"Alright," the emperor said hastily, taking a few spoonfuls of soup. "Wake me up in half an hour."
"This servant knows. This servant knows." The old eunuch, his back hunched, helped the emperor onto the dragon bed. His back was so bent, like a bow.
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Up to this point, only ten minutes of the plot had passed, but the amount of information was so overwhelming that Sun Xiaoxiao's mind could hardly process it all.
Calming Soup... Calming Soup...
Sun Xiaoxiao liked Ye Chu and had read "Yun Qing Ji" many times. She remembered that Princess Pingzhao seemed to have delivered medicine to the emperor many times...
In the scene, the emperor lay down on the dragon bed and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
The old eunuch went outside and whispered to the guards standing at the door, "Stay here and keep watch over His Majesty!"
The guards responded respectfully, and the old eunuch walked to the central courtyard, strolling slowly.
A short while later, a sharp whistle suddenly rang out in the night sky!
Suddenly, one of the two teams of guards drew his sword and stabbed the man next to him in the chest!
As if given a signal, two more guards drew their swords and swung them at the person in front of them.
Those chosen as imperial bodyguards were naturally exceptionally skilled. The others were no pushovers to be slaughtered at will. The two factions quickly clashed.
The guards who made the first move were clearly heading straight for the emperor inside the room, charging towards the imperial bedchamber. They were incredibly fierce. It's unclear who planted them; there were a full thirty traitors in this group!
The group of guards protecting the emperor were few in number and outnumbered, putting them in a very passive position.
Seeing this, the old eunuch was frantic and cried out in a shrill voice, "Where are the Hongying Guards! Quickly come and protect the Emperor!"
The old eunuch called out three times, and finally several ghostly figures floated down from the palace beams and the trees outside the hall.
The Hongying Guards were the emperor's secret guards, who were usually ghost-like and almost never appeared in public.
The old eunuch glanced lightly at the guards, then said urgently, "Go and kill all those traitors!"
The leader of the Hongying Guard said, "Without His Majesty's decree, we dare not act rashly."
The old eunuch was almost in tears: "His Majesty has just taken a calming soup. How about this, you all kill the traitors first, and I'll go wake His Majesty up!"
The leader still didn't move, so the old eunuch said anxiously, "I'm an old servant who followed His Majesty when he started his rebellion! I'll take responsibility for whatever happens! If His Majesty wants to behead someone, then behead me! I'm kneeling before you—please do it quickly!"
Upon hearing this, the leader of the Hongying Guards finally stopped hesitating and led his men into the battle. Two other guards escorted the old eunuch into the palace.
The Hongying Guard was small but elite, actually consisting of only eight men. As soon as the old eunuch entered the palace, he hurriedly said, "Go quickly and help them outside! There are at least forty or fifty of those bandits, and they're wearing armor..."
The two guards dared not delay and hurried off.
Only the old eunuch and the emperor remained in the palace at this moment.
Despite such a major incident, the emperor remained fast asleep, seemingly trapped in a dream he was unwilling to wake from.
The old eunuch gazed at the sleeping emperor, but instead of waking him, he hurried a few steps to the window of the imperial bedchamber.
Sun Xiaoxiao's eyes widened—No way!
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