Chapter 387 Gu
There was a chaotic sound of footsteps in the hall. Yun Ran pulled away Yun Chengfu's hand, turned around and walked out, standing at the door of the hall.
"Brother, I'll wait outside. It's almost over anyway."
Yun Chengfu nodded and kicked Yun Chenglu, who was staring at the sumo performance with his eyes wide open.
"Ah?" Yun Chenglu came back to his senses with a confused look on his face.
"Wait here with Ranran." Yun Chengfu rolled his eyes at him and strode into the hall.
"What happened to my brother?" Yun Chenglu scratched the back of his head.
Yun Ran stood beside the young eunuch, raised his hand and pointed at the round moon in the sky, and said, "Look, second brother, do you think the moon is round?"
Yun Chenglu was confused, and the young eunuch smiled and said, "Deputy General Yun, today is the sixteenth day of the lunar month, let's enjoy the moon."
Seeing that Yun Ran and the young eunuch were really appreciating the moon seriously, Yun Chenglu, with a head full of question marks, stood in a row with them and also stared at the moon to admire it.
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Ye Jingzhen strode into the imperial palace. In the center of the palace, the left and right armies were still wrestling sumo, blocking his way.
His eyes were tinged with viciousness as he drew his sword and swung it out, fending off the Royal Guards fighting on both sides.
One of them was slow to dodge and was hit directly on the arm by the sword, and blood splattered.
Ye Jingzhen rushed to Ye Jingtian's seat, his eyes almost bloodshot, the tip of his sword flashed with cold light, and stabbed Ye Cangling's neck.
Swish!
A strand of hair on Ye Cangling's temple was shaved off.
But the strange thing was that he did not react, as if he could not see the soft sword on his neck. He still stared at Ye Jingtian with a dazed look.
Ye Jingzhen was so angry that he was shaking, and the blood rushed to his forehead and he almost stabbed Ye Cangling's throat with a sword.
"Jingzhen..."
Ye Jingtian's voice came into his ears intermittently.
Ye Jingzhen came back to his senses instantly and found that his Dust-Breaking Sword had cut through Ye Cangling's neck. At this moment, bright red blood was oozing from his fair neck with loose skin.
"incense burner……"
He finally squeezed out two words from his throat.
Ye Jingzhen suddenly came to his senses, removed the dust, and with a flip of his wrist, knocked over the incense burner on the table.
Bang!
The dull and clear sound of the incense burner falling to the ground penetrated the eardrums and seemed to hit everyone in the hall and in their hearts.
"Little Prince Jing'an? What...what are you doing?"
Some court officials who were nearby seemed to have suddenly discovered something, and looked at Jingzhen in shock as he held a sharp sword and knocked the incense burner to the ground.
When he said this, almost all the courtiers who were chatting and laughing in the hall looked towards Ye Jingzhen and the others.
Ye Jingzhen remained calm, took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off the dust, and then sheathed the sword.
"Who organized this banquet?" he said in a cold voice. "A rat actually managed to sneak into the palace and startle the emperor. They deserve death!"
No one dared to speak in the hall.
Ye Cangling seemed to come back to his senses at this moment. He suddenly pulled his hand away, and the look in his eyes when he stared at Ye Jingtian returned to that of a father's love and concern for his son.
"I'm afraid your Majesty is a little drunk. Let's stop here today. All the ministers can go back."
Ye Jingzhen shook his wide sleeves to cover the belt tied around his wrists, his voice as calm and gentle as ever.
The court officials below all dispersed.
Ye Cangling frowned, raised his hand to wipe his face, and greeted Angie who was standing in the corner with some annoyance.
"Help me return to the palace. I drank a lot of wine today. I am a little drunk."
Eunuch An in the corner immediately came over and helped Ye Cangling out of the hall.
From beginning to end, Ye Cangling never looked at Ye Jingtian and Ye Jingzhen, nor did he speak a word to them.
Ye Jingzhen stared at Ye Cangling's somewhat hunched back with a fierce look.
The hand hanging by his side was gently touched by someone.
He lowered his head and saw Ye Jingtian looking at him with his shoulder tilted. It was Ye Jingtian who had hit him with his shoulder just now.
"Jingzhen, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to help my brother untie this belt." Ye Jingtian said in a gentle voice.
Ye Jingzhen clenched his fist, pulled out the Dust Shattering Sword, and directly cut off the belt embroidered with a golden dragon.
"It was Ye Jinghua who did it." Ye Jingzhen said with certainty.
Just now, when he rushed in and saw that old man Ye Cangling doing this to his elder brother, he was so angry that he just wanted to kill him with a sword, and ignored the incense burner on the table and the sweet fragrance.
Ye Jingtian didn't reply. He just stretched his wrists, which were red from being tied up, and said calmly, "You finally came back. You're leaving again soon, right?"
"Come to my palace tonight."
In the hall, all the princes and ministers who had come to the banquet had left by now, and the maids and attendants, seeing that the situation was not right, tactfully retreated.
Ye Jingzhen stared at Ye Jingtian's calm face, his anger rising. He raised his hand, grabbed his collar, and then threw him to the ground.
Leaning over, she glared at him and said, "How much have you hidden from me all these years?!"
Ye Jingtian curled his lips and smiled lightly: "What can I hide from you? Didn't Han Tao tell you all the news about me?"
Han Tao was the other person arranged by Nan Xuan to protect Ye Jingtian after Ling An was transferred away. He was the right protector of Xuantian Pavilion.
"Then tell me, what's going on with this incense burner?!"
Being pressed to the ground by him so forcefully, Ye Jingtian felt pain in his back from the cold marble floor.
He frowned and reached out to hold Ye Jingzhen's hand that was tugging at his collar: "Jingzhen, get up first, and let's talk it over."
Ye Jingzhen didn't move, staring at him with eyes like a hawk.
Ye Jingtian softened his voice: "Big brother has been forced by the emperor to review memorials all day these days, and his back pain has come back, hiss..."
Hearing his gasp, Ye Jingzhen instantly loosened his hand that was grabbing Ye Jingtian's collar and reached out to him.
Ye Jingtian smiled, grabbed the hand he extended to him, and was pulled up from the ground by him.
"I know everything Ye Jinghua did. What happened just now was just a trick."
The two finally left Chengqian Palace, and Ye Jingzhen followed his elder brother back to the East Palace.
In the prince's bedroom, Ye Jingtian took the hot handkerchief presented by the maid and applied it to his wrist which was red and swollen from being tightened by his belt.
Ye Jingzhen frowned: "So, what happened tonight?"
"I suspect that Ye Jinghua asked the snake witch to put a poison in his body. The incense burner today is the guide wire that activates the poison." Ye Jingtian said.
"But how do those princes and ministers explain it? He was like that at that time... and so many people in the palace didn't even notice it?" Ye Jingzhen's eyes darkened.
Ye Jingtian pondered for a moment: "The incense in the incense burner should also have the effect of bewitching people. If you think about it carefully, besides just now, you must have smelled this fragrance somewhere before."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Jingzhen's face darkened.
He remembered that when he was leaving Chengqian Palace, he bumped into a little maid serving tea. The maid had her head lowered very low, but the fragrance on her body was very strong.
It was exactly the same sweet aroma from the incense burner that he had just smelled.
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