Rong Chang'an sipped the tea, raised his eyes slightly to look at Guo Zhen, saw his ugly face, and understood half of it in his heart.
"Master Guo? Master Guo? What's wrong with you?"
Guo Zhen woke up like a dream and almost jumped up.
"Queen, my servant is listening!"
Rong Changan smiled charmingly, and said softly: "I tell you to take off the assassin's hood, and let me see what the person who dared to assassinate the emperor looks like!"
"Yes Yes!"
Guo Zhen reached out with trembling hands, and reluctantly took off the hood.
Rong Changan blinked his eyes wide, and looked at the so-called "Assassin". Wang Er's complexion was black and yellow, his cheekbones were protruding, and his eyes were dull. At a glance, he knew that he was suffering from jaundice due to lack of nutrition. How could such a sick man be the murderer who assassinated Yan Li? Rong Chang'an had seen the eyes of a real assassin before, they were scarlet and fierce, with many whites; while Wang Er's eyes were dull, with sunken eye sockets, how could he be the one he saw in Yong'an Palace before!
Rong Changan had a sense of proportion in his heart, but he didn't tell it right away. He stood up and walked to Wang Er's side, staring at Wang Er's eyes like lightning. Wang Er felt ashamed and lowered his head in embarrassment, not daring to meet Rong Changan's eyes. .
"Are you the assassin who assassinated the emperor?"
Wang Er swallowed his saliva, his voice was so weak that he could hardly hear him: "I... I am that assassin!"
Rong Chang'an said: "Why did you assassinate the emperor? Who was it sent by? What kind of conspiracy does that person have?"
Wang Er's two legs were fighting, and sweat dripped down his cheeks.
According to Guo Zhen's previous agreement with Wang Er, Wang Er never said who sent him, and Rong Chang'an couldn't do anything about it.
"No... no one sent me!"
"No one?" Rong Changan smiled, "Do you think I will believe your words?"
Wang Erdao: "Even if someone sends me, I will not say it. I am loyal to my master and will never betray him. Kill or cut him up, it's up to you!"
"It seems that you are really a strong man!" Rong Changan said, "Death can't scare you!" After a pause, "Do you think I can't cure you like this? If you really have such thoughts, it's inevitable So naive!"
Wang Er swallowed his saliva again: "Queen, I know that I have committed an unforgivable crime, and I just want to die! No matter what you do to me, I will never reveal my master's identity!"
Rong Changan snorted coldly: "It seems that I can only kill him, there is no other way?"
Guo Zhen said anxiously: "Queen, people who intend to murder the monarch and overthrow the state power, why not kill them and keep them!"
As he said that, Guo Zhen grabbed the waist knife of the guard next to him, drew it out brightly, and was very air-conditioned. He spotted Wang Er's neck and chopped it off.
Suddenly, the knife froze in the air, unable to move an inch.
"Queen, you..." Guo looked at Chang'an in shock, his eyes were wider than a bull's. His thick wrist was pinched by Rong Changan's delicate jade hands, like iron pliers, which made him unable to move.
It was not only Rong Chang'an's hand that made him feel pain, but also her knife-sharp eyes.
"Why, Mr. Guo wants to kill someone to silence him, doesn't he?"
Guo Zhen's body was shocked, and his courage was almost broken! With embarrassment on his face, he twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled on the surface: "Queen, I don't know what you are talking about."
When Rong Changan exerted a little force, Guo Zhen felt that his entire wrist was about to be broken, and it hurt so badly.
"Ouch... hiss... don't, don't pinch, empress!"
With a bang, the tip of the knife hit the ground first, flicked, and a cloud of dust was raised.
"Guo Zhen, you are so bold, you actually want to fool me with a fake assassin? Are you impatient?"
Facing Rong Changan's cold and stern gaze, Guo Zhen blinked non-stop, trying to hide the panic in his heart.
"How could it be a fake assassin? I caught him at the Nanxun Gate. At that time, he wanted to protrude from the gate and killed several of my brothers. I used my wits to catch him with an iron chain and let him fall down. He caught it! During the interrogation, he confessed that he was the assassin who stabbed the emperor, and you just heard his confession himself. How could it be a fake assassin!"
Now that Guo Zhen is still acting, Rong Changan can't help but really want to laugh.
"Didn't I say that, I had a fight with an assassin, and I was deeply impressed by his eyes. The person in front of me has kind and timid eyes. How could he be the vicious assassin who assassinated the emperor?"
"Maybe, maybe the queen has missed it!"
Rong Changan sneered, and Jinlian kicked the ground with his right foot, the big knife jumped up, and the handle of the knife fell into Rong Changan's right hand. She waved the knife twice, and said to Wang Er:
"If you are really an assassin, then do two tricks with me. That assassin is very skilled in martial arts, and I can only fight him to a tie. Let's do two tricks, and we will know the truth."
Guo Zhen calculated for a long time, but he didn't think of this section. He immediately felt that the situation was over, and his eyes were no longer bright, like ashes.
Rong Changan said to one of the guards: "Give the sword to this assassin!"
The guard was afraid of the assassin's attack, so he hesitated: "Queen, this... is this wrong?"
Rong Changan shouted sharply: "Give him the knife!"
The guard had no choice but to pull out his waist knife and hand it to Wang Er. Wang Er was holding a big knife, trembling like a fallen leaf in the wind.
"How about we go outside and compete?"
Rong Chang'an smiled slightly, and moved his lotus steps first to get out of the pavilion.
Suddenly, with a bang, the sword in Wang's second hand fell to the ground. At the same time, Wang Er fell into the dust. He looked terrified, the muscles on his face were twitching, sweat was dripping down, and he looked very embarrassed.
"Queen, I... I don't know martial arts!"
Rong Chang'an was speaking to Wang Er, but his eyes were on Guo Zhen: "No way? I fought against you that day, and I thought you were good at martial arts!" Guo Zhen heard that Rong Chang'an's words were full of sarcasm.
Wang Er didn't know how to answer, he lowered his head and kept throwing winks at Guo Zhen.
At this time, Guo Zhen's complexion was pale, as if powdered, and his thick lips were dry.
"Empress, I don't know him...he's not an assassin! He's the one who fooled me. Empress, I didn't fool you!"
Rong Changan sat back on the chair and sipped his tea again, so leisurely and carefree that Guo Zhen couldn't understand.
"Guo Zhen, from the first sentence you said when you entered Fengming Palace, I knew that the assassin was fake. Tell me, who is this hero who is not afraid of death in front of you, and dares to pretend to be an assassin for you?"
Plop, Guo Zhen also knelt on the ground. Now he has no other way to save his life except to beg for mercy. Rong Changan is really amazing!
"Queen, I'm stupid! I beg you to be merciful and spare me the death penalty, please? You only give me three days, how can I catch the assassin! In order to save my life, I had to find someone to pretend to be a dead ghost."
Seeing that Guo Zhen was recruited by Wang Er, he also kowtowed like pounding garlic, and the sound of dong dong shook the whole pavilion.
"Queen, I agreed to Mrs. Guo to impersonate because I wanted to have food for my family. My name is Wang Er, and I am a soldier of the Nine Sects. I am not an assassin!"
Rong Changan felt that Wang Er was too naive, thinking that by pretending to be an assassin, he could bring wealth to his family. According to the laws of the Great Jing Kingdom, if someone assassinates the emperor, then the nine clans will be punished. Wang Er not only failed to save his family, but also brought disaster to the family!
However, seeing Wang Er's pitiful words, Rong Chang'an felt compassion, and said: "Wang Er is entirely because he was coaxed by Guo Zhen, so he came to act as a substitute. I don't care about Wang Er's guilt. But..." A cold light flashed in Rong Changan's Qing Lingling's eyes.
Guo Zhen also kowtowed his head: "Queen, I... I was also confused for a while!"
Rong Changan walked up to Guo Zhen, close at hand, leaned into his ear, and said softly: "Guo Zhen, it's not just this one thing that you're confused about. If I'm kind to you, it's cruel to me. gone."