Inside and outside the capital, there were already winds and clouds, but in the imperial garden of the palace, they were still singing and dancing to peace.
Civil and military officials and generals, chatting with each other, laughing and laughing, and hearing endlessly.
Before Li Xiu's table, there were still endless civil servants and military generals who came to toast and congratulate him. The palace maids and eunuchs who served with wine were almost busy from the beginning.
"Brother Xiu, I toast you this glass of wine!"
Erwazi raised his wine glass drunk, and he couldn't count the times he ran to toast.
"You guys are at ease."
Li Xiu shook his head helplessly, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all in one go.
It is a very good poison, and it is a poison targeting qi and blood, and it is silent. Moreover, if Li Xiu guessed correctly, he should need an introduction to completely trigger the poison.
The poison effect is not the kind that kills people, it just makes people weak and unable to resist.
"Brother Xiu, don't worry, you won't miss the serious business. You can collect fine wine in the palace. If you don't drink it, don't drink it..."
As the second kid shouted, a faint fragrance suddenly appeared. At some point, Li Xiu raised his eyebrows and his expression suddenly became cold.
At this moment, Erwazi, who was originally a careless man, saw Li Xiu's expression change, and his drunken look disappeared in an instant.
At this moment, a crisp sound suddenly sounded, and the empress dowager sitting upright, holding a wine cup in her hand had fallen to the ground and split into pieces.
Just as the eyes of all the civil and military officials present gathered, a cold light suddenly appeared behind Li Xiu. The eunuch who was originally obedient and served had now lost his gentleness and looked ferocious. The short sword in his hand had already stabbed Li Xiu in front of him.
"presumptuous!"
"court death!"
In an instant, the civil and military officials did not react from the empress dowager's throwing cup, and loud shouts suddenly rang out.
Immediately afterwards, a figure flew backwards, and the short sword rolled down. The eunuch who was stabbing was already spitting blood in his mouth, his eyes widened, as if he had no rest.
This sudden scene instantly made the originally noisy banquet silent like death.
The civil officials were stunned. All the martial honors had already stood up. They were so depressed that they had just arrived. Before the civil officials could react, the rapid footsteps suddenly sounded outside the imperial garden. Then, a brigade of eunuchs holding swords and muskets rushed into the banquet hall and surrounded everyone.
The appearance of this scene undoubtedly immediately turned the depression that had just arrived into a suffocating fear!
The Queen Mother, Assassin, Qin Gong, Wu Xun, Military Horse...
Clues intertwined, and a reality that scared all the civil officials was already in front of everyone.
In the silence of death, Li Xiu looked around at the audience, and his eyes finally froze on the Empress Dowager Zhou, who was already unconcealed, and slowly spoke: "Empress Dowager, do you want to kill the minister?"
The voice was dull and without any emotional fluctuations. It slowly drifted in this quiet night sky, and it was clearly heard in everyone present.
"The Ai family dreamed that they wanted to kill you, but today, they finally got what they wanted!"
Empress Dowager Zhou had no intention of concealing her murderous intent, and stared at Li Xiu with vicious eyes.
Li Xiu asked again: "I dare to ask, "What is the charge of killing me? What is the charge of killing these generals with great military achievements?"
Faced with this question and the gathering of civil and military gazes, Empress Dowager Zhou opened her mouth, but no matter what she thought, she really couldn't think of a reason and excuse to kill someone who saved the country from danger repeatedly. In the end, Empress Dowager Zhou simply gave up any excuses and shouted: "Thunder and rain are all the kindness of heaven. Does the Ai family need a reason to kill you?"
"What a thunder, rain, all of them are God's kindness..."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Li Xiu laughed: "Yue Wumu was killed, and at least he was a false charge!"
"I, Li Xiu, have been struggling to support the Ming Dynasty. Until now, I have not even had a false charge!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Li Xiu laughed so hard that tears were almost coming out. The laughter floating in the night sky was full of indescribable self-mockery and sarcasm!
Under this laughter, even the civil officials who had always been incompatible with Duke Qin in the past could not help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.
In terms of merits, even if you count the world and history, how many of them can be compared with Qin Gong.
But even so, in the end, the thunder and rain are all the result of heaven's kindness.
This... is ironic!
The laughter gradually stopped, Li Xiu's expression became colder. He stared at Empress Dowager Zhou and asked again:
"When I die, people's hearts will disappear, and the world will be in chaos. The Later Jin and Mongolia will definitely not miss this opportunity to step on the Central Plains."
"Mrs. Queen Mother, have you ever thought about how to deal with it?"
These words and sentences were like blades, deeply piercing the heart of Empress Dowager Zhou. Her expression was obviously unnatural: "The Ming Dynasty is vast and there are many talents, so there are people who dare to fight to serve the emperor's kindness."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Li Xiu laughed again: "Empress Dowager, do you think that if you kill me, and if you kneel down and kill these generals with great military achievements, will anyone in the world be willing to serve the emperor's kindness?"
The Empress Dowager was speechless, and the ministers were thinking about something, while the martial arts were full of murderous aura.
"Kill him, kill this thief who is infatuating the crowd!"
The Empress Dowager seemed to have thrown her to pieces, her face was distorted and her voice was so harsh and cunning.
After ordering, the murderous eunuchs who had originally surrounded him immediately executed the order, holding swords and guns, and came to Li Xiu and his martial heroes without hesitation.
"Protect General!"
A Wu Xun shouted loudly and snatched the sword from the eunuch's death warrior. After one sword, he immediately approached Li Xiu and protected Li Xiu.
"Li Xiu, you're dead!"
"No one can save you today!"
"No one can save you, the thief!"
Empress Dowager Zhou laughed wildly, completely losing the empress dowager's dignity.
At this moment, all the depression and worries that have been over the years seem to be venting out.
But as she smiled, Empress Dowager Zhou's smile suddenly stopped, and an indescribable fear suddenly emerged.
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Looking at the martial arts heroes who fought hard to resist and killed all over the world, the Empress Dowager was suddenly frightened and kept muttering to herself.
But soon, her doubt was revealed by the extremely cruel reality.
"Protect Duke Qin!"
"Kill the rebels!"
Accompanied by the thunderous footsteps, deafening shouts also exploded in the night sky.
Immediately, a large group of personal troops rushed into the imperial garden.
The invincible military front, which was fighting south and north, easily swept across the entire audience. His personal force was so fragile that he could not stand a single blow in front of this military front.
In this situation, many of the civil officials who collapsed closed their eyes unbearably, and many of them were full of despair and tears, and even more, they were the joy of living in a desperate situation.
Queen Mother Zhou, as if she had been pulled out of her body, collapsed to the ground completely, and her desperate fear once again completely enveloped her.
"Brother Chun, I want to protect Brother Chun..."
In the midst of despair and fear, Empress Dowager Zhou murmured frantically.
"Empress Dowager, we lost, Duke Qin must have prepared for it. I will take you out. As long as you escape, there will be hope..."
Cao Huachun didn't care about his superiority at this moment, so he raised Empress Dowager Zhou and took advantage of the chaos to escape from the imperial garden.
However, when the scene that came into view from this imperial garden made Cao Huachun completely desperate!
I saw that outside the Imperial Garden, military formations were lined up, surrounding the entire Imperial Garden.
His despair would not affect the actions of his personal soldiers. As soon as a military order came down, a team of soldiers rushed over and directly suppressed Cao Huachun and Empress Dowager Zhou.
"The Ai family is the queen mother. Are you going to rebel?"
"Everyone listens to the order of the Ai family and go to the Imperial Garden to wipe out the thief Li Xiu!"
"Go quickly, go quickly!"
"As long as you eliminate the bandits of Li Xiu, Ai's family will be granted the title of marquis and rewarded them with tens of taels of silver. Go quickly, go all!"
"You will obey the orders, you must obey the orders!"
Empress Dowager Zhou seemed to be crazy, with her hair disheveled, grabbed the arm of a soldier and roared wildly.
"Mr. Qin has an order and must not be rude to the Empress Dowager!"
A general stopped the soldiers who wanted to force Empress Dowager Zhou to drag down, but then he looked at Cao Huachun.
Seeing this, Cao Huachun didn't know what the general meant. At this moment, he had no choice.
He was carrying force, but the Queen Mother didn't.
How could he leave the Queen Mother alone?
Cao Huachun silently raised the crazy empress dowager again. Under the custody of the soldiers, he walked back to the imperial garden step by step, and also towards the complete unknown...
Chapter completed!