Chapter 330: Life Is Better Than Death (Two in One)
The birthmark on the concubine's body, as a courtier, Li Xiangyang, would never know.
But he not only knew, but also made Qi Guifei's life experience clear.
In addition, in the prison of Beiya, there is still Danzhu, the orphan of the Liu family who was involved in the case of Emperor Xiaode because of Imperial Physician Liu, although he was sentenced to death, but has not yet been executed.
Qi Guifei's identity as a Sui woman was proved dead.
Plus the death of the Eighth Prince......
The emperor previously allowed Qi Guifei to "exchange life for life" in today's affairs and keep the life of the King of Wei because of his father-son relationship with the King of Wei.
But now it is about the death of the Eighth Prince.
That bit of father-son love is not enough for King Wei to die.
There is no need for Shen Lingxi to say another word, and there is no need to provide more powerful evidence.
As long as the emperor believed Li Xiangyang's words, it was enough.
Concubine Qi has been by the emperor's side for so many years, and naturally understands that even if she denies it to death this time, she is afraid that it will be difficult to be good.
King Wei also knew it.
The mother and son looked at each other tacitly.
King Wei asked incredulously, "Mother, eighth brother...... The death of the eighth brother was actually your hand? β
This is what it means to give up the car to protect the handsome.
It seems that because of her own son's questioning, Concubine Qi's face finally had a look of panic.
"When the ......"
She threw away the feather arrow in her hand, and because she grabbed the feather arrow too hard, her palm was cut by the feather arrow, and blood dripped from her palm.
"Your Majesty ......" Qi Guifei knelt in front of the emperor, and grabbed the emperor's hand with her bloody palm.
"At the beginning, it was the concubine who thought that Da Lang was dead, and Concubine Wen was favored by you, and once she gained power, she would kill the eighth prince...... The concubine pleaded guilty, the concubine all pleaded guilty, all this is the concubine's fault, you kill the concubine. β
The Emperor snorted coldly and shook her hand away.
Shen Lingxi's gaze fell on the back of the emperor's blood-stained hand, as if he thought of something, and his face changed slightly.
At the same time, Qi Guifei couldn't retract her strength, and the whole person was thrown to the ground.
It's just that soon, she straightened up again, seemed to be in a panic, and knelt in front of Chu Yan.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......" She concocted according to the law and stretched out her bloody palm to Chu Yan.
However, he didn't even touch a corner of Chu Yan's clothes, so Chu Yan took a step back to dodge.
Qi Guifei grabbed the air.
"His Royal Highness the Prince......" She raised her head, with a completely different provocation in her panicked tone in her eyes, "Your Highness, I know that I am deeply guilty, the filial piety emperor has a noble character and a gentlemanly demeanor, but for my own selfish desires, I let Li Xiangyang poison him, the poison of the scorching sun, when the poison is released, it is extremely painful, and all the internal organs seem to be cooking on the fire......"
When Chu Yan heard this, he thought that when he returned to the East Palace, he saw his father's tragic death, and the hatred in his heart that had been suppressed by him for many years began to roll in his chest.
His face, which had been restrained and solemn, was unconsciously stained with a touch of intenseness, and his body was immediately filled with cold killing intent.
Concubine Qi seemed to be unaware, and was still whispering regretfully, "I still remember that when they came to report to me, they said that before Emperor Xiaode died, he bled from his seven orifices and rolled on the ground in pain, and he was worse off than dead, and he kept shouting for people to kill him and give him a happy ......."
Her voice was very low, and she knelt down, looking like she was repenting, but every word she said was a knife in Chu Yan's heart.
Where no one could see it, she grinned provocatively at Chu Yan, "His Royal Highness the Prince, I really regret it, I regret making him so miserable, if I do it all over again, I will definitely ...... it."
The four words that Concubine Qi said silently made Chu Yan's phoenix eyes full of murderous intent, and his finger bones moved slightly, and he was about to stretch out his hand-
A soft hand lightly covered the back of his cold hand.
The warmth of the palm of his hand miraculously soothed the monstrous hatred in Chu Yan's heart.
Shen Lingxi walked in front of Chu Yan and turned his back to him, his slender figure blocking his tall body behind him.
She squatted down and looked at Qi Guifei's provocative eyes, "Guifei Niangniang is worthy of being a member of the Sui clan, even if she dies, she has to pull a few cushions, do you think your blood can really poison people?" If it can poison people, why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stay in the house where Mr. Haruzan died before his death, but he is still alive? β
The smile on the corner of Qi Guifei's mouth instantly froze because of Shen Lingxi's words.
"What you're talking about, I don't understand." She turned her head sideways to avoid Shen Lingxi's gaze.
Shen Lingxi directly stretched out his hand, grabbed her wrist, and with a "click", he broke her joint neatly and mercilessly.
"Ah......h
Qi Guifei let out a miserable scream, and her fleshy palm spread out weakly, half-hanging down.
Shen Lingxi looked at the wound in her palm, which had turned dark brown, and said with a sigh:
"Concubine Qi is scheming, shoulders all the blame, and before she dies, she will drag the emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to die together. As long as the King of Wei can survive five days, and the Ten Princes are still in their infancy, this country will be the King of Wei's. β
As soon as Concubine Qi heard this, she instantly ignored the sharp pain in her wrist, and hurriedly retorted: "This palace is one person who does things, and he doesn't know anything...... Crown Princess, this palace has already pleaded guilty, if you want to kill, you can kill, why bother adding trumped-up charges to this palace. Da Lang is the blood of the emperor, is the crown princess so impatient to be killed? β
"If I don't stop the concubine, I'm afraid the concubine will kill the emperor." Shen Lingxi said lightly.
"The scorching sun powder can turn into poison when it encounters blood, but if it is stained with poisonous blood, it will be as short as three days or as long as five days, and the poison will penetrate deep into the heart, and the medicine stone will die without a doctor."
"Before, you killed Chunshan and bled in his room, so you had the idea of killing people with incense and poisonous blood, and now you are doing it again, is it true that I can't see it?"
As soon as Shen Lingxi's words came out, the emperor's face changed greatly.
He looked down at his handβ
In just a moment's effort, the blood on the back of his hand rubbed by Qi Guifei had turned into a dark brown as thick as Qi Guifei's palm.
Fang Cai didn't feel that at this moment, because of Shen Lingxi's reminder, the emperor only felt a strange numbness spreading along his arm to his whole body.
"You poisonous woman, you don't know how to repent at all, to such a point, you still want to kill me!"
The emperor "swooped", drew the saber at his waist, and strode towards Concubine Qi with a full face of anger.
"Your Majesty, slow down." Shen Lingxi hurriedly spoke out to stop it.
Even Chu Yan walked quickly in front of the emperor and stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Rokuro, what does this mean?" He asked in a deep voice.
Shen Lingxi: "The blood on her body has been infected with poison, if the emperor cuts her now, if there is blood splashed on her hair and skin, it will be equivalent to another blood poison." β
When the emperor heard this, his face turned blue instantly.
He finally understood why Concubine Qi went to Chu Yan and made provocative remarks.
This is to stimulate Chu Yan to kill her, and then get her poisonous blood.
Seeing that the emperor already understood, Shen Lingxi didn't say anything more, and unhurriedly took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve, poured out a pill, and stuffed it into Concubine Qi's mouth forcefully.
Qi Guifei pursed her lips, but she couldn't resist Shen Lingxi's "click" and removed her jawbone.
The pill melted in her mouth, and the cool smell of medicine instantly cooled down the boiling blood on her body.
Even if Concubine Qi didn't want to believe it, she had to admit that what Shen Lingxi gave her was indeed the antidote.
"The concubine doesn't know that this scorching sun's recipe was mixed up by me with my own eyes." Shen Lingxi leaned close to her ear and said slowly: "Niangniang, don't worry, the pain that Emperor Xiaode suffered before he died, I will return it for him a thousand times over, isn't it just a torture poison, I know how to make a prescription, but there are many more than those that Niangniang knows." Niangniang will be able to enjoy with your favorite son for a long time, this life is not as good as death. β
Qi Guifei's eyes widened, and those eyes, which had always been calm and waveless, showed a look of horror for the first time.
She shook her head, begging for mercy, but her jaw was removed, and she could only make a muffled sound.
Shen Lingxi smiled at her, and that smile made Qi Guifei's hairs stand up from the roots.
Shen Lingxi stood up, walked in front of the emperor, and presented the porcelain vase, "Your Majesty, this is the antidote, please take it as soon as possible." β
The emperor looked at the porcelain vase, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.
At this moment, the king of Wei in the back hurriedly spoke: "Father, the emperor can't!" Father, don't listen to this poisonous woman, the mother concubine will never harm her father. Father, behold, the wound on the child's leg, and the blood on the arrow, have changed color. β
When everyone heard this, they all looked at King Wei-
I don't know when, the feather arrow that was thrown away by Concubine Qi was caught in his hand.
The blood from the feather arrows and the wounds of King Wei also changed color.
"Father." King Wei hurriedly said: "This feather arrow was shot at his son through the hand of the prince. It's not that the mother's blood is poisonous, it's that the arrow is poisonous. The mother concubine was framed by the two of them! Perhaps, what was in that porcelain bottle was not an antidote at all, but a poison! β
Shen Lingxi raised his eyebrows.
I have to say that Chu Hong is really a little anxious, and his ability to reverse black and white is indeed breathtaking.
It's no wonder that he was able to hide in the gutter and do so many big things quietly.
Shen Lingxi actually didn't care at all, whether the emperor ate this antidote or not.
Therefore, there is no intention to defend oneself at all.
On the contrary, it was Chu Yan who directly reached out and took the porcelain vase in her hand, and strode in front of King Wei.
"Since it is poison, it is natural to let you taste it first, and it is best to poison you to death."
Chu Yan said that, and directly stuffed the pill into King Wei's mouth.
King Wei looked terrified.
As soon as the medicine was in his mouth, he immediately turned his head sideways, covered his lips very quickly in "panic", and coughed violently, trying to cough the pill out of his throat.
But the pill seemed to "melt in his mouth", so he could only choke his throat and show a painful expression.
"Sixth Brother...... You and I are brothers, you can't wait to kill me......" He desperately squeezed the words out of his throat, his face flushed, as if he was poisonous.
Seeing this, Concubine Qi on the other side was also enlightened, following his example, and also made the appearance of poisoning.
When the emperor saw the appearance of the two of them, a few doubts rose in his heart, and his face became gloomy again.
Chu Yan glanced at the mother and son with a smile, and quickly reached out and touched the acupuncture points of King Wei.
King Wei's mouth opened wide in an instant, unable to move.
In front of everyone's eyes, Chu Yan broke off King Wei's slightly curved fingers, revealing the pill hidden by him between his fingers.
"Isn't it poison? Why is it still hidden in the palm of your hand? β
King Wei's eyes froze.
Chu Yan glanced at him mockingly, and threw the pill back into his gaping mouth.
This time, I really ate it, and I couldn't vomit if I wanted to.
Chu Yan took the feather arrow from his hand, stood up, and walked in front of the emperor.
He completely ignored the blackened poisonous blood on the feather arrow, and made a bloody cut in his palm with an expressionless face.
Then, again, he poured a pill from the porcelain bottle and filled it into his mouth.
Only then did he present the porcelain vase to the emperor again, "The minister has already tried the medicine for the emperor, if the emperor is still not at ease, you can let the imperial doctor check it again." β
The emperor had a full view of his series of actions.
The originally angry face, because of Fang Cai's suspicion of Chu Yan, rose a little surprised.
At this point, the emperor finally saw clearly who was acting and who was sincere.
He took the porcelain bottle in Chu Yan's hand, poured the pill, and ate it.
Shen Lingxi saw the emperor's indecisiveness, repeated suspicions, and partiality for his own bloodline.
This is the first time she has so truly felt everything Chu Yan has endured in the past five years.
Five years ago, his father should have ascended to the throne and become the Ninth Five.
Because of Concubine Qi and King Wei, he could only die in pain.
Today, the idle clouds and wild cranes are ordered to sit on the throne and sit on the country.
In the name of the curse, the mother and son hid in the shadows, hunting one imperial heir after another, in order to become the only bloodline of the emperor, and now it is like a miracle to "come back from the dead", and it is logical to inherit the country.
But at the same time, Chu Yan continued to endure the doubts, suspicions, slanders and frames brought about by curses and hunting.
Although the emperor is not the perpetrator, he is indeed the biggest beneficiary so far.
It's just because of his kindness to Chu Yan all along.
Therefore, Chu Yan will not hesitate to test the medicine at this moment, just to let the emperor take the antidote as soon as possible, so as not to hurt the body deeply.
Probably because of Shen Lingxi, the most important thing is to protect the short. From the bottom of my heart, I am unhappy with everything Chu Yan has experienced.
I still feel distressed.
Although there is a wrong, there is a debtor.
Shen Lingxi selfishly felt that "the son and the father repaid the debt", and there was nothing wrong with it.
In her opinion, the emperor was in his position, but he didn't have that greed and didn't do anything.
Although he is not a murderer, his identity, status, and ambiguous temperament are a breeding ground for evil thoughts.
With a lord like him, there will be that nest of snakes and rats.
Shen Lingxi has never been afraid of the wicked, because the wicked can repay them with fists and feet, can face each other with swords, and can stop killing with killing.
But she was afraid of people like the emperor - not good, not bad.
For this kind of person, it is the best policy to stay away.
However, with the identities of Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi now in the East Palace, they couldn't stay away from him.
In the final analysis, it's because they have a bottom line.
Unwilling to seek power and usurp the throne for his own selfish desires, causing turmoil in the world and ruining lives.
After all, the emperor is confused, and political affairs are still clear.
Emperor Xu also realized that he was repeatedly led by the nose of King Wei's mother and son in front of hundreds of officials today, which violated the way of being a king.
He said to Chu Yan solemnly, "Liulang, I will hand over this mother and son to Beiya, you don't have to look at anyone's face, investigate this case thoroughly, and let everything be revealed to the world." β
Chu Yan received the order.
"There is one more person, and the emperor will also hand it over to Beiya." Shen Lingxi was beside him and saluted.
The Emperor looked at her suspiciously, "Who?" β
"Zhu Lianxi."
Shen Lingxi stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhu Lianxi, who was huddled in the corner, his face pale.
"The mother and son of King Wei can turn their hands into clouds and rain in the palace, they can send spices into the palace, they can poison whoever they want, and they can also make the emperor believe in the nonsense of curses and embroidered pictures, thanks to Gonggong Zhu, the chief eunuch."
"The daughter-in-law thinks that if the emperor is not the father of King Wei, Gonggong Zhu may also poison the emperor, but it is not known."
When he said this in public, he simply pushed Zhu Lianxi to die.
Zhu Lianxi knew that the general trend was gone, so he was so frightened that his legs weakened, and he knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, all this is done by His Royal Highness the King of Wei, forcing the slaves and maids...... The slave and maid are willing to tell the truth, and please ask the emperor to give the slave and maid a good time for the sake of the slave and maid serving you for many years. β
"I hate being betrayed the most in my life, I want to die happily, you are not qualified enough."
The emperor glanced at him with a cold look in his eyes, and waved his hand at Chu Yan, "Liulang, take him away too, and what to do with him is up to you." β
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Lianxi's face instantly turned gray.
It's over, it's all over......
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Half a month later, the Northern Ya conspired with King Wei and Concubine Qi to hunt down the emperor's heir under the pretext of Emperor Er's curse, and reported it to the world......