a bolt from the blue.
For a moment, all he could hear was the piercing roar in his head.
He frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
It seemed like he was blaming the guard, but in fact, he was staring at the guard who came to report, and even his breathing stopped.
"Your Majesty, the Concubine Zhaoyi's carriage... was on the way to burn incense when it encountered robbers. To save her mother... the Concubine Zhaoyi drove the carriage alone and fell off a cliff."
"Bang--!"
The brocade box hit the guard's head and blood immediately flowed out.
His eyes were full of sinister intent, "You know, cursing a concubine is a capital crime."
The guard bowed his head to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I know that the guards who were protecting Her Majesty have returned and are waiting outside."
"Spread." He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth to force himself to say the word.
The leader of the guards came in and was grabbed by the collar before he could even kneel down.
He looked up and saw the dark and cold eyes, and couldn't help shivering all over.
"Tell me, what's going on?" He stared at the person in front of him, as if he was going to draw his knife and chop the person to death in the next second if he didn't say anything wrong.
He released his hand, and the guard knelt on the ground, speaking tremblingly, "The Queen wanted to go up the mountain with her wife to burn incense. When they passed through the dense forest, a group of robbers suddenly appeared. We were led away by them. To escape danger, the Queen drove the carriage up the mountain, and halfway, she let her wife down. Finally, the carriage rushed down a cliff..."
When he heard the guard say this again, his fingertips trembled.
Forcing himself to calm down, he took a deep breath and asked carefully: "What kind of robbers? How many people are there?"
The guards around her were all elites, a team of more than twenty people. What kind of robbers could make her fall off a cliff?
"this……"
The guard seemed to be hesitant to speak, and Si Chao raised his foot and kicked him in the chest.
"Hurry up and tell me!"
"Yes, we didn't see their faces clearly. We only knew there were about forty or fifty of them, all highly skilled in martial arts. We didn't react at the time, and only realized later that they were probably trying to lure us away."
"Leave them away..." He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Go find them. Even if we have to turn the entire Dingzhou upside down, we must find these fifty-plus people!"
After saying that, he stood up and hurried to the scene of the accident with his men.
At that time, except for Tu Yuzhi who had already gone down the cliff to look for someone, the rest of the Tu family were all crying on the cliff.
When Si Chao arrived, he was annoyed by the sound of the mourning. "Why are you crying? The person is not dead, just smile for me!"
He was joking, but his expression was very ugly, and there was even some madness in his eyes.
He didn't understand why he was like this. It hadn't been that long, so how could it have become so important?
I heard the world spinning as she fell off the cliff, and I felt a sense of emptiness in my heart all day long.
"Your Majesty, long live the Emperor..."
"Bullshit! If she can't be found, no one will survive!"
The court officials behind him were all shocked. It seemed like this was the first time they heard the emperor use such vulgar words.
Looking at his current state, they were actually glad that the girl was not so lucky.
Otherwise, if she really entered the palace, there would be no place for their daughter in the palace.
Even though they thought so, the ministers still stepped forward worriedly to advise, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."
"Yes, Your Majesty, since you learned about the Queen's situation, you haven't had a drop of water or rest. How can your body bear this?"
Si Chao stood at the edge of the cliff, feeling the cold wind rushing up from the bottom.
The wind blew away the white mist, revealing some of the scenery below the cliff, but he only felt that the cliff was like a ferocious beast with its bloody mouth wide open, and a bloody smell hit his face.
"How did Tu Yuzhi get down there?"
"Your Majesty, it would take half a day to safely reach the bottom of the cliff. My son has some martial arts skills. He used a long rope and, along with the guards, slowly climbed down from the top."
"Prepare a rope for me too, I'll go down and take a look."
Everyone was shocked.
The ministers took two or three steps forward and knelt at his feet.
"Your Majesty, absolutely not."
"Your Majesty, your body is worth millions, how can you put yourself in danger?"
"Yes, Your Majesty's health is the health of the country. If you..."
…
They kept trying to persuade him, but seeing that Si Chao refused to listen, some of the older ministers went forward and hugged his legs.
Finally, Father Tu came out and said, "Your Majesty, if my daughter knew that she had caused Your Majesty to be injured, she would definitely feel uneasy, Your Majesty!"
Si Chao laughed at himself, "Would she be upset? She hasn't forgiven me at all."
Fortunately, he did not insist on going down, but just stayed on the top of the cliff, listening to the guards' reports again and again.
The fallen carriage was found, the purse on the queen's body was found, and the hairpin was found, but the person was not found.
For two whole days, no one was seen alive or dead.
The robbers could not be found either. They had wiped out their trail very cleanly and no trace of them could be found since that day.
"Your Majesty, this doesn't seem like a sudden ambush; it seems premeditated."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, if not, ask Master Tu if he has offended anyone?"
"I know, go down."
Who could a county magistrate who has been in office for more than ten years offend?
Even if he had offended someone, nothing had happened for more than ten years, but it happened at this time.
Everyone else was fine, but it was her.
No one is dead, no one is alive...
Oh, Qingyu, are you so unwilling to go back to the palace with him?
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