Chapter 97: Assassination

"It's been a long time since I've transformed, I'm really not used to it. Speaking of master, how did you know that the first emperor was killed? How do you know that it must be the old woman of the Queen Mother who poisoned the little emperor? Poor Qi Xiao Zhengtai returned to the spiritual world and squatted again, only glaring at the bastard who occupied the arms of its master with a complaint, and talked to Qu Junyan to divert his attention.

Qi Qi was very sure that Qu Junyan did not know such secret news from the Qu family's father and son.

"I don't know."

"Huh?"

"I guessed casually." Qu Junyan's face was calm, and the first emperor's precaution against the queen mother before his death, didn't it explain the problem?

The Queen Mother may have true feelings for the first emperor in her early years, after all, it is not easy to protect him with her life, if even this is acted, Qu Junyan can't believe how deep this woman's city is. It's just that people change, and under the temptation of power and money, it is difficult to stick to their hearts.

However, Qu Junyan was not interested in studying the Queen Mother's mental journey, and poked the little red fox who was comfortably wagging his tail in his arms, "What is the situation of the person who is following us?" ”

As soon as this person was mentioned, Shen Hong immediately came, and the front paws supporting the two fleshy gooing flew to Qu Junyan's shoulders and stood. "Judging from the residual spiritual power, it should be a magician above the golden pill stage, that person slipped away quickly, and he didn't seem to be willing to fight us. He should have a hidden aura on him, and he had already left the palace when I chased him. ”

"Just him?" Qu Junyan was surprised, what kind of person can enter and leave the palace without knowing it, and can slip away under the nose of Yinghong. Qu Junyan had the words "master of the interior" in his mind.

The Queen Mother's person? Or is it a third party? If it is the queen mother, there is no need to sneak out of the palace, isn't it more familiar in the palace?

"He's the only one, and according to the route, he's more familiar with the terrain of the palace."

"Got it." Qu Junyan raised her eyes slightly, at least for now, she could not rule out the possibility of a mistake, since there was no real threat, there was no need for her to pursue it further.

Everything was as usual in the palace banquet, the sound of the piano was still the same, and Qu Junyan quietly sat back in his place, without attracting too many people's attention. The Queen Mother sat on a high seat, constantly talking high-sounding words with the ministers and palace dependents, but it was a young man who suddenly appeared on the throne of King Ning Fan who caught Qu Junyan's attention.

The main protagonist of the little emperor left halfway, and gave everything here to King Ning to perform, and a birthday banquet for the emperor seemed to have become a banquet that he didn't know what to do. Watching the Queen Mother and the King of Ning Fan sing and harmonize, several county lords of the King of Ning Fan took the lead in cheering the scene, Qu Junyan was not the slightest interest, but Qu Rui looked at her from time to time, as if she was worried about what waves would happen again for her and Gao Lingyue beside her.

As it turned out, Qu Rui's worries were unnecessary. Qu Junyan has felt the strange atmosphere in the women's banquet since he came back, and he has been twisting his eyebrows and thinking about something, and he didn't even give him a handout out from the corner of his eyes, and he was already scared and trembling Gao Lingyue glanced at it.

"Hey! That person, wouldn't it be King An Sheng, who never attended palace banquets? An irrepressible voice of excitement sounded in the arena, and all eyes were on the beautiful man beside King Ning.

People are all compared.

King An Sheng, the year of the weak crown, was particularly eye-catching among the royal nobles with big shoulders and round waists, wearing a pure white gold silk soft robe, embroidered with glittering broken gold, the hem of the luxurious soft robe was the arc of warm clouds, the soft breeze blew, and the tassels under the jade belt fluttered and fluttered, dancing with the wind.

A warm smile like jade appeared on the handsome face, as intoxicating as the cherry blossoms in March spring, between the eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the little emperor, a black green silk poured down, the green silk was tied by a red silk at will, faintly shiny flowing with a sense of madness and purity. At this time, he is extremely brilliant and extremely dazzling. He just sat there quietly, and those famous women who were usually shy all unabashedly flirted with him.

Qu Junyan's eyes narrowed, this King An Sheng Bai Zhen is not the heir of the first emperor, but the only son of the first emperor's brother, the elder brother died early, and the young King An Sheng was raised by the first emperor's side. I heard that King An Sheng didn't like to show his face, and he used poetry and books as his companion on weekdays, and learned a good hand, but as far as Qu Junyan knew, he was not so gentle and harmless as he seemed on the surface.

Bai Jian seemed to be aware of Qu Junyan's gaze, his eyebrows jumped slightly, and after the accident, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he took the opportunity to pick up the wine glass, and said in the direction where Qu Junyan was: "Presumably this is the Qu girl from the Rui Wangfu, right?" The girl looked at me like this, it really made me a little embarrassed, it was rare to have a drink together, and I asked Miss Qu to appreciate her face. ”

The attention of everyone at the palace banquet was attracted by King An Sheng's words, and they all looked at Qu Junyan, although there was a smile on the white mark, but the smile did not reach the bottom of the eye.

Qu Junyan didn't respond immediately, just looked at Bai Zhen's handsome face with a smile, and after being silent for a moment, she slowly raised her glass and drank it perfunctorily.

Qu Junyan was suddenly called the focus of attention of the audience, and the dancing girls in the hall were still dancing gracefully, their postures were graceful with smiles on the corners of their mouths, their slender waists loomed under the embellishment of fresh green yarn, and the gold and silver rings rattled.

The flowery picture of the palace dazzled a group of courtiers' daughters who attended the palace banquet for the first time, tasting delicious food and wine, secretly sending autumn waves to King An Sheng, and drunk and dreaming in the luxury of the Xiangluan Palace. Their hearts are more greedy for the extravagance of this moment, the queen mother's banquet has stirred up many people's hearts to move, everyone hopes to become the mistress of this palace, the queen mother and the little emperor have taken care of Qu Junyan, and now even King An Sheng has taken the initiative to toast, and the flame of jealousy between the ladies has risen to an unprecedented level.

Qu Junyan quietly looked at everything in his eyes, and no matter what King An Sheng's move meant, it was somewhat inseparable from the Queen Mother. On the bright side, the Queen Mother took good care of her, but she was actually killing her, throwing the hot potato of the back position on her, and then sacrificing the killer weapon of King An Sheng, so she didn't spend a single soldier to attract the hateful eyes of all the female relatives for her. borrowed a knife to kill people, but Qu Junyan couldn't find her mistakes and omissions, and played a good hand!

At this time, the Queen Mother seemed to have noticed Qu Junyan's return, and said with a smile: "The mourning family has not seen Junyan for a long time, but I missed it a little, but I didn't expect Junyan to come back just now, but what about Zhuo'er?" Zhuo'er went to the imperial garden with Jun Yan, why is Jun Yan the only one coming back now? ”

"The Queen Mother!" Without waiting for Qu Junyan to reply, a guard-like person rushed into the main hall with an anxious expression.

There was a hint of anger on the empress's countenance, but she quickly returned to normal and said with a smile: "When were you so flustered? ”

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, he has been assassinated......" The guard was full of panic, and fell to his knees, stammering unable to utter a complete sentence.

Qu Junyan's eyes froze, the smile coefficient in the starry eyes faded, and a trace of doubt emerged. After a short encounter with Little Emperor, it was already known that he had already entered the middle stage of foundation building, and it stands to reason that it was not easy to get close to him without alarming the guards, was it because the effect of the medicine had not yet recovered?

Hearing the assassination of the little emperor, everyone in the hall widened their eyes in shock for a moment, and the queen mother's face immediately showed a worried look: "What?!" Zhuo'er, what the hell is going on? ”

"The minister didn't know, when the minister arrived, His Majesty had fainted in a pool of blood, fortunately the injury was in the arm and the injury was not serious, the minister had ordered someone to invite the imperial doctor to His Majesty's bedroom as soon as possible, and wanted to come to His Majesty's life without worry." The guard said.

Although the guards said this, the courtiers who were worried about the safety of the emperor could no longer sit still, and for a while the people were panicked and angry, and even a few outspoken counselors even played meaningfully, suggesting that Qu Junyan had nothing to do with this matter.

"It's late today, you can also go back to rest early, don't speculate out of thin air, the mourning family will give you an explanation for this matter." Everyone in the hall had different opinions, and many speculations were endless, and the Queen Mother glanced at Qu Junyan, and gave an order to expel the guest with a strained face.

And the people did not say much, and got up and departed as they were commanded. Too many things happened in just one palace banquet, and everyone was in a trance, planning to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible. The eunuch in charge of the Queen Mother's side personally sent Qu Junyan and them out of the palace, and it was not until they left the palace gate that Qu Junyan was very politely invited aside.

"I wonder if Miss Qu has time to chat with the villain?" The eunuch in charge can be said to have a very low posture, respectfully possessing and whispering, even if the person he is talking to is only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl.

"Grandpa, uncle, you go to the carriage and wait for me first, and I'll come later." Qu Junyan nodded, she had expected that such a big thing had happened in the palace, and she was on the cusp, even if the Queen Mother did not dare to be her enemy on the surface now, she still had to do routine work.

"Yanyan, just tell the truth, grandpa believes in you." The grandparents and grandchildren made an appointment, but they were still called "grandfather" in front of outsiders, Qu Junyan's life experience was too involved, and it was not appropriate to expose it unless necessary.

"Hmm." Qu Junyan smiled slightly, and followed the eunuch in charge to the side.

"Miss Qu, the Queen Mother naturally believes that you will not have anything to do with this bold thief, but the miscellaneous family still has to ask one or two as usual, Miss Qu can understand, right?" The eunuch in charge looked at Qu Junyan's face and carefully worded it, for fear that he would accidentally anger the female king of Hades.

If Qu Junyan in the past was just a spoiled eldest lady in the eyes of the world, at best, she had a hot temper, at least she had no combat power, but now with the help of divine beasts, she is alive and can be equated with demons! Who knows if this uncertain eldest lady will have a temper, and she will have to explain her little life here......

"Just say it." Qu Junyan didn't have much emotion and said coldly.

"When did Miss Qu leave the Imperial Garden? Did you meet anyone along the way? What was the situation of His Majesty at that time? Seeing that Qu Junyan was rarely so good at talking, the eunuch in charge asked all the questions in one go.

"Around three o'clock, I left the Yilan Pavilion to hunt down the thieves. At about a moment in the morning, my Majesty and I were chatting, but unexpectedly, a thief sneakily appeared nearby, so I ordered my Warcraft to investigate the situation, and I stayed in the Yilan Pavilion with the Emperor and waited, until at three o'clock in the hour, my Warcraft chased unsuccessfully and returned, and His Majesty said that he wanted to be alone, so he sent me back to the banquet. Qu Junyan's face was as usual, his words were half-true and half-false, but he concealed his cooperation with Little Emperor. Along the way, she was also carefully figuring out what went wrong, and finally put her suspicions on the mysterious person pursued by Namihiro.

Qu Junyan returned to the banquet at about four o'clock, and in just a quarter of an hour, it is unlikely that two groups of people will appear at the same time to avoid the perception of Qi Qi and Ying Hong, and the biggest possibility is that during the period after Qu Junyan left, the previous mysterious person went and returned!

The palace is not pure, so it is not a deception. It depends on what the attitude of the Queen Mother is next, if you investigate the details of this mysterious person, the suspicion of the Queen Mother in Qu Junyan's heart will be half washed away.

However, who would dare to assassinate the little emperor in the palace? What's more, the other party doesn't seem to have any intention of killing him, it's more like a ...... Warn?

Qu Junyan raised his eyebrows lightly, everything can only be known when he sees the little emperor again.