474 The blade falls 5yr

Translator: Sparrow_Editor: Sparrow_

Fang Zhengzhi heard what Crown Prince Lin Tianrong said.
　
Rank three official? Acting Minister of Rites? Isn't that a little underwhelming? I thought I was going to be a rank two official?
Perhaps Ping Yang's words were exaggerated.
　　
Would I still be given land?
　
Fang Zhengzhi really wanted to ask someone to give him an antidote! He didn't want to stay silent on this matter.
　　
However...
　
No one could hear him.
　
Shan Ling would never offer up the antidote because that would implicate him.
　
He would never admit to his actions!
　　
Even though he had come clean back in Princess Shan Yu's room, he would never confess to them here.
　
Most importantly, he did not want to let Fang Zhengzhi speak.
　
When the settlement chiefs and generals heard Lin Tianrong, they finally understood how thorny this issue promised to be.
　
Fang Zhengzhi's actions were known to everyone.
　
If they executed Fang Zhengzhi now, they would be hard-pressed to explain it to the Great Xi