Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 398: Chu Pingsheng is the Grandmaster of Western Hu?

From her tightly closed legs, embarrassed look and slightly hunched shoulders, it was obvious that Si Lili was very nervous.

Today, Ye Ling'er came to the Protocol Court and scolded her, telling her that if she liked Chu Pingsheng, she should persuade him to cancel his marriage with Lin Wan'er, which would be good for all three of them.

Ye Ling'er also said that although Lin Gong and Lin Wan'er were not born of the same mother, they had a very good relationship. Chu Pingsheng's master Bai Feng killed Lin Gong, but Chu Pingsheng still insisted on marrying Lin Wan'er. What do you call this? This is called being immoral and bullying too much.

Si Lili was completely confused by this matter.

She was not a fool. The performance of Fan Xian, Yuan Hongdao and Chen Pingping in the dungeon of the Supervisory Council gave her a feeling that Lin Gong's death was most likely related to Fan Xian.

Before Ye Ling'er came, she learned from the servant who delivered mangoes to the Vegetable Inspection Department that Chu Pingsheng had forcefully intervened in the engagement between Fan Xian and Lin Wan'er. She thought he was joking when he said he saved her just to sleep with the top performer at Zuixianju. In fact, he was no different from those who wanted to use her to deal with Fan Xian.

As a result, within less than three hours, Ye Ling'er's words made her fall into confusion.

If Chu Pingsheng was deceiving Lin Ruofu, then why did he help Fan Xian take the blame? Unless he didn't really want to marry Lin Wan'er.

Chu Pingsheng walked over and pulled her into his arms. Si Lili's body stiffened and her head tilted to the side.

"You just what?"

She is just what?
She is very hesitant and embarrassed now.

Ye Linger not only told her about how Chu Pingsheng had offended all the civil and military officials in the court and how Bai Feng had killed Lin Gong, but also told her the truth that Fan Xian was Ye Qingmei's son and the illegitimate son of Emperor Qing.

Ye Qingmei killed her grandfather, and Fan Xian is Ye Qingmei's son. So the two are enemies, but she promised Fan Xian that she would never tell anyone that he knew before Lin Gong was murdered that the Niulan Street assassination was planned by Lin Gong.

So the question is, will she avenge her parents and betray Fan Xian, or will she keep her promise and keep the truth to herself?
"You just don't understand why I should help Fan Xian take the blame, right?"

"!!!!!!"

He actually knew that it was Fan Xian who killed Lin Gong!
Si Lili raised her head and stared at his profile.

He lowered his eyes slightly, glanced at the two slightly opened red lips, and pinched her chin with a hint of evil taste, scratching back and forth with his thumb, his nails occasionally touching her teeth, which felt cold.

"Do you think... Lin Wan'er is deeply in love with Fan Xian?"

Si Lili's cheeks blushed slightly and she nodded gently.

"Then given her physical condition, if she knew that it was Fan Xian who killed Lin Gong, what would be the most likely thing to happen?"

Si Lili's eyes widened suddenly: "There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart?"

Everyone in the city knows that Princess Chen is very sick and it is difficult for her to live to the age of twenty. If she knew that it was her lover who killed her brother and she had to marry someone she didn't like, her heart would be broken and her body would not be far from death.

"Lin Ruofu is powerless and can't do anything to me. Chen Pingping controls the Supervisory Council, the Black Cavalry has charged into battle countless times and killed countless people. When Fei Jie of the Third Division gets angry, he can poison tens of thousands of people. The Shadow of the Sixth Division is omnipresent and is skilled in assassination. These people can't kill me, so will Lin Gong's revenge be avenged?"

"You want to use Lin Wan'er to provoke Fan Xian to attack you?"

"Fan Xian? Does he have the nerve to do that?" Chu Pingsheng smiled and said, "But I'm looking forward to him making such a choice."

"From what you mean... not?"

"Lin Wan'er is a woman who is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside."

"You mean... she... will kill you with her own hands?" Si Lili was shocked by her own thoughts.

To be precise, she was shocked by Chu Pingsheng's logic.

"As long as she hates me, this anger will support her until the day she gets married. Well, you know that I have a medicine that can cure all diseases. But now there is a practical problem. You and she are both princesses... Who will be the eldest and who will be the youngest in the future?"

He said this with a joking look on his face.

But for Si Lili, it was as if a huge bell was ringing in her heart.

He did this... to use hatred to support Lin Wan'er's spirit to get through the difficulties before marriage? If Lin Wan'er's personality was really as he said, soft on the outside but strong on the inside, it was possible that she was provoked.

"Aren't you afraid that she might commit suicide?"

"Well, she's already married to me. She's mine in life and mine in death."

"You...are a devil."

Si Lili suddenly lowered her head and bit his thumb hard.

"Why do you women like biting your fingers?" Chu Pingsheng couldn't help laughing as he looked at her face which was wearing a mask of pain because of biting her teeth.

Si Lili was full of confusion. He had a nose, a mouth, a pair of ears and two eyes. At most, the muscles in his shoulders and chest were stronger than those of ordinary people. But why was there no skin breakage, no bleeding, and not even a white mark when he bit her? She almost broke her teeth.

"How dare you bite me? How do you think I should punish you?"

Chu Pingsheng straightened her up, pushed her onto the bed, and said viciously, "I'll punish you by making you eat lychees."

The manager really didn't understand how eating lychees could be considered a punishment. She had already eaten a mountain of lychees.

……

While Miss Lili was doubting her life, another conversation was taking place in the dark room of the Supervisory Office where unknown small flowers were planted.

Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, looking up at two windows that were so small that they could only illuminate an area the size of a palm. Fan Xian, dressed in a white robe, stood behind him.

"Do you know everything that happened at the court meeting?" "Yes."

"Now you know why His Majesty brought you to Kyoto and wanted you to take over the inner treasury, right?"

"I just want him to cancel Wan'er and Chu Pingsheng's engagement because I'm his son. As for the inner treasury, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have it."

Chen Pingping pulled up the felt covering his legs, closed his eyes and said in silence for a moment: "After the court meeting, your father and I went to the imperial study to see His Majesty. I asked him what kind of deal he made with Chu Pingsheng's master, but he didn't tell me. From this point of view, unless we can stop their deal, your matter with Princess Chen... will be difficult."

"Stop their deal? How?"

Chen Pingping opened his eyes: "Is Wuzhu with you?"

Before the court meeting, Fan Xian was still somewhat suspicious of Chen Pingping. After the meeting, he knew that Chen Pingping had been investigating the cause of Ye Qingmei's death. All the doubts and concerns in his heart disappeared, and he regarded him as an elder he could trust.

"Yes, Uncle Wuzhu is in Kyoto."

"Chu Pingsheng said that his master Bai Feng is also here." Chen Pingping turned his wheelchair, crossed his fingers, placed them flat on his chest, looked up at Fan Xian and said, "In fact, I have always doubted whether the person named Bai Feng, the Grandmaster of the Western Hu, really exists."

Having said this, Fan Xian understood.

"You mean to let Uncle Wu Zhu take action against Chu Pingsheng and force the Western Hu Grandmaster Bai Feng to show up?"

"Yes."

Chen Pingping's eyes were full of brilliance: "Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."

Fan Xian thought for a moment and felt that what Chen Pingping said made sense. Chu Pingsheng had always been calling Grandmaster Bai Feng taller or shorter than Grandmaster Bai Feng in front of others, but no one had ever seen this Bai Feng.

"Okay, I'll discuss this with Uncle Wu Zhu when I get back and ask him to go check out Bai Feng's strengths and weaknesses."

Chen Pingping picked up the long-handled wooden spoon from the wooden barrel and scooped some water onto the flowers that were slightly wilting in the sun. "Tell him to be careful."

"I will."

Fan Xian took the long-handled wooden spoon and scooped some water from the wooden barrel, pouring it on the small flowers that were not exposed to sunlight and were quite far away from Chen Pingping.

……

The moonlight is as cold as silver, and loneliness locks up the palace.

On the corner tower where one can ride the wind, Princess Li Yunrui, dressed in a black gauze dress, dissolved the newly brewed nectar into tea with the fragrance of osmanthus. She rolled up her sleeve with her left hand, held the cup with her right hand, put it to her lips to smell it, and then took a sip.

Sitting here, you can see the homes of ordinary people outside the imperial city, the brightly lit Funing Palace, and even the Xingqing Palace and the imperial study from afar.

She was both satisfied and dissatisfied with what happened at the court meeting.

The satisfying part is that Chen Pingping was dismissed from office, and after this scene, Lin Ruofu gave up the idea of ​​persuading Emperor Qing to revoke his decision.

What she was not satisfied with was that Chu Pingsheng had revealed that Fan Xian was the illegitimate son of Emperor Qing and Ye Qingmei. If she was the only one who knew about this, she would have more room to maneuver. But now that all the ministers knew about it, any further small moves would be hampered. After all, the consequences of plotting against Si Nanbo's illegitimate son and plotting against Emperor Qing's illegitimate son were completely different.

"That's good too. I want to see if that old fox Qin Ye can still sit still."

The Qin family made a great effort to deal with Ye Qingmei. Li Yunqian brought Fan Xian to Kyoto and let him control the inner treasury, as if he wanted to cultivate him. Meanwhile, Chen Pingping was secretly investigating the Qin family. What if Fan Xian became a powerful official in the court in the future? Would the Qin family still have a way to survive?

"what."

At this time, Li Yunrui glanced at the Wenhua Palace not far away and saw the chief eunuch Hou Zhigang talking to a man with a slightly out of shape.

"Who is that person?"

The female official Wanqiu walked outside to take a closer look and replied, "Your Highness, it's Gong Dian, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards."

"Isn't his hand disabled?"

"Yes, I heard that his martial arts skills have also deteriorated. However, His Majesty was grateful for his loyalty and did not transfer him away from the Imperial City. He also made him the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards."

Li Yunrui took another sip of tea and said calmly: "This sign of a grandmaster's apprentice is very useful."

With a casual sigh, she associated Gong Dian with Chu Pingsheng, who dared to vent his dissatisfaction with Emperor Qing at the court meeting.

Snapped……

The teacup in my hand fell to the ground and broke into two pieces, and the fragrance of osmanthus filled the room.

The palace maids standing at the door hurried forward to clean up, one lay on the ground to wipe up the tea, and the other picked up the broken teacups.

The female official Wanqiu heard the noise and went in to check.

"Your Highness?"

Li Yunrui closed her eyes tightly and raised her wrist slightly to indicate that she was fine.

The reason why she smashed the teacup was that she associated Gong Dian with the assassin who once broke into the palace and painted his naked body. Then she realized that the way Chu Pingsheng looked at her body unscrupulously yesterday was exactly the same as the way the assassin looked at her body.

That so-called Northern Qi assassin and the Western Hu envoy Chu Pingsheng...could they be the same person?

(End of this chapter)