"Your Majesty has arrived—"
Xichen listened to the sound outside the palace, stood up and was about to salute, but when his eyes fell on the ground, he sat back calmly.
Now that his master has asked him to guard, he'd better not act on his own, otherwise the relationship with his master, which has finally been eased, will probably become tense again.
It would be better for him to wait here obediently for his master to come out. That way, if any problems arise, his master will naturally handle them.
"Xichen! Move the people out quickly." Long Mujiang stood at the gate of the palace and took a quick look around, then he guessed what had happened.
Long Mujiang was very secretive about Xu Tianze's methods and naturally would not take the risk himself. Now that Xichen was fine, he must have taken the antidote.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I can't obey your command." Xichen shook his head in embarrassment. "After all, this noble lady Lan has offended the master, and this is why she is in this misfortune. I can't betray the master unless the master speaks."
"You bastard! Haven't you betrayed your master enough?" Long Mujiang shouted angrily.
He still didn't know what Xichen was thinking. He just wanted to use this to please Xu Tianze. These were all things he had left over, so why was he pretending here?
"Your Majesty understands me better than I do myself." Xichen felt unhappy and spoke even more sarcastically, "Your Majesty also knows that I often betray you, so isn't it normal for me to disobey your orders?"
If you say he betrayed his master, in the beginning, Long Mujiang was his real master. When he was in Zhoushan City, his master never stopped him from sending messages to his former master (the prince).
But what his master didn't know was that he was being fair and impartial. Whenever he sent a message to the prince, he would also send a copy to Long Mujiang.
The main reason is that the batches are different, so the master has never realized that the message he sent was actually sent to two people.
Now people say that he betrayed his master, but he never betrayed Long Mujiang. However, after Long Mujiang gained power, he gave him nothing.
Then what was wrong with him betraying Long Mujiang? No matter how sincere his master was to him, even if he had a grudge against him now, he had never poisoned him.
"you--"
"Hmph, Xichen, I advise you to think it through before you talk to me. Otherwise, you should know very well what I want to do." Long Mujiang made a subtle gesture to Xichen.
Xichen felt empty at the sight of this. This was how Long Mujiang threatened him two years ago, so he had no choice but to tell the news that Xu Tianze would appear in the secret passage of the Xu Mansion.
He has been regretting his actions for the past two years. Now Long Mujiang is using this to threaten him again, and this time he really doesn't want to be threatened.
"Your Majesty, please do whatever you want. Xichen has nothing to say." Xichen closed his eyes and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
There was a cold smile on Long Mujiang's lips, and his eyes were full of mockery. He didn't believe that Xichen would not care.
If he really didn't care, Xichen, who had been tortured countless times but refused to speak, would not have told him all of Xu Tianze's escape route when he was threatening him.
As it turned out, the ten routes guessed by Xichen were correct, and Xu Tianze actually appeared on one of the routes later.
So this time:
"three"
"two"
Long Mujiang deliberately prolonged the second digit, waiting for Xichen to break through the defense. Even though the sleeves were covering him, the bulge inside the sleeves could still show Xichen's struggle.
“Squeak—”
"I don't know when you became so shameless. It seems that I didn't see through you after all."
Xu Tianze opened the door and stood there, his red eyes filled with coldness as he stared at a figure on the ground.
"You are plotting against me." Long Mujiang did not answer Xu Tianze's words, but stared at Xichen fiercely.
Since he ascended the throne, there have been fewer and fewer people opposing him. For a moment, he became so carried away that he almost forgot that Xu Tianze was still here.
Just think about it and you will know that Xu Tianze has heard everything he said to threaten Xichen.
Xichen breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled at Long Mujiang and walked to Xu Tianze's side without saying a word.
Two years ago he had no choice, but two years later he also had someone to support him, so naturally he dared to plot against Long Mujiang.
Xu Tianze ignored the eye contact dispute between Long Mujiang and Xichen. Right now, he just wanted to make the stupid woman in his eyes suffer a fate worse than death.
Thinking of this, Xu Tianze walked directly to Concubine Lan, grabbed her hair, and poured the poison in his hand into her.
After pouring the liquid in, Xu Tianze still felt unsatisfied, so he took out three or four porcelain bottles from his arms, some of which were yellow and green, and poured the liquid into Concubine Lan one by one.
This is his most proud work, and he wants to let this stupid woman enjoy it.
Just as Xu Tianze was about to feed Concubine Lan the poison in the last porcelain bottle in his hand, he suddenly felt a pain in his hand and subconsciously let go of the porcelain bottle.
"Long Mujiang, you are really good. Use the tricks I taught you to deal with me." Xu Tianze held his painful hand, feeling a little sour in his heart for no reason.
There is an acupuncture point on the hand. Once it is hit and the special striking technique is used, the hit hand will feel severe pain and it will take three or four days to recover.
This was something he researched out of boredom while studying under Master Qi, and he later taught it to Long Mujiang.
When he was teaching him, he never thought that this last trick would be used by Long Mujiang against him.
"Aze, that's not what I meant." Long Mujiang felt a little guilty, but when his eyes fell on the poisonous insect rolling in the broken porcelain bottle, he became righteous again.
"Aze, look at what you are doing. Lady Lan is the symbol of peace between Minglan Country and Gan Country, and you actually want to feed her the poisonous insect."
"Do you still want the country to fall into civil strife again?"
In fact, Long Mujiang wanted to talk about the poison feeding incident, but he didn't react just now. By the time he reacted, Xu Tianze had already fed several bottles of poison, so he didn't mention it.
Otherwise, once it is mentioned, everyone will find that he did not react in time to stop it, and then his face as the monarch of the country will be completely lost.
"She killed my people, she deserves to pay with her life." Xu Tianze stood up and kicked Lan Guiren who was unconscious at his feet.
Anyway, the few bottles he fed her were enough to torture Concubine Lan, so it made no difference whether there was this last poisonous insect or not.
What's more, when Long Mujiang reacted, he knew that he had no chance to take action.
"Isn't it just that a male favorite died? Can she still be as noble as Lady Lan? Aze, why are you so unreasonable?" Long Mujiang was somewhat dissatisfied with Xu Tianze's attitude.
He has already taken the initiative to show up in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, so why is Xu Tianze still unwilling to forgive him and telling him some trivial things here?
"You really let Jiang Ti come to the Qing Palace on purpose." Xu Tianze's eyes were deep and creepy, staring straight at Long Mujiang.
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