In Badia's palace, the four of Lin Shuo discussed for a while in the crevice of the rockery, and finally chose the target of tonight's feint attack.
King Badiya, unlike the emperor, is a normal monarch with three thousand beauties in the harem.
The king of Badiya is in his prime and in good health. He has favored as many as ten concubines in the past two years.
These ten concubines are ranked in a row, and the lowest one is a concubine.
Above the concubine is the concubine, above the concubine is the noble concubine, and above the noble concubine is the queen. She is in the fourth rank, and her status is relatively the lowest.
However, the promotion should be expected recently, because this empress is pregnant.
If the prince is successfully born, the title will probably have to be moved up no matter what.
The news came from Lun. His brother was a palace guard here, and he knew something about the palace.
The two brothers had exchanged letters over the years, and his brother would share some gossip in the palace in the letter, of course it was just small gossip and would not involve the real secrets of the palace.
After being warned by Lin Shuo before, Lun told all these things in order to prove his loyalty to Artemis.
Adding up all the gossip, this one is barely useful.
So Artemis suggested to go find this pregnant concubine. According to Su Dongdong's request, this person is not too high or low, just right.
Lin Shuo didn't agree at first, and the reason was simple, pregnant women are afraid of being frightened.
My group of people broke into other people's rooms in the middle of the night. Although they really didn't want to harm them, but they have a big belly, if they get scared, it would be considered a crime.
"It's okay, I just need to control it." Artemis said, "Not only will she not be frightened, but I can also calm her down."
Now that it's on this point, Lin Shuo doesn't insist anymore, he can only do this.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the four of them climbed over the wall of the imperial garden and sneaked into the harem smoothly.
Once in the harem, Lin Shuo found that he was far behind others in terms of the number of wives.
The harem is very large, like a town, and the king's wives basically each have a yard.
The yards vary in size and the degree of luxury of the buildings is different, showing the different identities of the hostesses of the yards.
As soon as they entered the huge harem, the four assassins were a little dazed.
There are too many yards, who knows which concubine's yard is which, isn't this looking for a needle in a haystack
At this moment, Su Dongdong said to Lin Shuo, "Look for it quickly."
It was only then that the other two remembered that the Lin family had good noses, so they might be able to smell something strange.
Lin Shuoyu closed his eyes, carefully discerning the smell in the air.
About the concubine's information, everyone doesn't know much, there is only one piece of information, this is a pregnant woman.
Pregnant women have different body odors from normal women due to abnormal hormone levels.
Lin Shuo smelled it, and pointed to a yard in the distance: "There is a pregnant woman over there."
So the four of them sneaked into the courtyard, and with Artemis as the psychic, the eunuch and maid inside, together with the mistress of the courtyard sleeping in the main room, were instantly restrained.
Then Su Dongdong went into the house to check the situation, while the other three were waiting in the yard.
Daxizhou is at the level of technology in the middle ages. There is no electric light, and even the concubine's residence is dark at night.
The three stood in the yard for a while, Su Dongdong came out from the house, and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Isn't this waiting for you to come out and continue to guide?" Miao Chengyun said with his hands in his hands, "We are three laymen after all."
"Is it still necessary to guide?" Su Dongdong said, "This is a feint, shouldn't we make some noise to attract others?"
"Then why don't I sing a song?" Miao Chengyun suggested, "My father has praised me for my voice since I was a child, saying that I am comparable to Aunt Xueping."
"You pull it down, let you attract the enemy, not let you torture your own people." Lin Shuo rolled his eyes, "Set it on fire."
"Hmph, I don't know the goods." Miao Chengyun sucked his teeth, and then snapped his fingers.
With a light "pop", the west wing of the courtyard was set ablaze, as if diesel oil had been poured on it, and the raging fire burst into the sky in an instant.
When the fire came up, Miao Chengyun looked around, frowned, and said, "Lin Shuo, something doesn't seem right."
Lin Shuo was slightly taken aback, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Just now the lights were dark, we came here following the smell of the pregnant woman, and we couldn't see what was going on in the yard." Miao Chengyun said, "Now that the fire shines on, the surroundings can be seen clearly. Didn't you notice that? This yard is not quite right."
"What's wrong?" Lin Shuo said, "Isn't this a nice yard?"
"The problem is that the yard is so good." Miao Chengyun said, "Not only is the yard big, but the main house is three stories. Let's not talk about the carved beams and painted buildings. The key point is that the door of the main room is carved with mother A pattern of wolves raising cubs."
"What's wrong with the mother wolf's cubs?" Lin Shuo asked puzzled.
"So don't just sleep with your daughter-in-law at night, you have to know how to socialize and drink flowers and wine, so that you can know more about Daxizhou's information." Miao Chengyun said, "Badia's royal family, earlier It is the tribal chief of the nomadic people, and the wolf is their totem. The pattern of a female wolf raising cubs may have no special meaning in other places, but for the royal family of Badiya, it cannot be hung everywhere.”
As soon as Miao Chengyun said this, he heard a gong outside, and a eunuch shouted: "It's not good! The queen mother's yard is on fire!"
As soon as the gong sounded, and the eunuch on duty shouted again, the whole harem became lively.
Things were flying around outside, but Miao Chengyun looked proud and said to Lin Shuo, "Did you hear that, this is the queen mother's yard, the king's own mother, so the picture of a wolf raising cubs can be hung here."
"That's the problem." Lin Shuo lit a cigarette, "Why are there pregnant women in the queen mother's yard?"
"I went in to have a look just now." Su Dongdong looked serious at the side, "The pregnant woman is not young, she is an advanced mother, and it is probably the Queen Mother herself."
Miao Chengyun said: "Lin Shuo, I have to talk about you now. The Lin family is so famous, can't you tell the age of the pregnant woman? You're an oolong."
"This is a human nose, not an X-ray. If you can tell it's a pregnant woman, it's not bad." Lin Shuo looked helpless, "Besides, I didn't know it was the Queen Mother. I thought the king here has a strong taste. , I like older ones."
"Hey, why is the Queen Mother pregnant?" Artemis asked gossipingly, "Guess who did it?"
"You are not next to each other!" Su Dongdong said anxiously, "Think about what we should do next!"
Lin Shuo said to Artemis, "Is King Badia filial? Will he be anxious if my wife's house is on fire?"
"I don't know." Artemis shook his head.
"Hey, this matter has little to do with whether the king himself is filial or not. I heard that governing the country with filial piety is the foundation of the Badiya Kingdom." Miao Chengyun said: "I just said that singing a song will bring you down." , you insist on asking me to light a fire, you see, it’s good to light a hornet’s nest, right?”
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Most of the palaces in Daxizhou are wooden structures, and the Kingdom of Badia is located in the north, so the climate is relatively dry, and it is common for water to catch fire.
So in the beginning, the fire in the Empress Dowager's west wing was not a small matter, and there was a lot of commotion, but the people below responded in an orderly manner, because there was a plan in advance.
The large water tanks in the harem can be seen everywhere, and they are prepared for fire fighting.
After the nearby eunuchs and maids were awakened by the sound of the gong, they hurried out with wooden buckets, filled half of the buckets of water in the nearby water tanks, and rushed to the Queen Mother's yard one after another.
The Queen Mother is considered a widow now, and the surrounding yard is empty, but not far away is the Queen's residence.
As soon as she heard that the queen mother's yard was on fire, as the master of the harem, the queen quickly put on some clothes and got up, directing the nearby people to put out the fire.
Then the queen discovered that the fire could not be saved no matter what.
The queen mother's yard is like the mouth of a giant beast. The eunuchs and maids enter with buckets. It's meat buns that beat dogs and never return.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around her, the queen knew something was wrong.
This is not a fire, but someone assassinated and hijacked the Queen Mother.
"Notify His Majesty immediately!"
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King Badiya was sleeping with his concubine in his arms that night.
This concubine was the one Lin Shuo and the others had chosen to abduct tonight, but she went to sleep in the Qiandian Imperial Study tonight.
It was also unexpected that the king really loved this woman, and being pregnant would not affect the relationship between husband and wife. No wonder Lin Shuo and the others couldn't find anyone in the harem.
The Badiya royal family used to be the chiefs of nomadic tribes. The members of the royal family are all sturdy, and they work hard immediately. This is a family tradition.
The contemporary King Badia is in his forties, which is equivalent to his early thirties in other places. He is a young and middle-aged man, and his cultivation is also at the level of a two-character title.
When he was woken up in the middle of the night, he was so angry that he got up, and when he heard that the Queen Mother's yard was on fire, the king felt his temples throbbing.
In recent months, something has been bothering King Badiya.
That is what to do with the queen mother.
The old man is pregnant, and she hides it very well, but this is the Badia Palace, and the king himself is a two-character titled cultivation base, and has a perception ability that is different from ordinary people.
Badia ruled the country with filial piety, the king had to go to the queen mother to pay her respects in the morning and evening, and had to meet twice a day, how could this matter be hidden from the king.
This is a huge scandal and must not be advertised to the outside world.
But if it needs to be dealt with internally, the face between mother and child will be completely gone.
Governing the country with filial piety becomes a joke.
And the queen mother's stomach is getting bigger day by day, and it seems that she can't hide it.
For this matter, King Badiya has been in a hurry to get angry recently.
The more anxious a person is, the more ruthless his heart becomes.
Who is that man, the king has already found out, and sent someone to watch him, so don't move him yet.
If you want to move, move together, otherwise it is easy to startle the snake.
It's just that what kind of accident caused the Queen Mother to die, it still needs careful planning.
The fewer people involved, the better, and they must be capable confidants.
The plan has already taken shape in King Badia's mind, but it still needs to be considered more carefully.
The sudden incident tonight gave King Badia an opportunity.
Someone hijacked the queen mother
Then don't blame me.
King Badia put on his clothes and walked out of the royal study, watching the fire from the harem from afar on the stone steps.
The king, who was in his prime, had tears in his eyes, and said in his heart: "Mother, my son will be sorry for you."
After making up his mind, the king ordered his left and right: "Go and call Brother Haier, and come with me to the harem!"
"yes!"
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