Chapter 283 From now on, can I call you Ziheng?

Xie Guanlan handed Wen Xingluo a skewer of freshly roasted venison, wiped his fingertips with a handkerchief, and said, "Go and take a look."

The matter has come to Xie Zhe's attention.

Ji Yu's face was as pale as paper, his features blurred by tears, the blood oozing from his legs dyed his robe red, and even the stretcher under him turned blood red.

He cried out in despair, "Your humble servant... Your humble servant doesn't know how I have offended the young princes to be subjected to such torture... Please, Your Majesty, help me!"

He Yu had already investigated the whole matter and said, "Your Majesty, Prince Ji did not steal the prey of your Highnesses. This was caused by your Highnesses being jealous of Prince Ji for having the most prey, so they deliberately framed him."

The princes were young and showed no remorse on their faces. They just laughed and said to Ji Yu, "We were wrong. We apologize to you."

Ji Yu was not satisfied with this answer.

His patella was dug out, and he became a disabled man who couldn't stand up!

He looked at Xie Zhe mournfully, tears streaming down his face, and begged in a hoarse voice, "Your Majesty, please help me!"

Xie Zhe played with a newly hunted rhino horn, a look of compassion on his face. "You grew up by my side, and I've always treated you like a half-son. Today's incident was caused by your brothers being rude. Take good care of your injuries, and I'll punish them by having them reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors."

Ji Yu couldn't believe it.

He was murdered like this, but the murderer was only punished by being confined to reflect on his mistakes!

He wanted to say something else, but Xie Zhe waved his hand, signaling the eunuchs to carry him away.

Ji Yu struggled and cried out, "Your Majesty said that whoever wins first place in hunting will have a wish granted! I left the capital when I was young and miss my parents so much. I want to go home! Please allow me to go home!"

Xie Zhe's voice became even colder, "Didn't you just make a wish?"

Ji Yu was stunned.

He just asked the emperor to make the decision for him.

Is this considered a wish?!

Before he could say anything else, Xie Zhe had already left.

Xie Shian witnessed this farce and couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "What a piece of shit! Second brother, you must have suffered a lot of injustice when you were in the capital!"

Xie Yanchen straightened the gauze bandage around his injured arm and said, "Living under someone else's roof, how could I possibly not suffer any injustice? As a fellow hostage, I understand Prince Ji's feelings. Brother, Ningning, I'll go over and take a look at his injuries."

Wen Xingluo took a small bite of the roasted venison, but couldn't taste anything.

When following Xie Guanlan back to the campfire, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Pei Lin and Wen Yueyin sneaking through the night.

These two people actually got together.

"What are you looking at?" Xie Guanlan asked.

"Nothing..." Wen Xingluo didn't want to bother him with the Wei Kingdom's affairs, so she just arched her brows at him, "Roasted venison is delicious."

The spring night breeze is cool, carrying the scent of grass and trees in the mountains.

Xie Guanlan smoothed her messy hair and said, "Ningning, I'm happy to grill as many skewers as you want."

"Thank you, brother—"

Wen Xingluo paused and suddenly felt that she should indeed change her name.

Calling him "Prince" is a bit awkward, and calling him "Brother Ziheng" is a bit corny.

She slowly swallowed the last piece of roasted venison and quietly hooked Xie Guanlan's pinky finger with her little finger. "From now on, can I call you Ziheng?"

She hoped to be more like a peer of Xie Guanlan.

It doesn't make her look too small.

Xie Guanlan felt the softness of his little finger and said, "Okay."

Wen Xingluo probed, "Ziheng?"

Xie Guanlan curled his thin lips and uttered a low "hmm".

Xie Shian followed beside them, his eyes almost rolling to the sky, and said sourly: "Ziheng, stop wasting time, the two of you, and hurry back to the campfire. I want to eat roasted salt rabbit legs!"

Xie Guanlan glanced at him quietly.

Wen Xingluo chuckled and looked at Xie Shian through Xie Guanlan, "This is the name I can call you, Fourth Brother is not allowed to call me that!"

"Brother, can't I really scream?"

Xie Guanlan smiled, "What do you think?"

Xie Shian coughed lightly and said, "I really don't think I can scream."

The stars were shining brightly and the campfire burned till midnight.

Everyone sang and danced, enjoying themselves to the fullest.

Because Xie Shian's arm was injured, Xie Guanlan was afraid that he would delay his recovery if he played for too long, so he took him back to rest.

Wen Xingluo also returned to his tent.

She looked around and saw that Wen Yueyin had not returned yet.

The image of Xie Shian's injuries appeared before her eyes. She suddenly put on Wen Yueyin's clothes and changed her makeup to the bright and colorful style that Wen Yueyin liked before leaving the tent again.

Under the cover of night, she hid behind a tree, quietly gazing at something not far away.

The princes and princesses lit a bonfire, and led by Xie Xiang and Xie Mingrui, they roasted meat and talked and laughed.

The girl's nails dug into the bark.

The brother and sister first tampered with her note in an attempt to humiliate her at the Spring Banquet.

Later, he arranged for a ferocious beast to kill the fourth brother.

Wen Xingluo never asked herself if she was someone who would repay evil with kindness, so she wanted to get this debt back tonight.

Seeing a young palace maid passing by with wine in her arms, she walked over to stop her and said softly, "I am Wen Yueyin, the eldest daughter of the Wen family. Please tell the Ninth Prince quietly that I know everything Mu Zhiqiu went through in the Zhenbei Palace, and I also know who murdered her. If he wants to hear it, come find me in the woods."

She watched the little palace maid walk to the campfire and whispered a few words in Xie Mingrui's ear.

Xie Mingrui's face changed drastically, and he quickly stood up and walked towards the woods.

Deep in the woods.

A beam of moonlight poured down gently, enveloping Wen Xingluo.

Xie Mingrui stared at her back and ordered, "Tell me everything you know about Zhiqiu! I will reward you with gold, silver, jewelry, and wealth!"

Wen Xingluo turned and looked at him.

The young prince had a face as beautiful as the autumn moon. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and clearly regarded human life as worthless, but he fell in love with a vicious woman.

She said, "I've never understood why, Your Highness, you knew Miss Mu loved power and that all she wanted in her life was a position above everyone else. Since you loved her, why didn't you fight for the position of Crown Prince for her? Instead, you forced her to travel to the southwest and try to achieve her wish through Xie Guanlan."

Xie Mingrui frowned. "I like her, but that doesn't mean I can fight my brother to the death for her. Even though my brother is infected with a strange disease and isn't perfect, he is my biological brother from the same mother. I will never abandon my brother!"

Youthful spirit.

This is completely different from Concubine Zhang's greed.

Wen Xingluo nodded, "I see."

"Now can you tell me how Zhiqiu died?!"

"Miss Mu committed many evil deeds and was placed under house arrest in the Zhenbei Palace by Xie Guanlan. Later, she was indirectly killed by Wen Xingluo. She died from a sword piercing her heart, so she shouldn't have suffered much. But she died alone, which was quite sad."

The girl downplayed it.

It sounded like thunder in Xie Mingrui's ears.

He clenched his fists, his eyes gradually turning red, "Zhi Qiu..."

Wen Xingluo approached him step by step, "Losing a loved one is a very painful thing. I can understand your feelings very well, because today, I almost lost someone very important to me."