Concubine Jinghua: The black-bellied prince, please stay here

Chapter 420
A few days later, the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens came in everyone's expectation. Due to the high profile of Su Qingyang and others on this day, the scene was unprecedentedly grand.However, among the other four countries, except for the envoys of the Wei country who sat on the prepared high platform and looked at the high altar, no one from the other three countries came to congratulate.

All the people surrounded the altar tightly, and Shen Zhi quietly sent people to sneak in among the people, with three groups of people, one way mixed with the crowd to wait for an opportunity to incite the crowd, one group of people anxiously waiting outside the city with soldiers and horses, and the other way to follow him Break into the altar.

Standing on the altar, Su Hao had to praise the craftsmen for their ingenuity, because Su Qingyang's arrangement made the altar extraordinarily prosperous.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the gun salute sounded, Danxin walked slowly towards the altar accompanied by Su Hao and Su Qingyang...

"The Queen, please step onto the altar and pray for the people." On the left side of the altar, the eunuch's sharp voice rang out.

Danxin knocked on the altar in three steps, and the little eunuch handed her the burning incense. After Danxin kowtowed to the sky, she offered the incense, and then picked up the wine glass on the desk and sprinkled the wine on the ground, which was regarded as sacrificial wine.

Suddenly, Danxin clutched his chest tightly, his face was in pain for a moment, and then he fell to the ground. At this time, a green dragon flew into the sky.Everyone was stunned for a moment, among the crowd, Shen Zhi couldn't help but sneered and said in his heart: "What a flying dragon in the sky."

At this moment, Su Qingyang took a step forward, plopped and knelt down, "The empress is the true son of heaven, and she will be the real one!"

Before everyone recovered, the eunuch on the side hurriedly ran to Danxin's side, tested her breathing, and fell to the ground, "Female, the empress is dead!"

"What?" Su Qingyang, who was still saying that Danxin was the real son, suddenly turned around and looked at Danxin on the ground in disbelief.

"Danxin, my daughter, my daughter!" Su Hao's legs softened and fell beside Danxin's side, tears streaming down his face, "God has no eyes, this is asking me to send a white-haired man to a black-haired man!"

"This shows that the empress is not the real one at all, otherwise she wouldn't have died on this altar." Among the crowd, Shen Zhishou walked out slowly, looking at Danxin who fell on the ground with a sneer, "such a woman , death is a relief, when will it be a woman's turn to make decisions in the world of our Qi country?"

Su Qingyang looked at Shen Zhi who walked out of the crowd, his eyes burst out with deep hatred, "It's you, right?"

Shen Zhi smiled faintly, raised his eyebrows at Su Qingyang, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "So what if it's me, now that the person is dead, what do you want me to do?" Said: "I suggest, take advantage of this ceremony to re-elect the emperor!"

"Wait." A clear voice sounded, and then a blue figure flew up to the altar. Shen Zhi couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw the person coming. It stands to reason that it is impossible for Mrs. Mu to appear here at this time.

"Mrs. Qin'er, I don't know what you are doing. Today is the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. You are a little woman. It is better not to disturb the situation." Shen Zhi is sure that his indifference is dead. Nothing to do.

Qin'er sneered, and looked at Shen Zhi with contempt on her face, "The queen died strangely, I think at least the queen's death should be investigated thoroughly before re-electing a new queen?"

Shen Zhi flicked his sleeves, "What's so strange, it's God's punishment for her, why do you say so? Mrs. Qin'er, I know that you used to be the queen's servant girl, and you even robbed the queen's favorite person later on. Didn't you also suffer? Is it time for retribution, Master Mu Hou died early, you will be a widow for the rest of your life, won’t you?"

Qin'er's face turned pale when she heard the words, but she recovered after a while, "Really, if I am retribution, then who should be retribution for the crimes committed by Master Shen's parents?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? My parents didn't do anything wrong. It's all the queen's fault. Why do you slander them!" Shen Zhi was completely restless when he heard the words. He gritted his teeth and looked at Qing'er. The urge to step forward.

Hearing this, Su Hao got up slowly from Danxin's side, "Shen Zhi, Danxin won't let us tell you about some things, thinking that you and the younger generation can't bear it. But now, I didn't expect you to do such a thing to Danxin. Things, I also lost my daughter, and I can't care less about it."

In a fit of rage, Su Hao announced to the world one by one the things that the Prime Minister wanted to rebel against, "It was the Prime Minister's fault, Danxin chose to take all the sins on himself for the sake of the Prime Minister's final dignity, but in the end, he got such a reward ?”

"No, it's impossible!"

Shen Zhi stepped back again and again upon hearing the words, "My father has been a clean official all his life, how could he commit treason?"

Su Hao's words stirred up thousands of waves, and everyone talked about what happened at the beginning, "I just said why the prime minister died so suddenly, so there is such an inside story."

"That's right, the secret history of the imperial palace, how can ordinary people like you and me know so easily?"

"This...is this all true?" Shen Zhi seemed to have been greatly shocked, and kept backing away, to the edge of the steps, and accidentally fell down the steps. Fortunately, the steps were only a few steps, otherwise long dead.

Su Qingyang stood up from the side, "I can make the decision, and even if your father conspired against him, Danxin didn't intend to kill him. It was he who committed suicide in prison. I only ask the empress to forgive you three."

"It's not like this, it's not like this." Shen Zhi kept shaking his arms, "My father is a good man. He taught me to serve the country with loyalty since childhood. He is not a person who will rebel. You have wronged him."

"Whether you were wronged or not, there is one person who knows best." Su Qingyang waved his hand, and someone immediately helped the one-year-old lady out of the crowd.

Shen Zhi opened his eyes wide when he saw someone coming, "Grandma, why are you here?"

The old lady walked up to Su Hao tremblingly, forced her old body to kneel down to Danxin, "Queen, go well, I am ashamed, I only came out to testify for you until today, I am really ashamed of being wise to the Shen family."

After saluting to Danxin, the old lady walked to Shen Zhi's side, and hit Shen Zhi fiercely with her crutches, "Tell me, does the Queen's death have anything to do with you?"

"She killed my parents, shouldn't she deserve to die?"

"My son, my son!" The old lady couldn't help sighing, "Before your mother left, she told me personally that your father wanted to rebel, and your mother had already guessed that this day would come. The safety of the three children under my knees, let the old man take good care of you, I didn't expect..."

The old lady turned her head and knelt down towards the altar again with trembling knees, "I didn't lock up my grandson properly and killed Her Majesty the Empress, I beg God to punish me!"

After the old lady came out to testify for Danxin, the discussion became more and more loud, and Shen Zhi's face was so dark that ink dripped out.A heart full of shame and regret, wishing that all of this was just a dream, and when I woke up, my father was still there, and my mother was not dead...

"I, did I really do something wrong?"

"It's not just a mistake, it's a big mistake. Let me ask you, a few days ago, there was a ship that smuggled explosives and prepared to fish in troubled waters and send them to the palace. Is it your masterpiece?"

Shen Zhi nodded heavily. He originally wanted to blow up Danxin, but Qin'er robbed the explosives later, so he could only think of another way.In the end, he bribed Danxin's eunuch and poisoned her mouthwash this morning.

"I, I thought my parents' death was because of her, so..." Shen Zhi retreated back again and again, all this was overturned too thoroughly, and he couldn't accept it.

"Then now you know that you are wrong, but there are some things that cannot be made up for." Qin'er stepped forward and looked down at Shen Zhi, "You are a small minister of the Ministry of Rites, where do you get so many people, say, you Who is behind the scenes?"

Shen Zhi was startled, looked sideways at the second floor of an inn not far away, and was about to speak, when a sharp arrow came from a distance with the wind and shot straight into Shen Zhi's heart. "Nine..." Shen Zhicai said a word, a mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"Chasing!" Seeing this, Qin'er started to chase after the man behind the scenes in the distance.

Su Qingyang waved his hand, "I can't catch up, don't waste time." After speaking, he walked back to the altar, patted his calm face, "Okay, the play is over, you can wake up."

Danxin got up slowly, and the common people widened their eyes when they saw this, "The queen is not dead! The queen is really not dead."

"It scared everyone, and I acted out of helplessness. Please forgive me." Danxin bent down, bowed to the people present one by one, and raised his eyes, "Master Shen was raped by a traitor!" I don't blame him for instigating, but from now on, if such a thing happens again, I will definitely not forgive him lightly!"

Looking sideways, he glanced at Shen Zhi's corpse on the ground, "It's a good burial."

"Yes." The armor in black nodded, and dragged Shen Zhi's body away.

The people saw a long bloodstain on the ground, and nodded with lingering fear.

"Long live, long live, long live the empress!" Unknown who in the crowd raised their heads, the people knelt down one after another, and within a short time they knelt together.

He lowered his eyes indifferently, looking at the people who surrendered at his feet, but he was not happy at all.Who is the mastermind behind the scenes, why is he trying every means to kill her, and he also knows about the misunderstanding between Shen Zhi and her?After thinking about it, Danxin still couldn't figure out who was behind the scenes, but his head was dizzy, "Let's go, let's go back to the palace."

"Master, the operation failed." After the archer shot the arrow, he ran towards a certain place in Jingzhou.

After entering a dilapidated temple, he looked at the man with his back turned and replied in a deep voice.

The man seemed to have expected such an ending, and smiled coldly, "She is really lucky."

"But the action failed, and the emperor's promise to us may also come to nothing..." The subordinate hesitated: "In this way, Ninth Prince, you have missed the throne?"

The Ninth Prince turned around and smiled sinisterly, "I thought that kidnapping Qing'er and pretending to negotiate with her would distract her from being fooled, but I didn't expect this woman to be so treacherous. If so, then we can only continue with the next plan."

Thinking of the plan he had deployed, the Ninth Prince beamed with joy and said: "This plan will definitely let her know what pain is. Father has promised me that as long as I can solve Danxin, the throne of Chu Kingdom must be mine!"

(End of this chapter)