Chapter Ninety-Four: Assassination
Speaking of which, this is probably a sad question, Sikong Changle sighed: "I came out quietly by myself, but since I was a child, how could I have been out of the palace by myself, so I met those people, and those people said that they could send me to the palace for twenty taels of silver, so I gave it to them, who would have thought that they actually brought me to such a place, as for the rest of the things you have also seen." ”
When he heard the twenty taels of silver, Su Zhiyuan didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
The eldest princess at least knew how to bring money when she went out, but she didn't have a concept of money, and where could she use so much silver from the palace to the palace.
Probably because those people saw that Sikong Changle was dressed up very well and generous, thinking that she should be a young lady of the family, so they had bad thoughts.
"Isn't the palace guarded very tightly now? Why is it so easy for you to come out? Su Zhiyuan asked with a puzzled face.
"Of course I have my own way of doing this." Sikong Changle raised his chin a little proudly and said, with a little bit of a stinging look.
The corners of Su Zhiyuan's mouth twitched slightly, smiled a little helplessly, and shook his head, this person has a lot of ideas.
But now is not the time to talk about this matter, after all, Sikong Changle has a special identity, and it is difficult for them to explain if something happens outside.
"Okay, it's not too early, let's send you back first!"
Su Zhiyuan thought about it and said, Sikong Changle nodded, looked at Su Zhiyuan, and stopped talking a little.
If it hadn't been for Su Zhiyuan and the others arriving in time just now, he would have really been bullied by those hooligans, so Sikong Changle was struggling with whether to tell them what he heard at this time.
"Forget it, we'll see it then!"
Bowing his head, he muttered in a low voice.
Su Zhiyuan happened to hear Sikong Changle's words, turned his head to look at her and asked with some doubts, "Changle, what did you just say?" ”
As soon as her words fell, the two people next to her turned their heads to look at Sikong Changle with scrutiny in their eyes.
I didn't expect that what I said in such a whisper would be heard by Su Zhiyuan, Sikong Changle was stunned for a moment, and immediately came back to his senses, "Oh, I didn't say anything." ”
After saying that, she breathed a sigh of relief.
A little inexplicably glanced at Sikong Changle, Su Zhiyuan always felt that this person must be hiding something from himself.
Otherwise, how could he sneak out of the palace when he was on guard like this, and he was almost bullied here.
However, she could also see that the other party didn't seem to want to talk about it now.
It's better to wait for the way to the Queen Mother's Palace, and find a chance to ask Sikong Changle!
Since Yun Ge is not sent to the Wulin League now, Sikong Mubai and Yun Ge will follow Su Zhiyuan and the others to the Queen Mother's Palace.
From here to the Queen Mother's Palace, there are almost more than 20 miles of mountain roads, considering that Sikong Changle is used to being pampered, it may be uncomfortable to sit in such a carriage, and when he saw a teahouse halfway, Su Zhiyuan asked a few people to stop and go to this teahouse to sit and rest for a while.
"Ah, tired Ben... I'm up! ”
Finally relieved, Sikong Changle sat down on the chair, and his upper body lay directly on the table.
Before Princess Ben could say three words, she hurriedly changed her words, she hadn't recognized Yun Ge's identity yet, and it was not good to expose her identity in front of outsiders at this time. And after what happened just now, Sikong Changle was still faintly stunned in his heart, and he was a little more vigilant outside.
"Let's rest for a while, and then continue our journey in half an hour."
Su Zhiyuan asked Xiao Er to serve a pot of tea, and by the way, there were two or three stacks of side dishes.
At this time, there were not many people resting in the teahouse, and there were only people at their table.
"Come with me, I have something to tell you." Sikong Changle nodded at the table, looked at Su Zhiyuan and said, with a bit of seriousness in his expression.
Su Zhiyuan had some premonitions in his heart, as if he knew what Sikong Changle was going to say, he looked at Yun Ge and Sikong Mubai, and said, "You two will wait for me here for a while now, and we will be back in a while." ”
Yun Ge nodded, his gaze swept around Sikong Changle, and then said with a smile, "If you two have something to do, go ahead, we'll wait here." ”
"Okay."
Following Sikong Changle to the side, Su Zhiyuan stopped and asked, "What do you want to tell me?" ”
"I'll tell you the truth! I heard some bad news in the palace before I thought about going out to find the Queen Mother, I told you that you have to help me keep it secret. ”
Su Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows, it seemed that it should be something terrible: "Do you know me?" Just tell me about it? ”
"Although I don't know you, I seem to know the other person in your carriage, if I don't tell you, what if someone chases and kills you!" Sikong Changle snorted and said.
After hearing this, Su Zhiyuan chuckled, this princess is serious...... Interesting: "You say, I won't tell anyone." ”
After listening to Su Zhiyuan's assurance, Sikong Changle told Su Zhiyuan everything she accidentally heard in the palace, and after speaking, he looked at the other party with some pity.
"It's all useless to me, I originally wanted to stop them, but I couldn't stop them, I had no choice but to go out of the palace to find the Queen Mother, and she could suppress them when the time came."
"I can't blame you for this, and it's already very good that you can tell me the news now, otherwise we will all be outside the palace, and if something really happens to the emperor at that time, it will be over when it is too late." Su Zhiyuan comforted Sikong Changle and said, "Let's go and tell the Queen Mother about this now, so that we can prevent it in advance." ”
Thinking that something big might happen in the palace at that time, Su Zhiyuan frowned, she didn't expect the queen and the crown prince to be so bold now.
It is said that people's greed is endless, and these two people are even harming the emperor for their own power and interests, which is really terrible.
And one of these two people is his own pillow person, and the other is his own son.
is obviously the person closest to him, but he doesn't want to harm him all the time.
For an emperor, this can be regarded as a kind of sorrow!
"Well, let's hurry up and find the queen mother now, we must not let the conspiracy of the queen mother and the crown prince succeed." Sikong Changle hurriedly responded, leaving behind the loss in his heart.
Su Zhiyuan smiled slightly: "Okay, I believe that with your help, the emperor will be fine." ”
The two returned to the tea table, rested for about a quarter of an hour, and the four continued on their way.
From here to the Queen Mother's Palace, there are only eight or nine miles left, Su Zhiyuan found a few horses, and almost an hour and a half later they had already arrived outside the palace.
The Queen Mother eats fasting and believes in Buddhism, so most of the year is spent in this palace.
There are special palace maids and eunuchs waiting in the palace, and when the four of them came to the outside of the palace, the subordinates recognized Sikong Changle at a glance, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute.
"Okay, get up quickly, take us to the Queen Mother." With Sikong Changle's orders, the subordinate didn't dare to delay more, and directly took a few of them to meet the Queen Mother.
After a stick of incense, the Queen Mother, who was sitting on it, looked at Su Zhiyuan, who was kneeling below, and asked, "These mourners you said don't believe it at all, how could the queen and the crown prince do such a thing?" Where did you come from? Don't stir up trouble with the gibberish of the mourners here. Even if there is a letter from the emperor to you, it cannot prove that the empress and the crown prince are guilty. ”
Even if there is a chief strainer, the Queen Mother still doesn't believe it.
Su Zhiyuan knelt on the ground and rolled his eyes a little speechlessly.
At this time, the Queen Mother just didn't believe what she said, and even took out the emperor's letter.
I don't know what this person thinks, is it really necessary to wait for something to happen, and it will be too late to regret it at that time.
"Queen Mother, in fact, I am Su Zhiyuan...... Everything I say is true, and I don't know it. Su Zhiyuan was a little helpless to reveal his identity.
When she heard this, the Queen Mother looked incredulous, and it was not until she saw Su Zhiyuan take off the mask on her face that she slowly came to her senses.
"Oh? You said that you don't know it yourself, then you tell the mourning family, who told you these stupid words, and the mourning family wants to see how many dares she dares to spread rumors about the queen and the prince. The Queen Mother asked with a cold snort.
Su Zhiyuan opened her mouth without hesitation, "Queen Mother, it was Princess Changle who told me these things, so we came directly to find the Queen Mother here." ”
"Changle?"
The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, "Are you saying that Changle told you these things?" ”
Su Zhiyuan nodded, "That's right, it's true that the princess told me, if the queen mother doesn't believe it, just find someone to ask directly." ”
After hearing this, the Queen Mother nodded, and then called Sikong Changle out.
"What she just said is true?"
Sikong Changle nodded and looked at the Queen Mother, "Queen Mother, what I just told you is true, these are what my sons heard in the palace, and I thought I couldn't stop it, so I thought about going out of the palace to find you, hoping that the Queen Mother could return to the palace." ”
After listening to what Sikong Changle said, the Queen Mother finally believed a little and slapped her palm on the table next to her.
"It's really unreasonable, I'll go back to the palace in a few days. If the queen and the crown prince really dare to do something bad to the emperor, the mourning family will definitely not be able to spare them. ”
Su Zhiyuan lowered his head on the side, a little speechless in his heart.
Sure enough, she was able to listen to her granddaughter's words, so why didn't she just let Sikong Changle come out directly to explain clearly.
But the Queen Mother still didn't return to the palace immediately, but I'm afraid that most of them still don't believe it.
But the Queen Mother also said that she would take care of this matter.
With the promise of the Queen Mother, the stone in Sikong Changle's heart was finally put down.
But they all know that the Queen Mother is only half-convinced now.
What is the truth of the matter, I will only know when I go to the palace to meet the emperor.
That night, the four men, along with the coachman, took up residence at the palace.
The palace maids around the Queen Mother arranged four rooms for them, one for each person.
It's just that in the middle of the night, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the palace, and the people couldn't sleep peacefully.
Su Zhiyuan woke up immediately, a pair of eyes flashed with a hint of vigilance, and then turned over and got out of bed and rushed out.
There was chaos in the palace, and a group of guards rushed out, shouting for the assassin!
Su Zhiyuan suddenly saw two black shadows flying in front of him, and immediately chased after them without thinking too much, and directly caught those people back in a few rounds, and threw a few people in front of Taihou and the others.
The Queen Mother was so frightened that the guards next to her hurriedly protected her.
"Say, who sent you to assassinate the Queen Mother?" Su Zhiyuan looked coldly at the man in black on the ground, how could it be so coincidental, at this time, these people came to the palace to assassinate?
Sikong Changle also rushed over at this time, and was surprised when he saw the assassin on the ground who was beaten down by Su Zhiyuan.
"Queen Mother, are you okay?" Looking at the Queen Mother, who was frightened, Sikong Changle hurriedly ran to her side to help her.
"It's okay, fortunately, Miss Su subdued these gangsters." The Queen Mother shook her head, and the few black-clothed people who were caught were reluctant to speak at first, and their mouths were very hard.