All this happened in an instant, so fast that no one on the scene could react.

Until there was a thud and someone bumped into Lu Yunqi's leg.

This person is not the fallen emperor, but the empress dowager who was thrown to the ground and ignored.

She still couldn't speak and her body was stiff, but she desperately rushed towards Lu Yunqi, making a howling sound.

The sound finally woke up the people present.

"Guard!"

Yuan Bao, who was standing closest, let out a scream.

But he didn't rush over, but stepped back, his face full of fear.

He knew that Lu Yunqi was very powerful, and he had always been on guard against him, but he never dreamed that Lu Yunqi would actually kill the king with just a wave of his hand!

Regicide!

Regicide!

The emperor was killed!

Yuan Bao screamed, and then he saw Lu Yunqi turn his head slightly to look at him.

Lu Yunqi's eyes were dull, but Yuan Bao felt as if a needle had pierced his tailbone and half of his body was numb.

not good…

As the thought flashed through his mind, Lu Yunqi raised his hand.

The iron umbrella that had just blocked the silver hairpin thrown by Miss Jun pierced into his chest with a plop. With a bang, Yuan Bao fell to the ground with his eyes wide open and his mouth open.

With another bang, the iron umbrella stuck in his chest unfolded, covering the splattering blood.

After throwing out the umbrella, Lu Yunqi still held the belt in his hand. With a wave of his hand, the belt was tightened. The emperor, whose face was already ashen and tongue was sticking out, suddenly drooped his head.

The hall was in chaos.

In the blink of an eye, the emperor's life or death was unknown, Yuan Bao was killed, and the eunuchs were like headless flies, screaming, not knowing whether to aim their bows and crossbows at Miss Jun and the Qingshan Army, or at Lu Yunqi.

"Lu Yunqi! Let His Majesty go!"

A clear and angry voice rang out amid the noise.

Miss Jun immediately looked in the direction of the sound and saw another person coming out from behind the screen.

The official robe was neat and tidy, and his face was clear and bright. It was Ning Yunzhao.

At this time he looked angry.

As the son of a saint, the teacher of heaven, earth and the emperor, he must protect the emperor!

With such civil officials around, we have something to rely on.

The panicked eunuchs stopped, held back their bows and arrows, and stopped their swords from chopping.

The Queen Mother lying on the ground also felt a glimmer of hope.

escort.

escort.

"Guards, quickly capture these bandits!" Ning Yunzhao did not keep them waiting for long and immediately shouted.

He was calling the guards.

However, there were only eunuchs and the Qingshan Army in this palace, and no imperial guards.

No, these Qingshan soldiers are now serving as guards in the palace.

And he wanted to punish the thieves.

In fact, these eunuchs were not thieves to the emperor.

Finished.

The Queen Mother's last hope was shattered.

When Ning Yunzhao's voice just fell, Miss Jun had already raised her hand, and as she raised her hand, the Qingshan Army surrounding her shot out with a bang like an arrow from a fully drawn bow.

When the eunuchs came to their senses, it was too late to draw their bows and swords.

Long swords were waving, blood and flesh were flying everywhere, just like the autumn harvest of rice. There were screams and people fell down one after another.

There was no need to protect Miss Jun anymore, no need to rush directly to where the Emperor was, and no need to worry about eunuchs coming to reinforce him from outside.

The Qingshan Army, whose only goal was to kill people, was like a wolf among a flock of sheep.

In the blink of an eye, there was no longer any eunuch standing in the hall.

Either dead or wounded, writhing on the ground wailing.

The inside of the hall was horrific to the eye and noisy to the ear, but it was still much quieter than before.

Ning Yunzhao looked at Lu Yunqi.

Lu Yunqi still held the belt with both hands, and the emperor stood in front of him with his head lowered.

"Didn't I tell you not to kill His Majesty?" Ning Yunzhao said.

His words were a scolding, and there was a hint of anger in his voice.

But at this moment, the scolding and anger seemed strange.

This is not just something that should be scolded and angered.

Lu Yunqi's expression remained blank. He did not look at Ning Yunzhao, but only at Miss Jun.

"I told you," he said, frowning slightly, "it's useless. You'll only hurt yourself."

He was still strangling the emperor with his hands, his body was covered with blood from Yuan Bao's killing, the palace was in a mess, and the situation outside was unclear, but this was the first sentence he said.

"It's a good thing I made it," he went on.

It seems that this is the biggest thing in the world.

This person, this person...

Miss Jun looked at Lu Yunqi, clenched her hands at her sides, and a complicated expression appeared on her originally calm face.

he……

What does he mean?

What does he mean?

What does he want to do?

Lu Yunqi looked at her, then at the emperor in front of him.

"I'm telling you the answer," he said. "He didn't die of illness. He died like this."

This is too much of a way to tell the answer...

It turns out that my father was strangled to death?

Miss Jun looked at the emperor who had no reaction.

He died like this.

It would be better to be stabbed to death than to die like this.

It's painful to die like this.

Especially since my father is sick and in poor health, he easily suffers from shortness of breath.

Miss Jun seemed to see the pain her father was in before his death.

Then they said that my mother hanged herself, so it is obvious that she was strangled to death.

Her eyes were blurred by tears.

"What are you still standing there for?!"

Ning Yunzhao's voice rang out again.

"Put His Majesty down quickly."

Lu Yunqi looked at him, and Miss Jun also looked at him.

"Didn't I tell you that His Majesty cannot die?" Ning Yunzhou frowned and said, although he seemed a little anxious, his face remained warm and his tone was steady, "Put His Majesty down quickly."

Lu Yunqi loosened his hand, and the emperor fell to the ground with a thud.

Ning Yunzhao was startled.

"Be careful," he said.

The Queen Mother also made a howling sound and tried to crawl towards this side.

Ning Yunzhao looked towards the Queen Mother, and seemed to have just noticed her presence.

"Don't scare the queen." He said, and nodded to Lu Yunqi, "Let the queen rest for a while."

Although his expression and tone were very kind.

But the Queen Mother would never regard him as a kind person now.

The Queen Mother's eyes widened and her howling became even louder.

Lu Yunqi had already stepped over and put his hand on the empress dowager's neck. With a slight click, the empress dowager fell down motionlessly.

"Don't kill him." Ning Yunzhao said with a frown, then quickly lowered his head to look at the emperor on the ground and stretched out his hand to feel his breath.

"Dead!" He raised his voice, as if frightened, and looked at Lu Yunqi, "Lord Lu, you shouldn't be an unreliable person!"

This should be the first person besides the emperor who praised Lu Yunqi for his reliability, right?

Lu Yunqi was indeed reliable, and he helped the emperor to kill people and rob people.

Ning Yunzhao didn't show anyone the weirdness of his words and looked at Miss Jun.

"Miss Jun, please come and see if His Majesty can be saved?"

Miss Jun did not move forward.

Although she didn't go to check, she could tell from her current distance that the emperor could still be saved.

But only she could save the patient; to other doctors, the patient was already dead.

Ning Yunzhao understood her expression.

"Miss Jun, please save His Majesty." He said seriously.

This is really funny.

Just now, she tried her best and almost killed him by risking her own life.

save?

Why did she save him?

Miss Jun looked at Ning Yunzhao motionlessly.

"Ms. Jun." Ning Yunzhao also looked at her, "Death is not the best way to solve the problem."

Miss Jun was indifferent.

"In fact, Miss Jun didn't intend to kill His Majesty in this way. She was forced to do so today, so she had to fight to the death." Ning Yunzhao continued, "Even if it's a fight to the death, it's not a good thing for Miss Jun."

Yes, this is not a good thing for her, especially for her who has finally come to this point.

Taking a step back, whether she is good or not is not important, but it will affect Jiuqi.

What she wanted was for Jiuqi to take back everything that belonged to him in a fair and square manner, rather than for a regicide like her to be pushed onto the throne.

Although for this emperor, such death was retribution.

Miss Jun was silent.

But save him?

"Miss Jun, if he doesn't die now," Ning Yunzhao said, "it will be the best outcome."

…

At this time, the tightly closed palace door blocked the earth-shaking events inside, and from the outside, everything seemed calm and peaceful.

Guards were patrolling outside the imperial city, people were walking in the streets, merchants were hawking their wares, the city gates on all four sides were closed, and soldiers on the gates were looking outside the city vigilantly. The originally busy road was now empty.

But the usually quiet and solemn imperial mausoleum became noisy.

"Who dares to stop me!"

"I am waiting for the minister to take charge!"

"Now the Jin people are still wreaking havoc, and the emperor is away from home, how can he bring peace to the country?"

"If you dare to obstruct, it will be chaos!"

A group of ministers held up their tablets and shouted loudly, completely losing their usual elegant demeanor, and pushed a group of Jinyiwei towards a palace in the imperial mausoleum.

The Royal Guards seemed to be overwhelmed by the shock, and seemed to hesitate because of their words.

"Either you kill us all in front of the imperial mausoleum today, or we must see His Majesty!" Ning Yansumu shouted.

After leading troops to defend the city against the Jin soldiers, seeing blood and getting hurt, civil officials like Ning Yan also became fierce.

"Yes!"

"If we can use our lives to awaken His Majesty, it will be a worthy death."

The ministers behind him also shouted angrily.

They moved forward again, and the Jinyi Guards who were blocking the way began to retreat. Finally, Ning Yan pushed away the one in the middle, and it was like a hole in a dam, and the officials immediately rushed towards the palace in front like a flood.

The Jinyi Guards followed but did not stop him, and watched Ning Yan arrive in front of the palace.

A group of eunuchs stood in front of the palace, trying to stop them in anger and panic.

But to Ning Yan and the others, these eunuchs were even more disdainful. They were not as ruthless as the Jinyi Guards. Without even bothering to say a word, they pushed the group of eunuchs aside and pushed open the palace door.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, your subject..."

The officials' voices echoed in the hall in a chaotic manner, but soon quieted down.

A group of people looked at the empty room in surprise.

"Where is your Majesty?" they asked.

The eunuchs who followed in looked flustered and stammered, which surprised the court officials even more.

"Tell me quickly, where is His Majesty?" Ning Yan raised his eyebrows and shouted.

"Your Majesty, I won't see you." A eunuch said in a panic but stubborn manner.

But before he finished speaking, he was kicked down by Ning Yan.

"You thief!" he shouted. "How dare you disrupt the government!"

"Tell us quickly where His Majesty is?" Other ministers also rushed forward and shouted angrily.

Before the eunuchs could answer, the Royal Guards who came over and stood by the door spoke.

"Your Majesty has been escorted back to the palace by Eunuch Yuan." The leading Jinyi Guard said woodenly.

Returning to the palace?

Ning Yan and others were stunned.

You refused to come back despite being begged many times before, so why are you going back now in secret?

Although the emperor left the palace secretly, he was not stupid enough to think that he could sneak back and everything would be as if nothing had happened.

There must be something wrong!

"Hurry, go back to the palace!" Ning Yan said with a sullen face.

…

The silver bracelet on the wrist was opened, revealing the hole inside, and a thin silver needle was pinched out from it.

Miss Jun, half-kneeling beside the emperor, slowly inserted the silver needle into the back of the emperor's neck.

The emperor, who had been motionless, suddenly twitched and a gurgling sound began to come from his throat.

"Pinch his neck." Miss Jun said.

Ning Yunzhao reached out without hesitation and grabbed the emperor's neck.

Miss Jun pulled out the silver needle suddenly.

The tiny silver needle seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, lifting half of the emperor's body.

Fortunately, Ning Yunzhao pressed it down hard.

The emperor seemed to be suffocated by this force. He suddenly opened his mouth and eyes wide and let out a heavy, dry cough.

"Wake up!" Ning Yunzhao shouted.

The emperor's eyes were blank for a moment, then his expression changed immediately when he saw the person in front of him.

Seeing his change of expression, Ning Yunzhao's expression instantly became solemn and uneasy.

This shows that your Majesty has fully recovered his consciousness and naturally knows what happened just now.

Recovered so quickly!

He subconsciously reached out to cover the emperor's mouth.

"No need." Miss Jun said, standing up straight, looking down at the emperor who was trying to break free from Ning Yunzhao's hands and half sitting up, "He can't survive."

What does it mean to be unable to live? Isn't this alive?

Ning Yunzhao looked at the emperor in front of him.

The emperor had opened his mouth but didn't say a word. He just kept coughing. As Miss Jun finished her words, the emperor suddenly fell backwards like a broken bamboo pole.

Ning Yunzhao was caught off guard and was defeated.

With a bang, the emperor fell on his back.

But his eyes were still wide open, his face flushed as if in pain, his eyes showing a mixture of anger and fear.

Consciousness is fully awake.

Ning Yunzhao looked at the emperor, listening to the intermittent coughs coming out of his mouth, and looking at his body that seemed to be struggling but remained motionless.

"Can't speak, can't move?" he said.

"You only said not to let him die." Miss Jun said, "You didn't say to let him live."

Ning Yunzhao looked up at her.

“So, it’s half-dead?” he said.

Miss Jun said nothing, but just looked at the emperor on the ground indifferently.

The emperor also looked at her, his eyes expressing anger and fear.

It was just a look.

What can I do?

"I admire you." Ning Yunzhao looked up at Miss Jun and said.

He did not stand up. Without waiting for Miss Jun to speak, he retracted his gaze, half-knelt on the ground, swung his hands, took out a scroll from his arms and unfolded it.

Because Miss Jun was looking down from above and saw the scroll.

She recognized that this was a formal edict, and from just a few words she was certain that it was a document from the Crown Prince.

Crown Prince.

Miss Jun's eyes fell on the imperial edict and she could clearly see the word "褣".

Nine slings.

Nine sashes!

This edict!

Jiuqi was named the Crown Prince!

This edict could never have been written by the emperor!

Her eyes fell on Ning Yunzhao, shocked and incredulous.

he…

Ning Yunzhao ignored her gaze and carefully unfolded the edict and showed it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this has been written," he said, "just issue the decree."

The emperor obviously recognized what it was, and his eyes became even more confused, but it was only his eyes. Even his coughs remained steady without any ups and downs.

Is that so?

Is that all that's going to work?

Miss Jun had a flash of thought, and saw Ning Yunzhao put the imperial edict on the ground and took out a seal from his sleeve.

Miss Jun was shocked again.

Jade seal!

Ning Yunzhao pressed the imperial seal heavily on the edict, then stuffed the seal into the emperor's arms, held up the edict, and leaned over in front of the emperor.

"Your Majesty is wise," he said, his tone as respectful and sincere as ever.