Chapter 52, the anger hurts the body
The high platform on the Bibo Lake has been surrounded by three layers of the Praetorian Guard, except for the queen and the emperor who are still sitting upright, the rest of the people are motionless and kneeling according to the ranks, the atmosphere is not like the joy before the departure of Wuhua, but serious and silent, where it seems to come out to play, quite a three-hall trial. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The emperor sitting on the throne had a gloomy complexion and a cold gaze like ice. His brow furrowed, and he exuded a murderous rage, like a lion in a rage.
Wuhua naturally noticed that the atmosphere on the field was not right, but it was just a moment of stunnedness, she was under the gaze of everyone, slowly dismounted, and her mind was racing to speculate on the current scene. Like a statue, Deputy Commander Wang followed her step by step, as if he was afraid that she would make any changes.
The emperor's vision is far-reaching, and he doesn't know where it has fallen.
Wuhua glanced over, all the candidates for this hunt on the high platform were basically here, and she was the last to arrive. Kneeling down in the vacant seat beside Qin Xiangsheng, the quiet and oppressive atmosphere did not ease much after her arrival, but became even more weird.
Wuhua hung her head and hid in the crowd, and squinted to see a guard come forward to unload her arrow basket and longbow, and look through it in her hand. Seeing this, Wuhua couldn't help but move his gaze to Qin Xiangsheng on his side and ask with his eyes.
The quiet atmosphere in the venue made Qin Xiangsheng unable to speak, so he could only shake his head lightly to signal that he didn't know.
Just in the middle of speculation, the emperor suddenly asked. "At the time of the incident, who was with Yu'er and stood up."
Jing Tianyu is the full name of His Royal Highness the Chess King, listening to the emperor's meaning, does he mean that the chess king has an accident?
In the silence, the emperor frowned, and looked at Feng Jin, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, who was standing beside him.
Feng Jin bowed slightly and replied in a deep voice. "Your Majesty, when His Royal Highness was alone, the sweaty horse under the seat suddenly went crazy, and he was thrown off the horse without checking for a while, and then he was injured by an arrow."
The emperor's brows furrowed even tighter, "Maxima? ”
Before the words fell, he saw Jing Tianyou, who was kneeling beside the prince, walking a few steps on his knees and bowing to the emperor. "Father, son-in-law is guilty."
The emperor's voice was as condensed as ice, low and dangerous. "Oh? What is the sin? ”
"Erchen shouldn't have handed over this sweaty horse to the four emperor brothers today. If it weren't for the fact that the horse was frightened for a while, the Four Emperor Brothers would not have been injured. The father gave this horse to his son, and the son did not exhaust the wild nature of this horse, so he handed over the horse to the four emperor brothers, and it was too late to regret it. It was the son's ministers who were not fully concerned, and asked his father to punish him. Jing Tianyou lay motionless at the emperor's feet.
The emperor just stared at him, and everyone in the audience held their breath and condensed, and the atmosphere was depressed for a while. "The sweaty horse is wild and hard to find, you sent it to Yu'er, and now such an incident has arisen. Are you guilty? ”
"Father." It was indeed a handsome but non-existent king, and he leaned forward and bowed respectfully. "Please forgive your son for the great disrespect of his sons."
The emperor's eyes fell on him, this son's appearance is the most outstanding among many princes, but relatively speaking, he has mediocre qualifications, is very quiet, and has not had much communication with the rest of the princes. Although the emperor was furious, he was not to the point of losing his mind. "Tianhong, if you have something to say, get up and say it."
"Thank you, Father." King Xu straightened his chest and looked at Sedum Tianyou's back. "Although the Fifth Emperor Brother has thought about this matter, the root cause is that the Fourth Emperor Brother did it himself."
"Oh?" The emperor's palms were folded. "What do you mean?"
"The four emperor brothers are very fond of sweaty horses, and the fifth emperor brothers can't bear to let the four emperor brothers down, so they let the horses go." King Xu paused and said again. "When this happened, the second emperor brother also knew about it."
Hearing King Xu mention himself, the prince slowly raised his head, walked to Jing Tianyou's side, and said in a loud voice. "Father, what the ninth brother said is true, although the fifth brother is at fault, it is not a big mistake. According to Erchen, this matter is by no means so simple. ”
Under the emperor's attention, the crown prince frowned slightly, his appearance was already somewhat similar to the emperor, and at this time it added a bit of charm.
"Sweaty horses are hard to find, but these days there is nothing unusual. Partiality is a problem today, if it weren't for the fourth brother's whim, he wanted to ride a sweaty horse. ”
"The ..... of this accident" The prince didn't say it explicitly, but his gaze showed everything.
Hearing this, the emperor's anger seemed to have subsided a lot, and his eyes fell on Jing Tianyou, who was still lying on the ground and maintaining a kneeling motion, and took a deep breath. "God bless, get up."
"Yes." The emperor carefully stared at Jing Tianyou, who stood up and frowned, and found that there was no indignant grievance on his face, so he couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and waved his hand to let them return to the throne.
"Thank you, Brother Huang." Sedum Tianyou passed by the prince's side and whispered his thanks.
The prince's eyes flashed slightly, and he bowed his head slightly.
Just before the atmosphere almost fell to the freezing point, Concubine Shu came from the direction of the palace, wiping her cheeks with a handkerchief and tears in her eyes.
The eunuch who followed behind him was holding a tray with an arrow feather that had been disconnected from it, and I don't know if it was intentional, Wuhua noticed that when she passed by, her eyes swept around them.
"Aifei, is there anything wrong with Yu'er?" The emperor ordered someone to bring a chair for Concubine Shu to sit down, and after she sat down, he asked softly.
"Your Majesty." Hearing this, Concubine Shu's mouth was bitter, as if she couldn't bear it anymore, big tears slipped down her cheeks, she was well maintained, her demeanor still existed, and I felt sorry for crying.
"Aifei, what's wrong?" Seeing Concubine Shu crying like this, the emperor's face was slightly gloomy.
"Please ask Your Majesty to be the master of Yu'er." Concubine Shu knelt at the emperor's feet, crying very sadly.
Yu'er fell off the horse, and she couldn't figure it out, and the thieves saw that Yu'er was delirious and wanted to take advantage of it. Fortunately, Yu'er had a big life, injured his shoulder, and was injured by this arrow. She pointed to the tray behind her that the eunuch was carrying.
"Your Majesty, this is someone deliberately setting up a situation to harm Yu'er, please ask Your Majesty to be the master of Yu'er." With that, she turned around, her eyes were full of anger, and she threw it towards Wuhua, as if she wanted to cut her with a thousand knives.
Hearing Concubine Shu's words, the emperor's face darkened. The eunuch placed the blood-stained arrow feathers on the tray on the table.
Deputy Commander Wang walked forward quickly, respectfully handed the arrow basket in his hand to Feng Jin, and whispered a few words in his ear.
Feng Jin took out an arrow from the arrow basket and placed it together with the broken arrow, the emperor lowered his head and looked at it a few times, compared with each other, suddenly raised his head, his eyes looked towards Wuhua like a torch, and his pupils exuded a murderous halo, roaring. "Qu Wuhua."
"Your Majesty." Wuhua seemed to have woken up from a dream, and met the emperor's gaze in a daze, and could clearly perceive that the emperor's anger was coming at him. Her body paused slightly, and she moved to the emperor little by little in the eyes of everyone.
"Raise your head!" The emperor snorted coldly.
Wuhua raised his head in obedience, and when he looked at the emperor's eyes shrouded in anger, he found that the emperor's expression was obviously slightly stunned.
It seemed that because his heart was touched, through the kneeling person in front of him, in a trance, he seemed to see another face that was somewhat similar.
The irrepressible anger in his heart suddenly seemed to be irrigated by a basin of cold water, and he looked intently, pressing his fingers on the chair and closing them little by little.
Looking carefully, I found that Wuhua's eyebrows were light, calm and solemn, and the temperament of that person was very different.
"Your Majesty." Wuhua's voice was elegant, pulling the emperor's thoughts back.
The emperor's fingers touched the severed arrow, as if he had been burned, and with a wave of his long sleeves, he swept the broken arrow to the ground, and his voice was low and cold. "Do you know this?"
Wuhua reached out and took the broken arrow red with blood in his hand. The broken arrow is split in two in the middle, which is the second half of the arrow.
The wings of the arrow's tail were soaked in blood, but they had just dried up. And when you open the arrow feathers, you can clearly see that there is a small character engraved in it.
While Wuhua was observing the arrows in her hand, the emperor was also observing her complexion.
Her heart sank and she looked up at the emperor. "Dare to ask the emperor where this arrow came from?"
The pair of ink-black eyes looked directly at the emperor for a moment, and in a trance, he was a little distracted, and saw the shadow of others from Qu Wuhua's body.
But it was only a moment's work, and he quickly reacted.
His right hand slapped heavily on the table, pointing at Wuhua in anger. "This matter is clear, you still dare to ask me?"
"Feng Jin!"
Feng Jin frowned, raised the arrow basket in his hand, and said in the emperor's angry gaze. "There are indeed two arrows missing from the arrow basket of the prince of Wuhua."
"Where was Qu Wuhua when you found him?" The emperor still had some sense, and stared directly at Deputy Commander Wang, that gaze really made people shudder.
Deputy Commander Wang glanced at Qu Wuhua without a trace, without hesitation. "One person is wandering in the outer circle of the forest."
"Alone?" The emperor sneered again and again. "Good! Good! ”
"Qu Mozhen, the good son you gave birth to!" The emperor pointed to Qu Xiang kneeling in the crowd, almost turning his back on his breath.
This scene seems to overlap with the man's death after falling from his horse many years ago.
That heart-wrenching feeling made his heart surge and he couldn't breathe for a while.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, relax your heart, Yu'er will be fine." The queen sitting on one side, seeing the emperor like this, immediately frowned, and said softly with relief.
It was only the queen's hand that touched the back of the emperor's hand, but he quickly pulled it back as if he had been touched by something dirty.
"Yu'er has no grievances with your Qu family, why did your Qu family do this?" Concubine Shu turned her back and asked sharply. "This arrow was taken from Yu'er's right arm, can it be fake?"
The right minister frowned, he really didn't expect this matter to be planted on Wuhua's body, he walked to Wuhua's side, measured his body, glanced at Wuhua quickly, and said in a deep voice. "This matter has not yet been clarified, and I ask the emperor to take care of the dragon's body, it hurts his body."