Yongning Palace.
The couple was sleeping soundly when they suddenly heard a noise outside and heard someone shouting: "There is an assassin, protect the emperor!"
Zhu Jianshen sat up suddenly in shock, was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "Where did the assassin come from?"
As he said this, he put on his shoes and didn't even have time to put on his robe, so he was about to go out wearing only a pair of small clothes.
"Your Majesty, don't go." Zhen'er hurriedly grabbed his hand and said urgently: "Let's find out the situation first."
She quickly put on her clothes and raised her voice: "Come in and report!"
"I don't dare, slave."
"Get in!" Zhu Jianshen shouted.
"Yes..." The door was pushed open, and the eunuch on duty hurried in, "Slave, please see..."
"Stop talking nonsense, where are the assassins and how many are there?" Zhu Jianshen yelled angrily, "What the hell do you do to allow a young person to break into the palace?"
Zhen'er was more rational and asked: "Have you notified someone to come to escort you? Has the assassin been caught?"
The eunuch on duty said hurriedly: "Go back to your Majesty and your Majesty, I don't know where the assassin is or how many there are. I just heard someone shouting... I have sent someone to inform the admiral and the commander of the guards..."
But at this moment, there was another noise: "Misunderstanding, it's not an assassin."
Zhu Jianshen was even more furious. He gritted his teeth and walked out. Zhen'er quickly followed.
"What's going on?" Zhu Jianshen pointed at the little eunuch who shouted the loudest, "You, come forward and answer!"
"Yes... this slave obeys the order." The little eunuch shrank, stepped forward and kowtowed respectfully, "Back to the emperor, the Queen Mother had a nightmare, thinking that someone was assassinating her, and the blind slave didn't understand the situation, so she yelled Shouting..."
The little eunuch tried his best to explain what happened...
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Half an hour ago, Kunning Palace.
Queen Mother Zhou was sleeping soundly, but suddenly she felt out of breath and faintly opened her eyes.
In an instant, her eyes opened to their maximum limit, her pupils suddenly shrank, and her eye sockets were almost completely occupied by the whites of her eyes. Her jaw was about to be dislocated... Fear was like a vast ocean, swallowing her whole.
The young man wore black clothes and trousers, and his long black hair moved freely in the wind. Under the bright moonlight, his face was extremely pale, without a trace of humanity... What frightened Zhou even more was that his whole body was suspended in the air.
The evil aura on his body seemed to come from a mountain of blood and a sea of corpses, and his dark eyes did not contain a trace of emotion, just like the Tenth Palace of Hell... No, this was the Tenth Palace of Hell.
Yama of the Tenth Palace came to claim her life in person...
The man in black was hanging in the air, leaning forward, just looking at her, looking at her coldly...
This scene was far beyond what the pampered Queen Mother Zhou could bear. Her hair was fluffy and standing on end, her heart was twitching, her face was bulging, and her eyes were rolling over and over, but she just couldn't faint.
She wanted to shout out, but couldn't; she wanted to cover herself up, but couldn't move; she couldn't even close her eyes, so she could only passively look at the man in black.
The man in black said coldly: "As the queen mother, you only seek personal gain and have no regard for the Ming Dynasty. I am here to punish you on the order of the orthodox emperor."
After the man in black finished speaking, his body fell to the ground freely, and he stepped forward slowly. His slender fingers stretched out from his sleeves, grabbed her throat, and gradually exerted force...
'Ho ho ho...! Queen Mother Zhou made a weak breath, her breathing became more and more difficult, and her pale face quickly turned red from holding back.
She clearly sensed that death was approaching step by step...
However, unable to speak or act, she could do nothing and could only passively accept her fate.
She doesn't want to die, she wants to beg for mercy...
Her vision became blurry and her thinking became rigid. She gradually lost strength, and her trembling body slowly calmed down.
Just before she lost consciousness, she vaguely heard: "I will take away your soul this time. If you persist in your obsession, I will not forgive you."
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"Ah~!"
The shrill screams pierced the night sky, alerting the palace maids who were waiting to come in to serve at any time in the outer hall, as well as the nearby eunuchs on duty.
Soon, a palace maid screamed: "There is an assassin!"
These three words were so irritating that they came up one after another in an instant. When the eunuch leader on duty heard the words, his scalp exploded in an instant. He immediately sent someone to warn the emperor, and then rushed into Kunning Palace.
When he arrived at the palace, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Queen Mother Zhou is still alive, but...she is completely covered by the quilt, and it is impossible to determine her condition.
The palace was filled with the horrified voice of Queen Mother Zhou: "Don't take me away, I was wrong, I don't dare to do it anymore, please spare my life..."
Keep repeating...
No matter how the maids around her tried to persuade her, it was of no avail. Empress Dowager Zhou wrapped herself up tightly and kept trying to show off.
The eunuch on duty looked left and right, and saw that everything in the palace was in normal condition, and there was no abnormality in the doors or windows. He instantly came to the conclusion that the Queen Mother was having a nightmare.
He hurriedly asked for confirmation, and sure enough, the maids said they had not seen the shadow of the assassin. They came in after hearing the scream.
There are assassins who hear others shouting before shouting after others, but no one admits that they shouted first.
Seeing this, he still didn't understand that he was making an own mistake.
When he thought of the consequences of shocking the Holy Emperor, his heart trembled, and he quickly asked his godson to clarify. He looked dedicated and loyal, staying beside the Queen Mother and comforting her...
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"You bastard, what are you talking about without even understanding the situation?"
While Zhu Jianshen was furious, he also breathed a sigh of relief. If someone really could enter the palace in the middle of the night after locking the palace, then he wouldn't be able to sleep.
Who can sleep when safety cannot be guaranteed?
Zhen'er asked: "What did the Queen Mother say when she woke up from the nightmare, and how was the situation?"
The eunuch who came to clarify was scolded by the emperor and was feeling uneasy. Hearing this, he hurriedly replied: "Go back to your Majesty, the Queen Mother said...well, I don't dare."
"I want you to say it!"
"...The Queen Mother said: Don't take me away, I don't dare to do it anymore..." The little eunuch said bravely, "The Queen Mother was so frightened that she covered herself with a quilt and refused to take it off, and the servants didn't care either. I know how the Queen Mother is doing."
Cool! So cool! ΟиЪ.ōΓＧ
This old woman finally got her comeuppance...
Zhen'er's thoughts were so clear that she almost had an intracranial orgasm.
For a while, she wasn't sleepy anymore and couldn't wait to see her mother-in-law in all her ugliness.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is too frightened. Let's go take a look quickly, shall we?" Zhen'er tried her best to suppress the raised corners of her mouth, looking anxious.
The matter was so big that Zhu Jianshen naturally had to go and take a look. Even though he had no feelings for his mother, he had to do some face-saving work.
"Well, let's go."
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Kunning Palace.
Zhu Jianshen and Zhen'er came hand in hand, and many people gathered in the palace. Queen Wang, Concubine Bai and other concubines were also there, and the bedside was crowded.
"Slave, long live my emperor."
The salute of a palace maid attracted everyone's attention.
Then, he knelt on the ground sparsely.
Zhu Jianshen waved his hand and said depressedly: "Get out, everyone."
"yes."
Soon, all the slaves retreated, and the palace was immediately cleared, leaving only the queen, the concubine Bai, the concubine Shao, the concubine Zhang, Zhu Jianshen, and Wan Zhen'er.
Zhu Jianshen doesn't have many women, at least not now. Counting Miss Li and the deposed Empress Wu, there are only seven.
For the emperor, this amount was not large.
The girls bowed slightly, all of them with worried faces, full of concern, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother..."
"Yes, I understand." Zhu Jianshen walked forward and knelt down, frowning and said: "Mother, what's wrong with you?"
Xu was startled by the man's voice. The quilt that had almost calmed down began to shake quickly, and then a muffled howl sounded:
"Ghost, there is a ghost, don't take me away, I know I was wrong..."
It's so refreshing... Zhen'er is secretly happy.
However, at the same time, I was secretly happy, but also a little painful. It was too uncomfortable to hold back my laughter.
"Mother, there are no ghosts, it's me!" Zhu Jianshen patiently comforted him, "What did you dream about?"
Zhou: "Wrong, wrong..."
Zhu Jianshen: "..."
Helpless, he had no choice but to look at Wang, Queen and others, "Queen, what did mother and queen say before I came here?"
Queen Wang shook her head gently: "Your Majesty, when the concubines and concubines came, the mother was already like this. I also asked the slaves and maids, and it was the same when they came."
At this time, Concubine Chen said cautiously: "Your Majesty, is it the cat in the palace that has attracted something..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Queen Wang glared at her.
"My concubine made a mistake." Concubine Chen lowered her head and said nothing.
Zhen'er said, "Perhaps Concubine Chen is right. I often hear people say that black cats are unlucky. The one my mother raised is pure black...it's scary to look at."
Zhu Jianshen didn't really believe in this, but he always had an attitude: "Catch someone and beat them to death!"
"Your Majesty, this is probably unlucky." Concubine Chen believed this. "A cat has nine lives. If you kill one, you will have eight more. If it has a grudge... why not send it out of the palace."
After saying that, she lowered her head again.
Zhen'er glanced at her: You are the only one who talks too much, but it doesn't matter, as long as you take away the old woman's treasure and make her feel uncomfortable.
"What Concubine Chen said makes sense."
Zhu Jianshen waved his hands irritably: "Send away, send away!"
"Queen Mother, Queen Mother..."
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Small courtyard,
Li Qing took off his night clothes, took a shower, and looked in the mirror to gradually regain his 'original' appearance.
He didn't kill the Zhou family not out of mercy, nor because he was afraid that if he killed the Queen Mother Zhou, he would get burned. He had a way to make the Zhou family die 'normally';
He didn't kill because he was afraid that after Zhou's death, no one would be able to suppress the favored Wan Zhen'er.
Now Wan Zhen'er's duty is because there are people above her who really want to clear the obstacles for her. What will happen is yet to be seen.
Li Qing has no need and does not want to break the existing pattern. It is not a good thing for one family to dominate the harem.
Of course, he can still kill Wan Zhen'er, but... this woman has a great influence on Zhu Jianshen. It is easy to kill, but after killing... it is very difficult.
Li Qing was also helpless about this.
Who makes this person...the most affectionate person in the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Jianshen satisfied him in every aspect. He didn't want Zhu Jianshen to be depressed because of a woman.
That would be too much of a loss.
Li Qing does not favor Zhu Jianshen, but considers the overall situation...
