Chapter 543: Frightened
With a "snap", Qi Lian slapped the table and stood up, he picked up the teacup on the table with an angry face and threw it on the ground. Seeing this, the queen also got up, as if she wanted to hide aside.
Qi Lian's behavior is actually very logical, after all, Shu Jin is a courtier in his identity, and he is the emperor. Shu Jin is not only contradicting him at this moment, she is simply provoking the majesty of the emperor. How could he sprinkle the tea in the cup on the ground in front of the emperor like a memorial to the souls of the dead?
The teacup fell out, Qi Lian's eyes stared at Shu Jin, and there was suddenly a feeling of fear in his heart. Next, just wait for him to perform a qiΔ arranged in advance, why is his heart suddenly so bottomless? Qi Lian thought so, and the queen also thought this way at this time.
Shu Jin didn't seem to see their movements, he sat in place and didn't move, but looked at Qi Lian and the queen with a smile on his face.
Her behavior made Qi Lian can't help but "chuckle" in his heart. Then, he realized that something was wrong, and the expected sound of the teacup shattering did not sound at all!
Qi Lian turned his gaze to the ground in surprise, and then saw a scene that made him creepy:
The teacup that should have fallen to the ground in an instant and shattered was stubbornly suspended about half a foot from the ground, strangely suspended in the air!
"Are you still throwing a cup, are you vulgar?"
The two people who were surprised and frightened only heard Shu Jin say in a sarcastic tone.
"......" Qi Lian and the queen forgot to speak for a while, but the two of them hurriedly looked around.
In the Queen's Palace, it is natural that palace people who serve tea are indispensable. Shu Jin said such rebellious words, these palace people should have reacted, but looking at it this way, there was no one!
Qi Lian and the queen felt that something was wrong and began to turn their heads to look for their respective henchmen, but at this time, they saw that the six palace maids who were in the same hall with them had fainted to the ground at some point, and when they were surprised, the young maid brought by Shu Jin was lifting the curtain and walking in from outside.
The main hall of the entire queen's dormitory. There was a dead silence in an instant.
The queen's eyes widened, and she walked to Qi Lian's side in two steps, grabbed his sleeve, and turned her head to look at Shu Jin's eyes full of horror.
"Fang Shujin! You are bold! What are you doing here? Do you want to rebel? Qi Lian said with a gloomy face. Although his voice is loud. But if you listen closely, you will hear that he lacks confidence.
Shu Jin sneered when he heard this, but he didn't answer him, but raised his hand lightly and waved at him.
Qi Lian was so frightened that he took a big step to the side. Almost at the same time, a soft "snort" was heard. Qi Lian was so frightened that he couldn't care about the queen who was stumbling and almost falling down by his sudden movements, and hurriedly looked down at his whole body. It wasn't until he was sure that the voice was not a hidden weapon on his body, and it wasn't something thrown on his body, that he looked up at Shu Jin again.
Is it a bluff?
Seeing that Shu Jin still didn't look at him, he raised his hands playfully and went to get the teapot on the table.
Then, in Qi Lian's eyes, the teapot split into two. was picked up by Shu Jin with half of each hand in his left and right hands.
Divided, separated!
It was obviously a copper-cast gold-painted teapot, but it was cut in half from the middle! The incision is bright and smooth, and even a knife that sharpens iron like clay may not be able to make a sharper incision than this!
Recalling Shu Jin's wave of his hand just now, and then there was a soft sound, was it actually made when the copper kettle was cut?
The empress turned pale with fright, and she couldn't help but tremble as she grabbed the emperor's arm; As for Qi Lian, the hairs on his back stood up, and on his forehead, cold sweat began to come out uncontrollably. Then it ran down his sideburns.
For a while, they didn't dare to make a sound, so they just watched Shu Jin turn the copper kettle in his hand back to study.
There was a lot of water left in the teapot, but. Now the teapot has been split, and all the tea that was in it has been spilled. The bright yellow tablecloth was stained by the tea, and the heavy and dense fabric inhaled the tea, and the color became darker, and some of the things that had not had time to be inhaled flowed down the edge of the tablecloth. Tick-tock-
The tea stains on the tabletop, the tea stains on the ground, the teacup still hanging in the air, and the woman who is seriously studying the teapot with a face. The whole picture was reflected in Qi Lian's eyes, which made him shudder.
"Tsk, who designed this thing, it's really talented. I've heard of this kind of 'yin and yang pot' in the palace for a long time, but I haven't had the chance to see it! It's amazing. β
As if he had studied enough, just when Qi Lian and the queen were about to be frightened by fear and run away, Shu Jin said to himself.
Saying this, she put down the two halves of the copper kettle in her hand, and then asked very casually:
"What's in the tea?"
"......" Qi Lian stared at her and looked at her silently.
It's not that he didn't want to say it, but he suddenly felt that the aura on Shu Jin's body was becoming more and more dangerous, cruel, bloody, and the feeling as if he had been pinched by an invisible force became stronger and stronger. He didn't dare to speak, not knowing what kind of results he would lead to if he said this.
He had deliberately spoken loudly just now, but there was no reaction at all outside, obviously what Shu Jin's maid did when she went out.
"Huh." Shu Jin chuckled, slowly stood up, ignoring Qi Lian and the queen, who were so startled that she retreated again and again, she lowered her eyes and looked at the teacup that was still suspended above the ground.
Qi Lian couldn't control the gaze of the two of them, and followed Shu Jin to look at the teacup.
The queen looked at it, her eyes suddenly widened, and she opened her mouth to scream.
"Don't make a sound, if yelling scares me, it's not good if my hand slips." Shu Jin's laughing voice sounded, obviously with a smiling tone, but the two people opposite didn't have the slightest feeling that she was joking.
The queen was so frightened that she quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth, stifling back the screams that came out immediately.
Just now, right under their noses, the teacup shattered silently before their eyes, two halves, four halves, thirty-six halves...... Not the shattering of being broken, but being cut by something invisible, neatly chopped whole!
Qi Lian had seen Shu Jin's knife technique when cooking. All the ingredients in her hands seem to be able to be cut into any shape she wants. And the things she cut out were all small and thin. The length is very well-proportioned and beautiful.
Now this teacup is too.
There seems to be an invisible board and a knife blade, and the teacup is cut more and more broken, obviously it is a good bone china, but it is like a piece of tofu. In the end, it was directly crushed into a small pile of powder.
And this qiΔ is just completed in an instant.
Then, in that pile of powder, suddenly a bunch began to rise. Like a piece of silk being lifted, the pile of powder slowly floated up. Obviously he couldn't see anything, it was obviously a pile of powder, but it condensed into a bunch, slowly floating in the air, until it floated to the same height as Shu Jin's shoulder, and then stood still in the air.
"Ahh The queen covered her mouth, but she couldn't help but make a sound in the next moment, and then she was frightened back by Shu Jin's turned gaze.
"You! Are you a human or a demon! What are you doing! "Qi Lian is not better than the queen at all, and he is almost scared to death at the moment. He did think about it just now. Since it was not okay to smash the cup, he simply called for the people outside to come in, but after a moment's delay, now, he no longer has the courage to shout.
Shu Jin's warning, he didn't dare not listen. Because he thought that his hardness should be far inferior to that of the copper kettle and porcelain teacup......
"Do you think I'm a human or a demon? What do you think, I'm going to do? Shu Jin asked rhetorically.
"......" Qi Lian wanted to say I don't know, among the goblins and ghosts he had heard of, he had never heard of being able to have children. Shu Jin's two children are delicate and beautiful. But it inherited the advantages of Jiang Duanyu and Shu Jin's appearance, yes.
But this kind of ability is by no means like a human being.
recalled the vision of Shu Jin's birth day. Is she really not human? Or is this no longer the real Fang Shujin in front of him?
"Daisen! Please let it go......" When Qi Lian was shocked, the queen had already opened her mouth to beg for mercy, and she was even more frightened and cried bitterly. Spent a face of makeup.
Qi Lian looked at this scene and wanted to beg for mercy together, but unfortunately, he was still the emperor, and the dignity of an emperor could not be lost no matter what.
So, he was scared again. After all, he didn't do anything to cry and kneel down and beg for mercy.
"I, I don't know where you are, but the tea is just some kind of drug, the kind that won't hurt your life or body." In the end, Qi Lian said.
"Drugged me, and then?"
"This, so that you can say that you are unwell, and then take the opportunity to leave you in the palace for a few days, you can think of ways to force you to find out where you have hidden the food."
"What about those Praetorian Guards and the masters who pretend to be palace people outside?"
"I'm just afraid that the people you brought are too strong and can't cure you if something happens. If you don't drink the tea, or if the medicine doesn't work, you can call them in so that you don't dare to act rashly. β
"What if I don't tell me where the food is?"
ββ¦β¦β
"How are you going to force me to comply?"
"I, I sent someone to the Protector's Mansion......"
"Huh?"
"Pick up your child at the Protectorate's Mansion......"
Qi Lian said cautiously at the end.
When Shu Jin heard this, he snorted coldly. Sure enough, it was the idea of using the child to blackmail her.
"Now that I know all your calculations, what do I say?"
Shu Jin put his hands behind his back, and looked at Qi Lian and the queen for a long time.
As she spoke, she left her position and took two steps to the side, and the strange teacup powder turned into a bunch again as if it had been pulled, and then slowly floated and followed Shu Jin's side.
"You can try yelling and calling all the guards outside. Well, anyway, I've just replaced wine with tea to pay tribute to the souls of the dead. β
Shu Jin glanced at Qi Lian and raised his left hand. The pile of porcelain powder floated towards her hand as if she was being summoned, and then a whirlwind of visible size appeared in Shu Jin's palm, rolling up all the powder, and the white powder kept spinning in her palm out of thin air.
How scary this scene is, the queen couldn't stand it, and sat on the ground all of a sudden, covering her mouth and her eyes were dark, and she fainted.
And Qi Lian's desperate idea that had just emerged immediately disappeared in this situation.
Calling someone in might be able to subdue her one last time, but, before she is subdued, she will definitely have time to turn herself into that copper kettle, or this teacup.
Qi Lian collected all his thoughts, looked around, and the chests of several palace maids rose and fell, and it seemed that they really just fainted. And Shu Jin has been talking to him for so long, but she hasn't really hurt people and killed people, doesn't she want to make things irreparable?
He raised his head and looked at the runes painted on the four corners of the roof in the hall, but was interrupted by Shu Jin's chuckle.
"I dare to go in and out here, but I'm not afraid of those things, don't think too much."
This Qi Lian, this pass even thought that those drawn runes for disaster relief and exorcism could deal with her? It's hilarious.
Qi Lian was debunked, a little wolf, straightened his expression, forced himself to calm down, and then said:
"Lord Xiangtang, in fact, it's just a misunderstanding, I have no malicious intent. I invited you into the palace just to discuss a way with you to calm the turmoil of this big performance. β
Shu Jin looked at Qi Lian, and said in his heart that the grievances he had when he was a child were really not in vain, even if he was now an emperor, he had not forgotten the good quality of being able to bend and stretch.
"Then tell me, how to calm down?"
"As long as the county lord is willing to help, take out part of the stored grain for parity sales, and with the support of some large households, stabilize the grain price first, the price will slowly fall, and the turmoil will naturally subside."
Hearing this, Shu Jin nodded, but the words he said were:
"What if I don't?"
ββ¦β¦ If the county lord refuses, then forget it, and I will think about the next way. β
"Oh? So easy to talk to? Won't you send someone to surround our Protector's Mansion? No more people will be sent to arrest my children? Won't you give an order to condemn Jiang Duanyu? Won't you want to seal my shop pΓΉ to catch my buddy? β
"......" Qi Lian was silent, because the thoughts he had were all spoken.
Shu Jin didn't ask, raised his hand, and pointed at the queen. Then just when Qi Lian didn't react, the bodyguard machine had already stepped forward, and a hand knife stunted the queen who woke up at some point.
"You!"
Qi Lian was startled when he saw it.
"Don't worry, it's just to let the queen mother sleep, so that she won't be frightened." Shu Jin said, "Next, what we say, the fewer people who know, the better." β
"What, what?"
Fortunately, just after the queen also fainted, Qi Lian suddenly felt unprecedented pressure. Especially when he looked at Shu Jin's cold gaze.
"Qi Lian, what caused this turmoil, I believe you know very well, right? So, you should also know that I won't give up so easily. β
Why? Qi Lian pursed his lips and was silent.
His little temptation directly made her have such a violent rebound, which Qi Lian could never have imagined.
"Have you forgotten who helped you during Qi Zhao's rebellion?"
Qi Lian was shocked when he heard this, and instantly thought of what happened when he had just received the royal secret guard from King Yong.
(To be continued.) )