"You're crazy!"

"I'm not crazy, I have to explain today's matter clearly to the emperor."

"You just hurt so many guards in his palace, how can he listen to you?" Duan Ming's face turned red in a hurry, "You haven't been there for the palace guards to go to the other garden for the past two days, the emperor must have been furious." Breaking into the palace at this time, isn't it sent to death? ”

"No," I waved the sword in my hand, "Duan Ming, as long as you and I use the Nine Styles of the Spirit Rhino, we will definitely be able to hit the emperor." At that time, we will present the antidote to the epidemic poison, which will be worth the credit, and we will not be questioned again! ”

"It's easy to think! Let me ask you, now in addition to the three and four princes who released poison behind the scenes, as well as us who know that Zhu Yutang entered Beijing, who knows that this epidemic is a man-made disaster? Duan Ming persuaded hard, "You inform the emperor of the matter at this time, and with his prejudice against you, he will definitely think that you are planting Prince Huan's mansion!" ”

"How so, I-"

"—how not! The Emperor asked, what is your answer? Let's just say that the spy you planted in Prince Huan's mansion told you? Duan Ming was so anxious that tears appeared in his eyes, "The emperor knows his son's personality better than you, how could he believe that the palace curtain would be calculated by a little spy?" ”

"But that's the truth!"

"If the emperor doesn't believe it, then all this is not true!" Duan Ming shook his head again and again, "I'll tell you what the truth is - now the poison recipe that killed thousands of people is in the hands of you Lian Guiying, this is the truth; After you left the palace, you escaped from the other garden, and took the killer to kill Zhu Yutang and his medicine boy on Luliu Street in the West Market, which is a fact; It is also a fact that you trespassed into the Forbidden Mountain today, violently resisted arrest, and killed dozens of palace guards! This is what the emperor would believe! ”

"But—"

"But what is it?" Duan Ming shook my shoulder heavily, "Gui Ying, don't deceive yourself, we have been calculated by them since the morning!" ”

"Even so, I'm going back."

The surging waves in Duan Ming's eyes suddenly became gelatinous, and in his ignorant eyes, I saw my own eyes shining with stubbornness.

"Why... What the hell is wrong with you, why do you have to put yourself in that place of right and wrong......"

"Because in that land of right and wrong, there are people who are very important to me."

Duan Ming's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, until finally, a tear slipped from his confused eyes.

"Gui Hotaru, what are you interested in... Are you emotionally attached to the Prince? ”

"What... Of course not. I shook my head disgustingly, and looked at Duan Ming with sincere eyes again, "I know you can't understand, but in the palace today, there are indeed people I have to protect." He is a tiger cub in the gap between two tigers, and a lost man walking in a swamp full of thorns. He saved my life and gave me strength when I was most helpless and lonely. Duan Ming, I didn't go back for the palace, I don't want my position as the crown princess, but even if it is a sea of swords, I have to go back, and I can only rest assured when I see that he is safe. ”

The gelatinous color in Duan Ming's eyes slowly melted, melting into a clear and sad trickling stream. Perhaps, he never thought that in my heart, there is another person besides Shui Qing who occupies such an important position. So that I can be like him, forget myself, and give up my life.

It took a long time before he took a deep breath and looked back into my eyes again.

"I'll go with you."

After a short period of infatuation, my heart was filled with endless warmth. I burst into tears and wanted to say something, but when he seemed to understand my intentions, he slowly shook his head gently at me.

We set off again and ran wildly in the direction of the palace gate. When I arrived at the door, I declared myself, but the guard guarding the door did not open the door. Duan Ming and I exchanged glances, then drew our swords at the same time, and cooked the guards guarding the door with a cup of tea. Duan Ming pushed open the palace gate, and we didn't run long before thousands of guards and Praetorian Guards rushed back and forth.

"Seeing that the emperor is important, don't kill him."

"Understood."

Duan Ming and I were on the left and right, tacitly using the most powerful move in the Nine Styles of the Spirit Rhino, the Phoenix Feather, and spun into the formation. The Nine Styles of the Spirit Rhino are not vicious martial arts, and although we are as powerful as a bamboo, we have not slaughtered all the guards who came upon us. I don't know how long it took me to see the golden dome of the Yuanwu Palace. Just as he was about to kill again, he suddenly heard a sharp eunuch cry in the distance.

"Your Majesty has something to ask!"

The guards and praetorian guards who had been killed in a group heard this and retreated one after another. The crowd squeezed out a path, but they still pointed their weapons at me. Duan Ming and I walked back to back and slowly walked forward, and it was not until we reached the eunuch's side that we put down our swords.

"In broad daylight, the crown princess and the swordsman broke into the palace, I don't know what to do!"

"Please pass on to your father-in-law, the sons and daughters are not guilty of rebellion, they really have grievances to sue, and there are very important things to inform their father!"

"If you have something to say, why do you come here with a sword? Could it be that the crown princess still has to carry a sword to face the saint! ”

I was dumbfounded, and turned my head to look at Duan Ming.

"Take the sword for me, wait for me here."

Duan Ming wanted to say something, but seeing that my expression was serious, he had no choice but to nod and take the sword.

I shouted to the eunuch, "Is it okay now?" ”

The eunuch leaned sideways and motioned for me to go with him, and the moment I took a step, I heard Duan Ming whisper in my ear in a voice that I could hear alone: "Be careful. ”

As the eunuch passed through the Yuanwu Palace, the Qingxu Palace, and the Yanling Hall at the end, I was taken into the Xuangong Palace, where the emperor lived and worked daily. This is the first time I have been alone with the emperor, although I can't see his face through a screen, and my heart is getting more and more nervous.

"Where's the hoof?"

"He... Father, son, don't know. ”

"Lian, you are guilty."

"Father, son-in-law is guilty." I knelt on the ground and said in a very sincere tone, "Erchen shouldn't have put down the palace guards that day, nor should he have left the palace to return to Beijing without a will, and he shouldn't have injured the guards today, and broke into the palace to ask to see his father without permission!" ”

"You know how to avoid the important and take it lightly." The emperor sneered, "If you think about it carefully, these are the only three crimes you have committed?" ”

"Erchen knows that his father has a lot of misunderstandings about Erchen, and all the things outside the palace can be explained to you these days!"

"Tell me first, how did you cure your disease?"

"Back to my father, my sons have never cured their own epidemics, because my sons have never had an epidemic!" My words are sonorous, "It is clear that the palace curtain drugged the children's meals that day, so that the children sent out symptoms similar to the epidemic, and drove the sons out of Kazhou by the hand of the emperor!" ”

"Curtain? How is it that he is such an unpredictable prophet as you say? The emperor's tone was full of obvious doubts, "You must know that the epidemic had not yet spread at that time, and no one knew all the symptoms of the epidemic!" ”

"Of course he knew, because he sent people to poison the well in Xishi, which caused the epidemic to spread!"

The other side of the screen was quiet for a moment, and after a long time, I heard the emperor's hurried footsteps coming quickly.

"What did you say?"

"Erchen knows that if there is no evidence, his father will not believe Erchen's words. But the fact is that even if the father wants to cure the son of framing the prince today, the son must tell the father everything he knows! ”

I saw the toe of the emperor's boots fixed not far in front of me, and pressed his head lower and lower.

"The third prince first asked the subordinates of the fourth prince to find Zhu Yutang, the apostate poison immortal of the Five Immortal Sect, and make a poison prescription for him that can cause epidemics. Later, the epidemic spread in the West Market, and the third prince pinched the opportunity to put the medicine prepared in the morning into the diet of the sons, so that the sons coughed and dizzy in front of you in the palace, and they had acne all over their bodies. After Erchen left, he bought off the palace guards and eunuchs, and poisoned Erchen's meals and decoctions. However, he did not expect that Erchen's physique was extraordinary, and the symptoms had faded early in the morning, and he had seen through his tricks. So not only did he not die of poisoning, but he also controlled the guards and returned to Kashu City. ”

"If it's as you say, why don't you go back to the palace with the evidence and tell me about the extermination?"

"Father! At that time, you were convinced that your retainers had an epidemic, and the palace curtain borrowed a knife to kill people, and borrowed the eunuch guards you sent to kill your retainers. It's a fluke that the retainer doesn't die, how dare he enter the palace to testify against the three princes after killing your people! "I spoke fiercely," and at that time, the ministers got the news of Zhu Yutang, and they were afraid that the epidemic would spread and endanger the people of Kazhou, so they first went to the West Market to find Zhu Yutang to seek an antidote, who knew that the four princes knew that I came out of the other garden, and actually brought people out early in the morning——"

"-You said you got the news from Zhu Yutang, so who gave you the news? If it is really as you say, if it is not the henchmen of Wei'er and Hu'er, how can anyone know the residence of Zhu Yutang? ”

"It's... It was Erchen..."I didn't know if I should say anything about Yu Yue for a while, "It was Erchen who planted an informant in Prince Huan's Mansion......"

"Presumptuous!" The emperor was furious when he ascended, "What a bunch of nonsense!" Wei'er is smart and suspicious, how can you regard your eyeliner as a confidant! Do you really think that I don't know my son! ”

"Father! What Erchen said today is not half a lie! If it weren't for the poison under the palace curtain, how serious the epidemic was, how could the sons and daughters heal themselves without medical treatment——"

"I noticed that you have internal strength early on, and you also said that you have an abnormal physique!" There was obvious disgust and jealousy in the emperor's voice, "Your origin is a mystery, and your martial arts are even more unfathomable. Even if it is really as you said, someone secretly instructed the master to make poison and spread the epidemic, I am afraid that the mastermind behind this scene is also you Lian Gui Ying! ”

"Father! If it is really Erchen who harms others, why should Erchen pursue Zhu Yutang and work hard to develop an antidote to the epidemic! I argued, "You don't know yet, do you?" Palace... In order to prevent Erchen from making an antidote, some people did not hesitate to buy medicinal materials in Jiazhou, and also lured Erchen to go to Yueshan in an attempt to cure Erchen's felonies! ”