[R18] Dali Temple.Qing (Shuangjie solves the case 1v1) – “Dali Temple. Qing (Shuangjie solves the case 1v1)” Chapter 77 New Year’s Eve [English]

In the next few days, Su Moyi became really busy and never returned to the Prince’s Mansion.

After the conflict between Jinwu Guard and Dali Temple, Emperor Yonghui made fifty moves each and suspended Chen Yan and Su Moyi from their posts.

Although Su Moyi had told Lin Wanqing early in the morning that no matter what news came out of the court, she didn’t have to worry.

But in these blank days, she almost thought that Su Moyi was secretly imprisoned by Emperor Yonghui.

It was impossible for the rumors in the court to leak outside, and Lin Wanqing didn’t have the ability to ask anyone for information, so she could only keep an open mind and always pay attention to what was going on around her.

It snowed heavily this winter, and many roads around Shengjing were icy. Even the rivers were blocked by ice, making it difficult for boats to pass through.

But it was still business as usual in the city.The New Year is approaching, and there are scenes of joy and family reunion everywhere, with nothing out of the ordinary.

Three days ago, Emperor Yonghui invited the royal family members to Beijing on the pretext of a palace banquet on New Year’s Eve. A banquet will be held tonight at the Linde Hall beside Taiye Pool.

Perhaps because of the royal banquet, the court was particularly concerned about safety.In the evening, after the clan members entered the palace, a curfew was imposed in Shengjing City, and even the city gates were locked in advance.

Fortunately, there is no need to worry about food and drink in the Prince’s Mansion. As night falls, a sumptuous New Year’s Eve banquet is ready.

Lin Wanqing called Liang Weiping, Lai Luo and Ye Qing together.

Lai Luo and Liang Weiping were used to following Lin Wanqing, and had always regarded her as a friend. They didn’t think it was inappropriate to eat together.

But Ye Qing had been with Su Mo Yi for a long time, and regarded Lin Wanqing as his hostess, so he had to talk to her a lot before he persuaded her to sit down.

The dishes were all served, and the courtyard was filled with warmth and laughter.

Lai Luo was still an imperial convict, and she was shackled according to Su Moyi’s instructions, but this did not affect her mood at all to eat and drink well during the New Year.

After drinking a bottle of fine wine, she suddenly felt that she might consider joining the emperor. After all, she and Lin Wanqing were enjoying themselves, talking and laughing. It seemed that her life was quite nourishing, and she didn’t want to die so much.

Liang Weiping was greedy for drink, but he couldn’t bear the power of alcohol.After three cups, his face was already flushed, and he drunkenly asked Lin Wanqing to help him say good things to Mr. Su and transfer him to Dali Temple.

Lin Wanqing laughed and gave Ye Qing a bowl of wing soup.

Ye Qing was busy eating with his head down.

Turning over the New Year, thirteen years have passed since the Xiao family’s case.

Just like that year, there were sporadic snow falling outside the window, but in front of me was a completely different scene.

She suddenly felt very satisfied, turned her head, and her eyes fell on the swaying shadows of several people on Qian’s screen window, and she saw only a delicate and charming figure.

Lin Wanqing remembered that this was the first time in so many years that she had worn a new dress on New Year’s Eve.

Like when I was a kid.

Those years of wandering and panic are gone. Now she has a lamp when it gets dark, an umbrella when it rains, a few friends, and a few glasses of sake.

These are things I didn’t dare to hope for before.

His eyes hurriedly scanned the round table and landed on the empty seat – everything was fine tonight, except “he”.

“Hey…” She sighed moderately, stood up and opened the window.

“Bang!”

The sky exploded with a muffled sound, and suddenly there was a sudden light above the head, and thousands of trees and flowers were set alight.Like the rain from the stars blown down by the night wind, it hangs down in pitter-patter patterns, dragging out charming traces along the way.

“Set off fireworks!” Lai Luo came to the window excitedly, and the iron chain on his ankle was dragged and clattered.

Liang Weiping and Ye Qing also put down their bowls and came over, stretching their heads to look outside.

“Set off fireworks——”

The little maid in the unknown courtyard screamed excitedly, and for a moment everyone walked to the open space and looked up.

In the direction of Daming Palace, the sky has been dyed with colorful fireworks.Amid the light, shadow and loud noise, more and more voices could be heard faintly echoing.

Amidst the lush greenery, under the thick darkness of night, several crimson sky lanterns shined with orange light, swaying in the wind and snow, making them particularly conspicuous.

“This… sky lantern?” Ye Qing looked at it for a while and muttered something unintentionally.

“What?” Lin Wanqing was curious. She turned around and saw Ye Qing with a confused look on his face: “I remember that sky lanterns are never allowed to be released in Shengjing City.”

“Why not?”

“Because sky lanterns are used by the military to convey messages at night. If the people put out the lanterns at will, it may cause chaos…”

“Bang!!!”

There was a loud noise and the ground shook.

Ye Qing’s words were completely covered up, and the bowls and chopsticks on the table also shook. It was not at all like the explosion of fireworks.

Everyone was stunned and looked up at the sky – the fireworks feast in Shengjing City was still going on.

The laughter in the yard grew louder and louder. The voices and fireworks covered up the strangeness just now, as if everything was just an illusion.

Lin Wanqing felt strange, turned around, picked up the velvet cloak on the shelf, rushed out of the door, and ran towards the attic of the Prince’s Mansion, which was used for viewing.

The lights of thousands of houses in Shengjing City flickered like fireflies in the dark night, and the fireworks in the direction of Daming Palace were still gorgeous.

Lin Wanqing looked at it for a while and found nothing unusual.

“Did you hear wrong just now?” she said to herself, frowning in thought.

Ye Qing stood behind her and echoed after a moment: “I must have heard wrongly, fireworks explosions will not make such a big noise.”

“Bang!!!”

There was another loud noise, and Lin Wanqing felt that the floor beneath her feet was beating and creaking.

At this time, Lai Luo climbed up to the attic dragging the chain. She grabbed Ye Qing and said solemnly: “Give me the key! Quick!”

Ye Qing was stunned, seeing that Lai Luo was so panicked that he stopped moving for a moment.

“Ye Qing!” Lin Wanqing’s voice sounded from behind. She grabbed He’s sleeve with one hand, pointed in the direction of the Shengjing City Gate and said, “It’s explosives. The city gate seems to have been blown open.”

Ye Qing was stunned, stretched his arms and looked outside.

Amidst the debris of snow, the Shengjing city gate was suddenly blown open.The forbidden troops in the city were gathering from all over and rushing towards the city gate.

The sound of horse hooves and wind and snow mixed with the fireworks that continued to set off, creating huge waves in the dark night.

“How could it be possible…” Ye Qing couldn’t believe it. He didn’t care that Lai Luo had taken away the key from his waist. He just thought to himself, “This is impossible.”

The world was noisy, but Lin Wanqing managed to calm down and asked, “How many forbidden troops are there in Shengjing City?”

“Thirty thousand,” Ye Qing replied.

Lin Wanqing climbed up another floor and leaned out most of his body to look outside the city gate.

In the snow, she vaguely saw dense fires outside the city wall, but not all of them gathered at the place where the city gate was blown open.

She stepped back a little, allowing Ye Qing to look forward clearly, and then asked, “Look at the number of rebels. How many are there by visual inspection?”

“About ten thousand people.” Ye Qing said.

“Yeah,” Lin Wanqing nodded, “I think it’s about the same number.”

Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, “Let me just say that it is the middle of winter and the rivers are frozen. If the rebels attack the imperial city, it is impossible for a large-scale march to go unnoticed by the court. Now they only rely on 10,000 troops. Even if they have explosives, they are just overestimating their capabilities.”

However, Lin Wanqing’s brows furrowed even more tightly.

There are 30,000 forbidden troops in the imperial city, and it is impossible for the rebels not to know.However, there were only 10,000 troops attacking the city. This was obviously a moth flying into the flame and falling into a trap. It was really strange.

She was stunned for a moment as she watched the Imperial Guards rushing towards the city gate, only to hear another loud noise in her ears. This time, it came from the opposite direction of the city gate.

Several groups of people on the street hurriedly tightened their reins, were stunned, then turned their horses’ heads and ran in the other direction.

Then came the fourth and fifth explosions, each coming from a different place than the previous ones.

Lin Wanqing’s pupils trembled slightly.

Fishing in troubled waters.

Taking advantage of its chaos, it is weak and has no master.

Therefore, the rebels did not want to attack the city at all, but wanted to use this chaos to hold back the imperial guards guarding the imperial city.

Then their real goal may not be here at all, but…

Lin Wanqing’s breath tightened, and she felt sweat dripping down her back.She turned her head subconsciously, looking through the swaying wind and snow towards the Daming Palace at the end of her field of vision.

Taiye Pool, Linde Hall.

There are longing figures in the side hall.There are hundreds of twelve-branch bronze lamps in two rows on the left and right, illuminating the night like day.

The Qianniu Guards, wearing armor and holding sharp blades, stood on top of the main hall, surrounding the King of Liang who was at the bottom.

The dancing candlelight stretched the figures into long and dense shapes, like dark clouds when a mountain rain was about to come.

It was obviously a tense and anxious atmosphere, but it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.The cold wind roared by, and the long curtains flew, making bursts of air noise.

After a long time, King Liang raised his head, glanced coldly at the long purple figure standing next to Emperor Yong Hui, and let out a very light sneer between his breaths.

Previously, he sent someone to send a message to Wei Shu, asking her to poison Emperor Yonghui according to his plan.

The emperor was in his prime and in good health. If he died of a sudden illness, there would be great shock both inside and outside the court.

And he has always trusted Su Moyi, and will definitely entrust the young prince and the country to him when he is about to die.In this way, he just took advantage of this opportunity to blame Su Moyi, and went to Beijing to quell the chaos under the banner of Qingjun.

Everything went smoothly.

Wei Shu sent a message saying that the emperor was poisoned, and people came to the Imperial Hospital for consultation every day.Moreover, at the court meeting, some bureaucrats saw Emperor Yong Hui’s face pale, coughing up blood and fainting.

However, there has been no official news from North Korea and China.

The emperor seemed to have blocked the news from the outside world. He learned these details from the secret letters of Wei Shu and his companions.

This actually made him more confident that his plan had been successful.Emperor Yonghui was worried that the vassal king would take the opportunity to cause trouble, so he deliberately concealed it.

Therefore, the emperor’s visit to Beijing this time was probably in the name of a “family banquet”, but in fact he was trying to control the royal family and several vassal princes in order to achieve a smooth change of throne.

But King Liang had not never thought that all this might be a trap set by Emperor Yonghui.

But the door to life has been blocked, and now the only way out, even if there is only one chance in ten thousand, he has to make a desperate move.

The fireworks finally ended, and the noise just now stopped abruptly, leaving only the whistling of the wind in my ears.

Prince Liang lowered his head, his shoulders and back shaking slightly under the scorching light of the fire. His sudden laughter echoed in the silent hall, looking cold and biting.

Seeing this, Su Moyi frowned slightly.

“Prince Liang,” he lowered his eyes and looked down at the man in a black python robe, and asked in a deep voice, “You privately mined official mines, secretly manufactured weapons, and secretly raised private soldiers with the intention of treason. Do you admit these crimes?”

After the laughter stopped, King Liang raised his head and looked at he. After a moment, he said calmly: “I admit it.”

Su Moyi was slightly surprised by he’s attitude. She felt uneasy in her heart, and secretly clenched her hands into fists under her wide sleeves.He said in a cold tone: “Conspiracy and treason should be punished. Can you obey the law?”

King Liang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, “I plead guilty, but I may not be able to be punished, but let’s see what other methods Mr. Su has.”

As soon as the voice fell, a loud noise shook the hall.

The curtains and firelight shook suddenly, and there was a faint sound of tiles falling to the ground outside the hall.Several candles rolled down and went out quickly.

Emperor Yonghui immediately sat upright and looked at Su Moyi in surprise.

There were faint sounds of fighting and fighting in the distance in the night wind. It seemed that there were rebels hiding in the inner courtyard of the palace.

“Your Majesty,” King Liang stood under the stage, turned around and looked at Taiye Pond in the wind and snow outside the palace for a long time.

He said: “The Imperial City Imperial Army has probably been held back by my design. If something happens to me today, someone will immediately raze the Linde Palace to the ground.”

“It depends on whether the emperor wants to let me live, or whether he wants to be buried in my place.”

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