As soon as the imperial doctor's voice fell, Xia Xiaoxiao obviously saw that the old fox's body was almost unstable in the dim candlelight, and immediately listened to her roar, "Go back to the palace, go back to the palace, hurry back to the palace!" What else is grinding! ”

The queen's face turned pale, and she didn't know whether it was because of excessive bleeding, or because she heard the words of the imperial doctor, and her voice became a little trembling.

"Someone!" Beigong Yu frowned, and immediately a guard stepped forward, "Tell me to go down, leave half of the guards to continue the search, and all the rest of the personnel will immediately return to the palace!" ”

At this time, the emperor was seriously ill and unconscious, Beigong Yu's words were equivalent to a holy decree, and everyone did not dare to be a little lazy, so they rushed back to the palace overnight.

On the way, Xia Xiaoxiao heard one of the guards say, "There was nothing unusual in the night, everyone stayed in their tents, but I don't know how the assassin broke into the place where the emperor and queen lived without alerting anyone." ”

"When I heard the movement and led people over, the guards who were keeping vigil nearby had become cold corpses, and the emperor had fallen into the queen's arms with the almost fatal sword, only to see the black-clothed assassin rush out of the tent and kill several of the guards I brought, so fast that I didn't even see how people killed them!"

The guard said, with a slight look of horror on his face.

The night was dark and dark, and the eunuchs took out all the candles, but they still couldn't make the speed of progress faster, and the carriage carrying the emperor went to a flat place as much as possible, for fear of cracking the wound that the emperor had finally stopped bleeding.

The Empress and several other imperial physicians remained in the carriage for temporary healing, trying to control the spread of the poison.

It was almost dawn when everyone rushed back to the palace, and without the slightest pause, they moved the emperor straight to Lingyun Palace.

Beigong Yu also followed.

The gray sky gradually brightened.

Except for the queen and Beigong Yu, the rest of the people were all guarding outside the Lingyun Palace, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the busy imperial doctors who were going back and forth, and his heart couldn't help but rise.

It seems that the emperor is really seriously injured this time, and all the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital are sweating on their foreheads, and it didn't take long for Xia Xiaoxiao to even see Lu Wuxian coming in a dusty body, and at this time, even his usual lazy gaze became serious.

After waiting for a long time, some courtiers couldn't help but discuss, who had the courage to assassinate the emperor.

Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but think, not to mention how strict Beigong Chengyan's residence should be, as far as he was a military general, who could hurt him like this?

Judging from the time of the assassination, it should have been calculated the time of their trip, but even so, when there was no master lurking around today, and there was only one person on the other side, he easily escaped everyone's sight and chose to assassinate the emperor and queen while he was asleep...... It's the insider.

Xia Xiaoxiao's heart was a little more chilly, judging from the time when the assassin appeared, he was still sleeping soundly in the tent, but ...... Beigong Yu is not there.

This has happened once in the past.

It was only two hours before he returned to the palace, and the emperor's assassination spread throughout the palace.

Several of the emperor's usual favorite concubines in the palace also rushed over, and their eyes were full of worry and fear, but they were all ordered by the queen not to go in and disturb the imperial doctors, so they were all stopped outside the Lingyun Palace.

Xia Shulan is also among them.

"Xiao'er, you were also in Gaoganglin at the time, tell your aunt what the hell is going on! Your Majesty, Is Your Majesty Seriously Injured? There can be ......"

But the sentence of life was finally swallowed by her, Xia Shulan hurriedly took Xia Xiaoxiao's hand and asked anxiously, with some tears in her eyes.

Xia Xiaoxiao was distressed, so she told her everything she knew, "Father is now being treated by the imperial doctors inside, although the wound has not penetrated the vital point, but the poison cannot be solved for a long time, aunt, don't worry too much, wait for the imperial doctors to come out and see what the imperial doctors say." ”

Who knew that Xia Xiaoxiao told the assassin in the Gaogang forest, Xia Shulan's originally tearful eyes suddenly became fierce and fierce, "Duan Jinyun...... Duan Jinyun...... It must be Duan Jinyun......"

Xia Shulan's hand holding Xia Xiaoxiao trembled with excitement, and her fingertips sank into the back of Xia Xiaoxiao's hand, Xia Xiaoxiao didn't hear what she was saying at first, and then heard what she said, Duan Jinyun!

"Auntie, what's wrong with you? What to say? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, why did this matter have anything to do with Duan Jinyun again?

"It must be Duan Jinyun! Duan Jinyun...... Duan Jinyun...... If something happens to Chengyan, I won't let you go! ”

Xia Shulan muttered as she was about to rush to the Lingyun Palace, Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly summoned the two maidservants who came with Xia Shulan and asked them to take Xia Shulan back to the Forgotten Dust Residence, but Xia Shulan still looked like she had lost her soul, and she kept reading Duan Jinyun's name in her mouth.

Xia Xiaoxiao twisted her eyebrows and looked at Xia Shulan's somewhat haggard back, this was the first time she had seen her aunt like this.

At this moment, the door of the Lingyun Hall was finally opened from the inside.

Beigong Yu walked out of it, from last night to now, he has not looked at it all night, while busy with the emperor's injury, while searching for assassins, and having to appease the courtiers, it is not difficult to see the look of exhaustion on his face at this time.

"The poison in my father's body has been controlled, and the bleeding has stopped in the injured place, but I have not yet woken up, the injury remains to be observed, and there is no need to worry about my life for the time being.

After Beigong Yu finished speaking, he summoned someone to send back the courtiers who had been guarding outside the hall all night, and returned to the Lingyun Hall and closed the door.

In the next few days, Xia Xiaoxiao never saw Beigong Yu again.

Now the emperor is sick in bed, there has been no awakening phenomenon, the court can not be without a monarch for a day, the emperor's illness, all the affairs in the court have to be replaced by the prince Beigong Yu, during the day in the court to deal with state affairs, and at night have to stay in Lingyun Hall to take care of the emperor's injury, almost so busy that he can't even sleep.

A few days later, the people sent by Beigong Yu to search came back, but they still didn't get anything, Beigong Yu didn't even have time to punish them, waved his hand, and the guard commander trembled and withdrew from the imperial study.

Beigong Yu put down the fold in his hand, rubbed the bridge of his nose tiredly, in the past three days, his total sleep time did not exceed four hours, at this time, as long as he relaxed a little, a thick tiredness struck, making him have a headache.

But in an instant, he began to pick up the mountain of folds on the table again and began to review them, and a smooth voice came from outside the door, "His Royal Highness the Prince, the Crown Princess is here." ”

What did she come to do?

Beigong Yu frowned, picked up the pen in his hand and changed the annotations on the fold, and said in a tired voice, "Let her in." ”

Pingshun pushed open the door, and as soon as Xia Xiaoxiao came in, he saw a thick stack of folds on the bookcase in front of Beigong Yu, and was shocked, and immediately walked in and put the sour plum soup he brought from the imperial dining room next to the desk.

"What is this?"

Beigong Yu glanced at it lightly, lowered his head again, and the memo in his hand mentioned the tax evasion of some officials.

Since ancient times, regardless of the size of the official position, tax evasion and tax evasion are not uncommon, from the prime minister's book to the Yamen county order, but it is precisely because of the number that this phenomenon cannot be eradicated.

Xia Xiaoxiao saw that he was fascinated, and didn't intend to disturb him, so he replied lightly, "Sour plum soup, refreshing." ”

"When did you become so sensible?" Beigong Yu said lightly, the tip of the pen that had not stopped since Xia Xiaoxiao came in paused, he raised his head, and saw that Xia Xiaoxiao's bowl on the bookcase was picked up by her again, and he wanted to pour it into her mouth!

"Put it down!" Beigong Yu said angrily, didn't you bring soup to yourself, you actually want to drink it yourself!

"Oh, I see you're busy, you don't have time to drink."

She put the sour plum soup back in her hand and said with a wry smile.

Beigong Yu put down his pen, glanced at her with some annoyance, picked up the sour plum soup, and drank it in a big gulp.

Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head helplessly, how long has it been since Beigong Yu had drunk soup?

Beigong Yu drank the soup in three or two clicks, although it didn't really have the effect of refreshing his mind, but it did make him feel better.

He put the empty bowl back on the table and began to pick up a new one, Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at him, hesitated, gritted his teeth and asked, "Your Highness, I don't know if that assassin can be caught?" ”

Her tone of inquiry revealed a hint of caution, carefully observing the expression on Beigong Yu's face.

Beigong Yu said casually, "No, the people sent by this palace have been searching for three days and are still ......."

Before the word fruitless could be spoken, Beigong Yu's gaze, which was originally buried in the folds, suddenly shot towards Xia Xiaoxiao, Xia Xiaoxiao shuddered, and couldn't help but take a step back, Beigong Yu's eyes narrowed, and said coldly, "Xia Xiaoxiao, do you suspect this palace?" ”

He said that why Xia Xiaoxiao came so attentively today, he almost thought that she was deliberately concerned about him and brought him soup!

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't know how to answer at this time, Beigong Yu had assassinated the emperor before, this thing was bumped into by her own eyes, and he couldn't be sure that he would come a second time, not to mention that Beigong Yu was not there when the assassin appeared that day, which made her even more suspicious, but in the past few days, Beigong Yu has been doing his best to stay in Lingyun Hall night and night, worrying about the emperor's injury all the time, and it doesn't look like he is pretending.

You know, if it's really Beigong Yu, then if this matter is found out, maybe you will have to suffer too! She didn't want to be involved in anything by Beigong Yu in vain!

Beigong Yu saw at a glance what Xia Xiaoxiao was worried about, and twisted his eyebrows, "You go down, this time it's not the palace." ”

I thought that Beigong Yu would be angry, but I didn't expect him to just say this lightly, Xia Xiaoxiao didn't know whether to leave or continue to stay with the soup bowl.

Beigong Yu said no, it doesn't mean that Xia Xiaoxiao believes him, after all, if the emperor really can't be saved, he Beigong Yu can be the emperor justifiably, not to mention, he Beigong Yu didn't do it before to assassinate the emperor.

Just when he hesitated, Wuxi's voice came in from outside the door, "Your Highness, your subordinates have something important to do." ”

"Come in." Beigong Yu glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao lightly, and Wuxi came in from outside and knelt in front of the case, Beigong Yu didn't care that Xia Xiaoxiao was still there, and asked directly, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the Yue side seems to have heard the news of the emperor's assassination, and now he has sent troops to attack the border cities of our country, at this time the enemy should know that the emperor is sick and unconscious, so he sent 300,000 soldiers and horses, and the border is in a precarious situation."

As he spoke, Wu Xi handed over an urgent report from the border office, and Beigong Yu opened it, and the yellowed paper was stained with a few traces of dried blood.

Beigong Yu saw the more terrible his face sank behind him, Xia Xiaoxiao secretly glanced at the letter, what the letter said was nothing more than the war situation on the border at this time, Yue Guo learned that our country was in chaos at this time because of the emperor's downfall, and he took a large army to attack from the vicinity of the two countries, and the declaration of war was only two days, and our army had lost more than half!

"What about support? Why hasn't our support been sent for a long time? ”

Beigong Yu glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao, Xia Xiaoxiao immediately retracted his gaze and stood obediently on the side.

"This ......" stopped without saying anything.

Beigong Yu frowned and asked sharply, "Who is responsible for this matter?" ”

"King Ji." Wuxi said cautiously.

It didn't take long for Beigong Yu to announce Beigong Ji.

When Beigong Ji came over, he was still wearing a brocade robe, and he hadn't even changed into a court dress.

Beigong Yu threw the good news in front of him, pointed to the troops lost by our army in the past two days and asked, "Before the war between the Yue Kingdom and the border, my father had always entrusted you to be responsible, and at this time, the border department sent more than one good news requesting military support, why did King Ji refuse to send people to support!" ”

The opponent's 300,000 troops attacked by surprise, but our army only sent 150,000 troops to guard the border, and lost nearly half of them in two days, leaving less than 100,000 horses, how can we withstand the invasion of the Yue country!

This should have been an urgent matter, but Beigong Ji still looked lazy, turning a deaf ear to Beigong Yu's anger, and chuckled, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inevitably thought about sending troops too simply, at this time, this king looked at the gradually losing troops, this king is also very heartbroken, but it's not that this king is unwilling to send troops, it's that this king has limited troops in his hands at this time, even if he sends support to the past, isn't it equivalent to sending him to death?" Unless ......"

Beigong Ji paused deliberately.

Beigong Yu stared at his pretended distressed appearance, raised his eyebrows, and said coldly, "Unless what?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Beigong Ji suddenly smiled, and while looking at the content of the good news, he glanced at the expression on Beigong Yu's face, and said leisurely, "Unless, Your Highness is willing to lend the troops in your hands to this king, this will not let this king die in vain." ”

When Xia Xiaoxiao heard this, she was shocked. It's a high-sounding thing, Beigong Ji is the idea of fighting the troops in the hands of Beigong Yu!

Beigong Yu narrowed his peach blossom eyes and did not speak.

couldn't help sneering in his heart, Beigong Ji really thought that he didn't know that Beigong Pheasant had already transferred half of the troops that he had taken from him to his subordinates, and he was fighting the small number of troops left in his hands at this time, Queen, this is to empty him!

Beigong Ji is not in a hurry to wait for his reply, he looks like he is winning, he is not afraid that Beigong Yu will not agree, the longer the war between the country and the border drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to our army, and now the major affairs of the DPRK and China are in the hands of Beigong Yu, if something goes wrong at the border, he Beigong Yu can't afford that responsibility!

Now that the emperor is bedridden, although Beigong Yu is the crown prince, he is responsible for all kinds of affairs in the court, but as long as he controls the military power in his hands, the victorious side will eventually be him!

The whole room became very silent due to Beigong Yu's sudden silence, and Xia Xiaoxiao's gaze kept sweeping between the two.

Sure enough, after Beigong Yu was silent for a moment, Beigong Yu commanded Wuxi in a calm voice, "Bring the token, pass on the order of the palace, and lend thirty percent of the troops in the hands of the palace to the king of Ji, and the king of Ji will lead the soldiers and horses, and immediately go to the border to support!" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was taken aback, Wuxi was also surprised, glanced at Beigong Yu, and finally respectfully knelt on the ground and said, "Subordinate, obey!" ”

"Then, the king will thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first." The smug look in Beigong Ji's eyes became thicker, and he saluted Beigong Yu lightly and withdrew from the imperial study.

The crowd was empty, Beigong Yu's face was a little unpleasant, and he sent Xia Xiaoxiao back to Chenxiao Palace.

Xia Xiaoxiao was clear, and Beigong Yu also began to panic at this time.

Beigong Yu originally sat firmly on the throne of the prince, but the military power in his hands was gradually weakened before, and there were not many troops left in his hands at this time, Beigong Ji was seriously ill according to the emperor, and Beigong Yu, the prince, ostensibly replaced the emperor's position, but in fact, if anything went wrong at this time, all the responsibility would have to be borne by Beigong Yu, he expected that Beigong Yu would not dare to take this risk, this force, if it sounds good, it is borrowed, and if it is not good, it is a threat.

If Beigong Yu does not borrow, then Beigong Ji will not be willing to send troops, according to the trend of Yue Guo's attack, the border will not last for three days and will be captured, and borrowed, Beigong Yu is now only equivalent to sitting on the empty seat of the prince, without soldiers and horses in his hands, who will have him?

At this time, Beigong Yu is really standing on the cusp of the wind, and if the queen and her group pull Beigong Yu off the horse at this moment, it will be easy.

Xia Xiaoxiao calculated twice in his heart, according to this, the assassination of the emperor not only did not do Beigong Yu any good, but forced him into a desperate situation!

The assassin who assassinated the emperor could not have been Beigong Yu.

After Beigong Ji borrowed the troops in Beigong Yu's hands, he did not dare to delay in the slightest, and led the army to the border without stopping before dawn on the second day. At this time, if he dared to delay any longer, when Yue Guo really led the troops to fight, it would not be a matter that could be solved by hundreds of thousands of troops.

The emperor has been lying in bed for seven days, and the imperial doctor has been diagnosing the pulse day and night, checking the injury, the poison is gone, although the injury is serious, but there is also a phenomenon of gradual healing, but there is no sign of awakening.

The weather was getting colder, and Qingyue came back from the Splendid Pavilion and bought her some clothes and bedding for winter.

Xia Xiaoxiao was holding the history book of the Tianque Old Calendar that Qingyue had asked Qingyue to find for her before, and the bun ran to her thighs and shrunk into a ball because of the cold weather, so there was a tendency to hibernate.

Turning a page with his fingertips, it is the history of Beigong Chengyan when he was a general before he usurped the throne, but no matter how many times Xia Xiaoxiao read it, Duan Jinyun was still not mentioned in half a sentence, it stands to reason that no one can interfere with the historian's writing of history books, even if it is the emperor, he cannot add or delete the content of historical events indiscriminately, even if Princess Duan Jinyun did not play a decisive role twenty years ago, she married Beigong Chengyan as a princess, if she is not even mentioned, it is too strange.

Xia Xiaoxiao was drinking tea while sorting out her thoughts, and the mysteries she didn't know now seemed to be like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger in front of her, and it didn't seem to have anything to do with her, but maybe the snowball would roll towards her and crush her to death that day.

"Niangniang, you said that the emperor's poison has been cleared, and the injury is gradually healing, why didn't he wake up? If you can't wake up again, what will happen to the nonsense rumors of the common people? ”

Qingyue changed her into a freshly woven futon in the back room, and put the somewhat thin autumn back under the cabinet.

Xia Xiaoxiao seemed to hear what Qingyue said after a long time, and turned her head and asked, "Rumors?" What rumors? ”

"Niangniang, haven't you heard of it?" Qingyue ran to her with a surprised face, and immediately let out a long "oh" sound, "Yes, you haven't been out of the palace for a while, how do you know?" ”

"Spread by the people?"

Xia Xiaoxiao closed the history book and urged Qingyue to hurry up.

"Well, I went to the Splendid Pavilion today, and I happened to meet a girl who had just returned from purchasing cloth from outside the palace, and I heard that now because of the emperor's illness, all kinds of rumors have spread."

Qingyue nodded, and drank two cups of tea in a row to explain the matter thoroughly, and Xia Xiaoxiao understood it.

What Xia Xiaoxiao didn't expect was that the origin of the rumor was the play that Beigong Yu took her out of the palace to listen to.

Mountains and rivers cloth.

At the beginning, Xia Xiaoxiao saw the content at a glance when he listened to the play, and now there are more folk troupes singing this play, and there are more people watching it, and some people will inevitably see that the play refers to the story of Beigong Chengyan and Duan Jinyun. Some people say from the perspective of state affairs, Beigong Chengyan is a generation of Ming Jun, and the only big grudge in his life is the usurpation of power twenty years ago, guessing that the remnants of the previous dynasty have not been eliminated, and now revenge is coming.

When Qingyue said this, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that when he went out of the palace with Beigong Yu, he did mention that the emperor ordered someone to search for people who might have survived the previous dynasty, but after that incident, there was no real evidence that there was a living mouth in the palace twenty years ago, although the possibility is small, but it is not nothing.

"Mother, the slave listens to what the girl said." Qingyue poured another cup of tea and continued, "I heard that when the emperor was still a general, although he held great power, he never acted out of the ordinary, and then this usurpation really came as soon as he said it, but it seemed to come strangely, some people explained that the emperor covered it up too well before, but some people said that the emperor usurped the throne, not for the imperial power, but just to destroy the Duan family." ”

"Destroy the Duan family? Why is that? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao's voice couldn't help but be louder, the bun sleeping on her lap was startled, a pair of round eyes stared at Xia Xiaoxiao, and then jumped down and jumped on Xia Xiaoxiao's bed.