Chapter 107: Southern Xinjiang Gushu
Yang Zheng was halfway through his words when he suddenly bowed and said, "If Your Highness hadn't given the late emperor a sterilizing drug, we wouldn't be in such a situation now. I beg Your Highness to curb your competitive spirit. Yin Country is currently in the midst of war and cannot withstand such a storm."
"What's going on?" Xie Chengyan asked, "Does Lord Yang think that I covet the throne?"
Yang Zheng remained silent, which was considered as his agreement.
"Lord Yang is worrying too much. I feel very relieved to have the government affairs handed over to Princess Yuan'an. I'm just worried that someone might harm me, like the Xu family."
Xie Chengyan and the Xu family had already reached such a critical juncture that, even if there were any conflicts between the two sides, they wouldn't have been so open about it. But this was clearly not right. Yang Zheng knew that Xie Chengyan had given the late emperor a sterilizing drug, but he only discovered that later. He was also in the dark about Xie Xun's background.
So he asked, "Your Majesty...are you the late emperor's descendant?"
Xie Chengyan didn't answer immediately. He looked at him deeply through the brocade cloth, then turned his back and said, "Since Lord Yang has already stood on the emperor's side, don't think about these things. Just be a loyal minister."
After saying that, he left. Yang Zheng wanted to ask more, but he saw two servants from the Pei Mansion coming to the backyard. When they saw Yang Zheng, they hurriedly greeted him, "Sir, please go to the front hall. The bride has already arrived at the Pei Mansion."
Yang Zheng didn't stay long and rushed over after hearing the words.
The front hall was much more lively than the backyard, so much so that when Xie Chengyan first arrived at the front hall, he was suddenly made a little uncomfortable by the bustling atmosphere.
Seeing that the crowd was gathered together, he had no intention of going forward, but when he saw that everyone seemed to be looking at the newly arrived convoy in horror, Xie Chengyuan was even standing in the crowd with his mouth wide open, not looking like a prince at all.
He was puzzled and leaned forward. Suddenly, he found that Lu Qianshan was standing beside him. He reminded him, "Miss Ye Er is dead. She died when the sedan chair arrived."
Xie Chengyan was shocked. He turned to look at the sedan chair and saw that the curtain in front of the sedan chair was wide open. It should be time to ask the bride to get out of the sedan chair. When the people outside saw that there was no movement, they opened the curtain.
But the scene before him was disgusting. Ye Er was sitting upright in the wedding sedan chair, but his body was covered with long insects. The insects were still alive and looked abnormally distorted on Ye Er's body.
The person who lifted the curtain ran to the side and vomited. Pei Song, who was very close to the wedding sedan, was frightened by the scene in front of him and started crying. He ran and hid behind Madam Pei.
The people from the Ye Mansion came right after the wedding procession. Ye Zhixing and Madam Ye happened to witness this scene. One of the two elders lost his balance and fell straight to the ground. Several servants hurried forward to support them.
Xie Chengyan was watching the scene from a distance and felt his whole body tremble. The last time he saw this kind of evil magic was when he was a child in the Nanyang Palace.
The high priest of the Moon Worshiping Cult in Southern Xinjiang also used this trick to kill people.
But that was all many years ago. Nowadays, there is little contact between Southern Xinjiang and the Central Plains. After Prince Ning's rebellion, Lu Qianshan went to Southern Xinjiang to garrison and even pushed the people of Southern Xinjiang to the south of Tianxu Mountains. How could Southern Xinjiang witchcraft appear here?
Just as he was wondering, he looked up and saw Ye Lanzhou with a calm face in the crowd. She was not tall and not very conspicuous in the crowd. The shoulders of the people in front of her blocked most of her face, revealing only a pair of distant eyes.
She didn't seem to notice him and took advantage of the crowd's panic to turn and leave.
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