newbobooks Chapter 167 Poisoning the Palace
Chapter 167 Poisoning the Palace
The next day, Queen Mother Chu stewed another bowl of soup and sent it to the retired emperor.
Leng Aotian sat on a chair and Qin Wuyi fanned him.
Queen Mother Chu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I greet you."
Leng Aotian looked at Chu Linlang and sighed: "Linlang, you are getting old now. You even have a few white hairs."
Queen Mother Chu smiled calmly, "Grand Emperor, I am nearly fifty years old. Time makes us old, how can I not have white hair? Please drink this soup while it's hot."
Leng Aotian only said: "No more drinking, I'm a little sleepy," and then closed his eyes.
Queen Mother Chu remained calm and said, "Grand Emperor, someone, help the Grand Emperor to his bed to rest."
Qin Wuyi waved his hand, and two young eunuchs came forward to support Leng Aotian. As they walked, they felt something was wrong. Leng Aotian was lying quietly on the bed.
A young eunuch carefully felt Leng Aotian's breath, then quickly retracted his hand.
The Queen Mother and Qin Wuyi saw that the situation was not good. Qin Wuyi also tried it once, but he immediately knelt down and said, "Grand Emperor!" and then started crying.
Queen Mother Chu's tears flowed. A day as husband and wife is a hundred days of grace. After all, they had been married for more than thirty years.
She was only punished a few times, and each time it was because she meddled in Leng Jiuyuan's affairs.
She came to the door crying, "The Emperor has passed away! The Emperor has passed away!"
The guards and eunuchs in the courtyard all knelt down.
When a great national mourning occurs, the whole world knows about it and funeral preparations begin in the palace. All royal family members must enter the palace to keep vigil, and the female members of the family must cry at the funeral.
At this time, Leng Jiuyuan was not in the capital, and Ye Qingyan was pregnant. She could not go to the funeral for fear that the child in her belly would clash with the deceased, which would not be good for anyone.
No one from the Regent's Palace attended.
On the third day, the retired emperor Leng Aotian was buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Leng Xiaoran announced in the name of the emperor: "All those who have served the emperor without children will be sent to the royal temple and become nuns.
For a time, some of the concubines were happy while others were worried.
In the harem, the person with the most power is Queen Chu.
She now understood: she was destined to lose one of her two sons, and she could not favor either one. Good would never prevail over evil.
If the Emperor starts killing his brothers again, I will send him to accompany the Emperor Emeritus...
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A courtyard
The Poison Saint of Qingxuan Mountain sat on a chair, wearing a green robe, playing with a poisonous snake in his hand and touching it.
The snake seemed to be enjoying itself, coiling there and spitting out its tongue.
A disciple walked in and knelt on one knee: "Master, the disciples have found out in the past seven or eight days that the Regent has gone somewhere and has not even returned for the funeral of the Emperor.
There is only the princess in the palace. She often goes to Baicaotang and the hot pot restaurant, and spends the rest of her time in the palace.
The Poison Saint narrowed his triangular eyes, a fierce gleam in his eyes, "Send twenty people to take the bag on the ground.
At night, he stood in the wind and scattered poison powder on the palace, then ran away.
"Yes!" The disciple went out to call for help, and they began to prepare...
.........
The night was deep, and the moonlight was like water, sprinkling in the courtyard, casting a silvery-white light. The wisps of clouds as thin as cicada wings drifted away to who knows where.
The palace was brightly lit.
Suddenly, a group of black shadows stood on the high wall of the palace, holding some black bags filled with poison powder.
The men in black quickly scattered the poison powder forward.
The poison powder drifted in the air with the wind, forming a thin layer of smoke that filled the entire palace.
The surveillance camera issued an alarm: [There is an assassin, there is an assassin...]
It would have been fine if he hadn't shouted, but this shouting called all the guards in the palace.
After spreading the poison powder, the man in black saw someone coming and ran away quickly.
The guards inhaled the poison powder one after another and then fell to the ground.
They kept coughing and felt as if tens of thousands of insects were gnawing at their bones and muscles. They kept wailing...
The surveillance camera kept sounding the alarm: [The assassin has escaped, the assassin has escaped.]
Those who were just about to rest immediately put on their clothes and ran towards the alarm.
The poison powder has begun to take effect, and groups of people have fallen down as they came.
Ye Qingyan heard the sound and came out of the space. She teleported to the monitoring location.
When she saw the secret guards and bodyguards lying on the ground groaning in pain, she was so angry that she cursed: "Which bastard did this? When I find out who it is, I will skin him alive."
She squatted down and took the pulse of the two fallen secret guards, only to find out that they had been poisoned by the "Drunkenness and Dreamlessness" poison.
If there is no antidote, this time tomorrow will be the day they die.
She quickly returned to the yard and took out a dozen buckets of spiritual spring water and some paper cups.
She first let Feng Yi and Feng Jiu drink a cup of spiritual spring water, and then ordered: "Each of you two will carry a bucket of water, hold this bag of paper cups, and let everyone else drink a cup, otherwise they will all die tomorrow."
She waved her hand and came directly to the high wall.
The person who had just been rescued could not move his whole body and needed an hour to stand up.
That night, Ye Qingyan and the other two searched the palace for someone to rescue.
"Princess, you go and rest, we will go and rescue them."
Ye Qingyan shook her head: "No, the later we rescue them, the more damage this poison will do to their bodies.
By tomorrow, the poison will have seeped into their internal organs. Now is the time to act. We must seize the moment."
In this way, they were busy until dawn...
At daybreak, those who had fallen to the ground stood up and their bodies returned to normal.
Ye Qingyan ordered: "All of you go and search every corner of the palace.
All the secret guards and bodyguards swept through the area and rescued the last few people who were left behind.
Ye Qingyan was so sleepy that she went to sleep.
It was not until noon that she woke up and was relieved to learn that everyone was safe.
She came to the foot of the high wall and saw the poison powder scattered on the ground. She took out the butterfly tracker and threw the powder on the ground into the identification box.
The butterfly, as big as a bowl, flew forward.
"Feng Yi and Feng Jiu, follow this butterfly to the enemy's lair. Once you have one of you return and inform me.
"Yes!"
The butterfly flew out of the palace and flew towards the Poison Saint's yard.
When they arrived at the place, a butterfly flew into the courtyard. Suddenly, someone shouted, "Look, that butterfly is so big. Let's catch it."
When the butterfly saw those people coming to catch it, it started to fly back.
Those people didn't give up and chased the butterfly together.
Seeing this, Feng Yi and Feng Jiu chased the butterfly while the other went back to the palace to report the news.
Feng Jiu returned to Ye Qingyan's courtyard and shouted, "Princess, this is bad. We've found the killer's courtyard, and more than a dozen people have started chasing Butterfly."
"That's great. The butterflies will lead them to the palace."
Ye Qingyan finished speaking and took out two submachine guns. "You two take them. You are not allowed to kill them. You can shoot them in three directions. I want them alive."
"Yes!" The two men were waiting in the yard with submachine guns.
Those people were so busy chasing butterflies, flying over the rooftops, that they unknowingly arrived at the princess's courtyard.
Ye Qingyan caught the butterfly, her eyes flashing with cold light. She said sternly, "You ran away very quickly after spreading the poison last night.
Since you've fallen into my trap, I won't be polite. Let's get started!"
Ye Qingyan disappeared in a flash.
Feng Yi and Feng Jiu stood on the rooftop, their guns spraying out angry fire snakes that drew perfect arcs in the air and directly hit their lower body parts...