After rebirth, I made the princes cry

After all, Madam Wei followed Jiang Tai into exile in the desert. Even though she could not fight on the battlefield, she was certainly not as useless as Jiang Lina. She drew her sword and placed it accurately on Yang Jiachen's neck. Only then did Liang Hui untie Yang Jiachen's mute point.

"To make a long story short, Ran Zhugu has already recaptured Chang'an, forcing Jiang Tai and Jiang Cang to flee outside Xiaoguan. Queen Mother Yao has been beheaded. When the Palace Master and the Left Deputy Envoy return to Dayu safely via Wuguan, Jiang Mo will also be released immediately. If you, Yang Jiachen, don't go with us, your body will be immediately laid out in Baohua Palace. It's your choice whether to live or die."

In a flash, Yang Jiachen suddenly felt as if he had been enlightened.

Madam Wei must have already surrendered to the King of Zhenyuan... No, not the King of Zhenyuan, but Dongyu!!!

"I am originally from Henan. I was able to escape from Northern Han. Of course I will not stubbornly go down that dead end."

Yingshu chose Yang Jiachen to serve her because she could intimidate him, of course. But to completely intimidate him, she must first let Yang Jiachen make some judgment - if he does not surrender, there is no way for him to survive.

Just killing the palace maids in Baohua Palace is not enough to make Shouye fall into the trap. Yingshu must go on a killing spree this time. There are more than 30 people in Baohua Palace. In addition to the more than ten corpses of Yang Jiachen and others, more than 20 corpses are needed here. Of course, these corpses cannot be replaced by their own people, so more than 20 palace maids in the palace must serve as scapegoats.

Yang Jiachen has another wonderful use.

The keys to various doors of the palace have always been in the hands of the old eunuch. If Madam Wei forced the old eunuch to hand over the keys in advance, the risk of alerting the enemy would be too great. The clever use of Yang Jiachen was to force the old eunuch to tell her where the keys were kept.

The old eunuch had been tied up and drenched in the cold rain for a while. The incense he had been sprayed with had worn off, but he was half dead after all this. This place was outside Zhongxing Gate, separated from Dongping Gate by several palace walls. The old eunuch could not get help by just shouting, not to mention that he had no idea what was going on. He was hoping that the other party could have made him die without him knowing, but didn't, so he might be able to keep his life. If he kept screaming and shouting, he would probably die immediately, so he might as well live for a while.

After being in the rain for a long time, I finally saw a person without a mask.

An acquaintance, isn't this Yang Jiachen? I came to discuss the collection of lamps with him before. It turned out that this guy initiated this palace coup, but what exactly does Yang Jiachen want to do?

The old eunuch cried before Yang Jiachen could speak, "Although I am a Qiang, my life is also hard. I was born a slave. Several sons died in battle. My wife and daughter were kidnapped by nobles. Now I don't know whether I am dead or alive. I am old and have suffered the pain of castration. Alas, I don't have any other thoughts now. I have suffered so much and I don't want to die again. Please show mercy to me. No matter what I have to do, just regard me as dead."

Yang Jiachen had never thought that one day he would be able to decide the life and death of others. He almost softened his heart and was about to step forward to untie the old eunuch. The stars and the moon were dim that night, but there was a faint light coming from nowhere between heaven and earth, illuminating the cunning of people. When their eyes met, it was bright and shocking. The hand that Yang Jiachen stretched out was just pressing on the old eunuch's shoulder.

"I belong to the Queen Mother."

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother?"

“The Queen Mother wants to kill Yu Shi and Madam Wei, but if I do it in Weiyang Palace, I will have to sacrifice my own life. I will have a chance only if I come to the temporary palace, because as long as I can escape from the temporary palace, someone will help me… We are all the same people, and our life and death are determined by ourselves, not others. I don’t want to commit more sins.

I just need the keys to the palaces. You hand them over and help me escape. You can tell the palace guards what I said. Anyway, I won't stay here anymore... I've already succeeded. If the eunuch refuses to cooperate, I can only make him suffer."

Yang Jiachen quickly extorted the door key.

The so-called door keys were actually nothing more than the keys to the doors of various palaces - because uninhabited palaces would be locked from the outside at night to prevent theft. However, the particularly important doors such as Dongping Gate and Xiping Gate were certainly not locked with a single door lock. There were huge bolts inside the doors, and soldiers were guarding them all night. Yang Jiachen certainly could not escape with just the door keys. The old eunuch saw through that Yang Jiachen just wanted to find a hiding place.

After all, if he only hid in the palace gardens on the east side, he might fall into the hands of the palace guards before the pick-up person arrived. But if he opened the gates of the middle road or even the back court, tomorrow morning, when the palace guards discovered the incident, it would not be easy to find the murderer in such a huge palace with only a hundred guards.

After getting the door key, the maids were kind enough to move the old eunuch back into the house and leave him alive.

At this time, Ming Buchang had already died.

Hong Tao used poison and succeeded without any effort. As planned, she hid in Liangsheng Garden. Liangsheng Garden was originally a tourist garden with many hiding places. Moreover, the palace guards would never be able to search Liangsheng Garden. Liangsheng Garden was dark under the lamp. Tonight, the Lantian Palace might be on fire everywhere. For Liangsheng Garden, which was the first to burn...

It is not the job of Heart to set fire.

She hid in the dark room, but her heart was extremely calm. She had never expected freedom. People who had experienced the same thing as her would even envy a foal. After all, foals were not allowed to be killed indiscriminately, and they didn't have to worry about food. She and Bai Li lived like human beings because they were protected by Madam Wei. Therefore, they began to fantasize about peace, happiness and freedom.

She hadn't killed anyone.

Ming Buchang was her first killer. Although she despised this man, she had to admit that there was no deep hatred between them. She led Ming Buchang to his death step by step and regarded Ming Buchang as her enemy. Madam Wei's enemy was her enemy. Now, she was not afraid of death at all.

If a person can accomplish something great in his life, he will not live in vain.

Outside the dark room, flames suddenly shot up into the sky.

The black-clad maidservant set fire to Liangsheng Garden and burned the place where Ming Buchang's body was found.

Then Wu Bi climbed up to the Xiping Gate Tower and fired more than ten rockets, and the tower was engulfed in flames.

For the palace guards, lamps, candles and torches were used as armaments and were never allocated from the palace treasury. Therefore, it was impossible for these one hundred palace guards to use the replaced wax. And even if Ying Shu had a way to mix the wax into the armaments, she couldn't demand that all the lamps on guard duty be confiscated. Some people would inexplicably fall asleep while others would still be awake, which would immediately alert the enemy.

Shouyeduan fell asleep naturally that night, but as a soldier who had been on the battlefield, he still maintained basic alertness and did not sleep too deeply. Knowing that his partner Ming Buchang had gone to a leisurely place tonight, he just slept with his clothes on. Therefore, when he heard a noisy sound of footsteps on the wooden corridor in front of the duty station, he immediately sat up. Before the door could be knocked on, it was already opened by Shouyeduan.

Outside, there was rain and fog, and the night was dark. However, before the anxious palace guards could speak, Shouyeduan had already seen a fire in the west.

"Wake up everyone and gather at Dongping Gate immediately!"

After saying this, Shouyeduan quickly jumped onto the gatehouse of Dongping Gate. He saw that the fire at the gatehouse of Xiping Gate was not too big, but a tall building in the direction of Liangshengyuan had been completely engulfed by the fierce fire. Liangshengyuan!!! Shouyeduan immediately felt that the situation was not good, and shouted again: "Ten crossbowmen!"

He grabbed a torch and quickly ran down the city wall. He then called the thirty infantry guards, hesitated for a moment, and only asked ten infantry guards to go to Liangsheng Garden to check the situation. He personally led ten crossbowmen and twenty infantry guards to Baohua Palace. Just now, he had a quick look from the gate tower and saw that the palaces and gardens on the east route were calm, but he had a hunch that something was wrong. Everything was too calm. Although it was late at night, there were still more than a hundred palace servants in the palace. None of them noticed the fire in Liangsheng Garden. Could it be that they were all fast asleep and didn't notice it?

However, Shouyeduan could not be sure whether there had been any changes in the east road. The palace maids in Weiyang Palace had experienced a palace coup and had to serve many nobles. Even in the middle of the night, there would definitely be palace maids on duty who would stay awake. There were also palace guards or eunuchs on duty at various sentry posts in the palace to prevent accidents such as fires at night. But this was just a temporary palace after all, and as the palace gardens had been vacant for a long time, there were no lights or candles in the palace gardens at night. The palace maids neglected to prevent fires and lacked vigilance. When the palace guards discovered the fire, they did not sound the alarm without his permission. It is possible that the palace maids did not notice the sudden accident because they were fast asleep.

Someone must have set the fire and caused chaos in the palace, but Shouyeduan found it difficult to identify the culprit. His first reaction, of course, was to confirm whether there was any chaos in Baohua Palace.

Shouyeduan first arrived at Duanning Gate, which was a gate located between Donghua Gate and Baohua Hall. No matter whether it was the palace guards or the envoys guards of Dongyu, they could not enter Baohua Hall without passing through this gate. Therefore, palace guards were left in shifts to guard in front of Duanning Gate. Since there were palace guards on duty, there were no keys. In fact, for gates like this, the barrier walls were not built too high. Only door locks without palace guards could not prevent martial artists from breaking through. Therefore, gates like Duanning Gate would never be locked not only in the temporary palace, but also in the Weiyang Palace.

Of course, there was no fighting or quarreling at Duanning Gate at that time.

Shouyeduan asked and found out that except for Ming Buchang who claimed to be going to Liangsheng Garden for "patrol", not even a civet cat entered Duanning Gate after the night curfew. He was slightly relieved. Of course, he did not forget to order the palace guards to be alert and guard the gate at all costs. If any envoy guards broke the ban, they would be killed without mercy. But Shouyeduan also knew that there were dozens of envoy guards from Dongyu. If they broke the ban, the gate would inevitably be lost. So he gave another order that if anyone broke the ban, they would be warned immediately with arrows. There were still twenty crossbowmen and twenty archers left at Dongping Gate, who could arrive in time and shoot the envoy guards to death on the spot.

The door of Baohua Hall was already closed tightly because there were envoys living inside, so it was not locked from the outside but bolted from the inside. Shouyeduan knocked on the door first and waited for dozens of breaths, but no one answered from inside. This was very bad.

Even though palace servants like Yang Jiachen might not be on duty at the palace gate at night, there were still ten envoys' personal guards in Baohua Palace. How could no one answer the door? Shouyeduan waved his hand, and a palace guard threw out a flying claw. Two palace guards jumped into the wall and opened the palace door in a moment.

Shouyeduan felt something was wrong even though he was not stopped. He almost held his breath and followed the ten crossbowmen into the silent palace.

On the inside of the palace gate, there were two bodies lying. Judging from the clothes they were wearing, they could be identified as Dong Yu's personal guards, but for some reason their cheeks were black and swollen, and they were bleeding from all seven orifices. It was difficult to verify the appearance of the deceased only by the light of the torches. But if Shouyeduan had been more steady and careful, it would not be difficult to verify that the two bodies actually had the "characteristics" of eunuchs. However, Shouyeduan was more anxious to confirm the life or death of the envoy. He first shouted to register his identity, but no one in the Baohua Palace responded.

The big thing is not good!

Shouyeduan did not associate the criminals with the Dongyu delegation at all, because he was sure that if it was the envoys who caused the rebellion, the rest of the delegation guards would have to be mobilized. With only the ten personal guards in the Baohua Palace, even if those palace maids who might have martial arts were included, there were only twenty people, and there was no hope of breaking through the Dongping Gate.

"Search in the inner courtyard!"

Following the order, Shouyeduan "took the lead", and then he saw more and more corpses. He even saw Bai Li's "corpse". Before he could confirm whether he was still alive, he heard the tragic news that the Lord of Shenyuan Palace, the Left Deputy Envoy, and even Madam Wei were suspected to have been beheaded by the murderer!

"Commander, the back door is open. The criminal must have escaped through the back door!" a palace guard reported.

Shouyeduan's mind was like a gust of wind. He had no idea who set the fire in Liangsheng Garden and who committed the tragedy in Baohua Palace. Whether those headless corpses were Madam Wei and the envoys, there was no doubt that the murderer must be caught!

The back door of Baohua Palace, through an alley, is Yanhui Garden. Shouyeduan naturally did not neglect the search, but he certainly did not think of searching under the water. The group quickly passed through Yanhui Garden, and did not see any trace of the criminals, and they were at a loss again.

At this moment, flames suddenly shot up into the sky towards the north.

"It's the Divine Palace!!!"

As the palace guards cried out in surprise, Shouyeduan made a prompt decision and rushed straight to the Shenji Palace, but suddenly he came to his senses.

"After the night curfew, the Shenji Gate will lock the gate with keys. The keys are controlled by the Palace Supervisor. Let's go to the guard room outside the Zhongxing Gate first!"

The old eunuch finally got his reinforcements and was released from his bonds. Naturally, he would not conceal the crime for Yang Jiachen. He repeated Yang Jiachen's words in detail, raised his sleeves, and wiped the liquid that he didn't know whether it was cold sweat or cold rain: "The masked black-clothed people following Yang Jiachen should all be women. Although there are only a few of them, they should all be very skilled. I don't even know how they got tricked... Yang Jiachen was following the orders of the Queen Mother, how dare I disobey? Yang Jiachen also said that there were people outside the palace to meet him... By the way, after he forced me to hand over the keys of the palaces and gardens, he also asked in detail which key opened which gate. I guessed that those people would not force their way into the palace gate. I'm afraid they wanted to hide in the temporary palace gardens and wait until the large number of people who came to meet them crossed the Ba River and put pressure on the commander first, so that Yang Jiachen and others could get away."

"Is the palace supervisor sure that the person who demanded the door key was Yang Jiachen?!" Shouyeduan asked.

"Although my eyesight is blurry, I haven't mistaken the murderer!" The old eunuch patted his chest and said, "I remember now. I lit a candle today and suddenly felt very tired. I fell asleep and lost consciousness. I didn't even notice when someone tied my hands and feet and threw me out of the house to get wet in the rain. The one who asked me to collect the lamps and replace the lights in all the guard houses with candles was Yang Jiachen! Although he claimed that it was Madam Wei who gave the order, it is not certain that it was his suggestion. Madam Wei didn't suspect that he was cheating, so she allowed it."

Shouyeduan immediately thought that one of the people in charge of purchasing was Hongtao. Tonight, Hongtao had led Mingbuchang to Liangshengyuan first!!!