Queen is the top

His words hit Zhongshi Hongxiao's sore spot, and he looked at the old man warily, "How do you know? Who are you?"

The old man smiled, "My identity is not important, I invited Mr. Shi here this time, just to help Mr. Shi."

Shi Hongxiao looked at his face carefully, and found that his expression was a bit unnatural when he spoke, and secretly decided in his heart that he had changed his appearance.

Shi Hongxiao sneered, "You don't dare to show your true colors, why are you talking about helping me?"

The old man stroked his gray beard, chuckled twice and didn't answer his words, he just said: "Do you know why Shangshu Hubu makes things difficult for you all day long?"

Hearing this, Shi Hongxiao straightened his body and leaned forward: "Why! Isn't it because I entrusted my relationship to become the servant of the household department?"

The old man shook his head slightly, and still smiled stiffly, "Young Master Master was so smart for a while. If you really value your relationship with the crown prince, the Minister of the Household Department would not dare to openly bully you no matter how powerful you are."

Shi Hongxiao was startled, and had some thoughts in his heart.

The old man said again, "Before the Crown Princess married the Crown Prince, how did the Young Master treat him?"

Shi Hongxiao's expression turned ugly and he didn't speak. The old man said: "The prince is scheming and narrow-minded. Master Shi has tried to make things difficult for the princess several times. Do you think the prince will easily let you go?"

Shi Hongxiao was startled, "You mean, the Crown Prince deliberately arranged for the Hubu Shangshu to do it!"

The old man chuckled, and looked at Shi Hongxiao with a pair of bright eyes that did not match his old face, "Young master is smart."

Shi Hongxiao squinted his eyes in resentment, he had already scolded He Jingyi and Shi Yuqing a hundred and eighty times in his heart, but he couldn't figure out the identity of the old man, so he kept silent, only the uncontrollable anger in his eyes kept overflowing.

The old man looked at Shi Hongxiao and sneered, "Master Shi, is he going to let the bullying go on like this, without any power to fight back until the day he is beaten to death by the crown prince? Or..."

Shi Hongxiao hurriedly said: "What else?!"

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, and said coldly: "It's better to strike first."

Shi Hongxiao shrank his pupils, unconsciously leaned slightly towards the old man, and said in a low voice, "You mean."

The old man stroked his beard, and said in a hoarse voice: "If there is no crown princess, the son of Shaoguo county government must belong to Master Shida, but even if he becomes a crown prince, Shaoguo county still does not let Master Shida inherit The meaning of title, why do you think it is?"

Shi Hongxiao opened his eyes angrily, "You mean that someone deliberately obstructed me because I can't be the son of the world!"

The old man chuckled, his laughter was deep and hoarse, and his figure was swaying on the wall illuminated by the candlelight, making him even more strange in the dark secret room.

"The prince is cruel and ruthless. When he deals with people, he never directly kills that person for pleasure, but slowly tortures you to make your life worse than death. Since the prince has been targeted by the prince, I am afraid it will be more or less ominous. His rectification is only the first step, and with his character, I'm afraid your good days are yet to come."

Shi Hongxiao's mind was filled with anger, he clenched his hands and lowered the chopping board in front of him fiercely, "He Jingyi is too deceitful!"

He thought about it for a second, then gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words, "It must be Shi Yuqing who was instigating and whispering all kinds of bad things in his ears, otherwise I and the prince would not be worried or complained, why would he do this."

The old man snorted coldly, "Everyone knows how the crown prince loves the crown princess. No matter what methods the crown princess uses, she will eventually make the young master a target. I'm afraid I will not live a peaceful life in this life."

Shi Hongxiao was angry and frightened, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Although he only met He Jingyi once on the day Shi Yuqing returned home, his cold and serious body and the sharpness of his eyes made people fearful. Now he Knowing that He Jingyi was responsible for all his inhuman days in the household department, and the old man said that He Jingyi would deal with him slowly, he became frightened for a while.

But Shi Hongxiao, as a martial artist, no matter how fearful he was, he still tried his best not to let others see the joke on his face. He took a deep breath, and unlike the angry appearance just now, he calmly cupped his hands at the old man and said, "Please, senior!" Instruct Hongxiao how to deal with it."

The old man's eyelids drooped, he stroked his beard to hide a sneer from the corner of his mouth, and said slowly: "The old man just told Mr. Master that it is better to act first."

Shi Hongxiao waved his hand, "This method doesn't work, how can I get close to him with the status of the crown prince?"

The old man smiled faintly, "Young master misunderstood, the prince already has martial arts, it's not that the old man looks down on young master, the prince's martial arts, the young master is afraid that his martial arts is less than one percent."

When Shi Hongxiao frowned, he was about to get angry, the old man waved his hands and continued to speak slowly: "Besides, the crown prince and Mr. Shi have no intersection, it is almost impossible to assassinate the crown prince."

"Of course I know." Shi Hongxiao sighed, "It's a big deal to abandon the glory and wealth and run away."

The old man sneered, "Could it be the king's land in the whole world, where can Master escape to?"

Shi Hongxiao panicked and slapped down the chopping board, "Then according to what you said, there is no way for Hongxiao to survive!"

"Master, don't panic." The old man waved his hand and said calmly, "According to the identity of Master, the Crown Prince can't get close, but the Crown Princess is the brother of Master after all. It’s okay to see family members.”

Shi Hongxiao understood as soon as he heard it, "You mean you killed Shi Yuqing?!"

The old man said: "The reason why the crown prince dealt with Master Shi is just to vent his anger on the crown princess. If the crown prince dies, there will be no one around the prince to blow the wind around the pillow. After a long time, the friendship with the crown prince will fade, and naturally there will be no way to deal with it." Master's reason."

Shi Hongxiao listened carefully to what he said, rolled his eyes, thought about it secretly, and said hesitantly: "You said this lightly, if the crown prince investigates and finds out the truth, wouldn't it be a dead end for Hongxiao!"

The old man chuckled, "Since the old man intends to help Master Shi, he naturally thought of a way to protect Master Master."

Shi Hongxiao hurriedly said: "What way?!"

The old man reached into his bosom, took out a wooden box that was one finger long, opened it and handed it to Shi Hongxiao, Shi Hongxiao poked his head and saw that there was a crystalline needle less than half a finger long inside, he stretched out his finger Pointing to the fine needle: "What is this?!"

The old man smiled coldly, "This is the ice soul needle. Once the needle enters the human body, it will melt immediately and penetrate into the internal organs. The person who received the needle will die suddenly."

Shi Hongxiao was horrified when he heard this, and said in surprise: "This tiny needle has such a skill?!"

The old man said quietly, "This needle is rare in the world. Even if the crown prince wanted to investigate, he would definitely not be able to find it on Mr. Shi. Mr. Shi only needs to find an opportunity to do it secretly when the princess returns home."

After he finished speaking, he pushed the wooden box in front of Shi Hongxiao. Shi Hongxiao looked at the wooden box, opened and closed his fingers slightly, hesitated before picking it up.

He looked at the wooden box and stared at the old man suspiciously: "Who are you? Why are you helping me?"

The old man chuckled, "Master, in this situation, why bother about who this old man is? It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I can help Master."

He paused without waiting for Shi Hongxiao to open his mouth and said again, "The old man gave the ice soul needle to Master, it's up to Master himself to use it or not."

Shi Hongxiao looked at the old man, squeezed the wooden box with his fingers, still had uneasiness in his eyes, hesitated for a while and said nothing.

The old man lowered his eyelids, "It's late at night, the old man ordered someone to send Master Shi back to the mansion."

Shi Hongxiao thought that he was kidnapped by someone, and he didn't know the purpose of this person in front of him, so he said carefully: "No need, senior just need to point out the way, and I can go back by myself."

The old man looked at his originally cloudy eyes, a gleam of light flashed away, and Shi Hongxiao was stunned when he saw it. When he was about to speak again, he felt a pain in the back of his neck, his eyes went dark, and he passed out instantly.

The man in black who had brought Shi Hongxiao changed into clean clothes, stood up from behind him without anyone noticing, and cupped his hands at the old man.

The old man nodded and stood up, looked down at Shi Hongxiao, and twitched the corner of his mouth contemptuously, "Send him back to the mansion, don't disturb anyone."

The man in black hurriedly nodded and said "Yes", he lifted Shi Hongxiao up and put it on his shoulders, and after thinking about it before leaving, he turned to the old man and said, "My lord, I don't understand something."

The old man turned his head slightly, and asked in a voice that was completely different from the low and hoarse voice without a trace of emotion, "What's the matter?"

The man in black said: "The Crown Princess has nothing to do with our plan, why does your lord insist on killing him?"

The old man sneered, and squeezed out a few words from the root of his teeth, "That bastard He Jingyi should have died 19 years ago, the master hates him so much, I killed his most beloved person, his pain will definitely make the master happy physically and mentally."

The corner of the man in black's eyes twitched, but he didn't answer, he nodded his head to support Shi Hongxiao and was about to leave.

"A-Lang, be careful when sending him back, don't let anyone find out that Shi Hongxiao saw me tonight."

The man in black paused, and hurriedly said: "Yes, Lord Shang Shuling."