Oriole Line

In the chaos, only Zhou Yu's eyes flashed a shadow, and he looked at Qi Dai's back.He recognized the guards who had just returned. To be precise, those people were not guards, but hidden guards, who were assigned to Qi Dai by Zhou Yu a month ago.And just now, what Qi Dai whispered in Zhou Yu's ear just told him that the family members of the hundred officials had been controlled by their secret guards, and that they could be appointed under the guise of Ye Chi's surrender.

Qi Dai actually made such an arrangement for him!Zhou Yu was shocked.In their discussions before the event, only Qi Dai was not assured that the officials would support the replacement king as they thought. "Hmph, if these moths of the imperial court were not lured by interests and pressured by family members, they would not be ruined until the last moment." Zhou Yu remembered that Qi Dai's eyes were fierce at that time, and he judged like this.But he and Pu Chen were unwilling to go too far, and opposed the use of family members to threaten officials.Unexpectedly, Qi Dai secretly acted as the second mover, and at the moment when the arrow was on the line today, it was Qi Dai's second mover who reversed the situation.He killed two birds with one stone, not only threatened all the officials with his family, but also pretended that Ye Chi surrendered, making everyone think that Zhou Yan's situation was over.

Rao, all the officials present were vixens with thousands of years of age, and they all stood on Dai Wang's side without hesitation at this moment.Ye Chi has surrendered, Zhou Yan is already a widow, and his family members are all in Zhou Yu's hands. If he doesn't surrender at this moment, will he wait for Zhou Yu to be crowned as the queen of the autumn?

In the huge Great Hall of Gods and Martial Arts, the sound of kowtowing one by one, Baiguan Shan shouted long live, praising the sage, but the person who was praised an hour ago has now become a person who was forced to abdicate, and the one they shouted long live is precisely Not long ago, they called him a rebellious courtier and a thief.

Amidst the shouts from the whole hall, Pu Chen felt a burst of exhaustion from the bottom of his heart. This courtroom is really boring, so boring...

78, 78.

Zhou Yan looked at the officials who kowtowed all over the floor, and he seemed to have an illusion. For a moment, he almost couldn't tell whether he was in the Chaoyang Palace five years ago, or the Shenwu Palace five years later.The same hall, the same guards, the same ups and downs.Those officials who kneel in front of him every day are still as untrustworthy as they were five years ago, did Ye Chi even betray him?

Zhou Yan sighed deeply. He looked at the trembling Princess Nanping in the corner. No one had remembered that today's Shenwu Hall was supposed to be her wedding ceremony.Zhou Yan felt a sense of being overwhelmed. He quietly watched the situation in the court. In today's situation, it was obvious that Zhou Yu and Pu Chen had colluded for a long time, but he didn't know how strong the alliance between the two was.He still has the last hole card in his hand. This card was not prepared for today's situation, but the matter has come to this point, and he can only gamble.

"Wait." Zhou Yan called out suddenly.As soon as he made a sound, both Zhou Yu and Pu Chen looked at him.Zhou Yan said slowly: "Today, I lost. But I am not the only one who lost. Da Sima, you lost too."

Zhou Yu and Pu Chen looked at each other with puzzled looks in their eyes.

"I probably won't be able to walk out of the Great Hall of Divine Martial Arts today. However, Da Sima, you, like me, will die soon."

Pu Chen himself didn't feel anything, but when he heard a gasp, Wen Tao's face turned pale when he turned his head.Pu Chen forced a smile, said "it's okay" with his mouth, and at the same time tried his best to analyze how credible Zhou Yan's words were.

"Brother Huang, what do you mean?" Zhou Yu frowned.

Zhou Yan said bluntly: "The Great Sima has been poisoned, and only I have the antidote."

Poisoned?When did you get poisoned?Pu Chen tried desperately to recall in his mind.He heard Wen Tao talking to himself: "Impossible..."

Zhou Yu didn't know the truth of Zhou Yan's words, so he tentatively said: "Brother Emperor, you have reached the end of the road, don't do these unnecessary struggles. Da Sima just entered the palace today, how could he be poisoned for no reason?"

Zhou Yan sneered: "Da Sima has always been on guard against me, but today in this hall of martial arts, Da Sima drank a glass of wine from me." Zhou Yan looked at Pu Chen with eyes like poisonous snakes.At the same time, Princess Nanping, who was sitting paralyzed on the ground, suddenly removed the fringe of her hair crown, and also looked at Pu Chen.

liquor?Pu Chen thought, there are a total of four glasses of wine above the hall, all poured by Zhou Yan himself.First, Zhou Yan and Princess Nanping had a drink each, and then he and Zhou Yan had a drink.If the same pot of wine is poured by the same person, if it is poisonous, all three of them should be poisoned. How could Zhou Yan poison himself?Pu Chen secretly got lucky and found that there was no abnormality in his body, so he was even more puzzled.

Zhou Yan looked at his expression, guessed what he was thinking, and said coldly: "Da Sima must be thinking, I drank this wine, and the princess drank it too, how could it be poisonous? Let your people pour the wine just now. The servant of the wine is released, and I will tell you."

Pu Chen lifted his chin, and the guard who restrained the waiter let go, and the waiter who served the wine just now was trembling all over.

Zhou Yan said: "Don't be afraid, go and get the jug."

The servant returned to the Shenwu Hall with the wine glass and jug just now, and presented them to Zhou Yan.

"Go and show it to Da Sima and Dai Wang." Zhou Yan said calmly.

The waiter tremblingly held up the tray and walked in front of Pu Chen and Zhou Yu, knelt on the ground, trembling unceasingly.

Zhou Yu is well aware of Zhou Yan's character, his brother has always been more sensitive than dry, seeing him like this, his heart tightened, and his eyes were full of worry when he looked at Pu Chen.

Pu Chen forced himself to be calm, and said to his servant: "How did you poison?"

The servant tossed the tray in his hand and kowtowed like garlic: "I beg Da Sima to spare my life, I beg Da Sima to spare my life!"

Before Pu Chen said anything, Wen Tao had already snatched a guard's sword with his right hand, pointed at the guard and said sharply: "If you don't say anything, I will kill you with one sword."

The inner waiter flew out of the sky, looked back at Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan nodded, the inner waiter picked up the jug and said: "This jug is called a mandarin duck jug, it is a secret treasure of the big inner. It's... filled with poisoned wine. There is a vent in the mouth of the jug, and if it is not on time, the non-toxic wine will be poured out. If you press the vent, what will come out is... the poisoned wine from the compartment..." As soon as the waiter finished speaking, he kowtowed again.

Pu Chen picked up the jug and looked it over carefully, and saw that there was indeed an air hole at the mouth of the jug. When he knocked on the body of the jug, the sound was dull, and there was indeed an interlayer.Pu Chen knew that he had been hit, he let out a long sigh, and just about to speak, he felt a figure flying by beside him, and in a blink of an eye, it was Wen Tao who flew in front of Zhou Yan with lightness kung fu, pointed his saber straight at Zhou Yan's neck and said, "Unleash it!" Where is the medicine?"

"Tao...Wen Tao!" Pu Chen called out, "Don't be impulsive."

Wen Tao didn't look at him, but moved the sword edge closer to Zhou Yan, his eyes were full of fierceness, and he repeated: "Where is the antidote?"

Zhou Yan only felt that the young man in front of him was very handsome, a white fox in red clothes, but he didn't have time to think about who this person was, he just raised his head arrogantly and said: "I put the poisonous wine with my own hands, and only I know what the antidote is. You You can kill me, but after I die, Da Sima will come to bury me. If you want to save your master, you'd better put down your sword and let me come and make a deal with the king."

"What deal?" Zhou Yu said.

Zhou Yan didn't rush to answer, but showed a meaningful smile.Very well, the relationship between Zhou Yu and Pu Chen is better than he expected.

"Dai Wang, there is no need to deal with him!" Pu Chen said, "Even if I have been poisoned, I don't feel anything at the moment, which means that the poisonous wine is not urgent. Let's imprison Zhou Yan first. As for my poison, you can ask The doctor slowly adjusts it."

"Hmph!" Zhou Yan sneered, "Da Sima may have underestimated Da Nei's poison too much. Da Sima's poison is indeed not an acute poison. But if he doesn't get the antidote today, Da Sima will definitely die within thirty days. !"

"What conditions do you have?" Zhou Yu looked directly at Zhou Yan.

Now, Zhou Yan has nowhere to go, and he confessed in front of all the officials that he poisoned Da Sima. He lost today, but as long as he has breath, whoever wins will win, and no one can decide for him until the moment of death!Zhou Yan said slowly: "Let me and Nanping live together. As long as we are sent out of Luoyang City, I will give you the antidote."

"Is this true?" Zhou Yu has only wanted to get the antidote to save him since he heard about Pu Chen's poisoning just now. Now he heard that Zhou Yan's conditions were not harsh. Their original plan was to put Zhou Yan under house arrest for life after they successfully seized the throne. At this moment, he was impatient and agreed.

"No!" Unexpectedly, Pu Chen has already refused.He took a deep look at Zhou Yu, and then Zhou Yu remembered that in his desperation, he almost forgot that there were thousands of Ye Chi's horses outside Luoyang City.They just used tricks to make the officials think that Ye Chi had surrendered, and within a few hours, Ye Chi would definitely find out about the abnormality in Luoyang Palace.They had to arrange everything properly here before that, forcing Zhou Yan to abdicate, so that the acting king could ascend the throne smoothly.Zhou Yan made this request at this moment. Did he already have doubts about Ye Chi's surrender?

"On behalf of the king, the most important thing is the most important thing." Pu Chen said, looking straight at Zhou Yan, "I, Pu Chen, have already put life and death aside for my actions today. Your Majesty can't threaten me with life and death. When His Majesty poisoned me today , I haven’t done anything yet. It can be seen that His Majesty has long planned to poison the important officials of the court in court. If all the officials present still have doubts about the despicable things that this person has done, then his poisoning me today is the best evidence of all his crimes. .Your Majesty got the wrong position, harmed his siblings, colluded with foreign clans, and killed important ministers. His crimes are obvious and he is not worthy of being a king. From now on, I will serve as the king in place of the king!"

Zhou Yan stared at Pu Chen. In his whole life, he never