"No need to be polite!"
A familiar cold voice quickly calmed down the angry Queen Gu.
Why is he here?
Without any notification, Xiao Lichen's wheelchair had already appeared in Changle Palace.
"Your Majesty, I have received news that someone is trying to take advantage of this opportunity to poison Your Majesty. Please leave here with me. The Xiaoyu Guards will protect you closely."
Upon hearing that someone was planning to assassinate him, Emperor Jianchang could no longer stay.
"Okay then, I'll hand Concubine Huo over to the imperial physician." Emperor Jianchang had just stood up and had not left when his arm was tightly grabbed by the unconscious Concubine Huo.
Emperor Jianchang turned around and looked at the unconscious Concubine Huo with a slightly hesitant look on his face.
Seeing this, Xiao Lichen continued, "Your Majesty, those people have already attacked the Ninth Queen and Princess Anle. The harem is already extremely unsafe. For the sake of the Great Zhou, Your Majesty, please leave here with me as soon as possible."
Xiao Lichen also shared another piece of news, "To celebrate His Majesty's birthday, the Northern Barbarians have specially sent a delegation of over three million people to Beijing. They've already settled into the largest post station in South City."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Jianchang was shocked. For his own safety, he had to leave.
Those northern barbarians came to the capital at this time, not necessarily to celebrate his birthday, they must have other purposes. He must summon all the ministers as soon as possible to discuss countermeasures.
Emperor Jianchang looked at Concubine Huo, who had her eyes tightly closed, and comforted her, "My beloved, the situation is urgent. I will send people to protect you. I will go to the front court first to discuss important matters with the ministers."
Concubine Huo was lying on the bed with her eyes closed pretending to be sick, but her heart was filled with immense hatred.
She hated Xiao Lichen for deliberately sabotaging her plan, and she also hated Emperor Jianchang for his ruthlessness.
Under the current circumstances, she can no longer keep anyone.
In that case, don't blame her for being so cruel.
They forced her to do this. If they don't let her have an easy life, no one else can have an easy life.
The hand that was tightly grasped by Emperor Jianchang slowly loosened.
"You all must take good care of Concubine Huo. Nothing can happen to her."
Emperor Jianchang sternly warned the palace maids who were kneeling on the ground.
"yes!"
The palace maids trembled and knocked their heads to the ground, too frightened to move.
Then.
Emperor Jianchang and others left Changle Palace.
After Concubine Huo's maid and others had left, she ordered everyone else to leave the hall and the door was closed.
The senior palace maid immediately got up from the ground and came to Concubine Huo's bed.
"Your Majesty, His Majesty and the others are gone. What should we do?"
Concubine Huo, who had her eyes closed, suddenly opened them.
There was something cold and cruel in her eyes.
The usually arrogant and gorgeous face now becomes terrifying and sinister.
Her secret can no longer be hidden.
None of the people sent to kill Anle returned.
If she doesn't take action now, His Majesty will soon find out and trace it back to her.
"Continue with the next plan. That position must belong to my son. No one else can take it away."
Your Majesty can't do it either.
Otherwise, how could she be worthy of the years of effort she and that man had put in.
That person was unwilling to help her much, so she had to fight for it herself.
The senior palace maid lowered her head in fear and said, "Imperial Physician Cao will be here soon. Please be careful, Your Majesty."
Concubine Huo pursed her lips and snorted, "I understand. Go down and tell someone to do it!"
Not long after, Cao Youliang, the chief physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau, came to Changle Palace for consultation.
After leaving Changle Palace, Emperor Jianchang and others did not go to Wenying Palace immediately, but hurried to the palace where Tao Yuwei was resting temporarily.
Seeing Emperor Jianchang and others, Tao Yuwei weakly got up from the bed.
[As expected of a villain, he's the only one who can call His Majesty back from the scheming Concubine Huo.]
Before she could pay her respects, she was stopped by Emperor Jianchang.
"Why has Anle suddenly become so polite? I have ordered the Xiaoyu Guards to thoroughly investigate what just happened. We will have news soon."
Tao Yuwei struggled to stand up straight, thought for a moment, and said to Emperor Jianchang, "Uncle Emperor, I came to the palace today hoping to see you. I heard you were in the Empress Dowager's palace, so I rushed to the harem. Who would have thought that I would accidentally run into trouble."
Tao Yuwei briefly recounted what had happened to her after she entered the palace.
After hearing this, Emperor Jianchang and Empress Gu both looked unhappy.
"Fortunately, in the critical moment, it was the Ninth Prince who called Uncle Gu, and I was able to survive. The first plan failed, and the second time, that palace maid came to give me medicine under the guise of Imperial Physician Cao and almost poisoned me to death."
Tao Yuwei made some appropriate concealment.
She has reached a tacit understanding with Uncle Gu that there are some things that His Majesty does not need to know clearly.
For example, her true strength.
The medicine brought by the palace maid was discovered and fell to the ground. However, she had someone collect some of the residual liquid from the ground and used it for an experiment on a mouse. The mouse bled to death after eating food mixed with the residual liquid.
Emperor Jianchang did not expect the matter to be so serious. He was so angry that his hands were shaking behind his back.
A vicious assassination occurred in the palace, which was a serious provocation to the imperial power.
They didn't even take him, the emperor, seriously.
How could Emperor Jianchang not be angry when he thought that the harem of a king was so dangerous?
"Chen'er, I leave this matter today to you. No matter who it is, once the results are found out, they will be severely punished!"
Although he usually doesn't like Queen Gu, Xiaojiu is a very likable child.
Someone took a risk, disregarded the authority of the emperor, and almost killed his ninth prince. Does this mean that the person behind the scenes even dared to kill him?
After Xiao Lichen agreed, he continued, "Your Majesty, I have examined the bodies of those people. Each of them is not an ordinary skeleton. They all have excellent physiques from practicing martial arts. I suspect that these assassins pretending to be eunuchs are very skilled in martial arts. They seem to be specially trained assassins."
Queen Gu was so frightened that her heart sank and her breathing slowed down.
She almost lost Xiaojiu.
Emperor Jianchang felt a chill all over his body. He had realized that someone in his harem was colluding with outsiders and wanted to harm him.
Xiao Lichen's eyes were on the weak-looking Tao Yuwei.
She was just about to tell His Majesty to pay more attention to the people around him, but after feeling a cold gaze, she glared at the other person fiercely.
[What are you looking at? We already have evidence that the Huo family was involved in the murder of the Zhuguo family, yet you still haven't taken action. This princess almost died tragically at the hands of Concubine Huo. You, the commander of the Xiaoyu Guard, are just a figurehead!]
[That old eunuch saw Concubine Huo secretly meeting a man. Alas, Your Majesty has also been cuckolded without realizing it. That foolish Fourth Prince doesn't look like Your Majesty's biological son. Your Majesty must have kidney deficiency and couldn't satisfy Concubine Huo, which is why she cheated on you!]
Tao Yuwei secretly cursed Xiao Lichen in her heart for being incompetent, and even suspected that she was a spy sent by the Northern Barbarians.
Hearing her thoughts, Xiao Lichen withdrew his gaze from her, but he couldn't help but smile.
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