Chapter 101: Joker
Emperor Mingde fell, and most of the people in the hall were frightened, but they did not mess up.
Because of He Zheng's deputy, Xu Wenhua, the deputy general of the inner guard, broke in almost at the same time, and surrounded the hall with hundreds of guards with swords.
Li Jinyu was so frightened that she was sweating profusely, and then she remembered that He Zheng was on leave to recuperate at home due to illness, and now not only Zhaoyang Palace, but the security of the entire inner palace was controlled by Xu Wenhua.
Li Jinchen, the prince of the king of Chu, laughed, walked to the high platform where Emperor Mingde was originally sitting with his hands behind his back and said to Xu Wenhua:
"The prince killed his father and the king, the crime is unforgivable, arrest him."
Xu Wenhua waved his hand, and immediately several strong guards followed him and rushed towards Li Jinyu.
Li Jinyu was so frightened that she shouted:
"Jinzhi, Qingyang, save me!"
Li Jinzhi was standing next to Li Jinyu, in fact, before Li Jinyu could speak, he had already dodged in front of Li Jinyu.
Shen Qingyang sneered, he stood behind Li Jinyu, and at the same time pulled out a soft sword disguised as a belt from his waist, and slashed off the head of the guard who rushed to the front.
The human head rolled out a long blood mark on the main hall, Shen Qingyang and Li Jinzhi sandwiched Li Jinyu in the middle, and Li Jinzhi's left and right hands each held a short and sharp dagger.
Li Jinchen was still urging Xu Wenhua to take down Li Jinyu immediately, but in the face of Shen Qingyang, Xu Wenhua obviously hesitated.
He clearly knew that he was far from being Shen Qingyang's opponent, and he couldn't figure out why the medicine in Shen Qingyang's wine hadn't worked yet.
Shen Qingyang pointed at Xu Wenhua with the bloody soft sword in his hand, and sneered:
"If you know each other, put down your weapons now, and I'll leave you a whole corpse. Otherwise, I guarantee that your whole family will not survive until tomorrow afternoon. ”
Xu Wenhua stared at Shen Qingyang, Li Jinzhi, and Li Jinyu, and the hot sweat on his forehead rolled down.
Li Jinchen was impatient to wait any longer, loudly reprimanded Li Jinyu for his heinous crimes, and threatened all the imperial relatives and ministers to stand in line immediately, otherwise none of them would want to walk out of Zhaoyang Hall alive.
No one paid attention to the little chamberlain who had been lowering her eyebrows, and no one noticed that her hand blocked by the table had not stopped, and soon a liquid mixed with blood flowed down the corner of Emperor Mingde's mouth.
Feng Jinyao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was already over the age of six, and he was full of white hair, and he walked out at this time, pointing at Li Jinchen and Xu Wenhua and scolding angrily:
"Are you all fools when we are? Even if the prince wants to rebel, he will not choose to be in this public, it is clearly you ......"
But before he finished speaking, Li Jinchen had already snatched the sword in the hand of a guard, stabbed Feng Jinyao several times like crazy, and then kicked Feng Jinyao's corpse down, he himself held the bloody sword and laughed wildly:
"Did you see it clearly? This is the end of disobedience, I will give you half an hour, those who don't want to die will stand behind me, and the rest, Lao Tzu will kill them one by one today! ”
As he spoke, he suddenly turned around and quickly raised his sword to attack Li Jinyu.
Li Jinzhi still smiled slightly, and did not look scared and unfamiliar, and raised the two daggers in his hand to block it.
The sparks of the metal impact flashed and Li Jinyu's eyes were sour, and he knew that Li Jinzhi didn't know kung fu at all.
Shen Qingyang was still staring at the rebel guards around him, his face didn't twist, but the soft sword in his hand was wrapped around Li Jinchen with unmistakable precision.
The dagger in Li Jinzhi's left hand fell to the ground along with Li Jinchen's sword, and blood dripped down his wrist.
But he still didn't hide from Li Jinyu behind him.
And Li Jinchen was directly knocked to the ground by Shen Qingyang's soft sword, and from his right shoulder to his left waist, a long bloody hole was cut.
Li Jinchen screamed in pain, but Shen Qingyang didn't even bother to look back at him.
Xu Wenhua had no choice but to Shen Qingyang, and suddenly led a few subordinates to drag out Wu'anhou in the crowd, forcing him to stand in line.
Although Wu Anhou was afraid, he still scolded, Xu Wenhua was angry, and stabbed at Wu Anhou with his sword.
However, no one expected that Meng Ziyi, the prince of Wu'anhou, who was already pale with fright, suddenly rushed out and threw himself into Wu'anhou's arms to block a sword for him.
Meng Ziyi was pierced through the chest by a sword, and a mouthful of hot blood sprayed into Wu Anhou's neck.
Wu Anhou hugged his son and cried heartbreakingly, Meng Ziyi said with tears in his eyes:
"Father...... Dear, I'm right...... Don't ..... ......"
Several men of the Meng family were completely furious, and rushed out with their bare hands to tear up the rebellious guards. Some bloody imperial relatives and ministers were also forced to be anxious, and ordered to angrily reprimand Li Jinchen and Xu Wenhua for being mad.
Naturally, these people have also become targets.
However, with all the men of the Meng family killed, after all, many people chose to stand next to Li Jinchen.
The hall was filled with the smell of blood, and the screams were endless.
Seeing the people of the Meng family fall one by one, Li Jinyu's eyes were red, and she was about to rush over with tears, but she was stopped by Li Jin's death.
Suddenly, a sharp whistle sounded outside, and in Li Jinchen's stunned effort, several side doors around the hall opened at the same time, and masked guards dressed in armor and holding heavy weapons rushed in.
There were thousands of people, and they surrounded the black and oppressively, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to kill all the rebel guards in the main hall.
Only Li Jinchen and Xu Wenhua, who were covered in blood, were left in the middle.
Among the surviving imperial relatives and ministers who survived the catastrophe, some began to choke and cry, and those who originally chose Li Jinchen were surrounded in a corner.
The hall fell silent, and people noticed the little chamberlain who had been kneeling beside the main seat with his head down.
Everyone looked at him, watched him stand up with a calm face, and watched Emperor Mingde, who had been killed, stand up again.
An Jiang staggered out from behind, followed by another Emperor Mingde with a gloomy face.
Emperor Mingde, who was standing next to Mei Xue, immediately grabbed his hair and coat, and tore off the skin on his face.
The one who appeared in front of everyone's eyes was He Zheng, the leader of the inner guards.
Xu Wenhua, who was already seriously injured, suddenly fell to the ground.
Li Jinyu cried with joy and rushed over to support Emperor Mingde behind An Jiang.
Li Jinzhi and Shen Qingyang glanced at each other, lowered their heads again, and pulled their sleeves to cover their injured left hand.
Emperor Mingde stood with his hands behind his back, stared at Li Jinchen for a while, then turned his face to look at the little chamberlain beside him and said:
"Mei Xue, let him die and understand."
Mei Xue nodded, peeled off the skin on her face, and after saluting Emperor Mingde, she said aloud to everyone.
He Zheng deliberately called himself sick, gave Xu Wenhua a chance, and also gave Li Jinchen the courage, so that they successfully changed Li Jinyu's wine glass, and the poison was hidden in the handle of the cup.
Speaking of this, Mei Xue picked up the cup that Li Jinyu had toasted last time from the table, turned the cup mouth towards everyone, and then gently twisted the handle of the cup with her hand.
The skirt and handle of the cup were staggered, and white powder fell down.
Uncle Shen Guo, who had been shrinking in the crowd, suddenly came out at this time, ran to Li Jinchen with a fat body, and beat and scolded him.
Shen Qingyang glanced at Uncle Shen Guo, who was extremely exaggerated, and twisted his face with sarcasm.
Emperor Mingde's eyes swept over everyone in the hall one by one, and then he instructed He Zheng and Shen Qingyang to say:
"The two of you stay to finish the matter and show mercy to the loyal ministers, especially the Meng family and the Feng family. Those who have different intentions are all taken to Dali Temple for questioning. ”
He pointed to Xu Wenhua and Li Jinchen and said:
"The Xu family, directly punish the nine clans. The palace of the king of Chu, the mansion does not leave a living mouth. But we must keep the lives of the two of them first, and when the head of the king of Chu arrives in the capital, they will be hung together at the city gate to show the public. ”
Shen Qingyang and He Zheng responded, and Emperor Mingde beckoned to Li Jinzhi and said:
"Jinzhi, you go with me."
Li Jinzhi followed, and together with Li Jinyu, he supported Emperor Mingde back to the dormitory.
Mei Xue and An Jiang followed, she quietly glanced at Li Jinzhi's left arm, then lowered her eyes again and continued to walk forward.