Chapter 17: King Gao's Assassination of Strange Poison

Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard, looked at the rice paper on the table, and then looked at Gao Fengzheng's smiling face, and suddenly, he high-fived and shouted: "Wonderful, wonderful." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info hehe.

Gao Feng, I gave you the surname Zhu, and you will be called Zhu Feng in the future. Gonggong Li, pass the decree to Honglu Temple, tomorrow morning, I want to crown Zhu Feng as king. ”

When Gao Feng heard this, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank Emperor Xie for your grace." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, turned around and walked towards the harem with the crown prince Zhu Biao. But I still pondered in my heart, Long Enhao, this word is good, this word is good.

After Zhu Yuanzhang left, Feng Sheng, Tang He, Lan Yu and other important ministers of the court came over to read what was written on the paper, but several people couldn't understand it after reading it for a long time. Then Feng Sheng asked Gao Feng: "Doll, what do you mean by a few words on this paper, why didn't the emperor kill you?"

Gao Feng smiled and said, "I answered correctly, of course the emperor can't kill me." ”

The blue jade said, "I can't understand what you wrote." 'To kill, that is, not to kill, not to kill, not to kill. So kill. ”

Gao Feng laughed in his heart, it was really troublesome to explain to a few of you generals. "This is the emperor himself who has put himself in it. I only need to answer to kill me, whether it is right or wrong, the emperor cannot kill me. ”

The generals were even more confused when they heard this, and said, "Why is this?"

Gao Feng wanted to hit the wall, "I'll explain it once, and if you understand, you will understand, and if you don't understand, go home and ask your teacher." Listen, my answer is to kill me, and if the emperor says, 'If you answer wrong, I won't kill you.'" Then I'll keep this little head. ”

Feng Sheng said: "If the emperor pushes the boat down the river and says that you are right, I am going to kill you?" As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped his head and suddenly realized: "Ah, yes, the emperor said: 'If you answer correctly, I promise not to kill you, and I will also crown you king.'" 'Oh, it's seconds. ”

Just when this peak was explaining to the ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already walked to the harem, couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and he said to the prince: "Biao'er, this doll is six or seven years old, so scheming, smart and witty, is it really the messenger of the day?"

Zhu Biao bowed down behind him and said, "It doesn't matter if it's not, but it's really clever for my father to crown him king." ”

"Oh, why do you say that?"

"It's better to have one more friend than one more enemy. Zhu Biao replied humbly.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he stopped, looked at the sunset in the distance, and said meaningfully: "Hey, I hope this Zhu Feng can be your lifelong friend." ”

At this time, an exclamation was heard, which pulled Zhu Yuanzhang back from his memory. When the people on the Wuting Bridge looked under the bridge, they saw that because the women on the boat were jealous because of the high king's competition, they were about to fight, and four or five women accidentally fell into the water and were struggling in the lake at the moment.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it and said to the Jinyi guard beside him: "Go down and save people." More than a dozen brocade guards hurriedly took off their flying fish suits and jumped into the lake naked. Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly noticed that King Gao was looking at him with strange eyes, and there seemed to be mockery in his eyes. He was just about to question King Gao, only to see the dozen or so brocade guards in the river suddenly sink into the lake, and then a ball of blood came up, and at the same time, dozens of women on the four boats took off their women's clothes, revealing the tight-fitting clothes inside, it turned out that these dozens of women were all men dressed in disguise. They took out the flying tiger claws, threw them on the bridge railing, fixed the other end on the boat gang, and then stepped on the rope with a blade in hand and rushed to Zhu Yuanzhang on the Wuting Bridge.

The brocade guards hurriedly threw away the umbrella covers, fans and other things in their hands, pulled out the embroidered spring knives on their waists and rushed forward to fight. And Song Zhong (Mao Xiang died in the case of Hu Weiyong in the twenty-third year of Hongwu) shouted: "Rats, oxen, tigers, and rabbits come forward to meet the enemy." Dragons, snakes, horses, sheep protect the emperor and others from retreating. Monkeys, pigs, dogs, chickens after breaking. "It turns out that this brocade guard was divided into twelve groups for the convenience of scheduling, and at this moment Song Zhong commanded properly, and it seems that he has the demeanor of a general.

At this time, under the escort of the Jinyi guards, the royal family slowly retreated from the east side of the bridge for a distance of dozens of zhang, and suddenly jumped out of the water on the shore four assassins wearing black fish skin clothes, these four people blocked their inevitable way, and went straight to Zhu Yuanzhang and others to assassinate them, these four assassins are all first-class good hands, and in a moment they cut down the dozen brocade guards to the ground, only to be frightened Long Yan was shocked, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Who will come to the rescue, who will come to the rescue?"

I saw the king next to him and said: "Don't panic, the emperor, a few little thieves, can't be frightened, and watch me take down these people." As he spoke, King Gao picked up an embroidered spring knife on the ground, used a fan as a sword in his left hand, jumped in front of the four people, and fought with the four of them. This high king is good at martial arts, with a fan as a sword in his left hand and a spring knife in his right hand, he uses the two swordsmanship to make it, just like two people make two sets of swordsmanship, and he is inseparable from the four assassins.

A young woman next to Zhu Yuanzhang, she wears a phoenix crown, a silk colored tuan-colored shirt, a red sleeved shirt, a golden show Luan Feng on it, a gold belt inlaid with white jade wraps around Yingying's thin waist, and there is a treasure knife hanging on it that looks extraordinary, and a pair of tiger head and phoenix wing boots under her feet look extremely playful and cute, this person is the fourteen-year-old princess Nanping princess, the youngest daughter of Prince Zhu Biao. She saw that King Gao was fighting the four thieves alone, and she was afraid that something would go wrong after a long time, so she wanted to step forward to help in the battle, but Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly stopped her and said, "Nanping, you can't go up." These four people are strong in martial arts, in case you make a mistake, I can't explain it to your imperial mother. ”

Na Nanping smiled slightly, her face was like a peach blossom, she pulled out the treasure knife on her waist and said, "There is a treasure knife given to me by my grandfather." See how I capture these four thieves. As he spoke, with a slight force on his wrist, he shook Zhu Yuanzhang's arm open, and jumped in front of the four thieves, and Princess Nanping shouted: "King Gao dodge, see my sword show its might." ”

When the high king heard this, he hurriedly flashed aside, he had already heard Nanping boast about the sharpness of his sword countless times, but he had never seen it, it seemed that today's little Nanping princess is going to be powerful.

I saw Xiao Nanping frowning, his mouth pouting slightly, his eyes were wide open, and he rushed over and shouted: "Look at the knife." As he spoke, he slashed down with a knife, and the assassin who made the cooked copper stick saw her come suddenly, and he didn't know how powerful it was, so he raised fire to the sky with a move, and put the cooked copper stick in his hand on it. However, there was no sound of weapons colliding, but a 'hiss' sound was heard, which was like tearing open an envelope with his hand, and the knife cut the cooked copper stick in two, and then the knife light continued to castrate, and the right arm of the assassin was also cut off, and because the knife was too sharp, the big man's arm fell to the ground for a while, and his blood spurted out.

King Gao's hand was quick, he jumped to the front, and the bamboo fan in his hand pointed at the big man's qi sea acupoint, and the big man fell to the ground at once, and the three assassins were busy with their swords to come to the rescue. I saw that Princess Nanping, with a wave of the sword in her hand, swept across the Central Plains with one move, and broke the sword in the hands of the two people. Seeing that the sword was so sharp, the three of them didn't dare to touch its edge again, and two of them threw their broken swords towards Nanping, who swung the sword and knocked the two broken swords away. And the slender and tall assassin, he seemed to be the leader, I saw him take out a hidden weapon from his arms and hit Zhu Yuanzhang, at this moment the emperor was surrounded by no guards except for the princess is concubine. Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was about to die under the assassin's secret weapon.

At the last moment, King Gao twisted his waist and jumped in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, only to see that the hidden weapon that came over was five flying knives, he opened one with his left hand, knocked one with his right hand, and then shook his head with a lion, and used the purple gold crown on his head to frame a flying knife, but the two flying knives could not be blocked, in fact, King Gao could also dodge, but he dodged it, and the emperor behind him would definitely be stabbed, so he jumped lightly, avoiding the vital point, and only listened to the "poof" and "poof" Two sounds, two three-inch-long knives were deeply inserted into his legs, King Gao snorted, and suddenly felt his legs numb, he secretly said, no, this secret weapon is poisonous. King Gao hurriedly lit the acupuncture points on his legs to prevent the poison from spreading too quickly, and at this moment, the Jinyi guards on the bridge had already killed most of the assassins, and hurriedly ran over to surround Zhu Yuanzhang inside.

When the three assassins saw that the assassination had failed, they were about to turn around and retreat, but the tall and thin assassin took out two more hidden weapons and struck them straight at the big man who had been pointed, but the big man did not panic, and closed his eyes and smiled, as if he had died well.

After a while, the big man didn't feel any pain, and when he opened his eyes, he saw two eunuchs in their forties standing in front of him, one of whom had two knives in his fingers. The three Assassins with him had already jumped into the water and disappeared without a trace.

The two eunuchs walked quickly in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, knelt down and said: "The old minister is late to save the car, the crime deserves ten thousand deaths, and the crimes deserve ten thousand deaths." Then Zhu Yuanzhang tidied up his clothes, snorted heavily, looked at King Gao who fell to the ground with a pale face, and said: "Father-in-law Li, Father-in-law Qi, let's see how King Gao is." ”

The two fathers-in-law hurriedly helped King Gao up, put him on the chair brought by Jinyiwei, and the two kowtowed to King Gao and said, "The old minister has offended, King Gao endured the pain." As he spoke, Gonggong Qi pulled out the two flying knives on King Gao's legs, and then took out two porcelain bottles from his arms, one porcelain bottle poured out the pill and gave it to King Gao, and the other porcelain bottle poured out some powder and sprinkled it on the wound, and immediately stopped the blood. At this moment, King Gao was already pale, weak and weak, and Princess Nanping, who was in a hurry, pulled Gonggong Qi's sleeve and asked, "Gonggong Qi, is this secret weapon poisonous?"

Gonggong Qi put the knife under his nose and sniffed it carefully, and handed it to Gonggong Li, who also sniffed it for a while, both of them frowned and groaned.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart tightened, and he shouted: "What the hell is going on, tell me quickly." ”

Seeing that the emperor was furious, the second father-in-law hurriedly knelt down and replied: "Your Majesty, the poison on this knife is ordinary, but it is the poison of the blood butterfly flower produced in Yunnan. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said, "Then what are you waiting for, go and catch butterflies for me." As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at the sky and couldn't help but be stunned, at this moment, it has just entered March, the weather is still cold, where to find this butterfly? Look at this, it will take at least a month to wait for the butterfly, but this medicine must be detoxified within seven days.

Princess Nanping asked anxiously: "Father-in-law Qi, what if there is no antidote within seven days?"

The father-in-law of Qi wanted to say, but he was afraid that the emperor would be angry, so he endured it for a moment and said cautiously: "Fortunately, King Gao sealed the acupoint in time, and the old minister gave King Gao the Seven Insects and Five Flowers Pill。。。。。 ”

Then Zhu Yuanzhang walked up to him, looked down at him and said, "It's just what?"

Seeing that Gonggong Qi was silent, Gonggong Li had no choice but to say: "It's just that King Gao's two legs can't be saved." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was furious, he kicked the two fathers-in-law fiercely, and scolded: "What's the use of raising you two waste?" After speaking, he was still angry, he pointed to the brocade guard beside him and scolded: "What's the use of raising you waste? ”

When the commander Song Zhong heard this, he immediately softened on the ground, and he didn't even have the courage to beg for mercy.

King Gao, who was lying on the seat, heard this and hurriedly said, "The emperor can't." At this moment, the emperor is still in Yangzhou, and this matter will be rewarded and punished again when he returns to Nanjing, and Song Zhong commanded properly, so he did not let the assassin succeed, and he should be rewarded heavily, not punished. Please think twice. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, snorted, pointed to Song Zhong's nose and said: "That is, King Gao is just interceding for you, if you are someone else, I will not spare you." Don't go and thank King Gao soon. When Song Zhong heard this, he hurriedly crawled to King Gao's side, with tears and snot on his face, and kowtowed, Xingqing picked up his life.

That Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, and there was nowhere to vent the anger in his heart, looking at everyone, he was just about to find someone to kill to relieve his anger, only to hear that Gonggong Li said: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is still one person who can solve King Gao's poison." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was also overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" ”

That Li Gonggong said: "Wudang Mountain, Zhang Sanfeng, Zhang Immortal." (Zhang Zhenren's full name is Ming Yingzong's name "Tong Micro Manifestation Zhenren", but the crossing of Yangzixu, Gao Feng, etc. do not know, so they call Zhang Zhenren, and then the rivers and lakes also call Zhang Zhenren, but at this moment in the court is still called Zhang Xianren) Zhang Xianren is good at refining medicine, and the rivers and lakes say that he can refine thousands of pills and cure all poisons in the world. If you go to Wudang Mountain to find Zhang Xianren, King Gao's poison will definitely be solved. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, the anger on his face dissipated a lot. He clapped his hands and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of Zhang Xianren, the last time I and Zhang Xianren met was in Poyang Lake." In the past 30 years, it has passed in a flash, and I think Zhang Xianren should still be in style. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "Song Zhong, you hurry up and rush to Wudang, and you are limited to get the antidote back within seven days, if you are delayed for a moment or three, you will kill yourself." ”

That Song Zhong felt a chill in his heart, and said secretly: Just out of the wolf's den, and into the tiger's mouth. Hey, it looks like I'm too old this year. He was just about to kneel down to receive the order, when Gonggong Li said, "The emperor can't." He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's questioning eyes and hurriedly continued: "This place is about 1,800 miles away from Wudang Mountain, even if Commander Song rides a fast horse for 500 miles, even if Zhang Xianren is waiting for Commander Song in Wudang Mountain, I am afraid that it will be a long time to go and return." It's better for the old minister to take King Gao and hurry to the Wudang Mountain, and within five days, it should also arrive. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, and hurriedly said: "Okay, I will send you and Gonggong Qi with fifty brocade guards to protect King Gao to go to Nawudang Mountain." ”

The father-in-law of Naqi said: "Your Majesty, this is going to Wudang to ask for medicine, it is really a moment of gold, with so many people, one is that it is difficult to command, and it will definitely delay the hour; It is better to let Gonggong Li stay by the emperor's side to protect the holy car, and the old minister took three or five entourages and went to Nawudang Mountain with King Gao in disguise. This is not only safe, but also does not delay the hour. ”

When Nanping heard this, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I want to go too, I want to go too." ”

That Zhu Yuanzhang was just about to stop Nanping, but he saw that Nanping hugged the sleeve robe of Father-in-law Qi and didn't let go, and made a grimace at Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "I immediately issued an edict, you take King Gao, Nanping, and send you three more Jinyi Wei masters." Set off immediately and rush to Wudang Mountain. ”