noffsinger Chapter 405: Rescue Soldiers Are Not Soldiers
Chapter 405: Rescue Soldiers Are Not Soldiers
"Your Highness Prince Yi..." Peng Paike couldn't wait until then, "Your Highness, please show some mercy. Why should we involve Your Highness Prince Xian in my son's affairs?"
"Didn't you invite Brother Xian Wang?" Zhou Chang asked back.
The Peng faction was speechless.
"Just wait..." Zhou Chang said as he started walking around the dry well again.
Peng Liang was squatting at the mouth of the well, gasping for breath: "Dad, Dad, save me..."
Zhou Chang walked around the dry well twice, then looked up at the sky. It was almost noon, the sun was blazing in the sky, and it was getting hotter and hotter. He was impatient to wait any longer: "Sir Peng, today's matter is about the grudge between me and Young Master Ling, but I still have to give you some face..."
When Peng Pai heard that there was a way, he couldn't help but show joy on his face: "Thank you, Your Highness Prince Yi, for your generosity."
"However, his eyes are only borrowed temporarily, so I have to charge some interest." Zhou Chang smiled.
Peng Pai didn't know what Prince Yi meant for a moment: "Your Highness Prince Yi wants to..."
"Throw him into the well and collect some interest." Zhou Chang said this to Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan thought he had heard it wrong.
"Throw it down..." Zhou Chang poked Peng Liang's head with a branch and repeated it again.
Only then did Gao Yuan confirm that he had heard correctly.
"No, no, Dad, Dad..." Peng Liang shouted.
"Your Highness Prince Yi, we can talk it over..." Peng Pai finally reacted and reached out to stop him, but it was too late.
"Plop..." a sound.
Peng Liang was pushed into the dry well by Gao Yuan.
The world went silent for a moment.
"Son..." Peng Pai was stunned.
Everyone present was silent.
"Master Peng, I believe you can still afford this little interest. Since it's a dry well, you won't die from the fall." Zhou Chang's eyes curved as he threw the branch in his hand into the well. "Hurry up and order someone to fish it out. It's too late. If anything goes wrong, don't blame me."
Sure enough, as soon as the voice above fell, a scream that was not like a human voice came from the bottom of the well: "Ah..."
Peng Pai came to his senses as if he had been electrocuted and rushed to the wellhead.
The people behind him also quickly surrounded him, stretching their arms and legs.
Zhou Chang took Shouhou and Gao Yuan and dodged to the side.
The show isn't over yet, so don't leave in a hurry.
At this moment, King Xian's big head shook and appeared from the steps.
"Your Highness, Prince Xian is here." The skinny monkey said in a low voice.
Zhou Chang turned around to greet him. Although King Xian was still a little distant, he still looked down at him and said hello: "Brother King Xian, you're here in such a hot day."
King Xian's pumpkin-sized head shook, and his forehead was already covered with hot sweat. He glanced up without answering, and just kept climbing up the stairs.
After climbing up the stairs, he went to the wellhead and took a look.
At the bottom of the well, Peng Liang was still alive and well, crying "Ouch, ouch...", and no one knew where he was injured.
Peng Pai collapsed at the edge of the well, shaking all over but unable to make a sound.
"Why don't you find a rope and pull the person up first?" King Xian made a decision for him and turned back to scold Zhou Chang, "Ninth brother, even if you are fooling around, you can't be so willful. If..." Halfway through his words, he noticed that there was a corpse next to him, "What's going on?"
When King Xian came, it really didn't make much sense, and I was too lazy to answer.
The skinny monkey at the side helped to reply: "Your Highness, this is the body of Liu Dexia, the deputy chief steward of the inner court. The Dali Temple determined that it was an assassin who set the fire last night and unfortunately killed him and dumped his body into a dry well. Thanks to Master Peng who took the trouble to go down the well himself to salvage the body, he was able to pull it up."
"Oh?" King Xian naturally didn't believe it and looked at Zhou Chang.
Seeing that someone had already started to move, he picked up the rope that had been used to fish out the body and stretched it to the bottom of the dry well. Peng Liang would be pulled up in no time.
Zhou Chang didn't want to delay any longer. "If you don't believe me, you can ask Master Peng when he is fished out. I still have to visit my brother, Prince Duan, so I'll take my leave now."
"Don't go too far, and don't single out one person for harm. As for jealousy, it's enough to teach someone a lesson. Why keep harping on it?" Hearing these words, King Xian seemed to understand more than he seemed to know.
Zhou Chang was about to retort when he suddenly saw the deputy commander of the imperial guards, Tang Mao, coming back alone. Fang She did not follow him.
Tang Mao walked up quickly, bowed to Prince Xian and Zhou Chang respectively, and then said to Zhou Chang: "Why is your highness Prince Yi still here? His Majesty has ordered you to see him."
"Really? No one came to report it." Indeed, no one reported it at this moment.
"Perhaps Chief Steward Fang did not explain it clearly, and the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict probably went to the wrong place, but His Majesty is indeed looking for you." Tang Mao did not need to think too much.
"Yes, I am planning to leave too," Zhou Chang laughed dryly, and began to feel guilty again, "I wonder what His Majesty wants to see me about?"
"You will know when you go there, Your Highness." Tang Mao didn't want to say it directly, but he blinked happily.
Zhou Chang saw it clearly and felt relieved to some extent. It seemed that it had nothing to do with Liu Dexia's matter.
The big head of King Xian looks rough, but he is actually sensitive: "It seems that my ninth brother's 'feat' last night was noticed by the emperor."
There is something fishy about his words, and they are full of vinegar.
The unintentional coldness in King Xian's tone reminded her.
Now the situation has changed.
Before this, Prince Yi had always been at odds with Prince Duan, but judging from today's results, Prince Xian is the one who has the last laugh.
Now that Prince Duan's legs are disabled, Prince Xian will probably take the throne next.
"That's impossible..." Zhou Chang laughed and said modestly, "Brother Xian is indeed wise and brave. This time the golden jade disk must belong to you."
King Xian snorted coldly and said no more.
Just now, Zhou Chang threw Peng Liang into the well, which was a great disrespect to him. Now he thought about how Prince Yi had taken advantage of the opportunity to seize the credit that should have been his last night, which made him feel even more upset.
The more you talk, the more mistakes you make. If the "resentment" has already been planted, it is useless to say anything more. The only thing you can do is to avoid it.
But she did not forget to ask Tang Mao: "Has His Majesty dealt with the corpse?"
Tang Mao was relaxed: "Yes, His Majesty ordered that since the conclusion has been made, to avoid unnecessary disasters, bury them on the spot."
"Bury on the spot? You don't mean this dry well." Zhou Chang looked towards the wellhead.
Peng Liang's head had just emerged from the well, and Chunxin just wanted to disgust him again.
Upon hearing this, he let out an "Ah..." and almost lost his grip on the rope and fell down again.
"Your Highness Prince Yi, you must be joking," Tang Mao said seriously, "This kind of person is not worthy of being in the forbidden area of the imperial palace. Your Majesty wants to find a place at the foot of the mountain together with the dozen or so palace servants who were killed last night.
Such a sloppy handling must have been due to Fang She's contribution.
Zhou Chang was very satisfied without saying anything at the moment: "Yes, Your Majesty is wise."