Chapter 3 Crazy Criticism of the Prince
"The drums behind closed doors have sounded, the curfew is here, people from all walks of life should go home quickly, and violators will be severely punished without mercy!"
Bang!
The drumbeats were dull, and there was a curfew in the capital.
The north wind swirled in the sky with fine snow, whistling sadly. It was the beginning of spring, and it snowed again overnight, making the whole capital cold.
Xue Sui looked at the three words "Youhuangju" in gold and black paint on the towering and majestic lintel, wrapped himself in clothes and knocked on the door again.
"Who is it?"
The corner door opened a crack, and a rich head poked out. He was obviously stunned for a moment when he saw Xue Sui's white face and her simple old coat and skirt under the eaves lamp.
"Where did the beggar come from? It's so late at night, disturbing the peace. Let's go! Go begging for food elsewhere!"
Xue Sui smiled slightly.
"I'm sorry to send you this message, but the body-guard in the old mausoleum is asking to see His Highness the Crown Prince."
The man's expression suddenly changed.
Youhuangju is the prince's villa, which is a huge secret.
The corpse watchers in Jiulingmarsh are scary enough in the middle of the night.
He looked back at the guard in the shadows and winked.
Without saying a word, the two guards held Xue Sui's hands behind his back and dragged him in.
Xue Sui didn't struggle.
Youhuangju has five entrances. The torture chamber is located in the east courtyard in the north. The stone steps are diagonal and the wind in the hall is extremely cold.
"Get in!" Someone pushed hard from behind.
Xue Sui staggered and fell into the stone room.
The lights were dim, and the strong smell of blood filled the nostrils. I didn't know who had committed the crime, and kept wailing across the door.
The huge plywood was as hideous as an animal, and the red-hot iron dried the remaining blood. The cold light from whips, daggers, charcoal fire, iron chains, and instruments of torture seemed to tear apart the scars from her childhood...
The sleeping memory is awakened——
She breathed slightly.
"No need for trial, throw it into a pit of thousands of snakes!"
A cold voice came from behind.
Xue Sui turned around subconsciously.
Only then did I discover that there was a thick secret door in the torture chamber.
The door separated from both sides, and a young man stood tall.
Hair tied with hosta, meticulous. In the sea-blue cloak, he wears black regular clothes, with a cloud and dragon pattern embroidered with dark gold thread hidden at the hem, walking in the wind like a green pine cloud and a crane.
He seemed to be dissatisfied with his subordinates' actions. He glanced calmly, sat on the only high chair in the torture room, and waved his fingers lightly.
"Kill!"
This is not the first time Xue Sui has met Li Zhao.
At the foot of Laojun Mountain, I encountered robbers on Prince Road. She saw with her own eyes that Li Zhao was walking among the gangsters like a ghost, using a thin knife to wipe out the necks of more than a dozen people...
I also saw him calmly wiping away the blood, picking up a shivering puppy from a topsy-turvy carriage, and gently bandaging its wounds.
During the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the Qingming ancestor worship, and the New Year's Eve night tour, he would either stand beside the emperor and watch the people below the city tower shouting long live the mountains, or he would board a chariot passing by on the streets of the imperial city and accept the worship of all people.
Xue Sui was crowded among thousands of people and watched it many times...
Not as close as today.
It turns out that he is extremely handsome, extremely indifferent, and extremely young. Putting aside his fine clothes and the dignity of a prince, there is a rare coldness and madness in his eyes, which is unfathomable...
The prince is the prince, unlike any other man in the world.
Two guards with swords dragged Xue Sui towards the corner.
There is an eight-foot-square snake pit. Thousands of venomous snakes are blocked by a layer of iron nets. Various patterns are surging. Some of them are killing each other after they have been hungry for an unknown amount of time. Some are vomiting messages and trying to climb. Climbing, making a hissing noise...
The cold wind blew and rolled up the hem of Xue Sui's clothes.
She turned back to look at Li Zhao.
"I can help His Highness the Crown Prince and be a member of the East Palace."
Li Zhao chuckled and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Xue Sui said: "The Xue family will send me to Prince Duan's Mansion to serve Prince Duan."
As she said that, she slowly took off the green scarf on her head, and her hibiscus and jade face was exposed to Li Zhaoqing's sight. Her face was peaceful and quiet, as white as if it was covered with an invisible veil.
"I am entering the game with my own body and acting as the crown prince's internal response. Is this a good move?"
Li Zhao didn't make a sound and lightly brushed his sleeves with his fingers.
Xue Sui lowered his eyes to look at his hand. It was thin, with long fingers and distinct joints, giving people an uncomfortable and cramped feeling.
She hadn't felt this way for a long time, and she frowned inadvertently.
"The Holy One loves Concubine Xiao very much, and the son she gave birth to is also a member of the Holy Family. If it weren't for the ancestral precept of our dynasty that we should establish a direct descendant but not an elder, I am afraid that the owner of the East Palace today would have been replaced."
Since the emperor fell ill last year, the conflict between the East Palace and Prince Duan's Mansion, Empress Xie and Xiao Guifei has intensified, and the two tigers are fighting each other. It is no longer a secret...
But this is not what the prince likes to hear.
The attendants around him were all sweating.
Li Zhao smiled, "Interesting!"
The snake pit is right in front of you, and the snakes are squirming densely, vaguely playing with the moist air...
Xue Sui did not retreat. She squatted down and reached out to the iron net, with a soft smile in her eyes, as if she was stroking her beloved pet from afar...
"Is there anyone in the world who is more powerful than Prince Duan's pillow? I don't think His Highness is willing to kill me."
Li Zhao looked at her strange behavior.
"Aren't you afraid of snakes?"
Xue Sui raised his eyes: "What's so scary about a snake? It's just for survival, it's no different from me."
Li Zhao: "The Xue family supports King Duan, why did you choose the orphan?"
Xue Sui: "Below the crown prince and above ten thousand people, he is the best supporter in the world."
Li Zhao sneered, "If King Duan succeeds in his great career, your Xue family will also be full of glory."
Xue Sui looked at him steadily, "What the Xue family chooses is what I abandon. What the Xue family opposes is what I defect to. The Xue family's success is not as good as mine."
Li Zhao stared at her as she slowly approached, half-smiling but not smiling, his brows looking even colder.
"Are you begging to be orphaned?" Xue Sui: "Your Highness should not do so. It is you who will suffer the loss."
Li Zhao's long fingers froze for a moment.
The light behind him blurred his handsome face.
"How can I trust you?"
Xue Sui stood up silently and stood face to face with him. The corners of her mouth were slightly pursed, like a soft and harmless girl, staring at him and stretching her fingers to her collar.
Li Zhao's eyes dimmed slightly, showing disdain.
Xue Sui did not hesitate. He was as decisive as a hungry sheep that broke into a pack of wolves. In front of the pack and the wolf king, he forcefully peeled off a piece of the old Ge Yi.
She was born extremely well, but her white jade was stained with flaws.
On the skin like snow lotus root, there are many old scars visible to the naked eye, like spider silk entangled, even for a man who has been in the army for many years, this is nothing more than this.
"It took me ten years to get to His Highness."
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Then he asked softly: "Can I win the trust of His Highness the Crown Prince?"
The silence in the torture chamber was suffocating.
Ten years later, many of the scars have faded and disappeared, but from this tip of the iceberg, one can still glimpse the cruelty and abuse she suffered when she was young. Without saying a word, overwhelming hatred swept over him, as if he wanted to resurrect those scars and turn them into ferocious smiling faces.
The father-in-law took a sharp breath and said, "Your Highness..."
"Don't pity me." Xue Sui calmly pulled up his old coat, "I'm not here to seek sympathy. I will let the prince see my value."
He looked up at Li Zhao again and said, "Everyone gets what he needs."
Li Zhao: "I don't do loss-making business."
Xue Sui's eyes were indifferent, "If my life is lost, what does it matter whether I pay compensation or not?"
Li Zhao laughed again.
A heart-stopping laugh.
When the father-in-law and several guards came, their hearts were in their throats.
Xue Sui acted as if nothing had happened, straightened his clothes, and said seriously: "I came here today also to tell the prince. At the cold-relieving meeting in three days, the 'robbers' from Laojun Mountain will make a comeback."
Li Zhao raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Sacrifice yourself to warn? What do you want?"
Xue Sui glanced at him and said, "Consider this a meeting gift from me to His Highness the Crown Prince. I will return to the Xue family soon. If Your Highness is still alive then, please give me a gift in return."
Li Zhao's mouth froze slightly, "Humph!"
The prince walked away with a puff of his sleeves, but the father-in-law was confused.
This woman broke into Youhuang Residence at night, committing a crime that was taboo for the prince, and there was no way she could survive.
Why were you so soft-hearted and let her go?
He is anxious, but Xue Sui is not.
She bowed her head slowly and said, "The courtyard is deep and quiet, and the little girl is frightened. I beg my father-in-law to give me a ride."
Lai Gonggong:......
She was terrified.
He is the one who is scared now.
His Highness the Crown Prince's thoughts are unpredictable, and if you are not careful, you will lose your head.
Lai's father-in-law sent Xue Sui to the door with a dark face, and saw the prince's personal guard Guan Ya chasing after him.
A dark green dragon wooden box was handed to Xue Sui.
Xue Sui didn't answer, "What is it?"
Guan Ya had no expression on his face: "His Royal Highness asked the girl to go back and watch again."
……
It was dusk two days later when Xue Sui returned to Jiulingmarsh with the box. She opened the first layer and found that there was another box inside the box, and the box inside used a Luban lock.
Did Li Zhao expect that she wouldn't be able to open it?
Xue Sui raised her eyebrows, the box turning on her white fingertips...
despair! The wooden tenon popped open.
There is a brown-gray pill in the box.
There was also a note.
"You are lucky, take the antidote and keep it."
Xue Sui squeezed the cold box, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back, as if a venomous snake crawling up from the bottom of her skirt...
The wooden box is poisonous!
If she can't open this special Luban lock, then she is a fool and is not worthy of conspiring with the East Palace. Then, death from poisoning would be her final fate.
There are thousands of treacherous plots and evil intentions hidden everywhere.
What a ruthless Li Zhao!
Everyone says that the East Palace is more dangerous than the imperial palace, and the prince is more difficult to be an emperor than the emperor. If Li Zhaoxing was one step away, he would be doomed.
He can't help but be ruthless.
If Xue Sui wants to seek skin from a tiger, he can only be more ruthless than them.
The toxicity started quickly, with big drops of sweat falling down and pain in the abdomen like a twist.
Xue Sui swallowed the pill, and a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his lips.
"Girl, the master is back and wants you to pass."
Xiao Zhao knocked on the door, Xue Sui's expression changed, and the smile disappeared from his face.
Everyone is afraid.
Xue Sui had three masters.
What she fears the most is Great Master.
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Li Zhao (zhào).
Prince: What do you mean? Just make some soy sauce and end it? Am I not the hero?
Xue Sui: No. Next...
(End of chapter)