Chapter 26: The thief shouts to catch the thief
Lan Tai said with a gloomy face: "Marshal Wu Peng, do you mean to doubt me?"
Wu Peng said quietly: "Don't dare! I just suspect that the person who threw the poison needle just now is not far from here, and I don't specifically suspect you alone." You don't have to be angry!"
Lan Tai snorted: "If you doubt me, you can doubt me, am I the kind of person who can't stand suspicion with a careful eye? Look, I don't have a poisonous needle on my body!" he said and reached out and pulled violently, tearing the placket of the jacket open, revealing the cotton clothes inside, and then pulled it hard, pulling the buttons of the cotton clothes open, revealing the silk undershirt.
Emperor Shenwu's face was unhappy, and he shouted: "Enough! Lan Tai, don't take off your clothes in front of the public, what kind of body will you become!"
Lan Tai stopped stupidly, looked at Wu Peng and said: "Father, don't you know, if Erchen had thought of unbuttoning his clothes later so that he could see it clearly, Erchen would have been pressed to the ground and put in prison!"
Wu Peng hurriedly defended: "Your Majesty!
Emperor Shenwu snorted and said, "Okay! I must find out about the Assassins today!Besides, I will be able to see the news of the Assassins' origins the next day!"
Wu Peng bowed down and said, "Jin obeys His Majesty's wishes!"
Lan Tai slowly got dressed and said indignantly: "Marshal Wu Peng, I want to suspect that the person who released the poisonous needle just now is you or your subordinates! You were just shouting to catch the thief just now, so that others could not suspect you! Hmph! The people around Your Majesty just now, except for your righteous daughter Leng Rushuang, the only person who has cultivated and has excellent skills, who else is besides you?"
Emperor Shenwu's brows furrowed even deeper, and he shouted in a low voice: "Shut up, don't be rude to Marshal Wu Peng!"
Lan Tai hurriedly said: "Father, you want to rely on the marshal, so you don't want to see others slander him from the bottom of your heart, even me." But, Father, don't you think that anyone here is suspicious except you?"
Emperor Shenwu snorted: "Everyone else is possible, Marshal Wu Peng is absolutely impossible!"
Lan Tai said: "Father, this is too hasty!"
Wu Peng smiled and unbuttoned his shirt and patted it in front of Emperor Shenwu. Although he is indeed not young, when he unbuttons his clothes, everyone can basically see that what is hidden in his clothes is a body that looks quite young, with fine skin and white flesh, and flowing hair.
Emperor Shenwu waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency Marshal, are you trying to embarrass me?"
Wu Peng smiled and said, "Weichen obeys the order!"
Watching Wu Peng get dressed back, Lan Tai was obviously unconvinced, and muttered: "The thief shouts to catch the thief, so that no one knows who the thief is!"
Seeing that their quarrel had not stopped, Leng Rushuang frowned and shouted: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Lantai, everyone saw clearly just now, the righteous father protected him in front of His Majesty, and he also killed the black-clothed masked man with his own hands. Do you think it's possible for such a person to steal poison needles? Not to mention that it's me who is plotting!"
Lan Tai sneered: "If there is an extremely high price for killing Father Emperor, do you think he will not be able to afford it? Father, I think you also understand that in front of the throne of power, many people have learned to disguise!"
Wu Peng smiled and said, "In this case, please ask His Royal Highness the Prince to continue the search!"
Lan Tai snorted, his eyes kept rolling, and he didn't know what the hell he was thinking.
Seeing that they were talking endlessly, Leng Rushuang turned away in disgust and raised his wrist to look at his wrist. The wound on her wrist had healed, but for some reason it had left a thin red dot, and I guessed that it was because the flying needle that stabbed her was indeed poisonous.
Wu Peng glanced at her with concern, took out a small porcelain bottle, and poured two pills for her. Leng Rushuang took it, and soon felt much more comfortable.
Wu Peng said with a face full of regret: "Shuang'er, you go back first, find the doctor to see if there are any poisonous needles left in your wrist, and if there are any, take them out quickly!"
Leng Rushuang said: "It's okay, I'm not leaving! I want to stay with my father-in-law!"
Wu Peng said: "Be obedient! Go back quickly! If you are safe and fine, my father-in-law will be relieved!"
Leng Rushuang was helpless, and knew that Wu Peng himself was proficient in skills, so he must have made sense to say this, so he said: "Yes!
Leng Rushuang was about to leave, Lan Tai shouted, "Slow!"
The crowd looked at him strangely. Lantai's face is so big, what do you want to do this time?
I only heard Lan Tai say loudly: "Everyone here is suspicious." Cold as frost is also one of them. Now Marshal Wu Peng told her to go back to her house to recuperate, but who knows if she will be the one with the poisonous needle?
Wu Peng smiled and said, "So, is the prince suspicious of me?"
Lan Tai said: "If people don't know, unless they don't do it!"
Wu Peng smiled: "It's a good one, unless you do it!"
Emperor Shenwu didn't seem to be able to listen anymore, and shouted in a deep voice: "Okay, don't say it!"
The two of them stopped stupidly. Emperor Shenwu said: "The wind and sand here are too big, and it is not a good place to discuss this matter. If you want to say it now, let's go back to the palace together and make it clear in front of me!"
Emperor Shenwu's words were beautiful, but the vast majority of people heard them - to put it bluntly, Emperor Shenwu was actually skeptical, but he wouldn't say it directly!
At this time, the soldiers had already examined the corpses and stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, almost all of these corpses were poisoned to death, with dark facial features and faces, and finally found that the poison was hidden between the teeth, and once they missed or completed the matter, they could commit suicide at any time." Your Majesty, these people are out-and-out dead soldiers, and the mastermind behind them must be extremely murderous!!"
Emperor Shenwu snorted and ordered, "Very good! Listen! I want you to take out the poison from the mouths of these remaining black-clothed people, and beware of them committing suicide!"
The soldiers agreed in unison. Emperor Shenwu said again: "I want to see who wants to provoke the war between the empire and the flying fox so much!"
The soldiers shouted yes and left.
Soon, the black-clothed men who were frozen as cold as frost were tied up by the soldiers with cold ice, cut a hole in the ice at the place of their mouths, took out the poison hidden in their mouths, and then strangled their mouths with ropes, so that they could not close their mouths, and they could not take poison to commit suicide.
Emperor Shenwu nodded with satisfaction and shouted, "Get up and go back to the palace!"
He stared at a man in black who was still frozen in the ice, and said a little viciously: "I want to see what tricks the mastermind behind it has!"