Pihanjin - Chapter 84

After Xie’s mother was arrested a few years ago, Qi Lingfeng and her brother’s family disappeared from Xie County. Later, a businessman who traveled from south to north said that in the years when the Eastern court was in Dongdu, he had met Qi Lingfeng’s brother, and he seemed to be a petty official there. Later, when the Eastern court retreated to Huaiyang, he fled in a hurry. From this point of view, Qi Lingfeng should also have died in the military chaos.

In fact, in the past few years, Mu Fulan never thought of this person again. Qi Lingfeng and the things she has done are so far away from her. She did not expect that, after many years, she would still meet this person from the past in this place.

She hadn’t recovered from her astonishment, but the hostaged mother Xie finally took a breath, struggled desperately, and scolded tremblingly: “Qi! Thinking that you did something wrong in a moment of confusion, you couldn’t bear to exterminate your Qi clan, and told my son to let go of your clan. Your conscience was eaten by a dog, and now you still treat me like this, where is the righteousness?”

Before she could finish her words, Qi Lingfeng slapped her.

“You old man! How did you promise me in the past? How did you treat me later? In order to save you, I even lost my own mother and served you with all my heart. Am I, Qi Lingfeng, a beggar? If I say no, I don’t want to, and I just want to get rid of it by giving me a few money? It’s not that easy!”

She gnashed her teeth as she looked at the jade in front of the fire, carved beams and embroidered pillars.

“You people, one is the queen mother and the other is the queen! Do you know how I came here over the past few years? I hid in this palace, exposed to the wind and the sun, endured humiliation, and did the most despicable work every day! I It’s not easy, you one by one, don’t think about it! If you want to die, everyone will die together!”

With a stroke of her hand holding the scissors, a bloodstain was drawn on Mother Xie’s neck. Xie’s mother was frightened and painful, choked into the smoke again, coughed continuously, was held down by Qi Lingfeng, and fainted again.

“Miss Mu! Your seat belongs to me! Why did you take everything from me? Isn’t this old thing your mother-in-law? If you don’t come, I’ll stab her to death! If she’s dead, I don’t count deficit!”

The distance was a bit far, but even so, Mu Fulan could clearly feel the two resentful gazes that were directed at her.

A team of palace guards rushed over. The leader told Mu Fulan to retreat to a safe place, and he immediately led someone to rush in to save the queen mother.

When Qi Lingfeng saw the palace guard coming, she shouted and dragged Xie’s mother in front of her, and ordered her to back away immediately, otherwise she would be stabbed to death.

From her few words and her own intuition, Mu Fulan guessed that she should have been arranged by Zhao Xitai to sneak into the palace a few years ago when Empress Liu was still there. Zhao Xitai’s purpose was obviously aimed at Xie Changgeng. But Qi Shi had been lurking in the palace for so many years, not moving early or late, and suddenly jumped out two days after he became the queen.

Her actions today did not seem to be instructed by Zhao Xitai, but more like she was stimulated, and this gave birth to the idea of ​​dying with her.

She was afraid that Mother Xie would make a mistake, so she quietly asked the team leader to lead someone Yiyan to withdraw from here, and immediately went around to the back, delaying her own time to stabilize Qi Lingfeng.

The team leader was not at ease to keep her here, but seeing that she was not panicked at all, her tone was calm, and there was no better solution for a while, so she immediately retreated according to her words.

Mu Fulan covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, brought a palace servant, and walked in slowly through the door on the other side of the palace, which was not yet burning, and said, “Miss Qi, I’m sorry, the queen mother and the present Your Majesty the Emperor, I can’t even feel sorry for you. You are an innocent person, a poor person, you hate me, it is only right, but Amao has never hurt you before. If she is also killed by you today, you will go to the underworld, Yama I will also investigate. You allow me to take the cat out, and I will stay. If you have anything to say, just tell me. “

She moved to Ah Mao’s side inch by inch, and asked the palace servant to drag Ah Mao on the ground out and stopped.

Qi Lingfeng stared at her: “Come here, come over again, I’ll let this old thing go!”

Mu Fulan said, “You let the queen mother go first.”

She saw a faint figure shaking in the apse, and Zhi Gongwei should have sneaked in, and continued: “Qi, you just said that I took your seat. In fact, your words are not wrong. You have also done this seat. Yes, your mother is respected by everyone in the world. You have always been very insightful and capable, more capable than I am. You really want to be the queen, and it is still too late. , With the grace of saving mother, he won’t really treat you like that, you pull back from the precipice, don’t hurt the queen mother, I’ll give you this seat…”

Qi Lingfeng’s eyes were frantic, her face was distorted, and she shouted: “Miss Mu, you bitch, if it wasn’t for you, I would have married my brother-in-law! You have harmed me to this point, and you still want to lie to me!”

She let go of Mother Xie and rushed towards Mu Fulan. Almost at the same time, the leader of the palace guard, who had been quietly approaching, took a few of his subordinates and jumped, as fast as an eagle, and from the back he overwhelmed Qi Lingfeng to the ground and snatched the scissors in her hand.

Qi Lingfeng lay on the ground like a catfish, screaming furiously and desperately, with two eyes staring at Mu Fulan, her face full of resentment. “I die, you don’t want to live!”

Only then did the palace guard leader realize that Qi Lingfeng’s arm had a hidden quiver tied to it.

“Queen beware!”

He was stunned, and when he realized that he wanted to stop it, it was too late.

Almost at the same moment when the scissors were taken away, a sleeve arrow shaped like a small dagger flew out of Qi Lingfeng’s cuff and shot towards Mu Fulan three feet away.

There was more and more smoke in the hall, and Mother Xie fell to the ground motionless, not knowing whether to live or die. Seeing that Qi Lingfeng was restrained, Mu Fulan breathed a sigh of relief, and was calling for someone to transfer Xie’s mother immediately, and she wanted to go out, but she heard the roar from the leader of the palace guard.

Before she could react, someone behind her jumped up and threw her to the ground. The man followed, pressing on her.

Everything happened so fast, like a flash of lightning.

Mu Fulan fell to the ground on her back. When she opened her eyes, she recognized that the person who had thrown herself to the ground was actually Xie Changgeng.

He is here too. At this moment, he was lying on her body, his face was pressed against the side of her neck, and he was motionless.

Mu Fulan knew that something was wrong. Her heartbeat suddenly quickened. She raised her hand, tentatively, touched his back, and felt a bit of sticky warm liquid in his hand near his heart.

“Thank you Changgeng!”

She was startled and screamed.

His shoulders moved, and he said in a low voice, “I’m fine,” and slowly got up from her.

The palace guards had already tied Qi Lingfeng’s hands back to restrain them. Holding a quiver removed from her sleeve, the team leader knelt down in front of Xie Changgeng, and kowtowed in fear: “I’m derelict in duty, please punish Your Majesty!”

Qi Lingfeng’s face was completely distorted and deformed.

She hated Xie’s mother for going back on her word, but compared to Xie’s mother, what she hated most was the Mu family. She was full of hatred, endured humiliation in the palace for several years, and made herself not a ghost or a ghost, this is for revenge. When she learned that she had been admitted to the palace to be the queen, she hated it so much that she couldn’t control herself. With the heart that she would rather Yushui than Waquan, she chose to do it today. She hid her hidden arrow, and in order to kill her with one shot, she wanted the woman to be closer to herself, and closer.

However, she did not expect that the Hidden Arrow would hit him.

For the woman’s sake, he shielded the arrow with his body.

She widened her eyes and stared fixedly at the man in the dragon robe in front of her – she had previously believed that the future was promising, and she also believed that it would be her own man.

Now that he is the emperor, the woman beside him is not himself.

Her eyes fell from his face to the place on his back where the blood was slowly seeping out, and suddenly, she burst into tears.

“Brother-in-law! I didn’t do it on purpose! Zhao Xitai said that the palace maid was not conspicuous, and he arranged for me to enter the palace before, and he gave me this thing, saying that it could help me with revenge. He told me to wait and obey his orders in the future. I was supposed to assassinate you… Now I know that I don’t want you to die… As long as I can stay by your side, even if I see you from a distance, I will be satisfied…”

“Brother-in-law, I saved the queen mother in the past, have you forgotten? In order to save the queen mother, my own mother is gone. You are so cruel to me. What credit does she have, why can she be your queen…”

Qi Lingfeng struggled desperately on the ground, making a heartbreaking cry.

Xie Changgeng looked indifferent, turned his face, and said to Gong Wei, “Kill it.”

There were more and more fires in the hall. A nearby curtain was also ignited by flames, and the flames suddenly rose and rolled over.

After he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Mu Fulan, who was still sitting on the ground, to protect her around the burning place, and hurried out of the palace door.

The palace servants carried the fainted queen mother out of the palace and sent it to another hall. The **** Cao Jin directed everyone to put out the fire, and the scene was quickly brought under control. The doctor also came over. Xie Changgeng ordered the empress dowager to diagnose and treat first, and learned that apart from the skin trauma on the neck and the fainting caused by inhaling some smoke, there should be no serious problems.

He sat down slowly and let the imperial doctor examine his injuries.

The structure of the Hidden Arrow is special, the shaft is light and short, but the head of the arrowhead is flat and wide. Once it hits the target, the wound is deep and wide, like a dagger pierced, and the lethality is huge.

This sleeve arrow, almost the entire root was submerged.

The blood slowly but continuously overflowed from the wound. The Imperial Physician said that this position is close to the lungs and should not be delayed. The sleeve arrow should be pulled out as soon as possible to stop the bleeding and heal the wound.

Xie Changgeng asked, “How long will it take?”

“A few of the hidden arrows are submerged in, and taking them out will take some effort…” an imperial physician who is proficient in traumatology replied.

At this time, Cao Jin walked in and said cautiously, “Your Majesty, the officials of ceremonies are here to urge, the auspicious time of the Dao is coming, the prince, the officials and thousands of seniors from the people are all waiting outside the Taimiao…”

Mu Fulan calmed down and said, “Go and tell the ceremonial officer that His Majesty has other important matters, the crown prince’s coronation ceremony is cancelled, and we will do it another day!”

Cao Jin glanced at the bloodstains on the emperor’s robe, and hurriedly responded. When he turned to leave, he suddenly heard him say: “The crowning ceremony of the crown prince is a given and cannot be changed. Go and tell them that I will come out soon.”

Mu Fulan was startled.

The imperial physician hurriedly advised: “Your Majesty, the hidden arrow should injure the lungs, no more than other places, and the injury is deep. If it is taken out in a hurry and not properly disposed of, it may be difficult to stop the bleeding. If the blood does not stop, the consequences will be disastrous. Heavy!”

The imperial doctor turned to Mu Fulan: “The queen is also skilled in medicine. If your majesty doesn’t believe it, you can listen to the queen’s words.”

When Mu Fulan was about to speak, Xie Changgeng waved his hand and stood up slowly.

“Then take the arrows after the coronation ceremony is over. You can temporarily wrap the wounds for me and stop the external blood.”

His tone was indisputable.

Mu Fulan said, “Your Majesty, let’s another day!”

Xie Changgeng looked at her: “There is no trivial matter about the company. Besides, everyone is waiting, and you can’t change it at will.”

He paused, walked slowly in front of her, and said in a low voice, “I have suffered more serious injuries than this before. If I don’t draw a knife, the wound will not exacerbate the bleeding, and I can stand it. I can endure it when I go to the Taimiao Temple. Just some road, I will take the car instead, and I will go smoothly. You don’t have to worry about it.”

After he finished speaking, he ordered the imperial doctor to stop the external bleeding quickly.

The imperial doctor was helpless, and was ordered to rush the wound and call for the blood coagulation pills to be taken orally. The **** also changed clothes for the emperor, and put on a cloak to cover the strange place.

He quickly finished packing and stood there, letting the **** wipe the cold sweat from his forehead for him, closed his eyes, and walked out.

The **** hurriedly followed.

Mu Fulan looked at the slightly stagnant figure in front of her when she stepped out of the gate of the hall, and she was in a state of confusion for a while.

Xie Changgeng stopped and slowly turned his pale face.

She stepped up quickly and said, “I know I don’t have to go to such occasions. I’ll go over so I can take care of you.”

Xie Changgeng stared at her and remained silent.

Mu Fulan didn’t wait for him to nod. After she finished speaking, she ordered the **** to bring the medicine with her. She also asked the **** to carry a palace yoke.

According to her arrangement, the man silently got on the seat. Accompanying Mu Fulan, they arrived at the Zichen Gate.

The ceremonial officer is waiting there.

Just as he was about to set off, he saw a thick smoke rising from the direction of the harem, and the emperor ordered someone to take the prince to the Taimiao first and return first. It’s been so long since I’ve gone, seeing that there’s not much time left, I’m anxious, when suddenly I see the empress appear together, the empress supports the emperor, and gets down from a seat.

Although the ceremonial official was surprised, he didn’t dare to ask more. Seeing the emperor and the queen, the two got on the palace carriage together, and hurriedly led the front and rear guards of honor to the imperial temple.