novelraw Chapter 257
Chapter 257
After Yintian's incident became serious, the third and fourth princes were involved, not only the forces behind them, but also a lot of Yintian themselves.
This made Emperor Xingde furious, severely reprimanded the two princes, and turned the original retreat into house arrest.
With the sacking of officials in batches, the influence of the two was completely cut, and the Eighth Prince took advantage of the situation and bought many new influences.
The third and fourth princes were furious, but what made them even more annoyed was that the eighth prince was also behind this incident.
They have people in the Eighth Prince's Mansion, so of course they know that the Eighth Prince's work was done by the boss.
But I didn't expect that this was the case, and it was hidden from everyone.
Not only them, Emperor Xingde was also startled, he always thought that the old man was under his control, but unexpectedly, unconsciously, the old man did such a big thing, and his people didn't even know it.
It can be seen that Lao Ba is really good at pretending!
The power of the third prince and the fourth prince was damaged, but how could they be reconciled to being calculated by Lao Ba, so they wanted to unite and let Lao Ba be ruthless.
July [-]th is Shengshou Festival.
The entire imperial palace is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and it is decorated with joy, which is even worse than the Spring Festival.
Emperor Xingde is 53 this year, so it's not a big birthday, but it doesn't matter, he is an emperor, and he is also a proud emperor.
In the past few years, Emperor Xingde has accomplished several major events, making the entire Great Chu flourish.For such a great achievement, how can we not manage it well and let people sing praises.
That night, everyone entered the palace to celebrate their birthday, even the second prince who had been imprisoned was released.
When Anxi brought Li Yunqian in, the hall was already full of people, and his brothers had all arrived, and they were pushing drinks and chatting with each other.
Everyone smiled satisfied, and they couldn't see the decadence before. Sure enough, the royals are all movie kings!
Anxi walked over, greeted them one by one, and sat down in his seat.
Not long after, there was singing outside the hall, "The emperor is here, the queen mother is here, and the queen is here."
All the people in the hall knelt down to greet each other. Emperor Xingde helped the queen mother to sit down on the upper seat, and then said, "Everyone is free, there are not so many rules tonight, just be casual."
The queen answered with a smile, "Today is the Longevity Day. On behalf of the harem, the concubine first toasted the emperor with a cup, wishing the emperor good fortune like the East Sea, and a longer life than Nanshan."
Emperor Xingde picked up the wine glass and drank it to save face.
Probably happy, afterward everyone toasted and he drank it all.
Anxi saw that the wine blush on his face was getting redder and deeper, and then suddenly returned to normal, as if nothing had happened, he lowered his eyelids involuntarily.
This is too abnormal, has the poison been activated?
After realizing that Emperor Xingde was poisoned, Anxi specially studied that poison.It is a strange flower that grows by the spring, it is colorless and odorless, and it looks very ordinary.
But this kind of flower contains a small amount of toxin, if you accidentally take it by mistake, you will feel drunk.
However, because there are few toxins, it doesn't matter if you take a little bit, and the feeling of drunkenness is quite obvious, so it is difficult to hurt people.
But I don't know what kind of treatment the person who gave the drug did, so that Emperor Xingde would only be in a state of drunkenness when he was drinking, and it was not obvious, just blushing.
It is estimated that Emperor Xingde didn't feel it himself, but outsiders, as an emperor, few people would look directly at Shengyan, so they didn't notice it, right?
Anxi knew that once Emperor Xingde couldn't arouse the drug's effect even after drinking, it meant that the poison had penetrated deep into the bone marrow and there was no cure.Just like now, from blushing abruptly back to normal.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but slightly lowered his head, his eyes swept across the Eighth Prince, it seemed that tonight was destined to be restless.
After three rounds of banquets, Emperor Xingde drank more and more.He didn't seem to get drunk, he would give face to anyone who came to toast, and he was full of emotions and clear-eyed.
The other people in the hall didn't have such a good capacity for alcohol, and they were all a little drunk, talking incoherently.
Suddenly, the jade cup held by the Eighth Prince slipped to the ground with a 'bang-' sound.
The whole hall was silent, everyone seemed to be a little frightened, you look at me, I look at you, don't know where the sound is coming from?
But there was silence for a while, nothing happened, and everyone was drinking and frolicking on their own.
But Emperor Xingde was an exception. He looked at the Eighth Prince with serious eyes, and his eyes were full of ice.
The Eighth Prince was startled, not understanding what happened, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty, "Father misunderstood, I just accidentally slipped the wine glass, it wasn't just a matter of throwing the glass."
However, Emperor Xingde didn't believe him. Ever since he realized that the power and ability of the Eighth Prince had exceeded his control, he had been secretly monitoring the Eighth Prince.
Sure enough, he found out that the eighth prince wanted to rebel.
How ambitious!
"The son of a lowly maidservant, you still dare to think about the throne. If I don't allow it, you will rebel. You are disloyal, filial, benevolent, and unrighteous." Emperor Xingde picked up the cup and threw it at the eighth prince who was kneeling.
The Eighth Prince was at a loss, forgot to dodge in a trance, and was hit straight, and suddenly, a bloody hole appeared on his forehead.
The entire hall was startled, everyone knelt down one after another, not daring to take a breath.
It hurt so badly that the eighth prince came back to his senses, and quickly shouted that he was wronged, "Royal father, I am wronged, I have never done anything to rebel, this is a slander, this is definitely a slander, please believe me My son!"
"Wronged?" Emperor Xingde sneered, "You have all the stolen goods, and you still have the face to call me wronged here. I will let the civil and military officials see how you planned the rebellion! Come here, bring me Come up."
The eighth prince looked around in a daze, not knowing what happened.
But after a while, the imperial guards pressed a group of people in, among them were several generals, and two people in the imperial guards' clothes, the leader happened to be Zhang Shide.
When the eighth prince saw him, he immediately understood that he was being plotted against, and he couldn't help feeling panicked.
Several people were kneeling under the pressure of the imperial guards. Zhang Shide was a literati, and he moved slowly after being handcuffed with heavy shackles, falling behind the others.
Then, he was pushed heavily and fell right beside the Eighth Prince.
Zhang Shide was buried face down on the floor tiles of the main hall, his voice was soft, but just enough for the eighth prince to hear, "My lord, we have been plotted against, and the imperial guards suddenly came to search the mansion tonight, and found the dragon in your study. Robes and treason plan, and then we were arrested and tortured. Some people have already admitted your treason and signed a pledge."
The Eighth Prince was shocked, and his whole body went limp.
It's over, it's over.
Zhang Shide ignored him, and quickly said, "We have only one way now, and that is to simply do nothing. I have a blade on me. You take this opportunity to hold the emperor hostage and make him issue an abdication edict. The so-called winner and loser will wait for you to take the throne." , it’s not too late to clarify.”
"No, I can't do this, he is my father." The eighth prince murmured, looking blankly at his superior, and at the emperor he was cursing, his heart was full of despair and panic.
"My lord, if my guess is correct, the third and fourth princes did this incident, but the emperor must also have a part in it. He has spies in the Eighth Prince's Mansion, so he must know what the third and fourth princes did to you, but he didn't Are you willing to be sentenced without stopping it?"
After saying this, Zhang Shide didn't say anything more, pretended to be weak, knelt up with the help of the Eighth Prince's arm, and secretly transferred the hidden blade to the Eighth Prince's hand.
The Eighth Prince was startled, and then quickly tightened his hands, the sharp blade cut through his palm, but he didn't let him let go.
Everyone's attention was focused on Emperor Xingde, and no one noticed their movements except Anxi.
But Anxi didn't do anything, just watched the play quietly.
Seeing that Emperor Xingde was angry, he scolded the eighth prince bloody, and the more he scolded, the more ugly it became, and even involved Concubine Shu and the eighth prince's biological mother.
The Eighth Prince in the center of the hall, his expression became more and more ugly, from bewildered at the beginning to resentful now.
Finally, he couldn't listen anymore, "If it weren't for you, how could my concubine mother give birth to me? I'm lowly, so what are you? If it wasn't for you to catch up with me at the beginning, my concubine mother would not have given birth to me." .”
Emperor Xingde's face changed drastically, and now he was really angry, "Nonsense, it's clear that your mother has no shame and seduced me while I was drunk."
The eighth prince sneered, "Seduce, hehe, ask everyone here, would anyone believe it? If you didn't want to, who would still be able to seduce you? You're just a womanizer, and you're just pretending to be a saint, disgusting." !"
Anxi coughed and almost choked on the drink in his mouth. Is the eighth prince crazy?How dare you say it!
Sure enough, these words seemed to touch Emperor Xingde's back, he rushed down to the palace and kicked the Eighth Prince.
This kick was extremely ruthless, directly kicking the eighth prince out of internal injuries.
The Eighth Prince coughed violently a few times, and then spit out a mouthful of blood.However, at this moment, he didn't care, and slowly stood up.
"Look at me, do you know? Among so many sons, I am the only one who is the most like you, as selfish, as indifferent, and as humble. My biological mother is not from a good family background, so how good are you, Queen Mother, Hehe, Empress Dowager, she just betrayed her own sister and gave birth to you. Who doesn’t know, the Empress Dowager killed her cousin and climbed onto the late emperor’s dragon bed by stepping on her dead body. You Where is it better than me?!"
Anxi raised his head in surprise, he didn't expect that there was such a secret about Emperor Xingde's life experience?
He looked around and found that most of the people didn't know, but they didn't know how the Eighth Prince knew.
The eighth prince chuckled, and looked at the emperor with a bluish face, "Aren't you curious how I know? Of course it was Prince Rui who told me, he is much more noble than you."
As soon as Prince Rui was mentioned, Emperor Xingde couldn't bear it anymore, he rushed forward directly and wanted to give the Eighth Prince another kick.
But this time, the Eighth Prince was prepared, not only dodged sideways, but also took advantage of the opportunity to catch Emperor Xingde.
"Don't move!" A thin blade was pressed against Emperor Xingde's throat, and the bright red blood on the blade dripped onto Emperor Xingde's skin, making people think it was Xingde at a glance. God's blood.
Everyone was shocked, "Eighth Prince, what do you want to do? You are killing the king, you are treason!"
"King killing? Rebellion? Hehe, hehehe, didn't I just get framed for rebellion? If that's the case, then I'll just rebel." The eighth prince laughed wildly, and the shadow in his expression was shocking.