The courtiers quickly surrounded the emperor and retreated to the corner, leaving only a corpse lying in the center of the hall, and Zhang Bao and his attendants standing there dumbfounded.

Zhao Zhong, who was hated by countless people and flattered by even more people, just died like this.

He did not die in the glory bestowed by the emperor, but in the suspicion and panic of the people.

For a moment, the hall was extremely silent, and everyone watched the scene carefully, even breathing very lightly.If it weren't for the horrified expression on the emperor's face, many people really wanted to applaud.

Not to mention the Son of Heaven, even Zhang Bao was taken aback.He looked at Zhao Zhong's body, his face was pale and pale.

This is the ten permanent servants, the most powerful person besides the emperor!Just because he drank a bowl of talisman water from him and died?

For a moment, Zhang Bao only felt that someone was strangling his throat tightly, making it difficult to continue breathing.Even though it was the twelfth lunar month of winter, dense cold sweat oozed from his back, soaking through the inside of his brocade clothes in an instant.

It took a long time before the courtiers broke through the scene that seemed to be frozen: "Bold and evil, how dare you commit murder in the central hall of Weiyang Palace! Come and take him down soon!"

As soon as the words fell, a group of guards with knives rushed into the hall, "clank" drew out their sharp knives and surrounded Zhang Bao.

"Your Majesty, listen to me!"

At this critical moment, Zhang Bao's pupils tightened in horror.The long experience made him quickly regain his sanity, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly.

Over the past ten years, he, Zhang Jiao, and Zhang Liang have also treated many people and died among the people. They have experienced countless storms and storms, and they all survived safely.Presumably, as long as they use their usual rhetoric, the emperor will trust and forgive him.

"Your Majesty, the heavens monitor the behavior of the world, and according to the good and evil of the world, increase or decrease everyone's lifespan." Zhang Bao's cold sweat dripped down.He tried his best to ignore the dozens of guards surrounded by swords, and his hands in his sleeves kept trembling, but he forced himself to calm down, "If a person can do more good deeds and less evil deeds, he will naturally be free from illness."

Pointing at Zhao Zhong's corpse, he finally regained some feeling and was no longer so nervous: "Everyone knows that Zhao Changshi became so seriously ill after being possessed by evil Chong and doing a lot of evil, and was punished by heaven."

"The evil he has done is far higher than the good he has done! This is not because the talisman water of my celestial master is not effective and cannot drive away evil spirits. It is because after the successful exorcism, God finally took back his talisman. life!"

"This is the will of the heavens, and it is not my celestial master who killed people. Please learn from your majesty!"

What he said was loud and orderly, which made Liu Hong's complexion ugly and all the officials hesitant.

Liu Hong said word by word, gnashing his teeth: "What Zhang Tianshi means... is that Zhao Changshi was possessed by the evil spirit, and because he did not do enough good, he died after exorcising the evil spirit?"

Bathed in everyone's questioning eyes, Zhang Bao held his head high and said, "That's right, that's right."

He knew that he shouldn't be flustered and guilty at this moment, and the more calm and confident he is, the more he can deceive people, so he sighed: "I thought I could save Zhao Changshi, but I didn't want the evil spirit to be possessed too seriously, and he didn't have enough merit... oh , I underestimated the enemy too much!"

As far as this is concerned, Zhang Bao has a sad face, and he can't help but feel sad and blame himself.

Xu Shi's Daoism of Heavenly Master is well-known and powerful, indeed, among the officials, some of them were bluffed, and suddenly realized:

"Okay, this Zhao Zhong is indeed Xie Chong!"

"Xie Chong has been doing evil for more than ten years, and today he is finally taken away by the heavens!"

"Master Mi Xian is right. Good and evil will be rewarded in the end. It's not that the time has not yet come! Heaven has eyes!"

"It turns out that Immortal Master Mi's method of asking the sky is true. It's ridiculous that I have always suspected that Immortal Master is pretending to be a ghost... Hey, I am ashamed!"

The courtiers' comments reached Liu Hong's ears.

The Son of Heaven's face was gloomy, he wanted to speak several times and finally swallowed it down, he said in a bitter voice for a while, "Let me see that Zhang Tianshi again, which of my ten permanent attendants need to exorcise evil spirits?"

Hearing the words, Zhang Bao knew that the Son of Heaven would not pursue the matter of Zhao Zhong's sudden death for the time being, as long as he performed well in the future and there were no more accidents, this level would be considered over.

He was overjoyed and relaxed, "Which one of the regular attendants will drink the talisman water next and prove his innocence?"

No one answered, and the palace fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.

Zhang Bao gazed at the remaining eleven attendants sincerely and longingly, hoping that another attendant would stand up and drink his talisman water bravely.When the other party is unharmed, it can prove that his exorcism talisman water is real, and Zhao Zhong's death is also due to Xie Chong;

Shi Changshi felt his whole body was cold and his scalp was numb.Several people raised their heads to look at the beams of the house and lowered their heads to look at their toes, but they didn't dare to look at Zhang Bao and his bowl of urging water.

What the hell is the self-proving of innocence? Zhao Zhong was poisoned to death, who would dare to drink this talisman water? !

Anyway, ten permanent servants would not dare.

They shrunk their heads and bodies, with a look of fear on their faces, and they were unprecedentedly well-behaved.

Mi Ren Shi Shiran, who was watching from the sidelines, raised his right hand and put his fist on his lips to cover up the smile overflowing from his lips.

Now even he couldn't help wanting to love Zhao Zhong.

I've been thinking about it day and night, and I finally look forward to the arrival of the Taoist, so I hold my breath and want to see the scene where the other party crushes him.Who ever wanted to drink the tonic handed by others with full trust, but died on the spot out of breath.

Not only that, but after his death, Zhang Bao was given the name of evil and evil, and he was reprimanded by future generations forever.

If there is such a thing as a spirit in the sky in this world, I am afraid that Zhao Zhong will be so angry that he will cheat the corpse, and then jump up and stab Zhang Bao to death, right?

Don't be afraid of God's opponents, but only pig teammates. The ancients were sincere and never deceived themselves.

Mi Yan laughed so that her shoulders twitched, and then she let out a long, pretended sigh to prevent herself from appearing gloating in public.

This appearance was reflected in the eyes of the people around him, but it was him who lightly covered his lips and slightly closed his pupils, and there was a faint mist in his long eyelashes, as if he was lamenting for the dead.

Hey, how kind Master Mi Xian is!The officials beside him thought that even if Shi Changshi did everything possible to target Master Mi, he would still be deeply saddened by Zhao Zhong's passing.

Mi Yan smiled for a while, collected her expression and put down her fists.Then I saw Sima Zhangyan, Situ Yangci, Yilang Cao Cao and others all raising their right hands, doing similar movements to him.

As if they felt his gaze, they exchanged a glance, and then put their right hands down after finishing their expressions.

Cough, in fact, they are usually very serious and upright people, and they don't easily laugh at others.

Unless you can't help it.

What's more, for the ten permanent servants, even if they beat gongs and drums to celebrate the funeral, they would never have the slightest psychological burden.

At this time, it was only half an hour before the court, and the situation in the palace had already reversed.None of the regular attendants dared to stand up and drink the talisman water to prove that they were not evil.

All the officials looked around at the ten permanent attendants, who only had 11 people left, and whispered:

"Hiss, why is Zhang Zhang not willing to drink the talisman water? If I remember correctly, he is also sick, right? And his illness is very strange..."

"Xia Yun previously framed Mi Xianshi for practicing witchcraft, and the officials see this as the manifestation of evil spirit possession!"

"Where is Bi Lan, isn't he a very close personal friend with Zhang Tianshi, why doesn't he dare to drink this talisman water?"

"..."

The whole room was full of whispers.

At first, Baiguan's words were very light, but as time passed, the ten permanent attendants stood in the hall without any movement, and they gradually lost their scruples and talked freely.

All the regular attendants who were named turned green.

They never expected that after Zhang Tianshi was invited into the capital, the situation would develop like this.This Zhang Bao not only couldn't deal with Mi Yan, but killed Zhao Zhong and put them all in a dilemma!

The 11 people felt great hatred in their hearts.They wished that at this moment, when they were still the ten permanent servants with power over the government and the public, they could order at will to drag those who made comments to death, and then they would be executed all over the house!

But now they have lost their power, and they can do nothing but incompetence and rage.

The ten permanent servants were full of fear.

Zhang Bao's talisman water has been handed to Zhang Rang.

He stared at Zhang Rang expectantly: "Zhang Changshi, please drink the talisman water."

Zhang Rang was in a daze for a long time, and finally took the jade bowl under the persecution of everyone.It's just that his hands were trembling, and he couldn't lift the bowl to pour it into his mouth.

At this moment, a voice came from far to near: "Your Majesty, please play if I have something to do."

It was Henan Yin Hejin.

Today Zhang Bao exorcising evil spirits for the ten permanent attendants was originally a major concern of the court, but he did not come to the palace this morning, and he did not enter the palace until this time.

Seeing that Baiguan's attention was slightly diverted, Zhang Rang was suddenly relieved, and with a trembling of his hands, he turned all the Fushui upside down on the ground.

Rao He Jin's voice is rough and ordinary, but Zhang Rang also feels that this voice is unprecedentedly beautiful and moving!

It's a pity that in the next moment, Baiguan turned his head because of the sound of Fushui falling on the ground, and stared at him with piercing eyes: "Zhang Rang, why did you pour this Fushui on the ground? But you are afraid of revealing your identity?"

"..." Zhang Rang wanted to cry, "Ben, Ben Changshi was just taken aback by Henan Yin, and he didn't hold the talisman water..."

Seeing that everyone wanted to force Zhang Rang to drink the talisman water again, Mi Yan subtly curled the corners of her lips: "Everyone, wait a moment, why don't you listen to what Henan Yin said first."

Zhang Bao's talisman water is ginseng and ganoderma herbal soup, except for Zhao Zhong who was forced to die, the rest of the attendants drank it and at most got angry for a few days, and their lives were safe.

Seeing that they are safe and sound at that time, the courtiers will believe that Zhang Bao has exorcised evil spirits for them.Apart from increasing Zhang Bao's reputation, the emperor had no reason to dismiss the ten permanent attendants.

It's just right to interrupt now, so that all officials can continue to suspect that they are evil, and this suspicion will never be cleared away.

Everyone turned their attention back to He Jin.

He Jin said solemnly: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I watched the starry sky with Mi Tianshi last night, and saw that the starry sky was strange. Mi Tianshi deliberately made a fortune teller, and only then did I know that this treasure came to Beijing with other intentions."

In fact, last night he had a banquet with Mi Ren in He Mansion, originally it was only for his own self-interest.

His nephew Liu Bian is the eldest prince of the dynasty, and he is seven years old this year.When he was born, Empress He was still a little court lady, and her mother was named a nobleman based on her son's dignity.Two years later, the first queen was abolished, and He Guicai was promoted to queen.The son was hard-won, and Liu Hong's sons had all died before that. Empress He was afraid, so she asked Shi Zimiao, a Taoist outside the palace who was said to be good at Taoism, to raise Liu Bian.

Now Liu Bian has grown up smoothly, but Liu Hong puts all his father's love on the newborn second prince Liu Xie.He couldn't remember that he had his elder brother's eldest son at all, which made Empress He and He Jin very worried.

So he invited Mi Ren to a private banquet and asked him if Prince Bian could inherit the throne.

When it was time, Mi Ren looked at the sky and fell silent.

He used the starry sky as a disk to deduce gossip for a long time before he came to the conclusion: "The dragon is trapped in the shallows, and another catastrophe comes from the northeast."

Longyu Shoal is exactly the situation that Prince Bian is facing now, He Jin naturally believes it.Hearing that the catastrophe was approaching, he asked Mi Ren to do some more calculations, and finally found the clue.

——Ma Yiyuan, commander of Tianshi Daoqu, secretly followed Zhang Bao to Beijing, but did not report to the court.

All the officials were stunned when they heard this, but Zhang Bao was terrified when he heard it: "Bloody spout! This celestial master is only here to exorcise evil spirits!"

He Jin gave him a cold look, his gaze was as sharp as a knife: "Your Majesty, I captured a person in the early hours of last night. This person was known by Zhang Tianshi, and his name was Ma Yiyuan."

Zhang Bao was shocked.

The attendant behind him shook violently, and the wooden box in his hand fell to the ground unexpectedly. With a bang, the wooden box shattered into two halves.

"The minister interrogated Ma Yiyuan overnight, and finally confessed this morning. He said that Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang, the Heavenly Master, gathered millions of unruly people and planned to revolt!"

He suddenly dropped a thunderbolt.

"Beginning in October of this year, Zhang Jiao Yu Julu proclaimed himself General Tiangong, Zhang Bao the General of the Earth, and Zhang Liang the General Rengong. The three of them said, 'Heaven is dead, and Huangtian should be established; at the age of Jiazi, The world is auspicious' as the slogan, ordering millions of unscrupulous people to raise their troops and rebel on the Jiazi day of the Jiazi year, that is, March [-]th next year!"

Full of uproar.

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