The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 251 Sending Buddha Back to the West
After listening to Zuo Haobai's words, Nian Se smiled and said, "What the lord means is that the people we arranged and the news can be sent to the palace now!"

Zuo Haobai waved his hand, and said to Nian Se: "Before doing this, the people at Uncle Ling's side have to try to give some attention to those high-ranking officials, so that the emperor's attention will be attracted. , and then bring that eunuch into the palace!"

Nian Se understood Zuo Haobai's meaning, and said, "You want to play a trick that will bring trouble to Xiao Qiang?"

Hearing that he used this idiom, Zuo Haobai spit out a sip of tea after drinking it: "Your way of using it is too silly. I'm obviously throwing stones to ask the way, knocking the mountain to shake the tiger!"

Nian Se rolled her eyes, and wiped off the tea stained on her body.

Zuo Haobai was a little embarrassed, and simply pretended to be dead, ignoring Nianse's white eyes.Then he said to Nian Se: "You have to arrange this scene for me well, don't mess it up for me, otherwise we two will never want to leave this Hill City!"

Nian Se asked in surprise, "True or not?"

Zuo Haobai knocked Nianse on the head, thinking that he had to pay more attention to this matter, he had reached this point, and he couldn't fall short, otherwise he would not be able to continue this game of chess!Thinking of this, he said to Nian Se: "You still have to try your best to incite the emotions of the people of Hill City, let everyone in the city know that the army of the Liu Li Kingdom suffered a defeat on the front line, and create a little atmosphere in the palace!"

On the night of October [-]rd, when the official road passed Changshan, it was suddenly attacked by a group of masked troops.

Zhou Changsheng looked at the dead bodies, stepped off his horse, and stepped on the ground with both feet.He suppressed his anger, looked at the officer kneeling at his feet, and said loudly, "You... tell me, how do you guard the food and grass!"

The officer had never seen Zhou Changsheng so angry before, and said a little panicked: "It's...it's a bandit, no, it's...the army..."

With a murderous look on his face, Zhou Changsheng shouted: "Why did I tell you to be more careful along the way, especially when passing through these neighboring countries, you must always pay attention to movements!"

The officer said in a low voice: "The subordinates also followed your instructions. They did not dare to be negligent and kept vigilant all the time, but they did not expect a round of flaming bows and arrows to shoot at us. We dodged for a while, without taking food and grass into consideration." By the time we wanted to protect the food and grass, we had already been strangled by the rushing army." The officer licked his tongue and continued: "When the subordinates reacted and led the crowd to fight back, they actually stood and retreated into the This mountain. I am afraid that there will be an ambush, so I ordered the whole army not to pursue it!"

Zhou Changsheng heard what he said, and said: "See, you still have some brains, but the death penalty can avoid the life penalty. Come here, suppress me and deal with it according to military law!"

The officer begged for mercy: "My lord, please spare my life, my lord, please spare my life!"

Zhou Changsheng looked at the dark night scene outside the camp, and asked the soldiers around him if anyone knew where this place was?
A soldier said: "This is Zhouluo Mountain. It is rumored that an emperor surnamed Zhou died in this mountain. The villagers in the mountain changed the original name to the current name 'Zhouluoshan' to commemorate him!"

Zhou Changsheng was taken aback when he heard the name, and broke out in a cold sweat.

Feng Xiangru was very busy when he came back from the palace a few days ago, and he was shocked when he heard what his wife said.Feng Xiangru said to his wife: "It's fine for others to talk about these things, you can't talk nonsense at home, this is something that will kill your head!"

Madam said: "These things have been spread all over the city, I'm afraid the emperor already knows about it!"

Feng Xiangru felt a lot of pressure, but so what, the current situation is beyond his control.All he can do is control the situation for the better.Otherwise, the more than ten years of hard work would be ruined, and he couldn't accept the news willingly.

At this time, news suddenly came from the palace that the emperor had summoned Prime Minister Feng Xiangru alone.

Feng Xiangru hastily explained a few words to his wife, and then entered the palace.

The emperor was sitting in the imperial study when he saw Feng Xiangru arriving.Feng Xiangru saw that besides the emperor there was a little eunuch kneeling on the ground.He didn't know what the emperor's intention was for summoning him this time.

The emperor said straight to the point: "Feng Aiqing has also heard the rumors in Hill City recently, right?"

Feng Xiangru replied: "Your Majesty, these gossip and gossip are just groundless rumors, they are not counted! If the Emperor is displeased, the old minister will send someone to investigate the matter and bring the perpetrators to the Emperor."

The emperor waved his hand, he didn't care about such news.You must know that you did not wear such gossip when you first ascended the throne.It's just that he pressed it with one hand at that time, never thought that it would be passed on again this time.And following the rumors, someone sent him a letter saying that someone was here.He couldn't help himself not to listen, so he called Feng Xiangru into the palace.

The emperor said: "There is no rush, there is something I want to discuss with Feng Aiqing!"

Feng Xiangru was a little worried when he heard that the emperor wanted to discuss something with him.He had no choice but to say: "The old minister would like to hear the details!"

The emperor said to the little eunuch who was kneeling on the ground: "Just repeat what you said just now, do you hear me?"

The little eunuch was so frightened that his body trembled, he returned to the emperor and said, "Slave, just say it again!"

Feng Xiangru was watched by the emperor, and he stared at the little eunuch.

The little eunuch took a deep breath and said, "The slave is the little eunuch who entered the palace last year and has been working with Eunuch Huang. Eunuch Huang is the emperor's personal eunuch. Eunuch Huang himself is old. The easiest thing that Eunuch Huang arranged was to go to and from the Imperial Hospital to get medicine. Originally, this matter was very small, but the medicine that the emperor wanted to take was the soul-stirring aphrodisiac, so Eunuch Huang would go to the Imperial Hospital to collect it in person every night. After a period of time, Eunuch Huang was unwell one day, so he asked the servant to take orders. It was then that the servant knew that the emperor was taking aphrodisiacs, but the servant did not know at the time, and later asked Eunuch Huang why Things? Eunuch Huang just told the servants!"

"Go on!"

"Yes, the servant didn't take this matter to heart at the time. He said that he should do everything that Eunuch Huang ordered with peace of mind. But one day a person who claimed to be Eunuch Huang's friend came to Eunuch Huang, and they said in the room It took about half an hour. Since then, the matter of Mr. Huang sending people to get the medicine has been handed over to others, and the slave did not dare to ask more questions. The slave knows that people in the palace only do things, and don’t talk too much if they can’t ask. But from this Later, the slaves discovered that the amount of aphrodisiac Huang Gonggong sent to the emperor was several times the original amount. According to Huang Gonggong's explanation to the slaves, it was a large dose that would cause accidents. But only the person who sent it knew the dosage. Because he mixed it with wine and gave it to the emperor to drink."

"It didn't take long before news came that the emperor had fainted on Concubine Zeng's bed. The servant thought it might be caused by the overdose, and because the emperor had to take it every day, it became more and more unmanageable over time. The servant Knowing that this matter was going to happen sooner or later, he risked his life to remind Eunuch Huang, but Eunuch Huang slapped the slave directly and warned the slave, "Don't mention this matter to outsiders again, or the slave will die." , the slave was transferred away after that. Until Eunuch Huang died unexpectedly, the slave was alerted that it might be because of the aphrodisiac incident that killed people."

"The servant became frightened, and then hid when the palace arranged for the servant to work outside the palace. Later, the servant heard that the servants who followed Eunuch Huang disappeared one by one inexplicably, and then the servant realized that this was a conspiracy. !"

After the little eunuch finished speaking, the emperor asked, "Do you know who the person looking for Eunuch Huang is?"

The little eunuch didn't dare to lie, and replied to the emperor's words, he said: "I remember, the person who came to look for Eunuch Huang is Lord Zhou Changsheng!"

Feng Xiangru was already surprised when he heard the whole story, but he was even more shocked when he heard that Zhou Changsheng did it.He said to the little eunuch: "Do you know what the consequences of these words will be? If you slander the important officials in the court, you will be beheaded!"

The little eunuch seemed to have known that there would be such a question and answer, and he replied calmly to Feng Xiangru: "Even if this servant has ten heads, he would not dare to tell half a lie, every word he said is true! Master Feng doesn’t know that Master Zhou is a courtier of Zhaoxuan Kingdom, he was sent to the frontier for the crime of sitting, and he fled from the place of distribution to our Liuli Kingdom?”

Feng Xiangru naturally knew about such things, but what could this explain?Does this mean that Zhou Changsheng has the heart to plot against and overthrow the Liuli Kingdom?I'm afraid that he still can't convince himself based on this point, so he said to the emperor: "The emperor's matter is of great importance. Do you want to transfer Mr. Zhou back from the front line? Let's see how Mr. Zhou will explain it!"

The emperor took out two more memorials from the memorials in front of him: "Feng Aiqing, please have a look at these two memorials!"

Feng Xiangru took the emperor's memorial, saw the contents of the memorial, and swallowed back the words he wanted to defend.This memorial should actually be called a whistleblower.The whistleblower described Zhou Changsheng's every move since he came to Liuli Kingdom in detail, which can be described as horrifying.Including how Zhou Changsheng got close to the current emperor when he was still the prince, how he provoked and wooed the important officials of the court, and then colluded with Ran Hai.

The emperor saw the beads of sweat oozing from Feng Xiangru's forehead, and said: "Such a villain, do you want me to come and ask in person? I suspect that Zhou Changsheng alone was responsible for the looting of food and grass and the defeat at the front line?"

Feng Xiangru said: "Yes, yes... what the emperor said is absolutely true!"

The emperor continued: "There are rumors in the capital that Zhou Changsheng is a spy sent by the Zhaoxuan Kingdom, and that's why the Lili Kingdom has nothing to gain. Although I don't believe such rumors, people's lives must not be messed up. I still want to give an explanation to the people of the world, and also to the frontlines." Soldiers, let me explain. I don’t need to elaborate on this matter!”

Feng Xiangru took the order: "I will do it now!"

The emperor looked at the little eunuch kneeling on the ground, with murderous intent in his eyes, and shouted: "Come here, pull this eunuch who tells stories out and kill him!"

The little eunuch thought that the emperor would spare his life, but he didn't expect it to end like this.He peed his pants on the spot.

(End of this chapter)