hotmtlnovel Chapter 242: One person can defeat a military horse, Xie Chengze is really drunk
Chapter 242: One person can defeat a military horse, Xie Chengze is really drunk
Cao Qingran, dressed in a noble golden phoenix robe, walked over with his head held high and a dignified demeanor.
All the old officials in the court fell silent. They looked at Cao Qingran and bowed their heads in greeting. "Your Highness, may the Queen live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years."
Beside Xie Chengze, a minister frowned as he watched the imperial guards following the queen into the Yangxin Palace. "What does the queen mean by this?"
Cao Qingran's gaze swept across Xie Chengze, and finally landed on the person who spoke. She said lightly, "I am a step late, and I have already investigated clearly. His Majesty did not die because of a sudden attack of illness, but someone deliberately murdered His Majesty!"
As soon as these words came out, the ministers were in an uproar and whispered to each other. One minister stood up and asked in a serious tone, "Why did the queen say this? Did she find evidence?"
"That's right." This time, Cao Qingran's eyes fell on Xie Chengze.
Xie Chengze's heart skipped a beat.
It feels like a cauldron is about to hit you.
As expected, Cao Qingran spoke slowly and solemnly, "The Second Prince intended to ascend the throne and bribed the imperial physician to feed poison to Your Majesty, which made Your Majesty's condition worse and ultimately beyond recovery. As the Queen, I will never allow such a sinister person to sit on the throne!"
"Someone come! Capture the Second Prince!"
She said in a stern voice, and immediately, the imperial guards behind her all headed towards Xie Chengze. Cao Qingran used both kindness and force, and said to the ministers behind Xie Chengze, "Considering that you are unaware of this matter and have not participated in it, leave the palace immediately. I will pretend that I have not seen you today!"
The ministers were panicked for a moment. Seeing the imperial guards pulling out long swords and pointing them at them, they were like headless flies, not knowing what to do.
If the Second Prince really poisoned His Majesty in order to ascend the throne early, should they leave or not?
Sheng Shihuai stood up at this time and asked in a clear voice, "The Queen said that the Second Prince bribed the imperial physician to feed him poison. Do you have any evidence?"
Cao Qingran snorted lightly, raised his hand and waved, and saw an imperial physician being sent over, kneeling on the ground tremblingly.
"The imperial physician has confessed his guilt and pointed out that it was the Second Prince who bribed him to poison His Majesty!"
Sheng Shihuai stared at the imperial physician and smiled. "It is too arbitrary for the Queen to believe that the Second Prince poisoned Your Majesty based on the empty words of this imperial physician. If I also say that this was directed and acted by the Queen herself, does it really mean that it was directed and acted by the Queen herself?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"There has to be some physical evidence."
"If no evidence can be found, I'm afraid it was really directed and acted by the Queen herself." Sheng Shihuai bowed slightly and spoke sharply, "And the purpose is obvious. It is to violate the will of the late emperor and conspire with the prince to rebel!"
"How ridiculous! The throne should have belonged to the prince, how can there be any talk of treason?" Cao Qingran sneered, not wanting to deal with Sheng Shihuai, and directly raised the military token in his hand and said forcefully, "The evidence is here. Since you are stubborn, I will naturally not be soft-hearted! Come on, take down all these traitors!"
The imperial guards obeyed the order and immediately drew their swords and stepped forward to control Xie Chengze and others.
At this moment, Sheng Shihuai's low voice suddenly came to Xie Chengze's ear, with a hint of meaningful amusement, "Your Highness, do you want to know, how can one person defeat ten thousand troops?"
Xie Chengze was slightly stunned, then looked up at him in confusion.
What does this mean?
Is he going to start showing off his martial arts skills?
Sheng Shihuai has a great talent for martial arts, even though few people know this, but he has been practicing martial arts secretly since he was a child. Perhaps with the buff given to his character by the author, he can probably escape unscathed even if he faces Wuhen and Wuji.
But even so, isn't it too exaggerated that one person can defeat ten thousand troops?
It would be better to just kidnap the prince and threaten these people to withdraw their troops - hey hey hey?
As Xie Chengze was thinking, he suddenly felt a cold blade against his neck.
Xie Chengze was caught off guard: ???
It’s not you, my friend——?
I'm really drunk. Why did you kidnap me if you didn't kidnap the prince? Aren't we in the same group?
Xie Chengze was dumbfounded, but soon he knew Sheng Shihuai's intention.
The moment the blade was against his throat, Xie Jinyu, who had been watching everything indifferently, suddenly changed his expression and shouted loudly, "Stop it!"
He stared at Xie Chengze, his eyes fell on Sheng Shihuai's face, as if he had regarded him as a dead object, "Put down the knife! I will spare your life!"
Sheng Shihuai curved his thin lips slightly, playing with the blade in his hand, slowly moving it from Xie Chengze's throat to the side of his neck. It was so cold that Xie Chengze couldn't help but shiver.
"Your Highness," Sheng Shihuai whispered to Xie Chengze, his eyes full of amusement, "The prince is really protecting you."
Xie Chengze: ...
So this is the kind of person who can defeat thousands of troops, but isn't this too high for him...
"Sheng Shihuai, you don't think you can get away with it just by kidnapping a traitor, do you?" Cao Qingran narrowed his eyes and continued to give orders, "Capture these two people for me!"
"Mother!" Seeing Sheng Shihuai's knife against Xie Chengze's throat again, Xie Jinyu's eyes trembled, and he immediately pulled out a knife from the waist of a nearby imperial guard, put it against his neck, and said in a gloomy tone, "If my second brother is injured by half, I will be injured by three points!"
Cao Qingran's eyes also trembled. The ministers were also extremely shocked when they saw this scene. They didn't know what was going on for a moment.
Why does the Crown Prince want to protect the Second Prince?
Haven't they always been at odds with each other?
"Xie Jinyu!" Cao Qingran was so angry that he called her by her name, and said angrily, "Do you know what you are doing?!"
Xie Jinyu sneered, and her soft moon eyes were now filled with paranoia and madness, like a beast in a cage and trap staring at its hunter and threatening him fiercely, which was chilling. "I told my mother a long time ago that my second brother must live, otherwise I will not live alone."
"It seems that the Queen Mother is old and her memory is not good."
Or maybe, you really thought he was joking.
It's not like she hasn't seen him go crazy before.
Xie Jinyu has never been a good person. Even when he was young, he was already deep-minded. He would use the power in his hands to drive away all the people around Xie Chengze, and use his own life to threaten Cao Qingran, not to touch Xie Chengze's life.
She knew that the only reason he was obsessed with the position of crown prince was that he could use the imperial power to trap Xie Chengze in this deep palace.
"Xie Jinyu, do you really think you can threaten me?" Cao Qingran's eyes darkened, "This throne doesn't have to be yours."
I just don't want to give up all my efforts.
It's just a thought of blood relationship.
It was simply because he was the ready-made candidate who could allow her to become the queen mother the fastest and escape from the palace to find true freedom.
Otherwise, she could just pick a young son from the Cao family, claiming that he was of royal blood and the illegitimate son of Emperor Jian, and then control the court herself.
"But I am the best choice." Xie Jinyu exposed her mercilessly, "Mother, let them go."
Cao Qingran clenched the tiger talisman tightly, struggling in her heart. She stared at Xie Jinyu. When she saw Sheng Shihuai pierced Xie Chengze's skin a little, and Xie Jinyu cut his neck without hesitation, she finally compromised.
Whatever.
Where can they escape to?
If he escapes, it will prove his crime of poisoning His Majesty. She will spread the news to the world and then let Xie Jinyu ascend the throne immediately and become the new emperor.
She doesn't need to worry, Xie Jinyu will also be the first to rush to find Xie Chengze.
"Let them go."
Cao Qingran withdrew the military order and looked at Xie Chengze indifferently.
Xie Chengze breathed a sigh of relief, enduring the burning pain in his neck, and said to Sheng Shihuai, "Let's go quickly."
This is so painful.
The damn Sheng Shihuai actually attacked him!
"Leave?" Sheng Shihuai raised his eyebrows slightly, showing no sign of leaving. Instead, he said calmly, "I can't leave."