There were three candles in the room, one on the table in the middle of the chair, next to Han Ruzi, and one at the door of Dongxi Nuan Pavilion.
The three did not move, and there was no wind, but the candles went out at the same time.
The East Sea King called out, "What's going on?"
The candle beside Donghai King suddenly lit, and it only lasted for a very short time. It was like a soft lightning that had lost its vitality. He let out a second scream, but nothing happened.
After a while, the candle beside the door of Dongnuan Pavilion suddenly ignited and extinguished. King Donghai couldn't control the panic in his heart. He let out a louder scream, and immediately covered his mouth. Something strange was happening in the room. can't protect him.
The next interval was a little longer, and the candle closest to Han Ruzi was lit. Han Ruzi had already prepared himself, opened his eyes wide to observe, he felt that he saw a vague shadow, and before he could be completely sure, the candle had gone out.
In the darkness, someone snorted softly.
The King of the East Sea stopped screaming and made a sound similar to a whimper. After a while, he said in a trembling voice, "Is there a ghost?"
Han Ruzi was also a little uncertain. From childhood to adulthood, he had heard many ghost stories, and the scene in front of him was somewhat similar, "Meng E, are you still there?"
"You actually know the name of the palace maid?" Donghai Wang was a little surprised, and immediately discovered the "truth" and shouted: "She is a ghost! The palace maid is a ghost! Did you notice that the eunuchs and palace maids who came to serve you can't see it. She, only the two of us... This is, this is the witchcraft of the Queen Mother!"
The eunuch and the palace maid always ignored each other in front of the emperor. Han Ruzi didn't find it strange, not to mention that he had seen Yang Feng talking to Meng E with his own eyes, and he didn't believe that she was a ghost. "Don't be noisy, there are other people in the room."
"Human...or a ghost?" Donghai King was even more frightened, his teeth rattling.
The candle that was farther away from the two was lit, but it was not extinguished this time. Meng E stood beside her with a thoughtful expression.
Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately you are all right, what was it just now?"
Meng E still refused to speak. The King of the East Sea observed for a while, and said, "Whether you are a human or a ghost, please be sure... Be sure to identify the target. I am the King of the East China Sea, Han Shu, and the one sitting over there is the emperor."
Meng E turned around in place, and took out a very short dagger from her left sleeve. The blade was only three or four inches long, and the hilt was less than two inches. .
The King of the East Sea sucked in a breath of cold air, clinging to the wall and motionless, he wanted to rush into the warm pavilion, but it was too dark inside, and he did not dare to enter.
Meng E quickly circled the house. When she passed by the front of the warm pavilion, the King of the East Sea was so frightened that she sat on the ground and didn't get up for a long time.
Meng E's goal was not either he or the emperor. She jumped back to the door, put her left hand on the beam, shook it twice, jumped back to the ground, walked quickly, and suddenly jumped up again, like this three times. , finally stood firm, and retracted the dagger into his sleeve.
Both Han Ruzi and Donghai King were stunned. Meng E was not only good at martial arts, but also a profound martial arts they had never seen before. The tallest beam was more than ten feet away from the ground, but she jumped up and down with great ease. I don't think he and the emperor can join forces to deal with this palace maid.
"Rest." Meng E finally said a word.
The King of the East Sea slowly stood up and asked carefully, "Will you stop doing it tonight?"
Meng E opened the door and left. Han Ruzi noticed something unusual. She got up and walked to the door. She reached out and wiped the dark door panel. Sure enough, there was blood on the place Meng E touched, and she was injured.
The King of the East Sea slowly walked over to take a look, and said in a trembling voice, "There really are... assassins..."
"Don't guess." Han Ruzi found a piece of paper and wiped off the blood. He actually believed that an assassin had come just now.
Not long after, four palace maids walked in and went to the Dongxi Nuan Pavilion to lay mattresses and quilts.
Han Ruzi lived in the east, and he was full of words in his heart, hoping to ask Meng E for clarification, but it was another palace maid who stayed tonight. He only dared to answer "yes" and "no" to all the questions of the emperor. It seems that she doesn't know who Meng E is at all.
Han Ruzi tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Someone knocked on the door, and then entered uninvited. The King of the East Sea, who was also not asleep, came and said to the palace maid who was sitting up, "Lie down, it's none of your business." He tiptoed to the bed and asked softly, "Are you awake? ?"
"Um."
"I guess you can't sleep either, it's really..." Donghai King turned around in the darkness and said in the direction of the couch: "You go out, you don't need to serve tonight."
"Ah?" The palace maid panicked.
"Ah what? I'm His Majesty's entourage, and of course I can serve His Majesty, and... We want to discuss important national affairs, how can the little servants be on the sidelines?"
This is an ordinary palace maid, who was frightened by the words of the East Sea King, so she had to go out in the dark, guarding the door of the warm pavilion, not daring to stay away.
Satisfied, King Donghai sat on the edge of the bed and said seriously, "I thought about it again, and finally I understand a little bit."
"Don't you think Meng E is a ghost?" Han Ruzi laughed.
"Ghosts don't jump like her, they just float around, like the wind, woo-" The King of the East Sea made a sound of wind, and found that the emperor was not afraid, and felt very boring, "That palace maid is a human being, a martial artist. Master, this is strange, how can there be such a person in the palace?"
"Can't there be martial arts masters in the palace?"
"Of course there are, but most of them are men, let alone pretending to be a palace maid. In the imperial temple, the palace maid brought by the imperial concubine is very strange. It looks like a man disguised as a woman, and these two people don't understand the rules. It's not like Someone from the palace."
"I think so."
"I've already said that, of course you think so. The key is not the two of them, nor you, but me."
"you?"
"Well. Why do I stay in the palace? Of course it's not because of your words, why did the queen mother let me be your entourage? Why did you have to let me come to you tonight?"
"Why?" Han Ruzi was a standard story lover and was willing to ask questions along the lines of the other party's story.
"To protect you."
"Can you protect me?"
"I can't protect you, my existence can protect you."
Han Ruzi was a very smart boy, but he was still dizzy, "Well... I don't understand."
"Listen to me." King Donghai went to bed cross-legged, with high spirits, "The Queen Mother must have thought so: the Cui family is not willing to lose the throne, so they will send someone to assassinate the new emperor, that is, you, in order to protect your puppet, I will be killed. I brought it here, because the Cui family will not kill me too."
Han Ruzi thought for a while, "You seem to make sense?"
"It makes sense? Obviously it makes sense. This explains everything!"
Han Ruzi also sat up, "The candle was extinguished before, was your Cui family sending assassins?"
"of course not."
"Why not anymore?"
Donghai Wang approached Han Ruzi, "You are as stupid as the queen mother, she is wrong, it is impossible for our Cui family to send assassins. Here is the strangeness of the whole thing: that strange palace maid..."
"Her name is Meng E, not weird at all."
"Don't argue with me, I'm guiding you to think about the problem." King Donghai thumped twice on the bed, and said excitedly, "Why is the palace maid so calm after discovering the assassin? She should shout and call the guards in the palace, This is a great opportunity to deal with the Cui family! No matter who sent the assassins, they can frame the Cui family!"
The King of the East Sea only sees the Cui family. In his opinion, all conspiracies are also directed at the Cui family, so they are also aimed at him.
"Meng E didn't shout because she didn't catch the assassin..."
"Hey, the key is here, why haven't the assassins been caught? Since the queen mother guessed that there will be assassins, she should be well prepared." Donghai Wang said eagerly.
"why?"
"Hey... Just wait and see, the Queen Mother has a big plan, maybe there's already chaos outside, we just don't know what's going on here. The Queen Mother wants to use this trick to cut off the dissidents, but the Cui family is not so easy to deal with."
Han Ruzi didn't say anything for a long time, and the King of the East Sea asked in confusion, "What are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking that the assassin may have been sent by your Cui family..."
"If I say no, it's no!" Donghai Wang said angrily.
Han Ruzi was unmoved, and continued: "I'm still thinking, apart from guarding against your Cui family, there must be other things for the Queen Mother to guess that there will be assassins tonight."
"whats the matter?"
"Before this, there was an assassination incident in the palace."
Donghai King was startled, "You said it was... our father and brother..."
"Emperor Huan died after three years on the throne, and the last emperor was only a few months old. Isn't that normal? How are their health?" Han Ruzi was very unfamiliar with his father and brother, and could not say a friendly name.
"I don't know, the emperor's father is in good health. He took me out to hunt a few months before he ascended the throne. But I can't say for sure. Thinking too much, assassinate the emperor? More than one? Impossible, if the emperor was so easy to kill, the Great Chu Jiangshan would have changed his surname long ago." The King of Donghai must return the words, otherwise, the more he talks, the more he looks like Cui home conspiracy.
Han Ruzi felt that he was easy to be killed. He was not dead yet, just because the time had not come, and the Queen Mother didn't want him to die too early.
The assassin seemed to be hiding somewhere in the dark. The two stopped talking. The quieter the surroundings, the more terrifying the atmosphere. Han Ruzi said, "Is there any more unlucky emperor than me? It seems that everyone wants to kill me. ."
"If I were the emperor, there would be no such thing. The Cui family will protect me without fail, and everything will not be hidden from me."
Han Ruzi suddenly remembered what Yang Feng said and murmured, "Our grandfather, Emperor Wu, was also in danger in the palace."
"Hey, who did you listen to? Why didn't I know?"
"It's just... I heard someone say something casually." Han Ruzi's thoughts have drifted away.
"You, you think too much, why are there so many assassins? This time it was an accident, and it was probably an accident arranged by the Queen Mother." King Donghai refused to accept Han Ruzi's ideas and kept shaking his head.
Han Ruzi didn't want to guess anymore. It was better to know nothing than to think wildly, so he fell to sleep, but his heart was inexplicably restless, and he couldn't sleep anymore.
The King of the East Sea sat on the corner of the bed and muttered after a while: "What is the Queen Mother trying to figure out?"
I don't know how long it has passed, the two were in a state of being in a state of sleep but not sleep. The knock on the door rang suddenly. The King of the East Sea was so frightened that he rolled and crawled and hid behind Han Ruzi. side, jump to the ground, and crouch to the corner of the bed.
"The time has come, Your Majesty." It was Yang Feng's voice that sounded outside the door.