Chapter 31: A glass of wine is desolate
Xinyue didn't know when she came to the Taoist temple, and when she saw Ming Chongyan who had lost her head, the shock on her face was still more than Wu Zetian, and she guessed who the murderer was almost instantly.
Then what was even more shocking was that how could Tang Ao kill Ming Chongyan? Even she is preparing carefully, and she has given up because of lack of confidence several times when she wants to start!
Wu Zetian's face tightened, making her charming color a little more solemn, glanced at Xinyue, and said coldly: "Investigate thoroughly, you must find out who killed Ming Chongyan." ”
Xinyue was a little unhappy in her heart, in the past two years, Wu Zetian favored Ming Chongyan, she was no longer Wu Zetian's cronies, but she didn't expect that as soon as Ming Chongyan died, Wu Zetian would dictate to her, when she was a rag?
was unhappy in her heart, but Xinyue didn't show it, she didn't care about this matter, if she was someone else, wouldn't it be bad if she really found out about Tang Ao?
At dawn, the news of Ming Chongyan's killing spread in the palace, and Li Xian couldn't help but clap his hands when he heard this in the morning.
Li Xian looked at Ming Chongyan for a long time, especially when Ming Chongyan said that he was not in front of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, saying that he did not have the appearance of a benevolent monarch, at that time Li Xian wanted to shoot Ming Chongyan to death, but Ming Chongyan lost his head so quickly, is this a curse?
"Daosheng, what are you doing in a daze? Go to the Shang Food Bureau to inform me, add a few more meat dishes today, the appetite of this palace is still good, haha. ”
Zhao Daosheng came back to his senses from his stunned moment, looked at the overjoyed Li Xian, and when he turned around, a cold light flashed in his eyes.
After noon, Xinyue went back to find out the clues of Chongyan's killing in Wu Zetian's bedroom, Xinyue did check, but it was looking for Tang Ao's traces, but there was no in the palace, and there was no British palace, which made Xinyue a little worried.
Wu Zetian hadn't finished listening to Xinyue's perfunctory words, and the palace maid came in and said, "Niangniang, there is an inner eunuch named Zhao Daosheng outside, saying that there is something important to report. ”
"Let him come in and talk." Wu Zetian heard that he was a eunuch, so he must be of high grade, could it be that Li Zhi's body has deteriorated again?
When Zhao Daosheng came in, Wu Zetian and Xinyue were stunned, because Zhao Daosheng's face was not lost to them at all, if it wasn't for the eunuch clothes, I was afraid that I would still think it was a concubine in the palace!
Without waiting for Wu Zetian to ask, Zhao Daosheng leaned down and knelt on the ground, and sobbed: "Queen Qi, the slave maid came to confess the crime, and the doctor Ming Chongyan Ming was killed, but the prince sent someone to kill him, and the slave and maid all knew about this matter, and they were worried, so they came to report to the queen." ”
"What did you say?" Wu Zetian couldn't believe that Ming Chongyan was killed by Li Xian's faction? Who can kill Ming Chongyan?
Xinyue was also shocked, when did Tang Ao and Li Xian get together? It's impossible!
Zhao Daosheng continued to say without shock: "Niangniang, the prince not only sent someone to kill Ming Chongyan, but also secretly stored warriors in the East Palace, buried armor, and prepared to follow the changes of Xuanwumen and raise troops to rebel. ”
Wu Zetian sat on the gum all of a sudden, his face didn't know whether it was joy or shock, anyway, Xinyue didn't understand.
"Son of Evil...... The rebel son ......" Wu Zetian calmed down his spirit, and muttered a few words sharply: "Someone is coming, immediately pass on the achievements of the left capital of the Imperial Forest Army, and lead the troops to thoroughly investigate the prince's East Palace." ”
Zhao Daosheng led the way in front of the head, introduced the fierce and vicious Qiu Shenji around him into the East Palace Horse Fang, went straight to the corner of the horse square, pointed to the place where the soil had been newly turned over and said, "General, this is it." ”
Zhao Daosheng buried several pairs of armor here, all of which were stolen from Li Xian's bedroom, Ming Chongyan was already dead, Zhao Daosheng was ready to use this to frame Li Xian for rebellion, if he could succeed, it would be good, even if he failed, he would be angry.
Qiu Shenji's face was hateful, but his heart was as careful as a hair, looking at the traces of soil on the ground, he couldn't help but glance at Zhao Daosheng, but he still ordered someone to cut the ground open, and sure enough, he found a few pairs of Mingguang armor.
"Keep digging." Qiu Shenji asked people to turn over the horse workshop, and as a result, on the other side of the horse square, there was a major discovery, and hundreds of sets of armor weapons were dug out of the ground.
Zhao Daosheng looked at the dug up armor and weapons stupidly, his brain was buzzing, and there was only one thought in his heart: "Could it be that Li Xian really wants to rebel?" Are you crooked? ”
Donggong Mafang excavated a lot of armor, Qiu Shenji knew that he had stabbed the basket, as the left captain of the Imperial Forest Army, Qiu Shenji still has some military knowledge, the East Palace secretly hides these armor, it is useless, the prince Li Xian is brilliant, he will never make such a mistake.
Qiu Shenji remembered that when he went to the Imperial Forest Army to give an order in the inner palace, the eunuch specially mentioned the three words in the northwest corner, Qiu Shenji was terrified, and he was sweating in an instant.
Qiu Shenji looked at Zhao Daosheng, who looked stupid, and immediately made up his mind, he could only stand on the side of Empress Wu Zetian in this matter, otherwise based on today's actions alone, Li Xian would ascend the throne and inherit the throne in the future, and the first head to be cut off would be his.
Before Zhao Daosheng could understand what was going on, he was tied up by Qiu Shenji, Zhao Daosheng was an important witness, Qiu Shenji didn't want to have the slightest mistake, and then ordered the Imperial Forest Army to surround the East Palace.
When Tang Ao woke up, his first feeling was that something was crawling on his face, and he subconsciously reached out to grab it, grabbed a ball of soft meat, and had a bit of a giggling touch, and opened his eyes in fright to see that it was a toad.
Tang Ao threw the toad aside, only to find that he was half-lying at the water's edge, the water was covered with floating dead fish and rotten shrimp, and there were several wild deer that died on the shore in the distance.
"I'm not dead?" Tang Ao stretched out his hand in disbelief and put it in front of him, and looked at the shadow in the sun, it was indeed not dead.
"These fish, shrimp and wild deer must have died because of the poison on my body, but a few toads survived because of the poison." Tang Ao crawled to a dry place and quickly understood why the water's edge was so sad.
Tang Ao looked at his body, the wound had healed, without leaving the slightest scar, he sat cross-legged on the ground and ran the Dao Sutra, and the toxicity of the Golden Liquid Great Dan was gone, which couldn't help but make him amazed.
"Is this a life? The toxicity of the Golden Liquid Dan is so domineering, how can it keep me safe? Could it be because he devoured Ming Chongyan's blood? ”
Tang Ao couldn't figure it out, maybe it was really Ming Chongyan's blood that had a magical place, the Mirror Flower World, the Ghost Country Kun Clan, it seemed to be very remarkable!
Since he didn't die, Tang Ao wanted to go back to the city to see, Ming Chongyan was not only a warlock favored by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, but also a person from another world, how could he come to the Tang Dynasty? What does it have to do with the Golden Light Taoist who was pushed down the river by him?
Tang Ao, who was puzzled, washed up by the river, wore tattered clothes and came to the east gate of Chang'an City, and saw that the city gate was overcrowded from a long distance, and it seemed that he was guarded by soldiers and was not allowed to enter the city.
Tang Ao chuckled in his heart, it seemed that Ming Chongyan's killing had been discovered, so he could only wait for the night to sneak into the city.
Tang Ao walked on the potholed road in the outer city, looking at the wine shop not far away, remembering that he was drunk there last time and went to kill Ming Chongyan, and today he inadvertently walked here, is it destined in the dark?
Tang Ao touched the gold leaf in his arms, raised his leg and walked into the wine shop, to Tang Ao's surprise, the guy in the store still recognized him, without him talking, he sent a few jars of wine and a plate of dried fish fillet, and finally said: "Objectively I haven't been here for a long time, and I was a dusty servant last time, eat more wine and relieve fatigue." ”
The wine was sour and the fish fillets were soft, Tang Ao sat down to drink so calmly for the first time, looking at the pedestrians outside the wine shop, his mind gradually became empty.
Several jars of wine were drunk by Tang Ao unconsciously, and then picked up the jar and poured the wine, and found that the jar was empty, and Tang Ao, who was six or seven points drunk, slapped the table and shouted: "Man, serve the wine." ”
The wine came, but it was not sour pulp, but a jar of fragrant Baihua brew, Tang Ao's eyes looked up along the wine jar, Xinyue's face was like a ghost, and he couldn't get together.
The people in the wine shop had already been driven away by Xinyue, looking at the stupid and sluggish Tang Ao, Xinyue poured Tang Ao a glass of wine: "Don't worry!" There is no poison in the wine. ”
Tang Ao looked at the amber-colored liquor in the cup, and couldn't help but think of Helan Minyue, who was poisoned by Wu Zetian, sighed lightly, raised his head and drank it all, and said happily: "Good wine." ”
"There's a big head, why is it missing?" Xinyue poured another cup for Tang Ao: "Your courage is really not small, you dare to deal with Ming Chongyan alone, I am really curious, how did you kill him, and how did you survive." ”
Tang Ao turned his wine glass: "The sages have clouds, although tens of millions of people go to me!" Why not be afraid of a dog Taoist, whether he is from the Mirror Flower World or the Ghost Country Kun Clan, if you don't kill him, I can't calm down. ”
Xinyue didn't care when she heard the mirror flower world, but when she heard the ghost country Kun clan, her delicate body couldn't help but be shocked, and the wine jar she was carrying fell on the table, and she looked at Tang Ao fixedly: "What did you say?" Ming Chongyan is from the ghost country Kun clan? ”
Tang Ao didn't answer Xinyue's words, he held the wine jar with both hands, drank it all in one gulp, and then the wine surged up, he burped, his body shook and looked at Xinyue, his tongue was a little hard and said: "You submitted more than a dozen letters, do you know why I didn't read it and didn't go to see you?" ”
Xinyue frowned slightly, it seemed that Tang Ao didn't know that she had been on the tree outside the study several times, and asked, "Why?" ”
"You are no longer you, you have become the same as Ming Chongyan, knowing that Li Hong has the poison of the dragon in his body, but he chose to turn a blind eye, since then I know that we are not all the way."
Tang Ao made her words clear, Xinyue felt a faint pain in her heart, she guessed that this was the reason that made Tang Ao estranged from her, and today when she heard Tang Ao say it in person, her willow-like body shook involuntarily.
"You don't understand ......"
Tang Ao suddenly laughed, turned around and walked towards the outside of the wine shop, and his voice reached Xinyue's ears, slightly sad: "Someone has said this to me before, but in the past and today, there is no difference. ”