flstandardbreds Chapter 171 Moon Palace Assassination
Chapter 171 Moon Palace Assassination
Under the hazy moonlight, the man took Yan Qing's hand and walked into the palace.
The knife light hidden in the darkness silently reflected the cold murderous intent.
"squeak--"
When the gate of the Moon Palace was pushed open, an extremely sharp sword pierced Gu Huaizhou's face.
Yan Qing screamed in fright, but the man seemed to be prepared and quickly stretched out two fingers to clamp the sword blade.
"Crack!"
The sword blade broke, and the bony fingers threw the broken half of the blade away, followed by a scream.
The assassin on the opposite side, Ma, was killed suddenly.
Before Yan Qing could recover from his panic, a rain of arrows suddenly arrived, and the cold and fierce murderous intent was overwhelming.
Yan Qing turned pale with fright.
Didn't Gu Huaizhou say there was no danger inside? How could there be an assassin?
Suddenly, a pair of hands appeared at his waist. Gu Huaizhou quickly retreated with Yan Qing in his arms and closed the palace gate.
"dong dong dong dong..."
All the arrows hit the heavy door.
At the same time, a group of secret guards appeared out of nowhere and rushed into the Moon Palace...
Soon, the sound of fierce fighting was heard inside.
Yan Qing was still in shock, but when she saw the man beside her was calm as water, she quickly realized: "Are those secret guards your people?"
Gu Huaizhou nodded: "It's the spy that my mother left in the palace."
Yan Qing opened her eyes wide: "Did Concubine Yue know that you would return to the palace?"
Gu Huaizhou showed a very indifferent expression.
He said casually: "Rather than saying that she knew I would return to the palace, it would be better to say that she knew that my father would take me back to the palace.
Even till death, I still miss him!"
Yan Qing was stunned. After Concubine Yue gave birth, she immediately arranged for her confidants and a group of secret guards to take Gu Huaizhou away in order to protect Gu Huaizhou's safety.
But at the same time, she also left spies in the palace in case Gu Huaizhou returned to the palace. Was it because she knew that Gu Huaizhou would eventually return to the palace?
Yan Qing thought that Concubine Yue was paving the way for Gu Huaizhou, but from what Gu Huaizhou said, was it because of the emperor?
His Majesty's greatest wish is to defeat the power of the foreign relatives and get rid of the fate of the Yong Dynasty being controlled by the Wang family. Therefore, Concubine Yue knows that His Majesty will never give the throne to the Prince of Qi who has Wang family blood. In order to compete with the Wang family in the court, the concubines in the palace who have grown up princes are all from other families besides the Wang family.
With the Wang family being a cancer in front of him, although His Majesty uses other noble families to counter the Wang family, he is not necessarily confident in the noble families.
Only Gu Huaizhou is different...
Although Concubine Yue was the saint of the Moon Clan, the Moon Clan was far away in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and what's more, they had been exploited by Emperor Yong and wiped out.
He had no background and no external relatives were in power, so Gu Huaizhou was the best candidate for crown prince in Emperor Yong's mind.
Concubine Yue knew this, so she left spies in the palace. Concubine Yue sent Gu Huaizhou out of the palace, but did she also expect that he would return?
Gu Huaizhou meant that Concubine Yue left spies to help him in order to help Emperor Yong?
A woman who was hurt by the man she loved deeply and committed suicide after giving birth, and who tried to make the man who hurt her regret and feel guilty, will she still think about that man in the end?
Yan Qing didn't know, but she believed that even if that was true, Yue Fei must have been thinking about Gu Huaizhou in her heart.
She looked at Gu Huaizhou and said, "No matter what, you are yourself."
Will do what you want.
He will become an emperor of the ages.
Soon, the sounds of fighting in the hall gradually died down.
After a while, the palace gate was opened again and dozens of men in black rushed out.
The leader knelt before Gu Huaizhou and said, "Master, all the assassins have been killed!"
Gu Huaizhou nodded: "Is it the Queen's man?"
The black-robed leader shook his head: "They are Prince Li's men."
"Prince of Ceremony?"
Yan Qing was very surprised.
Although Prince Li also had ambitions to dominate, he had always been against Prince Qi in the court. How could he suddenly send someone to assassinate Gu Huaizhou?
Although Gu Huaizhou's return to the palace means that Prince Li has another brother competing with him for the throne, Prince Li should be very clear that Gu Huaizhou has no power behind him and is currently unable to compete with him.
Yan Qing felt something was wrong.
At this time, the black-clad leader handed over a token: "This was found on the assassin."
The word "Li" was engraved on the brown token.
It was the token of Prince Li's Mansion.
Gu Huaizhou played with the token and said with a half-smile, "Interesting."
Yan Qing asked, "Why would Prince Li send someone to assassinate someone with a token? Is it the Queen's men?"
Just now, the Queen had someone lure her to the Moon Palace, but she refused. Everyone thought the Queen would stop there, but unexpectedly, Queen Wang took the risk and arranged an assassination, and let them know clearly that it was Prince Li who sent people to assassinate her.
If Gu Huaizhou believed it, he would fight with Prince Li.
Queen Wang reaped the benefits behind the scenes.
Yan Qing grabbed Gu Huaizhou's hand and said, "Queen Wang wants to kill someone with a borrowed knife!"
"You guessed right about killing someone with a borrowed knife."
Gu Huaizhou looked at Yan Qing: "But the person is not right."
Yan Qing looked at him doubtfully.
Gu Huaizhou stroked the pattern on the token and said with a smile, "It's my eldest brother. He wants to use my father's hand to get rid of the queen."
Yan Qing was stunned for a moment before reacting, "You mean, Prince Li deliberately left the token behind so that we can assume that this assassination was Queen Wang's attempt to kill someone with a borrowed knife?"
Gu Huaizhou nodded: "If I unfortunately die in this assassination, given my father's suspicious nature, he will definitely think that the Queen's men deliberately disguised themselves as Prince Li's men to assassinate me, and he will naturally hate the Queen even more...
If I hadn't died, I would have believed it was the Queen's doing, and would have been even more bitterly hostile to her. But my eldest brother, the Emperor, has completely disappeared."
Yan Qing felt cold after hearing this.
As expected, no one in the royal family is easy to deal with.
She thought that Prince Li would not touch Gu Huaizhou for the time being, but she didn't expect that he would directly want to take Gu Huaizhou's life.
"What are you going to do?"
Yan Qing paused, looked at Gu Huaizhou, and said hesitantly, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
The prince was trying to seize power, and as a woman, she really didn't know how she could help him.
"of course."
Gu Huaizhou suddenly reached out and scratched Yan Qing's nose, then said with a smile, "There's one thing only Qingqing can do."
"what's up?"
Yan Qing wondered, what was there about Gu Huaizhou that only she could do?
The man did not reply immediately, but looked at the black-clad leader and said, "The iron ore in Wangjia Tanzhou can be dug out. Use this."
The black-clad leader took the token and said, "Yes."
Then, Gu Huaizhou looked at Yan Qing. His handsome face was bathed in a soft glow under the moonlight, but his cold words were filled with sinister plots and calculations. "Once the iron mine incident comes out, Ying Chu will definitely take action against Ying Yuan. Then I'll need Qingqing to help me..."
Although Yan Qing didn't know what to do specifically, seeing the man's determination, she nodded and said, "Okay."
If she can't do it, she can ask her grandfather for help...