Chapter 245 Don’t Blame Your Father for Being Cruel
As soon as the captain of the guards finished speaking, a group of guards from the Shen Mansion suddenly rushed out.
The guards around Chen Xiang protected him layer by layer.
Shang Xi shook his head imperceptibly at his chief guard, then said to Chen Xiang, "Let them go. Don't you need my help?"
"Don't touch the people in the Princess's Mansion. If you need me to do anything, I'll help you."
Seeing Shang Xi being so smart.
Shen Xiang nodded, "No problem."
He was not interested in these people's lives.
As for that secret, it concerns life and death, so Shang Xi can't shout it around.
So, at Shang Xi's signal, the guards of the princess's mansion gritted their teeth and put away their swords.
Minister Shen took Shang Xi on the carriage and drove all the way to the Shen Mansion.
Shang Xi was locked up.
Chen Xiang went back to the house to treat his wound first.
After taking off his outer clothes, he was seen wearing a soft armor made of gold thread. When he took off the armor, he found a breastplate hidden close to his chest.
Both the gold-thread soft armor and the breastplate were shot through.
The short arrow penetrated more than three inches into the flesh.
The court doctor was terrified. "What kind of weapon is this? How can it be so lethal? It can penetrate the gold silk soft armor and the heart mirror, and penetrate so much flesh, it almost hit the heart."
Minister Chen sat beside the bed and let the court doctor bandage him.
He thought about the scene at that time.
The arrow seemed to be shot from Shang Xi's sleeve.
Hidden Arrow?
But the sleeve arrow shouldn't have such great lethality.
It would be difficult enough for an ordinary sleeve arrow to penetrate his golden soft armor.
Not to mention the breastplate.
The thing in Shang Xi's sleeve could actually penetrate his gold-wire soft armor and breastplate, and even injured him.
Because the short arrow was pulled out by Chen Xiang himself.
After the court doctor examined the wound, applied medicine and bandaged it, he wrote a prescription and asked the medicine boy to get the medicine.
"My Lord, remember to take your medicine morning and night."
Minister Chen nodded slightly, and the court doctor left with the medicine box on his back.
As soon as the court doctor left, Prime Minister Chen's confidant came in, holding Shang Xi's sleeve crossbow in his hand.
"Prime Minister, this was found on Princess Duanhui."
"It looks like a hidden dart, but seems simpler."
Minister Chen took the crossbow from his confidant and looked at it from front to back.
"This is a really good weapon."
Minister Shen handed the item to his confidant and said, "Take it to the craftsman to see if he can make it."
The confidant took the things and left.
Minister Shen put on his clothes and went to the room where Shang Xi was imprisoned.
The effect of the medicine made him feel weak all over and he had no strength at all. He was still in the same position as when he was thrown on the bed.
"Prime Minister."
When the guard saw Chen Xiang, he immediately opened the door, bowed, and took two steps back.
Shen Xiang walked into the room and looked at Shang Xi lying on the bed.
He even had difficulty turning his head and was forced to stare at the ceiling of the tent, his black eyeballs occasionally moving.
Chen Xiang sat down beside the bed.
"Ling Hui, this is the room you lived in when you were a child. Doesn't it feel familiar to you?"
Shang Xi: “…”
As if not wanting to listen to Shen Xiang's nonsense, Shang Xi closed his eyes.
Chen Xiang continued to talk to himself, "You were very naughty when you were little. You often bullied Zhiyi. You would snatch away everything he liked. You would laugh when you saw him crying..."
Shang Xi: “…”
As if he couldn't bear it any longer, he uttered three words: "Let's get down to business!"
"Xiao Yanqing has imprisoned Zhiyi. I need to exchange you for Zhiyi."
Shang Xi: “…”
So all this trouble was taken just to send him to see Xiao Ning?
Shang Xi opened his eyes, rolled his eyes, and looked at Chen Xiang.
Chen Xiang raised his hand and touched his hair.
"Don't blame me for being cruel. I have no other choice. He wrote to me and told me to take good care of you."
"But within two days, the undercover agent following Zhiyi sent a message back saying that Xiao Yanqing had imprisoned Zhiyi in the army."
"That boy seems to have some affection for you."
Shang Xi's heart beat faster after hearing these words.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, then quickly lowered.
"When does the Prime Minister plan to send me to Jinzhou to exchange for Shen Zhiyi?"
Chen Xiang said: "Prepare to set off tomorrow."
Shang Xi continued, "The Prime Minister said that Xiao Yanqing has some affection for me, but has the Prime Minister ever thought about what would happen if he knew that I was a man, or even a man of mixed royal blood?"
Minister Shen paused for a moment and said, "Although you are not of royal blood, you still have some affection for each other. I think he won't have the heart to hurt you."
Shang Xi sneered.
"Prime Minister, do you think there can be a relationship between two grown men?"
"Don't you think that once he knows everything, he'll think I'm making a fool of him?"
“Or, you just use me as an item to trade in exchange for Shen Zhiyi’s safety. You don’t care about my life or death at all.”
"If you don't care, why are you pretending here?"
"Anyway, I'm already your prey, so there's no need to pretend and talk so much nonsense to me. I don't want to hear it."
After saying that, Shang Xi closed his eyes.
Listen to this hypocritical person say these hypocritical words.
It's really disgusting.
If you really care about him, you won't push him into desperate situations again and again.
After waiting for a long time, the clouds finally cleared and the moon was about to appear.
Now he wants to use him as a bargaining chip to exchange Xiao Ning for Shen Zhiyi.
Aning is also kind-hearted.
If it were someone else, upon learning that the wife he married with all the formalities was not only not of royal blood but also a man, he would probably want to cut her into pieces.
Because he knew Xiao Ning, he was sure that Xiao Ning would not hurt him.
But this is only because Xiao Ning is a good person.
It has nothing to do with this old bastard.
As for wanting to use him to exchange for Shen Zhiyi's safe return?
Oh.
Wishful thinking...
Watching Shang Xi close his eyes, he had no desire to communicate with him at all.
Chen Xiang frowned, stared at his face for a long time, and finally stood up and left.
In the evening, someone came to deliver food.
The guard outside the door opened the food box, tested it for poison, and then opened the door to let them in.
"She can't move, feed her."
“Hey hey…”
The man agreed readily.
It was a young maid. After she entered, the door was opened wider.
The guard at the door glanced inside from time to time.
The maid came over with a food box and knelt silently beside the bed.
The sleeves of the outer garment were pulled up a little, revealing the pattern on the sleeves of the inner garment.
When Shang Xi saw the pattern, he knew that this was a spy who had been planted in the Shen Mansion a long time ago and had been hiding.
I think Furong found a way to contact him after she knew that he was taken back to the mansion by Prime Minister Chen.
"Shall I feed you?"
The maid opened the food box and took out the dishes and soup inside.
Shang Xi struggled to turn over and was helped to sit up by the maid.
He leaned against the maid and let her feed him mouthful by mouthful of food with a spoon.
He dipped his fingers in the soup and wrote laboriously on the lid of the lunch basket beside him.
He really had no strength left, so he had to rest after writing each word.
It took a lot of effort to express his meaning in a few simple words.
This meal took a long time.
The guard at the door couldn't help but come in to check.
The soup in the lunch basket had long since dried up, and nothing could be seen.
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