"Hahaha."
Just as the two were feeling happy, there was a loud noise from the roof. By the time they reacted, the man in black was already standing in front of them.
Li Wanting sat up in shock, and when she saw the person coming, her face was full of disbelief.
"Chen Jie, aren't you dead?"
Chen Jie sneered, "Thanks to the emperor, I was able to survive the disaster." As Chen Jie spoke, he moved closer to Li Wanting and grabbed her neck.
Chun Er ran out of the door in panic, "Someone, someone, please come."
But before she could open the door, she was knocked unconscious by the sword thrown by Chen Jie.
Li Wanting looked at the fallen Chun'er, her eyes filled with fear.
"Chen Jie, what do you want to do?"
"My queen, I'm here to ask for the antidote. If you give me the antidote, I will spare your life!"
Li Wanting suddenly smiled and said nonchalantly: "You won't kill me. You need an antidote, and only I know where the antidote is."
Chen Jie looked at the vicious woman in front of him, and couldn't control the strength of his hands that were pinching her neck.
Li Wanting felt pain and frowned as she said, "Chen Jie, before the guards find out, I advise you to run away as soon as possible. Gu Yanwei is at the end of his rope. What's the point of you trying so hard to save him?"
Chen Jie's eyes were red, and he stared at Li Wanting like a mad Tibetan mastiff.
"Okay, in that case, you are the queen and should be buried with the emperor. I will send you down first." After saying that, he began to exert force with his hands. Li Wanting felt difficulty breathing and her face turned red.
Her feet gradually left the ground, and Li Wanting struggled, her eyes filled with fear.
"I'll give it to you. I'll give you the antidote."
The hand that was restraining her neck suddenly left, and Li Wanting fell to the ground, gasping for breath, her eyes already bloodshot.
"Give me the antidote, or I'll kill you now!"
Li Wanting looked at the person in front of her in horror and slowly stood up, "Wait a minute."
She turned around and took out a white bottle from the drawer next to her, saying, "The antidote is here."
Chen Jie pulled away the sword from her neck, reached out to grab the antidote, opened the bottle, took out a pill, handed it to Li Wanting and said, "Take it!"
Li Wanting took the antidote tremblingly, put it into her mouth, and said, "After the poison takes effect, he will only have two days to live. You still have half an hour to rush back to save him!"
Seeing Li Wanting take the antidote, Chen Jie put it in her sleeve and said, "Send me out!"
It was almost dawn. Chen Jie disguised himself as a eunuch and stood behind Li Wanting, with a dagger pressed tightly against Li Wanting's waist.
"Hurry, you better stop playing tricks!"
The fact that he had killed so many guards has been discovered. Now the patrols in the palace have been stepped up, and wherever he goes, there are guards coming and going.
Suddenly, someone called Li Wanting.
"The Queen."
Hearing the sound, Li Wanting stopped, and Chen Jie put a little force on the dagger behind him.
Li Wanting pinched her voice, looked at the guard in front of her and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, an assassin has entered the palace and killed eight guards. The palace has increased patrols and the assassin has not been caught yet. If your Majesty has nothing urgent to do, you should not run around."
Li Wanting nodded, "I just felt bored, so I came out for a walk, but there was an assassin. I'm going back now, you guys go ahead and do your work!"
The guard nodded and left.
After the sword guard left, Chen Jie, who was hiding behind Li Wanting, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Go!”
Finally they arrived safely at the palace gate. At this moment, almost all the guards had been transferred to the palace. Seeing that there were only a few patrols, Chen Jie took away the dagger from Li Wanting's back and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." After saying that, he knocked her out with a palm.
The guard at the door heard the noise, turned around and saw the queen fallen.
"quick."
But just as the two men ran over, they were stabbed in the throat by Chen Jie who was hiding in the dark.
——
Inside the thatched hut, Gu Yanwei suddenly started coughing violently.
"Gu Yanwei, Gu Yanwei." Shen Qingqiu frowned, tears falling down, "How are you?"
Gu Yanwei suddenly stood up and spat out blood on the bed. Before Shen Qingqiu could react, Gu Yanwei had already fainted.
Suoxin, who was standing by, saw this and knelt down in panic, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what should we do?" She rubbed her hands anxiously, "It's almost dawn and Lord Chen hasn't come back yet. Your Majesty, Lord Chen, please come back soon!" Suoxin prayed.
Looking at Gu Yanwei lying on the bed without any signs of life, Shen Qingqiu called out his name feebly, tears falling like beads from a broken string, and he knelt helplessly as if his soul had been sucked out of him.
I don’t know how long it took, but when the sky was already slightly bright, I heard footsteps at the door.
"Lock cylinder, lock cylinder!"
Although the sound was a little weak, the lock core could be heard clearly.
"My lady, it's Master Chen, he's back!"
Suo Xin stood up immediately and ran towards the door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Chen Jie lying on the ground, covered in blood.
"Sir, sir, how are you?" Suoxin looked him up and down, and saw that he was wounded by the sword on his waist and blood was flowing out continuously.
"I'm fine." Chen Jie used all his strength to take out the bottle of antidote from his sleeve and said, "Quick, give it to the emperor."
Suoxin took the antidote with tears in his eyes and ran into the house without hesitation.
"Your Highness, Your Highness." When the Eighth Prince was sleeping soundly, he heard a bustling noise outside the door. He opened his eyes impatiently and shouted outside: "What happened? Why is it so noisy!"
Eunuch Chen, who had been serving the Eighth Prince, hurriedly pushed the door open and walked in, frowning and saying, "Something happened, Your Highness the Eighth Prince."
"What's going on? Why are you so flustered? How disgraceful!"
"Your Majesty, just now Chen Jie broke into the palace at night, killed six patrolling guards, and knocked out the Empress and the maids around him. He has already escaped from the palace."
"What?!" The Eighth Prince immediately threw off the quilt and sat up, "Chen Jie, shouldn't he and Gu Yanwei be dead? How could he appear in the palace? These rubbish can't even handle such a small matter. Go to Fengwu Palace immediately!"
When we arrived at Fengwu Palace, Li Wanting had already woken up.
Seeing her sitting on the bed and rubbing her neck, the Eighth Prince frowned and walked a few steps towards her, asking, "What happened? Why didn't Chen Jie die?"
Li Wanting glanced at him impatiently, rubbed her neck and said, "You ask me how I know. Didn't you kill him? How come he came back alive and injured me? Shouldn't I be the one to ask you?"
Li Wanting's question left the Eighth Prince speechless. At the moment, he was only concerned about one thing.
"Antidote, did you give the antidote to Chen Jie?"
"Nonsense, if I didn't give it to him, I'm afraid he would be a corpse now!"
"You, I tried my best to kill Gu Yanwei, but you saved him. Li Wanting, what do you mean?"
"What do I mean?" Facing the Eighth Prince's questioning, Li Wanting showed no fear at all. Instead, she stood up and confronted the Eighth Prince, saying, "Gu Anguo, you must have made a mistake. Gu Yanwei was poisoned by me. It was your subordinates who failed to do their job well that saved his life. Even if I gave him the antidote, what would that do?"
"you!"
The eighth prince's chest rose and fell violently. "Gu Yong is still in Yan State with 100,000 elite soldiers. If Gu Yanwei were to go to Yan State and get help from Yan State, then all our work would be in vain!"
"Hmph, it's all in vain. That's all your fault, Gu Anguo. No wonder the late emperor looked down on you. You, including your men, are a bunch of cowards. Gu Yanwei has already fallen into that state, and you actually gave him a chance to make a comeback. Ha, you even have the nerve to come to Fengwu Palace to question me!"
As soon as Li Wanting finished speaking, a fierce slap hit her face. "Li Wanting, don't forget that I am the master of this palace now! How dare you speak to me like that!"
"You!" Five bright red hand marks immediately appeared on Li Wanting's face. When she looked up at the Eighth Prince again, she saw his fierce eyes, as if he was going to start a killing spree the next moment.
Li Wanting gasped and suppressed her anger.
"Someone come!" the Eighth Prince roared, "Get out of the palace and find them immediately. If you can't find them, I won't spare any of you!"
When he opened his eyes again, it was already dark. Chen Jie propped himself up and tried to sit up, but he felt a sharp pain in his waist.
When I looked up, I found that the wound on my waist had been bandaged.
"My Lord, are you awake?"
Suo Xin came over with a bowl of hot chicken soup, and Chen Jie propped himself up and sat up.
"Slow down, sir."
Chen Jie looked around and asked, "Where is the emperor? Has he taken the antidote? How is his condition?"
Suo Xin nodded, and the relaxation in his eyes said it all.
"The emperor has woken up and is in the next room. Your Majesty is taking care of him."
Chen Jie finally let go of his worries, "That's great."
"My lord, your waist injury is not light, you need to rest. I have made chicken soup, drink it while it is hot!"
Chen Jie looked up at the lock core and said, "Thank you, Miss Lock Core."
"Your Excellency has gone through life and death, and it is only natural for Suo Xin to do these things."
On the other side, Shen Qingqiu had just sat down next to Gu Yanwei with the chicken soup, only to see that Gu Yanwei's eyes were already open.
Shen Qingqiu was overjoyed and quickly put down the bowl in his hand, "Gu Yanwei, you're awake."
Gu Yanwei raised his eyes and looked at the woman in front of him. He had only been unconscious for two days and two nights, but Shen Qingqiu had lost a lot of weight, and it seemed as if she was the one who was poisoned.
"Qingqiu, thank you for your hard work."
Shen Qingqiu shed tears and shook his head, saying: "It's good that you wake up, it's good that you wake up."
"Help me up." Gu Yanwei propped himself up and sat on the bed. He looked around and asked, "Where are we?"
"Gu Yanwei, you were poisoned this time by the Queen. She had long been in collusion with the Eighth Prince. The Tremella fuciformis porridge that was sent to you every day was drugged. While you were poisoned, the Prince and the Huns entered the palace together. Chen Jie and I had to work hard to escape."
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