The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 329 The Heiresses (25)

At the junction of Guishuang Kingdom and Changzhao Kingdom, there is an official road that has been developed for many years, and it has been repaired in a stable manner.

It's just that this road was originally the shortest road between the two countries, passing through many mountainous areas in the middle, so there are many steep cliffs on both sides of the road.

It just so happened that today was the day when the fifth and sixth princesses were ordered by the emperor to welcome the Kushan envoys.

The two men led the escort team from Taihe Gate in Biancheng, the capital of the country, and when they arrived outside Jiayu Pass, the sky was still sunny and sunny, but patches of dark clouds came from nowhere, and in the blink of an eye, Then the sunny day was covered.

The sixth princess who was riding forward looked up at the suddenly darkening sky, she just thought it was dark clouds passing by, and didn't care.

The fifth emperor beside her also saw the sudden change in the sky, and said, "According to the time, Guishuang Kingdom should be approaching the official road at the junction. I think it's going to rain, why don't we speed up Go pick someone up."

Regarding the matter of receiving and guiding the envoy, the sixth emperor did not refute the fifth emperor's words.

After she nodded, she and the Sixth Queen led the marching team to speed up a bit.

About an hour and a half later, the two successfully welcomed the envoys from Guishuang Kingdom. This envoy also brought a lot of people and gifts, so the team was also mighty.

Because the process of receiving and guiding this time was very smooth, and both sides had a large number of people, the return journey of everyone was a bit slower.

But the dark clouds above everyone's heads were getting thicker and thicker, and the surrounding winds gradually picked up, and there were streaks of dazzling white thunder in the clouds. Before the thunder sounded, the big raindrops fell first.

As the wind became stronger and stronger, the rain also poured down, and in the blink of an eye, the two teams from Guishuang Kingdom and Changzhao Kingdom were soaked in water.

Seeing this situation, the fifth and sixth emperors discussed with the envoy from Guishuang Kingdom, and both of them proposed to speed up the progress. The envoy had no objection and nodded in agreement.

However, after all, this team is too big, and the road is slippery in rainy weather, so the speed of the march is really too fast.

In the sky, bowl-sized thunderbolts tore apart the sky from time to time, sending out shocking bolts of lightning.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the deafening thunder, everyone who was still on the road felt the raindrops falling on their heads like iron beans hitting their heads, which made people feel painful.

Someone really hurt from being hit, and reached out to touch the top of the melon on the head. At this time, what he felt in the palm of his hand was not rainwater, but pebbles the size of soybeans.

Before he could figure out why rocks fell from the sky, other people around him started shouting in panic.

"There are pebbles, pebbles are falling from the sky!"

"No, it didn't fall from the sky, it was a stone that fell from the nearby cliff."

Some people recognized the origin of these stones, but they just assumed that these stones were washed away by rain.

However, some people with good eyesight found that there seemed to be many rocks on the cliffs on their left and right sides that were crumbling.When someone from Changzhao Kingdom reported the news to the two imperial daughters, their faces changed drastically after hearing this.

Among them, the fifth emperor's daughter came here because she was riding a horse, and her whole body was drenched, and she was very dissatisfied.

When she heard that the heavy rain might wash down the rocks on both sides and hurt people, she immediately wanted to leave first and leave the mess to the Sixth Princess to clean up.

So she brazenly said to the Sixth Queen, "Sixth Queen, it's raining too much, there are a lot of rolling rocks around, and I don't know if I can still go on the road ahead."

"Let's do this. I'll take people over to check it out first. You stay behind to keep an eye on the team and protect the messenger. Don't make sure anything goes wrong!"

The sixth imperial daughter has always known that her fifth imperial sister is a liar by nature.

But today, both of them were out doing business, and they encountered a critical situation with heavy rain and possible landslides, so she didn't think at all that the fifth princess's behavior was the latter's intention to run away.

It wasn't until the fifth emperor left quickly with her personal guards, and the sixth emperor who was still leading the team in the rain after she hadn't turned back for a long time, realized that she had been cheated by the fifth emperor.

At this time, thunder was already rolling in the sky, lightning flashed, and heavy rain continued to fall.

Unknowingly, the feet of the receiving messenger team were soaked in a layer of muddy rainwater.

At first they didn't know why there was water on the official road, but they didn't understand the reason until they walked further ahead and saw a huge rock blocking the exit of the official road.

When the sixth princess saw the boulder and frowned, she stepped forward to check it out. Strands of blood followed the rain to the feet of her horse, and she couldn't help looking forward through the rain curtain along the blood.

After seeing clearly the pile of minced human flesh mixed with horse meat that was crushed under the rocks, acid water surged up in her stomach, and she almost couldn't hold back the contents of her stomach.

After forcibly suppressing this disgusting feeling, the sixth princess who was not sure if her imperial sister who had escaped first would also be under this big rock wanted to call people to push the rock to check.

But the envoy from the Kushan Kingdom who came to learn about the road conditions ahead was unwilling to stay in this dangerous area.

People on the road were crushed to death by big rocks, do you think this kind of site can stay anymore?
Therefore, the envoy strongly demanded that the Sixth Queen immediately take her to the capital of Changzhao Kingdom first, and the gift team of Guishuang Kingdom can follow behind, and the matter here can be dealt with later.

Difficult on both sides, the sixth princess finally decided to take the envoy from Guishuang Kingdom to take the first step. After all, her most important task on this trip was to receive the envoy.

As for her fifth emperor sister, she could only pray that she wasn't hit by a stone.

During the next ride on the road, the sixth princess, who was busy checking the road conditions from time to time, didn't notice at all that some black bugs that appeared in the rain were stained on her trouser legs.

Some bugs even bit her through wet clothes.

It's just that the slightly numb itching didn't catch the Sixth Emperor's attention.

After another hour, the people living on the outskirts of the capital city suddenly heard the sound of chaotic horseshoes.

They looked up, only to see that the reception team that was still majestic when they left the city before had become sluggish all of a sudden.

Not only that, these rain-soaked people seemed to be in a hurry, pulling a few carriages into the city, as if someone was chasing them.

In less than a day, what happened on the official road outside the city spread to the palace.

When she learned that her fifth imperial daughter was accidentally crushed to death by a boulder because the heavy rain blocked the road ahead of time, the empress's face turned extremely livid.But this is not the worst news.

Although her sixth princess successfully received the envoy from the Kushan Kingdom and placed them in the arranged post house, she herself suffered from the cold due to the heavy rain and was lying in bed at the moment. The fever in the house persists.

The imperial doctor sent by the palace to see the Sixth Princess came back and told her alone that what the Sixth Princess didn't seem to be suffering from an ordinary cold.The latter not only had a persistent high fever and red skin, but also trembled all over the body, as if he had eaten something dirty. This disease is very difficult to cure.

Such continuous bad news undoubtedly caused a major mental blow to the Queen.

Since the beginning of this year, including Xiao Wu, she has lost three princesses in succession.

She watched these children grow up with her own eyes, but now they all let her have white hair and give them to black hair.

Human hearts are made of flesh, and the Queen is also a human being. She just felt as if her heart had been cut into pieces with a knife, and it hurt so much that she couldn't breathe.

For her, the most painful thing was that she knew exactly who was behind all of this, but she couldn't find that person out with her own hands.

Because she can't, she really can't.

Now that she has lost enough children, she doesn't want to lose any more.

However, things did not turn out as the Queen expected.

Three days later, the Sixth Princess, who struggled painfully in the hospital bed for three days, finally died young due to lack of medicine and stone.

The husband of her family was so distraught that he threw himself against his wife's coffin in the mourning hall. Before his death, he only left a few words asking to be buried with his wife.

Above the mourning hall, Lin Shu, who came to attend the funeral, clenched her hands tightly after seeing this scene.

If the death of the fifth prince looked like an accident in her eyes, the death of the sixth prince also looked like an accident, but she couldn't help but link their deaths with the deaths of the seventh and eighth princes. stand up.

She suspected that this time, the murderer behind the scenes was still the same person from before.

But the other person's secrets were too deep. Even though she was sure of his existence, she had not been able to find any evidence so far, and she had not been able to find this person out of the darkness.

After the funeral at the sixth princess's mansion, Lin Shu who left here felt a little heavy.

Just as she was about to board her carriage, a plain-looking woman walked toward her.

The other party turned his head to look at Lin Shu calmly, and said something that made the latter shudder.

"Save your own life, don't die so fast."

This is the last time Lin Shu entered the palace, what a woman said to her in her sleep!
Lin Shu was about to reach out her hand to grab this person for questioning, but just as she reached out, the woman in front of her disappeared out of thin air.

Lin Shu, who stretched out her hand and only grabbed the air, slowly withdrew her hand.

A moment later, Lin Shu, who got into the carriage, was as calm as water.

She knew that if the hidden murderer was not found out, maybe the next victim would be herself.

In the fourth imperial concubine's mansion, Su Lingqiu, who hadn't been out of the house for a long time since meeting Li Yu last time, couldn't hold back today.

He needs to buy some new spring clothes and lip balm, and he may not be able to pick out what he likes just by going out to look at these things.

In order to go out, he even made a disguise, and specially did not bring a servant with him, so as not to be noticed by others.

But what he didn't expect was that not long after he went out on this trip, when he passed the door of a house, he was suddenly asked to cover his mouth from behind and dragged into the yard of this house.

Su Lingqiu, whose mouth was forcibly covered, was struggling desperately and wanted to yell.

The person who came to arrest him suddenly said, "Lingqiu, don't be afraid, it's me."

This familiar voice from Li Yu made Su Lingqiu forget his struggle for a moment.

After Li Yu let go of his hand and let Su Linghuang look at him face to face, the latter was slightly relieved.

In Su Lingqiu's heart, although his parents were indeed suspected of regretting their marriage to the Li family, and he had somewhat abandoned this person, after all, the two of them were not in a matchmaking relationship, and he, Su Lingqiu, had nothing to feel sorry for. .

Li Yu wouldn't hurt herself if she thought about it.

After Li Yu let go, seeing that Su Lingqiu didn't call out loudly, nor was he thinking about running away, he put on a gentle tone and asked him, "Lingqiu, if I say I still want to marry you, are you willing to leave the fourth princess and marry me?" I go?"

Su Lingqiu was shocked when he heard the words, and he looked at the woman in front of him with disbelief.

Could it be that she hasn't given up on herself yet?
He is now a married man!
Su Lingqiu gritted her teeth and refused, "Li Yu, please listen carefully. Now that I am married to Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess, I will never leave with you!"

"His Royal Highness Fourth Emperor?"

After hearing his address, Li Yu couldn't help but sneered.

She leaned close to Su Linghao's face and asked, "You said you were married to her, why didn't you call her wife-lord, instead calling His Highness such a birthright? Linghao, you don't want to lie to me, you really don't Four princesses, right?"

"You were willing to marry her back then just because she could give you the rich life you wanted. And I can do this now. I can give you whatever you want."

Seeing that Su Lingqiu didn't believe what he said, Li Yu chuckled and said, "Lingqiu, do you know who this year's new top scholar is? That's me, Li Yu! Now I have been admitted to the Hanlin Academy and serve under the Ninth Emperor's Girl. , you also know the reputation of Her Highness the Ninth Queen, right? As long as you are willing to leave the Fourth Queen's Mansion, I can ask the Ninth Queen to take you out. Lingqiu..."

"Enough, stop talking!"

Su Lingqiu grasped her sleeves tightly with both hands, not wanting to listen to the other party's words anymore.

He turned around and wanted to go around the other party and leave, but he didn't expect to be hugged by Li Yu's waist all of a sudden.

The latter's wild behavior made him yell in shock and anger, "Li Yu! How dare you be so rude?"

"Let go of me quickly! I am the side-husband of the fourth emperor's daughter, do you want to offend me?"

"Fourth Princess? What can the Fourth Princess give you?"

Li Yu was a little angry when he saw Su Lingqiu being so stubborn.

"I heard that the fourth princess is a useless person. She can't even give her husband what he wants most."

"Su Lingqiu, you should marry me instead!"

"As long as you are willing to marry me, I can give you everything, including houses, children, and money!"

However, Su Linghuang refused to listen to her words, and kept trying to escape.

If he hadn't been afraid that the news of the two hugging each other would spread, he would have shouted for help by now.

Seeing that the softness was not enough, Li Yu decided to come hard.

She only heard her directly threatening Su Lingqiu, "Don't struggle, if you struggle again, I'll kill you right where you are!"

Su Lingqiu didn't dare to move when she heard the words.

Seeing that he was more stable, Li Yu continued, "Since you don't want to marry me so much, then do one thing for me. As long as you help me accomplish this, I swear that I will never bother you again .”

"Then what if I don't agree?" Su Lingqiu said angrily.

At this moment, he could see that Li Yu's talk was fake, but in fact, he clearly wanted to use him to do something.

Li Yuhan said in a loud voice, "If you dare not agree, then you can wait until I tell your wife everything about us, and then you will be abandoned by the other party and kicked out!"

After hearing these words, Su Lingqiu finally nodded silently in agreement after thinking for a long time.

(End of this chapter)