Chapter 164
In an instant, everyone in the room, from the emperor to the prince to the ministers, were drawn away from the fun of watching the battle.
Duan Fei reacted the fastest, but he was leading the Feilin Guards at the edge of the high platform, so he must have been a step too late to rush over.
On this side, some of the generals who moved well immediately fell to the ground. More than that, they did not have time to react at all.
A few moments later, cold arrows flew in from behind.
Xian Yang waved his sword to cut off a few arrows that were coming straight at him and the left and right King Qing and King Yun, while more arrows were shot from the side, heading straight for the Emperor.
Elder General Qi and the Duke of England were standing beside the Emperor, both of them were from the military and had quick reflexes, but they were unable to counterattack quickly due to their age.
Both old ministers made the same move, turning to protect the Emperor, leaving their backs to the arrows that came flying through them.
Zhou Xian Yang’s mind was buzzing, and he had no time to think, so he flew up and jumped on all three of them.
Several powerful forces rushed straight to his undershirt, causing him to pounce on all three elders at once.
“Protect the driver! Protect!” After reacting, the important ministers and nobles who were targeted by the cold weapons immediately shouted chaotically. The generals, with their weapons in hand, surrounded the center and stood in wait.
Sure enough, after a moment’s pause, another long arrow flew.
At this time, Duan Fei, Xiao Nan and Xiao Bei had already arrived.
Xiao Nan threw his long whip, and disarmed several long arrows. Xiao Bei grabbed an arrow with one hand and kicked it with his feet, stomping down the arrow feathers. Duan Fei even played a long sword in front of his body to make it impervious to the wind, cutting the long arrows into wood.
Under the protection of these three, even if there were any arrows that escaped the net, they were cut down by the rest of the military generals.
The first round of attack was unexpected, the second round was prepared, the third round has not yet arrived, the feather forest guards have already from the side guard formation, close in, in front of the crowd set up a formation, completely put the royal ministers, surrounded by a watertight.
In the air, the sound of wind and long arrows breaking through the air, difficult to easily distinguish, all people do not dare to take it lightly.
After waiting for a long time, the third round of attack was delayed.
Only then did Duan Fei give the order in a loud voice: “The Feather Guards on the stage stay put. Second team, get on the shield defense. Third team, guard the imports and exports to the death, don’t let a single person go. Fourth team, search the schoolyard immediately.”
Everyone’s heart came back from the line between life and death, jumping with nervous excitement in their chests.
The crowd slowly began to loosen.
Duan Fei immediately went to search for His Majesty, and when he saw King Yu, he broke out in a cold sweat.
He had four arrows sticking straight out of his back.
“Master!” Xiao Nan and Xiao Bei had already rushed over and went to lift his body.
Duan Fei rushed to help up His Majesty. He was protected by Old General Qi and the Duke of England, and he didn’t look injured.
But his face was extremely pale.
Originally, this was just a normal reaction to a sudden assassination, but when he saw that King Yu was being lifted away by his personal entourage from the backs of the British Duke and Old General Qi, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, “Xian Yang!”
Only then did the Duke of England and Old General Qi look back, only to see four arrow feathers standing tall from behind King Yu. There was one that ran through to his chest, and on the arrowhead, stained red was his flesh and blood.
“Xian Yang!”
Three people, three calls, one shouting for his son, one shouting for his son-in-law, and one shouting for his beloved disciple, all with the same heartbreaking feeling.
“Fourth brother!” King Yun was close by and immediately pounced over, helping to hold his torso for fear that he would be subjected to further bumps.
All the people present were in a state of panic.
“Where is the Imperial Doctor?” King Qing shouted, “Where is the Imperial Doctor!”
Rong Xiangmian accompanied Imperial Concubine Hui in the palace for the midday meal and then accompanied her to Yonghua Palace to talk.
The Imperial Concubine refused to show her favor during the sensitive period of the courtiers and harem concubines, and the only one who could go at any time was Hui Guifei, who had always been a good friend.
Now that the weather is still cool, a few people hiding in the palace gossiping, a moment to talk about the eldest princess’s grandchild is about to be born.
The two ladies looked at each other, did not say anything, but the meaning she felt.
The two sisters have feet to finish the marriage, now the sister’s child is about to be born, she has no news.
Hui noble consort has some fear: “I see that you and Yu Wang are quite good physically, is it that the mouth of the medicine …… that Empress Zhang gave you at the beginning?”
Imperial Noble Consort angrily said, “If it is really because of this harm, she really deserves to die.”
Rong Xiang saw that it was not good to talk in detail, only to comfort the two elders: “The Imperial Doctor has already said that there is no serious harm, ladies don’t be anxious. Anyway, our days are still long.”
Hui Guifei worried: “your days are still long, I am afraid that the empress dowager can not wait. Since the beginning of spring this year, the empress dowager’s body has not been very good, if she wants to see Xian Yang’s heir earlier, then she will appoint two people to the royal family as side consorts, and if she has a child before you, it will be difficult to deal with.”
Rong Xiangmian said, “It won’t happen. King Yu promised me that I am the only one in the royal household.”
“Alas, silly child, can he still disobey the Empress Dowager?”
Rong Xiangmian obediently listened to the lesson, at this time an inner official hurriedly came to report, “Your Highness, something big is wrong.”
“What’s wrong? So panicked.”
“I just went to the Imperial Hospital to get some medicine, and the place was in chaos. It said that the feather forest guards returned to the palace to report, so that the Imperial Hospital prepared the medicinal tools and went to wait in Chonghua Hall. His Majesty then imperialized back to the palace.”
“What happened to His Majesty?!” The two empresses stood up in shock.
The inner official busily said, “Your Majesty is fine, it’s His Highness Yu Wang, the feather guards said that he has been hit by an arrow in his chest and is in critical condition. The accompanying eunuchs did not dare to pull out the arrow in the martial arts arena, so they could only move His Highness back to the palace for treatment.”
Hearing this, Rong Xiangmian immediately drew his feet and ran wildly out of Yonghua Palace.
Her head full of beads and jade hairpin clanking, □□□ Xiangmian couldn’t hear anything, she could only hear her own gasping for breath.
Her hunch had come true, something had happened to Zhou Xian Yang.
Why did he get hit by an arrow even though he was wearing soft gold armor? Why?
She ran to the Chong Hua Temple just as the imperial chariot arrived.
Zhou Xianyang was carried down from the Emperor’s carriage by Duanfei and King Qing and King Yun.
Rong Xiang Xiang saw immediately crowded over to see how he was doing, when the British Duke dismounted and stopped her: “Wang Fei, don’t delay the Imperial Doctor, Yu Wang is lucky, will surely turn good luck into good.”
The people from the Imperial Hospital have already prepared a stretcher here, carrying Zhou Xian Yang up to the main hall and into the side hall of the Chong Hua Hall.
When Rong Xiangyang saw the Emperor, she immediately requested to enter the Chonghua Hall to visit.
The emperor saw her running in the spring full of sweat, cloud temples scattered, hairpin ring skewed, earrings are off a, would like to let her to organize grooming, but also want to think that the situation of Xian Yang is critical, there is an eventuality …… Wangfei is not in front of the followers does not seem to be appropriate, and changed his mind: “with me over. ”
Rong Xiangxian see hate can fly up, but at the moment can only follow in the imperial carriage, slowly ascending the steps of the hall.
In the courtyard of the Chonghua Temple, the smell of medicine, the Imperial Hospital early in this furnace boiled medicine.
Xiangmian followed into the hall, went to the inner room, only to see the bed was surrounded by eunuchs.
“Cut off all the upper garment.”
“Don’t touch the arrowhead.”
“Put on the hemostatic powder.”
“Is the medicine ready?”
“The pulse is getting weaker and weaker, we need to pull out the arrow as soon as possible!”
The eunuchs spoke to each other, and when His Majesty came in, they immediately asked for instructions, “Your Majesty, King Yu’s injury is close to his heart. If the arrow is pulled out, the blood loss will be difficult to suppress, and may accelerate your highness’ injuries …… If not, the situation will also get worse. The micro minister does not dare to make unauthorized decisions, I beg Your Majesty’s holy judgment.”
Rong Xiangmian followed the Emperor to the bed, looking at Zhou Xian Yang’s blurred consciousness, his look of pain and suffering, his heart ached beyond words.
The Emperor stood in front of the bed, hesitating to make a decision. He was shocked by the injuries on Xian Yang’s body. Last year, at Yonghua Palace, he had seen the shocking scars on Yang’s arms. At that time, he thought that this was the only scar that Xian Yang had.
Now, his blouse was cut open. Who would have thought that the child he had raised in the Kun Ning Palace with gold and honor, and who had been so beautifully sculpted, would now look like this?
At the moment, on Xian Yang’s body, which was covered in old wounds and new ones, an arrowhead stuck out from above his heart, piercing and appalling. King Yun and the other princes stood behind him, shocked, anxious but unable to do much to help.
King Qi was young and spirited, and couldn’t help but speak out to remind him, “We can’t delay any longer, let’s give it a shot!”
The emperor knew that the doctor was afraid to take the blame, and immediately said, “I want you to cure Xian Yang and make him look as good as he did before! If you can’t, you’ll have to bury him with your sons!”
Several eunuchs were immediately energized upon hearing this.
A young eunuch doctor brought the medicine to the bedside and said, “This Chong Yuan Tang is ready, using the soup to hang and pull out the arrow is more certain.”
Zhou Xian Yang was lying down, his consciousness was weak, the medicine the eunuch fed him did not even go down his throat, he vomited it all out.
There was a bunch of people crowded in front of the bed, and it was a mess. Rong Xiangxian was afraid of interfering with the Imperial Doctor’s work, so he immediately took off his shoes, climbed up from the end of the bed, and leaned on Xian Yang’s side.
All the people present were shocked, giving her a sideways glance for her rude and outrageous behavior. The Duke of England even couldn’t help but stop her as a father, “Wangfei, what are you doing?”
Wangfei in front of a group of foreign ministers to visit the sick, already out of order, this is still the emperor made an exception to allow.
It was only when Rong Xiangxian saw that she couldn’t care less about the others, she yards up some of the pillows at the head of the bed and instructs the Imperial Doctor, “Hold his upper body up.”
It was also this action that she saw behind Xian Yang’s back, the arrow that had been cut off and had not penetrated into his flesh and bone.
She only felt that her heart, too, had been pierced through.
She couldn’t care less about her heartbreak, she took the medicine, the soup was in her hand, the bowl was very hot, the doctor was young and inexperienced, he finished frying the medicine in an emergency and didn’t think about drying it out, he actually fed it directly to Xian Yang.
Rong Xiangmian was furious, but she didn’t have the time to pursue the matter, she put the bowl of medicine back on the tray, scooped up a spoonful, gently blew on it, and tested the temperature, before breaking open Xian Yang’s lips and slowly feeding it down.
“Your Highness, quickly take the medicine ah, after you finish eating, pull out the arrow, then it won’t hurt anymore.”
Rong Xiangshi didn’t know if he could hear him or not, talking to himself and coaxing him. At least, this bowl of medicine was slowly fed.
After a while, the Imperial Doctor checked Zhou Xian Yang’s eyes and said, “The Chong Yuan Tang worked, now we can try pulling out the arrow.”
When Rong Xiangyang saw that the Imperial Doctor was holding an iron tool like a pincer, her heart felt like it was being pinched by this thing, painful and fearful.
She clutched Zhou Xian Yang’s hand tightly and said in his ear, “Your Highness, it will be fine soon, don’t be afraid …….”
The Emperor also wanted to urge a few words of encouragement from the side, but was reminded by Shen Duzhi: “This is a bloody scene, Your Majesty and Your Highnesses had better evade for a while, leave this place to the eunuchs.”
The emperor immediately said, “Pass on the decree, the fourth son of the Emperor, Zhou Xian Yang, has been meritorious in saving the emperor’s life, and has been promoted to Prince Yuh, and has been given the Five Pearls Golden Crown and ten thousand taels of gold.”