Chapter 47 Trampling of Loyalty

Dian Qing looked closely at the blood-red words engraved on the white jade horse. The brief words made up of the words gave him a feeling of extreme helplessness and infinite hatred.

After looking at the engravings on the white jade horse, Dian Qing turned his gaze to Xinling Jun Wei Wuji.

At this moment, some of the doubts in his mind were finally resolved.

His heart was trembling, and the surge of emotions made his eyes turn a little bloodshot.

Wei Wuji looked at Dian Qing's reaction with a look of shame and sadness. He turned his gaze to Ying Zifei and said with a wry smile: "Are you trying to crush my pride?"

Ying Zifei shook his head, reached out to take the white jade horse, and stroked it gently.

"You overestimate your position in my heart." Ying Zifei put the white jade horse back into the box and said leisurely: "Loyalty should not be trampled upon."

"You should not doubt Zhu Hai's loyalty to you, Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, nor should you doubt his loyalty to the State of Wei."

"For people like you and me who like to scheme against others, there must always be a place for those who should not be schemed against, those who are pure and loyal."

As he spoke, Ying Zifei stared at Wei Wuji and said calmly: "You should choose a more suitable way for Zhu Hai to die. I think he will agree."

Wei Wuji looked bitter and dejected. He said to Dian Qing: "I trampled on your master's loyalty. As Ying Zifei said, he should not have died in this way."

He wiped the moisture from his eyes, stood up, staggered a step, his body became a little hunched, and left here.

Dian Qing did not try to persuade him to stay. He did not want to do so, even though he did not know the whole truth of the matter. However, from what he knew so far, he already understood that the death of his master Zhu Hai must have been the result of the conspiracy of Lord Xinling Wei Wuji.

"Can you tell me what happened?" Dian Qing looked at Ying Zifei. He didn't know why Ying Zifei valued him so much, but he could sense a kind of purity from this man, a purity like that of a true friend.

Ying Zifei nodded and said to Dian Qing: "The owner of the white jade horse is a guy from a mysterious force. His former name was Fu Yun."

Dian Qing was stunned when he heard this. He knew this person and was quite familiar with him.

"You guessed it right. It's the person who used to prepare medicinal baths for your master Zhu Hai."

Ying Zifei then said: "Fu Yun came to Wei for a reason."

"The mysterious force he belonged to wanted to seize something from Wei Wuji. Just when that force was thinking about how to make it easier for Fu Yun to get close to Xinling Lord Wei Wuji, someone just happened to give them the best opportunity."

"You are well aware of the grievances between the King of Wei and Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, aren't you?"

Dian Qing nodded. Many things between King Wei and Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, from the initial struggle for the throne to later Lord Xinling Wei Wuji stealing the seal to save Zhao, were self-evident.

"After Xinling Jun Wei Wuji stole the seal to save Zhao, he lived in Zhao for a while."

"Later, the King of Wei was forced to reach a deal with Wei Wuji due to the prestige of Wei Wuji, Lord Xinling. Wei Wuji could return to Wei, but he had to be confined to Xinling and not interfere in the government of Wei."

"Wei Wuji agreed. He is a man who deserves respect for his ability to make Wei strong."

"He naturally knew that with his prestige and influence, fleeing to Wei would be a big blow to the State of Wei. After all, if a country wants to be strong, it needs a lot of talents."

"How can a King of Wei who cannot tolerate others recruit talented people for his own use?"

"For the sake of Wei, Lord Xinling Wei Wuji chose to return to Wei. He used his own method of trapping Xinling to reduce people's accusations against the King of Wei."

When Ying Zifei said this, his expression became complicated and he sighed: "What a pity, Wei Wuji underestimated his King Wei and his influence, and even more underestimated the King Wei's fear of him."

"Although Wei Wuji is trapped in Xinling, as long as he is still alive, his power will continue to take root in Wei State and then slowly expand."

"For the King of Wei, this thorn in his heart is uncontrollable."

"He is worried that one day in the future, after he, the King of Wei, dies, the future generations will fight for the kingship, which will give Xinling Lord Wei Wuji the opportunity to return as the king." Upon hearing this, Dian Qing clenched his fists and said coldly, "So he must ensure that Xinling Lord Wei Wuji will die in front of him. The best way is naturally for him to let Xinling Lord Wei Wuji die whenever he wants."

"Yes," Ying Zifei nodded, and then said: "This method, assassination is the most uncontrollable method."

"The King of Wei chose to use poison, a poison that he could control to some extent."

"When that mysterious force realized the King of Wei's intentions, Fu Yun's arrival was a perfect match for both parties."

"Fu Yun is very good at poison and medicine, so it is natural for him to become the imperial physician in the palace."

When Dian Qing heard this, he clenched his fists again, suppressing the anger in his heart.

The King of Wei often asked Fu Yun to prepare medicinal baths for Lord Xinling Wei Wuji and his master Zhu Hai. In the past, people thought it was a favor from the king, but now it seems to be a disgusting calculation.

"So, Fu Yun used a medicinal bath to poison Xinling Jun Wei Wuji and my master. He used a controllable poison!"

Ying Zifei nodded and explained: "It is a kind of poison, which can be specially prepared according to each person's physical condition."

"It won't be noticed at the beginning, and it will only be discovered at the last few critical steps. But by that time, it will be too late."

"Your master is very powerful. I guess he must have discovered it before Xinling Jun Wei Wuji."

"But when he told Lord Xinling Wei Wuji, Wei Wuji convinced him."

"Using the excuse of 'for the State of Wei', I convinced your master to pretend he didn't know."

Dian Qing let out a long breath with a complicated expression. He knew that Ying Zifei's judgment was correct.

Master Zhu Hai's loyalty to the State of Wei and to Lord Xinling Wei Wuji would make him make such a choice.

"After your master discovered the problem, Fu Yun's tactics were exposed."

"When Xin Wei Wuji wanted to secretly control Fu Yun and let him solve the problem, things changed again."

Ying Zifei sighed slightly and said with some regret: "Fu Yun is a person, a person with human emotions."

"He has a beloved one, but his beloved one is controlled by that mysterious force, and is used to control the woman he dares not betray."

"Fu Yun understood that his only chance to rescue his beloved and escape from that mysterious force was through Lord Xinling Wei Wuji."

"On the one hand, he followed the instructions of the mysterious power and approached Xinling Jun Wei Wuji to search for the object. On the other hand, he followed the instructions of the King of Wei and poisoned Xinling Jun Wei Wuji."

"In his plan, he wanted to carry out the poisoning process to a critical point, and then use it to confront Wei Wuji and seek Wei Wuji's power to help him rescue his beloved."

"In my opinion, the time when your master discovered the poisoning was basically the same as the time when Fu Yun wanted to confront Wei Wuji."

"His skills in medicine and poisons will definitely allow him to estimate the time it would take your master to discover the disease."

Dian Qing felt mixed emotions at this time, he said: "So when Lord Xinling Wei Wuji wanted to control him to solve the problem, Fu Yun also chose to confront Lord Xinling Wei Wuji."

"But it was different from what he expected. On the one hand, Xinling Lord Wei Wuji was afraid of that mysterious force, and on the other hand, he didn't want the exposure of this matter to cause unrest in Wei, so he chose to reject Fu Yun, right?"

"Yes!" Ying Zifei nodded and sighed: "Wei Wuji knows too well that no matter how dangerous it is to touch that mysterious force or how despicable it is for the King of Wei to poison someone, once something goes wrong, it will be a big problem."

"He rejected Fu Yun. No matter how Fu Yun threatened him, he refused."

"Fu Yun's plot failed, and he became crazy. He chose to carve the words that the King of Wei had asked him to marry Wei Wuji, Lord Xinling, on the white jade horse."

(End of this chapter)