Chapter 199: Assassin
The snow was falling, and only ruts and neat footprints stretched forward.
The news that the emperor and the queen led the emperor's relatives and ministers to go to the Huguo Temple in the snow to pray for the blessing of the country spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and the people greeted each other on the road, and also took the opportunity to see the demeanor of the emperor and the queen, and the streets that should have been deserted on a snowy day were also lively.
Seeing that the people were so enthusiastic, the emperor took the queen to stand outside the carriage and waved to the people to show his benevolence and closeness to the people.
After going straight out of the city gate, the emperor and the queen sat back in the carriage.
Usually on the Huguo Temple is only an hour's drive, today because of the heavy snow road slippery, stunned to walk all morning, but the road seems to be not very peaceful.
Luo Qing opened the carriage curtain and looked outside, there were constantly guards reporting something to Yan Huai, and after a while, he left in a hurry, hiding in the snow and disappearing.
Luo Qing looked at it for a while, then lowered the curtain of the car, and looked back at Pingyang, who was riding in the same carriage with her but didn't say a word.
"Pingyang, you love to laugh the most, why don't you talk today?"
Luo Qing opened his mouth to break the deadlock.
"Don't you know?"
Pingyang has been a lot haggard these days, and the light that always sparkled in his eyes in the past is gone, and only a piece of ashes remains.
After so many changes, no matter how innocent people are, they will grow up.
Luo Qing was worried in her heart, and she couldn't bear to tell her the purpose of taking her out of the palace today, so she had to go down according to their wishes.
"Later, after praying for blessings, I'll take you around, take a walk, and relax."
She didn't expect Pingyang to respond to her, but she didn't expect Pingyang, who hadn't looked at her since she got into the carriage, suddenly raised his head and looked at her directly.
It's just that such a pair of teary eyes made her heart tighten.
"Binh Duong ......"
She didn't know how to comfort her.
"Little aunt, I never thought of ......"
When others told Pingyang that her mother and uncle killed the king and seized the throne on the day of her mother's birthday, she didn't believe it.
Her queen mother is so gentle, and the royal brother treats her so well, how can she ......
But no matter how much she didn't believe it, no matter how much she struggled, the queen mother who didn't know where to start, the royal brother who avoided it, the queen mother who suddenly disappeared, and the cousin who was also pulled out and executed in the cold palace, everything made her have to believe it.
"I'm real...... I think it's just my nightmare, I'll be happy when I wake up......"
Luo Qing couldn't bear it, sat down beside Pingyang, hugged her into his arms, patted her back to comfort her, and listened to her.
"If I had found out about my mother and uncle's intentions earlier, wouldn't I have ...... Isn't it possible to stop them...... Stop them from committing such unforgivable things...... Why are they doing this? ”
Luo Qing couldn't listen to it anymore after all, and said softly: "It's not your fault. ”
"If it's me...... I'm not that stupid...... I'm not that stupid...... I'm not sure I'll be able to balance the queen mother and ...... The contradiction between the royal brothers, so many years ......"
Pingyang's throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he struggled to tell Luo Qing about his remorse.
"I've been turning a blind eye to ...... for so many years"
"Binh Duong, Binh Duong ......"
Luo Qing put her hands on Pingyang's head and made her look directly at her.
"Look at me, it's not your fault, since the Queen Mother didn't tell you anything, even she doesn't want you to get involved, it's none of your business."
"I'm sorry, little aunt, but I hurt you."
Pingyang suddenly threw himself into Luo Qing's arms.
Luo Qing stroked her hair and sighed in her heart.
"What's your fault? It's none of your business for me to hurt me. ”
It was the Empress Dowager.
But she couldn't say any of that.
"And Brother Huang, I'm really sorry for Brother Huang, she loves me so much...... How could the queen mother and uncle do this......"
Luo Qing couldn't bear it, she couldn't bear to tell her that even her imperial brother was in this politics. Abandoned her in the middle of the change.
This is probably the emperor's family, the emperor's mind is never ruthless.
To the Dehuguo Temple, it is time to have lunch, but the blessing should be sooner rather than later, the emperor immediately took people to go to the incense to pray for blessings, and then led everyone to use vegetarian food, planning to repair and then go down the mountain.
And Luo Qing took advantage of this opportunity to propose to take Pingyang to the back mountain outside the temple.
Pingyang has always been preoccupied, and she didn't know Luo Qing's plans, but when her eldest palace maid was about to refuse for her, she responded in one go.
Luo Qing had a bottom in her heart, this big palace maid should know something, but they were afraid that something would go wrong in Pingyang, so they kept it from her.
Luo Qing is also the first time to come back to this Huguo Temple, I didn't expect this Huguo Temple to be so magnificent, it really deserves to be a royal temple.
Luo Qing walked in front with Pingyang, and Su Su followed the two behind, staring at the palace maid in Pingyang by the way, as long as she made any moves, she could stop her immediately, but she knew that the most important thing for her today was to protect Luo Qing. Ranwen.com
This is what Yan Huai ordered her in advance, and it is also what she wants to do.
The road was slippery in the snow, Pingyang walked carelessly, and almost fell, thanks to Luo Qing to help her, but this time she accidentally pulled the wound on her back, and the pain made her cold sweat come out.
When Pingyang saw it, he was about to pull Luo Qing back, but was stopped by Luo Qing.
"I'm fine, but you, since I'm out to relax, don't think about it, come, I'll take you with me."
"Thank you, little auntie."
With that, Pingyang grabbed Luo Qing's arm, and the two continued to move forward.
At this moment, the bells and drums of Huguo Temple rang out, and a cloud-breaking arrow struck straight at Su Su.
Su Suli dodged and avoided the arrow, but he didn't think that the palace maid next to Pingyang was also good at kung fu, so he stepped forward and pulled Pingyang with one hand, and Luo Qing with the other hand to run to the side.
The situation is on the verge of eruption.
Luo Qing had practiced some fist and foot kung fu in the end, and her hands and feet should be neater, taking advantage of the palace maid's unpreparedness, she took out a silver needle from her sleeve and pierced it directly into an acupuncture point on her arm, making her unable to move.
Both of them got out, and Luo Qing pulled Pingyang and ran back.
"Run!"
Pingyang didn't know the situation, and he wanted to go back to look at the palace maid, but was blocked by Su Sushi.
"Eldest princess, that palace maid has bad intentions, she is in the same group as those assassins, run."
Pingyang looked at Su Su, his eyes flashed, and he followed Luo Qing and ran forward a few steps, as if he was gradually coming back to his senses, but he suddenly didn't leave.
Luo Qing turned around and looked at Pingyang, and immediately understood that she had guessed what was happening.
And at this moment, more than a dozen agile men burst out of the mountains and forests and attacked them.
Chang Geng, who was not far away, followed Luo Qing and his several guards, immediately stepped forward and escorted Luo Qing back a few steps, but as for Pingyang, he was taken away by the people who suddenly attacked over there.
The individuals who suddenly jumped out originally wanted to be arrested with Luo Qing, but Luo Qing escaped and attracted people, so they had to give up.
Luo Qing nodded with Chang Geng, Chang Geng understood, and followed the red marks left on the snow and tracked forward.
Luo Qing looked at the red marks on the ground for a long time, and said softly, "She will blame me." ”
"This is also a matter of no choice, the thief is bound to be caught, and the princess is not wrong." Su Su's eyes looked at Chang Geng's distant figure resolutely.
The two returned to Huguo Temple, but saw that Huguo Temple had been in chaos, it turned out that the emperor had also been assassinated, and the queen was stabbed by an assassin in the chest in order to protect the emperor.
Luo Qing didn't dare to delay, and took Su Su to rush to the meditation room where the emperor and the queen were resting, but saw that it had already become a pot of porridge, and it was a basin of blood and water at the outward end.
At this moment, Wan Kang, who came with the holy car, walked out of the door and went to the meditation room on the other side.
When Luo Qing saw it, he didn't care about the Fushou Gonggong who was waiting for the emperor closely, so he followed into the meditation room, and saw that the emperor and Yan Huai were sitting in the meditation room, and their faces were not very good.
"Back to Your Majesty, Blood ...... I can't stop it...... Imperial Physician Li is still thinking about it inside, but this ......"
Wan Kang was about to speak and stopped, seeing that the emperor was already impatient, Luo Qing immediately stepped forward to answer his words.
"Your Majesty, let the courtiers go and have a look."
Luo Qing came running, and now he is still panting.
"The courtiers are guilty, seeing that the eldest princess of Pingyang was taken away but can't stop it, but now the queen's situation is critical, the courtiers are bold, and the maid Su Su who follows the courtiers knows what happened, and the courtiers go to see the queen first, let Su Su go back to Your Majesty first, and then come out to ask Your Majesty for the guilt when the queen's affairs are over."
The emperor waved his hand: "Go." ”
Luo Qing didn't have time to say anything to Tongyanhuai, and immediately took the hem of his skirt and stepped out of the meditation room with Wan Kang.
"Imperial Doctor Li poured several bowls of decoction over there, but the blood still hasn't stopped, see if you try it with a silver needle."
Wan Kang took Luo Qing to the meditation room next door, and hurriedly told her about the queen's illness.
Luo Qing frowned: "The queen mother only suffered from smallpox not long ago, and it was easy to get better, but it was also a big injury, and now it is ......like this."
"How many bowls of soup can you increase the dosage? The queen had spent smallpox before, and many medicines should be intolerant, only to increase the dosage, otherwise those ordinary medicines would be useless. ”
Wan Kang shook his head.
"Neither Imperial Doctor Li nor I had treated the queen mother at that time, and I don't know what medicine the queen mother took when she suffered from smallpox, so I really didn't dare to rashly increase the amount of medicine."
The two had entered the meditation room while talking, and as soon as Luo Qing raised his eyes, he saw the queen mother lying on the bed in a daze.
"If it goes on like this, increase the amount of medicine, Brother Wan, you still have to worry about the medicine, I will give the queen an injection first."
Wan Kang believed in Luo Qing's medical skills, and Imperial Physician Li had also heard of Luo Qing from the imperial physician next to him, and knew that she had taken a lot of credit for the queen's smallpox, so he didn't say much, and was willing to help her start.
Luo Qing was not polite, and after the silver needles were laid, he bent over and began to give needles to the queen's mother, and during the period, he also directly asked Imperial Doctor Li to help him do it, but fortunately, Imperial Doctor Li did not end the shelf, and the two cooperated quite well.
After Wan Kang brought the medicine into the house, Luo Qing got up and pulled out the silver needle on the queen's head, and asked Caidie, who was waiting next to her, to pour the decoction into the queen's mother.
Caidie took a spoon and fed the queen a spoonful of medicinal soup, but it flowed down the corner of her mouth again, and she couldn't swallow it at all.
"Princess, how is this good? I can't swallow this soup ......"