Chapter 19: Help Turns into Revenge
Dinner the next day
"Come, eat this, eat this, eat more, see you are as thin as a monkey" At this moment, Concubine Lian was constantly sandwiching all kinds of food into Zhang Bairen's bowl, and the food in the bowl was about to pile up a mountain.
It turned out that last night Zhang Bairen's mother and son hugged each other and chatted until dawn, during which Zhang Bairen kept telling the past of these years, and Concubine Lian listened to it crying and laughing, and the time of the night seemed to be frozen in a fleeting manner, and the two rested for a day during the day, and only then came to the dining room of the palace for dinner at this moment, and the eighth prince did not publicize the matter, but only arranged for a few henchmen from last night to dine together.
"Thank you... Mother, don't keep clipping it for me, you can eat more yourself!" Zhang Bairen gulped the food in the bowl, and said vaguely with a mouth full of food.
"Brother Bainin, I didn't expect it, you are really my brother!" Chen Liang did not participate in the meeting last night, and he was also surprised when he learned the news this morning.
"Huh... It's not big or small, I will see my nephew in the future, and I want to call him the emperor!" The eighth prince was also full of joy at this time, and pretended to shout to Chen Liang.
"Hey, hey, yes! Chen Liang said with a smile.
The eve of the storm is always unusually quiet, the eighth prince is secretly planning various matters at this time, and Zhang Bairen in order to avoid accidents, deliberately let Concubine Lian stay in the palace, and he has been accompanying Concubine Lian during the day, and cultivating all night at night.
Time flies, on this day, before dawn, Zhang Bairen and others have gathered in the living room of the palace, after the last secret discussion and confirmation, everyone acted according to their original plans in turn, and Zhang Bairen also left the palace with the eighth prince after the thousand instructions of Concubine Lian, and went to the royal cemetery of the Western Xia Kingdom together.
After Zhang Bairen and others came to the entrance of the royal cemetery, they saw that all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had been waiting here for a long time, because there was a specific time for the sacrifice, and at this moment the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were quietly waiting for the arrival of the king, and Zhang Bairen stood beside the prince and changed into Chen Liang's reckless robe, and stood aside with his head bowed.
After a while, I saw a group of people not far away carrying a huge dragon sedan chair carried by thirty-two people, and they were slowly walking towards the cemetery.
"The auspicious time has come! !" I saw a high-pitched chief eunuch shouting loudly.
Then, under the leadership of the king's team, the emperor's relatives and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military entered the cemetery one after another, and Zhang Bairen did not raise his head throughout the whole process.
After the time passed minute by minute, after the completion of a complete set of royal sacrifice processes, the national teacher, who had been standing beside the king's dragon sedan chair, suddenly took out a scroll of edicts with dragon-shaped patterns from his arms and said loudly, "The sacrifice is over, the ministers kneel down and listen to the order!"
All the courtiers immediately knelt down, including Zhang Bairen and others, and at this time, Zhang Bairen looked at the dying king on the dragon sedan chair and Qianjizi who was reading the edict on the side, and a trace of incomparably fierce look flashed in his eyes.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, this king is now seriously ill, really unable to worry about the government, today here, the king's position is located in the Xixia national teacher Qianjizi, the ministers must not have any objections, Qin this!" After the national teacher finished reading, everyone on the ground suddenly talked about it, and it was noisy.
"Do you have any objections? Stand up and speak!" Qian Jizi suddenly used his power to instantly amplify the volume, and the sound spread out like rolling thunder.
Suddenly there was a noisy crowd, and it was silent in an instant, and there was no more sound.
"I don't agree!" a similarly loud voice suddenly came, causing everyone in the audience to look up suddenly.
I saw Zhang Bairen holding his head high at the moment, his eyes pressing at the national teacher, and walking forward step by step.
"Who are you, dare to be presumptuous here!, come here!, drag him out and behead him to show the public!" Qian Jizi's eyes suddenly flashed a trace of ruthlessness, he didn't expect that there were still people in the court who dared to openly resist.
"Bold National Teacher, how dare you murder the current prince in public? Do you know what crime to be guilty of?" At this time, the eighth prince suddenly stood up and shouted loudly.
"What? This is the crown prince? Isn't the prince already dead? What is going on?" the ministers who were kneeling on the ground suddenly exploded again.
"Hahahaha, the eighth prince, the eighth prince, I said that you are old and confused, or are you terminally ill, as we all know, the prince of the evil star has been dead for many years, and now you can find a cat and a dog casually, and say that he is the prince, do you want to bully the king and rebel or do you want to seek a dynasty to usurp the throne?" The national teacher was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and then stared at the eighth prince with very vicious eyes and said loudly one by one.
"Ministers, you must all know that sixteen years ago, my imperial brother listened to slander and sent the current prince out of the palace, and I boldly disobeyed the will of the imperial brother and secretly adopted the prince.
"I can testify! I can testify! I can testify," and then, the expeditionary general and others who had been discussing last night stood up and shouted loudly.
"Listen, ministers, my imperial brother is not seriously ill, but has been poisoned and murdered by this thief and national teacher, and today! I will avenge my imperial brother and my king of Western Xia!" the eighth prince shouted loudly.
"Hahahaha, hahahaha! Eighth Prince, you have a very deep plan! But you seem to have forgotten one thing, in the face of absolute strength, any plan is like a piece of paper!"
"Drink········ Suddenly, thousands of Imperial City Janissaries suddenly rushed out from all directions, and everyone present was surrounded by them, which immediately frightened many officials into a panic.
"Really... Someone's coming·· The eighth prince also shouted.
"Roar... Roar··· Roar..." Suddenly, on the surrounding hillsides, there was a monstrous roar like an ancient beast, and a deafening dull footsteps, and suddenly on the slopes around the entire cemetery, there were well-equipped armies all over the mountains.
The national teacher's eyes suddenly became extremely gloomy, and then he gritted his teeth and shouted in a low voice, "Hmph... Do you think that you will be able to defeat my great teacher?
"Really, I'll send you on your way first!" Zhang Bairen said suddenly, and then he pulled out the long sword he had picked up from Panlong Mountain, and instantly stabbed towards the national teacher like a meteor.
Looking at Zhang Bairen who rushed over, a trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of the national teacher, and he suddenly shouted "up", and a huge stone wall instantly appeared in front of Zhang Bairen.
There was no time to dodge, Zhang Bai couldn't help but retreat and counterattacked, and instantly exerted his strength halfway again, and quickly collided with it.
only heard the sound of "boom", and the stone wall was instantly smashed by Zhang Bairen, but before he could see the scene clearly, it was dark in front of him in an instant, because he was instantly hit by a rushing boulder head-on and flew out in an instant.
"Whoa!" Zhang Bairen got up instantly, spit out the blood mixed with gravel in his mouth, and stared at the national teacher, he didn't expect this national teacher to be so powerful.
He should be an earth-based origin spirit body, and he has also cultivated earth-based spells, but he hasn't learned any spells yet, so how can this be good.
Just when Zhang Bairen was thinking about it, the national teacher shouted again, "prisoner"
Before Zhang Bairen could react, he instantly felt that it was dark, and in an instant, he felt that there was nothing to see in the darkness around him, and he immediately held a long sword in his hand and was on guard, secretly saying that it was not good in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of spell it was, so he suddenly panicked.
And the Eighth Prince and the others were also shocked at this time, only to see that Zhang Bairen was completely surrounded by a huge stone ball at this time, and the stone ball was still growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Go and help smash the stone ball open!" At this time, the eighth prince shouted at the soldiers, and suddenly the soldiers quickly ran towards the stone ball, took out the swords in their hands and slashed them.
"Hmph! ignorance!" the national teacher sneered and said, "Get out" and then the national teacher waved his hand, and the group of soldiers were instantly fanned out and fell to the ground.
Zhang Bairen was already in a cold sweat at this time, and his head was also quickly thinking about how to deal with it, and then he suddenly discovered, why hasn't the national teacher attacked him for so long? "Isn't this an illusion" Zhang Bairen said secretly in his heart.
Then he tentatively stabbed forward with the long sword, and "ding" saw a soft sound in an instant, and then he swung his big sword, and the long sword instantly splashed a spark on the stone wall.
With the instantaneous spark, he could see something, and then he didn't hesitate, and quickly waved the long sword in his hand, and suddenly sparks flew everywhere, and now he finally saw his surroundings clearly, it turned out that he was trapped in a vacuum-like stone ball.
Originally, the space inside was small, and after a long time, he suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe, and he had to escape immediately, otherwise he would be trapped inside.
He quickly thought about how to escape, kept telling himself that he must be calm at this time, and his mind was quickly thinking about how to escape.