Chapter 14 Assassin (Part 1)
There are three candles in the room, one on the table in the middle of the couch, next to Han Ruzi, and one at the entrance of the East and West Nuan Pavilions, one of which is very close to the King of the East China Sea, and Meng E's position at the entrance is relatively dark.
None of the three moved, and there was no wind, but the candle went out at the same time.
The King of the East China Sea called out, "What's going on?"
The candle next to King Donghai suddenly lit up, and it lasted only for a short while, like a soft lightning that had lost its vigor. He screamed a second time, but nothing happened.
A moment later, the candle by the door of Dongnuan Pavilion suddenly ignited and extinguished. The king of Donghai couldn't control the panic in his heart, let out a louder scream, and immediately covered his mouth. Strange things were happening in the room. Can't protect him at all.
The next interval was a little longer, the candle closest to Han Ruzi was lit, Han Ruzi had already prepared, opened his eyes wide to observe, he felt he saw a vague shadow, and before he could be sure, the candle was extinguished.
In the darkness, someone hummed softly.
The East China Sea King stopped screaming and made a whimpering sound. After a while, he said in a trembling voice, "Is there a ghost?"
Han Ruzi was also a little uncertain, since he was a child, he had heard many stories about ghosts and gods, and the scene in front of him was indeed somewhat similar, "Meng E, are you still there?"
"You actually know the maid's name?" The King of Donghai was a little surprised, and immediately discovered the "truth", and shouted: "She is a ghost! The maid is a ghost! Have you noticed that the eunuchs and maids who came to serve you can't see it?" She, just the two of us... This is, this is the Queen Mother's witchcraft!"
The eunuchs and court ladies always ignored each other in front of the emperor, Han Ruzi didn't think it was 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 make noise, there are other people in the room."
"Human...or a ghost?" Donghai King became even more frightened, his teeth chattering.
The candle farther away from the two was lit, but this time it was not extinguished. Meng E stood beside her with a thoughtful expression.
Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, you are fine, what was it just now?"
Meng E still refused to speak, the King of the East China Sea observed for a while, and said: "Whether you are a human or a ghost, please be sure... to look for 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 on the spot and took out a very short dagger from her left sleeve. The blade was only three or four inches long, and the handle end was less than two inches. .
The King of the East China Sea gasped, clung to the wall, and remained motionless. He wanted to rush into the warm pavilion, but it was too dark inside, and he didn't dare to go in. As for the threat of death, he had long forgotten it.
Meng E quickly walked around the house, and when she passed by the door of the Nuan Pavilion, the King of Donghai sat down on the ground in fright and did not get up for a long time.
Meng E's target was not anyone between him and the emperor, she jumped back to the door, put her left hand on the beam, shook twice, jumped back to the ground, took small steps, and suddenly jumped up again, like this three times , finally stood firm, and retracted the dagger into his sleeve.
Both Han Ruzi and the King of the East China Sea were stunned. Meng E not only knew martial arts, but also a profound martial arts that they had never seen before. I don't think he and the emperor can join forces to deal with this court lady.
"Let's rest." Meng E finally said a word.
The East China Sea King stood up slowly, and asked cautiously, "Aren't you going to do anything tonight?"
Meng E opened the door and left. Han Ruzi noticed something unusual, got up and walked to the door, and wiped the dark door panel with his hand. Sure enough, blood was left on the place Meng E touched, and she was injured.
The King of the East China Sea walked over slowly to take a look, and said in a trembling voice, "There really are...assassins..."
"Don't make random guesses." Han Ruzi found a piece of paper and wiped off the blood, actually believing in his heart that an assassin came just now.
Not long after, four court ladies walked in and went to make mattresses in the East and West Warehouses.
Han Ruzi lived in the east, and he was full of questions in his heart, hoping to ask Meng E for clarification, but the one left tonight was another court lady who only dared to answer "yes" and "no" to all the emperor's questions. It seemed that she didn't even know who Meng E was.
Han Ruzi tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Someone knocked on the door, and then came in uninvited. The king of the East China Sea, who was also not asleep, came, and said to the 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 dark, and said in the direction of the couch, "Go out, I don't need your service tonight."
"Huh?" The palace maid panicked.
"Ah, what? I am His Majesty's entourage, of course I can serve His Majesty, and... we are going to discuss important state affairs, how can a little slave attend?"
This is an ordinary court lady who was frightened by the words of the King of the East China Sea, so she had to go out in the dark and guard the door of the Nuan Pavilion, not daring to stay away.
Satisfied, King Donghai sat down on the edge of the bed and said earnestly: "I thought about it again, and I finally 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 East China Sea King made a sound of wind, and found that the emperor was not afraid, and felt very bored, "That palace lady is a person, a name Martial arts master, this is strange, how could 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 court ladies. In the imperial temple, the court lady brought by the imperial concubine is very strange. It's from the palace."
"I think so."
"I've already said, of course you think so. The key is not the two of them, nor you, but me."
"you?"
"Well. Why did I stay in the palace? Of course it wasn't because of your words. Why did the Queen Mother let me be your entourage? Why did you insist on letting me come to you tonight?"
"Why?" Han Ruzi is a standard story lover, and he is willing to follow the other party's narration to ask questions.
"To protect you."
"Can you protect me?"
"I can't protect you, my existence can protect you."
Han Ruzi is a very smart boy, but he was still dizzy, "Hmm... I don't understand."
"Listen to me." The king of Donghai went to bed cross-legged, excited, "The queen mother must have thought so: the Cui family is unwilling to lose the throne, so they want to send someone to assassinate the new emperor, that is, you. I sent 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, it can explain everything!"
Han Ruzi also sat up, "Before you extinguished the candle, was it your Cui family who sent an assassin?"
"of course not."
"Why not?"
The King of the East China Sea approached Han Ruzi, "You are as stupid as the Queen Mother, she is wrong, it is impossible for our Cui family to send assassins. The strange thing about the whole thing is here: that weird maid..."
"Her name is Meng E, which is not weird at all."
"Don't argue with me, I'm guiding you to think about the problem." Donghai King thumped on the bed twice, and said excitedly: "Why is the maid so calm after discovering the assassin? She should yell and call the guards in the palace, This is a great opportunity to deal with the Cui family! No matter who sent the assassin, he can plant it on the Cui family!"
The King of Donghai only has the Cui family in his eyes, and in his view, all conspiracies are aimed at the Cui family, so they are also aimed at him.
"Meng E didn't yell because she didn't catch the assassin..."
"Hey, that's the key point. Why didn't you catch the assassin? Since the queen mother guessed that there will be an assassin, she should be well prepared." Donghai King said eagerly.
"Why?"
"Hey...just wait and see, the queen mother has big plans, maybe the world is already upside down, we just don't know what to do here. The queen mother wants to use this method to cut off dissidents, the Cui family is not so easy to deal with."
Han Ruzi didn't say anything for a long time, and the king of Donghai asked in bewilderment, "What are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking, maybe the assassin was sent by your Cui family..."
"If I say no, I won't!" Donghai King said angrily.
Han Ruzi was unmoved, and continued: "I'm still thinking, apart from being wary of your Cui family, there must be other things that make the Queen Mother guess that there will be assassins tonight."
"whats the matter?"
"Before this, there were assassinations in the palace."
The King of the East China Sea was startled, "You said...our father and elder brother..."
"Emperor Huan passed away after three years in power, and the last emperor ascended the throne for only a few months. Isn't that normal? How is their health?" Han Ruzi was very unfamiliar with his father and brother, and couldn't name them affectionately.
"I don't know, brother. Father must be in good health. He even took me out hunting a few months before he took the throne. But I can't say for sure. The illness came like a mountain, and no one could have expected it... No, no, You think too much, assassinate the emperor? More than one? Impossible, if the emperor was killed so easily, Da Chu Jiangshan would have changed his surname a long time ago.” The king of Donghai must round up his words, otherwise, the more he talks, the more he seems like The conspiracy of the Cui family.
Han Ruzi felt that he was quite easy to be killed, he was not dead yet, it was 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 darkness. The two of them stopped talking. The quieter the surrounding area became, the more terrifying the atmosphere became. Han Ruzi said, "Is there any emperor who is more unlucky than me? It seems that everyone wants to kill me .”
"If I were the emperor, this kind of thing wouldn't happen. The Cui family will protect me perfectly, and nothing will 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 hear that from? How come I don't know?"
"It's just... I heard someone say something casually." Han Ruzi's thoughts have drifted away.
"You, you think too much, where are there so many assassins? This time it was an accident, probably arranged by the queen mother." Donghai King refused to accept Han Ruzi's thoughts, and kept shaking his head.
Han Ruzi didn't want to guess any more, it was better to know nothing than to think wildly, so he fell down to sleep, but his heart was inexplicably agitated, and he couldn't fall asleep even more.
Sitting on the corner of the bed, the King of the East China Sea murmured after a while: "What is the Queen Mother planning?"
I don't know how long it has passed, the two of them were in a state of sleep, and there was a sudden knock on the door. The King of the East China Sea was so frightened that he rolled and crawled, hiding behind Han Ruzi, and suddenly realized that the emperor's side was actually the most unsafe, so he hurried around to the bed side, jumped to the ground, and squatted at the corner of the bed.
"The time has come, Your Majesty." It was Yang Feng's voice that sounded outside the door.
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