Chapter 381 Assassination Successful

At the banquet, only Xu Yunze was still eating coconuts. He said with emotion while eating: "The Third Prince Consort is really talented. This coconut water is really sweet."

While he was eating a coconut, he saw Li Jinxi running back to the main hall in a hurry, muttering that the auspicious time was coming and asking the officials to get ready.

Seeing that the hour was approaching, Fu Ziyuan led his soldiers to check more strictly, and even began to check the location of the princes and nobles based on the number of people Li Jinxi had just checked, and observed their expressions.

But looking at them talking and laughing, no one seemed to be planning to assassinate him.

Xu Yinghong was also worried that assassins were mixed into the crowd, until Fu Ziyuan's men came forward and reported that they had checked several times and found nothing unusual. There were people stationed on the nearby palace walls, and there was no suspicious person ambushing.

Xu Yinghong just ordered the ceremony to begin.

Li Jinxi shouted loudly: "The auspicious time has come! The ceremony of sealing the queen has officially begun!"

After saying this, several palace officials carried the red sedan towards the main hall. There were guards on both sides of the road. Even Xu Yinghong thought that there was no way the assassin could suddenly jump in from outside.

After the sedan arrived in front of the steps, it stopped.

At this time, Concubine Liu's personal maid held Concubine Liu and led her forward carefully.

What Xu Yinghong didn't know was that Chen Pingyuan was not at the table at this moment. He did not take his seat, but was looking for someone where Concubine Liu was dressing and preparing.

At this time, a guard stopped Chen Pingyuan and said: "What are you doing?!"

Chen Pingyuan always felt that something was wrong, and asked anxiously: "Have you seen the Sixth Princess? She just went to Queen Liu's palace to reminisce about the past, and she hasn't come out yet!"

The guards suddenly became alert. Two of them stayed where they were, while the other two took Chen Pingyuan to the place where Concubine Liu had just dressed.

In front of the palace door where Concubine Liu was dressing up, there were two maids standing. Chen Pingyuan asked anxiously: "Have you seen the Sixth Princess?"

The palace maid replied: "The sixth princess came here earlier, and we went to prepare food for the empress. When we came back, the sixth princess had already left."

"Already gone? Did you see her leave?"

The maids looked at each other in confusion. At this moment, the guard suddenly realized that something was wrong and immediately shouted: "Search!"

The incident happened suddenly, and the two guards immediately broke open the door and left, followed by Chen Pingyuan.

But the house was empty, with no trace of Xu Jin'er at all.

The guards immediately thought of the underground pavilion, so they asked the palace maids to help them search together.

The two palace maids knew the location of the underground pavilion, but they felt baffled. After all, Concubine Liu had gone out safely just now, but it was these guards who were shocked.

But the palace maid still felt helpless, so she led them to the front of the underground pavilion and opened the mechanism.

At the moment when the underground pavilion mechanism was opened, the palace maid, who had not taken it seriously at first, was caught off guard and screamed out in fright from the person lying in the underground pavilion.

"ah!!!"

"There's someone inside!"

The guard took a closer look and found that the person lying there was none other than Concubine Liu Guifei!

"Oops! Hurry up and escort me! Escort me!"

The guards suddenly shouted and ran back.

At the same time, Xu Yunze, who was sitting on his seat eating a coconut, seemed to hear a faint scream in the distance.

But the moment he raised his head, Xu Yinghong had already held Concubine Liu's hand, and the distance between them was less than one foot.

At this time, Xu Yinghong seemed to hear the noisy sound behind him, but before he could react, suddenly!

"Pfft!——"

A dagger had already pierced Xu Yinghong's heart. Xu Yinghong didn't even have a chance to react and fell into a pool of blood.
Chapter completed!