Chapter 81: Life and Death at the Birthday Banquet
Her words echoed in the hall, and everyone was silent, so silent that they could hear the drop of a needle, and the atmosphere became extremely oppressive and dreary.
Gu Yimo looked at Chu Zishan, who was standing alone in front of everyone, as if he was surrounded by a group of vicious beasts.
There was a little bit of water in her eyes, but she was extremely stubborn and endured the sorrow and anger in her heart, and his heart was like a knife.
He got up and slowly walked to Chu Zishan, reached out and grabbed her little hand, pulled her behind him lightly, and looked at the two court officials domineeringly: "Those who are officials must be open-minded and tolerant of all things, but the two of them are aggressive towards weak little women, which shows that they are narrow-minded, and they slander loyalty and goodness just because of hearsay, and they don't distinguish between right and wrong, which is extremely stupid. Why are you the officials of my Great Xia?"
"You lowly businessman, how dare you ......?"
"No matter who you are, whoever deceives my son is the enemy of my family, I promise, in the future, the two of you will not want to buy a piece of rice or a piece of cloth in the market, and your shop will not want to sell it for a penny."
"If you dare to disobey the officials, you should be punished with capital punishment!"
"What a prestige!"
The eldest princess's slow and cold words sounded, she lowered her eyes, and her face was expressionless: "Today's birthday banquet in the palace, there are dramas on and off the stage, how does the emperor look at this play?"
The two officials were at a loss for what to do, and secretly looked at King Xian, who had a cold face and glared at them fiercely.
The master has an order to let them make things difficult for a girl, in order to buy people's hearts and make the emperor suspect that the Chu family has antipathy, as long as the emperor goes to check afterwards, King Xian will do it Chu Zishan and King Duan colluded, and the champion Hou and King Duan will be finished because of a joke.
They didn't expect that Chu Zishan was not a good stubble, and things didn't go as they wanted, so they were scolded by Chu Zishan and disgraced.
The eldest princess obviously favors Chu Zishan, the emperor is determined to punish them, although they have masters, they will not care about them, these two people have bitterness and can't speak, there is nowhere to complain, they can only accept their fate to bear the emperor's thunderous anger.
The emperor's face was gloomy, and he looked around at the officials, "Champion Hou Zhong is the mainstay of my Great Xia, no one can question the loyalty of the Chu family to Great Xia, demote the two of them by one level and fine them for one year!" All Aiqing should take this as a warning, if anyone is rude to the Chu family again, I will never spare it."
The two officials kowtowed again and again: "The minister deserves death, thank you for the emperor's grace not to kill."
The court officials all chimed in, "The emperor is sage!"
The emperor looked at Gu Yimo and Chu Zishan, and a warm smile appeared: "These little couples, singing and singing, are all unforgiving masters, come back and sit down."
Gu Chu and the others bowed to the emperor, and Gu Yimo took Chu Zishan's hand and walked back to the seat.
She followed him obediently and sat beside him meekly and obediently.
Just now he pulled her behind him, which made her inexplicably feel a trace of grievance, looking at his thick arms, it was unexpectedly reassuring and down-to-earth.
She blinked at his frighteningly dark face, and whispered, "Are you angry?"
Gu Yimo frowned lightly, and looked at her deeply, "I can't spoil you enough on the tip of my heart, they dare to bully you, of course I'm angry, wait, they're dead."
Chu Zishan pursed his lips disapprerovingly, "Can these wastes bully me? You, this person, hindered me from cleaning up the scar king, and now you are stopping and scolding these white-eyed wolves, and they are scolding vigorously, and you have interrupted them."
He clasped her hand, his eyes full of doting: "Okay, when you scold you in the future, I'll come out and clean them up."
Chu Zishan pursed his lips and chuckled, "That's very good."
Princess Yangxin didn't see Chu Zishan being abused, she tightened her little face, and looked at Gu Chu and the two of them with affection and sweetness, sourness, and the cup in her hand fell heavily on the table.
Concubine Xiao stared at her daughter and whispered, "Yangxin, don't be willful anymore."
Princess Yangxin couldn't help but bow her head, but her mind was full of Gu Yimo's tenderness and infinite love, but such a good man was not hers, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she was a little restless.
Concubine Xiao saw that her daughter was becoming more and more impetuous, and she was afraid that something would happen to her again
Come, look at the grandmother beside her, "The princess is tired, you can wait for the princess to rest."
"Yes." Mama Ning responded and went to help Princess Yangxin.
Princess Yangxin looked up at Gu Yimo, bit her red lip, and got up angrily and left the hall with her grandmother.
Concubine Xiao withdrew her gaze from her daughter, glanced at Gu Chu and the others, and said with a smile: "What a perfect pair, which is so enviable, Mrs. Chu, when is the wedding date of these two children?"
When Mrs. Chu heard this, she bowed her head to Concubine Xiao: "Back to Concubine Xiao, the wedding date has not yet been decided, and I want to discuss it when I am hired."
"Oh, why haven't you been hired yet?" Concubine Xiao smiled with relief, "This is not hired, there is still a chance to marry other brothers, Gu Yimo has to hurry, otherwise, it will not be good for such a good girl as Zishan to be taken first by other families."
Mrs. Chu stared slightly, wondering what Concubine Xiao meant.
Gangyang Xin Gong wanted Gu Gongzi to be a concubine, and Concubine Xiao was also very optimistic about Gu Yimo at first, but when she heard that it was a businessman, her face immediately changed.
Just like she was at the beginning.
Now she is very satisfied with Gu Yimo, especially just now, the way he stood up to protect her daughter, she was very moved and grateful, she believed that Gu Yimo would never let her daughter be wronged, she secretly prayed that God would bless her daughter's happy marriage.
However, what Concubine Xiao said was the first to make her faintly uneasy.
A burst of warm applause brought Mrs. Chu back to her senses, she looked up and saw a group of jugglers on the stage, turning heels, jumping in the fire ring, people stepping on people and stacking them very high, standing on the top of the people, leaping down, landing steadily on the stage, and attracting thunderous applause from all the guests.
Chu Zishan looked at the passionate crowd, her delicate face gradually condensed and frosted, she got up and sat back behind the eldest princess. z.br>
After Gu Yimo applauded, he reached out to grab Chu Zishan's hand, but he felt empty, he turned his head and saw Chu Zishan returning to the eldest princess, he looked aggrieved and complaining.
At this time, the jugglers playing with the spears on the stage, and the spears in their hands were flying, which attracted the guests to cheer continuously.
The artist lit the fire with the spear, and jumped to play the musket with a whirring wind, suddenly turned around, and threw the spear in his hand towards the royal stand opposite.
The flaming spear went straight to the emperor above the throne, and everyone was shocked.
"Peng", the spark gun penetrated deeply into the emperor's large dragon chair, close to the emperor's head, the flames spread rapidly, the frightened emperor turned pale with fright, his body froze on the dragon chair and did not move, the fire was about to burn on him.
Chu Zishan rushed over and pulled the emperor off the dragon chair, protected him behind him, and shouted, "Escort, escort......
The officer came out from behind the dragon chair and shouted, "There are assassins, hurry, catch the assassins......
In an instant, the hall cried and screamed, and fled in a panic.
The jugglers on the stage rushed down with flower guns in their hands, and one of them shouted loudly: "Luo Zhen, Ren Zi'an, you two dog officials, kill my family, slaughter my whole village, and lose your conscience, I don't share the sky with you, and vow to cut off your heads, and sacrifice your father and old villagers with blood......