"Master Qiu thinks highly of Cui," Cui Wenshen coughed a little weakly and said, "You can't get in, how can I get in?"
"You can."
"What if I say I can't?"
"Then You die." Qiu Che paused, smiled, and added under Cui Wenshen's indifferent expression, "Then I will give you the son born to you by your precious lover and die with you."
Cui Wenshen endured it again and again. His expression still couldn't hold it back and changed slightly:
"Master Qiu is too confident. How do you know that it's not you who die?"
"Then what confidence do you have that you think he can win?"
"He will win. "Cui Wenshen stared at her with some caution in his eyes and said hoarsely, "He has waited too long for this day and prepared too much... You can't win."
"How do you know we are here. Not prepared?"
Cui Wenshen said nothing, but the word "impossible" was clearly written in his eyes.
Qiu Che's reaction today was what he and Li Hengyu expected from beginning to end, and it was indeed not what they expected.
If this was an act... Cui Wenshen had been with the emperor for so many years and had seen countless officials and concubines of all kinds. There were so many people who knew how to act, but they didn't even know each other through.
Qiu Che deserves to win.
But Qiu Che just smiled and had no intention of explaining: "I know that your master wants to force the crown prince... or rather, he wants the prince to force the crown. Is that right?"
"Forcing the crown?!" Fufeng shouted out loudly, and immediately said again Covering his mouth, he looked around.
There is still a curfew in the capital tonight, and except for a few teams of patrolling guards hurriedly coming and going, there are almost no people in the city.
Fufeng led Li Qingwu all the way from the Princess Mansion to the palace gate, avoiding the inspection points of the city patrol guards and Jinyi guards along the way.
At this time, in front of the palace, there was already a group of people quietly holding lanterns, waiting here.
When he heard Li Qingwu say the words "forced into the palace" flatly, Fufeng was so shocked that he almost fell off the palace wall.
Instead, Li Qingwu pressed his shoulder with one hand and whispered: "Why are you panicking? Didn't you notice that they didn't move?"
Fufeng's body stiffened.
The people stood firm again, and no one noticed that they were here thanks to the branches and branches extending from the palace courtyard.
But...
"Why did His Highness say that they were going to... force the palace?"
"I guessed it," Li Qingwu adjusted his breath, which was a little unsteady as he was being pulled by Fufeng, "but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly. Look. Come... Li Hengyu really can't wait."
When she said this, a cold light flashed in her eyes.
Fufeng still seemed to have many questions, as if he wanted to ask, "What does this have to do with the third prince Li Hengyu?"
But now is not a good time to ask questions. After Li Qingwu said that, he patted him again and whispered: "Let's go to Yaohua Palace first."
"I'm not looking for His Highness..."
"I am the master, listen to me. , pick up Concubine Xu Xian first."
Fufeng was silent, and for a moment, he felt the same sense of coercion that Qiu Che had brought to him in Li Qingwu.
Itâs the pressure from the superior personâs momentum.
He sighed in his heart: "...Yes."
The two maids guarding Concubine Xu Xian's door were knocked unconscious by Fufeng. Li Qingwu stepped forward and knocked on the door. After a long and two short words, he whispered: "Open the door, empress, it's me."
After a while, Concubine Xu Xian cautiously opened the door a crack and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the two palace maids behind her who were watching her had passed out.
Li Qingwu asked Fufeng to guard the door and entered first.
Concubine Xu Xian closed the door, turned around and said nervously: "Nearly all the people guarding me have withdrawn tonight, only two are left. What's going on? Why are you here suddenly again?"
Li Qingwu spoke quickly: "Something is going to happen in the palace. "My queen, I have to go ahead with my secret guard Fufeng to ensure safety. I'm going to find Pingyi." Concubine
Xu Xian said, "Can you do it alone?"
"The incident happened suddenly tonight, so we are not fully prepared." Fufeng will only send you out of the palace and then come back to pick me up in Pingyi. There is a secret passage outside the palace. You can follow that passage and you will find our people at the end. You can rest assured."
Concubine
Xu Xian was worried. He didn't raise any objection to her arrangement, but turned around hurriedly, took out a square box from the secret compartment under the bed, and handed it to her.
"This is what they have always wanted." Concubine Xu Xian lowered her voice, "I may be able to help you at the critical moment."
Li Qingwu opened the box and took a look. Both sides looked at each other and understood what the other meant.
Without further delay, Li Qingwu put the box in his sleeve and watched her go out.
"No." Fufeng couldn't hold it back and retorted, "If I send the empress off first, your Highness Pingyi..."
"Stop talking nonsense," Concubine Xu Xian interrupted him, "leave quickly, I believe her."
Li Qingwu agreed. I didn't expect Concubine Xu Xian to be so straightforward and was stunned for a moment.
Then Concubine Xu Xian turned her head and smiled at her: "We are also allies now, aren't we?"
Alliances should trust each other unconditionally and work together in the same boat.
After the two left, Li Qingwu followed the familiarity of the palace roads in his memory and took a detour to Fengyang Pavilion.
At present, everything in the palace is normal and nothing seems out of the ordinary. Li Qingwu guesses that no one in the palace knows about the forced palace.
So Li Qingwu also pretended to enter the palace normally and looked as usual. After seeing the maid serving the princess in Fengyang Pavilion, he only said that he was taking her out of the palace to go out on the streets together on the Lantern Festival tomorrow.
The palace maid hesitated for a moment, but did not doubt that he was there, and said: "This is not good, there is no order from the Concubine Xian..."
Li Qingwu said: "I have already told the Concubine Xian, maybe the noble concubine has forgotten it. I forgot to tell you. Just take me to see His Highness Pingyi. If something happens, I will take care of it."
The maid could only say, "Yes."
The two of them were walking and had just arrived in Pingyi to rest. At the gate of the palace, a palace maid suddenly ran over from the gate of Fengyang Pavilion screaming, "Help! His Royal Highness has killed someone! His Royal Highness is going to kill the emperor, come here, help-"
The other party was incoherent and obviously frightened. It's not easy.
"What's going on!"
The palace maid who was leading the way for Li Qingwu paused. Before she could react, Li Qingwu had quietly quickened his steps, pushed the door open from her side, and walked quickly into the palace.
The noise outside suddenly became louder, the palace maid's scream, the eunuch's begging for mercy, the clang of swords and swords, the dull thud of swords piercing flesh and blood...
Every sound fell on Li Qingwu's heart, making her whole body move. shake.
It's not fear, it's sadness.
In the courtyard, the grandma who heard the commotion led the sleepy Pingyi out and carefully hid behind the pillar to observe the situation.
Li Qingwu stepped forward and picked up Pingyi, and heard her shout in surprise: "Sister!"
Mammy asked anxiously: "Your Highness, Princess, what's going on outside? Did something happen..."
Before she could finish her words, several figures suddenly fell from outside the palace wall.
Li Qingwu immediately took Pingyi and took a cautious step back, but he quickly saw the face of the person coming.
The leader, Yu Yan, opened his hood, took out a bird whistle and blew a whistle to prove that he was not pretending to be someone else: "Your Highness, it's me."
Li Qingwu breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't relax to the end. "Why are you here?"
"You want me to go find the adults, but the city gate has been blocked by patrol guards and Jin Yiwei. They are strictly guarded and our people can't get out at all."
Yu Yan stepped forward and took it. The confused Pingyi in her arms whispered, "My subordinates were worried, so they came to the palace to find you."
She knew that if Qiu Che was still in the capital, he would let her do this.
Even if not, she would still do it - the Detachment of Women cannot and will not give up on anyone they consider a companion.
This was the military rule Qiu Che had set for them a year ago.
Li Qingwu nodded and wanted to say something else.
The door of the main hall was suddenly kicked open, and then a hive of soldiers of the prince poured in, holding up spears and swords, shouting loudly: "Don't move! Everyone squat down!"
Li Qingwu made a decisive decision: "Let's go! "
Yu Yan reacted quickly and threw Pingyi in his hand to the subordinate next to him. He then threw Li Qingwu on his shoulder and flew directly onto the palace wall with the help of his strength.
Li Qingwu, who was resisted by her, said: "..."
I always felt that this posture seemed a bit familiar.
The two female subordinates also reacted quickly. When Pingyi called "Nanny", the other one quickly grabbed the frightened Nanny and followed Yu Yan's footsteps.
A group of guards stayed in place, and the leader yelled: "What are you doing standing still! Chase me!"
"But sir, that seems to be the eldest princess..."
"Who cares who she is," the guard captain kicked the person. Foot, said angrily, "His Royal Highness said that no one in the palace should be spared today, didn't you hear?"
"Yes! Yes!"
Yu Yan led his subordinates here, carrying Li Qingwu in the palace. Climbing up the eaves and walking over the wall, he suddenly remembered something amidst the howling wind and asked, "Ah, by the way, Your Highness, where are you going now?"
Li Qingwu was almost disgusted by this gesture.
Suddenly I missed the time when Fu Feng was carried steadily on my back.
At this time, she still didn't forget to hold on to her sleeve bag to prevent the contents from falling. At the same time, she said feebly: "Take Pingyi and the others to go first. I... need to go to the Nourishing Heart Hall."
Yu Yan looked back . After glancing at the prince's personal guards who were chasing after her, she turned a corner, separated from her two subordinates, and headed straight for the Nourishing Heart Hall.
The guards who were chasing behind them all hesitated for a moment, and then only two of them chased after them, while the rest caught up with the two subordinates.
"They..."
"Don't worry," Yu Yan said in a relaxed tone, "They are all good players selected from the Detachment of Women. Master and I personally taught them. There will be no problems."
Li Qingwu was silent: "Don't ask me Why do you want to go to the Yangxin Palace?"
"Your Highness and Master have their own reasons for doing things." Yu Yan said without squinting, "Besides, I believe in Master, so I believe in you too."
sentence.
Li Qingwu was in a daze, as if everyone around him had an inexplicable confidence in them for various reasons.
But this feeling is indeed pretty good.
...It would be better if Yu Yan could carry her in a different position next time.
When the two arrived at the Yangxin Hall, there were only two little eunuchs dozing outside.
Jade Yan was lying on the eaves, hiding his figure under the cover of night, and wondered in a low voice: "Didn't it say that the emperor is under strict guard? Why are there only two people today?"
Li Qingwu resisted the desire to vomit: "The prince must have withdrawn the servants in advance in order to force the palace."
She recovered and saw Yu Yan coming back to her senses, neatly knocking down the two guards who were chasing him, and then throwing them from the outside.
Underneath that is a thick patch of grass in the Royal Garden, which is quite secluded. Yu
Yan clapped his hands, turned around and said innocently: "What is Your Highness going to do now?"
Li Qingwu thought for a while, calculated according to the direction, and pointed to the position of a brick next to him: "Can it be cut open? Be quiet."
Yan took a small knife and plunged it into the knife.
Fortunately, the voice was quite light.
After the bricks and tiles were brought, Li Qingwu glanced inside and frowned.
Yu Yan followed her movements and saw that the location directly below was the inner room of Yangxin Hall.
The emperor was lying on the couch, his face pale, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Judging from the current situation, there should be no one else in the palace.
There was not much time left for them, so Li Qingwu could only let Yu Yan, who had a higher strength value, go in first to explore.
In order not to disturb the two young eunuchs, they climbed in through the back window one after another.
The jade inkstone rolled over and landed lightly on the ground.
There were footsteps behind him.
Yu Yan quickly turned around and placed the knife that had just cut through the bricks across the opponent's neck.
After a while of silence, Li Qingwu fumbled and lit the candle.
Under the flickering light, it was the face of the eunuch chief Fuzi.