Su Xian stayed outside the city for several days.
We tinkered with fireworks, hot air balloons, and glass mirrors in turn.
The "throne gift" presented to Chen Keyan has been prepared.
Now, just waiting for that moment to arrive... Judging from the news coming from the palace, that moment is not far away!
Su Xian planned to stay one more night in the manor outside the city to deal with some follow-up matters, and then return to the city early tomorrow morning to live back in Chen Keyan's princess mansion.
"This trip to Nanchen seems to be going well. I'm afraid we can return to Daliang in a few days."
After dinner, Su Xian, Yang Zhilan, and Zhou Wei took a walk in the courtyard outside the house. There was a sense of relaxation and comfort in Su Xian's voice.
"That's a good feeling."
Zhou Wei was walking on the left side of Su Xian. After saying this, he suddenly looked up at the night sky and frowned slightly:
"It's just that the weather in the next few days doesn't seem to be very good. Brother, look, the night sky tonight is pitch black, and all the stars and moon have disappeared."
"It's dark clouds. There may be violent storms tonight!" Yang Zhilan raised his head.
"It's quite dark." Su Xian also looked up and let out a sigh. Inexplicably, most of the relaxation and comfort in his heart just now disappeared!
Everyone was talking.
suddenly.
A strong wind rose out of thin air.
The wind made the clothes of the three of them rustle.
The strong wind carried a chill and penetrated the clothes into the body. Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei were okay, but Su Xian subconsciously shuddered and his whole body was trembling.
Is the storm about to come?
This cold wind comes at any time.
"Brother, it's going to rain heavily. Let's go back and hide." Zhou Wei suggested hurriedly.
"Okay, let's go back first..."
The three of them turned around and ran back.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he ran under the eaves, a bolt of lightning flashed across the night sky. At that moment, the whole world was illuminated and turned pale!
Just a few breaths later, with a loud "rumbling" sound, huge raindrops fell like locusts.
The raindrops hit the tiles on the roof and fell on the ground in the courtyard, making a clicking sound. In an instant, they connected into one and filled the whole world.
The three of them almost got wet.
Fortunately, he ran fast.
The strong wind carried moisture and chill, blowing the hair and clothes of the three people. The lantern hanging in the corridor also swayed violently, as if it could fall down at any time.
The air smelled of dust.
"This downpour really comes at a strange time!"
Su Xian muttered, opened the door and entered the house together with Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei.
inside the house.
More than a dozen candles danced with small flames, making the room bright and clear.
Thunder and lightning continued outside, and the strong light of the lightning reflected the shadow of the lantern on the corridor on the door and window. The shadow shook violently, sometimes getting bigger and sometimes smaller.
As soon as Su Xian sat down, there was a knock on the door. Yang Zhilan walked over and opened the door. After exchanging a few words with the visitor, he closed the door and returned, saying to Su Xian:
"Our people have just found out a piece of news, which is related to King Tian."
"Prince Tian?" Su Xian frowned slightly and immediately asked, "What's wrong with Prince Tian?"
As early as a few days ago, when Su Xian had just moved to the manor outside the city, he had ordered Yang Zhilan to pay more attention to King Tian's whereabouts in order to deepen his understanding of King Tian.
Why should we deepen our understanding of King Tian?
Because Su Xian had secretly made a decision to take advantage of the death of Emperor Chen and the chaos in the court to secretly escort King Tian to escape and leave him a way to survive.
"Our people found out that this afternoon, King Tian sneaked out of the palace and met someone in private." Yang Zhilan replied calmly.
"who?"
Su Xian frowned again.
Although he sympathized with King Tian and planned to leave him a way to survive, he would never allow King Tian to ruin his plan with Chen Keyan!
The reason is very simple. King Tian's character is very similar to Emperor Chen, and Emperor Chen is indecisive and has not killed the Queen and King Li so far... King Tian cannot grasp that position!
For Chen Keyan, her purpose is to protect the people she cares about.
Looking back at the beginning, Emperor Chen's favorite successor was King Li. King Li was a ruthless man. If he ascended the throne as emperor, King Tian, Chen Keyan and their line would probably be destroyed.
After the fall of King Li, Emperor Chen could only choose King Tian as his successor... However, Chen Keyan knew clearly what kind of character King Tian was. If Nanchen was handed over to King Tian, her original purpose would still not be achieved.
Perhaps, Nanchen's Jiangshan Sheji is very likely to face collapse, and the country will not exist by then...
Whether it is to protect the people he cares about, the country of Nanchen, or his rapidly expanding ambition, Chen Keyan has only one path -
That is to ascend to the throne of God and become Nan Chen's Ninth Five-Year Plan.
For Su Xian, his purpose is also very simple. He just hopes that Nan Chen can be in the hands of "his own people" and leave a solid escape route for the future.
No matter what aspect you look at, Chen Keyan is more suitable for this "own person".
In other words, there must be no surprises when Chen Keyan ascends the throne.
King Tian has been mostly staying in the palace these days, fulfilling his filial piety in front of Emperor Chen. Why did he suddenly leave the palace today? And met someone in private? This had to make Su Xian suspicious.
"According to our people's inquiries, the person King Tian saw was related to the Prime Minister surnamed Zhao, and this Prime Minister surnamed Zhao was originally a follower of King Li."
Yang Zhilan replied calmly.
After hearing this, Su Xian made a "chuan" shape between his eyebrows, with a strange look on his face:
"King Tian secretly left the palace, and the people he saw were actually followers of King Li? This is a bit weird. By the way, have you found out what they were discussing in private?"
"Could it be that... King Tian was instigated by King Li and the Queen's faction to rebel? Or is it that King Tian has discovered our plan? Otherwise, this matter cannot be justified!"
Yang Zhilan replied: "Master, don't be anxious, the follow-up news will be coming soon."
Zhou Wei looked confused as he listened: "Brother, why can't I understand what you said? After Emperor Chen's death, wouldn't King Tian be able to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor? Why would he still collude with King Li?"
Su Xian glanced at him and didn't answer.
Only Yang Zhilan knew about Chen Keyan's attempt to seize the throne of Nanchen.
It's normal for Zhou Wei to be confused.
After a while, the knock on the door rang again.
Yang Zhilan went to open the door in person and returned after a while with an expressionless face: "Sir, it has been found out that the person who secretly left the palace for a secret meeting is Zhao Rongyin, the daughter of the prime minister's family named Zhao!"
"What did you say? The daughter of the Zhao family? Zhao Rongyin!" Su Xian was stunned, with a confused and weird look on his face.
Boom!
At the same time, a deafening thunder suddenly exploded, shaking the eardrums, the earth shook, and the whole house seemed to be shaking.
Su Xian was shocked to the point of hesitation. He quickly took a few deep breaths before suppressing the impact of the lightning and thunder on him. He murmured to himself while recalling:
"I seem to have heard someone say earlier that King Tian secretly likes a certain girl. Could this girl... be the daughter of the prime minister named Zhao?"
Thinking of King Tian's tragic fate, Su Xian shook his head and sighed:
"If they are a pair of star-crossed lovers, that's fine. They just save one more person. What I'm afraid of is... this is a conspiracy, a honey trap!"
"Zhi Lan." Su Xian's face suddenly straightened.
"My subordinate is here."
"Send someone immediately to investigate the situation of King Tian and Zhao Rongyin. Are they a pair of fateful couple? Or a honey trap? I need to find out."
"yes."
Yang Zhilan turned around and left, looking for someone to make arrangements.
Su Xian followed him out of the room and stood on the porch, looking at the pouring rain and the dark night sky, and sighed: "Jiangning tonight is no longer peaceful!"
…
Jiang Ning was indeed very uneasy tonight.
In Princess Wu's mansion, a woman dressed as a maid took advantage of the heavy rain to sneak out of the mansion and disappeared into the night and rain without being noticed.
Not long after, in the heavily guarded palace, there were people in black walking in the night, coming and going, and quickly disappeared into the night, and no one noticed them either.
…
An hour later.
The pouring rain that covered the entire Jiangning area finally stopped.
However, the night sky was still as dark as ink, with no stars visible. The dark clouds before seemed to have not dissipated, and still shrouded the heads of all living beings, which was inexplicably depressing.
Zhao Mansion.
Zhao Rongyin, who had a secret appointment with King Tian, finally returned to her room.
With a faint smile on her lips, she ordered her maid to light a candle and went to the dressing table to look in the mirror. She had been caught in some rainwater when she secretly returned home, but it was okay.
Putting down the bronze mirror, Zhao Rongyin opened a large wooden box, opened the upper layer of silk and satin cloth, and took out a small bamboo basket covered with silk cloth.
Put the small bamboo basket on the table, sit down sideways, and pull open the silk cloth on the bamboo basket...it turned out that there were some needles and threads, and a half-sewn insole.
She looked indifferent, with a hint of curvature hanging from the corner of her mouth. She carefully took out the half-sewn insole and stroked it carefully with her delicate jade fingers.
The insoles were obviously too big and were not sewn for her.
Not surprisingly, the future owner of the insole is her lover, Prince Tian.
After stroking the insole, Zhao Rongyin took out her needle and thread and continued sewing by the bright candlelight... She wanted to sew it earlier so that she could wear the insole she made before King Tian ascended the throne.
This is her heart.
However, for some reason, she just picked up the embroidery needle and was about to sew, when she accidentally pricked her fingertip.
"Um……"
Zhao Rongyin hummed softly, put down the insole and needle thread, and pinched the base of the injured fingertip with his hand.
Under the bright candlelight, a bright red "flower" is blooming quickly on the slender snow-white fingertips, forming a sharp contrast with the snow-white jade fingers.
shocking!
As the daughter of the prime minister, Zhao Rongyin can naturally be called a lady who stays close to home. Needlework is her specialty, and she is quite famous among her girlfriends.
She pricked her finger only when she first learned to sew, but she never suffered any injury after that.
But why this time...
boom!
While Zhao Rongyin was frowning, the door was suddenly pushed open with a loud noise, which was particularly abrupt in this quiet night.
Who dares to break into her boudoir?
Zhao Rongyin ignored the pain on her fingertips and subconsciously turned her head to look... It turned out to be a personal maid. After she breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't help frowning and scolding:
"What are you so worried about? Did you hit a ghost?"
"Miss...Alang...Alang and his men broke...in!" The maid held the door, panting.
"father?!"
Zhao Rongyin’s expression immediately changed!
This time, I really didn't care about the fingertips that were pricked by the needle. I released my hand that was pinching the base of my fingertips hard, stood up, looked at the maid and murmured to myself:
"In the middle of the night, why did dad suddenly...could it be that...his secret appointment with the prince was finally discovered by dad..."
This is incredible!
As the daughter of the prime minister of the current dynasty, she actually sneaked out of the house to have a secret date with a man in the middle of the night. This... this, this, this, this, this, this, this, is simply unforgivable!
Zhao Rongyin's face immediately turned pale, and her delicate body trembled violently. She held on to the table with her hands and managed to maintain a standing posture, otherwise she would have to fall to the ground.
At this time, rapid footsteps came from outside.
There are at least ten or twenty people!
And getting closer.
Zhao Rongyin quickly adjusted her mood and decided to take a look at the situation first.
Soon, a middle-aged man with a wide body and a fat body broke in with an angry face. As soon as he entered the room, he pointed at Zhao Rongyin and cursed: "Rebellious girl! Look what you have done?"
This is Zhao Rongyin's father, the prime minister named Zhao.
Behind Prime Minister Zhao were a dozen tall and round boys, all of whom stayed outside the house to obey orders.
"Dad, it's so late..." Zhao Rongyin forced a smile, intending to calm down his father's anger first.
However, Prime Minister Zhao did not give her a chance to explain. He interrupted her and cursed angrily:
"Don't call me dad, I don't have a daughter like you!"
"As a young lady who has not yet left the court, you actually... secretly made an appointment with a wild man. I have been completely embarrassed by you! Just pretend that I have never given birth to a daughter like you!"
"Father, listen to your daughter..." Zhao Rongyin felt as if he had been hit by a hammer, tears rolling down like strings of beads.
"Come here, put her in a shroud, stuff her into a coffin, and bury her alive!" Prime Minister Zhao was furious and ordered loudly to the people outside the house.
After saying this, Prime Minister Zhao strode out the door without looking back.
"yes."
Five or six maids with big shoulders and round waists entered, closed the door first, and then slowly approached Zhao Rongyin with a pile of clothes in their hands.
Zhao Rongyin was stunned and seemed to have not recovered yet. What did his father say just now? When her eyes fell on the pile of clothes, her vision went dark and she fainted.
That pile of clothes is indeed... Shou... clothes!
When she woke up again, she opened her eyes and found that it was pitch black, with only a small slit above it, and a faint light coming through.
This is where?
Zhao Rongyin was stunned for a moment and suddenly reacted.
He twisted his neck in horror and looked around with the faint light. Are there narrow woods on both sides? This...she was indeed stuffed into a coffin!
She was so horrified that she opened her mouth and screamed.
But then she realized that her mouth was stuffed with cloth and she couldn't make any sound. At the same time, she also found that she was being tied up and couldn't move at all.
In fear, Zhao Rongyin fainted again.
At some point, she suddenly woke up and found that the coffin was descending. The thin crack on it was still there, but it was pitch black and she couldn't see anything clearly.
winter!
Finally, the coffin stopped descending, and Zhao Rongyin, with tears rolling down her face, suddenly heard a voice: "The location is right, seal the coffin quickly, and go back early after burying it."
Seal the coffin! ?
Buried? !
Zhao Rongyin's whole body was stiff and her breathing almost stopped. She struggled desperately and called for help. At this critical moment of life and death, she thought of her mother and Prince Tian who loved her deeply.
If she was buried alive, what would happen to her mother and King Tian?
However--
She couldn't struggle and couldn't make any sound.
boom!
The small crack on the top was completely gone, and then there was the sound of dingdongdong, someone was driving nails!
Soon, Zhao Rongyin's entire world turned dark, without a trace of sound.
She was buried alive by her own father, and her mother and Prince Tian probably didn't know it yet. If they wanted to save her, it would be too late... She suddenly felt despair and fell into boundless fear!
