The dancer's assassination attempt failed, and she threw the dagger unwillingly, but missed. Situ Yao easily subdued her. In order to prevent her from committing suicide by taking poison, he ordered someone to block her mouth with something and took out the poison hidden under the root of her tongue.
The entire hall was in chaos. Situ Yao held Su Mengyan's hand tightly and scolded the eunuchs and palace maids who were frozen in fear, "What are you still standing here for? Why don't you go and call the imperial physician?"
"Father, the assassin has been caught. What should we do with him?" Situ Yao did not act on his own to avoid being criticized.
The emperor was so frightened that his face turned pale. After a long while, he said angrily, "Kill them all. Leave no one alive."
Situ Yao couldn't really kill them all. He ordered the guards to take away all the assassins disguised as dancers. Looking at the person lying on the ground surrounded by people, he frowned and said, "Cui Mixue?"
Su Mengyan had seen it a long time ago, but the surprise in her eyes had not completely subsided.
It's not surprising that Cui Mixue could enter the palace, but she was able to save the emperor's life at a critical moment, so her future career is certain. She can calculate all this, and she is worthy of being a heroine.
"Why hasn't the imperial physician arrived yet?" Concubine Bai helped the emperor to the side to rest and asked loudly.
Changshun brought the imperial physician in and skillfully took the patient's pulse and stopped the bleeding.
"What's wrong?" Concubine Bai asked anxiously.
Before the imperial physician could speak, Situ Zhao said impatiently, "Why are you hesitating? Just say whatever you want to say."
"The girl is fine, she just lost too much blood. I have bandaged her wounds and she will be awake soon." The imperial physician said slowly, "What about the poison?"
"She is not poisoned." The imperial physician said with certainty.
"Quack! The dagger was clearly smeared with poison, and you can't even tell!" Situ Zhao scolded. His strange attitude made Concubine Bai frown. "Since the imperial physician said it's okay, then there must be no problem. What are you making such a fuss about? Why don't you go and accompany your father?"
Situ Zhao was still afraid of Concubine Bai, so he said a few words and left.
Concubine Bai walked straight up to Situ Yao and said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, Miss Cui belongs to the Eastern Palace. It's not a good idea to let her lie here. Why don't you take her back to the Eastern Palace to recuperate for a few days?"
"The Imperial Concubine must have misunderstood. She is no longer a maid in the Eastern Palace." Situ Yao clarified the relationship and continued, "But after all, she saved my father. The Imperial Concubine should give her a side hall to recuperate. After all, it is inconvenient for her to move in her current condition."
Cui's father also came. When he heard that Cui Mixue had saved the emperor's life, he squeezed through the crowd and rushed forward, his eyes red, acting like a loving father.
Concubine Bai coughed lightly and said, "Master Cui, if you continue to move her, the wound may open again."
Father Cui let the man go awkwardly, tears still hanging in the corners of his eyes.
"Miss Cui saved His Majesty, so she will definitely be rewarded. Lord Cui might as well go back home and wait. We can discuss it after His Majesty wakes up." Concubine Bai sent the person away and arranged for Cui Mixue to live in a side hall.
Under Situ Yao's arrangement, the people in the hall left the palace and returned home early.
"Have all the assassins been killed?" Su Mengyan asked.
"There are still a few survivors. We will interrogate them in the Heavenly Prison tomorrow." Situ Yao replied.
"This assassination attempt is really not simple, but fortunately the emperor is fine." Su Mengyan lowered her head.
Situ Yao ordered people to imprison the assassins who were left alive in the Sky Prison. What he was worried about now was that someone would rescue these assassins and try to destroy the evidence.
"By the way, Cui Mixue was injured while trying to save my father. Lord Cui has already arrived there. I'm afraid the Cui family is going to prosper."
Situ Yao said to Su Mengyan.
"I'm afraid Concubine Bai will do something we can't imagine next. She already holds a grudge against us for not being able to get Princess Yunfu to marry in place of the Third Princess. Now, do you think...will Concubine Bai let the Second Prince approach Cui Mixue in an attempt to gain the Cui family's power and the Emperor's favor?"
Su Mengyan knew that Concubine Bai was not an easy person to deal with, and she had always hoped that her son could gain more favor from the emperor, so that she could bring Situ Yao down in one fell swoop, and the position of crown prince would become her son's.
"It's very possible, but the most important thing right now is to find out the origins of these assassins. Father has always been resentful about this matter, and there's no way he'll let it go."
"But have you ever thought about this? If these assassins were hired by Concubine Bai, do you think this woman would let you find out the truth so easily?"
Just when Situ Yao was thinking about how to investigate this matter, Su Mengyan's words woke him up. Su Mengyan was right. If these assassins were really hired by Concubine Bai to assassinate the emperor, then things would be difficult to handle.
The two of them fell silent at the same time.
In the cell on the other side, the assassins who were imprisoned by Situ Yao had no chance of escaping at all. Not to mention that there were more than a dozen guards guarding the cell door, the cell could almost be described as airtight. There were no windows, and the only exit was the copper door.
The dancer who was responsible for assassinating the emperor sat there in despair. She was wearing the clothes she had worn to dance for the emperor, and her face was covered with dirty mud.
"Sister, how are we going to escape?"
The little assassin sitting aside, who was so scared that he was about to cry, looked at the leading dancer with a pair of tearful eyes. She didn't seem to have much experience in suicide, and the other people on the side also looked at the dancer with pleading eyes. It was not difficult to guess that the dancer was the leader of these assassins.
The dancer looked at them fiercely, but her eyes revealed more of a sense of shame.
"Who should I ask if you ask me? This cell is obviously different from ordinary cells. I guess the prince specially ordered someone to bring us here. Humph, the fact that we are still alive is already due to the prince's mercy. I guess when the prince comes to interrogate us in two days, if you want to escape alive, you can just tell him everything, right? That damn emperor ordered the prince to kill us all back then. It's good enough that we are still alive now, isn't it?"
The dancer seemed to be giving them some spiritual chicken soup. Although it didn't sound comforting on the surface, it wasn't an accusation to them either.
"Then our lives will be in jeopardy. Even if we escape from here, none of us will be able to survive."
Another man sitting next to her said this. This man looked very capable and seemed to have done many assassination missions like this with the dancer.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
