Prince is a slave

Elbe soldiers considered themselves brothers. "

Yi Luojia paused for a moment, and said: "You are also living in Yibei now, and I don't seem to see your loyalty to the Shang Kingdom. People will change, don't they, Your Highness the Crown Prince?"

"I have no brothers in the country of Shang, and I am not loyal to the country of Shang. However, Lord Ping Xijue." Su Yue bit these five words very hard, and he said, "Similarly, I will not treat the Elbe people As my own brother, I have no allegiance, I live only for myself."

"...It seems that I can't convince you?"

"Yes."

Iroka smiled gently and unfathomably, then he looked up at the golden leaves of the trees, and said plainly: "Okay, then it's up to you..."

In the distance, Lin Ruizhe seemed to have finally come to his senses. He moved his gaze away from the bloodstain, and looked around aimlessly in a void. He didn't stop until he saw Yi Luojia and Su Yue. His eyes gradually gained focus, but his face was colder than before.

Lin Ruizhe walked towards them, stopped in front of Yi Luojia, and said bluntly, "Are you also here to work?"

"Yeah, it's autumn, and there are many dead leaves on the ground. I'll help clean it up." Yi Luojia said calmly and easy-goingly, and then his eyes darkened a bit, "Brother Ruizhe, I didn't expect such a thing to happen. What a pity... You said, is his death related to the embezzlement case of public funds that you recently intervened in the investigation?"

"I was thinking about this just now..."

"How is the investigation going?"

"I have no clue." Lin Ruizhe sighed, "But if these two things are related, then maybe there is a clue."

"What do you mean?"

"Come here, I just saw something." Lin Ruizhe pulled Yi Luojia to the edge of the pool of blood. It turned out that he was not in a trance just now, but was inspecting the scene. Lin Ruizhe pointed to another small blood spot next to the pool of blood on the ground, Said: "Do you see what this is?"

Yi Luojia looked at it for a while, then shook his head: "It's nothing special."

Lin Ruizhe said, "Go further this way, look at it from this angle, and see what's on the ground."

Iroka looked at the angle he was pointing at, and was slightly taken aback——

It was the word "jin" written crookedly in blood.

"He left it before he died?" Iroka asked softly.

"It should be, and it's related to the murderer." Lin Ruizhe pondered, "Jin... Brother Lorja, what do you think this sounds like?"

Iroka thought about it seriously for a while, and said seriously: "...a pork seller."

Lin Ruizhe: "..."

"Don't make such an expression. I've never been able to guess these things." Iroka smiled wryly, "Why don't you talk to Qi Sishi, the head of the Criminal Law Department, he is good at this."

"That's true." Lin Ruizhe sighed, suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, the day after tomorrow is Princess Zhao's coming-of-age day, and she will come from her father's fief to accept my king's blessing. I The king ordered that I need to borrow a slave from you to serve Lord Zhao."

Yi Luojia's eyes turned a few inches imperceptibly cold, but he still concealed a gentle smile, and asked the question he already knew the answer to lightly: "Dare to ask who the King wants to borrow?"

Lin Ruizhe was silent for a moment, then said: "...Prince Su Yue."

10

10. Injured...

Princess Zhao is known to be tricky and mean in Elbe.She is Zhaohou's only daughter. Since she was held in her palm as a pearl and cared for since she was a child, she can't see anyone surpassing her in any way, and she has a strong jealousy.

Her cruelty changed the expressions of the palace people who had seen her in the royal city until now—

It is said that when Princess Zhao was 15 years old, she followed Zhaohou to the royal city to attend a dinner party. At that time, Princess Zhao was a young girl, graceful and youthful, wearing a brocade shirt and satin shoes, and she was really graceful and graceful. Light and pleasant.

The slight flaw of Baibi is that Princess Zhao's feet are not good-looking, big feet, stiff feet, and slightly flat feet.

At that time, the court lady serving Princess Zhao's bath was a young woman in her early twenties. Since the ground around the bath pool was made of white jade, it would be very slippery after being sprayed with water mist, so the Elbe Palace gradually formed a habit of being like a court lady. All serve barefoot.

But it was this act of bare feet that hurt the young palace lady.

Princess Zhao was suspicious by nature, she was not familiar with the customs in the palace, and thought that the maid's bare feet were deliberately ridiculing her ugly feet. In a rage, she chopped off the maid's feet with a knife, and then carried the bloody The broken foot was thrown to the imperial dining room for them to cook, and the maid was forced to eat it by herself, even the bones were not allowed to vomit.

Back at Pingxi Jue Mansion, Yi Luojia looked at Su Yue worriedly: "My king asked you to serve Princess Zhao, obviously because he still wanted to make things difficult for you. Remember, at the banquet, no matter what Princess Zhao said, You can't violate it, otherwise she will never let you go."

Su Yue sneered and said, "It seems that King Elbe is really at his wit's end, and sent a woman to torture me."

"This woman is not an ordinary woman. You should be careful everywhere, be measured in what you say, and understand the rules."

Su Yue glanced at Yi Luojia, and said sarcastically: "It's a pity, I don't know the rules, I don't know how to measure, it's all thanks to Ping Xijue's suggestion."

Yi Luojia frowned slightly: "Su Yue, don't take my words to heart."

Su Yue scoffed.

The day when Princess Zhao enters the palace is coming soon, and there is a custom in Elbe that all members of the royal family must rush from the fiefdom to the royal city to receive the blessing of King Elbe when they are adults.

Iroja sat on the luxurious carriage heading for the royal city, looking at the street scene outside the window in a dazed way. After a while, he said to Su Yue: "When I was 20 years old, I was bestowed by the former king. Blessing, I wear luxurious clothes that are heavier than myself, and I received a total of [-] blessing gifts, and my mother had to set aside ten rooms to put those things..."

After a pause, he smiled slightly, and his water-colored lips curled up gently: "... 15 years have passed in a blink of an eye, life flies by so fast, doesn't it?"

"I seem to hear the sad sigh of an old man." Su Yue said coldly.

Yi Luojia laughed helplessly, and Su Yue glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. Although he was not polite, Su Yue had to admit that he looked very young indeed.

Iroca has a shrewd and cunning temperament, but at the same time, elegance and reason have condensed his gentle demeanor. He seems to have an amazing ability to combine the danger of the wild with the noble and elegant. .

Before meeting him, Su Yue never believed that a person could have such an extremely contradictory soul at the same time.

The carriage entered the palace and stopped slowly outside the Beizhao Hall. When Yi Luojia got off the carriage, an attendant came to receive him immediately, and the chief steward with a wrinkled face was already sullen. He had been waiting for Su Yue for a long time. When he saw that Su Yue turned out to be the same chariot as Xi Jue Heping, he first showed a surprised expression, then that expression began to loosen, and was finally replaced by suspicion and contempt.

"Then, you and the manager go first, he will teach you how to serve the princess, and we will meet in the main hall." Yiluojia said.

Su Yue nodded briefly, and his lips were tightly pursed. Of course he knew what the manager was thinking of, no, except for the manager, and those guards, each of their eyes betrayed their thoughts——

This bunch of stupid bastards, no matter what you look at, he is not a prostitute raised by Jue Pingxi, at least not yet.

According to the manager, he, Su Yue, is too lowly, and he is not qualified to serve beside the princess when she is receiving blessings from Shi Ze.The steward was full of Elbe's accent, and he said reverently: "My king is the most honorable son of God, you cannot appear at the blessing ceremony, because your filth will defile my holy and pure light."

Su Yue gritted his teeth, he had to use his whole life of patience to restrain his urge to roll his eyes hard.He admired himself for being able to put on a not-so-bad smiling face, and tried to ask in a polite tone he thought: "So, when should I go in and serve your Princess Zhao?"

The steward said: "You can go in with those chickens, ducks and fish when the banquet starts and the maids pass the dishes, because you are full of stale air just like them."

Su Yue smiled and thought, if someone dared to talk to him like this in the Shang Kingdom a year ago when he was still the crown prince, maybe he would hold a needle and thread in his own hands and sew his upper and lower lips one by one. Was it sewn up?

But this is just the beginning.

Su Yue's real nightmare is Princess Zhao.

After waiting outside the Beizhao Hall for a long time, Su Yue was not allowed to enter the hall until the sunset was bleeding and the clouds were red. Next, make the most adjustments indoors.

The last time I came in, it was still a crystal chandelier, a gold powder dance floor, and eight hundred banquet tables, but this time it completely changed. The dance floor and the chandelier were gone, replaced by a blessed shallow pool filled with clear springs, and two rows of long ones. The endless lark sits on the ground with long candlesticks, burning dim candles, making the layout of the hall mysterious and solemn.

Su Yue looked around, and the first thing he saw was Lin Ruizhe. He was holding a knife, standing beside the pillar indifferently, standing upright like a sculpture.

Seeing him, Su Yue felt a little suffocated in his heart, as if the whole person was thrown into the scarlet and extravagant red maple sea again, with nothing but bitterness and loneliness.

He hastily turned his eyes away, and the maids were already passing the dishes from table to table. I wonder if the adult banquet is more serious, those nobles