Chapter 133: Behead! Behead! Behead!
"Got it. I'll just talk to the princess." Xiao Mingzhe understood the look in his eyes.
The old emperor did this on purpose. He must have already prepared the imperial guards to surround the palace. If he dared to disobey the order, he would be dead.
Fang Qianxue learned the news and was already waiting for him outside Qilin Residence.
"My royal brother ordered me to go to the battlefield immediately, but I always feel that things are not simple." Xiao Mingzhe pulled her to a deserted place and said.
Fang Qianxue looked around and saw that the eunuchs from the palace were far away, so she expressed her doubts: "Maybe they are digging a pit for you to jump into? Can you not go?"
"Military orders are as strong as mountains. The rebellion of Huoluo in the Western Region is not fake. I received the news a few days ago." Xiao Mingzhe looked back at Qilin and said, "After Qilin and I leave, take care of yourself."
"Got it. I have already told Qilin that it will obey your orders."
The two of them didn't have time to say anything more, let alone talk about their personal affairs, and they said goodbye in front of the palace gate.
Before leaving, Xiao Mingzhe gently stroked the hairpin on her head, and suddenly he regretted sleeping in the study last night and not consummating the marriage with her: "I should have moved back to the main house last night."
Fang Qianxue looked up at him in surprise and held his hand. She suddenly realized that they had been married for so long, but they had very few opportunities to hold his hand.
After Xiao Mingzhe and Qilin left, Fang Qianxue returned to the empty Qilin Center and felt a little headache.
Around dusk, when it was estimated that King Beining's army had been out of the city for a long time, a eunuch suddenly came to convey an imperial decree.
"Princess Fang of Bac Ninh has been diagnosed as a Phoenix girl by the Imperial Astronomical Observation. She is ordered to enter the palace immediately to pray for the country and bring peace to the world."
After hearing just a few words, Fang Qianxue felt dizzy and stared at the ground in a daze, forgetting to stand up to receive the order.
"Princess Beining, please come with me to the palace. His Majesty is waiting." The eunuch who delivered the decree said, and looked outside the door. "His Majesty said that if the princess can't leave the two children behind, please ask the young master and the young lady to come to the palace with you."
"What about Phoenix Girl's fate? Your Majesty, who told you that?" Fang Qianxue's hands hidden in her sleeves were clenched into fists, which was obviously a threat to her with the safety of the two children.
Fortunately, a few days ago, she had asked someone to send her uncle, her uncle and Fang Jue away from Shangjing and go to Luzhou to pick up the women of the Fang family. Otherwise, if they fell into the hands of Emperor Ming, it would be another troublesome matter.
"That's what the Imperial Observatory said," the young eunuch said with a smile, "Princess, there's no need to worry. We are just going to the palace to pray for blessings."
Fang Qianxue turned around and winked at Cui Shuang, who then took out a silver ingot and gave it to the young eunuch: "I will follow you into the palace, but please let me know who your majesty has been meeting these days."
Not many people knew her fate, and the only person she could think of was Xu Miaoyan. But Xu Miaoyan was now the Imperial Concubine, and she prided herself on her noble fate, and would never let Emperor Ming know that Fang Qianxue was the real Phoenix Girl.
The young eunuch happily accepted the silver, thinking it was no big deal, and told his Majesty what he knew: "Lu Changqing, who was imprisoned, wrote a letter to His Majesty, and His Majesty issued an order to bring you into the palace. By the way, His Majesty also issued an order to pardon Lu Changqing and let him work in the Palace Front Office!"
"It turned out to be him." Fang Qianxue stood up slowly. "I see. I'll go with you to the palace. My father-in-law asked me to say goodbye to the two children."
"Hurry up!" The young eunuch agreed for the sake of the reward money.
"Princess!" Cui Shuang and several maids knelt on the ground, "You can't enter the palace!"
The old emperor asked the prince and Qilin to leave Shangjing, and now he wants the princess to enter the palace. His intention is very obvious. He covets the princess's fate as a phoenix girl. If the princess enters the palace, she may never come out.
"Listen to me. When the city gates open at dawn, take the two children out of the city and go to Yanbo City to find Jiang Xu, the son of Liaoyuan Marquis." Fang Qianxue quickly found the wooden hairpin that Jiang Xu gave her from under her dressing table, held it tightly in her hand for a while, and handed it to Cui Shuang. "When he sees this hairpin, he will probably protect the two children. Remember, there is no delay!"
Emperor Ming set up this trap. No one in the capital city could protect the two children. Even the Empress Dowager and the eldest princess might be powerless.
"Don't worry, Princess," Cui Shuang and Sui Qiong gritted their teeth, "I'll remember this!"
***
The Mobei Army marched to Shili Pavilion.
Heavy rain suddenly fell from the dark sky, so we had to stop and rest temporarily.
Xiao Mingzhe sat in the pavilion, looking towards the direction of the capital city, feeling that something was happening.
"Your Highness!" Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried horse hooves. Qingcong quickly dismounted, ran into the pavilion with a lantern in hand, wiped his wet forehead and said, "Your Highness, something happened in the palace. Emperor Ming said that the princess has a phoenix girl fate, and ordered her to enter the palace tonight to pray for the country!"
When leaving in the afternoon, Xiao Mingzhe was cautious and asked Qingcong to stay in the city temporarily and report to him in time if anything happened.
"It turns out that he didn't dig this pit for me, but for Qianxue," Xiao Mingzhe said angrily, "Bring General Zheng up here!"
Soon, Xuelang led several soldiers and brought Changji, who was tied up, into the pavilion.
“Kneel down!”
"You dare?! Xiao Mingzhe, are you rebelling? I am the governor of Mobei appointed by His Majesty himself, and you... you dare to tie me up? Are you trying to rebel?" Changji was soaked all over, cold and scared, with his tongue tied.
Xiao Mingzhe bowed and stared at the eunuch for a moment: "You are right, I will rebel today and use you as a sacrifice!"
“Ah…no!”
“Someone come! Kill this traitor under the Mobei Wolf Banner! From now on, my Mobei Army will no longer take orders from the Weiyang Palace!” The man drew the long sword from his waist and raised it high in the air. His cold and stern voice resounded in the heavy rain.
"Cut! Chop! Chop!"
The crowd was excited and the cheers were deafening.
The ground was covered with blood, which was washed away by the rain.
As the eunuch's head fell to the ground, the rain stopped.
"Snow Wolf, you wait here for me. Qilin and I will go back to Beijing." Xiao Mingzhe pulled the bell on Qilin's neck and said a few words into its ear. The latter immediately showed an expression of shared hatred for the enemy and breathed out angrily.
"Your Highness! You can't go back alone. Let me go back with you." Qingcong said.
"No need. The horse is too slow. I'll ride the Qilin back." After saying that, Xiao Mingzhe climbed onto the back of the Qilin.
With a "boom" sound, the Qilin roared, leaped into the air in an instant, and disappeared into the night sky.
***
The sky was getting light.
"Why did the prince turn back?" When a eunuch saw Xiao Mingzhe and Qilin landing outside the Yangxin Palace, his voice trembled with fear, "Your Majesty has not... not yet..."
Xiao Mingzhe grabbed his collar and shouted coldly: "Tell Xiao Mingdao to come out and see me!"
“Yes, yes!”
The man and the beast broke into the Yangxin Palace, and no one among the imperial guards dared to stop them.
The eunuch crawled into the inner hall to deliver the message.
"Nineteenth brother, why are you so angry?" Xiao Mingdao slowly walked out of the inner hall, smoothed his nightgown, and said lazily, "I haven't woken up yet."
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