"ah… "
A shrill scream resounded through the East Palace, the queen and other women walked out in surprise, and suddenly saw a little eunuch lying on the backyard door, followed by a "whoosh", a big hand pulled him violently After leaving, there was a scream immediately, and blood spattered out.
"Not good! There are assassins, get out quickly..."
Ye Ruoqing hastily protected the Queen and Yongning. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both big-bellied mothers-in-law, but before they could turn around, a figure leaped across the backyard like a big toad, slamming a fleeing court lady. He fell to the ground hard.
"Royal Father!!!"
The prince's eyes widened in shock, only to see that Emperor Yongji's dragon robe was stained with blood, lying on the little maid with disheveled hair and biting, and a large piece of flesh was bitten off his cheek, waiting for him When he suddenly raised his head and swallowed the minced meat, his eyes had already turned black.
"Corpse man! He has transformed into a corpse..."
Yongning screamed and ran away, the women were all frightened out of their wits, only the crown prince anxiously shouted at his father, the queen quickly turned around and shouted: "Guan'er! Run, your father has turned into a dead body, don't Let him touch you!"
"Roar~"
suddenly!
There was a roar from the courtyard door, and the little eunuch who had just been dragged away actually came out, twisted like a puppet out of control, and two court ladies and eunuchs rushed out from the side with their teeth and claws open, rushing towards the prince.
"Run!"
Ye Ruoqing rushed back, picked up the prince, and ran away, but as soon as she ran to the gate of the courtyard, she heard a "crash", and at this moment, Yongning's water broke, and she collapsed on the gate of the courtyard and said in horror: "I, I'm going to give birth, How to do how to do?"
"Close the door!"
The prince rushed over and picked her up, and rushed out in a hurry. The queen and sisters slammed the door of the hospital from left to right, and slammed the door of the East Palace. The thumping sound.
"Help! Let us out quickly..."
The rest of the court ladies all cried out in the East Palace, but the crown prince and others couldn't care less, Ye Ruoqing also hugged the queen up, and fled out of the tunnel desperately.
"Come on! Come on, come on..."
All the women screamed desperately, the guards in the palace had already heard the screams, and a group of people rushed over without shouting a few times, the prince yelled anxiously: "There is a corpse in the East Palace, you go quickly!" Cut off their heads, beware of scratching and biting!"
"Corpse?"
The guards were all taken aback. They didn't understand how the corpse plague appeared in the palace, but the screaming East Palace confirmed everything. They hurriedly sent people to call for reinforcements. A dozen people rushed to the gate of the East Palace in a hurry. His blood had flowed from the crack in the door.
"Go up the wall! Shoot them dead with arrows..."
A guard quickly stuck the door knocker with a knife. He could tell from the sound that there were more than a dozen corpses. Fortunately, the Ouchi guards reacted quickly, and soon a large group of people rushed over and took a ladder to climb up to the East Palace. The courtyard wall, and shoot the corpses in the courtyard with a bow and crossbow.
"ah!!!"
Sudden!
One of the guards was dragged down violently, and the others also jumped off the wall in fright, and more than a dozen people fell down at once. The deputy commander of the Dragon Guard hurriedly asked: "What's going on, who jumped so high?" , it's impossible for the servant to know martial arts?"
"The emperor! The emperor is inside, the corpse, the corpse has changed..."
A dragon guard got up with a pale face, and the faces of the two deputy commanders also changed. They looked at each other and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly call Master Luo to come and make a decision, and then use the flying claws to tie up the emperor. Don't let him out, go!"
"yes!"
The guards hurriedly split up, and the two deputy commanders kissed each other.
Since climbing up the courtyard wall, seeing that the dragon guard who just fell has also turned into a dead body, someone tore off one of his arms, but he still raised his head and screamed, and Emperor Yongji, who has a third-grade cultivation base, even jumped violently come up.
"Boom~"
Emperor Yongji was slapped back with a knife, and the dragon guard who turned into a dead body was also quickly shot to death. Soon, only Emperor Yongji was killed in the East Palace. The dragon guards were like whack-a-mole, jumping up and knocking him Go on, but no one dares to kill the emperor, and no one dares to bear the crime of regicide.
"Quick! Throw the flying claw..."
The lowest level of the Dragon Guards is also a master of the second rank. More than a dozen people threw flying claws on the wall, directly trapped Emperor Yongji in the middle of the rope, then jumped down and tied him into a big rice dumpling, and directly hung Emperor Yongji on the wall. on the beams in front of the house.
"What's going on? Where did the corpse come from..."
Luo Tan and Qiu Ning finally both arrived, and a deputy commander hurriedly jumped down and said, "I don't know! The Changdi Ji entered the palace not long ago, and she was the only outsider who came in, and the emperor also turned into a dead body inside." , how can this be good?"
"Hurry up and seal it up, don't spread this matter..."
Luo Tan hurriedly stepped on the ladder and jumped up the wall, all the dragon guards ran out, a dozen corpses were piled up at the gate of the courtyard, only Emperor Yongji was hanging from the beam, struggling with disheveled hair, like a madman. roar.
"This is too bad, the Akabane army must come in after learning about this..."
Luo Tan jumped down with an ashen complexion, and ordered: "Go and tie up the emperor with an iron chain, the rope won't hold him for long, the corpse will be burned and disposed of in the backyard, not a single drop of corpse oil can leak out, and the mouth of the well should be sealed completely, wear a Use the mask to find the source of the corpse poison!"
"Luo Tan! You sit here, I'll go find Ye Ruoqing..."
Qiu Ning hurried to the harem. Luo Tan was Zhao Guanren's first concubine and had followed him since the corpse plague in Lantai County. Luo Tan naturally knew how to deal with corpse poison.
"Empress! Where is Ye Ruoqing..."
Qiu Ning led the female guards into the queen's bedroom. The two queen sisters had already changed their clothes and were wiping their hands with alcohol. Upon hearing this, the queen hurriedly said, "Yongning gave birth prematurely. She brought Mrs. Wen to help in the room. Do you doubt her too?"
"If it wasn't her, who else would there be? She is the only outsider who has entered the palace..."
Qiu Ning walked into the house with a murderous look. Ye Ruoqing happened to come out side by side with the prince. Ye Ruoqing said angrily, "Fart! Am I going to frame my own elder brother? Besides, I was also in the East Palace just now. If I ran too fast, I would have been killed too." Bite!"
"You must have been used..."
Qiu Ning stepped forward and stared and said, "You have been imprisoned by Yuan Lao Er for more than a month, and all his subordinates have also been imprisoned by him. Do you dare to say that no one betrayed you during this period? Besides, Yuan Lao Er hated you to the bone, so get some corpses." Isn't it strange that the poison made them throw into the palace?"
"Do you think I'm brainless..."
Ye Ruoqing pointed to the two female guards and the two palace maids, and said: "These four are the people I left in the harem, and they have already become yours. None of the people who followed me out of the capital have entered the palace, and all of them are waiting outside the palace." , could they still sneak in?"
"Auntie! Could there be something wrong with the gift you brought..."
The prince frowned and said: "The corpse poison must have come from the backyard. After the father came in, he said to wait for aunt in the study, but something happened within half a cup of tea, and some gifts were sent to the backyard. It is very likely that someone hid the corpse poison in the backyard." In the gift box!"
"this… "
Ye Ruoqing bit her lip and was speechless, but a court lady said: "We have inspected all the gifts, but some of them are candied fruit and shortbread, we can't open them all for inspection, there is probably a girl who is greedy and steals candied fruit Then I got poisoned!"
"Take the gift and burn it, don't keep anything..."
The queen shouted hastily,
But Qiu Ning said again: "Ye Ruoqing! From now on, you can't leave the harem for half a step. Your brother has been captured alive, but we can't kill him, otherwise Ye Yunchen will have an excuse to come in and kill us all with the crime of regicide." !"
"This matter won't be hidden for long..."
The queen subconsciously stood up, and said: "Let's make Guan'er ascend the throne immediately, and send him an imperial edict ordering him to continue fighting outside. Will he still dare to attack the palace?"
"Queen! It's even more troublesome to ascend the throne..."
Qiu Ning said: "If Ye Yunchen wants to enter the palace for the funeral, you can't keep him out of the palace, but once he enters the palace, no one can stop him if the prince is not around. When he forces the prince to abdicate the throne, we will all be punished." He put him under house arrest, or forced us to commit suicide!"
"No! There is another plan that works..."
Ye Ruoqing said with piercing eyes: "The Red Feather Army is led by my sixth younger brother and third uncle. Both of them and I are very disgusted with Ye Yunchen's poisoning of the common people. Let's say that the emperor hanged himself in shame after learning about this. With support, we can make Guan'er enthroned!"
"you… "
Qiu Ning looked at her in surprise.
"I'm from the Ye family, but I'm a person first, not a beast..."
Ye Ruoqing puffed up her chest and said: "Let me tell you the truth, Brother Xuan fought in Rongma County. I helped him a lot. He promised to restore our engagement. Zheng Yijian can testify for me. If you believe me, Just let me go out of the city to find my sixth brother and the others!"
"I can let you out..."
Qiu Ning said sternly, "But I'm afraid that if you didn't get things done, you would leak the news instead. Your third uncle is a drunkard!"
"You are wrong! My third uncle is a man of temperament, I am sure to convince them..."
Ye Ruoqing said seriously: "After Guan'er ascended the throne, he issued an imperial decree. If he does not recognize Ye Yunchen's identity, he will become a target of public criticism. Let's put the blame on him and let Brother Xuan and the Yuan family join hands to destroy him. No more mess!"
"Yes! We can't help the evildoers..."
The prince suddenly said loudly: "The safety of the Li people is far more important than the throne of our family. What's more, King Zhao has always loved the people like a son. The river is in a mess now. Only he is still building epidemic prevention fortifications. He has never coveted my prosperity. I absolutely believe in his character!"
"Oh! Prince, great joy, great joy..."
A servant woman ran out from the back hall and said beamingly: "The mother and the child are safe, and they gave birth to a pair of twins. Two fat sons, what a double happiness!"
"Great! I have sons, two sons..."
The prince rushed into the house excitedly, the women hurriedly pulled him back, but the prince hurriedly asked again: "Mother! Can my child abolish the princess now and change Yongning to be the right concubine? Giving birth to a pair of twins is a great achievement!"
"Silly boy! You are the emperor now, she is the empress, and my mother is the queen mother..."
The queen poked him nervously, as if her husband had just died, and the prince also forgot about his own father, only Ye Ruoqing wiped her tears and said: "Actually, it's good that the emperor is gone. It’s been so hard, it’s really a relief for him!”
"Wait!"
Qiu Ning suddenly realized something, and hurriedly asked: "It's not yet the Chinese New Year, and the new year name has not yet been used. If the crown prince ascends the throne, can Yongji's year name still be used?"
"Of course not! If Guan'er ascends the throne immediately, next year will be..."
The empress froze before finishing her sentence, and suddenly covered her small mouth in horror. Ye Ruoqing and the other women also changed their expressions in horror, and even the crown prince said with chills all over his body: "The first year of the apocalypse! How...how could it come?" so fast?"