The Chongming Hall is brightly lit tonight.
Song Huaiyuan sat in the first place, watching the singing and dancing in the hall, feeling bored.
Today the Turks came to the court and brought a large number of rare tributes. Song Huaiyuan then ordered people to hold a banquet to welcome the Turkic envoys.
Song Huaiyuan has always disliked palace banquets.
The singing and dancing, silk and bamboo around the ears, dazzling and noisy, and it has been the same for decades, with nothing new to speak of.
But it is no wonder that the Ministry of Rites, Song Huaiyuan has always paid little attention to these audio-visual enjoyments, and has never made any extravagant and lustful demands.
Song Huaiyuan took the wine bottle and drank it down in one gulp, his thoughts drifted away unknowingly.
The singing and dancing below stopped at some point, the Turkic envoy stood up, showed a Turkic courtesy to Song Huaiyuan, and said with a smile: "I came here this time and specially brought a few light-looking Turkic dancers. Interested in seeing it?"
Song Huaiyuan nodded, and saw the envoy lightly clapping hands, and dozens of dancers dressed in foreign costumes filed in. Their dancing postures were completely different from the subtle and graceful dancers of the Central Plains, and they immediately attracted everyone's attention.
One of the women wore a veil and was surrounded by other dancing girls. Although she covered half of her face, she could see Qingcheng through her exposed eyes.
The sound of the music changed from slow to fast, and amidst the beating of the drums, all the dancing girls suddenly dispersed, only the veiled woman who was the leader and the other two remained in the center of the hall. Everyone was wondering, when they saw the two women slowly bending down Go, the veiled woman jumped onto the shoulders of the two with light steps, and was lifted in the air.
Her body is as light as a swallow, even though she has almost no strength in the air, she still has a graceful figure, showing amazing flexibility.
No one noticed that the three of them were slowly moving toward Song Huaiyuan following the dancing movements. Everyone was clapping their hands and applauding when they suddenly saw a figure of a woman below shake. The place fell straight down!
Amidst the exclamation, the leading dancer landed in front of Song Huaiyuan, the veil on her face fluttered down with the movement of landing, revealing an astonishing and stunning appearance.
She frowned slightly, as if she was enduring the pain, and her eyes were full of water as she looked at Song Huaiyuan, as if she was waiting for His Majesty to reach out to pick it up.
She stretched out her slender and fair fingers like Song Huaiyuan, just when everyone thought Song Huaiyuan would reach out to help, the dagger in her sleeve slipped out and pierced Song Huaiyuan's throat!
"Escort—"
"Protect the Emperor—"
The roar of the imperial guards resounded instantly in the hall, and at the very moment, Song Huaiyuan suddenly turned sideways, clasped the dancer's wrist with one hand, turned the dagger back and stabbed the dancer's chest!
At the same time, the guards' swords pierced straight into the dancer's body, the dancer struggled slightly, and then lost her breath.
Song Huaiyuan knew something was wrong the moment he stabbed the dagger into the dancer's chest.
It's too easy.
If the Turks really wanted to assassinate him, they would never have sent such a clumsy assassin.
At this time, the guards in the palace were all around Song Huaiyuan, no one had time to think, and saw the personal guard beside the Empress Dowager suddenly burst up, and a gleaming sword was placed directly on the Empress Dowager's neck!
It turns out that the real purpose is here.
Song Huaiyuan's face sank like water, and he watched the Turkic envoy get up and walk to the queen mother with cold eyes, and smiled leisurely at him: "I don't know the fate of your queen mother, is it worth the two cities of Rong and Su?"
The two cities of Rong and Su are border fortresses. If they hand over to the Turks, it is tantamount to opening the frontier defense line to the Turks.
Song Huaiyuan looked at the Turkic envoy expressionlessly, until the smile on the Turkic envoy's face was completely stiff, and then smiled coldly. Amid the exclamation of the crowd, he drew the bow and set the arrow, and the bowstring was pulled like a full moon by him, An arrow shot out and went towards the Turkic envoy without hesitation.
At the same time that the arrow pierced the heart of the Turkic envoy, the guards beside the queen mother also swung their swords violently, and saw the blood gushing out from the neck of the queen mother, and the bright red sprayed all over the ground.
On this day, the Turkic envoys were massacred. On this day, Song Huaiyuan's act of shooting and killing the Turkic envoys regardless of the life and death of the queen mother was widely circulated.
But Song Huaiyuan had no time to take care of it, because he knew that the black hand behind the assassination this time was far more than Turkic.
The Turks would not have the strength to buy off the Queen Mother's bodyguard.
And recently it was the time for Song Huaiyuan to attack the Yun family.
In a few days, Song Huaiyuan found evidence of Yun's collusion with the enemy and treason, so Yun's whole family was imprisoned, and Yun's father and son were sentenced to death.
Immediately afterwards, Song Huaiyuan sent troops to attack the Turks, forcing the Turks to retreat more than 700 miles outside the Great Wall. The Turkic king hurriedly asked Song Huaiyuan for peace in shock, and all the envoys he sent were ordered to be executed by Song Huaiyuan.
For a while, the government and the public were silent, everyone said that Song Huaiyuan was heartless and heartless, and the Queen Mother passed away without any distraction.
Only Song Huaiyuan knew that the Empress Dowager was smiling when she left. It was a gentle smile he hadn't seen for many years, as warm and moving as the summer morning light.
She smiled and said to him with her lips: The emperor really does not want what the Ai family wanted.
That was the first time she called him Huanger since she was a child.