The Manchu and Han Banquets in Qing Dynasty

Seeing the man's back, he shouted anxiously, but no one heard his voice.

Then, the man turned around, his mouth shut in surprise, because it was his master!

He saw Cheng Li turn his body back again, then walk towards Kangxi step by step, and finally pulled out the knife from Kangxi's chest.

"No!" Zixiu yelled, and Kangxi fell limply on the ground following Cheng Li's movements. His lips moved and he stopped breathing.

"Don't..." Zixiu woke up from the dream with teary eyes.He touched his eyes and found that he was actually crying.He felt a pain in his heart, as if he was about to lose something.

Impossible, it is impossible for Kangxi to have an accident, that is his master, how could he kill the emperor?No, he is worried, he wants to go and have a look.

When he woke up, he felt much better. He hurriedly put on his clothes, and opened the door only to find that it was already evening. He touched his hungry stomach, and ran straight to the Qianqing Palace without thinking about eating.

Nothing unusual happened along the way, he gradually calmed down, it was just a dream, how could he take it seriously?He stopped and planned to go back. He hadn't eaten for two meals, and he was so hungry.

"I heard that something happened in Qianqing Palace." Two eunuchs hurried past him, Zixiu was shocked, could that dream be real?Not caring about anything else, he rushed to Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, there must be nothing wrong..."

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No.70 a dish

"Your Majesty, you are wronged, slaves are wronged, please learn from me!" Cheng Li's voice calling for injustice came from far away, Zi Xiu's heart tightened, and he stepped faster.

"You still dare to call for injustice, this man got all the stolen goods, do you still want to deny it?" Liang Jiugong said sharply, his voice was still trembling, Zixiu could imagine the image of him stomping and cursing without looking.

It's just... what happened to Master?

The Qianqing Palace was right in front of him, Zixiu stepped up the steps in two steps in three steps, and the guards gave way one after another and let him in.Before he had time to thank, he went straight through the crowd and went to the innermost part.

Shock!Only this word can reveal Zixiu's mood at this moment.

Kangxi sat on the throne with a gloomy face, next to Liang Jiugong who was burning with anger, and below that was Cheng Li who was escorted by the guards to kneel on the ground, and the little eunuch lying in front of him.

Zixiu recognized that it was the eunuch who specially tested dishes for the emperor, but now, that person was dead.

"Master..." Zixiu couldn't believe it, this couldn't be true, Master couldn't have murdered the emperor.That dream... no, it was just a dream.

Cheng Li looked at Kangxi, and argued: "Your Majesty, the slave really did not murder the Emperor, please the Emperor to investigate clearly."

"I ask you, did you cook this dish?" Kangxi finally spoke, but his voice was colder than before.

Cheng Li said, "It was done by slaves."

"Did you send it yourself?" Kangxi asked again.

"Yes." Cheng Li lowered his head slowly, he was the only one who cooked and delivered the dishes, but...he really didn't put any medicine in the dishes.He looked at the dead eunuch in front of him, and knew that he was really doomed this time.

No one would believe him, no wonder, if he was someone else, he would not believe it.

Zixiu panicked, knelt beside Cheng Li and said, "Your Majesty, if Master wanted to harm you, why did you wait until now? You must trust him."

Cheng Li was startled, stared at Zixiu and said, "Why are you here? You haven't recovered from your illness yet."

"Master, I'm fine now. It's you who has something to do now. Master, I believe you won't harm the emperor." Cheng Li's character is very clear to him. As he said, why did the master wait until now to harm the emperor?

Kangxi seems to be thinking about this too, but all the evidence so far is against Cheng Li, even if he didn't do it, he can't escape the responsibility, how to deal with him is in Kangxi's mind.

After a long time, Kangxi said: "Zixiu, since you said that your master did not do it, then I will give you a day, if you can't find evidence within a day, don't blame me."

"Your majesty...well, just one day at a time!" Zixiu's eyes were firm, and he believed that it must not be the master who did it.

"Zixiu, thank you as a teacher. You must be careful." Cheng Li was indifferent at the moment. He didn't know the intention of the murderer behind the scenes, but it must not be as simple as framing him. He was probably just a scapegoat.

"Come on, send Cheng Li to the sky prison." Kangxi ordered with a blank expression, if there were no eunuchs trying the dishes today, he would be the one lying down at this time.

Although Cheng Li did not have to wait until now to kill him, but who knows the truth?Murdering the emperor is a serious crime against the Jiu Clan. If it wasn't for Zixiu, he would have ordered him to be killed a long time ago.

After the crowd dispersed, Zixiu knelt on the ground motionless, Liang Jiugong closed the door for the two of them wisely, and sighed softly.The two sat and knelt, neither of them spoke. In the end, it was Kangxi who was defeated first, and Zixiu couldn't bear to kneel like that.

Kangxi walked up to Zixiu step by step and helped him up. He held him in his arms distressedly, but he noticed that Zixiu was trembling slightly.Maybe, it really scared him.

"Your Majesty, I know, Master must not have done it." Zixiu's voice was muffled. Master is very important to him in this world, and he couldn't imagine a life without Master.

"I know, but you have also seen the situation just now, I can't do nothing." Kangxi comforted softly, he is the emperor, he can't just think about Zixiu, he also has to take into account what the world thinks.

Zixiu nodded, and a little hope rose in his heart: "Your Majesty, what should I do to save Master?"

Kangxi said: "Don't you think this is too strange? You just happened to be sick today, and then your master made me dinner for you, and many people in Qianqing Palace know that you usually don't try the dishes when you bring dinner. of."

Zixiu suddenly realized, and said: "The person who gave the medicine must not know that my master is late today."

"That's right." Kangxi kissed Zixiu's forehead appreciatively, and continued: "And the imperial dining room is not accessible to idlers. In my opinion, this person is probably a newcomer."

"This person only knows that I am cooking for you late, and he probably doesn't know me." Zixiu also thought about it, but a chill came out in his heart. If he hadn't been sick today, he would be the one who is being imprisoned in the sky prison now. Bar?Moreover, maybe the emperor has... He really didn't dare to think about it.

Seemingly knowing what Zixiu was thinking, Kangxi hugged him tighter, yes, if Zixiu was the one who was late today, they might be separated from each other now.

Thinking about it this way, Kangxi only felt that the person who prescribes the drug is really hateful, and this double-edged plan is too vicious.Who exactly wanted to kill him?

After leaving Qianqing Palace, Zixiu went straight to the Imperial Dining Room. He wanted to find out who was the latest to enter the palace, and to find out where the medicine was placed, although it is very likely that the things had been destroyed. .

The imperial dining room has been controlled by the guards, all the imperial kitchens are gathered together, and the things in the imperial dining room have also been moved out and piled up together for the imperial doctor to examine in detail.

Someone brought the personnel records of the imperial dining room, Zixiu looked it over, and found that there were no new imperial chefs in the past three months. If this is the case, then Master... Could it be that Master really did it?

Impossible, it must not be the master, who would foolishly run away after poisoning the emperor?

After being inspected by the imperial doctor, there was nothing poisonous in the imperial dining room. Instead, the guards found a small packet of arsenic under Cheng Li's bed!

Zixiu was so out of breath that he almost fainted. It was obvious that someone had framed him!

Now it can be said that everyone has stolen goods, and Cheng Li can't get rid of the crime no matter what.The person who poisoned was too cunning, I don't know how he sneaked into the imperial dining room.

"Zixiu, I can't help your master this time either." Kangxi said regretfully.

"Your Majesty, if you give me another day, I will definitely be able to find the murderer." Zixiu said unwillingly.

Kangxi sighed: "Zixiu, you know better than me, even if I give you another ten days, the result will be the same. I am also very sad about this matter."

I have to admit that what Kangxi said is the truth, he is not a detective, and his opponent is too cunning, he has tried his best, but he only found evidence against the master.

"Your Majesty, I want to see Master."

"Go." Although Cheng Li is a prisoner on death row and is not allowed to visit the prison, but the other party is Zixiu, how can Kangxi make him feel sad?And they all knew that this might be the last time Zixiu saw Cheng Li.

And when Zixiu saw Cheng Li, he suddenly understood one thing, which was his current appearance!When he met Cheng Li for the first time in his last life, he was like this now!

With messy hair and clothes with the word "Prisoner" written on it, he thought Cheng Li was a lunatic when he first saw him!

He knows, he knows what he should do.

The author has something to say: I don’t know what to say anymore, I’m sorry everyone TAT

No.70 Two courses

"Master." Zixiu knelt outside the prison door, holding Cheng Li's hand. After only one day without seeing him, Cheng Li seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

Cheng Li held his hand instead, and said: "Zixiu, my good disciple, I would be satisfied to see you again as a teacher before he died. Was it the emperor who let you in?"

Zixiu nodded and stroked Cheng Li's hair. Master's appearance was really heartbreaking and made him very sad. If it wasn't for that illness, he might be the one who was imprisoned here today.

"I'm sorry, Master, I..." He was ashamed, even though he tried his best, he still felt sorry for Master.

"Stupid child, Master deserves to be like this. I don't blame you." Cheng Li smiled with a loving expression he had never seen before. He held Zixiu's hand and said, "Master, I remember that you once asked me a question."

Zixiu was taken aback, he