Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 456 Your Daughter-in-law and I Have an Affair

"It depends."

Chu Pingsheng took a handful of melon seeds from his purse and put them in Haitang Duoduo's hand: "I told you to save the melon seed shells, but you threw them away along the way. You used the uneaten melon seeds to kill people. What a waste."

"Then I just open my mouth, how can I be quick?"

She gave half to the eldest princess and said, "Come and help too."

"Okay." Li Yunrui glanced at Gong Dian's body and said, "He should thank Lord Chu. At least he left a complete body."

"No, you're mistaken."

Chu Pingsheng said: "I didn't leave him a complete body."

"Yes, look at my memory. Commander Gong lost his right hand a long time ago."

Li Yunqian exiled Li Yunrui to Xinyang, and Yan Xiaoyi, who had a close relationship with her, was also demoted to the frontier. Gong Dian was promoted to the commander of the palace guards thanks to Ye Liuyun's rise to prominence. Of course, she was not happy about this.

"Eunuch Hou, don't you think the atmosphere outside the Qingyun Palace is too solemn? I'll make some simple decorations and use some festive red to cheer up His Majesty and the First Prince. They won't blame me for taking the initiative, right?"

After saying that, Chu Pingsheng smiled at the princess, patted Hou Zhigang on the shoulder, and walked forward.

Haitang Duoduo followed while cracking melon seeds.

Festive red?
He calls blood festive red?

Although everyone knew that he was always bold and reckless, and that in a battle in the capital, Bai Feng killed one and injured another of two great masters, and that there was almost no one in the world who could defeat him, the scene before their eyes was still hard for Xin Qiwu, Shangshu Feng and others to accept.

And Li Yunrui...always felt that his smile just now had another meaning.

When he said that he did not leave Gong Dian with an intact body, didn’t he mean that Gong Dian’s hands had been gone a long time ago?

The bodies of Gong Dian and a dozen palace guards were quickly carried away by the guards on duty. A group of eunuchs carrying buckets and rags wiped the blood up and down the long steps, trying to clean up the blood as quickly as possible. The court officials who arrived later did not know what had happened. When they asked the eunuchs, they did not say anything. When they asked the guards, they also did not say anything. But one thing was certain: something big must have happened just now.

After a cup of tea, Chu Pingsheng finally arrived at the third floor of Qingyun Hall. He insisted that Hou Zhigang take him to visit the portraits of the founding heroes of Qing Kingdom on the second floor of the hall. He also had to explain what great deeds these people had done and why they were selected for Qingyun Hall. This delayed him for quite a while. It was not until the emperor entered that Hou Zhigang urged him again and again, and Chu Pingsheng, with seven parts of indifference and three parts of laziness, went up the stairs with the two girls.

Crown Prince Li Chengqian invited him to the dining table on the left side of the emperor. He was not polite and held the hand of his future mother-in-law with his left hand and the hand of the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi with his right hand and sat down together. This scene of the princess on the left and the Holy Maiden on the right made Lin Ruofu, Fan Jian and others' eyelids twitch and they exclaimed it was ridiculous.

Li Yunqian's face was even darker than the bottom of the pot. He used chopsticks to pick up the meat on the plate nonchalantly and said, "Lord Chu has a bad temper. He killed my guard commander as soon as he arrived, but he didn't know what the palace commander did wrong to deserve such a cruel blow."

Chu Pingsheng glanced at the unfamiliar face sitting opposite the six ministers.

"There have been a lot of rumors in Kyoto recently, and many people care more about the results of my retreat than I do. So of course I have to respond to those people's expectations. Unfortunately, the princess told me that Ye Liuyun has returned to Kyoto, and my master said that we need to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys and make certain people behave themselves. So I ran into his disciple, so I can only say that he is unlucky."

Chu Pingsheng leaned forward, his arm resting on the food table: "Li Yunqian, you are not among those people, right?"

! ! ! ! !

Li Yunqian!
He called the emperor by his real name in front of all the court officials?

If it were someone else, it would be a capital crime.

“Ha, hahaha, look at their expressions.” Chu Pingsheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Emperor Qing who also narrowed his eyes: “Li Yunqian, is it okay for me to call you by your name? This… you should understand it in your heart.”

Of course Li Yunqian understood.

Not only did he understand, but everyone present who had some experience understood that the current Chu Pingsheng was the emperor of Qi hidden behind the scenes. From this point of view, he and Li Yunqian were on an equal footing. But the problem was that they were now in Qing State and at a banquet to celebrate the Prince of He, so doing this would be excessive.

The Minister of Personnel touched Si Nanbo's arm, pointed at the chief seat and said, "What's wrong with this kid?"

Fan Jian was demoted from the Ministry of Revenue to the Ministry of Personnel as a Yuanwailang. In terms of official position, he was still below the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, but his title remained unchanged and he was Fan Xian's adoptive father. He was demoted because he took the blame for Li Yunqian, so even though he was his direct superior, Fan Jian did not dare to be bossy or disrespectful to him.

"He is forcing His Majesty to turn against him."

"To force His Majesty to turn against me?"

Fan Jian glanced at the Minister of Personnel without further explanation.

Based on his understanding of Emperor Qing, he must be planning something when facing Master Bai Feng and his apprentice. Master Bai Feng and his apprentice seemed to sense something was wrong, so when Chu Pingsheng came out of seclusion, he first took back the eldest princess, then killed Gong Dian in front of the palace, and now he is disrespecting the emperor in the meeting place, obviously forcing Emperor Qing to overturn the table.

It seems... Li Yunqian has not yet made all the arrangements and has been enduring and giving in.

"Commander Gong is dead, and Yan Xiaoyi has been exiled to Cangzhou. If Chu Pingsheng takes action, who will protect Your Majesty's safety?" The Minister of Personnel asked again.

"Didn't you hear what Chu Pingsheng said? Ye Liuyun is probably in the palace right now."

"All his disciples have been killed, but he still hasn't shown up?"

"Have you seen Bai Feng?"

"..."

"It's fine if the Grandmaster doesn't make a move, but once he does, it's as powerful as thunder. If Ye Liuyun loses control and makes a move first, Bai Feng might seize the opportunity and kill him with one strike."

"What if Chu Pingsheng attacks your majesty?"

Fan Jian did not answer this question, but just looked across at the Shangshu seat.

Coincidentally, Emperor Qing changed the subject at this time. After looking at Li Yunrui coldly for a few times, he raised his left hand covered with a large sleeve, pointed at the nine people opposite the Shangshu seat and said, "Chu Pingsheng, do you know who they are?" Chu Pingsheng glanced around and his eyes fell on a man in the middle who was wearing a white robe with a green shirt on the outside, and had a somewhat silly look on his features.

"Hey, Wang Shisan, is Si Gu Jian dead? If he is dead, why don't you become my apprentice?"

The eight people beside him were furious and stood up one after another, looking like they were going to attack him. Only the Wang Shisan he mentioned answered seriously, "Once a teacher, always a father. Even if the master is really dead, I will never take you as my teacher."

“Hahahaha…” Chu Pingsheng laughed and patted his mother-in-law’s pretty hands: “See? He’s so cute, the type you like.”

Li Yunrui stroked the cat with one hand and covered his mouth with the other: "Then I will invite him to the palace to be your consort and give you a little father-in-law?"

"My father-in-law? That's the most dangerous job in the world. Aren't you harming him?"

Chu Pingsheng glanced at Lin Ruofu who were sitting upright and the wooden-faced Fan Jian, and teased.

The wife and the son-in-law acted as if no one was around, and their disrespectful flirting left all the ministers dumbfounded. Crown Prince Li Chengqian lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Humph."

Li Bohua, the second disciple of Si Gu Jian who had a green scarf wrapped around his head, snorted coldly and motioned for his fellow disciples to sit down. After all, this was the imperial palace of Qing Kingdom and it was not appropriate to take action.

"You guys are much worse than Yun Zhilan."

Chu Pingsheng shook his head. A ninth-grade warrior was considered a strong man in the eyes of ordinary people, but to him, he was just a small fry.

"so……"

He turned to look at the leader above him: "Li Yunqian, have you formed an alliance with Si Gu Jian? That old fellow with only one hand left is really spineless. He came to Kyoto to kill you before, and now he comes to protect you. From a grandmaster, he has become a rat in a stinking ditch. It's shameful."

"You're overthinking. Si Gu Jian didn't come. These people were passing through Qing Kingdom. They heard that Cheng Ru and the Princess of Northern Qi were getting married soon, so they came to Kyoto to congratulate them. I invited them to come here to celebrate with us."

"Oh...it's only a matter of time."

Chu Pingsheng glanced at Prince He who was sitting opposite him and Zhan Tongtong who was sitting next to him, and smiled.

Fan Xian, who was sitting at the dining table in the back, frowned. He felt that Chu Pingsheng's smile was very strange. Mockery? Joke? Emotion? Contempt? It seemed to be a little bit of all of them.

Just then, an unexpected situation occurred.

The second prince Li Chengze, who was sitting at the dining table below Zhan Tongtong, stood up unsteadily and walked towards Chu Pingsheng holding a wine pot and a cup.

Just now everyone's attention was on the emperor and Si Gu Jian's disciples, and they ignored several princes. At this time, Li Chengze came out, and everyone found that his face was flushed, he walked unsteadily, and he was already about 70% drunk.

"Master Chu, Chengze was wrong, please... forgive me."

Li Chengze picked up the wine pot, poured some wine into the cup, bowed his head, and raised the cup: "My mother asked me to apologize to you in public."

There was a big uproar in the audience.

Everyone in the court knew that the Second Prince was an extremely noble and proud man, intelligent, persevering, courageous, and charming. There had always been rumors among the people that if Li Chengqian had not been born to the Queen, the position of Crown Prince would have definitely belonged to Li Chengze.

Such a person actually admitted his mistake to Chu Pingsheng in public?
Fan Xian noticed that the emperor's face was very gloomy. It seemed that the Second Prince's public confession of his mistake had not been reported in advance.

"I heard you were grounded?"

"Yes."

Li Chengze did not look up and continued to toast and apologize.

“Are you copying scriptures every day?”

"Yes."

"Is Prince Duan's Mansion deserted now?"

"Yes."

"very good."

Chu Pingsheng stood up, took the wine glass from his hand, drank the wine in it, and took the two cats from Li Yunrui's hand: "Here, I'll give you a pair of pets to relieve your boredom. The white one is called Bai Wuchang, and the black one is called Hei Wuchang."

"Thank you... Lord Chu." Li Chengze calmed himself down and reached out to take it.

Oddly enough, the two cats, one black and one white, were so well-behaved that they were not afraid of strangers and let him hold them in his arms.

Li Chengze walked back staggeringly.

At this time, Li Yunqian snorted coldly: "After causing such a big disaster, is it over with a toast? What do you have to say about the officials who died in the delegation?"

"Father..."

Li Chengze fell to his knees, sobering up. He couldn't figure out what he had done wrong. It was the emperor who told him to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors, so why was he targeted again after he admitted his mistakes in public? He was so fickle.

"My son, I know my mistake."

(End of this chapter)