Chapter 289: Tiger Poison Eats Seeds
Through Yang Guang's help, Lu Li and his entourage had to sneak into the palace, which was not what he should have done, there was no such thing in the plan, it was after everything was arranged that Lu Li was temporarily afraid that An Xiabai would have an accident, so he led people to sneak into the palace. Led by Yang Guang's henchmen, he slipped in all the way, and soon came to the small courtyard where An Xiabai lived.
It is estimated that because of the accident at the gate of the palace, only two guards were left in the small courtyard to guard, and Lu Li easily solved them and quietly dragged people to the corner to hide.
An Xiabai also knew his plan, and when she heard movement outside, she hid in the corner like a frightened cat until Lu Li entered the door.
"Madame!"
You don't have to think much about this familiar voice to know that it is the voice of your husband.
An Xia's white eyes were hot, and she stood up from the corner with a loud voice, and raised her voice to greet Lu Li's direction: "Husband, I'm here!" ”
As soon as the two met, they hugged each other tightly, although there were no thousand words, but Lu Li could clearly feel An Xiabai's nervousness and panic over the past few days, and An Xiabai could also feel Lu Li's worry about herself, originally she planned to enter the palace to drug the emperor, and secretly accepted this matter Lu Li's objection, and later she used the children's future persuasion to make Lu Li nod his head loosely.
Now that they meet, both of them look safe, and their hearts are relaxed.
"Husband, why did you do it today?" The original plan was to wait for An Xiabai to successfully control the emperor with the drug, and then let people pass the news to Lu Li to do it, but now the old emperor has not taken the drug a few times, Lu Li has already come, An Xiabai is afraid that things will happen too hastily and their plan will be lost.
"I'm worried about you." Lu Li said frankly.
An Xiabai stayed in the palace for a few days, and his heart seemed to have countless ants crawling over, and he couldn't bear it, because he was afraid that something would happen to his wife.
Now that they met and confirmed that the person was not injured, Lu Li finally put his mind at ease.
"In a little while, the brothers should come in, madam, let's leave the palace first, and the sword will have no eyes and hurt you."
"Okay-" When An Xiabai held her husband's hand tightly and walked out, she suddenly remembered another thing, Mo Simin and the crown prince seemed to be locked up in prison by the emperor at this time, and they didn't know if they left like this, wouldn't they be very sorry for them? She wanted to take Mo Simin and the crown prince away, "Husband, Simin and His Royal Highness the crown prince are still in the prison cell, can we take them with us?" ”
After all, Mo Simin and the prince were good friends with them, and they had helped a lot when An Xiabai had an accident before, so Lu Li agreed.
"Madam, don't worry about this, I've already asked someone to save them, and now they should have left the palace."
An Xiabai listened, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard hurried footsteps.
Someone came to report that when they went to the cell to save Mo Simin and the prince, they didn't see anyone.
"How can this be?" Hearing this, An Xiabai's face was as pale as paper, "How can two good people say that they can't see each other, could it be that you are in the wrong place, they have been in the cell and never left, and I have not heard the news of the emperor's pardon of them in the past two days, you must have found the wrong place." ”
The person who came to report shook his head in embarrassment: "Madam, we have searched the entire cell, and there is indeed none." ”
An Xiabai was suddenly confused.
Seeing this, Lu Li, who was silently observing the situation next to him, hurriedly spoke to comfort him.
"Madame, in fact, don't worry, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess are not ordinary people, maybe the people on the queen's side heard about the chaos in the palace and took the opportunity to go over and rescue people? Madame, don't panic yet, let's get out of here first. ”
is also true, after all, the crown prince is the queen's own son, and she can't watch her children suffer in prison.
An Xiabai's heart suddenly relaxed a lot.
"Then let's leave the palace first."
At the same time, the fire outside the palace wall has been lit, and there is also a panic among the people, as soon as they heard that the rebels have surrounded the palace, it is estimated that it will not be long before they will attack the palace, the palace people are frightened, and they have forgotten all the etiquette that they usually have to take into account when walking, and they just run wildly all the way, and all the valuable things that can be seen by the eyes are collected in their sleeves.
It doesn't matter what etiquette rules you have, it's important to save your life, maybe when the rebels come in, you can give more money to save your own life.
Everyone had such a thought in their minds, so that the whole palace was in turmoil like a pot of boiling soup.
It's like purgatory on earth.
"Stop, stop!"
The emperor stood in front of the imperial study and looked at this scene, his eyes were split, if it weren't for the fact that there was Zhao Chang, a big eunuch by his side, to help pat him on the back, it is estimated that he would have coughed up blood.
"These people are crazy." Zhao Chang looked at the flustered palace maids and eunuchs, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"I'm going to kill them!" The emperor had been quiet and calm three times before, but no one was willing to stop and listen to him, which greatly stimulated his remaining anger, and when he raised his voice and scolded again, no one paid attention to it, and the emperor turned around and entered the imperial study, and when he came out again, he had an extra long sword in his hand.
Zhao Chang was frightened when he saw this, and he only felt that his neck was cold.
"Your Majesty, the Emperor must not be angry!"
He didn't want to be angry, but these people thought that if it weren't for the fact that they had made a mess of the entire palace, the emperor would not have bothered to take his sword and clean the portal. I only heard him snort coldly, and walked to the corridor with his sword, but whenever there were flustered palace people who did not know what to do, but where the palace people did not obey the rules and did not salute him, he raised his knife and greeted them, and after a while, there were several more corpses under his feet.
The emperor was splashed with blood but still raised his sword and slashed people, and successfully scared those loyal to him half to death, they were afraid that their allegiance to the end would also call such a miserable end, so they gritted their teeth and sneaked away while the emperor was killing people.
The emperor is crazy and kills people when he sees them.
The news soon spread throughout the palace, and even reached the ears of the crown prince and Mo Simin, who were about to leave through the secret passage, and when they heard this, the prince turned back again.
When he saw the emperor lifting a knife and slashing people from a distance, the prince's heart ached like a knife.
Obviously, the long sword didn't cut at his body at all, but he felt as if he had been injured himself.
When he was young, he admired his respected father, how did he become what he is now? The more the prince thought about it, the more he felt that his heart was congested, and he fell to his knees directly with a plop.
"Father!" He shouted out loud.
The emperor, who was struggling to chase and slash, heard the sound, as if a knife had cut the softest part of his heart, not only did it hurt badly, but blood flowed out.
When the father and son met, they didn't know what to say for a while.
In all fairness, the emperor is guilty of this son, after all, he was the one who whipped the prince with a whip in front of so many people, and when the prince was injured, he was the one who put him in prison and did not allow others to visit at will, and he did so many things wrong, the emperor said that it was absolutely impossible not to feel guilty, but his guilt was far from so deep.
After all, in his eyes, the prince is always the one who does wrong.
"What are you going to do, get out of here!"
The crown prince sighed silently in his heart, fortunately he has a good temper and has always been able to tolerate the inexplicable temper of others, if it weren't for this reason, when the emperor asked him to get out, he would have left angrily with Mo Simin instead of cautiously stepping forward and turning over his handkerchief to help the emperor wipe the blood on his cheeks.
"Although these palace people are guilty, they are not guilty to death, why should my father kill them all?"
"They're damned!" With red eyes, the emperor spat on the corpse on the ground without any scruples, "Trouble the palace, make my palace noisy and messy, they don't deserve to die, so who in the world deserves to die?" ”
In the eyes of the emperor, the lives of these palace people are like grass mustard on the grassland, as long as they are uprooted and removed if they are unhappy, why should they have the slightest guilt?
What's more, if they don't abide by the rules of the palace, they should be damned!
The emperor's madness made the crown prince couldn't help but shed tears: "Father, they are not rebels, why should you worry too much about them, it is more important to control your mood first." ”
The prince's gentle persuasion seemed to work, and after listening to his words, the emperor was much more relieved, but the hand holding the sword did not let go.
He looked at the prince as if he were looking at a complete stranger.
"Emperor, I treated you like that before, whipped you, scolded you, and locked you in prison, will you hate me?"
The crown prince shook his head, he was originally an extremely filial person, and when he heard this, he smiled disapprerovitly: "The father and the emperor beat the sons and ministers, that is care, as for the days in prison, they are just teachings, no matter what happens, the sons will never blame the father." ”
Listening to his words, the emperor had mixed feelings in his heart.
Feng Bailin didn't know where to go, and the only person around him who could be trusted was the prince, only the prince.
Thinking of this, the corners of his lips curled into a wry smile.
"Looking at your current appearance, I suddenly remembered what I looked like back then, among the children, you are the most like me, and now you are also a character who can take charge of himself."
The prince smiled shyly and subconsciously lowered his eyes.
What he didn't notice was that the moment he lowered his head, the emperor's gaze turned to Mo Simin, and resentment flashed in his eyes.
If it weren't for her, maybe the prince wouldn't have been fooled!
It's all her fault!
The emperor thought hatefully, and the strength of his grip on the knife increased a few points, and when the prince and Mo Simin were defenseless, he suddenly raised his sword and slashed at the prince.
The incident happened suddenly, and the distance between the two of them was very close at that time, even a person who practiced martial arts might not be able to dodge the attack, how could a weak person like the prince be able to dodge?
Before he could exclaim, the sword slashed at him.
One sword was not enough, the emperor cut down another sword, and for a while, the flesh and blood flew everywhere with a fishy sweet smell, and Mo Simin almost passed out when he saw it beside him.
"Your Highness!"