Ruge flew up the rock wall, gradually tightening his hold on Ji Lingxue's waist, with beads of cold sweat oozing from his forehead. It was indeed a bit difficult for him to use light skills with someone else considering his current physical condition.
On the top of the cliff, Yuchi Gongru and An Ge were fighting with swords in full swing. Ruge flew to the top of the cliff. Yuchi Gongru was facing his back and using secret moves towards An Ge. An Ge was facing one secret arrow after another, and he had to dodge by moving his body up and down in a hurry.
Ji Lingxue took out a packet of medicine powder from her bosom and sneered at Yuchi Gongru: "Yuchi Gongru!"
While fighting, Yuchi Gongru suddenly heard someone calling his name. He instinctively turned his head. A blanket of white powder fell from the sky. He instinctively squinted his eyes, but it was too late. The fine powder drifted down with the wind, stinging his eyes and making them hurt.
"Ah... Damn it, who is plotting against me!" He screamed and threw the scimitar in his hand towards the source of the sound, intending to shoot the person who plotted against him in the stomach.
Yuchi Ruge held Ji Lingxue and flipped in the air to avoid the attack swiftly. On the other side, An Ge flew over and kicked Yuchi Gongru in the stomach. Yuchi Gongru's attention was all on Ji Lingxue, and he was caught off guard and flew into the air, falling towards the cliff.
Yuchi Gongrufei half opened his eyes, and his vision was all white. Faintly, he saw a man holding a woman standing on the edge of the cliff. Looking at their figures, they looked a bit like Yuchi Ruge, the lucky one.
Could that voice just now be Ji Lingxue? Wasn't she in the capital of Dongqi? A few days ago, he received the news that Princess Chen had passed away. Now this person was standing in front of him and plotting against him. It seemed that the news he received was false.
He landed on the cliff, clung to the rocks with both hands, and tried to climb up.
An Ge stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down, facing Yuchi Gongru's unwilling and angry face. An Ge raised her foot and stepped on Yuchi Gongru's fingers and crushed them.
Ji Lingxue supported the shaking Ruge, and seeing that his face was as pale as paper, she asked with concern, "Ruge, are you okay?"
Ruge smiled and asked, "Did Yuchi Gongru fall down?"
An Ge replied, “Soon!”
Yuchi Gongru hissed and gasped, "Ji Lingxue... For today's humiliation, I will come after you one day to pay you back with interest!"
Ji Lingxue smiled calmly and said, "Looking forward to seeing you!" The hatred between them had long been taller than the city wall.
Yuchi Ruge said, "If you want to settle accounts, come to me, Yuchi Gongru. You have schemed against me time and again, all for the throne. I am telling you now, you can forget about that position."
Yuchi Gongru bared his teeth and said: "Yuchi Ruge..."
An Ge exerted force on his feet, and Yuchi Gongru screamed in pain. The moment An Ge loosened his feet, his body tilted and fell down the cliff...
An Ge said: "Third Prince, the miasma at the bottom of the cliff is very suitable for you. I wish you have fun!"
Yuchi Gongru covered his chest and almost vomited blood.
Ji Lingxue looked at An Ge, whose clothes were torn and bruised, and asked, "An Ge, are you okay?"
An Ge turned around and bowed to Ji Lingxue, "I just disobeyed the master's orders. Please punish me."
Ji Lingxue twitched her lips, "Come and help carry him, we have to leave here quickly."
If Yuchi Gongru's men came, the three remaining female generals could barely deal with a dozen of them, but if there were three or four hundred of them, they would be wiped out directly.
An Ge carried Ru Ge on his back and walked quickly down the mountain with Ji Lingxue. The imagined scene of being surrounded did not happen. At the foot of the mountain, the horses that they had tied to the tree trunks were still there.
Ji Lingxue climbed onto the horse. Ruge had fallen into a coma, but An Ge held her still on the horse in a ruthless manner. The two rode away quickly.
In the capital of Dongqi, the Prince Chen's Mansion was hung with white silk fluttering in the wind, looking particularly cold and desolate. The lanterns at the door were also changed to white. Occasionally, pedestrians passed by here and quickened their pace to leave.
In the study, Xiao Yichen sat upright, Chi Feng and Bai Mo sat opposite him. Chi Feng jumped up and shook his head and waved his hands, saying, "Prince, you want to massacre the Prince's House, you are crazy! Do you know what you are saying? Do you know what the consequences will be? No, absolutely not, I am firmly opposed to it."
Xiao Yichen said calmly, "I am very calm and clear-headed. Ji Lingxue is my beloved concubine, and I will avenge her. Don't worry, I have a plan for this matter. I will not let anyone know that it was done by Prince Chen's Mansion. I will have the cavalry outside the city dress up as bandits and come and go in a hurry. No one will suspect me."
Chi Feng said: "Everyone in the world knows about your relationship with the uncle of the emperor. If anything happens to the uncle of the emperor, the first person to suspect is you, Your Majesty. This is too risky. In addition, the emperor has always been wary of you. You are undoubtedly giving the emperor a chance to find fault with you and remove your throne."
Bai Mo nodded and agreed, "Chi Feng is right, I don't agree either."
Xiao Yichen spread his hands, his expression not so angry, "Since this way doesn't work, then I'll take revenge in the second way."
Bai Mo and Chi Feng asked in unison: "What method?"
Xiao Yichen smiled strangely, "Then just force the emperor to abdicate. A new emperor appoints new ministers. When I sit on the supreme position, I will have the final say on who to dismiss and who to chop off."
Bai Mo and Chi Feng looked at each other, speechless. "Your Majesty, are you looking for an excuse to seize power and usurp the throne?"
That night, the black horse cavalry entered from the west gate and directly surrounded the imperial palace. After three days and two nights of fierce fighting, the cavalry marched straight in, bravely advancing, crushing the palace gate guards one by one and forcing their way into the Yong'an Palace where the emperor was.
At that time, Xiao Yimo, wearing a dragon robe, sat on the dragon throne without any guards around him. The cavalry surrounded the hall but did not attack.
Xiao Yimo raised his head and looked outside the hall. The first ray of dawn light shone in from outside the hall. A tall figure walked in from outside the hall. Wherever he passed, the cavalrymen all gave way.
Xiao Yimo: "My good brother, it is you."
Xiao Yichen stood at the door in a white robe, looking straight at Xiao Yimo who was sitting on the dragon throne. He had no intention of paying his respects. The blood on the palace corridor from three days and two nights of bloody battle had dyed the entire bluestone floor red, as if a red carpet had been laid. Xiao Yichen was walking on that blood carpet, which made people feel a little surprised and a little awed.
Xiao Yichen said: "Brother, I have no other intentions, I just want to avenge my beloved concubine."
Xiao Yimo sneered, and the smile on his lips gradually stiffened as he laughed. A tear rolled down the corner of his eye, "The thing I regret most is that after I ascended the throne, I spared your life because you were young." This is like the story of the fisherman and the snake. The fisherman felt sorry for the snake, but how could a cold-blooded animal like the snake know how to be grateful
Xiao Yichen repeated that sentence: "Brother, I have no other intentions, I just want to avenge my beloved concubine."
Xiao Yimo rubbed his forehead with a headache. He heard these words. Is it necessary to repeat them over and over again
"Ji Yuqing and Ji Lingxue both passed away. I understand your pain of losing your wives, but what does this have to do with you now slaughtering the palace with blood and forcing the emperor to abdicate in Yong'an Palace? I admire your rage for your beloved, but it seems that you have chosen the wrong target for revenge. What does all this have to do with me? There are too many women in your palace, and intrigues and casualties are inevitable. I heard that Ji Lingxue is no longer the Princess of Chen, but just a concubine."
Xiao Yichen said: "Royal brother, is it really nothing to do with you? You ordered Yiyun to be sent to Prince Chen's Mansion when I was away. Ji Yuqing is your person, your spy who stayed by my side. The uncle also relied on your prestige to target me and Ling Xue. Her death was forced by you..."
Xiao Yimo spread his hands, "I did plant spies around you, but Ji Lingxue committed suicide by taking poison, I didn't force her... Now it's useless to say anything, I can entrust my empire to you, I have one request."
Xiao Yichen nodded, motioning Xiao Yimo to continue.
Xiao Yimo said: "I know you hate the uncle to the core, but he is my brother-in-law after all, the queen's only brother. I just hope that you won't hurt innocent people in your grudges and let his descendants go."
Xiao Yichen didn't expect that Xiao Yimo's request was not to protect himself, but to plead for the emperor's uncle.
Xiao Yimo said, "I have been on the throne for ten years and I am tired of it. It is not bad to hand over this kingdom to you." As he said this, he raised his hand to take off the crown on his head and put it on the ground. He strode out and his clear voice drifted through the hall, "The carved railings and jade bricks should still be there, but the red face has changed..."
Chi Feng stood beside Xiao Yichen and watched the iron cavalry escorting Xiao Yimo's back gradually go away. The abdication that frightened him finally came to an end. He also didn't expect that Xiao Yimo didn't even put up any resistance in the end and directly gave the throne to Xiao Yichen. It felt like a deep brotherly love.
Chi Feng asked: "My Lord, how are you going to deal with Xiao Yimo?"
Xiao Yichen looked a little dazed, "I don't know yet, let's lock him up in the prison first. Also, remove all of Xiao Yimo's followers."
Chi Feng bowed and strode away. When he reached the entrance of the hall, he turned around and looked back. Xiao Yichen was standing under the dragon throne, looking up, as if thinking about something.
The next day, Xiao Yichen ascended the throne as emperor, posthumously named Ji Lingxue as empress and buried her in the imperial mausoleum. Chi Feng became prime minister and Bai Mo became the imperial teacher.
The spring breeze blows thousands of miles, and the news of the change of monarch spread throughout Dong Qi along with the spring breeze.
In the border town, Ji Lingxue yawned, fanned the fire carefully with a fan in her hand, and watched the white smoke coming out of the medicine furnace.
There was a cough behind her. Ji Lingxue turned around and saw Ruge sitting up with her arms propped up. "What's that smell?"
Ji Lingxue said: "The smell of medicine, the medicine I boiled will definitely cure your illness." You stayed at the bottom of the cliff for too long, and the miasma invaded your lungs. You need to take good care of yourself for a while before you can get better."
Ruge nodded and looked at Ji Lingxue's human skin mask. At the bottom of the cliff, he wanted to ask Ji Lingxue why she didn't show her true face, but he was seriously injured, hungry and cold at the time, so he didn't talk about other things in detail.
Ruge asked: "Xue'er, why are you wearing a human skin mask? Are you hiding from someone?"
Ji Lingxue coughed, "Um... the medicine is ready, take it first."
(End of this chapter)