Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

Chapter 768: Nine Dragons Chasing the Stars and Eight Dragons Pendant

After midnight.

The whole Kyoto was brightly lit, and people were coming and going outside the East City Gate.

Countless ordinary people stood on both sides of the city gate, each holding a lantern, waiting for the team that went to explore the mountains to the east to return.

The Queen Mother also led all the civil and military officials to block outside the city gate, wanting to know what had fallen from the sky on this strange night.

As everyone was looking forward to this, three teams of people, escorting a large carriage, slowly drove towards the East Gate.

The leader was the Crown Prince Xuanyuan Long. When everyone arrived outside the city gate, Xuanyuan Long quickly got off his horse and trotted to the Queen Mother to report, "Mother, a large stone fell from the sky, it..."

"Why are you hesitating? Just say what you want to say." The Queen Mother said coldly.

Xuanyuan Long didn't dare to speak directly, so he could only wave his hand and say, "Mother, please come forward and take a look and you will know."

The Queen Mother frowned and exchanged glances with Xuanyuan Long before leading everyone to come forward and carefully examine the large oval-shaped stone on the carriage, which weighed at least four or five hundred kilograms.

Because it fell from a high altitude, it has been burned black all over by atmospheric friction, and many of its edges and corners have been smoothed out, making the entire stone look somewhat smooth.

Of course, this is not the most amazing thing. The most amazing thing is that right above the big stone, there is a line of words engraved.

"Nine Dragons Chasing Stars and Eight Dragons Pendant."

The Queen Mother stood on tiptoe, raised her head to look at the words, and read them out silently.

All the onlookers exclaimed in surprise when they heard it.

There is no doubt that among all the descendants of the old emperor of Tiancang Kingdom, only nine princes are qualified to compete for the throne. The Nine Dragons Chasing Stars written on this big stone just corresponds to the Nine Dragons Chasing Stars Day mentioned by the national teacher before, the day when the prince will hold his coronation ceremony.

But at that time, due to the interference of the old prince Xuanyuan Wen, the coronation ceremony could not be held smoothly. Now there are strange phenomena in the sky, indicating that nine dragons are chasing the star and eight dragons are falling. Doesn’t this mean that only the last dragon has successfully caught up with the star?

The implication here is very obvious.

The third prince Xuanyuan Feng was the first to step forward and said, "Queen Mother, the strange phenomenon has appeared today, and the heavens have also given revelations to all of us in Tiancang Country. Except for this ninth dragon, I'm afraid no one else can chase the star."

"Yes, Queen Mother, in my opinion, the ninth dragon refers to our ninth brother!" The fifth prince Xuanyuan Yu also stood up and shouted.

The other princes and princesses stood there in silence, not daring to say anything more.

Compared with these two people, their strength is much weaker, and they dare not stand up and be the first to speak out at this time.

The Queen Mother's face was stiff as she said, "What a bullshit revelation! How do you know that the Ninth Dragon is not referring to the Crown Prince? The Ninth Dragon has already been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison for treason. He has already become a fallen dragon."

"Yes, I think so too." At this time Xuanyuan Wen stood up and said.

He didn't want the prince to ascend the throne, but he didn't want Xuanyuan Qing to ascend the throne even more. So under this circumstance, he had to suppress the strange phenomenon in the sky that was beneficial to Xuanyuan Qing.

Xuanyuan Feng said with a sullen face, "Empress Dowager, Uncle Emperor, you don't have to argue. We don't believe that the ninth brother was plotting treason. If he wanted to rebel, why did he obey the order and return from the border? He could have just built up his power on the border." "Yes, I also think what the third brother said makes sense. The ninth brother is definitely not a traitor. On the contrary, I think he was framed. As for who framed him, I think everyone knows it." Xuanyuan Yu said coldly.

Xuanyuan Long roared, "Old Three and Old Five, what do you mean? In front of so many people, are you still accusing me of framing Old Nine?"

"We didn't say anything about you, why are you in such a hurry to come out and take it personally?" Xuanyuan Yu said sarcastically.

"I think you are the ones who have the intention of rebellion, otherwise how dare you so boldly slander me." Xuanyuan Long said angrily.

Xuanyuan Feng immediately stood up and stood in front of Xuanyuan Yu, and started to curse at the prince.

Soon other princes and princesses also began to join in, and there was a noisy scene outside the East City Gate. Everyone was talking at once and it was a chaos.

"Stop arguing. We are all princes and princesses. It is inappropriate for you to quarrel like this here."

Just when the situation was getting out of control, a loud shout suddenly rang out from behind the city gate.

When everyone looked back, they saw Gu Chan and the three ladies, each riding a fast horse, leading a team of guards, slowly walking out of the city gate.

The common people automatically made way for Gu Chan and others to pass.

When they arrived outside the city gate, Gu Chan glanced at the three ladies, then got off the horse and walked up to the Queen Mother and others, bowing and greeting them one by one.

The three ladies dismounted together and led the guards from Prince Chan's Mansion to maintain order at the scene and stop everyone from making noise.

"As expected of Prince Chan, he has taken control of the situation right away. That's really amazing."

"Yes! Before he came, the princes and princesses were arguing loudly. When he came, everyone became quiet."

"It's obvious! The royal family is still very afraid of this young prince."

When the people around saw this, they began to whisper to each other.

Everyone can see that Gu Chan's current strength is enough to make the royal family feel awe of her.

Gu Chan ignored everyone's comments and just walked to the side of the carriage, pretending to look around the big rock.

After watching for a long time, she sneered and said, "Queen Mother, old prince, Crown Prince, and all the princes and princesses present, I think there is no need for you to quarrel. Since God has given us a revelation that the eight dragons have fallen, why don't we have a good discussion in front of all the civil and military officials and all the people of Kyoto to see which eight dragons have fallen. Isn't that the end of it?"

"Then Gu Chan, in your opinion, which eight dragons are those that fell?" the Queen Mother said coldly.

"Now the six ministries of Kyoto are all in my hands, so the six princes who originally managed the six ministries are now retired! Then the third prince, the fifth prince, the sixth prince, the eighth prince, the tenth prince, and the eleventh prince, these six people will be excluded. Everyone has no objection, right?" Gu Chan said with his hands spread out.

Xuanyuan Feng nodded and said, "Let it fall! Anyway, the six of us believe that we can't sit on the throne, so it doesn't matter."

"Okay, then let's talk about the second prince. He committed suicide by taking poison when he was in Jiangnan. He died a long time ago. If we count him as one of them, there will be seven dragons that have fallen. The ninth prince is in the Heavenly Prison and his life or death is uncertain. He can also be considered as fallen. So the only remaining ninth dragon should be here." Gu Chan said with a wry smile.

As soon as she said this, the whole audience was in an uproar, and everyone widened their eyes and looked at the Crown Prince Xuanyuan Long and the old prince Xuanyuan Wen.