Almost at the same time that he forcibly stopped Jing Xuan by the side of the Agarwood Pavilion claiming to be a martyr for the former emperor, the emperor who had just sat down in the Xingqing Hall received a news that made him feel extremely worried: according to the urgent report from Jiangling 600 li, the officials and soldiers who were ordered to enter the city three days ago to search for the whereabouts of King Mu found a piece of Tian Huangyu pendant engraved with the name of King Mu in a guest room of the Jiangling Palace, and King Mu himself is still missing.

Even from the moment he learned that King Gangneung had defected to the rebels, the emperor was keenly aware that the eldest son he had placed high hopes on was likely to be more and less auspicious because of this, but once he really received such a report at this moment, the emperor still felt a wave of uneasiness in his heart.

It seems that today is indeed not a good day!

The emperor felt an indescribable grievance in his heart at the thought that in a few moments, he would have to personally go to the funeral of the two hateful women who were lying in the coffin and secretly entertaining him.

"'Father Shang', Jin Guogong, and Zhongshu Ling Li Jinzhong have arrived!" There was a loud roll call outside the palace gate, which made the emperor suddenly realize that when he entered the hall, he did not seem to see Li Jinzhong among the ministers waiting in the palace.

However, when the roll call outside the hall had just fallen, and Li Jinzhong hurried into the Xingqing Hall with an angry face, the emperor's eyes were firmly fixed on him: Isn't it Lai Xing'er who has been missing in the palace for many days who followed Li Jinzhong into the Xingqing Palace!

"Father Shang, today is the day of the 100-day sacrifice of the first emperor, why are you late?" In front of the Chinese Wu Qunchen of the Xingqing Palace, the emperor was inconvenient to directly interrogate Lai Xing'er, so he asked Li Jinzhong.

What the emperor didn't expect was that Li Jinzhong walked quickly to the hall, and before he could answer his question, he first knelt down in front of the steps with a thud, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, if it wasn't for the old minister's intention to be late, if it wasn't for Xing'er to come to the rescue, the old minister was afraid that he would have died outside the south inner gate just now!" ”

"What?!"

Including the emperor, all the people in the Xingqing Hall couldn't help but let out an exclamation: Li Jinzhong, the prime minister of the current dynasty who is below one person and above ten thousand people, has been assassinated again today? What kind of person ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dared to openly assassinate outside the heavily guarded South Inner Gate in broad daylight?

"Come to Xing'er, tell me, what's going on?"

When it comes to the true thoughts in his heart, the emperor is not very surprised that Li Jinzhong was plotted: it was he who personally pushed Li Jinzhong to the cusp of the Jing Palace, and he carried out two or two consecutive sits in the Daming Palace, causing hundreds of lives, and now there is an assassin who plots against him, which can also be said to be reasonable, it is not a big deal.

There were only two things that surprised the emperor: today, the forbidden army led by Wu Bi and the soldiers of the Jingzhao Yamen were guarded by martial law all around the south and the inner gate, and there were still people who dared to assassinate in front of the south inner gate;

Moreover, Lai Xing'er, who had just returned from a thousand miles of travel from Luoqi City, was entrusted with an important task by himself and stayed by his side to run errands, disappeared for no reason a few days ago, and he didn't know where to go, why did he suddenly appear near Nannei today, and rescued Li Jinzhong?

"Back to the master's words, the little one entered the city from the Chunming Gate in the east of the city today, and when he passed by the Xingqing Gate in the west of the south and the west, he happened to meet someone who sent a secret weapon to stab Lord Li, and the little one immediately stepped forward to block it for Lord Li. The assassin missed, and when he saw Lord Li's attendants approaching to protect him, he immediately fled through the ridge of the house. Lai Xing'er replied very concisely, without the slightest exaggeration.

"Do you see the Assassin's figure, his face, and where he fled?" This morning, when I was in Yaohua Palace, I heard Wang Bao'er say that there was a gatekeeper who saw Lai Xing'er go out of the city from the west, but he didn't expect that today he actually entered the city from the Chunming Gate in the east of the city, and saved Li Jinzhong's life so coincidentally.

"Long live Qi Song, this assassin's assassination outside Xingqing Gate is exactly the same as the one more than ten days ago. The old minister dared to conclude that the two assassinations were the same as the remnants of the Zhang family. Li Jinzhong saw that the emperor ignored him and single-mindedly approached Xing'er for questioning, and he was very dissatisfied in his heart, so he replied first, "Moreover, according to the location of the assassination in front of the Xingqing Gate in Nannei, and the fact that the assassin could escape smoothly in an instant if he missed a blow, this person must be hiding near Nannei now." He asked the emperor to immediately issue an order, and the quasi-old ministers should thoroughly investigate the matter and arrest the assassin as soon as possible. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard another loud roll call from outside the palace gate: "Concubine Hui has arrived." Jing Xuan rushed to the Xingqing Hall at this time with some ink.

Jinping, who was accompanying Jing Xuan, saw Lai Xing'er in the crowd at a glance, angry, surprised and happy, and took advantage of the opportunity to follow Jing Xuan into the hall, quietly approached Lai Xing'er, raised his fingers, and stabbed Lai Xing'er's waist and eyes fiercely behind himself.

Lai Xing'er was defenseless, staggered forward, and almost fell on Li Jinzhong's body, and subconsciously let out an "ah" in his mouth.

"In front of the emperor and all the adults, Hugh has to be willful." Jing Xuan turned his face, glared at Jinping fiercely, turned around again, and bowed slightly to Liu Yi, who was standing at the head of the military general's squad and Liu Yi in the ranks of the ministers, and then bowed to the emperor who was sitting in the middle, and reported in a deep voice: "The concubine is gallant, please move to the side hall for the time being, and the concubine has something important to report." ”

It's a great day, everything is in one place!

The emperor didn't understand why Jing Xuan, who was supposed to lead a group of women to prepare to participate in the ceremony in Nanxun Hall at this time, suddenly came to Xingqing Palace, and couldn't help muttering in his heart.

He glanced at Li Jinzhong, who was still kneeling in front of the steps, still angry, and asked Wang Bao'er, who was standing beside him, "What time is it?" ”

Wang Bao'er hurriedly bowed down and replied softly: "If you go back to your master, it is now the hour of the hour, and there is still more than half an hour before the time of the awakening. ”

The emperor sighed, and said to Jingxuan: "If the concubine has something, even if she says it in front of the 'Shang Father' and the other Qing families, you can also ask everyone to think about it." 'Father Shang' was assassinated outside the gate of the Nannei Palace just now, and I was thinking about the arrest of the murderer in the Nannei......"

Jing Xuan glanced at Li Jinzhong in surprise, hesitated slightly, but still insisted: "If it is not a very important matter, how can the concubine dare to bother the emperor to move?" This matter involves the palace, and it is inconvenient to report it in public, and the concubines implore the emperor to move the side hall and allow the concubines to perform alone. ”

As soon as she said this, the ministers in the Xingqing Palace couldn't help but talk to each other and whispered, and the ministers didn't know what important and secret things had happened that could make Jing Xuan make such an abnormal move. (To be continued.) )