Gu Yu curled his lips and said in disappointment, "Second brother, you are so stingy."
Gu Yan was anxious to find that he had become much more cunning after spending so much time with Song Wan.
Li Shiren was still spinning in the air like a meteor hammer. He saw more and more people gathering in Fanghui Street, and even several servants from officials' mansions were sticking their heads out to look.
The sweat on Wei Lin's head kept coming out. He tried to use his lightness skills to pull the emperor down, but he couldn't touch him.
Listening to the emperor's increasingly harsh words and the already flustered imperial guards, Wei Lin could no longer tolerate it. He roared, "Everyone, be quiet! Zhang Qian! Take a team and find a ladder! Li Gao! Take your men and find a rope!"
"Yes!" Zhang Qian and Li Gao answered in unison.
They each took a group of people and left the crowded Fanghui Street.
Wei Xuezhi waited for a long time before walking down the stairs and saying to Wei Lin, "Chief Wei, I think I have the ropes and ladder you need in my house."
When Wei Lin saw Wei Xuezhi, his forehead throbbed. He was so disturbed by the emperor's scolding that he forgot he was in front of the Wei Mansion. He immediately called a few more people to follow the Wei Mansion's servants into the mansion to get ropes and ladders.
It is impossible to pull it down by one person alone. Wei Lin doesn't know why this happened suddenly, but the first priority now is to get the emperor down. Otherwise, if there are traitors nearby, the emperor will be a living target.
Li Shi was so dizzy that he couldn't speak clearly. He looked at Wei Xuezhi with difficulty, his hair standing on end and his face full of panic. "Prime Minister, save me! Find someone to save me!"
Wei Xuezhi looked at him with a very complicated look. If it weren't for this accident, he would probably be the one who needed help.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty! This old minister and Chief Wei will definitely find a way to save you!" Wei Xuezhi promised.
The speed of the circle was getting faster and faster, so fast that Li Shi could no longer see the faces of the two people. The dizziness in his head became more and more severe, and the outermost yellow robe fell off his body somehow.
Amidst the uproar around him, Li Shi was left with only two pieces of underwear and socks, and even his shoes were thrown away.
Wei Xuezhi saw with his own eyes that a pair of the emperor's shoes flew onto the roof and then fell down, and one of them happened to fall into Li Shi's open mouth.
In an instant, the entire street was quiet, and everyone swallowed at the same time.
If they saw the emperor eating his own shoes, would they be silenced?
Song Wan was particularly considerate and gave Li Shi a moment to calm down, so that he could clearly see what he was biting in his mouth. When his face became extremely ugly but he found that he couldn't spit it out, she continued to spin in circles.
Wei Lin swallowed, was he really possessed?
The ropes were finally brought. They were all thick ropes, about half the thickness of an adult man's forearm.
Wei Lin quickly took one end, stepped on the wooden ladder supported by other imperial guards, used his internal energy to fly up and tied the rope around the emperor's waist. In order to prevent it from slipping, he tied a knot directly.
The rope was very long, and nearly fifty people were pulling it together, with Wei Lin at the head, forming a long line.
Fifty people pulled with all their might for more than a quarter of an hour, but it didn't budge at all.
Li Shi, however, was nearly suffocated by the rope. He managed to utter a single word, "Let me go!"
Wei Lin then realized that he almost strangled the emperor to death!
"Hurry! Let go!" he turned around and shouted.
Wei Xuezhi showed a hint of regret, it would be great if it just disappeared like this.
As soon as this thought came to mind, it was quickly suppressed. The thought of killing the king was unbearable to think about.
Seeing that he couldn't pull so many people away, Wei Lin asked the royal guards to clear out all the outsiders. This would save their lives as well as his own.
"Chief Wei, this won't work. If we keep going like this, something will happen sooner or later!" Wei Xuezhi frowned deeply, his face full of worry, as if he wanted to go up and suffer all this for Li Shi.
He asked knowingly, "Your Majesty, what is the purpose of your visit to my residence today? Have you encountered any strange things before or after leaving the palace?"
While Wei Lin was deeply moved, he also had some opinions about the emperor in his heart. The emperor actually suspected that such a good prime minister had two hearts. If the emperor had not been so suspicious and had to go out of the palace to investigate in person, such a strange thing would not have happened today.
There was no wind around, but the king of a country was strangely spinning in the air without any support. No one dared to believe it if it wasn't a ghost.
The common people were driven away, but the news spread quickly. In less than an hour, the news spread throughout the alleys of the capital, big and small, that the emperor had been possessed by evil spirits and was imprisoned in mid-air by ghosts and gods, making him spin.
Some people also said that it was the late emperor who came back to punish his useless son. Some people were even more fearless and said that it was the emperor who killed the late emperor, so now the father came to claim his son's life.
The rumors intensified, and in front of the Wei Mansion, Wei Lin was sweating profusely and had even taken off his armor. Wei Xuezhi, despite his old age, insisted on helping and participated in several pulling operations, which moved some of the royal guards who knew the inside story.
Feeling guilty, they secretly cursed Li Shi. Why was the emperor running around for no reason? Was it because he didn't have enough memorials to approve? Or was it because the flood problem in the south didn't need to be solved?
Fortunately, the Prime Minister, who was completely unaware of the situation, tried to save the emperor, who doubted his loyalty, despite his old body.
When Wei Lin and the others thought of this, they couldn't help but loosen their strength a little. They couldn't pull it down anyway, and if they stuck their heads out, they would get hurt. He didn't want to be exhausted to death.
Madam Wei led several long-awaited elders of the Wei family behind a small door, watching for a moment before turning around and saying, "You've seen it too. Putting aside the matter of you exchanging stones for silver, the Emperor is outside right now. If the Emperor knew that you, as prestigious elders of the Wei family, actually took a thousand taels of silver to bribe the Prime Minister to save a death row prisoner, what would he think of the Wei family?"
Wei Xueshu was so angry at her words that he almost couldn't breathe. Fortunately, the people next to him helped him calm down.
He couldn't restrain himself and pointed at Madam Wei, "You! It was Wei Xuezhi who wrote to me personally and told me that he could save my nephew!"
Madam Wei denied it and said, "Oh? Really? Where's the letter?"
Wei Xueshu almost spit out Lao Xue. They were afraid that Wei Xuezhi would go back on his word, so they kept the letter close to him. As a result, a strange wind blew inexplicably on the way to Wei's house. When they woke up, the letter was gone, but the silver was still there.
But who would have thought that those boxes of silver would suddenly turn into stone when they arrived at the Wei Mansion.
Wei Xueshu even suspected that the Wei Mansion had invited some Taoist priest who could perform sorcery, otherwise why would the emperor be hung in the air in such a strange manner, and the one thousand taels of silver that he had collected with great difficulty also disappeared.
"It must be you! You are the ones who did it!" Wei Xueshu started to talk without thinking.
Madam Wei said coldly, "Elder Wei, you need evidence to say this. And don't forget what crime your nephew has committed. If the Jingzhao Yin finds out that you are shielding and condoning this behavior, I can't guarantee that you, at your age, won't be beaten with a few sticks."
Jingzhao Yin Gao Tian was notoriously unkind, otherwise Wei Xueshu would have sent one thousand taels of silver to his house long ago.
Madam Wei didn't bother to be polite with him and directly ordered her confidants to forcefully drive the men out of the house through the back door.
Li Shi was still spinning outside, but his speed was slowing down. The main reason was that Song Wan was afraid that he would be killed in one go, which would be a waste.
After all, there is only one person, and he will have to endure a lot in the future.
After slowing down, Wei Lin and the others could only continue to try to get the man down from mid-air. Now everyone in the capital believed that the emperor was being punished for doing this. This was a warning from heaven. If Li Shi was not replaced, all of them would be punished by heaven.
After Gu Yanji heard the news from Gu Wu, he turned to look at Song Wan and asked, "Was it Ah Wan who did it?"
Song Wan admitted, "Yes, I found a lot of beggars and gave them money. They know how to spread rumors better than anyone else."
"What do you think? Am I great?" Song Wan raised her chin confidently. This is called the public opinion effect, which will never be out of date no matter which dynasty it is.
"It's really good, simple and clear." But Gu Yanji had a question, "You have been with me all this time, when did you do these things?"
Song Wan replied, "When you went to arrest Yao Chu, I picked up a beggar and told him that the emperor would spin in the sky and then chew his own shoes. I gave him five taels of silver and asked him to help me spread the word."
Gu Yan couldn't help laughing, "Awan is really smart."
Gu Yu interrupted tactlessly, "Second brother, I saved the money, why don't you praise me?"
Song Wan then remembered that the most important benefit of this matter was that she didn't spend her own money. "The buns are great! If your second brother doesn't praise them, I will!"
Gu Yan was anxious. "... Then Second Brother will praise you for saving money. Remember to save more for your sister Awan in the future."
Song Wan's eyes lit up. Yes, Baozi will be the emperor in the future, and his uncle Qi Fu is rich enough to rival a country. Can it be easy for him to own two "countries"?
Gu Yu shrugged and asked, "Then why don't you save some money for Sister Wan?"
Song Wan was the most qualified person to answer this question. She told the confused Baozi, "Your second brother and his family are all mine. Why would you save any money?"
Gu Yu seemed to understand but not quite, as this was beyond his comprehension.
"Hurry up and give Yao Chu to me!" Song Wan shouted at Gu Yan anxiously, "Otherwise, I'm going to kill him."
Over there, Wei Lin and other royal guards were still taking turns pulling, while Wei Xuezhi stood aside with tears in his eyes and a look of worry on his face, as if he wished he could suffer for Li Shi. This moved most of the people present.
After the news spread, more people gathered at the alley entrance, most of them were housekeepers and servants sent by the ministers' mansions to gather information.
Song Wan seized the opportunity and used his mental power to throw the unconscious Yao Chu into the sky, just not far from where Li Shili was standing.
So when Li Shi found that he had finally stopped spinning, a shadow fell from above his head. Before he could look up, he was pressed down by a force of gravity and fell heavily to the ground.
The armrest of the sedan suddenly split open, turning into four wooden spikes of almost identical size and shape, which coincidentally pierced into Li Shi's outstretched limbs, causing him to scream in pain that echoed throughout the entire street.
The unconscious Yao Chu fell horizontally on his back. There was a cracking sound, which Wei Lin heard as if a bone was breaking.
Before anyone could react, Wei Xuezhi seized the opportunity and shouted, "How did Minister Yao fall from the sky? He even knocked the Emperor unconscious! Someone, come quickly! Go to the palace and call the imperial physician!"
When he shouted like this, the housekeepers and servants who were sent by the officials to inquire about the news subconsciously assumed that it was Yao Chu who knocked the emperor unconscious.
Wei Lin finally reacted and quickly took Yao Chu off the emperor with several imperial guards, then carried the emperor, whose limbs were covered in blood, into the Wei Mansion.
Half an hour later, the imperial physician from the palace hurried over. What happened in front of the Wei Mansion had evolved into a conspiracy that Lord Ping'en intended to murder the emperor. He secretly found many Taoist priests who knew sorcery and wanted the people to believe that the emperor they believed in was not recognized by God.
As a result, he lost more than he gained. God couldn't stand it anymore and took retribution from his son, dropping him down and knocking down the emperor.
Others said that the Minister of Revenue embezzled the money used to control the floods in the south, and was afraid that he would be punished by imperial decree after the emperor found out, so he decided to take the throne himself.
These remarks were spread with such authenticity that it seemed as if they were conspirators they had heard with their own ears.
When the Ping'en Mansion learned the news, Ping'en Yao Guangyuan said "absurd" and fainted.
Song Wan was very satisfied with the current situation and even stretched. "Alright! It won't be long before Baozi can sit on the throne!"
Before going to Beijing, Gu Yan made many plans, but she didn't expect that in the end she would use such a simple and crude method to embarrass Li Shi in front of the whole capital.
All this is thanks to Song Wan, and Gu Yanji is very grateful to her for this matter.
If it weren't for her, it might take them five or even ten years to return to Beijing, and it wouldn't be so smooth.
"Thank you, Awan." Gu Yan said hurriedly and solemnly, "For Ayu, for Dayue."
"You're welcome!" Song Wan raised her chin and said proudly, "Who made me so awesome?"
The emperor was knocked unconscious by the Minister of Revenue. When the Empress Dowager in the palace learned about this, she was furious and issued an imperial decree to surround the Mansion of Duke Ping'en without mercy.
When this happened, Song Wan was eating noodles at a noodle stall.
As she ate, she asked, "Isn't the Queen Mother from the Ping'en Mansion? Why would she order a siege on her own family?"
"The Queen Mother was just an unfavored concubine of the Ping'en Mansion. Her concubine was killed by her mother-in-law. Now her mother-in-law's son has injured her own son. How can she not be angry?" Gu Yan hurriedly explained, "In fact, Li Shi and the Ping'en Mansion use each other more than they have feelings for each other. They are even worse than Prince Yu and the Xu family."
One wants a high status, the other needs a strong enough outsider to help him charge into battle and resist danger.
"I almost forgot about the Xu family." Song Wan drank the soup in her bowl and said, "Back then, we only looted Xu Lie, which was considered a good deal for the Xu family."
Gu Yuxue, who was standing by, drank the noodle soup like her, and her whole chubby face became puffed up. Seeing this, Song Wan couldn't help but pinch her.
Gu Yu whimpered twice and quickly swallowed it, "Sister Wan, I almost blew it out just now!"
Song Wan didn't care and said, "It's okay, the person sitting opposite you is Wan Durian anyway."
Gu Wu, who was eating meat soup noodles with big mouthfuls, looked up with an expression that said, "Miss Song, how could you do this?"
He ran around everywhere, so even if he didn't get any credit, he still worked hard.
Because of Song Wan's mental power, Li Shi remained unconscious. Even though his injured limbs were no longer injured, he showed no signs of waking up.
Queen Dowager Li sat beside the dragon bed, looking at her unconscious son on the bed. She roared at the dozens of imperial physicians kneeling below, "Why can't my prince wake up? How did you diagnose him?"
The imperial doctors trembled and buried their heads even deeper.
The head of the Imperial Hospital spoke up, "Your Majesty, the Emperor is in good health. There is nothing we can do to help him."
"A bunch of quacks!" the Queen Mother swung her sleeves and shouted angrily, "Come here! Take them away! Behead them on the spot!"
The head of the Imperial Medical Service was dragged out like this, and the executioners were the Imperial Guards, but they couldn't swing the guillotine no matter how many times they changed it.
Instead, under the clear sky, a bolt of lightning struck the emperor's bedroom. However, this time the person injured was not the emperor, but the empress dowager who had just ordered the beheading of the imperial physician.
Song Wan stared at the lightning. Facing Gu Yan's anxious gaze, she quickly shook her head, "It really wasn't me who did it this time!"
No matter how powerful her mental strength is, she cannot transform into lightning and cause an electric shock.
Gu Yan raised her eyebrows anxiously, "I guess even God couldn't stand it anymore."
The imperial guards who were carrying out the execution dropped their knives in fear. So many strange things had happened in just a few hours. Could it be that their emperor had really poisoned the late emperor as the rumors spread, and was now being punished by heaven?
The emperor fell into a coma and the empress dowager was struck by thunder.
Rumors spread all over the place and people in the capital were talking about it. At this time, eunuch Zhang Fu suddenly stood up.
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