Chapter 20 The Storm Emerges
Ling Taiwei didn't succeed in the end, and reluctantly hurriedly got dressed and went to Prime Minister Zhao Meizhen's house at the urging of Xiao Yu'er.
Lu Liang also understood this time, he didn't need Xiao Yu'er to kick him, he honestly stood in place and waited to be carried away by the four sisters, and then slept comfortably in his bed.
Ling Taiwei, who was forced to be separated from Ailang, was in a very bad mood now, sitting in a sedan chair and asking while pranayama: "Xiao Yu'er, who is the Praetorian Guard on duty today." ”
"Your Majesty, it is General Han Miaomiao, who is the right guard, who sits in the Thousand Towers of Beiyuan, and the three captains under her are responsible for the defense of Kyoto."
"Little Senior Sister? Where is she now? ”
"General Han has returned to Kyoto and is now investigating anomalies in Kyoto."
Ling Taiwei's luck was over, she opened her eyes, her face had changed to a dignified and solemn look, and she couldn't tell that she had just knocked two small blue pills at night.
Prime Minister Zhao Meizhen is the grandmother of Zhao Zhenfeng, the imperial nobleman of the harem, and she is already an important minister of the Four Dynasties, and the most important thing is that she is the first hero to help Ling Taiwei ascend to the throne.
When the sedan chair swayed, Ling Taiwei came to the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, although it was late at night, the main entrance of the Prime Minister's Mansion was brightly lit, and Zhao Meizhen's whole family stood in front of the door and bowed respectfully to Ling Taiwei.
Ling Taiwei quickly stepped forward to support Zhao Meizhen, who was on crutches, and asked sincerely, "Is Zhao Xiang's body still fine?" Did the poisoned assassin catch it? ”
Zhao Meizhen is eighty-four years old this year, and the age spots on her face can't be covered, but the decisive face still makes ordinary people dare not look at it directly.
Seeing that Ling Taiwei held her hand, the gloom on her face gradually faded, and she squeezed out a kind smile: "Your Majesty Lao is worried, the old minister is fine, Your Majesty, please." ”
Bringing Ling Taiwei back to the study, Zhao Meizhen waved her hand to let the others retreat, leaving only Xiao Yu'er and her eldest daughter Zhao Honglian brought by Ling Taiwei.
"Your Majesty, the person who poisoned the old minister this time should be the same group of people who assassinated His Majesty a few times before." After Zhao Meizhen finished speaking, she raised her somewhat cloudy eyes and glanced at Zhao Honglian who was standing beside her.
Zhao Honglian stepped forward and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, when the minister was sorting out the books at home tonight, he felt the fluctuation of the unfamiliar formation, so the minister curiously followed the vein of the formation and found it, and caught the person who set up the formation. ”
After speaking, Zhao Honglian seemed to hesitate, not knowing whether to continue to speak.
Ling Taiwei nodded at the table and signaled her to say that it was okay, Zhao Honglian took a deep breath and said, "Her appearance is exactly the same as the previous two assassinations of His Majesty." ”
Ling Taiwei's brows also furrowed, and after pondering for a moment, she said, "I have been assassinated six times, although the first two assassins committed suicide by taking poison, but I also saw that their appearance was indeed the same, and I only thought they were siblings at that time, so I didn't think much about it. As for the last few times, they all committed suicide by taking poison as soon as the wind fell, and the medicine was so strong that in an instant, the assassins' whole body turned into pus, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, so in the end, I was too lazy to capture them alive and kill them directly. ”
Looking at the patches of corrosion marks on Zhao Honglian's right hand, Ling Taiwei continued: "As soon as Zhao Saijiu said this, I noticed this strangeness, the breath, body shape and tone of these six assassins are extremely similar. ”
Zhao Meizhen said: "In addition to the assassination that was broken by my daughter, the guards of the old minister found traces of poison in the meal at night, and all of them were non-lethal poisons. ”
Ling Taiwei's brows furrowed, and her fingers unconsciously tapped the desktop.
Sneaking in, childish assassinations, identical assassins, non-lethal poisons, what is the purpose of all this.
After a while, Ling Taiwei turned her head to look at Xiao Yu'er beside her and asked, "Xiao Yu'er, is there a technique that can transform into a clone outside the body today?" ”
Xiao Yu'er lowered her eyes and pondered for a while and replied: "Your Majesty, among the exercises that have been known so far, only the Great Yuan Xian and the Great Wilderness of General Fan Shuqing's division can do it, and the cultivation of the two sets of exercises to the upper three realms can be incarnated outside the body. ”
"Tai Sui Zong?"
Xiao Yu'er replied: "Yes, the Tai Sui Sect has twelve classics, and it is rumored that they can all be cultivated to the upper three realms. However, in the contemporary era, only the sect master who cultivated the Sleepy Dao, General Fan, who cultivated the Great Abyss, and the second sect master who cultivated the Great Desolation had reached the upper three realms. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the room fell silent.
Because this involves some old things that they don't want to mention, Liu Bingqing, the sect leader of the Tai Sui Sect, Qu Wuxian, the second sect leader, and the first emperor who was imprisoned by Ling Taiwei were like sisters when they were young.
It's just that the many policies promulgated by the first emperor after ascending the throne really made people angry, and Liu Bingqing and Qu Wuxian could only leave the imperial capital in disappointment after many times of persuasion to no avail, and returned to the sect to retreat.
After a period of silence, Zhao Meizhen said slowly: "Your Majesty, Liu Bingqing and Qu Wuxian have also understood, although they can't be said to be jealous and hateful, but they are all chivalrous warriors who dare to ask for the people's lives, as for General Fan, she was rescued by His Majesty himself, and His Majesty also knows her temperament, and the three of them should not do such a thing." ”
Ling Taiwei laughed and said: "Zhao Xiang doesn't have to worry about me suspecting the two sect masters and General Fan, they won't do this kind of unpopular thing, what I am thinking about now is another thing, who is the person who can sneak into the palace without knowing it and lay out multiple formations silently." ”
Hearing this, Zhao Honglian stepped forward and took out a piece of rice paper from her arms, on which an extremely complex formation pattern was drawn.
"Your Majesty, this is the formation drawn by the assassin found by the minister, but unfortunately the lines in it can only be analyzed by the minister, although the minister is not as good as the gentleman who studied the formation together, but he is still a little confident that he can interpret most of the formations in the world. But this texture... There are many things that have never been seen or heard of by the ministers. ”
Ling Taiwei nodded, took the rice paper, looked at it for a while, and then handed it to Xiao Yu'er.
Xiao Yu'er also frowned: "Your Majesty, many of the lines in this have never been recorded, and even those that are included are only similar in shape and not in appearance." ”
Ling Taiwei looked at Zhao Honglian and said, "Zhao Xijiu, you first take the formation to the Guozijian, gather all the gentlemen to study it carefully, and draw another copy tomorrow and send it to the palace." ”
Waiting for Zhao Honglian to put away the formation, the four of them took stock of the assassination again, and it didn't take long for the sky to gradually turn white, and Ling Taiwei also drove back to the palace after seeing this and saying a few words.
Looking at the back of the group in the distance, Zhao Meizhen was speechless for a long time.
After Ling Taiwei's sedan chair completely disappeared from sight, Zhao Meizhen squinted her eyes, stared at her daughter and said, "Red Lotus, Your Majesty has great ambitions and wants to make contributions, and he is a rare hero, you need to be assisted with your heart." ”
Zhao Honglian's face remained unchanged, and she bowed her head slightly and said, "Your Majesty is heroic, and my daughter should do her best." ”
Zhao Meizhen didn't reply anymore when she heard this, but turned around and looked at her deep mansion compound and couldn't help but shake her head.
"The storm is coming."