"Even if the second prince comes back safely, Zhang Xiuhe is also a great contributor to quelling the civil strife, and when the second prince is unwilling to continue to keep him, the ministers will have a plan in their hearts." Chu Yaocen paused and asked Qingdi: "What's more, do you think the second prince can come back alive?" ”

"Although the probability of the second prince coming back is not large, we don't hear the news of the second prince's defeat and death for a day, he is the emperor of Wu State."

Qingdi paused, and after thinking about it, he always felt that it was inappropriate. She said to Chu Yaocen: "I understand your thoughts, you must have no fluctuations in your heart now, do you think the Queen Mother is dead, Zhang Xiuhe said that the three princes killed her, and then Zhang Xiuhe led people to kill the three princes, this series of things happened, it is good for us, right?" ”

Chu Yaocen nodded, a smile rose at the corner of his lips, and said: "You really understand my thoughts, if Zhang Xiuhe really makes such a move, he must be thinking that the second prince will die in battle, and the third prince is a sinner who killed his mother, and he is left in the Wu royal family." But we can let Xiaohu succeed to the throne, and then you will control the government behind the scenes. Xiaohu is more justifiable than Zhang Xiuhe, and, if I guess correctly, the Queen Mother should have drawn up an edict for Xiaohu to succeed to the throne after the second prince and the third prince have all had accidents. Even if she didn't plan it, we could fake it. ”

Qingdi's face showed a hint of embarrassment, and Liu Mei's eyebrows also frowned slightly, and said: "Although I understand your thoughts, but in my selfish heart, I don't want the Queen Mother and the Third Prince to have an accident...... I've been with them for so long, and I'm more or less a friend. ”

Chu Yaocen looked at Qingdi's expression, stretched out his fingers to smooth Qingdi's brows, and said, "But now that the Queen Mother has passed, you and I have no way to mobilize the people in the court or the palace, and we can't save her." ”

What Chu Yaocen said, Qingdi understands...... Even if there is a way to save it, Chu Yaocen will not save it. Although she has been engaged in politics, she has not yet begun to arrange her own forces in Wu State, and the ministers of the DPRK and China have just met her. If Zhang Xiuhe does it later, maybe she can find someone to save the Queen Mother.

Chu Yaocen saw that Qingdi couldn't bear it, so he reached out and took her hand, and said: "In order to achieve my goal, I will sacrifice many, many people, some of them are good people, some are innocent people, I have no way to save them, it is because I am not strong enough." I'm sorry. ”

"There's nothing wrong with you." Qingdi shook her head and raised her eyes to look at Chu Yaocen, her eyes were full of tenderness, "I don't blame you, I just can't bear it...... I think soon, there will be news outside the palace, and I am afraid that Xiaohu will not be able to bear it at that time...... Let's go and stay by Xiaohu's side now, she will be our best move to deal with Zhang Xiuhe in the future, and there will definitely be no accidents. ”

"When you went to Xiaohu's side, did you plan to comfort her after the accident?" Chu Yaocen asked.

Qingdi thought for a moment and shook her head: "Instead of letting the news from outside the palace come in, it is better to let Xiaohu go out of the palace and see it with her own eyes, which will strengthen her belief in standing with us." ”

Chu Yaocen smiled slightly, just now he wanted to remind Qingdi to come, but he didn't expect to go together again.

Xiaohu didn't know about the Queen Mother's departure from the palace, and she was still in her own palace, so she taught her martial arts.

After Qingdi came, Xiaohu immediately threw down the weapon in his hand, hid after the killing, looked at Qingdi and said, "Sister, did the queen mother ask you to come and arrest me and listen to your recitation?" ”

Seeing Xiaohu so scared, Qingdi was stunned for a moment, and quickly shook his head.

Xiaohu breathed a long sigh of relief, clapped his hands and laughed, and said, "Great, it's good not to catch me to listen to the song, I hate that the most." ”

Just didn't let her listen to the song, she smiled happily like a flower, it's really a girl who doesn't know the taste of sorrow...... If she really ascends the throne, then the government will definitely be completely in her hands.

Qingdi walked over and took her hand, took her into the room, and after sitting down, Qingdi spoke: "Xiaohu, someone came just now, saying that he knew the whereabouts of the third prince, but the third prince was seriously injured and was about to die, so the queen mother took the imperial doctor out of the palace to visit him." ”

Xiaohu was startled at first, and then hurriedly stepped forward to grab Qingdi and asked, "What happened to the third brother?" How could you be seriously injured? No, I'm going to go and see it too! ”

Qingdi hurriedly stopped her and said, "Xiaohu, don't worry...... Let's wait for the news first, if your third brother is really seriously injured, your mother will definitely send someone to pick you up in a while, and if your third brother is still saved, you are not in a hurry for a while. ”

"No, if it's the third brother...... If the third brother is really in danger, it will be too late! Xiaohu was about to cry, got up and said, "I must go out and have a look." ”

Qingdi also stood up, was silent for a moment, and said, "Then I will go with you, for the sake of safety, you will bring all your guards, and you will go with us after the killing." ”

After the killing, Xiaohu also nodded, went over to call her guards, and everyone left the palace together.

They went straight to the palace before the three princes, but before they reached the palace, they saw a burst of fire in the distance, and Xiaohu almost fainted when he saw this...... Why did it catch fire? Is there anything wrong with her third brother and her queen mother?

Fortunately, Qingdi supported her on the side, and instructed the guards behind her: "You go over and put out the fire quickly, and anyone living in the palace must be rescued!" ”

Xiaohu also hurriedly said: "Don't go yet!" ”

The guards answered, and hurried over.

And they followed them and went to the king's house. By the time they got there, the fire had already decreased a lot, and several guards with dusty faces were brought out, all of them were wearing palace clothes, which should have been brought by the Queen Mother.

Xiaohu hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" What about the third brother and the queen mother? ”

These people escaped death, their hearts were still hanging, and they couldn't say a complete word, only one was quite sober, and hurriedly said: "Back to the princess, we don't know what's going on, we came here with the Queen Mother to visit the third prince, and suddenly there was a fire, and when we smelled the smoke and wanted to run out, the fire had filled the entire palace, and we couldn't get out at all...... The room where the Queen Mother was just now also collapsed, and the life and death of the Queen Mother are unknown...... We ......"

"The life and death of the queen mother is unknown?" Xiaohu's voice raised a few degrees, her eyes were full of murderous aura when she was angry, and she said coldly: "You came out with the queen mother, you don't know how to protect the queen mother when something happens, and you still make the life and death of the queen mother unknown, what face do you have to live in the world?" Come on, kill them all! ”

Qingdi's eyes moved lightly, it was not the first time she had seen the angry little tiger, so she had almost no trace of her original kindness and innocence, and the girl's appearance was completely gone, replaced by a decisive and brutal woman.

"Xiaohu, these people were all rescued by your guards desperately, maybe they were still looking for the whereabouts of the Queen Mother just now, and they are also victims...... Let's keep them for now, maybe we can still find out what this fire is all about. Qingdi hurriedly persuaded.

Everyone also kowtowed and begged for mercy, and Xiaohu's guards didn't know what to do.

Xiaohu didn't seem to hear Qingdi's words, she sneered, her eyes swept over the guards she brought, and said, "If you don't do it, do you want Princess Ben to do it herself?" ”

Saying that, Xiaohu didn't give those guards a chance to react, so he suddenly pulled out the sword on the waist of the guard closest to him, stepped forward and stabbed the person who spoke just now with an arrow, and after pulling out the sword, he used all his strength to swing the sword left and right, slashing several palace people who were kneeling on the ground.

Qingdi glanced at the killing, and hurriedly stepped forward to snatch Xiaohu's sword, Xiaohu was furious, and said to Wanzhi with a hideous face: "You also want to stop me?" ”

"Xiaohu, don't get excited, this fire is so strange, if you kill everyone, how can you find out the truth?" Finish killing persuasion.

"You let go of me! These people are useless, I'm going to kill them! Xiaohu wanted to pull her hand out of the hand of the finished kill, but her strength was comparable to the finished kill, and she saw that she couldn't break free, so she lowered her head and bit the back of the finished hand.

The painful brows of the killing were twisted together, and they didn't let go, Xiaohu tore off a big piece of skin with a hard tear, and the sweet smell of blood stained the tip of her tongue, she seemed to have recovered some of her senses, and as soon as she saw the killing being bitten like this, she immediately cried, held the hand of the killing and said: "What are you doing, why don't you dodge......"

Wan Kill looked at the back of his hand, and then at Xiaohu, whose face was full of tears, and didn't know what to say......

Seeing that Xiaohu's mood seemed to have stabilized, and a few more guards came out of the mansion one after another, Qingdi hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Have you seen the whereabouts of the Queen Mother and the Third Prince?" ”

"Back to the princess, we followed the guidance of the person we rescued just now, and found the possible location of the Queen Mother, that room has collapsed, if the mother is really inside...... It is estimated that there is more luck than luck. As for the third prince, no one in the palace had ever seen him. ”

Qingdi thought for a while and asked, "The people you rescued are all the palace people brought out of the palace by the Queen Mother, what about the original people in the mansion?" Do you see that? ”

The men shook their heads: "I didn't see a single one." ”

Xiaohu bandaged the wound after killing, and when he heard the words asked by Qingdi, he said anxiously: "Sister, what do you mean by the question you just asked?" What about the queen mother? Why hasn't the queen mother come out yet? ”

"This Three Princes' Mansion is already an empty mansion, your third brother may not have come back at all, someone deliberately wanted to harm the Queen Mother, so he came up with such a way to lure the Queen Mother out......"

"What about the Queen Mother? Where is the queen mother now? Why hasn't it come out yet? Xiaohu didn't seem to understand Qingdi's words, grabbed Qingdi's arms tightly, and blindly asked the whereabouts of the Queen Mother.

Qingdi was hesitating how to answer her, when suddenly two guards walked out carrying a man whose face was no longer recognized, knelt down in front of Xiaohu and said, "Princess, we have found the Queen Mother." ”