Chapter 101: Fugitive Life
"The county lord is good at learning the language of my dynasty, so I'll wait and see." The Emperor glanced at Yunosuke with great satisfaction, and Yunosuke nodded in response, exchanging another glance with Natsuki.
Then the sound of foreign music came from outside, and the men who were noticed by Xu Ruru formed two columns and walked slowly from the center of the two directions behind the door of the main hall.
As soon as she saw these men walking up, Xu Ruru immediately came to her senses, and Su Jiao lowered her voice in confusion. "Princess, please be reserved, is there anyone you know?"
"Naturally, this princess's rabbit was given by that person." Su Jiao originally just said it casually, mainly to ridicule, but who knew that Xu Ruru actually responded in one bite, but she was not easy to talk to.
Su Jiao blinked, sat up straight, and saw that the men who had already walked in the center formed a circle outside the county lord of Peony, and the one in the center presented a big fan as long as a small arm to the county lord.
The county lord took the fan, her expression was indifferent, her demeanor was dignified, she squatted down quietly, opened the fan, and it was really difficult to drag such a heavy costume to do the action, and Su Jiao in the audience felt uncomfortable for her.
However, the dance in their country is so slow and leisurely, and there are no particularly drastic movements, so what clothes you wear does not have much effect.
Men surround women, like green leaves setting off flowers, and the lord of Peony is responsible for looking beautiful like a flower in the center, casually making a few light movements, and the real focus is on the circle of men around her who are behaving funny.
As the music outside beat faster and faster, the men in a circle moved faster and faster, and each of them was wearing exactly the same clothes, and it was dazzling to turn around.
Xiao Huai'an sat next to the envoy, looking at the style of this performance, which had the meaning of a group of demons dancing wildly, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, stood up in advance and walked to the edge of the hall, and quietly took the wide knife in the hand of the guard on the side.
However, at the same time that Xiao Huai'an had just taken these precautions, the lanterns used for lighting on the top of the main hall were all extinguished, and the entire Hongmei Pavilion suddenly fell into inexplicable darkness.
"Ahh I don't know which palace maid's screams resounded on the roof of the building, and the entire hall except for the high-ranking ministers and ladies sitting above, the palace maids and eunuchs immediately fell into chaos.
Dequan was also taken aback, especially worried about the ugly look on the emperor's face, so he hurriedly called the godsons behind him, and went to a corner where the lamp was lit, and took the fire fold to turn the lamp back on.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, it should just be blown out by the wind, and it will be fine soon." Dequan sweated impatiently, took the fire fold in his hand that had just lit the nearest row of candles, and returned to the emperor's side.
However, with the light of the fire in his hand, he suddenly saw that in front of the emperor, a sword light was approaching here.
"Escort, escort!" The queen was quick and saw it at a glance, but she didn't have time to call Xu Rulie over, so she took the initiative to pounce in front of the emperor.
This banquet is a major matter related to the two federations, and no one would have thought that anyone would plan to do something to the emperor on such an occasion.
The queen threw herself at the emperor's side, preparing for her life, but she blocked the emperor's room to leave.
The emperor was very helpless to hold the queen's shoulder, fortunately there was a fan placed under the lean, and his other hand quietly held the handle of the fan, waiting for the sword light to approach, at least there was a temporary resistance.
However, seeing that this long sword was about to pierce into the queen's phoenix robe, Xiao Huai'an also took advantage of the fire in Dequan's hand, and didn't know whose table he was stepping on, and flew over with a light skill, and used the wide knife of the guard in his hand to block the man's long sword with all his might.
"Extinguish the fire!" Xiao Huai'an yelled, Dequan was so frightened that his hands shook, and he subconsciously blew out the fire, but the spare candles on the side of the hall had already been lit, and he could barely see the sword flashing between Xiao Huai'an and the assassin.
Through the dim light, one could clearly see the Assassin with the sword in his hand, dressed in the costume of Yunosuke and their country.
"It's actually that there is a problem among the people you sent to perform, and you don't know how to explain it?" Xu Rulie slapped the table angrily and stood up.
But such a thing will happen, it is really unexpected by Yunosuke, he spread his hands, and he didn't know how to explain it at a loss, "This, this is really not the arrangement of the foreign ministers, please Emperor Daze must believe us!" ”
"Brother Sanhuang, there is no conclusion on the matter at the moment, you just make accusations so casually, it is a little too hasty, not to mention that the person is holding a long sword in his hand, in case someone deliberately frames him, it may not be said."
Seeing this, Xu Ruzhu's words were inevitably taken as the truth, and he also stood up to distinguish it, and Yunosuke immediately gave him an extraordinarily grateful look.
However, Xu Ruzhu's words made Xu Rulie feel more and more resentful, only to hear him snort coldly, and almost wanted to walk off the table in front of him.
"What do you mean by this, Brother Five Emperors, isn't it possible that in order to protect them, you would rather pour these dirty water on my Dazechao?"
"That's not what I meant......"
"Shut up!" If Xu Ruzhu said a few more words, I was afraid that the two of them would really quarrel in front of so many people.
The emperor's temples jumped suddenly, and with such an angry roar, the empress and the concubine both stood up and came over to pat him on the chest and back to reassure. "Your Majesty is angry."
"Huai'an is still fighting the assassins below, you two don't say that you will send someone over to help, you only know that there is infighting here, do you want to kill me?"
After that, the emperor really choked and coughed, Xu Rulie and Xu Ruzhu both felt a hot face, and they knelt down one after another. "The rich emperor is angry, and the sons know that they are wrong. Someone ...... coming."
But it's a pity that it's too late to think about it now to take precautions.
The assassins who came over today are not under Xiao Huai'an's martial arts, and the two of them have fought for more than a hundred rounds, but because the candles in this hall have been lit with the efforts of those little eunuchs, they have almost all been lit and restored to their brightness.
Seeing that this situation was very unfavorable to him, the assassin put away his long sword, slapped Xiao Huai'an, and with his strength, he soared and left the main hall of the Red Plum Pavilion.
"Forbidden Army!" Seeing this, Xu Ruzhu raised his voice and shouted, guarding the main hall, and half of the guards agreed to go out and send someone to chase him.
"Lord Xiao is so brave and powerful, he can't even deal with an assassin," finally regained his calm, and seeing that the assassin actually escaped from Xiao Huai'an's men, Xu Rulie suddenly came to his senses.
As soon as these words came out, Su Jiao, who was sitting next to her and was worried about Xiao Huai'an's injury, immediately couldn't help it, and almost stood up and said to her, but fortunately, Xu Ruru reacted quickly at this time and stopped her in time.
"Are you stupid? Don't sit down yet. ”
Not only Su Jiao, but Xu Rulie's gloating voice may not be able to please the emperor. The emperor's face suddenly sank, and Xu Rulie had to close his mouth and change his head.
"But more importantly, among these performers sent by the envoys, there are such ambitious leopard darers, I don't know how you should explain it?"
"The foreign minister really doesn't know how this person got in, and he asked His Majesty Emperor Daze to take a look." Younosuke couldn't argue, in the end, as the son of the prime minister when he was in the country, he was also in the limelight, and he enjoyed all the blessings, and when did he handle such a serious topic.
Maybe he thought it was a simple and flattering errand, but he didn't expect such a mistake to happen, but he was afraid that his intestines would be repentant.
"Father, the Emperor has the heart to join our Federation, how could it be possible to arrange such a thing at this important juncture, according to what Erchen has seen, there may be someone who is red-eyed, so he deliberately framed him."
"Besides, this person can still sneak into the palace with a sharp weapon on his body, and I don't know how these marches are searched, father, I'm afraid that this forbidden army should also be adjusted again."
The head of the forbidden army is a member of the queen's mother's family, and the power of the forbidden army is equivalent to being in the hands of Xu Rulie.
Xu Rulie's eyes widened, and just as he was about to refute it, he heard the emperor cough lightly, "These trivial matters must be thoroughly investigated, and I dare to make such a mistake under my nose, if it is replaced by another time, it will not cause a big mistake." ”
"As for the assassin, Huai'an, you come along."
"Yes." When the words landed, Xiao Huai'an agreed and stepped forward, "That assassin is indeed a native of the Wa Kingdom, yes, when Wei Chen fought with him, he noticed that he was very unaccustomed to the way he held his sword. Although his face has been changed to be very similar to that of my people, it may be because he wears a mask. ”
"This person's martial arts are not weak, but in terms of tricks, it can be seen that he is not Weichen's opponent, presumably he has taken the medicine pill to improve his strength before he came, and this medicine pill, among which there is the most important snow lotus, is a special product of the Wa Kingdom."
"It can be seen that Master Xiao also thinks that they deliberately designed it." Xu Rulie lowered his head and thought about it, although he didn't deal with Xiao Huai'an, this time he borrowed his testimony regardless of his previous suspicions.
"The third prince, just based on a few words, it shouldn't be able to be determined." Xu Rulie's last word had just landed, and Yunosuke couldn't argue, and Inoue finally remembered to help with a few words at this time.
"That's true." Unexpectedly, Xiao Huaian also nodded.