By the lotus pond, under an old tree with knotted branches, a woman in black was trembling faintly at this time.

She was a little confused, not knowing why she was here at this point.

All she knew was that someone gave her a dagger, dressed in black, fed her a pill of poison, and asked her to assassinate the emperor within three days, otherwise she would die of rotting intestines, and her death would be extremely ugly and miserable.

The poison also made her unable to make a sound, she wanted to scream but no one answered, she wanted to write but no pen and ink.

The cold palace is a place where there is nothing, not to mention that she is the only one here, she has long been forgotten in the corner of the world, hungry and full, no matter how she struggles, no one will throw a single look here.

She couldn't get out.

She can't get out in her life.

The emperor may have forgotten her a long time ago, and the Lin family may not know about her situation at all.

She will be like many women in the harem in the history books, and die of "violent illness" for unknown reasons.

She's so scared......

Lin Shuzhen waited for a long time, and did not wait for the emperor's amnesty, but waited for an unknown man in black, as well as poison and a dagger.

The man in black said that as long as she succeeds in assassinating the emperor, she will be the first hero, and the other party will inevitably take advantage of the chaos to save her, and she will have a new skill from the dragon.

She would never have believed these words before, but she had been in the cold palace for too long, and a person fell from heaven to hell in one day, and because of the trumped-up charges, the emperor didn't even ask and directly convicted her, so what's the use of keeping such a mediocre emperor?

Besides, her life is over.

As long as this emperor is in power, she will never come out.

If you fight, you may still have a splash of wealth.

She was tempted. So she appeared in this place.

But when she really saw the emperor's figure under the moon, she suddenly had a lot of confusion.

Is it really going to kill this person? He was the only man in her life, and he was impressed by him the first time she saw him, and it was a great honor for her to be by his side.

But now that he is either dead or she is dead, does she still have a choice?

The strange thing is that when she didn't see the emperor, the resentment and hatred in her heart swelled like crazy weeds, and she agreed to the other party's conditions not long after the man in black found her.

But when she saw the emperor at this time, her chaotic heart like a snowflake suddenly quieted down.

The time was so quiet, the night was so quiet, she hid behind the old tree, stared blankly at the emperor walking with his cloak by the lake, looked at his peaceful eyebrows, saw him occasionally frowning and pondering, and occasionally stretching his brows, as if to solve a problem that had been coiled in her heart for a long time.

Such a person is the co-master of the world, her man.

Lin Shuzhen suddenly stood up and walked out from behind the old tree, the distance between her and the emperor was only a few steps.

Even in the dark of night, the emperor found her for the first time, revealing a look of surprise.

Lin's?

How did you end up here? Shouldn't it be ...... in the cold palace?

Not good!

The emperor subconsciously sensed the crisis, and at the same time, "whoosh-" more than a dozen cold arrows suddenly shot from all directions in the darkness!

"Your Majesty!" Lin Shuzhen screamed in surprise and threw herself at the emperor, not wanting to throw the dagger in her hand at him!

The emperor was unarmed at this time, although he was surprised how Lin Shuzhen could throw a dagger, but he was already good, so he immediately caught it, pulled out the dagger, and waved it to block the cold arrow.

But the number of cold arrows is too many, how can he block them all in an instant?

"Your Majesty! Ouch! Escort ——!! The ......chief eunuch was startled, and the instinct of the guards made him block in front of the emperor, but he didn't want to obstruct the emperor's sight, and was kicked open by the emperor and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, when the chief eunuch pounced, the emperor's whisper of "pretending to be dead" crossed his ears, so after being kicked to the ground, he simply lay on the ground and couldn't get up.

However, the emperor could block the front but couldn't notice behind him, and by the time he reacted, Lin Shuzhen had already fallen behind him and used his body to block the cold arrows shooting for him.

"Puff puff!" Three cold arrows shot straight into Lin Shuzhen's chest, her pupils suddenly shrank, and the heart-rending pain made her face distort for a moment.

The emperor turned around and picked it up, hugged Lin Shuzhen, who had fallen softly, in his arms, and shouted at the same time, "Escort——!!! ”

Without waiting for the emperor to fight back, more than a dozen nearby guards had already arrived and surrounded the emperor to protect him, the emperor subconsciously felt a light in his heart, and couldn't help but look at Lin Shuzhen in his arms, his eyes were shocked.

He didn't expect Lin Shuzhen to appear at this time, but since Lin Shuzhen appeared and was wearing a black dress, he must have something to do with the assassin.

But what he didn't expect was that Lin Shuzhen didn't choose to assassinate him, but threw the dagger to him to defend himself, and used his body to block the crisis for him.

He watched Lin Shuzhen spit blood from her mouth, and her chest was also pierced by three cold arrows, one of which pierced the chest organs, because she kept vomiting blood, and she was short of breath but seemed to be out of breath.

If you say that it does not shake...... That must be fake.

Originally, when he encountered the poisoning in Nuanyu Pavilion, whether Lin Shuzhen did it or not, he subconsciously thought that she couldn't rule out the involvement, maybe he suspected from the bottom of his heart that everyone related to Xu Chunzhi and the Lin family.

It happened that the Western Regions came to pay tribute, and he didn't want to directly send people into the cold palace because of the extraneous branches, and originally wanted to wait for the tribute to be solved before solving the poisoning case, but he didn't expect that Yun Guo and Rong Guo would come at the same time, which made him anxious, so he put this matter aside.

But he never imagined that when he saw Lin Shuzhen again, it would be in such a situation.

The person he was suspicious of was willing to give his life to protect him!

This confused his perception for a moment, and he suddenly began to wonder if his previous thoughts were simply wrong.

"Your Majesty...... Emperor...... ......" Lin Shuzhen spat blood from her mouth, and her poor breathing caused tears to flow, she looked at the emperor with teary eyes, her eyes were already a little sluggish, but she tried to see him clearly, and saw this most noble and powerful man in the world.

Lin Shuzhen's faint shout pulled the emperor's thoughts back, "I'm here." He held the dagger in one hand in self-defense, and pinched Lin Shuzhen's arm with the other in response.

But what the emperor didn't expect was that Lin Shuzhen, who was already certain to die, suddenly smiled at this time, coughed up blood and asked with difficulty: "The concubine is ...... now?" Yes, isn't it...... Ugly? ……”

The emperor was stunned.

Ugly?

He hadn't thought about these things, and he even laughed a little in an instant, did he care if he was ugly or not at this time?

But for a moment, he seemed to understand Lin Shuzhen's intention to ask, he shook his head, and said affirmatively: "It's not ugly." ”

After a slight pause, he said: "The concubine is very beautiful." ”

Lin Shuzhen suddenly smiled, her eyes closed because of this smile, and the blood in her mouth continued to overflow.

A generation of Iraqi people passed away suddenly.

The emperor put her down, just a few breaths, the situation around is not optimistic, the guards who rushed to the rescue are only the guards nearby, there doesn't seem to be much movement in the distance, it stands to reason that there are three thousand forbidden troops in the palace, it is impossible that there is no movement, it is impossible that these people have been quietly solved in secret?

Or is something going wrong somewhere else?

Seeing that the guards around him were dying and falling, the emperor was so anxious that he simply took off his robe and changed into the clothes of a dead guard.

At this moment, "Go out of the water!" Suddenly there was a shout from the palace, and from a distance, three or four palaces were on fire, including his bedchamber.

What's going on?

The emperor's heart jumped, this assassination ...... It was not done suddenly, it must have been premeditated for a long time, and he needed to be more careful.

How could such a thing happen at this time......

Could it be that in fact, the invasion of Yun and Rong was also intentional, and the inside and outside should be combined? Who did that?

General Yuanda's house.

Yuan Huanliang finished the day's work, and only went home when it was close to Hai, and just took off his armor and sat down to rest for a while, when his wife Zhuang came over with bird's nest porridge.

"Didn't you have time to eat at night?" Zhuang asked with some distress.

Yuan Huanliang smiled: "It's not that you don't know, you've been busy with business recently. "Since Xu Chunzhi reminded him, he has been extremely concerned about the changes in the palace, but after such a long time, there has been no problem, although he is temporarily relieved, but in the end he still can't be too relaxed. At least until Xu Chunzhi and his eldest son Yuan Huan Shen returned, he couldn't go wrong.

"No matter how busy you are, you have to eat some, people are iron and rice is steel, how can you do it if you don't eat? I've been giving you hot bird's nest porridge, just waiting for you to come back and eat it. Zhuang pushed the plate closer.

"It's still a lady who cares about her husband." Yuan Huanliang also smiled, picked up the bird's nest porridge and tasted it, "Well, this tastes good." ”

Zhuang smiled: "If it's good, eat more, there are many more, all of them are reserved for you, and there are some side dishes here, you can eat some." ”

As he spoke, Zhuang's suddenly showed a sad look again: "I don't know how the gentleman is now?" ...... "Since her daughter Yuan Yuxin was assassinated and died, and her second son Yuan Huanchen was injured and lame, the Zhuang family is not as energetic and even arrogant as usual at any time, after all, all her glory is earned back by her husband and son bit by bit.

It's all earned by birth and death.

What's more, she is also old, and she no longer wants to encounter any white-haired people sending black-haired people, so she is extremely worried about the fact that Yuan Huan is on the expedition.

"Do you think the gentleman will ...... too?" Zhuang was worried, almost a little stunned.

"Relieved, relieved, he didn't go alone this time, and General Zhao is here." Yuan Huanliang reached out and patted his wife's arm.

"What is the use of General Zhao? Aren't you from our city defense army? Besides, the Black Flame Army has always been against us, and it's not bad if you don't use black hands to make stumbling blocks, do you still expect others? And he only has 50,000 people, what role can he play? ......" Zhuang chattered.

Yuan Huanliang listened to her nagging, at first it was a little funny, and then his expression suddenly became solemn, for some reason, he felt that there seemed to be some buzzing in his ears, and Madame's words seemed to be a little inaudible.

Is there something wrong with his ears? Or has Madame's nagging become quieter?

Yuan Huanliang looked at Zhuang with a puzzled expression, and raised his hand to stretch out towards Zhuang, but his arm, which had always been light, was now so heavy that he could barely lift it.

"Husband...... Husband! Zhuang nagged for a long time, and only then looked at Yuan Huanliang when he stretched out his hand, this time he was startled, and the whole person stammered, "You, you, you...... What happened to you? What's going on? What's wrong? How could so much blood suddenly be shed? Someone, someone—come on!! ”

Zhuang helped Yuan Huanliang who was sitting beside him, and caught his body that almost fell, everyone knew that Yuan Huanliang was a big man with a strong body, although Zhuang was not thin but he was almost taken down by him.

Reluctantly holding Yuan Huanliang up, Zhuang was already trembling with fright, and couldn't stop screaming: "Someone! Come on—husband, husband......" Zhuang's tears kept falling, hitting Yuan Huanliang's slightly raised face, making his eyes blink.

Only then did he realize that his chest had been stained with blood at some point, and blood kept spitting out of his mouth, and the paralyzed nerves finally felt some consciousness at this time, and he noticed the current situation of colic in his abdomen.

"I ......" he was poisoned?

How could he be poisoned in his own home? Is that bowl of bird's nest porridge poisonous just now?

"Yes...... Poison. Yuan Huanliang's consciousness was still very sluggish, and he reluctantly raised his hand to point at the bird's nest porridge, but Zhuang was startled.

His original intention was to remind Zhuang and others not to drink that bird's nest porridge, but he didn't expect Zhuang to instantly understand that Yuan Huanliang suspected that she had poisoned the porridge.

"No, no, no, it's not me...... If it weren't for me, how could I have poisoned you?! I can't poison you, come on, hurry-" Zhuang's panicked voice naturally disturbed many maids and guards, and a group of maids surrounded them, but they were all too frightened to step forward, after all, the poisoning of the general, anyone who touched the border was afraid of death.

Fortunately, the maids were at a loss, but the guards couldn't manage so much: "General! ”

"The general is poisoned!"

"Put things away, close the door of the General's Mansion tightly, everyone looks like it, and no one is allowed to let go!" The leader of the guard was furious, and the general was poisoned in his own home right under their noses? Is this still worth it?

"Quick, send someone to ask for a doctor!" The butler also hurried over and immediately commanded.

"Imperial Doctor?" This word crossed Zhuang's mind like a ray of light, making her drowsy head excited, "Yes, yes, yes, please ask the imperial doctor, you must ask the imperial doctor." It's going to be fine, the general is going to be fine, husband, you wait, you're fine! ”

"Bing...... Fu ...... "As the commander of the forbidden army of the current dynasty, General Yuanda, even at this time, the first thing that comes to mind is still the safety of the emperor in the palace.

Then I'm afraid the emperor is already in danger now!

"What do you say? What are you talking about? Husband? Husband! Woo woo...... "Yuan Huanliang's voice at this time was already very vague and low, plus Zhuang's crying and fussing, others didn't know what he wanted to say.

Yuan Huanliang was so anxious that he was infinitely slow.

"Quick...... Hurry ......up" Yuan Huanliang reached out and took out the talisman in his arms, originally wanted to hand it over to the guards around him and lead the troops to rescue the emperor, but he didn't expect the housekeeper to suddenly bring a group of Lang Zhong and surrounded him, and even the guards had to be driven away from his side.

As a result, the talisman that was not held firmly in Yuan Huanliang's hand slipped and fell into the hands of the butler, and as soon as he took it away, it was put into his sleeve.

Yuan Huanliang stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes, but his throat was choked by something unknown, making it difficult for him to make a sound anymore, his arm was as if he had been filled with molten iron, and he couldn't lift it anymore, and his eyes suddenly went black and fell.

"Husband!!" Zhuang screamed, and the people fainted, and the entire general's mansion suddenly fell into chaos.

"You quacks!" Seeing that Langzhong came not only did not get better, but the situation became worse and worse, the guards in the palace were angry, they never imagined that just a slight delay and helpless retreat, they missed the entrustment of General Yuanda, and also made the emperor in the palace fall into a deep fire. In the heat, but the people outside the palace are unaware.

General Xu's Mansion.

Since she became pregnant, Lin Yunxin has rarely slept at this time, but today, she has always been a little restless.

Since Xu Chunzhi led the troops to attack the invading army of Yunguo, she would make two hexagrams every morning, one about Xu Chunzhi's safety today, and the other about the emperor's safety today.

It's been like this every day for so long, and nothing has gone wrong. But this morning, the emperor's hexagram was unusual, and it was the same for two divinations. General divination, unless you are unsure, you will follow the hexagram, she has already asked, and it is meaningless to divination again.

Early in the morning, she ordered someone to go to the army again to remind Yuan Huanliang, the general of Yuan, hoping to avoid danger. But what she didn't expect was that Yuan Huanliang had been patrolling all day and still didn't find any abnormalities, but he was victimized after returning home at night.

At night, Lin Yunxin felt more and more restless, instinctively feeling as if something was about to happen, and her uneasiness was also transmitted to the maids around her.

"Madam, it's getting late now, why don't we rest in peace?" Xiangzhu asked. Since Mrs. Xu Da married General Xu, Ning Cui has become a full-time shopkeeper, in charge of several stores, and Ning Cui's previous work fell on her, with the entire Great General's Mansion, she is the biggest maid, and she is also Mrs.'s most powerful and personal assistant.

"Don't worry, the general will definitely return victorious, you are now an eight-month-old person, you can't help but hold on to yourself first."

Lin Yunxin waved her hand, and took out the copper coin again to divinate a hexagram, usually she rarely divined at night, but at this time she couldn't take care of it so much.

After the hexagram was completed, she got up from her chair, paced a few steps in the room, and beckoned Haishan: "How is the situation in the palace where I asked you to inquire?" Is there a response? ”

Haishan's expression was grim, and he said: "Madam, I just got the news that the palace gates have all been closed, and the guards on the city wall are different from the usual manpower arrangements. ”

Will the "shift ......" change all the people in the team? I'm afraid this is just a cover for the outside world, Lin Yunxin said, "There must be changes in the palace tonight." ”

"There is a change in the palace?" Xiangzhu was a little confused. What can change? It can't be the "change" she thinks, right?

Lin Yunxin said again: "At present, there are only 3,000 forbidden troops and a few hundred dragon guards in the palace, and if the forbidden army is replaced by someone with a heart, ......"

"No, it can't be, right? Who, who is so bold? ......" Xiangzhu felt that this statement was simply incredible.

Lin Yunxin looked at Haishan again: "How many people do we have?" ”

Haishan said: "All the hands are combined, two thousand people." But if Madame is willing to use ......"

"No, the Black Flame Army must not be moved." Once the Black Flame Army acts on its own without an edict, no matter what its original intention is, even if it finally saves the emperor, it will definitely be difficult to have a good result, after all, an army that can move on its own without a military talisman, isn't this a terrible army?

In the eyes of the courtiers, the Black Flame Army's move was tantamount to forcing the palace, even if their purpose was to save the driver, it was meaningless.

And in the emperor's opinion, the Black Yan Army will also change from an army protecting the country to Xu Chunzhi's personal private soldiers, otherwise how could even his wife be able to drive at will?

To do so is tantamount to digging your own grave.

"Two thousand is two thousand." Although it is not safe, time can no longer be delayed......

"Bring the men, let's explore the palace at night." Lin Yunxin said.

"What?!" Xiangzhu was shocked.

Haishan did not hesitate: "Yes." ”

"Wait! Wait......" Seeing that even Lin Yunxin was going with him, Xiangzhu was a little dizzy, and grabbed Lin Yunxin and didn't let go, "Are husbands and wives going too?" That's not good, you're a pregnant person, how can you run around? Besides, according to what you said, isn't this palace the Longtan Tiger's Den at this time? It's too late for ordinary people to hide, how can you still break in? This is absolutely not possible, if the general knew, he would not have killed me? ”

Xiangzhu was so anxious that he was incoherent.

Lin Yunxin smiled a little, this girl even moved out of the pheasant, she glanced at Haishan: "Pull her away." ”

"Huh?! Husband and wife! You can't do that! How can you ...... "Xiangzhu is really anxious, but in the face of Haishan, she doesn't even know kung fu, how can she be the enemy?"

"You wait at home with peace of mind, close the doors and windows, and don't let anyone in unless I come back." Lin Yunxin instructed, and then he and Haishan and his party disguised, and even left the mansion from different tunnels, and then gathered outside the palace gate.

These tunnels have long been prepared, some leading to the edge of the imperial city, and some leading to the outside of the imperial capital, although they are for emergencies, but they did not expect to be used so quickly.

Two thousand people, originally Xu Chunzhi left behind to protect Lin Yunxin, as long as there is no large-scale army mutiny, it is enough to guard, even if there is an army mutiny, there are 50,000 Black Yan troops left in the city, improvised.

To say something arrogant, in Xu Chunzhi's opinion, 50,000 Black Flame Army against 100,000 City Defense Army is enough.

But I'm afraid Xu Chunzhi didn't expect that the person who was originally left for Lin Yunxin to protect himself would be used by her to escort him into the palace.

At this time, on the city wall, in an unobtrusive place, a series of figures silently climbed up the city tower along the rope, and then lay down all the patrols they encountered on the way, and then swaggered down to the city tower.

Lin Yunxin was also mixed in with a big belly, being held by the sea and mountains and moving at high speed, although she was nervous, her physical condition was very good.

Originally, she didn't have any special symptoms since she was pregnant, not only did she not have much morning sickness, but the whole person was much more energetic than when she was not pregnant, and she seemed to have endless energy to radiate all day long, which made her feel very surprised.

However, the people around her thought that the pregnant woman must be in poor spirits and industrious, so that she had no chance to exercise if she wanted to, at most she could take a walk in the yard, and she didn't even have a chance to stretch out.

God knows that she has been nesting in the house for more than half a year, and it really feels good to be able to come out and breathe now, if it is not at such a critical moment.

Although Xiangzhu and the others were worried, they didn't know that even if she sent someone into the palace to pick up the emperor's escort, I am afraid that she would not be able to gain the trust of the emperor who was suffering from the enemy, unless she herself. Arrived with a big belly.

That's right, it's thanks to that she is a pregnant woman with a big eight-month belly that she can win the emperor's trust, otherwise she will be suspected if she is usual.

After all, for the people of Daqing, who attach the most importance to their children, no one generally makes jokes about their children, not to mention that she is also the wife of General Xu, and this birth is even more attention-grabbing, and even asked the emperor for the child's name in person.

In such a situation, if it were not for the extremely critical moment, she would never have taken the risk herself.

And it will never be a deception for her to come to the rescue in such a situation now.

Lin Yunxin sincerely hopes that it is not too late......

A few days ago.

The southern part of Daqing.

It has been a while since the opening of the station with Yunguo.

During this period of time, Xu Chunzhi fought with his opponent many times, and each time the opponent arranged enough traps, but Xu Chunzhi seemed to have eyes behind him, and he had a head start on all the traps, not only avoiding the traps, but even planning to counterattack the opponent, and knocking the opponent down in one fell swoop when the opponent was paralyzed.

Long Zhiwu, the general of the Cloud Kingdom, hated this. He had long heard that the god of war of Daqing was invincible and invincible, and he had always thought that it was mostly boasting, but after the real fight, he found that this person was extremely calm and cunning, very good at grasping the opponent's weaknesses, and the opportunities on the battlefield were changing rapidly, but he seemed to be wandering in it, enjoying it, and always making the most accurate and deadly judgment.

After fighting with him for so long, Long Zhiwu lost his troops and generals, if it wasn't for the huge amount of treasure promised by Rong Guo at the beginning, he would probably have returned to Yun Country a long time ago.

Even so, he also felt that it was a bit risky to invade Daqing like this, and now Daqing was facing the two-front battle of Yunguo and Rongguo, and he was attacked by the enemy on his back, and he heard that there were still people in the capital who should make trouble with each other.

If Daqing is really defeated in one fell swoop, then it will naturally rest easy, but if Daqing is allowed to seize the opportunity to survive and make a beautiful comeback, it will be a disaster and harm the country.

It's a pity that the monarch was confused by the treasures offered by the envoys of the Rong State and the promised city, and insisted on participating in the war.

But this time he and Xu Chunzhi fought it seems that Daqing has such a good army and a good general, and the number of qi is not exhausted, and it is still two to say whether the rebellion in the national capital can succeed......

At this time, what he hoped for was to drag Xu Chunzhi again, at least not to let him return to China to rescue, and the rest would do their best to obey the fate of God.

Xu Chunzhi had already discovered that Long Zhiwu's purpose was to drag him here, and the more Long Zhiwu was like this, the more Xu Chunzhi felt that there might be a disaster in the imperial capital, and it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time.

Fortunately, his arrangement will be completed tonight, and Long Zhiwu can be considered capable of dragging him until now.

It's night.

Yunguo. The army was attacked by surprise soldiers, the whole camp fell into a sea of fire and chaos, the officers and soldiers fled in all directions, most of the dead and wounded. The army withdrew from the contest and returned to China to recuperate.

Xu Chunzhi led his troops to attack the imperial capital overnight.