A tree of peach blossoms pressing the prime minister

Chapter 173 I will help you bear it
"Stop her!" Taohua decisively let Qingmo go, and Qingmo jumped, directly blocking Mei Zhaoxue's way.

With a jump in her heart, Mei Zhaoxue stiffened her neck and looked back slowly.

"Where are you going, my lady?" Taohua approached her with a smile, reached out and patted the ashes on her shoulders: "So anxious?"

Mei Zhaoxue lowered her eyes, adjusted her skirt, and said calmly: "I heard that there was a fight at the door, I just want to go and have a look."

"If I remember correctly." Taohua smiled: "Shouldn't the lady be grounded? There is a fight outside, what does it have to do with you?"

With a layer of sweat on her palms, Mei Zhaoxue took a half step back without saying a word.Jiang Taohua looked at her quietly, and said: "You don't think I can't get out of the palace, so you are rushing to open the gate of the Prime Minister's mansion right now?"

"..." Only then did she realize that something was wrong, Mei Zhaoxue frowned: "Madam didn't enter the palace?"

"What am I going to do in the palace?" Taohua raised her eyebrows: "It's so chaotic outside, who knows what will happen?"

"Madam's scheming is really deep." Mei Zhaoxue laughed, "In your hands, it's really hard to please."

"Thank you." Tao Hua looked at Qing Moss, who quickly tied up Mrs. Mei, and walked towards the door together.

As soon as we got near the main gate, we heard the sound of weapons colliding. It sounded like the battle was not small.The gate of the mansion was closed tightly, and Pang Zhanfei was leading a person to guard the gate, when he heard movement behind him, he turned his head and glanced.

"Ma'am!" Seeing the peach blossoms, Pang Zhanfei's expression tightened: "You'd better go back to the yard and don't come out!"

"If you let me hide, you have to know the situation before hiding." Jiang Taohua asked with a serious face: "Who is outside?"

Pang Zhanfei paused, hesitated for a while, then took Tao Hua aside and said, "It's the Imperial Forest Army. The Emperor is critically ill in the palace. The prime minister guards the palace and prevents anyone from entering. The Imperial Forest Army is loyal to protect the lord, so they want to attack the Prime Minister's Mansion to ensure the emperor's safety. "

However, Emperor Mingde could not be safe no matter what.

If this is the case, Taohua nodded, and pointed at Mei Zhaoxue who was tied behind her head: "This person is the ghost of Xiangfu, I will leave it to you to guard, and if necessary, I can take it as a hostage. In exchange for a little life."

Mei Zhaoxue was shocked: "Ma'am, this concubine is also a member of the Prime Minister's family, why do you need to avenge yourself?"

"I don't have any personal enmity with you." Turning to look at her, Tao Hua said, "It's just that your plan hit me and Shen Zai Ye's head, so no wonder I'm merciless."

"..." Mei Zhaoxue pursed her lips. She really wanted to argue that she didn't have one, but Jiang Taohua's eyes seemed to see through her, and any explanation was just a joke to her.

She was indeed plotting against them, but she didn't expect that even Jiang Taohua would not be able to pass this test.

The prince passed away, and her father saw through Shen Zaiye's true face, but he couldn't move him.Knowing that Shen Zaiye had the intention of treason, she thought at least to keep the emperor, otherwise it would be more difficult for the Mei family to survive, so she asked her to lure Jiang Taohua into the palace yesterday and give it to the emperor as a bargaining chip to stop Shen Zaiye's actions.

She thought that Jiang Taohua didn't know anything, at least she would go into the palace to have a look out of curiosity, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't be fooled and caught herself out.

She lost again, and she was still unwilling to lose.She is no worse than Jiang Taohua, but why can't she always win?
Pang Zhanfei nodded in agreement, and sent someone to tie Mrs. Mei to a tree beside her. Taohua ran back to Linwu Academy with moss on her back.

"Why did you hide here?" Gu Qingying was curiously asking: "Everyone hides separately, isn't the target smaller and harder to find?"

"Because this is Xiangye's yard." Stepping in from the door, Taohua walked towards the study without saying a word: "The situation is critical, you all come with me!"

Everyone was still a little hesitant at first, but there was a burst of cheers from soldiers outside the prime minister's mansion, as if the gate had been broken, and they rushed to the study in fright.

Squeezed by them, Taohua frowned, pushed aside the crowd and walked to the shelf in the study, stretched out her hand to feel around, and with a "click", she touched the switch of the darkroom door.

A group of women screamed one after another, Taohua scolded in a low voice: "Shut up!"

Gu Huairou covered her mouth and looked at the dark room in shock. When the light entered, the walls were covered with swords.

There is such a place in Xiangfu, they never knew it!
"Go in." Jiang Taohua listened to the movement outside, and said, "Qingmoss goes to the kitchen, bring more food and drink, hurry up."

"Yes!" Moss agreed, and flew away.Everyone scrambled to find a place in the darkroom, complaining that they couldn't see, and complained that it was too cold.

Tao Hua ran to the main house, carried the quilts that were sunk in the wild house together with the lanterns, took some candles and lampstands, went in to light up the dark room, arranged them for them to rest, and then squatted at the door Wait for Moss to come back.

Moss is also a strong one, carrying two baskets of things on her back, and Tao Hua clapped her hands when she saw it: "Amazing!"

"Master, go in quickly." Qing Moss's face was bloodless: "The door of the Prime Minister's Mansion is broken! Someone has already rushed in!"

"Okay." Taohua nodded, watched her enter the darkroom, then locked the gate of Linwu Academy, checked the yard, and made sure there were no clues, then followed into the darkroom and closed the mechanism.

"Don't be too loud, listen to me."

In the dark room, Taohua whispered: "Linwuyuan must have the strongest gate in the whole mansion. Even if they enter the Prime Minister's Mansion, it will take some effort to get in here, and there are still organs to protect us. The chamber of secrets has been discovered, and we are surrounded by swords, we will use them to resist whatever we say."

Most of the people in the darkroom are from aristocratic families, where have you seen such a battle?As soon as she heard that she still needed to use a sword, Gu Qingying's voice was full of tears: "We are a group of weak girls, how can we fight? What's going on outside, why..."

Before she finished speaking, Jiang Taohua immediately covered her mouth with her hand.

There was a sound of knocking on the door from outside, one after another, as if hitting people's hearts, everyone in the dark room shrank into a ball in fright.

Qingmoss sorted out the food and drink, picked a sword from the wall, and took a serious look at her master.

Taohua could understand her eyes, this girl would swear to protect her to the death.Squeezing her hand, she held her breath and continued to listen to the movement outside.

It may be that no one was found in the backyard, and the imperial guards who searched outside were all thinking and notifying each other: "There is no one here."

"Neither here."

Strange, where did people go?The commander of the Imperial Forest Army frowned and stood in front of the door of Linwu Academy, watching them smash the door for a while, and simply ordered: "Bring the ladder, just climb in and have a look, this door is too strong."

"Yes!"

Ten imperial guards climbed into the Linwu Academy and began to search around.

A few timid attendants were already crying, covering their mouths and not daring to make too much noise, but hearing people knocking on the walls around the darkroom, their hearts almost jumped out of their throats.

Taohua handed them the handkerchief, while thinking of a solution quickly, cold sweat dripped from her forehead.

She was not worried about being found by outsiders, but more worried that these fragile women would be exposed first if they couldn't bear it.After all, they are all spoiled and spoiled, and they have to drink medicine for a few days if they are shocked, let alone experience such a life-and-death moment.Probably because she usually looks very reliable, so because they believed in her, they all endured it for the time being.

But in her heart, there is actually no bottom line.

Any clever calculations are useless before absolute force. Once they are caught, no matter whether Shen Zaiye is threatened or not, they will definitely not be able to survive.

including yourself.

Gritting her teeth, Taohua grasped Moss's hand tightly, listening to the sound of rummaging outside, she almost stopped breathing.

The Imperial Forest Army couldn't find anyone everywhere, and just as they were wondering, they knocked down the vase on the bookshelf when they touched it. With a "pop", the vase shattered and a bottle of water spilled on the ground.

The pupils shrunk slightly, and Taohua gasped.

The water seeped through the gap under the darkroom door and flowed inside.As long as people outside see it, they must know that there is something strange here!

Gu Huairou also saw it, and couldn't help screaming out, Tao Hua quickly reached out to hug her, and comforted her softly: "Don't be afraid, nothing will happen, just don't panic!"

Kicking the fragments of the vase, the Royal Forest Army did not pay attention to the direction of the water flow, turned around and went out to report: "My lord, there is no one here!"

Everyone in the dark room breathed a sigh of relief, Nangong Qin's eyes turned red, and Gu Qingying bit the back of her hand and cried, her eyes rolling wildly.

"You're right to listen to me." Seeing that their expressions were not very good, Taohua smiled, and said calmly: "Going out now is a dead end, and we can live for a few days if we stay here and wait for Xiangye to come back to save us." Let's never give up."

"What if we are discovered?" Qin Huaiyu asked in a low voice.

"Then I will also stand in front of you." Taohua looked at them gently: "I am also the mistress of this Xiangfu after all, if the sky falls and I have no space to cover, I will also help you!"

Everyone felt warm in their hearts, and their flustered emotions eased a lot.Taohua tidied up the quilt and covered them, then looked at the food and water that Qingmoss brought, and after all, they should be able to last for a while.

"Miss Nangong, I want to apologize to you." Gu Qingying suddenly whispered: "I lied to you before. I said I would go forward and retreat with you, but I betrayed you at Mrs. Mei."

Nangongqin was taken aback for a moment, and gave her a surprised look.

"I want to live a good life." Gu Qingying bowed her head: "After finally becoming a lady, I naturally wanted to climb a big tree to live a better life, so I was fascinated by ghosts for a while... And my wife, I also betrayed myself."

what is this?Are people's words good when they are about to die?Tao Hua laughed, waved her hands and said, "I knew about it a long time ago, so you don't have to worry about it."

Anyway, she didn't suffer much.

With Gu Shi at the beginning, this group of women seems to have suddenly awakened, and they all began to criticize themselves.

(End of this chapter)