Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 237 Dethroning the Prince
Ming Shengdi patted his chest, still in shock, turned his head and waved at Xia Shengqing, repeatedly urging him to take the disgusting thing away, slapped the imperial case with his big palm, and shook his beard three times in anger.

"How did you guys manage to let such dirty things get mixed into the banquet!"

When he thought of the four-legged lizard snake lying on his face and sticking out his tongue just now, Ming Shengdi felt creepy for no reason. Dirty things like four-legged lizard snakes crawl around in unknown places all the year round. Non-toxic, will not cause discomfort.

The servants in the palace looked at me and I looked at you. No one knew how the four-legged lizard snake crawled in this season, and it happened to arouse the anger of Emperor Ming Longyan.

But Long Wei was in front of them, and everyone had to beg for mercy repeatedly in order to appease Ming Shengdi's anger. The chief steward of the palace even knelt down with an old bone in his hand, trembling and saying: "Your Majesty, The old slave has been staying in the palace of Baihui Mountain, and has never...never seen any four-legged lizard snake! Besides, although there are many animals and birds on Baihui Mountain, the mountain is shrouded in mist, and four-legged snakes have always been crawling. Birds don't like to stay."

In fact, every sentence of the chief executive of the palace is true, but these self-refuted words become sophistry in Ming Shengdi's ears.

He patted the table angrily, and scolded: "Don't use these evasive words to prevaricate me. Now that this dirty thing is actually appearing in front of me, why don't you tell me whether it loves this place?" Do you like to stay?"

Ming Shengdi was extremely angry, the palace people held their breath and lowered their heads, not daring to make mistakes in words.

At this moment, Xia Tian was sitting in the middle of the ranks, with his hands clasped on his robe, his thin face was filled with firmness.He counted silently three times in his heart, then gritted his teeth and stood up, and suddenly spoke out under the silence of the crowd.

"Father, the palace manager is right, this four-legged lizard snake is indeed not from the palace." Xia Qin bowed his hands together in front of him.

When the matter came to an end, Xia Qin actually wanted to speak for a servant, which made Ming Shengdi a little angry. He swept his wide sleeves and angrily said: "Why, are you so clear about where this thing came from? Then you Let me tell you, if it’s not something in the palace, where else could it be?”

At this time, Xia Qin showed a look of fear, raised his head to look at Ming Shengdi in embarrassment, and then said timidly: "This thing was actually brought in by my son!"

"What?!" Ming Shengdi widened his eyes in surprise, as if he couldn't believe it, "You mean that you brought this dirty thing lying on my face to the palace?"

Xia Tianqin knelt down on the ground with a thump, shook his shoulders, and said in a slightly mournful tone: "I didn't do it on purpose, but I heard that the four-horned lizard snake is a psychic thing, and it can find the energy of the dragon on Baihui Mountain. , That's why I wanted to bring it in. After the ancestor worship was over, I found the dragon's energy and presented it to my father, but I didn't expect this thing to be disobedient, and it disturbed my father. My son was terrified, and I begged my father to punish me! "

In a few words, Xia Qin explained the origin of the four-legged lizard snake clearly. The plan to annoy Ming Shengdi with the four-legged lizard snake was proposed by the people of Qingheyuan.

First feed the four-legged lizard snake with Baihua brew for three days and three nights. After the four-legged lizard snake gets used to drinking Baihua brew, it will become drunk to the bone. When the snake is released, it will follow its familiar scent to find it, and it will naturally find Ming Shengdi's side.

As for the four-legged lizard snake lying on Ming Shengdi's face, it was unexpected by Xia Qin, but this is also good, it will deepen Ming Shengdi's anger, and their plan will be carried out more smoothly.

It is true that the Dragon Qi is strong on Baihui Mountain, that's why the Xia family chose to build the imperial mausoleum here.But whether there is dragon energy on this mountain is one thing, and it's another thing to disturb Ming Shengdi by the lizards that Xia Tian took to the palace.

At this time, Ming Shengdi glared at Xia Qin angrily with a pair of dragon eyes, and then threw the blue and white porcelain cup on the table at Xia Qin's body in a hurry.

"Absurd, absurd! As an imposing prince, it's fine to make mistakes on weekdays. In the face of such important events as ancestor worship, it's like a child's play. Do you want to piss me off before you are willing to bring this ugly dirty thing in? "

The blue and white porcelain cup smashed against Xia Qin's body, fell to the ground beside it, and broke into two halves with a crackling sound.

Xia Qin kowtowed to beg for forgiveness, and kept saying that the son should be damned, and the son was not filial, but he didn't find any reason to distinguish his fault.

Ming Shengdi had already drank a lot of Baihua Niang, his cheeks were flushed with the smell of wine, and now that he was exasperated by Xia Tian, ​​his face turned even redder.

"I think you are too stable sitting in the position of the prince, so you have made mistakes many times these days. Do you want to challenge the limit of my patience?" Ming Shengdi asked back, a pair of dragons staring as big as round beads .

Xia Qin's heart skipped a beat, he never thought that Ming Shengdi would say such serious words, even though Qingheyuan people repeatedly assured him that nothing would happen first, now hearing Ming Shengdi say such serious things When speaking, Xia Qin still couldn't help hesitating.

"Why, are you not convinced by my words? Why do you keep your head down and say nothing?" Ming Shengdi looked at Xia Qin with a cold snort.

Under Ming Shengdi's furious situation, even if Xia Qin hesitated in his heart, he had no choice but to act.He gritted his teeth, bit the bullet and proceeded according to the previous plan.

"My son didn't. My son knew that he had done something wrong, so he was willing to let his father dispose of him!"

Ming Shengdi snorted, but said heavily: "The prince has no virtue, offended his ancestors, offended me, and will be dealt with after leaving for Shangjing tomorrow."

Xia Tianqin kowtowed and said yes, those fine eyes were dimmed under the light of the lamp in the main hall, his fists were clenched by his sides, he gritted his teeth and looked at Xia Shengqing who was beside Ming Shengdi, this time, he must not lose!
The fact that Xia Qin brought a four-legged lizard snake into the Baihui Mountain Imperial Mausoleum has been known to everyone in the capital since the Huang family returned to Beijing.

Some of them joked that Xia Qin was sitting on the crown prince for a long time, and his mind was a little abnormal, and some joked that he wanted to make meritorious deeds and was crazy, and wanted to use the four-legged lizard snake to find some dragon energy to comfort Mingsheng Emperor Xin, unfortunately, flattered and slapped the horse's hoof, provoking Ming Shengdi Longyan's fury.

It's just that although the public's opinions on Xia Qin are mostly demeaning, Xia Qin doesn't seem to care at all. He allows the people's negative remarks towards him to intensify, but he doesn't use any means to stop it.

Xia Qin's behavior this time is really confusing.

He was not a person who could do stupid things. Instead of making Xia Bin and Xia Qixuan happy, the current situation made them deeply worried.

Youdao means abnormality is demon, Xiaqin tossed out this series of things, what exactly the two of them wanted to do, neither of them could guess.

However, when Xia Bin and Xia Qixuan were both speculating on Xia Qin's intentions, another piece of news shocked them broke out from the court.

The news was nothing but that the officials in Ming Shengdi's court seemed to have made an appointment with each other, whether they were courtiers from a neutral party or courtiers who had always supported Xia Qin, they made an opinion in unison.

This opinion shocked the ruling and opposition parties, and shocked Xia Bin and Xia Qixuan even more.

That was the unanimous request of everyone, asking Ming Shengdi to abolish Xia Qin's crown prince.

Speaking of it, Xia Qin brought a four-horned lizard snake into the imperial mausoleum, and it was not a heinous crime, because such a small mistake would abolish his crown prince, and even Xia Bin and Xia Qixuan thought it was too much. some.

However, the atmosphere in the court seemed to be reversed in an instant. A group of courtiers seemed to be bewitched by something, and they all verbally accused Xia Qin of this or that, and strongly demanded that Ming Shengdi depose him.

At this time, on the top of the Golden Luan Hall, several courtiers who were originally under Xia Qin's command held wat boards and spoke generously towards Ming Shengdi.

"Your Majesty, the ministers think that although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been in the East Palace for many years, not only has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not made any achievements for the Emperor over the years, but he has repeatedly caused troubles and worries for the Emperor. This is really not what a Prince should do virtue."

"This time His Royal Highness brought the filthy things into the imperial mausoleum, which is disrespectful to the ancestors of the royal family. What's more, the thing disturbed and insulted the emperor, which is even more disrespectful! The ministers and others suggested that the emperor choose another heir. Your Highness is going to demote a prince who doesn't know how to behave."

Xia Qin also knelt on the main hall without saying a word at this time. If there were any courtiers playing him in front of Ming Shengdi, he would definitely fight with him, but this time he seemed to be dumb. , bowed his head and knelt without saying a word.Even when all the ministers jointly asked Ming Shengdi to depose him, he never said a word of no.

Ming Shengdi sat on the dragon chair, his gray beard trembling slightly with his panting.His cloudy eyes fixed on Xia Qin, who was quietly kneeling in the middle of the Golden Luan Hall, and his ears were filled with the sound of the courtiers playing, but he didn't say a word, he just looked at Xia Qin fixedly, not knowing what was going on in his heart idea.

"Prince, what do you say?"

After a long time, Ming Shengdi asked the question deliberately, resting his forehead with one hand, not letting go of the slightest change in his expression.

At this time, I saw Xia Tian raised his face, with a wry smile on his sunken cheeks, and bowed three times to Ming Shengdi.

"My son has nothing to say." Xia Qin's voice was full of vicissitudes, as if he had accepted his fate, and he did not grasp the words and temptations of Ming Shengdi.

"As the crown prince, I have repeatedly done many wrong things. I also feel sorry for my father. Since so many adults think that I am not qualified for the position of prince, I am willing to let my father dispose of me. Even The emperor really deposed the son-in-law, and the son-in-law has no complaints."

(End of this chapter)