Qin Yining said in surprise: "These things... The Hu Ben army put Ji's concubine under house arrest, and the Lu family changed the owner to cut off the food and grass. Are these all your arrangements?"
"Of course not." Pang Xiao smiled and said, "These are actually the spontaneous behaviors of Ji Lan and Lu Heng. I just used a little means to make all these erupt in one day today. This matter is only superficially calm. After the pilgrimage is over, the Sage will definitely investigate it thoroughly. Even if I don't do anything, he has to think of a few charges for An. If I really say that I manipulated these things, the Sage is not crazy?"
Thinking of Li Qitian's appearance that he was about to faint, Qin Yining couldn't help but laugh again, tapped Pang Xiao's shoulder and said, "You are too bad. All these things are put together, one guessed that someone was doing something. You haven't done anything yet, and it won't work if he wants to accuse you of a crime, isn't this trying to anger people to death?"
Pang Xiao shrugged helplessly, spread his hands, and looked like "what can I do, I'm helpless too", which made Qin Yining smile again.
Seeing that she had no grudges, and did not affect her body because of today's events, Pang Xiao was completely relieved.
Qin Yining leaned on Pang Xiao's shoulder, thought about it but said, "But after today's events, there is only one last layer of window paper between you and the Sage. Although the Sage has no choice but to endure, but to Later, once he finds the right time, he will definitely attack you. You have to think hard about how to deal with it at that time."
Seeing her frowning and caring about his nagging, Pang Xiao couldn't help laughing, and rubbed her forehead, "I know, I'll take care of all of this, you can rest assured. You are now The most important thing is to take good care of your body, you don't have to think about anything else."
Qin Yining's hand caressed the still flat abdomen, and nodded with a smile: "I see."
Lifting the curtains and looking outside, Qin Yining said, "Where are we going now?"
"I think my father-in-law and uncle have already gone home. We are going too now. You may not have seen your mother-in-law for a long time."
Qin Yining's eyes lit up, and she nodded with a good smile: "Okay." After thinking about it, she asked, "How are grandpa, grandma and mother now? When will they be back?"
Pang Xiao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have made arrangements properly. When the situation here is stable, it will be almost time for them to visit relatives."
Qin Yining thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but smile more and more happily. As long as she thought about Li Qitian's twisted face at the meeting just now, her mood was extraordinarily relaxed.
Pang Xiao's layout this time gave Qin Yining a big surprise. At first, she didn't pay attention to this matter because of her feelings and trust in him, so she gave him the full power of trust. Now, it seems that Pang Xiao really has the ability for her to rely on. Even if she doesn't need to intervene, he can do things properly, even more wonderfully and beautifully than when she is involved.
Qin Yining rested comfortably on Pang Xiao's shoulder and discussed the matter after returning for a while.
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At the same time in the imperial study, Li Qitian sat in the first place with a gloomy face, and hadn't said a word for a long time.
The palace servants serving in the imperial study were all silent, hating themselves for not being able to become a transparent person from now on, and don't be angered by the angry saint.
Li Guanwen lowered his eyebrows even more, and stood far away by the black lacquered paulownia wood frame. He had already prayed thousands of times in his heart that the saint must not pay attention to himself.
At this moment, Li Qitian seemed to have recovered from his thoughts, and took a sip from the tea bowl with his brows furrowed.
The tea at the entrance was a little cold, and he was furious, raised his hand and smashed the tea bowl, shouting: "Who's doing the errand! What's the use of keeping you dogs? At critical moments, I don't know how to share my worries, so I just Make trouble for me! You can't even make tea!"
As soon as he heard Li Qitian's words, Li Guanwen knew that the sage was still angry with the concubine of the season, so he angered others.
On weekdays, Li Qitian's tea is in charge of a palace person who specializes in tea, and will keep the temperature and thickness of the tea soup suitable for entrance.
But under Li Qitian's rage today, who would dare to go to him and continue a tea if he had nothing to do? Isn't that looking for death.
Because of such a floor, Li Qitian ate herbal tea, and the maid who was holding the tea knelt down with a pale face and trembling, ignoring the broken china on the ground, cutting her knees and hands, and repeatedly kowtowed, and said with a trembling voice: "Sacred Lord. Calm down! This servant knows it's wrong!"
When Li Qitian heard the voice that was exclusively for girls, he became even more angry.
Thinking of Qin Yining's response from beginning to end in the main hall with a calm attitude and a relaxed attitude, now I think about it, isn't it a fact that a female class can be so calm
This is enough to show that Pang Xiao has arranged everything behind his back!
These people are in unison, aren't they just bullying him
The anger in Li Qitian's heart was as if the oil had been broken by someone, and it was even worse when he jumped up. Pointing to the palace maid who held the tea, he said, "Drag this lowly maid out, and blame it for a hundred!"
"Yes!"
Immediately outside the hall, there were guards in front of the palace who should have entered, and the palace maids who were so frightened that they couldn't speak were put out one by one.
After everyone had been dragged outside the palace, the palace maid finally found her voice, and the shrill cry resounded through the sky.
"Sacred Lord spare your life! Holy Lord harassed the slaves! The slaves don't want to die, the slaves don't want to die, Sacred!"
The person who heard the shrill scream was horrifying.
Seeing that Li Qitian's brows became more and more frowning, Li Guanwen hurriedly followed, gestured to the guards, and said in a low voice, "Don't close your mouth? Wait for the sage to express his temper, and carefully we all fall off. Brain!"
"Yes." The guard hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, crumpled it into a ball and stuffed it into the palace maid's mouth. He pulled the man far away into the corner, and called two small inner prisoners who were in charge of the execution.
The stick was 100 times, but it was merciless. In almost 20 to 30 hits, the bones were broken and the tendons were broken. The palace maid had already vomited blood, and her eyes were suddenly out of breath. By the time the 100 strokes were over, everyone had already sat upright. The intern guards covered their mouths and noses, endured vomiting, and went to carry water to brush the ground, while the unlucky palace maid threw the mats and threw them out. thing.
Regardless of others, Li Qitian listened to the crackling sound of the board, but the anger in his heart dropped a little, smelled the faint smell of blood, and even felt a lot of peace of mind, and he was able to calm down and think about what to do next. what.
Seeing Li Qitian squinting and looking contemplative, Li Guanwen almost shuddered.
To be able to find peace in the midst of tyranny and bloodshed, I am afraid that such people's hearts have already reached a certain degree of ruthlessness. Killing a palace maid is probably as worthless in the eyes of the sage as stepping on an ant.
After a while, Li Qitian, who was in deep thought, finally opened his mouth.
"Li Guanwen."
"The servant is here." Li Guanwen immediately stepped forward and saluted, suppressing the panic and fear in his heart, "What's the sage's order?"
"Immediately take my will, go to the Hu Ben army to agree, order Ji Zeyu and the generals who put him under house arrest to enter the palace, just say what I say, if there is any dissatisfaction, explain it in person in front of me, and conflict in private. It's not what I want to see."
Li Guanwen first breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words.
But when he thought of the Hu Ben army camp, which was probably in a mess, he felt a little numb in his scalp.
This time, I don't know if I will lose my life.
Li Guanwen stiffened his head and saluted solemnly: "Yes, the servant can go to do it." Then he went out to do things as instructed.
Li Qitian rubbed his jaw, thinking about what the big old men in the Hu Ben army meant. If it was really arranged by Pang Xiao, I am afraid that what we will face next is a mutiny.
Li Qitian made several decrees with a sullen face, and arranged for the Gyeonggi Guards and Wucheng soldiers and horses who were on standby in the city today to prepare.
Those who received the decree were panicked for a while, completely ignorant of what the Holy One meant by "getting ready", or what the Holy One wanted them to do, or that they didn't want to understand what the Holy One was going to do at all. In fact, if they can, they really hope that they can not be officials in the capital now and stay away from this place of right and wrong.
The people below were terrified, and Li Qitian also tightened himself into a bowstring.
His hesitation and anxiety continued until Ji Zeyu and the six generals of different ranks in the Hu Ben Army came to the hall together.
When Li Guanwen saw Li Qitian at this time, he had a feeling of the rest of his life.
In fact, when he went to the Huben army camp earlier, Li Guanwen even had the determination to die. If he didn't make any trouble, his little life would be involved in the disputes in the army. If those generals really turned against him, they would not follow him after killing him. It's as easy as killing an ant.
But he actually came back alive!
"Your Majesty." Li Guanwen saluted while suppressing his excitement.
Li Qitian sat in the first place and nodded, and then turned his eyes to the two distinct groups in front of him.
Ji Zeyu stood on one side with a cold face, while the general and captain of the six tiger Ben army who originally followed Pang Xiao stood on the other side. The two parties obviously looked at each other unpleasantly, like a cockfight with fried feathers. Even under the eyes of Li Qitian in the imperial study, they still seemed to be at ease after biting each other.
Li Qitian said solemnly: "Wait, how dare you put the coach under house arrest? Do you know the crime!"
Even if the six of them knelt down on one knee, they clasped their fists together and saluted, "The sage will calm down, and the ministers will be convicted. But there are reasons for the ministers."
Li Qitian listened to the humming of these rough men answering in unison in the imperial study, and his brain was aching, so he pointed at one of the youngest generals with a sullen face: "You say."
"Yes!"
The young captain took two steps forward, knelt down again and said, "Sir, Consort Ji wants to split the team we have been working on for many years, and we are not allowed to bring the original soldiers. We must know that our Tiger Ben Army has already thought about it. Come up with the most suitable training and combat methods for you. Consort Ji wanted to change it for us as soon as he arrived. He clearly wanted to monopolize the power and decompose the abilities of our generals. He wanted to take credit with the saint himself! 100% of the combat power is estimated to be less than 30% after his trouble, we don't want to see the army of tigers and wolves turn into a group of cats and cubs, and this is the reasoning with Ji Consort."