With a ding, the knife in the eunuch's hand grazed the young body of the third prince and slammed into the bluestone floor under the Chen Corridor, and a few pieces of gravel collapsed, which shows how great the power is.

The third prince twisted his body, screamed wildly, kicked his feet blindly, but happened to dodge the knife, and the dagger he held tremblingly in his hand swung indiscriminately twice.

With two sneering sounds, the lower robes of the two eunuchs were cut, revealing two tears. The eunuch had a cold face, as if he didn't expect that the noble prince would carry a dagger at any time, and this dagger would be so sharp.

The dagger, which was pulled out of his boot for the first time, did not seem to work as well as he should. Although the dagger was sharp, it was in the hands of an eleven or twelve-year-old boy.

At the moment of life and death, Li Chengping learned the courage to kill when Fan Xian was twelve years old, but he did not learn his teacher's ability to kill. Although the murderous eunuch has no martial arts, he is strong, and where can he resist.

A eunuch trampled Li Chengping to the ground, a eunuch stepped on Li Chengping's elbow, so that he could no longer move, looked at the tear on his clothes, shook his head, strangled Li Chengping's neck with one hand, held the knife in the other, and stabbed it again!

............ Li Chengping's breathing became more and more difficult, watching the knife pierce down, knowing that he was going to die, he couldn't help but regret it endlessly, thinking that his knife just now was swung out, but it didn't even touch the other party's side, and in despair, he couldn't help but give up, closed his eyes, and cried.

However, it was a long wait.

Li Chengping had even felt the pain of the sharp object in his chest, and the iron hand on his neck was cutting off his breath...... But he found that he was still alive, and the two feet on his body and hands did not seem to be stepping on him harder.

He opened his eyes in horror, and then saw a scene that made his heart tremble, only to see the two eunuchs above his head also like himself, with frightened eyes, and two black blood were flowing from the corners of their eyes!

Li Chengping knew that he was back alive, so he screamed, pulled out his right hand from the eunuch's feet, and stabbed a knife on the calf that was stepping on his chest.

The dagger entered the flesh, and a blood flower bloomed.

............ Li Chengping struggled to stand up, watching the two eunuchs who were still fierce and vicious before fall down like two logs, and couldn't help but palpitate. His legs trembled, and he didn't dare to step forward to see what was going on, why the two eunuchs had black blood from the corners of their eyes, and they fell down like this.

He looked down at the knife in his chest, and then he felt infinite pain, and screamed in pain.

Fortunately, at the last moment when the eunuch stabbed the knife, he was already out of breath and could not continue to exert force, and the tip of the knife was only three points into the flesh, so that Li Chengping narrowly saved his life.

Li Chengping dragged his limp legs and walked to the two eunuchs who had been killed, and while he was afraid, he also had endless doubts in his heart, thinking that God was helping him and casting a spell on these two eunuchs?

It's not a spell - the third prince who came to his senses finally understood, he stared at the two eunuchs in a daze for a moment, and then looked down at the black dagger in his hand.

The dagger in his hand was too sharp, so although he had only swung it indiscriminately twice, it not only cut the eunuch's clothes, but also slightly wiped the skin under the other party's clothes. However, because the dagger was too sharp, or because the teacher smeared some medicine on the dagger, the two eunuchs did not feel anything.

The dagger was quenched with the most powerful poison in the Supervision Yuan, and as soon as the blade broke the skin, the medicine entered the blood, and it only took a moment to poison the two eunuchs to death, and there was no time left for the last bit of killing.

What a poison!

Li Chengping, who escaped death, trembled everywhere in his body, holding the dagger tightly in his hand, watching the two eunuchs whose faces under his feet gradually turned into a black one, and finally couldn't stand anymore and sat on the ground. He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the fact that there was such a powerful poison on the dagger, if it weren't for the fact that these two eunuchs didn't think of this at all, then no matter how much he struggled today, he would still not be able to escape death in the end.

He sat trembling beside the two corpses, his face pale, not knowing what he should do next. The first time he was killed, the first time he was killed, even if he was a very powerful precocious prince, he was still shocked and distraught.

I don't know how long I sat there, twelve-year-old Li Chengping finally woke up, got up with some difficulty, looked at the two corpses beside him, and his eyes revealed complicated feelings that children should not have...... It gradually turned to calm and anger.

Calm anger.

Who wanted to kill him? Li Chengping didn't know, but he knew that he couldn't get rid of his brothers. He burst out crying, then clenched the dagger in his hand and stabbed it hard.

With one knife, two knives and three knives, he numbly and mechanically stabbed the dagger into the corpse of the eunuch next to him, stabbing out countless blood, and the blood finally splattered into black blood.

He hates these people, so he wants to let the other party die thoroughly, and of course, he will be very careful not to let these blood poisons get on his body.

After a while, he stopped crying in fear, stood up with the pillars of the corridor, looked at the quiet and empty long road of the corridor, his lips trembled slightly, and then shouted loudly.

At the end of the corridor is the cold palace, and there are always palace maids in the cold palace.

―――――――――――――――――――― "Mother, I don't want you to live in the cold palace. ”

The weather in early autumn was not cool, but in a wing room at the back of the Hanguang Palace, the third prince was tightly wrapped in a large quilt, looking at the Yigui concubine who was looking at him with tears in his eyes, lowered his voice, and said in a strong and cold tone: "I don't want to die, and you can't die either." ”

Yi Guifei's eyes were red and she hugged him tightly.

Previously, the cold palace came to report the news, and everyone knew that the three princes had sneaked out of the Hanguang Palace, and they had actually met assassins in the deep palace! The queen mother was furious, and ordered the inner palace to strengthen its defenses, not to mention the assassins, and even scolded the eunuchs and palace maids in the Hanguang Palace, even the noble concubine Yi.

The Queen Mother stayed by the bedside of the unconscious third prince for a while, and did not leave until earlier.

And as soon as the Queen Mother left, Li Chengping woke up and said this to his mother in a trembling voice. Obviously, the coma in front of the Queen Mother was faked, and the third prince just had a secret fear of the Queen Mother and didn't want to face his grandmother.

"Don't worry...... Yi Guifei hugged her son, and said in a trembling voice: "In the Hanguang Palace, there are the old ancestors of the Queen Mother watching, and they don't dare to mess around anymore." ”

Li Chengping's face sank for a moment, knowing that his mother was just comforting him, but he didn't say anything. Yi Guifei looked down at her son, but after all, she still couldn't hold back, and asked softly, "Those two eunuchs...... How did they die? Who are they?"

"I don't know. Li Chengping did not explain the matter of the dagger, and while calling for help, he had already hidden the dagger in the trees next to the corridor. With a hint of horror in his eyes, he looked at his mother and said, "All of a sudden, he died...... I don't know who tried to kill me. ”

Concubine Yi was silent, looked around, and found that there were many people, and many eunuchs and palace maids were waiting outside the chamber, so it was really inconvenient to say too many things, so she stopped talking suddenly.

Since knowing the news of His Majesty's assassination, she and the third prince have been under house arrest in the Hanguang Palace, and they don't know very well what happened outside, but they know that Fan Xian has been beaten into a prisoner, and the Fan family and the Liu family are all under the control of the inner court, and the Queen Mother's eyes are getting colder and colder when she looks at her.

Looking at this palace today, Concubine Yi felt a cold to the bone, and she thought in her heart: "This Hanguang Palace is not necessarily safe. ”

At this moment, a middle-aged woman walked in from outside the house, it was Ning Cairen, the biological mother of the eldest prince. Yi Guifei quickly stood up and gave a salute. The two mothers looked at each other, and they couldn't say anything about it.

The prince also came to visit, and Haosheng comforted his younger brother a few words, and promised to find out who the real culprit was. These words were very sincere, but Concubine Yi always couldn't listen to them. It wasn't until the last night came, people gradually left, and the house became quiet, that Concubine Yi looked at her son hidden in the quilt, and said quietly: "If it's not the prince, who will it be?"

The three princes were stabbed to death, who is the most beneficial to the various forces in Kyoto at this time? Yi Guifei involuntarily thought of a person's name, but she did not dare to say it.

Li Chengping looked at his mother's thoughtful expression, his heart sank, knowing who his mother was suspicious of, he shook his head firmly, and said, "It's not a teacher." ”

Yes, Yi Guifei is suspicious of Fan Xian, because a large number of civil servants in the court today are resolutely standing by Fan Xian's side, and they are attacking the prince with the so-called edict and righteousness...... If Fan Xian is really sure to defeat the prince, then what is the third child to do? Yi Guifei looked at her son and said quietly: "Although he is your teacher, he is not your cousin after all. ”

"He's my brother. The third prince bit his lip and said.

Concubine Yi sighed: "In this royal family, where is there any brother-apprentice friendship? You didn't tell the Queen Mother and the Prince before, those two eunuchs used tokens to trick you to the Chen Corridor...... If it weren't for your teacher's people, how could there be a token in your hand?"

The token is actually very simple, just in the Peng manor by the West Lake in Hangzhou, Jiangnan...... A page from one of the three princes' favorite books.

Li Chengping lowered his head: "I won't doubt the master...... And I believe in his ability, if he really wants to kill me, to make the palace chaotic for a while, he will not use tokens, this is all easy to make mistakes. And the master ...... There are never so many flaws. ”

Concubine Yi Gui smiled forcefully and didn't say anything more, emotionally, judging from the current critical situation, she was also willing to believe her son's judgment of Fan Xian, because except for Fan Xian, their mother and son had no support.

"Yes...... But I don't know when Lord Fan will be able to rescue us. Yi Guifei thought in her heart, if Fan Xian really forced the prince to a point where there was no way to retreat, the prince would only have to risk the world's great fortune and use bloody means to subdue the hearts of the ministers, and at that time, I was afraid that his mother and son would no longer have a way to live.

―――――――――――――――――――――― the front hall of Hanguang Palace, all the people were silent, and the entire palace was shrouded in an atmosphere of oppression and tension. The crown prince and the queen sat next to the queen mother, gently beating the old man's back, the situation of this mother and son was much easier than that of Yigui's mother and son, but they also knew that the old woman under the fist must not have problems.

"Auntie. The queen glanced at the queen mother, and said timidly: "The third child's life is a great blessing...... she looked at it again, "...... can actually survive like this, it seems that Fan Xian, the traitor, really taught him a lot of things. ”

The crown prince frowned, saw that the skin on his grandmother's temples was slightly tense, and knew that his mother's words stupidly made the queen mother angry, and said coldly: "It's good that my brother is alive, and the rest of the things are not discussed for the time being." ”

The Queen Mother forcibly breathed a few times, suppressed the anger in her heart, and gently patted the back of the prince's hand, thinking that among so many descendants of the royal family, probably only the prince really understood what he was thinking. As soon as she thought of this, the Queen Mother felt more and more that her choice was not wrong, Qingguo really needed a child like the prince who knew how to be filial to be in charge.

"Get out, all of you. The queen mother coughed twice, the god jīng was extremely tired, waved her hand, and all the eunuchs and palace maids who served were ordered to leave, even some unwilling queens were driven out of the palace, and only she and the prince were left in the entire palace.

The Queen Mother turned around, looked at the prince with somewhat godless eyes, took the prince's hand, and said quietly: "I just don't want your brothers to kill each other, that's why I will support this body, looking at this qiē, I am very happy that you can understand this." ”

The prince didn't answer, just sighed, I don't know if he thought of Fan Xian's brother.

The Queen Mother's eyes suddenly turned cold, and she seemed to see through the prince's heart: "As an emperor, you need to be decisive when you are decisive, and lenient when you are lenient...... As for Fan Xian, this person is a thief of all evils who plotted to assassinate your father, his surname is Fan and not his surname is Li, what do you want to do so much?"

The prince bowed his head and was taught: "The child understands that some people cannot be let go. ”

"It's a pity that I still didn't catch him. The Queen Mother slowly closed her eyes and said, "Where are the ministers of Shu Wu now?"

"Crushed in the prison of the Criminal Department. The prince smiled bitterly: "Now it is naturally not good to put it in the prison of the Supervision Yuan, but ...... For some reason, these ministers were deceived by Fan Xian, so confused, and they refused to give in. ”

The Queen Mother sneered: "Blinded? It's not some sour people who read dead books, and only your father and emperor would allow them to be so presumptuous...... Maybe they had already read the edict in Fan Xian's hand before they dared to hold it so hard. ”

The prince's face changed slightly, and he immediately calmed down, and said, "There is no edict at all. ”

"Not bad. The Queen Mother looked at him approvingly, "So, what do you think we should do with these ministers who speak falsely and want to threaten the royal family?"

The prince's face changed again, knowing that the queen mother was making up her mind, and after a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Kill if you should kill." ”

"Good. The Queen Mother's face gradually became indifferent, "If you want to be stable, don't be afraid of killing." ”

"It's just that the subordinates of the Supervision Yuan are completely exempt from the emperor's order, which is a bit tricky. After pondering, the prince said: "Many ministers in Kyoto have been assassinated and killed, and the people are panicked, and the government is in chaos...... Fan Xian hid in the secret to preside over a qiē, and the child couldn't think of a good way to deal with it for a while. ”

"Fan Xian is using blood and skull to intimidate the court officials, intending to cause chaos in Kyoto. The Queen Mother looked at her grandson and said softly: "Say whatever you want." ”

The prince was silent for a moment and then raised his head and said in a firm tone: "The child dares to ask the queen mother to transfer troops into Beijing...... Bounce pressure!"

............ The hall of Hanguang calmed down again, and after a long time, the Queen Mother slowly spoke: "In the Taiji Hall today, Yan Xingshu has already discussed this, how was it rejected in the end?"

The prince smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "No one would have thought that all the scholars under the sect would be imprisoned...... Today, someone jumped out again. ”

The person who jumped out of the court today does not have a high official position, but his identity is very special, because he is the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, He Zongwei!

He Zongwei has always been a faction of the East Palace, and later helped the eldest princess drive Prime Minister Lin Ruofu out of Kyoto, and has always had some inexplicable grudges with Fan Fu. The prince always thought that this person would be his pillar in the court, but he didn't expect that when he wanted to transfer troops into Beijing to issue an edict, it was this person who jumped out to oppose it.

He Zongwei's opposition was very extreme, he took off his official uniform, took the black yarn, led more than a dozen imperial historians, and knelt in front of the Taiji Hall like that! The prince was furious, beat him with twelve rods, and drove him out of the palace, but this talented man who was famous in Kyoto at the beginning knelt in front of the palace wall with blood stains, and did not let him take a step!

"He Yushi's objection is very reasonable. The Queen Mother lowered her eyes slightly, and said tiredly: "In fact, the mourning family has never let the Qin family enter Beijing, and it is also this problem that worries them...... The ancestral precedent of the imperial court strictly forbade the military to enter Beijing to interfere in politics, and as soon as this precedent was opened, I was afraid that there would be endless troubles after that. ”

The crown prince was silent, knowing the worries of the queen mother's ancestors, the queen mother always hoped that she could take over peacefully, once she was involved in the military, the Qin family's Ye family was big, and she was not like her father and the emperor had supreme authority in the army, what would the future Qingguo look like?

"The Qin family has been loyal for generations, so there is no need to worry. The Queen Mother said indifferently, she has a very deep relationship with the Qin family, so naturally she doesn't need to worry about this problem, "But what about the Ye family? Ye Zhong is your second brother's father-in-law!"

The Empress Dowager looked at the silent prince, and after taking a deep breath, Yīn Sen said, "It's just Fan Xian...... This yīn son is acting too crazy, if there is no army to suppress it, this Kyoto will never be able to settle down, even if you kill dozens of ministers in the prison, what good will it do? ”

The prince was silent and said: "Therefore, the child needs the military to enter Beijing, compared with the troubles in the future, today's Fan Xian is a dagger in front of him." ”

He frowned slightly and said, "It's just...... What should He Zongwei do over there? After all, he is the imperial history of the Zuodu, and he has a group of famous imperial historians who are not afraid of death under his hands, and he plays death outside the palace walls......

The prince's worries are not unreasonable, killing ministers is not uncommon in history, but killing officials is a taboo thing. Even with Emperor Qing's supreme authority back then, the imperial historians collectively attacked his illegitimate son Fan Xian, Emperor Qing still only had a few strokes of the rod to show it.

"There are always people who need to be wicked. The Queen Mother stared at the prince's eyes and said lovingly: "These people should be disposed of by the order of the mourning family." ”

The Queen Mother paused and said, "After the army enters Beijing, your eldest brother's commander can be handed over." ”

The prince was stunned, sincere and sincere, and was speechless.

―――――――――――――――――――― Guangxin Palace, not far from Hanguang Palace, made this plan from the beginning, and then began to look coldly at the eldest princess who was acting on the stage, and finally fell into a certain worry for the first time, because what happened on this day made her feel a little strange.

"Why haven't you caught Fan Xian yet?" she looked at Gonggong Hou beside her, and asked coldly: "It's not that the inner court has no masters, and the Kyoto Mansion is not without its efforts, when does the palace need to wait before it can see his head?"

She said these words in front of her daughter, Lin Wan'er listened with a smile on the side, and didn't seem to be worried about the safety of her father-in-law at all, several days have passed, since there is no way to catch him in the palace, then he will never be caught.

Kicked Gonggong Hou out of the palace, the eldest princess's face immediately changed expression, and she was calm, and she couldn't see that she had moved so much temper before.

Because she knew that Fan Xian was not so easy to catch. Since this young man was able to come back alive from Dadong Mountain, it proved his ability.

This is a matter of the overall situation of the world, the eldest princess's focus has always been on Dadong Mountain, not in Kyoto, from the beginning, she did not expect Fan Xian to return to Kyoto alive. This point has fundamentally shocked her mind.

Fan Xian lived, and Yan Xiaoyi naturally died. Li Yunrui lowered his eyes slightly, the chill in his eyes was slightly reduced, thinking about what kind of realm Fan Xian's current cultivation had reached? He actually dared to use assassination methods so arrogantly and recklessly in Kyoto to challenge the authority of the imperial palace!

She frowned suddenly, looked at the deserted Guangxin Palace, and said, "This palace ...... With a smell of dead ash, Hongu wanted to go out. ”

Lin Wan'er looked at her mother quietly and said, "You're scared." ”

"What do I have to be afraid of, afraid that Fan Xian will attack the palace tonight?" The eldest princess gently patted her daughter's slightly thin cheek and said, "I know Fan Xian too well, he can only be an assassin and a mouse who fights in the dark, and he has never had the courage to fight the enemy head-on...... Because he is more afraid of death than anyone else. ”

The eldest princess tilted her head slightly, looked at her daughter, and said, "I've been thinking about a question, if you threaten him with your life and death, what will he do?"

"I'm curious about the answer to that question. The eldest princess smiled happily, "So I'm waiting for Fan Xian to be able to kill me." ”

―――――――――――――――――――― Fan Xian, he always thought that he could see the Empress Dowager's mind clearly, and the old Li family's nǎinǎi wanted to hand over the shift peacefully, and he was unwilling to let the army run wild and uncontrollable forces to twist the entire Qingguo into a mess. That's why he carried out his own arrangements in an orderly manner.

Obviously, he underestimated his image of the Dark Killing God, the strong Cheng dù in the hearts of the nobles in the palace. Unexpectedly, his assassination in Kyoto finally stimulated the empress dowager and the crown prince to a certain kind of Cheng dù, forcing them to prepare for the transfer of troops into Beijing to suppress them.

The next day, the Kyoto garrison in the Yuantai camp will enter Beijing to suppress it, if before this, Fan Xian has not been able to control the palace, and he will definitely end dismal.

He didn't expect that when the Qin family's army entered Beijing, it was actually He Zongwei, a slave with the third surname who he had always despised and hated, who had always been despised and hated, and he dragged it back for a night with a bloody and strong attitude.

In this sense, He Zongwei did him a great favor.

And the determination of the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince is obviously a day late.

―――――――――――――――――――― was night, a very deep and quiet moment, and the night fell asleep deeply, and it was time for the forbidden army to take shifts. The forbidden army controlled the first half of the palace in the imperial city, as well as several key streets outside the imperial city. Now that the situation is tense, the forbidden troops who have changed their values are temporarily stationed in the houses on these streets, and they dare not return to the camp to stand by.

A column of about 200 forbidden troops, full of armor, walked to the gate of the main palace very calmly, and exchanged defense procedures and passwords with the forbidden army on duty.

Due to the current situation, the Great Prince, the commander of the forbidden army, had not returned to the palace for three days, he stood on the city wall, looked at the handover below with cold eyes, paused slightly, and walked down slowly.

Dressed in armor, he stood in the palace gate, like a god, trying to block the attack of a qiē from outside the palace.

He looked coldly at the group of two hundred forbidden troops, and after a moment, nodded silently. The pro-soldier officer beside him swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stepped forward nervously, completed the formalities, and then waved his hand to let the team of forbidden officers and soldiers who obviously looked a little strange walk into the palace.

The eldest prince stood at the palace gate like that, and let the forbidden army who had come to take over pass by his side in two columns.

This group of forbidden troops who came to take over walked quietly and strictly.

When the last of the forbidden army was about to enter the palace gate, the eldest prince suddenly sighed.

The man at the back of the Forbidden Army nodded softly at him.

............, "Marshal, what should I do next?" The school officer was a confidant of the Great Prince, a general who had risen from the Western Expeditionary Army. It stands to reason that it is not his turn to deal with such a trivial matter as traffic defense procedures, but he knows that this time he must handle the change of guard by himself.

Looking at the forbidden soldiers who were gradually disappearing into the thick city walls, the colonel swallowed his saliva, forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and asked for instructions in a trembling voice.

The eldest prince slowly clenched the sword at his waist, and his face against the night wind was extremely hard: "Let everyone wake up, a temporary meeting in front of the army." ”

As soon as these words came out, an extremely strong killing intent appeared outside his body. Although the eldest prince is not a martial arts master, he has been fighting on the battlefield all the year round, and he doesn't know how many souls are under the sword, so he will make up his mind tonight, so naturally he must first deal with the uneasy factors within the forbidden army.

The school officer knew that the marshal was going to kill someone tonight, and the cronies in the forbidden army who originally belonged to Yan Xiaoyi's family were afraid that they would be slaughtered, but he was no longer afraid at this time, and he was infinitely excited from the bottom of his heart. Start the herald right away.

............ The city wall in front of the palace is extremely wide, and four horses can be paralleled on it, all of which are made of blue bricks, which naturally exudes a solemn atmosphere.

A column of forbidden troops lined up here, looking at the square below the imperial city, and was on guard, as if ready to meet an attack from outside the palace at any time.

However, one of the forbidden soldiers looked at the palace with far-reaching eyes.

Fan Xian gently tidied up the clothes and ornaments of the forbidden army, looking at this familiar palace, it was pitch black inside, and he didn't know where his relatives were and where his enemies were. He knew that he would enter the palace with two hundred people, and he would face the inner guards and the eunuch masters of the inner court.

Because he couldn't judge whether the eldest prince could completely control the forbidden army when the killing sounded. He could not rely on the strength of the forbidden army.

"Never do what the enemy wants you to do, for the simple reason that the enemy wants you to do that. ”

Fan Xian said to Jing Ge, the deputy commander of the Black Cavalry beside him.

"This was said by a man named Napoleon. The gate of the imperial city has been opened, and the door of the harem is still closed, and they can't imagine that we dare to use such people to storm the palace. ”

He didn't know what the eldest princess said of him at this time, if it was replaced by the previous Fan Tisi, Shixian, he really wouldn't choose such a direct and brave attack.

It's just that Fan Xian has changed, from the moment he stood up from the grass.