Eunuch Quan came to the door in a hurry and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"

Ever since Emperor Jingxuan was poisoned last time and Eunuch Fu sided with Princess Jingning and made great contributions in protecting the emperor, Eunuch Quan has almost become a invisible person around Emperor Jingxuan.

Now that he finally got first-hand information, he naturally wanted to show his respect in front of Emperor Jingxuan.

"What's the matter?" asked Emperor Jingxuan.

Eunuch Quan stepped inside, bowed, and said, "The Queen Mother has been assassinated!"

Emperor Jingxuan's expression changed: "Is the Queen Mother injured?"

Eunuch Quan hurriedly said, "I heard that Lord Wei arrived in time and the Queen Mother is fine."

Emperor Jingxuan felt relieved and said calmly, "Back off."

Eunuch Quan was stunned.

Is that it?

Why not send him to the palace gate to greet the Queen Mother? Or wait until the Queen Mother returns to Yongshou Palace before reporting to His Majesty? Eunuch Fu glanced at him indifferently.

Eunuch Quan retreated unwillingly.

Emperor Jingxuan picked up the memorial he had just reviewed halfway and said, "Announce Wei Ting."

Wei Ting escorted the empress dowager back to the palace. When he heard that Emperor Jingxuan summoned her, he came immediately.

"Your Majesty." Wei Ting bowed.

Emperor Jingxuan looked at the bloodstains on his clothes and shoes and asked calmly, "I heard that the Queen Mother was assassinated, and it was you who showed up in time and drove away the assassin. Do you recognize the other party's identity?"

Wei Ting shook his head. "No, that group of assassins were very cunning. When they saw they couldn't win, they fled on their own. I was worried that it was a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, so I didn't dare to chase them rashly."

Emperor Jingxuan asked, "Why are you nearby?"

Wei Ting said solemnly: "I met a senior fellow from Huguolong Temple at the door of a medicine shop in the evening. He told me that Abbot Yuan was ill, so I went with him to visit him. Halfway there, I heard the guards shouting 'Protect the Queen Mother'."

Emperor Jingxuan's expression did not change at all: "I heard that you also saved Qin Canglan's granddaughter?"

Wei Tingjun's face sank: "It was too dark, I couldn't see clearly... I thought she was the Queen Mother's maid... If I had known it was..."

He didn't say anything else.

But from the look of regret on his face, anyone could guess that he didn't want to save the Qin family at all.

Emperor Jingxuan asked Wei Ting to go back first, and then called the commander of the imperial guard over.

"Can we find out who did this?" he asked.

The commander of the Imperial Guard knelt down and apologized, "Your Majesty, we have lost the clue..."

Emperor Jingxuan frowned: "What do you mean the clues are gone?"

The commander of the Imperial Guard said with a stiff upper lip: "After Lord Wei and his men repelled the assassins, they escorted the Queen Mother back to the palace first. We loaded the bodies of the two assassins onto horses and planned to bring them back to see if we could find any clues on their bodies. But...but that group of people actually came back and took the bodies away..."

A dark alley.

A carriage braked at a sharp turn, and the people in the carriage fell out with a thud.

Then he jumped up angrily, pointed at a black-clothed and masked driver and said, "Hey! Yuchi Xiu! Do you know how to drive a carriage?"

Yuchi Xiu said in a dignified manner: "You can't sit still, blame me!"

"Isn't it because you didn't untie me?"

"Won't you loosen up?"

Of course Fusu would relax, this broken rope couldn't tie him up, but we haven't reached the destination yet, we have to complete the show!

Fusu was a loyal secret guard who absolutely obeyed his master's orders.

Yuchi Xiu is different. He is used to being cunning and lazy. Wei Ting can't see him, so what's the point of his acting?

"I'm leaving!"

Yuchi Xiu threw the horsewhip into Fusu's arms and walked away with a swagger.

Fusu looked at the person carrying the load in disbelief: "Hey! Where are you going?"

Yuchi Xiu had already disappeared without a trace.

The other corpse in the carriage also easily broke the rope with its internal strength, and casually tore off its black nightgown, revealing a set of white clothes as clean as snow.

Then he put on a white hat and left without looking back.

Fusu gritted his teeth and said, "You are the only ones who will leave, right? I will leave too! I don't care anymore!"

After saying that, he threw the whip hard on the ground, shook his head, and went in another direction.

Ten seconds later.

He walked back with a dark face, picked up the whip, and drove the carriage back with resentment.

Su Xiaoxiao went to the palace again early the next morning to take the empress dowager's pulse.

After the assassination attempt last night, Wei Ting escorted the Queen Mother back to the palace. When passing by Zhuangyuan Street, Su Xiaoxiao went home on the way.

Since Wei Ting was an "outsider" there all the time, there was no private communication between the two.

The Queen Mother had been holding it in for the entire night and was almost going crazy.

"Eunuch Cheng, please take everyone out first. I need to treat the Queen Mother."

Su Xiaoxiao didn't like to be disturbed when she was treating patients. This had always been her habit, and the same was true when she was treating Emperor Jingxuan.

No one suspected anything and followed Eunuch Cheng out of the bedroom.

The Queen Mother sat on the Phoenix bed, letting Su Xiaoxiao feel her pulse while she spoke calmly: "Tell me, what happened last night?"

Su Xiaoxiao looked innocent: "What's going on?"

The Queen Mother snorted coldly: "Don't play dumb in front of me. I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice! When I was scheming, your parents were not even born yet!"

Su Xiaoxiao blinked.

Well, my previous life and this life combined are indeed not as great as the Empress Dowager’s.

Su Xiaoxiao chuckled: "Did you see that?"

The Queen Mother looked disdainful and said, "With your acting skills, do you really think I'm blind?"

But I was almost blinded by this girl's terrible acting skills.

The Queen Mother said calmly: "You also arranged the assassin, right? You are so brave! How dare you assassinate the Queen Mother of a country!"

Su Xiaoxiao sighed helplessly: "Alas, Queen Mother, I actually have my own difficulties."

The Queen Mother said coldly: "Everyone says so!"

Su Xiaoxiao said seriously, "Really? Didn't you want to ask who the father of Da Hu, Er Hu and Xiao Hu was yesterday? Where did the little princess live all those years? In the Wei family."

The Queen Mother's face changed: "What?"

Su Xiaoxiao looked at her and said, "The father of the three children... is Wei Ting."

The Queen Mother was so shocked that she sat up straight: "Wei Ting?!"

Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly said, "It's not what you think. Wei Ting is the nominal father of the three children. They are the flesh and blood of the little princess and Wei's sixth son."

Su Xiaoxiao told the story of how the little princess was rescued and brought back to the Wei family.

Although she had accepted it in her heart, the Queen Mother still felt a stabbing pain in her heart when she learned the whole truth.

The Wei family had no fault in the matter of the little princess, whether it was hiding the news of the little princess's life from her or breaking up the marriage between the little princess and Liu Lang of the Wei family.

If it were her, she would do the same.

General Wei and Madam Wei just hope that everyone can survive safely.

She is useless. She can't protect her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.

Su Xiaoxiao did not express any opinion on this point.

It’s hard to say that the Queen Mother didn’t try her best in what happened back then. Perhaps she didn’t expect that her youngest son would be so cruel and ruthless.

(End of this chapter)