Replacement Month

CHAPTER 15

That night in the corner of the capital a group of tang dynasty people gathered, they wore all black clothes and a sword adorned their waist.

The Madam Rong they were waiting for finally came as well.

Some people were impatient with the way Madam Rong kept concealing their Princess identity. "Mrs Rong, until when will we wait for the appearance of our Princess? At least we have to wait a year or two to train our Princess masters to be ready to lead a new era of the tang dynasty. If you continue to delay then the dream of a new era of our tang dynasty will not be realized."

Some supporters began to worry, they expressed their aspirations carelessly, the situation was getting heated, they were divided into two groups. The group that supported Mrs Rong's decision and did not support her.

Madam Rong grew even more emotional with the cries of those people, "Silent all of you!? Do you think overthrowing the Ming dynasty is as easy as turning a palm? I am Rong Yi Lin, formerly a confidant of Her Majesty the Empress of the Tang dynasty. Yes right, I did hide the Tang Dynasty Princess master. If now you think the presence of the Princess will help you, then you are wrong. Now you think, how many soldiers are we? how much is our weapons? how's our war fund? If Princess Tian Yu is with you right now and you're asking her to rebel isn't it the same as telling her to take her life?"

Everyone fell silent and thought that Mrs Rong's words were true, but one named Hok Ben felt that Mrs Rong had always covered all of her. In the era of the Tang dynasty, he was a formidable general, all the missions he carried out were always successful, he said, but there was one failure that he did and very fatal was the killing of the emperor of the Tang dynasty and the victory of the Ming dynasty.

Hok Ben felt that Mrs Rong kept many lies and secrets, "Mrs Rong if you think like that, well we can accept her, but at least you should tell us if it is true that Princess Huang Ro is Princess Tian Yu whom you brought to the court of the queen mother?"

Lady Rong fell silent, once when the Tang dynasty suffered a defeat, the empress left her an 8-month-old child, she was Princess Tian Yu one of her only descendants who survived the massacre of all members of the Tang dynasty empire. Before the empress died she had left a will that she only wanted Tian Yu to be healthy and always happy. He did not want Tian Yu to be in an endless conflict of war. And Lady Rong had promised the empress that she would always protect the identity of Princess Tian Yu, and guarantee her happiness.

Upon awakening from her daydream, Lady Rong laughed, "Hok Ben, take care of your soldiers, after your victory you then invite Princess Tian Yu to sit on her throne. Or do you just want to make Princess Tian Yu as bait for the people to sympathize with you. Then you will sit on the throne of the new era?"

Hok Ben restrained all his anger, he was very tired of facing Madam Rong who kept turning around. Then a sinister smile graced her face, "Calm down Madam Rong, I already know that Princess Tian Yu has a crescent-shaped birthmark on her left shoulder. My eyes have told me that Huang Ro has the birthmark, right?"

Madam Rong stared intently at him, "Once again I tell you Hok Ben, take care of your own business and do not touch Princess Tian Yu, because it is my duty to protect her."

After that Mrs Rong left the place, after the departure of Ms. Rong, some people disbanded and only Hok Ben and three colleagues were left.

"Sir brother, how's our next move?"

"Relax brother, if we find it difficult to reach Emperor Ming, we can at least kill his successor first. We'll have our plans ready for the crown prince."

"But brother, how can we attack the crown prince? the guard at the palace is very strict."

Finally, after they devised a strategy to attack the crown prince. They all disbanded.

Next day.

Shen Ling and Xuan Ye's entourage was about to depart for Lin Man City with a few soldiers.

Before their carriage departed, Huang Ro met Xuan Ye and lamented his departure. However much he was jealous of Shen Ling, how could Shen Ling accompany Xuan Ye on such an important journey.

"Crown prince, please take care of yourself, Huang Ro is always waiting for His Majesty's return. Don't forget to send me a letter when you get there." Huang Ro hugged Xuan Ye tightly. Xuan Ye smiled happily and gently rubbed Huang Ro's hair. Just this time Huang Ro delivered his departure very romantically, usually if Xuan Ye day duty out of town or even war Huang Ro never delivered it, but this time it was different.

Xuan Ye bailed to Huang Ro and kissed the backs of his palms.

Xuan Ye got into the horse carriage and his entourage set off.

The atmosphere inside the horse carriage was very gloomy, Shen Ling who saw the scene of intimacy between Xuan Ye and Huang Ro became very bad mood.

Throughout the journey they were silent. After half the journey Xuan Ye ordered his men to find a resting place and they stopped at a small teahouse on the outskirts of the city.

After ordering some food and tea, the group was finally able to sit down and relax.

Shortly after a servant came out carrying some of their orders, Accidentally, the servant tripped on the table leg and fell down near Shen Ling. Shen Ling immediately looked over and helped the servant stand up. As he helped the waitress, Shen Ling noticed that there was a different smell to the tea, then she lifted the tea bottle and kissed him at a glance. It turned out that the assumption was correct, the drink had been given a power-weakening drug.

As the waiter went to the kitchen to pick up a new drink and food, she silently told Xuan Ye about everything. Xuan Ye quickly ordered his men to throw food and drinks onto the floor.

Xuan Ye saw that this environment was unfavorable to him, hence he ordered the entourage to leave immediately and not raise any suspicions.

On the way back, the group was attacked by 5 people in black.