Go to Qingqiu together

Shen Xubai looked at Baihong, not sure if she came to help him.

After all, he has no friendship with Xia Chen, and even because of his relationship with the queen mother, his relationship with Xia Chen in the early years was even considered to be hostile.

However, in the next moment, Bai Hong quickly came to Shen Xubai, bowed his hands and saluted him: "My lord, follow me quickly, Xu Qingjian is in danger."

Hearing Xu Qingjian's name, Shen Xubai no longer hesitated: "Thank you, Miss Baihong."

With that said, Shen Xubai put his legs between the horse's belly and ran towards the palace city at the fastest speed.

Behind him, Bai Hong got on the horse quickly and quickly caught up with Shen Xubai's horse, walking side by side with him, leading the way for him.

"Miss Bai Hong, do you know Xu Qingjian?" Shen Xubai suddenly realized something was wrong.

Now that I think about it carefully, there are even more suspicious places.

For example, Bai Hong was Xia Chen's personal bodyguard and only listened to Xia Chen's deployment. She came to the palace gate to take him in to rescue Xu Qingjian, which must have been instructed by Xia Chen.

In this way, Xia Chen must also know Xu Qingjian, and Xu Qingjian called the emperor a few times in his dreams not long ago.

When Bai Hong heard Shen Xubai's words, she froze for a moment, then nodded, and admitted frankly: "Well, old friend."

"Old friend?" Shen Xubai frowned even tighter.

But he didn't have time to think about anything, so he didn't ask any more questions, but speeded up and went straight to the queen mother's bedroom.

At this time, Xu Qingjian was in the hands of the Queen Mother, so it must be extremely dangerous.

On the other side, Xia Chen was still dealing with the queen mother.

The queen mother wanted to continue the execution several times, but Xia Chen distracted her with various topics. Finally, the queen mother lost her patience completely, and she gave Hong Ling a look.

Hongling understood what the Queen Mother meant, lowered her eyes silently, slipped a hidden weapon out of her sleeve without comprehension, and aimed it at Xu Qingjian's throat.

The hidden weapon in her hand is a throwing arrow, which is very light and easy to use, so it is not easy to be noticed.

Xu Qingjian was already on the verge of death, as long as she threw the hidden weapon, he would die on the spot.

Without hesitation, Hongling exerted force with her wrist, and stabbed the throwing arrow towards Xu Qingjian.

At the same moment, a copper coin hit her, just in time to knock down her throwing arrow in mid-air. The copper coin and the throwing arrow fell to the ground at the same time, making two small sounds in succession.

But this sound has been masked under the sound of horseshoes.

Several people present all turned their heads to look, only to see Shen Xubai and Bai Hong coming on horseback together.

The moment she saw Shen Xubai, the Empress Dowager's complexion changed, becoming particularly ugly.

"Qingjian!" Shen Xubai quickly got off the horse, rushed to Xu Qingjian, stretched out his arms and hugged his body cautiously.

Shen Xubai's breathing was extremely heavy, he hardly dared to touch Xu Qingjian's body, his fingers trembled violently.

From the moment he saw Xu Qingjian just now, he only felt a sharp pain in his heart.

He thought that the queen mother might use various methods to make things difficult for Xu Qingjian, but he didn't expect that the queen mother would be so cruel that she directly tortured Xu Qingjian. Judging from the injuries, the queen mother obviously wanted to kill Xu Qingjian.

Seeing Xu Qingjian's bruised and bloody appearance, Shen Xubai's eyes went dark for a while, and even breathing was extremely difficult.

"Qingjian...Qingjian..." Shen Xubai finally found his own voice, and called Xu Qingjian a few words with difficulty.

But Xu Qingjian had fainted a long time ago, and it was impossible to respond to Shen Xubai.

Shen Xubai tore off the cloth towel stuffed in Xu Qingjian's mouth, took off his robe, tremblingly put it on Xu Qingjian's body, and whispered in his ear: "Don't be afraid, I'm coming, I'm coming... "

The Queen Mother frowned and looked at Hongling, and lowered her voice to blame: "What's going on?"

If Hongling had already dealt with Xu Qingjian just now, even if Shen Xubai rushed over now, it would not help the matter.

Hongling had never missed a shot before, but today she made such a big mistake.

Hongling lowered her head and apologized shamelessly: "Hongling is useless, just now..."

"Enough, needless to say." The Queen Mother interrupted him irritably.

Hong Ling shook her body, bit her lower lip tightly, and stopped talking.

She slowly raised her eyes to look at Bai Hong who was standing next to Xia Chen at the moment, she just gritted her teeth with hatred.

If Bai Hong hadn't just used that copper plate to knock down her hidden weapon, how could she let Xu Qingjian survive.

Bai Hong also noticed Hong Ling's gaze, she just glanced at Hong Ling coldly and then looked away, with an aloof expression, she didn't take her seriously.

"The empress dowager deliberately dismissed me and called Qing Jian into the palace to use such a severe punishment, it is too much." Shen Xubai got up slowly, staring at the empress dowager fiercely.

This was the first time the Queen Mother saw Shen Xubai looking at herself with such eyes, she almost subconsciously took a step back.

"Aijia didn't want to do anything to him, but he contradicted Aijia." The queen mother took a deep breath to calm herself down a little: "Xu'er shouldn't be angry with Aijia for a mere man."

"Zhiqi?" Shen Xubai snorted coldly, his black eyes fixed on the queen mother, those eyes were full of danger.

"If the Empress Dowager doesn't give me an explanation for today's matter, I'm afraid our family relationship will be completely broken." Shen Xubai said in a deep voice.

"You... what do you mean?!" The queen mother suddenly opened her eyes wide.

There was no expression on Shen Xubai's face, the queen mother couldn't find a trace of fear at all, which made her even more flustered.

"If you touch him, you will have a complete enmity with me, Empress Dowager, you have stepped on the bottom line of my minister." Shen Xubai gritted his teeth and said word by word.

In an instant, the queen mother's face became extremely pale.

If it is said that Shen Xubai was still making false claims with her before, then at this moment, Shen Xubai has completely torn face with her.

"It's just for him! Just for him!" The Queen Mother became dizzy for a moment, pointed at Xu Qingjian who was fainting beside her, and shouted angrily.

Hongling hurriedly stepped forward to stop the queen mother: "Young lady, calm down..."

Shen Xubai looked at her expressionlessly, pulled out the long sword from his waist, and stabbed hard on the ground.

Under the sunlight, the sword body glowed with a silver light, so bright that it could almost reflect a human figure on it, but it was particularly glaring.

"Whether it's the executioners, or those who went to my house to arrest people, whoever participated in this matter, let them all come over and end themselves." Shen Xubai's voice was cold, extremely cold.

The Empress Dowager opened her eyes wide, gasping for breath, the hand pointing at him was trembling, she couldn't utter a single word.

"If one is missing, this matter can't be resolved." Shen Xubai continued: "The empress dowager can try it."

The eyes of all the people present fell on Shen Xubai, in their view, Shen Xubai was just like an evil spirit, making people frightened.

This is the first time they have seen someone force the queen mother into this.

On this day, more than a dozen people died in front of the Empress Dowager's bedroom. There was blood all over the floor, and the smell of blood lingered around and could not go away for a long time.

Only Hongling saved her life under the empress dowager's plea, and the others could not escape the fate of death.

The queen mother has no other choice, he can only follow Shen Xubai's instructions.

It was only today that she suddenly woke up. Shen Xubai was no longer the Shen Xubai who was controlled by her and worked for her. Now he is just the mighty King Ning.

In the early years, she relied too much on Shen Xubai and gave him too much power, but now Shen Xubai's cliques have spread all over the court, and they cannot be removed at all.

What's even more frightening is that as early as a few months ago, she found out that some generals of the Beijing army have turned against Shen Xubai. It can be said that they are dispatched by Shen Xubai, not to mention that several generals of the local army were single-handedly selected by Shen Xubai. For those who went up, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that those troops belonged to Shen Xubai, and she didn't know whether Shen Xubai had stockpiled private soldiers.

When she knew all this at the time, the queen mother was already in a cold sweat, that's why recently she was eager for quick success and quick benefits to regain control of Shen Xubai, but unexpectedly it backfired in the end.

You must know that since ancient times, dynasties have changed, and most of those who changed their surnames were military generals who rebelled. Now that Shen Xubai has such a large force behind him, how can she not be afraid.

She could even say without exaggeration that if she didn't execute these dozens of people today according to Shen Xubai's request, tomorrow Shen Xubai would be able to lead troops to surround the entire palace.

Just after Shen Xubai took Xu Qingjian away, the Empress Dowager fell down and sat in front of the palace door with a slumped expression.

"Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, are you okay..." Hongling cried and knelt down, crawled to the Empress Dowager's side, and stretched out her hand to support her: "It's useless if it's Hongling, if only I could kill him just now."

"I don't blame you." The Queen Mother sighed a long time.

After a long while, the queen mother raised her eyes and looked at the sky above her head, feeling that everything in front of her was extremely gray.

"It seems that I am really old, and I made such a big mistake, raising tigers..." The queen mother said leisurely, her voice was extremely low.

She has held the power for so many years, and she has no plans, but in the end she was blinded by the power...

At this moment, she even had a premonition that her death was not far away.

"In a few days, Ai's family will send you out of the palace and find you a suitable place to spend the rest of your life." The queen mother reached out to grab Hong Ling's hand, patted the back of her hand lightly, and said.

"Why? Is it because Hongling didn't serve her well enough?" Hongling suddenly panicked.

"No, you're fine." The Queen Mother shook her head: "It's just that the palace may soon be unsettled...Even Ai's family can't protect themselves, let alone you."

Hongling shook her head vigorously, and said in tears, "No, Hongling will always be by the Empress Dowager's side, and Hongling will not go anywhere except by your side."

The queen mother turned her head to look at Hong Ling, sighed again, and said nothing more.

In Prince Ning's mansion, after Xu Qingjian's injuries were treated, he started to have a high fever and was still in a coma.

Because the injury was behind him, he could only lie on the bed all the time, Shen Xubai was worried that he would suffocate, so he supported his head with a pillow, and was afraid that he would be uncomfortable, so he quickly changed to supporting him with his hands.

"Sorry, I'm late..." Shen Xubai stretched out his hand to gently comb Xu Qingjian's hair, his eye circles were slightly red, and his voice was even a little choked.