The Queen Mother returned to the dormitory and sat comfortably, Wang Meiren served on one side, there were eight guards and four female officials standing on both sides, and Concubine Cui sat on a small stool opposite, with no maids by her side, alone, her legs together, two heads shorter than the Queen Mother, and her momentum was even worse, like a little girl who was preparing to work under the supervision of the master. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Concubine Cui is willing to be patient, anyway, she has endured it for so many years.

"Listen." The Queen Mother raised her hand and put it to her ear, "There is a fight in the north, interesting, the imperial city has the strongest city walls in the world, but as far as I know, there has never been a battle here, and today is the first time." The palace change last time doesn't count, it's just a few people in the rivers and lakes, Concubine Cui, this time you finally have a better memory and know how to find more people. ”

Concubine Cui smiled lightly, "No matter how strong the palace city is, it is also the emperor who protects it, if the emperor is not there, what is the use of the thick city wall?" ”

"Alas, I'm curious, where did you get the confidence to think that your son would definitely be the emperor? Is it just your surname Cui? ”

Concubine Cui smiled and said nothing, she did everything she had to do, she didn't need to fight with her tongue, she just waited quietly.

The strength of the Tan family and the torturers combined, and the team led by the King of the East Sea reached nearly a thousand people, and six adults owned horses, and soon rushed to the north gate.

As with the previous plan, the north gate was open for this team, and everyone swarmed in, shouting "Kill the rebel Shangguan Sheng" and "Avenge Your Majesty", and the king of the East China Sea had already reminded everyone that the queen mother must not be mentioned, and that everything possible would reduce the resistance in the palace.

The team broke through two gates in a row, but was blocked in front of the third gate, and the king of the East China Sea recognized the general path and knew that this place was not very far from the queen mother and the emperor's bedroom, so he ordered a hard attack.

The scene was a little chaotic, after all, this was not a regular army, and the momentum of charging and shouting was very strong, and it was inevitable that I was a little helpless when I encountered obstacles.

The Tan family made a contribution, and they quickly set up three ladders, preparing to send several athletic Jianghu people over the wall and open the door from the inside.

It was at this moment that the palace began to fight back.

Dozens of arrows came from the darkness, and a few people who had just climbed to the top of the wall fell in response, and many people under the wall were also injured by arrows.

The scene was even more chaotic, and most people couldn't even find out where the arrows came from, but just scolded and asked the other party to come out and fight openly.

The response of the palace was a rain of arrows, dozens of arrows each time, not many in number, but it was orderly and endless.

The King of the East China Sea had been following behind, far away from danger, but he was more anxious than anyone else, and shouted at Tan Ye: "Why is Neiying gone?" What's the use of only opening two doors? ”

Tan Ye was also anxious, looked around the crowd, and found a eunuch who opened the door, "Lao Xia, what's the matter?" Who is responsible for opening this door? ”

"Storage, storage." The eunuch Lao Xia was also puzzled.

"Withdraw one after another, don't be a target for others here, and wait for me to send someone to quietly climb over the wall and destroy those archers and guards." Tan Ye made a suggestion.

The King of the East Sea nodded, and was the first to turn his horse's head and retreat along the way.

The retreat was more chaotic than the attack, but fortunately, these people were very righteous and took all the casualties with them.

The brothers Tan Ye and Tan Diao did their duty and gathered dozens of masters of the rivers and lakes, all of whom were also cronies of the Tan family, and asked them to extinguish the torches and quietly climb over the wall, either to open the third portal, or to find the archers and eliminate them.

After the arrangement was made, the two of them searched for the king of the East China Sea, and the team became more and more chaotic, and the king of the East China Sea must be in the battle to calm those torturers and messengers.

The King of the East Sea had already run to the north gate of the palace, and he had a keen sense of danger and felt that something was wrong: the third gate did not open as planned, and the arrows shot from the palace did not come from a makeshift army.

As soon as the emperor died, shouldn't the queen mother panic? Didn't most of the generals of the Eighth Battalion promise not to meddle tonight? The more the king of the East China Sea thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and he ran faster and faster, and when he turned around, he saw the three so-called masters sent by Hua Bin following closely behind him, and his heart was a little calm, but he felt that what he needed most now was not a master, but a soldier who could attack and defend.

The worst came true, the north gate of the palace was closed and locked, but the key was unknown.

"Is there no one guarding here?" The king of the East China Sea asked angrily, he entered the palace to be the emperor, but he couldn't pay attention to every detail.

"I'm going to check on the situation." Said one of the masters.

The outer wall of the palace was much higher than the inside, and the master waited for some people, so he climbed to the top of the wall by a human ladder, took a look, and soon returned to the king of the East China Sea, and said in confusion: "It's a group of guards,"

In the dormitory, hearing the shouts outside gradually fading away, the Queen Mother said: "It seems that the palace wall built by the ancestors is still of some use." ”

Concubine Cui finally couldn't bear it anymore and stood up, "What's the use of resisting stubbornly?" The palace wall can only protect you for a while, and the eight battalions of the guards that the Shangguan family has worked so hard to expand will not be loyal to you at all. ”

The Queen Mother smiled but said nothing.

Concubine Cui took a few steps forward, the guards wanted to stop it, but seeing that the Queen Mother did not signal, they all stopped, Concubine Cui said: "Why bother, no matter who is the emperor, you are the Queen Mother, I don't fight with you, I just want to see the King of the East China Sea become the emperor." ”

"Again, where do you get your confidence?" The Queen Mother asked.

Concubine Cui was silent for a moment, "Because Emperor Huan promised me." ”

"Oh? When? How do I remember that after Emperor Huan entered the palace, I rarely saw you. The Queen Mother smiled, as if she were listening to a clumsy lie.

Concubine Cui laughed, "Do you still think that Emperor Huan only likes you alone?" When Emperor Huan was still the crown prince, he promised me that my son would definitely inherit the throne in the future. ”

"And you believe every word of Emperor Huan?" The Queen Mother asked rhetorically, "When Emperor Huan was the crown prince, he was worried every day that he would be abolished by Emperor Wu, or even killed, of course, he had to win the support of your Cui family, and he said nice things to make you happy." ”

"That's not important, the emperor is full of words, and what he said when he was the prince has to be counted, at least Wang Meiren has never received such a promise, right?"

Wang Meiren, who was standing next to the Queen Mother, blushed slightly, since she was pregnant with a child, she had not seen Emperor Huan a few times, let alone had the opportunity to be alone, and of course she couldn't hear any "promises" that made people happy.

Concubine Cui sneered at the Queen Mother: "It's okay if your son becomes the emperor, but Emperor Si died, why don't you let the King of the East China Sea succeed to the throne?" Our mother and son are not convinced, and neither is the Cui family. ”

The Queen Mother stared at Concubine Cui for a while, and asked softly, "Then why did you kill my son?" ”

Concubine Cui was stunned for a moment, "Emperor Si? Everybody knows he's ...... by you What does it have to do with me? ”

"My sister has made me miserable, making everyone think that I killed my own son in order to seize power, but how is this possible? What I want is power, without Emperor Si, my power will become a castle in the air, and this is also the case, although I have set up two new emperors, but the ministers of the court have never supported me wholeheartedly, they are perfunctory, observing, waiting, my words are like stones thrown into the water, there is only a sound, I have to use a group of torturers to do things for me, even they are not loyal, and finally they are still co-opted by the Cui family. ”

Concubine Cui listened for a while, the shouting from the north completely disappeared, and she said with a straight face: "I can trust you, as a mother, not to kill your own son, but you can't blame me." After a pause, Concubine Cui added: "You should also believe that if I had planned behind the scenes, I would never have let the throne fall into the hands of Wang Meiren's son." ”

The Queen Mother laughed and said to a female official, "Bring people in." ”

The female officer walked to the door to give the order, and the two guards quickly escorted in a palace maid.

The palace maid was injured, her hands were tied behind her back, and she did not bow her head in the face of the queen mother, but only saluted to Concubine Cui.

"It's your guy, right?" There was no anger in the Queen Mother's voice, but a hint of laziness, as if she was tired of this sleepless night, "In the first half of the night, she went to poison the emperor, and the imperial doctor checked it, and the poison she used was the same as last year, and the same as the poison in Emperor Si earlier. ”

"Hmph, the Imperial Doctor can't even save people, what he said is worth believing?"

A guard got the signal from the Queen Mother, stepped forward, and said: "There are not many sects on the rivers and lakes that are good at using poison, most of them are from the south, if I guess correctly, this person is from the Ghost Mountain Gate." The relationship between the Ghost Mountain Gate and the Yun Mengze thief has always been good, it is said that Junyang Hou has been living in Yun Mengze since he escaped from the capital, presumably he brought the disciples of the Ghost Mountain Gate into the capital. ”

"Is there something wrong?" The Queen Mother asked.

Concubine Cui's lips were tightly closed, and she waited for a while before asking her maid, "Have you ever been to the capital before?" ”

"Nope." The maid replied that she had insisted on not opening her mouth, and was only willing to answer questions in front of Concubine Cui.

"That's a coincidence, you and the assassin of Emperor Si hired assassins from the same sect?" The Queen Mother was still not angry, waved her hand, the guards went out, and brought in another person.

Tan did not kneel to the Queen Mother, but only nodded to her mother-in-law, Concubine Cui.

It was the guard who spoke, "The Tan family's business is all over the world, and in order to ensure the unimpeded passage of their goods, the relationship with black and white has always been good. Concubine Cui had a close relationship with the Tan family more than ten years ago, and invited a warlock through the Tan family to play tricks on the Queen Mother and Emperor Si, but unfortunately it had no effect. ”

More than ten years ago, the Queen Mother was still the princess of the East China Sea, but the guards still use their current name.

"I remember that I had a serious illness with Emperor Si, it should be right to count it on your head, right?" The Queen Mother said.

Concubine Cui didn't speak.

The guard continued: "The two disciples of the Ghost Mountain Gate entered Beijing four years ago, and the Tan family arranged a place to live, and it happened that in the month that Emperor Si was poisoned, the two left Beijing. ”

Concubine Cui was still silent, and her maid asked, "Who are you?" ”

The guard glanced at the Queen Mother and replied, "My name is Meng Che, you may not have heard my name, but you should have heard of Yishi Island in the East China Sea." ”

The maid's face changed slightly, and she also closed her mouth.

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "There are many strange people in the rivers and lakes, but without the help of the powerful, they will never be able to get close to the emperor." Concubine Cui, you have your strangers, and I also have mine, let's be considered a draw. ”

"Desire to add sin." Concubine Cui still refused to admit that she had poisoned Emperor Si, but she didn't want to dwell on it anymore, "Without the Eighth Camp of the Guards, how long can the palace wall block it for you?" ”

"Who said I didn't have the Eighth Guard?"

"Most of the generals of the Su Guard agreed to stay still, even if one or two battalions were willing to listen to Shangguan Sheng's orders, it would be useless."

"If I'm not mistaken, the generals of the battalions promised to stay 'tonight', and you see, it's about to dawn, and they have not broken their promise, and they will come to defend the palace soon."

Concubine Cui's expression changed greatly, she finally understood that she had been fooled, and the Queen Mother intended to lure the Cui family to initiate a palace change, in order to catch them all.

"Ah, there's a Southern army outside the city. Meng Che, is there any news? The Queen Mother asked.

Meng Che replied: "There is no clear news yet, but the soldiers defending the city reported that the southern army camp thirty miles away was in flames, presumably not for lighting. ”

The Queen Mother looked at Concubine Cui with a smile, revenge, and she had to chew slowly. (To be continued.) )