Chapter 36 Don't Try to Steal a Man from Me

Jing Siye came to the room where Zhai Qing and Chu Heng were imprisoned. At this time, Zhai Qing was weakly resting his head on Chu Heng's legs, with Chu Heng's outer robe draped over his body. He just tilted his head slightly to glance at the feet approaching, then turned his head away again:

"Stop talking nonsense. If you want to kill me or chop me up, please do as you please."

Jing Siye: "Zhai Qing, you are the same age as me, and you have also studied hard for ten years. You know what treason is equivalent to. The fate of the Zhai family is doomed. Your senior sister and master are both Japanese. Think carefully about where they are."

Zhai Qing: "I said I don't know. They never told me where they were going."

"The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. I have nothing to say, but how did you suspect me?"

Jing Siye said slowly, "My court physician Chen Lian is not famous for nothing. You sent someone to poison you, but you had to prevent yourself from being poisoned. The herbal smell on you and Chu Heng is the same as the herbal smell on the dancer who was named Concubine Yi by the late emperor ten years ago."

Zhai Qing sneered, "I have to teach you that I really don't know where my master and senior sister are, especially my senior sister, I haven't seen her for several years. I didn't build that camp, you can burn it if you want, I am tired."

Zhai Qing was indeed "tired" and he had no qualms about addressing King Zhaonan as "this governor".

No matter how you cut, you will be fearless.

But his subordinate Chu Heng was different. With tears in his eyes, he begged for mercy from Jing Siye:

"Your Highness, my master has suffered a lot too. For so many years, he has not had a close friend around him. He has always been immersed in hatred, and only I am with him. There are many things he doesn't want to do, but he has to do them..."

"My Lord, please let my master go. I'll give you the antidote. I promise... to live in seclusion in the mountains with my master..."

"Chu Heng——"

Zhai Qing interrupted him, "Stop talking!"

Chu Heng almost cried out: "I'm sorry, Master, there are still many things I haven't done for you."

He continued to beg Jing Siye for mercy: "Your Majesty, I can take the blame for my master, please let him go..."

Upon hearing this, Zhai Qing sat up with difficulty and covered Chu Heng's mouth to prevent him from continuing speaking.

Jing Siye looked at Chu Heng who was sitting on the ground begging desperately, and suddenly he inexplicably put the little guy in his shoes. If one day he was also dying, and the little guy also begged the enemy so desperately, and the enemy turned a blind eye and took his life, how sad the little guy would be...

Jing Siye almost felt compassion and shook his head, taking two steps back, but after a moment he calmed down again:

The crime committed by the person before me is unforgivable.

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "If you want to live, it is not impossible. Find your senior sister and master and make atonement for your sins."

When Chu Heng heard this, a glimmer of hope burned in his eyes, and he kowtowed to express his gratitude: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I will do my best."

Jing Siye personally searched the Hangzhou Provincial Government Office, but did not find any evidence that Zhai Qing was colluding with the Japanese. There was only a family letter with suspicious handwriting, as if he had seen it somewhere before. Jing Siye put it away.

The fire burned on Taro Mountain for three days and three nights, and all the poisonous weeds and flowers in it were burned to ashes.

Jing Siye also personally led people to search the mountain. They arrived at the killer camp built by Master Zhai Qing. In addition to residences that could accommodate hundreds of people, there were also many rooms for refining poisons.

Although the rooms where poison was refined had been burned beyond recognition, some remaining bottles and jars, as well as the severely damaged alchemy furnaces, could still be identified.

Afterwards, the guards found two "poison scriptures" for refining elixirs in a secret compartment.

Jing Siye took it and looked at it, his face solemn: "It seems that they have been planning here for a long time, trying to use these poisons to bring chaos to our dynasty. Take these back to the post station and study them carefully."

Two days later, the villagers' conditions were basically stable. Two corpses, one white and one black, were hanging above the gate of Hangzhou City, their faces unrecognizable.

The common people sighed, and of course, they were filled with hatred. In order to get revenge, the prefect actually poisoned the villagers and played with their lives. It was said that the second prince retaliated in their own way and fed them several times the amount of poison, so that they died of the poisoning on the same day and their bodies festered.

The affairs of Hangzhou Province were basically settled. Jing Siye did not stay for long. There were still more than ten days before the execution of Li Xiao, so he had to rush to the capital without stopping.

Zhu Wenqin's hands have been sore these two days. No matter how busy Jing Siye is, he always takes Zhu Wenqin's diet and daily life into consideration and feeds him three meals a day himself.

At first, Zhu Wenqin was extremely embarrassed. When he thought about how his two hands were "disabled", his face turned red. If others knew the reason, he would be so embarrassed.

Every time Jing Siye handed me the dishes and chopsticks, I wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into, but I couldn't resist him.

Who would have known that the more shy and evasive Zhu Wenqin was, the more excited Jing Siye became.

Later, no matter how many people were present, he acted as if no one was around.

Even when they were discussing matters, he would suddenly grab a piece of cake and feed it into Zhu Wenqin's mouth with a smile.

Zhu Wenqin was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to raise her eyes. She felt that the gazes of the people around her were like needles piercing her.

Later, he got used to it and stopped refusing. He just smiled and opened his mouth obediently. Anyway, the guards around him already knew it and were not surprised.

When returning to Beijing this time, Jing Siye prepared three carriages. He and Zhu Wenqin took one, and several guards who were more seriously injured took two each. The rest rode on horses.

He would change to another one at each post station, traveling day and night, and by the time he reached the capital, it was already dusk four days later.

The person who was most happy to hear that Jing Siye had returned home was Wang Zhiyan. Ever since she heard that Zhu Wenqin and Qi Feng had secretly gone to Hangzhou Province to find Jing Siye, she had been thinking that since he dared to disobey the prince's order, he would definitely be beaten and might even be thrown out of the mansion.

She had been waiting for this day for a long time. She dressed up carefully, put on her most gorgeous clothes, and waited at the gate of the palace early to greet him.

The carriage stopped in front of the mansion gate and Jing Siye jumped off. Wang Zhiyan walked forward excitedly, knelt gracefully, and said in a tender voice:

"I respectfully welcome Your Majesty. Your Majesty, you have worked hard on the journey."

Jing Siye simply said "hmm" and turned around to lift the door curtain.

A pair of slender white hands stretched out first, and then the young man stuck his head out from the carriage.

His face showed a slight tiredness after the long journey, and a few strands of hair were casually stuck to both sides of his cheeks, but it could not hide his innate handsome temperament.

"Zhu Wenqin? Why is he sitting in the same carriage with the prince?"

The smile on Wang Zhiyan’s face froze instantly.

The servants hurriedly carried the mahjong stool over. Jing Siye raised his hand to stop them, then put one arm around his waist and the other hand through his knees to carry him down.

Zhu Wenqin's body was suspended in the air, and in order to maintain her balance, she had to put her arms around Jing Siye's neck.

Although she was used to Jing Siye's intimacy, there were too many people welcoming the prince, with everyone kneeling on the floor at the door. Zhu Wenqin was still a little shy and put her head on Jing Siye's shoulder. Fortunately, everyone kept their heads down.

But when he passed by Wang Zhiyan, he happened to meet her eyes which were secretly raised and full of jealousy.

Zhu Wenqin then remembered that there was another woman who was sent into the palace by the emperor.

Zhu Wenqin deliberately hugged Jing Siye's neck tightly, and did not forget to rub his neck, complaining in her heart:

[Who is the most beautiful woman in Beijing?] 】

[That's it,]

[Don’t even think about snatching a man from me.] 】

The man was overjoyed and kissed him on the cheek again and again as if to cooperate.