Yangyue

Looking at the maggots that fell on the ground, everyone was shocked.

Physician Geng jumped up violently, the ground under his feet split into cracks, turned his hand into a blade, and went straight to Qi Zhu's throat.Qi Zhu raised his sword to block it, and doctor Geng picked up a piece of jade that fell out of the medical box and hit Qi Zhu's sword.

Qi Zhu saved his skills, held the sword and fought several moves with Imperial Physician Geng, Imperial Physician Geng stretched out his sleeve, and shot out several barbed caltrops from his sleeve, Qi Zhu swept the sword out of a circular arc, and knocked the barbed caltrop to the ground, but he Deliberately missed one of them, ready to be hit.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when the barbed terrier was about to hit Qi Zhu, Henry Zhang swung his sword and slashed to block the barbed terrier, and the barbed terrier brushed Qi Zhu's shoulder straight away.

The gate guards all drew their swords and surrounded Geng Taiyi. Geng Taiyi was very skilled in martial arts. With a few moves, he broke through the encirclement, leaped onto the roof, and flied towards the outside of the palace at high speed.

Duan Rufeng: "Chase!"

Following Duan Rufeng's order, the rest of the guards jumped onto the eaves and chased after Doctor Geng.

Xiao Yangyue didn't go after Geng Chongdao, but stood aside and stared at Qi Zhu coldly. Qi Zhu saw that his expression was cold and angry, and felt that Xiao Yangyue was probably still angry because of her words.

Before Xiao Yangyue came to the prison suddenly, Qi Zhu had some guesses in his heart. With the emperor's mind, he would never allow the duckweed pavilion to interfere with the prison. He might have gone to his own Hou's mansion.

Qi Zhu couldn't help but said: "Xiao..."

"Master Hou thinks his martial arts are very strong?" Henry Zhang's face was sullen, "If you lose your martial arts, you just need to protect yourself. Why bother to be brave?"

Qi Zhu: "...It's because I didn't think carefully."

Henry Zhang's eyes fell on the sword in Qi Zhu's hand, and he saw that the sword was the standard saber of the guard, and his expression became even more annoyed for a moment, he opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally gave up.

He stretched out his hand towards Qi Zhu, and said coldly, "Give me the sword!"

Qi Zhu had no choice but to hand over the sword he had snatched from Duan Rufeng to Henry Zhang.

Henry Zhang returned the sword to Duan Rufeng, and Duan Rufeng took it hesitantly. He stared at the maggots still wriggling on the ground, and then looked up at Qi Zhu, with a momentary expression of thought.

What happened here soon spread to the ears of the emperor. Now, not only the imperial dining room, but also the imperial hospital was involved in the poisoning case. The emperor ordered that the entire palace be tightly sealed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the palace without authorization.

"Xiao Yangyue." Qi Zhudao, "You have bothered about the prison."

Henry Zhang was silent.

"But what I want to say is still the same. Now that my suspicion has not been cleared, you should not let others know that you want to protect me. The Duckweed Pavilion has stood in the court for many years, and it has been unmatched in the past two years. Said that the guards may take this opportunity to overwhelm you, most of them are people who are eyeing you, you don't have to do it for me...""

"Don't let people know, you already know." Henry Zhang said lightly, "What's more, I... It's not all for Lord Hou, I just think it's not appropriate to make a conclusion too early."

When Xiao Yangyue said this, her eyes drooped slightly, she said it lightly, and didn't look at him, as if the words were not meant for Qi Zhu, but for herself.

Hearing what Henry Zhang said, Qi Zhu was silent for a moment, if Henry Henry really felt this way, it would be fine, I was afraid of him, just persuading himself.

At this time, I only heard rumors from the palace people outside the palace that the emperor had arrived.

The emperor was wearing a bright gold thread embroidered dragon pattern uniform, Bai Yu and several followers followed behind the emperor, after seeing Qi Zhu, Bai Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Zhu and Xiao Yangyue saluted the emperor, the emperor stared at the two half-kneeling on the ground, his eyes paused on Qi Zhu for two seconds, and said: "Get up."

Qi Zhu: "Your Majesty, the situation is urgent just now, forgive me for being presumptuous."

"I have asked people to check the pills left by Geng Chongdao, and they are indeed exactly the same as the poisonous insect that killed Concubine Jing that day." The emperor looked down at Qi Zhu with eagle eyes, "How do you know?"

"Going back to the emperor, I never harbored evil intentions to try to murder the emperor." Qi Zhudao, "The things found in the minister's house are also completely unknown. After my father passed away, the minister carefully screened all the servants in the family, and all the things left He is a sincere person, and it is absolutely impossible to be bought by outsiders. After thinking about it, I think that it is only possible that outsiders brought these things into the home. At that time, I remembered that the emperor had given several imperial doctors to heal my wounds, and among them was Geng Physician."

The emperor: "Go ahead."

"Yesterday, Concubine Jing was poisoned. I went to the palace to check. The maggots looked colorless and odorless, but they actually had a very faint smell." Qi Zhudao, "When I passed by Doctor Geng today, his medicine box It also smells like this.”

Henry Zhang's expression was slightly stern, he had never heard Qi Zhu mention this matter, and he also checked the poison carefully at that time, and he didn't smell anything.

His five senses are already far stronger than ordinary people, and even martial arts practitioners are rarely as keen as him. How could Qi Zhu detect what he didn't notice?

The emperor: "Then why did you kill the imperial chef?"

Qi Zhu: "Your Majesty, the imperial chef did not know what kind of evil method was used at that time, so that the minister could not control the movement of his arm and killed someone. In this way, the minister was charged with murdering the witness without authorization. The imperial chef is dead, and he can no longer be with him." He insisted, and the crime of the minister was confirmed. Think about it, the emperor, even if the minister really intends to murder the emperor, how could he be so stupid and reckless, so that he dared to kill in full view? Wouldn't he set himself on fire?"

The emperor was silent, staring at Qi Zhu with his hands behind his back, and finally said: "If this is true, the poisoning incident really needs to be verified. But what the imperial chef said about you colluding with the Wulin chaotic party, do you have an explanation?"

"I do know martial arts, but I have never colluded with martial arts and chaos parties." Qi Zhu replied, "If the emperor is willing to listen, I will know everything."

The emperor nodded slightly, and Qi Zhu explained to Xiao Yangyue how he learned martial arts that day, and told the emperor again.

At the end, Qi Zhu said again: "Your Majesty, the fact that I know martial arts is really not what I wanted. The reason why I lied to the Emperor is because my father's title has already declined at that time, and I just want to live in peace, and I don't want to use this matter anymore. It makes the emperor suspicious. But the matter of colluding with the martial arts party, the minister is really wronged. When I was a child, I was taken away and imprisoned by the martial arts thieves. This torture is still vivid in my mind. I have a deep hatred for the martial arts. How could I collude with the martial arts party? !"

Qi Zhu spoke from the bottom of his heart, and there was no sign of fraud.

Xiao Yangyue hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, whether Lord Hou colluded with the martial arts faction, together with the disappearance of the son of the Hou Mansion five years ago, Duckweed Pavilion will definitely find out. Before that, please think twice."

After a while, the emperor's voice echoed in the hall: "I will give you five days."

Qi Zhu looked up.

Your Majesty: "For the time being, I will resume your official position in Dali Temple. Within five days, I will investigate and investigate the poisoning incident. If the matter can be resolved, I will naturally restore your innocence and restore you to the position of marquis; if the matter cannot be resolved within five days, it will be dealt with according to the imperial decree. "

Qi Zhu's heart sank. Even if the emperor didn't order him to be executed immediately, he didn't take back the order. The grace period left for him was only five days. After five days, if he couldn't find out who was behind the incident, his head was still in danger. .

Whether he was wronged or not, I am afraid that the emperor doesn't care, in the end he is suspicious of him, and naturally he would rather kill him by mistake than let him go.

When Henry Zhang heard the words, his heart tightened, the emperor only gave five days grace for such intricate matters?

Xiao Yangyue: "Your Majesty, Lord Hou..."

"I have cut off his title, did Xiao Aiqing forget?" The emperor said coldly, "You have pleaded for him these past few days, and begged me to take back my will to kill him. The gate guard has sent someone to report to me, saying You went to the Qi residence without my will."

Henry Zhang was stunned for a moment, and could only answer: "...Yes."

The emperor: "Seeing that your guard envoy reported back to me that there is indeed something wrong with the imperial hospital. I have never asked you. Do you think that I will not punish you? After this matter is clarified, you will temporarily remove the duckweed pavilion." Pavilion Master's token, no one is allowed to enter the palace without summons."

Henry Zhang retracted the gloomy eyes, lowered his eyes and said: "Yes, I am willing to be punished."

Qi Zhu sighed in his heart, and said: "Thank you for your kindness, I will do my best."

After the emperor left, Qi Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, but there was no urgency or worry on his face, he didn't look like a person who might only have five more days to live.

Henry Zhang really doesn't understand why Qi Zhu can be so calm, doesn't he care about his own life?Or did he have a plan in mind?

Qi Zhu: "Where is the evidence found from my house? I want to check it out."

Henry Zhang looked at Qi Zhu fixedly, and asked, "I don't understand what you are thinking."

With just these few words, Henry Zhang's voice is different from usual.

It was still very faint, but his eyes were twinkling, and his voice was a little anxious, as well as an indescribable loneliness, because he couldn't understand what Qi Zhu was thinking even though he tried his best.

After saying this, Henry Zhang regretted in her heart first, regretting that she had thought too much about Qi Zhu.

Ever since he returned to Beijing from Huainan, he has always been haunted by the matter of Qi Zhu.

I don't know where these emotions came from, and I don't know the reason, but now they are stuck in my throat, making Henry Zhang feel uncomfortable.

What Henry Zhang didn't know was that Qi Zhu really didn't care, nor was he afraid, the palace couldn't trap him, the emperor couldn't kill him, and there were few things in this world that could do nothing to get him.

However, there are thousands of people and things, and the only thing that can trap people the most is the word love.

If Qi Zhuruo is even more ruthless, he will have countless opportunities to escape here, and then feign death to escape, allowing the emperor to punish Lianhou's mansion, and continue to live with a different face.But even though the people of the Hou Mansion had no relatives or reason with him, they were innocent after all, and he couldn't bear to take their lives.

In addition... there is Xiao Yangyue.

I don't know when the grievances will come to my door, and Qi Zhu doesn't know how long I can live. Maybe there are still a few decades, maybe only a few months left. Why bother to leave so many entanglements with such a body whose life and death are uncertain Woolen cloth?

Qi Zhu: "If you don't understand, you don't understand."

Unexpectedly, Henry Zhang turned to ask: "What if I want to understand?"

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Hou Ye: Yes, I do think that my martial arts are very strong. Of course, Hou Ye paddled the water to let the tiger go back to the mountain and catch all of them. Immediately, the opportunity for the rapid development of the relationship came!