Chapter 149 The Ling Mansion is in trouble
Ling Chan did not make any special preparations and only wore a piece of clothing that could withstand damage.
Luo Nanfeng, Jiang Chenyang, Gong Taining and others entered the palace with her, as well as Hongdou.
Although the Wolf King was summoned today, they were not actually discussing any state affairs, but rather a celebratory banquet.
Summoning the Great Wolf King to a celebratory banquet, Ling Chan could only sigh that Xiao Heng was murderous and heartbreaking.
But surprisingly, the Wolf King didn't seem to care.
This was the second time that Luo Nanfeng, Jiang Chenyang, Gong Taining and others entered the palace, but the first time they attended a banquet in the palace.
These masters who are famous in the martial arts world are not new to the world.
He has seen all kinds of big scenes in the martial arts world, and even in the imperial palace, he is not at all nervous. Instead, he appears more relaxed and unrestrained.
But because of their behavior, all the officials looked down on them, perhaps because they thought they were rough people in the underworld.
However, Luo Nanfeng and the others didn't care. They just focused on eating and drinking.
Anyway, they went to the border in the first place because of what Ling Chan said about protecting the people, not really for the court or for any reward.
Ling Chan didn't like such banquets. She just drank wine and ate delicious food by herself.
Today she let her high ponytail down, combed her hair into a simple style, and pinned it with a wooden hairpin.
The hair on both temples falls in front of the body...
She was lazy and casual, and her whole posture was pleasing to the eye.
Xiao Jin and Xiao Yi both thought so, and their eyes were glued to Ling Chan.
Ling Chan herself felt the same way, but she didn't take it to heart.
After a few drinks, she was a little tipsy and her mind was a little fuzzy.
She drinks some wine on weekdays, but never overindulges in it.
I don’t know what happened today, but I felt dizzy after drinking a few glasses of wine.
As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, Ling Chan suddenly became cautious.
She touched the ring and a small needle popped out of the ring. When she raised the glass, the needle touched the wine.
The glasses on the front were vibrating, which meant... there really was something foreign in the wine.
Ling Chan looked at the others. It was not strange that everyone was drinking.
She looked back at her wine glass. Could it be that... only her wine was poisoned?
But who in the palace today would poison himself?
What kind of poison is it?
Ling Chan took off her glasses and saw clearly that the poison in the wine was actually a simple knockout drug.
And it didn't happen on the spot.
Not knowing whether the wine of others was poisonous, Ling Chan decided to get up and take a walk.
First it was Liu Huaiyu, then...
She walked towards Gong Taining with a glass of wine. Gong Taining was her grandfather, so it was not wrong for her to offer him a toast.
Gong Taining's wine glass was also poisoned, and then the other seniors...
When they sat down in a circle, all the seniors had poison in their cups.
Looking at Xiao Jin, she walked over and said, "Prince Rui, I've been at the border these past few months. Thanks to your care, Prince Rui. Wan Yue offers a toast to you."
As he said that, he filled Xiao Jin's glass with wine.
Xiao Jin stood up and clinked his glass with hers.
Ling Chan took the opportunity to test and found that there was no poison in Xiao Jin's wine glass.
Later... Ling Chan confirmed that there was no poison in the Wolf King's wine glass.
So, she and the martial arts seniors were the only ones in the audience whose cups had poison?
Who would poison them? Ling Chan walked back to her seat and looked around...
Finally, his eyes fell on Xiao Heng who was sitting on the high seat.
In fact, from the very beginning, she felt that Xiao Heng and the Wolf King's expressions were a little strange.
One is the emperor of the victorious country, and the other is the prince of the defeated country. How can these two people coexist peacefully?
This is a Hongmen Banquet.
After the banquet, Ling Chan led the seniors back to the Ling Mansion.
The seniors were all a little tipsy, so they went into their respective courtyards and fell asleep soon after.
Ling Chan was also like this. The poison in the wine took effect. She went into the room and fell asleep directly.
At night, twenty figures arrived at Ling's residence. As soon as they entered, they separated and went into different courtyards...
Soon, blood was splattered in every yard.
Finally, these people set fire to Ling Mansion and left.
Flames shot up into the sky and there was a smell of burning.
Soon, the servants of the Ling Mansion and the surrounding households were in an uproar, "There's a fire! There's a fire in the Ling Mansion!"
When Xiao Jin got the news and rushed over, several houses in Ling Mansion were already burning down.
He rushed to Ling Chan's yard and looked at the completely burned house. His legs went weak, "Ling Chan..."
"Ling Chan!" He steadied himself and prepared to rush in.
"Your Highness." The servants of the Ling Mansion recognized him and two of them held him from both sides. "Your Highness, you cannot go in."
"We're already putting out fires."
The servants didn't dare to say anything, because under such circumstances, the people inside would definitely not survive.
Xiao Jin struggled to break free from the two men and rushed in regardless of everything.
"Ling Chan?" His voice was hoarse, anxious and painful.
"Ling Chan!"
A beam fell from the sky and hit Xiao Jin's feet hard.
Because of this blow, Xiao Jin knelt on the ground...
"Chan'er..." He just felt his heart aching, so painful that he couldn't breathe.
He was always worried that his feelings for her would cause her trouble, so he never said it out loud.
After all, there is still a lot of time and opportunities.
However, he never thought that something like this would happen.
"Chan'er." He stood up again and stumbled inside...
Finally, he saw the shape of a person on the bed in the inner room.
He rushed over...
"Chan'er." His hands trembled, but he didn't dare to touch the charred body.
It won't be like that, it won't.
Xiao Jin looked at the corpse carefully and suddenly felt something strange.
Ling Chan was so powerful, had such great abilities, and so many secrets, how could she die like this?
Xiao Jin forced himself to calm down...
He looked carefully and finally found the problem.
This body... is taller than Ling Chan.
Although it was only one or two points higher, Xiao Jin could see it at a glance.
This is not Ling Chan.
Not Ling Chan!
Outside the courtyard, everyone was calling out to Xiao Jin, while others were putting out the fire and rescuing people...
Xiao Jin withdrew his gaze and remained silent for a while beside the corpse. Then, he took off his coat, hugged the charred corpse on the bed, and carried it out.
"Your Highness." The servants rushed over, "This is..."
"It's your Lord."
"My Lord..." The servant was dumbfounded.
Xiao Jin placed the body in his arms in the yard and asked, "What's going on in the other yards?"
"A lot of bodies have been cleared out..."
At this moment, the commander of the patrol troops also arrived and helped the servants of the Ling Mansion to clean up.
In the end, twelve bodies were cleared out, including Ling Chan, Hongdou, Luo Nanfeng, Jiang Chenyang, Gong Taining and others.
Except for Ling Chan and Hong Dou, the others are all heads of martial arts sects.
"Your Highness, what is going on?" The military commander was at a loss.
How could the fire happen out of the blue?
Marquis Zhenbei Ling Chan and these martial arts seniors are the heroes of the Dahe peace talks this time. The emperor hasn't rewarded them yet, so how could something go wrong?
I don’t know whether this will have any impact on the peace talks between the two countries.
"Is it an accident or..."
Xiao Jin looked at Ling Chan's body. What happened?
He couldn't make a conclusion directly. "You, go to the palace to see the emperor immediately and ask him to send someone to investigate thoroughly."
"Yes." The military commander left a pair of men to guard Ling's mansion, and then went into the palace to meet the emperor.
Ling Rui also rushed over, and judging from his appearance, he seemed to have woken up from his sleep.
"Your Highness." Ling Rui was stunned when he saw Xiao Jin, "Your Highness..."
"Where's Chan'er..."
Xiao Jin looked at the corpses on the ground. There was another corpse next to Ling Chan's, which was Hongdou's.
Unfortunately, he saw through Ling Chan's body and realized it was fake, and when he looked at Hong Dou's, he immediately noticed the difference.
Hongdou's body was also a few inches taller than Hongdou's, and it was obvious that it was a man's body.
I don’t know where the master and servants and those seniors are now.
What to do...
"Chan'er..." Ling Rui walked to the body of 'Ling Chan', his voice trembling.
Xiao Jin sighed. This Ling Rui...
"Your Highness, what on earth is going on?" Ling Rui stood up and walked in front of Xiao Jin. "How could the fire happen when everything was fine?"
Xiao Jin said, "Life is unpredictable. General Ling's question is difficult for me to answer."
After hearing this, Ling Rui's face darkened.
The military commander rushed to the palace gate and was stopped as expected.
However, when the people at the palace gate learned that something had happened in the Ling Mansion, their faces changed drastically and they immediately turned around and hurried to the emperor's bedroom.
Xiao Heng had not gone to bed yet, and Fu Lu was waiting beside him.
"Your Majesty, it's time to rest." Fu Lu reminded Xiao Heng diligently.
Xiao Heng was still practicing calligraphy, writing the word "忍" one by one... He became more and more impatient and impatient...
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound outside the door.
Xiao Heng raised his head and glanced outside. Fu Lu immediately bowed and walked out.
"When is the noise?"
"Eunuch Fu..."
"What?!"
Fu Lu returned, looking nervous and panicked, "Your Majesty, this is not good."
As he was walking towards the high seat, he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Without the time to get up, he crawled directly to Xiao Heng on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, it's bad. The Ling Mansion has caught fire. The Marquis of Zhenbei and those martial arts masters have all been burned to death."
Xiao Heng put down his brush and asked, "What did you say?"
"The Ling Mansion was hit by a fire, and the Marquis of Zhenbei and those martial arts seniors were killed." Fu Lu fell to the ground, shocked, and at the same time began to worry about the peace talks between the two countries.
Xiao Heng sat down and said, "Fu Lu, pass on the imperial decree and order the Minister of Justice and the Vice Minister of Justice to go to Ling Mansion to investigate the accidental discharge and the cause of death of the Marquis of Zhenbei and all the heroes in the martial arts world."
"Yes." Fu Lu stood up and staggered out.
This matter was too important and he dared not delay it at all.
By the time the Minister of Justice and the Vice Minister of Justice all arrived at Ling's house, it was already dawn.
I don’t know if it was God’s mercy, but it started to rain lightly at this time.
The rain washed over the burnt-out house, leaving muddy water all over the ground.
The bodies lined up in a row were covered with white cloth...
The Vice Minister of Justice brought six coroners, who took turns examining more than a dozen bodies.
The final conclusion was that these people were burned to death, and they were all drunk, so they probably didn't react to the fire.
As for why several courtyards were flooded at the same time, it was because the wind was strong tonight and blew all the water into one place.
Everything... makes perfect sense.
The result was reported to Xiao Heng.
When Liu Huaiyu came, he was wearing thin clothes and the maid behind him was chasing him holding his coat.
"Ling Chan." She knelt down beside Ling Chan's body and cried over her.
“Wuwu…”
"How did the fire happen? How could this happen?"
"You are so powerful, how could you die?"
"Ling Chan, are you lying to me? Get up, get up."
Xiao Jin listened to her crying and thought about how he had been crying just now...
Unfortunately, that girl was faking her death.
When she returns, the first person he will not forgive is her, and the second one will be Liu Huaiyu.
After daybreak, the people learned about this and came to Ling's house in groups to kneel down and worship.
For a time, the entire capital was plunged into grief.
Liu Huaiyu fainted twice from crying and was eventually sent back to the Liu Mansion by people from the Ministry of Justice.
Xiao Jin also left Ling Mansion at the right time.
Since Ling Chan was not the one who died, there was no need for him to pay attention to this matter.
Maybe Ling Chan will come to him soon...
Every day when Xiao Jin had nothing to do, he would wait alone in the study. He waited for a whole month, but Ling Chan never showed up.
We did wait for the signing of the negotiation and contract between Daqi and Dahe.
In the contract, the two countries entered into a ten-year peace agreement, and Daqi ceded all the territory north of Wufang County to Dahe, without Dahe having to pay any price.
Such a contract immediately aroused opposition from all officials in Daqi.
Xiao Jin was the first to speak up, "Your Majesty, this is inappropriate."
In the hall, other officials echoed, "Your Majesty, this is not appropriate."
Daqi won and Dahe lost, but the contract looked like Daqi was defeated.
"Although Wufang County is just a county seat, there is a large area of arable land to the north."
"We guard the border to protect this piece of farmland."
"We lost so many soldiers and drove Da He out of He Yun Prefecture, but now we have to cede Wufang County. How can this be justified?"
The officials had different opinions and it was difficult for them to unite and oppose it unanimously.
"Dahé was defeated, so they should cede Heyun Mansion to us, Daqi."
Heyun Prefecture also has a large amount of arable land, and incorporating it into Daqi would be a good thing for Daqi.
"Yeah, how can we cede the city to Da He just because we won?"
"Yes, what happened to the emperor?"
"Could it be because the Zhenbei Marquis died?"
The Marquis of Zhenbei is dead. These five words calmed everyone down.
Daqi and Dahe fought hard for many years but never won. It was only with the help of Zhenbei Hou and those martial arts heroes that they defeated Dahe.
Now... Marquis Zhenbei and more than a dozen sect leaders are dead. How can Daqi have anyone who can suppress Dahe?
If Da He is unwilling to negotiate peace with Da Qi at this time, the war between the two countries will break out again...
Everyone's expression changed...
"My dear ministers, will you stop talking?" Xiao Heng spoke at this time.
"It seems that everyone has already made up their minds."
Xiao Heng looked around at everyone, "Of course I don't want to give Wufang County to Da He, but..."
"My dear ministers, tell me, if Da He changes his mind and the two countries are in conflict again, what should we do?"
"General Liu is old. Apart from Ling Rui, who else has the ability to fight against Da He?"
"Giving up Wufang County will give us ten years of peace with Dahe, which is enough for us to recuperate."
"My dear ministers, do you have any comments?"
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