All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Everyone knows that at this time, Shen Lingxi asked such a question in front of the emperor and civil and military officials, just to get an explanation from her husband, the prince of Zhou Dynasty.

After all, everyone just saw that the Crown Princess wanted to step forward and rescue the Crown Prince in the sedan, but the emperor ordered the internal guards to stop her.

Now that the prince was struck by lightning and his whole body was scorched black, he did not dare to go to the emperor to ask for an explanation. The eldest prince, who had "resurrected from the dead" in a bizarre way, naturally wanted to give an explanation to the princess.

Who allowed his "life" and the prince's "death" to happen at the same time? Now that the prince dies, doesn't he become the only candidate for the crown prince?
Wei Wang Chu Hong naturally knew very well that although this was an angry question from the Crown Princess, it was also a test for him by the Emperor.

In front of all the civil and military officials, if he answers this question well, no one will dare to make an issue about it in the future.

But if you can’t answer well...

How could he not answer correctly?
Chu Hong let go of Zhu Lianxi's hand and bowed to Shen Lingxi, "Since the Crown Princess is a member of Xuanmen, she should know the principle that 'the way of heaven has no relatives, and always associates with good people.' It is the so-called 'good virtue carries things', and this formation is The ancient Fuxi Bagua Formation can attract thunder from the sky to reverse the universe and bring the dead back to life."

"The immortal who sent me back to the sun told me that the reason why Heaven chose me was because the late Emperor and my father had blessed all people and made supreme merit. I am the eldest grandson of the late Emperor and my father's eldest son, so I have this opportunity. .As for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."

Chu Hong deliberately remained silent for a few breaths, then Fang slowly said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his tenth brother were in two sedan chairs. Tianlei made a choice between the Crown Prince and his tenth brother... This must be the reason why the Crown Prince has been in charge of the embroidery envoy for many years. , the accumulated cause and effect.”

"Everything is God's will. Please express my condolences, Princess."

These words not only flattered the emperor, but also said that he was the "chosen one", and also implied that Chu Yan's death was "karma".

It's like stepping on the bones of a dead man to put gold on your face.

"What King Wei said makes no sense."

Shen Lingxi smiled instead of being angry, stood up, looked at Chu Hong, and said very politely: "In terms of background, Your Highness the Crown Prince was the grandson of the emperor when the late emperor was still alive. He is more deserving than King Wei, the eldest son and grandson of you. It’s only right to inherit the Chu family’s grace from heaven.”

"In terms of merit, His Highness the Crown Prince is the embroidery commander appointed by the late emperor and the emperor. The cases handled by the embroidery envoy are all adjudicated in accordance with the "Da Zhou Code", and are executed only after the consultation of the three departments and the written approval of the late emperor and the emperor. In all the years that His Highness the Crown Prince has been in charge of the embroidery envoy, there has never been a single unjust, false or wrong case."

"And the King of Wei has never been an official in the court for a day. He has made no achievements in the court and has done no good to the people. As far as I know, you have never even given alms while you were alive."

At this point, Shen Lingxi paused intentionally, and Fang asked in a deep voice: "You are just a fool of your age. If you don't have this royal bloodline, you are a nameless, mediocre person with no merit. Why would God choose you?" ?”

These aggressive words came one after another, and the questions were asked without even the slightest bit of kindness.

The words "no name, mediocrity and no merit" were just short of the words "bastard" stuck on the forehead of King Wei.

This is not asking for help. It is simply a slap in the face of King Wei in public.

Everyone was originally immersed in the excitement and wonder of "a miracle from heaven".

Shen Lingxi's words were like a basin of cold water pouring down from the top of their heads, making everyone sober up.

Before the death of the King of Wei, although he was considered to be extremely intelligent among the many princes, he was older than the Crown Prince Chu Yan, and he was far less outstanding than Chu Yan in both literature and martial arts.

Are such people really qualified to inherit such great blessings?
The emperor frowned and looked at Shen Lingxi critically.

However, this time, it was rare that he did not come forward to defend the lost and recovered biological son of King Wei.

Chu Hong gritted his teeth secretly.

He was born into a royal family, and even before his "death", he was a noble person who was praised and supported by everyone.

Have you ever been humiliated like this in public?

He looked at Shen Lingxi, almost biting his teeth with hatred, but he still had to show a gentle and understanding look on his face, "I know that the Crown Princess cannot accept the death of the Crown Prince for a moment, so she speaks so unscrupulously."

"The Crown Princess feels that what the Crown Prince has done is to make great achievements and benefit the people. But the results like this can only prove that what the Crown Prince has done can deceive the people of the world, but not the way of heaven. As the saying goes, 'Anyone who does unjust will be punished by himself. shoot'……"

Shen Lingxi looked at him and interrupted him coldly, "The King of Wei carefully said that since ancient times, the dead have been the most important. Now His Highness the Crown Prince's body is not cold. If you say in public that Your Highness is 'Anyone who does unrighteousness will be killed', then you are not afraid of people in the world saying you Is it in vain to care about brotherhood and have a cold and ungrateful nature?"

Chu Hong was extremely disgusted with her condescending appearance.

For him, everything is settled now.

He was confident and said without thinking: "These words are not what I said, but what the immortal who brought me back to the sun told me personally when I was in the clouds."

"It is a fact that the prince was struck to death by thunder. What the princess should do now is to do more good deeds for the prince so that he can be reincarnated as soon as possible instead of lingering here. Be careful to make the immortal angry and backfire on yourself!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a deep and solemn voice suddenly came from the green sedan behind Shen Lingxi, "What kind of counterattack method is used to counterattack oneself? Please tell me carefully and let Gu Gu listen."

"That's naturally..."

Chu Hong's words had just come out of his mouth when he realized something was wrong.

He looked towards the green sedan in disbelief——

Then Chu Yan opened the sedan curtain and walked out of the sedan!
The rain in the mountains comes and goes quickly.

It was God's blessing. Just when Chu Yan stepped out of the sedan chair, a ray of sunshine came out from the gap in the dark clouds and shone slantingly on the mausoleum.

The mausoleum at this moment was much brighter than when the eldest prince appeared just now.

Chu Yan was wearing a snow-colored Taoist robe, with her black hair tied into a bun and fixed with a white jade lotus crown.

He walked leisurely to the King of Wei, his broad sleeves were blown by the damp wind, and his clothes were fluttering like the wind.

If the eldest prince is on the altar, "resurrecting from the dead" is a miracle.

At this moment, Chu Yan walked out of the sedan that was struck by thunder and lightning without any injuries, which is not a miracle!

The two stood face to face, one with disheveled hair and a messy body, like a demon crawling out of hell.

The other one, neatly dressed, looked like a banished immortal descending to earth.

Comparing the two, you can stand up to each other!
"His Royal Highness, you are the one who is truly blessed by God!" In the crowd, a gray-haired old minister suddenly shouted loudly.

A hundred calls.

Everyone knelt down towards Chu Yan.

The moment the emperor appeared from Chu Yan, a sharp look flashed across his eyes.

He looked from Chu Yan to King Wei, and then from King Wei to Shen Lingxi.

Until this moment, the emperor seemed to understand something.

Chu Yan's eyes glanced at the emperor's face, then fell on Wei Wang Chu Hong, "Tell me carefully what the immortal who sent you back to the sun looked like, how he was called, and what official position he had in heaven. Come with Gu Yi. Gu Yi plans to burn incense sticks for him and ask him if he has any eye problems? Those who do evil will surely die. Are these words about Gu Yi or you? "

Chu Hong's pupils suddenly tightened.

He never expected that Chu Yan could survive in that situation.

Those were eight thunders from the sky. Not to mention a mortal, even a god would have been chopped into ashes by the thunder.

After many years of hiding in the dark and strategizing the hunt, Chu Hong never wanted to believe that he would face failure as soon as he "came into the world" like a "miracle" according to the plan.His plan was flawless and flawless. There was no way they would discover it and Chu Yan would never survive.

The only explanation is - the person standing in front of him at this moment is definitely not a person, it must be a corpse!
Over the years, although Chu Hongming was apparently dead, he had been lurking in the dark, paying close attention to Chu Yan's every move. Naturally, he also knew that Shen Lingxi had special abilities.

"He's not a human, he's a ghost!"

Chu Hong took a few steps back, pointed his finger at Chu Yan, and shouted to the emperor: "Father, the Crown Princess can control the body. This prince must be the body controlled by the Crown Princess. He is not a living person, he is a dead person!"

Shen Lingxi was speechless.

She looked lightly at Yun Chong and Xu Yuanshan who were floating beside Chu Hong. Although she did not speak, her eyes clearly seemed to ask them, "Is this the idiot you are loyal to?"

Yun Chong drifted away in disgust.

Xu Yuanshan's face had darkened to the bottom of a pot, and he looked at Chu Hong with an anger that hated iron.

Chu Yan's reaction was more straightforward -

He Feng Danyun smiled softly, and with his long and well-jointed hand, he pulled out a feather arrow from the waist of the inner guard closest to him and threw it at Chu Hong.

With a "Whoosh" sound, the arrow seemed to be carrying a huge force, piercing Chu Hong's left shoulder quickly, hard and accurately.

"Ah!" Chu Hong was caught off guard and cried out in pain.

He was forced back a few steps by the strength of the arrow. He covered his left shoulder with his right hand, and blood poured out from between his fingers.

This injury was actually a bit more serious than the one the emperor had just shot through the woman's wrist with a long bow.

It can be seen that Chu Yan used [-]% of his internal strength, and his arm strength is really amazing.

Everyone was shocked by this sudden change.

"What are you going to do!" Concubine Qi was the first to react. She screamed and stretched out her arms to block Chu Hong. Her face had long lost the calm and calm look before, "Do you want to kill him! He is the emperor’s only son!”

"My only son, not necessarily." Chu Yanfeng raised her eyes slightly and looked at her coldly, "Juro is in good health."

As soon as the words fell, an embroidered messenger immediately took the tenth prince out of the sedan chair.

The tenth prince seemed to have just woken up from a dream. He looked around sleepily with his dark eyes and made a "babble" sound.

There is no hint of illness in her white and rosy face.

The moment Concubine Qi saw the tenth prince, her pupils suddenly shrank.

Chu Hong behind her also had a look of disbelief on his face.

Chu Yan once again took out a feather arrow, put it on his fingertips and twisted it gently. He stared at them with his slender phoenix eyes and said lightly: "Since King Wei thinks that Gu is a dead man and we are brothers, Gu will naturally give him a chance to go." The underworld should ask, is Gu a dead person or a living person? Didn't he do something wrong?"

At this moment, Chu Yan didn't have any killing intent in his body, but the eyes he looked at the two people were cold and indifferent, as if he was looking at two dead people.

Concubine Qi was horrified and subconsciously protected Chu Hong from taking half a step back.

From the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the emperor frowning beside her. Her heart moved slightly and she asked Chu Yan sternly, "You dare to use weapons privately in front of the emperor. Do you want to rebel?"

"Conspiracy?" Chu Yan seemed to have heard something funny. "How did you know that I was conspiring to commit rebellion and not to arrest the suspect who killed the prince?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he once again threw the arrow in his hand in the direction of the two of them.

Concubine Qi only heard a "whoosh" sound, and then saw a cold light coming towards her.

She subconsciously wanted to hide away, but thinking that her son was behind her, she had to close her eyes tightly and keep her pace firmly in mind.

even so--

"Ah!" Another scream came from behind.

Concubine Qi opened her eyes and turned to look.

Then he saw his son squatting down holding his thigh. The arrow had pierced his thigh, and the blood was staining his robe red.

"Da Lang..." Concubine Qi hurriedly covered his wound and shouted to the emperor in a panic: "Your Majesty, do you want to watch Da Lang being killed by him? He is treason, treason, Your Majesty !”

The smile on Chu Yan's face disappeared at the corners of his lips.

Once again, he drew out an arrow...

"Enough!" At this moment, the emperor finally spoke in a deep voice.

Chu Yan gently twirled the feather arrow in his hand, with no sign of "enough" in his expression.

No one could stop him from killing those who deserved it, not even the emperor.

The emperor knew his nephew best. Seeing his appearance, he knew that he was really angry at this moment.

The emperor stopped looking at him. Instead, he turned to look at Shen Lingxi and said solemnly, "Princess, please tell me what is going on."

Shen Lingxi blinked.

What she should do has been done long ago. This is a family matter of their Chu family, and it should be handled by Chu Yan herself.

She never expected that the emperor would call her name at this time.

The corner of the emperor's eyes was fixed on Chu Yan.

When he saw that his name was Shen Lingxi, Chu Yan stopped twisting the arrows on his fingertips and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there is someone who can make Chu Yan stop.

The emperor hurriedly urged Shen Lingxi: "You are the inspector of embroidered clothes. I have seen that there must be something fishy about what happened today, so you will personally solve my doubts and theirs."

The "them" in the emperor's mouth naturally refers to the civil and military officials who had just finished paying homage to the King of Wei and the Crown Prince, and were deceived to the extreme by the "miracle from heaven", but now they were kneeling on the ground with confused expressions on their faces.

Since he asked Shen Lingxi to do this in public, it meant that he would never hide his secrets in the face of facts and evidence.

Shen Lingxi glanced at Chu Yan and saw him throwing the arrow in his hand back into the inner guard's quiver, knowing that he had given in before the emperor's attitude.

Yeah.

After all, she and Chu Yan would rather let Chu Hong die clearly and without a burial place in front of the world than to let him die in an unclear way.

Only in this way can he comfort the innocent souls who died in his hands.

Thinking like this, Shen Lingxi clapped her hands and ordered in the direction of the mausoleum: "Bring the people here..."