Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 236 Qingque, you must be crazy! (Second update)

The torch is held high, and there is light.

In front of the Jiafu Gate of the Eastern Palace, countless soldiers stood on both sides of the palace road, holding long spears with solemn expressions.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Chengqian, who had a calm expression and was waiting for the two Buddha sculptures to be carried out, and his brows couldn't help but frown.

why?
He doesn't understand why?
Witchcraft is no small matter. Anyone who gets involved in it will not have a good ending.

It's the same even if he is the prince.

Hou Junji died outside the city gate, otherwise it would have become a case of witchcraft, and even if he died, his bones would have been crushed to dust.

Unless, unless the Crown Prince has the means to deal with the King of Wei's witchcraft offensive...

He burned that thing?
The prince is not that stupid, right?

Witchcraft cannot be resolved by just saying two words of witchcraft. There are two more words behind it: curse.

Witchcraft curse.

This is the real reason why witchcraft is so terrifying.

Who is cursed by witchcraft, and how is the witchcraft spell written?

The emperor would probably ask about all of this.

Fang Xuanling glanced at Li Tai, who was gritting his teeth. Li Tai was thinking of dying together with the prince. He was already having a hard time, so naturally he would not want the prince to have an easy time.

But what about the prince?
Fang Xuanling was almost certain that Li Chengqian must have discovered the secret of witchcraft very early and then took some action.

Then he must also know what the witchcraft spells are. He has seen them, but has he ever recited them in his heart?

When the emperor is in a good mood, he naturally doesn't care about this kind of thing, but if he wakes up in the middle of the night one day and thinks of this matter, the prince will definitely not feel good.

Fundamentally speaking, when the King of Wei said the word "witchcraft", the prince probably understood that there was no way he could avoid it.

If the King of Wei wants to drag the Crown Prince into trouble, the Crown Prince must prove his innocence.

Fang Xuanling lowered his head slightly, hoping that the prince could handle this matter well, otherwise there would be another storm in the court in the future.

Even Fang Xuanling himself might be implicated.

Don't forget, Fang Yiai is still detained at Ziwu Pass.

How much did Fang Yiai know about this matter and how much was he involved in it? These are all questions.

Fang Xuanling glanced at Chai Lingwu and Chai Zhewei behind him, and couldn't help but feel a little relaxed.

Even Chai Lingwu didn't know about witchcraft, so Erlang probably knew even less.

……

"Thump, thump, thump!" A heavy sound of footsteps came from the direction of the East Palace. Immediately afterwards, Yu Zhining, Chu Suiliang, Ma Zhou and others, accompanied by ten imperial guards, came out carrying a two-foot-tall hollow stone Buddha statue.

Li Chengqian took a look and said calmly, "Put it before the King of Wei."

"Here!" Two guards came over carrying a stone Buddha statue and placed it on the ground.

Li Chengqian turned to look at Li Tai and said, "In the past year, the only person who has entered the backyard of the Eastern Palace is this Buddha statue. Qingque, I want to ask you, is that witchcraft thing in there?"

Li Tai took a look, then turned his head away without saying a word.

"Bang!" Li Chengqian kicked the Buddha statue down, then looked at Chang Sunxiang and said, "Cousin, smash it."

"Here!" Changsun Xiang did not hesitate and took a long spear from the soldier beside him. Then he swept it hard, and the next moment the hollow Buddha statue was smashed to pieces.

Li Chengqian stepped forward and kicked away all the debris one by one with his toes. Then he looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "Prime Minister Fang, there's nothing in here."

"Yes, I saw it." Fang Xuanling nodded and bowed, and couldn't help but look at Li Tai.

Li Tai's eyes had already been raised at this time, looking in the direction of the Prince's Household Temple.

Li Daliang, Li Xuansi, and Zuo Kuangzheng, led several guards and walked over carrying a black wooden box.

Everyone looked calm.

The wooden box was placed on the ground. Li Daliang bowed and said, "Prime Minister Fang, Crown Prince, we have inspected this wooden Buddha statue. There is nothing unusual, and there is no evidence of witchcraft!"

Fang Xuanling breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. Your Highness, we witness that there is no witchcraft in the Eastern Palace..."

"Smash it too." Li Tai suddenly spoke, then looked at the others with a smug smile on his face.

Everyone's faces suddenly darkened.

Li Tai, you really don’t want to live anymore!
"Don't smash it, look carefully again, there might be some secret hidden mechanism." Li Chengqian looked at Li Tai and said, "If you can't find it, why not ask Yan Shaojiang to come over and take a look, he might be able to find the mechanism!"

Li Tai immediately glared at Li Chengqian fiercely.

Although he himself was doomed to die, he still hoped that his son could survive.

The royal family will definitely not help them in the future, and the only one they can count on is the Yan family.

This is also the reason why Li Tai never involved the Yan family in this matter. Li Tai lowered his head and looked at the bottom of the box.

Li Daliang was slightly stunned, and then his movements became a little stiff.

Witchcraft, witchcraft curse, who did the King of Wei use to frame the crown prince for witchcraft and witchcraft?
It can only be the emperor.

As long as Li Daliang gets his hands on the voodoo doll with the curse on it, he will be dead.

"Open the box!" Li Chengqian said calmly. At the same time, he turned around, took the long spear from Changsun Xiang's hand, handed it to Li Tai, and said, "Qingque, I order you to smash this wooden Buddha statue directly."

Li Daliang and several other people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing what Li Chengqian said.

He asked someone to open the box, but he himself stepped back.

An exquisite wooden Buddha statue was placed on the ground. Li Tai held a long spear and pointed it at the statue, while the others stood aside.

Although many people were looking at Li Tai, most of the time they couldn't help but look at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian looked at Li Tai calmly.

Li Tai gripped the long spear tightly, and then smashed the wooden sculpture hard. The next moment, the wooden Buddha statue was smashed to pieces, and only a secret box appeared at the bottom.

Li Tai walked over, bent down and picked up the secret box. As soon as he lifted it up, he looked at Li Chengqian in surprise: "You haven't opened it yet?"

"No!" Li Chengqian shook his head lightly.

Li Tai snorted coldly, then smashed the secret box in his hand hard towards the long spear in his hand.

With a "bang", the secret box immediately cracked.

After smashing it again, the secret box finally disappeared completely, and a white puppet appeared in front of everyone.

White, with no face, no name, no birth date, an extremely ordinary doll.

Li Tai was stunned when he saw the doll.

……

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Li Tai took the white doll, turned it over and over, muttering to himself, with a confused look on his face.

It was clearly a voodoo doll with the emperor's name written on it, the emperor's birth date pasted on it, and silver needles inserted into it. How did it become like this?

"Qingque, are you crazy? Is this what you call witchcraft?" Li Chengqian gritted his teeth as he stared at the puppet in Li Tai's hand. He said in anger, "Just for this thing, Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, and Du Chuke all followed you and risked their lives to do this. It's ridiculous."

"No, it's not." Li Tai couldn't help but squat down and search hard among the wooden Buddha fragments on the ground, but there was nothing.

"If it's not like this, what else could it be?" Li Chengqian stepped forward, patted Li Tai's shoulder, and shook his head. "You can't have made a voodoo doll yourself to curse someone, Qingque."

Li Tai subconsciously wanted to refute, but at this moment, Li Chengqian suddenly pinched Li Tai's shoulder hard.

Li Tai suddenly woke up after feeling a sharp pain.

"In my opinion, maybe you have thought about something, but when you tossed and turned, you dared not do anything. In the end, you thought about it day and night, and it turned into hallucination. In your imagination, you did something, and you really believed that you did it. Qingque, am I right?" Li Chengqian said in a faint voice.

Li Tai nodded slightly and looked at the doll in his hand. For a moment, even he himself was not sure whether he was really suffering from hysteria.

Because at the beginning he really thought about it day and night and tossed and turned, and finally the voodoo doll suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Is everything really just my imagination?" Li Tai raised his head, his face full of confusion.

"You're hysterical," Li Chengqian sneered. He grabbed Li Tai's shoulders and said, "No, Qingque, you're not hysterical. You're crazy. Only if you were crazy would you use this fabricated voodoo doll to incite so many people to rebellion. And in the end, all you have is this voodoo doll."

"I have hysteria, I'm crazy?" Li Tai felt extremely crazy for a moment. He was crazy?

"Yes, you're crazy." Li Chengqian nodded affirmatively. At the same time, he leaned close to Li Tai's ear and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Qingque, you're crazy. You should be crazy. Only in this way can you survive."

Li Tai turned his head and looked at Li Chengqian in disbelief, but Li Chengqian had already slowly stood up, and the firelight was behind him, so Li Tai couldn't see his expression at all.

Why, why, why did he save him?
Could it be that this is really brotherhood?
In an instant, Li Tai's mind flashed back to the scenes of his life in Lizheng Hall, and he thought of their mother.

"I was wrong, I was really wrong. No, I'm crazy, I'm really crazy." Li Tai suddenly raised his head and shouted painfully at the night sky: "I'm really crazy, it hurts so much!"

In full view of everyone, Li Tai turned sideways and fainted.

The people watching from the side widened their eyes in surprise, and then they slowly turned to look at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian turned to face the crowd and sighed softly, "You all have seen, there has never been any witchcraft or sorcery. It's all just the King of Wei's imagination."

The ministers looked at Li Chengqian with extremely complicated expressions for a moment, and then they couldn't help but look at Li Tai who fainted on the ground, not knowing what to say.

Li Chengqian looked at Fang Xuanling and said calmly, "Prime Minister Fang, please pass on the message. Tell the public that there was no treason tonight. It was simply that the King of Wei was delirious and inexplicably led the guards of the Prince of Wei's palace to attack the palace gate. Duke of Chen, Hou Junji, tried to stop the King of Wei but was severely injured. He is now recuperating at home."

"Hmm?" Fang Xuanling's pupils dilated. For a moment he didn't know what Li Chengqian meant.

"Three days later, when the people of Chang'an no longer pay attention, we will release the news that Duke Chen has unfortunately died of illness. By then, no one will care." Li Chengqian couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Highness, why is this so? Why are you covering up for the King of Wei and the Duke of Chen?" Fang Xuanling bowed in confusion.

"For my father!"

(End of this chapter)