The world is full of surprises, and it is said that this is the year of the Feast of the Holy Life.
Whether it was the sudden appearance of the commoner Lu Hehao in Mingren Palace Hong, exposing the incestuous behavior of Emperor Duanhua; or Zhu Qin’s loyalty after hearing the news, trying to use his own life and reputation, to help Emperor Duanhua through the current difficulties of the decisive; or, “fifth brother,” the pedestrian’s sudden interception.
It’s all so unexpected.
Not even their masters behind the scenes could have seen this coming.
“Fifth brother” this pedestrian, naturally, is the Empress Dowager’s beloved.
The Dowager Empress was born in the midst of a chaotic world, watched the young Da Rui settle and grow up amidst the smoke and blood of the beacons, and experienced the favorites seeking the crown during Emperor Huizong’s time, the two kings seizing the throne during the previous dynasty’s Hianjia time, as well as the collusion of the current dynasty naturally, she would not be naïve enough to think that relying on the status of a fullfledged grandmother would stop Emperor Duanhua from poisoning himself.
Despite knowing that Emperor Duanhua’s main focus is on eradicating King Su and the Su family, and that he should not be able to do anything about himself for the time being, the empress dowager, who has been through a lot of fights for a long time, is still cautious enough to use the card of “fifth brother”.
During this time, she had been arranging this pedestrian in the vicinity of Mingren Palace.
Even on days like her own birthday, when all the noblewomen and noblewomen of the empire came to the palace to pay their respects to her, the “fifth brother” kept them on their toes to avoid being killed by the Duanhua Emperor before they could do anything about it.
However, in order to prevent misunderstandings, the Empress Dowager and the “fifth brother” have an agreement, ordinary access, they do not have to pay attention. After all, the Empress Dowager is not in the Mingren Palace for twenty years, so many waiting for the beloved surrounded by the left and right all day, want to rely on a few palace people to assassinate her, basically impossible!
This is also the reason why concubine Lu Hehao could enter Mingren Palace from under their eyes before, because Lu Hehao was guided in by two chamberlains, “Fifth Brother” they did not know that this former prince would even set off a huge wave when he entered the palace today, and saw that there was nothing suspicious about their number and dress, so they did not care.
But!
The chamberlain Zhu Chunyang was ordered by Zhu Qin to send a team of forbidden guards loyal to Emperor Duanhua to rush to Mingren Palace at a rapid speed, trying to kill the commoner Lu Hehao, the mother and son of the Nuan Tai Fei, and destroy the corpse when they were out of luck!
The unknown “fifth brother” only thought that the emperor finally could not hold back and would risk universal condemnation to poison his own master, the Empress Dowager!
Without even thinking about it, “Fifth Brother” ordered his men to make a surprise attack, hacking the unsuspecting group of colleagues to death in the snow as if they were vegetables!
After the killing, he followed the Empress Dowager’s previous instructions, sending people to report to the Empress Dowager, sending people to notify the officials close to the Empress Dowager, and then he didn’t stay idleexcept for a few people left behind to clean up the mess, all the others were sent outside the palace to spread the news and create a public opinion, lest Emperor Duanhua would continue to send more men to kill the Empress Dowager without stopping. manpower to kill the Empress Dowager!
A long time later, when the Dowager Empress rolled over and learned this news from Jade Fruit, she almost fainted again!
Although she didn’t care about Emperor Duanhua at all anymore, she cared very, very much about Xianjia!
Such a thing to hit the face of Xianjia, regardless of how the final result, now by the “fifth brother” such a mess, destined to be known to all the world originally still for the sealing of the hope of a ray of the dowager empress dowager, hanged heart have!
Yu Guo also felt at a loss, she served the Empress Dowager for twenty years, is considered very experienced, the most knowledgeable aunt in the palace, but has never dealt with such a situation, so knowing that the Empress Dowager will be weak, but also had to be hard to ask for instructions, “Your Highness, now we have to do?”
“What should we do?” After the Empress Dowager sent her chamberlain to the front hall, she retreated to the back hall on the pretext that she was not feeling well Empress Su and Empress Wei made a gesture to follow her in to serve her, but she simply refused at this moment, in the hall, she just waved off the doctors, and there were only the master and the servant, and the Empress Dowager gasped for breath and closed her eyes, sighing, “Aside from letting heaven take its course, what else can be done? She closed her eyes and sighed, “In addition to listening to God’s will, let those families fight, what else can we do?”
Jade Fruit heard the powerlessness in her tone, and her heart couldn’t help but flinch!
And at this time, the front end, which had almost turned the roof of the temple upside down, finally barely regained order under Gu Shao’s auspices.
“Zhu Qin, you are an old man before His Majesty, and back then, the late Emperor himself appointed you to His Majesty!” Only when order was restored did Gu Shao order Zhu Qin to be escorted to the hall and interrogated in public about the cause, “Over the years, His Majesty has treated you well! Why do you want to commit regicide?”
At this time, although the chamberlain of Mingren Palace had already stood in the hall for a while, but because of the unfortunate timing of his arrival, he had only entered the door in time for Zhu Qin to assassinate Emperor Duanhua in public, and everyone was too busy being surprised to save the Emperor, so who had the time to pay attention to him?
And although he is the empress dowager to serve in front of, but in Gu Shao this kind of three dynasties in front of the important minister, in the end is not dare to wantonly snatch the words, Gu Shao attention are put on the emperor and Zhu Qin, the temple and the vast, but did not notice him, naturally will not take the initiative to ask him to come over the reason so do not know what happened in the Palace of the Mingren! Gu Shao, at the moment, was genuinely furious and questioned Zhu Qin.
Of course this is also the purpose of Zhu Qin, he was subdued in the process of the party, very received a few hard, this will be a little moribund smile, said, “His Majesty treats the slave girl is indeed not thin, however, who called the slave girl has an old master early? The old master’s favor is deep, the slave girl can’t not repay!”
The people in the temple heard this are feeling suspicious, Gu Shao is tasted out of the wrong, was about to speak, did not think Zhu Qin is a step ahead of a head, but see his cheek muscles twitching a few times Gu Shao shocked, “Quickly unloaded his jawbone!”
However, it is already too late, Zhu celery corner of the mouth fell a slip of black blood, eyes gradually lost their glamor, he used the last strength to look to the Dan Edward above: the young emperor is with unbelievable eyes look down, that between the eyebrows full of consternation and suspicion, but no hatred and anger, obviously is aware of his sudden betrayal must be inside.
The experience of this life passes by like a flash of lightning and flint, the poverty when I was young; the hardship when I entered the palace; the surprise and gratitude when I was chosen by Emperor Xianjia to be the personal chamberlain of the Crown Prince; the past events when I accompanied the Crown Prince to grow up; the complacency when the Crown Prince ascended to the throne and congratulated by the eight parties; and the dependence on the master and servant in the recent difficult situation. …
Zhu Qin with difficulty showed a weak smile to the emperor: Your Majesty, may you soon eradicate all kinds of worries and really hold the power and the dry rule!
“Bang!”
The body of the Chief of the Inner Court in a crow’s silence, fell to the ground, Dan Edward on the end of the Chemical Emperor’s heart, but also seems to have received a violent blow!
The emperor held the back of the hand of the imperial case, veins were exposed, he stared at the still warm body under the steps, trying not to recall the past, with the remaining sanity, along with the words of Zhu Qin before his death, opened his voice, “The chamberlain who has served me for twenty years, surprisingly, there is another old master! This old master, who is it?”
The originally silent hall became as quiet as a pin in an instant.
Zhu Qin had been serving Emperor Duanhua for twenty years, and at that time, Emperor Xianjia had just ascended to the throne, and the harem of Da Rui was rightfully in the hands of Empress Dowager Su, Emperor Xianjia’s first queen the one who was most likely, most likely, most suspected of planting nails by Emperor Duanhua’s side from that time onwards, who else but Empress Dowager Su, or rather, the Su family, who else could it be?
But that was only the purpose of Emperor Duanhua’s questioning at this moment.
In fact, everyone was thinking of one question: if Zhu Qin was really the hidden son of the Su family buried in the side of Emperor Duanhua, how many chances did he have to conspire to harm Emperor Duanhua not to do so, so why did he choose a day like today, in public, to seize the guard’s ceremonial sword to cut the emperor?
A little poison while pouring wine for the Emperor is more brainy than this method, isn’t it?
What kind of regicide is this?
This is simply a case of wishing that the socalled “old master” as he calls him, would die too slowly!
“Could it be that His Majesty can’t wait to get his hands on the Empress Dowager and the Su family, even to the extent that he can’t wait for King Su to arrive in the imperial capital?” The crowd thought as they did, “To the extent that he would not hesitate to give up his beloved chamberlain on the Empress Dowager’s birthday in order to plant evidence?!”
For a while they were all a bit coldhearted towards Emperor Duanhua: Zhu Qin was at least an old man who had been with Emperor Duanhua for twenty years, even though there was a difference between masters and servants, however, people are not grass and trees, who can have no mercy the Emperor said to be an outcast, and was still like that to his close attendants, so the weight of them, the courtiers who were not close enough to the Emperor to be with him night and day, in the eyes of the Emperor, could be imagined. Can be imagined!
These people are silent, Gu Shao is because they can not eat Zhu Qin not as good as tell their own inside information is what, is still weighing the wording of the catchphrase, bizarre silence for a moment, Gu Shao finally made up his mind, raised his head and said, “your majesty, this is a very odd thing this day, according to the minister’s opinion … ”
Who wants to say did not finish, the back of the hall suddenly turned out a chamberlain, once out on the “flop” fell to his knees, loudly reported, “Mingren Palace urgent report: the Empress Dowager assassinated!!!”
“What?!” The hall heard a cry of shock, everyone, including Gu Shao, looked at Emperor Duanhua’s eyes changed: knowing that the emperor and the Empress Dowager had already torn their faces apart, the two grandchildren would not want the other to die earlier!
But!
It’s Holy Birthday!
For the ministers, the dowager empress died on her birthday under her grandson’s murder is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that today their wives and daughters are all in Mingren Palace Duanhua Emperor chose such a day to do to the first grandmother, who knows whether it will accidentally injure or implicate their family members?
“How is the Dowager Empress now?!” At this critical moment, Gu Shao is still calm, although his suddenly hunched over figure shows that his heart is definitely not calm at this moment, but he still balked at the surrounding area, and after stopping the people’s whispers with a stern gaze, he inquired in a deep voice, “Can you pass on the doctor? Are the rest of the ladies well?”
But I heard the chamberlain say, “Fortunately, the palace guards were alert and timely, and killed all the assassins in front of the palace, without disturbing the dowager empress and all the noblemen’s pleasure!”
Gu Shao, “……”
Emperor, “………”
Crowd, “…………!!!! ”
The chamberlain looked at the eyes of the palace that were eager to eat him, and the corner of his mouth twitched, “Fifth brother” They didn’t know what happened in Mingren Palace, so they also didn’t know that the Empress Dowager had sent someone over to talk to this side to tell the commoner Lu Hehao’s revelation “Fifth brother” After sending the guards to this side, they found this chamberlain, who was naturally also the Empress Dowager’s person. After the guards sent by “Fifth Brother” arrived here, they found this chamberlain, who was naturally one of the Empress Dowager’s people.
The two had planned to follow the instructions of the “fifth brother”, first quietly conveyed the news to Qiu Shuxia as well as Jian Xubaibai, so that these two ministers publicly questioned Emperor Duanhua, why on such a day today, there will be heavily armed guards raging straight to Mingren Palace?
However, they came not coincidentally, just in time for Zhu Qin regicide, the temple messy mess, Qiu Shuxia and Jian Xubai status are not low, the seat in front, with Gu Shao a piece of busy rescue it, how can they sit properly on the seat and wait for what to quietly pass the message?
With this in mind, the guards discussed with the chamberlain, and both felt that since the Emperor was already explicitly trying to kill the Dowager Empress, if he didn’t expose the heartlessness of this dimwitted ruler as soon as possible, who knows what other tricks he had waiting for the Dowager Empress?
For the sake of the old master, the chamberlain therefore decided to give up his life to make a big deal out of it, so that Emperor Duanhua could not cover his ears!
At this moment, he was about to continue to talk about the “unfair” treatment of the Empress Dowager today, but before he realized it, a familiar colleague near the main entrance of the hall spoke out in dismay, “Eunuch Cai, what did you say? The Empress Dowager was assassinated? So that commoner Lu Hehao suddenly entered the palace, really is a conspiracy?
This chamberlain is the daily wait for the dowager empress, although ordered to come over to pass on the message, but heard that the master was assassinated, that of course, can not care about the body of the mission, first inquire about the master’s side of the situation!
“Commoner Lu Hehao?” Now even a fool realized that the bustle over at Mingren Palace today must be no less than here!
Gu Shao’s face was ironic, “Please also ask the two inner eunuchs, from the beginning Mingren Palace side, in the end what happened?!”