Chapter 205: Remorse (1)
Helian Hongyi had no choice but to stop his horse, but found that he was covered with cold sweat from his forehead to his palm, panting incessantly, and his eyes looked like he was dreaming everywhere, and there was no truth at all.
His heart went up and down, not knowing what to do to make up for the piece in his heart that seemed to have been hollowed out, and he released the reins with one hand and pressed it to his heart, Helian Hongyi silently felt this sense of fear that he had never felt since he went to the battlefield at the age of ten.
Why is he afraid?
He has already given an order to kill the shadow, maybe Gu Banqin is already a ghost under the shadow at this time, she is dead, and no one can control his emotions in the future.
But as long as Helian Hongyi thought of Gu Banqin falling dead in a pool of blood, his heart ached violently, he closed his eyes, and didn't want to think about it anymore, only hearing a 'zheng' sound in his ears, Helian Hongyi hurriedly opened his eyes to dodge, and saw that Bi Geng had already drawn his knife and cut off a stray arrow to the ground.
Helian Hongyi looked at the stray arrow, if it weren't for Bi Geng on his side, with his restless state, maybe he would have hung the lottery.
"Your Majesty, let's go back to the king's tent to rest."
After Bi Geng finished speaking, he reached out to lead Helian Hongyi's horse, and brought Helian Hongyi back to the place of the king's tent.
Helian Hongyi didn't care about anyone, Wu Zi uncovered the two pots of wine on the dragon case, and poured them into his stomach at once, and after drinking the wine, before everyone could react, he smashed the wine jug on the ground, and the king's tent fell into a dead silence.
Wang Shun's father-in-law and other servants were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground to ask the emperor to calm his anger, and the hundred officials also looked at each other, not knowing what His Majesty the Emperor was doing.
Helian Hongyi stood up from behind the dragon case, kicked over the two little eunuchs who were blocking the intersection, and then walked out of the king's tent without looking back, turned over on his horse, and rushed to the palace.
The shadow is used to doing things at night, and as long as he rushes back in time, he can save Gu Banqin's life......
He didn't figure out until now that he didn't want Gu Banqin to die.
Helian Hongyi rode his horse, and couldn't wait for the hunting ground gate to open, so he rushed forward, clamped the horse's belly, and jumped out of the fence on both sides of the gate, which was half a person high.
This visual impact stunned the soldiers guarding in front of the gate, watching the person who was dressed in a dark dragon pattern riding away on the snow, everyone looked at each other and didn't know how to react.
After the emperor rode his horse over the fence, Bi Geng also rode his horse to follow, and more than a dozen horses of the forbidden army and the imperial guards behind him also quickly rode their horses to catch up, and the sound of horses' hooves kicked chaotically, trampling the snow on the snow.
Helian Hongyi rushed to the palace regardless of it, he regretted it, regretted letting the shadow do it, Gu Banqin couldn't die, definitely couldn't die!
The horse team rushed past from the trouble, and the pedestrians on the road avoided one after another, pointing and pointing, Bi Geng and the commander of the forbidden army were chasing after him but still couldn't catch up, and the commander of the forbidden army asked Bi Geng:
"Commander Bi, what's wrong with the emperor, should we send a signal to call for support, what should we do?"
Bi Geng turned back to him: "Let's catch up with the emperor first." ”
Helian Hongyi's horse was on the battlefield with him, and he had tried to run day and night, but now Helian Hongyi just wanted to return to the palace in an instant, and when he saw Gu Banqin, he couldn't stand this kind of restless day anymore.
Gu Banqin is no matter how strange it is, but she is Gu Banqin, the woman who has allowed herself to have countless surprises and warmth, how can he get rid of such a living person because of fear and fear?
Everything is caused by his own heart disease, what does it have to do with Gu Banqin?
If it weren't for his heart disease, Gu Banqin wouldn't want to treat him, everything was because of himself, but he didn't dare to face it, he just wanted to escape and put the responsibility on Gu Banqin.
Let's ask, if the shadow really obeyed his order and killed Gu Banqin, Helian Hongyi's heart hurt as if someone had dug it up as long as he thought of that picture.
He didn't know why he gave such a cruel order, Gu Banqin was infatuated with him, even if his behavior was strange, but she was devoted to herself and had no reservations, but he was ......
The guards of Nandingmen saw a group of people galloping on horses very early, and they had already made a defensive posture, but when the people led by the horse team gradually approached, the guards of Nandingmen recognized the person on horseback as Helian Hongyi, and the guards lifted their vigilance and opened the palace gate in a panic.
Helian Hongyi's horse rushed in like lightning, Helian Hongyi rode the horse all the way to the outside of the Taiji Palace, then turned over and dismounted, ran up the steps, and ran all the way to Lihua Palace, on the way knocked over a number of unknown palace maids and eunuchs, Helian Hongyi walked to the corner outside Lihua Palace, and began to shout:
"Gu Banqin, Gu Banqin."
These two words echoed in the quiet garden, clear and lonely, as if a touch of green smoke wrapped Helian Hongyi's heart.
Thinking in his mind, if he saw Gu Banqin later, he would have to hug her and rub her into his own blood, praying with all his strength that the shadow had not yet made a move on Gu Banqin.
Helian Hongyi shouted several times, but no one came out in Lihua Palace, Helian Hongyi jumped over and turned into the courtyard of Lihua Palace.
I originally thought that I would see Gu Banqin pulling weeds in her mud or lying under the grape trellis to bask in the sun, or walking out of the door, but after seeing him, her two big black eyes were full of surprise, and she rushed to him with a bright smile......
However, in Lihua Palace, there is no one!
Yes, not a single one!
Helian Hongyi gasped, wiped the sweat on his face, lifted the corners of his robe, and walked towards Gu Banqin's dormitory.
It is impossible for Gu Banqin to go to other places, she is so afraid of people who get up early, she got up early today and sent him to the hunting ground, and when she comes back, she must have a good night's sleep, otherwise she should also make trouble with her broken ground, how can there be no one in this palace?
Unless...... The Shadows have already done it!
Thinking of this possibility, Helian Hongyi's legs seemed to stumble a little, tripped over the threshold of the dormitory, and if he hadn't grabbed the door, he would have almost fallen to the ground.
Bi Geng and the others chased to Lihua Palace, and saw Helian Hongyi standing on the door frame, Bi Geng hurriedly came over to help, but Helian Hongyi shook off his hand fiercely, and said angrily to Bi Geng:
"Where's Gu Banqin? Where did Gu Banqin go? ”
Bi Geng looked at Helian Hongyi like this, knowing that he was angry, he looked around, and replied to Helian Hongyi:
"Niangniang is not in the palace, is she going out?"
The commander of the forbidden army heard that Helian Hongyi was looking for Concubine Xian, and said to a few forbidden soldiers behind him: "Go and look around, where is Concubine Xian." ”
The forbidden soldiers took the order and left, Helian Hongyi stepped out of the threshold in despair, standing on the corridor, there has never been a moment like now when he fell into the deep sea, there was no driftwood around, he felt very difficult to breathe, his face was pale, and he said to Bi Geng:
"Shadow...... Isn't it already in action? ”
Bi Geng couldn't answer this question, although after discussing it with Liu Youcheng, he reminded Gu Banqin as soon as possible, but Bi Geng also knew how terrible the dark guards led by the shadow were.
Once the mission is accepted, it will never die, and the Dark Guards will only obey the Shadow's orders, that is, if Helian Hongyi can't meet him in person and give him new instructions while the Shadow is on a mission, even Helian Hongyi will not be able to make the Dark Guards stop the mission.
If the shadow had made a move before he and Liu Youcheng passed on the news, then the possibility of Concubine Xian's survival was really very small.
Bi Geng's silence made Helian Hongyi feel more and more hopeless, looking at this familiar small courtyard, Helian Hongyi couldn't help but close his eyes.
How much hope he had, Gu Banqin came in from outside the door at this time, and still came over to greet him with a smile as before, and talked to him, the shadow never missed, never disobeyed, if he didn't complete the task, even Helian Hongyi himself couldn't recall them!
Feeling itchy on his cheeks, Helian Hongyi stretched out his hand to wipe it, and the long-lost water droplets slipped from the corners of his eyes to his cheeks, he thought it was raining, but when he looked up, the sun was shining, the cold wind was blowing, and the corners of his eyes were frozen and painful, Helian Hongyi realized that he was actually crying.
Tears......
This unfamiliar word, he has not had since he went to the battlefield.
Bi Geng had never seen Helian Hongyi like this, so he couldn't bear it, and stepped forward to say frankly to Helian Hongyi:
"Your Majesty, the minister left the palace last night to find Liu Youcheng, and told Liu Youcheng about the shadow, he guessed that the person the emperor wanted to kill was Niangniang, and he had sent someone to send a message to Niangniang this morning, and now it seems that the shadow they must have already done it, but we haven't seen Niangniang's corpse, you have to cheer up."
Helian Hongyi raised his eyes to look at Bi Geng, frowning at what he said, but he also ignited a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Before he could speak, he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps and scolding outside Lihua Palace, Helian Hongyi and Bi Geng turned around, and saw the commander of the forbidden army walking into Lihua Palace with more than 20 people, a few of them were captured by the imperial guards, and the clothes they wore were all nondescript, but Helian Hongyi recognized them at a glance, those were Gu Banqin's clothes.
He frowned and walked over and asked in a cold voice, "What's the matter?" ”
The commander of the forbidden army replied to Helian Hongyi: "They were all caught by the imperial guards in the palace, saying that someone kidnapped them, and after asking, I found out that they were all from Lihua Palace, and the minister brought them all back." ”
Helian Hongyi and Bi Geng glanced at each other, Helian Hongyi came to a palace maid standing at the front, and asked the gray-faced willow catkins:
"Where is Gu Banqin?"
The catkins were embarrassed, she was beaten a few times because of the struggle, and her face and body seemed to be injured, and when she saw Helian Hongyi, she instinctively shrank back, but she gritted her teeth and did not answer Helian Hongyi's question.
Helian Hongyi cared about Gu Banqin and didn't want to go around in circles with her, so he grabbed Liu Wu's throat, lifted Liu Wu high, and roared at her:
"Let me ask you, where is Gu Banqin?"