Chapter 46: The Assassination Storm
Watching Zhu Sinong walk away, Zhu Zixuan immediately waved his hand at the subordinates not far away.
"Master!" The man stepped forward respectfully and waited for the command.
"Did you hear what Concubine Fang said?" Zhu Zixuan squinted, and a touch of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
"The master meant, ...... Xun Zhi" The man scratched his neck with his hand and made a murderous motion.
Zhu Zixuan was noncommittal: "This woman is a threat to my sister, kill her in order to stabilize my sister's position in the harem." ”
The honor and favor of the harem is directly related to the status of the courtiers of the previous dynasty in the eyes of the emperor, and if the Taishi Mansion wants to last for a long time, it is necessary to ensure that Si Nong sits on the throne of the queen.
The subordinate nodded: "Don't worry, master, the little one will do it." With that, the man quietly retreated, and disappeared into the darkness.
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At night, it was past the time of Shen.
A large courtyard was brightly lit, and a handsome man sat like a god in the middle of a courtyard full of lanterns, carrying a jug of wine in his hand, and a rocking chair inlaid with vermilion lacquer and gold underneath.
"Looking back at the tall building and hearing the laughter, leaning on the railing with red sleeves rolling up the ......light veil," the man muttered in a low voice repeatedly, and a wry smile crossed his face from time to time.
There were people kneeling on the ground around the man's chair, and the people in this group were all surprised, what kind of medicine did the master take wrong today?
As soon as I came back, I drank, and I was still stunned in my mouth, and I always read such a verse.
What exactly does this verse mean?
Since the first queen mother, the master came back drunk in front of the first queen mother's mourning hall, his health has been bad, the doctor has told not to drink excessively, and now he is like crazy drinking, no matter how people persuade him, how can he be good?
Everyone looked at Yin Chen on the side at a loss.
Yin Chen is also a head or two, and he doesn't know what kind of wind the master is smoking, but he knows a thing or two about that verse.
At that time, when Xun Zhi read this poem, Yin Chen happened to be present, and everyone was paying attention to the emperor and Miss Xun Zhi in front of the spiritual throne, but he deliberately glanced at his master, and the master's expression was really not ordinary horror.
In any case, one thing Yin Chen can be sure of is that the master's convulsions are related to Xun Zhi.
Yin Chen finally mustered up the courage to walk to Jing Ying's side in the eyes of many subordinates who seemed to be asking for help: "Master...... Why don't we take advantage of the good moonlight today, let's find an opportunity to meet Miss Xun, how about it? ”
"Miss Xun?" Jing Ying raised her head and poured the wine in the jug into her mouth, and then asked lightly, "You said Xun Xuan?" ”
Yin Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking that the master was really drunk, wasn't Xun Xuan the name of the first queen mother? The first queen mother is gone.
"Master, you are drunk, the slave said Miss Xun, naturally referring to the Queen Mother's sister Xun Zhi." Yin Chendao.
"No...... Missing! Jing Ying threw the empty wine jug and smashed it on the ground as if he was a little annoyed, "Except for Xun Xuan, I don't see anyone!" Get out of here! Get down! ”
Yin Chen looked at his master's drunken appearance, shook his head helplessly, turned to his subordinates and said, "All of you go down first!" ”
Everyone left in response, and Yin Chen turned his head and said to Jing Ying with concern: "Master, the little one will go down first, and you can call the little one if you have something." ”
Jing Ying closed her eyes and did not speak, resting her head on the chair, her face expressionless.
Yin Chen saw that his master ignored him, so he didn't say anything and turned around.
Seeing that Yin Chen was about to go away, Jing Ying suddenly opened her eyes and said in a cold tone: "Yin Chen! ”
Hearing this, Yin Chen turned to look at Jing Ying: "What does the master command?" ”
Jing Ying rubbed her temples with her hands, and said in a light tone: "Go and invite Xun Zhi!" ”
Yin Chen's eyes flashed, and then he responded: "Yes, let's do it if it's small!" ”
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Due to the unhappiness of lunch, the ladies of Anfu used it in their own houses.
Xun Xuan went to the small Buddha hall next door after dinner, wanting to recite Buddhist scriptures for her brother to express her guilt.
The surroundings were very quiet, only the sound of wooden fish in the small Buddha hall kept ringing, Xun Xuan had retreated Qu You and Chime in advance, just to be quiet alone.
It's just that she didn't expect someone to be so anxious that they would do it under the emperor's nose on the day of the Empress Dowager's death.
The sound of trivial footsteps outside the door gently penetrated the air and quietly reached Xun Xuan's ears.
Xun Xuan opened her eyes when she heard the sound, got up and hid behind the Buddha statue.
As soon as she moved her seat, a few silver needles suddenly sprang out of the position where she was kneeling, and nailed them to the table.
Xun Xuan squinted her eyes, and shuddered in her heart, this is to take her life, this method is not like what the Liu mother and daughter can do, who could it be?
Before Xun Xuan had time to think about it, the door was slammed open, and several black-clothed people broke in outside the door.
Xun Xuan saw that this group of people was murderous, and knew that something was wrong, and immediately turned around and ran towards the back door of the small Buddha hall.
Hearing this, the black-clothed men hurriedly followed the steps and chased after them, and one of them was very vicious, and stabbed directly at Xun Xuan with a wave of a dagger.
Fortunately, Xun Xuan was born in Jiangmen, although he was not good at martial arts, but he had some foundation, and his body flashed to the side quickly, and the person fell into the void.
At this time, Xun Xuan wanted to escape again, but found that the back door had been blocked, and a circle of black-clothed people surrounded her.
Xun Xuan didn't have time to think about it, trotted to the nearest candlestick, knocked down all the candles, the candles burned the curtain on the side, Xun Xuan hurriedly shouted: "It's water!" ”
When the black-clothed people saw Xun Xuan shouting, they were also anxious for a while, and several people forced forward at the same time and pushed Xun Xuan to the ground.
One of them raised his dagger again and stabbed at Xun Xuan's heart.
Xun Xuan didn't have time to think about it at all, so she picked up a fallen candlestick on the ground and knocked over the dagger that was no more than a millimeter away from herself.
The man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Xun Xuan to have such strength, when the man was stunned, Xun Xuan did not pause at all, and hurriedly picked up the dagger that fell to the ground, and stabbed into the man's arm without blinking, instantly piercing the opponent's arm, and the blood flowed.
The man in black wailed in pain and crouched on the ground with his arms folded.
"Stinky!" The man scolded angrily, and then beckoned the rest of the people to clean up Xun Xuan.
Xun Xuan took two steps back, picked up the candlestick on the ground and threw it out, then immediately got up and ran in the direction of the door.
Seeing that the fire was getting more and more fierce, the fire blocked the path of the man in black to pursue Xun Xuan.
As soon as Xun Xuan escaped from the small Buddha Hall, several black-clothed people behind him rushed out, carrying daggers and pressing towards her one by one.
Seeing that she was about to be caught up again, Xun Xuan pulled out the hairpin on her head, turned around suddenly, and stabbed the hairpin in her hand into the chest of the person behind her without warning.
Kill with one hit!
The man didn't have time to react more, so he swallowed his breath, pulled out the hairpin, and instantly bled like an infusion.
"This is so ruthless!" Several people in black suddenly became jealous and didn't dare to come forward and get too close.
"Someone, it's out of the water!" Xun Xuan pulled out the hairpin from the man's chest and continued to run towards the outside of the courtyard, faintly hearing movement not far away.
Xun Xuan didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and ran in that direction, and the assassin behind him approached again.
At this moment, a figure suddenly ran in the direction of Xun Xuan in front of the road.
Take a closer look, the other party turned out to be Yin Chen.
Xun Xuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran up and grabbed Yin Chen's life-saving straw: "Someone wants to kill me!" ”
Originally, Xun Xuan was still worried about how she would explain the corpse in the yard if someone else came, if the news of her murder was spread like this, even if the government did not pursue it, it would inevitably be said in the future.
"Someone killed you?" Yin Chen looked at Xun Xuan, who was covered in blood, with a suspicious expression, "Or do you kill others?" ”
"You don't believe it?" Xun Xuan was slightly annoyed.
"I didn't ...... No," Yin Chen had just time to finish this sentence when the assassin behind Xun Xuan had already rushed up.
Xun Xuan glanced at Yin Chen with a slight sneer: "Do you believe it now?" ”
Yin Chen opened his mouth and laughed dryly: "Believe, of course believe." ”
After that, Yin Chen dragged Xun Xuan behind him, and said in his mouth: "Go to the north courtyard of the temple, the master wants to see you." ”
Xun Xuan took a few steps back, and didn't forget to take care of it: "Be clean, I don't want to take my life." ”
Yin Chen laughed angrily at her, it was obvious that she caused trouble, but he asked him to clean up the mess.
"Got it, let's go!" With that, Yin Chen drew his sword and rushed towards the figure in the night.
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Xun Xuan came to the north courtyard of the temple alone, and the surroundings were so quiet that the sound of the wine jug smashing on the ground in the distance could be clearly heard.
There was a cold moon hanging in the dark night sky, and the cool moonlight sprinkled in the courtyard, and I could clearly see a handsome and elegant drunkard sitting on a luxurious rocking chair, with precious jade on his fingers and waist.
Still a drunkard with an extraordinary status!
It turns out that Yin Chen's master is him, King Jingying of Zhao!
Except for Jing Ying, there was no one else in the courtyard.
Xun Xuan walked forward slowly, bowed respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Zhao!" ”
Jing Ying opened a pair of drunken eyes slightly, looked at Xun Xuan lazily, and after a while, he beckoned to Xun Xuan and said, "Stand closer!" ”
Xun Xuan twisted her eyebrows, and began to wonder if she had gone to the wrong yard, why did Jing Ying help her in a good manner?
Although there were doubts in his heart, Xun Xuan still moved up involuntarily.
Xun Xuan just stood still, and before she could react, she only felt dizzy in front of her, and when she came back to her senses, she was already lying in Jing Ying's arms.
No matter how good Xun Xuan's psychological quality is, at this time, his heart began to be uncontrollably nervous.
"Queen Mother...... This king has not seen you for a long time, and his heart is very longing. His handsome face was stained with a touch of drunkenness, and his deep and magnetic voice made people's hearts beat faster unconsciously when he heard it in his ears.
Xun Xuan frowned, and couldn't help but scold in her heart, this damn King Zhao, who drank too much wine, made a mistake, dared to be so frivolous and rude to her, and called her name again and again, how much he didn't take her seriously.
In his previous life, this person was very presumptuous to her, never bowed when he saw her, and teased the palace maids around her arrogantly, and the court was even more inconsistent with her political views and-for-tat, and every time she came to the next court, she jumped straight to her feet.