Chapter 94
94 [Killer of the Night] She has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
When Wei Anlan and Qin Xiao stepped into the palace gate, it was the day when Li Rui received Pei Yifei's handbook.
After reading Pei Yi's letter, Li Rui's heart sank.
The situation in Beijing is turbulent, and I don't know if Pei Yi and King Rong can cope with it.
His heart had flown out of Jiangzhou and to the capital, but he couldn't move.
Just when he was planning to pull out Guo Xiaotong's nails, someone installed nails beside him.
He can't act rashly, Zhao Yanrong is still by his side, she still has the children of the two of them in her womb, and everything can't hurt her and her children.
Li Rui clenched his fists and walked into their inner room.
Zhao Yanrong had just woken up and was sitting at the table eating.
The first trimester of pregnancy is the saddest, people with heavy reactions will vomit when they drink saliva, and many people lie directly in bed for several months or even lie directly until delivery.
But Zhao Yanrong is not, except for being often sleepy, she has no other symptoms, she has a large amount of food, a good appetite, and always wants to run outside.
After only a few days, the queen's little face bulged, and her complexion was ruddy as if she had been coated with rouge.
Li Rui likes to see her such a moist little appearance, with her, it seems that the sky will fall and there is no need to worry.
The emperor walked lightly behind his wife and picked her up.
Zhao Yanrong was holding a big bone and gnawing meat, and was frightened by Li Rui like this, and the bone fell on the table as soon as her hand loosened. She turned around and took a big oily hand and pasted it on the emperor's face: "What are you doing, I'm still eating!" โ
"If you eat yours, I'll hug yours." Li Rui held her bulging little face with a mouthful.
Zhao Yanrong raised her eyebrows and looked at Li Rui's eyes: "Nong Fa is happy? Want a bag (cuddle)? โ
Li Rui couldn't understand her southern dialect, blinked his eyes twice, and asked shamelessly, "What did Yanrong say?" Say it again, come and hear about it? โ
Zhao Yanrong smiled, jumped off his lap, and went to the basin to fish out a bone to gnaw.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"But I just want to hug you, what can I do?" Li Rui didn't want her to worry, so he had to fool her around.
Zhao Yanrong pointed at Li Rui with a meat bone stick and said, "Still say it's nothing?" The eyes are wrong, what the hell is going on? Look at your worries, say it and listen to it, even if I can't help anything, it's better than holding it alone. โ
"It's really nothing." Li Rui shook his head, and then nodded, "Pei Hou sent a letter." โ
"Oh!" Zhao Yanrong slowly put down her bones, "Could it be that there are some difficulties in the capital, they can't bear it?" โ
"You eat first, and we'll talk about it after eating." Li Rui thought about it again and again, his wife is not an ordinary woman, she is tough. It's not necessarily a good thing to say it and let her be mentally prepared. Li Rui sat across from her and watched her eat.
"What appetite can there be." Zhao Yanrong wiped her mouth and hands with a wet handkerchief, and called Zilan to come in and withdraw all the food from the table, "What, are you in a hurry?" Is it serious? Do you want to go back now? โ
"I can't go back, it's more dangerous than here." Li Rui shook his head, stood up and closed the doors and windows.
"Pei Hou wrote to say that Jingzhong is only afraid of changes."
Has it changed? Isn't there a rebellion in the south? If it wants to change, it will also change in the south, what is the matter with the capital?
After thinking about it, Zhao Yanrong was shocked: "Is there a change in the capital or a change in the palace?" โ
"It's all changed." Li Rui smiled bitterly, "Pei Hou has long persuaded me to remove the abolished prince, but it was I who hesitated for a while and missed the great opportunity to give him the opportunity to touch the capital." โ
Abolished Prince Li Qi?
Zhao Yanrong frowned: "So, the Queen Mother is planning to help her son ascend to the throne and want to remove you from the dragon chair." โ
"Thanks to her being so calm, she can catch the guards in the capital in the hands of her own people, I don't know how long she has been planning and how long she has been active, but she really has a heart." Li Rui sneered.
If Empress Dowager Zhang had moved a little bigger, he might not have known. However, she used the method of gentle wind and drizzle, slowly infiltrating, and made such a domineering and vulgar attitude, so that he let off his guard and let her build her own power in the past few years.
There is the queen mother inside, and there is military power outside, the Zhang family sisters and brothers hid from the sky and the sea, and formed a net under his nose, which can be described as clever and well-intentioned.
"That old woman, she's crazy." Zhao Yanrong shook her head, how big an obsession can this support the queen mother to make such a big sacrifice, and at the same time blackened the first emperor into charcoal.
"I'll just say, she is the highest concubine, she has been favored for decades, and she can stand tall in the harem, how can she be such a stupid person?" Zhao Yanrong laughed, "Tsk, come up again and again to slap me in the face, dare to be half-true and want to paralyze us." โ
Even if her own son is deposed, she can maintain her status in the harem, and even let the first emperor record the son who is most likely to inherit the unification to her name, how can this woman be simple?
It's that she's too underestimated.
"But don't worry, all enemies are paper tigers." Zhao Yanrong said with a smile, "Hiding and tucking in the ground will make people have a headache, now standing under the sun, as long as it is a person and not a ghost, what is there to fear?" There are uncles and kings in the capital, so we have to trust them. โ
Yes, those people think they are clever and don't show anything, how can they know that a woman's unintentional words can make them deduce what is about to happen?
"Wei Anlan has a heart, and he wants to reward her when he goes back."
"Sister Anlan is really good, go back this time, let's take care of it and pick a handsome, golden and affectionate young man to marry her."
Li Rui was amused by his wife's words, looking at her smiling face, full of indifference, and suddenly most of the dark clouds in the sky dispersed.
"Yes, as long as they are prepared, they don't have to worry too much, even if the Queen Mother gathers a few people, she will win by surprise. As long as the forbidden army and the sixteen guards are in our hands, they will not be able to turn the sky. It's just that Pei Hou reminded us that there should be a killer to assassinate us. โ
Zhao Yanrong raised her eyebrows, and her little finger rose to the sky: "Come on, let's kill one by one, let's kill a pair of pairs." Such a big gift, how can we continue it? โ
After that, Li Rui found Su Dingfang, and the two were chattering in the study, while Zhao Yanrong called Zilan and drew a lot of sketch components, asking her to find the best blacksmith in the city to process them.
When Su Dingfang heard that an assassin was coming to assassinate the emperor, his legs were weak, and he almost knelt directly on the ground. He is a civil official, governing the territory, and is a good hand at judging lawsuits and judging cases, but he knows nothing about military affairs. Li Rui didn't point out what he could do, fortunately, there were 5,000 garrisons in Jiangzhou, and Chen Zhi only brought 2,000 when he left, and there were still 3,000 soldiers left.
It's not that there is an enemy coming to attack the city, these sergeants are enough.
Li Rui sent a few henchmen to go around the barracks, picked two hundred soldiers to guard the prefect's compound, and divided the thousand people into eight squads to guard the four main city gates of Jiangzhou Mansion in turn.
Loose on the outside and tight on the inside, ready for battle.
Li Rui knew that there were traitors among the people around him, but this person should not be the person of the Dragon Tooth Guard, the Dragon Tooth Guard was a loyal secret guard, and he was the most loyal to the emperor. If it is really the Dragon Tooth Guard who rebelled, the other party did not need to send a killer, as long as he was willing to fight hard, Li Rui and Zhao Yanrong's heads were afraid that they would have fallen to the ground.
So it could only be one of the five or six inner court guards who came out of the palace, or two of them.
Li Rui secretly sneered, Empress Dowager Zhang was really thoughtful, and the emperor's personal guards were actually placed in her person. If Wei Anlan hadn't found out that something was wrong, and Pei Yi warned him in time, he and the queen might have had their heads cut off in their sleep.
She had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
In the past few days, Mrs. Su is still so arrogant, Su Dingfang is afraid that Mrs. will worry, so she has not revealed a trace of her tone. The prefect's yamen acted as usual.
The dragon tooth guards sent out to keep an eye on the inner court guards have already screened out two suspects.
These days, the two of them take turns to go out, always lingering in the Taibai Building, two streets away from the prefect's yamen.
It is the closest to the largest carriage and horse inn in Jiangzhou, and the people are miscellaneous, and the news is best interactive.
In the past, the enemy was in the dark and I was in the light, so naturally I couldn't guard against it, but now the enemy is in the light and I am in the dark, and their every move is watched by someone, so naturally they can't turn over Wuzhi Mountain.
Within a few days, a troupe came to the city, and the juggling and dancing skills were very exciting and fresh. In particular, the colorful silk dance of two young women, several zhang long colored silk waving various shapes in the air like a spirit snake, plus the two women's body is enchanting, with a golden bell tied to their feet, when dancing, the ring rings jingle the golden bell crisp, waving the legs and twisting the hips, the waves are turbulent, the flesh shadow is fragrant, and it is even more fascinating.
Someone offered advice, isn't the queen happy and in a bad mood? Your Majesty, haven't you felt depressed in Jiangzhou all the time? Invite this troupe into the prefect's yamen and show you two a trick.
When the emperor heard this, he thought that this method was good, so he nodded immediately and asked Su Dingfang to come forward, wrap up the troupe, and let them come into the mansion during the day.
The troupe owner also said that some of their juggling tricks were interesting and lively until they lit candles at night, and they had to go into the house to perform at night.
The prefect of Su rewarded the silver, saying that as long as they did a good job, there would be a reward from above.
When it was time to hold the lantern, the people in the troupe were all dressed up, and in the large open space in the backyard of the prefect's house, the stage was set up early, and they appeared on the stage.
Su Dingfang was on the main seat of the courtyard, and there were two paper screens behind him, and two people, a man and a woman, were faintly visible under the lights, sitting in one place in a wide robe.
The troupe started the gong, the colorful silk fluttered on the stage, and the audience applauded.
The troupe owner peeked behind the paper screen, and through the shadow reflected by the candle flame, it was vaguely seen that the two of them bowed their heads from time to time, you push me, I punched you, it seems to be extremely intimate.
There were more than a dozen men in Tsing Yi standing around the paper screen, all holding sword hilts with serious expressions, no matter how wonderful the performance on the stage was, they didn't have the slightest distraction.
It can be seen that the dignity of the person's identity behind the paper screen and the importance of safety.
Although Su Dingfang was sitting on the main seat, the man was slightly off, and Master Su always looked back at them from time to time.
The head of the troupe flashed in his eyes, knowing that the target must be the two behind the paper screen.
Secretly gestured.
In the colorful silk flying, two charming women with most of their chests suddenly flew up, and the two ribbons danced so much that they couldn't splash in, which was dazzling.
Then two cold rays of light silently caught in the silk shadows, flying towards the two people behind the paper screen in the dark night.
The author has something to say: my stomach hurts so much in the morning, it's a little late, sorry.
Climb to sleep in a while, you don't have to wait, there is only one shift today.
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