Before Bai Lu, who volunteered to accept the task, investigated the bottom of Yang Chun carefully, a big change suddenly came.

Perhaps it is in response to the phrase eventful autumn, and this year's autumn has been particularly long and difficult. First of all, there was an accident at the Zhongyuan Festival, and finally Pei Bao'er recovered from her illness for more than half a month, but Qi Heng's old illness recurred and fell, and when he was about to be able to hold on to the resumption of the court meeting, a few days later, there was an accident at the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet.

According to the convention, in these festivals of the year, the palace attaches the most importance to the New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is always necessary to feast the ministers together.

More than ten years ago, the current Empress Dowager Qin has changed from a little palace maid to the queen's throne, and this Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet is even more grand, because the Empress Dowager Qin's thousand autumn days happen to be the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Now, although the emperor is not the grandson of the Empress Dowager Qin, the Qin family bears the name of the Empress Dowager, and there are many foreign officials who present birthday gifts, for example, the best coral and jade carvings on the head. The Beijing officials and nobles are not left behind, and they want to take advantage of this opportunity of family reunion to sell a good thing to the Queen Mother. The latter disdains to give away the yellow and white things, and does not dare to show too much wealth, and the gift is either a clever word or a sincerity. Either present a talented congratulatory watch, praising the Empress Dowager Qin as if she was a goddess by the Luoshui River, or presenting an embroidered screen or clothes of Peng Zu wishing his birthday or longevity, or simply arranging a new-style dance of heavenly maidens scattering flowers and offering peaches to make the old lady happy, and so on.

In the first half of the palace banquet, the Empress Dowager Qin was indeed flattered quite happily, but the problem was precisely in the dance of the girl scattering flowers that day.

The atmosphere of this dynasty is more open, except for ceremonies such as sacrificing heaven and earth, worshipping ancestors, etc., men and women will not be deliberately separated at this palace banquet, this time it is also according to the old practice, men on the left and women on the right, and the order of seating is mostly a certain prince facing his own princess and a certain adult facing his wife, so Pei Baoer is the first to sit at the bottom right, facing Qi Heng.

Although the dishes at the palace banquet were beautiful, there was no heat, and she had already prepared, so she padded her stomach before entering the palace, but at this time, she just raised her glass with the flow and touched her lips slightly.

When he put down the wine glass, his eyes met Qi Heng's. He still faces the coffin in front of everyone every day, not smiling, King Kang, who is sitting under him, toasts him, as if he wants to say a few words to him, but he is also frightened away by the ice face, and turns his head to chat with his younger brother King Ning.

Pei Baoer sighed a little in her heart, very worried about the future of this coffin-faced and ice-faced comrade. is such a powerful and hated identity, isn't it even more annoying to have such a personality.

She had something in her heart, so she didn't notice that Qi Heng stared at her several times, and then turned her head and whispered to the envoy behind her to say a few words.

After watching the beautiful dance of the goddess scattering flowers for a while, Pei Baoer had an extra plate of osmanthus cake on the table, and it was still steaming.

She was a little surprised, looked at the table of the second concubine Kangning, and the others, there was no such thing, and was about to question, when a thin female voice came from her ears: "Princess, please rest assured, this is specially ordered by the prince to prepare the slaves and maids." ”

Pei Bao'er raised her eyes, and sure enough, the person opposite was looking at herself with a softened expression, and when she saw herself looking over, her eyes fell on the plate of crystal clear sweet cakes again, and nodded.

She picked up a small piece and put it in her mouth, it was as sweet as honey, but there was no sweetness at all, but it was refreshing.

The two looked at each other again, she smiled, and Princess Ning next to her also noticed her side, turned her head across Princess Kang, and laughed at her in a low voice.

At this moment, the hall was suddenly full of applause, just because the head of the women's middle school that day, out of nowhere, conjured a peach about two fists in size, and was saying a congratulatory speech, and stepped forward with a smile, to dedicate it to today's big protagonist Empress Dowager Qin.

"The Taile Department is really good at sycophants, and I don't know where to find such an acrobatic dancer." Princess Ning also forgot to tease Pei Bao'er and the two of them, and only muttered quietly.

Princess Kang smiled faintly and echoed.

"The prince of Huaining Hou served in Taichang Temple, and I heard that he has always been an elegant person, mostly because of his ingenuity."

When Pei Bao'er heard the three words Huai Ninghou, her heart couldn't help but move. She casually glanced at Princess Kang, and she was a little unsure whether she said this unintentionally or intentionally.

Huaining Marquis Mansion is also an old noble family, the ancestors started by helping the founding emperor of this dynasty to conquer the east and west, to Qi Heng's grandfather's dynasty, there was also an outstanding general, when the attack on the South Yue country was the soldier he led. It's a pity that this person died young, and his descendants were not angry, and one generation was not as good as the next, and he was led astray by the first emperor's heavy literature and light martial arts, and started to abandon martial arts. The "elegant person" in Princess Kang's mouth refers to this.

During the period of the first emperor, the life of the Marquis of Huaining was a little better, but since Qi Heng took power, it can be said that he has been squeezed out of the center of power. It's no wonder that they will go to the doctor in a hurry, and they want to go to the door of Concubine Lin, but they don't dare to make it too obvious, and finally marry with a side branch concubine and the Zhongwu Marquis Mansion, but their own daughter honestly goes to catch a son-in-law under the list.

Thinking of Concubine Lin who went back to her parents' house with this excuse a while ago, Pei Baoer couldn't help but feel a little upset, and the sweet taste of osmanthus in her mouth faded a lot.

At this time, the goddess who offered the peach had already finished her congratulations, Ying Ying bowed down and knelt in front of the jade steps, and the Empress Dowager Qin was full of smiles, and beckoned her to come forward and offer the peach to herself.

This was the moment when the change happened.

The dancing girl was born with a beautiful appearance and a moon-like appearance, and the light gauze dance skirt on her body lined it with a fairy spirit, who would have expected that such a fairy-like delicate person would actually be able to come to the "Jing Ke Assassin Qin King" when offering a peach, and the short dagger with the thorn happened to be in the fake peach!

The flattering smile on the face of the dancing girl was gone, her eyes were full of resentment, and the short dagger went straight towards the chest of the Empress Dowager Qin.

Those who sat farther away didn't know what was going on, and the important ministers and ladies who were watching the scene of the birthday peach in front of them all exclaimed.

"Help! Hurry up! ”

But that dancing girl was too close to the Empress Dowager Qin, and even the guards around her didn't have time to react, let alone everyone in the seat.

said that it was too late, but in the blink of an eye, the short dagger had already entered the Empress Dowager Qin's large dress embroidered with intricate phoenix patterns, through the layers of clothes, there was a muffled sound, and the Empress Dowager Qin fell in pain.

The little emperor sitting in the center was startled, and he was so stunned that he couldn't speak, and Concubine Wei, who was sitting at the bottom of his right, was quick-eyed, and the hand that was accustomed to the Buddha beads grabbed the sleeve of the little boy's robe and took him to his side.

In the sound of hurried footsteps and the cracking of cups rolling to the ground, the people who came to escort him took the little emperor in it and captured the dancing girl.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, after the dancing girl was restrained, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the guards, she threw the blood-stained dagger in her hand straight to the right front while taking advantage of the guard's unpreparedness, which happened to be the direction of the little emperor and the others.

The guards naturally thought that the female assassin was going for the little emperor, and even strengthened their defenses, forming a thick human wall between the little emperor and the female assassin, and one of the nearest ones was holding a sword to knock the dagger down.

As a result, the dagger flew over the corners of their clothes, and coincidentally avoided the guard's sword and headed towards Concubine Wei next to them.

Pei Bao'er's seat happened to be under Concubine Wei, and she was stunned by this sudden assassination, and she had already reacted at this moment. Somehow, she had a faint premonition from the moment the female assassin threw the dagger out of her hand, and she always felt that the female assassin was not going for the little emperor.

And Concubine Wei next to the little emperor, although there are also guards to protect her, but anyone with a discerning eye can see the difference in the importance of the emperor and an old concubine, almost all of them are on the little emperor's side, and there are only two people here in Concubine Wei, and their eyes are still on the emperor.

Although Concubine Wei herself also has some city government, she will not be as flustered as the female dependents at the bottom, and she can still pull the little emperor in danger, but she never expected that this unknown female assassin would actually let the emperor not assassinate, nor did she make up for the injury and fall of the Empress Dowager Qin, but turned her head to move the knife on her concubine, who was powerless and powerless, and was warmly invited by the Empress Dowager Qin to come to the palace banquet at the end of three days.

She was helped by the maidservant to the side, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but she heard a shout: "Mother, be careful!" ”

It was Pei's voice.

Pei Bao'er wanted to rush over and push people away, but the distance between her and Concubine Wei was not too short, and it was too late at all, so she could only pick up the tea cup on the case that had just been changed and the tea soup was still steaming, and smashed it on her mother-in-law's leg.

At this time, there were screams of the ladies everywhere, the sound of the ministers shouting for help, and the sound of Jin Ge's iron armor rubbing and colliding, and the commotion here did not attract much attention.

Although Concubine Wei's vision was limited and she didn't see that she had become a target, she also guessed from Pei Bao'er's inexplicable actions that it was not good, and she fell down with a short body in the momentum of the tea cup, avoiding the short dagger that came straight at her vest. However, when the short dagger that seemed to contain the momentum of wind and thunder fell, it still cut through a corner of the shirt on her shoulder, and a thin blood mark was drawn.

Pei Bao'er stepped forward to support her, and when she saw the sharp dagger that fell to the ground, she was still afraid for a while.

Although this farce is thrilling, it only adds up to a few breaths.

Everyone's mood was like a somersault cloud of 108,000 miles with Sun Dasheng, which was called a constant ups and downs.

It wasn't until Concubine Wei's side was also surrounded by the people who came to her senses that the female assassin laughed triumphantly, and said some inexplicable words in her mouth: "God has eyes~"

At this time, Qi Heng had already rushed over, but after walking briskly for a while, a little cold sweat oozed from his forehead, and his breath was a little uneven.

Since Pei Bao'er learned that Concubine Wei was fine, he relaxed a little, gave Pei Bao'er another look, and then turned to greet the unscathed little emperor and the injured person with slanted temples, Empress Dowager Qin, greeted respectfully and politely, and then began to give orders.

"Someone came, and ordered all the guards in the palace to be under martial law. Quickly go to the imperial doctor to treat the Queen Mother's concubine. Escort the assassin and the rest of the dancers down and keep them guarded! ”