Zhao Qiu Ming sat in a side hall of the imperial palace. His expression did not look much better than that of Emperor Xianzong. He sternly ordered the generals standing in front of him, "You must find the emperor. The secret room must be under the palace. Dig three feet deep. If we can't find the emperor, we will all die!"
Several generals agreed.
"Prime Minister," a eunuch's voice came from outside the side hall, "Lady Qiu wants to see you."
"No," Zhao Qiu Ming refused without even letting the eunuch into the hall.
"Yes," the eunuch responded.
Zhao Qiu Ming waved his hand to let the generals in front of him retreat, and then he sat alone in the side hall anxiously. Thinking of the beautiful lady Qiu who was arranged by Mo Wen to enter the palace, Prime Minister Zhao sneered again. She was just a woman who used her beauty to seduce men. How could a plaything like her want to interfere in his business?
At this time, the second and third sons of the Zhao family walked in from outside the hall. After taking a look at Zhao Qiu Ming's expression at the moment, the third son said, "Father is tired, go and have a rest."
Zhao Qiu Ming waved at his two sons and sighed.
In Luoxia Palace, Lady Qiu, who was dressed in palace clothes, heard the eunuch report that Prime Minister Zhao was not there, and waved her slender hand to let the eunuch leave. When she was alone in the palace, Lady Qiu sneered. Zhao Qiuming was just a pawn of Mo Wen, but he was pretending to be powerful in front of her. Now half of Fengjing City is still in Chengguan's hands. This Prime Minister Zhao did not want to control the entire Fengjing City as soon as possible, but instead wanted to capture Xianzong. Xianzong must still be in the imperial palace. They were just catching turtles in a jar. It was only a matter of time before they caught Xianzong. "Idiot," Lady Qiu cursed.
"With Yu Linglong and the troops of the Gu and Jiang families," Zhao Qiu Ming whispered to his two sons, "even if we take Fengjing City, we won't be able to hold it. If the emperor is in our hands, Yu Linglong might still be cautious and they won't dare to make a big move, and we'll have time to think of a way out."
"Retreat?" The second young master Zhao became anxious when he heard what Zhao Qiu Ming said. They had already started a rebellion, so what retreat did they have?
"The Temple of Eternal Life," Zhao Qiu Ming said.
The third son of the Zhao family frowned and said angrily, "Father, you shouldn't let Mo Wen manipulate you."
Zhao Qiu Ming looked at his son and said nothing. He didn't want to, but Master Mo Wen's orders were not something you could disobey just because you didn't want to. With Mo Wen, Zhao Qiu Ming had been able to dominate the Fengtian court for decades. Now he wanted to get rid of Mo Wen and set up his own faction? Not to mention that it was impossible. Even if he wanted to, Emperor Xianzong would not give him the opportunity.
Emperor Xianzong had a bitter face at this time, standing in the tunnel with his hands behind his back. The sounds of digging and excavation continued to reach his ears. When the tunnel was dug, it would be almost time for him to meet his ancestors. "I am unwilling to accept this!" Xianzong sighed to the leader of the secret guards.
The leader of the secret guards has nothing to say. It was you who chose Concubine Qiu, and it was you who valued Zhao Qiu Ming. Now you are unwilling to accept it, but who can you blame?
Shaking off the dirt on his head, Xianzong said, "This bastard Zhao Qiu Ming will not have a good end!"
Leader of the secret guards..., you might not have a good ending!
"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Xianzong turned his head to look at the leader of the secret guards. These secret guards were all taciturn and their tongues were not there for talking. The more Xianzong thought about it, the more he felt sorry for himself. He was almost dead and there was no one around him to talk to. He was the only one to be in this situation as an emperor.
The leader of the secret guards didn't know what to say.
"Don't you guys know how to speak?" asked Xianzong.
The leader of the secret guards said, "Your Majesty, we are secret guards." How can a talkative person be a secret guard? The master is working in the front, and they, the secret guards, are chatting in the back?
Xianzong said: "What does the secret guard have to do with whether or not to speak?"
The leader of the secret guards felt that he had had enough of this master. If anyone told him that the princess was not in tune again, he would definitely tell that person, "Can you see the emperor's appearance before calling her Your Highness?" "Your Highness may be back soon," the leader of the secret guards said after a long while.
"That unfilial daughter," Xianzong said, "Should I wait for her to come back and collect my body? Do you think that unfilial daughter knows that something has happened to me?"
The leader of the secret guards -_-a, how could he know this?
Xianzong turned and walked back to the secret room, muttering to himself, "Isn't the Imperial Master so stupid as not to send someone to inform Linglong?"
The leader of the secret guards was being talked about by Emperor Xianzong, and he was also looking forward to the princess coming back as soon as possible. It seemed that even thousands of troops could not defeat her.
At this time, Yu Xiaoxiao and Gu Xinglang were sitting on the roof of the bedroom. General Gu was lying next to Yu Xiaoxiao. Her Royal Highness the Princess was eating a box of snacks, and Young Master Gu was holding a roast duck wrapped in oil paper.
Gu Xinglang looked at the people digging the ground below and whispered to Yu Xiao: "We're just going to watch?"
Yu Xiaoxiao stuffed a piece of dessert into Gu Xinglang's mouth and said, "My dad is downstairs."
Gu Xinglang said: "Do you know the secret room is here?"
"I don't know," Yu Xiao said, "but there is a heartbeat down there. I heard it."
Gu Xinglang...
"Are these all Zhao Qiu Ming's people?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked Gu Xinglang.
Gu Xinglang said: "It should be." If they were not Zhao Qiu Ming's men, how could this group of people be working and digging here?
"But I think many of them look like eunuchs," Yu Xiao said, "My father got into trouble, so they betrayed him?"
Gu Xinglang looked at the people in the open space and said, "Zhao Qiuming already has a lot of spies in the palace."
"That treacherous prime minister," Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the empty snack box, tilted her neck back, opened her mouth wide, and poured the snack crumbs into her mouth.
Young Master Gu felt sorry for his wife as she ate. She had been running all the way here almost without sleep. "After we rescue His Majesty, we can go out to eat."
Yu Xiao: "Xiao Gu, you know how to play with me now."
Gu Xinglang said: "How did I coax you?"
"There are no restaurants open on the street, where can we eat?" Yu Xiao: "Even the imperial kitchen is closed! I only stole this pork and duck from someone else's house."
Gu Xinglang was silent for a moment, then said to Yu Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, when we meet His Majesty later, don't tell him that we are going to the imperial kitchen first."
Yu Xiao: "Why can't you say it?"
Gu Xinglang said, "We have more important things to do." If the emperor knew that the first thing they did after entering the palace was to go to the imperial kitchen to find food, wouldn't his father-in-law be sad?
Yu Xiao: "Yeah, that's right, I have to ask him first, what did he do to get into such a big trouble, keeping so many gatekeepers, but in the end the Imperial Palace was still occupied by Zhao Qiu Ming.
"That's not the gatekeeper," Gu Xinglang said, "that's the imperial guard."
"It's a job, so the name isn't important," Yu Xiaoxiao started eating the roast duck again.
Gu Xinglang said: "Aren't we going to save His Majesty?"
"Eat first," Yu Xiaoxiao stuffed another roast duck leg into Gu Xinglang's mouth.
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