Chapter 186: Success
Concubine Shu was so frightened by this sudden obstruction that her face turned pale. Then she flew into a rage, her eyebrows raised, and she pointed at Wang Deshun and shouted:
"I personally prepared the ginseng soup for Your Majesty, and you dared to stop me? Do you still have me and Your Majesty in your eyes?"
Wang Deshun did not back down. His wrinkled face showed unprecedented solemnity and persistence.
He didn't even look at Concubine Shu. His old eyes were fixed on Lu Bin, and his voice was extremely solemn: "Your Majesty's health is the most important thing. The palace has just undergone a major upheaval, and people's hearts are unpredictable. According to ancestral rules, all food, especially soups and soups, must be inspected first. This old servant dares not slack off in the slightest. Please allow me to try!"
His words were righteous and righteous, and every word hit Lu Bin's most sensitive and fragile nerve.
The suffocating feeling of near death suddenly surged into his heart again. The smile on Lu Bin's face froze, and the gentle expression was replaced by surprise.
He looked at Concubine Shu's beautiful face twisted by anger, and then at Wang Deshun's uncompromising attitude, suspicion quietly grew in his heart.
"Shufei, please be patient. Wang Deshun is right."
Lu Bin's voice was dry, his eyes flickering, and his body subconsciously shrank back, avoiding the ginseng soup that was so close to him, "You come and test it."
"Your Majesty?!" Concubine Shu was shocked and angry, she couldn't believe it. She made this ginseng soup herself, how could there be anything wrong with it?
"Your Majesty, I really have a lot of grievances. I personally cooked this soup and kept an eye on it in the small kitchen. The century-old ginseng in it was all found by Zhen'er herself!"
"Check!" Lu Bin suddenly raised his voice, and was immediately frightened and looked irritated.
Wang Deshun no longer hesitated and immediately took out a flat silver box from his arms, opened it and took out a slender and shiny silver needle.
His movements were steady, and under Concubine Shu's almost fiery gaze, he slowly inserted the silver needle into the warm ginseng soup in the white jade bowl.
The hall was dead silent.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the silver needle.
Shufei's breathing became rapid, and her hands in her sleeves trembled slightly with anger.
However, just a few breaths later, something strange happened.
The silver needle, which was originally as bright as a mirror, turned black rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye when it was immersed in the soup, as if it was stained with ink.
"Ah!" The palace maid holding the soup bowl was so frightened that her soul was about to leave her body. Her hand trembled and the white jade bowl fell to the ground with a "clang".
The boiling ginseng soup splashed everywhere, and the black silver needles looked particularly glaring among the broken porcelain pieces and dirty soup.
"Your Majesty, look! This is extremely poisonous!"
Wang Deshun's eyes were bloodshot as he pointed at the black silver needle on the ground, then looked at Concubine Shu in disbelief. His voice was so shrill that it broke due to extreme anger and fear.
"Shufei, you are so bold! You actually put such a deadly poison in the ginseng soup, intending to murder His Majesty! Someone, come! Capture this vicious woman!"
"No! It's not me! Your Majesty! I am innocent!"
Concubine Shu was so frightened that her soul flew away. Her face turned pale as paper. She fell to her knees with a plop, and screamed in defense with tears streaming down her face, "Someone has framed me. Someone wants to harm me. Your Majesty, please understand!"
The eunuchs and guards inside and outside the palace were stunned by this sudden change. When they heard Wang Deshun's order, it was as if they had found their backbone. Several eunuchs pressed the crying and struggling Concubine Shu to the ground without saying a word, no matter how she screamed about her injustice.
Lu Bin looked at the glaring black silver needle on the ground, then looked at Concubine Shu who was pinned to the ground like a mad woman, and a chill ran up from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
The bit of tenderness just now instantly turned into boundless fear and rage. He suddenly jumped up from the couch, without even looking at Concubine Shu on the ground. He pushed away the people in front of him as if avoiding the plague, and stumbled out of the hall.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, be careful!" Seeing this, Wang Deshun no longer cared about Concubine Shu and hurried to protect the emperor.
Lu Bin rushed out of the main hall in panic. The night wind made him shiver and his mind became even more confused.
He just wanted to quickly return to his heavily guarded Palace of Tranquil Longevity. He stumbled down the stairs with unsteady steps.
From the shadow of the nearby pillar, a small eunuch who had been keeping his head down and was inconspicuous suddenly jumped out with astonishing speed and grabbed the sleeve of Lu Bin's dragon robe tightly.
"ah!"
Lu Bin was caught off guard and staggered. He turned around in horror and met the young eunuch's hateful eyes.
"Stupid ruler! Die!"
The young eunuch roared, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it fiercely towards Lu Bin's heart, with the determination to perish together with him.
Lu Bin was frightened out of his wits. The young eunuch was so strong that Lu Bin couldn't get away from him. He was about to be stabbed in the chest by the dagger.
"His Majesty!"
At the critical moment, Wang Deshun, who rushed out immediately, screamed and rushed towards Lu Bin regardless of everything.
“Puff!”
The dagger stabbed into Wang Deshun's side, and blood instantly dyed the dark eunuch's uniform red.
Wang Deshun groaned in pain, his body trembling violently, but he stood firmly in front of Lu Bin.
The young eunuch missed his attack, so he suddenly pulled out his dagger and rushed towards Lu Bin, who was knocked to the ground and was terrified.
This time, the dagger slashed towards Lu Bin's neck, causing him to subconsciously use his arm to block it.
“Swish!”
The sharp dagger instantly cut through the cuff of the bright yellow dragon robe, leaving a bloody wound on his forearm so deep that the bone was visible. Lu Bin screamed in pain.
"call out!"
A black arrow shadow shot from the direction of the palace gate.
The arrowhead pierced the young eunuch's chest with incredible precision. The huge impact force caused his body to fly backwards as he lunged forward.
The hideous smile on the young eunuch's face froze instantly, turning into extreme pain and disbelief.
He looked down at the trembling arrow feathers on his chest, and large streams of blood gushed out of his mouth. He twitched twice in vain and fell to the ground with a bang. His eyes were wide open and he died instantly.
Lu Bin slumped to the ground, his arm in severe pain, half of his body stained red with blood, his face and body splattered with blood, he looked in a miserable state and extremely terrified.
He was shaking all over, looking up blankly in the direction the arrow came from.
At the tall palace gate, there was a man wearing black armor and a cloak, with an upright posture and a longbow in his hand, standing in the cold moonlight like a god of war.
Qin Xiu swept his eyes across the scene, his face full of self-blame. He strode forward and knelt heavily on one knee in front of Lu Bin, his voice heavy and painful:
"Your Majesty, your servant Qin Xiu was late in arriving to protect you, causing you to be frightened and injured. I deserve death. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
"Qin... My dear Qin... I feel relieved now that you are here..."
Lu Bin's lips trembled as he looked at Qin Xiu kneeling in front of him. His heartstrings, which were tense to the extreme, suddenly relaxed. A huge sense of relief and fear for surviving the disaster overwhelmed him like a tide.
He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but the world was spinning before his eyes and darkness came like a tide.
"I..." Lu Bin groaned, his eyes rolled back, his body softened, and he fell backward and fainted.
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