《Story of Kunning Palace》E35
Episode 35: Xie Wei designs to eliminate King Ping Nan
Jiang Xuening and Xie Wei were locked in the house. Following Xie Wei's reminder, they found someone peeking out of the window. They learned from Xie Wei the reason why King Pingnan locked them together, so they cooperated with Xie Wei to make noises and pretended to spend the good time with Xie Wei.
King Pingnan learned about the situation from the people under surveillance and was satisfied with Xie Wei's actions. He also recognized Xie Wei's abilities even more because he knew about the Yan family's father and son's revolt and went south.
The imperial court in the capital learned that the Yan family was revolting, and Xue Yuan wanted to lead the troops to quell the rebellion. However, Gu Chunfang believed that Xie Wei was in a high position and had no reason to rebel, and Da Yue's eager eyes persuaded Shen Lang to send people to the front line to investigate the situation.Shen Lang agreed to Gu Chunfang's proposal and decided to send Zhang Zhe to the front line.
Xue Yuan, who was rejected by Shen Lang, went to the Queen Mother to intercede. Seeing that the Queen Mother was unwilling, he offered to help the Queen Mother get rid of Shen Lang and let Shen Jie succeed to the throne. Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother was not willing to kill Shen Lang at all.Seeing this situation, Xue Yuan threatened the Queen Mother again with what happened back then, but was still rejected by the Queen Mother.
Knowing that the Yan family's army was about to invade the capital with overwhelming force, King Pingnan was very happy and asked Xie Wei what reward he wanted.Xie Wei took this opportunity to propose a celebration banquet on the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, and asked fake Xue Dingfei to arrange it on the grounds that fake Xue Dingfei was good at eating, drinking and having fun, and King Pingnan agreed.
After the Yan family's army captured the third city, they also received a letter from Xie Wei. Lu Xian collected Xie Wei's letters and understood Xie Wei's code words. He learned that Xie Wei wanted the Yan family to go back and kill him, and decided to kill King Ping Nan on the Dragon Boat Festival..
Xue Dingfei arranged a Dragon Boat Festival celebration banquet and poisoned the wine according to Xie Wei's request.At the celebration banquet, King Pingnan was poisoned but did not relapse. He mentioned that the defeat of Tongzhou was related to Jiang Xuening and intended to kill Jiang Xuening. Faced with Xie Wei's plea, he promised not to kill Jiang Xuening but asked Xie Wei to cut off Jiang Xuening's hand as punishment.Xie Wei stabbed the dagger into the back of his hand to protect Jiang Xuening. At this time, the Yan family army arrived. The surrounding soldiers fell down due to the poison of wine. King Pingnan realized that he had been tricked and wanted to kill Jiang Xuening. Xie Wei sacrificed his life to save Jiang Xuening and was slashed. Later,Joined forces with Jiang Xuening to kill King Pingnan.Before his death, King Pingnan reminded Xie Wei of the danger in the capital.
