"There are assassins." Gonggong Xie next to him shouted and stepped forward to stop the man.

But then five more people came in, two attacked Gonggong Xie, and three others attacked the emperor's side.

The four imperial guards standing behind the emperor hurriedly drew their swords to meet the enemy. But he didn't want one of the guards to suddenly turn around and swung his sword towards the emperor.

Fortunately, Gonggong Zhang was by the emperor's side, and just now he took two steps back with his personal protection, and two little eunuchs stepped forward and directly blocked the blow of the imperial guard.

Several royal guards who were secretly ambushing heard the sound and rushed to meet their attack, and the emperor came out of danger.

Father-in-law Xie and Father-in-law Zhang were both scared into a cold sweat.

Both of them are strong martial arts people, but they were all on duty before, and each led a few little eunuchs to serve the emperor around; The guards who rotate around the emperor every day are six outside the palace and four inside the palace.

If it weren't for the end of the Wanshou Festival, Xiao Lingyan reminded them to strengthen the defense around the emperor, Gonggong Zhang and Gonggong Xie didn't dare to relax these days, both of them stayed by the emperor's side, and also proposed to let Xiao Qi add four imperial guards and let them hide in the palace, maybe the emperor would be killed at this time.

"What's going on? Why is there no one outside? ”

"Is the emperor in danger?"

"Quick, help."

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and soon a group of people crowded into the main hall.

Seeing the people in the lead clearly, the nerves of Xiao Yu, Gonggong Xie, and Gonggong Zhang not only did not relax, but tightened even more.

The person who came was none other than the Three Princes.

When the third prince entered the palace, he saw that there were many guards in the palace, and he was in a mess with the assassins, and Xiao Qi was still alive and well, protected by Gonggong Zhang and Gonggong Xie, standing away from the fight, his face inadvertently showed a trace of astonishment.

However, he quickly reacted and asked with a concerned face, "Father, are you okay?" ”

Xiao Qi bowed slightly: "It's okay." ”

Xiao Lingheng waved his hand at his men, and those people rushed directly at the assassins and fought with them.

Originally, there were six assassins, plus the one who turned against the water, a total of seven.

There were originally seven guards in the main hall, seven against seven, and the assassins did not occupy the front line, but at this time, there were four guards brought by the three princes, and the assassins were captured after a while.

"Father, these assassins have been taken." Xiao Lingheng saluted.

Xiao Qi glanced at him, and then at the assassins who were mutilated and injured.

He said expressionlessly, "Lift their faces up and let me see who wants my life so much." ”

The captors lifted the Assassin's heads one by one.

When they saw the face of one of them clearly, everyone gasped: "Prince." ”

At this time, the crown prince was also wearing the royal guard costume, but he was in very bad condition, and he was stabbed in the left chest and near the shoulder, and he was bleeding.

His eyes were red, and when he was forced to raise his face, the gaze that looked at Xiao Qi was not only not guilty and afraid, but full of hatred.

Because the Assassin was able to enter the palace without any obstacles, and went straight to the main hall, Xiao Qi had already guessed about the Assassin.

But seeing the prince's face, his already cold heart still couldn't help but chill.

He opened his mouth to ask why the prince killed his father and killed the king. But when the words came to his lips, he closed them again.

And why? It's just for the seat under him.

Seeing the prince's red eyes, reason told Xiao Qi that he should directly order him to be killed.

Such a person can no longer stay, and it will be a great disaster to stay, and maybe he will succeed in killing his father at some point.

But Xiao Qi couldn't say anything about this order.

The crown prince was his first child, and he also had high hopes for him at the beginning, teaching him personally little by little.

It's just that for some reason, he's got to where he is today.

Thinking of this, Xiao Qi raised his head, glanced at the third prince, and then said in a low voice: "Send it back to prison, tie it up, and step up its care." ”

After a pause, he was about to instruct the imperial guard to get a doctor for the prince. But when he was distracted, he heard an exclamation from the guard.

When he looked up, he saw blood gushing out of the prince's neck and a dagger slipping from his hand.

The dagger was the one that killed the four princes and was captured by the imperial guards on the spot, and for some reason it was returned to the crown prince. Now he wiped his neck with this dagger.

The prince looked in the direction of Xiao Qi, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, he fell down with a bang and was no longer silent.

At the same time, the few captured people around the prince fell to the ground with black blood flowing from their mouths, apparently poisoned together.

The leader of the imperial guard stepped forward, probed the prince's nose, and then said, "Your Majesty, the prince is ...... went. ”

"Take him out ...... and bury him like the fourth." Xiao Qi said.

The chief of the guard ordered two men and told them to go outside and have the prince and his men carried out.

But he himself did not go, and his cronies remained in the temple; Outside the hall, the royal guards in the palace all rushed to this side and surrounded the outside of the main hall.

Gonggong Zhang and Gonggong Xie stood closely beside the emperor and looked at the three princes with a defensive expression.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Qi asked.

Things changed, and Xiao Lingheng suddenly felt that he was in an extremely bad situation at this time. However, he tried his best to suppress the panic in his heart, and he was still very calm on the surface.

He said: "My father is in a bad mood these days, and the courtiers want to come to see my father early today, but I am afraid of disturbing my father's review and review, so I have delayed it until now." I never thought that as soon as I entered here, I found that the guards who were supposed to be guarding outside the hall were gone. Erchen was flustered for a while, so he didn't ask anyone to break in directly. ”

He bowed: "Please also ask my father to forgive his sins." ”

Xiao Qi closed his eyes and opened them immediately.

Xiao Lingheng set the prince, and the prince was not a stupid person, so he calculated it. As early as when the prince was imprisoned three days ago, someone sent some files to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi has been an emperor for so many years, although he is soft-hearted to his sons, he is not without means.

He deliberately revealed these news to Xiao Lingheng.

He knew that Xiao Lingheng would inevitably take action, but he didn't expect that he would borrow the hand of the prince to kill his father and kill the king again.

Xiao Lingheng's stunned moment when he first entered the hall was already seen by Xiao Yu. He was even more chilled by this son than the crown prince.

Xiao Qi glanced around the situation in the hall, and saw that the imperial guards had already formed a siege of Xiao Lingheng under the gesture of the head of the imperial guard, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Take the king of Ming to me." ”

The guards brought by Xiao Lingheng all looked at him, waiting for his orders.

They were all dead, and they followed Xiao Lingheng into the palace today, so they didn't think about getting out alive. As long as Xiao Lingheng gave the order, they would immediately fight with the emperor's people to break the net.