Inside the Cishou Palace, all the secret guards sent by the emperor to guard the empress dowager fell, and were replaced by the empress dowager's men.
She sat on the main seat, fiddling with Buddhist beads with one hand and looking anxiously outside the hall.
Sitting below was the trembling Concubine Jiang, and behind her were several masked men in black who were guarding her, making her dare not move.
Retracting her gaze, the Empress Dowager looked at the somewhat embarrassed Concubine Jiang and said expressionlessly, "Don't blame me. In the eyes of the Emperor, the Jiang family and the Prince Wenxuan's Mansion are on the same boat. Even if you do nothing, do you think the Emperor will still believe you and let you stay out of trouble?
Now you have only one choice, and that is to move forward and backward with us."
Hearing this, Concubine Jiang, who had been keeping her head down, finally raised her head, but after opening her mouth, she only replied with a nod of "yes" for a long while.
She didn't know what else to say besides that. She never had a choice, did she?
The Jiang family rose to prominence because of the Empress Dowager. She had no choice when she entered the palace. Now that the Empress Dowager has rebelled, she still has no choice but to follow them.
However, even though she didn't know the situation outside, she still didn't have a good impression of Prince Wenxuan. It seemed that the Jiang family was doomed.
Just as he was thinking about it, the next second Princess Yonglin entered the hall with a group of seriously injured people.
When the Queen Mother saw Prince Wenxuan being supported by someone, her heart trembled and she hurried forward without even noticing that the Buddhist beads in her hand fell to the ground.
"Aze, what happened to you? Why are you injured so badly?" The Queen Mother said this, raising her trembling hand to touch his cheek, and a line of clear tears could not help but flow from the corner of her eyes.
Facing his mother whom he had not seen for many years, Prince Wenxuan could no longer suppress the bitterness and resentment in his heart, "Mother, I'm fine, but, but I was defeated after all, we..."
Unable to bear the prince's continued speech, the queen mother pulled up her sleeves to wipe away her tears and comforted him: "It's okay, we can think of another way."
The mother and daughter quickly cheered up, and the Queen Mother made a quick decision: "The best plan now is to leave the palace first. As long as we can save our lives, there is still hope."
King Wenxuan naturally understood such a simple truth, and the two of them immediately made an escape plan.
Yongjia was strangled by the assassin in palace maid's clothes all the way. His face was pale and he was thrown to the ground like a rag doll.
Fortunately, her personal maid was loyal. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she carefully moved to her side and helped her sit up. She also used a handkerchief to simply bandage her neck, which had just been cut by Yonglin with a dagger.
However, although no one was paying attention to them for the time being, the two powerless people did not dare to escape under the eyes of these villains. They could only hug each other in fear and shiver in the corner.
It wasn't until the Queen Mother and Prince Wenxuan quickly discussed and prepared to leave that the palace maid assassin who had just kidnapped her pointed at the two of them and warned, "Master, what should we do with them? Should we take them away?"
The Queen Mother frowned at the master and servant on the ground. It would be good to bring them along. At a critical moment, she could pull them out to threaten the Emperor and block the sword for them, but...
"Drag him out and kill him!" Prince Wenxuan said directly before the Queen Mother could speak.
Upon hearing this, Yongjia and his servant burst into tears out of fear. Perhaps out of desperation, even though she wasn't close to the empress dowager, she still crawled to her knees and said, "Grandmother, please save Yongjia. Don't kill him! Yongjia promises he won't tell a word. Please..."
Prince Wenxuan hadn't been around the Queen Mother for years, and fearing she might be soft-hearted, he quickly advised, "Mother, if this girl were Xiao Yongyao, we might be able to take her with us to protect her from the attacks. But as far as I know, this girl isn't favored by the dog emperor. Not only would it be useless to bring her with us, she would also be a burden. It's better to get rid of her right here."
The Queen Mother was indifferent to Yongjia's pleas for mercy and even kicked her away. She turned around and looked at Prince Wenxuan with a friendly expression, "Aze and I are of the same mind."
The female assassin understood and looked at Yongjia with sympathy. Yongjia was heartbroken and no longer crying for mercy. She waved her hand and asked two of her men to come forward and drag the master and servant out of the hall.
Perhaps they had already regarded them as dead. Before they even left the bedroom, the Queen Mother and Prince Wenxuan lifted the Queen Mother's bed, revealing the secret passage underneath, and led their men in...
Outside the bedroom, even though he knew it was impossible, Yonglin still glanced at the little palace maid beside him reluctantly and pleaded with the female assassin, "Luzhi knows nothing and is timid. Please let her go! Killing me will be enough for you to report back."
The female assassin was stunned. She paused her knife as she was swinging towards Luzhi, then sneered, "I didn't expect that the dignified Fourth Princess would actually be so loyal and righteous."
Immediately, she turned the knife that was originally pointed at Luzhi and pointed it at Yongjia again, saying jokingly, "Although I cannot promise Her Royal Highness to release her, since Her Royal Highness has asked, I must at least give her some face."
As she spoke, as if she had found something interesting, her dark eyes became more excited, and she raised the knife in her hand high, "Why don't you, Princess, die for this girl first? That way, she can live a little longer, right?"
I thought Yongjia would be so scared that she would change her mind and let Luzhi die first, but I didn't expect her to just say to Luzhi with a guilty look on her face: "I'm sorry, Luzhi. I originally thought that I would let you go free after I took you out of the palace. In the end, I broke my promise. Now, letting you live a little longer is the greatest compensation I can make. I hope you don't mind."
"Wuwuwu...Princess, Luzhi's life is worthless. It's not worth it for you to do this. Let Luzhi die first!"
Yonglin closed his eyes and stopped looking at Luzhi who was crying uncontrollably. Even though he was shaking with fear, he still held his head high and went to die cheerfully, "Go!"
Seeing that Yongjia did not do as she expected, the female assassin's perverted psychology was not satisfied and she became completely enraged. She gradually increased the force of the hand holding the knife and aimed at Yongjia's neck to chop it down.
"ah……"
Luzhi screamed in fear, but unfortunately she was restrained and could only watch the knife getting closer and closer to Yongjia, but she had no way to do anything.
“Zheng…”
Just as the female assassin's sharp scimitar was about to touch Yongjia's neck, a long sword suddenly flew out from the palace wall and hit the knife in the female assassin's hand. Not only did it knock the female assassin's knife away, but it also killed the man in black who was imprisoning Luzhi.
But it was too late after all. Yonglin's snow-white neck was still cut, and in just a moment, the handkerchief that Luzhi had simply wrapped around her neck was stained red.
As soon as Luzhi broke free from her restraints, she immediately pounced on Yongjia, who was lying on the ground, "Princess, Princess..."
When the female assassin saw the accident, she subconsciously wanted to finish off the master and servant on the ground.
Fortunately, the brave warrior who had just thrown a knife into the wall to save people arrived in time and temporarily stopped the female assassin.
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