Chapter 43: The Pleasure of Drinking
Song Jinyan had a cold face, sat on the dragon chair, looked at the assassins who were captured alive, and said with a gloomy face: "Put people in the prison and hand them over to the Criminal Department for disposal." β
Concubine Xiao's knees weakened and knelt at Song Jinyan's feet: "Your Majesty, the concubines didn't investigate, and they actually let the assassins into the palace and begged the emperor to atone for their sins." β
The Queen Mother had a cold face: "Concubine Xiao, you are very good, those dancing girls can only enter the palace because of the dance you choreographed, you dare to swear, this matter really has nothing to do with you?" β
Concubine Xiao raised her head, her eyes were already full of tears, and said: "The Queen Mother is aware of it, and the concubines don't know who these people are, how could they suddenly assassinate just nowββ"
The Queen Mother frowned: "Su Peiyuan, you were the first to react just now, did you notice anything?" β
Su Peiyuan was stunned for a moment, and recalled: "The slave just heard the sound of dance music, and then the dancing girls rushed straight to the emperor. β
"No one?" The Queen Mother was confused, thinking that she seemed to be confused just now, and suddenly became suspicious, her eyes suddenly skimmed the wine glass in front of her, and she couldn't help but doubt: "Concubine Xiao, you brought this wine just now and let everyone drink it." This wine ......"
When Concubine Xiao heard this, she walked a few steps to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, the concubine is willing to guarantee this wine with her life, if the Queen Mother doesn't believe it, you can find a doctor to come and verify." β
At this time, the governor of the royal court in the crowd stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, whether this wine is really poisonous or not, the minister is willing to test." β
Song Jinyan smiled faintly, waved his hand casually, and motioned to the royal court governor to step forward.
I saw that the governor of the royal courtyard picked up the wine bottle, carefully inspected the color and face, sniffed with his hands, and took out a pack of silver needles in his arms and slowly submerged them into the wine for inspection.
The Queen Mother frowned slightly, and after a while she spoke: "Governor Wang, have you found anything?" Is this wine anything special? β
The governor of the royal court didn't say a word, dipped his fingers in the wine, and tasted it on the tip of his tongue, and after a while, he slowly spoke: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, there is no poison in this wine." β
Concubine Xiao raised her head with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother-"
The Queen Mother nodded: "Get up, child, the mourning family is to blame you." β
When Concubine Xiao heard this, a trace of pride flashed in her eyes, and she was just about to get up, but she heard Song Jinyan not seem to be surprised by this result, and said: "Slow - the governor of the royal court only said that it was not poisonous, but he did not say that the wine was fine." β
When the governor of the royal court heard this, his heart sank, and he expressed the confusion in his heart: "Although this wine is non-toxic, it has a unique taste of licorice, but this grass only has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind, although it is harmless to people, but I have never heard of it being brewed in wine." It made the minister feel a little weird. β
Song Jinyan looked at Concubine Xiao with a smile and asked, "What explanation do you have for this?"
Concubine Xiao was stunned: "Your Majesty, the concubine has never heard of any burning licorice, and that grass may be made by his craftsmen without intentionally joining inββ"
"Oh? Is that really the case? Song Jinyan turned the wine glass and stared straight at Concubine Xiao.
Concubine Xiao was stunned for a moment, knelt on the ground and sobbed: "If the emperor doesn't believe it, the concubine is willing to try the wine to prove that there is no problem with this wine." With that, Concubine Xiao struggled to get up, snatched the wine bottle from the nearest table, and drank it all.
Hearing this, Kou Shu shook her head slightly, burning licorice is not a poison in the first place, and if you try the wine yourself, I am afraid you won't be able to find anything.
Song Jinyan slowly lifted the wine bottle on the side, turned around slightly, and stared at Concubine Xiao for a while before saying, "Concubine Xiao, I have already given you a chance, but now, you are still lucky and disturbing the audio-visual, then don't blame me." β
When Concubine Xiao heard this, she was horrified. I cried even more, my shoulders twitched, and I seemed to have been greatly wronged, and I trembled and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine is just a commoner, only because God has mercy and coincidence, I was able to get lucky to enter the palace, and I just want to serve the emperor wholeheartedly and spread my branches." Now that I am fortunate to be favored by the emperor, today's affairs have nothing to do with the concubines, and I invite the emperor to learn from itββ"
"Since that's the case-" Song Jinyan snorted coldly: "Just ask the musician to repeat the song and dance of the Western Regions just now, what does Concubine Xiao think?" β
When Concubine Xiao heard this, her face turned pale instantly, and she seemed to have been drained of her strength and had no fulcrum, and collapsed softly on the ground.
The Queen Mother also saw the clue, slapped the chair under her hand, and shouted angrily: "Xiao Concubine! What's so funny about that song and dance, you still haven't recruited it from the truth! β
Lan Ruoxuan sat down with her head down from beginning to end, quietly observing everything. Seeing this, her eyebrows furrowed, as if she was a little surprised, she tilted her head imperceptibly, and whispered a few words to Youzhu beside her. Youzhu nodded and left the banquet quietly.
Song Jinyan said coldly: "The illusion music of the Western Regions can make people confused. It's just that phantom music needs the listener's mind to be vague in order to get twice the result with half the effort. I'm afraid this is the real purpose of this wine and herbs. β
The Queen Mother was shocked: "It's just that with this wine, it can greatly promote the hallucinogenic effect of phantom music, so everyone will be intoxicated with it and have no consciousness at all?" Even the mourning family fell for such a pickled trick? β
The concubine didn't speak, knelt down, already trembling, and had no confidence to cry out just now.
Seeing this, the Queen Mother also reacted, stood up and shouted: "Concubine Xiao, you made the wine in question, and you prepared the demagogic song and dance, and you dared to say that this matter has nothing to do with you!" It's really unbelievable and bold! β
Concubine Xiao trembled suddenly, her heart was in turmoil, this wine was not poisonous, even if she was suspicious, she couldn't find anything. As for the music score of the Western Regions, it is extremely rare, and even if he is in the Evil Ghost Sect, he learned about this by accident. Such a secret matter, why did Song Jinyan tell it so clearly?
When he looked up, he wanted to say something, but the guard behind him grabbed his shoulders and pressed him to the ground. Immediately, the whole person was erected and dragged down stiffly.
The originally good palace banquet ended like this, and the expressions on everyone's faces were a little unnatural, and they were all a little excited, and they left with their respective girls.
Lan Ruoxuan also returned to the Yilan Hall after the banquet, at this moment Youlan had already returned from sending the letter, and when she saw Lan Ruoxuan, Youlan hurriedly greeted her and said, "Niangniang-"
Lan Ruoxuan nodded and said hurriedly: "How is it, what did my brother say?" β
Youlan's body bent, handed over a wooden box, and said, "The master asked me to bring this back, and let Niangniang find a way to show the objects in it to Concubine Xiao." β
Now that Concubine Xiao has been taken to the prison, how easy is it for her to go in, Lan Ruoxuan frowned: "What about the rest, what else did my brother say?" β
Youlan nodded, bent down and lightly attached herself to Lan Ruoxuan's ear, and said the second half of Lan Haoke's command. When Lan Ruoxuan heard this, a dark light quickly crossed her eyes, gently hooked her lips, and nodded.