Chapter 551: Hearsay
Another option is to uncover his veil and let everyone see him for what he really is. As a result, there may be a silver lining. If he is lucky, if there are more people who defend him, he may have a chance to meet his father.
However, if there is an accident, it is very likely to affect Lord Duan and Dali Temple.
Both options share a common possibility. That is to involve Lord Duan and Dali Temple.
After weighing the pros and cons and thinking about it, he could only choose the latter.
Why don't you just show your face, what's the big deal? He's not so good-looking.
So, Chu Tiankuo slowly tore off his face towel and let everyone see his true face.
Because of the night, even if the lights are bright, the light is not as good as the day. It's a little far away, and everyone still can't see it really, and they can't see Tiankuo's appearance clearly. Therefore, when Chu Tiankuo revealed his true face, it did not cause any strong reversal.
In view of his heroic performance in dodging two waves of arrow attacks just now, everyone did not dare to look at him even if they couldn't see his face clearly.
So, many people were curious and wanted to move forward, but they didn't dare, so they just stood there tangled and contradictory, because they were afraid, and the expressions on their faces looked quite interesting.
Liu Xin, the chief eunuch, seemed to see through the minds of those people and took the lead in taking a step forward. Therefore, among the crowd, there were several bold guards who immediately followed Liu Xin's pace. They followed Liu Xin forward, approached Chu Tiankuo, and squinted at him.
When they saw Chu Tiankuo's face clearly, they were startled, and their faces changed instantly, turning gray in an instant.
At that moment, many people stared at Chu Tiankuo's face, revealing expressions that they couldn't grasp the essentials. Some people took a breath of cold air and were at a loss, like a clay sculpture and wood carving. Some people were so surprised that they poked there like half a piece of wood.
In their eyes, the Assassin's face resembled that of the Emperor, with his eyebrows and eyes, a replica of the Emperor's youth.
After a moment of shock, only a plop was heard, except for Liu Xin, those who saw the faces of Tiankuo clearly all knelt on the ground at the same time, and then a neat sound came.
"The emperor spares his life! The emperor spares his life! His voice trembled and mixed with panic.
The scene in front of him made the guards in the distance unclear. They couldn't see the Assassin's face clearly, but they could clearly hear their accomplices shouting 'Your Majesty'. They were in a fog, unable to distinguish between the true and the false, thinking that it was really the emperor here.
Seeing that their accomplices were bowing down to the assassin and honoring the emperor, they followed suit and knelt down as well. shouted in his mouth: "The emperor spares his life!" The emperor spares his life! ”
The archers in the back were even more confused, not knowing what was happening in front of them. They couldn't hear what the people in front of them were saying, but when they saw the crowd kneeling, they knelt with them. Of course, these archers did not shout. Where do they know what to shout.
It's kind of like hearsay. Hearsay, an idiom that originally referred to words heard on the road and spread on the road, later referred to unfounded rumors.
During the Warring States Period, Ai Zi returned to Qi from Chu State, and as soon as he entered the capital, he met Mao Kong, who loved to talk empty words. Mao Kong told Aizi very mysteriously that there was a duck in a family that laid a hundred eggs at a time.
Ai Zi didn't believe it, and said, "There won't be such a thing!"
Mao Kong said, "That's probably two ducks." ”
Ai Zi shook her head: "It's impossible. ”
Mao Kong changed his words and said: "That's probably born of three ducks." Ai Zi still didn't believe it.
"It could be four, eight, ten." Of course, Aiko still couldn't believe it.
After a while, Mao Kong said to Ai Zi again: "Last month, a piece of meat fell from the sky, which was thirty zhang long and ten zhang wide. ”
Ai Zi still didn't believe it, Mao Kong hurriedly changed his words and said, "Then it's twenty zhang long." ”
Aizi still didn't believe it.
Mao Kong said: "Then it will be counted as ten zhang!"
Ai Zi couldn't help it anymore, and didn't want to listen to Mao Kong's nonsense anymore, so he asked: "How can there be meat in the world that is ten zhang long and ten zhang wide, and it will fall from the sky?" Did you see it with your own eyes? Which duck did you just mention? Now where did the big meat you said fall?"
Mao Kong was so asked that he couldn't answer, so he had to say hesitantly: "That's what I heard on the road." ”
After hearing this, Aiko smiled. He turned to the students standing behind him and said, "Don't be like him!
In fact, the people present, as long as they were a little clear-headed, they could find out that the assassin could not be the emperor. Mo said that he looked younger than the emperor, and with the agility of the assassin, that was beyond the reach of the emperor? What's more, the current emperor is still lying on the dragon bed, unconscious.
The person who saw Chu Tiankuo's face in front was frightened by his face that resembled the emperor, so that he did a series of abnormal things. The main reason is that the emperor is too majestic, and when anyone sees the emperor, either their first reaction is to kneel, which is a normal conditioned reflex.
And the people in the back, when they saw the kneeling in front, naturally knelt with them. Living in the palace, who doesn't follow the crowd like this? But echoing it is not my intention.
That's why there is such a farce.
Only Liu Xin was well-informed and had his own opinions, and no one was likely. In fact, he was so calm, it wasn't that he had seen Chu Tiankuo in the dormitory, and he had the bottom in his heart. Moreover, he served the emperor for many years and did not fear the emperor much.
Seeing everyone kneeling on the ground, with a look of sincere fear, Chu Tiankuo didn't know what to do.
It's not the first time he's been kneeled, when he used to walk the rivers and lakes, many bandits and bullies and the like, as long as they were people who did something wrong, all confessed when they met him, kowtowed and bowed, begging him to spare his life. Basically, after meeting him and knowing that he was the son of a fan, everyone was frightened and changed their color.
Here's how it works:
He will learn a lesson when he encounters villains such as bandits and bullies. Perhaps, before he could make a move, those bandit bullies knelt in front of him with a puff, begging for mercy in their mouths: "Daxia (may also shout Huaifan Gongzi), spare your life!" Don't kill me, I still have a dozen or so people in my family waiting for me to raise, I am old and young! I know that I am wrong, I must change it, and I will never dare to do anything that hurts heaven and reason! Please let it go! ”
Tears flowed down his cheeks, and he looked miserable and pitiful.
At this time, he usually says, "Just spare you this time, let me meet again in the future, I will not forgive." ”
There were countless times he had been kneeling outside the palace, but it was the first time he felt this way to be kneeling by so many palace guards inside the palace. Moreover, he is obviously a break-into of the palace, to put it bluntly, an assassin.
It's incredible. A moment ago, they had treated him as a fierce rival and wanted to put him to death. The next moment they actually knelt down to him and bowed down like gods.