I rely on the collapse of people to set my life in the hands of the male protagonist

Chapter 254

In the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

The other concubines were all crowded in the innermost part, weeping in fear.Concubine Xu and the Queen Mother knelt to pray for blessings in the Buddhist hall, and Jing Rouyin was also sitting here, because she knew that the safest thing was to be by the Queen Mother's side.

Naturally, Lin Qingyang took the fourth prince to follow Concubine Xu.

He found that the guards around Xu Bin were all masters, but they also kept a basic distance. They were all guarding outside for a while, and did not guard against him, which was much more convenient for him.

Lin Qingyang's gaze focused on Pin Xu, who was a gentle and delicate pregnant woman. To be honest, he really didn't want Chu Lishu's suspicions to come true. After all, in his opinion, Pin Xu was in the original text. The cannon fodder who was killed all of a sudden, and she is usually like Xu Wenze, giving people a very warm feeling. If such a person is a bad person, how deep is her scheming.

Even if Chu Lishu's guess was right in the end, Lin Qingyang only felt that at most he was following his father's order and betting on the child in her stomach.

Just as he was thinking wildly, the fourth prince finally couldn't help crying as he leaned against Lin Qingyang. "I'm so worried about my concubine mother. Is she going to be okay in the cold palace? They all said it was... yes... Is it true that my grandfather and Uncle Zhao rebelled? Isn't rebellion a death penalty?" The fourth prince seemed to have made a mistake. child, guilty and sad.

Lin Qingyang could only look at the fourth prince in embarrassment. After all, he didn't know how to comfort him in this situation.

While talking, the voice of the guards came forward to report that they wanted to take the fourth prince away.

The fourth prince is a little scared, he dare not face the emperor now.

And the emperor is looking for him at this time, everyone can guess why?

After all, he was going to take his own son as a hostage.

Naturally, Lin Qingyang has no right to keep the fourth prince behind. The fourth prince wiped his tears and followed slowly with his head down. Lin Qingyang looked uncomfortable in his heart. Suddenly, a strange feeling came, and Lin Qingyang pulled the four princes back in an instant. The prince's arm asked: "Wait a minute, do you have an order from His Majesty?"

The four guards were stunned for a moment, and explained with unnatural expressions: "The situation is urgent, Your Majesty has not..."

Lin Qingyang had already pulled the fourth prince back, and Xu Wei suddenly said, "No, I haven't seen you by His Majesty's side, which commander do you belong to?"

As soon as these words came out, the four shot immediately, and the guard outside the door rushed in immediately after hearing the movement.

Lin Qingyang held a dagger in his hand, and led the fourth prince back to Concubine Xu and the queen mother. Seeing this, the fourth prince also took out a dagger to guard him. Although he was young, he cried a lot when encountering things, but in the end it was still Lin Qingyang and Chu Lishu. The children who are taught can still withstand the crisis.

The strength of Xu Bin's guards was completely crushed, and within a short while, they completely restrained the four of them.

Lin Qingyang glanced sideways at Concubine Xu, his eyes had begun to change, he approached Concubine Xu quietly, the dagger in his hand was not loose but tightened.

It is normal for the empress dowager to remain calm in the face of a crisis, but Xu Bin's temperament has not yet shown that she is frightened... He should have seen it long ago, not to mention that when the guards around her made a move, they were obviously not the palace guards The number of martial arts is more like... a killer, with deadly moves.

On the contrary, the people who came to look for the fourth prince were more like palace guards.

"Who are you guys!" The queen mother was also angry when she saw the chaotic situation in front of her.

"Could it be sent by Prime Minister Li?" Concubine Xu asked in a low voice.

If it was sent by Prime Minister Li, it would be tantamount to saving the fourth prince. Then they just... This situation is also subtle.

Those guards didn't say anything, the queen mother's eyes sharpened, "Don't say anything, okay, drag it out, kill it directly, don't dirty the Buddhist hall of Ai's family." Speaking of this, it is completely different from the usual queen mother, that majestic and domineering Her posture was more like what Chu Lishu told Lin Qingyang before, the queen mother who helped two emperors rule the world.

As soon as the words fell, a voice came from the door: "At this time, let's not kill each other."

Hearing this familiar voice, the first person to be frightened was Jing Rouyin.

Everyone took a closer look, and there were two people at the door, they were Yuan Ye and Empress Cheng.

The queen mother glanced at the two of them, and looked at Yuan Ye, "You escaped..."

Yuan Ye said coldly: "The whole palace is in chaos, should I stay there and wait to die?" Yuan Ye's eyes swept over the crowd, and finally landed on Jing Rouyin fiercely, Jing Rouyin was instantly terrified He wanted to run, but Yuan Ye stepped forward and grabbed his hair, "Bitch! We meet again."

"Let me go! Let me go!" Jing Rouyin immediately yelled.

Yuan Ye said coldly: "Don't worry, I won't kill you. After all, you still have my seed in your belly. I also believe that you have the life of a phoenix, so I will take you away together and settle the score slowly later."

"Don't... I don't want to leave, let me go!" Jing Rouyin broke down and cried.

Yuan Ye was annoyed, so he slapped Jing Rouyin twice hard to shut up.

No one cares about the farce here.

Empress Cheng is not in good health, her face is as pale as death. "Mother, the situation is critical now. Prime Minister Li and Zhao Cheng have already invaded. We plan to hold the fourth prince hostage, and borrow five hundred guards from you to escort us away first. Let alone being unfilial as a daughter-in-law, we will take you to escape together."

"Let's not talk about whether you are filial or not. You see, there are only about twenty guards in my palace. Where did five hundred come from?" The queen mother sneered.

"My daughter-in-law knows that your golden hairpin can directly call the five hundred imperial guards. If you give the golden hairpin, we can leave." Queen Cheng said with narrowed eyes.

The Empress Dowager couldn't help laughing, "At this time, you mother and son are fighting together, disregarding the emperor's safety, and only focusing on mobilizing troops. If it were given to you, wouldn't there be fewer people on the emperor's side? What do you think?" Do you want to watch the emperor die?"

Empress Cheng's mother and son didn't like to hear this, "The emperor has already been ruthless to us, do we still care about this? Let me tell you bluntly, when we came, we found that the defense in the palace couldn't handle the rebellion at all." The army, it will be a matter of time before it is breached, and the emperor did send someone to take this kid as a hostage, but the guards who came over happened to meet the rebel army halfway and were accidentally killed, so we came over."

The fourth prince's face turned pale when he heard this, and he immediately understood his situation, and he couldn't even lift the hand holding the dagger.

Yuan Ye shook off Jing Rouyin who was crying and resisting first, and then said: "He can't protect himself, Grandmother, if you want to survive, you should come with us."

"Thank you so much from the Ai family." The Queen Mother sarcastically said, "But it's a pity, do you see a golden hairpin on my head? Long before the incident happened, the Ai family had already sent the golden hairpin to the emperor. If you want to ask for help, you can only go to the emperor."

"You!" Empress Cheng was very angry immediately.

"I don't believe it!" Yuan Ye shouted immediately, looking as if he wanted to go forward to find it by himself.

But here are not only the guards of Concubine Xu, but also the queen mother's own guards, so they will not be easily approached.

Yuan Ye's face was ugly, and he wanted to try to find the whereabouts of the golden hairpin, but there was no gold hairpin on the queen mother's hair, only the phoenix crown as a status symbol.

"Your guards take it away by themselves, and go to save your own life. The fourth prince is the grandson of the Ai family, and he cannot be taken away unless the emperor orders him." The queen mother seemed too lazy to entangle with their mother and son.Turn around and kneel down to continue worshiping Buddha.

Empress Cheng, mother and son were naturally very angry. There was no golden hairpin, and the fourth prince was also a talisman, but they didn't have anyone to grab it, so they hesitated and could only stay temporarily and think of other ways.But the growing movement outside made people restless.

Yuan Ye almost vented all his anger on Jing Rouyin, Jing Rouyin could only desperately ask for help, and even revealed many secrets, especially the fact that a mysterious person helped her, Lin Qingyang squinted Squinting his eyes, Yuan Ye didn't believe it, he still punched and kicked him everywhere except his stomach.

Lin Qingyang still felt uncomfortable seeing a man beating a woman, so he said, "If you have this strength, don't you leave it to the rebels who will come next? If you really don't want to take revenge, you can kill them directly. What's the point of going through all this trouble mean?"

Yuan Ye's stern gaze instantly looked over, "You boy... I will be reduced to this point, and you and Chu Lishu are also contributing to it, I haven't taken revenge on you yet..."

Lin Qingyang stretched out the dagger directly, and said coldly: "You can try it!"

Yuan Ye was so angry that he was panting like a bison, his eyes were going to pop out, but he still didn't make a move because he was afraid of death.

Looking at these scenes, Lin Qingyang couldn't help but sneered and said: "Although it's inappropriate to say this now, I'm really curious. I've heard about the demeanor of the former prince Yuan Ran. If that person is still there, I don't know if he is still alive today." Will it be such a scene, I have to say Yuan Ye, you are really not as good as Prince Yuan Ran."

Yuan Ye was shocked immediately, and the people present couldn't help but tremble when they heard the word Yuan Ran.

"You are crazy, who are you talking about!"

"Anyway, life and death are uncertain in the future. Does it matter who?" Lin Qingyang couldn't help feeling sorry for Chu Lishu when he saw Queen Cheng and Yuan Ye, and naturally couldn't help but want to speak for him. "It is said that Prince Yuan Ran loved Empress Cheng and loved his younger brother at that time. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it... Can't I even mention it now?"

Suddenly the queen mother said: "Boy of the Lin family, you talk too much. It is still uncertain who will win and who will lose. If you mention that person again, you will offend the royal family."

The queen mother is warning him, don't think that Prime Minister Li has the upper hand, they will be able to retreat in time, if the emperor wins, just based on what he just said, the emperor will not let him go easily.

Lin Qingyang felt wronged for Chu Lishu, and couldn't help but want to ridicule him back.In the end, she was interrupted by Empress Cheng, who had a sudden emotional breakdown.

It's just that Empress Cheng is not targeting Lin Qingyang, but the Queen Mother who has been worshiping Buddha.

Empress Cheng felt extremely ironic when she saw the Empress Dowager worshiping Buddha piously, and angrily said: "Bai, bye, do you think that just worshiping Buddha can wash away your sins? You are responsible for everything today, so why can't you raise your vitality?" Don't forget, you are the one who killed Yuan Ran!"

The queen mother froze and didn't turn her head, but knelt in front of the Buddha statue with her back straight.

But others were stunned.

Xu Pin supported the fourth prince and stood behind and listened silently. Jing Rouyin and Yuan Ye's eyes widened, while Lin Qingyang was dumbfounded.

what happened?

What did Empress Cheng mean by what she said, and why did Yuan Ran's events back then have something to do with the Empress Dowager?Doesn't she go with the flow?

Back then, it wasn't the alliance of other countries who were afraid of the prophecy, the three major clans who were afraid of Yuan Ran's policies, and King Ning himself who was afraid of being implicated by the prophecy, and also had the ambition to replace the dynasty with his ambition to replace it, which led to all the tragedies?

"Queen, what are you talking about!" Yuan Ye shouted.

The queen mother turned around silently, looked at Queen Cheng, her eyes were still looking down from top to bottom, showing coldness, "Is Queen Cheng going crazy? What are you talking about?"

The Queen Mother was warning her that telling the truth back then would do no one any good, and there are still so many people here.

Xu Pin suddenly interjected, "It's really inappropriate to say that Prince Yuan Ran caused so much trouble back then, but didn't Prince Yuan Ran die in battle? How can I say that he was killed? Empress Cheng may not I really lost my mind, talking nonsense."

Concubine Xu's words changed Lin Qingyang's perception of her almost drastically. He could only listen to concubine Xu while guarding against Concubine Xu.

Empress Cheng originally wanted to endure it, but when she heard what Xu Bin said, she realized that in the eyes of outsiders, she was the mother who gave birth to that monster Yuan Ran, and it was a sin, but who would know that she was the most innocent Well, finally Empress Cheng couldn't help but shouted: "What happened back then, and the current chaos, the main culprit is the Empress Dowager."

"Queen Cheng!" The Empress Dowager interrupted sharply.But it can't stop a broken can and broken person at all.

"If you hadn't told King Ning at the beginning, King Ning would not have wanted to kill Yuan Ran. If Yuan Ran was still there, with his ability, we would not have fallen to this point at all!"

Maybe now that she is a justifiable queen mother, how could such a thing happen.

The queen mother finally said in a cold voice: "A woman who lost her virginity before she got married, a slut who broke her relationship with her brother-in-law after entering the palace and gave birth to an illegitimate child, is also qualified to judge the actions of the Ai family? Everything the Ai family does It's for Da Zhou!" The Empress Dowager stood up while speaking, frightening everyone with her imposing manner.

Empress Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then her face was full of embarrassment and anger, "You don't lie, I have figured it out after so many years, yes, yes, I am not chaste, it is because I should have married King Ning , instead of entering the palace. You forced me to enter the palace to replace my infertile sister to carry on the royal family line. Forcing me to give birth to Yuan Ran is to destroy me, and then you lied to King Ning who was ambitious and unwilling to rebel , You lied to him that Yuan Ran was his son, made him blame himself for being sorry to his brother, willingly give up the rebellion, and specially train Yuan Ran."

At the beginning, Empress Cheng was still a woman immersed in love. She was afraid of losing King Ning's heart, so she concealed it together. After that, no one in the harem cared about her, so she had the chance to give birth to Yuan Ye.

Yuan Ye was in a hurry, he didn't want others to know that he was the illegitimate son of King Ning.

In the end, Empress Cheng looked at Yuan Ye and said bluntly: "Actually, the first emperor never looked for me after Yuan Ran. He knew that you were King Ning's child. Although he didn't get close to you, he treated you well. Probably he has a lot of feelings for me." There are many things. Originally, we could live in peace. After all, Yuan Ran is so good, and everything will be fine in the future. Even if I hate him, I have to admit that he will be a good emperor, but this old woman is doing it for herself. Selfish desires broke everything, she told King Ning the truth, and made King Ning angry, so she planned everything and united everyone to design and kill Yuan Ran! She also killed so many people, so she hid in the Buddhist hall to worship Buddha every day with a guilty conscience Chanting scriptures, because she feels ashamed!"

The Queen Mother finally trembled all over, obviously she didn't want to hear about the events of that year. "I'm all for Da Zhou, whether I lied before or confessed afterwards, even if I'm sorry to that kid Yuan Ran, it's for Da Zhou's peace. You clearly know what the prophecy says, so you should know that what I did was right."

"Bullshit prophecy, did he say he would destroy the Yuan clan? Da Zhou? Then why didn't you kill Yuan Ran, who was still in his infancy, because you didn't believe in evil, right? If it wasn't for Yuan Ran He Xiandi destroyed your Xie family, and you suddenly changed your mind? You simply wanted to take revenge on Yuan Ran, and in order to avenge your Xie family, you told King Ning the truth and broke the balance!"

Speaking of it.

Everyone fell silent, except for Queen Cheng's heavy breathing.

Lin Qingyang's entire brain stopped spinning.

What did he just hear?

Is this the truth of the whole world?

It was predicted that the royal family did not believe it. In order to prevent King Ning from rebelling, the queen mother lied to King Ning that Yuan Ran was his son, and they lived in peace for more than ten years. Yuan Ran destroyed the Xie family for the sake of the world. Wang Zhenzhen, it was also the mother and son who used the prophecy as an excuse to block their own selfishness, saying that it was for Da Zhou, for the Yuan family, and it turned out to be for themselves.

A grandma, an uncle, trying so hard to plot against a junior, Yuan Ran was killed like this?

Lin Qingyang's eyes were firmly fixed on the queen mother, and a wave of resentment welled up in his heart. Yuan Ran was right when he dealt with the Xie family back then, but the queen mother didn't manage her natal family well, so why should she resent Yuan Ran!

Neither he nor Chu Lishu ever thought that the cause of this incident was actually related to the Empress Dowager.

At this time, the Queen Mother took a deep breath, but still said: "The Aijia is for Da Zhou, Yuan Ran is indeed more and more like him in the prophecy, Aijia has to be on guard. What's more, you think you can live in peace all the time Is it so naive, when King Ning found out that his nephew, he couldn't control it at all, but would be restrained instead, that was when King Ning broke the balance. , to help break it in advance."

Is this dead wrong?Seeing the Empress Dowager's appearance, Empress Cheng felt even more aggrieved. "you you……"

"So because of ghosts in my heart, I stay with the Buddha statue day and night." Lin Qingyang said suddenly.

The queen mother was taken aback, and looked at Lin Qingyang in surprise.

Lin Qingyang had a smile on his face, but his eyes were cold and heartless, "It turns out that this is the truth, which is really shocking. It turned out to be like this back then... But the Queen Mother kept saying that she was innocent, maybe for the so-called prophecy you said, it seems that Prince Yuan Ran should be sacrificed." Yes, but in fact it was you who killed a sage crown prince praised by everyone in the world, and you were the ones who caused the battle between Tianheng Kingdom and the Great Zhou Dynasty, the 20 soldiers on the border, the millions of innocent people in the three cities, so many dead souls... ..."

Lin Qingyang looked at the gradually pale face of the queen mother, looked up and turned to the huge Buddha statue behind him, and said, "Can these Buddha statues hold up?"

The queen mother almost lost her footing because of Lin Qingyang's words. She spent most of her time on this every day, hoping that her piety could wash away her sins, but she also knew that it would take several lifetimes of piety Neither can make up for it.She didn't want to think that it was all her fault, she would rather believe that she was carrying this sinful person for the sake of prophecy and righteousness...

"You...why do you want to speak for him?" The Queen Mother couldn't help asking.

Lin Qingyang sneered, "I was just standing in the perspective of the common people in the world. I accidentally heard the truth, so I just questioned it reasonably. Such a wise monarch will make Dazhou the strongest country. Unexpectedly... If you didn't do anything at the beginning, you don't know what the situation is like now, you can't be as temperamental as Prince Yuan Ran, and suddenly you will Kill your own family and country."

The Empress Dowager, Empress Cheng and Yuan Ye's faces were so ugly that they almost froze. What they couldn't hear the most was what Lin Qingyang said now, which was to prove in reverse how wrong they were.

Jing Rouyin broke down suddenly and shouted: "It's you...so it was you who did everything, you harmed Yuan Ran, and my life was also indirectly ruined by you!"

Faced with such accusations, several people's faces were even more distorted.

Lin Qingyang also looked at them coldly, with only endless distress for Chu Lishu in his heart.These people are not worthy of being Chu Lishu's relatives, they are not worthy!

"It's really unexpected, and it's really surprising." Xu Bin who was next to him suddenly said, "But it seems that this is not the time to talk about it now. There are fires outside. Are we getting more and more dangerous?"

In this way, no matter how heavy the topic is, no matter how much mutual complaints are made, it is meaningless, after all, life is the most important thing.

Empress Cheng and Yuan Ye looked at each other, and Yuan Ye hurriedly said angrily to the Queen Mother: "Grandmother, if we don't think about it, we are going to die, and the Emperor might not care about us!"

The Queen Mother was about to speak when Xu Cong suddenly said, "The Queen Mother has already said that the golden hairpin is not here, but the emperor's side. Unless you sneak into the Emperor's Qinzheng Palace and steal the gold hairpin, you will fight against us here It doesn't make sense either."

Empress Cheng and Yuan Ye suddenly seemed to be reminded, they turned around immediately and left with their four guards, dragged away the screaming Jing Rouyin, and stopped entangled with them.

At this time, the Queen Mother had already looked at Xu Bin, and Xu Bin was about to speak with a smile.

The guards around the Queen Mother moved, but Xu Bin's guards were more agile, and the two sides immediately confronted each other.

"Queen, you are..."

"Okay, Concubine Xu, the Ai family underestimated you, why did you fool them to find the emperor, what role did you play in the whole thing?!"

"I think it's probably... the role of the poisonous snake." Lin Qingyang said suddenly, taking advantage of the confrontation between the guards on both sides, he immediately strangled Concubine Xu's neck with his arms, and then pointed it with a dagger, in such an absolutely hostile posture , even if the other party is a top expert, he will not save someone faster than Lin Qingyang.