Chapter 214: Cutting Off a Hand
Chi Yuan and Prince Yi were chatting in the outer study when they heard a loud noise that shook the window frames and spilled the tea on the table.
"What happened?"
Prince Yi stood up suddenly.
He had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Your Highness, would you like to go and take a look?" Chi Yuan asked calmly.
"Is the prince consort worried about the princess?" Prince Yi pretended to be calm.
Chi Yuan smiled and said, "The guards around the princess are all elite soldiers selected by the prince from the imperial guards. Unless the imperial guards are dispatched, no one in the capital can hurt her."
Prince Yi's heart sank suddenly.
He set up a triple trap: drugs, assassins, and crocodiles.
Could it be that Qu Ling would be unharmed?
"My Lord, my Lord, something bad has happened!"
The servant rushed in, tumbling and crawling.
"An assassin appeared in Yangshan Pavilion, and the wing room was bombed."
"Explain clearly!" Prince Yi stepped forward quickly. "Was it an assassin, or was the wing bombed?"
He didn't ask anyone to prepare gunpowder.
"It was the guards from the princess's mansion who blew up the wing room first and discovered that there were over a hundred assassins hiding inside."
The servant was frightened out of his wits, but also felt relieved to have survived the ordeal.
"Fortunately, the princess had foresight and killed half of them first."
Prince Yi’s eyes went dark.
How did Qu Ling know that there was an assassin in the wing room?
How could a princess like her carry gunpowder with her when she went out?
"The prince wants to kill the princess?" Chi Yuan's face was unfriendly, with coldness in his eyes.
"How is that possible!"
Prince Yi flatly denied it.
He was a little distracted and his mouth was dry.
He managed to squeeze out a sound, "This is simply a blatant frame-up!"
"The princess had an accident in the palace, how can I escape responsibility?"
Chi Yuan stood up and walked out.
Prince Yi hurried to catch up.
Along the way, Chi Yuan said nothing.
Prince Yi was extremely confused and had cold sweat on his back.
He imagined the worst-case scenario, where Qu Ling was unharmed and the matter was blamed on Prince Ping.
For this purpose, he specially prepared a forged secret letter, which he quietly placed in Prince Ping's mansion, without even Concubine Feng knowing about it.
Before reaching Yangshan Pavilion, the strong smell of blood hit my nose, completely covering up the fragrance of lotus flowers.
The two of them walked over quickly.
The tragic situation at Yangshan Pavilion was like a bolt from the blue for Prince Yi.
The water in the lotus pond was blood red.
Zhao Shu's deathly pale face floated on the water, surrounded by several crocodiles swimming around.
"Shu...Shu'er?"
Prince Yi's mind went blank.
As early as when he set up this game, he had thought that his daughter could also die.
But the sudden pain in his chest after witnessing her tragic death made him breathless.
In the pavilion, Qu Ling sat calmly.
The assassin had already been apprehended.
They removed their jaws and knelt in a row.
Prince Yi approached and his blood froze.
His princess, the one who lived in fear all day, was now sitting side by side with Qu Ling, and the wooden expression on her face had long since disappeared.
"Bitch, you..."
Prince Yi understood instantly.
All his actions were seen by the princess.
Who betrayed him and leaked this to the princess!
Sudden, severe pain behind the knee.
Chi Yuan's kick came without warning.
Prince Yi knelt on the bluestone slab, trembling with pain.
He struggled to stand up, but Chi Yuan held his shoulders.
"Prince Yi, I am very sorry that your daughter was killed by the assassins sent by Prince Ping." Qu Ling smiled.
Prince Yi suddenly looked up.
This was what he planned to say.
How did Qu Ling know what he was going to do?
"Cut off one of the prince's hands." Qu Ling ordered without warning.
"Since he was an assassin sent by Prince Ping, it's a bit unreasonable that he didn't hurt you."
Su Shang has already raised his sword.
But Prince Yi looked stunned.
"Princess, should we cut off the left hand or the right hand?" Su Shang asked.
This sentence finally brought Prince Yi back to his senses.
His ears were ringing.
"Qu Ling, don't mess around!"
At this moment, he didn't dare to say anything.
He knew that Qu Ling dared to do it.
"You choose," Qu Ling said calmly, "Do you want to have one hand chopped off, or have your entire family executed for treason?"
The crocodile in the lotus pond splashed the water again.
Qu Ling said coldly, "You let your daughter die, but your two sons are well hidden."
Nian Sihua's expression changed slightly.
"I didn't arrange the assassin, so how can I say it's treason!"
Prince Yi certainly knew that he couldn't recognize a single word at this time.
"You still can't understand the situation," Qu Ling stood up and walked in front of him. "Your Majesty has only been on the throne for a short time, and you're so jumpy. Do you think those old foxes in the royal family are truly recommending you?"
"The first bird to stick its head out gets shot."
Qu Ling made a gesture.
The guard pierced the chest of the assassin closest to Prince Yi with a sword.
Drops of blood splashed on Prince Yi's face, warm, fishy and sweet.
"As long as I wish, Prince Ping will be safe and sound, even if you, Prince Yi, are plotting a rebellion and assassinating him."
Qu Ling leaned over and said, "Who is sitting on the dragon throne now? Use your pig brain to think about it."
Her voice suddenly turned cold, like an ice knife scraping through Prince Yi's bones, "Do you want to lose a hand, or a life?"
Prince Yi looked dejected.
All this time of planning is a joke.
He thought he had carefully set many traps, but Qu Ling didn't fall into any of them.
"......hand."
His lips trembled.
"Left hand or right hand?"
This is simply heartbreaking.
However, he had to choose, "Left hand."
Su Shang took action immediately.
The heartbreaking howling woke up the unconscious Concubine Feng.
After she saw clearly what happened, her eyes rolled back and she fainted again.
Prince Yi was enveloped in severe pain, isolated from everything around him, but he seemed to hear the princess's laughter.
He was extremely reluctant when he married Nian Sihua.
On their wedding night, he tied up Nian Sihua, hung her from the beam, and beat her until her body was bruised.
He watched Nian Sihua go from fear to horror, to confusion and despair, and finally, he smiled like this.
The next day, when he met the old prince and princess, he said, "If you dare to reveal a single word, you will be in trouble tonight."
Nian Sihua didn't dare to say it.
He was the prince of the royal palace, and at most he was reprimanded.
Before fainting, Prince Yi had only one question: had Nian Sihua been pretending all these years?
Yangshan Pavilion returned to tranquility, with only the sound of crocodiles playing in the water.
"Since you guessed what would happen here, why didn't you pretend to be sick and avoid it?" Qu Ling waved the fan lightly.
She tilted her head and saw tears in Nian Sihua's eyes.
"Actually, I don't want to live that much anymore."
Nian Sihua smiled, tears dripping onto the back of his hand. "Just before you blew up the wing room, I was thinking, it's fine if I die."
"When I was praying at Guoqing Temple, what I said most to the Buddha was, 'Why haven't I died yet?'"
"I'm a very cowardly person. I can't bring myself to kill myself. I think it must be the Buddha's blessing that the Empress came to the throne and the Princess came to save me."
She stood up and was about to kneel down in front of Qu Ling.
"Stand and talk."
Qu Ling used a fan to stop her movements.
"Nian Sihua."
"yes."
"Do you want to go with me or stay here?" Qu Ling asked.
"Nian Sihua is willing to go with the princess."
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