Chapter 354: The Imperial City Takes the Throne 8
After all, this person still won't tell her the truth!
Ping Ning comforted herself in her heart, she was not related to him, and Wei Xianzhong had no obligation to tell her all about her plan, as for telling her that she wanted to be the empress, Ping Ning didn't have any real feelings, maybe Wei Xianzhong was just teasing her.
Wei Xianzhong saw that Ping Ning had turned his face, and he didn't need to think about it to know her current thoughts, the corners of his lips hooked, and said: "The princess doesn't need to know too much, you just need to understand a little, and our family has the ability to make you the empress." ”
"Why?" Ping Ning turned his head to look at him and asked, "Why do you want to press the treasure on me?" ”
You know, she is really poor and white now, she has nothing, what ability does she have to compete with the crown prince for the throne? Even if there is a jade seal of the country, there is no guarantee that she will be able to become the empress, otherwise the battle for the heir will be too simple?
The most important thing is, why did Wei Xianzhong choose her by taking the wrong medicine?
Wei Xianzhong's eyes lit up, as if he was waiting for Ping Ning to ask her this, and he smiled: "Doesn't the princess think this is interesting?" ”
"Interesting?" Ping Ning blinked, sorry, she didn't find anything interesting at all.
"Watching Princess Zhen Ning and the crown prince fight to the death for the throne, which involves countless family interests, but in the end, the throne fell to a person they didn't even think about, thinking about their expressions at that time, I think it's funny, don't princesses want to try?"
Although it feels pretty cool, why does it always sound so awkward? How unbearable she is!
But also, if she really made her an empress. It is estimated that neither of them will look good on their faces.
Ping Ning couldn't help but glance at Wei Xianzhong, this person, although she is usually a little perverted, but some of her words are still very pertinent, she is indeed very much like seeing Princess Zhen Ning and the prince bereavement.
"You really have a jade seal in your hand, right?" To be on the safe side, Ping Ning repeatedly confirmed.
"What does the princess mean is to see is believing?" Wei Xianzhong raised his eyebrows, already looking kind, and the guards behind him. My eyes were almost straight. The father-in-law is too indulgent to Princess Pingning!
Ping Ning's mind was seen through, and he smiled awkwardly, "You have to see the real thing to make people feel at ease~"
"Something so important. How can we carry it with us? Definitely hide in a hidden place. Wei Xianzhong said lightly. Something that is so important. After his tone was so rendered, it suddenly dropped a tone.
Pingning doesn't really want to see the jade seal now, today's news is too shocking. She couldn't recover now, she let out a long breath, and said, "And now?" What are we going to do? ”
"What should I do next, when the time is ripe, our family will naturally come to inform the princess, please don't worry about this." Wei Xianzhong smiled lightly, but as soon as these words came out, Ping Ning's heart hung up.
Tell her when the time comes? Who knows when the time will be ripe in this mouth?
Ping Ning clasped his arms in both hands, raised his eyebrows, and said, "What is the plan, tell me directly, why do you want the time to be ripe?" Or are you just kidding me? ”
Wei Xianzhong chuckled, as if he thought this was too funny, looking at Ping Ning's eyes, mixed with not knowing whether it was ridicule or helplessness, he said leisurely: "It's an eventful time now, our family has nothing to do to tease the princess?" Isn't that nothing to look for? ”
Who knows if you're really idle? Ping Ning's heart was sudden, but she still smiled on her face, since Wei Xianzhong refused to say it, no matter how she said, this person would still not tell her, and if she continued to entangle, maybe she would annoy people, she slapped her face and said happily: "That's okay, since you said so, then I'll go back first." ”
She was about to leave, her feet were on the threshold, Wei Xianzhong's voice came from behind, only to hear Wei Xianzhong say lightly: "Princess, please wait at home for good news these days, in a few days, our family will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." ”
There was a smug smile on the corner of Ping Ning's lips, and when he turned around, that smile disappeared again, and he became unfazed, calm and calm, and said: "This princess will believe you once, and I hope that my father-in-law will not disappoint this princess." ”
"Our family will naturally not disappoint the princess." Wei Xianzhong raised his eyebrows and said, his gaze fell straight on her, and Ping Ning's eyes were opposite, and he was about to spark, Ping Ning lost his mind for a moment in Wei Xianzhong's secluded eyes, she hurriedly came back to her senses, her body was stunned, don't look around, and said, "Well, that's good." ”
After speaking, as if he had fled, he opened the door and left.
After Pingning left, the smile on Wei Xianzhong's face faded away, and after a while, an attendant stepped forward and reminded in a low voice: "Father-in-law, the hour is almost up, we should go back to the palace!" ”
Wei Xianzhong glanced at the sky outside, and before he knew it, it was already dark.
He calculated the time for a moment, thinking to himself that if the crown prince had acted quickly, he should have rushed to the temple by now, right?
The development of things was also as Wei Xianzhong planned, during the day, the prince intercepted the emperor's transmission and learned that the jade seal was hidden in the hands of the high priest of the temple, and at this moment, he had already led troops to surround the temple.
The people in the temple were all panicked, they didn't know what was going on, and they all looked at the Royal Forest Army outside with a look of horror as they surrounded them, "You...... Who are you? How dare you surround the temple?! ”
The guards didn't say a word, and the people in the temple were even more angry, and one of them was so emotional that he rushed forward to comment on it, and said angrily: "Do you know what kind of place this is? Do you know who lives inside? If the high priest is disturbed, who can afford it? ”
In Yaguo, the priests of the temple have always been privileged and protected, and these people have never suffered or been pointed at by swords, so now that they see it, they are still a little fearless.
As a general rule of thumb, as long as the name of the high priest is moved, no one dares to offend rashly, think about it. The clergyman puffed up his strength even more, and he puffed up his not strong chest and glared at the group of guards.
The truth was really as the clergyman thought, because in Yaguo, they had always been privileged people, and Luo Jia asked them to surround the temple without telling them the specific reason, so those guards were still a little intimidated when they heard these words.
Look at me, look at you, those Guards. I don't know how to deal with such a situation.
The clergy saw this. Becoming more and more arrogant, they all clamored for the Royal Guards to retreat, and those Royal Guards looked at each other, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
Just when the two sides are at a stalemate. A bold voice came. "Stop it all at Hongu!"
Everyone who was arguing was stunned. They all looked directly behind, only to see the royal guards give way one after another, and the crown prince Luo Jia walked out of the crowd. His face was grim and his momentum was extraordinary, and he walked straight out like this, which made the group of clergy who were gradually becoming arrogant can't help but be timid again, those people, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.
After a while, they all pushed out the companion who had provoked the Royal Foresters just now, and the man looked like he wanted to push back, but Luo Jia had already set his eyes on him.
There is no way, it has been noticed, and it can only be stubborn, but he still did not forget to glare at the companions who betrayed his teammates a few times, and then turned around and saluted Luo Jia, and said, "I have seen the prince, I don't know what happened when the prince came?" ”
Luo Jia glanced at the clergyman lightly, with a warm and kind smile on his face, but the next moment, Luo Jia's face changed suddenly, and before the clergyman could react, he saw Luo Jia stab a knife into his body, and then saw a reddened knife pulled out of his body.
He looked at Luo Jia in disbelief, his eyes widened, and he fought hard before he held back a sentence and said, "The prince ......"
Luo Jia still looked kind, but at this moment, no one dared to say a word more.
Luo Jia was very satisfied with the quiet environment at the moment, and with a smile on the corner of his lips, he swung the blood on the knife fiercely, leaving a blood-colored horizontal line on the ground, and the clergyman fell to the ground in response.
This dull voice brought everyone back to reality, and the clergy rushed up, and they were all so frightened that they fled in all directions, and those royal forest soldiers never expected Luo Jia to come back like this, and they were all stunned.
Luo Jia was definitely the most calm person in the crowd present, he shook the knife slowly, and said leisurely: "The high priest harbored the assassins, intending to rebel, this palace passed on His Majesty's will, come to arrest the high priest, search for me!" ”
The Imperial Guards suddenly came to their senses, rushed forward, surrounded the clergy who were fleeing in all directions, and a group of people rushed to the temple, and those who resisted were either hacked to death with a knife, and those who surrendered were controlled.
Luo Jia stood in front of the temple, standing with his hands in his hands, calmly watching everything that happened in front of him.
Tonight is destined to be another sleepless night, the sky above the temple is gloomy, and the ghosts and wolves are howling below.
It didn't take long for the Royal Forest Army to search, and the High Priest actually sent him to the door, he was dressed in a white robe, his face was the same as the one he had seen in the Elegy five years ago, he was still so handsome, and he had a dusty fairy aura on his body, just like an immortal descending to earth, as soon as he came out, everything lost its brilliance, and even the menacing Royal Forest Army suddenly quieted down.
"In the middle of the night, what did the prince come for?" The high priest said, glancing around, only to see that the priests of the temple were dead and wounded, and some of them were detained by the Imperial Guards.
Seeing the high priest come out, the clergy became excited, stretched their necks and shouted, "High priest, save us!" ”
The high priest motioned with his eyes to calm them down, and the clergy were really quiet.
They all made prayers with their hands, chanted words on their lips, and recited incantations they couldn't understand together, and in an instant the scene became solemn, and the anger of the Royal Forest Army was purified because of the incantation, and they looked at the knife in their hands with a look of trepidation.
What did they do? They're doing blasphemous things right now! Damnation will be incurred!
The Imperial Forest Army was terrified, and naturally no one stopped the High Priest's movements, and those people watched the High Priest walk in front of the prince, but no one stepped forward to stop them.
The high priest had a faint smile on his face, and his gaze only glanced at the clergy who was upside down in front of Luo Jia, then he focused his gaze on the prince again, and asked, "What does the prince want to do?" ”
Under the "sacred" gaze of the high priest, the prince did not panic, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and said: "What did the high priest do, do you still need to say it directly from this palace?" ”
The high priest smiled slightly and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it, why hide it?" ”
Luo Jia also smiled slightly, but the next moment, his face changed, and he said coldly: "What crime should the high priest be guilty of harboring assassins?!" ”
"I'm harboring assassins?" When the high priest heard this, he was still a little surprised, but he was not alarmed, and he was very diligent in asking questions, and said, "Dare to ask the prince, what evidence do you have that I harbored assassins?" ”
"Proof?" Luo Jia sneered, "The evidence is naturally there in this palace, come here, arrest people!" ”
The Imperial Guards looked at each other, and it was okay to deal with those clergy, but this person was the High Priest! How dare they move? This is blasphemy, and it will be retribution in the future!
Seeing that none of the Royal Forest Soldiers moved, the high priest continued to have a gentle and loving smile on his face, but in Luo Jia's opinion, it was a complete provocation, his face was slightly cold, and he said, "Are you all stupid?" Still hands-on? ”
The commander was a little entangled in his heart, and he ran in front of Luo Jia and said in a low voice: "Prince, do you really want to do it?" The other party is a high priest, a person who serves the gods, if he is caught, will he be punished by heaven? ”
Luo Jia glanced at him coldly, grinned, and said, "I don't know if it will be punished by heaven, but if you don't do it, I'm afraid that there will be a catastrophe now." ”
When he said this, he definitely didn't mean to joke, the commander couldn't help but shudder, he laughed dryly, and replied again and again: "Yes, yes, the little one knows what to do, please rest assured!" ”
After finishing speaking, he yelled at those royal forest soldiers: "What are you doing in a daze? Don't hurry up and arrest the prisoners who harbored the assassins! ”
With such a roar from the commander, the Royal Foresters, although reluctant, stepped forward to tie up the high priest.
Who knows, this action angered those clergy, in their hearts, the high priest is equivalent to a god-like existence, and if they dare to offend their gods, they are looking for death!
Those clergymen who had accepted their fate were excited, and they didn't know where they got the strength to knock those royal forest troops to the ground, and for a while, it turned out to be a one-sided situation, the clergy were united, pressing step by step, and the momentum of those royal forest troops was even half shorter! (To be continued.) )