Sun An and Shi Song said goodbye and left. Su Yuanjing took the memorial and the scroll to the palace.

Huizong was in a very good mood today. He finished painting the concubines and asked the imperial kitchen to prepare a table of dishes. He drank wine and composed poems with several concubines.

When Su Yuanjing entered the palace, he was exchanging poems with the concubines.

"Your Majesty, Lieutenant Su Yuan Jingsu is here." The chamberlain reported.

Huizong picked up his wine glass and was about to drink when he heard Su Yuanjing coming and asked, "Did he say anything?"

"He said that the Forbidden Army had some very important things that required His Majesty's instructions. In addition, he also said that he had obtained a famous painting and wanted to present it to Your Majesty," the chamberlain said.

When Huizong heard about the famous painting, he immediately became interested and said with a smile: "It's rare that Su Yuanjing gives me calligraphy and painting. I would like to take a closer look at what kind of famous painting it is. My beloved concubines will drink first, and I will come as soon as I go."

"Yes." Li Shishi and others stood up and responded.

Huizong led his people to the Wende Hall. Su Yuanjing hurriedly stepped forward to pay homage and said: "Your Majesty, Su Yuanjing, please see me."

"Su Qing is in peace."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Huizong walked to the dragon chair and sat down, and asked happily: "What kind of good painting has Su Qing got for me? Please show it to me quickly."

Su Yuanjing smiled and said: "Your Majesty, please don't be impatient. You should read the memorial first, and then take your time to look at the paintings."

Huizong thought for a while, and it made sense, and said: "Then please present your memorial quickly."

Su Yuanjing took out the memorial, and Wu Chenghai took it back and handed it to Huizong. Huizong took it, opened it and read it carefully. Not only did the smile on his face slowly disappear, but there was also a look of anger.

However, he did not have an attack in the end. He slightly adjusted and controlled his emotions, gently closed the memorial, and said: "Let's do these things according to your wishes. I agree."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Su Yuanjing was really afraid that Huizong would not be able to control his outburst just now. Now that he saw that he could adjust so quickly and said this to him calmly, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, the painting is here, please take a look at it." Su Yuanjing raised the scroll of painting with both hands.

Wu Chenghai handed the painting to Huizong. Huizong took it, opened it slightly, looked at it, rolled it up and said, "I am going to accompany my beloved concubines to read poems now. I will look at it carefully after I return to the palace."

"yes."

"Do you have anything else to do?" Huizong asked.

Su Yuanjing said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there is no more."

Huizong stood up and said, "In that case, you should go back first."

"I excuse myself." Su Yuanjing bowed and walked out.

Huizong took Wu Chenghai to the concubines. When he was about to arrive, he called Wu Chenghai over and gave him some instructions in a low voice. The expression on Wu Chenghai's face changed instantly, but he immediately returned to normal.

"Do you understand?" Huizong asked after finishing his instructions.

"My slave, I understand." Wu Chenghai responded.

Huizong said: "Then go and lock the painting in my painting cabinet first."

"yes."

Huizong took the other servants back to the concubines, while Wu Chenghai hurriedly took the scroll and left.

About half an hour later, Wu Chenghai came back with a snack box in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, these are the pastries made by the imperial kitchen according to your instructions."

Huizong smiled and said: "Then take it out quickly and let all your concubines taste it together."

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Wu Chenghai opened the pastry box and took out a plate of novel pastries. When Li Shishi and others took a look, they found that they were made according to a flower-and-bird painting painted by Huizong. Every flower and bird was vividly painted, and it looked very special.

cute.

"It's so beautiful." Several concubines gathered together and whispered.

Huizong smiled and said, "Everyone ate so much greasy food and drank so much wine just now. Let's eat some cakes to relieve ourselves."

Master Li said: "Your Majesty, these pastries are so beautiful that we can't bear to eat them."

"Yes, it would be a pity to eat such a beautiful painting." Concubine Liu also said.

Huizong smiled and said: "The cakes are meant to be eaten after they are made. No matter how beautiful the paintings on them are, they will be spoiled in a few days, so everyone should eat them fresh while they are freshly made. If you like the paintings on them, please come back and give me some

Each of you can draw a few pictures and let you take them back and hang them on the wall to enjoy them."

"I thank you, Your Majesty." Li Shishi and other concubines stood up and thanked him.

Huizong smiled and said, "We are all members of our own family. Our beloved concubines don't need to be seen outside like this. Come on, come on. Let's sit down and eat cakes."

Li Shishi and others sat down, and Huizong asked someone to bring a pastry knife, cut the pastries according to the number of heads, and each person took a piece to eat.

Huizong stayed with the concubines until it was completely dark, and then they went back to his palace and said to Wu Chenghai: "I drank too much wine today and got a little drunk. Go get me a cup of sobering tea."

"Xiao Cheng, Your Majesty wants to drink tea, go and make it quickly." Wu Chenghai immediately said to a young chamberlain.

After a while, Xiao Cheng was carrying tea and was about to enter the palace. Suddenly he saw a dark figure appearing on the opposite side.

The man in black with the knife.

Xiao Cheng was so frightened that he almost lost his soul. The tea he was holding fell to the ground with a bang, and then he screamed: "There are assassins, there are assassins..."

Seeing that he was exposed, the man in black jumped into the palace. Wu Chenghai hurriedly stepped in front of Huizong and shouted: "There is an assassin, hurry up and protect him..."

Just as the assassin was about to step forward, he saw a group of royal guards rushing in from outside the courtyard. The man in black hurriedly wanted to retreat, but happened to bump into those royal guards. The two sides fought for several rounds, and the man in black was defeated.

There were several royal guards, but because there were too many royal guards, the man in black was outnumbered, and the knife in his hand was knocked out.

Then the man in black ran to the left window, broke it and jumped out.

"Your Majesty, I have been waiting for help for a long time. Please forgive me." The imperial guards knelt down to apologize to Huizong.

Huizong said with a livid face: "Hurry up and arrest that assassin. We must not let him escape."

"yes."

The royal guards chased him out, and soon the sound of arresting the assassin could be heard throughout the palace.

"Wu Chenghai, notify the guards to come to my palace to protect me." Huizong said.

"yes."

Wu Chenghai personally went to notify the guards. Soon 20,000 guards arrived at Huizong's palace and surrounded the palace three floors inside and three floors outside. Not even a bird could fly in.

"Give Sun An an order to quickly bring all the escort troops to blockade the palace and capture the assassin." Huizong then issued an order.

"According to the order." A chamberlain followed the order and left.

Huizong waited for a while and then issued another decree: "Quickly announce that all civil and military officials will come to see you."

"As commanded."

The edict quickly conveyed the edict to each of the four

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Officials above grade.

"What, an assassin entered the palace to assassinate the emperor!"

When Cai Jing received the order, everyone was shocked, because they were preparing to take action at night, and an assassin entered the palace to assassinate him. This was such a coincidence.

"Father, are there really assassins trying to assassinate the emperor?" Cai Jing asked the chamberlain who delivered the order.

The chamberlain who came to convey the order to him happened to be one of his informants in the palace. He was serving Huizong when the incident occurred, so he witnessed the whole process with his own eyes and said: "It's absolutely true, our family was at the scene at that time.

The assassin rushed into the palace with a knife. Fortunately, the royal guard came in in time, otherwise His Majesty would have been killed, which scares our family to this day."

Cai Jing saw that the servant's expression didn't look like he was lying, so Zhu Ye believed what he said and said, "My father-in-law, please go back to the palace first. I will enter the palace after I change into court clothes."

"Then let's say goodbye first."

The chamberlain bowed to Cai Jing, turned around and left.

Then Cai Jing immediately sent someone to notify Tong Guan and Gao Qiu, asking them to tell those people that tonight's operation was canceled again.

Cai Jing asked people to bring the court clothes and put them on. At this time, Cai You came in from outside and asked: "Father, I heard that someone entered the palace to assassinate Your Majesty. Is it true?"

Cai Jing nodded and said, "I have asked insiders in the palace and it is true."

"Then what we will do tonight..."

"Cancel."

Cai Jing said: "Your Majesty has transferred 20,000 guards from the palace to his palace, and also asked Sun An to take the remaining guards to seal the palace to catch the assassins. Think about it, a total of 80, 90,000 guards are there.

If we are protected, we have no chance of success at all. If we take any further action, we will die."

Cai You stamped his foot in annoyance and said through gritted teeth: "Who is it? He didn't assassinate sooner or later, but he chose tonight to assassinate and ruined our big event. If I know who he is, he will definitely not do it."

I will let him go."

Cai Jing said while arranging his official uniform: "It's useless to talk about it now. It's better to tell Duke Wu quickly and tell him not to prepare anymore. We'll talk about it later when we have the opportunity."

Although Cai You was very unwilling to do so, he had no choice but to nod and leave.

Cai Jing arrived at the entrance of the palace in a carriage. When he got off the carriage, he saw that almost all the ministers had arrived, and they were all standing at the entrance of the palace waiting for him. He walked over and greeted everyone, and then entered the palace together.
To be continued...