Cang Qiao glanced at the box in Emperor Ming's hand, and sure enough, there was only one left.
Seeing Emperor Ming holding the treasure carefully, he chuckled: "It seems that Your Majesty is still unwilling to tell the truth to me. I am very sad."
Emperor Ming was stunned, and immediately put the red and black pill into his mouth as if he was proving his innocence: "How could I not tell the truth? I just hate that this pill is not enough!"
How could he not like the pill that Cang Qiao gave him? He knew that it might be poisonous and addictive, but he couldn't quit it at all.
Cang Qiao looked at Emperor Ming's actions and smiled slightly: "What I'm saying is that you seem to have been secretly taking pills given to you by others recently. This shows that you don't trust me."
Emperor Ming was shocked before the effects of the medicine took effect, and immediately denied: "Of course not! I didn't take anyone else's medicine!"
Cang Qiao looked at Emperor Ming's angry look and whispered: "Your Majesty, I have even seen the people who helped you make elixirs and the 'materials', why did you hide it from me?"
When Emperor Ming saw this, he was immediately panicked. What on earth did Cang Qiao know?
He suppressed his panic and coughed a few times: "Don't be offended, my dear, I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you would think too much like you are now. The one I trust most is your dear!"
But Cang Qiao smiled: "Why does your Majesty say one thing and do another? Since you have a new person to offer you the elixir, I believe that the elixir is much better than my own, and you don't need my elixir anymore!"
Emperor Ming panicked and immediately got out of bed: "Ai Qing, I am not..."
When he tried to eat less than one pill, he felt unwell and extremely uncomfortable.
Cang Qiao said that this elixir was extremely difficult to refine, so he always gave him a sufficient amount, always two or three pills, two or three pills!
As a result, he couldn't stand up at all in front of Cang Qiao!
But Cang Qiao had no intention of listening to him. She had already stood up and said calmly——
"Looking at your Majesty's appearance, it seems that you have eaten those new elixirs that were refined with the flesh and blood of young children. Your immortal body is about to be completed. It's time to retreat and practice."
"No!" Emperor Ming was completely panicked.
What does Cang Qiao mean? Not only did he not give himself the elixir, but he also wanted to put himself under house arrest?
Emperor Ming rushed over and wanted to grab Cang Qiao's sleeve to explain, but he couldn't even touch the sleeve. He was stopped by two young eunuchs again.
"Be presumptuous, be presumptuous, I want to talk to love, what are you doing to stop me!" At this time, the medicine had already taken effect, and Emperor Ming furiously tore the little eunuch apart.
Cang Qiao had already walked out of the door slowly.
"Love you! Love you!" Emperor Ming tried desperately to rush out.
Seeing Emperor Ming's crazy and ferocious look, the two young eunuchs looked at each other and impatiently used force at the same time——
"Bang!" With a sound, they threw Emperor Ming directly to the ground.
Does this old guy really think he is still the emperor who always says the same thing?
Emperor Ming was beaten to a pulp and could only watch the door being closed in front of him with a "Bang!!" sound.
The crisp sound of locks locking made Emperor Ming fall into fear. He rushed to the door and pulled open the doors and windows desperately - "Cang Qiao! No! You can't do this to me!"
Outside the door, Cang Qiao did not go far, but stood very close to the door, looking down at him through the openings in the door and window.
Emperor Ming froze: "Cang... Qiao..."
Because the man in front of him had his back to the dim palace lantern overhead, his pale face was hidden in the darkness, and he was dressed in a python robe that was as red as blood, full of a weird and terrifying sense of oppression.
But his voice was soft and charming: "Your Majesty, you know that I am loyal to you. Today is the fifteenth day. It is an auspicious day. From now on, you will be ready to disintegrate and ascend. I will definitely
It will make everything go smoothly for you - the body will be dismembered."
"What...what..." Emperor Ming trembled all over.
The so-called corpse dissolution means that the body of a person who has attained Taoism has completely decayed and disintegrated, leaving no remains, or the body has transformed into an object (such as clothes, staff, sword) and ascended to heaven.
But he has already taken the elixir sent by the Taoist priest of the Zhou family. How can he ascend to heaven? He can only become a demon!
But the figures at the door had already drifted away, leaving only the two young eunuchs who were smiling and explaining to their father-in-law that they had just promoted Emperor Ming——
"Your Majesty wants to disintegrate his corpse and ascend to heaven. The food in the human world is a hindrance to your Majesty. Your Majesty only needs water and the elixirs in the alchemy room."
The two young eunuchs said respectfully: "Yes!"
"No! No! Open the door quickly! I don't want to be dismembered, and I can't be promoted to immortality!" Emperor Ming took the medicine and his whole mind was confused. He frantically scratched the doors and windows until his fingers were dripping with blood without even noticing.
But the two eunuchs outside the door stood indifferently: "Your Majesty, my servants will respectfully deliver your body to you."
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"Master, have you given up on your previous plan and allowed His Majesty to 'dispose' the corpse so casually?" He and the father-in-law asked Cang Qiao in a low voice.
Cang Qiao chuckled: "Of course not. Watching His Majesty keep struggling between hope and despair is the fun of my boring life."
He paused and slowly fiddled with the beads in his hand: "Besides, the young lady is leaving, and I didn't want to do it so quickly, so as not to worry her on the road."
"But Your Majesty, you don't realize the kindness of your master, you stretched your hand too far, and you actually want to touch the young master." Eunuch Qi sighed.
He knew that the master had not "played enough" yet, and would not let His Majesty suffer all the hardships, and would not let His Majesty "become an immortal" so easily.
Cang Qiao smiled: "Yes, so I have changed my mind, so I will advance the plan so that Your Majesty can exhume the corpse as soon as possible."
He and the father-in-law thought for a while: "Then if your majesty plans to let the royal secret guards go to His Highness King Qin and the Zhou family to ask for help and let them rescue him, will you continue to let the secret guards do whatever they want?"
"Of course, if they don't move, how can we watch the big show? I have been planning for so long, and just come on stage with my voice, how can I let someone ruin a good thing?" Cang Qiao's slender eyes narrowed.
After the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the month, the court begins.
The government offices are open, and all civil and military officials are returning to their posts.
After all, this year the imperial court has two major things to do at the beginning of the year——
First, the King of Qin went out to mobilize the three armies.
Second, Concubine Ming is preparing to go to the southwest with a large amount of medicinal herbs and doctors.
After all, it's all between this "couple".
But at this juncture, His Majesty, the great emperor of the empire, began to cultivate immortality again, began to ignore the government affairs, and even publicized that if everything went well, he would "ascend to immortality."
The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty have become numb, and they can be brought down with just a few curses in secret, otherwise what else can they do?
Fortunately, Jiu Qiansui continued to come out to preside over the overall affairs of the government as usual, and there was no trouble.
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"At least there is no big trouble on the surface." Mr. Hong, the first counselor beside King Qin, said to King Qin who was sitting at the top.
At this time, King Shangguan Hongye of Qin was already wearing cold light armor, with heavy arrows on his waist, and looked at his confidants sitting in the secret room with a gloomy expression.
"The demon Cang Qiao controls the government, and now he suddenly puts my father under house arrest. He doesn't give him food, but only water and pills. He clearly has evil intentions!"
Another counselor said: "Your Majesty is now protected by secret guards. In addition, your Majesty has been cultivating immortals all year round and is accustomed to fasting. There should be no worries about his life in the short term!"
Shangguan Hongye's face was complicated and filled with anger: "However, Cang Qiao's sudden action disrupted our actions and forced me to make a choice whether to save the driver or not!"
If he didn't rescue him, his father might not be able to support him at all. He would lead an army back from the border.
But if he comes to rescue him, he will definitely use his forces in the Forbidden Army and the secret troops in the capital camp to expose his plan to his father!