The butler touched his head to the ground and reported in a tearful voice, "I heard that on the day when the imperial mausoleum was shaken, many of the King of Jin's assassins somehow sneaked into the heavily guarded mausoleum, and many people were killed and wounded that day..."
Before he finished speaking, Princess Chang'an's eyes widened and she fell backwards.
She fell so fast and hard that her head hit the bed frame with a loud bang.
Nanny Yuan and the others were so frightened that they immediately sent someone to find the imperial physician.
It was not until the evening that Princess Chang'an finally woke up. The first thing she said was to order Nanny Yuan to find someone: "No matter what, we must know whether the prince is alive or dead."
She looked at the dark night outside the window, stopped talking, paused for a moment, and then continued: "There is not much news now, but since no Jinyiwei came to me, Chu Jingxing probably didn't reveal his identity. Otherwise, if he died, I would definitely not be able to escape responsibility. Take this opportunity to find out clearly."
She took a deep breath and regained all her rationality: "Think of a way... Xiao Gu..."
Now only Xiao Gu, who is beside the queen, has the most accurate information.
After all, she is the eldest princess. Since the matter has not been leaked to her, and since Emperor Longqing has already determined that the murderer is Prince Jin, then perhaps the situation has not yet reached a desperate situation.
Nanny Yuan was a very practical person, and she didn't waste a moment and immediately asked someone to do it.
Fortunately, Princess Chang'an wanted to stay and rest, so she was still accompanied by some elite warriors.
This group of death warriors were retrained by Xie Er. Each of them is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. If there were not countless taels of silver, these death warriors would not be so useful.
They quickly brought back the news.
However, this news did not make Princess Chang'an feel relieved. On the contrary, she became even more worried and unable to make a decision.
Nanny Yuan coughed. Seeing that the sky was already getting light, but Princess Chang'an remained motionless and silent, like a puppet, she became a little anxious and advised softly, "Your Highness, you should also take care of yourself. As you said, things are not at their worst yet..."
Princess Chang'an interrupted her coldly, sneered and shook her head: "No, we've arrived."
She looked up at the sheep-horn palace lanterns on the windowsill, and at the room that was still gorgeously furnished even in the inn. After a while, she said softly, "Didn't you hear what they said when they came back just now? The queen died suddenly of an acute illness. She was so frightened that she suffered from palpitations."
She sneered, her lips curled up in a mocking arc: "But think about it carefully, our queen, has she ever had a heart palpitation problem? This is not a disease, it's simply that the saint can't tolerate her."
Why couldn't Emperor Longqing tolerate her? He couldn't wait to return to the capital to deal with her. Isn't it easy to explain
Empress Fang was exposed. Emperor Longqing already knew that she had colluded with outsiders to get rid of Concubine Peng De and the fifth prince.
All the blood in her body froze in an instant. Princess Chang'an felt the shock and numbness coming from her body. Soon her face turned pale: "It's over, it's over this time... Everything is over..."
Empress Fang was such an important person that the original plan was that if an earthquake could not do anything to Emperor Longqing, then he would slowly persuade Empress Fang to put drugs in Emperor Longqing's food.
However, Emperor Longqing avoided the earthquake and arranged for a counterattack by Prince Zhennan and the Minister of War in advance. He had known about Queen Fang's plan for a long time. The reason why he still left the palace and went to the imperial mausoleum as planned was just a strategy to lure the snake out of its hole and catch it in one fell swoop.
Now that this commotion had occurred, he already knew exactly how many people in the court were disloyal to him.
Nanny Yuan whispered, "But, but there is no news that the prince has been implicated... The prince is not on the list of those to be escorted to the capital. Perhaps things are not as bad as we thought..."
Princess Chang'an held on tightly and shook her head: "No matter what happens, the backup plan we prepared before can be used now. The most important thing is to save your life first."
She ordered Nanny Yuan: "Send a soldier to see where the Prince Consort, the Princess, and the Young Master have gone. We will immediately change our clothes, disguise ourselves as merchants, and head south."
There is still a way to survive if he goes to find King Linjiang, but staying in the capital will mean death.
Queen Fang might have confessed her by now, so she must prepare for the worst.
Nanny Yuan quickly agreed and didn't dare to rush into preparations.
As soon as he went out, he ran into the maid who came in hurriedly, and couldn't help asking: "What happened?"
"Someone outside wants to see His Highness." The maid's face was already frighteningly pale. When she saw Nanny Yuan, she raised her head numbly and said, "It's a distinguished guest."
Nanny Yuan quickly recognized this so-called distinguished guest. She clenched her hands into fists unconsciously and took two steps back subconsciously.
Young Master Lin had a cold look in his eyes. He was wearing a Feiyu suit, and the embroidered spring sword on his waist was so bright that it dazzled people's eyes.
He followed his confidant like a ghost and appeared in front of Nanny Yuan, and asked, "Where is Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
No matter how smart and calm Nanny Yuan was, she didn't know how to respond at this moment. She opened her mouth but didn't say a word.
Young Master Lin had already walked past her and was striding inside.
Nanny Yuan finally woke up from her dream. In a hurry, she thought that Young Master Lin was here to arrest people according to imperial orders, so she hurriedly said, "Protect His Highness!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the assassins hiding in the dark jumped out one after another and blocked Young Master Lin's way.
Young Master Lin looked around coldly at the assassins surrounding him and his cronies, raised his lips, and gave a cold order: "Kill!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lou Bing, who was beside Young Master Lin, rushed out first and fought with a assassin.
Although the death squads were well-trained, the Jinyiwei were not easy to deal with. After Lin Sanshao was promoted to commander, he carried out drastic reforms on the Jinyiwei, one of which was to enhance their martial arts.
Therefore, the battle was over in just half an hour.
The Jinyiwei exchanged two for eight, successfully using the deaths of four people to exchange for the lives of the sixteen death-defying soldiers on the opposite side.
These were all death-defying warriors, each of them would rather bite off the poison hidden in their teeth than surrender.
As a result, no one was left alive.
But Young Master Lin didn't seem to care about all this. He glanced coldly at the corpses lying on the ground, then turned around and looked at Nanny Yuan coldly.
Nanny Yuan had seen many people's scary eyes before, but she had never seen a person's eyes so cold and devoid of any warmth. She was shocked and took several steps back.
Young Master Lin glanced at Lou Bing and Lou Bing immediately understood.