Liu Ruoxin asked, "Have you finished the medicine Ouyang asked you to prepare?"
Zhu Yipin chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I promise I'll put it all in the wine."
The emperor sat on a high throne, surrounded by an awning made of fine silk. In front of the table was a huge phoenix carved from ice, shining lifelike in the sunlight.
The prince looked at the time, stood up and announced: "The auspicious time has arrived, the ice-giving ceremony begins!"
The emperor picked up a hammer and said loudly: "The prosperity of our country in the Ming Dynasty is due to the contributions of all my dear friends. I would like to express my gratitude here." Then he hit the ice sculpture hard, causing ice shards to fly everywhere.
After the emperor broke the entire ice sculpture into pieces, the young father-in-law who had been waiting for a long time hurried forward, packed the ice cubes in a bowl, and poured them into a large wine vat.
After a cup of tea, the little father-in-law carefully poured the wine into the jugs one by one. He was more nervous now than ever. This wine was very precious, and he would die if he spilled even a little bit.
The palace maid picked up the filled wine jugs and distributed them to the ministers below. Each table received a jug.
These civil and military ministers had long been impatient, and when they got the wine flask, they each poured a glass. You must know that these days, it is not easy to drink a glass of ice-cold wine in the summer. It only happens once a year.
The emperor picked up the wine glass and said: "Everyone loves you." Then he looked at the ministers below and said with a smile: "I will do it first as a courtesy!" After saying that, he raised his head and drank.
The ministers stood up, picked up their wine glasses, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the gift!" They all drank the wine in their hands. Except for Ouyang and Guo Juxia, several ministers on the other side just put it to their mouths and made a show of it.
When the emperor saw the actions of those ministers, a sneer appeared on his lips.
While the ministers were drinking happily, one of the ministers suddenly started to have a stomachache, and then it seemed as if it was contagious. All the officials, both civil and military, started holding their stomachs, lying on the table and whining, and some even lay down on the ground and rolled around. .
"Ah~" A shrill scream sounded, and the scene suddenly became silent. I saw Ouyang holding his belly and shouting exaggeratedly.
Guo Juxia next to him moved to the side without leaving a trace, with an expression like "I don't know you." The emperor on the stage also twitched his lips slightly when he saw this, thinking that your kid's acting was too exaggerated.
The scene became chaotic again. Two of the ministers who had not drank felt that something was wrong with the situation and began to pretend to be in pain. Only one of them sat firmly on the Diaoyutai with a calm look on his face.
Seeing that the time was almost up, he immediately stood up from the table and shouted at the emperor: "Hunjun, you also have today!" Then he looked up to the sky and laughed.
The emperor put on his face and said mockingly: "So it's you, are you the only one?"
The minister said proudly: "You didn't expect it to be me! That's right. You are busy with your debauchery every day, so why would you care about this? Everyone in your court is full of incompetent people who are sycophants. Today I will eradicate them and send them away." Let’s go to hell together. Someone come and capture this foolish king!”
There was a sound of armor scraping, and a large group of armored warriors ran into the venue.
The rebel minister smiled proudly, waved his hand and said, "Get them all!"
Clang! The sound of drawing a sword sounded, and the rebel minister felt the coldness on his neck and shouted: "What's going on? Do you want to rebel?"
"You are obviously the one who rebelled." Ouyang stood up and walked to the rebel minister.
The latter pointed at Ouyang and said: "You, you are not poisoned??!!"
Ouyang said speechlessly: "I really don't understand, how did you come up with this idea with your intelligence? You must have been given guidance by an expert, right?"
At this time, the emperor also stepped down from the high platform and said in a cold voice: "You actually poisoned the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty."
The rebel minister looked at the emperor and said, "You, you drank, why weren't you poisoned?"
The emperor smiled proudly and said, "Is your trick enough to harm me?" After saying that, he waved his hand, and Zhu Yipin and others walked out from behind the screen.
The minister's face was ashen now, and all that awaited him was the execution of his clan.
At this time, the ministers in the audience began to fart, and the sound of farts continued continuously. Hundreds of ministers farted together. The scene was unprecedented.
Guo Juxia quickly stood up, ran to Ouyang and said, "Good guy, if you hadn't ventilated me, Your Majesty, I would have looked really ugly."
The minister looked at the lively ministers below and said in shock: "How is it possible? They are not poisoned?"
The emperor was happy at this moment, so he spoke a few more words, and said with a smile: "Xizuo Liuzhu sent by your boat association has been captured by me. Although she has committed suicide, the people I invited still found out your plan. That means adding hemlock poison to the ice. Am I right?"
The rebel minister shook his head and said: "No, that's not right. We guess that you must know that the ice is poisonous, so we also manipulated the wine. How could we make a mistake?"
Ouyang snorted: "You are the only one who knows how to change the wine, don't we know how to change all of them?" Then he waved his hand and asked people to take him down.
"Wait a minute!" said the rebel minister: "Last question, where did you get so much ice?"
The emperor rolled his eyes and said, "It's none of your business! Take him down!"
After the ministers farted, the ministers became more energetic. The emperor looked at the ministers and murmured: "This is just a small fish. The big fish has not yet entered the net. Is the bait I put out not fragrant enough?" "
Ouyang smiled and said, "It's okay. If you make a nest, the fish will follow the nest to eat the bait. Just wait."
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, for resolving this crisis." Wang Zhi emerged from nowhere and saluted the two of them with a smile. When passing by Cao Shaoqin, he gave him a meaningful look.
Liu Ruoxin, who was wearing eunuch uniform, looked excited and would have shouted out if it wasn't for the wrong occasion.
Cao Shaoqin on the side looked a little ugly. He didn't know what he was thinking, and he looked in the direction where the minister was taken away from time to time.
The emperor returned to the imperial study and was in a good mood. He looked at Ouyang and Zhu Yipin and said, "Tell me, what reward do you want?"
Ouyang didn't refuse and said with a smile: "If you want a reward, give me a few thousand taels."
The emperor waved his hand and said: "I'll give you five thousand taels of gold." Then he looked at Zhu Yipin and said: "What about you? How many shops did you want last time..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Yipin quickly shook his head and said: "No, no, no, Your Majesty, you heard me wrong. I didn't say that. You should reward me with some money." After saying that, he wiped away his sweat and said I went through a lot in the palace over the past few days, and once I almost lost my life.
The emperor looked at Zhu Yipin's frightened look and remembered what happened a few days ago. He laughed loudly and said, "Okay, okay, I will also reward you with five thousand taels of gold. By the way, I will go back and apologize to Miss An'an."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Ouyang thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I may not enter the palace often in the future, and I cannot come to protect you at any time." Then he took out a book from his arms: "This book was given to me by a close friend of mine in the martial arts world." I’ll give you my collection.”
