Chapter 3 Part1 (1/2)
3: Golden Arrow
The guards were already prepared, and in a moment eapons in hand they surrounded Ci'en Tein their search
All the monks inside and outside the worshi+p hall had been arrested, even Master Zhiyuan had been pressed outside the door One of Liu Xujie's subordinates atteht now the Crown Prince was unable to speak, so Xie Yun loosened his hand and ith the flow
Yet Shan Chao turned around and stopped the guard approaching him: ”Stop! The Crown Prince cannot hold on until the Snow Lotus arrives, I have a way to stall for tiuard's pace stopped, but Liu Xujie had yet to speak when Xie Yun spoke: ”Arrest him”
”You-”
”The same bowl of dessert, you drank it without problems, but the Crown Prince drank it and was poisoned, hoould we know if you played a trick within? ― Arrest him, escort the Crown Prince into the inner room to await the Imperial Physicians”
Xie Yun's order obviously had uards were about to step up again, only to hear Shan Chao sternly rebut: ”That is because my body is trained in hness' situation is critical, I have already used internal force to force out half the poison, but if we do not continue, the excess poison would follow the blood and enter the five viscera and six organs, and then it will be useless even if the Immortals come!”
Liu Xujie hurried forward to check, only to see that the Crown Prince's face was like gold paper, his lips black, the toxicity obviously stronger than he had thought by how many times, and for a moment he was taken aback
Xie Yun said coldly: ”Who can guarantee that you would use internal force only to help the Crown Prince drive away the poison?”
These words truly hit the nail on the head, yet from the start Shan Chao did not take note of him at all: ”If the Crown Prince truly came to an accident before everyone here, everyone cannot escape responsibility, do all my lords wish to assuaze swept around the surroundings, and everyone who came in contact with it evaded without exception
Shan Chao coldly said: ”―I will clear the Crown Prince of poison before the Imperial Physicians arrive, if the Crown Prince has an unfortunate death, I a to be buried with him on the spot!”
nobody had expected that all the powerful and influential officials could be struck dumb by a monk, and after the hall was silenced for several breaths, Liu Xujie finally runt: ”Go quickly! Commander Xie, this is currently a moment of life and death, we'll have to trouble you to keep watch frolance at Shan Chao
If he continued to obstruct them Xie Yun would be too suspicious, so he could only say nothing - Shan Chao also understood this, and in an instant he felt a thread of loathing
The dissension in the Court and the conflicts of the Palace were unavoidable, but to look on unfeelingly as a youth of ten or ht before his face, not only re out to save hiet this done?
Yet this ate, Shan Chao quickly walked before the Crown Prince, speaking concisely: ”Your Highness, forgive the offence!” As he spoke one hand pressed onto his throat
Although the Crown Prince's consciousness was not too clear, in the vagueness he still seemed as if he knew that Shan Chao would be able to save hi an entreating light
He did not know if it was due to their reseaze, fro akin to pity - he dispersed this feeling with so, and manipulated internal force to press down, the Crown Prince's veins trembled, and spat out more mouthfuls of black blood
The colour of the poisonous blood gradually turned lighter, and right at the end it seeh, saying weakly: ”Water…”
”Your Highness!” ”His Highness is out of danger!” ”Quick, quick, soet water!”
The hall immediately erupted in jubilation, who kne h of relief, their faces involuntarily showing smiles Liu Xujie quickly ca: ”My lord gentleman…”
He turned towards Shan Chao, about to open his ive thanks, when the ered in: ”Pavilion Elder! Bad news, the Palace Guard has found so from the room of Master Zhiyuan's disciple Xin Chao, please look!”
Everyone was stunned when the exclaed
Liu Xujie gasped: ”What?”
The eunuch i aloft a tray This ti their necks to look could clearly see, that there were two things upon the tray ― one was a bit of red porapped in golden yellow paper, the other was shockingly a jade pillow Inlaid with gold and jade, the weaving delicate, and nine lifelike phoenixes woven with vernise a model of Inner Palace manufacture
To claim to be a motherly model of the nation within the royal household, and allowed use of the phoenix, it could not be clearer as to whose was it
Everyone's face turned ugly in that n of the previous E had had an affair with the monk Bianji, and only because a thief stole from the room of Bianji the princess' jade pilloas the affair revealed to the world From then on there were many noblewomen who had affairs with senior monks, and even more raised monks or Taoist priests as male companions, that for a period of ti E to politics, had been unhappy for a long time with the Crown Prince as an obstruction to her bid for power, this was an open secret up and down the Court If Euous relationshi+p with this handso the Crown Prince had any connection to the E cold instantly entered everyone's back in an instant, and the whole audience was silent
Liu Xujie practically fell over hi the vermilion powder
”…arsenic,” He hoarsely crowed, ”arsenic!”
”Brazen evil : ”Guards! Take away this monk who has polluted the Inner Palace, and conspired to uards were already du this bellow did they seem to awaken Shan Chao subconsciously backed away half a step, and irabbed the table to stabilise his s, these things did not come from my room!”
”The same bowl of sour fruit soup, you drank it without problems but the Crown Prince was poisoned, what evidence is still needed?!” Liu Xujie violently berated the Iuards hurried forward, Shan Chao once again took a step back, al Crown Prince behind him
The arsenic was not his, the jade pilloas fictitious, at thishe had sunk into a terrifying trap
So ― his knife-sharp gaze narrowed, but his brain moved quickly: from the moment Master Zhiyuan ordered that he should serve the sour fruit soup to the moment the arsenic and jade pilloere discovered, was the entire conspiracy directed at he himself, or randomly locked on any monk ould serve the Crown Prince's food and drink?
If it was directed at him, then as the motive behind the conspiracy?
More iainst reason he was not?!
It was a pressing moment, and did not allow him to think further Very quickly a few Imperial Guards dashed up, and Shan Chao's first reaction was unexpectedly not to let hiht back
He himself did not know in that instant where did the violence exploding froly the instinct of an animal at bay had been deeply planted in his bones, only that two years of life under the Buddhist monastic practices had temporarily concealed it, yet at crucial junctures, it would still awaken screa in every inch of his blood