Unprecedented

Chapter 8 Two birds with one stone

The next day was the emperor's birthday banquet.

During the day, the emperor entertained all the officials in the main hall, listed their meritorious deeds, and celebrated with singing and music.Towards the end of the day, all the officials resigned, the Shengyue and the moon rose together, and the female relatives had a banquet.

Emperor Long Xiaotian and Concubine Duan sat side by side.Prince Long Zhen and Liu Liangdi attended the ceremony together.Liu Liangdi's name is Liu Zhuangmeng, she is the birth mother of the eldest son Longteng, looking at about forty people, she can vaguely see the peerless elegance of her youth.

Long Xiaoting attended with Qiu Keyin, and he walked in front, throwing Qiu Keyin a few steps away.There is no doubt that the two are unfamiliar.Qiu Keyin was full of grievances, but he could only grit his teeth and endure it.

Prince Yixi and King Rui faced each other, and the atmosphere was awkward.Concubine Duan looked down condescendingly, a smile flickered across her lips, as if everything was under her control tonight.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone looked tired.

At this time, Long Xiaoting called Fengtian and lowered his voice: "Where is Mrs. Lan? Have you found it?"

With a serious expression, Fengtian shook his head slightly.

Qiu Keyin smiled coquettishly, "Sister Lan'er's status is not suitable for participating in the banquet. Xiao Ting, you are determined. Sister Lan'er is considerate of you and doesn't want to embarrass you." She gritted her teeth with hatred in her heart, Xiao Ting Ah Xiao Ting, you just want to take advantage of your father's happy birthday and justify Shuang Lan'er's name?Where do you put me?

Long Xiaoting's handsome face turned around, his expression was cold and silent, his eyes patrolled Qiu Keyin, and he remained silent.

The sharp look made Qiu Keyin's pretended smile froze instantly.

Liu Zhuang Meng covered her face with a round fan, and chuckled in Prince Long Zhen's ear: "Look, Your Highness, the young couple are having a fight."

Long Zhen coughed, stroked his chin with a withered hand, and suddenly asked: "Where did Teng'er go, and he hasn't seen anyone for a long time?"

Liu Zhuangmeng turned her beautiful eyes and looked around, "It's strange, he was still there during the official banquet, I saw him toasting around."

Long Zhen raised his brows upright and was very angry, "Nie Zi, you are always worrying, running around, and you don't discipline him well."

Liu Zhuangmeng's smile faltered, and she responded in a low voice, "Yes."

At this moment, Emperor Long Xiaotian opened his mouth and asked the same question, "Huh? Where's my grandson? Why haven't I seen anyone all night? This child is really cute. Send someone to look for it. There are good things to reward him." After speaking, he showed a kind smile.

Usually the emperor Long Xiaotian is very majestic, and everyone is submissive when they see him, but when it comes to Long Teng, the emperor Long Xiaotian is always amiable, which shows that the emperor's grandson Long Teng has a lot of weight in Emperor Long Xiaotian's heart.

Hearing this, Long Zhen was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed first, and then ordered a few personal attendants, "Go and find the son, hurry up." For the sake of his intelligence, I am afraid that his position as the crown prince would have been abolished long ago.

"Yes." The guards in black got the order and immediately looked around for Long Teng.

No one had ever noticed that there was always an unfathomable smile on Concubine Duan's lips.

In a dilapidated room, Long Teng slowly opened his eyes, sat up with his hands on his forehead.His head was dizzy and his mind was empty. At noon, several officials drank him a lot of alcohol. At this time, his head felt like a sack was pressed, and the pain was severe.However, it didn't feel like being drunk, his drinking capacity was not that light.

A ray of moonlight came in, and the surroundings were hazy.As Long Teng sat up, the brocade quilt covering him also slipped off, and someone seemed to move beside him, he was startled, and hurriedly looked, it was actually Shuang Lan'er.He froze for a moment, and called out, "Shuangshuang?"

Shuang Lan'er didn't move at all, and only then did he see clearly that the scene on the bed was horrible, she was completely naked, and neither was he.God, how could he not notice just now!Right now he is lying with her, that ambiguous posture, as if he just had a good time.His eyes froze, and he immediately realized that he had been framed.

What should I do?
It only took a moment to think, Long Teng quickly made a decision, immediately put on his own clothes, put on the underwear for Shuang Lan'er, tore her other clothes and threw them on the ground, the room and bed looked more messy than before.

The moonlight became more and more blurred, his hands were a little uncontrollable, and his eyes gradually lost control.In previous books, "ice muscle and jade bone" was used to describe a woman's fair skin, which is really appropriate.Suddenly Shuang Lan'er moved, turned over and was still asleep.

Long Teng glanced at the messy bed sheet under Shuang Lan'er, and his peach blossom eyes jumped slightly.But at this moment, the sound of footsteps outside the broken house door swept like thunder.He gasped, as time was running out, he quickly tore off a large piece of the bed sheet, stuffed some in his arms, and then firmly pressed Shuang Lan'er, who was still unconscious, with both arms, and rushed forward.

"Bang" sound.

Outside the house, Long Xiaoting kicked open the door of the abandoned house.Because Fengtian couldn't find Shuang Lan'er, he had an intuition that something was wrong, so he hurriedly led his guards to search for it himself.It happened that Prince Long Zhen's people were also looking for Long Teng.The two people collided into one place.At this time, only the house in front of him, which had been abandoned for more than ten years, remained unsearched in the entire palace.

The two doors fell to the ground at the same time, a huge white crocodile hung down from the sky, was blown flying by the wind, and stood in front of Long Xiaoting.He drew out the soft sapphire sword at his waist and drew a beautiful bent fox in the air. When he retracted the sword back to its sheath, he saw the white crocodile falling rapidly like the ebb tide of the sea, revealing an unsightly scene in front of him.

I saw Long Teng's black hair scattered all over the bed, tearing the clothes of the woman on the bed.That woman, that appearance, that figure, isn't it the Shuang Lan'er he has been looking for all night?

At that moment, Long Xiaoting was furious, and his voice sounded like thunder rolling down from the sky, causing the ground to tremble, "Long Teng! Bastard!" He rushed forward, grabbed Long Teng's collar, and punched Long Teng in the face.

Long Teng didn't dodge either, he raised his hand to wipe the corners of his lips, spat out the blood foam from his mouth, raised his face, and smiled flirtatiously, "Hehe, it's the emperor's uncle. What a pity, I almost got it."

Long Xiaoting stared at Long Teng's nonchalant face in disbelief, gritted his teeth and said, "Shameless!"

At this time, Shuang Lan'er was awakened by the noise and opened her eyes leisurely.The light in the room was too dark, she sat up with a confused look on her face.After seeing the situation in front of her clearly, she was shocked, quickly rolled up the thin quilt, and shrank into a corner, her eyes were full of bewilderment.God, how could this be?

"What the hell is going on?"

Emperor Long Xiaotian walked in step by step leaning on a cane, Concubine Duan also walked in step by step with a cold smile on her lips.Several court ladies carried lanterns, which immediately illuminated the whole dilapidated house brightly.

Shuang Lan'er suddenly understood at this time that this was Qiu Duanming's plan to kill two birds with one stone, using the opportunity of the emperor's birthday banquet to get rid of her. No, to be precise, she was just a small victim. The person they really wanted to deal with was ——Longteng!Just imagine, the folks can't tolerate a nephew messing with his aunt in his uncle's house, let alone the royal face.

The scene in front of me is enough to explain everything, and no amount of explanation is superfluous.At this moment, Shuang Lan'er chose to remain silent.

Long Xiaotian stared at Long Teng, his face full of pain, "I'm only going to ask you once, what's going on? Why do you get more and more messed up as you get older? You always play with court ladies on weekdays, but I don't think I've seen her. But she! She's your emperor's uncle." My concubine! Even if she seduces you, how can you be so disrespectful?"

Emperor Long Xiaotian's words obviously favored Long Teng on purpose, and wanted to put all the responsibility on Shuang Lan'er.Qiu Duanming's face darkened, she only knew that Long Xiaotian had always loved Long Teng, but she didn't expect to be partial to him.It seems that Long Teng is indeed the biggest obstacle for Long Xiaoting to ascend to the throne, and she did not miscalculate.

seduce?Shuang Lan'er slowly closed her eyes, with a hopeless smile on her lips, it turned out that Emperor Long Xiaotian wanted to sacrifice her, no matter what, her life was cheap.

Long Xiaoting was angry and anxious, his breathing was like a storm was sweeping the sea, and the huge waves rolled over, he gritted his teeth every word: "Father! Lan'er, she didn't..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a lazy voice.

"She didn't seduce me."

Long Teng rubbed his messy black hair, pressed his temples again, and said lazily, "Huh? Why are you all looking at me in surprise? Don't you just want to play with a woman? As for You're so surprised." After that, his long and narrow peach eyes still swept back and forth on Shuang Lan'er, "It's a pity, it's a pity that you came later, it ruined my good deed."

"You!" The prince Long Zhen who rushed to hear the news was shocked by the scene in front of him, and roared angrily: "Niety! How can you say such offensive words! She is yours, yours... ...cough cough..." Out of breath, Long Zhen's already seriously ill body became weaker and he coughed again and again.

"So what? Isn't it the emperor's uncle's woman? Look at that blood-pulling figure. I have long wanted to get her. The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Besides, our Long family doesn't have such things. Yes, right, Uncle Huang!" Long Teng smiled lightly, and when he gracefully shrugged his shoulders, he had already tidied up the skirts that were just messed up by Long Xiaoting.Even in this situation, when he buttoned his buttons, he was still slow, so slow that it was outrageous.As if he had done nothing wrong, but someone else had interrupted his good deeds.

Immediately, Long Xiaoting's face was pale, without a trace of blood.

Qiu Duanming smiled coldly, "His Royal Highness, look at this is the upbringing of the East Palace?"

Long Teng didn't take it seriously at all, and mocked lightly: "You don't seem to be doing any better, you're a chicken, why bother laughing at fifty steps."

Concubine Duan's face darkened, and she felt a little uneasy.

It's unbearable!Emperor Long Xiaotian was already furious, his brows trembled, and his eyes were filled with heavy sorrow.He suddenly raised the dragon-headed cane in his hand and slammed it down on Long Teng's back.

But when he heard the loud sound of "Bang", although Long Teng was shocked, he didn't dodge it, he straightened his spine and forcibly endured the stick.Almost at the same time, blood gushed out from his throat, all sprayed on Shuang Lan'er's snow-white shirt.

The scalding blood sticks to his face, which feels creepy to the touch.Shuang Lan'er was shocked, she could hardly believe it, Long Teng wanted to take all the crimes by herself, she understood, but how could she?What should she do?She suddenly struggled to get up, trying to defend him, but no sound came out of her hoarse throat.

Long Teng stared at Shuang Lan'er and shook his head slightly.

The movement was so light and light that perhaps only she could understand it.He was telling her that the matter was over and there was no need for one more person to bear it.Don't make unnecessary sacrifices.

At this time, the light in his eyes was like the raindrops falling from the eaves of the old house she loved to see when she was a child, evoking thousands of sadness in her heart, such eyes deeply hurt her heart, like looking at Gao The string of a floating kite is broken, and it is like listening to a spiritual song and the string is broken.

She reached out to touch her cheek, but her hand trembled like a leaf falling in the wind.With five fingers stretched out in front of her eyes, her eyes were blood red, as if she couldn't stand it suddenly, she tightly covered her lips, and swallowed all the choked sobs back into her throat.Endure, endure desperately.

The face covered by five fingers gradually became pale as paper, and the corners of the lips were clearly visible.She couldn't make a sound, only her perfect lips repeated the shape of two words over and over again, "Shaoyun... Shaoyun... Shaoyun..."

Emperor Long Xiaotian's voice was low, without any trace of emotion, "Evil! Go to Luzhou and never come back to me!"

Long Teng wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said with a faint smile, "Thank you, Grandfather, for your grace."

"Father, my son—my son—" Prince Long Zhen obviously couldn't bear such a sad news, his eyes darkened, and he passed out immediately.

A good birthday, a mess.

In the drunken garden.

It was dawn, and the light in the house was dim.On the flower table is a pot of spring sword leaf butterflies, with a faint lingering fragrance.

Shuang Lan'er was staring blankly at the ground, when the door opened, she had never been so nervous before, her heart was beating like a "thump", she couldn't control it at all.Concubine Duan once said that she would lose everything, so even if she wronged her at will later, she would not be able to defend herself.

Long Xiaoting strode in, followed by Qiu Duanming and Qiu Keyin.

Qiu Duanming directly crossed Shuang Lan'er and sat on the main seat, with his arms resting on the nanmu armrests, and his golden armored fingers interlaced slightly, like a proud winner.

Qiu Keyin just stood at the door, looking weak and helpless.

Anger accumulated in Long Xiaoting's heart, and he asked Shuang Lan'er in a cold voice: "The emperor and the prince have both left, and there is no one else here now, this king wants to hear the truth."

His expression made Shuang Lan'er's teeth turn cold.She pounded the dry ink pen in the brush washer, scratched across the rice paper, with dry marks on the tip of the pen, and scribbled: "Seeing is believing."

Long Xiaoting looked uncertain, "What I saw was that he was protecting you. Do you have any affair?"

Shuang Lan'er raised her eyebrows and wrote: "Since you already think so, you don't need to ask me any more."

Long Xiaoting was slightly stunned, his frozen expression seemed to loosen a little.

Qiu Duanming said coldly, "Ting'er, let's not talk about selfishness for now, you can read this first." After finishing speaking, she took out a thick stack of paper from her cuff and handed it to Long Xiaoting.

There was strong doubt in Long Xiaoting's eyes, "Mother Concubine, what is this?"

Qiu Duanming waved his hand and said, "There are three paintings among which the prince must have seen before, and I asked for them from Fengtian."

Long Xiaoting immediately said: "If my concubine wants to excuse Nanny Gui, there's no need to. The matter has been made clear, and I have checked it myself."

Qiu Duanming didn't even move her eyelids, she just said to Long Xiaoting: "I wonder if Ting'er has seen the other three paintings." After saying that, she handed the other three paintings forward.

Different from the three paintings that Fengtian had received before, the one in the middle stood facing a man and a woman.The information conveyed by the three paintings stacked in one place should be like this: On the Yiqiao of Tinghu Lake, a man handed the lantern to a woman, and the lantern caught fire instantly.

Long Xiaoting frowned and said: "In this way, the person who revealed the news already knew that the person Nanny Gui was going to deal with was Shuang Lan'er, but why?"

Qiu Duanming said coldly, "This is where Shuang Lan'er is so clever. Someone revealed Nanny Gui's plan to Shuang Lan'er early in the morning, and Shuang Lan'er took advantage of the plan and changed the woman in the painting into a man. The purpose was to attract Fengtian's attention, thinking that Assassinate the prince, ambush people, and capture the murderer."

Long Xiaoting said: "Even so, Lan Er just wants to expose the conspiracy."

"To bring down Nanny Gui is to bring down Keyin. Shuang Lan'er knows that the lantern will catch fire, but she still burns herself. She is just acting to trick you into sympathy."

Long Xiaoting suddenly stared at Shuang Lan'er, with a harsh voice, "Lan'er, when you pushed me away to grab the lantern, you were not afraid of my injury, but you were afraid that your goal would not be achieved, isn't that so?" He suddenly stepped forward Take a step, hold her hand tightly, "Is it really?"

Shuang Lan'er raised her chin, neither admitting nor denying it.She really wanted to expose Qiu Keyin, and she did take advantage of their tricks.At that time, she snatched the lantern, partly because of plan, partly maybe... In fact, she herself didn't know why.

"You don't need to ask her." Qiu Duanming said in a deep voice, "Ke Yin is kind and easy to bully, so she was neglected by you for no reason. I am not a vegetarian, why haven't I seen any storms? I found out that Shuang Lan'er was in Buy stone powder outside the palace. Putting stone powder on your hands and face can temporarily avoid the fire, she is smart, she will definitely not hurt herself. Ting'er, don't underestimate her scheming."

Long Xiaoting pursed his thin lips tightly, and suddenly slammed his palm hard on the beams and pillars, and the whole room seemed to shake three times.

"No wonder Shuang Lan'er jumped into Tinghu Lake. Firstly, it can extinguish the fire, and secondly, it can wash away the traces of stone powder. It's really ingenious, the method is really high, and she is unharmed, and the prince is convinced." Qiu Keyin interjected at the right time. In a word, Long Xiaoting's hidden anger reached its limit.

Long Xiaoting gritted his teeth and said, "Concubine Mu, Keyin, you go out first. I'll ask her alone."

Qiu Keyin frowned, did Long Xiaoting still want to protect her?
Qiu Duanming smiled naturally, "Okay. Mother and concubine say a few more words, the women of the Qiu family are kind-hearted, think about Pei Yin, you shouldn't doubt Ke Yin. Also, if Shuang Lan'er's purpose is only to win favor Ting'er must be cautious if he secretly cooperates with others and wants to overthrow the Qiu family and ascend to a high position."

Qiu Duanming's words are like throwing boulders into a calm lake, causing layers of waves.

When they were far away, Long Xiaoting suddenly dragged Shuang Lan'er all the way to the most remote back mountain of the palace.

The scene in early winter is bleak, the sky is dark and gloomy, as if a snowstorm is coming.

Long Xiaoting couldn't control his suppressed emotions any longer, and reached out to grab Shuang Lan'er's jaw, and asked sadly: "Is what they said true? There is no one else here, tell me? Tell me!"

He shook desperately, Shuang Lan'er felt dizzy, and the resentment in her heart rushed left and right, all poured into her throat, her whole body seemed to be split apart.What can she say?Concubine Duan holds her father's life in her hands, what can she say?Mother is dead, she must keep father.

Long Xiaoting was almost crazy: "Say it, say it quickly!"

The long-lost restraint suddenly burst through her throat, and Shuang Lan'er shouted, "Let me go!" Her voice was hoarse and broken, and her heart was shocked, she actually recovered her voice at this time?Is it a blessing or a curse?
Long Xiaoting was stunned, his face extremely astonished, "Can you talk? You - are you lying to me too?"

Due to the sudden change, neither of them spoke anymore.

The wind, like a raging wave on the sea, whizzed past sharply.Long Xiaoting was still wearing the clothes from last night's banquet, bright golden, with a rising dragon, and the hem of the clothes seemed to be dancing wildly in the strong wind.He held her tighter, tighter.

Looking at each other, frozen.

How long has it been since we looked at each other like this?It seems that it has been a long time, but I feel so strange.It seems that there are several mountains and several waters.

He didn't expect that she was such a person.

She also didn't expect that he was such a person.

This kind of silence makes people feel terrible and embarrassing.

After a long time, Long Xiaoting finally spoke, "Dragon Snake Grass and Bird Spirit Powder are used together, which can corrode nerves and cause people to become dumb. You are quite good at medicine, if someone smoked Bird Spirit Powder on your needles, you should be able to detect it." .”

Shuang Lan'er coughed a few times, her throat seemed to be gradually getting used to it, she cleared her throat and said, "Yes, I can detect it." In fact, she noticed it on the tenth day after she came into contact with the bird spirit powder.At that time, a needle was bent, and she straightened it after roasting it on the fire, but she found a small white powder on the needle.Bird spirit powder is colorless and tasteless, and it will turn white when it is roasted. This is the only way to distinguish it.She deliberately froze in the wind overnight, so that her high fever could cause her voice to become hoarse.Leaving evidence is only to bring down Qiu Keyin.In fact, she can cure her hoarseness. In fact, she has been recuperating herself secretly, but she doesn't know how to recover so quickly.

Looking at her silence, Long Xiaoting suddenly pushed her away with a sad expression: "So, you are not dumb at all. You have been lying to me? Lan'er, you have disappointed me so much!"

She was pushed to the ground so hard by him that she was about to fall apart in pain.

"You planned everything a long time ago. After you came back from Xunjiang, you deliberately let the doctor Shen find the sparrow spirit powder, and tricked me to find Keyin? You!" He stopped, no longer speaking, and only stared directly at it with dark eyes. looking at her.

Shuang Lan'er's eyes were as calm as stagnant water, and she just said indifferently: "I've disappointed you? I'm afraid I've disappointed you, so I'm going to tarnish the pure and innocent Qiu Peiyin." With a slight smile, she looked up at the sky silently .

The shadow puppet show of a person made her understand that meeting in the rain, wearing white clothes, and thunder, his rescue is not what Qiu Keyin said.Her voice was hoarse and his sudden pity was all because of Qiu Peiyin.In his heart, she was shameless, despicable, and she defiled Qiu Peiyin, how could he bear it, so he was so angry.

Long Xiaoting was stunned for a long time, "Do you know her?" After a pause, he seemed to fall into madness, and roared: "You knew her a long time ago? That's why you pretended to be dumb? You knew I would—" He stopped and looked at her His eyes were full of pain, "It's him! It was Long Teng who told you, right? You..."

Shuang Lan'er interrupted suddenly, her tone indifferent, "My lord, it's up to you. Anyway, it's all over." She looked up, and suddenly felt a little coldness falling on her face, sporadic snow fell, and she picked up a little , it melted in the palm of her hand in an instant, she sighed softly: "It's snowing."

"Everything is in the past..." Long Xiaoting chewed on sadness in his voice.

The snow was like flying catkins, falling bigger and bigger, and the wind carried snowflakes towards them, between her and him, falling silently.The coldness seemed to freeze all the air.

He stood, and she fell on the ground, motionless.

Xu Shi was tired from standing for too long, and upon closer inspection, his body trembled slightly.And her pair of bright eyes, originally like crystals, are only empty at this moment.Surrounded by the howling wind, the hillsides and trees were covered with thin silver makeup at some point, and his golden clothes were gradually covered with white mist.

Sudden pain hit, Shuang Lan'er's body went limp, and she crouched in the snow and twitched in pain.With such pain, every inch of skin seemed to be torn apart, like being stabbed by a knife, or like Ling Chi, the pain was so painful that I couldn't speak.She knew why, it was ferret poison, coming on suddenly on a snowy day like this.The poison of ferrets, she picked the exquisite flowers of snow geese for him, the root cause of the disease, once the attack occurred, the pain was so painful.

Long Xiaoting squinted his cold eyes, watching, his expression that had been stiff for a long time finally loosened, and walked in front of her, his voice was colder than a blizzard, and more chilling to the heart.

"How long are you going to pretend to be pitiful! It's disgusting!"

He took out a notebook, bright red, especially glaring in the whiteness.He fell hard on her face, as if slapping her, and walked away.

At this moment, Shuang Lan'er was like a doll made of paper, with one hand submerged in the snow, and the blood vessels were clearly visible under the white skin.The red playbook kept poking her eyes in the white snow.With the last of her strength, she opened it tremblingly.It was his request to depose Qiu Keyin and marry her as his concubine, the words were clear and sincere.

Unfortunately, it's all over.

After reading the last word, she couldn't bear the pain anymore, and her mind gradually became confused.In the snow, it was so quiet that there was not a sound, only her last groan, which was scattered in the wind and snow, "Xiao Ting, it hurts..."

(End of this chapter)