Queen Mother, she just wants to lie down

Chai Qiong understood what he meant.

Wang Zhisheng meant that if the regicide attempt failed, all nine generations of the clan would be implicated.

The Chai family’s century-long glory will also be completely destroyed because of him.

If he did not harbor a deep hatred for the family, even if he had ulterior motives, he should not have attacked the Queen Mother in such a high-profile manner.

He understood what Wang Zhisheng meant, but he didn't have any intention of explaining or regretting. He just stiffened his neck:

"The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. There is nothing to say. You can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you."

Wang Zhisheng did not respond, but looked up at Jiang Yuan.

How to deal with Chai Qiong should be decided by the Queen Mother, not him.

However, the Queen Mother has not appeared yet, so the most suitable people to express their opinions are the guards around her.

"Since the bones are so hard, let's cut his tendons in his hands and feet first, destroy his dantian, and take him back for interrogation slowly." Jiang Yuan glanced at Chai Qiong expressionlessly and spoke lightly.

"I'll do it." Just as Jiang Yuan finished his words, Queqi, holding a soft sword dripping with blood, flew over.

Wang Zhisheng's eyebrows jumped. The pair of female guards around the empress dowager were extremely cruel.

"Wait, wait a minute, you are so well prepared, the person who was hit by my arrow before must not be the queen mother.

Where is the real Queen Mother Ruan? Is she here?

If she is, can you please let her come out and meet me? I have something I want to say to her in person."

Chai Qiong looked at Que Qi, who was walking towards her step by step with a bloody sword in his hand, and spoke.

What he didn't notice was that an ordinary-looking old man, less than 1.7 meters tall, walked quietly to within five meters of him.

Needless to say, this old man was Ruan Qing in disguise.

As soon as she approached Chai Qiong, she could hear his inner voice coming into her ears.

〈Humph, that old fellow Mr. Ming is boasting loud and clear, saying that once poppies become popular in Daxi, it will only take a short time to destroy Daxi.

As a result, just as the flowers were planted, their nest was raided and the secret of poppies was announced to the world, making this secret move completely useless.

These weird scholars are just unreliable. At that time, the king obviously favored him more than me.

The result... hehe, I have to take action.

Whether the assassination today succeeds or not, I win.

If Queen Mother Ruan could really be killed, Emperor Daxi would be so furious that he would certainly launch a purge of the entire Jiangnan officialdom.

In order to protect themselves, countless Jiangnan gentry would surely unite to fight against the emperor.

In order to suppress the south of the Yangtze River, the emperor could not spare much energy to take care of the northern front.

By then, we, Beiliang, will take the opportunity to march our troops southward, and perhaps we will be able to break through the defense line in one fell swoop and march towards the Central Plains.

Even if we cannot break in for the time being, once the emperor and the prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River have been defeated and the national strength of Daxi has been greatly reduced, it will be much easier for us in Beiliang to deal with them than it is now.

Even if the assassination failed and I died, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor would certainly vent their anger on the prominent families of Qi and Lu, believing that they were rebellious.

The Chai family, in particular, will certainly not escape the fate of being executed.

The Chai family is a famous military family in Qi and Lu, and they fought together with Taizu of this dynasty to conquer the world.

In the first sixty years after the founding of Daxi, the Chai family produced three generations of commanders, until they gradually fell into silence in the last thirty or forty years.

Even though the Chai family no longer has the glory of the past and no longer has a commander-in-chief.

However, there are still several generals in the northern and western territories who come from the Chai family.

If the emperor and the empress dowager destroyed their family, it would not only weaken the border defense force, but also make the generals on the border feel insecure.

Maybe once the Chai family is destroyed, our Beiliang army will be able to easily knock on the northern gate of Daxi, hehe. 〉

The fake Chai Qiong was in a state of extreme excitement as her long-planned plan had finally come true, and her inner voice was rushing out like flowing water.

He had no idea that the secret he had been planning for many years had been overheard.

Ruan Qing frowned when he heard this. Oh my god, this Chai Qiong turned out to be a fake.

His real identity is a spy from Beiliang, but he replaced Chai Qiong through some unknown channel and no one has discovered any clues yet.

Today's assassination would have been impossible if Sun An's information channels had not been strong enough for her to detect the problem in time and take precautions in advance.

It just happened that she could hear his inner voice, which might be a terrible disaster for Daxi.

Jiang Yuan and Que Qi saw that Chai Qiong wanted to see the Queen Mother, and they subconsciously glanced at Ruan Qing.

It turned out that the Queen Mother was frowning and thinking about something.

Just as she was wondering whether she should say something, Ruan Qing shook her head at them imperceptibly.

Queqi said no more. He turned his wrist, and the long sword turned into a shadow, and stabbed at Chai Qiong's dantian.

Chai Qiong groaned, and the aura around him suddenly weakened.

After piercing his Dantian, Queqi flicked the soft sword in her hand and was about to cut his tendons in his feet and hands again when Ruan Qing raised her head and shook her head at her.

This fake Chai Qiong was obviously a very important figure in the enemy camp. She was afraid that if she tortured him too much, the enemy would think that he was a useless chess piece, so she just ignored him.

Ruan Qing wanted to keep him for more fishing and didn't want this chess piece to become worthless.

Queqi didn't know Ruan Qing's plan. As the Queen Mother's personal guard, she just followed her orders. She retracted the sword flower that had been shot out in an instant: "Save your hands and feet for now, so that we don't have to carry you down the mountain later."

Chai Qiong, whose Dantian was destroyed and whose breath and spirit were extremely weak, could not understand her intentions. He just looked at her suspiciously and then looked away.

Wang Zhisheng calmly looked up at the ordinary old man standing next to Queqi and Jiang Yuan.

Could this be the empress dowager in disguise?

If she was the Queen Mother, why would she stop the useless Chai Qiong from rising?

But no matter whether she was the queen mother or not, since she was dressed like this, she obviously did not want to reveal her identity. Wang Zhisheng quickly retracted his gaze.

The other assassins were quickly wiped out by the 700 guards brought by Wang Zhisheng.

Except for a dozen people who were captured, the rest were all dead.

Completely stunned by this series of unexpected events, Magistrate Su staggered to his feet from the ground.

He was still a little confused about the situation, but one thing was certain, the dead queen dowager was probably not the real queen dowager.

Today's assassination was obviously premeditated by both parties, but he, the prefect, was the only one who was kept in the dark.

No wonder he felt that the empress dowager was different today than yesterday. It turned out she was in disguise.

Even though he thought that the dead person might not be the real empress dowager, after Governor Su got up, he still couldn't help but run to the dug grave, wanting to confirm it again at close range.

But just as they reached the edge of the pit, they saw the empress dowager, who was supposed to be dead, crawling out of it using her hands and feet.

The magistrate Su was caught off guard and suddenly came face to face with a face covered in blood and dirt, with eyes as stiff as a dead fish.

He was so scared that his whole body trembled, his legs went limp, and he sat down on the ground.