Chapter 24 The Princess and the Bloodthirsty King
These words completely devastated Princess Zhang.
Nanny Lan beside the Queen Mother noticed something was wrong and said quickly, "The Queen's water has broken!"
The hem of Zhang Fei's skirt was wet, and there were some bloodstains in the transparent water.
The situation is not good.
"Call the imperial physician!" Nanny Lan pushed the little palace maid out.
A firework signal was launched above Shou'an Palace, which was the agreed signal for the palace coup.
Yuwen Yuan suddenly said, "Bring Concubine Zhao into the palace with you."
The Queen Mother paused and sneered, "You are not qualified to negotiate with me now."
"If I can't see her, no matter what you do, I won't write an edict."
The Queen Mother was silent for a moment, and then she gave the order: "Tell the Lord to bring Concubine Zhao into the palace."
Cha Jiu never expected that his disappearance would trigger a palace coup.
Zhirou held a dagger in one hand and grabbed Chajiu's arm with the other, and took her to Shou'an Palace.
"Your Majesty!" Cha Jiu called from a distance.
I don't know why, but when I saw Yuwen Yuan again, Cha Jiu's originally strong and calm heart was filled with a trace of sadness.
When Yuwen Yuan saw that she was intact, his cold face finally softened a little and the blood color in his eyes faded.
He was afraid that this scene would scare her, so he comforted her in a soft voice: "Yuehua, don't be afraid."
Cha Jiu's eyes instantly turned red.
Zhang Yuanshan's troops have surrounded Shou'an Palace.
He was wearing armor and strode in. He looked at the dozen or so guards left by Yuwen Yuan, and his eyes flashed with disdain.
The revenge for my son's murder can be fully avenged today!
"You write the edict with your right hand, so your left hand can be useless." Zhang Yuanshan sneered, "Come on, I will use the Dragon Singing Knife that you used to kill your brother to cut the tendons of your left hand."
Zhang Lu knelt down and advised: "Your Majesty! You must not do this!"
Seeing that Yuwen Yuan was unmoved, Zhang Yuanshan pointed the knife in his hand at Cha Jiu's neck.
"If you don't make a move, don't blame me for killing your woman and child first!"
However, everyone present knew that even if Yuwen Yuan did as he was told, Cha Jiu and the dragon heir in her belly would eventually die.
But Yuwen Yuan still slowly raised the knife in his hand.
Cha Jiu looked at him in fear and shook his head frantically: "Your Majesty, don't!"
Yuwen Yuan still had that extremely calm expression, and his eyes towards Cha Jiu were filled with gentle comfort: "Yuehua, close your eyes."
Tears quickly welled up in Cha Jiu's eyes. Zhirou held her tightly in her hand and she could only shake her head desperately to stop her.
The dragon roared and blood splattered.
"No——" Cha Jiu screamed and cried, struggling hard.
Zhirou didn't expect that her sudden burst of strength would be so great, and she escaped due to a mistake.
Zhang Yuanshan laughed happily, then raised his knife and stabbed towards Cha Jiu's stomach!
Yuwen Yuan's eyes were bloodshot, and he rushed forward desperately, trying to use his body to block Zhang Yuanshan's fatal blow.
However, at this moment, a light golden light suddenly burst out from Cha Jiu's body, and then a barrier formed, wrapping her up.
Zhang Yuanshan's knife seemed to have hit a hard rock, causing his palm to go numb.
And Cha Jiu was unharmed!
How could this happen?
The people present who witnessed this strange phenomenon were all dumbfounded.
"Your Majesty!" Cha Jiu threw herself into Yuwen Yuan's arms, holding his bleeding left hand with heartache.
Seeing that Cha Jiu was not hurt, Yuwen Yuan finally let go of his worries and hugged her tightly in his arms.
"That's great, Yuehua, that's great." Yuwen Yuan kept repeating, "I'm so glad you're okay."
A drop of hot tears silently slid into Cha Jiu's collar.
Cha Jiu was stunned.
She realized that Yuwen Yuan seemed to be crying.
Zhang Lu was the first to react. He remembered the prediction by Qin Tianjian that Concubine Zhao's pregnancy was a good omen. He was so excited that he knelt on the ground and performed the ceremony of kowtow.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations, Your Majesty! Auspicious signs have come to the world, and the prince is destined to be king! This golden light protecting his body is the will of heaven. Anyone who wants to harm the prince will go against the will of heaven and be punished by thunder!"
Zhang Yuanshan was shocked and took a step back unconsciously.
The rebellious officers and soldiers were also very frightened and looked at each other in confusion.
If this child is really the future emperor destined by heaven and blessed by heaven, then even if they succeed in their rebellion, they will not have a good end in the future!
Maybe it will even bring disaster to future generations.
For a moment, everyone was scattered and panic-stricken.
At this time, Princess Zhang was giving birth behind a screen, screaming miserably.
The old woman came out in a panic with blood on her hands, reporting: "Oh no! The queen is having a difficult birth!"
The Queen Mother calmed down her mind which was frightened by the golden light and forced herself to calm down and asked: "Can the child be born smoothly?"
"The queen is bleeding profusely and has no strength left. The child is trapped inside and cannot come out. I'm afraid if it's any later, he will suffocate to death."
Zhang Yuanshan said coldly: "Then use a knife to cut open the queen's belly and cut the baby out."
The old lady was stunned, as if she didn't hear clearly, and asked again: "What, what?"
Is this human language?
If you cut open the stomach, can a person still survive?
This Lord Zhang seems to be Princess Zhang's biological father. How can he be so cold-blooded?
Now, Zhang Yuanshan no longer has any affection for his daughter in his eyes. Concubine Zhang is just a vessel for the prince of Zhang family blood.
The Queen Mother closed her eyes and kept chanting "Amitābha", but did not say a word to stop it.
She acquiesced.
Cha Jiu didn't expect the Zhang family to be so cold-blooded.
Zhang Yuanshan became impatient when he saw that Grandma Wen was hesitating, so he immediately ordered his men to perform a caesarean section and take out the baby.
The soldier walked behind the screen, and as the sword flashed, Concubine Zhang, who was originally dying, let out the most miserable and painful cry, and then she completely lost her life.
She is dead.
The baby's cry echoed throughout the hall, and Zhang Yuanshan finally revealed a satisfied smile.
Unexpectedly, Chuntang came out the next second, trembling, holding the child, hesitating: "Sir, it's a princess."
Zhang Yuanshan's smile froze instantly.
At this time, the Queen Mother finally spoke: "I have kept ten pregnant women in the side hall. You go and cut open each one, and you will definitely have a son."
Zhang Yuanshan exhaled a breath of stale air: "The Queen Mother is still thoughtful."
He was about to order someone to go, when at this moment there was a sound of fighting outside Shou'an Palace.
Someone came to report: "Prince Shun, Prince Heng has led his troops to defend the king! The five teams of imperial guards have also returned to the palace. Our army has been surrounded!"
Yuwen Yuan recovered his composure and watched the whole show with a cold eye.
Cha Jiu has returned to his side, and Yuwen Yuan has no concerns about Zhang Yuanshan.
He blocked Cha Jiu behind him and made a gesture. The secret guards drew their swords and started fighting. The royalist troops also rushed into Shou'an Palace and captured this mob in one fell swoop.
There were still many rebels who wanted to capture Yuwen Yuan alive, but the Dragon's Roar Sword flashed with cold light, and murderous energy rushed up like a real dragon in the sky, splitting the rebels who swarmed over him into two halves.
Blood and flesh were flying everywhere. Yuwen Yuan completely blocked Cha Jiu behind him so that the filth could not touch her at all.
Zhang Yuanshan was unwilling to be captured and laughed with his mouth wide open before he died.
"Haha, Yuwen Yuan! The child that Concubine Zhang had five years ago was not yours! You have been a fool played around by the Zhang family from the beginning to the end!"
Yuwen Yuan looked at him indifferently, then reached out and gently stroked Cha Jiu's round belly in front of him.
"It doesn't matter. Now I have a true heir to inherit the throne, and your Zhang family will soon have no names left on the family tree."
The dragon roared and the sword fell, and Zhang Yuanshan's body was separated.
He opened his bloodshot eyes wide with desire, and before he died he still had the fantasy of becoming a regent who wielded power.
The Empress Dowager and others were also executed one by one.
Seeing her brother defeated, the Queen Mother even wanted to hang herself with a string of Buddhist beads.
Who knew that the rope couldn't bear it and broke.
The Queen Mother's eyes were bloodshot and she lay on the ground coughing.
Even the Buddha is unwilling to take her in!
Yuwen Yuan looked at her coldly: "It's too easy to want to die."
"Tie her up and cut off her hands and feet. I want her to live to be a hundred years old, so that she can see with her own eyes that my descendants are full of people and the Yuwen family will last for thousands of years."
Princess Zhang's body was horrifying. Her belly was cut into a square shape and opened up, making it difficult to look directly at.
The corpses inside and outside Shou'an Temple were piled up like mountains. It is said that it took five days and five nights to clean them up completely.
But that’s all for another time.
At this time, inside the Yongle Palace.
The imperial doctors treated the wound on Yuwen Yuan's left hand. Although it was bandaged, they were all worried about its subsequent recovery.
The tendons in my hand are broken, so my left hand is useless.
Cha Jiu asked the system: "Is there any medicine that can help Yu Wenyuan recover his left hand?"
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