Chapter 6 Night Visit to the Imperial Palace
Hong Gu stood in front of the window of the west room, looking at the night scene in the courtyard. Tingting and Yuli, who were lying on the big bed behind her, had already fallen asleep and were sleeping soundly.
The moon at the end of the month was only a crescent, and only the stars were shining faintly in the dark night sky.
The young lady's new house was placed in Ningxin Garden, which was beautiful, quiet and spacious.
The lanterns hanging under the corridor in the courtyard, the dim light reflected the nearby scenery in the haziness with a hint of poetry.
In the distant places where the light could not reach, only the general outlines of the flowers, trees and rockery under the night sky could be seen.
: Ping'er! My precious daughter, you should be sleeping soundly at this time, right?
Young lady urged mother several times to take you and keep you by her side, but mother cannot do that now!
Ping'er! Although young lady did not tell us clearly, mother can see that young lady must have encountered a huge crisis and problem.
Young lady, who has always been carefree and wanton, has been anxious and depressed recently. On the way to the wedding today, an assassin tried to kill the King of Qin. The identity of the King of Qin's concubine, which makes her hate and angry, must be full of crises and dangers.
Ping'er! Young lady saved mother's life. Mother should also use this life to protect young lady's safety.
I hope that the smart and kind young lady can resolve this crisis as soon as possible. If mother is lucky enough to survive by then, mother will take you to her side and raise you personally.
If mother unfortunately dies, Ping'er, you stay with Master Jing'an! Although it is a little miserable to be with the ancient Buddha under the green lamp, your mother hopes that you can grow up safely...
Standing in front of the window and missing her daughter, Hong Gu suddenly trembled, and a sharp light flashed in her eyes!
Several ghostly figures floated through the yard, from the west room to the rockery in the darkness in the distance, and disappeared in an instant.
Hong Gu grabbed the sword on the table next to her, turned around and rushed to the young lady's room.
In the hall, Ruhua and Siyu were squeezed on a narrow imperial concubine couch, sleeping soundly.
Hong Gu paused, stopped in front of the door of the new room, and listened carefully.
A light and long breathing sound came from inside, which should be the young lady who was sleeping soundly. The breathing sound of the King of Qin that should have been there was not heard.
"Young lady!" Hong Gu shouted.
The familiar breathing sound was still heard in the room, and no other sound was heard.
"Miss!" Hong Gu called again, and Ruhua and Siyu were awakened, but there was still no movement in the room.
Hong Gu could no longer care about anything else, and she lifted the curtain and rushed in!
Nine big red wedding candles, nearly half of which were burned, illuminated the room as bright as day.
Without hesitation, Hong Gu sneaked into the room with the Qian Gong Ba Bu bed, and saw only the exquisite and delicate figure of her own young lady on the bed, but no figure of the King of Qin.
Ruhua and Siyu followed closely.
She cried out in surprise: "Miss! What happened to her?"
Hong Gu leaned over to check and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay! Miss was pressed on the sleeping point."
"Why is the King of Qin so wicked? Why did he press the sleeping point of Miss?" Siyu cursed angrily.
Hong Gu patted Miss's ribs twice and used her internal energy to help Miss unblock the blocked acupuncture points.
Luo Li felt that she slept so beautifully and sweetly this time. She heard Ruhua and Siyu's anxious calls in a daze, and she slowly opened her eyelids.
There were three concerned faces above her head. Luo Li was puzzled and asked lazily, "Why are you standing by my bed to exorcise ghosts in the middle of the night?"
"Miss, are you okay? Are you feeling unwell?"
Luo Li thought hard and suddenly remembered the evil smile on the handsome face of the dog Qin Wang, and his hand slowly reaching out to her.
Luo Li howled in grief!
: "The dog Qin Wang pressed my sleep point! I wonder what he wants to do?
Ruhua Siyu! It's a pity that your young lady, a virgin, was played and abused by a man. She didn't even have the right to taste the taste of her virginity, and she became a married woman from a girl in a daze!..."
Ruhua and Siyu blushed with shame. Ruhua spat lightly, "Miss! Your clothes are neatly dressed, and you haven't become a married woman from a girl!"
Luo Li stopped her sad accusations after hearing this, and felt her body and found nothing abnormal. She
looked down at her neat clothes and breathed a long sigh of relief. But another sense of frustration that hurt her self-esteem surged into her heart.
"Hong Gu, Ruhua, Siyu, am I not beautiful and sexy enough? Why does the dog Qin Wang have no sexual interest in me even though we sleep in the same bed? Is he a man?"
Ruhua and Siyu, two inexperienced girls, blushed with shame.
Hong Gu, who was an experienced person, could not answer the question of the young lady. She just secretly admired her young lady's bold and outspoken character, which was rare in the world.
Hong Gu reported, "Miss, I just saw several guards in the west room, wearing night clothes and performing light skills, and they disappeared in an instant beside the rockery."
Luo Li's heart "skimped"!
A smart guy like the dog Qin Wang must be able to guess that his father Zhao Kuangyin was murdered and usurped by Emperor Taizong.
He pressed my sleepiness point. Could it be that he took advantage of the fact that Emperor Taizong relaxed his vigilance against him on the wedding night and ran to the palace to assassinate me?
You dog Qin Wang! You killed me!
Regardless of whether his action was successful or not, the conspiracy to assassinate the emperor is a serious crime punishable by the extermination of nine clans!
Of course, the emperor would not exterminate nine clans, and the nine clans include his sons. But I, the Qin Wang’s concubine who was married in a formal ceremony, must be among those to be exterminated!
Luo Li was terrified and panicked, but she could only comfort the people around her.
"Well!... The dog Qin Wang pressed my sleepiness point, changed into night clothes and left the palace in the middle of the night. He must have secretly met his little lover outside. It's okay! You all go back to sleep!"
The lady's words were not very convincing.
Siyu frowned and analyzed, "How could it be possible? Even if the King of Qin has a lover, there is no place in the huge palace where one person can't be hidden?
Besides, this is a happy day, the wedding night! The King of Qin is a famous gentleman who is upright and honest. He would not do such an outrageous and dissolute act, right?"
Luo Li, feeling anxious, covered her head with a bright red sheet embroidered with phoenixes in gold thread, "Oh! No more guessing, let's go to bed!"
But Hong Gu, Ruhua and Siyu were unwilling to leave the young lady behind.
Ruhua and Siyu sat silently on the edge of the bed, while Hong Gu sat on a wooden bench between the beds, silently accompanying the young lady.
...
Six figures in black night clothes emerged from a courtyard a thousand steps away from the palace, passing through the rooms and ridges like ghosts, drifting towards the direction of the imperial palace.
When they arrived under the high walls of the inner city, the slender and muscular figure in the lead stopped.
"Yun Yi and the king go in, and the four of you stay here to support!"
Several people bowed and received the order in a low voice.
Two figures used their lightness skills to leap onto the high walls of the imperial city, avoiding the patrolling guards while rushing towards a palace in the imperial city. ...
Standing in front of the Wansui Palace that had been abandoned for many years, Qin Wang Zhao Defang couldn't help but feel emotional.
This is the place where his father suddenly died overnight. It has been sealed for so many years by the man who now sits on the dragon throne. The palace has become mottled and overgrown with weeds, and it looks particularly gloomy and cold at night. The former splendor and solemnity are gone.
Today, the emperor announced that he would rebuild the Wansui Palace and renamed it the Funing Palace, and construction will start soon. He must go in and check it out before all the evidence is destroyed. He has been planning tonight's action for many days.
Yun Yi came to the sealed doors and windows of the hall and asked in a low voice, "Prince, break the door or the window?"
Zhao Defang handed the fish intestine sword on his body to Yun Yi, "Break the window!"
Yun Yi pulled out the fish intestine sword that could cut iron like mud, and cut off more than a dozen iron edges sealed on the window like cutting tofu. Then he gently lifted the cut part and took it off.
A hole appeared on the window that was big enough for people to drill in.
The two of them drilled in through the gap, each took out the night pearl in their arms, and searched and checked in the dark and empty hall.
The long-abandoned hall was covered with a thick layer of dust everywhere, emitting a moldy smell, but the original furnishings and arrangements had not changed.
Qin Wang Zhao Defang held the Night Pearl in his hand, searching in the dim light.
His body suddenly shook!
Under the dim light of the Night Pearl, there was a deep axe mark on the wooden pillar with dragons and phoenixes in front of him!
This mark could not have been left by any other weapon except the jade axe that my father carried with him.
The anger and grief in Zhao Defang's chest surged like a tide!
[Bastard Zhao Guangyi! "Axe sound and candle shadow" is not groundless. My father was indeed murdered by you. Zhao Defang will not be a human being if he does not avenge this! ]
The anger and grief in Qin Wang Zhao Defang's chest surged!
He clenched his fists, his eyes were blazing, his pupils were bleeding, and the corners of his lips were bitten with blood! But he didn't dare to vent his emotions and roar to the sky. The suppressed grief and overwhelming hatred made his whole body tremble!
Suddenly, there was a noisy sound outside the hall, and countless torches were lit in the dark night.
"There is an assassin!..." "
An assassin broke into the Wansui Hall!"
"Catch the assassin!..."
Yun Yi shouted inwardly: Oh no! We've been ambushed!