Chapter 5: Assassination
"Today is my ninth brother's reception banquet, and the Aiqing don't need to be polite."
After listening to the emperor's words, the atmosphere in the hall finally relaxed a little, followed by a round of greetings, and the atmosphere was indescribably harmonious.
Xu Langyin took the time to look at the so-called emperor a few times, and I have to say that he is worthy of being a son of heaven, although he is past the middle of his age, he has a good appearance, sharp eyes, and a majestic aura around his body.
On the other hand, the queen, dressed in gorgeous clothes, looks delicate and beautiful, and is more than thirty years old, but perhaps because of proper maintenance, coupled with a baby face, it is like Erba Fanghua, which reduces the momentum of the mother of a country, but it is a little more beautiful and long.
Xu Langyin didn't feel much, there were three thousand beauties in the harem since ancient times, which one was not graceful and beautiful, and she looked like a fairy.
She knocked on the melon seeds, but she was a little puzzled, and said that this was a reception banquet for King Xun, why she was not seen in the hall. She still really wants to see the true face of this King Xun.
The silk and bamboo are pleasant, and the singing and dancing are leveling.
It didn't take long for the discussion in the hall to be endless, and most of them revolved around the topic of King Xun.
The emperor naturally heard a little, he frowned, and said to Li Gong, the chief eunuch who was serving beside him, "Li Nade, go and see, why hasn't this ninth brother arrived yet." β
"Minions, let's go." With that, he hurried away.
After a while, Gonggong Li came back, his pace seemed to be a little urgent, and his face was not very good.
"What's going on?" The emperor asked.
"Your Majesty, this ......"
The emperor seemed to see the wandering of his eyes, and his gaze was slightly cold, "But it doesn't hurt to say it." β
"Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Xun said that on the way back yesterday, a person suddenly passed out in front of his carriage, was a little frightened, unwell, and said yes... I'm not coming..."
"Poof!"
When Xu Langyin heard this, the water that he hadn't swallowed suddenly squirted out, the sound was not loud, but it was particularly abrupt in the quiet hall at the moment, and immediately became the focus of everyone.
The emperor looked at her a few times and asked, "Isn't this the daughter of the General's Mansion, why do you look frightened?" β
As soon as the words fell, there was silence in the hall, and the emperor squinted, not showing any expression, but from the depressed eyebrows, he faintly knew that he was in a bad mood at the moment.
Xu Langyin knew that he had hit the muzzle of the gun, so he immediately wiped the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, coughed lightly and said:
"Back to Your Majesty, the courtiers just happened to bump into this incident when they left the house yesterday, but they didn't know that His Royal Highness King Xun was frightened like this, and she was a little surprised."
Xu Langyin was respectful on his face, but in his heart, he greeted the eighteenth generation of King Xun's ancestors, and he didn't want to come and used her as a shield.
"Oh? Then tell me about this process in detail. β
Xu Lang smiled but didn't smile: "The courtiers were also passing by for a while, and I only heard an exclamation at that time, saying that someone had fainted, and there were too many people around the carriage, and the courtiers couldn't see it really."
The emperor didn't speak, and the time of silence often made people feel that it was very slow, about a dozen breaths later, but the emperor asked Li Gonggong fairly, "The ninth brother is unwell, but has he invited a doctor?" β
"Back to Your Majesty, I've already been invited."
"Okay, you go and send my hundred-year-old dragon ginseng to the ninth brother, so that he can have a good rest."
"Hey, the slave will send it to King Xun."
In just a few words, the dragon ginseng worth a thousand gold was sent out, Xu Langyin felt pain when he thought about it, not to mention the emperor, but the emperor's move was ingenious, this shot was such a valuable thing, and the bad rumors between the emperor and the king were naturally broken, and it also established a good image of good deeds for him.
Although there is no main owner in this banquet, the atmosphere is not bad, and the singing and dancing are still going on.
After a while, a burst of soft and soothing music suddenly sounded in the hall, and pink petals suddenly floated from above the hall, everyone was attracted by this scene, Xu Langyin took a few looks, she saw a lot of this kind of bridge on TV, and there will definitely be a beautiful woman falling from the sky after a while, sure enough, with the petals falling, a woman in a beautiful red dance dress caresses with her left hand, and stands barefoot on the hall with her right hand behind her back, looking delicate, and revealing a little imperceptible charm.
The music is together, and the woman's figure also rotates with the music, leaning back, kicking, and dancing like clouds, which is pleasing to the eye, and Xu Langyin also feels that this woman dances too well.
Suddenly, seeing the woman stretching her hand to her belt, Xu Langyin's eyelids burst out, holding the grass, this woman won't take off her clothes in public, there are countless people who think the same as Xu Langyin, but in the end it is not as they think.
The woman did pull down the strap that was tied around her waist, but it wasn't a belt, so her clothes didn't come off.
I don't know what the thing that was pulled down by the woman, flat and round, like a belt, and like a soft whip, that thing pulled out one flower after another in the woman's hand, separated and closed, as if alive, the duration was short, sometimes curved and straight, Xu Langyin kept staring at that thing, but he didn't see what it was.
With the pause of the music, the dance is over.
"Bang Bang..."
The Emperor clapped his hands with a happy expression.
"Good Dance, Good Dance"
Everyone was full of praise when they saw the emperor, and naturally they kept clapping and applauding.
"You, bring what you have in your hand to me."
The emperor seemed to be very interested in the things in her hand, and when the woman heard the emperor's words, she bowed her head and stepped forward, kneeling down and presenting the thing in her hand.
The emperor took the things from Gonggong Li and looked at them with interest.
Xu Langyin is also very curious, the distance is relatively close at this time, and she can take a good look.
She had a good eye, and when she looked up slightly, she saw that the thing was connected piece by piece, oval in shape, and smooth around the perimeter.
Xu Langyin squinted her eyes, and a light flashed from her mind, it was a magnet!
In this era, it is impossible to produce artificial magnets, and the magnetism of natural magnets is weak, but they can be linked together by magnetism one by one, which should not be underestimated.
Xu Langyin couldn't help but look at the woman a few more times, it was okay not to look at it, but it scared her out of her wit.
This and this, this is clearly a man!
Xu Langyin stared at him for a long time, and after confirming that it was really a man, there seemed to be 10,000 *** heads rushing by in his heart.
In these years, men can dance so well?
However, this person is dressed as a woman......
Just when Xu Langyin was in a trance, the man suddenly pulled out the software on his waist and stabbed at the emperor at once.
It's an assassination!
"Emperor Lao'er, I will take your dog's life today!"
After that, there was a sword in front of the emperor's chest, and the emperor turned sideways sharply, narrowly dodging a blow.
The people in the hall didn't seem to react to this situation, and they all had stunned expressions.
As the flask hits the ground, a "Touch! As if it were an introduction, everyone screamed and fled in all directions.
"Someone! Escort! Escort! β
Seeing that the scene was beginning to be chaotic, a large number of Praetorian Guards rushed in, knowing that their assassination attempt was unsuccessful, and immediately chose to abandon the assassination and flee.
The old lady deserved to have experienced a big scene, and quickly calmed down, calmly analyzed, only one person was assassinated, and the rest were his own people, weighing the pros and cons, the old lady quickly ordered: "The Praetorian Guards will block the palace door, and the others should not panic, and go to the back." β
It's a generation of generals, waving his sleeves, domineering side leakage, it seems to give people a sense of stability invisibly, most people follow the old lady's wishes, but there are still a few people who want to leave the hall in a panic
Xu Langyin secretly scolded a fool!
Before she could step forward, the assassin had already cut the neck of a man with his sword, and his bloody head was rolling on the ground with a grunt, his eyes wide as if he were about to fall off at any moment, and he looked like he was dead.
I don't know who screamed, maybe the scene was too bloody, and everyone's hearts that had finally settled down rioted again.
Xu Langyin didn't want to die so quickly, and was thinking about how to get into the crowd, but unexpectedly, someone with no eyes hit her from behind and knocked her out at once, Xu Langyin appeared in the assassin's sight and became a live target.
"Hey, hey." Xu Langyin laughed dryly, stupid on the surface, but in his heart he had already listed various methods and then eliminated them one by one.
The assassin watched Xu Langyin walk over step by step, his brows furrowed.
Xu Langyin stopped a few steps or so away from him, his hands wrapped around his arms, "I can get you out." β
The astonishment in the assassin's eyes flashed, and then he looked at Xu Langyin vigilantly, looking ready to attack.
"You don't have to worry, I will definitely save you if I say I will save you out."
"What is your purpose?"
"Oops, hey, you've seen through it."
Xu Langyin's expression was exaggerated, and the assassin looked at her with a black line, "What are you going to do?"
"If you tell me the mastermind behind the scenes, I'll save ......"
"Impossible!"
Before Xu Langyin could finish speaking, he was decisively rejected by the assassin.
"Don't get so excited." Xu Langyin smiled, "Look around." β
The Assassin gave her a strange look, then glanced around. "What are you asking me to see?"
"Didn't you find anything?"
"Found what?"
Xu Langyin looked at him helplessly, "Didn't you notice that there are all our people around here?" β
The assassin's face froze, and then he stubbornly said, "So what! β
"It's up to you." Xu Langyin played with a strand of hair hanging on his chest, wrapped it around his fingertips, and then let go, wrapped it again, and let it go again, repeating this action constantly, his expression was faint, and he couldn't see why.
The assassin didn't expect that at such a critical juncture, this woman could negotiate with him so calmly, he had to deal with it carefully, he didn't know what he thought, and his eyes lit up.