Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 396 Lin Wan'er: I want to marry him

The hall was eerily quiet, so quiet that it made people feel depressed.

Some people endured the itch, some held in their farts, some dared not wipe the sweat even when it reached their necks, and even Lin Ruofu stopped crying.

He originally wanted to use his influence to put pressure on His Majesty to cancel the engagement between Chu Pingsheng and Lin Wan'er. His Majesty the Emperor only needed to choose another princess to marry Xihu, just like the Northern Wei Dynasty had done in the past. However, he did not expect that Bai Feng's influence on Li Yunqian was even greater than he imagined.

Judging from the fact that Chu Pingsheng dared to force Emperor Qing to abdicate in public, the topic of reconciliation between Xihu and Nanqing is probably not an additional agreement, and those two people have deeper interests in conflict.

Bai Feng even used Chu Pingsheng's marriage to Lin Wan'er as a means to test Emperor Qing's sincerity. Either he would put the interests of Qing country first and eliminate Fan Xian's minions, or... if Emperor Qing tore up the agreement, he would have to pay a heavy price.

On the other hand, his repeated requests to the Emperor to cancel the engagement were creating problems for Emperor Qing.

He posed problems to Emperor Qing, and Bai Feng also posed problems to Emperor Qing.

Emperor Qing can't touch Bai Feng, but can't he kill him?

Thinking of this, Lin Ruofu felt so regretful.

Chen Pingping did not have too much regret, but he had many puzzles. How did Bai Feng, the great master of Xihu, know these secrets?
Fan Xian is Ye Qingmei's son. Only His Majesty, Fan Jian, him, the old lady of the Fan family, Wu Zhu... only a few people know about it.

The truth that Yuan Hongdao and Yan Ruohai are double agents is only known to him and the parties involved. How did Bai Feng know this?

Lin Ruofu was the one who led today's events, and he was just going with the flow...Okay, just a little push, how did it get to the point where he had to die?

Anyway, he felt that he was quite wronged.

Li Chengqian and Li Chengze stood in front of all the officials, under the dragon throne, the two looked at each other with very complicated expressions.

Fan Xian... is actually the illegitimate son of Emperor Qing?
The two knew something about the relationship between Emperor Qing and Ye Qingmei.

Then it makes sense that Li Yunrui was forced to agree to give the inner treasury as a dowry to his daughter, and that the Red Cavalry was asked to bring Fan Xian to Kyoto to marry Lin Wan'er.

This leads to a question: what does their father want to do? Is he going to gradually make the illegitimate son the legitimate heir and let him replace the crown prince? Or does he think that watching two Gu fighting is not enough and wants to add another one to make a three-way brawl?

Li Yunqian was silent for a long time before he said, "Chen Pingping, do you...know your crime?"

"Your Majesty, I...know my crime. I...should not continue to dwell on what happened in the past."

Of course he did not think he was guilty, but the current situation was that if the king wanted his subject to die, he had to die.

"Don't take the position of the president of the Supervisory Council."

Li Yunqian stepped down from the dragon throne, opened the bamboo curtain, and stood in front of everyone.

"According to the order."

What else could Chen Pingping say? The result of Bai Feng's extreme pressure was that he was removed from the position of President of the Supervisory Commission, rather than being killed. To some extent, this was already a pardon from Li Yunqian.

And he knew very well that as long as he was not sentenced to death, he would have a chance to make a comeback in officialdom.

Li Yunqian actually knew that Chu Pingsheng was hinting that Chen Pingping was suspicious of the emperor by saying that he was still investigating the old case of Ye Qingmei's death. However, at the current court meeting, Chu Pingsheng had already killed a third-rank official, a descendant of the emperor's relatives, on the spot. The only crime Chen Pingping could be considered guilty of was not listening to his warnings and continuing to investigate the old case. If he killed someone for this, what would the civil and military officials in the court think? Would an old fox like Lin Ruofu connect him to Ye Qingmei's death?
And he didn't want to be led by Bai Feng all the time.

So he chose a compromise and kept his life but resigned from office.

"come."

Yan Xiaoyi bowed and responded: "I am here."

"Catch Yan Ruohai and hand him over to the Dali Temple for investigation."

"Yes."

Yan Xiaoyi led his men towards Yan Ruohai.

"Your Majesty, please listen to what I have to say." Chen Pingping risked his life to say, "Now that our Nanqing army is marching north, it is time to use people. I beg Your Majesty to give Director Yan a chance to make amends for his crime."

"In that case... let's just keep the blame for now and wait and see what happens next."

Li Yunqian knew the meaning behind the above sentence. Yan Ruohai's son Yan Bingyun is now working as a spy in Northern Qi. In recent days, he has provided a lot of important information about Northern Qi's military deployment. If Yan Ruohai is dismissed and investigated now, what if Yan Bingyun rebels after knowing this?
"By the way, I remember Director Yan also reported me just now, right?" Chu Pingsheng sneered at Yan Ruohai, who looked hateful, "I admit it. I did give Censor Lai a kick, and I must apologize to him."

After saying that, he walked to Lai Mingcheng and suddenly pushed hard. The skinny old man flew out and hit the vermilion pillar next to him, leaving a pool of deep red blood and falling to the ground dead. Chu Pingsheng looked at Li Yunqian standing on the steps and said sarcastically: "Censor Lai, you can say that you can't bear my courtesy, but why do you feel so ashamed of your petty and revengeful behavior that you hit the pillar and died? Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will leave a bad reputation in the history books as a foolish and unjust person who forced the censor to death?"

After saying this, he walked out of the hall without looking back, as if he didn't take the emperor seriously at all.

Everyone knew that he was embarrassing Li Yunqian.

Grandmaster Bai Feng wanted Chen Pingping to die, but Li Yunqian only stripped him of his official position. He also praised Yan Ruohai highly, but then put him down easily.

As Bai Feng's disciple, if Chu Pingsheng didn't do something at this time, wouldn't the future king of the grassland appear to be too weak and vulnerable?
A wisp of wind blew past, rippling his blue shirt. Yan Xiaoyi and others only saw a flash before their eyes, and then Chu Pingsheng's figure sank under the long steps.

He wished he could shoot to death with an arrow the person who was so disrespectful to His Majesty, but at this moment, His Majesty did not say anything and all they could do was watch.

On one side is the future of Qing Kingdom and the emperor's ambition, on one side is the illegitimate son with Ye Qingmei, on one side are the two legitimate sons Li Chengze and Li Chengqian, and on the other side is the worry about what Fan Xian will do to him when he knows the truth about the Taiping Villa tragedy.

Li Yunqian felt confused, completely confused, as if his heart was in a tangle.

"Minister of the Honglu Temple..."

"I'm here." A man walked out from behind Fan Jian and bowed, waiting for orders.

"You and Xin Qiwu... switch."

After saying this, he threw away his crown and robes, snorted coldly, and strode away.

Bao Shanqing was stunned.

Change?

What to change? Official position?

He was to be the Junior Minister of the Honglu Temple? And Xin Qiwu was to be the Minister of the Honglu Temple? There was a difference of three levels.

Seeing that he was stunned, Fan Jian kicked him and said, "Why don't you thank me now?"

Bao Shanqing then came to his senses, looked at the emperor's back and knelt down to express his gratitude.

Everyone knows that Bao Shanqing is not to blame for this, but everyone knows that His Majesty needs someone to vent his anger on, and everything that happened today started because Chu Pingsheng ate a cake, and Lai Mingcheng couldn't stand it, so he took advantage of his seniority to express his dissatisfaction. Now that Lai Mingcheng is dead, the only one left to bear the blame is him, the one who did not serve the Western Hu envoy well.

Li Yunqian left, and Hou Zhigang, who was welcoming him outside the hall, hurriedly caught up with him. Yan Xiaoyi did not follow him immediately. He walked to the dead body of Upper Light Chariot Captain Lin Youdao and squatted down, looking at the five holes on his forehead where blood was gushing out, and remained silent.

This was the first time he had seen such a move.

The expression of a deputy privy envoy next to him was very unpleasant, not only because he had a good relationship with Lin Youdao, but also because this was the first time Chu Pingsheng took action since coming to Qing Kingdom.

Everyone knows that the white ape is bloodthirsty and brutal, and it turns out that Chu Pingsheng's methods are equally vicious.

Qin Ye came over and glanced at the middle: "Commander Yan, if it were you, how likely would you be to dodge his attack?"

Yan Xiaoyi said: "I didn't see how he attacked, but Lord Lin is an eighth-rank master. He was able to kill him with one move. Even if it was a sneak attack, he must be at least a ninth-rank master."

The deputy envoy of the Privy Council next to him said, "So, Guard Ye still underestimated his fighting ability?"

Yan Xiaoyi nodded: "That's right, how could a disciple of a grandmaster only have an eighth-grade combat power?"

Ku He, the great master of Northern Qi, has two disciples, Lang Tao and Hai Tang Duo Duo, both of whom are ninth-grade masters.

Ye Liuyun, the Grand Master of Nanqing, his nephew and apprentice Ye Chong, a ninth-rank master, and his great-nephew Ye Wan, a ninth-rank master.

Si Gu Jian, the great master of Dongyi, had thirteen disciples, twelve of whom were ninth-rank masters.

According to Chu Pingsheng, the Grandmaster of Xihu, Bai Feng, has only one disciple. How could his combat power be less than the ninth rank? It can't be possible...

Now, in the Tai Chi Hall, he captured and killed an eighth-grade master with one move in front of all the military officers. Such combat power is logical.

Qin Ye remained silent, and glanced at the square in front of the palace, and found that Chu Pingsheng had disappeared. His specialty was the Qi body protection, and his defense was rarely matched by the Grandmaster, but he didn't know whether the claw attack just now would hurt Chu Pingsheng with his Qi body protection skills, or Chu Pingsheng's fingers would pierce his Qi body protection.

(End of this chapter)