Chapter 13: The Assassins

"Queen Mother, the time has come."

Halfway through speaking, Yuxiu's voice came from outside the room.

The Queen Mother immediately woke up and said coldly: "Got it." ”

After speaking, the Queen Mother lowered her head again and whispered to Nie Hongzhao: "If you need the help of the mourning family, you can make a pastry for the mourning family and send it." ”

Nie Hongzhao nodded, naturally understanding the meaning of the Queen Mother's words, her Queen Mother wiped away her tears and said, "Queen Mother, you also have to take care of your body, Hongzhao has a lot of inconveniences now, I'll leave it to you." ”

She can't see her child, not even anything related to her child.

She can only continue to live in this palace by being alone and without any worries.

Her enemy is the Queen, and she can't let the Queen know everything that can hold her back.

If there is no desire, it is rigid.

This is something that the Queen Mother taught her in the past, and now, she never dares to forget it.

The Queen Mother patted the back of her hand, nodded, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, even if you don't say it, the mourning family will protect Sui'er well, now, her hand is not so long, you don't know, after you leave, Su'er ......"

The Queen Mother didn't finish speaking, she only looked at Nie Hongzhao silently.

Nie Hongzhao nodded and said, "Hongzhao knows that the emperor is the lord of all peoples, and he has a high position and responsibility, so I don't blame him." ”

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "It's not too early, you should also go back to Yunxiu Palace, I will let Yuxiu send you, you pay attention to safety on the road." ”

"Queen Mother, take care."

Let's talk about it.

Nie Hongzhao kowtowed heavily to the Queen Mother again, and Fang got up and left with Mama Yuxiu.

The road from Yining Palace to Yunxiu Palace is very long, and Nie Hongzhao left alone with the palace lantern as long as Mama Yuxiu sent her out of the palace gate of Yining Palace.

The long street is pitch black, and occasionally crows are entrenched on the walls of the palace, making bursts of cries, which is particularly frightening in this dark night.

She didn't know why the Queen Mother was so convinced of herself, and why she concluded her identity based on a piece of yellow paper, but it was okay to save her from trying to confirm it.

The Queen Mother believes that this road will be much easier.

It's been a long time since she's walked out of the cold palace.

It turned out that no matter where you went, every road was so gloomy and lonely, and only one person walked alone.

When people are most helpless, they can always rely on themselves.

The long street is very long.

Nie Hongzhao seemed to have walked for a long time before he saw the plaque of Yunxiu Palace.

She quickened her pace, but suddenly a dark shadow passed in front of her, and she was startled and took a few steps back.

"Someone, there's an assassin!"

Then, a group of guards came out with swords in their hands and chased after the dark shadow.

Nie Hongzhao was afraid of exposing himself, so he hid behind the red wall around the corner.

My heart was beating suddenly.

Assassin?

How could there be assassins near Yunxiu Palace?

Did anyone get hurt then?

She thought uneasily, and suddenly there was a lot of breath around her.

Nie Hongzhao's body trembled, and he took a few steps back, distancing himself from the man.

The man was wearing a purple narrow-sleeved palace robe, his face was very pale, and a pair of amber pupils showed a sharp edge like an eagle, he looked at Nie Hongzhao and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Nie Hongzhao recognized him as Song Changning, the leader of Yunxiu Palace.

He is really as rumored, feminine, charming, and has an indescribable sense of charm, like a natural charm, which is mixed with countless compelling and fierce attitudes.

"Nie Hongzhao."

Nie Hongzhao answered him truthfully.

She remembered that she had heard someone say, don't lie to Song Changning, he would find out, and if he found out, there would definitely be no good fruit to eat.

"Nie Hongzhao?" Song Changning was silent for a moment and said, "The little master of Yunxiu Palace? Why are you still wandering outside the palace so late? Don't know the rules of the palace? ”

Nie Hongzhao nervously held the handle of the palace lamp: "Know, know." It's just that I went to the Tongming Hall to deliver the copied Buddhist scriptures for the Queen Mother, but accidentally fell asleep, so that I delayed the way back......"

Tongming Hall and Yunxiu Palace are far away, and there is an hour of time back and forth.

If you really accidentally fall asleep and delay the time to come back, it is indeed forgivable to return to the palace so late.

"Huh." Song Changning bent his lips and smiled: "Since the little master is doing things for the queen mother, the slave is naturally not good to ask too much, and I hope that the little master will remember the hour in the future, if the gate of this palace is closed, if you want to enter, you can have a waist card." ”

After that, Song Changning tore off the waist card tied around his waist and handed it to Nie Hongzhao: "There are assassins in Yunxiu Palace, everyone needs to be checked, and the little master should go in with this waist card, otherwise it will be difficult for the little master to explain it." ”

Although Nie Hongzhao didn't understand what Song Changning meant by what he said, he still happily took it, blessed Song Changning, thanked his father-in-law, and turned around and went to Yunxiu Palace.

Song Changning stood in place, looking at Nie Hongzhao's elongated figure by the light emitted by the two big lanterns under the gate of Yunxiu Palace, he smiled and muttered, "Nie Hongzhao? Red Zhao? Interesting, really funny. ”

When Nie Hongzhao pushed open the door of the room, a fishy smell rushed to her face, and before she could react, a black-clothed masked man had already pressed a long sword against her neck.

The man in black looked at her.

The long sword in his hand suddenly shook and fell to the ground.

Nie Hongzhao was startled, turned around, and his first reaction was to close the door.

Nie Hongzhao looked at the closed door, a little stunned, shouldn't she open the door and run away at this moment?

She put her hand on the deadbolt, and the man in black behind her spoke: "Little master, I finally found you." ”

Little hosts.

I've finally found you.

What does this phrase mean?

Nie Hongzhao turned around, but saw that the man in black was already lying on the ground, unconscious.

Nie Hongzhao squatted on the ground, tore off the face towel of the man in black, and reached out to probe his snort, his breath seemed to be absent, but he passed out.

What to do?

This man is an assassin?

But listen to his tone, he seems to know me? And this time I came to Yunxiu Palace to find me.

Should I save him?

Countless thoughts flickered through Nie Hongzhao's mind.

In the end, she chose to take a desperate step to save the man in black.

Nie Hongzhao lit the lamp in the room and took out the medicine box from the closet.

She took a closer look at the wounds of the man in black, all of them were sword wounds, knife wounds, but fortunately they only hurt flesh and skin, not fatal.

She dragged the man in black to the closet, unbuttoned his clothes, took out the trauma medicine, and carefully applied the medicine to him, the white powder was sprinkled on the reddened flesh wounds, and the eyebrows of the man in black were obviously wrinkled uncomfortably.

It's good to be sentient.

After all the wounds were medicated, Nie Hongzhao tore one of his clothes into strips of cloth and bandaged each wound.

By the time all the wounds were bandaged, it was already late at night, and there was no news from Yunxiu Palace.

It is estimated that everyone did not expect that the assassin would turn back to Yunxiu Palace, but this assassin knew her again and happened to hide in her room.

Nie Hongzhao still kept an eye on it, she couldn't help but be on guard.

She put the waist card that Song Changning gave her into the assassin's arms, if it really happened that the guards wanted to search the show girl's room, this waist card might be able to save her life.

There was nothing else in the room, so Nie Hongzhao had to feed the man in black a pot of water indiscriminately, and then fell asleep with the fatigue of the day.

On the second day, it was just a bright day.

Nie Hongzhao opened his eyes and saw the man in black leaning on the side of the bed, looking at her with affection.

Her sleepiness dissipated.

The man in black was very happy to see her wake up, reached out and scraped the bridge of her beautiful nose, and said, "You are awake." ”

Such an intimate action made Nie Hongzhao blush for a while, and also made Nie Hongzhao doubt his true relationship with this person.

"Why are you in Yunxiu Palace?" Nie Hongzhao asked him tentatively.

"I miss you." The man in black smiled honestly, and a pear vortex appeared on his dark face.

Nie Hongzhao was slightly stunned, "Do you know that breaking into the palace at night is a capital crime?" ”

The man in black shrugged and said, "But, I miss you." ”

Nie Hongzhao was a little speechless, and didn't know how to tell this person, it was getting brighter and brighter outside, and I believed that it wouldn't be long before Linlang would come in to serve her to freshen up, and she had to hurry up and drive this person away.

"I have entered the palace now, and the identity of the show girl is already destined for me to be the emperor's person, and if you do this, you will kill me." Nie Hongzhao looked into his eyes and said admittedly, "Do you know what kind of crime it is to give and receive privately? The big crime that may lose your head at any time, if you don't get it right, your father and mother will be implicated, aren't you afraid? ”

"I, I didn't think about it that much." The man in black widened his eyes in horror, scratched the back of his head with his hand, and looked at Nie Hongzhao with an embarrassed face, "I just want to see you, Hongzhao." ”

"It's not too early, you go quickly." Nie Hongzhao said indifferently: "If my aunt finds out that there is a man in my room, I will definitely be guilty of death." ”

The man in black grabbed Nie Hongzhao's hand: "Hongzhao, have you forgotten what you said to me?" ”

"What?" Nie Hongzhao was stunned.

"You said that you will definitely leave the palace, you will not be the emperor's concubine, have you forgotten?" A light suddenly flashed in the eyes of the man in black.

Nie Hongzhao was still stunned, and suddenly understood what Nie Hongzhao's arrogant intentions were.

Perhaps, she has no intention of staying in the palace at all.

So she's doing things, and it doesn't matter what happens.

is even too rampant, the show girl chooses a palace concubine, and virtue is also very important, so she does this? In order to be able to lose the election on the day of the palace election?

What else does the man in black have to say.

Suddenly, a figure stood outside the door.

Nie Hongzhao stretched out his hand to cover the mouth of the man in black.

The black-clothed man's lips felt the coldness of Nie Hongzhao's fingertips, and a dark fragrance came to his nose, his face turned red, his heart beat faster, and he reached out to hold the back of Nie Hongzhao's hand.

"Little Lord, are you awake?"