Jiao Luan

Chapter 494 Assassin
"The national teacher said that I want to take my blood and compare it with the blood of King Nan'an to find out what the problem is?" Cheng Che asked after listening to the real person Qi Ling.

Master Qi Ling nodded: "Exactly. The situation between you and the King of Nan'an is very strange. It seems to be poisonous but not poisonous, and it seems to be sick but not sick. It is difficult to see through. Further examination is necessary."

Cheng Che lowered his eyes and asked in a long silence: "According to the national teacher, what is the most likely problem with me?"

Master Qiling hesitated: "Pindao has a vague guess, but he is not sure. My little friend may be under some kind of spell..."

"Curse?" A look of surprise flashed across Cheng Che's eyes.

"Little friend and King Nan'an have a lot of interactions, right?"

Cheng Che nodded slowly.

"That's why Pindao needs to further find out whether this situation between you two is born, or is something wrong at the same time."

"I don't know... how will my body be affected?"

"This needs further investigation."

Cheng Che cupped his hands, and said seriously: "Then please don't tell Wei Wei, the national teacher."

Master Qi Ling nodded and drifted away.

Cheng Che sat alone on the couch, thinking about the words of Master Qi Ling.

curse?
Could it be that his inexplicable vomiting of blood has something to do with it?

Hearing footsteps, Cheng Che came back to his senses: "Who?"

A voice came from outside the door: "Master Cheng, it's time to take medicine."

"Come in."

The door was pushed open, and the servant came in with a tray, and closed the door behind his back. On the tray was a blue and white porcelain Gu, which was exactly the medicine Cheng Che needed to drink three times a day.

The servant came over, put the tray on the table casually, held the porcelain Gu and held it in front of Cheng Che: "Master Cheng, please drink the medicine."

Cheng Che glanced at the boy, and said, "I don't think you were the one who delivered the medicine to me a few days ago."

"Uh, he's a little uncomfortable. The adults are afraid that he will give them a bad breath, so they sent the younger one here."

Cheng Che nodded, and reached out to take the porcelain gu.

At this moment, the accident happened suddenly.

The boy turned his hands over, and there was a dagger in his palm, and he raised his hand and stabbed at Cheng Che.

As if Cheng Che had expected it, he leaned to the side and kicked out.

It's a pity that he was recovering from a long injury, no matter how much effort he made, the boy staggered from the kick, his body just swayed, and he stabbed again while holding the dagger.

The assassin was close at hand, and there was no way to avoid it. Cheng Che stretched out his hands to hold the dagger, preventing the dagger from advancing further, and blood beads fell down the gap between his fingers in an instant.

"Who sent you here?"

The boy showed a ferocious expression: "Today, I came here to avenge Prince Mingtuo, die!"

"Xijiang people?" Cheng Che's eyes darkened.

The servant stopped talking and stabbed forward fiercely.

Beads of blood trickled down, instantly staining the bedding red.

After a moment of stalemate, Cheng Che seemed to be exhausted, and suddenly let go of his hand.

The dagger sank straight into his shoulder.

The boy was startled.

At this critical moment, Cheng Che raised his hand and slashed at the boy's neck with all his strength.

The boy's eyes turned black, he turned around and fell to the ground.

Only then did Cheng Che shout loudly: "Come here—"

At this time, the envoy of Zhao Yuan came over with a servant, and the two of them had already walked to the corridor, when they heard the movement, their expressions changed suddenly, and they rushed in, even faster than the guards in the courtyard.

Seeing the indoor scene clearly, Court Envoy Zhao was so terrified that he screamed at the top of his voice, "Come here, come here, there are assassins!"

The assassin was dizzy, and when he heard the voice, he moved his body and wanted to stand up.

The court envoy Zhao picked up the vase placed on the case table and smashed it.

The assassin was hit squarely, swayed and fell down again.

Envoy Zhao was overly frightened, holding up the half-remaining vase and continuing to smash it wildly.

Cheng Che propped up his body on the couch, his breath slightly fluttered: "Keep alive..."

The guards rushing in hurriedly pulled away the extraordinarily fierce envoy Zhao Yuan. One of them stepped forward to check and reported, "The assassin has committed suicide by taking poison."

As he spoke, he turned the felled assassin over, and sure enough, he saw that the man's face was black and blue, with a stream of black blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

Cheng Che frowned, and looked at Court Envoy Zhao: "Master Zhao, please report the assassins in the Imperial Medical Office to the Ministry of Punishment—"

Before he could finish speaking, Court Envoy Zhao rushed up, grabbed Cheng Che and panicked: "Master Cheng, where are you hurt? Are you okay?"

God just can't see him living a comfortable life for a few days. If this ancestor has something to do, look at the posture of the emperor and the queen mother, the heads of all the people in the imperial medical office must move!
Cheng Che took a breath when the wound was touched, and gritted his teeth, "It's just a hand and shoulder injury!"

After a lot of fuss to bandage the wound, the servant who came with Zhao Yuan said: "Master Cheng, our family is here to visit you at the order of the Queen Mother."

"Thank you, Queen Mother, for your kindness." Cheng Che smiled wearily.

The waiter was winking. Seeing this, he put down the large and small bags of supplements, and said a few words before leaving.

Inside the Cining Palace.

"What, when you went, there happened to be an assassin who wanted to assassinate Cheng Che?" The queen mother was shocked and angry when she heard the servant's reply, and ordered, "Please come here, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Changqing also received news of Cheng Che's assassination, and ordered the Jinlin Guards to rush to the Palace of Compassionate Peace while cooperating with the Ministry of Punishment to conduct a strict investigation.

"Mother-"

The Empress Dowager's face was full of clouds, and she said calmly: "It seems that the emperor also knows?"

"Yes." Emperor Changqing was ashamed.

The Queen Mother shook her head: "Your Majesty, over 20 years ago, the first prince was murdered by a treacherous concubine, and you can say that you didn't know about it. But now that child is recuperating in the Imperial Medical Office, he can sneak into the assassin. Fortunately, he is fine. If there's something good or bad—"

"It was my negligence. I have ordered Cheng Che to move into the palace immediately."

The queen mother frowned: "The name is not right, how can he move into the palace as a grown man?"

"Let him stay temporarily in the front hall first, and then make arrangements after performing the ceremony of recognizing relatives by dripping blood in front of the Taimiao."

"The night is long and there are many dreams, the emperor should hurry up."

"Qin Tian supervised the election of the day." Emperor Changqing felt a little scared.

The past few days have already considered that once Cheng Che formally recognizes his ancestors and returns to his clan, as his direct prince, he can only avoid hidden dangers by becoming a prince.

This is what he owes him as a father.If something happens again, it will really be irreparable.

Emperor Changqing made up his mind.As long as the blood test goes well, he doesn't care what the censors say, the crown prince is settled!

The fact that Cheng Che was assassinated in the imperial medical office and then moved to the imperial city for a temporary stay shocked many people's jaws, and the capital city was in constant turmoil that day.

Troublers appeared in many places in the capital. Dozens of bloody cases occurred in just one day. The soldiers and criminal departments of the five cities were extremely busy.

Amidst the panic among the high-ranking officials and the common people in the capital, a fire broke out in the prison of the Ministry of Justice, killing and injuring many prisoners, and the suspected traitor Wu Yuelou who was escorted back to Beijing from the west side died in this sudden fire. .

(End of this chapter)