Chapter Thirty-One
Chaoge.
The national fortune of the Shang Dynasty had declined a lot compared to when Li Yuan first came. The strong red fortune gradually became thinner. The people walked in a hurry with bitter faces, and the streets were less lively.
Even the restaurant where Li Yuan came to eat for the first time was closed, and the owner had already left.
Li Yuan no longer looked forward to it, but rode the Kui Niu, soaring into the palace with clouds and fog.
"Who is coming?"
When the guards saw a monster with no horns and no horns in front of them, they were quite frightened, but they still had the courage to interrogate.
"I've been there for two years, and you can't recognize me anymore?"
Li Yuan was wearing a Taoist robe, with a disheveled hair, and a golden whip with a heavy texture stuck between his left waist, but the old pine sword was still on his right waist.
An old guard in the palace looked carefully and finally recognized Li Yuanlai.
"It turned out to be General Li Yuan, this..."
He pointed at Kui Niu, his face was embarrassed and a little panicked.
The Kui Niu's bronze bell-like eyes stared at the guard, and hummed a white breath from the tip of his nose. The sound was so loud that the guard immediately frightened and took several big steps back.
Seeing a group of guards hurriedly approaching him, Kui Niu seemed to be satisfied and lowered his head again.
Li Yuan said lightly: "This is my newly acquired mount, and I will enter the palace with me."
The guard hesitated and said, "This... it is a bit unpleasant to enter the palace, right?"
Li Yuan came here, intending to use the golden whip and letters of Taishi Wen, plus his own magic power to establish a power with Kui Niu. How could he listen to the advice of the guard?
Kui Niu seemed to understand Li Yuan's intentions, shook his head and stepped directly into the palace gate.
"You...you can't go in!"
Hearing this, Kui Niu felt a little impatient. He stomped on the ground hard, and the earth began to shake. Several guards fell down and fell to the ground. They could only watch Kui Niu go away.
In the palace.
King Zhou was on the Picking Star Tower, singing and dancing with Su Daji, drinking and changing cups, flirting with love, and talking about love, and was so sweet that it was endless.
Under the Zhaixing Tower is a large pit with a circumference of twenty-four meters wide and five meters deep. The pit is dark. If you look down at the edge of the pit, you can see that there are numbers in between, densely stacked, and thousands of snakes are swimming constantly.
There are endless singing and dancing upstairs, but there are piles of snakes and scorpions downstairs.
The pot is on the left and right, and it is also the wine pool and meat forest set up by King Zhou.
One extravagant and one terrifying, and the two are compared, and it makes people feel chills in their hearts, and a sense of inexplicable fear arises.
Li Yuan rode Kuiu here, no one could stop him. He ordered Kuiu: "Don't walk around here, I'll go back."
Kui Niu nodded, sniffed two more times, jumped around with one foot, and looked at the guards, palace maids, and various high-rise painting pavilions around him, and seemed quite excited.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Li Yuan asked curiously.
The Kuiniu didn't make a sound, just looking around. Perhaps it was its first time entering the palace, so it felt very novel.
So Li Yuan stopped asking more questions, and called out a purple cloud, carrying mist, emitting waves of fairy light, rising into the air until the Star Piercing Tower!
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In the Zhaixing Tower, a layer of gauze is used as a curtain, which can be seen vaguely inside.
In the hazy gauze, Su Daji was putting the wine glass on his chest, standing upright, so that he could teach King Zhou to drink it.
"Don't move beauties."
King Zhou bent down and held the glass with his mouth. He was about to drink, but suddenly shook it, as if he was not holding it up, and knocked down the glass.
The wine flowed over Su Daji, but King Zhou laughed loudly at this time and was even more interested in going to drink.
"Ah, hahaha, king, don't do this!"
Su Daji smiled sweetly, fiddled with her body, and kept giggling; King Zhou pressed Daji's shoulder with his arms so that he could not move, but he wanted to do it.
"Don't..."
"I want it!"
The two of them fought over and over again, but they poured out a lot of wine and food on the table.
At this moment, a Taoist riding on the purple clouds, but said outside the curtain.
"Master, Li Yuan is back from Beihai."
The gauze curtain blew up, and a cold wind blew in. King Zhou was shocked, and then his face was quite angry and said, "Why don't you report it when you come back..."
He turned around and saw Li Yuan's expressionless face, but somehow he swallowed the words to his mouth again.
"General Li, why are you... why are you back?"
Li Yuan said coldly: "The battle in the North Sea is bitter, and the soldiers can't afford to eat. Ask me to come back to bring some wine and food."
He drove Yunfei to the building. When Su Daji saw him coming, she didn't tidy up her clothes, and her chest was still half exposed. She just stared at him in a daze, wanting to see what he was going to do.
Li Yuan walked closer, picked up a plate of fragrant meat that fell on the ground from King Zhou, and sternly said: "Your Majesty has eaten it, and I will take all the wine and meat back to Beihai!"
"Li Yuan, you... are you a human or a ghost?"
King Zhou was a little frightened, pointed at Li Yuan, flicked his long sleeves and roared out.
Li Yuan fell on the floor and said lightly: "Of course I am a human."
King Zhou calmed down and suddenly shouted angrily: "Li Yuan, you entered the palace without permission. Without reporting, you pretended to be a god and ghost in front of me, and committed the truth of deceiving the king. What crime should you be punished?!"
Li Yuan was not afraid at all and said, "You believe in slander, abuse the loyal ministers, favor the witches, and set up tortures, causing the people to live in poverty and the world is in turmoil. What should you blame?"
"It's outrageous!"
King Zhou slapped the table and trembled with anger. He said furiously: "Come here, take down this traitor, first shoot the gun, then throw it into the basin!"
A group of guards who were originally standing outside the door came in after hearing the sound, feeling a little scared, but in the end he caught Li Yuan, tied his arms, and then sent him downstairs.
Li Yuan didn't resist, but quietly asked them to tie themselves up and walk downstairs.
He had already made plans in his mind. Since he wanted to establish his authority, he would just make a big fuss!
King Zhou was walking back and forth on the Zhaixing Tower, looking anxious and restless, and shouted, "This thief is not so arrogant. I must tear him to pieces to serve as a warning!"
Su Daji silently picked up his clothes, and didn't know what he was thinking, so he walked to King Zhou and said, "Your Majesty, don't be angry, but your body is bad if you get angry."
King Zhou pushed the table, lifted a stone bench, and smashed it down from Zhaixing Tower.
Bang!
"It is said that all officials will come to the palace. I want them to see what the deception of the emperor will end up!"
However, for a long time, all the officials were waiting in front of the hall.
King Zhou was ahead, Daji followed him, but behind him, a guard was rumbling and pushing a cart.
There is a copper pillar above the cart, which is two feet tall and eight feet round. It is divided into three layers of fire doors, middle and lower. The fire door is burned red with charcoal fire.
The charcoal fire was burned inside, and the flames were fierce. The temperature of a copper column had risen to an unknown height, which was simply daunting.
This is the torture set up by King Zhou who believed Su Daji's words!
Seeing that the torture instrument was released again, the officials could not help but cover their faces and couldn't bear to look at them. Only Bi Gan and Huang Feihu were thinking about which minister had offended King Zhou again.
Just now, the guard suddenly pushed Li Yuan out.
After King Zhou finished his seat, he pointed at Li Yuan and said, "Li Yuan rebelled and broke into the palace and deceived the emperor. Now he sent all officials to come to see him. I hope you can take it as a warning, don't commit it again!"
"Hmph! Push him onto the fire!"
The two guards tied Li Yuan to a cannon and tied five layers of iron ropes tightly. The guards pulled him with ropes, making Li Yuan hold the pillar with both hands!
The copper pillar is red, his hands and feet are naked, and the heat burned by the charcoal fire is scalded on Li Yuan's body, and the picture is terrible.
"Your Majesty! Alas!"
Seeing this, the officials covered their faces and were frustrated and did not dare to say much.
Only Huang Feihu wanted to speak out, but saw Li Yuan beside the copper pillar, not shouting or screaming, without any pain, and even frowning;
Chapter completed!