Ban Hua did not take a carriage, but chose to ride a horse.
She was wearing a complicated palace dress, and riding a horse was not very comfortable, but for some reason, she subconsciously didn't want to go back and change, and there was a strange thought in her heart, urging her to enter the palace, enter the palace quickly.
"drive!"
The whip that Emperor Yunqing gave her slapped the horse and made a crisp sound. There was still snow on the ground, and the Ban family's guards tried their best to catch up, fearing that something would happen to Ban Hua. However, the horses they rode were not comparable to the Yuci horses that Banhua rode, and they were thrown a large distance away after a while.
"Uncle," the head guard of Jingting Hou's mansion jumped off his horse and knelt on one knee on the cold ground facing Rongxia, "Cheng Anbo, the situation of the county master is not right, the subordinate asks the uncle to protect the county master in the palace. Minute."
"Don't worry, brave men, I will definitely protect her!" Rong Xia patted the horse under him, and the steed galloped out.
"Captain," one of the guards breathed hotly, "what now?"
"Go and report to the prince and his wife immediately," the chief guard took a deep breath, "I'm afraid something is going to happen in the palace." He has been guarding the county master for several years, and he has almost never seen the county master so rude. look. Although he didn't understand what happened, his intuition told him that it was definitely not a good thing.
With icy branches, muddy and dirty roads, and pedestrians who can't see people's faces coming and going, Ban Hua seems to think that this scene seems to have been seen in a dream, and it seems that it is just her illusion. The cold wind slapped her face, freezing her face a little numb. Looking at the palace gate that was getting closer and closer to her, she felt in a trance that it was like a monster with a big mouth open, ready to go at any time. Waiting to devour everyone.
Several janitors rushed out on horseback at the gate of the palace. When they saw Ban Hua who was galloping on horseback, one of the janitors immediately raised a black flag with a yellow border and said, "County Fule, De Ning. The eldest princess is seriously injured, and your majesty urgently summons!"
"What did you say?" Pan Yan gasped, tightening the reins, the galloping horse neighed and leaned back for a while before stopping.
Seeing Ban Hua's red eyes and blue cheeks, the headed janitorial guard suddenly felt a little bit of fear in his heart: "Princess De Ning... is in serious danger..." Before he could finish his words, he felt a gust of wind in front of him. However, the Fule County Master actually rode directly into the palace and rushed into the palace.
"Master, you can't ride a horse in the palace!"
"Quick, stop her!"
"Deputy Commander Shi, stop her, be careful not to hurt anyone!"
As soon as Shi Jin came out, he heard the voice of the Imperial Guard, and when he looked up, he saw a horse galloping towards him. He flew forward and quickly pulled the reins on the horse. Bend, the man on the horse fell heavily.
Seeing this, the Guards, who were still chasing people, secretly screamed badly. What if it broke people
"Who tripped me?" Ban Hua's eyes were bloodshot, but because she fell too hard, her brain was a little dizzy, and she couldn't get up from the ground for a while.
"The county master!" Rong Xia jumped off the back of the running horse and strode to Ban Hua to help her up and said, "How are you?"
In Ban Hua's mind at the moment, she didn't realize who was supporting her at all. She clenched the horse whip in her hand and pulled it down according to the person who tripped her horse, and said in a hoarse voice, "Go away!"
When Shi Jin saw that the person who fell was Ban Hua, he was stunned. When Ban Hua swung the whip over, he did not hide. I don't know what the whip was made of, but the tail of the whip swept to the back of his hand, causing it to hurt.
"County Lord, let's go to the eldest princess first." Rong Xia didn't even look at Shi Jin, she lowered her head and said to Ban Hua, "Can you still leave?"
Ban Hua stared blankly at Rong Xia, trembling at the corners of his mouth and did not speak.
"I'll carry you." Rong Xia looked at the girl whose eyes were red, her hair was messed up, and most of the hair accessories on her head had fallen off. She squatted in front of her, "Quick, come up."
Ban Hua was lying on Rong Xia's back, and her dusty hands tightly grabbed the front of Rong Xia's clothes, as if Rong Xia could run faster and faster if she held it so tightly.
His eyes were blurred, and Ban Yan's face rubbed against Rong Xia's back, covering up his sobbing voice.
Hearing the low sobbing sound in his ear, Rong Xia quickened her pace.
"Deputy commander." Several guards looked at the bloodstains on the back of Shi Jin's hand, showing nervousness on their faces.
The prince's elder brother, the eldest son of the right minister, was beaten with a horsewhip by the princess who was proclaimed by His Majesty. This matter... Is it to pretend to be invisible, or what should I do
"It's okay," Shi Jin raised the back of his hand and looked at the wound on it, "I'll go take a look."
"Yes!" The Guards breathed a sigh of relief. Since the deputy commander said it was fine, they didn't need to be embarrassed.
In the main hall of Dayue Palace, the Empress looked at the helpless imperial doctors, her heart sank little by little. No one would have imagined that there would be an assassin who had been lurking in the public for so many years, or a female official who served His Majesty in close quarters in the Great Moon Palace.
If it wasn't for the eldest princess who sensed something was wrong and stopped the assassin for His Majesty, I'm afraid that at this moment...
The queen looked at the eldest princess lying on the imperial couch covered in blood, her whole body was cold, and she kept looking outside the palace: "Are the people from Jingting Hou's house here?"
The eldest princess doesn't look good, at least... let them see one last time.
"Niangniang, the guards have just left for a while, I'm afraid not so fast," the aunt next to the queen whispered, "Niangniang, don't worry, let the imperial doctor think of a way."
The queen smiled bitterly in her heart, what else could she think of, at the moment she was just hanging herself on ginseng slices, and the people from Jingting Hou's mansion came later, I'm afraid they won't even be able to see her for the last time.
"Niangniang, Niangniang," Wang De stumbled and ran in, panting, "Come, come."
The queen hurriedly stood up from the chair and saw Cheng Amber came in with Ban Hua on her back. Although she didn't know what was going on, she couldn't care about anything else at the moment, and said directly: "Don't salute, hurry up. Go in and have a look."
After Ban Hua saw the bloody eldest princess lying on the bed, she climbed down from Rong Xia's back in a daze, and when she was helped by Rong Xia to the eldest princess, she was already crying, but she didn't. self-awareness.
"Ancestor, grandmother." Ban Hua knelt in front of the dragon couch, held the hand of the eldest princess tightly, and almost stopped crying. The entire main hall of the Great Moon Palace was silent, and no one spoke except for crying.
Emperor Yunqing stood beside him, looking at his cousin who was crying uncontrollably, he wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know what to say. He had never seen Ban Hua so embarrassed, covered in dust, with messy hair, and his originally white face turned gray, as if he had rolled over on the ground.
When the eldest princess heard Ban Yan's cry, she slowly opened her eyes and saw her granddaughter's embarrassed appearance. She smiled slightly: "Silly girl, why are you crying?"
"Grandmother, it's useless, it's useless." Tears fell on the back of the eldest princess's hand, maybe she was dying. The eldest princess' body was very sensitive, and these tears seemed to be burning hot. The boiling water made her heart hurt for a while.
"Silly girl, what does this have to do with you?" The eldest princess used all her strength and shook Ban Hua's hand, "Look up and let grandma see, when you get downstairs, grandma can tell your grandfather, we My granddaughter has grown up and is as beautiful as a flower."
Ban Hua sniffed and wiped the stains on his face with his sleeves, trying to make his face look whiter and better. But she had put on makeup in the morning, and the more she wiped it, the more blemish her face became, and soon there were a few more dirty scratches on her face.
"It's so beautiful," the eldest princess smiled, with a very gentle smile, she took off the gold bracelet on her wrist with difficulty: "This bracelet was given to me by your great-grandfather before I got married, and now I give it to you."
"Yeah!" Ban Hua kept wiping the tears from her face, but no matter how she wiped her face, her face was still blurred. At the moment when she put on the bracelet, she couldn't hold back her emotions any longer. She hugged the eldest princess' arm. Weeping loudly: "Grandma, don't leave me, I'm afraid."
The eldest princess wanted to put her hand on Ban Hua's back to pat, but she had no strength in her hand, so she could only move her fingers with difficulty. An arm stretched out and put her hand on Ban Hua's back.
Rong Xia stood silently beside Ban Hua, like a big tree, and didn't move. Even if the emperor was beside him, the queen was also beside him, and there were a group of imperial physicians behind him, he still didn't move his steps.
"Be good, don't be afraid," the eldest princess whispered in Ban Hua's ear, "don't be afraid, just go forward, grandma is watching you." The eldest princess said these words very lightly, so light that only ban Can be heard.
Ban Huan choked and nodded, at this moment she was speechless.
"It's a pity that my family is so beautiful, grandmother can't see you wearing a red wedding dress today," the eldest princess regretted, "I don't know which son can marry our baby."
Emperor Yunqing wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and choked: "Please rest assured, aunt, my nephew will take good care of my cousin, as well as my cousin and niece, and I won't let them suffer in the slightest."
The eldest princess was already a little sane at this time. She looked at Emperor Yunqing for a long time, and suddenly said: "Where is Rui'er, where is Rui'er, this child is timid, did the assassin scare him?"
Ruier is the name of Emperor Yunqing. His full name is Jiang Rui, but no one dares to call him by his name anymore. He knew that the eldest princess was no longer sober, so he lifted his robe and knelt in front of the eldest princess, "Aunt, please rest assured, Rui Er is very safe and has not been frightened. He has grown up, you don't need to worry about him anymore. worried."
"That's good, that's good," the eldest princess' voice became smaller and smaller, "Hua, Huo."
"Grandma, I'm here, I'm here," Ban Hua held the hand of the eldest princess, "I'm here."
"Are you married?" The eldest princess looked at the red dress on Ban Hua's body, "Which family's prince is he?"
Emperor Yunqing moved the corners of his lips, don't start wiping tears without speaking.
"Grandmother, it's me," Rong Xia knelt beside Ban Hua and said in a gentle tone, "I will take good care of Bao Hua, and I won't let her suffer any grievances."
"Which family's little prince is this, so handsome..." The eldest princess looked at the palace door and smiled slightly, "The concubine is back."
When Ban Hua turned back, his father, mother and younger brother appeared at the door.