The king of Linzi was poisoned and fell to the ground, almost killed in an instant, when everyone was frightened, he had not come back to his senses, but he heard a "wow" sound, followed the sound and looked, only to see a mouthful of blood spurting out of the stone pond, the blood was black, and the whole person had fallen to the ground forward, just struggling twice, and it was also killed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In an instant, two lives were lost, one was the prince of Eastern Qi, and the other was also a subordinate general under the crown prince, and everyone was dumbfounded.

The prince's eyes widened, his face twitched, and he rushed forward, hugged the king of Linzi, and hissed: "The third child, the third .......!" He has always been quite calm, but at this moment, when his sibling brother was killed in front of his eyes, he was very excited, and his voice was even more hoarse and sad.

Qi Ning watched the King of Linzi and Shitang fall to the ground one after the other and die, and was surprised, knowing that something was wrong, so at this time, Fang Xingzhai, the assassin of Xuzhou, came back to his senses and shouted loudly: "There are assassins, everyone stay where they are, and they must not move without permission." ”

Fang Xingzhai shouted, and Su Lun, another general under the crown prince, also came back to his senses and said in a deep voice: "Surround here, without the order of His Highness, no one should act rashly." The saber has been drawn, in addition to the prince's own soldiers nearby, there are also those prince's guards in strong clothes, hearing Su Lun's voice, for a while the sound of "choking" is loud, all of them pulled out their knives, and the surrounding soldiers immediately formed a circle, holding big knives and spears, surrounded by airtight.

Wu Dalin also knew that things were not good, he brought more than ten soldiers over, plus the guards of the Hou Mansion around Qi Ning, there were only more than 20 people, at this time they were surrounded in the middle, the situation was urgent, Wu Dalin pressed his hand on the handle of the knife, but he remained calm, and said in a deep voice: "Don't act rashly, don't draw the knife!" ”

He knew very well that at this time it was a tense moment, the king of Linzi and Shitang were poisoned by drinking, and everyone knew that the poisonous wine was offered by the Chu State Mission, and the other party would definitely target the mission.

Sure enough, Situ Mingyue looked at Qi Ning and said angrily: "Jinyi Hou, what's going on?" ”

Qi Ning looked solemn and said, "I also want to know what's going on." ”

Fang Xingzhai pointed at Qi Ning and said, "You guys...... You Chu State is ruthless and actually poisoned the King of Linzi, Qi Ning, are you guilty? ”

"In order to repair the good of the two countries, my Chu State specially sent an embassy, I don't know what the crime is?"

Fang Xingzhai said angrily: "You still say that you are not guilty? Are you blind when everybody's eyes are blind? Pointing to the jar of wine, he said, "I ask you, this jar of wine, but what your mission offered?" ”

"Not bad." Qi Ning nodded.

Fang Xingzhai sneered: "It's good for you to admit it, and you dare to say that you are not guilty?" ”

Qi Ning said lightly: "This jar of wine is indeed what I dedicated to the prince, but the person who sent the wine may not be the one who poisoned it." ”

"You're still quibbling?" Fang Xingzhai clenched his fists and said: "Qi Ning, although you are the Jinyi Hou of the Chu State, but if you kill our King of Linzi of Great Qi, you will have to pay for your life." ”

Su Lun had already said in a deep voice: "It's all taken!" ”

The Dongqi soldiers around him pounced like wolves, and Wu Dalin said sharply: "Who dares to do it." Knowing that if you don't resist at this time, you will be caught, although the other party is overwhelming, but everyone in Chu is not afraid, Wu Dalin took the lead in drawing his knife and rushed to Qi Ning's side, and the others also rushed forward to protect Qi Ning.

The prince of Dongqi was holding the corpse of the king of Linzi on the side, extremely sad, in fact, once Qi Ning made a move at this time, he could completely control the prince of Dongqi in his hands, as long as the prince was in his hands, the officers and soldiers of Dongqi would not dare to act rashly, and they could even get out of the predicament.

But Qi Ning knew that once he made a move, there would be no turning back.

The moment the King of Linzi fell to the ground, Qi Ning knew that there was a big trouble, the King of Linzi was not an ordinary person, but a dignified prince of Eastern Qi, if this matter could not be explained clearly, the entire Chu State Mission was afraid that it would not be able to leave Eastern Qi.

But once he started to hold the prince of Dongqi hostage, no matter what he said next, the people of Dongqi would not believe it.

The soldiers of the Eastern Qi were about to kill with their swords, but they heard a voice shouting: "Stop! It was the prince of Dongqi who stood up and shouted loudly.

The prince stopped, and naturally no one dared to move, but he still surrounded Qi Ning and his party.

The crown prince turned around, looked at Qi Ning, and said, "Jinyihou, this palace would like to hear how you explain." ”

Qi Ning sighed and said, "Your Highness is wise, killing people requires a motive, if we poisoned the wine and killed the King of Linzi, then what is the motive?" ”

"You're not trying to kill the King of Linzi." Situ Mingyue calmed his face and said coldly: "These two jars of wine, you are dedicated to His Highness, Your Highness does not know that the wine is poisonous, reward Shitang, no one knew in advance that the King of Linzi would drink, so your purpose is not the King of Linzi, let alone Shitang, but His Highness." ”

Qi Ning stared at Situ Mingyue and asked, "Situ Changshi, I'm still the same question, where is our motive for wanting to harm His Highness?" Of course, anyone who does something has a motive, let alone such a major event as murdering His Highness? He glanced at the prince and said, "One of me and the prince is in Chu and the other is in Qi, we have never met before, and we have never had any dealings, and even you and I have not had much contact with each other before, so we can't talk about grudges, why should I harm the prince?" ”

"You know in your hearts what intentions are." Fang Xingzhai was aggressive, "You don't have to quibble here, the king of Linzi was killed by you, no matter how you quibble, you have no reason to live." ”

Qi Ning smiled faintly and asked, "Lord Fang, what do you say our intentions are?" Even if he wants to cure our sins, he must always make it clear. You say, what is our purpose in harming Your Highness? ”

Fang Xingzhai said in a deep voice: "Your Highness is the prince of my Great Qi, and harming Your Highness is naturally to cause turmoil in my Great Qi, so you Chu State can take advantage of the weakness to enter?" ”

Qi Ning sneered and said unceremoniously: "Lord Fang, are you stupid, or are Benhou stupid?" If we want to cause turmoil in the Qi country, we take advantage of the situation, what is the reason? Do you think that our Chu State wants to use troops against the Qi State? You might as well ask yourself, if my Chu State attacks the Qi State, will it be of the slightest benefit to our Great Chu? Although Ben Hou is not smart, he is definitely not stupid, poisoning wine, such an inferior trick, isn't it self-defeating? Nearly 300 people in my mission, do they still want to come to the funeral knowing that they are going to die? ”

The prince remained silent, and finally said: "The wine is poisonous, how can you explain it?" ”

"I really don't know the reason for this." Qi Ning frowned and said: "Your Highness, the clear person is self-purifying, I ask myself if I have no motive to harm His Highness, let alone the intention of harming His Highness." ”

The prince groaned slightly, and then asked: "Jinyihou, this palace also believes that you have no intention of harming you, but ...... Have you checked the poisoned wine for its poison before offering it? ”

Qi Ning was stunned, thinking that if Lao Tzu found it poisonous, could he still give it to you? Suddenly, it occurred to me that this batch of imperial wine had been tampered with in advance, and he had become a scapegoat? frowned and said: "Your Highness, this has indeed not been checked, this is a gift prepared by the imperial court, an old year's wine, if you want to check, you have to open the sealing mud, this is naturally not possible." ”

The prince said: "This palace can believe that you have no intention of harming, but have you ever thought that this matter is not coming for this palace, but at you?" After a pause, he said, "Do you have an opponent in the court, and before you set off, you were manipulated among these fine wines?" ”

Qi Ning thought to himself that it was not impossible to do this, and secretly thought that if this was the case, then it would be a big trouble, no matter who poisoned it, this poisonous wine was sent by himself, and now that the king of Linzi was poisoned and died, the people of Dongqi will naturally not give up, and they will not be able to get out of Dongqi nine times out of ten.

"Your Highness, whether the truth is really the case is actually easy to verify." Qi Ning said: "Of the two jars of wine that were given to His Highness last night, there is still one jar left, and His Highness can open the other jar to see if it is poisonous." I also sent someone to bring over the other jars of wine at once, and tested them in front of everyone, if the jars of wine in my convoy were all poisonous, then I could not escape the blame for this matter, and I should ask Your Highness for the guilt. ”

Fang Xingzhai sneered: "Even if the wine over there is not poisonous, it can't be proved that it is not poisoned by you?" You.......! Before he finished speaking, the prince had already raised his hand, stopped Fang Xingzhai's words, and said, "Just do what Jinyi Hou wants." ”

Qi Ning instructed Qi Feng to go back and fetch wine, and the prince also sent Situ Mingyue to fetch another jar of wine, and ordered people to place the bodies of King Linzi and Shitang first.

After the bodies of King Linzi and Shitang were carried down, it didn't take long for Situ Mingyue to bring another jar of wine and put it on the table. Approaching the past, the prince also approached, Qi Ning took a closer look, and suddenly pointed to a place and said, "Your Highness, please look here." ”

The prince looked down slightly, and suddenly found that on the top of the sealing mud on the top of the wine jar, there was an extremely small hole, extremely fine, if the eyesight is not good, or if you don't look carefully, it is impossible to find it, Qi Ning said: "Your Highness, if I guess correctly, this jar of wine has also been poisoned, and the poison has penetrated into it from this fine hole." ”

The prince instructed: "Come on, open the altar to test the poison!" ”

Someone on the side immediately stepped forward, patted open the sealing mud, took a silverware and dipped it in it, and after taking it out, under the sun, he soon saw that the silverware was black, Fang Xingzhai sneered: "It's really poisonous." ”

At this time, Qi Feng had already led people to move all the remaining eight jars of wine from the mission, and the prince said: "You don't have to test all of them, just pick three jars from them." ”

Situ Mingyue asked people to come over with three altars at will, and tested the drugs one by one, Qi Ning was nervous at this time, if these wines were poisonous, things would be more complicated, and his situation would be more dangerous, and he would not be able to get rid of the guilt of poisoning the King of Linzi no matter what.

Everyone stared at it, and saw that the silverware had probed into the three jars of wine, and the silverware had not changed, and the person who tested the poison had already said to the prince: "Your Highness, these three jars of wine are all non-toxic!" ”

Qi Ning and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but they thought in their hearts that the two jars of wine given to the prince must have been poisoned by the prince after accepting it, which was obviously the person around the prince, but they didn't know who wanted to put the prince to death, if it weren't for the king of Linzi and Shitang who were substitutes for the dead ghosts today, the dead might be the prince of Dongqi.