At night, Ye Zhen was still asleep, when she suddenly heard a loud noise from outside, she was awakened.
"Hongying, what happened outside?" Ye Zhen sat up and asked Hongying who was on guard.
"It sounds like a voice from the city gate, girl, servants, go out and have a look." Hongying lit the lights in the room and put on clothes for Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen was startled, could it be that Liu Wenxue is already attacking the city
"I'm going to find my father." Ye Zhen put on her shoes while putting on her clothes.
Hongying couldn't stop her at all, the master and servant walked out of the house together, the spring was cold, although it was already spring, the weather was still very cold at night.
Ye Zhen went directly to Ye Yiqing's study, just in time to see him and Cao Yu coming out of it.
"Father, what happened outside?" Ye Zhen asked anxiously.
"Liu Wenxue leads troops to attack the city, I'm going to the city wall, Yaoyao, don't leave your house, don't go out even a single step, there will be someone protecting you outside." Ye Yiqing looked at Ye Zhen and ordered.
Ye Zhen nodded, "I know, Dad, you should also be careful."
Cao Yu said beside him, "Don't worry, Yaoyao, I will protect the teacher."
"Is your martial arts better than mine?" Ye Yiqing raised an eyebrow and asked Cao Yu.
"Teacher, didn't I do this to reassure my junior sister?" Cao Yu said with a smile.
Ye Yiqing took a deep look at Ye Zhen, and took Cao Yu to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion. Ye Zhen called Xue Lin and Wu Chong over and asked Wu Chong to secretly protect Ye Yiqing. She was still worried that her father would be in danger.
Wu Chong looked at Ye Zhen hesitantly, his duty is to protect her, if he leaves here, what danger will the Princess be in
"Xue Lin is here to protect me, and I will not go out. There are guards left by my father outside. I will be fine." Ye Zhen said, "You go."
"Yes, princess!" Wu Chong replied, turned around and left.
Ye Zhen called the housekeeper over and asked him to continue to give orders. No one can leave the prime minister's mansion without authorization, and the men in the family should also be vigilant. If anything happens, they can still stand up.
When I returned to the backyard, I saw Zhaoyang also came out.
"Princess Zhaoyang, I'm disturbing you." Ye Zhen walked forward with a smile, "There is some turmoil outside, you can stay inside these two days, you can't go outside."
"Trouble?" Zhaoyang was surprised, "This is the royal capital, how could there be turmoil?"
Ye Zhen said in a low voice, "What about the royal capital? If the city is destroyed, I don't know what will happen."
"Where's your father?" Zhaoyang asked with a frown.
"My father went to the city wall to fight against the traitors. Don't worry, he has already arranged everything. There are people guarding the house, and everything will be fine." Ye Zhen said.
Zhaoyang's heart tightened, and he said anxiously, "Master Ye is just a prime minister, what does it have to do with him to resist the traitors? Isn't he afraid of danger?"
Ye Zhen heard that Zhao Yang was so nervous about her father's safety, she didn't think about it for a while, "My father knows martial arts, he will be fine."
Zhaoyang just looked at Ye Zhen coldly, turned around and went back to his room without saying anything more.
In the middle of the night, the sound outside became more intense, and Ye Zhen seemed to be able to hear the sound of shouting and killing, but it sounded like the city hadn't been broken yet.
It was dawn soon, and Ye Zhen asked Xue Lin to go out to inquire. The entire capital city has been under martial law. Usually, people on the street hide at home and dare not come out. Negotiating with Liu Wenxue was of no avail. Liu Wenxue was determined to rebel, but his excuse was quite good, and he wanted to clear the king's side!
He also said that the end of the eldest prince's house arrest was framed by Ye Yiqing, and he brought his troops back only for the sake of the emperor and the eldest prince.
It's ridiculous!
After Ye Zhen heard this reason, she had a better understanding of Liu Wenxue's shamelessness.
"How many people did Liu Wenxue bring to attack the city?" Ye Zhen asked Xue Lin in a low voice.
Xue Lin said, "There are 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the villages outside the city have already been occupied. I heard that it will take another day for reinforcements to arrive."
Ye Zhen nodded heavily, still very worried whether Liu Wenxue would break through the city gate.
Not long after, someone from the palace came looking for Ye Zhen.
"The Empress is worried about your safety, let us pick you up into the palace." It was the Imperial Forest Army from the palace who came here specially to pick up Ye Zhen into the palace.
Ye Zhen shook her head, "Thank you Empress Empress for your kindness, but I can't leave the Prime Minister's Mansion alone, there are guards left by my father here, I will be fine."
"Girl, why don't you enter the palace, we are here." Hong Ling said, she felt that the palace is the safest now.
"No, I'll just stay at home and wait for Dad to come back." Ye Zhen said firmly, and sent back all the guards who came to pick her up.
Around noon, the news came out from the palace that Liu Guifei and Wan Guiren had been killed.
The sky was gray and the first spring rain was falling, making everything moist and silent, but it couldn't stop the murderous aura outside the city.
"Has your father not come back yet?" Zhaoyang didn't know when he came to look for Ye Zhen, so he stood outside the door and looked at her.
Ye Zhen smiled faintly at her, "Liu Wenxue hasn't retired yet, so Daddy won't come back so soon."
"Aren't you worried at all?" Zhaoyang asked coldly.
"Worry." Ye Zhen nodded, "But now it's not just worrying that can bring my father back."
Zhaoyang suppressed her anxiety, she looked at the gray sky, "Have the reinforcements arrived yet?"
Ye Zhen was actually more anxious than anyone else, but she remembered Ye Yiqing's words, if she couldn't help out, then she could just obediently wait at home, otherwise she would become a burden instead.
reinforcements...
What worries her most is that there will be no reinforcements.
However, the matter was obviously more serious than she had imagined. When Jin Wuxi fell, there was news from the palace that a traitor from the Liu family had sneaked into the palace, intending to hold the queen hostage. Although it failed in the end, the queen was still alarmed. , Li Heng specially sent someone to pick Ye Zhen into the palace.
Startled the Queen? Could it be that the tire is moving
Ye Zhen really couldn't refuse this time, so she could only follow the person who came to pick her up into the palace.
The carriage pulley moved forward, Ye Zhen lifted the curtains in the carriage, and saw the empty street outside, it was very different from the usual people coming and going.
"This is not the way to enter the palace!" After watching for a while, Ye Zhen immediately realized that something was wrong.
Hongying had already lifted the curtain of the car, and found that the palace man who was driving the car had been killed, and now it was someone they had never been driving before.
"Who are you?" Hongying asked sternly to the four men dressed as Imperial Forest Army in front.
A man walking in the front turned his head and grinned at Ye Zhen, "Miss Lu, I've heard about you for a long time, today we finally meet."
Ye Zhen's face was cold, she looked at the man for a while, "You are Liu Hebin!"