Chapter 4: Assassination
"Go home, go home."
"Okay, Mother, slow down......"
Letting everyone go, Tang Feng stood alone at the door of the Taihe Palace, looking down on the empty palace. It was only at such a moment that she felt that she was a person, the world was vast, but none of her relatives who were waiting for her to go home were gone, and they all died under the butcher's knife of Great Xia. The people who had been trapped outside all night had become the people she envied at this time, at least they had a home to go back to.
Xu Zhong walked from the side of the corridor, and he saw the imperial concubine standing there alone, with a gloomy back, revealing a sense of loneliness that he had never seen before. His heart moved, thinking that the imperial concubine treated His Majesty with sincerity, and such a demeanor was also worried because His Majesty had not woken up for a long time.
"Niangniang, there's news from Lord Han Lin." He stepped forward silently and whispered.
Tang Feng turned around and raised his eyebrows, "Have you confessed who is the mastermind?" ”
Xu Zhong: "Lord Han Lin asked Niangniang to come over, I am afraid that I will not convey it clearly enough. ”
Tang Feng's eyebrows moved, Han Lin was worried that the paraphrase would not be clear, but he just wanted the assassin to confess in front of her, so as not to make people think that he was framed in the middle. Very good, this Lord Han is really upright.
The prison in the inner palace is a little worse than the edict prison, but with Han Lin, a terrifying cool official, that little "fly in the ointment" just filled. The Assassin was tortured, unable to survive but unable to die, and finally vomited out a name after a night of torture.
"King Lu?" Tang Feng stood in front of the bloody prisoner and asked without changing his face, "Does Lord Han think he is telling the truth?" ”
Han Lin is five years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, with a thin body, a handful of old goatees, raised his eyelids, and said, "In the hands of the minister, there are only two choices: telling the truth and not being able to speak." "Dead people can't speak.
Tang Feng looked sideways at the assassin, he no longer had a piece of good meat on his body, and even a large piece of his hair was pulled off, and he looked gloomy hanging on the torture rack at this time, and he should not live long.
Tang Feng nodded, turned around and walked out of the inner prison.
After all, King Lu is a clan relative, and she can't punish him substantially except for detaining him in a side hall. Now that the Assassin had reported his name, and everyone at the banquet had heard it, it was indeed proposed by King Lu to see the strange stone, and he could not wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
But Tang Feng is not so sure that he is King Lu, although he is reckless, but the big right and wrong can't always let his temperament come, right? Besides, there must always be a starting point for the murder of Your Majesty, King Lu killed Your Majesty, but he didn't have enough strength to control the capital, and even after the crime, he could easily be taken down by the forbidden army and imprisoned here, what did he want to kill His Majesty? Give a big gift to King Qing, who is rebelling.
Tang Feng wanted to talk to King Lu, but the two of them had never looked down on each other, and King Lu might not be willing to trust her. She thought about it and ended up going around another prison.
When Yi Guiren saw Tang Feng appear in front of her, she couldn't react. She didn't know what was going on outside, and she was a little worried about Tang Feng coming in to see her in a grand manner.
"Niang Niang shouldn't have come at this time." Yiguiren shook his head. She sat on the withered grass, she no longer had the appearance of a favored concubine before, her skin was dry and her lips were cracked, and she really looked like any other female prisoner in prison. But even so, she didn't seem to let go of the task of her trip.
Tang Feng didn't tell her everything, and asked directly, "Your Majesty came to see you before, what did you say to him?" ”
Yi Guiren was stunned for a moment, and explained, "I said that I have seen Xu Hua's son in the palace in Xining, more than once." ”
Tang Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, and his expression became a little unpredictable: "You said that this is the way to solve Xu Hua?" Let His Majesty think that his son is in collusion with the King of Xining, intending to commit treason? ”
"Not only that, but before I left Xining, I also brought with me some letters from him and the king of Xining." Yi Guiren's lips were raised, as if he was very proud, "If you agree to help us, I can hand over the letter to you now." ”
"Could it be that you still have those letters with you at all times?" Tang Feng looked at her prisoner's clothes, and it didn't seem that she could hide anything important.
"Some methods may not be clear." Yi Guiren pursed his lips and said with a smile: "If Niangniang responds this time, your great revenge will have to be avenged." ”
Tang Feng's eyes flashed with a trace of killing intent that was so fast that she couldn't see clearly, since she knew that the letter was on Yiguiren, it was not enough to kill people and take things, where did she still need to be in the same stream with them?
Yi Guiren's words dispelled her thoughts, and she said, "The prince just wants a way back, not a lot of embarrassment." Now although the Xining army has broken through the two places of Hechuan and Xuanfu, if Daxia raises the whole country to confront it, it is difficult for the prince to win. In order to give him one more way to retreat, the prince wanted to cooperate with Niangniang, hoping that one day if Xining was defeated, he would also ask Niangniang to defend two sentences in front of His Majesty. ”
"That's all?"
"A gentleman's covenant will never be reversed."
"Okay."
Tang Feng responded, and Yi Guiren finally breathed a sigh of relief, she completed her task, and finally lived up to the prince's entrustment. She took off her shoes and put them on the ground, then reached out and "borrowed the mother's hairpin." ”
Tang Feng casually pulled out the hairpin and handed it to her, and Yiguiren easily cut the sole of the shoe with the hairpin, and handed out the letter pressed with kraft paper from the mezzanine of the sole.
It turned out to be this method. Tang Feng got the letter, and he also didn't forget his hairpin.
"I'll leave this to me." Yi Guiren held the hairpin in his hand and smiled easily, "If it can come in handy one day, I will definitely be very grateful to Niangniang." ”
She doesn't seem to have a second choice except for the autumn queen, leaving a hairpin, if she can't get out at all in the future, she can let herself leave decently. She even playfully stuck out her tongue and said, "I don't like to have my head cut off, it's too bad for the beauty, I want to go in its entirety." ”
Tang Feng looked at her in shock, surprised that she said death so calmly. Although she is also ready to die, she does not have the courage to face death like Yi Guiren, in her mouth, it is as if death and life are the same, but a different way of existence.
"Why do you come when you know there's only one way to go?" Tang Feng's throat moved, and he couldn't help but ask. She is not a person who is curious about other people's private affairs, but she is still amazed by the motivation behind Yiguiren's choice.
Yi Guiren smiled, a kind of happiness on her face that she had been granted, and she said, "I am loyal to him and to all his commands. Although he may not know about me...... I admire him, but if I can die for him, I can make a good impression on him, don't I? ”
This is naturally the king of Xining. Tang Feng couldn't refute Yi Guiren's words, because she couldn't give up her life for others, so she had no position to judge right and wrong.
It's just that he has never met, and Tang Feng has begun to hate this man.
Coming out of the prison, the lotus root noticed that the master's sideburns were empty, and after a closer look, she found that it was the master's favorite nine-turn five-phoenix hairpin that had fallen, and she hurriedly wanted to go back to find it, but Tang Feng opened her mouth to stop her.
"It's given away, and someone needs it more than this palace."
The lotus root opened her mouth and stammered, but she didn't know that she could still give gifts when she visited the prison? But after thinking about it, she seemed to understand it completely. She silently helped her master forward, choosing not to ask or say anything.
Tang Feng glanced at this girl, although her temperament was more heartbeat than Lian Yelian's, her ability to serve her master was not bad. Because of this, Tang Feng was able to squeeze out one of his few good intentions to find a good home for this girl, when she was still beautiful......
On the third day of Emperor Xu Kangdi's assassination, the imperial concubine announced that His Majesty had woken up, but the imperial physician instructed him to live a good life and not go to the early court. Therefore, the affairs of the court were countersigned and reviewed by the cabinet, and the six ministries performed their own duties and tried their best to run this huge dynasty.
In fact, Xu Kangdi was too dangerous this time, and he couldn't wake up on the fifth day.
The war in the east became more and more intense, and it was about the time when King Qing finally learned the news of His Majesty's assassination, and organized an army to carry out a frantic counterattack, and even took two cities in succession.
The cabinet was anxious, and without Xu Kangdi in command, his attitude towards the rebels began to waver again. There was a large number of people in the court who thought that as long as the imperial concubine was disposed of, King Qing would become unknown, and the pressure of public opinion would crush him, and a group of rabble he organized could be dismissed as soon as possible.
As soon as this proposal came out, many people realized that this was the best time to bring down the imperial concubine. Her Majesty, who had always defended her, was unconscious, and King Qing was making a huge noise outside to "clear the king's side", and the opportunity was pushed into their arms at this time.
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