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    The current relationship between Xu Yuanqing and Shen Qiwen can be said to be incompatible. The two are about the same age, and only based on the relationship between Empress Xu, it is indeed the relationship between uncle and nephew.

    However, Shen Qiwen never called Xu Yuanqing "uncle".

    Naturally, no one in the DPRK would look for bad luck, but insisted on clinging to this bloodless relationship.

    On the day of the prince's wedding, Xu Yuanqing suddenly brought up this issue, obviously looking for bad luck, and everyone knew it well.

    Shen Qiwen's face was livid, and he stared at him with gritted teeth, his eyes wished to cramp and peel him.

    Emperor Chongming stared at them, and was about to speak out, Empress Xu snorted in a low voice. He hurriedly turned his head and saw her pale face, and nervously asked what was wrong.

    Empress Xu shook her head, and secretly glanced down.

    Holding the wine glass, Xu Yuanqing looked around. There were no foreign ministers. Everyone present was related to relatives. With a smile on his lips, he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Why, isn't today a family banquet?"

    The atmosphere was weird, and no one dared to respond.

    The candlelight in the hall was flickering, as bright as day, and everyone had different expressions. Most of the things had nothing to do with themselves, or they didn't dare to participate and just wanted to protect themselves, or they watched the fire from the other side.

    The fire in the furnace became more and more vigorous, and the sound of the carbon fire "crackling" exploded one after another.

    Emperor Chongming focused all his attention on Empress Xu, Empress Xu knew that Xu Yuanqing was confronting each other, and Emperor Chongming's silence was a gift, so she naturally did not dare to blatantly show favoritism.

    For a long time, I only heard the voice of a childish child, full of doubts, "Aniang, Aniang, why don't you talk, isn't the family dinner a family meal together? Aren't we a family?"

    The voice was crisp and tender, echoing in the hall.

    Xu Yuanqing looked over, the chubby child smiled at him foolishly, Concubine Xuan hugged him in panic and covered her mouth, the child struggled uncomfortably, Concubine Xuan still did not let go.

    The third prince was born of Concubine Xuan. When he was young, his nanny didn't take care of him when he fell into the water. After being rescued, he went crazy. Now that he is in elementary school, he still behaves like a three-year-old child.

    The adults in this hall are not as bold as a child.

    Seeing the third prince who was struggling desperately, Xu Yuanqing burst out laughing. Concubine Xuan covered the third prince's mouth even more forcefully, trembling all over, terrified and afraid to look at the crowd, looking expectantly at the high platform.

    It's a pity that Emperor Chongming's eyes were only on Empress Xu, and he refused to give her a look.

    In the hall, only the third prince struggled to make a "woo-woo" sound, and listen carefully to the sound of carbon fire exploding.

    Xu Yuanqing turned around to look at Shen Qiwen, and saw that he was staring at Concubine Xuan's mother and son with vicious eyes, he moved to block his sight, with a faint smile still on his face.

    "If it wasn't for the family banquet, then I shouldn't have come."

    "Nan Nan." Empress Xu was anxious when she heard the sound, she didn't care about her status, and hurriedly said, "Ying'er knows it's a family feast, so aren't you as sensible as a child?"

    Empress Xu looked up at Concubine Xuan, trying to calm her down.

    Concubine Xuan was grateful, she let go of the third prince slightly, the child looked up at her, and wanted to make a fuss, but when she saw tears in her eyes, she stopped making a fuss for a moment, raised her hand and patted her shoulder lightly.

    When Xu Yuanqing heard Empress Xu speak, she turned around and smiled at her to admit her mistake, "What sister said is true, I am ignorant."

    Emperor Chongming looked at him expressionlessly, and said in a deep voice, "Since it's a family banquet, there are no outsiders here, so don't be restrained, you can say whatever you want."

    As soon as these words came out, everyone understood that Emperor Chongming was not too narcissistic and gave Xu Yuanqing enough face. Empress Xu's favor so far is unavoidable to be envied.

    Xu Yuanqing smiled even more, and looked back at Shen Qiwen, with Ling Dong's cold knife hidden in his eyes, he didn't need to say much, just stood there to make Shen Qiwen lose face.

    "Today's family banquet, we must listen to my uncle's admonition." Lu Qiuling patted Shen Qiwen, leaned over to hold the wine and stood up, dressed in red and pink makeup, glamorous and moving, his eyes were bright under the candlelight, and his every move looked forward.

    She walked up to Xu Yuanqing with a wine glass, leaned over and saluted as a junior, hiding all the viciousness and resentment in her eyes, with an unmistakable gentle smile on her face, "Please give me some instructions, uncle."

    "Princess, no, it's appropriate to be called the princess now." Xu Yuanqing looked as usual, turned to look at Duke Huai, provocative unscrupulously, "Mrs. Lu died early, and Duke Huai worked so hard to raise the princess so well.Hard."

    Duke Huai stared straight at him, clenched his fists on the table, if he hadn't considered his daughter's situation, he really wanted to tear this son into pieces to relieve his hatred.

    Xu Yuanqing turned around and continued to look at Lu Qiuling, "I don't dare to instruct you, it's just that the princess has had a hard time these years, and the prince is not a careful person, so I just want to tell him to take care of the princess."

    Lu Qiuling: "Thank you uncle, the prince treats Ling'er very well."

    She was not like Shen Qi Wencai who was trying to die again, she held her breath and offered a toast with a glass of wine, "Uncle took the time to go to the banquet, Ling'er toasted uncle."

    Xu Yuanqing looked down at the wine she handed over, and then at the full wine in his hand, smiled slightly, motioned the maid to take his wine glass, took the wine Lu Qiuling handed over and drank it down.

    Lu Qiuling raised her eyes to look at him, and a murderous intent flashed in her eyes.

    Emperor Chongming suddenly said, "The empress is too drunk to drink, I will help her to sleep, there is no need to be formal at the family banquet, and all the nobles can enjoy themselves."

    After saying that, he helped Empress Xu up and left in a hurry.

    Everyone saluted, and it took a long time for people to walk away before they were exempted from the ceremony.

    "Snapped!"

    With an astonishing crisp sound, the prince smashed the wine glass and glared at Xu Yuanqing undisguisedly.

    The atmosphere was tense, no one dared to speak out, and Lu Qiuling quietly pushed aside, no longer putting on an air of being educated and reasonable.

    All the people present here are people who know the basics, who has a clear mind about what kind of temperament is, who just acted in a polite and polite scene, and everyone felt disgusted in their hearts.

    Now the biggest actors don't go to the theater anymore, and the actors who can't continue to perform immediately dismantle the stage.

    "Xu Yuanqing!" Shen Qiwen was furious, stepped on the table and jumped out, came straight to Xu Yuanqing, grabbed his collar and shouted angrily, "What are you doing!"

    Being close at hand, the smell of alcohol was disgusting, Xu Yuanqing stopped talking, seeing him furious, he was relieved, he held his breath before turning around, opened his mouth but made no sound.

    Only Shen Qiwen saw his mouth clearly, knew what he said, and was so angry that he pushed him away fiercely, "Ridiculous!"

    Xu Yuanqing had no strength to restrain the chicken, and fell to the ground at once. Everyone wanted to watch the show, but they didn't expect to make a fuss and panicked.

    Seeing that Shen Qiwen was about to make a move, Lu Qiuling hurried forward to hold him down, but Shen Qiwen got angry and pushed her away too. She bumped into the foot of the table unexpectedly and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

    Seeing this, Duke Huai hurriedly got up to help Lu Qiuling, staring at Shen Qiwen with disappointment in his eyes.

    Shen Qiwen turned a deaf ear, immersed in his own anger, pointed at Xu Yuanqing and roared: "You should have died long ago!"

    "His Royal Highness, everything I say is true, and there is absolutely no falsehood." Xu Yuanqing lay weakly on the ground, propped his hands on the ground to make himself more comfortable, his eyes were full of sadness, "The princess and others will see it with their own eyes. If you don't believe it, it's okay."Inquire."

    He didn't have enough breath to speak, and his breath was weak, but now his words are clear and clear, everyone whispers, and it spreads to everyone's ears like drums and flowers.

    The furious Shen Qiwen was startled, and hurriedly looked around for Lu Qiuling.

    Lu Qiuling was also stunned when he heard the words, and then he was terrified and grabbed Duke Huai's hand nervously.

    Seeing her like this, Duke Huai knew the truth of the matter, patted her hand back to calm her emotions, stared at Xu Yuanqing and asked, "Young man with a yellow mouth, stop talking nonsense!"

    Xu Yuanqing fell to the ground and no one dared to help him. He gasped for breath and supported himself on the ground. His feet wobbled unsteadily, and the mole under his eyes was bright red. He paused word by word, "Da, Xiang, Guo, Si."

    The expressions of Lu Qiuling and Duke Huaiguo changed suddenly. Shen Qiwen stared at Lu Qiuling. Seeing the change in her expression, he was furious and clenched his fists in disbelief.

    Xu Yuanqing lowered his eyes and sneered, and asked kindly, "Do you want me to call witnesses to confront him?"

    Now that this happened, Lu Qiuling felt guilty and did not dare to provoke Xu Yuanqing, nor did she dare to answer her words. Her eyes were full of tears, and she looked like a rabbit in shock. Lihua rushed towards Shen Qiwen with rain, "Brother Prince, I don't have one."

    She is beautiful and charming, Shen Qiwen couldn't resist the temptation, he hurriedly hugged her in his arms, smelling the fragrance of her body, fascinated, and put Xu Yuanqing's provocations behind him.

    Duke Huai held his breath and looked at Xu Yuanqing with stern eyes.

    Xu Yuanqing didn't think about bringing down anyone with this, he just used it to buffer the atmosphere and brew up his emotions, so as not to use the big move at the beginning, the impact is too strong, and it would be bad if someone fainted.

    "Your Majesty has slandered you, I will report to His Majesty..."

    Duke Huai made an impassioned speech, but before he finished speaking, Xu Yuanqing spurted blood all over his face, and immediately fell straight down.

    The hall screamed and fell into chaos.

    Shen Qiwen was also shocked by the screams, and was stunned when he saw Xu Yuanqing who fell to the ground.

    Xu Yuanqing fell to the ground with blood still dripping from his mouth. The thing happened so fast that people panicked.

    After a while, everyone gradually calmed down, but still no one took a close look at Xu Yuanqing, let alone helped him, or called him a doctor.

    "Aniang, Aniang! What's wrong with him! Do you want to call the imperial doctor?"

    The third prince's voice echoed in the hall again, but Concubine Xuan didn't hold him back, she ran up to Xu Yuanqing and reached out to touch his blood-stained face.

    Concubine Xuan hurriedly stepped forward to pull him back, looking at the silent Shen Qiwen and Duke Huai, cowardly hugging the third prince and daring not to make a sound.

    "boom!"

    The door of the main hall was kicked open, Xiang Changyuan broke into it, lifted Xu Yuanqing up on the ground, and shouted angrily, "Call the imperial doctor!"

    Shen Qiwen: "To the long run! You are presumptuous!"

    Xiang Changyuan turned a blind eye and frantically wiped off the blood on Xu Yuanqing's face. The bright red blood covered his entire face, and the more he wiped, the more blurred he was.

    Xu Yuanqing grabbed his hand, shook his head strenuously at him, and opened his mouth to ask, "Why are you here?" His voice was like a mosquito's, Xiang Changyuan didn't hear him, but he understood what he meant.

    The person he arranged was Li Yiming, how could it be him, Xu Yuanqing didn't want to implicate him.

    Xiang Changyuan held his hand, his eyes were sharp, seeing someone wanted to leave, he glanced over viciously, "Who dares to leave!"

    He was so angry that no one dared to move again.

    Shen Qiwen was also shocked for a moment, and then he came back to his senses and wanted to scold him, when he heard a shout from outside the hall, "The imperial doctor is here! The imperial doctor is here!"

    Several imperial physicians came in a hurry, one imperial physician stumbled and crawled in front of Xu Yuanqing, the medicine box was smashed and the medicine scattered, he didn't dare to pick up the hasty pulse diagnosis.

    The other imperial physicians stood nervously by the side, wiping their sweat frequently.

    Everyone calmed down, and after a while, the imperial doctor turned pale with shock, and said in a trembling voice, "Poisoned, my son is poisoned."

    As soon as this remark came out, the hall screamed again, the sound of panic pierced the eardrums, the timid people ran around in panic, and some started to vomit, the hall was in chaos.

    Xu Yuanqing itself is poisonous.

    Those who knew did not dare to speak out, and those who did not know were panicked.

    Duke Huaiguo scolded blankly, "Absurd! We eat with the prince, why is nothing wrong!"

    It was useless for him to make a sound, and the hall was still in chaos.

    "Boom!"

    A loud bang in the hall drowned out the shouts, everyone was silent, looking for the reputation, there was a black-faced young man in the corner, and in front of him was an overturned desk.

    Under the eyes of everyone, the black-faced young boy slowly got up, bowed his hands, and said calmly, "Chen Wenjing, the servant of the punishment department, the son's poisoning has not been found out yet, I hope the Duke, the prince, the princess and all the adults, please be safe and don't be impatient.Please ask the imperial physician to check whether there is poisoning."

    Only then did everyone calm down, regardless of their status and airs, they rushed to call the imperial doctor for a pulse diagnosis.

    Chen Wenjing refused the imperial doctor's pulse diagnosis and told him to take the pulse of the timid Concubine Xuan and her son first. He walked straight up to Shen Qiwen and said respectfully, "This matter is of great importance. Please also ask the crown prince, the princess and the Duke to check it too.".”

    Everyone checked for poisoning, it would be strange if they didn't check the pulse, so they had to pretend to check it too.

    Lu Qiuling kept staring at Xu Yuanqing, thinking of the glass of wine she was toasting, she was frightened and frightened, looking for the wine glass everywhere, but the hall was noisy, she did not dare to act rashly.

    Blessed to the heart, she thought of an idea, and asked quickly, "Did the father and the queen send someone?"

    Chen Wenjing: "In the direction of the princess, I have sent someone to ask for pulse."

    Xu Yuanqing looked at everything around him, the candlelight was flickering, he couldn't see clearly, he grabbed Xiang Changyuan's arm and borrowed strength to do it a little bit, so that his vision was wider and he could better see the chaos around him.

    Beads of sweat appeared on Xiang Changyuan's forehead, and he looked at him nervously, "Your Majesty?"

    "I'm fine." Xu Yuanqing patted his hand, knowing it well, it was just a play, he wouldn't put himself in it, he punched a set before he came, and he vomited blood only after he was so angry.

    It is normal to be unable to speak due to qi deficiency at the beginning, but it is not a big problem to be able to speak after a while.

    The news from the emperor was all right, everyone in the hall had their pulse checked, only Xu Yuanqing was seriously poisoned, and everyone began to want to watch a show and discuss in whispers.

    Duke Huai reminded coldly, "Since only Shizi Xu was poisoned, I'm afraid it's not a matter of the banquet."

    Chen Wenjing replied respectfully, "Your Majesty's words, I don't dare to make a judgment in vain, and I asked the imperial physician to check all the bowls, chopsticks, and cups that your son has just used."

    After speaking, he signaled the imperial physician to do something, Duke Huai was sullen.

    Chen Wenjing is the Empress Dowager's nephew, today's seat at the banquet is not due to the Empress Dowager's favor, but to His Majesty Long En. He is impartial in judging cases in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so His Majesty likes him very much, and is often summoned by His Majesty to accompany him in the palace.

    Therefore, although he is only a small servant, there are not a few high-ranking officials and ministers who fawn on him.

    Duke Huai ignored government affairs for many years and knew little about him. Seeing that he was so recalcitrant, he was stopped by Shen Qiwen when he was about to train him. Lu Qiuling also reluctantly held him back and signaled him not to be impulsive.

    Xiang Changyuan asked Xu Yuanqing in a low voice if he should be carried to the chair, because the ground was too cold for fear of hurting his body.

    Xu Yuanqing refused, he couldn't see the misery on the ground in the chair, so he had to do enough scenes to act out this one.

    Lu Qiuling stared nervously at the imperial physician's examination. She glanced at the cup on the ground, and quickly moved her eyes away, not daring to look any further.

    A while later, the imperial physician checked Xu Yuanqing's seat and reported nothing unusual.

    Some people in the hall were puzzled, some were relieved, and some were in disbelief.

    Chen Wenjing repeatedly confirmed with the imperial physicians that the results of several imperial physicians were consistent, and there was no difference.

    Just when Duke Huai was about to speak out, Xiang Changyuan cut him off, pointed to the wine glass on the ground and said, "I haven't finished the investigation yet."

    Lu Qiuling's pupils dilated, as if he had been hit in the heart.

    The imperial physician inspected according to his words, frowning tightly, and hurriedly offered the wine glass, "There is poison in the wine."

    "What!"

    Some people were shocked, and some people exclaimed, "That's the bar that the princess respects!"

    Lu Qiuling almost fainted, she hurriedly grabbed Shen Qiwen's arm, shook her head and argued, "Brother Prince, I don't have one."

    "Absurd! Absurd!" Duke Huai guarded Lu Qiuling behind him, raised his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows, "If you are poisoned, you don't save people first, but investigate the poison first. What's the point! Now that you have bitten my daughter, I think the son is a thief calling for a thief.Poison yourself!"

    What Mr. Huai Guo said is very true, this is a glaring loophole in the play, but everyone only cares about themselves and watching the play, regardless of the life and death of others, so naturally they will not notice this.

    It's a pity that it's useless for him to bite this point.

    Shen Qiwen couldn't understand what Xu Yuanqing was going to do, and he didn't come for him, he was glad but puzzled, at this moment he didn't care about Lu Qiuling's innocence, his mind was confused.

    Seeing that he didn't save her, Lu Qiuling felt annoyed, let go of him and testified, "This wine glass belongs to me, if I poisoned her, wouldn't it be obvious to surrender?"

    As she spoke, she picked up the jug on the table, quickly snatched the wine glass from Chen Wenjing's hand, poured the wine and drank it, Duke Huai couldn't stop it.

    Lu Qiuling drank it all in one gulp, looked at Xu Yuanqing with a sneer at the corner of her mouth, and smashed the jug on the ground, the wine overflowed and smelled, she raised her hand to wipe her mouth, and held up the wine glass.

    "If it is poisonous, I will show my ambition by death."

    Xu Yuanqing raised his eyes to look at her. In the candlelight, the beauty's eyes were full of tears, and the wine was condensed on her face. She was stubborn and shattered, and she was indeed shockingly beautiful.

    Chen Wenjing signaled the imperial physician to do another examination.

    The imperial physician took turns to go into battle, concentrating on it, not daring to be sloppy, dozens of silver needles did not change color, and were non-toxic.

    The imperial doctor who had just made a wrong test knelt down and begged for mercy.

    "Bastard!" Lu Qiuling raised his hand and slapped the imperial physician, furious, "Drag him out!"

    "Stop!" Xiang Changyuan stopped him.

    Everyone looked at him. After he came, he kept guarding Xiang Changyuan without making a sound. Everyone didn't pay attention to his existence. It was only at this moment that they came to their senses that he was the first one to break into the palace.

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