A businesswoman with a sharp edge, a genius cultivator

Chapter 249 Then Surrender

After Lan Lian left, Hei Jiu came to Zixi with Lan Si's letter. He had successfully found General Murong, contacted the old general's old department, and many officials who did not support what the second prince was doing. People's hearts, and is scheduled to enter the palace tomorrow night to regain the emperor.

After reading the letter, Zixi ignited a flame and burned it up. She looked out the window. It has been two days since she left Imperial College. I don't know if Master will miss it.

Forget it, after tomorrow night, you can go back.

Lan Lian stayed in the dormitory all night, and also stayed there all night with anxiety. He knew that when he stood up for Zixi in Xiushui Village, he fell in love with this brave and resourceful little girl. Being in the most humble position in the palace, I dare not express my heart for fear of harming the woman I love the most.

Now, he controls the palace, and when his father dies, he will be the master of the world, so what does it matter?

But why is my heart so disturbed, as if something is about to happen?
Until the evening of the next day, the guards below stumbled to report.

"Report to the Second Highness, the Third Highness and Old General Murong led the army to surround the imperial city. We fought to the death, but the casualties were heavy, so we had to retreat to the interior of the imperial city."

"What?" Lan Lian suddenly stood up from the seat and stared at the soldier in disbelief, "Lan Si, Lan Si dared to raise troops? And he was with Old General Murong? How did he find Old General Murong?" ?”

Lan Lian didn't want to believe it, but after only three days, he failed to get rid of Lan Si, and was hit back by him.

"This, I don't know." The soldier was helpless. He saw that when the two were together, it was when the imperial city was besieged. How could he know how they got in touch?

"Then where did they get the army? How did they get to the imperial capital so quickly?" Lan Lian gritted his teeth and said.

"Looking at the uniforms of those troops, it should be the old general's old department. I don't know when they gathered together. Although the number is not as large as ours, the combat power is far from ours." The soldier continued, "The old general's team is all Very brave and good at fighting, and we are just the imperial guards."

"Fart! There are 8000-2000 imperial guards. Even if they can gather, they are only [-] people. How can they not beat them?" Lan Lian was angry. The number advantage is so obvious, how could they not beat them.

The soldier clenched his fist and hesitated for a moment, but he still spoke, "Second Highness, the imperial guards don't want to fight old General Murong."

"Swipe!" A sword was pulled out from Lan Lian's waist, and suddenly aimed at the half-kneeling soldier on the ground, he said in a cold voice, "Do you think so too?"

"Second Highness, spare your life!" The soldier was startled and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Huh!" Lan Lian snorted coldly, and then unceremoniously raised the knife and dropped it, the soldier's head rolled to the side of the ground.

When the two soldiers next to him saw it, they immediately shook their bodies.

I have long heard that His Highness the Second Highness is cruel and merciless, but today I saw that it is indeed so.

"Pass my order, all those who don't fight the enemy bravely and retreat before the battle will be killed without mercy!" Lan Lian said coldly, staring at the two soldiers next to him with resentful eyes.

The two soldiers fell to their knees as soon as their legs gave way, "Yes!"

Lan Lian watched the two go out to deliver messages, and then recruited two more soldiers.

"You guys, take someone to bring Old General Murong's wife to the tent." Lan Lian told the two of them.

"Yes." The two nodded and left.

Lan Lian snorted coldly, if he had the old general's wife in his hand, would he still be afraid that the old general would bring others against him?
However, the two soldiers who went returned empty-handed.

"What's going on?" Lan Lian asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Second Highness, the palace where the old lady lives died tragically. The old lady is missing. I have searched all over the palace, but I can't find the old lady." The two soldiers looked at each other and turned towards Lan Lian Kneel down.

"How is it possible?" Lan Lian couldn't believe it. He had already ordered someone to put under house arrest during the old lady's meals. It stands to reason that the old lady is no different from ordinary people now.

"Second Highness, Miss Ye is gone, and all the maids and eunuchs have been killed." Another voice came from the door, and Lan Lian's heart suddenly ached, "Say, what are you talking about? Zixi is gone?"

"Yes, yes." The man nodded quickly.

"Could it be her?" Lan Lian felt a headache in her heart, her eyes widened in disbelief.

It was already dark at night, but the fire outside the imperial city was brightly lit, as if it wanted to illuminate this prosperous imperial city as if it were daytime.

Zixi led the old lady to sit quietly on the top of the tallest building in the palace, looking at the flames soaring to the sky, and listening to the shouts of those people, she sighed slightly.

"Since ancient times, the winner has been the king and the loser has been the bandit. All of this is the cycle of yin and yang." The old lady took a look at Zixi and said slowly, "When the fire reaches the Qianyuan Hall, we can go out .”

"Yeah." Zi Xi nodded, although she won against Lan Lian, she couldn't restrain the sadness in her heart.

All of this seems to be caused by her. Lan Lian probably hates her, right?
At the same time, Lan Lian sent people to look for Zixi and the old lady, but there was no result for a long time. The situation in the palace became more and more difficult. The sound of shouting and killing almost came through the window.

"Zixi, is this the answer you gave me?" Lan Lian smiled wryly, but he understood. He should have known that Zixi is not the kind of person who can be easily restrained, otherwise he would not let his Business has spread all over the country.

He should have known.

There was chaos in the imperial palace. Zixi and the old lady raised their eyebrows slightly as they looked at the Shuzheng Palace, which was originally heavily guarded but now there was no one there.

"Lan Lian must have concluded that the emperor must die, so he didn't keep anyone behind." The old lady said slowly.

"This is just convenient for us to move." Zixi also said slowly, "Let's go, let's go to meet Shengjia."

The old lady nodded, and pushed open the gate of Shuzheng Palace with Zixi. On the bright yellow high bed soft sleeper, the emperor was still sleeping peacefully. Looking at his black face, it seemed that he was about to die.

"Zixi, this..." The old lady was also puzzled, didn't Zixi say that she had saved the emperor?Why is his face still so ugly?
"Grandma, don't worry." Zixi comforted her, and then took out another antidote pill for the emperor to take.

His originally hopeless complexion improved instantly. Although he was still a little pale, the symptoms of poisoning had gradually disappeared.

"So miraculous?" the old lady opened her eyes in surprise, she had never seen such a quick effect of the detoxification pill.

"Actually, I started to treat the emperor's illness the day before yesterday. The ugly complexion on the outside is actually the effect of Zhanmu Pill." Zixi explained lightly.

"So that's it." The old lady nodded. No wonder Zixi still left the emperor here so reassuringly. With the effect of Zangmu Pill, even if the imperial doctor came to take the pulse, he would only see the weak and dying pulse. Coupled with this miserable appearance, no one would think that this would still be a living person.

The old lady glanced at Zixi admiringly, and there was a slight sound on the bed.

The two turned their heads and saw that the emperor had slowly moved his fingers and opened his eyes.

"Your majesty?" The old lady spoke first to attract the emperor's attention.

"Old lady? Here, where is this?" The emperor was still a little dazed when he woke up, but when he saw the old lady, he instinctively felt that this place was safe.

"Your Majesty, this is Shuzheng Palace, your bedroom." The old lady spoke slowly.

"I remember being stabbed, and then lost consciousness?" The emperor supported his dizzy head, still a little confused about the situation.

The old lady nodded and was about to speak, when the sound of another attack from outside came in.

The emperor suddenly became alert, "What's going on? How could there be shouts of killing in my palace? Could something have happened?"

"Your Majesty, after you fell into a coma, the Eldest Prince was imprisoned for assassinating you. The Second Prince commanded the imperial palace guards to occupy the palace, and took the Emperor to command the princes. At this moment, it should be the Third Highness and the ministers leading the army to welcome His Majesty." The old lady said. Explain slowly.

The emperor was stunned, "What? The second prince imprisoned me?"

"That's right, he blocked the news of your coma. If it weren't for the vigilance of the old minister, I'm afraid the plan of the Second Highness will succeed." The old lady nodded and said.

"Go, take me there." The emperor's face darkened.

"Yes." The old lady nodded, and together with Zixi, she supported the emperor towards the Qianyuan Hall.

The shouts of killing outside stopped near the Qianyuan Hall. In other words, the army had broken through the gate of the palace and arrived at the gate of Qianyuan Hall where Lan Lian was.

The night was brightly illuminated by the fire, and the old general and Lan Si sat majesticly on their horses, looking coldly at the Qianyuan Hall with the closed gate, "Second Highness, you are already surrounded, if you don't open the door again, you will be arrested without a fight, don't you!" Blame us for breaking in."

The old general was full of energy, he raised his voice and shouted that everyone in the Qianyuan Hall could hear him clearly.

Across the wall, Lan Lian's heart was cold and he led the remnant soldiers behind him to look at the gate. Outside the gate was no longer his territory.

"Your Highness, we, shall we surrender?" The general next to him couldn't stand the struggle before death, and hesitated to open the door with his heart trembling.

"That's right, Your Highness, we're done." The person next to him also said.

"Surrender?" Lan Lian's heart was cold, she turned her head to look at the hopeful eyes of the court ladies and eunuchs behind her, and the pity deep in her heart moved again for some reason, just like it did to those poor cottage bandits.

After a while, Lan Lian chuckled, "Then surrender."

"Crackling..." The door opened, and Lan Si and the old general were standing in front of them, looking coldly at Lan Lian.

Did it finally come out?

"Old General Murong, the emperor was assassinated and killed, and the chief prince was imprisoned. Shouldn't I, the second prince, take over as the emperor? Why are you leading so many people into the palace?" Lan Lian laughed, as if in the current situation , he doesn't care anymore.

(End of this chapter)