057. Heqiu begs for self-preservation
After clarifying his thoughts, Qing Ming pondered for a moment and explained his plan to Long Xing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The two of them then harnessed Alain and returned to the palace to rest.
The next day, Yun Li came to wait outside Qingming's dormitory early in the morning, and as soon as she heard the sound of him getting up, she came in to change clothes and wash, which made Qingming uncomfortable.
Thinking that they were girls after all, Qing Ming couldn't bear to be scolded, so he only excused himself lightly: "Senior Sister Yun Li, since you entered the palace, you no longer go to Jucai Hall to practice?
Yun Li heard the meaning of his words, her eyes turned red, and she said in a low voice: "The little girl is now the princess of King Ming, how can she go to Jucai Hall to practice often? Please don't dislike King Ming! It is the honor of the little girl to serve King Ming's diet and daily life!"
Gentle words, making Qing Ming feel a little sorry, he stopped talking.
After his attention was diverted from Yun Li, Qing Ming observed Heqiu'er from time to time, thinking about how he got along with him after waking up in the Xuantian Dao, his heart was sour, could it be that he was really surrounded by hypocrisy, and there was no innocence and friendship like that in the human world?
"Heqiu'er!" Qing Ming called softly after tidying up his clothes.
"Your Majesty King Ming, what do you command?" The little one will do it immediately!" Heqiu'er half-knelt in front of Qing Ming, with the same smile on his face as before, at this time, in Qing Ming's eyes, it was a hypocritical and cunning face.
He forcibly endured the anger and incomprehension in his heart, and said calmly as usual: "I haven't been active for a long time, I want to go out hunting! Do you remember that before I ascended the throne, we were in the Nancheng Annex? The scenery in the southern suburbs of the city is very good, I want to go for a walk! You go and make arrangements, please Uncle Qingji, General Dusheng, Long Xing and Yang Yong go together, oh, you brothers should also go with you! Everyone travels in casual clothes, don't disturb the people!"
Hechuer immediately nodded in agreement: "Yes!
Yun Li was on the side, and said excitedly: "King Ming! The little girl hasn't gone out for an outing for a long time, can you take me with you?"
Qing Ming coughed, and said in a low but firm voice: "You are a girl, this kind of thing is not suitable for hunting! You just go around the palace! Didn't I say it! If you feel bored, go to Jucai Hall to study!"
Yun Li stepped aside stupidly, no longer speaking, her face full of grievances.
After breakfast, not long after, all the personnel arranged by Qingming arrived, and the group set off from the palace in civilian clothes and headed for the mountains south of the city.
Qing Ji rode on a tall horse, and from time to time wanted to inquire about the interests of the Arrogant Country from Long Xing's mouth, because he had never been able to get out of Jucai Hall, so he had never been sent out on business, and at the same time, he had always needed to cultivate, and there were few opportunities to go out privately, and he was full of curiosity about foreign countries.
Qing Ji, who couldn't let go of his body, said angrily: "Fatty, tell your uncle! What's so interesting about the Arrogant Country?"
Long Xing looked at Qing Ming, and then at Qing Ji, and felt that this uncle was really a little clueless, and it was better not to tell him some things, so he said perfunctorily: "The Flame Country doesn't use our big coins, they use their own Anger Coins, and I still save some for souvenirs! Also, the people in Deep Nitrogen City are all popular in bow and arrow skills, and bows and arrows are sold everywhere in the city, and I learned to weave arrow baskets with wicker there! They like to eat flatbread, and they are all over the street, but they are fragrant!"
Qingji shook his head, sighed uncontrollably, looked at Long Xing with eyes that hated iron and steel, and said: "Little fat man, little fat man! Uncle adults don't know what to say about you! You go out on a long trip and see these things? If you don't say these things, I know it! You don't know how to be an uncle! It's really mud that can't support the wall, your level is too low, too visionless!"
Qingji looked very angry, and even the spit stars soared out.
It was already far away from the palace, Qing Ming suddenly stopped his horse and said loudly: "Everyone, the mountains in the south of the city are too hot, why don't we change places to play, Princess Qinghui's mansion has been renovated, my aunt is gone, I want to go and see Qing Zhao, I don't know what is going on with him now?"
Qing Ji pouted: "Ah Ming! Your Majesty King Ming! Heqiu'er reported that he was going hunting, but I was fully armed and wanted to show off my skills! You suddenly stopped going! Qingzhao had something to see! Now he reads books at home every day, boils medicinal soup, and is about to become a miracle doctor! It's very boring!"
Qing Ming didn't speak, and immediately didn't move, Qing Ji had to say stupidly: "Okay! You are the Bronze King, you have the final say!"
The group changed their route halfway and turned to the princess's mansion. Although Princess Qinghui is no longer alive, the mansion has been renovated and still retains its original scale and name, but the furnishings are much simpler, which shows that Qingzhao has a thorough view of personnel and no longer attaches importance to things outside his body.
After the servant reported, Qing Zhao personally came out to greet him, and bowed respectfully: "Little brother greets His Majesty King Ming!"
Qing Zhao's face was much better than before, it can be seen that his body is recovering very well, Qing Ming stepped forward immediately, took his brother's arm, smelled a faint medicinal fragrance, and laughed loudly: "Brother Zhao! Your body is recovering well! Uncle Qingji said that you are about to become a miracle doctor! It seems that what he said makes sense, smelling the medicinal fragrance of your body, you must have worked a lot hard!"
As he spoke, without waiting for Qing Zhao to answer, he quickly lowered his voice and said in his ear: "Help me arrange a secret place in your mansion, and I will interrogate the prisoner!"
Qing Zhao immediately understood Qing Ming's intention, and replied softly: "Little brother understands!" Then, he deliberately raised his voice and said, "King Ming came to visit in person, little brother is not very honored!
Qing Ming nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good! We'll go now!"
So, without all the red tape, and without even touching the tea, Qingzhao directly took everyone to a basement in the backyard, which was indeed a pharmacy specially set up by him for the purpose of studying medicine, which was extremely deep underground, with a total of three floors, and they held torches and went directly to the bottom in one breath.
Qingzhao refining medicine is generally in the first basement, the second floor is used to preserve medicinal materials, and the third underground floor is actually a warehouse, which is used to place some equipment that is not commonly used.
Qing Zhao moved out of the chair and invited Qing Ming and Qing Ji to take a seat, while the others stood aside.
General Dusheng and the brothers Yang Yong and Heqiuer didn't know King Ming's plan in advance, so they stood stupidly at the beginning, waiting for Qingzhao to introduce his pharmacy, but as a result, Qingming spoke, his voice was low and decisive, revealing the Bronze King's natural non-anger and self-authority, and said: "General Dusheng, Brother Yang Yong, please go to the door to guard and promise not to let go of a fly!"
Du Sheng and Yang Yong looked at each other, although they didn't know what to do, but they knew that King Ming must have come prepared, not as simple as visiting Qingzhao, so they immediately agreed, came to the door, and guarded it to the death.
After they stopped guarding, Qing Ming raised his voice and shouted: "I don't want to wronged any good person today, I specially called your brother Herin'er to watch from the sidelines, I want to convince you and confess, sinner Heqiu'er!
When Hechuer heard this, his legs weakened, and he fell to his knees with a thud, and cried out in a trembling voice: "Ah, King Ming! Where do you start with this? The little one is wronged! The little one only knows how to serve the Ming King, when did he suddenly become a sinner? The little one is afraid!
Qing Ming and Long Xing exchanged a look, snorted, and said, "Let me ask you, in our great subject country, you murdered the life of the Bronze King, but you are a sinner?"
Hechul raised his head, his lips trembled, and said: "Murdering the Bronze King deserves death! Does anyone want to murder you? You tell me, the little one must be full of liver and brains, even if he fights for the little one's life, he will protect you!"
Qing Ming stood up, his tone was calm, but full of anger and disgust, and said, "Don't you know the sin? Okay, I ask you, you must answer truthfully!"
Hechuer kowtowed again and again: "The little one must answer truthfully, and he will never dare to deceive His Majesty King Ming!"
"After the canonization ceremony, I returned from the Yuesheng Cave of Tianyuan Mountain, and was attacked by a man in black with a bow and arrow on the way!
When Hechuer heard Qing Ming's question, he was speechless for a while, so he kowtowed vigorously and kept shouting injustice: "King Ming! The little one is wronged! The little one doesn't know about your attack! King Ming is clear! The little one is wronged!"
Qing Ming saw that he was stubborn, and continued: "Moreover, you know the relationship between Long Xing and me, so I tried every possible way to approach him, and learned from him that I have a sweetheart named Yang Ling, who may also be involved in Xuantian Dao. Not long ago, Long Xing found Yang Ling in the Anger Country, but a group of assassins from the Great Subject Country appeared, and they wanted to arrest her! Why are you arresting her? You want to blackmail me, right? Yang Ling's matter, in the entire Great Subject Country, except for me and Long Xing, there is only you!"
After listening to Qing Ming's accusation, Heqiuer unexpectedly calmed down, wiped his eyes, stopped crying, he stood up, suddenly turned to look at Herin'er, his eyes showed a fierce light, and said loudly: "I understand! Good you Helin'er! You sent me a map and asked me to dedicate it to King Ming, and I was kind to you and gave me the opportunity to make meritorious contributions! Who knew that you had ill intentions! I accidentally told you the secret of King Ming, it was because of your own brother, in vain that I trusted you so much, and you actually betrayed me!"
Herin'er opened her mouth wide and was about to speak, but Heqiu'er didn't give him any chance, and continued to herself: "You Herin'er! If it weren't for your father, begging me to find you an errand, I saw that you were honest, so I took you with me, but I didn't expect you to repay virtue with resentment, causing me to be suspected by King Ming! You usually don't talk much, who knows, you are so bold that you dare to murder the Bronze King!"
Qing Ming and Long Xing exchanged glances with each other, intending to see how the two brothers performed, so they remained silent and waited to see what happened.
Herringer looked nervous, stammering to say something, but never being able to say it.
Suddenly, Hechuer dragged the medicinal herb guillotine used in the pharmacy from the ground, and pressed Herliner under the guillotine, only to hear a click, and suddenly, blood burst out, because the size of the medicinal herb guillotine was small, not enough to cut off a person's neck, so Herin'er's neck was cut off in half, and the other half was still connected to the head and body, the blood quickly stained the ground, the flesh and blood at the cut neck were blurred, the head was pulled to one side, and his eyes were round, and his dazedness before he died was frozen by a knife.
Everyone in the room was stunned by this sudden ruthless hand, Qing Ji stood up suddenly, and after seeing the bloody scene, he felt a wave of nausea, and Qing Zhao couldn't help but shake his head. Qing Ming and Long Xing looked at each other.
Qing Ming knew that according to the personalities of Hechuer and Herin'er, the latter was poor in speech and slow in thinking, and he did not have the ability to be scheming and scheming, and Heqiuer's reaction was just a disguised admission that the person who betrayed his whereabouts and Yang Ling's secret must be Hechuer.
However, he never imagined that Hechul would be so vicious and brutally murder his cousin in public with his own hands, just to help him find a scapegoat.
Now, if you want to squeeze out more information from Heqiuer, I'm afraid it's difficult!