Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 48 Bloody Night

The entire Daling Palace has never been so quiet like tonight, but amidst this silence, a strange sound gradually resounded.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

Li Ying huddled beside the queen mother, and listened carefully. The more she listened, the more frightened she became. The sound was like a huge monster approaching, and every step she took shook the ground.

"Grandmother, what's that voice?" Li Ying asked tremblingly.

The queen mother frowned, even though she couldn't see any scene outside the palace, she guessed something.

"I'm afraid that the people inside the palace didn't arrive, and the people outside the palace couldn't wait, and they are knocking on the door."

Li Ying sat up straight from the queen mother's side in fright: "Can they really crash in?!"

The queen mother shook her head and patted Li Ying's back with her skinny hands: "The Ai family doesn't know, but Ying'er, don't worry, the Ai family will protect you for Lian'er no matter what."

The Empress Dowager's words gave Li Ying great courage: "Empress Dowager, I will also protect you for my husband!"

The two cuddled up and talked in the bedroom of Renshou Palace, just like the grandparents of ordinary people.

The queen mother predicted well, the [-] elite soldiers raised by Duke Hua couldn't wait for the informants in the palace to respond outside the Xuanwu Gate. Seeing that the agreed time was about to pass, Duke Hua ordered: forcefully open the palace gate.

After half an hour, with a loud bang, the Xuanwu Gate was breached.

Duke Hua raised his arms and called out, "Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Ten thousand elite soldiers stood at the Xuanwu Gate and roared deafeningly at the entire imperial city.

However, the strange thing is that there was no resistance as expected by Lord Hua. After they broke through the Xuanwu Gate, they entered the palace smoothly all the way.

Hua Guogong was a little suspicious, but when he thought of the strength of his troops and the meticulous plan, he felt uneasy.Success or failure depends on tonight, he must not extinguish his arrogance.

Haohao Tangtang's soldiers stopped in the open space in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"Chen, Duke Hua, Chen Yuanyong, enters the palace tonight, and respectfully invites His Majesty to pass on the throne!" Duke Hua's voice caused echoes in front of the empty hall.

No one responded.

Duke Hua got off his horse. Wearing armor and holding a red-tasseled gun, he stepped up the steps leading to the Hall of Mental Cultivation step by step.

Until he finished walking the 39 steps and stood at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he raised his voice again and said: "Your Majesty, you are seriously ill, and I am worried day and night. However, a country cannot live without a king. The fourth prince, Xiao Ling, has a precious character and must If you can conquer the Great Tradition, please pass on the throne to Xiao Ling..."

"What a noble character, what a steadfast master!" Before Hua Guogong finished speaking, a figure came out from the corner and interrupted him.

The moonlight shone on this person, and his round face, which was always smiling, was now wearing a mocking smile.

"Xiao Chun?!" Duke Hua was shocked.

Xiao Chun continued to say with a smile: "Duke seems very surprised to see me?"

"Why are you here?"

"Then why are you here, my lord?"

"The old minister is worried about the country and the country, and can't sleep at night, so he came here to discuss with His Majesty about passing on the throne."

"Hahahahahahaha." Xiao Chun laughed loudly: "Look at the ten thousand soldiers and horses behind you, discuss it, thank you for being able to speak."

Duke Hua didn't want to waste time on Xiao Chun: "Where's Your Majesty? Where did you hide him?"

"Your Majesty is in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Duke, you can see it when you open the door and enter."

The more Hua Guogong thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Everything went too smoothly tonight, like a well-designed trap.

Just when he hesitantly put his hand on the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, there was a sound of "咻——" and there was a sudden movement in the night sky. Duke Hua suddenly felt that something was wrong. He turned around quickly, only to see a sharp arrow flying straight Shoot him!
Hua Guogong raised the red-tasseled spear with all his strength, and the arrow fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"There is an ambush!!!"

At the same time that Hua Guogong rushed down the steps and shouted these three words loudly, countless sharp arrows shot from all directions, and those soldiers who were too late to resist were shot to death by the arrows, and blood flowed like a river for a while.

"Set up the formation!" Hua Guogong is worthy of being the leader of the army. He quickly realized that he commanded the soldiers in front of the formation to erect their long shields, and the soldiers in the formation raised their shields to the top of their heads. Wave after wave of arrow rain.

After an unknown period of time, the archers finally stopped attacking. Duke Hua lost many soldiers, but at the same time he also took the opportunity to find out the number and location of the enemies.

"Duke, as expected of you, you haven't been on the battlefield for many years, and your sword is still young." Xiao Chun, who had disappeared just now, reappeared, and behind him stood thousands of imperial guards.

"Zhuzi, you have planned it!" Hua Guogong pointed at Xiao Chun's nose and cursed.

Xiao Chun sneered disdainfully: "He, Xiao Ling, can think about the throne, but I, Xiao Chun, can't?"

"Bah! Qu Qu is the son of a village woman, you deserve it too?!"

The expression on Xiao Chun's face, which was originally a fake smile, became distorted: "Then tonight, I will let you noble people taste what it is like to be trampled under your feet, and kill me!"

As soon as Xiao Chun gave an order, the Imperial Forest Army behind him launched a fierce attack on Duke Hua's soldiers, and the sound of fighting against each other resounded outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"Queen Mother, are they fighting?" Li Ying lay on the crack of the door and heard the sound of fighting and killing in the distance.

"Probably so. I don't know how many lives will be swallowed up in this palace tonight."

"Is the first prince and the fourth prince fighting?"

"Lian'er hasn't returned yet, I'm afraid the emperor can only borrow the eldest prince to stabilize the situation first."

Li Ying thought inwardly that it's too bad, this eldest prince is not a good person, if he took advantage of him, wouldn't he have to repeat the mistakes of his previous life?
The fierce battle in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation lasted for two full hours. Gradually, due to his lack of experience, Xiao Chun lost the battle. The number of the Imperial Forest Army dropped sharply, and the front of the Duke of Hua continued to advance towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Just as the east was glowing with blood, Xiao Chun was forced to retreat into the Hall of Mental Cultivation with the few remaining imperial guards. Soldiers broke in.

On the dragon bed of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor, whom the courtiers hadn't seen for nearly a month, was lying there. Duke Hua was shocked when he saw it. The emperor was already so ill? !

I saw that the originally dignified and majestic emperor was now a senile old man, with the corners of his mouth crooked, one hand and foot hanging down feebly, and only one pair of eyes was fixedly looking in the direction of the door.

"You...you thief... son!" The emperor raised his left hand and pointed at Duke Hua.

Hua Guogong smiled contemptuously: "Your Majesty, you are already like this, so you should save your energy and speak!"

"I... want to pass on the throne... the eldest... the prince..." The emperor's eyes widened with anger, wishing he could tear this traitor to pieces on the spot: "Come here..."

"Father, the child is here!" Xiao Chun, who had just been hiding in the corner, appeared in front of the emperor holding an imperial decree in his hand.

"Father, you have trouble moving. My child has already drawn up the imperial edict. You only need to seal the jade seal!" Xiao Chun knelt down halfway, and handed the drafted imperial edict to the emperor.

Pointing at Duke Hua, the emperor said intermittently, "First... kill... him."

A gleam flashed in Xiao Chun's eyes, he put away the imperial decree, stood up, and showed a creepy smirk to Duke Hua again: "Duke, Father said, if you want me to kill you first, then I have no choice but to do so." .”

Hua Guogong sneered: "It's up to you?"

"It's up to me." Xiao Chun clapped his hands as he spoke, and thousands of guards suddenly appeared outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Hua Guogong looked at the outside of the palace surrounded by layers, and his face changed drastically: "Zhuzi, you deliberately led me in!"

"Hahaha, duke, you didn't expect that, did you? Do you really think that your crippled body can beat me back? Let me tell you, my father had already expected that you would rebel. Leave it to me, tonight is nothing more than a catch in a urn."

Hua Guogong kept backing away, and fell to the ground inadvertently.

Xiao Chun admired Hua Guogong's frustrated look with satisfaction, and then lightly uttered a word: "Kill."

Hua Guogong fought to the last moment with the only remaining elite soldiers, until he was hit by several swords, unable to support anymore, and knelt on one knee in the bloody Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Xiao Chun lifted the sword, turned his head to the emperor on the dragon bed and said, "Father, you are watching."

As soon as the words fell, Duke Hua's head was chopped off by a sword, and he rolled several feet away in the hall.

The emperor closed his eyes with satisfaction.

"Father." Xiao Chun walked to the emperor with the imperial decree again: "I have done everything according to your orders. Now can you tell me where the jade seal is?"

The emperor opened those cloudy eyes again, opened his mouth, pointed in the direction of Renshou Palace and said, "Empress..."

Xiao Chun smiled and said, "So it's there, no wonder Erchen couldn't find it anyway."

Xiao Chun stood up, patted the dust on his body, carefully wiped off the blood on the sword with a handkerchief, and then said softly to the emperor: "Then don't blame me for being sorry for you."

Saying that, Xiao Chun lifted the sword without hesitation, and with a "stab", the sword pierced through the bright yellow dragon robe on the emperor's body, and pierced straight through his chest.

The emperor opened his eyes wide in disbelief, opened and closed his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word, only the left hand was still hanging in the air in vain.

In the end, the left hand also lost its last strength, and fell onto the dragon bed with a "snap".

Xiao Chun turned around and said to the guards in the palace: "Duke Hua launched a palace coup to assassinate His Majesty, His Majesty passed away, and my escort came late, so I have to punish the sinner on the spot, do you understand?"

"My subordinate understands!"

Satisfied, Xiao Chun stepped over Hua Guogong's corpse, carried Hua Guogong's head and walked towards Renshou Palace.

At this time, Li Ying, who hadn't slept all night in Renshou Palace, was like a chicken pecking at rice. She kept lowering her head and getting up again. The Empress Dowager looked at her with distressed and funny words, and advised, "Ying'er, just sleep for a while." Bar."

Startled by the Queen Mother's voice, Li Ying quickly opened his eyes and said, "I'm fine, I'm not sleepy."

"The noise from outside is gone, so it's probably safe."

"Really?" Li Ying became excited when he heard it: "His Majesty's Pingding Palace has changed?"

"Send someone out in a while to inquire and find out."

Li Ying was overjoyed, could there really be a turning point in this life?
At this moment, Mother Xu's voice came from outside the hall: "Queen Mother, Queen Mother..."

Li Ying opened the door and asked, "Nurse, what happened?"

Mother Xu was a little confused: "It's the eldest prince, he is outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

"What is he doing?"

"I don't know, the eldest prince has been telling me to open the gate of the palace, and I dare not make decisions on my own."

The queen mother said inside: "Help Ai's family out."

The two then put the Queen Mother on the wheelchair and pushed it to the gate of Renshou Palace.

Xiao Chun's grief-stricken voice came from outside the door: "Grandmother, it's not good! That Hua Guogong launched a palace change, and the father..."

"What happened to him?!" The Queen Mother asked eagerly inside.

"Father, he passed away!"

"What?!" The Queen Mother almost couldn't catch her breath, and Li Ying hurriedly gave her some relief from behind.

"It's true, Grandmother, you will know when you open the door and take a look."

The queen mother looked up at Li Ying, who shook her head desperately.

"Now that the rebellion is not over, the Ai family still won't open the gate of the palace for the time being."

"Emperor Grandmother, don't worry, my ministers have executed Hua Guogong and other rebellious officials and thieves on the spot, if you don't believe me, look, this is his head.

With a sound of "bang dang", a bloody human head landed in Renshou Palace, and there were screams in the palace.

"Ah!" Li Ying suddenly covered her eyes, not daring to look again.

"Grandmother, before his death, the father made a will to pass on to his son. Before he died, he told his son that the jade seal is with you, and his son came to get it from you." Xiao Chun outside the palace Be good at teaching.

"Emperor Grandmother, don't listen to his one-sided words!" Li Yingfu reminded nervously in the Queen Mother's ear.

The queen mother nodded, indicating that she knew what she knew.

"Chun'er, what happened outside the palace, the Ai family can't just listen to your side of the story, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run."

"Oh? What kind of long-term plan does the imperial grandmother want?"

"The Ai family has already written to Lian'er, and it won't be too late to discuss it when he comes back."

"What a joke! Xiao Lian still needs to come back to discuss what my father said in person? Grandmother, your mind is in your armpit."

"What's yours should be yours, don't be in a hurry."

After the Queen Mother finished speaking, there was a momentary silence outside the palace gate.

It seemed that Xiao Chun gave up his mind and left.

But before Li Ying breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a fire light outside the palace gate.

"Xiao Chun, what are you doing?!" The queen mother was shocked and angry.

"Since the imperial grandmother refuses to come out, the minister can only force you out."

"Xiao Chun, you are simply rebellious!"

"You can say whatever you want, anyway, this world will be mine soon, hahahahahahaha." Xiao Chun's insane laughter came from outside the palace gate.

Dry firewood was piled up around the palace gate, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, thick smoke and dust drifted in with the wind, everyone was choked to tears, the queen mother couldn't stop coughing, and couldn't stop.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!" Seeing that the palace gate was gradually on fire, Li Ying hurriedly ordered everyone to collect water to put out the fire, while Madam Xu led the Queen Mother to the bedroom, but even though the doors and windows of the bedroom were closed tightly, there were still fires. Thick smoke drifted in from the crack in the door.

"What can I do..." Li Ying picked up a basin of water and rushed towards the palace gate. She wiped the smoke from her face, but found that her face was already covered with tears.

Is it destined that she and the Queen Mother will die here today?
(End of this chapter)