Summary of the previous chapter: The appearance of King Xin Zhu Youjian forced Wei Zhongxian to finally compromise, and Ma Xiaoquan was successfully rescued from the prison...
With a "wow" sound, a basin of water was poured on Ma Xiaoquan's head and face. Ma Xiaoquan was suddenly awakened, his eyes widened and he saw that King Xin Zhu Youjian was looking at him with a smile.
Ma Xiaoquan felt depressed: Grandma, is there such a thing? It’s really...
Feeling unhappy and unable to show his face in class, Ma Xiaoquan wiped the water on his face, jumped off the sedan, half-knelt in front of King Xin Zhu Youjian, and said respectfully: "Weak minister, please bow to King Xin!"
Zhu Youjian looked at Ma Xiaoquan's body covered with cloth, frowned and said, "I heard that you have leprosy, but is it true?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "Thanks to the miraculous medicine that my Ma family asked for, the leprosy is almost cured, but it still needs some time to recover!"
"Oh? Is there any cure for leprosy?" Zhu Youjian didn't believe it.
Ma Xiaoquan said: "King Xin also knows that my Ma family manages the gathering place for merchants. There are many merchants coming and going there, so naturally we can encounter some weird things. In fact, I have leprosy. To put it bluntly, I have taken several poisons."
, as the saying goes, fight poison with poison to be effective! If the prince doesn’t believe it, I can shed blood to prove the truth!”
Zhu Youjian didn't say anything. He waved, and two of his men immediately brought two vicious dogs and brought two dog bowls with meat in them.
Without saying a word, Ma Xiaoquan bit his finger, squeezed out a few drops of blood, and dropped it into the dog basin.
The two vicious dogs smelled the smell of blood in the dog basin, and hurriedly came forward to eat the meat in the dog basin.
But at this moment, the two vicious dogs suddenly screamed, and within a dozen breaths, they fell to the ground and twitched, with white foam oozing from the dogs' mouths.
Zhu Youjian was shocked and quickly sent people to investigate. After a check, the two dogs were indeed dead. He asked the doctor to come over for a test and found that they had indeed died of poisoning, and it was highly poisonous.
Zhu Youjian said scaredly: "Ma Xiaoquan, your blood won't be poisonous in the future, right?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I just took poison to fight poison with poison, but the toxins in the blood still need a period of time to be excreted, so... Your Majesty, maybe Wei Chen can live here with you, anyway.
Wei Chen was saved by the prince, so Wei Chen sacrificed his life for the prince!"
Zhu Youjian didn't pay attention to the first half of what he said to Ma Xiaoquan, but he heard the second half very clearly.
Zhu Youjian said happily: "So, you are planning to submit to me?"
Ma Xiaoquan sneered in his heart: Damn it, I'm alone and weak now. If we don't find a backer, how can my Ma family and I make a comeback?
"Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. In fact, I originally planned to seek refuge with Your Majesty, but I never found the opportunity! Hehe!" Ma Xiaoquan complimented.
After all, Zhu Youjian was still young and didn't have a big city. Hearing what Ma Xiaoquan said, he was in a good mood.
"Then you can rest peacefully at my place. I will send someone to notify your Ma family!"
Ma Xiaoquan said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
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Although Zhu Youjian felt that he had conquered Ma Xiaoquan, he was still worried about Ma Xiaoquan.
Zhu Youjian is not as ignorant as Zhu Youxiao. Compared with his brother, Zhu Youjian does not have any obstacles in literacy. In addition, Zhu Youjian is deeper and has a deeper city. In addition, he has several personal assistants around him.
His advisers have been giving him advice. Generally speaking, Zhu Youjian is much better than Zhu Youxiao.
It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youjian is worried about Ma Xiaoquan. He believes that if it were not for Ma Xiaoquan being taken out of the prison, Ma Xiaoquan would not surrender to him. Ma Xiaoquan's current surrender is mostly out of desperation and moral reasons. of surrender.
To this end, Zhu Youjian devised several ways to test Ma Xiaoquan...
Ma Xiaoquan also knew that Zhu Youjian was suspicious of him. On the one hand, he was neither humble nor overbearing in attitude. On the other hand, he also began to ask Zhang Mazi to detect Zhu Youjian's next move as much as possible in order to prepare for timely response.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and Ma Xiaoquan's skin and flesh injuries had almost recovered. As for the fabricated leprosy, Ma Xiaoquan continued to explain away that he was "still recovering."
After Wei Zhongxian learned the news that Ma Xiaoquan had been cured of leprosy, he couldn't help but cursed Yi Tong. He urgently summoned his confidants Wang Tiqian and Li Yongzhen to discuss countermeasures.
Wang Tiqian suggested finding an opportunity to attack Ma Xiaoquan, while Li Yongzhen suggested putting Ma Xiaoquan's matter aside first.
Of course, Wei Zhongxian also wanted to find an opportunity to attack Ma Xiaoquan, but he was now in King Xin's palace. If he wanted to harm him, he had to avoid King Xin's guards first. After all this time, it would not be so good if King Xin noticed him. .
Wei Zhongxian dragged his chin and asked Li Yongzhen why he wanted to put Ma Xiaoquan's matter aside first. Li Yongzhen replied, Mr. Wei, your focus should not be on Ma Xiaoquan now. As the saying goes, people leave tea and cool trees fall, and the hozen is scattered. Today's Ma Xiaoquan is no better than Ma Xiaoquan. In the past, as long as the emperor did not restore his power, he would not be able to do much harm to Mr. Wei. Mr. Wei was wasting his time on a person who has leprosy and may not be cured well, so it is better to treat him with leprosy. It's better to focus on fighting with the Donglin Party gang.
Wei Zhongxian frowned and thought for a while, feeling that Li Yongzhen's words made sense.
Recently, because of Ma Xiaoquan's case, there has been a quarrel between the DPRK and the Central Government, especially the Donglin Party. Their own organizations have collectively submitted a letter asking the Emperor to give Ma Xiaoquan a fair verdict. In fact, to put it bluntly, they are asking the Emperor to give Ma Xiaoquan a fair verdict. Ma Xiaoquan was acquitted.
For this reason, Wei Zhongxian secretly suppressed the memorials of the Donglin Party officials, while he kept deceiving Zhu Youxiao and did not let him know the specific situation, which made Wei Zhongxian in a dilemma and very tired.
Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian decided to take Li Yongzhen's suggestion: Ma Xiaoquan sent people to monitor him and put his affairs aside for now. The Donglin Party could no longer let them run wild.
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In Prince Xin's Mansion, Ma Xiaoquan was very well-educated. Of course, in order to pretend to be a bit more handsome, Ma Xiaoquan deliberately ate only vegetables and no meat. Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. He didn't eat meat for half a month. In addition to looking a little ugly, The body's functions were not greatly affected.
Seeing that Ma Xiaoquan was recovering well, Zhu Youjian advised him to go home and have a look. Ma Xiaoquan had this intention, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he had to go around and ask Zhu Youjian if he was "coming" for a small task, and then he returned with peace of mind. Home.
Zhu Youjian was very satisfied with Ma Xiaoquan's attitude, but to be on the safe side, he sent someone to follow Ma Xiaoquan secretly.
Ma Xiaoquan also knew that Zhu Youjian sent people to follow him, but Ma Xiaoquan wanted to despise Zhu Youjian for his actions, because the personal guards Zhu Youjian used now were all trained by Ma Xiaoquan. came out.