Chapter Twenty-Three: Screaming in the Night

"Ahh ~~~~~~~~~~”

An extremely terrible scream suddenly sounded in the originally very quiet night. Because the palace walls of the Forbidden City are very tall and the palace walls are extremely wide, this sound actually forms an echo in this space, which makes people feel creepy.

Immediately afterward, the screams of "ah", "ah", and "ah" began to be heard endlessly. This voice, in the cold winter night, in the originally solemn Forbidden City, seems extremely abrupt and weird.

The guards on night duty in the Forbidden City were still lazily and unhurriedly patrolling. In fact, every day, the palace gate will be closed and locked on time, prohibiting everyone from entering and leaving. It was not until the next day that the palace gate opened again. Unless there is a 100,000 urgent event, the palace gate at night will never be opened.

The walls of the Forbidden City are tall and majestic, surrounded by moats outside, and the city walls are heavily guarded, so there are basically no potential safety hazards in the Forbidden City at night.

If it is said that the courtiers go in and out during the day, and there are the upper peaks patrolling from time to time, it is necessary to cheer up the spirit, then at night, the nerves of the guards can be relaxed. Except for the unlucky newcomers who have to stay on duty at the important palace gate all night, those more senior guards only need to regularly patrol the palace to see if there is any fire danger, and then they can go back to the duty station to sleep.

But this sudden scream made these guards frightened one by one. Even the guards who had been napping on duty also rushed outside, knives in hand, nervously discerning the direction from which the screams came.

You know, guarding against Assassins is their most important duty, and if an Assassin really sneaks in, taking advantage of the slack guard at night, and succeeds in one blow, they all have to move their heads. In case the emperor is assassinated, it will be even more serious, not only will he not be able to live, but even the whole family will be buried together!

One of the guards leaders listened intently, and hurriedly said, "It's the voice from the Wenhua Palace!" With a wave of his arm, dozens of guards immediately followed him and rushed towards the Wenhua Palace.

But when they arrived outside the Wenhua Palace, they were surprised to find that a series of screams really came from here, but more than a dozen guards had gathered outside the palace gate, but they all stood on the spot one by one, and some of them stretched their necks to peek in, but none of them dared to rush in.

The leader of the guards was furious, and he rushed forward with a lunge, rounding his arm, and at a young guard who had just turned around, he was a big golden mouth. He has a lot of strength and heavy arms, and his martial arts are strong, and the power of this slap is not as small, and he beat the guard and flew out diagonally.

When the other guards saw that the leader was coming, they hurriedly knelt down and said, "Lord Qianhu! …”

"Bastard!" Qianhu scolded angrily, "You people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, what are you doing here!" There were screams in the hall, it was clear that someone had assassinated, and they didn't go in to protect His Royal Highness King Ning and arrest the assassin! ”

"Lord Qianhu, there are no assassins..."The guard who was beaten by him just now, covering his swollen face, replied aggrievedly, "Just now, the lowly rank also heard the news, but the Wenhua Palace sent a eunuch to inform the lowly position, it was His Royal Highness King Ning who was depressed for a while, so he spoke out, and there was no other reason." Therefore..."

"It's all fart!" Chiho raised his foot and kicked the hapless guard out of the air, "When you are depressed, can you make such a terrible scream!" ”

As a veteran guard who has been on duty in the Forbidden City for many years, from a nobody to the emperor's personal guard, he naturally knows the seriousness of the situation.

Back then, Emperor Jiajing, who played with the ministers and the world, was almost strangled to death by a few resentful palace maids with a rag. Fortunately, the palace maid had little strength and panicked, and the guards found out in time, so Jiajing picked up a life.

Rao is like this, the emperor was furious, and still beheaded the commander of the Wuxiang Zuowei who was on duty that night, and the two Qianhu who were directly responsible were executed by Ling Chi, and razed the three clans, and the other guards were all beheaded.

Since then, Jiajing has not been in court for more than 20 years, and even no longer lives in the Forbidden City, but hides in Xiyuan.

In fact, these guards died too unjustly, the palace maid who committed the crime was murderous in the palace, and the guards heard some movement outside the palace.

Later, it sounded different from usual, just the palace maid whispered, and the emperor didn't make a sound at all. The guards were also vigilant enough, so they rushed in to save Jiajing. That's it, I still didn't save my head.

And now, there are clear screams in the Wenhua Palace, maybe the perpetrator is the palace maid! King Ning is the emperor's beloved brother, and if he doesn't rush in, he won't be able to cut off a few more heads!

Thinking of this, Qianhu's cold sweat had already soaked his whole body, and he yelled: "Catch the assassin!" Without saying a word, he rushed in. A eunuch at the door just wanted to stop him, but he kicked him in the chest and kicked him out of the way. When the other guards saw that the leader had already arrived, they did not dare to slack off, and rushed into the Wenhua Gate with their swords raised and shouted in unison.

The eunuchs and palace maids in the hall had already collapsed to the ground in fright by the group of guards who rushed in with bright swords and fierce gods.

Qianhu ignored it, walked through the front hall and courtyard, and went straight to King Ning's bedroom. When I first arrived in front of the door of the dormitory, I suddenly heard a coquettish voice from inside the door: "Who dares to make trouble here!" ”

Qianhu didn't know the situation in the palace, but he didn't dare to break in casually, stabilized his body and shouted: "Tengxiang right guard Qianhu Lin Youkun is here!" A bold assassin dared to sneak into the Wenhua Palace to assassinate His Royal Highness King Ning! Now that you have wings and can't fly, why don't you get out of here and die! If Your Highness is even slightly injured, this thousand households will make you regret coming to this world! ”

Suddenly, the door of the hall opened, Lin Youkun was afraid that the assassin would throw a hidden weapon outside, so he hurriedly took a few steps back to protect the vital point, and when he looked at it again, there was a person standing at the door, but it was not the imaginary assassin, but a petite woman who looked like a fairy. At this moment, her face sank like water, and there was a mocking sneer on the corner of her mouth, although she did not speak, but naturally with an outstanding and unquestionable bearing.

It's not Rui'er, who is it!

"Princess!" Lin Youkun hurriedly knelt down, touched the ground with his head, and didn't dare to look directly at Rui'er.

"Senhe-sama, what do you mean by this? Trespassing on the Mandarin Hall at night, what's the matter, you can't rebel?! Rui'er asked coldly.

Lin Youkun hurriedly replied: "Princess Niangniang Mingjian! The humble duty is to hear the screams coming from the palace, but I am afraid that something will change, so I broke in in a hurry, and asked the princess to forgive my sins! ”

"In this way, it is the main palace that blames the Lord of the Thousand Households." Rui'er smiled faintly and said, "The prince is safe and sound, but he was depressed for a while and shouted a few times." Your trespass on the palace is not light, but if you are loyal to your duties, the prince will not bother with you, just retreat. ”

Lin Youkun didn't dare to be careless, kowtowed heavily and said, "Please also ask Your Highness to show up, otherwise you won't dare to retreat!" ”

Rui'er was furious and said, "Why, Lord Qianhu doesn't even believe in this palace anymore? Could it be that this palace still wants to murder the prince?! ”

Lin Youkun said stubbornly: "How dare you dare to be humble, as long as Your Highness is safe, you will immediately withdraw from the Wenhua Hall and let Your Highness and Niangniang deal with it!" ”

The two were in a stalemate, and a weak voice came out in the hall: "What's the trouble, I'm annoying!" ”

With this voice, the depressed Comrade Zhu Youzhen appeared at the entrance of the hall.

"Ahh Your Highness!! Despicable capital crimes, please be merciful to Your Highness! Lin Youkun saw that although King Ning was in low spirits, he did not show any signs of injury, and immediately realized that he had caused a big disaster, and immediately panicked, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Zhu Youzhen sighed and said aggrievedly: "Why am I so unlucky!" ”

Lin Youkun peeked at it, saw Zhu Youzhen's eyes were full of tears, and thought to himself that the big thing was not good, I frightened King Ning this time, and I was also offended! You're unlucky, I'm even more unlucky!

"Where's the stallion?!"

Lin Youkun was stunned for a moment, thinking that he hadn't heard clearly. Why did King Ning suddenly come up with such a sentence out of nowhere? Could it be that King Ning is sad about the "stallion"? The matter of matching horses and breeds is the responsibility of the yamen and eunuchs who have their own affairs. His Royal Highness King Ning, it's not easy to want a horse, but he would be furious about such a trivial matter? If there is a brother, there must be a brother!

Not only did he wonder, but everyone, including Rui'er, didn't know what Zhu Youzhen was talking about. However, only Rui'er knows why he screamed.

Because just now, Rui'er conveyed the queen's entrustment to Zhu Youzhen word for word.

Zhu Youzhen was crazy at that time.

It's no wonder that as a time-traveler, it is unlucky enough to suffer such a great crime and travel to ancient times when there were no air-conditioned computers and televisions. He was even more unlucky, dressed as a king of the dead country who was not too far from death. That's not all, before the king of the dead country became the king, someone wanted to do him in advance. And the most important thing is that the crossing of the three laws is completely invalid, not only the stallion can't be done, but even the woman can't touch it!

What is a person's greatest sorrow? It's not that "money is not spent when people die", "money is gone when people are alive", money is something outside the body, so what a big deal!

However, if you are accompanied by beautiful women every day, but you can only look at it and not touch it, isn't this a eunuch!

"Your uncle's Wei Zhongxian, I have to castrate your grandson!" Zhu Youzhen cursed fiercely in the most vicious language in his heart. But as soon as he finished scolding, he suddenly realized with grief and indignation that Wei Zhongxian was completely immune to this, and there was no need for him to castrate.