Chapter 123: Scheming
The maids lifted the lid, and the white-glazed porcelain bowl with three lotus flowers wrapped in branches was full of a bowl of Poria cream, Gan Zhong swallowed his saliva, and the silver needle in his hand was ready to come out again.
Yang Mingfang, who was sitting on pins and needles, took out a handkerchief and kept wiping his sweat. The prince did not come to Dianzhou to summon him very often, and everything was to let Zangzhe or Pei Yunshan pass the word, and today was the second time he came to the prince's temporary residence.
The first time I came to pay homage to the prince was according to the number of rituals, and the prince asked him a lot about the livelihood of the people in Diancheng, and he was speechless and sweaty.
Although the prince did not blame him at that time, judging from his attitude towards him later, he still felt that the prince was dissatisfied with him.
The master reminded him that if the crown prince ascended the throne, it was estimated that he would be among the officials who dismounted. This is also the reason why he leaned towards the virtuous king.
Pei Yunshan's case is difficult to say, and it is easy to say that it is not difficult.
According to the witnesses, there were many guests invited by Gan Zhong that day, and Pei Yunshan was one of them.
A total of thirteen well-known local wealthy people and officials attended the banquet, and Gan Zhong also invited Zangzhe, but he happened to accompany the prince to inspect the drought that day, so he did not attend the banquet as scheduled.
Pei Yunshan also wanted to find a reason to shirk at that time, but the prince said: "Since Gan Zhong wants to sing, you might as well go and see which role he wants to sing." ”
Pei Yunshan felt that the prince was reasonable, the drought was to share the prince's worries, and dealing with the Xianwang party was also a kind of worry, so he didn't hesitate to say goodbye to the prince and go to the banquet.
But I didn't know that this was an eternal farewell.
Pei Yunshan drank some wine at the banquet that day, because he wanted to pay attention to Gan Zhong's movements for the prince, he didn't drink too much, and there were a few glasses of wine that his colleagues came to salute, and he couldn't shirk it.
Because he had to entertain his colleagues and observe his words, Pei Yunshan didn't eat a few bites of the food at the table.
When the last bowl of deadly Poria paste was served, he felt hungry in his stomach, and with this favorite bite on weekdays, it didn't take long for half a bowl of Poria paste to enter his stomach.
By the time the colleague sitting next to him realized that the situation was wrong, Pei Yunshan had already fallen to the ground with his hands on his throat.
According to the results of the autopsy, Pei Yunshan did die of suffocation, and the murderer was the bowl of Poria cream.
Nan Ronglie didn't believe the results of the autopsy, and quietly asked the people of the Iron Blood Pavilion to find an experienced person to re-autopsy, but the results were consistent with the previous results.
Nan Ronglie suspected that there was another hidden reason in this matter, and he definitely did not believe that a piece of Poria paste could cause Pei Yunshan to die.
Although there is no strong evidence to be found for the time being, the matter cannot be hastily concluded. He had to give Pei Yunshan an explanation.
He secretly put pressure on Yang Mingfang through various means of public opinion, but he didn't expect him to respond to all changes with the same and have the courage to suppress the matter. The person who supported him behind him didn't have to guess to know that it was the virtuous king Nan Rongheng.
Nan Ronglie is the crown prince of the dynasty, and he can completely force Yang Mingfang to retry the case and turn the case into the result he wants. However, this was not the truth he wanted.
The people of Diancheng love the prince very much, and they also respect Lord Pei, who came all the way to Diancheng to assist the prince in managing the drought for them. They have been hoping that under the governance of Master Pei, the people will no longer suffer from the great drought, the grain will be harvested, everyone will have food, and they will no longer be displaced.
The people had high hopes for Pei Yunshan, and when they heard the news of his death, they felt that the sky was about to fall. Although the people are the lowliest beings in the world, they are full of wisdom.
Poria cocos ointment choking people to death is simply a strange story for the ages.
Like the crown prince, they did not believe in this result. All the anger was directed at Gan Zhong.
In the first month of Pei Yunshan's death, Gan Zhong didn't dare to go out at all.
Every day, the local people took advantage of the darkness and no one paid attention, and secretly threw rotten vegetable leaves and swill on the gate of Ganfu. Once Gan Zhong went out to see King Xian, half of his body got into the sedan chair, but he was splashed with feces and urine from behind by the homeless people who came out of nowhere.
For Gan Zhong, who was from a noble background, where did he suffer such a great shame. He wiped the filth off his body and yelled for the guards to arrest him.
The outcast, who splashed feces and urine, obviously knew martial arts, and he got into the crowd watching the excitement, and scolded Gan Zhong for being a murderer while dodging.
Gan Zhong was so angry that his face turned green, he completely forgot his identity, and gritted his teeth and asked Hurun to grab people and beat them to death.
Hurun and the homeless people circled among the people for a while, and finally caught the person, and was about to draw a knife to cut the person, but he heard an angry shout in the distance, it was the prince who passed by, and saw that Gan Zhong wanted to ignore the king's law and disturb the law, so he asked Siliang to stop him in time.
How smart Gan Zhong was, he secretly knew in his heart that the scene in front of him was probably inseparable from the prince, even if he was angry, he could only swallow this breath.
He didn't dare to arrest and punish these Diao people who opposed him, because if he did so, first, he would admit that he was the murderer and be angry, and second, the prince would take the opportunity to embarrass him.
So Gan Zhong had to swallow his anger.
The reason why the people are so angry is that they just want the truth. What they asked for was the same thing as what the prince was asking for.
Therefore, Nan Ronglie did not use his power to oppress Yang Mingfang, he wanted to let him take the initiative to retry the case, so that King Xian's party had nothing to say.
King Xian was really taken aback when he looked at the Poria paste in front of him. He only said that the prince invited him over today to decide on the selection of talents to treat the drought, and he also specially asked the prince to bring a few newly accepted Kabuki to the banquet, but the prince did not say a word, and all agreed.
It turned out that he was whitewashing the peace and luring him to the hook.
He glanced at the shallow eyes smiling at him in front of him, and realized that the prince and his concubine were a plan. He didn't believe that the prince would dare to poison him in front of so many people, but he didn't dare to gamble the prince's guts with his own life.
He stared worriedly at the bowl of Poria paste in front of him, and said in embarrassment: "What is the original food that my sister-in-law made? ”
The shallow pupil glanced at the prince, as if he knew that King Xian would shirk, and then smiled, King Xian saw the contempt in her smile, and was very unhappy, but he didn't want to say anything, what kind of sweat was he doing at this time.
Ling Caiwei looked coldly at the tacit cooperation between Nan Ronglie and Qiantong, and was inexplicably sad in her heart, and lowered her eyes.
A quiet fragrance wafted over, she looked up, and saw the shallow pupil coming to Gan Zhong, and with the same smile, she asked the maid who followed her to pick up the lotus flower wrapped in the white glazed porcelain bowl on the table and send it to Gan Zhong.
Gan Zhong hurriedly put away the poison-testing silver needle in his palm that had not had time to be inserted into the Poria cocos ointment, and went to pick up the exquisite porcelain bowl with both hands.
"Lord Gan, be careful not to fall. There is still Poria paste in the kitchen, but this bowl can't be broken. It was a gift from my father on the day of the king's wedding. If you fall, you will be guilty of killing your head. Nan Ronglie held the wine glass in his hand and slowly told Gan Zhong the origin of this bowl.
A cold sweat broke out on Gan Zhong's head, and he didn't expect the prince to guess his thoughts.
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(To be continued.) )