Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

Qingya was about to leave the city, while General Bai and his bride were worshipping heaven and earth.

"Worship heaven and earth!"

Eunuch Kido shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Two thanks to the high hall!"

General Bai led the bride with a red ribbon and slowly turned towards Xiao Zuoming. He specially ordered people to place chairs for their parents at the bottom of the stairs.

Just as the two were about to bow their heads, the bride suddenly removed her veil with her left hand, pulled out the hairpin on her head with her right hand and stabbed the emperor. This sudden action caught everyone off guard. General Bai had already bowed to his parents, only to find that the bride had already dodged. When he wanted to grab her, it was too late.

"Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor~"

Mu Dai, who was standing on the stage, was the first to react. He immediately shouted loudly and rushed to Xiao Zuoming while shouting, looking like he was blocking the stab for the emperor.

The bride saw Mu Dai rushing forward to block Xiao Zuoming, and General Bai behind him must have realized that the assassination attempt would definitely fail, so he prepared to stop and run away.

But as soon as she turned around, General Bai had already blocked her way. When they looked at each other, General Bai was stunned for a moment. At the moment he was stunned, the bride wanted to escape from the side, but at this moment her body froze and she fell to the ground. It turned out that Mu Dai had stabbed her heart with a dagger from behind. After she fell to the ground, General Bai squatted and stepped forward to check the body, but found nothing abnormal.

"General Bai, have you found anything?"

Xiao Zuoming saw General Bai check the murderer's body immediately and thought he had found something. But General Bai just shook his head and did not find anything.

At this time, Mu Dai took out the portrait of the bride that was stored aside, opened it and compared it with the corpse, then presented it to the emperor for him to see.

Xiao Zuoming glanced at the portrait, then at the dead man on the ground, and asked sternly to Lord Gu in the audience.

"Gu Aiqing, this is your daughter?"

Facing the emperor's questioning, the officials who were standing on both sides of Lord Gu stepped aside, deliberately revealing Lord Gu. Lord Gu was already dumbfounded. Facing the emperor's questioning, he was speechless and fell to his knees with a "thump".

"Your Majesty, it is indeed my daughter. But, this...I am not aware of it, Your Majesty!"

"Humph, I don't think you have the guts!"

The emperor did not bother with Lord Gu. He ordered the body to be thrown to the dogs and the hall to be cleaned.

"You don't want a good marriage, but you want to die!"

Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to speak at this time.

General Bai also couldn't figure it out. It was obvious that Lord Gu didn't have the guts to hire someone to assassinate the emperor. And from the bride's actions just now, it could be seen that she really didn't have any martial arts skills, so the bride was indeed not replaced. Before implementing the plan, he told Xiao Zuochen not to drag innocent people into the water, but why did the bride suddenly want to assassinate the emperor? Xiao Zuochen collected so much information, if the bride herself had any grievances with the emperor, he would have found out. So what was going on?

While everyone was still whispering about the bride, Mu Dai glanced at General Bai who was standing blankly on the stage, then turned and said to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, since the wedding has not yet taken place, why not call back the other brides and let General Bai choose a wife again."

"Ok?"

Xiao Zuoming tilted his head and glanced at Mu Dai. He just thought, it has come to this, why should we continue?

Mu Dai walked forward and whispered something in Xiao Zuoming's ear.

"After today's work, these things in the main hall can be taken down, otherwise they will have to be left there for some time."

Xiao Zuoming felt that what Mu Dai said made sense and asked again.

"Where are the brides now?"

"Um, according to the time, he should be leaving the palace soon. Your Majesty, I will bring him back right away!?"

"Go!"

"Yes!"

Just like that, Qingya and the others had already stepped out of the palace gate, and the carriage to pick them up had arrived, but they suddenly heard Mu Dai's voice coming from behind.

"Wait! Wait! Don't go~"

At this time, there were even brides who, because they were not chosen, angrily took off their veils the moment they left the palace and stomped their feet into the carriage.

Mu Dai continued shouting while running behind.

"The daughter of the Gu family who tried to assassinate the emperor has been executed. Now we have to choose a new general's wife~"

When the brides heard this, they all stopped walking, and the bride who had originally boarded the carriage immediately jumped off. Some people were concerned about the assassination of the Gu family daughter, while others were concerned about their own chances. Only three brides stood there motionless.

Mu Dai glanced at the brides and didn't care what each of them was thinking. He just took them back.

"Line up and walk back with Zajia like you did when you came here~"

Mu Dai's words made Qing Ya's heart tighten, and she unconsciously clasped her hands together. Looking through the small visible area under the veil, Concubine Yu and Concubine Yun were also standing there without moving.

When Mu Dai saw that there were three brides behind who had not moved, he hurriedly urged them.

"Hey? Do you see those three brides at the back? Go and help them~ Be quick, don't delay General Bai's wedding~"

The chance to leave the palace was right in front of them, but Qingya was not good at Qinggong, and Concubine Yun had lost all her martial arts. If they rushed out at this time, they would have no chance of winning. Even if someone came to pick them up, it would be difficult to escape if the noise was too loud. For now, they could only follow them back to the palace and then act accordingly. Yun Feng and the others who were originally prepared to pick them up could only lower their hats and continue to pretend to be grooms waiting outside.

Mu Dai brought everyone back to the main hall. Like the first time, everyone stood in two rows, held the wooden plaques with their names engraved on them in their palms and stretched them out. The palace maids beside them held up their portraits.

However, General Bai was no longer in the mood to choose a wife, but he couldn't do whatever he wanted in front of the emperor and all the officials, so he just picked up a wooden sign and it was engraved with: Zhu Lian'er. But he didn't expect that just as he grasped the wooden sign and wanted to pick it up, the owner of the wooden sign clenched it tightly.

General Bai was stunned for a second. What did this person mean?

So he picked up the wooden sign in front of him again, and this time the owner of the wooden sign did not struggle. General Bai looked at the hand, which was white and clean, and quite slender.

Qingya's heart was tense the whole time, she was afraid that General Bai would choose her. But she didn't know whether the other two had been chosen or not. Anyway, as long as she could leave the palace, she didn't care about them.

After the ceremony, General Bai and his new wife took a carriage back to the Bai Mansion. The remaining brides who were not selected had already been dismissed from the palace and returned to their respective homes.

After leaving the palace, Qingya found that none of the three of them were selected, and felt a little lucky and a little unfortunate. But Yunfeng's face didn't look good at this time.

"So, who was chosen in the end?"

"I think it was called 'Zhu Lian'er'? I forgot."

Qingya didn't know why Yunfeng asked this, but his face had already turned visibly darker.

"What's wrong? Is this person important?"

Qingya asked.

Yun Feng seemed to have made a great decision before he spoke out.

"This 'Zhu Lian'er' is actually... the master..."

"..."