I am neither beautiful nor crazy

In the palace, Jiang Qi walked uneasily, his feet were floating and unstable, while the Taoist priest in black sat on the side seat and made himself a pot of hot tea.

"Why hasn't Wei Dong heard from them yet? I'm so flustered." Jiang Qi frowned and looked at the Taoist priest, "Why don't you go over and have a look. When is the time, you're still in the mood for tea."

The Taoist stopped what he was doing, but he didn't put down the teacup, he just held it up in the air, looking at Jiang Qi with an indistinguishable expression.

Looking at each other for a while, Jiang Qi finally compromised and said, "This trip is of great importance. We need Xia Zhixing as a pawn. Once Jiang Yu escapes this time, if he hooks up with Xiao Xiangling again, it will be even more difficult to deal with. It has been a few days For an hour, I always have a bad feeling."

Jiang Qi put one hand on his chest and sighed, "I always feel uneasy recently, as if something important is about to happen."

The Taoist raised his head and drank the cup of tea, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, I have told you before that no matter if you don't want to be in this position, the most basic thing you should pay attention to is that you can't use 'I' when you call yourself, It should be '望'."

Jiang Qi froze in place for a moment, and it took a long time before he raised his finger in disbelief and pointed at the other party, "Whenever I say something, you can point it out. Everyone in the world has to accommodate what I want to do!"

The Taoist stood up suddenly, his spine, which had been deliberately bent in the past, straightened, and the weak expression he had always used to camouflage disappeared.It looked a little tired, but like a shrewd old fox finally showing its claws, Jiang Qi subconsciously took a step back.

The Taoist laughed sarcastically, and mocked, "Your Majesty, in your palace, if you retreat in fright with an old, frail and unarmed Taoist like me, if you meet Xiao Xiangling or Jiangyu, What should you do when you meet the wolf army in the northern border? Your Majesty has to use the prime minister as a shield to stabilize his prestige and status even when issuing orders. In this way, Your Majesty really thinks that everyone in the world will accommodate you?"

"Jiangyu will be killed tonight. If Xiao Xiangling dares to lead the northern border army to fight against me, why don't we have an army in the Central Plains?" Jiang Qi was obviously poked at the pain point, and said sharply, "In any case, I am the current Your Majesty is the one you are looking up to."

The Taoist shook his head, "In my opinion, Your Majesty doesn't have to wait any longer tonight, because Jiangyu may not perish tonight."

Jiang Qi turned pale with shock, "This incident was planned by the priest from the beginning to the end, how could it go wrong?"

"I've seen before that Wei Dong doesn't have the heart to really kill Jiangyu. I watched the sky at night and found it extremely difficult to accomplish. Your Majesty, there must be a prerequisite for changing one's fate against the sky."

He said slowly, "The person involved has enough ability to change the destiny. Otherwise, it will be the general trend, and it is only right and proper."

Jiang Qi's fingertips trembled violently. He stared at the Taoist priest, gritted his teeth, and said, "I am the Son of Heaven, and I am the Mandate of Heaven. Even if this position is not what I want, I can sit on the dragon seat, or I can get out of it."

"Retire fully." The Taoist said with a smile, "Throughout the ages, whenever there is a handover of the throne, how can we retreat completely?"

The two were talking, when suddenly the sound of heavy footsteps came from outside, and then the door was opened. Wei Dong stood at the door with a sword in his hand, covered in blood, looking a little scary.

"How?" Jiang Qi stepped forward and asked almost as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

"Your Majesty, Daoist," Wei Dong said standing in place, "this subordinate is incompetent, and later Xiao Xiangling brought a small number of northern border troops to stop him and took His Highness Seven away."

Before Jiang Qi could speak, Wei Dong spoke again.He didn't kneel on the ground to salute, but looked directly at Jiang Qi and spoke, his arrogance and disrespect were obvious.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, what is the reason for us to kill His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince? It was said before that it was colluding with the Beikou to rebel, but the Beikou has been quiet and cautious, and there has been no disturbance for several months. In terms of etiquette, the prince must be sentenced to death after a detailed investigation. It is clear that the evidence is conclusive and the court can only be executed. However, His Majesty only relied on a single word of suspicion, but let us quietly solve His Royal Highness Seventh in the dark. Many brothers died tragically because of this matter. How dare you ask this question? Afterwards, is His Majesty going to cook a rabbit to death, cross the river and demolish the bridge?"

"Nonsense!" Jiang Qi was so annoyed by this passage that he almost couldn't breathe. He just wanted to refute, but he felt that the words he wanted to say were rude and not suitable for a monarch, and the person in front of him was rude and presumptuous. I don't know how to speak, how to deal with it.

In the past, these things were taken care of and assisted by Taoist priests, but today he was silent and confronted him clearly.

At the moment when he was struggling, he suddenly felt his heart beating violently, and then his whole body became weak, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and even his fingertips trembled.The whole person seemed to be sucked out of strength in an instant, and before he even came to his senses, he slowly squatted on the ground.

Surprised, Wei Dong stretched out his hand to help him, but he saw the Taoist priest approaching step by step, his eyes fixed on the person on the ground.

"Your Majesty is really ignorant of court affairs. Sometimes it's not ignorance, it's just stupidity." The Taoist sighed, "Your Majesty is too indiscriminate, and too gullible. I don't know if Your Majesty suspects that I have been flustered recently, and even a little The reason for the restlessness?"

He looked at Jiang Qi's frightened expression and shook his head, "I have made so many pills and Gu medicines for His Majesty, have you ever thought that those things might be used on yourself one day?"

"you……"

"Your Majesty don't need to worry, it's not fatal, it just makes His Majesty feel irritable and sleepy from time to time."

"What do you want to do!"

"Follow the destiny." The Taoist priest looked at Jiang Qi and shook his head regretfully, "After all, assisting you as the emperor, how can it be so convenient to hold the important power yourself? So you can rest assured, I will not let you die, I will only let you die." Let you be more obedient and worry less."

"Isn't this exactly what His Majesty wants?"

Seven days later, in court.

Jiang Qi was still sitting on the dragon seat, but the black-clothed Taoist was standing beside him now, and Xia Zhixing, who had been standing here a few days ago, suddenly disappeared, and the atmosphere in the entire court was strange and dead silent.

"I have a question." Finally, a person stood from one side to the middle, bowed his head and saluted, "May I ask that Prime Minister Xia did not go to court today, and there is no other news, but he is not feeling well? This will make it convenient for him to visit."

He obviously asked Jiang Qi, but when the latter heard this sentence, he subconsciously looked at the Taoist priest at the side, and then turned back as if remembering something.Just as he was about to speak, the person beside him spoke first.

"Lord Xia has been ill recently, and the imperial doctor said that he can't see the light and the wind, and Gu can't go to visit." The Taoist said in a muffled voice, "Your kindness is appreciated by the prime minister and His Majesty, and it will take a few days for Lord Xia to recover. , will naturally return to the court.”

The man wanted to ask something, but when he looked up again, he saw the Taoist priest's slightly gloomy eyes. He subconsciously shrank his shoulders, then stood back to his original position with a frown.

"Then since all the lovers are fine, we will leave the court today..."

Before he could finish speaking, a soldier rushed in from the outside, with a flustered expression, and shouted, "Your Majesty, General Xiao led the Northern Frontier Army back."

The whole court was terrified for an instant, and the sound of discussions like an explosion pot filled the place.Half of the people felt that this was a serious problem, and they had to be eradicated to regain military power; the other half thought that now that the government was overthrown and outsiders were in power, Xiao Xiangling might be able to work with them.

"Then hurry up and dispatch troops to stop it!" The Taoist slapped the table anxiously, "Mobilize all the troops to surround the palace for me, and don't let a single fly in!"

"I think it's inappropriate." Someone immediately stood up and retorted, "From the current situation, General Xiao has no malicious intentions. The most serious situation is that he has a personal relationship with His Royal Highness, so he came to rescue him. But in any case, Beijiang The army is also our army, if we fight each other without saying a word, what is the difference between killing each other and killing each other?"

Loyal ministers seconded the proposal one after another.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I am afraid that the current situation cannot be stopped at all." The soldier said, "General Xiao and the Northern Frontier Army have already entered the capital with tokens, and they have won the support of the people for pacifying the northern bandits. When we got the news At that time, they had been walking in every corner of the capital, and it was very difficult to find out."

The Taoist clenched his fists silently, and asked angrily, "Then, can Xiao Xiangling say anything else?"

"General Xiao said that he didn't have any malicious intentions, he just wanted to seek justice for His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince. In the morning, he said that he would wait for His Majesty...and the Taoist priest on the platform in the capital."

This place was originally a stage for the common people to watch operas, but because the first emperor didn't like it, it was abandoned and turned into a raised open space.

Xiao Xiangling stood in it, like a silent portrait.He was still wearing black clothes and an epee, and the silver mask with intricate patterns was still covering his face.

But on the ground at his feet, there was a wooden coffin, and the people inside covered their heads with clean white cloths.

Just before dawn, the people watching here gathered round after round.Seeing that Xiao Xiangling was silent, they didn't say anything to disturb them, and the crowd stood silently like this, showing a strange and solemn solemnity.

After about an hour or two, finally a royal driver came slowly from a distance.The two chariots shone golden in the sun, and behind them were hundreds of elite soldiers holding guns.

In this way, Xiao Xiangling seemed to be a bit too peaceful by himself.

The Taoist helped Jiang Qi out, and the two sat on the other side of the high platform under heavy guards.

He immediately took the lead and said loudly, "General Xiao was originally enshrined in the holy order to guard the northern border and be responsible for the safety of the people on the border, but now he leads his troops back to the capital for a man who has passed the sentence of the northern bandits without authorization. Dare to ask the general as the general of the northern border? How can we be responsible for the lives of people on the border?"

"The best way to deal with the enemy is peace, not tit-for-tat. I have made my own arrangements in northern Xinjiang, so I can naturally take responsibility for the safety of the people." Xiao Xiangling lowered his head slightly, looking down at the two people sitting on the walking chariot People, said in a deep voice.

"Then I don't know how your majesty and Taoist chief are responsible for the unjust cases decades ago;

After saying this series of questions, the people below were already whispering.In the next moment, Xiao Xiangling half-knelt down on the side of the coffin, and then tore off the white cloth, and everyone saw the corpse in the coffin at that moment.

It was Xia Zhixing who had been missing for many days and was interpreted by the Taoist priest as "unwell".

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