Chapter 403 At times like this, you should call the devil a nuisance
The man with a pair of small naked eyes and a goatee on his chin outside the door didn’t say much, but grabbed Wang Qinian’s hand and pulled him out.
"Master Deng, please speak directly if you have anything to say."
Wang Qinian pointed at his beautiful wife covered in frost, with a look of embarrassment on his face.
“Isn’t the Lin Mansion at the front taking care of Mr. Lin’s funeral affairs?”
"Yes." Wang Qinian said: "I accompanied Mr. Fan to express my condolences this afternoon."
"Did you see the battle between Grandmaster Xihu and the mysterious man just now?"
< br>Wang Qinian nodded, then shook his head: "My wife and I were awakened by the dragon's roar. When we came out of the house, we only saw the great master of Xihu, Bai Feng, flying away with a hiss."
He was still very good. Point figuratively to the sky and draw a flight path with your finger.
"Yes, that's the dragon's roar." Deng Ziyue pointed in the direction of the Lin Mansion: "Baifeng...with one palm strike, the Wufeng Hall of the Lin Mansion collapsed."
"Ah? Isn't Wufeng Hall where Mr. Lin's mourning hall is?"
"Yes, I heard that many people were buried."
"What are you still waiting for? Go and save him quickly. Come on."
Wang Qinian winked at his wife and walked towards the Lin Mansion together with Deng Ziyue.
"Mother...mother..."
A childish voice came from behind. Mrs. Wang turned around and saw her daughter walking out, rubbing her eyes. She stopped thinking about it, quickly closed the door, held the child's hand and returned to the house.
After half a cup of tea, Wang Qinian and Deng Ziyue came to the door of Lin Mansion and found that many people were gathered in the courtyard. In fact, not only Wufeng Palace had collapsed, but Lin Youdao's parents, Princess Ningyang and others entered the courtyard. The husband's residence was also reduced to ruins.
"Princess Ningyang...Princess Ningyang...is gone."
"Is the Prince Consort still alive?"
"..."
No one said anything and the answer was obvious.
The two squeezed into the crowd and took a look. They saw a row of corpses on the ground, many of them in plain clothes. They thought they were close relatives of Lin Youdao, the commander of the light carriage.
With one palm strike, a hall collapsed. This... Grandmaster Xihu's palm was so powerful that it was simply shocking.
"Hey, is that Mr. Xin, the young minister of Honglu Temple?"
Wang Qinian and Deng Ziyue turned their heads when they heard the voice coming from behind, and saw Xin Qiwu slumped in the forest. Outside the gate of the mansion, his face was covered with cold sweat and his face was pale and bloodless.
"Now he is the Minister of Honglu Temple."
"Look at how frightened he is, it's not his house that collapsed."
"..."
Wang Qinian, Deng Ziyue and Deng Ziyue didn't know why Xin Qiwu was so unbearable. The reason was actually very simple. Chu Pingsheng said in the court that he wanted to exterminate the family. Among those who participated in Chu's life at that time, Lin Youdao spoke the most fiercely, asking Emperor Qing to send Xihu envoys. He was sentenced to death, which led to fatal disaster and he died tragically on the spot.
Not long ago, he came to Lin Mansion to worship and was kicked out by Lin Youdao's wife and son. He didn't dare to get angry or say anything. After all, the other party's family background was prominent. How could he be a Honglu? Can the temple minister be provoked? As a result, in just one round trip from the Lin Mansion to the Concierge Court, the Lin family was destroyed... almost wiped out.
What's even more ironic is that a group of people kept vigil, and they really followed Lin Youdao.
Except for the little shrimps like Wang Qinian, Deng Ziyue, and Xin Qiwu, all the ninth-level masters who took to the streets earlier saw the miserable situation of the Lin Mansion, but no one showed up.
……
In Guangxin Palace.
Late Autumn pushed open the palace door and looked at Li Yunrui, who was only wearing gauze clothes, with one long white leg exposed, lying lazily on the crescent moon.
"Your Highness."
"You're back? How are things going?"
"Chu Pingsheng was in the Concierge Courtyard when Bai Feng fought fiercely with the mysterious man."
" Did you see it with your own eyes?”
“Saw it with your own eyes”
Li Yunrui's dark eyebrows were deeply furrowed, her little feet were slightly raised, she straightened her waist and stood up, then pulled it up and dropped it to the ground. She covered her sensitive parts with a sheer and light gauze skirt, and asked again in a surprised voice: "Are you sure?"
< br>"I'm sure, I watched him throw the ancient sword to the white ape with my own eyes, telling him to guard against the masters who left after hearing the news."
"Isn't it him..."
In the past few days, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Chu Pingsheng was the same person as the Northern Qi assassin who hid in Guangxin Palace and painted her naked body. She even suspected that Chu Pingsheng was the murderer of the Queen Mother. Bai Feng, the great master of Xihu, or something, was involved. The bad thing is that one person has two sides.
But judging from the news brought back in late autumn, could it be that she was mistaken?
"What happened to the dragon's roar just now?"
"It was the celestial phenomenon when the great master of Xihu, Bai Feng, took out his palm."
"The celestial phenomenon?"
" He destroyed Princess Ningyang’s Lin Mansion.”
“Are you sure you didn’t use a sword?”
"Confirmed."
Li Yunrui was completely confused. The news from Northern Qi stated that Ku He had never been to Nanqing at all, and it was even more nonsense that the Queen Mother was killed by him.
If it’s not Ku He or Bai Feng, then who was the person who entered the palace to assassinate him that day?
...The candles in Funing Palace were still bright. The wind raised when the prince walked in quickly blew out two candles. The eunuch surnamed Cao standing at the door quickly lit the fire to keep it bright.
"Mother, are you looking for me?"
Li Chengqian stepped up the stairs and was about to kneel down and kowtow when he suddenly raised his head and sniffed.
"Hey, Queen Mother, have you changed the incense? It's not agarwood, it seems... flowers and fruits? And... the smell of alcohol is gone in this room?"
He again Taking a look at the furnishings on the wooden table, I found that the wine bottle that was supposed to be lying upside down was gone, and it was very clean.
"Who was fighting in the south of the city just now?" The queen looked around and asked him.
Li Chengqian did not ask further questions and answered honestly: "If I guessed correctly, it should be Chu Pingsheng's master Bai Feng and the great master next to Fan Xian who are fighting."
"Who wins? Who wins? Negative?" the queen asked again.
"Just now I heard Commander Yan say that it seems that the great master of Xihu, Bai Feng, has a slight upper hand, and the great master next to Fan Xian avoided the battle and escaped."
Li Chengqian aside. He said as he sat down next to the queen and kept rubbing his ankles. He had just learned that a great master was fighting in the city, so he wanted to climb up to the Drum Tower to see what was going on, but the distance was too far, and he felt lonely when he went downstairs. When he went downstairs, he missed his footing and sprained his foot.
"Qian'er...how did you know that the mysterious man was the great master next to Fan Xian?"
"Xin Qiwu told me." Li Chengqian rubbed the painful area, twitched the corner of his mouth, and took two more deep breaths before saying: "I asked Xin Qiwu to poke Chu Pingsheng in a subtle way. The white ape is so powerful, as long as he can If Fan Xian is killed, Wan'er will no longer have any worries in her heart, and she will grow old with him wholeheartedly. Xin Qiwu complied, but Chu Pingsheng said that Fan Xian had a great master named Wu Zhu. "
< br>The queen frowned, showing displeasure.
"What other little tricks did you do?"
"Little tricks?"
Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, stopped pressing his ankle, and looked back at the queen, not knowing what he said Wrong words. Of course he could see that the queen mother was a little angry.
"No, just this one."
"Don't do this again."
The queen breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that, believing that based on her relationship with Chu Pingsheng, he should not To embarrass her son for such a small move.
“Why?”
“He is not someone you can mess with.”
"What the mother taught me is that my sons and ministers should keep it in mind." The prince thought of the tragic image of the Lin Mansion described by Yan Xiaoyi, and thought that the queen meant that he could not afford to offend Bai Feng, the great master of Xihu.
"Also, go to your father tomorrow to ask for a decree."
"Ask for a decree? What kind of decree?"
"Just say you want to worship Chu Pingsheng. I beg your majesty to accept my request."
"Would you like to learn martial arts? Mother...don't you think this will make my father worried?"
How did Li Yunqian rise to power? Except for the fact that Ye Qingmei helped assassinate the orthodox heir who was competing with his father for the throne, his own strength was not bad, otherwise he would not have been able to get the support of the army.
Everyone in the government and the public knew that the emperor had a problem with his meridians during the Northern Expedition. If he, the prince of the East Palace, was obsessed with martial arts, would the emperor's father feel at ease?
The queen said: "If you don't learn martial arts, learn literature."
"Study literature? Mother, are you kidding me? Chu Pingsheng came to our Qing Kingdom to travel and study. You want me to follow He studies literature? What can he teach me? "
"You will do whatever I ask you to do."
"Mother, do you mean to win over Chu Pingsheng with the false position of Crown Prince and Grand Master?" Li Chengqian stood up and put his hands behind his back, walked back and forth a few steps, looking embarrassed: "But from what happened in the past two days, we can see that Bai Feng and his father The relationship between the emperor and the emperor is not strong. If the two of them fall out in the future, then..."
"Then have you ever thought that if they turn against each other, you, the disciple, may be able to act as a buffer in the middle? . "I think your father should understand the principle of leaving yourself a way out."
The queen walked towards the southeast corner, opened a window, and let the night into the palace.
"I understand."
"Okay, it's getting late, go back and rest."
"My dear, please retire."
Li Chengqian bowed, glanced at the open window a few more times, and turned around to go out.
He couldn't figure out why his mother seemed to be a changed person. She was no longer drunk and no longer afraid of the dark.
Sending her son off, the queen went over and closed the door. Just as she was about to return to the couch to rest, she saw that the window that had just been opened was closed, and there was one more person in the room.
Her heart tightened, but after she saw the person's face clearly, she relaxed a lot.
"Why are you acting like a ghost?"
"What a ghost, of course you are acting like a ghost." Chu Pingsheng walked to her side, picked up the gold jewelry hanging on his chest and looked at it for a while: "Wear it Isn’t it uncomfortable to wear this thing?”
The queen did not respond: “Qian’er said you and Wu Zhu were fighting?”
“That’s right.”
“ Is it Fan Xian who wants to kill you?”
"He may have this idea, but one Wuzhu can't do it."
"One Wuzhu can't do it, what about the two?"
"Are you spying on intelligence? ?" Chu Pingsheng suddenly used both hands to pick her up from the ground and walk to the green gauze bed at the end of the palace.
(End of this chapter)