Chapter 42: Can't Escape

It's worthless......

The visitor was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and stepped back. However, before Zhang Shuo made any moves, a long knife suddenly flew out from behind the man, piercing his heart fiercely.

The man didn't have time to struggle, and he didn't know what he had touched, and with a bang, a wooden board fell and smashed on his shoulder.

He spat out a mouthful of blood and curled up on the ground shivering.

Then the side door opened, and two men came in and carried the man away. This person still has a breath, staring at Zhang Shuo viciously, and his mouth is slightly open: "If the prince knows your identity......"

Before he finished speaking, he was punched in the cheek, and half of his face collapsed.

Two more maidservants came in, carrying basins of water and rags, carefully cleaning the blood from the ground, resetting the machine, and then quietly without.

From beginning to end, Zhang Shuo just lowered his head and focused on playing chess.

The chess face is stalemate, but the sunspot has a faint decline. After a while, the white son took the advantage and killed all the sunspots.

Zhang Shuo sighed, took out a dagger with the right hand of the white son, and slashed it on the left hand of the black man.

A streak of blood faded away.

Outside the house, two people waited for a long time in the night, until the sky was slightly bright, and then they got up and returned. They were not in a hurry to go back to their lives, and when they passed by the breakfast stall in Dongshi, they stopped to eat a bowl of hot mutton soup and steamed buns.

Because the hour was still early, there was no one in the stall. The chubby boss gave them a bowl of mutton soup, served them pancakes, and returned them to the soup pot to warm up.

One person broke a piece of bread and put it in the bowl, raised his eyes and said to the other: "It's involved in the regent palace, and our highness has been stabbed for nothing." ”

Even the people who do things for the crown prince know that the prince is weak now, and he can't fight the regent in a duel.

The other person looked left and right coldly, and said lightly: "That person entered Zhang Shuo's house and never came out again." Whether it's dead or alive, we don't have the slightest evidence. But even if Zhang Shuo is involved, the regent can push it clean. ”

He was just a staff member of the regent, and the regent could push him out for self-preservation, and he would have chosen himself clean.

In the early morning, the morning market is filled with smoke and fire, and the surrounding stalls are gradually filled with diners. The two people who were sitting slowly turned a little down. After a while, the person who broke the cake stirred the mutton soup with chopsticks, picked up a piece of hot hind leg meat, and said in a muffled voice: "We are just doing things, and these are reported to Agon, and he will return to His Highness, and we can't take care of anything else." ”

"Yes," the other nodded, "Anyway, those in the inn died before we could do it, and we won't lose anything." ”

It's also strange to say, they followed the clues to the inn, and just as they were about to make a move, those people tied themselves up. Only one person escaped, but disappeared into Zhang Shuo's house.

"Dare to move our Highness, they know they can't escape!" The person opposite drank the mutton soup and said fiercely.

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Because Li Cong was recuperating from his injuries in the dormitory, Su Qiang chose a place to live in the side hall. When she got up in the morning, the palace maid and the female history came in with clothes and accessories, and Su Qiang saw that it was a palace dress that she needed to wear to meet His Majesty.

The blue robe, the outer robe is woven with dark blue silk, and the pattern is nine lines of red multicolored Hui Zhai pattern. It is lined with a cyan undecorated shirt, and a white jade pendant and ribbon are hung from the waist. The headdress is nine and nine flowers, a total of eighteen flowers.

In this way, it is usually at the time of the registration or the court meeting. Su Qiang only wore these similar ones once, on the day of her wedding.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that today is the day to offer 'spring flavor' to His Majesty, he has taken leave due to illness, and asked the princess to get up and go to Chengchun Palace after breakfast."

There is also the matter of "spring flavor", Su Qiang almost forgot. She nodded, told Xiaoqing to find something, and dressed up peacefully.

Speaking of which, she has been married to the East Palace for nearly a month, and she has not seen His Majesty the Emperor in person. She did not have a good impression of this majesty.

His Majesty the Emperor has succeeded to the throne for more than ten years, but in recent years, Dahong has become a crisis at home and abroad. He reused his ministers internally and strangled innocent officials, if it weren't for a few officials who had been sealed in high positions when the emperor was there, I am afraid that the officials and the people would be opposed. If it weren't for the regent and other generals who fought in the south and the north, I am afraid that the border would be difficult to settle. It is even rumored that he likes to take pills and has done a lot of ridiculous things for immortality.

It is not a bad thing that such a person is seriously ill.

Seongchun Palace is located in the southeast of Miyagi, because it is surrounded by hot springs from Yushan, and the flowers here bloom earlier than elsewhere. When Su Qiang went, not only did she see the peach blossoms blooming, but even the lotus flowers in the pond showed green leaves, and one or two buds could be faintly seen.

When the boat reached the opposite shore, six palace maids were taken to the palace. Before Su Qiang entered the hall, he heard the hearty laughter of the county lord of Hewei, followed by the voice of the regent Li Zhang.

The Queen Mother and Empress were both there, and the dragon chair of His Majesty the Emperor was still empty at the top. Su Qiang asked the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother to ask for Anbi, and a concubine of the same grade as her came to greet her, followed by Zheng Shuwei. After everyone slowly sat down, the attendants came to sing, and His Majesty the Emperor arrived.

Except for the Queen Mother, the rest of the people hurriedly stood up to tidy up their appearances and knelt down in unison.

The curtain of the side door at the back of the palace was opened by the palace maid, and then a column of inner servants entered. The Emperor walked behind, carefully carried by a beautiful woman. Looking at the grade, it should be a concubine.

After everyone finished saluting, the emperor, who had already walked to the dragon chair, slowly sat down and said in a harmonious voice: "Today's family banquet does not need to be formal. ”

Everyone stood up and sat down, and Su Qiang took advantage of the fact that everyone was looking at each other and glanced at the emperor.

Emperor Xuancheng was nearly fifty years old, very tall, but thin, and looked like the crown prince by four or five points. The difference is that his eyes are more indifferent and desireless, but he really looks like a monk practicing in the temple.

It is precisely this kind of person who will push the government away and concentrate on the alchemy of the valley.

But before that, she knew that Emperor Xuancheng was a vigorous and sharp-minded emperor. But he didn't know what happened to make him like this.

"Recently, there have been signs of spring cold, is the queen mother okay?" Emperor Xuancheng turned to the side and greeted the Queen Mother sitting beside him. The look on his face was very respectful.

The Queen Mother and Yan nodded with a smile and said: "The mourning family is very tough, but I see that the children are thinly dressed and not quite against the wind, so I blamed Wei'er." No, the prince only went to the suburbs with the crown princess yesterday, and today he is sick again. ”

Su Qiang, who was carefully peeling off a dragon's eye, instantly felt several gazes fall on her.

"Is this my daughter-in-law?" At the highest point of the palace, a voice led more eyes to Su Qiang.

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