The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(145)

It was actually a big bowl of noodles with shredded chicken and green vegetables, and a few side dishes. Fragrant chicken soup, green vegetables, slightly yellow noodles, and a few poached eggs on top.

There were only two small porcelain bowls, and Yuchan picked two bowls out of the big bowl. Yaoniang's bowl had soup, vegetables, and eggs, while Xiaobao's bowl only had some noodles and a few vegetable leaves because he was afraid that he would be scalded.

Xiaobao was very dissatisfied, pouted his little mouth, and pointed at the poached egg in the bowl of Prince Jin.

There were five eggs in total, his mother ate one, and there were four left. His father certainly couldn't eat four, so there was still one for him. Yuchan could only use the public chopsticks to move one to his bowl.

Yaoniang was actually hungry too. She was particularly impatient now, and she had already eaten. While eating, she said: "Don't give him the egg white, be careful not to choke."

This was attributed to an ugly thing Xiaobao did. Once he almost choked on the egg white when eating boiled chicken eggs, and since then Yaoniang didn't give him egg white.

That was an accident!

Unfortunately, no one listened to Xiaobao, and he didn't have time to talk. He had a small mouth and was busy slurping noodles. He didn't have time to talk about anything else.

The three of them were holding bowls and slurping noodles. This was probably the first time that King Jin encountered such an embarrassing scene.

He actually ate noodles with a big bowl.

In fact, it was not unprecedented. When in the military camp, they kept it simple. When they were away from home, they didn't eat for a day. But the key was that he ate noodles with a big bowl in front of a woman and her son, which made King Jin feel particularly undignified.

And Yao Niang kept praising him, "Your Highness is really amazing. Don't you know that someone just sent us a midnight snack, but we didn't dare to eat it. Where did you get these noodles? Didn't the imperial kitchen in the palace stop the stove at night and lock the palace gates again?"

King Jin was embarrassed. If he couldn't even get a bowl of noodles, it would be a waste for him to be a prince for so many years.

Xiaobao's mouth was full of egg yellow, and he silently watched his mother make a fool of herself and his father worry.

King Jin thought about what he had just heard and looked at Yuchan, who told him what had just happened. Knowing more than Yao Niang, Yuchan and An Shiyi also saw someone peeping outside. Although it was fleeting, it always made people nervous.

King Jin frowned: "Go to bed early later. I'm afraid the palace will not be peaceful tonight."

There were only a few glass lamps in the corners of the Qianqing Palace in the bedroom behind the palace, which were dimly lit and made the surroundings dizzy. The bright yellow curtains were quietly hanging down, and a little eunuch came in with a tray with a bowl of medicine on it.

"Your Majesty, it's time to take the medicine."

Emperor Hongjing was still leaning against the head of the bed. He had been sitting like this for a long time. The sudden appearance of the little eunuch seemed to interrupt his meditation, making him seem a little dissatisfied. But it was not obvious, just a little ripple in his eyes.

The little eunuch put the tray on the table beside him, picked up the medicine bowl, and held it to Emperor Hongjing with both hands.

Emperor Hongjing glanced at him and took the medicine bowl. It was this glance that made him look at the other person again.

This person seemed to be different. Although his movements were light and his face was calm, there was something wrong in his eyes. Emperor Hongjing raised his thick eyebrows and asked, "Where is Li Dequan?"

"Li Zongguan went to the Gongfang."

This little eunuch seemed a little scared, and his voice was shaking when he spoke. Emperor Hongjing vaguely recalled that this person seemed to be a running errand eunuch named Xiao Zhuozi.

Such a person actually came to serve him soup medicine. Everyone in the Qianqing Palace died?

Emperor Hongjing sneered, "You drink this bowl of medicine."

"Your Majesty..." Xiao Zhuozi looked at Emperor Hongjing in surprise, and after seeing the other person's face clearly, his expression changed drastically. He still wanted to struggle, saying: "Your Majesty, this medicine is for you to cure your illness, how dare I do it for you..."

"Just drink it if I tell you to!" Before he finished speaking, Emperor Hongjing said again: "Pour it into his mouth."

Before Xiao Zhuozi could move, someone took away the medicine bowl, pressed it to the ground, and poured the medicine into him.

He struggled and swayed like a dying carp, as if there was something poisonous in the medicine. Soon, he gradually stopped moving, and then he was motionless, but a trace of black blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

There were bursts of cold air.

Then, plop, plop, everyone knelt down.

Someone wants to kill the king!

Small theater:

Yao Niang: There is something to eat! Xiaobao is hungry!

Xiaobao: It is obviously you who is hungry, I will not take the blame for this.

Chapter 116

The Qianqing Palace, the back bedroom, was brightly lit at this time.

The air was almost stagnant, and people could even hear the sound of sweat dripping on the ground.

Li Dequan didn't want to go to the palace, but such a thing happened. When he heard that someone had poisoned Emperor Hongjing, the medicine bowl was brought to him, and Li Dequan knelt down with a plop.

No matter what the facts are today, whether it can be found out who did it or not, none of the servants working in the Qianqing Palace can escape. A few of the better ones can survive, and the bad ones will be taken out and dealt with.

The first one to bear the brunt is Li Dequan. As the chief eunuch around Emperor Hongjing, he is the first one who can't escape, and it's no wonder that he is so scared.

The face of Emperor Hongjing, sitting cross-legged on the dragon couch, is difficult to tell, and it is sometimes gloomy and sometimes bright, but it is inevitable that he is furious.

He is still alive and well, able to walk and move, but someone dares to poison him. If he can't move, I'm afraid his bones will be swallowed by someone.

"Investigate, investigate for me!"

No one dared to move, Li Dequan got up from the ground and walked out. Just after taking two steps, he was stopped by Emperor Hongjing.

"Stop the news, go to my good sons and see if they are all planning to kill me."

"Yes."

The night is as cool as water, and the moon is high.

The light silver light falls down, cut and twisted by the layers of towering palace walls, and turns into a mass of gloom and darkness.

No one dares to walk in the palace at night when nothing happens. This palace has been around for too long, and I don't know how many people have died in the corners. There are always rumors of ghosts, and no one dares to seek excitement.

Besides, people are not allowed to walk around the palace at night. If they are caught, they will be rotated as spies and assassins.

But today is also strange. Those imperial guards have run back and forth several times, and some palace maids and eunuchs can hear footsteps outside while lying in the room.

Everyone knows that this is a big deal. But they are silent, fearing that disaster will come from the sky, and they cover their heads tightly with quilts, thinking that this is just a dream.

Yao Niang ate a small bowl of noodles and felt relaxed. Xiao Bao was also full. In addition to eating half a bowl of noodles, he also picked two soft-boiled egg whites from the bowl of King Jin to eat. The egg whites were so delicious, tender and smooth, with a natural sweet taste, so although they were a bit fishy, ​​Xiao Bao subconsciously ignored them.

He decided not to complain about why his mother didn't give him egg whites, because egg whites were the good stuff. Xiao Bao, who was very full, burped a little and looked at King Jin with a little guilt.

The unpalatable egg whites, the ones that tasted woody and tasteless, were all eaten by his father.

He must have been full, because he ate up such a big bowl of noodles.

It was the first time that King Jin ate so full. The noodles were delicious, one of the reasons, but the key was that he was hungry. He drank wine all day today and didn't eat a grain of rice.

Just when the family of three finished eating noodles and were thinking about how to digest the food, footsteps suddenly sounded in the yard.

Faintly, I could hear the creaking sound of the palace door opening, as well as voices and scolding. Soon, these sounds turned into footsteps and came straight towards this side.

This is a separate small palace, divided into the main hall and two side halls.

The main hall is occupied by the Princess of Jin, and it is reasonable that the Prince of Jin also lives there. The two side halls are occupied by Yao Niang, Xiao Bao, and Concubine Xu and Concubine Liu.

The palace is equipped with serving maids and eunuchs, but Yao Niang is useless, and neither is the Princess and the other two concubines. They are not fools, so they naturally know that something must have happened in the palace. Before the situation is clear, no one dares to joke with their lives.

Before, the Princess of Jin and Concubine Xu and Concubine Liu envied Yao Niang for bringing two servants into the palace. Unlike them, because there is no one they can trust and use, they can't even drink a sip of water.

They heard that the Prince of Jin had returned and went straight to Concubine Su. They were anxious all night and felt even more complicated. Just as they were feeling depressed and anxious, the palace gate opened and many people suddenly came.

The leader was a eunuch who went straight to the main hall, but he didn't expect to run into an empty hall. Under the guidance of the Princess of Jin, they came to the side hall.

An Shiyi went to open the door, and these people rushed in recklessly.

Rather than being reckless, it was more like an eagerness, eager to run into something unspeakable. Who would have thought that they would see the Prince of Jin, a pregnant woman, and a baby sitting around the kang table, eating noodles.

Eating noodles?

Once again, the eunuch looked at the remaining noodle soup in the soup bowl, the few pieces of vegetable leaves left in the bowl of the picky Xiaobao, and the egg-colored on his mouth that he had not had time to wipe off. There was an almost funny surprise on his face.

The Prince of Jin took out a handkerchief and wiped Xiaobao's mouth. It was really that the egg-colored circle on Xiaobao's mouth was too annoying.

"A bunch of ignorant servants, do you know any rules?!"

The leading eunuch was also a capable man. He immediately knelt down with a plop and said in a pinched voice: "Please forgive your sins, Your Highness Prince Jin. There is an assassin in the palace. His Majesty is worried about the worries of your highnesses, so he ordered the servants and others to come and check. The servants were too anxious and forgot the rules for a while."

Seeing that the leader had knelt down, the eunuchs behind him, along with the guards who entered with him, knelt down one after another.

Prince Jin snorted coldly and asked: "Is my father okay? Has the assassin been caught?"

"To reply to Your Highness Prince Jin, the assassin was caught and one ran away. If he hadn't run away, I wouldn't have come here. Your Majesty is fine, don't worry."