The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 187 Pretending to be really good

"Didn't you hear on the way here? His Majesty the Emperor gave Xingzhou to King Xuan!" Gan Zixu's tone could no longer suppress his anxiety.

"What? I haven't heard of it." The young man's face changed drastically. But he soon calmed down and said, "I should have set out earlier. The imperial edict was issued later. It was just that it was delivered through the post station and arrived in Xingzhou faster than me. You don't have to worry. Since the imperial edict has been issued, I believe the master has also known about it. A letter will be sent soon..."

Gan Zixu interrupted fiercely, "No letter can be sent!"

The young man frowned: "What do you mean?"

"Anyway, no letter can be sent, and I can't send a letter." Gan Zixu became more anxious, "King Xuan may be staring at us, no, maybe he has already been staring at us."

The young man was startled and instinctively looked back at the way he came.

Then he frowned in confusion: "It's only been a few days since they arrived in Xingzhou. How did you offend King Xuan so quickly?"

"How can I offend? I think King Xuan has found traces in the mountains..." Gan Zixu frowned and asked hurriedly: "Princess Xuan, is she the sister that the master mentioned?"

"Oh, that's not it." The young man didn't know how to explain the difference between Xue Qingyin and Xue Qinghe, so he just said vaguely, "Before the new order comes, you just coax Princess Xuan."

"Still coaxing, still coaxing, if you keep coaxing like this, you might really lose everything..." Gan Zixu gritted his teeth.

Xue Qingyin sneezed heavily while sitting in the room, wrinkled her nose and said: "It must be someone who is scolding me behind my back again."

King Xuan took the handkerchief from the palace servant expressionlessly, covered her nose, and rubbed her twice.

Xue Qingyin sniffed lightly and felt much more comfortable.

"Maybe someone is thinking of you." King Xuan said.

"Oh, that's possible. Mother must be thinking about me." Xue Qingyin replied.

King Xuan did not correct her.

He just said: "It's cold in the mountains, Yinyin doesn't have to follow me into the forest tonight."

Xue Qingyin said: "Are you going to torture Gan Zixu openly? I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep well anymore."

Now it was Gan Zixu's turn to sneeze.

That night.

King Xuan stood in the forest in a green robe, which made him look like a scholar. But when the cold moonlight fell on him along the hideous branches, it revealed a murderous aura.

Then the footsteps slowly approached.

Fang Chengzhong stood in front of him and whispered: "Your Highness, the secret passage has been found. Let's... take it down immediately?"

King Xuan lowered his eyes and adjusted his cuffs: "Well, take it down."

Fang Chengzhong nodded, turned around and drew the knife from his waist, then pushed aside the bushes and strode forward.

The mountain where Gan Zixu built his house is connected to two other mountains. The secret passage is located in the belly of one of the mountains.

There is a different world in the belly of the mountain.

Several short and sturdy men, carrying baskets of things covered with black cloth, shuttled between the mountains.

From time to time, the sound of "ding ding dang dang" hitting the mountain can be heard.

"The master hasn't come to inspect for several days." Someone said in a low voice.

A middle-aged man raised his eyelids and said, "King Xuan is here recently, and the master must accompany him. You just need to be careful. I don't need to tell you what the crime of mining without permission is, right?"

"Master Qiu, we don't need to use it! We don't need to use it!"

The middle-aged man called "Master Qiu" hesitated for a moment and said, "We don't need to use that hole recently, and we will stay in the mountains for a while."

"What about our food and accommodation? There are so many people..."

"It's not the first time to eat and live in the mountains." Master Qiu said with a stern face.

"We have to do something first."

"What is it?" Master Qiu asked.

"Although our entrance is secret, it can be hidden from human eyes, but not from wolf eyes. I wonder if it was a female wolf that escaped from other places, ran into the cave and gave birth to a litter of wolf cubs, and blocked the door. In the past two days, it has always dragged some prey in, making the entrance smell fishy... It is inevitable that it attracts some attention."

Mr. Qiu was impatient to listen to the wolf story, so he said, "What do you want to do?"

"Kill it, just in time for us to add meat in the mountains. I don't know how long we will stay here..." The man couldn't help licking his lips as he spoke.

"Okay!" Mr. Qiu said.

The poorer the place, the more fierce people there are.

These people who work hard for Gan Zixu are all fierce guys.

They have eaten a lot of wild game in this mountain.

They are numerous and powerful, and their tools are powerful. Sometimes big beasts have to go around them, not to mention a single mother wolf with a few wolf cubs?

After they ate the food brought in from outside and stopped working, they had no energy to vent, so they carried iron hoes, chisels and hammers and walked towards the entrance.

"How long have you not been home?"

"I forgot, half a month?"

"That's still a short time. I haven't been home for almost half a year. I don't know if my wife has cheated on me."

"You are so depressed, right? A female wolf is also a female, hehe."

"You are really a piece of shit..."

"What's the matter? Haven't you read folk tales? I don't believe it."

They talked nonsense without any scruples. When they got out of the entrance, they smelled a little fishy smell of wild animal feces.

There is really a female wolf curled up here. She bit a piece of leather and tried to make a nest for the wolf cubs.

The man went up and smashed a wolf cub on the head with a hoe.

The wolf cub didn't even have time to scream, but the other wolf cubs whimpered and barked like dogs.

The mother wolf threw away the skin and turned to pounce on them.

"Quick! Smash it gently! How can you cook it if you smash it into pieces?" The leader had just finished giving orders with curses, and turned his head and felt a chill on his neck.

It wasn't that the mother wolf bit his throat.

But his head seemed to be really twisted off by a huge force.

The man's eyes opened wide and his head fell to the ground.

Just like they smashed the wolf cub to death just now.

He died quietly.

The others were startled and opened their mouths to shout.

A hand stretched out from the side, slender and powerful, holding the handle of the knife casually, chopped casually. But he cut off three heads in a row. Then a group of shadow-like figures rushed in and quickly harvested the remaining heads.

"Oh my god, what is that? A wolf?" Fang Chengzhong was startled by the wolf cub's corpse on the ground.

King Xuan looked straight ahead: "Leave one alive. If you don't want to lead the way, kill them on the spot."

His tone was crisp and clear.

The last survivor knelt down without thinking: "I'll lead, I'll lead..." He didn't even have time to ask who these people were.

Fang Chengzhong raised his eyebrows: "Very sensible..."

He had just finished speaking.

But a female wolf suddenly jumped out of the shadows, kicked the mountain wall with its hind legs, took advantage of the momentum to pounce forward, and tore the throat of the last survivor.

"This thing is fierce!" Fang Chengzhong was stunned and grabbed the handle of the knife.

King Xuan's eyes moved slightly, and he said coldly: "Probably for revenge."

"Oh, this is a female wolf? No wonder..." Fang Chengzhong muttered, slightly sideways, and made way for the female wolf.

The mother wolf probably also regarded them as her "allies" to help her get revenge. She lowered her head and bit a still-living wolf cub, then turned around and jumped out, disappearing without a trace.

They didn't care about the wolves' movements anymore.

Fang Chengzhong sighed: "There's no survivors..."

King Xuan: "Go in."

"Will it alarm Gan Zixu?" Fang Chengzhong was a little conservative.

King Xuan said lightly: "There are guards from the palace. If he doesn't want to expose the master behind him, he will be honest and dare not move."

Fang Chengzhong couldn't help laughing: "Ha, he didn't expect that we don't care about luring out the people behind him. We just want to kill him with one blow and defeat him directly."

King Xuan didn't say anything.

Is there still a need to lure?

King Xuan flicked the blood beads on the hem of his clothes with his fingers: "Let's go."

From the discovery of the secret passage to the silent attack, it took only half an hour.

"There are a lot of iron tools, and the asbestos mentioned by the princess. "Fang Chengzhong sent someone to do a rough count, and finally returned to King Xuan to report.

"Did you find the fire-proof cloth?" King Xuan asked.

Fang Chengzhong waved his hand, and someone came up with a thick stack of clothes.

He was surprised and said, "I have never seen such a thing before, and I don't know if this is the fire-proof cloth."

King Xuan ordered people to light a fire and throw the clothes in with an expressionless face.

The flames jumped up and swallowed the cloth.

Three of the five pieces were burned.

Even so, it was enough to amaze people.

"Such a thing actually exists in the world! "Fang Chengzhong was amazed and couldn't let it go. When he turned his head, he saw King Xuan covering his mouth and nose.

Fang Chengzhong was a little surprised.

This thing is poisonous, and King Xuan is a noble, so he should take care of his body.

But in the past on the battlefield, they often didn't feel that King Xuan was the emperor's son. He always rushed forward bravely and fearlessly. His expressionless face seemed as if he would die on the battlefield in the next moment, and his brows would not frown. It was for this reason that everyone in the army admired His Highness King Xuan.

Seeing King Xuan's actions, Fang Chengzhong suddenly had a strange idea in his mind-his Highness seemed to want to live longer.

Just when Fang Chengzhong was lost in thought, King Xuan said: "Pack it up. Such treasures should be presented to the emperor."

"...Yes! "

They followed the secret passage and finally arrived at the underground palace built by Gan Zixu.

Pushing the door open, they saw the tomb of his wife built underground.

"Your Highness, shall we go out this way?"

"Return the same way."

"Yes."

King Xuan turned and stopped: "Light a stick of incense for her."

Fang Chengzhong was stunned for a moment, then nodded and lit a stick of incense for Gan Zixu's wife who died early.

The tomb was very clean, and the incense, candles, fruits and other items offered in front were all placed in exquisite gold containers.

The coffin was eleven or twelve feet long and five or six feet wide. It was painted with red.

Fang Chengzhong shook his head and sighed: "Love is true love, but it does not prevent him from disturbing the peace of his deceased wife and using it as an excuse. People, really..."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but look in the direction of King Xuan with worry.

But this look met King Xuan's cold and even gloomy eyes.

Fang Chengzhong was stunned.

Your Highness...what are you thinking?

They left the underground palace quickly.

When they returned to the previous entrance.

Fang Chengzhong was shocked again: "Why is there still a little wolf cub here?"

Du Hongxue interrupted: "I'm afraid it's afraid of us for the time being and dare not come back to take it."

King Xuan glanced at it: "...Then pack it up and leave it for the princess to play with tomorrow."

This...play?

If you say you can play, then you can play!

Fang Chengzhong knelt down and picked up the wolf cubs himself.

Xue Qingyin fell asleep early that night.

I even had a dream in which there were mountains of gold, and even the pillows were made of gold. She turned her head, a little panicked, and at the same time, there was a smell of rust in her nose.

She was a little angry.

How did gold turn into iron?

She was so angry that she woke up.

She opened her eyes and realized there was a figure beside her bed.

"Your Highness?" She reached out her hand in a daze and grabbed the other party's clothes, huh? Why is there some blood? It overlapped with the rusty gas in her dream.

Xue Qingyin instinctively rubbed her fingertips, and then someone grabbed her hand.

King Xuan's deep voice sounded: "Go on to sleep."

Xue Qingyin was pushed back to the bed by him, her eyes opened blankly, and then closed again after a while.

King Xuan took off his belt with one hand and took off his outer clothes. He lowered his head and smelled the bloodless scent remaining on his body before lying down.

Xue Qingyin instinctively arched her buttocks twice, bumped into King Xuan's arms, then rested on his arm and continued to sleep comfortably.

When the sky is about to dawn.

Xue Qingyin unknowingly rolled to the other corner of the bed.

King Xuan had already stood up. He was wearing a single coat, leaning on the corner of the bed, and tied the silver bell in his hand to Xue Qingyin's ankle.

...Are you pretending to be jealous?

He leaned over and bit Xue Qingyin's ankle. The suppressed yet surging sourness suddenly escaped.

Xue Qingyin suddenly woke up.

"Dogs bite me?"

Her eyes widened.

The ferocious and powerful "big wolf dog" leaned forward, grabbed her wrist, and took off her clothes.

"jingle".

A silver bell rang.

Xue Qingyin suddenly thought about it... Is this the silver jewelry worn by the dancers earlier? Oh, when you watch them dance, is this what you are thinking about emotionally?

Xue Qingyin just understood.

The silver bell rang again.

Such jingling bells are heard all the time.

Xue Qingyin's waist was numb and her legs were weak. She was holding on to the bedpost and her eyes curled up in a lingering way.

"you……"

You fucking know how to play!

She heard King Xuan's low and hoarse voice ringing in her ears, almost inaudible, but there seemed to be a little bit of madness in the low voice.

"I'm a little jealous," he said.

Xue Qingyin:?

Isn’t this something you have to pretend in front of others?

Why did this start?

But soon another thought flashed through her mind in confusion -

Oh, it is true that such a scene cannot be staged in front of others.

Two hours later.

Xue Qingyin got up, clamoring for breakfast, and told the palace officials to bring all the servants sent by Qian Zixu and He Songning.

After finishing her instructions, she glared at King Xuan: "You are pretending really hard."

As she said this, she slipped out of bed and took two steps, limping: "...If I didn't know better, I'd think you broke my leg."

King Xuan: "..."