Chapter 153: Fancy urging marriage is really scary(1/2)
After she finished speaking, everyone understood. It turned out that Huo Shujing was obsessed with Xu Muqing's medical skills, so he deliberately made the excuse that she was the saint of Nanyue.
Huo Shujing's face stiffened for a moment and soon recovered, "Is it the saint of Nanyue? It is not something that your lips can deny by opening and closing. Let your blood speak, and let the flute you control speak."
He looked at Xiao Lie, "Your Majesty, bring some poison kings of the five poisons here. Now let Elder Wan demonstrate it, and then let Xu Muqing demonstrate it to see if she can control the five poisons. In the South Vietnam Kingdom, only the saint of the Moon Worshiping Sect and the highly respected elders can control the five poisons."
Afterwards, Huo Shujing brought two cages, which were locked and filled with poisonous snakes spitting out letters. In the other cage, there were centipedes, toads, scorpions, and spiders.
Elder Wan put the flute on his lips and blew it gently. It sounded very strange, intermittent, and a creepy sound rang out. The terrifying bugs in the cage completed various movements with the instructions of the flute.
Either they are lined up, or they make strange noises at the same time, or they keep rushing into the cage, or they jump up or down at the same time.
These actions made the civil and military ministers of Liang's State almost fall off. If it weren't for seeing it with their own eyes, no one could believe that someone could control the poisonous insects and let the poisonous insects obey their own instructions.
"I've asked before. Miss Xu, you are the number one beauty in the capital. You are both talented and beautiful, and you are very knowledgeable about music. You can also listen to this simple song once, right?"
Huo Shujing looked at her provocatively, naturally with an aggressive temperament. If Xu Muqing refused, she would be guilty and scared.
Xu Muqing was not afraid at all. She thought about it and said calmly, "Of course I can learn it, why is it difficult? But I have a sentence to ask Prince Huo if only the saint can control poisonous insects. If it is impossible to control poisonous insects, it means that it is not the saint of Nanyue?"
Huo Shujing was very cautious and cunning, and of course he would not fall into the trap of her words. "That's not necessarily the case. You are a miracle doctor. Who knows if you will use any means to make these insects not listen to you. But controlling poisonous insects can be faked, but the saint's blood cannot be faked."
"You should be the daughter of a saint who escaped from Nanyue and failed to die. You have the blood of a saint shed, and those poisonous blood can kill poisonous insects. So it is not absolutely true to control poisonous insects."
After hearing Huo Shujing's words, Xu Muqing curled her lips casually, "Then what's the use of playing this flute? Isn't it enough to just cut my fingers to get blood? The poisonous insects can die, which means I am a saint. If the poisonous insects don't die, I am not a saint. Isn't that what it means?"
Huo Shu Jing smiled and showed his white teeth, "In order to let the emperor and the ministers of Liang State see clearly and convince everyone, you are the saint of Nanyue State. Of course, the more evidence, the better."
"If I were not the saint of Nanyue, what would you do? I played the flute later and released my blood to prove that I was not a saint at all. Should you apologize to me, Prince of Nanyue?"
"I was well in Liang State. What's your intention to tell me about being a saint? You are clearly provoking the disagreement, and you want the emperor to suspect my father, thinking that my father is traitor and has a disobedient heart! My father is loyal to Liang State and the emperor. If you can't beat my father on the battlefield, you can use this method to slander and frame him. Don't you feel embarrassed?"
Huo Shujing was said by Xu Muqing, but he was not angry and embarrassed. His temperament and cultivation were still elegant. "When you play the flute and release blood, if you are not the Saint of Nanyue, Gu will naturally apologize to you. That's Gu made a mistake. However, when Gu was hunting that day, he saw you control the five poisons with his own eyes, and you can't deny it."
Xu Muqing sneered and stretched out her hand to Huo Shujing, "Then bring the flute over. I will prove my life experience again in front of the emperor. What I shed is the blood of Liang State, and it has nothing to do with you, Nanyue State!"
Huo Shujing gave her the flute, and Xu Muqing put the flute on her lips and gently blew it, which was still the terrifying and weird song that Elder Wan had just played.
The emperor of Liang State and the civil and military ministers both turned their eyes to the poisonous insects in the cage. They just saw the poisonous insects line up, jumping, and making strange sounds.
However, Xu Muqing blew it carefully. After a long time, the poisonous insects didn't move in the cage, just like the weird song that Elder Wan just blew, which made people feel cold on their backs.
Xu Yirong's heart was always tense before. When he saw that the poisonous insects in front of him were not moving, his tense heart finally relaxed. Very well, Mu Qing should be able to get away with it this time.
Huo Shujing had always had a certain look before. As time went by, his eyes showed a shocked and unbelievable expression. She couldn't control the insects. It was obvious that it was possible to hunt, so how did Xu Muqing do it?
After playing a whole song, she put down the jade flute and said to Huo Shujing with a sarcastic look on her face, "Prince Huo, I've finished playing the song. Are you satisfied with this result? Can I control these poisonous insects?"
Huo Shujing turned around and looked at Elder Wan and Elder Gu, trying to find out the reason from them, but the two knowledgeable elders didn't understand what was going on.
Xu Yirong spoke again at this time, "Crown Prince of Nanyue, this is what you said. My daughter can control poisonous insects? This is the ability of the Saint of Nanyue you said? Did you see that Mu Qing can't let the poisonous insects obey her orders at all. Can it be proved that Mu Qing is not your Saint of Nanyue?"
Huo Shujing felt a sense of uneasiness, but he was still calm on the surface and said slowly, "What is General Xu anxious about? Miss Xu may have any way to prevent the poisonous insect from following her instructions?"
"Of course she has a way. Everyone has a way to make the poisonous insects not obey the instructions. You are really laughing at me. Prince Huo, you should find a better one if you find a reason."
Huo Shujing was questioned by Xu Yirong and was disgusted. He felt disgusted and his expression became cold. "General Xu, don't worry, didn't I say that controlling poisonous insects can be faked, but the saint's blood cannot be faked."
Xu Muqing was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and said directly, "Don't be mysterious. I'm not good at experiencing blood to prove my identity? Your saint goddess in Nanyue is inviolable. My blood is not as much poison, and I don't have that great ability. I have been tortured by the poison for more than ten years and still have a good life."
Xiao Lie asked the palace maid to prepare a bowl and put a sharp dagger in front of her.
Xu Muqing did not hesitate or dodge at all, and directly cut a knife on her arm. The bright red blood dripped into the porcelain white bowl, taking up half of the bowl of blood.
"What should I do now? Do I fall on the poisonous insect's head?" She turned her head and looked at Huo Shujing with a relaxed look.
"Although the saint's blood is poisonous, it exudes a fresh and sweet fragrance. As long as some are sprinkled into the cage, the poisonous insects will not be able to control the ground and eat it cleanly. So Miss Xu only needs to pour a little blood in it."
The person who spoke was Elder Wan, his eyes were deep and sharp, and he fell into deep thought. He felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.
Xu Muqing didn't care about these Nanyue elders with ulterior motives. She took the half bowl of blood and poured part into the cage of the poisonous snake, and the other part into the cage of the poisonous scorpions and the poisonous spiders.
Her blood was fatal attraction to poisonous insects. Not long after it was introduced, the poisonous insects licked them cleanly and did not leave for a moment.
"There is another thing. Prince Huo, how long does it take for the poisonous insect to be poisoned to death after drinking the blood of the saint? Is it a quarter of an hour, an hour, or several days? You wouldn't tell me that it would take several days, these poisonous insects left the Zichen Palace, who knows what kind of thoughts you will think."
Huo Shujing said with a gloomy face, "It doesn't take long, one stick of incense is enough."
Xu Muqing smiled brightly, "After that incense stick of time, please apologize to me. I am really not the saint of the Moon Worshiping Sect you are looking for, and I will not be able to make immortal medicine. I really don't have that great ability. Please forgive me."
Everyone held their breath and focused their minds to wait for the poisonous insects to die, but time passed quietly, and the time for an incense stick soon arrived. The poisonous insects were still jumping around, so where could they die?
Xu Yirong's heart was finally completely put back into his stomach. He bent his knees and knelt on the ground with a thud, crying with joy, "Emperor, ministers, you can see it with your own eyes. Mu Qing can't control the poisonous insects at all, and her blood cannot let these poisonous insects die. She is really not the Saint of Nanyue."
After Xiao Lie saw with his own eyes that Xu Muqing's behavior of proving his innocence, his heart completely turned to Xu Yirong. He is now extremely annoyed by the people in the South Yue Kingdom and the North Di Kingdom.
He thought in his heart that the South Yue Kingdom and the North Di Kingdom saw that Xu Yirong was too brave and good at fighting, and they almost won every battle, so he deliberately used Xu Muqing's life experience, which made him, the emperor, suspicious of Xu Yirong, and in the end he could not tolerate Xu Yirong to get rid of him.
These enemy countries are simply ambitions, and using such despicable and vicious means is simply shameless.
"General Xu, I naturally believe in your character and believe that Xu Muqing is your biological daughter. The prince of Nanyue, Xu Muqing is not the saint of Nanyue, so I must not go to Nanyue with you, you have recognized the wrong person."
Xiao Lie didn't want to look at these people anymore, "The Sixth Prince of Beidi, Xu Muqing can't go to the marriage matter, so I can consider other candidates. In addition to Xu Muqing, Liang State also has many beautiful, generous, well-educated and well-educated girls. If the Sixth Prince likes you, just speak up."
"As for Xu Muqing, I still want her to stay and diagnose the concubines in the harem, so she cannot be the object of marriage. Several daughters of Master Zhou's family are also beautiful, so the sixth prince might as well look at those girls first and then talk about it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lord Zhou's face turned pale and his body was shaking.
Murong Ding was not furious either, "Emperor, I only fall in love with Xu Muqing at first sight. Apart from her, I don't want to marry any woman as the concubine. Don't worry, there are still three or four days before the envoys leave the capital. If the emperor changes his mind, we can still discuss it slowly."
"Of course, if the emperor thinks that the bargaining chips are not enough, Beidi Kingdom can add some bargaining chips appropriately, which is not a problem. It is better to add a hundred stallions of war horses and Yeluocheng next to Maoer Mountain. Our Beidi Kingdom has a lot of sincerity. The emperor is just a young and beautiful girl. There are so many bargaining chips, I think it's worth it."
Xu Muqing's cold and firm voice sounded, "Your Majesty, my daughter doesn't want to marry, so please don't waste your time."
Murong Ding looked at her affectionately, "Miss Xu, I fell in love with you at first sight. As long as you agree to the marriage, I will definitely treat you wholeheartedly. I will never let you be wronged and will give you the happiness you want for the rest of my life."
Xu Muqing was indifferent, "Thank you for the wrong love of the sixth prince, but I can't do anything to win the love of others. Miss Wen and you are childhood sweethearts, and they are young, and she is deeply in love with you. How can I hurt her heart? I have no affection for the sixth prince, and it is not sweet to force melon, so I would like to ask the sixth prince to rest."
She didn't believe that Murong Ding would have any love for her or falling in love with her at first sight. A man with ambition would not be fascinated by the beautiful woman.
There are only two possible reasons why Murong Ding insisted on her. One is to regard her as the substitute of the imperial concubine who was the most favored by the Six Palaces in Beidi. She is Xiangyi's biological daughter, and she looks eighty-slight like Xiangyi. She was sent to Beidi's palace as a spy.
Another possibility is that she and Xiao Linye used gunpowder in the southeast region were discovered before. Murong Ding wanted to get the gunpowder formula and even the drawings of those weapons.
However, no matter which one it was, she didn't want to be fooled.
Murong Ding's face showed regret, "Miss Xu is so heartless. She is sincere, but you refused mercilessly. You might as well consider it again. Although Beidi is not as rich and warm as Liang Kingdom, you will never let you down even if you are Princess Ding. You can live the life you can live, and I can swear to the heavens."
Xu Muqing didn't give any face at all, "No matter what you say, I don't agree. The Sixth Prince should not waste time on me."
"By the way, Prince Huo, I am not the Saint of Nanyue. You should apologize to me for spreading my identity before?"
She looked at Huo Shujing and asked with a sharp look.
No matter how shameless Huo Shujing was, he was a little embarrassed at this time and didn't want to apologize at all.
Xu Muqing said with a sarcastic sarcasm, "Captain Huo is not a despicable person who goes against his word, right? Since I am not the saint of Nanyue, you insisted that I am not my father's daughter before, should you apologize for this matter?"
"Why, I think my father's war is so powerful that you can't see you. I want to slander me, and make people in Liang State think that my father is traitorous, and will he be charged with a crime that thousands of people have indicted?"
Huo Shujing clenched his fingers into fists and couldn't help laughing, "Miss Xu, you are more cunning than Gu expected, I admire you. If you weren't the Saint of Nanyue, Gu wouldn't want the position of Prince Gu. Do you dare to swear to God? Although you don't know how you can prove that you are not the Saint of Nanyue, you can't be true or false. One day you will reveal your flaws."
Xu Muqing looked at him with a fool's eyes, "It's really funny that Prince Huo said this. We are not close. Why should I swear to God for you?"
In other words, Huo Shujing, who are you? Do you want me to swear?
"Okay, this matter has ended here. Xu Muqing is not married, nor is she a saint from Nanyue Kingdom. Please ask the Sixth Prince of Beidi and the Prince of Nanyue to stop making trouble for her."
After watching a whole farce, the emperor analyzed the interests in his heart over and over again, he finally decided not to let Xu Muqing marry. He was tortured by cold poison, and his life that was threatened has not yet been lifted. How could he let Xu Muqing leave Liang Kingdom and go to Beidi?
If he is calculating with severe poison again and the imperial doctor in the palace is helpless, should he still survive?
Murong Ding and Huo Shujing showed regret on their faces. Unexpectedly, they could not steal Xu Muqing. This woman was as cunning as a fox.
"If you have something to say, you will leave the court without anything to do." Eunuch Li's sharp voice sounded.
The ministers had finished what they should report, and it was silent. Xiao Lie looked at this scene and directly asked Eunuch Li to shout out for retreating from the court.
The ministers in Zichen Hall dispersed, and the envoys of Nanyue and Beidi countries all looked at Xu Muqing with a fierce look, as if she had refused the marriage and denied that she was a saint of Nanyue and had committed an unforgivable sin.
Xu Yirong looked at his daughter with relief and showed a gratified smile. No matter what, he finally saved his daughter. She didn't have to go to Beidi to marry, nor did she have to go to Nanyue.
Sitting in the carriage, Xu Yirong said to his daughter with lingering fear, "No, it's too dangerous for you to get married yet. Dad wants to find a good family for you. It doesn't matter if the family is almost there. As long as you can love you well, it's great that those from Beidi and Nanyue will not want to make you think."
This daughter who was wholeheartedly considering them must not let her live a bad life in the future, or marry into a distant foreign land.
Xu Muqing was amused and crying, "Dad, I'm really not in a hurry to get married. Don't worry so much. I can protect myself. Look at the Sixth Prince and Prince Huo who have not taken advantage of me? If I don't marry well, I'll be chasing every day and cry every day, you and your mother will feel distressed when they see it, right?"
The key is that she has a man she wants to marry, that is Xiao Linye who looks sick and can die at any time.
But now she will never reveal Xiao Linye’s affairs to her father. If her father gets a bad match, where will she cry?
"No, you have to get married. Those bastards with ulterior motives want to use you. Dad will never let those people succeed. Only marrying is your best way out."
Xu Yirong was very excited by what happened today, and she was so anxious that she wanted to marry her, as if as long as she got married, those who thought about her with ulterior motives and covet her would stop.
"Dad, the prince of Nanyue wants to get my blood from my heart to make the elixir of immortality. I already know this. What do you think of Murong Ding from Beidi, what is he for?"
"Do you want to stuff me into the palace to serve Bei Di that terrible old man who is about to die? He probably won't think that if he is similar to the imperial concubine who is the most favored by the Six Palaces before, he can be favored and control Bei Di's stupid old emperor, right?"
Xu Muqing couldn't figure out what Murong Ding was for, and was willing to give up such a big bargaining chip.
Xu Yirong felt guilty when his daughter's questions made him feel guilty. He did not dare to tell her the real cause of Xiang Yi's death. The stunning imperial concubine actually died suddenly, but was sentenced to death by Emperor Beidi.
Xiangyi passed on information for Liang State, but it was naturally exposed in the end. The spy he had planted in Beidi sent back the news, and it was said that she died miserably.
To be continued...