My old husband who can read minds

Chapter 356 Palace Change ()

In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Yong and Qianyuan, it was the eighteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and the wind was gentle and the sun was beautiful.

On this day, hundreds of officials and imperial troops gathered at the Xixiao Royal Temple of Heaven in Shengjing to witness the canonization and heaven-sacrifice ceremony of the new Prince of the East Palace.

The King of Wei was dressed in a black five-clawed gold silk python robe and a red gold glazed crown. He was riding in an eight-carriage sedan chariot. Under the escort of the imperial army, he slowly drove from a distance to the altar. He did not get off the sedan until he reached the heavenly steps of the altar. Walk up the stairs.

At three o'clock in the morning, the auspicious time has arrived.

The Grand Superintendent of the Qin Tian Jian began to burn incense and offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth, and read out the canonization edict of the East Palace in public. Under the altar, the ministers and imperial guards stood in rows, all with solemn expressions, as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

The grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was long and arduous, and more than half an hour had passed by the time the chief supervisor of the Qintian Supervisor finished the ceremony.

After the last sacrificial article was reduced to ashes in the bronze cauldron, it was finally the new prince's turn to come on stage and offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.

It was at this time that the previously clear and cloudless sky suddenly became a bit gloomy, and a few dark clouds drifting from nowhere happened to cover the altar.

Seeing this, the new prince's face darkened, and the expressions of the officials below also became unpredictable.

Everyone's heart was cast by an inexplicable shadow.

Qin He, who was closely guarding the crown prince's left head, silently grasped the handle of the knife at his waist.

Looking up, Master Chu, the commander of the Forbidden Army on the right, also made the same action as him.

The two looked at each other quickly, and both saw the solemn look in each other's eyes.

With the dull sound of a bull horn, the new prince's ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven officially began.

The prince was seen kneeling before the altar, holding three pillars of incense in his hand, and praying to heaven and earth with words in his mouth.

When he had just finished the blessing ceremony and stood up to insert the incense stick in his hand into the sacrificial tripod, he was suddenly shocked. Among the Qin Tianjian group who were originally accompanying the prince and responsible for directing the sacrifice to heaven, a middle-aged official in green suddenly stood up and pointed the small crossbow hidden in his sleeve at the prince's back, whistling. The sound that broke through the air brought the signal of death.

At the critical moment, Qin He had no time to stop the bow and arrow, so he had no choice but to throw the prince down on the spot and protect him tightly.

But the crossbow, which was obviously quenched with poison, barely missed his scalp and pierced directly into the body of a forbidden soldier behind the prince. The opponent died suddenly in just two or three breaths.

Danger after danger, not only Qin He broke out in a cold sweat, but the prince who was protected by him also felt his scalp was cold, and his breathing stopped for a few minutes in fear.

"There are assassins, please protect the prince."

In the midst of the chaos, the second person to come to his senses was Commander Chu. As he shouted loudly, the imperial guards and owl-clad guards who had been guarding the prince immediately swarmed up and surrounded him three levels inside and outside. It was surrounded and protected on three levels.

The rest of the Forbidden Army and Xiaoyi Guards gathered around the frightened officials to prevent any unexpected events.

The assassination official who was pushed to the ground by the imperial army had already bitten the poison in his mouth and committed suicide immediately after the failure. The prince's face was ashen with anger.

But before everyone could recover from the thrill just now, men in black swarmed out of nowhere and killed them like a tide, and the smell of blood quickly spread.

The opponent's main target was the prince. To the frightened civil and military officials who were running around, the man in black just occasionally removed a few people who were blocking the way, so the altar became a place of fighting for both sides.

The solemn and solemn jade floor was soon dyed blood red. Qin He and Commander Chu were always guarding the prince's side, one on the left and the other on the right.

A river of blood flowed above the altar, but under the altar there seemed to be a peaceful world.

The princes and princes who were hiding behind the officials and defenders secretly stared at the battle situation above the altar. They all had complicated expressions, and there was an indescribable heat in everyone's eyes.

At that time, the prince was in danger of being assassinated during the heaven-sacrifice ceremony, and an earth-shaking change was also taking place in the Jiaotai Hall in the palace, where Emperor Qianyuan rested.

(End of this chapter)