A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 201 It's Not My Blood!

At the moment when the incident happened, a maid was going to deliver food to the table of the Emperor and Concubine Sheng Xian.

In fact, even if it was not in the palace, a dish would have to go through layers of screening before it was delivered to the emperor. It was impossible for the maids of the palace to put it on the table and just import it at will.

Eunuch Li took Xiao Miaozi and two other eunuchs who were responsible for testing dishes for the emperor to serve.

Eunuch Li stepped forward, about a foot away from the emperor, and took the dishes from the handmaid.

The maid kept her eyebrows lowered, and just as he was about to turn around, she suddenly pulled out a sharp knife from the interlayer of the tray, jumped up, and rushed towards the emperor on the throne.

The voice "escort" was called by Eunuch Li.

At the same time, two other maidservants who were also serving food to other tables in the warm pavilion also drew their weapons, and they all rushed at the emperor without hesitation.

Suddenly.

The space in the warm pavilion is relatively small.

Concubine Sheng Xian exclaimed.

The emperor's gaze sank, and he sat still.

Before the guards and generals rushed up to escort him, Eunuch Li did his part and blocked the assassin's knife.

However, he was older, and his body was a bit fatter, so his movements were not so agile, and then the little father-in-law who reacted also rushed up.

As a result, Eunuch Li was lucky enough to escape, and the knife was firmly stuck in the chest of Eunuch Xiao Miaozi.

Perhaps the assassin did not expect that the two eunuchs beside the emperor, who had no strength to restrain them, would react so swiftly to escort them at a critical moment, that is, they were blocked for a while...

When her two companions rushed up, there were several tables below that were closer to the emperor, and generals such as Gu Zhan and Qin Song also rushed up quickly.

It's just that, with the presence of the emperor and a wedding banquet in the palace, no one had any weapons in their hands.

But all of them, a group of generals who rely on fighting for their lives on the battlefield, are all very skilled.

Although the three female assassins are relatively light and flexible, their advantages are limited to opportunism when they are not prepared.

After the initial sneak attack plan was destroyed by Eunuch Li and his apprentice, even if the three of them rushed to kill with all their strength, they immediately fell into a disadvantage.

Including the crown prince and the twelve-year-old sixth prince, although the reaction was fast or slow, without exception, the first reaction of everyone after recovering from the initial shock and confusion was to rush towards the emperor——

Escort!

Here, Qi Huan didn't see the details of what happened in the Nuan Pavilion. The only thing he could see was that with a cry of "Help me", the whole wedding banquet was in chaos.

There was the roar of men yelling "get the assassin" and the screaming and crying of women.

The gorgeously dressed dancers were also in a mess. In the middle of the hall, some people huddled together and collapsed to the ground, while some ran around screaming in a panic.

In this case—

In fact, it was obvious that the target of the assassins was the emperor, and possibly even the princes.

Qi Huan is very clear that these useless female relatives just need to shrink into a group in place to reduce their sense of existence, and wait until the storm passes, because unless the entire Ning Palace is completely reversed, the entire Palace will unite and prepare to trap and kill Emperor, otherwise, how many assassins could have sneaked in?You can't kill all the people at the wedding banquet regardless of priority, right?

But no matter how clear-headed she was, it was useless, because the entire ladies' table was in chaos in an instant.

Some people were just dumbfounded by fright, or huddled in their seats limply in fright, but more people jumped up immediately and fled in all directions in a panic.

Of course, it's not their fault.

Not to mention a group of pampered female family members of officials and eunuchs, even the somewhat pampered civil servants in the male guest table opposite were so frightened that the two groups were fighting with each other, desperately trying to hide themselves or flee.

Everyone was running around, and Qi Huan couldn't wait for the stampede to happen.

So she also pulled up Qi Xin who was already frightened into a fool: "Get up."

Qi Xin's whole head was in a daze, and when he heard her voice, he didn't think about anything, but got up instinctively in a panic.

Many people were scrambling to run towards the gate, but Qi Huan dragged her to hide at the back of the seat and find a place to hide temporarily.

But there are too many people, everyone pushes and shoves each other, and the direction of walking is chaotic, it is difficult to move an inch, it is extremely difficult.

Qi Huan gave Qi Xin a push with all his strength, pushed her past the crowd, and shouted: "Stay behind and don't run around."

Qi Xin staggered and hurriedly turned around when he reached the open place...

Qi Huanyuan was also about to push through, but in the confusion, someone tripped him hard.

She was unsteady on her feet, and was stepped on immediately following the hem of her skirt.

On occasions like going out to a banquet, some girls like to dress up like a peacock, the more gorgeous and eye-catching the better, but Qi Huan is always cautious. In order to prevent accidents from happening, she will not wear too long skirts. Generally only wear just to the ankle position.

Between little girls, sometimes they don't show signs of each other, so it's easy to play tricks, step on other people's skirts, make them wrestle and make people look ugly...

Although she was in a hurry and couldn't look back, the person who tripped her just now was clearly very deliberate.

Qi Huan was secretly annoyed, but she couldn't care less about getting angry.

When she fell to the ground, she was trampled on her fingers by someone who ran past her in a panic. Although she didn't mean it, the woman's feet were also very strong while running in a panic.

Qi Huan was in so much pain that he was in a cold sweat.

But she didn't care about it, she still used her hands and feet at the first moment, and quickly retreated to the gap between the two tables to protect herself, so she didn't bother to get up and run around again.

Just when she was laying down and waiting for the assassin turmoil to pass, there was a sudden change among the startled dancers running around the field.

There were a few people who quickly and skillfully changed the girdle decorated at the waist to the wrist, and the small hairpin decorated in the hair became a special sleeve arrow...

Several people quickly finished refitting the weapons, and at the same time took advantage of the chaos to seize a position with a good view and perspective, and pulled the mechanism in the direction of the main emperor.

In fact, although most of the guards brought out by the emperor were not in this hall, he still kept four people around him just in case.

At the beginning, it was a sudden change, and everyone couldn't react in time——

At this time, the first three assassins had already died and two were injured, so there was nothing to fear.

Both Gu Zhan and Qin Song were a little distracted, they were about to hand it over to the guards, and wanted to find Qi Huan at the chaotic female guests...

At this moment, seeing another change in the arena, the four guards around the emperor immediately gave up fighting with the assassin, and retreated to the emperor to block the arrows for him.

The prince winked, and the two personal guards he brought with him also rushed over to escort him.

However, after everyone could barely withstand the first round of cold arrow attacks, the next moment——

The assassins dressed up by four dancers suddenly turned their spears and pointed their sharp blades at the prince.

Yun Zhan was actually not far from the emperor at that time.

But the emperor has been sitting steadily in his seat, motionless as a mountain. Concubine Sheng Xian's face was pale, trembling slightly clutching one of his sleeves, clinging to his side, the two-person seat took up too much space, and the guards stood in the way. Before the table between the two of them, Yun Zhan wanted to get close to him again...

He, a son who went to escort him, couldn't hide behind his father in a disgraceful manner instead.

But he himself was very decisive and cautious, and he stood in a relatively safe position, which was considered a blind spot for attacking, and the assassins who were close to him could not rush through.

At this time, the cold arrow pointed directly, and the guards were unable to defend in time, so they exposed him to the attack range.

When those cold arrows flashing with dark blue lights came towards him, a trace of panic inevitably flashed in the eyes of the young prince, and he retreated quickly...

Gu Zhan couldn't care about Qi Huan at that time.

Before he had time to rush up, he kicked up a table next to him and threw it out.

With a few muffled bangs, a few poisoned sleeve arrows were nailed to the table and smashed against a pillar opposite.

With a bang, the heavy table shattered, the pillar was hit, and some sand and dust fell from the roof.

When everyone looked again, two guards had already returned to guard, guarding His Highness the Crown Prince behind him.

But at the same time, the assassin's third round of cold arrows has arrived.

This time, several generals, including Gu Zhan and Qin Song, were relatively calm. Even if they didn’t have weapons in their hands, they just used local materials and used whatever they found, and sent the emperor, concubines, princes and princes in the warm pavilion behind them. All are isolated from the assassin's sight.

This series of accidents and fights, it seems that the situation has changed a few times, but in fact it is just a matter of a moment.

Qi Huan couldn't see what was going on with the emperor, she only saw screaming and running women around her.

At this time, the guards of the Royal Forest Army guarding outside the hall had already heard the movement and rushed in.

Seeing the failure of the assassination, the assassin stopped doing futile efforts, turned around and began to try to break out of the encirclement, fighting with the Imperial Forest Army who rushed into the hall.

They were red-eyed, they probably knew that their chances were slim, and while fighting with all their strength, they just wanted to pull a few more people to back them up.

Seeing that they were fighting with real knives and guns in the hall, it turned out that the people who were running around were not stupid, so they naturally started to run to both sides.

The guards of the Royal Forest Army will not kill innocent people indiscriminately in the palace, those assassins don't care, but anyone who runs into their attack range is like prey, and they are directly hunted and killed bloody.

Qi Huan maintained the posture of curling up and sitting on the ground. She had never observed a killing at such a close distance. It would be a lie to say that she was not afraid.

It wasn't even just fear. For the first time, she was in a state where her head was empty and she was so frightened that she didn't know how to deal with herself.

In fact, it wasn't that she didn't have the strength to get up and run quickly, but the buzzing in her head, the last bit of stubborn remnant of reason was still reminding her——

Can't move!
Sitting on the ground, at least she would not be the target of these red-eyed assassins. Once she stood up and ran, she would only attract the attention of these bloodthirsty people.

She bit the bullet and sat on the ground, trying to shrink her body together to reduce the sense of existence, and she didn't move at all.

But those assassins were outnumbered, they were blocked by the Royal Forest Army, and after a fight, they were forced to retreat further into the hall.

The battle field was just seven or eight feet away in front of her.

Suddenly, an assassin was stabbed by the fighting Imperial Forest Army.

When the long sword was withdrawn, she staggered in pain and took a few steps back, just bumping into the person who was hiding next to a table with her head curled up in a ball.

It was a little girl wearing a maidservant's costume of Prince Ning's Mansion. She was thin and small, and she was shrunk into a small ball. The place where she hid was not far from Qi Huan, and Qi Huan never even noticed her.

She was picked up like a chicken.

The next moment, Qi Huan didn't even see what happened there, a line of blood rushed to her face.

There was a very strange fishy smell rushing towards her face, Qi Huan didn't even have time to figure out what kind of touch it was like when the blood splashed on her face, something hit her in front of her eyes.

She was completely numb at the time, and she just instinctively raised her hand to catch the thing that was randomly discarded like a rag bag.

The little body in his arms was warm.

Warm and soft.

The girl stared wide-eyed in fear, and a deep gash was cut in her throat.

Her immature face was not stained with a drop of blood, it was still white and clean.

her blood-

It's all on Qi Huan's face.

It's just that because of the severe pain and fear, his facial features were so distorted and hideous that he couldn't see his original appearance.

However, in a trance, Qi Huan still recognized her at a glance——

It was the little girl who just smiled and came over to take the flagon from her table.

In her mind, she could still clearly see the appearance of the little girl pursing her lips and laughing lively.

The throat was cut, and blood gushed out.

The little girl opened her mouth, unable to speak, only the rough gasping sound that made the scalp tingle came out from the trachea.

like-

There was a hole in the bellows.

Qi Huan had never seen such a scene before, she felt that she was going to go crazy with fright, but her hands seemed to be in disobedience, knowing that it was futile, she quickly raised her hand and covered the little girl's wound with all her strength.

The blood was hot, scalding hot, and it seemed to flow out from between her fingers as if it would never dry up.

The surrounding noises, screams, and fighting sounds all turned into noises isolated in another world. Qi Huan felt that it might be more like she was isolated in a separate space that dulled all her senses. The face of the little girl who was so real in her arms was gradually blurred.

Then, I don't know how long it took.

It may be as long as a century, but it may also be as fast as an instant. A figure rushed to her, seemed to hesitate when reaching out, and then came to snatch the soft body held in her arms.

Qi Huan unconsciously hugged that body tightly, and then she heard Gu Zhan's vague voice calling her: "Qi Huan? It's me!"

Qi Huan actually kept her eyes open all the time, only her pupils slowly refocused at this moment.

Gu Zhan's face, which has always been elegant and handsome, was obviously flustered at this moment, his face turned slightly pale, and he continued to move the body in her arms, with a hoarse voice as if coaxing a disobedient child to hand over his hand Like a toy in the room, she said: "She is dead, let her go, and I will take you to see a doctor."

Qi Huan obviously heard what he said, and she actually understood what it meant, but for a moment, as if she didn't understand, she slowly looked down at the person in her arms.

The expression on the little girl's face was still ferocious, staring at her eyes full of fear and pain, she had indeed lost her breath a long time ago.

only--

From the wound under her fingers, blood was still gushing out.

Qi Huan wanted to reach out and close her eyes, but she couldn't move.

Gu Zhan was already frightened by her at the moment, and seeing that she didn't seem to want to resist, he tried to move the little girl's body out of her arms again.

He tried his best to be as gentle as possible, grabbing Qi Huan but at the same time, he didn't push the corpse away roughly, but told a guard who came after him: "Bury him well."

When he was about to reach out to hug Qi Huan again, his hand stopped again, completely at a loss.

Qi Huan's body was covered in blood, and the original color of the dress could hardly be seen clearly.

Qi Huan froze for a moment, then followed his gaze and looked down at himself.

Her thoughts slowly returned, she twitched the corner of her mouth and gave a comforting smile: "It's not my blood."

With just this one sentence, it seemed as if a knife had been opened in Gu Zhan's heart. He didn't care anymore, he wiped the blood on her face with his sleeve, and then rubbed her into his arms.

After a brief hug, he was about to pick her up: "Let's go, find a place to wash and change clothes."

Qi Huanyuan also felt that her legs were weak from fright, but when Gu Zhan was about to hug her, she subconsciously blocked her and stood up by herself: "I can walk."

Knowing that she was frightened, Gu Zhan knew that even though he felt distressed at the moment, he didn't dare to confront her too much, so he could only support her instead.

In fact, Qi Huan was not as fragile as he expected. Although her movements were a little stiff, she hardly needed his support, and slowly stood up with her own strength.

The hall was in chaos, and the assassin had disappeared.

Gu Zhan supported Qi Huan, and walked out from among the messy tables and cases step by step carefully.

Qin Song came only one step later than him, and stood beside the front row table with no expression on his face.

When passing by, Qi Huan and him briefly looked at each other, and also forced a smile to comfort him.

Gu Zhan helped her to walk out of the hall. Just as she reached the door, Prince Yun Zhan walked quickly from outside. Seeing Qi Huan like this, he almost didn't recognize him at a glance.

He took a deep breath, and immediately ordered: "Come here, arrange a side room..."

Before the words fell, Qi Huan suddenly became aroused, completely awake, and blurted out a question: "Have all the assassins been executed?"

Yun Zhan was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Only one of them rushed out from the hall, and there were people around them to meet them, and they fled into the backyard in a hurry. The guards shot and killed two more people, and the rest are still finishing up."

To the backyard?

A flash of inspiration flashed in Qi Huan's mind, and he suddenly grabbed Gu Zhan's fingertips.

Gu Zhan thought she was unwell, and looked down at her in a panic, but seeing her calm expression, he almost said without thinking: "Ye Xunyi!"

Yun Zhan and Gu Zhan were taken aback again.

Qi Huan turned her head, looked deeply at Gu Zhan, and said, "Go and see Ye Xunyi's residence!"

It's not that Ye Xunyi suspected that these assassins were introduced into the mansion, but as a qualified female protagonist novel, it is impossible to avoid the heroine in every adventure, and suddenly she had a strong idea...

Go to Ye Xunyi's place, maybe you will gain something!
(End of this chapter)