Brocade clothing

Chapter 218
Everyone wanted to cry but had no tears: You said nine out of ten, could you be wrong?
Everyone has a subtle sense of trust in the cases that Chu Qing has handled in recent days, and they feel that what Chu Qing said is correct, but now she says it is human skin, that is...

They covered their hearts and looked at Fang Zirui who was already dumbfounded.

Mr. Fang, the Minister of the Household Department, was in a daze: "Master Yu, you, you can't spout blood. I bought it with real money. How could it be human skin?"

Chu Qing shook his head and said, "Lord Fang, you may have been deceived."

Fang Zirui took a deep breath, met Chu Qing's heavy pupils, and his heart trembled. He inexplicably realized that Chu Qing was helping him. If someone found out, he would be completely speechless. Now that Chu Qing said so , that is to help him pick it out, this human skin lantern was indeed given by him, but he didn't know it, at most it was a crime of ignorance, but if it was... it would be a serious crime of beheading, even if it is later It has nothing to do with him when it is found out, and he probably won't be able to keep his black yarn.

Regardless of whether it was true or not, Fang Zirui hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Tianxiao: "Your Majesty, I really don't know that I bought this at a huge price to celebrate the Emperor's birthday. This kind of thing... the emperor clearly observes, but the minister really doesn't know."

Li Tianxiao frowned deeply, and raised his hand: "Liu Fu, go to the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Zhenfu Division, and call ten experienced foreman over here to see if it's human skin?"

If this is really human skin, I am afraid that there will be so many dirty things under this human skin. This lantern may be a life.

Empress Dowager Liu frowned: "Emperor, today is your birthday, this..."

How could Li Tianxiao have the thought to congratulate him on his birthday: "Mother, my birthday banquet is a small matter, and human life is a big matter. How can I know that my people are in danger and ignore it? How can I be worthy of their trust and support for me?"

When all the officials heard this, they all stood up and agreed: "The emperor is wise."

Empress Dowager Liu's face darkened, but she didn't say anything.

Uncle Liu Guo gave Fang Zirui a hard look, who lowered his head guiltily, restless, how could it be?If this is really human skin...

The ten assistants arrived soon, and when they knew what they were about to test, their faces changed slightly. They held the human skin lantern and studied it for a while, and finally wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, and said to them uneasily. After taking a look, he knelt down to Li Tianxiao who was at the head: "Your Majesty, after inspection by the subordinates and others, the layer wrapped on this lantern...is very likely to be really human skin."

Li Tianxiao didn't want to hear such an ambiguous answer: "How sure?"

Shizuo trembled all over, lowered his eyes, covering the uneasiness in his eyes: "... More than [-]%."

All the people in the hall took a breath and lowered their eyes one after another, but at this moment, a person suddenly shouted: "We want to go back, there are people here who use human skin as lanterns, it's too scary, we want to go back to us!" s country……"

Li Tianxiao glanced at the direction of the envoy, and sneered: "Okay, come, send this envoy away."

The man probably didn't expect Li Tianxiao to let him leave so quickly, his face changed slightly, but he could only stand up when he got out of his mouth, but when his eyes met Li Tianxiao's Shen Jun's face, his heart trembled.

Li Tianxiao said: "Who else wants to leave? Let me leave now. I think it's interesting. Which country has no murder case? Why, do you think I'm easy to bully? Do you think I'm easy to bully in Cangshu?"

Naturally, the subordinate country didn't dare to fart. Even Prince Wuqing was frightened by Li Tianxiao's sudden anger, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

Li Tianxiao waited for a long time and no one said anything, so he raised his hand directly: "The banquet is over, Yu Xiaochu, Fang Zirui, you two go to the imperial study and wait." After finishing speaking, he stood up and walked outside without turning his head. back.

Concubine Mei, also known as Jun Hao, hurriedly followed. Before leaving, she took one more look at Chu Qing, but she still couldn't help rubbing her hands against her body with all her might, waiting to go back and wash her hands quickly.

His Highness Liu Chenyue sat there, anxiously looking at Empress Dowager Liu, why did the emperor leave before she performed the song and dance?
Are their previous plans going as planned?
Liu Chenyue couldn't help but look at Empress Dowager Liu. Empress Dowager Liu was also unhappy, but her life was at stake, so she couldn't say anything, but thinking of this rare opportunity, she looked at Liu Chenyue's impatient eyes She glanced at her and waved her hand: "Forget it, if something like this happened today, the emperor might not be in the mood anymore. All the ministers should go back, Chen'er, Ai's family has a headache, so you can stay in the palace and talk to Ai's family today." Bar."

Liu Chenyue got up immediately, and blessed her body: "Here, my servant."

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you with a dazed expression. I am afraid that things will not be peaceful in the future.

Chu Qing was also quite uneasy, after all, it was a good birthday banquet, just because I messed up a word, the emperor wouldn't be really angry with herself because of this, right?But based on her understanding of Li Tianxiao, the other party regards Li Ming's people as very important, otherwise, she would not dare to touch him at this time.

Shouldn't I talk about it after the banquet is over?But when the time comes, Uncle Liu Guo will definitely suppress the matter. At that time, on the surface, she will be "Uncle Liu Guo's confidant", so will she say it or not?

Chu Qing gritted her teeth and followed Li Tianxiao into the imperial study room. Behind her was Fang Zirui, the trembling servant of the household department. At this moment, Mr. Fang was in a daze. He never imagined that he thought he had obtained a rare item It's a joke, I want to use Emperor Wanshou to make a good face in front of the emperor, and also to save face for Uncle Liu. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, he represents Uncle Liu.But he never expected that the Jiuqu Glazed Lantern, which he spent nearly 1 taels, was actually made of human skin!
Thinking of how he touched the lantern from time to time like holding a baby in the past two days, Fang Zirui felt uncomfortable all over, always feeling hairy on his back, as if something would crawl out of that lantern later, Like rushing towards himself.

Fang Zirui couldn't help but move aside.

Liu Fu was just holding the tray, on which was the human skin lantern, and he felt terrified, not to mention, people like them in the palace, who hadn't had a few lives on their hands, were holding this lantern at the moment. The human-skin lantern was already uncomfortable, so he followed Fang Zirui a step behind, but the lord Fang suddenly moved aside, and walked away from him with a terrified expression on his face.This made Liu Fu even worse, but he was a slave, so he could only endure it, thinking: Why are you hiding?Even if the miscellaneous family is holding it, it will only be for a while, you must have played a lot before giving the gift, right?

Liu Fu absolutely believed that after Mr. Fang went back, he would definitely be able to wash his bald hands.

He lowered his head and glanced at the human skin lantern. The original shiny lantern skin was inexplicably creepy at the moment. He couldn't help raising his head, and he dared not look down again with his neck stuck.

A group of people entered the imperial study with their own thoughts.

As soon as Fang Zirui stepped into the imperial study room, he knelt down with a thump, and said simply, "Your Majesty! I really don't know what's going on with this matter, Your Majesty, please spare me!"

Li Tianxiao sat in front of the imperial case, his handsome face was gloomy: "Tell me in detail, where did you get this lantern?" He glanced at Liu Fu holding the lantern in his hand, which was as shiny as jade, but at this moment , illuminated by the candlelight in the Imperial Study Room, inexplicably danced twistedly like a graceful girl, her whole body was covered with cold air, so cold that her bones couldn't bear the pain.

He took one look and was no longer willing to look at it.

Liu Fu also understood what he meant, and he didn't want this thing to stain the emperor's eyes, so he stood a little farther away.

Fang Zirui was quite frightened this time. Since he became an official, he has worshiped under the name of Uncle Liu Guo, and has been following Uncle Liu Guo, so all the way to the sky, he has never encountered such a thing that would kill him. With the cold sweat on his forehead, he shook his body and replied cautiously: "Reporting to the emperor, this... this is what I got from a merchant. Two or three months ago, I started to prepare for your birthday gift, Your Majesty." , after all, only once a year, this minister really cares about the emperor..."

"Stop talking nonsense and get to the point!" Li Tianxiao said coldly, too lazy to listen to his flattering words.

Fang Zirui was so frightened that he knelt there and didn't dare to get up, so he continued with a trembling voice: "One time I went to Yinyue Tower to drink... drink flower wine." Fang Zirui also seemed to feel ashamed, after all, court officials drink flower wine It's not a big deal, but it's a bit embarrassing to put it on the bright side, but now it's about his life, so I can only say it in detail, "At that time, the minister was drunk and fought with a peddler. A few words, then accidentally tore off a red cloth that the other party put in the corner, saw a beautiful lantern, Weichen's eyes lit up immediately, thinking of such a beautiful and delicate thing, he had never seen it before , especially the lantern skin on it, it's so delicate and smooth, I don't know what it is made of, it feels so good that Weichen can't forget it for a while... The vendor heard that Weichen wanted a gift, and patted it. The chest promises to get a good one for Wei Chen... and the vendor didn't disappoint Wei Chen, this lantern is really beautiful, Wei Chen just... sent it up... But Wei Chen didn't expect it to be human skin at all, If I had known this earlier, I would not have dared to send it up if I had given this official a hundred courage..."

"Yinyue Tower?" Chu Qing squinted her eyes, and when she heard this familiar name, her heart moved inexplicably. For some reason, she had an inexplicable premonition.

Li Tianxiao looked at Chu Qing: "Master Yu, do you have something to say?"

Chu Qing shook his head: "... I have nothing to say."

Only then did Li Tianxiao look away, and looked at Fang Zirui expressionlessly: "Can you still find that vendor? Do you know where he got this thing from?"

(End of this chapter)