Unlimited employment

Chapter 26 [The Queen Mother sleeps with you? ]

The watery moonlight shone on the soldiers outside the house, casting distorted shadows on the windows, making them look like demons.

Empress Dowager Yang sat quietly in the unlit room, her eyes bright and without a trace of sleepiness.

Come to think of it, her son's life or death is unknown now, and she is forced to go deep into the tiger's den and do the same thing as Gai Nie and Jing Ke. How can she sleep well?
She frowned slightly, pondering over and over again in her mind the martial arts style of Zhu Chongwu that Zhang Shixin had told her last night.

He also recalled the entire assassination plan over and over again: how many people were involved, how these people would coordinate with each other to kill, and how they would quickly escape afterwards...

Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, it was midnight.

Suddenly, a series of faint footsteps were heard outside the yard.

Empress Dowager Yang, feeling guilty, turned her head to look at the door, and saw six maids in palace dresses pushing the door open and entering. They walked slowly to her and knelt down.

"The King of Wu has summoned you. Please, Queen Dowager, quickly bathe and change your clothes before entering the palace to see him."

Offering merit is not like sleeping with the emperor, so why do you need to bathe and change clothes?
Empress Dowager Yang was confused, but was still surrounded by palace maids and taken to the inner room separated by a screen. She was soaked in the bathtub and allowed to be scrubbed by them.

"There's a change of plan. That bastard Zhu Chongwu is very impatient. He wants to summon you to his bed tonight in the name of showing off your merits."

A faint sound like the flapping of mosquito wings came to her ears, which made Empress Dowager Yang alert.

The voice is very familiar, it's Zhang Shixin's.

She tilted her head slightly and confirmed that the person talking to her was the palace maid who was rubbing her back.

Obviously, this is Zhang Shixin's new image transformed by the Wuxiang magic skill.

Empress Dowager Yang moved her lips slightly, and also used her internal energy to transmit her voice.

"With Zhu Chongwu's martial arts skills, if I were the only one entering the palace, I'd probably just have to kneel down and politely accept his orders."

"Don't worry, sister. Since Zhu Chongwu summoned you in advance, our assassination will naturally be launched in advance.

You will always be my, Zhang Shixin's, woman, and I will never let this thief succeed.

Sister, look at the palace maid scattering flower petals on your left. This person is the one I mentioned before, Subuda Borjigin, the daughter of King Fenyang of Daqian.

This person's martial arts skills are not inferior to mine. We will both disguise ourselves as maids and accompany you to the Wu Palace to meet Zhu Chongwu."

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Yang glanced to the left and saw a girl with bright eyes looking at her.

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

Empress Dowager Yang was not surprised that someone from the imperial court was involved in the assassination.

A few years ago, Zhang Shicheng had a great battle with Fang Guozhen in the south. In that battle, his army was defeated. Finally, he had no choice but to surrender to the imperial court. He transformed himself from a rebel to the Grand Marshal of the current dynasty, and only then was he able to barely retain his current territory and strength.

Although he was a warlord who did not obey the court's discipline, he was indeed in the same group as Daqian. It was normal for him to cooperate with the court when he wanted to assassinate King Wu.

In my ears, Zhang Shixin's voice continued.

"According to the original plan, the deputy commander of the imperial guards guarding the south gate of King Wu's palace was a hidden pawn planted by the court in the early years. He would transfer the guards on a section of the palace wall and allow our assassins to climb the wall and enter the palace.

While you are demonstrating the mysteries of the nine crystal statues to Zhu Chongwu and confusing his mind, we will gather the strength of dozens of experts and kill this traitor who is causing chaos in the world."

After all, Daqian had ruled the world for nearly a hundred years, so it was not difficult to infiltrate an anti-king force that had only been established for more than ten years.

This is a low-level martial arts world, and human power will always be limited.

No matter how deep his inner strength is or how superb his killing skills are, dozens of masters attacking him together can kill any peerless master.

Therefore, the probability of success of this assassination plan is not low.

After conferring with her allies, Empress Dowager Yang regained her composure and allowed the maids to scrub her thoroughly, scrubbing every wrinkle. A moment later, they dried her, wrapped her in rich clothing, and ushered her into a sedan chair carried by eunuchs. They trotted after her, heading straight for the King of Wu's palace.

Behind them, there were nine more sedan chairs like this, carrying nine crystal statues engraved with the "Wisdom Sutra of the Origin of All Things".

When they arrived at the palace gate, there were several elderly maids waiting there. They searched Empress Dowager Yang, the palace maids, and the eunuchs one by one before opening the palace gate and letting them in.

The King of Wu's Palace was newly built this year. It is not large in scale, but the palace walls are towering, and the imperial guards standing on the walls are as fierce as wolves and tigers.

Empress Dowager Yang, who was carried in the sedan chair, did not feel it deeply, but Zhang Shixin and Subuda, who were walking in the corridor, felt an indescribable sense of depression in their hearts.

But the assassination has come to this point, there is no reason to retreat.

I could only calm myself down and continue to follow the team until we arrived at the entrance of an underground palace.

"Empress Dowager Yang is here to see you."

Following a loud shout from the eunuch, the maids stayed where they were, and only ten sedan chairs were carried into the hall.

Zhang Shixin and Subuda looked at each other and decided to keep their troops in place for the time being.

It will take some time for their large group of people to sneak into the palace, so all they have to do now is wait.

But this also made Zhang Shixin suffer. When he thought that his beloved woman was about to fall into the arms of his enemy, his heart ached as if it were bleeding.

……

call--

As soon as Empress Dowager Yang entered the underground palace in her sedan chair, a gust of hot wind blew towards her, rolling up the curtain of the sedan chair and rushing out of the entrance of the underground palace.

The wind blew very strangely, and it stopped suddenly after just a gust of wind.

Soon afterwards, a cold wind blew in from the entrance of the underground palace behind and rushed into the empty underground palace.

The sedan chair moved like this for a while, until Empress Dowager Yang began to breathe unconsciously in rhythm with the strong wind, and she was almost breathless because of it, then she suddenly realized.

The rhythm of the strong wind in this underground palace is a bit like the long inhalation and exhalation of an internal martial arts master.

The moment this idea came into her mind, she subconsciously felt it was ridiculous.

If there really is someone in the world who can create a strong wind by breathing, how powerful must his martial arts skills be?

But then, an unprecedented sense of fear rose in her heart.

But if it really exists, then this person's martial arts skills must be as good as those of a god!
Empress Dowager Yang looked forward along the door curtain that was lifted by the wind, and vaguely saw a flickering fire burning deep in the underground palace.

The fire seemed to still be steaming.

As the sedan continued to move forward, the air began to become hot, as if approaching a hot furnace.

A certain guess that emerged from the bottom of her heart made her mouth dry in an instant, and she subconsciously wanted to escape from here.

But it was too late.

In Empress Dowager Yang's perception, the four strong eunuchs who were carrying her sedan chair suddenly showed their profound internal strength at this moment. Their feet were like the wind, and they rushed rapidly into the depths of the underground palace.

It’s over.

These eunuchs' martial arts skills are no less than mine, and there's no way they can escape...

　Thanks to Qiong Zhu for the 200 starting coins reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)