Death Princess

"My humble minister, Qin Hui, greets His Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live."

On the main hall, Qin Huiduan was kneeling in the center and receiving a big gift. Prince He Yuxi and Prince Ping He Yupeng stood in front of him, bowed their heads and waited obediently for the nine-year-old who was sitting on the dragon chair. The Five Supremes spoke.

Hearing the sound, He Kunju, who was sitting on the dragon chair, raised his head from the scroll, looked left and right at the two sons who were pinching the fingers of their sleeves with guilt, and finally fell on Qin who dared not get up without the emperor speaking after the ceremony. Hui body.

"Hey." He seemed to sigh, and stuffed the hand of the servant next to the King of Scrolls. Regardless of the astonishment of the people around him, he walked down the steps with his robes up, walked around the two sons, and walked directly in front of Qin Hui, " Why are you still kneeling, get up quickly." He stretched out his hand to help Qin Hui, but he didn't do it completely, but waited for Qin Hui to get up by himself.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." He stood up, but Qin Hui still did not raise his head.

"Raise your head and look at me." Qin Hui raised his head tremblingly before asking, "You saved Yi'er?"

"Don't dare," Qin Hui's head, which hadn't been raised for a long time, shrank back like a turtle when he heard this question, "I'm just following the order of His Royal Highness..."

"It's all the prince's credit, it's all the prince's credit!" Interrupting Qin Hui, He Kunju flung his sleeves and took two steps back, glaring hard at He Yuxi, who bowed his head and looked deaf and dumb, "I can't do the job. There are a few, but the flattering is louder than the other."

"Wei Chen..."

"My son..."

Qin Hui and He Yuxi's legs softened when they heard the words, and they were about to kneel down.

"Kneeling why kneeling! Cough, cough, cough..." A loud roar triggered a series of heart-piercing coughs, scaring the two brothers into being stuck in the middle.Seeing this, the old eunuch at the side hurriedly waved his hand to signal the servant at the door to look for the imperial doctor, but He Kunju stopped him with his gestures.

After a while of coughing that felt painful even after smelling it, when He Kunju spoke again, he had already changed into a kind and elder tone, like the unreasonable person just now, not him, "You saved Yi'er , It’s too late for me to reward you, how can I be willing to blame you? I don’t know the prince’s temperament? If you don’t have twenty or thirty sycophants in a day, you will definitely not think about food or food.”

As He Kunju said so, he glared at the prince again, although his voice was still weak, but his instigation was clear, "Now that I'm here, he doesn't dare to do anything, the credit is yours and it's yours, he can't take it away. Tell me, what reward do you want? As long as I give it to you, it doesn't matter." Squeezing a kind smile, he patted Qin Hui on the shoulder.

After being patted so weakly by the emperor, Qin Hui was almost slapped on the ground, "My minister..." Your Majesty is so determined to provoke you, how can you let me mess around in front of the prince in the future?Qin Hui shivered while shrinking his neck.

"Well," as if realizing that he had gone too far, He Kunzhe stroked his beard and took a few steps back, "It's not easy for you to answer this question." After thinking about it, he turned to He Yuxi, "Prince, What do you think? How should I reward the prince who saved your sister, is it appropriate?"

"This..." The crown prince who was suddenly asked was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, his eyes lit up, and said, "Father, in my child's impression, Qin Sheren is the orphan of the former minister of Dali Temple, Qin Shuo."

"Oh? Qin Shuo?" He Kunju tilted his head.

"It's my father." Qin Hui replied with his head down.

"Then Wei Shangshu and you...?" He Kunju narrowed his eyes.

"...Lord Wei is my father's adopted son, my minister's elder brother with a different surname." Qin Hui couldn't help frowning when he answered this sentence, as if it was difficult to say "brother with a different surname".The He family's royal father and son on the side certainly did not let go of this expression.

"It's so good, it's so good cough cough." Coughed again, "Qin Aiqing is the hero who put down the rebellion of King Sui." When he said this, He Kunju couldn't help but floated to the side to make a pillar He Yupeng, "but unfortunately died in that riot. After being a hero, he is now saving Yi'er in distress. The tiger father has no dogs, and the tiger father has no dogs." He nodded while pulling his beard.

"That's all." He raised his head and patted Qin Hui on the shoulder again, "I will inherit my father's career. There is still a vacancy at Dali Temple, so you can go there and be a young minister." He Yuxi looked at He Yupeng again, "What do you think?"

"Father is wise."

"Father is wise."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron."

In this way, full of compliments, Qin Hui walked out of the hall with the new official position that had been expected long ago.

Walking down the steps along the road of civil servants, Qin Hui couldn't keep his eyes open due to the bright sunshine.

Dali Temple Shaoqing ah.

I don't know how my biological father, who has never met, would feel if he knew about this matter.

. . .

Qin Hui was sent away, the crown prince was waved away, and when only He Kunju and He Yupeng, the adoptive father and son, were left in the hall, the air really froze.

"Tell me, cough, cough," He Kunzhe, who had returned to the dragon chair, withdrew the handkerchief he used to cover his mouth when he coughed, "How did you let your sister be kidnapped under your nose Let's go, come back with a whole body of criminal injuries, after a narrow escape?"

"My son..." He Yupeng knelt on the ground with a plop, "My son deserves death!"

"I didn't ask you whether you should die cough cough cough! I'm asking you, what exactly did you go to Lingzhou to toss, how and why Yi'er was taken away, why he was taken away, why he was tortured, and by whom? She left?! Why were you by her side, but she was the only one who took away?" Although the tone was heavy, He Kunju's voice was still weak and tired.

"My son..." He Yupeng clenched his teeth, "My son doesn't know."

"The good one doesn't know, the good one coughs..." He Kunju pointed at his nose, as if he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.

"My son, my son heard from Changping," He Yupeng suddenly raised his head and roared loudly, as if he was trying to grab some life-saving straw. , and the death of the two kings eight years ago," Seeing that He Kunju didn't seem interested in listening, He Yupeng desperately shouted four words that should not have appeared like this, "Princess Six Fingers!"

Sure enough, these four words successfully changed He Kunju's eyes.

"What did you say?" Frowning slowly, He Kunju's eyes flashed a trace of hostility, and the weakness on his face disappeared instantly, "Tell me again?"

"Erchen..." Seeing that there was hope, He Yupeng's eyes lit up, he quickly knelt forward a few steps, and said, "When those people captivated Erchen and took Yi'er away, Erchen seemed to be fascinated. I heard the words 'Princess Six Fingers' in a daze. I didn't know what it meant. I tried my best to continue listening, but the drug was too strong, and I couldn't hold it. Hold on, son..."

"You only heard these four words?" At some point, He Kunju had already walked in front of He Yupeng.

"Yes... yes! Erchen only heard these four words."

He looked down at He Yupeng from a high position, until a ray of sunlight from the window came and went and came again, He Kunzhe looked back, waved his hand and said, "Go down, I will reflect on it in the mansion these few days. , don’t run around.” Then, he walked towards the dragon chair without looking back, as if these words had exhausted all his energy.

"Thank you, father!" With his sore knee, He Yupeng ran and fell, as if fleeing away from the place where he was thinking, but he couldn't touch the chair no matter what.

Not long after He Yupeng left, a black figure appeared behind He Kunju and whispered something in his ear.

"Wushi?" He Kunju turned to look at the messenger, "Is he sure?"

The man in black nodded.

"Okay, I get it, you go down." He added, "Tell him, this time it's fine, but I will protect him in the future, and if he hurts half a vellus hair again, he will kill him." Let's see you now."

"Yes!" As soon as the voice fell, the man in black disappeared behind the hall.

"Hey——" After he was left alone in the hall, He Kunzhe slumped on the dragon chair exhaustedly. I can't be bothered. Cough cough cough—" There was another heart-wrenching cough.

. . .

On the other side, Leng Tong, who was half-tied and half-coaxed into the car, returned to this dilapidated village where only she and Yao Jingyu were left after falling asleep all the way.

"Thank you for taking care of me, Leng Moulu," Leng Tong, who had changed her waxy complexion before getting into the car dozens of days ago, and was already radiant with the good medicine, food and vegetables, jumped off the carriage and looked at Kong The sisters bowed upright.But before the Kong sisters were taken away for a while, and before they had said a few good words, Leng Tong suddenly threw out the order to evict the guest, "You two, walk slowly and don't give away the silver, I will meet it in a few days..."

"Room No. [-], Jinzi, Xueshuang Building, the only one in the county." Hearing the eviction order, Kong Xi grabbed the anxious elder sister beside him, and saluted with a smiling face without arrogance or anger, "The girl will Just send the money there." As soon as the words fell, Kong Xi was grabbed by the old horse, and after a slight nod to Leng Tong, he flew away from the place.

After a cup of tea, on the official road back to the county seat, Kong Xi finally took the reins and reined in the horse. He glared at his younger sister Kong Xi angrily, and blamed, "Just let her go like this? Go to Xueshuang Tower Room No. [-] Jinzi? Did you forget to tell the senior sister? You have to send her to Xueming Valley before the [-]rd! It’s the second day of junior high today! Since she just said that she wants to pay back the silver, why don’t you just let her send it to Xueming Valley? Yinzi still going to Xueming Valley?"

"Going to Xueming Valley, then our money will really be wasted." Kong Xi raised an eyelid, "In the past few days, we have provided her with good food, good meat, and good medicine. Her attitude It’s very polite, but have you seen her mention half a sentence to Senior Sister and Xue Minggu? She clearly knew our background and purpose, but she avoided talking about it and asked us to send her here, and specifically mentioned paying back the money. Isn't the meaning very clear? She has no opinion about Senior Sister, once the money is paid, the relationship between her and us will be settled."

"Smack, smack, smack," Kong Xi leaned on the frame, crossing his legs, "You really have a heart of stone. What should I do, Senior Sister, she took a fancy to a cold lump of ice, and now she threw it to me both."

"In such a situation, it is better to use the word 'wait'."

"Huh? Wait?"

"If she had no opinion about Senior Sister, she wouldn't have gotten in the car from the beginning," Kong Xi analyzed calmly, "She is deliberately alienating you and me now, but she deliberately postponed the date of repaying the money, which shows her innermost feelings. Contradictory, she is leaving a way out for herself. She didn't see her senior sister, not because of anything else, but because of guilt. But the more she disappears, the more guilt will deepen, so one day, she will figure it out. "

"Then what if she can't figure it out after twenty-three?"

"That's why the senior sister is not charming enough."

"..."

. . .

But no one could have imagined that three days later, another incident brought Leng Tong to Xueshuang Building, so she had no choice but to go to Xueming Valley to see the morning dew.

With Yao Jingyu behind her back, Leng Tong hurried over with full of self-blame.

"Judging from the pulse condition," Kong Xi withdrew his finger on Yao Jingyu's wrist, "she should just be asleep." She looked at Leng Tong, then turned to look at her sister for confirmation.

"Indeed." Kong Xi nodded.

"I thought so too at first," Leng Tong sat beside her, rubbing her temples, "but since the night I returned, she has been in a coma for three whole days, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like ordinary sleep. Looking up at the two sisters, "Poisoned? Is it possible?"

After Kong Xi and Kong Xi looked at each other, they shook their heads together.

After getting the answers from the two, Leng Tong didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

Suddenly, Kong Xi, who was staring at Yao Jingyu's forehead, thought of something, his pupils narrowed and asked, "Apart from lethargy, does she have other abnormalities? Such as nightmares, raving?"

Leng Tong nodded, shook his head, nodded again, hesitantly did not speak.

"It's okay, girl," Kong Xi said, "As you know, my sister and I disguised ourselves as men just for convenience." Without waiting for sister to stop, Kong Xi unceremoniously pierced through the layer that blocked the three of them. The film in front of him said, "Actually, both of us sisters are disciples of Xueming Valley. We were ordered by Senior Sister Chao to pick up the girl. Although we are not from the Spirit Clan, we are of the same heart with Senior Sister and the Spirit Clan."

Regarding her sister's outspokenness, Kong Xi was surprised and had no time to stop her, so she could only add: "Even before she came out, Senior Sister told me that Jing Yu belongs to the Phantom Spirit Clan, so..."

"I don't know if it's a hallucination." Seeing that the two sisters have confessed, Leng Tong took a deep breath and said, "When she was frowning because of the nightmare, I seemed to see a silver light shining on her forehead. .”

The two sisters looked at each other, and Kong Xi said, "That's right."

"The two of us know that the girl does not want to go to Xueming Valley right now, but as ordinary people, we are really powerless to do anything about this matter of the spirit clan. If so," Kong Xi took a step back after thinking about it, "If the girl don't worry , then my sisters will leave Jing Yu there..."

"No." For a moment, the two sisters thought they were hallucinating, until they heard Leng Tong's voice again, "No, I'll go by myself, I've been escaping for so long, I should... face it." Soliloquy.

Yes, it's time to face it.

Chaolu, here I come.

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Phew - after being separated for so long, we can finally meet again.