610. Chapter 610

At night, while Ye Zhen was still sleeping, she suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from outside, and she was awakened.

"Hongying, what happened outside?" Ye Zhen sat up and asked Hongying who was watching the night.

"It's like a voice coming from the city gate. Girl, please go out and take a look." Hongying lit the lamp in the room and put some clothes on Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen was shocked, could it be that Liu Wenxue was already attacking the city?

"I'm going to find dad." Ye Zhen put on her clothes and shoes.

Hongying couldn't stop her at all, and the master and servant walked out of the house together. The spring was cold. Although it was already spring, the weather was still very cold at night.

Ye Zhen went directly to Ye Yiqing's study and saw him and Cao Yu walking out of it.

"Dad, what happened outside?" Ye Zhen asked anxiously.

"Liu Wenxue leads the troops to attack the city. I'm going to the city wall. Yaoyao, don't leave home. You're not allowed to go out even a step. There will be people outside to protect you." Ye Yiqing looked at Ye Zhen and warned.

Ye Zhen nodded, "I know, Dad, you should be careful yourself."

Cao Yu said from the side, "Don't worry, Yaoyao, I will protect the teacher."

"Is your martial arts better than mine?" Ye Yiqing asked Cao Yu with raised eyebrows.

"Teacher, am I not doing this to reassure my junior sister?" Cao Yu said with a smile.

Ye Yiqing took a deep look at Ye Zhen and left the Prime Minister's Mansion with Cao Yu. Ye Zhen called Xue Lin and Wu Chong over and asked Wu Chong to protect Ye Yiqing secretly. She was still worried that her father would be in danger.

Wu Chong looked at Ye Zhen hesitantly. His duty was to protect her. If he left here, what danger would the princess be in?

"Xue Lin is here to protect me, and I won't go out. There are guards left by dad outside, so I will be fine." Ye Zhen said, "Go quickly."

"Yes, Princess!" Wu Chong responded, turned around and left.

Ye Zhen called the housekeeper over and asked him to give instructions. No one could leave the Prime Minister's Mansion without permission. The men in the family should also be vigilant. If anything happened, they could still stand up.

When I returned to the backyard, I saw Zhao Yang coming out.

"Princess Zhaoyang, I have disturbed you." Ye Zhen walked forward with a smile, "There is some turmoil outside. You stay in the house these two days and you are not allowed to go outside."

"Unrest?" Zhaoyang was surprised, "This is the royal capital, how can there be unrest?"

Ye Zhen whispered, "What about the capital city? If the city is breached, we don't know what the outcome will be."

"Where is your father?" Zhaoyang asked with a frown.

"My father went to the city wall to fight against the rebels. Don't worry, he has arranged everything. There are people at home guarding him, and everything will be fine." Ye Zhen said.

Zhaoyang felt anxious and said urgently, "Master Ye is just a prime minister, what does resisting the traitors have to do with him? Isn't he afraid of danger?"

When Ye Zhen heard that Zhaoyang was so worried about her father's safety, she didn't think much about it for a moment, "My father is good at martial arts, so he will be fine."

Zhaoyang just looked at Ye Zhen coldly, said nothing more, and turned back to his room.

In the second half of the night, the sounds outside became more intense. Ye Zhen seemed to still be able to hear the sounds of shouting and killing, but it sounded like the city had not been broken yet.

Soon it was daybreak. Ye Zhen asked Xue Lin to go out and find out. The entire capital city was under martial law. People on the streets usually hid at home and did not dare to come out. The Liu family was under control. Even if they were to take people from the Liu family to the city wall. Negotiating with Liu Wenxue was of no avail. Liu Wenxue was determined to rebel, but his excuse was very good. He actually wanted to oust the emperor!

He also said that the eldest prince's fate of being under house arrest was framed by Ye Yiqing, and that he brought the troops back for the sake of the emperor and the eldest prince.

That's ridiculous!

When Ye Zhen heard this reason, she had a better understanding of Liu Wenxue's shamelessness.

"How many people did Liu Wenxue lead to attack the city?" Ye Zhen asked Xue Lin in a low voice.

Xue Lin said, "There are twenty to thirty thousand people, and the villages outside the city have been occupied. I heard that reinforcements will not arrive for another day."

Ye Zhen nodded heavily, still worried about whether Liu Wenxue would break through the city gate.

Not long after, someone from the palace came looking for Ye Zhen.

"The Queen is worried about your safety and asked us to take you into the palace." It was the imperial guards from the palace who came specially to take Ye Zhen into the palace.

Ye Zhen shook her head, "Thank you for your kindness, Queen Mother, but I can't leave the Prime Minister's Mansion alone. There are guards left by my father here, and I will be fine."

"Girl, why don't you come into the palace? We are here." Hong Ling said. She felt that the palace was the safest now.

"No, I will stay at home and wait for dad to come back." Ye Zhen said firmly and sent back the imperial guards who came to pick her up.

At about noon, news came from the palace that Concubine Liu Guifei and Wan Guiren had been killed.

The sky was gray, and the first spring rain fell, moistening everything silently, but it could not stop the murderous intent outside the city.

"Isn't your father back yet?" Zhaoyang came to find Ye Zhen at some unknown time, so he stood outside the door and looked at her.

Ye Zhen smiled faintly at her, "Liu Wenxue hasn't even withdrawn yet, so naturally dad won't be able to come back so soon."

"Aren't you worried at all?" Zhaoyang asked coldly.

"Worried." Ye Zhen nodded, "But worry is not what will make my father come back now."

Zhaoyang suppressed her anxiety and looked at the gray sky, "Have the reinforcements not arrived yet?"

Ye Zhen is actually more anxious than anyone else, but she remembers Ye Yiqing's words, if she can't help out, then she can only wait at home obediently, otherwise she will become a burden if she can't help.

Reinforcements...

What she was most worried about was that there would be no reinforcements.

However, the matter was obviously more serious than she imagined. When the Golden Crow fell from the west, news came out in the palace that a traitor from the Liu family had sneaked into the palace with the intention of kidnapping the queen. Although they failed in the end, they still alerted the queen. , Li Heng specially sent someone to take Ye Zhen into the palace.

Alarmed the queen? Could it be that the fetus is moving?

Ye Zhen really couldn't refuse now and could only follow the person who came to pick her up into the palace.

As the carriage rolled forward, Ye Zhen lifted the curtains in the carriage and saw the empty streets outside. It was very different from the usual crowds of people coming and going.

"This is not the way into the palace!" After looking at it for a while, Ye Zhen immediately realized something was wrong.

Hongying had already lifted the curtain of the carriage and discovered that the palace man who had driven the carriage had been killed, and now it was someone they had never met before who was driving.

"Who are you?" Hongying asked sternly at the four men dressed as forest guards in front of her.

A man walking at the front turned his head and grinned at Ye Zhen, "Miss Lu, I have heard of you for a long time, and today we finally meet."

Ye Zhen's face was cold. She looked at the man for a while and said, "You are Liu Hebin!"