amaotonovel Chapter 640 Caught?
Chapter 640 Caught?
Shang Hong saw that the person in front of him was not the one he arranged to hijack, but a real assassin. He immediately became alert and said in a cold voice: "Who are you? You dare to assassinate the queen, you want to die."
"It is precisely because we know that she is the queen that we have come to take her life. We only want Jiang Fenghua's life. If the others want to live, run away!"
Shang Hong felt that this was an insult to him. How could he, the commander of the Imperial Guards, be a coward? He said coldly, "Protect the Queen. Kill without mercy."
Everyone stood in front of Jiang Fenghua. Jiang Fenghua's original intention was to lure out Su Qingqing. Now it seemed that only a group of killers came. Su Qingqing was very cautious and would not show up easily.
Shang Hong and his men would definitely try their best to save her, and she had already instructed Aoxue and others to wait until Su Qingqing showed up before they would show up.
She had to think of a way now...
At this time, Shang Hong's men had already started fighting with the men in black. She spotted a small path and made a quick decision. She said to Shang Hong, "Sir Shang, I will retreat over there and hide. You go ahead and repel the enemy."
He had no time to think, as the enemy had already attacked. The queen did not know any martial arts, so she could hide, but if she wanted to run, she should run towards the main road in the direction of return.
Shang Hong didn't understand what she meant. Before leaving the palace, the emperor had told him to protect the queen's safety.
The direction Jiang Fenghua fled in was exactly what Aunt Zhao wanted, so she chased after her. Madam gave an order that if she could be assassinated, she should be killed, and it would be best if she could be captured alive and brought back.
Queen Jiang was just a powerless woman. Once she left the palace, there would be fewer people protecting her, so it would be easy to capture her.
Seeing that the masked woman leader was chasing after her, Jiang Fenghua had no choice but to take a gamble. If it was her own enemy, or even the one who wiped out her Manchu family, she would definitely want to capture her and take revenge herself.
Concubine Su fell from being a concubine to a fugitive, and all the Su family members were finally beheaded. This can be considered a deep blood feud!
Jiang Fenghua was running when she suddenly fell. Then Aunt Zhao's sword was pressed against her neck. She pretended to be scared and dared not run. "Who are you? I have no hatred against you in the past or in the present. You...why do you want to kill me?"
Zhao Jin used to be a capable general of the Su family. She was able to escape from the border and has been protecting Su Qingqing. She had also heard about the viciousness of Queen Jiang, but she didn't expect to see Queen Jiang's appearance today. She couldn't even believe what they said about Queen Jiang being a cruel and vicious queen.
Zhao Jin stood in front of her, her face covered with a veil, revealing only a pair of cold eyes, her gaze as cold as a venomous snake. The sword in her hand shone coldly in the cold wind, and her momentum was frightening. "Your Majesty, there is no need to struggle in vain! My wife will ask you to see her before she kills you."
"Who is your wife?" Jiang Fenghua shrank his neck: "She wants to kill me but she won't come out to see me. I don't know her at all."
A hint of doubt flashed in Zhao Jin's eyes. She didn't know who the lady was. It was her brother who kidnapped Madam Su and Princess Ling'er.
"You'll find out if you follow me..."
"Okay, I'll go with you, but don't kill me. Even if you want to kill me, let me know who wants to kill me, so that I can be clear-headed." She added, "To be honest, young lady, I broke my head a few days ago and lost my memory. Now I don't remember a lot of things. Why did your wife want to kill me?"
"Amnesia?" Zhao Jin was puzzled. She then remembered what her master had told her: Jiang Fenghua was cunning and scheming, so she shouldn't be fooled by her.
Aoxue and the others who were hiding in the dark were so nervous that they were sweating on their backs. They didn't dare to let the queen take risks, but before leaving the palace, the queen told them that no one was allowed to show up without her order.
Su Qingqing must have thought that she had someone protecting her, so they were not in a hurry to show up.
Most of Zhao Jin's people didn't escape, and only a few of his subordinates followed him. "Aunt Zhao."
Jiang Fenghua's hands were also tied, and she cried out in pain, "Be gentle, it hurts so much, your master wants to see me, but he doesn't even say he'll treat me better. How can I walk in such a cold day?"
"Don't worry, I won't let you go in vain."
Their people had already prepared a carriage, and soon Jiang Fenghua was pushed onto it.
She took a casual glance and saw that the carriage was heading towards the city. Could it be that Su Qingqing was hiding in the city?
But Xie Shang sent people to search everywhere, but there was no trace of Su Qingqing and her people. They were hiding everywhere like rats.
Shang Hong originally wanted to chase after him, but was suddenly stopped by a flying knife shot from the darkness.
He recognized this man; he was one of the royal guards led by Lin Feng. Now he finally understood why the queen was on the verge of death; she did it on purpose.
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On this side, Helan Yanran had already taken off her cloak and put on the black-clad clothes that had been prepared for her when she and Jiang Fenghua got on the carriage.
When the carriage passed through the small road, she was caught by men in black and hid. These people were all Shang Hong's men and their confidants.
They also agreed that the queen would jump out of the car at the right time and then create the illusion that she fell off a cliff and died.
From then on, Concubine Lan died on the edge of a cliff, and no one would really look for her anyway.
It was already dark when she saw Shang Hong. The first thing Helan Yanran asked was, "Is the Queen injured?"
"No, but she was captured by the real killer."
"What real killer? Didn't you arrange these people a long time ago?" Helan Yanran said anxiously, "She was captured because she was helping us."
"Don't worry, Lan'er. I think the queen knows her limits. When I was about to rescue her, I saw the guards around the emperor. They are the ones who are protecting the queen. I guess the emperor must have left the palace." Shang Hong said happily, "From today on, you will no longer be called Helan Yanran, but Lan'er, okay."
Helan Yanran felt depressed. The Queen was right. She didn't even have a surname anymore. But how could she still call him Helan Yanran? She nodded obediently, "Yes."
"We can be together forever. There will no longer be Concubine Lan in the world, only Lan'er," he said.
Helan Yanran asked, "Where will you send me?"
Shang Hong stared at her belly and said, "Just give birth to the baby first, and then I will find a chance to change your identity and take you back to Shang family."
She recalled the Queen's advice to her and asked again, "Will the Lord marry Lan'er?"
"Of course, I will. I will convince my father. They have been wanting to have a grandson for so many years, but since a few years ago... In short, you will definitely be my wife, Shang Hong. I will only love Lan'er in this life. I swear I will never marry another woman into the house."
Helan Yanran was also very happy to hear this. She didn't expect to escape from the palace so easily. The scene of entering the palace for the selection was still vivid in her mind. She thought that with the family background of Helan's family, she would at least be one of the favorite concubines. She didn't expect that the emperor was not what they saw.
She had a chance to see the emperor, but the emperor didn't like her and was just using her as a shield. She only had the chance because of the queen mother's intervention...