There are three candles in the room, one on the middle of the chair, just next to Han Ruzi, and one at the door of the East and West Warm Pavilion, one of which is very close to the East China Sea King, and the position of Meng E at the door is relatively dim.

None of the three moved, and there was no wind, but the candle went out at the same time.

The King of the East China Sea shouted, "What's the matter?" ”

The candle beside the East Sea King suddenly lit up, and it only lasted for a very short time, like a lightning bolt that had lost its sharpness and was soft, and he let out a second scream, but nothing happened.

After a while, the candle by the door of the Dongnuan Pavilion was suddenly extinguished, and the king of the East Sea couldn't control the panic in his heart, let out a louder scream, and immediately covered his mouth, something strange was happening in the house, and the screams and power could not protect him at this time.

The next interval was a little longer, and the candle closest to Han Ruzi was lit, Han Ruzi had already prepared, his eyes were wide open, he felt that he saw a vague shadow, and before he could be completely sure, the candle had been extinguished.

In the darkness, someone snorted softly.

The King of the East Sea didn't scream anymore, and made a sound similar to a whimper, and after a long while, he said in a trembling voice, "There are ghosts? ”

Han Ruzi is also a little uncertain, since he was a child, he has heard a lot of ghost stories, and the scene in front of him is indeed somewhat similar, "Meng E, are you still there?" ”

"You actually know the name of the palace maid?" The King of the East Sea was a little surprised, and immediately discovered the "truth" and shouted, "She is a ghost!" The palace maid is a ghost! Have you noticed, the eunuchs and palace maids who came to serve you couldn't see her, only the two of us...... This is、This is the sorcery of the Queen Mother! ”

The eunuch and the palace maid always ignored each other in front of the emperor, Han Ruzi didn't think it was strange, not to mention that he had seen Yang Feng speak to Meng E with his own eyes, and he didn't believe that she was a ghost, "Don't make noise, there are others in the house." ”

"People...... Or a ghost? The King of the East Sea was even more frightened, and his teeth rattled.

The candle farther away from the two of them was lit, but this time it was not extinguished, and Meng E stood next to her with a thoughtful expression.

Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that you're fine, what was it just now?" ”

Meng E still refused to speak, and the King of the East China Sea observed for a while and said, "Whether you are a human or a ghost, please ...... Don't hesitate to find the target, I am Han Shu, the king of the East China Sea, and the one sitting there is the emperor. ”

Meng E spun around in place and took out a very short dagger from her left sleeve, the blade was only three or four inches long, and the end of the handle was less than two inches, which could not be grasped, and could only be sandwiched between the index and middle fingers.

The king of the East Sea gasped, clinging to the wall and remained motionless, he wanted to rush into the warm pavilion, but it was too dark inside, he didn't dare to go in, as for the threat of death that he had said before, he had long forgotten about it.

Meng E quickly walked around the house, and when she passed in front of the warm pavilion door, the king of the East China Sea was so frightened that he sat on the ground and didn't get up for a long time.

Meng E's target was not either him or the emperor, he returned to the door and jumped, stretched out his left hand on the beam of the room, shook it twice, jumped back to the ground, walked in small steps, and suddenly jumped up again, like three times, finally stood firm, and put the dagger back in his sleeve.

Han Ruzi and the King of the East China Sea were stunned, Meng E not only did martial arts, but also advanced martial arts that they had never seen, the highest beam was more than a foot from the ground, she jumped up and down with great ease, and the King of the East China Sea no longer felt that he and the emperor could join forces to deal with this palace maid.

"Rest." Meng E finally said a word.

The King of the East Sea slowly stood up and asked carefully, "Don't do it tonight?" ”

Meng E opened the door and left, Han Ruzi noticed something abnormal, got up and walked to the door, stretched out his hand and wiped it on the dark door panel, sure enough, there were blood stains on the place Meng E touched, and she was injured.

The King of the East Sea slowly walked over and took a look, and said in a trembling voice, "There is really a ...... Assassin ......"

"Don't guess." Han Ruzi found a piece of paper and wiped away the bloodstains, and actually believed that an assassin had just come.

Not long after, the four palace maids walked in and went to make mattresses and quilts in the East and West Warming Pavilion.

Han Ruzi lived in the east, and he hoped to ask Meng E for clarification with a stomach full of words, but it turned out that he was left with another palace maid tonight, and he only dared to reply "yes" and "no" to all the emperor's questions, as if he didn't know who Meng E was at all.

Han Ruzi tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

Someone knocked on the door, and then came in uninvited, and the king of the East China Sea, who was also not asleep, came, and said to the palace maid who sat up, "Lie down, it's none of your business." He tiptoed to the bed and asked softly, "Are you awake?" ”

"Hmm."

"I guess you can't sleep either, it's really ......" The king of the East Sea turned in the darkness and said in the direction of the chair, "You go out, you don't need to serve tonight." ”

"Huh?" The palace maid panicked.

"Ahhhh I am a retinue of His Majesty, and of course I can serve His Majesty, and...... We want to discuss national affairs, how can little slaves and maids sit in on them? ”

This is an ordinary palace maid, frightened by the words of the king of the East China Sea, so she had to go out in the dark and stay at the door of the warm pavilion, not daring to stay away.

The king of the East Sea was satisfied, sat on the edge of the bed, and said seriously: "I thought about it again, and finally understood a little. ”

"Don't you think Meng E is a ghost?" Han Ruzi said with a smile.

"Ghosts don't jump like her, they just float around, like the wind, woo-" The sound of the wind came out of the mouth of the king of the East China Sea, and he felt very bored when he found that the emperor was not afraid, "That palace maid is a human being, a martial arts master, this is strange, how can there be such a person in the palace?" ”

"Can't there be martial arts masters in the palace?"

"Of course there is, but most of them are men, not to mention pretending to be palace maids, in the Taimiao, the palace maid brought by the imperial concubine is very strange, it looks like a man pretending to be a woman, and these two people don't understand the rules, not like people in the palace."

"I think so too."

"I've already said it, of course you think so, the key is not the two of them, nor you, but me."

"You?"

"Hmm. Why did I stay in the palace? Of course it's not because of your words, why did the Queen Mother let me be your entourage? Why do you have to let me come to you tonight? ”

"Why?" Han Ruzi is a standard story lover and is willing to follow the other party's story to ask questions.

"To protect you."

"Can you protect me?"

"I can't protect you, my existence can protect you."

Han Ruzi was a very smart teenager, but he was still dizzy when he heard it, "Hmm...... I don't get it. ”

"Listen to me." The king of the East China Sea went to bed cross-legged, and his interest was high, "The queen mother must think so: the Cui family is unwilling to lose the throne, so she wants to send someone to assassinate the new emperor, that is, you, in order to protect you, a puppet, so they sent me here, because the Cui family will not kill me too." ”

Han Ruzi thought for a while, "You seem to have some truth in that?" ”

"Makes sense? Obviously, it makes a lot of sense, and it explains everything! ”

Han Ruzi also sat up, "Extinguishing the candle before, was it your Cui family who sent an assassin?" ”

"Of course not."

"Why not?"

The King of the East China Sea approached Han Ruzi, "You are as stupid as the Queen Mother, she is wrong, it is impossible for our Cui family to send assassins." Here's the weirdness of the whole thing: that eccentric palace maid ......"

"Her name is Meng E, and she is not strange at all."

"Don't argue with me, I'm guiding you to think about things." The King of the East Sea slapped twice on the bed and said excitedly, "Why was the palace maid so calm after discovering the assassin? She should shout and call the guards in the palace, this is a great opportunity to deal with the Cui family! It doesn't matter who sent the assassins, they can be framed for the Cui family! ”

The King of the East China Sea only has the Cui family in his eyes, and in his opinion, all conspiracies are also aimed at the Cui family, so they are also aimed at him.

"Meng E didn't scream because she didn't catch the assassin......"

"Hey, here's the point, why didn't you catch the assassin? Since the Queen Mother guessed that there would be assassins, she should be very well prepared. The King of the East Sea said eagerly.

"Why?"

"Hey...... Wait and see, the Queen Mother has a big plan, maybe there is already a commotion outside, we just don't know anything here. The Queen Mother wants to use this trick to cut off dissidents, but the Cui family is not so easy to deal with. ”

Han Ruzi didn't squeak for a long time, and the King of the East China Sea asked curiously, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking, the assassin may be the ...... sent by your Cui family."

"If I say no, it's not!" The King of the East Sea said angrily.

Han Ruzi was unmoved, and continued: "I'm still thinking, in addition to beware of your Cui family, there must be something else for the Queen Mother to guess that there will be assassins tonight." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Before that, there had been assassinations in the palace."

The King of the East China Sea was taken aback, "You said yes...... Our father and brother ......"

"Emperor Huan died after reigning for three years, and the last emperor only ascended the throne for a few months, isn't this normal, how are their health?" Han Ruzi was extremely unfamiliar with his father and brother, and he couldn't say a cordial name.

"Brother Huang doesn't know, my father's health must be good, and he took me out hunting a few months before he ascended the throne. But I can't say for sure, no one can predict that the illness will come like a mountain...... No, no, you're thinking too much, assassinating the emperor? More than one? It's impossible, if the emperor was killed so easily, Da Chu Jiangshan would have changed his surname a long time ago. "The king of the East China Sea must come back to the story, otherwise, the more he talks about it, the more it looks like a conspiracy of the Cui family.

Han Ruzi felt that he was quite easy to be killed, he was not dead yet, but because the time had not come, the Queen Mother didn't want him to die too early.

The assassin seemed to be hiding somewhere in the dark, neither of them spoke, the quieter the surroundings, the more terrifying the atmosphere, Han Ruzi spoke: "Is there an emperor who is more unlucky than me?" It seems like everyone wants to kill me. ”

"If I were the emperor, this kind of thing would not happen, the Cui family would protect me foolproofly, and everything would not be hidden from me."

Han Ruzi suddenly remembered what Yang Feng had said, and muttered, "Our grandfather, Emperor Wu, was also in danger in the palace. ”

"Hey, who did you listen to? How did I not know? ”

"It's just...... I heard someone say it casually. Han Ruzi's thoughts had drifted away.

"You—You're thinking too much, where are there so many assassins? This time it was an accident, and it was probably an accident arranged by the Queen Mother. The King of the East Sea refused to accept Han Ruzi's train of thought and kept shaking his head.

Han Ruzi didn't want to guess anymore, instead of thinking nonsense, it was better to know nothing, so he fell to sleep, but his heart was inexplicably restless, and he couldn't sleep anymore.

The king of the East China Sea sat in the corner of the bed, and muttered after a while: "What is the queen mother's idea?" ”

I don't know how long it has been, the two of them are in a state of sleep, the knock on the door sounded suddenly, the king of the East China Sea was so frightened that he crawled, hid behind Han Ruzi, and suddenly realized that the emperor's side was actually the most unsafe, and hurriedly went around to the bed, jumped on the ground, and squatted in the corner of the bed.

"The time has come, Your Majesty." It was Yang Feng's voice that sounded outside the door.

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