Chapter 763: Prime Minister Lu, why are you foaming at the mouth?

"*Wuwuwu! *"

Wu Xuan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and ran out sadly.

Until this moment, he still didn't understand where he had gone wrong.

Zhilan looked at Empress Dowager Xiao with unbearable pity, but under Empress Dowager Xiao's eyes, which were filled with endless anger—

She tactfully didn't speak.

Empress Dowager Xiao looked in the direction Wu Xuan had left, her phoenix eyes cold.

"More and more unruly. Does he really think that because the Emperor is a woman, this throne must belong to him?"

"People like Gao Yang, no matter where they are in the Seven Kingdoms, are the foundation of the state!"

Seeing this, Zhilan said in a low voice, "His Highness is still young; he will be fine when he grows up."

Empress Dowager Xiao said coldly, "With such shrewdness, if he isn't disciplined properly, he will find it hard to achieve great things in the future, and even in this palace, it will be difficult to survive!"

Empress Dowager Xiao originally wanted to say something more, but suddenly thought of Lu Wen in the bed.

"Prime Minister Lu, come out."

"The Living Yama has left, and Xuan'er has also left; you can come out. This time it was my miscalculation; I have wronged you."

Empress Dowager Xiao spoke, her voice ringing out in the palace.

But the bed behind her remained motionless.

"Hmm?"

"Prime Minister Lu, everyone has left; you can come out."

Empress Dowager Xiao continued to speak, her phoenix eyes furrowing.

But behind her, there was still no movement.

At this, Empress Dowager Xiao panicked somewhat.

She hurriedly walked toward the bed, lifted the golden silk quilt on the bed, revealing the covered bed board, and Zhilan hurriedly pressed the mechanism.

Empress Dowager Xiao opened the bed board, and when she saw everything before her, her complexion changed suddenly; she saw Lu Wen's head tilted to one side, his eyes closed tightly, and foam flowing from the corners of his mouth.

"Prime Minister Lu!"

"Prime Minister Lu!!"

Empress Dowager Xiao hurriedly called out, but Lu Wen didn't respond at all.

Zhilan was also bewildered; she had only guarded outside for a while, so how long had it been, and how did Lu Wen, who was lying inside the bed, end up foaming at the mouth?

"Empress Dowager, this..."

Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at Zhilan, then said with a solemn face, "He must have been smoked unconscious by the farts."

Zhilan's eyes widened, and she was completely numb.

"Smoked unconscious?"

"That Living Yama ate braised beef with soybeans in the morning and sat directly above Prime Minister Lu's bed board; the echoes lingered, reverberating for a long time."

Zhilan gasped.

Although the space under the bed was very narrow, to be smoked like this, how many farts must it have been?

"Don't just stand there; follow me and let's carry him out quickly."

Soon, Lu Wen was carried out by Empress Dowager Xiao and Zhilan.

"Empress Dowager, should I go and summon the imperial physician? He's foaming at the mouth," Zhilan said, full of worry.

"No need!"

"Prime Minister Lu's status is sensitive. In my spare time, I have read some medical books on first aid; Prime Minister Lu is likely unconscious due to holding his breath for too long. One can pinch the philtrum, perform mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration, and there are many other effective methods."

"The Empress Dowager is of golden body; let me do these things!"

"You don't understand; let me do it."

Empress Dowager Xiao rolled up her sleeves.

Lu Wen had just slowly regained consciousness; the space inside the bed was too small, and the smell wasn't easy to dissipate, not to mention Gao Yang had passed them one after another.

Finally, under a giant, stinky chain of farts, he went black before his eyes and lost consciousness.

Now regaining fresh air, his consciousness gradually returned, as if he were reborn, and then he heard Empress Dowager Xiao's voice.

His status was sensitive, so it wasn't easy to call an imperial physician, and Empress Dowager Xiao wanted to perform first aid on him?

Mouth-to-mouth breathing?

Lu Wen didn't move a muscle, his eyes closed tightly, as if he were about to go to the Western Paradise.

The next second!

*Slap! *

Empress Dowager Xiao raised her hand high and slapped down fiercely.

"*Hiss! *"

Lu Wen opened his eyes in pain, looking incredulously at Empress Dowager Xiao's face, which still had its charm.

Damn it, what happened to the mouth-to-mouth breathing? Why did two big slaps come down directly?

"He's awake; the first-aid methods in the books are truly useful!"

Empress Dowager Xiao looked at the waking Lu Wen, her eyes brightening.

Subsequently, Empress Dowager Xiao explained, "Prime Minister Lu's status is sensitive; in an emergency, one must act according to the situation. If there is any offense, please do not mind."

Lu Wen's face twitched, and he hurriedly said, "This subject thanks the Empress Dowager."

"Prime Minister Lu, why did you faint?" Empress Dowager Xiao asked tentatively.

Hearing this, Lu Wen almost burst into tears.

"Empress Dowager, in such a small space, in less than half an hour, I counted carefully; it was a full twenty-one farts!"

"The position where that Living Yama sat was exactly where my head was. If I weren't one who could endure, I would have jumped out long ago!"

Although he didn't say it completely—

Empress Dowager Xiao could empathize very well.

She patted Lu Wen on the shoulder and said guiltily, "I have wronged you, Prime Minister Lu."

"That Gao Yang, I didn't expect him to be so presumptuous and bold. I even think that perhaps he was unintentional at first, but after that cough, he must have known there was someone under the bed and did it on purpose!"

"This subject tried his best to endure, but it was a chain of farts; it was truly too spicy for the throat, and I really couldn't hold it in!" Lu Wen sighed.

"It doesn't matter; these are not important. What is important is how Prime Minister Lu views this Gao Yang. Does he really want to collect a sum of money to protect himself, or will he secretly tell the Emperor?"

Empress Dowager Xiao asked.

Upon hearing this, Lu Wen's complexion also became serious.

"In this subject's opinion, this Gao Yang has no solid evidence; even the Chen Sheng of that year only caught a glimpse of the truth and didn't hear clearly what the late Emperor said. Instead, it was the Empress Dowager who fell for it!"

Empress Dowager Xiao sighed and said, "This Gao Yang investigated extensively and then came straight to the point, saying the news. I instinctively thought he had mastered greater news and had heard this sentence before the late Emperor died."

"Sigh, this person truly doesn't play by the rules!"

"Now I am worried that the Emperor will learn of all this and take action against me! You must know that even my confidant and great trouble, Prince Rong, was taken down by this little girl. She is not a good person; letting this Wu Zhao ascend the throne and having her and Prince Rong fight like a snipe and a clam is truly the worst move!"

Lu Wen didn't speak; now he also regretted it immensely!

After a long silence, Lu Wen shook his head and said, "That day, besides Chen Sheng escaping the palace, everything that should have been cleaned up was cleaned up; it can be called 'dead men tell no tales'!"

"Furthermore, the Empress Dowager's status is noble, which is different from Prince Rong. The Emperor has already killed Prince Rong and executed the Prince of Wu; if she takes action against the Empress Dowager again, the people of the world are not fools. Unless the Emperor wants to bear the infamy of the world!"

"This subject and the Empress Dowager prosper together and suffer together. Without decent evidence, the people of the world will not be convinced. If the Emperor wants to force it, there might even be people who will set things right; that is also possible, unless it is that one thing..."

Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Xiao nodded.

She said, "So many years have passed, no need to worry. What I worry about now is this unfavorable factor, the Living Yama!"

Lu Wen paused, then continued, "The Living Yama wants to collect money, and he... he also took liberties with the Empress Dowager. A fish dying and the net breaking will not end well for him. This subject thinks he is a smart person, so he shouldn't talk."

Empress Dowager Xiao's expression was cold, and her tone was extremely bad, "But in any case, once a secret is known by many people, it is no longer a secret."

"That leader of the Ruthless Sect is also a piece of trash; what kind of dog-shit martial arts expert? If he had killed this Gao Yang at that time, none of this would have happened; why is it so troublesome!"

"Now I can't kill him, and I've been threatened by him. Even Li Long is on guard, and it's hard for me to take action. For all of this, this person is hard to blame!"

She slapped the table, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became, "He collected so much silver from me, and the matter hasn't been handled yet. Where is that leader of the Ruthless Sect?"

"Could it be that he also went to compete for that peerless martial arts secret manual?"

Lu Wen was stunned at first, then, as if thinking of something, his eyes suddenly widened.

"What is this expression, Prime Minister Lu?" Empress Dowager Xiao furrowed her brows and asked. ===== CHAPTER 765 =====