The capital of Zhao Kingdom seems peaceful on the surface, but underneath it is chaos.
Those who had the background got the news first and secretly fled with their families. He could only evacuate quietly without making any publicity. At this time, Zhao Huanghai Wuji was like a hungry beast. Once he raised the butcher's knife, he would not care about your backing and background in the court. If he raised the knife in his hand, he would be killed.
As for those ordinary people who do not receive timely news, although they do not have a lot of money every day, they still have to live their lives as usual. If something happens, they are unable to change anything and have to continue as usual.
The eunuchs in the entire palace behaved like never before. The maids and palace ladies did not dare to speak loudly, and even walked quietly.
The people who passed by the emperor in the past two days were inexplicable, and they did not know where they were wrong, which made the emperor yell and have people drag them down and chop them down. More than a dozen of them were killed one after another. The bystanders were incomprehensible, and the people who were killed were also incomprehensible. They died in a daze, not knowing where they had made a mistake.
Everyone in the palace was trembling with fear, and even the concubines in the harem were on tenterhooks all day long.
Everyone knows the reason for the matter. The military is a major event for the country, and the war should not be started lightly. Now this is the end of starting the war lightly. We should not attack the Yan Kingdom lightly!
It was clear, but no one dared to mention it again. It was already an insult to His Majesty the Emperor. To talk about it now was to seek death.
"Your Majesty, please spare your life, Your Majesty, please spare your life, Your Majesty, please spare your life..."
A frightening sound of begging for mercy could be heard faintly. The startled Queen Mother Shang Youlan, who was serving tea in the room, suddenly raised her head and looked out the door, and then looked at each other with the Queen sitting next to her.
There was uneasiness in the Queen's eyes, and she hesitated to speak. After all, she still didn't say what was in her heart.
She didn't want to drink the tea anymore. Shang Youlan put down the tea cup and asked the queen, "How many times has this been in the past two days?"
The queen said uneasily: "After returning to my mother, there should be fifteen or six."
"Alas! The emperor is confused. There were so many ministers who refused to listen to their advice and insisted on going his own way. If he had known now, why would he do it in the first place?" Shang Youlan sighed.
The Queen forced a smile. She was the only one in the palace who dared to say such a thing. No one else, including her, dared to say such a thing. To say such a thing was to accuse the Emperor of doing something wrong.
While talking, the two of them looked outside the door together and saw a gray-haired old eunuch leading several young eunuchs holding trays into the garden. They didn't know what else was brought.
The old eunuch was none other than Zhuge Chi, the chief eunuch in the Zhao Kingdom's palace. Although he still held the title of chief eunuch, he was actually too old and energetic, and the real power was handed over to the younger eunuchs. He himself only served in a few major positions. Walking around in front of the master.
Shang Youlan seemed to remember something when she saw him, and sighed: "This old thing is getting old and slow. He has lived enough. Even if the sky falls, he will do whatever he has to do. He will always be so calm and calm." Then he shouted loudly. Said: "Old Zhuge, old Zhuge!"
After shouting twice, the old eunuch probably didn't hear because he was too old. Immediately, a palace maid ran over to talk to her face. Only then did she see the old eunuch coming slowly and staggeringly.
When he crossed the threshold, he lifted up the hem of his clothes, raised his legs with great effort, and walked forward slowly with his hunched back. He looked at the person with his turbid old eyes, and then he saluted slowly and said, "I have met the Queen Mother and the Empress."
Shang Youlan raised her chin outside and said, "You are yelling, what happened again?"
Zhuge Chi said slowly: "It must be some short-sighted slave who made a mistake and made Your Majesty unhappy. It's all an old slave who has failed to discipline me well. Please punish the Queen Mother."
Shang Youlan: "You old thing, if you are not punished, you will die if you are punished. I said old Zhuge, if I remember correctly, when the emperor was in power, you were with the emperor, right? ?”
Zhuge Chi bent down and said, "At that time, the old slave was still a child. He was appreciated by the old sage, and he sharpened his ink beside the old sage. The old slave was taught to read and write by the old sage himself."
Shang Youlan: "Yes, I heard about it. Later, before the emperor's death, he asked you to follow the emperor. In the hands of the emperor, you became the eunuch in charge of the palace. Before his death, the emperor also appeared in front of the emperor. The late emperor's face gave many warnings and instructions, and the late emperor must treat you well. When the late emperor passed the throne to His Majesty before his death, I saw it with my own eyes. The late Emperor repeatedly told His Majesty to keep you by his side. Look back. Think about it this way, you have already experienced four dynasties, and you are a veteran of the four dynasties who are over a hundred years old. There is no one in the civil and military circles who is older than you."
Zhuge Chi: "The Queen Mother is ridiculous, the old slave is just a slave, he is already old and confused, and he cannot be called a senator of the four dynasties."
Shang Youlan shook his head: "I'm not praising you, but I want to tell you that it's not that His Majesty doesn't care about the past, but that you are too old, so you left some things to the people below to handle, and I feel for you. If there is anything wrong with your Majesty, don’t take it personally.”
Zhuge Chi leaned forward, "Old slave, I understand."
Shang Youlan: "As long as you understand, you also know what's going on outside. People don't tell secrets in front of their eyes. You have served me, the four emperors of the Zhao Kingdom, and you should have a good death both emotionally and rationally. Let's go." Let's leave today, go wherever you want, and leave as soon as possible while I can still control you and have people see you off."
Zhuge Chi: "The Queen Mother's kindness is appreciated, but I have grown up in this palace since I was a child and I really don't want to leave."
Shang Youlan: "Old man, I'm not pretending to be in love with you, nor am I testing you. Leave now while you can. If it's too late, you won't be able to leave. Don't worry, others are not allowed to leave without permission. You can , if anything happens, I will be responsible for it, and I can still bear this. Don’t go anywhere to say goodbye, don’t disturb anyone, just leave like this, lest the news gets out and someone comes to trouble you, you After all, after staying in the palace for so many years, let’s go out and find a quiet place to spend the rest of our lives in anonymity.”
Zhuge Chi shook his head: "Queen Mother, it's not that I'm being pretentious. I'm too confused to walk or do anything. I've been used to living in the palace since I was a child. I won't be able to survive at this age."
Shang Youlan was silent, and finally said slowly: "That's it, then it's up to you to decide. I can only say that I have done my best to be benevolent." He waved his sleeves and signaled to retreat.
"Yes!" Zhuge Chi bowed and saluted, then saluted the Queen and slowly walked away, while the Queen nodded slightly in greeting.
The setting sun goes back, the setting sun is like blood, and the majestic palace is bathed in dim yellow.
As night came, the lights in the palace were lit again.
In the middle of the night, from high in the sky, a dozen figures fell from the sky.
"Who is it?" With a loud shout, a group of monks in the palace rose into the sky to intercept him.
During the roaring fight, three more people took the lead in breaking through the interception. There was no real master in the palace, and they were not afraid of the difficulty of escaping. They had the audacity to rush straight into the brightly lit royal study.
boom! Rubbles flew everywhere and the roof was broken. Hai Wuji in the imperial study was shocked. Before he could realize what was going on, someone grabbed his neck.
The palace guards and monks rushed to the rescue.
A loud shout came from the Imperial Study Room, "Everyone, stop right there. If anyone dares to move rashly, I will kill your emperor. Tell you people outside to stop immediately!"
Inside the house, the three people who kidnapped the emperor were none other than the masters of the Qiyun Sect who had been ordered to rob him. The three supreme elders of the Qiyun Sect personally led the team.
The reason why the people outside were told to stop was naturally because the people they brought with them were attacked.
Unexpectedly, Huan Qing, the imperial edict of Zhongche Mansion who arrived in the palace in time and took over the real power of Zhuge Chi, the general manager of the palace, actually ignored the life of the emperor in the imperial study and issued an order on the spot, "His Majesty is not inside, kill!"
Arrows shot through the doors and windows, and the people in the house were shocked. They quickly used the obstacles in the house to hide.
The three of them did not expect that the emperor would be captured by them in one fell swoop, and that the other party would dare to take action regardless of the emperor's death.
When the room was filled with crackling noises, someone pulled Hai Wuji and said angrily: "Tell them to stop, or I'll kill you!"
Na Hai Wuji said in a panic: "I am not Your Majesty, I am His Majesty's substitute."
Someone immediately touched his face and found no disguise. He immediately said angrily: "Nonsense, you are the one in the portrait."
Na Hai Wuji hurriedly said: "I am really a substitute, otherwise how could they attack regardless of my life or death."
"Since you are fake, where is your true identity?"
"I don't know, I really don't know."
"Then who knows?"
"How could a villain know this?"
Unable to find out the truth, he immediately threw the Hai Wuji in his hand out for testing. As a result, the people outside showed no mercy and shot the Hai Wuji into a hedgehog with random arrows on the spot.
At this time, the three people knew that the object of the hijacking should be fake and indeed a stand-in.
Amidst the roar, the rubble and masonry of the royal study room were blown away randomly, and the flying pillars were swept away. The besieging sergeants outside screamed.
The three Qiyun Sect elders took advantage of the chaos and rushed out, flying giant hammers and sweeping wildly. None of the monks they intercepted at the scene was their opponent, and they were killed by the three of them.
The assassin didn't come blindly. He had a detailed and careful plan. After failing to target Hai Wuji, he went to the Empress Dowager again, preparing to take Shang Youlan as a hostage.
But the moment the three of them broke into the Queen Mother's palace, something strange happened. A strong wind blew out the lights in the entire palace. The place suddenly fell into darkness, but a lone lamp appeared.
Under the eaves corridor, Zhuge Chi, the general manager of the palace, held a lantern in his hand and walked slowly with his back hunched over. Behind him were two blind men and two blind eunuchs.
Seeing someone, a supreme elder from Qiyun Sect immediately ran away, preparing to arrest him for questioning.
call! The lantern in Zhuge Chi's hand suddenly went out, and the roof was plunged into darkness.
The Supreme Elder who was arresting the person found that his grasp was empty and he missed. However, he was unable to move. He tried his best to cultivate and found that his neck was caught in someone else's hand. He felt an unimaginable fear. Feelings came over him.
"This is not the place you should come to." Zhuge Chi said slowly, then twisted his hand and broke the other person's neck.
PS: Something has happened in the past few days, so updates may be unstable. I will kneel down and apologize with a durian first.