglin frowned and spoke again, but still no one answered.
After a long while, just when she was about to let the little palace maid go in to take a look, there was finally movement in the room.
After a while, several people covered in blood, dressed as palace maids, eunuchs or armor, came out supporting King Wenxuan, who was also in a mess but still looked luxuriously dressed.
The young maid was terrified by these people, but despite her fear, she still carefully begged Yonglin to release Yongjia. "Please, Third Princess, release my princess. We promise not to tell anything..."
Before the maid could finish her words, a woman in maid uniform following behind Prince Wenxuan rudely took Yongjia from Yonglin and sternly warned the maid, "Shut up if you want your master to live."
Seeing her master's face pale from being pinched and almost out of breath, the little palace maid immediately covered her mouth and let her tears fall silently...
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