blogombal Chapter 1818 Truly well hidden
Chapter 1818 Truly well hidden
The Fifth Prince reacted quickly when he realized he had tripped, but he was still a step too slow. He lost his balance and fell directly towards the Empress Dowager.
"Ouch!"
"boom!"
The Empress Dowager was reaching out to the Fifth Princess to take his hand when he suddenly pounced on her.
She gasped in surprise, her eyes wide. The old woman beside her didn't even have time to steady her.
Everyone just watched as the Fifth Princess tackled the Empress Dowager to the ground. With a crack, no one knew whose bone was broken, but the Fifth Princess was now lying on top of the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager was pinned down underneath, and her eyes were almost rolling back in her head.
The retired emperor stood beside them, watching them coldly.
That's right, it was he who made the move just now—no, he was the one who used the whip.
He tripped the Fifth Princess with his whip. He wanted to punish the old woman.
The Empress Dowager always tries to muddy things up. How come he never knew this woman was so clueless?
"Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, are you alright?"
"Grandmother, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
The Fifth Princess quickly climbed off the Empress Dowager.
He felt like he was about to vomit.
Why is he so unlucky? What tripped him just now?
The others quickly helped the Empress Dowager up.
However, the Empress Dowager screamed repeatedly as soon as she stood up. She could not put weight on her right foot and was in great pain whenever she stood up.
Everyone felt uneasy when they heard that cracking sound earlier. Could the Empress Dowager have broken a bone?
Lu Zhaoling raised an eyebrow. "You all saw it clearly. It was the Fifth Princess who overpowered the Empress Dowager just now. You can't blame this on my Prince again."
Now even the Imperial Guards dared not utter a sound.
“Retribution, it really is retribution,” Lu Zhaoling said coldly, making everyone feel even more terrified.
Is there really such a thing as retribution?
The Empress Dowager was also there to cause trouble for Prince Jin, so she broke her leg?
"Fifth Princess, your chin is bleeding." A member of the Imperial Guard looked at the Fifth Princess.
Only after he said that did the Fifth Princess realize that her chin was poisoned.
He reached out and touched his hand, finding it covered in blood.
Did you bump into something on the Empress Dowager and get a cut?
His expression changed drastically.
It won't be a big cut, will it? He can't be disfigured!
“Retribution, retribution…” Lu Zhaoling said again, as if she were singing a song.
The people in the Prince of Jin's residence all felt very relieved, nodding vigorously in agreement, almost joining the princess in reciting "retribution."
"You! Don't you have any respect for your elders?!" The Empress Dowager was furious, in pain, and shocked.
She genuinely felt something was off.
The Fifth Princess was truly anxious to find the imperial physician, and quickly said, "Quickly take the Empress Dowager back to the palace to fetch the imperial physician!"
He then pulled a handkerchief from a nanny's hand and covered his chin with it.
Lu Zhaoling gave a cold laugh.
The Empress Dowager has some bad luck associated with her, and the Fifth Princess's fall just now caused more than just a small cut.
They all want to cause trouble for Zhou Shiyue. Do they really think she's a pushover?
After leaving, Lu Zhaoling glanced at the Emperor Emeritus one last time.
The retired emperor was greatly shocked at this moment, but he still caught up with them immediately.
He won't let anything happen to A-Yue!
But just as they were halfway into the palace, someone hurried past them.
Lu Zhaoling sensed something and with a gust of wind, she lifted the carriage curtain.
Zhou Shiyue met the gaze of the man on horseback outside.
He frowned when he saw the young eunuch who had changed his clothes.
“I’m afraid something has happened in the palace as well,” Zhou Shiyue immediately said to Lu Zhaoling.
"I'll send someone to ask." Lu Zhaoling cast a talisman on the young eunuch.
The eunuch didn't know what was wrong with him, but he immediately rode his horse to the side to wait.
Soon, a guard came over, and the eunuch told him what he wanted to say.
Upon hearing his words, Qingsong's expression changed, and he immediately ran to the carriage to tell Lu Zhaoling and Zhou Shiyue.
"The Crown Prince has been sent to the temporary palace."
"The imperial palace?" Zhou Shiyue's face darkened.
"Do you think he's in danger?" Lu Zhaoling said. "The Crown Prince has a protective amulet, specially drawn for him."
“But I’m afraid the palace has some very powerful killing moves,” Zhou Shiyue said. “The deaths of those people were strange. They didn’t show any abnormalities before they died, which means they were completely unaware of their true mission.”
In other words, those Imperial Guards had no idea they were going to Prince Jin's residence to die.
It was able to make them die so suddenly without them even realizing it—
Lu Zhaoling had just realized something was amiss, which was why she told Xiaobai not to leave yet. She wanted to examine the souls of those people later and find out the truth.
"Those people must have been cursed, their life force was cut off at a specific time."
“They were sent by the Emperor, what does that mean?” Zhou Shiyue said in a low voice.
"Does this mean the Emperor actually has such people around him who he can use?"
Lu Zhaoling suddenly understood.
That emperor really hid himself very well!
He had such a person from the esoteric sect around him, but he had always acted as if he knew nothing and understood nothing!
So that it can be used only at the most critical moment?
Is this crucial moment the time to kill one's own brother and son?!
"That makes sense. The Great Zhou Dynasty only secured its rule by relying on the First Mystic Sect. As the emperor, how could he be completely detached from these things? How could he completely distrust the Mystic Sect?"
Zhou Shiyue also felt very cold inside.
The Emperor's limited understanding of esoteric arts was probably entirely used to try and kill him and Zhou Ze.
It must have been really tough on him.
"Then when you enter the palace this time, I'm afraid there will be people from the Xuanmen sect waiting for you," Lu Zhaoling said coldly.
“He knows how powerful you are, so this person’s cultivation level must be quite high,” Zhou Shiyue said. “Therefore, the fact that the palace is waiting for Aze’s killing intent is definitely not ordinary.”
He looked at Lu Zhaoling.
Lu Zhaoling understood his meaning the moment she met his gaze.
"You want me to go to the imperial palace to rescue the crown prince?" That's for sure.
"I only trust you now."
"No, you are much more important to me than the Crown Prince. I must protect you!" Lu Zhaoling disagreed. "I will send Master and my junior brother to the palace!"
With a master and fellow disciples, they should be able to save the prince.
"Why don't we have them come with me to the palace, and you go to the temporary palace..."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Lu Zhaoling interrupted him directly, and told Qingsong outside to hurry up and find his master and the others to go to the palace to rescue people.
Qingsong hurriedly prepared to leave.
But just as he turned to leave, a member of the Imperial Guard blocked his way.
"Since you've come along, no one can leave without the Emperor's decree. Who knows what you're up to?"
“I’m just a guard, the Emperor certainly won’t let me in to question him!” Qingsong said.
"Then you'll have to wait in the palace." The man simply wouldn't let them pass.
At this moment, a small paper figure in Lu Zhaoling's hand popped out of the carriage.
“Qingsong, follow along if you want,” she said, “but remember this person, and give him a good beating later.”
"Yes, Princess!"