Chapter 248: I Can't Die
Seeing the brocade box in Wen Rongan's hand and the red pill in the brocade box, Xiao Zun's heart sank.
He teamed up with the national teacher to replace some of Emperor Sheng's pills with pills mixed with poison, which was prepared by Su Yu according to the amount, which could ensure that Emperor Sheng would not have adverse reactions immediately after taking the pills, so that he would be poisoned unknowingly.
And when the toxins in his body accumulated to the point of onset, all those poisonous pills had been consumed, leaving no traces.
This was originally a seamless plan, but what about the pill in Wen Rong'an's hand?
Is there still a fish that slips through the net? No way, it's absolutely impossible!
Xiao Zun stared at Wen Rong'an, his cold and venomous gaze was like a poisonous snake spitting letters.
Wen Rong'an didn't squint, walked calmly to the queen, presented the pill, and said, "Queen Mother, when the minister searched, he found that the national teacher was burning the pill. The minister felt that something was wrong, so he snatched a pill and asked the imperial doctor to check it, and found that this pill actually contained poison! ”
The queen was taken aback: "What?!" ”
The pill was quickly sent to the imperial medical group headed by the envoy of the Liu Hospital, who carefully examined it and determined that the pill was poisonous.
The queen laughed angrily: "What a national teacher, he dares to hurt the dragon body in a big way, and the saint trusts him so much!" Someone, bring him here! ”
Wen Rongan took the order and led people to arrest the national teacher.
Xiao Zun was shocked and at a loss at first, but now he has calmed down, although the current situation is precarious, his heart is quickly thinking about how to deal with it.
He can't care about framing the prince anymore, and the top priority is how to get himself out.
Wen Rong'an soon came back to resume his life, but his face was ugly and his tone was heavy: "Queen Mother, the national teacher is gone!" ”
The queen slapped the table angrily, and a wave of anger surged into her heart, and she was a little dizzy.
Yan Ran hurriedly stepped forward to take the queen's pulse, comforted the queen a few words, and a subtle look of unwillingness flashed in her eyes.
Xiao Zun was a little surprised at first, but when he saw Wen Rong'an and Yan Ran's subconscious expressions, he breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the national teacher really ran away, but I didn't expect him to have some real skills.
Wen Rong'an said: "Queen Mother, the national teacher must have discovered that his deeds were exposed, and he absconded in fear of crime, and he shouldn't have gone far now!" ”
The queen breathed a sigh of relief, and Tie Qing ordered with a pale face: "Yu Linwei listens to the order, immediately block the palace gate, and go all out to arrest the national teacher!" General Mu of the Xuancheng Defense Battalion, the most wanted national teacher in the city! ”
Xiao Zun made an indignant look and asked: "Queen Mother, son-in-law will also go to arrest the national teacher!" ”
And the prince was only immersed in the sadness that Mei Ji had died, and he had no intention of competing with Xiao Zun.
When the queen saw him looking like a mournful concubine, she was really upset, so she ordered the crown princess to take him back to the East Palace.
Because it was a palace banquet, the ministers watched Emperor Sheng bleeding and falling into a coma, so the poisoning could not be hidden.
Emperor Sheng has not woken up yet, and he doesn't know if he can survive this time, and the courtiers can't help but feel panicked.
Originally, if something happened to Emperor Sheng, the crown prince should ascend the throne logically.
But what the ministers see now is the brave and filial Prince Gong, and the cowardly and incompetent prince who can't even care about his father for a woman.
They are scheming in their hearts, and they can't help but waver again.
The national teacher is gone, and Xiao Zun is safe for the time being.
But the national teacher is still a time bomb, Xiao Zun secretly made up his mind that he must find the national teacher before anyone else!
Thinking so, he glanced at Cui Jingyi with a vague look.
"Princess!"
Suddenly, hearing the palace maid whispering, everyone found that Cui Jingyi had fainted.
Cui Jingyi has always been frail, and she has been raised in the deep boudoir before she left the cabinet, and it was only after marrying Xiao Zun that she slowly began to appear in people's sight.
She and the crown princess accompanied the queen all night, and at this time she fainted from exhaustion, and it did not arouse suspicion.
The queen was still quite distressed, and hurriedly asked Xiao Zun to send Cui Jingyi back to the mansion to rest.
Xiao Zun left the palace with Cui Jingyi in his arms and stayed in the carriage, Cui Jingyi opened her eyes, her eyes were clear, and she was not tired at all.
She was very sure: "Lord Wang, the national teacher has not left the city yet, and he may still be in the palace." ”
Xiao Zun is in cahoots with the national teacher, and if he wants to control the national teacher, it is naturally impossible to rely only on the friendship of a gentleman.
Su Yu got a pair of Gu worms out of nowhere, for the mother and son Gu.
The death of the child Gu will not affect the mother Gu, but if the mother Gu dies, the child Gu will also die.
As long as the two Gu are within a certain distance, they will be fine, but if they exceed this range, the child Gu will die, and the mother Gu will also sense.
Zi Gu was planted into the body of the national teacher, and the mother Gu was held in Xiao Zun's hand, and now she was lying quietly in Cui Jingyi's purse.
Now that the mother Gu has not moved, it means that the child Gu is still there, which means that the national teacher is still in Anyang City, and in such a short time, it is very likely that he has not had time to leave the palace.
Xiao Zun's face was gloomy, his heart was extremely resentful, and he said in a low voice: "The matter has come to this, and the national teacher can't stay." ”
Cui Jingyi was a little reluctant, of course, not because she was reluctant to give up the national teacher, but because she was reluctant to give up the Gu worm.
At this time, the whole city is under martial law, and there is no way to send the mother Gu out of the city, so that the child Gu will automatically die because he is far away from the mother Gu, and if you want to control the death of the child Gu and kill the host, you can only kill the mother Gu.
But this Gu worm has been tempered a lot, and it was not easy to get such a top-notch one, and she still wants to keep it.
Xiao Zun saw Cui Jingyi's reluctance, and coaxed her warmly: "When this matter is over, can this king find you another Gu King?" ”
Although Cui Jingyi was reluctant, she also understood the priorities, and was gently comforted by Xiao Zun, so she took off her purse and handed it over.
Although Gu worms are highly poisonous, they are also very vulnerable.
Xiao Zun only exerted a little force, and the insect body and the insect shell all turned into powder.
In the palace, all the imperial doctors were still sweating profusely preparing the antidote, and no one noticed that Yan Ran was missing.
Yan Ran returned to Shouning Palace, because it was still early, the palace was quiet, only the kitchen was busy making breakfast.
Concubine Yun also went to Kunning Palace to replace the queen, so that the queen who had not slept all night could rest for a while.
Yan Ran came to the small Buddha hall where Concubine Yun usually worships the Buddha, and gently turned the Buddha statue, and a secret door appeared behind the wall.
Concubine Yun has a sense of crisis and is extremely keen to set up secret rooms in the place where she lives, as is Miaoxian Nunnery and Shouning Palace.
However, she has never used these places herself, but they are cheaper than Yan Ran.
Yan Ran walked in, and Fan Mo, who was dressed as an inner servant, followed behind.
It wasn't until he passed through the narrow secret passage and entered the spacious secret room that Fanmo was finally able to stand up straight and lazily stretched his arms and legs.
In the secret room, a thin middle-aged man in a blue-gray robe was lying on the ground, his whole body curled up, his clothes soaked with sweat, and he seemed to be in extreme pain.
Yan Ran was not surprised, she lowered her eyelids slightly, and looked down at the people on the ground: "It seems that Xiao Zun has already killed the mother Gu." If I hadn't stripped the Zi Gu out of your body in advance, you would have been a corpse by now. ”
The man was the missing national teacher, he tried his best to endure the sharp pain surging in his body, squinted his eyes at Yan Ran, and said in a weak voice: "It's you who framed this seat." ”
Yan Ran seemed to have heard something funny, and laughed out loud: "Master National Teacher, you shouldn't have deceived people for a long time, and you have deceived yourself, do you really think that you are innocent?" What do you say about framing and not framing, as if it is not you who gives the poisonous elixir to the saint to eat. ”
Xiao Zun was cautious, and just after eating the poisonous pill, Emperor Sheng became ill, so there was really no proof of death.
However, Yan Ran and Wen Rong'an had already learned about this matter in advance, so naturally there was no evidence to create evidence.
The national teacher only felt that every part of his body hurt as if he had been cut by a knife, but he couldn't move, but he still gritted his teeth and said intermittently: "I can't say anything, left and right, it's all death, you might as well give me a good time." ”
He understood early on that conspiring with Xiao Zun was tantamount to conspiring with a tiger.
But in order to be able to enjoy even the supreme position of power for a while, he also gave up, and he had already prepared for the end that might be in a different place.
Therefore, he thought angrily, anyway, he was already Xiao Zun's accomplice, even if he exposed Xiao Zun's rebellion, he would inevitably die.
What difference does it make between saying it and not saying it?
If you don't say anything and bent on dying, you can avoid being coerced again, and you can still save some dignity.
Yan Ran raised her eyebrows and sneered, "Master Guoshi, what do you want?" How could I ...... Give you a good time! ”
The national teacher couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body when he heard such a creepy sentence spoken by Yan Ran in such a soft voice.
Fan Mo stepped forward, broke open the mouth of the national teacher, and forced him to swallow a pill.
Suddenly, he felt as if another layer of salt had been sprinkled on top of the pain of being cut by a knife, and every inch of bone was shattered, and the pain was so severe that he almost fainted.
Just when he thought he was dead, he came to his senses and experienced the same pain again.
His mind was completely overwhelmed by pain, he couldn't think of anything, and there was only one thought in his whole body, if only he died.
If you're dead, it won't hurt.
He was half-asleep, and a faint voice came from above his head, but he couldn't make out the contents.
Yan Ran had taught the national teacher a lesson, and he was not in a hurry to wait for his reply, and returned to Shouning Palace from the dark passage with Fanmo.
Fan Mo touched his nose and said, "My subordinates thought that you would show the national teacher a way out of life, as a condition for him to testify against Prince Gong." ”
Yan Ran said: "How can you live for the crime of killing the king?" He cooperated with Xiao Zun to dig such a big pit for us, and he wanted to die and be beautiful! However, although I can't show him the way to life, I can show him the way to death. ”
Do you choose to die happily, or can't you be tortured and beg for death?
Sometimes, it's harder to survive than to die.
Fan Mo suddenly shuddered, how could he feel a little pain in his body.