Chapter 5: An Assassin Strikes

Yuqing led Li Yuanhao and Li Xiuce into the seats, ordered someone to serve pastries, personally boiled tea, a cup per person, and then stood aside, chatting about some common things without words. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

When Li Xiuce saw that there was a pastry, he immediately smiled, reached out and grabbed a piece, and stuffed it into his mouth, as if he suddenly remembered something, handed the pastry to Li Yuanhao on the other side, and said playfully: "Brother, you eat first!"

Li Yuanhao sighed, as if he had found the sun coming out of the west: "Have you changed sex? You actually know that you are humble, this is your favorite osmanthus sugar steamed chestnut flour cake, and you are willing to let it out?"

Li Xiuce sighed: "The book says that the eldest brother is the father, and there is Kong Rong to make pears, so I will study according to the book to see if I can really make people experience different happiness." ā€

"Hahaha. Li Yuanhao couldn't help laughing out loud and pushed the pastry in front of Li Xiuce, "Some happiness is self-deception and forced laughter, and some things still have to fall into their stomachs to be really happy." ā€

Hearing this, Yuqing's face on the side darkened, Zhao Duling's eyes narrowed, and the Cining Palace fell into silence, without making a sound at all.

In a warmer flower room next door, the Queen Mother squatted among the flowers, holding a small jade shovel in one hand and constantly fertilizing the peony loosening soil.

I don't know how long it took, the Queen Mother stood up from the flowers, rubbed her back, and said to herself: "It's really an old man, I've only done a little bit of work, and I already have back pain." ā€

Hearing the voice, Yuqing walked into the back room quickly, took the jade shovel in the hands of the ancestor with one hand, and supported the queen mother with the other: "Ancestor, you are working hard today, even if there are ten young and strong young men, you may not be able to do so much." ā€

"Your girl's mouth is like a little magpie, and she is ingenious and cute. The Queen Mother smiled like a flower, the wrinkles on her face were piled up together, but she couldn't hide the clear light in her eyes, what Suo Guifei and Su Guifei were most afraid of was these eyes, which were weathered, but they were seductive and terrifying.

Out of the flower room, a little palace maid stepped forward, carefully removed the queen mother's agricultural clothes, Yuqing personally put on the dragon and phoenix xia veil for the queen mother, inserted the phoenix hairpin, the queen mother pinched a cup of moist tea with both hands to rinse her mouth, and wiped her face with a warm towel, threw it away, exhaled a breath of turbidity, squinted her eyes slightly, and felt more and more comfortable: "Comfortable, after work, the hot towel is the most relieving." Girl, if the mourning family dies in the future, this flower house still needs you to greet you. ā€

"The ancestor is talking nonsense again, just your body, but you want to live a hundred years, and your life is longer than that of Nanshan. "The person who can and dares to say that the Queen Mother is talking nonsense is only Yuqing in the world," Old Ancestor, Your Majesty and the little prince are waiting in the outhouse. ā€

The Queen Mother's hand paused slightly, and the warm smile on her face turned into another meaningful smile, and the corners of her mouth on the left side were upturned, outlining an arc: "Let's go, go out and have a look." ā€

Li Yuanhao and Li Xiuce in the outhouse had already bowed down and bent over, please say hello, Li Yuanhao's mouth said "The Queen Mother is auspicious", Li Xiuce said "Grandma is auspicious", and the distance is clear at a glance.

After kneeling, Li Xiuce ran up like a naughty child without a tutor, hugged the queen mother, and said coquettishly: "Grandma hug." ā€

The Queen Mother didn't think it was a pestle, sat down slowly, and hugged Li Xiuce to her legs, like an old birthday star who was teasing Sun, and her eyes didn't stop on Li Yuanhao: "Don't kneel, the emperor, get up and sit down." ā€

"Empress Dowager Xie. Li Yuanhao got up and sat opposite the Queen Mother, bowing his head slightly, respectful and humble.

And the rumors in the palace are generally the same, the gap between the emperor and the queen mother has become irreparable, the two have turned against each other for the power of the court, and now they are only maintaining the surface peace, the emperor is weak, and he is a man with a dragon tail in front of the queen mother, and he is the first to save his life.

Li Xiuce rubbed left and right in the arms of the Queen Mother, and scratched the Queen Mother's itch, the Queen Mother's face was full of doting, she couldn't help laughing, and dried Li Yuanhao aside: "Xiuce's naughty energy is more and more like his father, and he looks like the emperor." ā€

These words hurt the heart, and they hit the heart of Li Yuanhao opposite. However, Li Yuanhao didn't have any other ideas, just mentioned the first emperor who returned to the sky, her heart was tight, and after careful calculation, it had been more than ten years since her father and mother passed away.

"I'm not the emperor, such a boring thing, just let my brother be it, I'll be an idle prince, raising flowers and grass every day. Li Xiuce broke free from the embrace of the Queen Mother and said seriously.

The Queen Mother gently scratched Li Xiuce's nose: "Good grandson, some people are boring and aggrieved when they are emperors, they have no power in their hands, and they can only be a puppet emperor in order to save their lives, which makes the world laugh." When you have power in your hands, the world is in your pocket, that is the real emperor, you can do not only raise flowers and grass, but also decide the honor and disgrace of all people. Saying that, the Queen Mother looked up at Li Yuanhao: "Emperor, is what the mourning family said right?"

"Yes, the Queen Mother is absolutely right. Li Yuanhao's hands were clenched tightly, and his palms were full of sweat.

The Queen Mother smiled, put Li Xiuce down, and said to him in a gentle tone: "Xiuce, it's not too early, go to Guozijian for class." ā€

"I'm not going, I'm going to stay with my grandmother for a while. Li Xiuce looked aggrieved and burst into tears, looking pitiful and unbearable.

"Go, country, son, prison, class!" The smile on the queen mother's face disappeared, her hands were staggered in front of her, staring at Li Xiuce's eyes, and she said word by word.

Tears swirled in Li Xiuce's eyes, looking at Li Yuanhao on the side, asking his eldest brother for help.

Li Yuanhao stood up: "Queen Mother, grandson asks Xiuce for a favor and let him stay here for a while." ā€

"Pleading?" The Queen Mother's tone became colder and colder, her domineering was world-famous, she didn't like to see other people's twisted women's attitudes, and she didn't like people to disobey her, no matter how trivial things were, "If you, the emperor, don't ask for this invitation, it's okay if the mourning family is soft-hearted, but now, Xiuce, go to Guozijian class immediately!"

Seeing such a scene, Yuqing took Li Xiuce's little hand, whispered a word or two of comfort, wiped his tears, walked out of Cining Palace, and walked towards Guozijian.

In Cining Palace, it was quiet, the sound of hanging needles could be heard, the Queen Mother sat firmly above, silent, Li Yuanhao stood on the lower side, looking down and couldn't see the expression, the sunlight outside the window moved the position, stretching Li Yuanhao's figure very long.

After a while, Li Yuanhao sighed: "Queen Mother, the grandson knows that he is wrong, if there is nothing else, the grandson will retire first." ā€

The Queen Mother, who had been silent with her eyes closed, suddenly showed a smile, she liked others to admit her mistakes, which proved that she had won again: "Since the emperor knows that he is wrong, it will not be in vain to mourn the family's hard work." Shanxi paid tribute to the sweet and sour mountain dates, the emperor sat down, tasted some and then left. ā€

"Empress Dowager Xie. Li Yuanhao sat back in his seat again.

The big eunuch Zhao Duling led the small steps and left, and after a while, led a few little eunuchs holding trays into Cining Palace, and put a plate of sour dates on the table, the last little eunuch may have been too nervous, and he accidentally stumbled in front of Li Yuanhao, his feet were unstable, and he was about to fall, and the glass jar in his hand overturned to the ground, and the sour dates rolled down to the ground.

Li Yuanhao's eyes were quick, he stretched out his hand to help him, and the little eunuch stopped his body, and knelt on the ground with a puff, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "The slave should die, the slave should die......"

"Dog minion, it's really a long life!" Zhao Duling snorted coldly, his body was like a gust of wind, and he came to the little eunuch in an instant, and his palms came out together, and his palms contained a fierce wind, and smashed towards the top of the little eunuch's head.

The reason why Zhao Duling is called "Royal Cat", in addition to doing things ruthlessly, he is also a master of deep internal strength and outstanding martial arts, there are many people who have entered the palace and assassinated over the years, but they basically died in the hands of this great eunuch, and the death was extremely miserable, bleeding from the seven orifices, the muscles and bones of the whole body were broken, and occasionally the fish that slipped through the net were also found by the second dog around the Queen Mother, peeled off the skin and cramped, and lit the sky lantern.

I don't know when, Li Yuanhao was already in front of the little eunuch, a heart was raised to her throat, and the surging palm wind on the opposite side, she couldn't help but close her eyes.

In the end, Zhao Duling's sharp palms stopped three feet in front of Li Yuanhao, stopped, closed his fist, and Zhao Duling knelt on one knee: "Disturb the holy driver, the slave should die!"

At this time, the Queen Mother had just chewed and swallowed the first sour jujube, and seemed to be unsatisfied, pinching the second jujube, completely ignoring what had just happened.

Li Yuanhao had palpitations, she didn't know if one day, the old dog's hands on the other side would not stop under the hint of the Queen Mother, and directly attacked her body, but at this moment she didn't want to show her cowardice, and forcibly stabilized her mind: "A mistake will not be compensated by death." ā€

As soon as the words fell, Li Yuanhao only felt a cool breeze behind him, and the little eunuch who was still frightened just now suddenly showed a fierce expression, a cold dagger slid from his sleeve into his hand, the tip of the sword rose, and he suddenly became difficult, piercing Li Yuanhao's heart.