The palace was in great chaos on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Hundreds of people armed with weapons and wearing armor appeared out of nowhere in the palace, and there were also people in the palace who acted as traitors. The civil and military officials as well as the nobles and royal family members were like turtles in a jar and were in danger of being wiped out by the other side.
They saw that Prince Cheng and his son were surrounded by these traitors, and the emperor who was so scared that he was pissing his pants and calling for the Imperial Guards to rescue him, forming a sharp contrast. Yuan Jing, who witnessed the whole scene, felt deeply that in a competition of courage and bravery, the old emperor was no match for Prince Cheng and his son.
Cries of killing rang out everywhere. At the critical moment, two reinforcements from outside the palace rushed into the palace, forming a pincer attack with the imperial guards who were protecting the emperor. Moreover, these two reinforcements from outside threw a large amount of burning straw and other items into the tunnel dug in Prince Cheng's Mansion, filling the tunnel with a large amount of pungent smoke, forcing some of the people who were originally in the tunnel to either suffocate to death or run away. The subsequent rebel teams were unable to use this tunnel to enter the capital or the palace.
The two supporting troops outside the palace were the internal supporters left by Xiao Mingyu. Yuan Jing also knew them and had regular contact with them, because the team leader was a member of Xiao Mingyu's polo team. When the polo team was organized, they stood behind Xiao Mingyu. This time, when they received the signal, they cooperated with Xiao Mingyu and Yuan Jing's actions without hesitation.
This is the merit of saving the emperor, and it was given to them by Xiao Mingyu, so they should not refuse it.
Prince Cheng and his son did not expect the reaction outside the palace to be so quick, but at this moment they had no way to retreat, so they desperately ordered their men to break into the palace and capture the old emperor. As long as the old emperor wrote the edict of succession in their hands, they would have a legitimate position.
Whether there was a palace coup or not depends on how the rulers later wrote history books.
But there is a saying that goes "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." The more anxious you are, the more likely it is to cause problems. After the weapon in his hand collided with the swords of the Royal Guards many times, it made a crisp sound and broke.
"What's going on?"
After the first incident, there were the second and third incidents. The weapons in the hands of the people they brought had problems one after another. These were clearly a batch of problematic weapons, definitely not the ones they had secretly made. They fell into a trap. Who was it? Who ruined the big event of their Chengwang Mansion?
Prince Cheng was furious, and Prince Cheng's son was terrified. The noise outside was getting louder and louder, and getting closer and closer. At this moment, they could not retreat back to the tunnel.
Prince Cheng gritted his teeth and decided to fight. It would be a dead end anyway, so he might as well drag the old emperor with him before he died. That would be worth it.
Xiao Mingrui drew his sword and rushed into the hall together with the guards who were protecting him. The hall immediately became even more chaotic.
The old emperor had already ordered the eunuchs and guards to protect her closely, and he didn't even care about his favorite concubine. At the critical moment of life and death, what does a woman matter? But the concubine didn't want to die, and she didn't care about the child in her arms. She threw it to the nanny beside her and ran to the old emperor to seek shelter.
The child was frightened and started to cry loudly. Prince Ning had hoped that his youngest son would ascend the throne so that he could have a taste of what it was like to be the emperor emeritus. But now, when he heard the child crying, he wanted to go over, but the child fell into the hands of a eunuch in the blink of an eye. The crying stopped abruptly, and the child's neck was broken.
Prince Ning was completely dumbfounded, and Yuan Jing and Prince Duan also gasped. They were wary of the people brought in by Prince Cheng and his son, knowing that their people were among them, but they couldn't be sure who these people were until they revealed themselves. So they watched helplessly as the child had his neck broken by an inconspicuous eunuch, and it was too late to save him.
"Crazy, they are all crazy!" Prince Duan kept muttering. This child was the most innocent. It was Prince Ning who was blinded by greed and killed his own son.
In a blink of an eye, they found that Yuan Jing was missing. Prince Duan was anxious and almost asked people to go out to look for him. However, his son regarded Doctor Yuan as more important than himself. Before he could say anything, he saw Yuan Jing running back. Anyone who tried to stop him along the way was knocked down by him.
Yuan Jing brought back a bunch of weapons. Since swords and other weapons were not allowed to be brought into the palace for a banquet, he distributed these weapons to the guards and kept a bow and arrow for himself.
Because he found that Prince Cheng and his son were hacking people everywhere like crazy, wanting to take these officials and their wives as hostages, so Yuan Jing aimed his arrows at these people. As for Prince Cheng and his son, he did not want to shoot them to death, as His Majesty would deal with them personally.
With one arrow, a guard beside King Cheng was shot and fell to the ground.
Another arrow hit, and another person fell beside Prince Cheng.
"Who? Look who shot the arrow, find the person out quickly!" Prince Cheng was furious and bloodthirsty.
"Doctor Yuan is a good archer!" Prince Duan was no longer afraid. He let Doctor Yuan shoot anyone who dared to come. The others also made up their minds. No wonder the prince asked them to listen to Doctor Yuan.
As a result, other people also discovered the situation of Yuan Jing and Prince Duan, so they also ran to this corner to seek shelter. Yuan Jing still asked several guards to guard Prince Duan. These people had to stay on the periphery and were not allowed to approach Prince Duan. At this time, everyone was suspicious in his eyes.
Some people wanted to scold him, but most people recognized Yuan Jing's identity. With Prince Duan as his backer, Doctor Yuan was not a simple doctor who could be scolded as they pleased.
Two hours later, the battle in the palace was finally over. The hall where the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was held was not much better, not to mention the blood flowing like a river. The smell of blood made people want to vomit. Many noble ladies fainted from the fright and were carried to the side hall for treatment. The emperor was even more frightened, and this time, he would probably have to lie in bed for a while.
Prince Cheng and his son were caught on the spot by people who rushed in to rescue the emperor and were tied up. At this time, the father and son finally woke up from their mad state, with despair in their eyes. The emperor ordered them to be taken to prison to await trial.
The old emperor hated these two men so much that he really wanted to chop them up on the spot.
At the same time, Prince Cheng's palace also dispatched more soldiers to guard it layer by layer.
When the sounds of killing were heard in the palace, the people who stayed behind in Prince Cheng's mansion also knew what was going on. But when they saw more soldiers coming outside the mansion and there was no movement in the palace, they knew that something was wrong and their master had failed.
Zhao Han was unaware of the situation at first. It was only when the noise in the palace frightened him that he asked the people around him to inquire. Of course, the people in charge in the mansion did not allow these servants to ask around and did not allow them to leave their yard at all. But when the coup failed, the ban lost its effect, and the people around Zhao Han finally got the news.
"Master, it's bad, Master, the prince and the prince have been defeated."
"What defeat?" Zhao Han was still in the dark.
"Master," the servants cried, "The prince and the master led people to attack the palace tonight, but they were defeated. Now the palace is completely surrounded. I don't know when they will rush in to capture us. Master, what should we do?"
On the way back, the servants saw that the mansion was in chaos. Some servants were collecting money and preparing to run away. Of course, they couldn't run away just because they wanted to.
"What?!" Zhao Han screamed, crawling and rolling out of the bed, "How could he fail? How could the prince fail?"
No, he couldn't believe it. The prince was the future emperor, how could he fail? Why?
"Master, let's pack up quickly. They said the people outside might rush in at dawn."
"No, it's impossible!" Zhao Han could not accept this fact no matter what. He wanted to be the future imperial concubine, he also wanted to be the future empress dowager, and his son wanted to become the emperor.
When Meng Susu heard Zhao Han's scream, her heart was filled with fear and despair. She regretted it. She clearly had a portable cultivation space and could do whatever she wanted outside. Why did she run into Xiao Mingrui's backyard and not only snatch a shared cucumber from another woman, Shuang'er, but also have to live in fear.
In the end, Xiao Mingrui failed, and they as a family would not have a good ending, especially since she gave birth to a child for Xiao Mingrui.
Meng Susu originally had a gaming mentality and treated these ancient people as NPCs. She came to conquer them with the goal of becoming the final winner. But when this child who was connected to her by blood was born, she felt a sense of reality that this was not a game.
Meng Susu hugged her child tightly. What should she do? The emperor could not leave Xiao Mingrui's bloodline. If she did not save herself, her child would die. Her child could not even speak yet. How could he die like this?
Save herself? Yes, she wanted to save herself and her child. Meng Susu didn't care about anything unusual. She sent the child into the space first, then got up and packed her belongings. She was ready to stay in the space for a while. As for the lives of others, she no longer cared.
She drove out all the other servants, searched a bunch of things and put them into the space. Then she started a fire in her room and dived into the space. By the time the people outside discovered that there was a fire and put out the fire, it was already dawn. Because the palace was already in chaos, and the soldiers outside didn't know what was going on inside, they would not let go to put out the fire. This greatly prolonged the firefighting time. When the fire was completely out, everyone found that Concubine Meng and the young master were missing.
Although no skeletons of the adult and the child were found after searching, everyone believed that the mother and son had met with misfortune and died in the fire.
At any other time, Zhao Han would have laughed, but at this moment he had no mood to care about Meng Susu's life or death. He was only worried about himself and his son, because as an ancient man who lived under the imperial power, he knew better than anyone what Meng Susu had predicted. But he couldn't escape at all. Even if he could escape, he didn't know where to go. He had no ability to survive if he left the prince's mansion and the marquis' mansion.
The Huaiyuan Marquis Mansion was also in panic. No, they were earlier, because Zhao Dechang and Zhao Qi also attended the palace banquet and witnessed Prince Cheng and his son charging into the palace. Then they watched them being defeated and tied up, and the father and son collapsed in despair in their seats.
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