The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Chapter 312: It's human nature to be moved

The emperor was seriously ill, and his hands were shaking even when holding the sword.

As if he understood something at this moment, this face, which always had the stern majesty of an emperor, finally showed fear.

If Shen Qingwei hadn't told him that Gu Shichong had rebellious intentions, how could he have sent someone into the palace to test him, and when Gu Shichong really wanted to force the emperor to abdicate, he would have taken him down in one fell swoop? But he never thought that everything was originally planned by these two people!

The sword in the emperor's hand was snatched away. He tried to struggle desperately. He screamed: "Shen Qingwei! Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor quickly!"

The only response he got was silence.

"Where is Peng Hui...Peng Hui!" Peng Hui, who had been waiting outside the hall just now, was now nowhere to be found.

This time he was really panicked. He fell to the ground, and his weak body made him spit out blood. Suddenly, a sword was across his throat: "Father, for the sake of Dayong's country, please write an edict to pass on the throne."

"Impossible!" the emperor roared and spit out another mouthful of blood.

Gu Shichong was unmoved, he just smiled and said, "How about this, Father, let's discuss something. You don't have to write it, but if you do this, your son's ascension to the throne will be illegitimate and the ministers will certainly oppose it. But if your son makes public what your father has done over the years, then your son's forcing your father to abdicate will become a righteous act. What do you think?"

"You...you!" The emperor's breath was trembling, and he was almost angry to death.

"Your Majesty, who cares so much about his reputation in history books, would not do this. Why don't you just write the edict honestly? For the sake of my own reputation, I will also consider your father's reputation and choose a decent posthumous title for you, okay?"

Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well die with dignity.

The emperor, who had been respectable all his life, finally picked up the pen, humiliatingly wrote the edict of succession, and stamped it with the seal.

Gu Shichong was satisfied. He threw away the sword in his hand and kicked the emperor upside down. Then he grabbed a soft cushion and covered the emperor's mouth and nose. The emperor's eyes were bloodshot and stared in disbelief due to suffocation. In a trance, he seemed to see his younger self... He forced his father to write the edict in the same way, and then killed him with his own hands.

There were thunder and lightning in the sky, and heavy rain was gathering momentum and was about to pour down.

Looking at the imperial edict with his name on it, Gu Shichong had a ferocious smile on his face.

He said word by word: "Your Majesty is seriously ill and has passed away!"

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Fengyi Palace.

Shen Qingtang grabbed the corner of her clothes and looked at the queen who was still talking to her. She felt a little tired from responding, but she didn't dare to be negligent.

Seeing that the queen always glanced out the window from time to time, she gradually felt uneasy and looked out the window unconsciously.

But at this moment, she vaguely heard the sound of thunder, mixed with chaotic footsteps, and faint cries for help! ?

Her heart skipped a beat and, regardless of etiquette, she stood up and walked to the window, trying to hear the sound clearly.

When she turned around, a flash of lightning happened to pass by, and she saw the queen's maid following her closely, which scared her so much that she screamed.

At this moment, she had no time to bow and apologize, so she quickly said to the queen: "Your Majesty, something seems to have happened outside!"

The queen's eyes were panicked for a moment: "What happened?"

Shen Qingtang was puzzled: "Didn't the queen hear the cry for help?"

But the queen just smiled and shook her head, and the maid also said to her: "Miss Shen, did you hear it wrong?"

But there were clearly cries for help outside, and they were getting louder and louder. It was definitely not an illusion... But why couldn't these people hear it?

Shen Qingtang suddenly realized that everyone in the room was looking at her with vigilance and caution.

Shen Qingtang's body was instantly covered with goose bumps, and even his scalp felt a little tight...something was wrong, something was very wrong!

She couldn't help but take two steps back, but saw the palace servants also took two steps forward following her movement.

She couldn't help but tremble... She gritted her teeth, turned around, climbed out through the window, and ran towards the gate of Fengyi Palace.

"Chase!" the queen ordered.

Shen Qingtang pushed away the eunuch who tried to stop her and ran out desperately.

Sure enough, the palace had already been in chaos, and the only thing heard was the confused palace servants saying something like "there's a coup in the palace."

Zhiyi, Qingwei...

Shen Qingtang's mind was also in a mess, and at this moment he just wanted to find them both as soon as possible.

The Queen kept her in the palace not because she was an important person, but because her brother was close to the Emperor. So she... maybe, maybe she was a hostage?

She knew that she couldn't be caught, otherwise Qingwei would be implicated. Thinking of this, she blended into the crowd, temporarily shook off the people behind her, and then could only run around in the unfamiliar palace like a headless fly.

She didn't know where she ran to, but when she seemed to have gotten rid of the person, she stopped, leaned against the wall and gasped.

But suddenly she heard the sound of swords and knives. She quickly turned sideways, letting the wall block herself, and only dared to stick out half of her head to look at the source of the sound.

I saw a man dressed as a eunuch, who seemed to be quite skilled. He was chasing someone with a dagger. The man was wearing a purple official robe and held a high position. He seemed to be...

Shen Qingtang's eyes widened...Isn't that Jiang Xu! ?

Here, Jiang Xu stumbled and dodged the dagger. He had just been stabbed in the leg and was bleeding profusely, but the man had no intention of stopping.

He suspected that the emperor wanted to kill Huo Wuyou, and he was also worried about his brother-in-law. He planned to take advantage of the chaos in the palace today to kill him, so that he could blame everything on the person who caused the chaos afterwards.

Seeing himself sitting on the ground exhausted, the eunuch raised his dagger and was about to stab him in the neck. As a weak scholar, he had no power to defend himself...

At this moment, a muffled sound was heard.

Jiang Xu was startled, and saw a woman holding a stone she had picked up from somewhere. There was blood on the stone, and she was looking at him with horror.

"Ms. Shen...Ms. Shen?" Jiang Xu was stunned: "Why are you in the palace?"

Shen Qingtang didn't know where she got the courage from. She only knew that if Jiang Xu died, Zhiyi would not be able to bear the grief, and if she was not careful, there might be two deaths... Thinking of this, she rushed forward.

As for the other questions, they were too long to answer, so she just threw the stone away, grabbed Jiang Xu's wrist and dragged him up, shouting out of breath: "Run!"

Jiang Xu still had an injury on his leg, but he was dragged along the way in a daze.

At this time, the heavy rain that had been held back for a whole day poured down, pouring down on people's heads. The crackling sound of the rain was so painful that the scenery in front of people became a little blurry.

He only saw Shen Qingtang looking back from time to time. Her face was a little pale from the rain, water was hanging on her hair, and there was panic in her wet eyes, like a panicked deer.

After a moment's pause, he looked at Shen Qingtang holding his hand, and felt a subtle strangeness in his heart. The past scenes seemed to flash through his mind quickly, the Shen Qingtang who rushed into his carriage on the way to Jiangzhou, and the Shen Qingtang who was angry with him in Tang Mansion...

He thought that it was human nature to be moved by his lifesaver...