Gel makeup

Chapter 161

She was chatting, when suddenly He Meiren hissed, "Miss Liang, there are people sneaking around over there."

Ling Zhen pulled He Meiren to this secluded place, and there were no other attendants by her side.In the shadow, Ling Zhen saw the faint light reflected from He Meiren's golden hairpin, hesitated for a moment, and pulled He Meiren to hide behind the screen.

"There's no one here," came the sharp and thin voice of Huangmen Guan, "come here to talk."

Several Huangmen officials entered the hall and closed the door.

Ling Zhen glanced around, and happened to see the crossbow worn by one of them, Ling Zhen quickly retracted her head behind the screen - this is a forbidden item in the palace, only the imperial army can carry it, where did these yellow gate officials get the small crossbow?
"If we make a move, it really can be done?"

"Of course, after planning for so long, nothing will go wrong. Since the imperial concubine left the capital and the empress doesn't live in the Ninghua Palace, the inside is like a headless chicken. Don't worry! We will act according to the code, and there will be an army outside to support us. After tonight , then there will be endless glory and wealth!"

In the dark, He Meiren and Ling Zhen looked at each other for a moment, and almost at the same time, a thought flashed across that these eunuchs were going to rebel in the palace!

As soon as He Meiren was in a hurry, the gold chain fell to the ground, making a slight sound.

"Who!"

Seeing that there was nowhere to hide, Ling Zhen made a decisive decision and dragged He Meiren through the back window and left.

"Someone eavesdropped on our speech and ran from behind. Hurry up! We will die if we leak the news now, we must silence it!"

Ling Zhen and He Meiren did not go far away, they hid in the narrow passage beside the hall.Those yellow gates looked around but there was no one there, and one person said: "It's definitely not far away in such a short time." After speaking, he walked towards the dark lane.

Ling Zhen turned pale with shock.

The kings in Beijing and their sons drove one after another to prepare to be called to the East Palace. The news quickly reached Bai Luchu's hands through the secret sentry of the military guard of the government and the pigeon house of Jigu Pavilion.The cold sweat on Siqing's back drenched her clothes. Did she make a mistake in her prediction? Did Tang Peng deliberately mislead her that the person who colluded with Dingfan was either one of the kings or Ning Shouhou?Siqing whispered to Bai Luchu, "Keep an eye on Ningshou Mansion, if there is any change, do it cheaply."

Bai Luchu said: "They just left the gate of the mansion, they may not come to the East Palace."

Fan Ziran was the first to come to the East Palace from the guard house, along with Kang Wang, Kang Wang's son and Duan Wang's son who lived closest to the forbidden center.Because King Duan was not in Beijing, Princess Duan also came here on behalf of King Duan.

Siqing quickly excluded Duanwangfu and Kangwangfu.At this time, the key to the forbidden palace is about to be released, and everyone is suspicious of Siqing's summoning.

Siqing cast her eyes outside the hall, but she didn't see Tang Peng's figure.She asked the left and right why Lingzhen and He Meiren hadn't come to the East Palace yet, and the left and right replied that they didn't know.

At this time, Kang Wang asked: "Your Highness called me here, why?"

As soon as the words fell, Tang Peng silently entered the hall and stood at the entrance of the hall with a bow.Siqing hesitated for a moment. If he revealed that Tang Peng, the commander of the Jingwei, was an insider of the Dingfan, his boss, Cheng Yingzhou, would undoubtedly be directly implicated. At this juncture, Cheng Yingzhou must not have another accident.

"I received a report from the forbidden army that the military equipment entering the capital is suspicious," Si Qing said, "I suspect that they are the private soldiers of the rebels."

There was an uproar in the audience, and Si Qing carefully observed everyone in the audience, but she didn't see any flaws.Only Fan Ziran looked back at the anxious Tang Peng.

Siqing went on to say: "The noble concubine has arrived at the Yining Palace. Your Majesty was affected by wind and evil on the way, so I can't say anything yet. Here is Your Majesty's imperial pen." As he spoke, he ordered people to pass it on to the kings.

Fan Ziran glanced at Si Qing again. It was an emergency tonight, and Si Qing came out from behind the curtain to meet everyone with a flustered expression. The "Yubi" was obviously forged by her.

Siqing has already thought about her refusal in the future, and she said it is "Yubi", the pen Xiao Yi used is "Yubi", and what she writes with Xiao Yi's pen can also be called "Yubi", there is no problem.

When everyone saw the letter, they were both happy and worried, Si Qing thought to herself, is it true that the people under her seat are going to rebel?
At this time, Siqing said again: "The forbidden army is afraid that these soldiers will cause trouble in the capital, so I invite you to come and discuss countermeasures..."

At this moment, a bunch of fireworks pierced the silent sky above the imperial capital, and countless torches were lit up, like the night of lanterns in Shangyuan.Siqing woke up suddenly, calling all these Zongwangs into the East Palace made such a commotion that she had already startled the snake.

She anxiously asked the Zongwangs to enter the palace, in order to find out the spies and seize the opportunity before the Dingfan rebels took action.Now not only failed to find out the spies, but also lost the opportunity, the other party actually took the first step.The first thing Siqing thought was that the palace gate hadn't been unlocked yet, so she randomly comforted herself that she had already issued a secret order to the defenders, and they should immediately close the palace gate as soon as the fireworks rose.

Yet a vague idea arises: run!She has done her best, and staying is tantamount to death.At this moment, she raised her head and bumped into Princess Duan's horrified round face, and said helplessly, "The rebels are attacking."

The audience was in an uproar, Kang Wang stood up suddenly with his crutches, and knocked on the ground with his crutches, "Where did the rebels emerge?!"

Siqing came to his senses, he didn't think it was Sun Pingfu's rebellion, did he?Then at the moment she hesitated, a rocket shot out from the dark, Siqing instinctively raised her sleeve to block it, but the sleeve was ignited.The moment the attendant rushed over, the excited King Kang fell to the ground due to his old illness, and countless smoke and dust trembled on the beams. Siqing didn't have time to care about her sleeves that were set on fire, and only grabbed Princess Duan and Bai Luchu who were closest to her with both hands. Dragging desperately to one side, countless attendants rushed forward to protect the three of them.

At the same time, the sound of explosions came from the roof. Siqing was startled, thinking it was fire and thunder, and was about to kneel down to accept her fate, but who knew that the beams of the room were not broken, but the room was full of smoke and dust, and it was impossible to distinguish faces.All Siqing knew was that she firmly grabbed Princess Duan and Bai Luchu and walked out the side door.Unexpectedly, a servant appeared from there, cleared the smoke, came to Si Qing, swung a knife, and slashed.

The servant's sleeve was tied with a red cloth strip, and a thought suddenly flashed in Siqing's mind: So there is a traitor among the servants, and today they are cooperating with the culprit!
Her sword is hidden at the bottom of her left sleeve, and she needs her right hand to pull it out. However, Princess Duan is holding on to Siqing's right arm. I don't know if there are any rebels around. I can't bear it.Seeing the knife approaching, Si Qing made up her mind to kick the waiter's knife away with her legs.She was accumulating strength, and for a moment a figure flew in and blocked Siqing and the other three.

Si Qing saw this man was chopped off on the right shoulder, and was about to break free. Concubine Duan and Bai Luchu rescued him, but there was another soft explosion not far away. Although he didn't know if it was a squib, the smoke in the room was even bigger .Siqing looked at her sleeve, but luckily the fire had been extinguished by Bai Luchu.She felt that her mouth and nose were full of smoke, and her throat was so dry that she was almost suffocating.At this time, there was only a crash, the sound of broken porcelain, and then Si Qing felt that she had bumped into something.

Which side is it!Si Qing realized that what was broken just now should be the vase placed on the window by the side table, and she was already under the window!Siqing held Princess Duan in one hand and Bai Luchu in the other, leaning against the window and using her elbows to break the window backwards, Bai Luchu screamed, Siqing smelled the long-lost fresh breath, this was the signal of successful window breaking !

She didn't care about it, and pulled Princess Duan and Bai Luchu to jump out of the window. Bai Luchu was blocked by the broken window pane. Her back hurt, and she used her hand to break the broken window lattice. At the same moment, she heard a splash. It turned out that there was a pond under the window, and Siqing and Princess Duan couldn't hold back and fell directly into the pond beside the hall.

Amid the chaos, Si Qing realized that she had fallen into the water, and she had to hold her breath before she could take a big gulp of fresh air.Fortunately, she was at Nan Gaoguan University, and there was a pond in front of Fu's house, and she knew the nature of water since she was a child.She dragged Princess Duan to paddle to the opposite bank, and the terrified Princess Duan kept thumping and slowing down Si Qing's speed, and Si Qing had no choice but to dive down and gesture to her for silence.

After the main hall of the East Palace caught fire, two squibs rang out, followed by a fire, and the outside was already in chaos.Siqing ordered the Jinwu Guards and Fujunwei to deploy defenses around the area. Now these imperial guards are trying to rush into the hall to rescue people and fight with the servants, but no one can clearly see that the ones who have rushed out of the hall and fell into the water are the Queen and Princess Duan.

Bai Luchu didn't know that Siqing knew how to swim, and when she saw Siqing diving, she thought she was going to sink into the pool, so she yelled loudly for a while, and immediately a bloody imperial guard emerged from the broken window, with a hideous face, it was Tang Peng. .Tang Peng understood Bai Luchu's gesture and immediately jumped into the water.

The pool was very small, and Siqing finally pushed the wide-bodied Princess Duan to the opposite bank first. Not far away, there was finally a forbidden army who was about to fetch water to put out the fire, and found someone by the pool, so they ran towards the pool even harder.

At the same time, Siqing noticed that someone was swimming towards her. Without even thinking about it, she pulled out the sharp blade Wu Zhenying gave her and stretched out her hand to strike the sword. Qi quickly surrounded Siqing.Siqing wanted to make another strike, but when she stretched out her hand under the muddy pool, she actually touched the opponent's shoulder sleeve, and the opponent was wearing soft armor.

Siqing was slightly startled, could it be that besides Tang Peng's imperial army, there were also Ding Fan's inner supporters, and she had been tossing around for nothing?Since the weird Tang Peng refused to recruit, she didn't even think about catching him quickly and wanted to know who else in the imperial army was the internal response, but the other party sank very quickly after being injured and choked on water, and Si Qing also caught him as soon as she caught him. As it sank, the other party tried to break free from Siqing.

Siqing thought to himself that he wanted to commit suicide?Are there still dead soldiers from Dingfan in the forbidden army?Siqing has always been a gambler and was unwilling to let go of the slightest "clue". With her good water skills, she kicked the opponent's sword away under the water, and held on to the opponent to swat forward.She knew that although the pool was not big, the other party was already injured and choked on water, and the armor on his body was heavy. If she let go first and then called someone to fish it, she was afraid that the other party would commit suicide to avoid being arrested.Although the pool is deep, the water surface is narrow, and it is surrounded by bricks, so the bottom is not all mud.Siqing struggled to drag a corner of the armor to paddle to the wall of the pool, hoping with one hand to climb up the cracks in the blue bricks along the edge of the pool.The climbing process was extremely long, longer than the three years she had just entered the palace. She suddenly remembered that when she was very young, Gu Heng taught her to snorkel. The bottom of the lake was full of mud. I was so frightened that I became stiff all over.

Siqing finally got out of the water first, breathing in gulps of fresh air, her lung lobes almost exploded.But as soon as she got out of the water, she was immediately dragged down by the opponent's heavy armor.

At this time, Bai Luchu and some forbidden soldiers had already reached the other side of the pond, and the forbidden soldiers went into the water one after another to rescue Siqing. Someone shared the weight for Siqing, and Siqing came out of the water and swam ashore.

Bai Luchu was so frightened that her face turned pale, she took off her coat and wrapped her around Siqing.Siqing wrapped her coat tightly to look at Princess Duan lying on her back, Bai Luchu said: "She's fine, she fainted from fright."

At this time, the man in the water was finally fished out, and his chest was soon soaked in blood again.If Siqing didn't look at it, she was so angry that she became dizzy. How could this person be Tang Peng, the Commander of the Habayashi Guard?Tang Peng had plenty of opportunities to kill himself, what kind of madness did he do when he fell into the water?
Bai Luchu hurriedly said: "Just now you and Princess Duan fell, he was the first one to come out of the broken window and jump into the water to rescue..."

"Go save...?!" Siqing sniffled, and hurriedly stepped forward to tear off the cuffs and press down on Tang Peng's wound.Tang Peng also had a wound on his shoulder, apparently it was the same person who blocked the sword for himself, Duan Wangfei and Bai Luchu in the chaos just now.

Siqing quickly pressed the acupuncture points around Tang Peng's wound to stop the bleeding, "You are not good at water, you won't call someone who is good at water to rescue you?! Jump down and die together?" If she didn't want to keep an insider alive, she would have let go Ren Tangpeng drowned.

Tang Peng couldn't speak, and tried his best to spit out two mouthfuls of water, as if he was in a coma.

Tang Peng's move made Siqing even more puzzled, since he was in collusion with Dingfan, why did he sell Dingfan in advance, and why did he save himself?But she didn't have time to think too much, Tang Peng's wound was bleeding all the time, and the sword she cut was very close to the pulse.Seeing that she couldn't deal with these injuries, she immediately asked the imperial army to settle Tang Peng, and then asked the imperial army to find a doctor.

Cheng Yingzhou was outside the city, Jiang Feng was in Yuhang, Yuan Lingbo sent Ding'an noble concubine and the prince to Jigu Pavilion but did not return, Tang Peng's life and death were uncertain, so far, the only leaders of the imperial army in the palace were those who didn't show up and couldn't convince the public It's the beginning of Bailu.But even if Tang Peng wasn't injured, he couldn't trust this traitor.

"How's the situation in the main hall? What about the others?" Si Qing asked vigorously.Only then did she realize that her sleeve was on fire just now. Although the fire was extinguished by Bai Luchu's people, she had already burned her forearm.Just now, he struggled to swim underwater, and the wound was soaked in muddy water, which made him feel excruciatingly painful.

Bai Luchu barely said three words.

Si Qing thought that it would not be a good thing if the East Palace was on fire and all the imperial guards rushed to the East Palace. There were still private rebels raised by the Dingnan Fan in the city. What if they came to attack Miyagi at this time?Although it is said that all the people in the palace tonight are the old people of Jingwei, but the servant in the palace——she had a fierce look on her face when she thought of this, "Listen, there has been no movement in the hall for so long, the bombing point should have been released, stay a while One team clears the hall to save people, and two teams stay to clean up the inner prison—as long as the servants with weapons in their hands are killed! The others come and stay where they come from, and no matter what happens in the city, they must close the palace gates and guard. Palace wall."

At this time, Prince Duan's son Xiao Jun, his head covered in ashes, ran up to kowtow to Siqing, and quickly went to see the unconscious Princess Duan.

"Help your mother to the back hall," Siqing said, "Where are the others?"

"Old Fan Ge is sitting by the door, he should be out of trouble," Prince Duan said, "The others don't know..."

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