When he heard that his father was back, Gao Xiaoguan, who was lying in bed, immediately got up and rushed over to shout.
"Why didn't you kill her on the spot!"
He was answered with a crisp snap.
Gao Xiaoguanren covered his face and backed away, looking at Gao Lingbo with a look of horror and grievance.
Gao Lingbo reached out and grabbed him back, staring at him with red eyes.
"What on earth did you tell Prince Ping!" he shouted, "What on earth did you say!"
"Father, I just followed your instructions and asked Your Highness to plead guilty to Your Majesty. Please plead guilty to His Majesty." Gao Xiaoguanren shouted.
"Then why was he hacked to death? Then why was he hacked to death?" Gao Lingbo roared, with muddy tears flowing out of his eyes.
Why did he die, why did he die...
"Dad." Mr. Gao Xiaoguan shouted, looking like he was about to cry, "His Highness is confessing his guilt. To show his sincerity, he knelt down outside the palace..."
Gao Lingbo raised his hand and slapped him again.
"Is this called sincerity?" he shouted angrily. "Everyone avoided talking about this topic, but he went to shout it in public. He was slapping His Majesty in the face. This is called coercion! This is called treason! This is called
Disloyal and unfilial!”
Although he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, when he learned about the scene at that time, especially what Prince Ping said, he had to believe that this was heaven's punishment.
Doing this kind of thing and saying that kind of thing is really a thunderbolt!
High and low-ranking officials cry out for injustice.
"Father, I didn't ask him to go. It's none of my business." He shouted, "His Highness insisted on going without listening to dissuasion. There is nothing that can be done to stop him."
Yes, nothing can stop it.
Folks often say that the King of Hell wants you to die at the third watch, but no one will leave you until the fifth watch.
"God can't calculate with man, and man can't calculate with heaven." Gao Lingbo murmured, pushed Gao Xiaoguan away dejectedly, and fell to the ground as if his strength had been drained.
The customers around him rushed over to help him, but their faces were a little more panicked than before.
King Ping is dead...
King Ping is dead...
How can this be done?
"What should we do? Without Prince Ping, we still have the Queen Mother."
Gao Lingbo, who was leaning on the couch and had wiped away his tears, said in a hoarse voice.
Now that the emperor is seriously ill, the queen mother is in charge.
"Our Gao family is still the tallest relative!"
The pilgrims looked at each other.
"But sir, the Queen Mother's presence in power will not last long..." said a Qing guest.
If the emperor cannot wake up, the queen mother can stay in power for ten days and a half, or as long as half a year. However, the court officials cannot allow the queen mother to stay in power forever. Moreover, the queen mother is too old to stay in power for a long time.
If we really want to say that she is suitable for the administration, she is also the queen.
Queen!
"Sir, people from the Song family have entered Beijing overnight." A Qing guest said in a low voice.
The Queen's father's family, the Laiyang Song family, has always been as if the queen does not exist in the deep palace. The world cannot remember that there is a Laiyang Song family with a queen.
Good, good, good.
Gao Lingbo gritted his teeth.
Hearing this, the senior official sitting nearby couldn't help but interject.
"Father, the Song family can't compete with us. Besides, now that the Queen Mother is in power, it doesn't mean that she can just change the queen." He said with a bit of urgency, "Father, what matters now is Bitch Cheng's business. The day after tomorrow
That bitch Cheng is going to trigger a thunderstorm. If she succeeds, will this matter be over?"
Gao Lingbo turned to look at him, his eyes so fierce that Gao Xiaoguan even shrank his head.
"Do you think this matter has not been settled yet?" He gritted his teeth and said, "From the moment the Queen Mother asked, "You can," this matter has been settled!"
Why forget it?
The high-ranking official was a little startled.
"What if she can't be lured here?" He blurted out and asked. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he got smart and subconsciously held his head.
A tea bowl was hit hard by Gao Lingbo.
"If she can't be attracted, it has nothing to do with her!"
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"Does it have anything to do with her being attracted?"
In Jinshui Garden, under a shed that occupies the best position, two officials said while looking at the people busy on the vast riding range.
There were full pergolas set up around the venue, three floors inside and three floors outside. It was crowded with people, and many officials were maintaining order.
"Look at the busy crowd, look at those strange things..." the official continued, looking into the field, and said, "paper kites...iron rods..."
He looked away at this.
"Showing so many things can attract thunder. How can it be considered as secretly harming people behind the scenes? Prince Ping's matter, but in the palace, can anyone show off these things in a big way?"
Another official nodded and looked at the venue with interest.
"Have you placed your bet?" he asked with a smile.
"Who's betting? It's one-sided and I can't keep betting." The official laughed.
At this point, the two of them looked around again, looking at the lively crowd.
"What the hell is this? It's more lively than the Chinese New Year." He shook his head and said.
"That's better than the whole city talking about how heinous King Ping was struck to death by lightning," said another.
"The Queen Mother is ill and has to seek medical attention." She sighed first.
The official smiled slightly.
"There are doctors who can take care of it," he said.
There was a burst of excitement in the place while they were talking. The two of them quickly looked over and saw that Cheng Jiaoniang was coming.
"Not to mention anything else, it's enough to watch a scene of howling wind and rain and thunder." They laughed, looking up at the sky.
The scorching sun in the morning has disappeared, but the sky is overcast, without a trace of wind, it is hot and dull, and with the crowds of people at this time, it is getting more and more boring.
Banqin waved the fan in her hand at Cheng Jiaoniang quickly while looking at the sky.
"Madam, madam, let me come." The girl said hurriedly from the side.
This girl has been running over from the Zhang family since yesterday, and she hasn't stopped saying this from morning to night.
"Madam, I, after all, I have done it before." She couldn't help but whisper.
These words made Zhou Hao on the side couldn't help but look sideways.
Is this girl...?
She must have been this girl at that time.
"You have been a lightning trigger before, but I haven't, so this time it's your turn. I'll trigger the thunder, and you'll wait. How dare you?" Cheng Jiaoniang asked.
The girl nodded repeatedly.
"I dare, I dare," she said.
"Madam, I dare too." The maid and Banqin said anxiously.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at them and smiled slightly.
"Okay, then go and stand around the straw man and listen to me." She said, pausing here, "You must be obedient. You can't make a mistake or take a step slowly, otherwise, you will really die.
.”
The three girls nodded and ran towards the center of Kuoliang's riding range without any hesitation.
A straw man has already been erected there.
Seeing these three girls running past, the people around became even more lively.
"Is it about to start?"
"Should we start?"
"Why are you starting? Let alone thunder, there is not even wind."
Cheng Jiaoniang ignored the noise around her and picked up a paper kite from the side.
This is a butterfly paper kite, beautifully painted.
"I haven't let go of the kite for a long time." She seemed to be talking to herself. After a brief pause, she raised her head and looked at the people in front of her, "Which of you wants to play together?"
The rest of the people were the maids at home, and they all rushed to hold out their hands after hearing the words.
"I."
Three or four maids shouted in confusion, but one hand passed them and took the kite.
Seeing that it was Zhou Hui, the maids were too busy to say anything and stepped away with their hands down.
Cheng Jiaoniang didn't say anything, but took the iron wire and copper bell on the side and started to tie it up. After doing this, she slowly picked up the spool and looked up at the sky. [Note 1]
When she looked at the sky, the surrounding eyes focused on her also looked at her.
"Okay." Cheng Jiaoniang looked away again, looked at Zhou Hui and said with a smile, then turned around and started running.
As she ran, the wind suddenly picked up and blew the whole place with a roar.
“Just one look will attract the wind!”
One of the two officials standing under the pergola at the edge couldn't help but shout after the people around him. While narrowing his eyes, he stretched out his hand to press down his robe that was blown up by the wind.
"How unjust the wind is." Another official laughed.
Thinking that the lady came just to see if the wind was coming, he had been watching carefully just now. The leaves had already started to shake before the lady ran, but everyone's attention was on the lady.
The thread in her hand slipped away quickly. Cheng Jiaoniang looked back and saw the figure holding the paper kite high.
"...I said the wind is coming..."
"...A Fang, you are teasing me again..."
The giggles dispersed in the wind.
"...Ashan, you can let go..."
There were gusts of rolling thunder, the wind blew so hard that people couldn't even open their eyes, and the awning was almost lifted.
The kite was flying higher and higher, and Zhou Hui couldn't help but look over. The woman was still trotting, looking up at the sky and at himself, with a smile on her face.
Smile…..
Never seen such a smile.
No, I have seen it. Every spring day, the sisters at home smile like this when they fly kites.
I have never seen her smile like this before.
Zhou Feng couldn't help but step forward, thunder exploded in the air, and raindrops like soybeans fell down.
The place was filled with the sound of wind, rain and noisy and excited people.
"As expected, it rained! As expected, it rained!"
A boy under the pergola shouted crazily and pointed outside. The rain hitting the pergola made a sound like fried beans. Coupled with the noise around him, the boy had to shout loudly.
"Master, look, look, look."
Qin Hu kept looking outside, not greeting him with a servant.
"Of course it will rain," he said. "She never tells lies."
The boy turned to look at him.
"Ah, Master, you know this, so why do you still come to see me?" he asked.
Because I want to see, I want to see how difficult it is for her.
Qin Hu looked outside. There was only the woman running in the vast field, holding the thread in her hand. Her body was already wet. She was like a weak willow in the storm, which could be blown off at any time.
She ran, walked, pulled, and looked up at the sky. The rain blurred Qin Hu's vision.
Was she like this in the first place?
In a lonely Taoist temple, thieves smile ferociously in the darkness, and on a windy night.
She just borrowed her life from God alone.
But the world couldn't see this, all they saw was her terror, not thinking that this terror was her attempt to resist an even more terrifying situation.
Isn't it true that I am not like this? I actually said such words at that time. How terrible the world is and how terrible I am.
Qin Hu raised his head, and with a click, a bolt of thunder tore through the dark sky, and screams rang out from around him.
His heart almost stopped beating.
No, no, it's too dangerous, it's too dangerous.
The woman was still running. The kite in the sky was no longer visible, but she was still running.
Qin Hu pushed aside the stupid officers and soldiers who were blocking the crowd in front of him and rushed out.
"Stop, stop, don't run anymore." He shouted loudly.
Cheng Jiaoniang seemed to hear it and looked back, but she ran away even faster, ran towards the straw man in the center, and smashed the iron spool in her hand hard.
The three girls around the straw man were already wet, swaying and shivering in the wind and rain.
"Get down!"
Accompanied by a female voice shouting.
The three and a half fell to the ground with a thud.
A white light exploded in the field, the loud noise was deafening, and the people under the awning screamed and fell to the ground.
Fire flames rose in the field.
The straw man who was originally erected caught fire in the rain.
The noise suddenly disappeared, except for the sound of rain, wind and distant thunder, the scene was quiet, and all eyes were focused on the burning straw man lying on the ground.
Dear mother...
Two officials helped the somewhat embarrassed man get up from the ground, looked at the field and murmured.
Although I had already guessed it, the shock of actually seeing this scene with my own eyes is beyond words.
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"…..The four people present at that time only hacked the straw man...just like in front of the palace that day...only hit His Highness, and the servants next to him were fine..."
The boy in the corridor was gesticulating and talking while foaming at the mouth.
Chen Shao withdrew his gaze from the sky and looked at the banana leaves washed away by the drizzle.
"... Mr. Storyteller said... That Mr. Storyteller was invited by Mrs. Cheng to explain to everyone. He said that although they were all present, when the thunder and lightning came down, the three girls and Mrs. Cheng all fell down.
, the straw man is the highest, lightning strikes high places, so only the straw man was struck by lightning..."
"The storyteller tells everyone that when encountering a thunderstorm, you must not stay in an open place. If you have no choice but to stay and encounter a thunderstorm, you must lie down or squat down with your head in your hands. Never raise your hands or hide in a high place.
Under the big tree…”
The boy became more and more lively as he talked, but Chen Shao interrupted him.
"...Okay, you go down." He said.
The boy was very confused when he was interrupted.
"Later, everyone looked and heard it, and they all said that thunder can really be caused, and His Highness Prince Ping turned out to be really surprised." He said hurriedly.
The gentlemen will naturally care about this news.
Chen Shao just shook his head.
"Go down," he said.
The boy was a little confused and had to leave.
You see, isn't it just for King Ping to draw the thunder? To let everyone understand that King Ping was not struck by lightning because of his heinous crimes?
Why does it look like the master doesn't care at all?
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"Care? Except for those in the palace..."
In the Jinshui Garden, the burning straw man had been extinguished by the rain, leaving a charred section in the field, but the people around him had not dispersed yet and were still talking about it.
The two officials were talking as they squeezed through the crowd. The one who spoke reached out and pointed in the direction of the palace.
"...They in the palace care about it, but who else will care about it?"
He continued, looking back at the lively scene.
"Look at the officials who come here. They are all inconspicuous and insignificant people like you and me, but none of the important officials and ministers come here at all."
"How Prince Ping died has no meaning anymore. What they need to know and care about is that His Highness Prince Ping is dead."
"What's more, this incident can't prove anything. Apart from proving that it's not easy to draw thunder, Mrs. Cheng can't kill people from a distance."
This statement made the other official disagree and he stopped.
"Doesn't this prove that King Ping is not a heinous crime but an unexpected disaster?" he asked.
First an official smiled, somewhat meaningfully.
"Then can you prove why this unexpected disaster happened to Prince Ping and not someone else?"
The official was stunned for a moment and frowned.
"Because King Ping was the tallest at that time," he said.
"Then can you prove why the highest one is King Ping?" an official asked first.
"Because...because he is pleading guilty," the official said.
"Because it's him, that's why it's him." One of the officials said with a smile, "There was an accident, but the person the accident happened was this specific person, not him, so it's still him."
Either him or him?
What kind of password is this? What kind of Zen attack is this?
The official frowned.
"...It turns out that thunder can really be attracted..."
"...His Royal Highness Prince Ping is really unlucky to have encountered this accident..."
"...Hey, this unexpected thing cannot happen to others, but he did, so it's time to take action..."
"...That's right, I was in the open space that day, and I was still standing and running... Why didn't you chop me? He should have done it, he should have hacked me..."
Listening to the crowds of people talking around him, Gao Xiaoguan turned around angrily and stretched out his hand.
"Hit me..." he jumped and shouted.
The boys around him were busy holding his arms and blocking his waist.
"Not for small officials."
"You are not allowed to come out and cause trouble even if you are a junior official."
"Young officials can't make trouble now."
Everyone tried to persuade her.
Although high-ranking officials are always cruel, this time no one is afraid of them.
The last time there was a fight for the oiran in Desheng Tower, Master Gao had already dealt with all the people who followed the petty officials after he came back.
We have already killed the chicken, monkeys like them must remember the lesson.
"Damn it!" Gao Xiaoguan gritted his teeth and glared angrily, "This time, except for the fact that the woman got rid of the suspicion and gained a new reputation, Prince Ping got nothing good! Damn it, she made him a thunderbolt.
What’s the use!”
Angrily, he kicked down several cases in the pergola.
A young boy suddenly realized something.
"Young official," he said hurriedly, "this thunder proves that His Royal Highness Prince Ping was an accident. He was not catering to Taibai Xian and meeting with the lunar eclipse. The prince is in danger. His Highness is really in danger. It can be seen that His Royal Highness Prince Ping is really the prince.
"
The young official Gao looked at the boy for a moment, then rounded his arms and slapped him.
"Who the hell wants to prove this!"
"Even if he is not the prince, as long as he is alive, we can make him the prince and make him the emperor!"
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Note 1: The idea comes from Franklin Flying a Kite
There will probably be no more than two shifts on duty today. Please don’t wait. I’m sorry. (To be continued)
