Datang: Just been appointed as the crown prince, the counterattack system is here

Chapter 242: Chaos at the Banquet! Tonight, a Murder! [Seeking a Monthly Ticket]

"Ah! The horses are going crazy! Run!"

"Run! There's a horse coming this way!"

"Help! Help me!"

Countless shouts, exclamations, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly rang out inside and outside the polo field.

Li Shimin and Li Yuan on the Chrysanthemum Terrace were also shocked by this scene and their faces changed drastically. They subconsciously took two steps back.

The concubines, princes and princesses all gathered together, trembling.

Only the generals led by Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin remained calm in the face of danger. They rushed out of the banquet and shouted loudly to the surroundings.

"Weapons! Bring me weapons!"

"Archer! Where's the archer?!"

"Quick! Stop those crazy horses! Protect His Majesty!"

Hearing these shouts, the surrounding imperial guards finally reacted and rushed forward with weapons in hand.

The surrounding Tang Dynasty civil servants, foreign envoys, palace maids and eunuchs fled the banquet in panic.

For a moment, the entire banquet hall was in chaos.

The polo field was filled with smoke and dust. Dozens of horses suddenly went crazy, raised their iron hooves as big as bowls, and ran and roared wildly on the polo field.

Li Chengqian tightly grasped the reins in his hands, veins popped out on his forehead, and the needle-like pain came again, this time accompanied by a strange buzzing sound.

"Your Highness, be careful!"

Just when Li Chengqian was slow to react due to the pain, Xue Rengui's roar instantly woke him up, and he saw a chestnut horse running towards him at high speed.

Without any hesitation, he adjusted his body and let the horse pass by him brushing against his clothes.

At the same time, Xue Rengui rushed to his side in fear and asked, "Your Highness, are you okay?"

"It's okay, what's going on?"

Li Chengqian asked in a deep voice, suppressing his headache.

Xue Rengui frowned, then looked around the scene, and finally his eyes fell on Princess Sakura. He pondered and said, "Maybe it has something to do with the Japanese envoy!"

"Japanese envoy?"

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "Do you have any evidence?"

Xue Rengui thought for a moment, then said thoughtfully:
"Prince, do you remember my chestnut horse? The one that just charged over here? It went crazy during the last round, and it was only after Princess Sakura sprinkled some pink powder on it that it went crazy. So, I suspect that the madness of these horses on the field is closely related to Princess Sakura!"

"This"

Upon hearing this, Li Chengqian couldn't help but look thoughtful.

If the reason why these horses went crazy was as Xue Rengui expected, then this incident was far beyond his expectations.

Because his first target was the mysterious woman who sneaked into his room that night.

But that mysterious woman was obviously not Princess Sakura.

So, if this matter is related to Princess Sakura, then what is the reason for his sudden headache?

Is it just a coincidence?
Just as Li Chengqian was lost in thought, a cry suddenly rang out from the Chrysanthemum Terrace: "Hurry up and save Changle!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Chengqian suddenly woke up and looked in the direction of the voice.

I saw a white crazy horse rushing towards Li Lizhi at a high speed.

Li Lizhi's trouser leg seemed to be caught in the stirrup, and no matter how she struggled, she could not get free.

The white horse was very fast, and even if Li Chengqian ordered Xue Rengui to rescue her, it was too late.

"Princess, be careful!"

Just as the white horse raised its front hooves and cast a shadow over Li Lizhi's pale face, a slender figure leaped over in a flash, hugged Li Lizhi, rolled over a few feet away, and hit its back heavily on the points gong.

"Chong'er!"

When Changsun Wuji discovered that his eldest son had rushed up at some point, he was completely stunned.

Especially when he saw Chang Sun Chong hit the points gong hard and spit out blood, his face turned pale with fright.

He ignored the dissuasion of those around him and the danger of being hit by the mad horse. He resolutely rushed to Chang Sun Chong and asked anxiously: "Chong'er! Are you okay?!"

"Cough cough."

Facing his father's anxious questioning, Chang Sun Chong coughed twice while suppressing the pain, and said with bloodshot teeth, "Father, please go check on the princess and see how she is doing."

"Silly child, what are you doing?"

Changsun Wuji was about to complain to Changsun Chong, but suddenly realized that this was a perfect opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty. So he rolled his eyes and asked Li Lizhi in a low voice, "Changle, you..."

"Uncle, I'm fine."

Changle was still in Changsun Chong's arms at this moment. Maybe it was because she was too frightened or it was her first time having such close contact with a man, her cheeks were flushed and her voice was as soft as a mosquito.

Changsun Wuji and Changsun Chong both breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that she was fine.

Just then, Yuchi Gong rushed over with his men.

"Master Changsun, please leave here with us quickly. It's very dangerous here!"

"Okay, my son was injured while protecting the princess. Let's escort the princess away from here first!" Changsun Wuji blurted out.

Yuchi Gong was slightly stunned and thought to himself, are you crazy? Your son is injured, so why don’t you send the princess away first?

But just as Yuchi Gong was stunned, a gentle voice of struggle came from Changsun Chong's arms; "Send cousin Chong away first, I'm fine and can walk on my own."

Hearing this, Changsun Wuji smiled knowingly, thinking that this daughter-in-law is here to stay! She knows how to care for others!

Yuchi Gong looked at Zhangsun Wuji with disdain, thinking that he was indeed an old fox!
However, Princess Changle was fine, so they could explain to Li Shimin.

However, although Princess Changle had escaped danger, the mad horses in the field were still running wildly. Even though generals like Qin Qiong, Chang He, and Cheng Yaojin led the imperial guards to control them at the risk of their lives, they were unable to stop them from going crazy.

"No, these horses are going crazy, it's definitely not caused by Princess Sakura's powder!" Li Chengqian shook his head thoughtfully.

"why?"

Xue Rengui looked at Li Chengqian with confusion.

Li Chengqian pointed at a frantic brown horse and said solemnly, "Look at that horse! Although it's running, jumping, and roaring like crazy on the field, every time it runs to the edge of the field, it turns back and continues running, jumping, and roaring. It's as if there's something at the edge of the field preventing it from running out!"

"This"

Xue Rengui looked in the direction Li Chengqian pointed and observed carefully for a moment, and found that the horse was just as Li Chengqian said, no matter how crazy it was, it would not run out of the stadium.

"What's going on?"

Just when Xue Rengui was puzzled, Li Chengqian suddenly said, "Here they come! There are three mad horses charging towards us this time!"

"What!?"

Hearing this, Xue Rengui was shocked. Without thinking, he picked up Li Chengqian and rushed out of the court.

However, just as they were about to rush out of the court, Li Chengqian's headache suddenly worsened, causing him to see stars and feel dizzy.

At the same time, a buzzing sound came from my ears.

He endured the pain and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a small brown insect he had never seen before crawling on the edge of the court with its fangs and claws bared.
"Rengui! Stop now!"

Without thinking too much, Li Chengqian directly stopped Xue Rengui who was running.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Xue Rengui stopped in confusion.

Li Chengqian struggled to free himself, walked over to the small brown bug, pointed at it, and asked, "Do you recognize this bug?"

"Bug? What bug?"

Xue Rengui looked suspiciously in the direction of the sound and indeed found a strange insect. He couldn't help but exclaimed, "Why is there a poisonous insect here?"

"Gu insect?"

Li Chengqian was surprised: "You said this is a Gu insect?"

"Yes! I've lived in the mountains since I was a child. There was a witch doctor in our mountain who fled from southern Xinjiang. She raised a lot of poisonous insects, and she cured my mother's illness with them!"

"Do you know this insect?!" Li Chengqian asked anxiously.

"I don't know," Xue Rengui shook his head, then took a closer look and said with certainty, "This is a Gu worm. I'm not mistaken. Ordinary worms don't look like this!"

"Then how do we deal with this insect?"

"I don't know. But I heard from the witch doctor that all poisonous insects have owners. This one appeared here, so its owner should be nearby!"

"Oh?"

Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, and he immediately looked around. He saw a commotion and a crowd of people everywhere, making it impossible to find the owner of the insect. So he said with a depressed look on his face, "Are you sure the owner of the insect is nearby?"

"Well, I'm not sure, but who would put the Gu insects here? Is there anyone in the palace raising Gu?"

"Isn't that nonsense? If I knew, why would I ask you?"

Li Chengqian glared at Xue Rengui unhappily and was about to continue studying the insect when he heard a voice shouting from afar, "Behind His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

boom!
Before Li Chengqian could react, a mad horse rushed up behind him. Xue Rengui pounced on him in a flash, knocking him to the ground. He watched helplessly as the mad horse leaped high on its front hooves and then plummeted down.

"Prince!"

Just as the horse's hooves were about to land on Li Chengqian's feet, a long spear, like a cannonball, pierced into the mad horse's belly with a "whoosh".

The crazy horse cried out in pain, staggered and changed the direction of its hoof, then roared, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground with a gasp.

Li Chengqian and Xue Rengui watched this scene with lingering fear, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

If the horse's hoof had landed just now, his legs would have been broken, and Xue Rengui's spine would have been shattered.

"hateful!"

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and pounded the ground. Then he saw Su Dingfang hurried over and asked with concern, "Your Highness, are you okay?"

"Thank you Dingfang! I'm fine!"

Li Chengqian said this gratefully. Just as he was about to get up from the ground, he suddenly felt that the splitting headache had disappeared. He was slightly stunned: "What's going on?"

"What's going on?"

"that is."

Just as Li Chengqian was about to explain to Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, who had gotten up first, suddenly said to him, "Your Highness, the poisonous insect was trampled to death by the horse!"

Li Chengqian was surprised for a moment, then looked in the direction of the poisonous insect. Sure enough, he saw the brown insect being crushed into a pulp by the horse's hooves. He couldn't help but mutter, "What should I do?"

"I, I don't know either." Xue Rengui said hesitantly, and suddenly saw from the corner of his eye that a palace maid holding a fruit plate was stumbling back to the side door about ten feet away.

"The insect is backfiring? Your Highness, that woman has been attacked by the insect!"

"What?" Li Chengqian was confused.

"Alas! She is the owner of the Gu worm!"

Without time to explain, Xue Rengui hurriedly shouted to Su Dingfang: "Commander Su! Go after the one in the green skirt!"

Before he finished speaking, Su Dingfang rushed out like an arrow.

"what!"

Suddenly, screams were heard from the sidelines. The Japanese deputy envoy, Yakushi Huiri, was hit in the chest by a horse's hoof. He vomited blood and screamed in pain.

The rest of the delegation members were also knocked away by the crazy horse one after another, and the scene was horrific.

Li Shimin stood on the Chrysanthemum Terrace, his brows furrowed, his eyes scanning the chaos in the field sharply. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned his head to look at Li Yuan not far away and said in a deep voice:

"Is this Cheng Qian's doing? What on earth do you want to do?!"

"Hey! Erlang, stop throwing dirty water on my grandson for everything!"

Li Yuan glared at Li Shimin with some displeasure, and then retorted: "Didn't you see that my grandson was almost hit by a mad horse just now?"

"Humph!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly and said noncommittally: "He hosted this banquet, so he can't escape the blame for what happened!"

"Hey!"

Li Yuan was unhappy at the time and was about to continue to refute Li Shimin. At this time, another cry came from under the Chrysanthemum Terrace.

"Bugs! Lots and lots of bugs!"

"Look! There are bugs on the court!"

"Ah! Run quickly!"

Hearing this cry, Li Yuan and Li Shimin looked up quickly, only to see that the polo field, which was originally shiny with oil, was now swarming with small insects.

The colors of those little bugs are almost the same as the color of the court, and it is difficult to find them unless they crawl out of the court.

Li Shimin was surprised and asked, "Where did all these insects come from? Why didn't anyone notice it before?"

"Oh, I think those frightened horses are probably related to these bugs!"

Li Yuan sneered and glanced at Li Shimin, mocking him: "Don't blame everything on my grandson, he is not as bad as you think!"

"This"

Li Shimin's speech faltered under the pressure, but he still expressed his doubts and said, "Since this matter has nothing to do with Cheng Qian, then who does it have to do with? It can't be those foreign envoys who are behind this, right?"

"You ask me, who should I ask? Anyway, it has nothing to do with my grandson!"

"Humph! Whether it's related or not, we'll know after we check!"

Li Shimin snorted and immediately ordered Wushe beside him, "Wushe, pass on my order. Mobilize the tung oil in the palace and use fire to burn these insects to death!"

"promise!"

Upon hearing this, Wushe immediately agreed and left.

On the other side, Li Chengqian got goosebumps all over his body when he saw the densely packed insects.

He could never have imagined that after one bug died, so many bugs would appear.

However, although there were many of these bugs, they did not affect his headache.

In other words, the only thing that caused his headache from beginning to end was the brown bug that was trampled to death by the horse.

The headaches he suffered from were not caused by a virus at all, or rather, they were not caused by the kind of virus he thought they were.

"It seems that I have been bewitched!"

Li Chengqian said something as if he had realized what was happening, then turned his gaze to the insects again.

Although these insects are astonishingly numerous, their disadvantage is very obvious: they are afraid of fire.

As the imperial guards continued to throw oil lamps and torches at the insects, they retreated to the side like a tide.

Until the imperial guards brought tung oil and sprinkled it among them, most of them were killed in less than a quarter of an hour.

As for those crazy horses, they were shot to death by the bows and arrows of the imperial guards at the same time as the insects were eliminated.

It was not until night fell and the fire illuminated the entire Taiji Palace that the insects and crazy horses were completely eliminated.

However, even though the bugs and crazy horses were completely eliminated, the entire banquet hall was still in a mess, which made people feel uneasy.

At this moment, a palace servant came hurriedly from the direction of Juhuatai.

But he heard him say: "Your Majesty, His Majesty has summoned you!"

"Oh, I see."

Li Chengqian nodded, then said a few words to Xue Rengui and walked straight towards the Chrysanthemum Terrace.

He was not surprised that Li Shimin would come to him. After all, such a big thing had happened, even if it had nothing to do with him, he could not escape blame.

However, what he did not expect was that not only he was summoned to the Chrysanthemum Terrace by Li Shimin, but also Princess Sakura, Murong Shun, and envoys from several countries who participated in the competition, except for the injured pharmacist Hui Ri, were summoned to the Chrysanthemum Terrace.

"My son, please see your father!"

Just as Li Chengqian was about to salute, Li Shimin interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said solemnly, "Prince, I need an explanation!"

"This"

Li Chengqian hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Li Yuan.

Li Yuan sneered and said, "Yun Duan just reported that the palace's polo field was tampered with. Since you are the one who hosted the Chongyang Banquet, he suspects you are involved!"

"I don't suspect it has anything to do with the Crown Prince!" Li Shimin corrected with a stern face.

Li Yuan directly retorted: "Then what explanation do you want Cheng Qian to give you? Isn't he also a victim?"

"I know he's a victim, but this..."

"Alright, Father! I'll give you an explanation!"

Seeing that Li Shimin and Li Yuan were about to quarrel over him, Li Chengqian quickly interrupted Li Shimin and then set his eyes on Princess Yinghua. He said solemnly, "Princess Yinghua, what was that pink powder you sprinkled on Xue Rengui's horse earlier?"

"What, what pink powder?"

Princess Sakura's expression changed, and then she said with forced composure, "I don't have any pink powder!"

"Is it?"

Li Chengqian sneered, then turned to look at Du Caigan beside him.

Du Caigan grabbed her neck without a word and said in a sinister tone, "You'd better tell the truth, otherwise, I will break your neck right now!"

"Ah! Your Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty! This is a misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding!"

The Japanese envoy was shocked when he saw this.

Li Shimin's face darkened, and he turned to look at Li Chengqian, narrowing his eyes and asking, "What do you mean, Prince?"

"Your Majesty, didn't you ask me to explain it to you? Please, Your Majesty, take a good look at me and let me explain it to you!"

As he spoke, he glanced around at everyone present and said with a half-smile, "Tonight is a great night for killing people!"

"What!?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

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(End of this chapter)