Chapter 45 - Poison
These days, the proud Sun County princess Xiao Feifei has to go to the harem from time to time to give Imperial concubine Shou "Pay Respect."
The face of the statement is to ask for Respect; after all, once the Princess Palace and the County Lord's residence on the "gatekeeper," now transformed into their own "aunt," no matter how angry Princess Jiao Yang itchy teeth, into the palace when the etiquette can not be less. Suppose it is not because of the mother and their own to take the long term to maintain the elixir's appearance. In that case, Xiao Feifei's temperament refuses to go to the palace to see the Guang Hui.
At the beginning of Princess Jiao Yang, we see Imperial concubine Shou Guang Hui, the previous bossy temper, chasing the former doorkeeper Taoist scolding, and very backbone to threaten. He no longer eats his broken medicine and says a lot of "who cares," "do not care," and so on grandiose words.
But later, the Princess mother and daughter's handstock gets smaller and smaller, and they finally eat nothing. One day, did not eat the "elixir," Xiao Fei Fei felt uncomfortable; their own body not only changed back to the previous trend of baby fat but even grew a lot of spots on their face; she was so scared that she hurriedly pounced on a thick powder. The aesthetics of the Zhong Ming Dynasty, or the beauty, are the most appreciated, but Xiao Feifei is in love with the trim waist of a handful; looking at the waistline will break through the expectations of her heart. She was starving while tangled up in the calculation of whether or not to go to find the Guang Hui, that slut.
Her mother, Nanling Princess, states that she is more serious. For a few days, she does not eat "elixir," a head of black glossy hair, even overnight white half. The Angry Princess was falling and smashing. Marquis Ping'an is also scared enough, which is still like the beauty of the noblewoman, simply like a monster.
The eldest Princess could not get out of the door, a cry two. As a daughter, Princess Jiao Yang is still very respectful, so I had to go to the Imperial concubine Shou on behalf of his mother and himself to ask for some of the "elixir" he has been holding back a variety of upset but no longer dare to make a move. Every time you see Imperial concubine Shou nodding and ha ha waist all kinds of etiquette all over again, sweet words coaxed Imperial concubine Shou alms to them some elixir.
Now do, Imperial concubine Shou's Guang Hui Taoist tasted the sweetness of some forgetfulness. Although he still carries out his master Yu Sun's plan to poison the Zhongming royal family and turn them into puppets, he also has his little plan.
Once, he was a dirty and lowly prairie rat, but now he was the master of the palace's inner courtyard. This kind of step to heaven was too fantastic! He couldn't give up all this glory and wealth, and he was even more unwilling to lie at the feet of Yu Sun and Tuoba Cheng to be a beast to be used. The "elixir" in his hand was his best weapon. He could manipulate the royal family and get rid of Yu Sun.
This poor mouse spirit does not know the height of the sky, not to mention think of their little Taoist skills in fighting with Yu Sun. He only knew with his existing "elixir" plus the previous saw Yu Sun's refining method, in the palace of a secret palace, grabbed a few palace people to do the test, with their body oil plus the previous elixir, but also miscellaneous put some flowers and plants, on the preparation of his own "elixir! "He used this fake dan to feed to the people. He used this fake elixir to feed the obedient Elder Princess Nanling and Princess Jiao Yang, but he didn't dare to give the phony elixir to the king.
Guang Hui summoned the crows many times to ask Yu Sun for a new elixir, saying that Zhongming Kingdom would soon hold a birthday banquet for the king and that all the people of the royal family and all the ministers of the court would be present, so it was just the right time to wipe out the country in one fell swoop. It is to ask for more "immortal pills" as the future control of others to use. He didn't want to cheapen Yu Sun like this, letting his good days end so quickly. However, Yu Sun grasped his every move.
The Nanling Elder Princess and County Lord Jiao Yang, who ate the fake pills, initially didn't feel any special feelings, but the people around them had already found something wrong.
At the County Lord's Mansion, Ouyang Zhong is still nodding couples with the County Lord, only to see each other occasionally, nodding their heads, asking for peace, and then finishing. There is still no wedding room, and they don't see each other. Although Ouyang Zhong does not care about Xiao Feifei's face, these days, she also feels that her face and body are getting more and more wrong.
Ouyang Zhong has always known that Xiao Feifei is taking the "elixir" and that the "elixir" is poison; she is no longer a person, which makes Ouyang Zhong very disgusting. However, for the more critical plan to be carried out smoothly, Ouyang Zhong said whatever must be held back, not to show, can not reveal any cracks. But Xiao Feifei's face was becoming more and more devoid of human color, so white that it was almost transparent, while her eyes were becoming more and more like a dead person's, her gaze was dull, without a trace of life, and on her cheeks or at the bun of her hair, a few patches of what looked like corpse stains were getting bigger and darker in size and color, and the thick layer of grease and powder couldn't cover them up anymore.
Although everyone was dressed in long robes and big-sleeved costumes, Xiao Feifei was still a shapely young girl. Even if she used to have a little bit of baby fat, she was gorgeous, but now her body collapsed. Whether it was her waist or her stomach, she was getting fatter and fatter. In the eyes of outsiders, they all thought that Princess Joyful Yang and Ouyang, an extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, were in love; not long after the wedding, there was happiness. Only Ouyang Zhong's heart is the clearest; they have never been around the room or slept together. Where is the pregnancy in the body?
One day, Ouyang Zhong went to the Xiao Feifei after asking for Respect, but she did not say anything, which was a dull "hmm" sound. That cunning and domineering sharp-tongued Princess, how not only looks changed, heart temperament also changed? Is this poison even this powerful? Ouyang Zhong's curiosity was slightly aroused, he approached Xiao Fei Fei and grabbed her wrist, but he couldn't feel any pulse! He found the bottle of fake elixir from the brocade pouch she was carrying, opened it, and smelled it. It still stank, but this time, it was very different from the previous one, no longer a stench disguised as an aroma but a real stench, a strange stench.
Suddenly, Xiao Feifei stood up and went to grab the bottle; Ouyang Zhong subconsciously dodged; Xiao Feifei didn't stand still and fell; her stomach hit the edge of a small low table. Probably because of this unexpected force, Xiao Feifei suddenly sputtered and vomited. Ouyang Zhong looked at the ground and couldn't help but be horrified. Surprisingly, the ground was full of corpse worms! Some of the corpse worms were already dead, but others were still wriggling. After Xiao Fei Fei vomited for a long time, her stomach obviously became a lot smaller, and finally, her eyes rolled over, and she fainted.
This horrifying scene also made Ouyang Zhong dry-heave for a long time. He moved the fainted Fay Xiao to a bed couch on the side. Those corpse worms were covered with a mixture of xiong huang powder, grass, wood ash, and quicklime according to the method in Xuan Mo's letter before, and soon, all these horrible things were turned into a puddle of thick water.
"Xuan Mo anticipates things like a god!" (He is a god, okay?) Ouyang Zhong muttered.
When Xuan Mo's letter first came to him, he had written several prescriptions, some of which were to kill insects, like this one. Some were for internal use, and others for external application. All of them could resist how to save themselves in case he was struck by Daoist Guang Hui or Yu Sun's demonic poison. But the eldest Princess of Nanling and Princess Jiao Yang, as well as the royal family in more than one taking "immortal pills" of the clan, have been poisoned too deeply and really can not be saved.
Ouyang Zhong looked at the unconscious Xiao Fei Fei; although there was no emotion, but also wanted to try that internal formula is useful in case it saved her life; it is also worthy of the name of this couple. Ouyang Zhong fed Xiao Feifei the medicine that had been prepared earlier and waited to see the change in her. Maybe it was because she had just vomited out a lot of internal poison and poisonous insects, or perhaps this medicine did work. Xiao Feifei woke up. Her face gradually had some human color, and the corpse spots on her face also faded away a lot; she looked at Ouyang Zhong and suddenly cried out loud.
Ouyang Zhong didn't say anything and was about to leave when Fay Xiao pulled her sleeve. Xiao Feifei opened her mouth with difficulty and said, "Ouyang Zhong, I know you don't like me, but thank you for saving me. Please save my mother, too! She also ate that demonic Taoist's elixir, and there were a few royal nobles. Are they all poisoned, just like me? Save them!"
For the sake of a beautiful figure, for prolonging one's life, for eternal youth, what are you people suffering from? Treating poison as an immortal medicine. Ouyang Zhong sighed and said, "There's no way out; you guys have been taking it for too long; you can't be saved anymore."
Xiao Feifei cried with remorse and said, "Before, when I ate that elixir, I didn't feel so much pain. Since the demonic Taoist turned into a Noble Consort, the medicines given to us are different from before. I shouldn't have eaten them, but I'm afraid. I'm afraid of turning back to my original chubby and ugly appearance."
Ouyang Zhong said honestly, "You were never fat, and you were never ugly. You were very beautiful before. Although I don't like you, I still have to admit that you are one of the top beauties in Zhongming country. But the current you has ... been."
Xiao Feifei heard Ouyang Zhong wanting to say something. Hurriedly and nervously trembling, she took out the small mirror she carried. Ouyang Zhong was just about to snatch it, but the result was that Xiao Feifei still got a glimpse of her current appearance, and she screamed out loud a few times in horror and went crazy.
Unfortunately, Ouyang Zhong's control deterrent did not play a significant role, and the county master's things quickly spread out.
Nanling Princess's side also had a big event. Seeing that it is almost the birthday of the country's king, the eldest Princess of Nanling has not participated in such a critical large-scale state banquet for a long time. She is determined to change back to her beautiful appearance to amaze the whole scene, but it is not what she wishes for. Since taking the fake immortal pills given by imperial concubine Shou, her appearance aged rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, her figure also became more and more bloated, and her hair turned white.
The extra horse harnessed by the Emperor's side, Marquis Ping'an, was too scared to go home, so he had to hide outside the mansion, where he secretly placed his concubines to stay overnight. Anyway, he secretly took more than one or two concubines over the years, and with the cunning rabbit's three caverns, there are more than three places where he can stay overnight. The Princess found that he did not come home, although many tempers can not be helped.
The eldest Princess of Nanling is just a young woman in her thirties or less than forty years of age, originally also a famous beauty in Zhongming country. Still, she looked at her face form in the mirror as if she had aged thirty years all of a sudden, just like a sixty or seventy-year-old woman. No matter how much she swallowed the "elixir", it didn't work. Desperate, she frantically smashed all the objects that could shine. A piece of copper mirror cut her hand, and she killed herself with three feet of white damask in the massive bed with her husband, Marquis Ping'an Xiao Zhi, who had been sharing the same bed for nearly twenty years. Until the time of her death, her hands were still flowing with eerie purple blood.
One night, the eldest Princess committed suicide, and Princess Jiao Yang went crazy. There is no impenetrable wall under this sky; the news quickly spread out; one side spread to the inner courtyard of the palace, the most advanced into the ears of Imperial concubine Shou, Guang Hui Daoist, and the other side was spread to the ears of the crown prince.
These two people's reactions were surprisingly consistent. They disdainfully laughed and then continued to do their own things, completely not feeling that the tragic fate of these two women was worthy of some regretful lamentation.
Since Ouyang Zhong Wei Kongji and the others realized the trick set up by Yu Sun, they have stepped up their deployment in all aspects. His son entrusted Ouyang Ming, and the crown prince had a number of secret talks. And revealed to the crown prince, now the king of the country, and several royal relatives had been poisoned by the design of the demon people if we did not get rid of Imperial concubine Shou and behind the Dingling tribe of the great sorcerer, the country of the Middle Kingdom of the Great Dilemma will be imminent.
Prince Xiao Su had wanted to sit on that dragon chair for a long time, but his old man was too well-maintained and lived too long. When I first heard that the palace to celebrate the birthday of his father in two months, said the same life with the sky, I thought it was just good luck words, but the eyes of the palace revealed that it was because of the immortal pills offered by the Imperial concubine Shou, really have the effect of prolonging life, the king of the country this is to be a long time to do a long time to be the Emperor of the generations.
The Prince is very unhappy, really if so, even if he survives until death and can not sit on the dragon chair. This Imperial concubine Shou must indeed be gotten rid of, and that father-emperor of his that he doesn't know very well, please ask him to step down to be the supreme Emperor as well! The Crown Prince has his plans, and now there is the First Grade Xiangguo Duke Ouyang clan, the Hussar General Wei clan, and this cousin by marriage of his own, Ouyang Zhong, who can check and balance the Eldest Princess and the County Lord's lineage, so it's heaven's help!
At this moment, as long as the trend continues, let these men help him light a fire directly into the palace's backyard, the next throne of the country of China, and the Ming non-he is bound to get! As for the poisoning and other nonsense, the Prince does not care, in his view, where the demons and ghosts are some bluffing lies. At this moment, Prince Xiao Su's inner waves surged, and he could not hold down the heart of the fire of desire; he waited too long for this day but also boiled too bitter; he said he could not let go of this opportunity. Therefore, he can no longer listen to any advice; Ouyang Ming said that the arrangements and instructions were almost all in a whisper.
On the night of April 15th, the first warmth was still cold. The moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and the palace was brightly lit and magnificent inside and outside. King Xiao Zhan's 57th birthday banquet was held as scheduled as usual. A banquet, not yet full of formal start, has been a dark current. It is strange to say since Imperial concubine Shou settled in the palace's inner courtyard, the original still left stars two or two of the imperial cats and never saw a trace. The whole palace is so quiet that, not to mention the catcall, even the birds can not hear a song.
A few essential figures were missing from the royal relatives present, including the dead Princess Xiao Wushuang of Nanling, the crazy Princess Xiao Feifei of Jiao Yang County, and the dead wife and crazy daughter of Ping An Marquis Xiao Zhi, who naturally didn't have the heart to eat anything at the birthday banquet. In addition, there were also a few royals and aristocrats who had also eaten the fake "immortal pills." They didn't eat for a few days before they started to feel unwell and became seriously ill. There are a few older adults who die directly. These people's families and grandchildren then realized the so-called "elixir" was fake. Poison is real. Separate rage broke into the palace, to the collective face of the saint to sue, vowed to let the king of the country depose the evil Taoist Imperial concubine Shou, and must be sentenced to death to calm everyone's heart anger.
Crown Prince Xiao Su, Prince Ouyang Ming of the First Grade Sangguo, and the extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of the Emperor's side, General Ouyang Zhong of the Left Guard, all stepped into the banquet hall at different moments. Each exchanged glances and took their respective seats. When all the guests were seated in their respective seats according to their rank status, the reigning monarch, Xiao Zhan, finally appeared in front of the crowd under the support of Noble Consort Shou.
Many of the people present had just seen the king a month ago. Since the establishment of Guang Hui, the demonic Taoist as a noble consort, the old ruler Xiao Zhan, who originally had little to show for his political achievements, had directly deserted the dynasty. Not only is there always a pretext for not going to the morning court, but even the folders are no longer read. If it is an urgent matter, it will be arbitrarily handed over to the Marquis of Ping'an, the Crown Prince, the first-ranking Minister of State Ouyang Ming, or any other person to read and decide for him. Many loyal ministers and righteous people also do not matter; many Imperial concubine Shou was directly and secretly executed by refining the body oil elixir.
At this time, the king of the country, Xiao Zhan, has been under Imperial concubine Shou's control; he trembled up to the hall, sitting on his comfortable dragon chair with a big smile, and then snuggled up in the body of Imperial concubine Shou, a weak and boneless look. Looking at his face, he appeared to be a lot younger, and his features were also more beautiful and charming, and that beauty was a kind of feminine, morbid. His demeanor was even more impressive; after all, it didn't matter how the makeup was smeared or painted or dressed, and the state ruler Xiao Zhan also looked like a woman in his brow. It seemed that he was not only younger, but even his gender had changed. At least he was a 57-year-old man, but he looked like a woman in his 30s.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Ouyang Ming coughed and led the court full of civil and military ministers to salute the country's king and congratulate him on his birthday. This face thing, Ouyang Ming, has always gone right. So everyone followed suit and hurriedly knelt down to salute, shouting Long live the Emperor, Long live the Emperor, and so on.
The state ruler smiled charmingly, and his voice also said softly, "All the love ministers leveled off. Today is a happy day; all the love ministers need not be restrained. I want to celebrate with all the love ministers on the same day."
At first, everyone tried their best to maintain a peaceful appearance, but some noble children who intended to sue the royal court couldn't hold back, and they couldn't stand to see that male consort's face. They approached the state ruler and knelt, pleading for justice: "Reporting to the state ruler, my younger brother has a royal complaint to file. My brother and a few of the royal family elders, Mrs., since taking Imperial concubine Shou, bestowed the 'elixir of immortality,' not out of three days on the sick, my brother's father is also your fourth uncle because eat that 'elixir of immortality' has been poisoned to death at the hour of the day. Your Majesty! That 'elixir' is not a miracle drug but a poison! This witch Imperial concubine Shou is a snake and scorpion person; please be clear: depose Imperial concubine Shou and punish her with capital punishment. Only then can I console the wronged souls of my Zhongming royal family!"
This member of the royal family had just reported. Another one stood out to add: "Your Holiness, last night I heard that your favorite sister, the eldest Princess of Nanling, because of taking this demonic path's poison, aged rapidly, was unable to bear the humiliation, and ended up hanging from a beam and killing herself! There is also your favorite little Princess Jiao Yang, who, because of eating the poison he gave, has lost its appearance and fallen into insanity! Please be judicious, Your Majesty, and quickly punish this evil man according to the law!"
The king's originally smiling face revealed a kind of gloomy cruelty, slightly supporting his body a little bit, and he said, "Come on, people! Pull out the traitors below who have made false accusations against Your Highness, and execute them by decapitation!"