Chapter 261 Exciting Flowers on the Ground
Li Chengxiang heard An Pingzhi's question and hurriedly nodded and said, "Your excellency is right at all."
An Pingzhi nodded with satisfaction, and then turned around and said loudly to the empress dowager and others, "Empress dowager, emperor, this man had presented strange flowers to the palace in his early years. Later, the people in the palace did not serve him well, which made the strange flowers unable to survive. Li Chengxiang has not go out or visited since then. He has a grudge against this harem. This time, he used the hand of Mr. Wu to present flowers, including fraud. In order to prevent this person from turbulance, Pingzhi asked the Empress Dowager and the emperor's Brigadier General to immediately correct the law on the spot.
No one expected that An Pingzhi would suddenly say such words. Leng Xuanrong sat down and heard every word clearly. But she knew that Li Chengxiang was proposed by Mr. Wu and picked up by Brother Yan Liang himself. Is there any suspicion of chaos?
As soon as the Empress Dowager heard An Pingzhi say the words "right on the spot", her face suddenly turned pale. This time, she did not look at the emperor, but turned her eyes to Du Yilin, the king of Xiaohan sitting not far away. At this time, the emperor's reaction was the same, and he immediately looked at Du Yilin.
Du Yilin sat there as stable as Mount Tai. Seeing that the empress dowager asked for help from him, Du Yilin stood up and walked to An Pingzhi. He looked coldly at Li Chengxiang, who was kneeling on the ground in horror and asked coldly, "Is what the prince in front of you said true?"
Li Chengxiang's body was like a sieve. He hesitated for a moment and then replied tremblingly, "It's true... It's true... No... But I've never had a grudge... I... I'm just..."
Du Yilin didn't mean to listen to him anymore. He called the bodyguard and ordered, " Pull out of the Xicheng Gate and behead him."
Under Du Yilin's order, the guards came over and grabbed Li Chengxiang and dragged him out. Leng Xuanrong sat there and saw that Du Yilin and Dou Yandong did not seem to have the intention of talking anymore. He couldn't help but be shocked. Du Yilin could not have known about Li Chengxiang, and Li Chengxiang was also them at the beginning. In order to expand the palace banquet from the head, he was specially invited back. In the final analysis, this matter has nothing to do with Leng Xuanrong! Is this Li Chengxiang's life gone like this? What the hell is going on? Why didn't Du Yilin defend Li Chengxiang? Why didn't Dou Yandong plead?
Just as Leng Xuanrong was wondering, someone suddenly shouted, "Shout!"
Everyone looked at the voice, and Leng Xuanrong was surprised to find that the speaker was actually An Pingzhi.
An Pingzhi stopped the guards and looked at Du Yilin with a smile and said, "The prince is really impatient. Why don't you ask clearly that he is going to kill people indiscriminately?"
Du Yilin glanced at An Ping's cold eyes and said in a low voice, "Isn't it Mr. An who said that he wanted to kill him? Mr. An's words are well-founded, and Li Chengxiang is suspected of making trouble and should be killed.
Unexpectedly, An Pingzhi shook his head when he heard the words. He raised his hand and patted the wooden box beside him and said loudly, "There is indeed a suspicion of Li Chengxiang's rebellion, but there must be a reason to kill people. If you don't make the matter clear, not only the Empress Dowager and the emperor will be puzzled, but also Mr. Wu will ask me for peace, right? With that, he turned around and smiled at Dou Yandong and said, "Mr. Five, you brought Li Chengxiang into the palace, and this Jiuyangjiao is also given to the Empress Dowager by you. Now that King Xiaohan wants to kill Li Chengxiang, why don't you plead for him?"
Dou Yandong was calm and shook his head with a wry smile, "I have been away from the imperial city for many years. Now that I am old, I can't figure out many things. I haven't figured out why this strange flower can lead to a suspicion of chaos. But now there is justice between the Empress Dowager and King Xiaohan, and there is also your clever words below. Even if I don't understand it, there is nothing wrong with this matter.
"Mr. Five is too modest." An Pingzhi shook his head and said, "Who in the world doesn't know that the fifth gentleman of the imperial palace is knowledgeable and resourceful? If there is anything you can't figure out, it's really strange. After saying that, he patted the wooden box again, and then smiled cunningly at Dou Yandong and said in a low voice, "Actually, I made a bet with Leng Xuanrong. I said that Jiuyang Jiao was strange, but she didn't believe it. Mr. Wu must know where this strange thing is, right?
Dou Yandong's face was slightly dark, and his eyes swept to Leng Xuanrong. At the same time, he replied, "I hope Mr. An can talk highly."
Although Leng Xuanrong didn't hear what the two were saying, she saw Dou Yandong's sharp eyes when he looked at him. Leng Xuanrong couldn't help but feel cold on his back. He thought to himself that Dou Yandong was afraid that he would put today's guilt on my head. This is really indefensible. It's because I blame myself for being careless for peace for a while.
An Pingzhi followed Dou Yandong's eyes and saw that Leng Xuanrong's face was as pale as paper. He sat there with a little panic, and there was a feeling of peace in his heart.
He raised his hand and picked up the wooden box, and the strange flower Jiuyangjiao appeared in front of everyone again.
The hall is brightly lit, and Jiuyangjiao looks just a pale flower. An Pingzhi slowly stretched out his hand and pulled off a petal unscrupulously.
This talk only heard a howling in the distance at the same time.
Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Li Chengxiang who struggled and cried bitterly.
An Pingzhi smiled indifferently and pulled off a petal and put it in the palm of his hand to play with it.
At this time, the empress dowager couldn't stand it and whispered, "Pingzhi, a good flower, how can you destroy it? Not to mention that the flower-raising man is distressed when he looks at it, even if he looks at it, he will feel distressed.
An Pingzhi turned around and bowed to the Empress Dowager, and then gestured to Euke Zhang. Eunuch Zhang seemed to know about this matter in advance and asked his eunuchs to cover the light with curtains.
The hall fell into darkness again. Everyone looked at the nine Yangjiao again, but found that the light emitted by the strange flower was already weak and invisible. At this time, looking at the bright light not far from the flower, this time the light actually became a palm print!
When the eunuchs withdrew, the empress dowager looked at An Pingzhi in surprise, and An Pingzhi did not wait for others to ask and explained to everyone, "I am short of Anping's talent, but I have also heard that there are occasional strange light in caves in the deep mountains and old forests all year round, which is very pleasing. Today, I just happened to think of it and made a bet with Leng Xuanrong, but I didn't expect that I was really guessed by the game. The reason why this Jiuyangjiao shines in the dark is that it is smeared with the strange things that glow on the walls of the cave. If it is magical, it is also the wonders in those caves, but it has nothing to do with this flower.
An Pingzhi turned around and saluted the empress dowager and the emperor again, saying, "Li Chengxiang is really abominable. He actually used such tricks to deceive the Empress Dowager and the emperor, and the crime of deceiving the king is really to be killed. It is really reasonable for King Xiaohan to dare to make a decision. Please also invite the empress dowager and the emperor.
After he said this, he didn't wait for the Empress Dowager and the emperor to speak again. He turned around and stared at the guards and said angrily, "What are you waiting for? Why don't you drag this man out and kill him!"
The guards moved when they heard the sound and dragged the screaming Li Chengxiang out of the palace.
In the hall, the atmosphere is extremely dull. Even Leng Xuanrong saw that An Pingzhi's behavior just now was intended to suppress Du Yilin, and he dared to give orders to the guards of the harem in front of the emperor and the empress dowager. However, the guards obeyed his words, which undoubtedly told everyone that the whole harem had already fallen under the control of their family. .
During the banquet, everyone in the An family immediately became a little taller, and the eyes of the rest of the people deliberately avoided the royal people sitting high above.
After finishing this, An Pingzhi bowed to Du Yilin and said indifferently, "Your Majesty is wise."
Du Yilin still couldn't see anything on his face. He turned back to his seat and continued to taste tea leisurely.
An Pingzhi smiled, turned around and gave a salute to Dou Yandong, saying, "Mr. Wu is shocked. The younger generation will definitely be shocked in the future. Please give Mr. Wu a good look."
Dou Yandong waved his hand with a smile and whispered, "Thanks to Mr. An's wisdom to see through this thing, I'm afraid I, Dou Yandong, can't afford to bear the word sir in the future."
"If something hadn't happened for a reason, Mr. Wu would not have lost his eyes. Presumably, Mr. Wu would have been willing to come out of his name only once." An Pingzhi's words were extremely soft, but Dou Yandong heard them clearly. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and the smile at the corners of his mouth became cold. After saying this, An Pingzhi nodded slightly and then turned to Leng Xuanrong.
Leng Xuanrong was extremely embarrassed. She saw An Pingzhi coming towards herself and wanted to get up and escape, but she knew that she had nowhere to escape.
What happened today was too sudden. All this was not experienced by Leng Xuanrong in her previous life. Everything happened when Leng Xuanrong was unprepared. For Leng Xuanrong, such a situation was simply a fatal blow to her.
Du Yilin, the king of Xiaohan, lost face in this fight, and even the empress dowager and the emperor became a decoration, and Mr. Dou Yandong was caught up, and even the people invited by him were poisoned. Leng Xuanrong really didn't know if she had the face to go back to the Xiaohan Palace, let alone they would ask about it in the future. What should she answer when she bet with An Pingzhi?
Just for your own curiosity?
I don't know how much effort it took for these people to protect her life, but she ruined everything just for a little curiosity.
Leng Xuanrong couldn't forgive herself, and she couldn't even find a decent excuse.
Just when she was in a panic, An Pingzhi sat next to her again.
"How about it?" An Pingzhi shook the slightly shining hand at Leng Xuanrong and whispered, "I'll say there is nothing special about this flower. Look, I won this bet."
Leng Xuanrong's forehead oozed sweat. She looked at An Pingzhi's extremely gentle smiling face, and her voice trembled slightly, "What do you... want me to do?"
An Pingzhi gently patted Leng Xuanrong on the shoulder with that hand and lowered his voice, "Don't be afraid, I just want you to do a small thing..."