Da Suining

Chapter 193 The Antidote
The night in the Department of Punishment is a bit noisy.

It was already early winter, and the morning light was dim. The morning light was dim and weak, and it projected into the cell through the narrow window hole on the back wall.

Everything is still unclear, at this time of summer, Qingcheng may already be full of traffic, but now the Department of Punishment is almost invisible.

The guardmen yawned, stretched, and blew out the remaining candle.

The Department of Punishment became even darker.

It seems that the wind is very tight today.

Sobbing and whimpering, it blew on the outer wall of the Punishment Department, caressed the outer wall, and didn't know where it went all the way.

The voice was lingering and distant, and it sounded very cold.

The wind blows the green grass withered and yellow, and the flowers withered, making people want to shrink their clothes and stop moving.

A cook brought food in, the old rules, Guo Kai's, Xiang Suining's, Lu Ying's, the food is still different from others, there are chickens, ducks and fish, there is also a pot of rice wine, and there are milk-flavored steamed buns, fine rice Red bean porridge.

This food is no less than that of Xiang's family.

Staying inactive in the Department of Punishment and eating so well, this is the rhythm of gaining weight.

There was a table full of food and wine, it was still in the morning, and I had just eaten last night, so there was no room for it.

Oh sin.

The milk-flavored steamed buns smell really delicious, and the roast duck is also really fragrant. It is still squeaking, as if it has just been taken off the grill.

I couldn't eat the roast duck anymore, so Xiang Suining ate a milky steamed bun.He lay back on the bed again, folded his hands behind his head, and stared at the roof of the Department of Punishment with eyes open with nothing to do.

"Don't grab it, leave me a duck leg."

"Hey, I can't grab the duck legs. You can give me a duck neck, or duck wings. What do you mean by giving me a duck butt? Isn't it enough to bully people?"

"That's enough, it's good to eat something, eat honestly, so as not to make your superiors unhappy for a while, and then you can only eat steamed buns and drink gruel."

There was the sound of scrambling in the next cell.

It's no wonder that before, I had been eating clear soup with little water, and now suddenly an oily roast duck fell from the sky. In this cold morning, the roast duck was still shining with oil and steam, and the aroma went straight into people's noses.

A few people either gnawed on the duck legs, or gnawed on the duck's wings, or hugged the duck's neck and gnawed on it. No matter how bad they were, they were like Liu Pingan, eating the fat duck's buttocks.

The strange thing is that this roast duck is only served to the few people escorted by the Huguo Temple, and the prisoners in the other case can only watch helplessly, and all of them suck their saliva beside them.

Indulge.

I ate very happily.

After a while, only bones remained of a plump roast duck.

Several other prisoners in the same cell were envious, and they went up to Mr. Zhao who was picking his teeth: "What does this roast duck taste like? Is it delicious?"

"Of course the fragrance is fragrant, but it's a pity that you can't eat it." Zhao Gongzi lifted his robe and sat cross-legged on the straw: "This is a misdemeanor for us, and we will probably be let go soon, so we are not harsh on food, you guys It’s different, you people committed a capital crime, and your life is about to die, so does it matter what you eat?”

makes sense.

The prisoners who didn't eat the roast duck silently retreated to the wall and squatted. Their lives were about to die. Who could eat it?

This Mr. Zhao is really good at critical strikes.

"Ouch..." Mr. Zhao kicked his legs suddenly.

"What's the matter with you?" Liu Pingan looked at Mr. Zhao: "I told you not to eat so much, don't eat so much, good guy, let me eat one duck butt, and you eat two duck legs. This time I am full Bar?"

"Oh..." Mrs. Lan also stood up suddenly, and sat back down.

"what happened?"

"I have a stomach ache."

"Stomach ache? Why did you suddenly have a stomach ache? Did you eat something bad? Is the roast duck not bad?" Liu Pingan was still wondering.

Then, half of the people in the cell started to yell "Ouch".All of them were pale, their lips were colorless, their faces were ferocious, and their backs were wet with big beads of sweat.

Soon, some guards came uninvited, and they didn't seem surprised to see people crying here. To them, this seemed to be a common thing.

"Come out and come with us."

"Ouch."

"Hurry up, line up and go to the lobby, there is something to explain."

Mr. Zhao and the others could only line up, led by the guards, one by one out of the cell, all bowed, with deep brows, like injured shrimps.

"You guys also follow." The guard called Xiang Suining and the others.

Xiang Suining straightened his clothes and silently followed behind the group of people.

Guo Kai was still gnawing on the duck leg behind her, and he ate his mouthful: "If you don't let people eat well in the morning, what kind of monster are you?"

The lobby of the Punishment Department.

Because it is not the first time to kneel here, everyone is familiar with the road.

Consciously kneel in your own position, lower your head, and put your hands on the ground.

The guards met each other with swords in hand, all dignified and quiet.

Even the officials sitting in the hall this day looked very serious.

After kneeling for a while, Mr. Zhao and the others couldn't stand it anymore: "Oh, my stomach hurts so much, I can't take it anymore... This is going to hurt me to death."

"It really hurts more than giving birth...I can't do it anymore, I'm going to be dragged on my body...I'm going to the latrine..."

"Quiet." The people in the hall patted the gavel: "Who is making noise?"

No one dared to speak again.

"Your stomach hurts, how can I not know?" The hall said: "To be honest, we poisoned the roast duck."

"what."

"The poison in the roast duck is called Shibu San. If you eat this poison, you will have a stomachache first, then you will vomit blood, and finally your internal organs will rot and die."

"what."

"If you don't take the antidote for this poison, you will die within half an hour. If you want the antidote, you have to answer honestly. Who is the mastermind behind the Huguo Temple?"

"It's him..." Everyone pointed at Guo Cheng.

Guo Cheng was sold out in almost a second.

After all, my stomach hurts so much that I'm going to die, I don't care so much, saving my life is the most important thing, and my own life is the most important thing.

"You guys are optimistic, the mastermind behind it is him?"

"I'm optimistic about it, my lord, we are optimistic about it."

"Every time we go... ouch...the women who are more beautiful...he picks first...everything that is good is left to him...If he doesn't let us play, we can't play, under the Huguo Temple The fire that burns, he also burns..."

"You..." Guo Kai was so angry that he threw the duck leg on Mr. Zhao: "This poisonous duck didn't poison you to death, but it poisoned you crazy. How dare you say that I am the mastermind?"

"It was you, and I didn't lie."

"My lord, don't get excited..." the official persuaded.

Guo Cheng got up and went to the hall, and grabbed the official's collar with his hand. The official's official robe was brand new and straight, but now it was twisted together and wrinkled. The official was almost out of breath. He could only laugh along with him: "My lord, my lord, don't do anything, talk slowly if you have something to say."

"Speak slowly, you let us take poison. Do you dare to murder the prince?"

"The subordinate dare not."

"Don't you dare? You did it all, look at them!"

Howling constantly.

Several people were in pain: "Please, my lord, we have told the truth, give us the antidote. We have really told the truth."

"Come here, take them to get the antidote." The official waved his hand.

Soon the yamen servant brought Mr. Zhao and the others to go.

Guo Cheng just grabbed the official's collar and said, "I ate the duck too. Where is the antidote? Why don't you bring the antidote quickly?"

"This……"

Guo Kai suddenly laughed, pointed to Xiang Suining who was kneeling on the ground, and said to the officials, "I'll take the antidote and I don't need to give her the antidote. She is alive and deserves to make me angry and let her die!"

"This……"

"What is this, just do it."

"Young master let go of your hand first..."

"Dare to put poison in my food, you are not a brave official." Guo Kai let go, and kicked the official to the bottom of the steps.

The official "gulu gulu" rolled down like a ball.

"Things to kill." When the curtain moved, a man in a yellow robe came out from behind the screen with his hands behind his back, followed by a bowed eunuch.

It's the emperor.

When the emperor arrived, everyone knelt down, even the officials who had just rolled off nodded their heads to the ground, kneeling upright.

"You bastard, you are the one who gets into trouble every time." Xiang Daying came out of nowhere, or he came with the emperor.

The emperor scolded his own children, and Xiang Daying had to express it. What's more, it seemed that Xiang Suining was the one who exposed the Huguo Temple incident.

This is really a troublemaker.

In other families, it is the son who causes trouble.

In Xiang's family, sons and daughters scrambled to make troubles, among which Xiang Suining was particularly prominent.

"Others step down first." The emperor sat in the high hall, dignified and solemn.

Most of the people, including the guards, withdrew, leaving only Xiang Suining and others in the lobby.

"Father, you have come to see my son." Guo Wei looked at the emperor with grievances: "Father doesn't know, this Punishment Department is eerie, ghostly everywhere, and it's cold, and there's not even a charcoal fire here. Point, Erchen is the son of the emperor, how can he stay here?"

"Then where should you stay? Huguo Temple?"

Guo Kai was devastated.

The emperor's tone was not very kind.

Seeing this, the emperor is a little angry.

"Father..." Guo Kai hurriedly kowtowed: "Father, they poisoned the food...my son ate the poisoned duck...I'm afraid my son is going to die, and I'm afraid I won't be able to honor my father in the future."

"It's good that you're dead, I'm less popular with you."

"The emperor is angry." Xiang Daying quickly knelt down, spread his hands on the ground, and kowtowed deeply: "This is all caused by my ineffective daughter. If I want to die, my ineffective daughter must die first." .”

This is really a dear father.

Xiang Suining originally thought that when Xiang Daying came, he might tell her a few words or beg for mercy.

But things are not going this way.

Xiang Daying is trying to send her away one step ahead of time, right?

The emperor heard what those people said just now.

What is the situation in the Huguo Temple cave?

He also knows it well.

Next, it depends on what he does.

The emperor hated iron and pointed at Guo Kai: "Thanks to you learning martial arts well, even if you don't need to be in the right place, Huguo Temple is a royal temple, and you also defile it. According to me, it would not be a pity for you to die a hundred times. "

"Your Majesty, calm down, don't let your body get so angry, all important court affairs are still awaiting the emperor's decision." Xiang Daying hurried to caress the emperor's back, he was even more attentive than the little eunuchs around the emperor.

The emperor roared a few words, and Xiang Daying persuaded him a few words.

The two sang together, and they fit together very well.

No wonder everyone said that the emperor favored Prime Minister Daying, and it was as painful as if he had "promised" him.

It turned out that things happened for a reason.

Xiang Daying tried to figure out the emperor's thoughts everywhere, looking for steps for the emperor everywhere, and the emperor needed such a person by his side.

After all, sometimes the emperor wants to be stupid for a while, but he doesn't want to be stupid. Obviously, treacherous ministers like Xiang Daying come in handy.

Xiang Suining knelt down and didn't expect Xiang Daying to say anything for her.

"Second prince, don't be afraid. The emperor also has good intentions. There are medicines in those roast ducks. It's just that the emperor wants to hear their truth and doesn't want to wrong a good person." Xiang Daying said kindly: "The medicine in the roast duck is Croton powder will only cause stomachaches and diarrhea, it will not be fatal."

In turn, Xiang Daying comforted the emperor: "It's all because the minister is ineffective in teaching, and my daughter has no sense of restraint. If the emperor is upset by intruding into the Huguo Temple and causing such a thing, please punish her, and the minister will never stop her. "

"I don't blame him. Your daughter has the courage to walk the rivers and lakes and eliminate harm for the people."

"emperor……"

"The abbot of the Huguo Temple went to tell me about the Huguo Temple in person that day, and I immediately sent the guards of the Punishment Department to bring them all. If not, it would be a bad thing to make a big deal out of it."

"The emperor is very thoughtful."

"Since this has happened, the abbot of Huguo Temple has not been well supervised, so he can no longer be the abbot of the Huguo Temple. It is not appropriate to change the abbot, and this matter should not be publicized. As for the mastermind, let's reward the whole body. Let everyone take it back."

Mastermind, reward a whole corpse.

Guo Cheng felt dizzy for a while.Climbing up and kneeling at the emperor's feet, he began to cry: "Father, I know my mistake, and I still don't want to die... I will never dare again."

Xiang Daying looked at the emperor's face, supported Guo Cheng lovingly, and said, "Second prince, the emperor said that the mastermind rewarded a whole corpse, not you, the second prince."

The emperor did not object.

The officials of the Punishment Department were also very discerning, so they hurriedly knelt down in front of the emperor: "As far as I know, the mastermind of this matter is actually Mr. Zhao...he even gave birth to a child with some woman... Really bold."

"If that's the case, then there's no need to keep it."

The official nodded, backed out, and quickly winked at the guards, who understood and went to do it immediately, and soon heard Mr. Zhao's "ah" not far away, presumably he was killed.

Just so fast.

It is estimated that Mr. Zhao himself is still ignorant.

Obviously it was just diarrhea, but if he went to the latrine, he would die.

The reason why he died instead of others may be because he testified that Guo Kai was the mastermind.

Now that he is dead, Guo Kai is saved, he vented his anger for Guo Kai, and made the emperor agree with him. These foxes in the Punishment Department are really shrewd.

Since Mr. Zhao, who offended Guo Kai, was given a reason to be executed, what would happen to Xiang Suining, who secretly revealed the Huguo Temple and imprisoned Guo Kai.

Xiang Suining raised his head, just in time to meet the emperor's gaze.

"Xiang Suining, you have contributed to the matter of the Huguo Temple." The emperor did not punish Xiang Suining, but instead praised her.

Xiang Suining didn't know how to answer the conversation.

(End of this chapter)