[Donggong Derivatives] see you again

The old emperor urgently summoned the accompanying officials to the king's tent, Li Chengyin and Pei Zhao walked in front, I looked up and could only see his straight back and steady steps.

But his hands were hanging by his sides, his fingertips were tightly clasped on the cuffs, forming vertical and horizontal folds.

The palace people outside the tent opened the curtains, I lowered my head and quietly looked at the gray emperor on the left seat, he was reclined on the dragon chair with his arms on the armrests, when I saw Li Chengyin coming in, I glanced at him , eyelids drooping slightly, seems to be very tired.

After Li Chengyin bowed to the old emperor, he sat down beside him.

After the tent settled down, the old emperor sat upright, slowly rubbed his fingers back and forth on his knees, and glanced at the silent crowd: "Just now—the seventh prince was assassinated, you all know?"

Zhang Shilang, the father of the Seventh Prince's mother and concubine, stood up suddenly: "May I ask Your Majesty, how is the Seventh Prince's injury?"

The old emperor raised his hand impatiently and interrupted: "The imperial physician is still in the process of diagnosis and treatment."

Anyone with a wink can see that the old emperor is approaching the storm, Zhang Shilang lowered his eyes and slightly cupped his hands before sitting down again.

Li Cheng Yin next to me pursed his lips slightly, his expression was difficult to discern.

After the old emperor looked around, no one spoke, he motioned to the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch nodded: "Bring it up!"

Li Chengyin didn't look at the person coming, he took a deep breath, his chest heaved and fluctuated.

A few guardsmen in armor captured two men in black and presented their bows and crossbows to the old emperor: "Your Majesty, the imperial doctor compared the wounds, and it is true that the bow matches the arrow."

The old emperor looked directly at the two people with his cloudy eyes: "Who ordered it?"

The man in black knelt on the ground with his arms pressed down by the Imperial Forest Army, and he didn't look up when he heard the words, but turned his face slightly.

My heart skipped a beat.

He seems to be... looking at Li Chengyin?

Following his line of sight, the old emperor turned his head to the people on the left, and asked in a deep voice: "You just say it, why bother to look around."

The two men in black raised their heads, and the guards behind them quickly pinched their cheeks to prevent them from biting their tongues.

The old emperor sneered: "It is sincere."

Suddenly, his face changed slightly and he got up abruptly, watching the two men's mouths slowly oozing blood, one of them had been looking at the old emperor before he died, and his teeth were filled with red.

The old emperor clenched his fists and shouted, "What's going on?!"

The Imperial Forest Army at the front knelt down after looking at it for a while: "Return to Your Majesty, it looks like he died of poisoning!"

The veins on the back of the old emperor's hands bulged: "Okay, they are really two loyal servants."

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of Li Chengyin, he was still sitting upright, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, it seemed to be a sneer, but also a mockery.

The old emperor overturned the tea bowl, and the fragile porcelain hit the ground into white pieces, and the tea slowly soaked the carpet under his feet.

Everyone was shocked, I shrank my head and shook, but my hands were covered with softness.

Li Chengyin looked at me slightly sideways, and tapped the back of my hand with his fingertips, as if to comfort him.

But there was no warmth in his palm.

I always feel that there is something wrong, if it is really loyal, why look at Li Chengyin?This act of concealment was too abrupt.

Li Chengyin's Adam's apple sank slightly, he let go of my hand, stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Now the seventh brother's condition is unknown, I don't know what my father plans?"

He raised his head to look at the old emperor, and slowly repeated: "Father, what do you want?"

The old emperor slowly sat back on the dragon chair, lowered his eyes in silence for a while, sighed inaudibly, and looked up at Pei Zhao who was standing aside:

"Pei Zhao, as the president of the Imperial Forest Army, neglected his duty and gave the thieves an opportunity to suspend his post to find out the whole story, and Zhang Jian, the left commander, will take his place temporarily."

Pei Zhao took off his saber without hesitation, handed it to the palace man who came forward, and knelt down with Zhang Jian at the same time, kowtowed and said:

"The minister leads the order."

"The minister leads the order!"

Li Chengyin stood aside with his hands down, rubbing his thumb back and forth on the side of his index finger, his eyes didn't know where to look.

Just when I thought the dust was about to fall, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the curtain: "Your Majesty...!"

The Imperial Forest Army came running quickly and shouted: "Your Majesty, we found the tent that the assassin secretly set up near the paddock!"

The old emperor immediately straightened up: "How? Did you find anything?"

The Yulin Army hesitated in his words, and turned his head this way.

Are you looking at Li Chengyin again? !

I twisted the hem of the dress with my hands in the wide sleeves, feeling uneasy.

Li Chengyin exhaled inaudibly through the tip of his nose, and said in a deep voice: "If you have anything to do, report it to your father quickly."

The Yulin Army raised the object in his hand above his head: "We found this."

The eunuch next to the old emperor took it and handed it to him respectfully. Only then did I see clearly that it was a blow dart.

The old emperor took it, and unfolded the thin paper wrapped around it. After seeing the contents clearly, he clenched his teeth slightly, and the meridian on the back of his hand was clear.

All the ministers under the seat secretly exchanged glances, I didn't know who to look at, so I had to look at Li Chengyin who was standing sideways, he clasped his hands in front of him, and looked at everything expressionlessly.

The old emperor raised his eyes to look at him, and signaled the eunuch to pass the things to Li Chengyin.

After Li Chengyin took it with both hands, he glanced at it, and I poked my head out curiously to look at it. I couldn't read the tiny characters on it clearly, but I was familiar with the red mark behind the handwriting.

That is Li Chengyin's prince's seal.

Although I don't know what it means specifically, but considering the current situation, it must not be a good thing for Li Chengyin's letter to appear there.

The presence was so silent that I didn't dare to breathe out.

Li Chengyin slowly rolled up the paper along the creases, and handed one hand to the eunuch beside him.

The old emperor was unexpectedly calm: "Is there any explanation?"

Li Chengyin bent his straight back, cupped his hands and said: "If I say I haven't done it, can father trust my son?"

The old emperor looked at him, as if he couldn't see through the prince in front of him.

Li Chengyin raised his head and looked at him: "Father...can you trust your son?"

Li Chengyin turned his back to me, and turned his body towards the emperor.The clothes on his body didn't move at all, but my cuffs couldn't stop trembling for him.

If he doesn't explain it, who would believe it?Did Li Chengyin suddenly lose his mind?

I nervously waited for the emperor to give an answer.

The emperor took a deep breath, his eyes fell on the corpse of the assassin lying on the ground, the corners of his mouth moved, as if he wanted to say something.

At this time, another one came from the Imperial Forest Army: "Report to Your Majesty! Some people have seen the servants around the prince sneaking out of the paddock at night, and they have been brought here!"

The old emperor raised his hand wearily: "Bring him in."

The attendant's clothes were wrinkled together, and he was pushed into the door by the Imperial Forest Army. When he saw the emperor, he immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty! You have been wronged!"

The Imperial Forest Army took out a soft bag from his arms and presented it to the emperor: "When I caught him, he was about to run away."

The old emperor didn't even want to look at it this time. He waved his hand from the air, and the eunuch stepped back and stood aside.

He leaned forward, and his words were overwhelming: "Does the assassin have anything to do with you?"

The attendant cried mournfully: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."

"Tell the truth!" The wrinkles on the old emperor's forehead deepened, "If you are found to be lying, I will execute you Ling Chi!"

The attendant stopped crying immediately, and kowtowed repeatedly on the ground: "Your Majesty! I was ordered by someone!"

The old emperor pondered for a moment: "Shou..."

"Instigated by whom?" Li Chengyin was really confused, and actually took the emperor's words away, and said in a deep voice: "Instigated by whom?"

The attendant was stopped by him for a while, and said incoherently: "Shou... Shou..."

Li Chengyin knelt down in front of him, and took out a jade pendant from his cuff: "Do you remember this? This is what I rewarded you last year."

The attendant's eyes widened, seeing the reddish-brown stains on it, he couldn't say a word: "You...you...why...?"

Li Chengyin put the jade pendant into his trembling hand, looked down at his hand, his fingertips slid across the warm white jade, and landed on the dark red stain.

An oppressive silence.

The emperor on the seat said sharply: "Prince! What are you doing?!"

Li Chengyin raised his eyes, his eyeballs were squinting at him, but the eyes met for a moment, and the attendant's legs went limp and he collapsed on the ground.

Li Chengyin quickly turned around, bowed deeply to the old emperor, knelt on the ground and buried his head, his eyes sinking under his arms: "Father, my son feels that this person is instigated by others, and there must be benefits or benefits. ——Coercion by family members. This person is an official in Erchen's palace, and Erchen has a few words that I would like to say to him."

The old emperor was silent, not knowing whether to agree or reject.

Li Chengyin straightened his back and looked down at the attendant who was still looking at the jade pendant: "I guess, the person behind you promised you that you would do this and at the same time send your family members with Hu ethnicity out of the customs to keep them safe. "

The old emperor's half-drooped eyelids suddenly rolled up.

Li Cheng Yin's face was calm: "It is a serious crime like hurting the prince, and it is common to kill the insider and his family."

The attendant whispered, "You... how do you know..."

Li Chengyin lowered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "Officials in the western region are good officials who are loyal to... the rich dynasty."

The attendant stared blankly at Li Chengyin, then suddenly raised his head to look at the old emperor.

The old emperor frowned: "Prince, don't talk nonsense!"

Li Chengyin kowtowed: "Father forgives the crime, but my son is just guessing... That villain has a deep scheming heart, and even tried to imitate my seal to blame me!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone in the seat became commotion. I heard that his tone was calm, not tense, and he seemed to have Chen Zhu in his chest.

My heart... I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Chengyin got up and took the letter paper from the eunuch: "Is it possible that I can imitate the seal of the East Palace if I want to?" He took out the seal from his arms, and Shi En, who stood silently by the side, said, "Give me a seal. A blank sheet of paper."

Shi Eun pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve pocket.

Li Chengyin took the seal and stamped it heavily.

I was amazed.

Li Chengyin is so unpredictable, why would he carry the seal with him, what can he want?

The attendant was still paralyzed on the ground and muttered: "Impossible... I clearly personally..."

The emperor on the seat didn't pick it up for comparison, but just glanced at it, looked up at the respectful Li Chengyin, and said in a deep voice: "You are well prepared."

Li Chengyin leaned on him and made a bow: "Father Wang is wrong."

The old emperor kept staring at his every move, closed his eyes and sighed slightly: "It seems that there will be no problems in the interrogation today, everyone stand down."

All the ministers got up to pay their respects, but Li Chengyin said loudly: "Please wait for Zhang Shilang Liu Shaoqing."

The old emperor looked at Li Chengyin: "What else do you have to say!"

Li Chengyin returned respectfully: "Father, I still have some questions to ask. This is about my innocence. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, I kindly ask you to leave two fair veterans to hear the trial."

I was going to go out of the tent with Pei Zhao, Li Chengyin slightly pulled my sleeve and said quickly: "Wait outside for me to go back together."

I didn't know why I followed Pei Zhao outside the tent, through the gap in the curtain, I saw him take half a step back, squinting at the attendant below: "The person you are loyal to, he wants to take your life. "

The old emperor stared at Li Chengyin, seemed to realize that he had lost his composure, and turned cold: "Enough, too much nonsense!"

Li Cheng Yin glanced at his father who was pretending to be calm, and continued: "There is a kind of poison in our Central Plains, which enters the body slowly, and you will feel your hands trembling involuntarily, that is the symptom of the poison."

The attendant straightened up and looked up at Li Chengyin.

Li Cheng Yin took out a white porcelain bottle from his sleeve and handed it to the attendant, the attendant subconsciously wanted to take it, but Li Cheng Yin withdrew his hand: "Father, whether or not this person will stay or stay should not be decided by the servant."

As he spoke, he held up the porcelain bottle with both hands.

The old emperor stretched out his hand, and after touching the porcelain bottle with his fingertips, Li Cheng Yin let go.

At the same time, the porcelain bottle fell to the ground and made a shattering sound.

The attendant seemed to be dumbfounded, as if the broken bottle was just an empty bottle.

The old emperor withdrew his hand and said flatly: "Take him into Dali Temple and wait for interrogation."

The Imperial Forest Army came up and took him away. When I passed by me, I heard him laughing, creepy and pitiful.

After Zhang Shilang and Liu Shaoqing got up to leave, a panting little palace servant suddenly appeared outside the tent, which made me take a big step back in fright.

The little palace man cried as soon as he came up: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! It's not good!"

The old emperor was exhausted: "So what?"

The little palace man cried and said: "Shortly after the imperial doctor gave the Seventh Prince the medicine, his lips turned purple and he had difficulty breathing. The imperial doctor said, I'm afraid, I'm afraid he was poisoned!"

Li Chengyin lowered his eyes, cupped his hands and said: "My son, please leave."

The old emperor staggered forward and grabbed Li Chengyin: "You... you?!"

Li Chengyin looked at the old hand holding his sleeve, and said word by word: "Father, I did not inflict his poison."

The old emperor clenched his sleeves tightly.

Li Chengyin was surprisingly calm: "Originally it was nothing, but with the imperial doctor's golden sore medicine, it will become extremely poisonous. Father, I did not inflict the poison."

The old emperor didn't seem to know Li Chengyin in front of him, he was speechless.

Li Cheng Yin smiled and said: "Don't worry, he won't die."

The old emperor grabbed his body that was about to leave: "Where's the antidote?"

Li Chengyin's brows sank: "I gave you the antidote, but you didn't hold it securely. Only this bottle, wait for the imperial doctor to prepare it, and the Seventh Emperor has already missed the opportunity to detoxify."

The old emperor's fingers gradually began to tremble, Li Chengyin pulled out his sleeve, bowed and said:

"My son, take my leave."

Li Chengyin came out of the tent, Pei Zhao and I went up to meet him, he took a deep look at me, raised his hand to look, his fingertips were stained with reddish brown stains left on the jade pendant.

He grabbed me with another hand, Pei Zhao hesitated and said, "Your Highness, the family of the attendant...?"

Li Chengyin snorted coldly: "I just knew that his family members were sent out of customs, so I didn't do anything in order not to startle the snake."

"Then, Yupei...?"

Li Cheng Yin glanced at the tightly-covered Wang Tent: "Fake, will the things I give you not know what they look like? His poison was not written by that person, it's just that the person couldn't refute it in front of everyone."

Pei Zhao stopped talking, Li Chengyin took my hand and walked towards the tent without saying a word.

I touched his palm, and it seemed that I had sweated, but this time my hand was actually warmer than his.

Li Chengyin stood outside the tent, put down my hand and remained silent for a while.

His expression was restrained, and he held something he couldn't let go of in his hands. In the end, he just turned around and said to me: "Xiaofeng, I want to be alone for a while. You can go to Yongning's place for a while."

I was a little worried about him, but I also knew that he must have a side that he didn't want to be seen by others, so I nodded obediently: "Then...then you are all right, let me go to sleep."

I thought about it and added: "The bed Yong Niang made is very warm, the other tents are not warm enough."

Li Cheng Yin reached out and stroked my hair, smiled lightly: "I will pick you up."

I didn't actually leave, I stood outside and listened to the faint sound of broken porcelain inside.

Pei Zhao said to me: "Crown Princess, it's too cold outside, why don't you go to Princess Yongning's tent to rest."

I looked at my hands: "Li Chengyin is actually colder than me...His hands are so cold that I shiver."

Pei Zhao didn't know how to answer me, so he lowered his head.

I suddenly had an idea: "Can General Pei send two people to do me a favor?"

Pei Zhao was stunned for a while, and replied: "What does the Crown Princess want to do, the general will help you."

I waved my hand: "A few days ago, Luo Xi complained that there were always court ladies talking to you. It is not easy for us to stay alone. You can send a few more people to go with me. You are the one Li Chengyin trusts the most. At this time He needs someone to guard his tent."

Pei Zhao's lips moved slightly, and finally he cupped his hands to me: "Yes, Crown Princess."