Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Even the most precious person will get hurt...
Princess Chao Yang's body shook, and her weak legs could no longer support her body. She fell to the ground, and the crescent sickle in her hand was also blown aside by the explosion.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, how are you?"
Prince Consort Sun didn't care about the dust on his body and crawled to Princess Chaoyang. Doctor Hu was too close to the door and was thrown against the wall on the other side of the secret room. He fell heavily to the ground and vomited blood. His eyes opened and closed and he died.
Hanyu's head was buzzing with the roar of the explosion. Before he could react to what was happening, he saw a man in black clothes with a long sword on his waist standing at the entrance of the secret room.
The man walked towards her against the light. When he reached her, he suddenly reached out his hand to her. The voice she never wanted to hear again in her life rang out again.
"I'm sorry to have frightened you. I'll take you back to the palace right away."
"Why you?"
"Who do you want it to be, then?"
Princess Chao Yang, who was still in shock, had never expected Yin Jinglong to appear here. She took advantage of his unpreparedness, quickly got up, picked up the sickle and slashed at Yin Jinglong's back.
Hanyu exclaimed, "Watch out behind you!"
Yin Jinglong had been prepared. He drew his sword with his left hand and used it to block the sickle's attack. He roared, "Enough! Hasn't Aunt deceived me enough?"
"Impossible! How did you know this place?" Princess Chaoyang looked at him in disbelief, then calmly replied, "It must be that traitor Li Yu! He was the spy you sent! I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted and spared his life!"
"Whether Auntie wants to kill Li Yu or not, I don't want to care. But if Auntie wants to touch this woman, I will have to intervene."
Hanyu took advantage of the quarrel between the two of them and tried to escape. She didn't want to go back to either the prince's palace or the princess's palace. She wanted to go back to Yulong Snow Mountain to look for her missing husband.
She stood up and took two steps when she felt a sharp pain in her ankle. She had twisted her ankle accidentally while chasing Princess Chao Yang in the secret room. At this critical moment of her life, she had no time to care about the pain in her ankle, so she didn't realize that her ankle had quietly swollen.
Han Yu took just two steps before she fell to the ground. Yin Jinglong looked back at her and said, "If you can't do it, don't be so stubborn and don't cause trouble for me!"
There was a tone of concern mixed in with the scolding.
He did not come alone this time. With a clap of his palms, the guards of the palace who were hiding outside the secret room and waiting for orders came in one after another and obeyed his orders.
"Someone, come here! Send Her Royal Highness the Princess and Her Royal Highness the Prince Consort back to the Princess's Mansion!"
"Your people are not allowed to touch me!"
The proud and arrogant Princess Chao Yang would never admit her mistakes to others even if she lost. She and Prince Consort Sun supported each other as they walked out of the secret room and took the carriage prepared for her by Yin Jinglong back home.
After the two of them left, Yin Jinglong stood in front of Hanyu with his arms folded across his chest, looking down at her condescendingly.
"Are you still unwilling to get up and follow me? Do you want to spend the night here with your goddess?"
"I won't go back with you."
Hanyu stubbornly got up again and again, and fell down again and again. The pain in her ankle made her break out in cold sweat, but even so, she kept her mouth shut and said nothing.
Yin Jinglong sighed helplessly and cursed inwardly, "I really admire you, such a stubborn person!"
He squatted down and helped Hanyu sit up from the ground. Regardless of her refusal, he took the initiative to pick her up and carried her horizontally to the carriage back home.
Hanyu curled up in the corner of the carriage and turned her face away, not wanting to see him.
"When everything is over, I will send someone to escort you home."
Yin Jinglong carefully brushed the dust off her body, and first of all, he did not speak to her in the tone of a prince.
"I'm no longer of any use to you. What's the point of keeping me here?"
"How do you know you're no longer useful?"
Han Yu turned and glared at him: "Aren't you afraid of letting a wolf into your house and me waiting for an opportunity to assassinate you?"
"Two people who are infected with the Heart-Eating Gu share the same joy, sorrow, and pain, and love and hate. If you want to experience the pain of having your heart ripped out, you can try to assassinate me."
Yin Jinglong couldn't help laughing and gently tidied up the messy black hair on her shoulders. Surprisingly, Hanyu was not as disgusted by his touch as before.
She looked down at the spider mark on her chest, recalling that when she was being chased by the princess just now, the mark seemed to have changed. If the two people who were poisoned could empathize with her, then did he sense her fear just now?
While Hanyu was lost in thought, Yin Jinglong took the initiative to pick up her bandaged hand.
"what are you up to?"
"Don't move! Be obedient!"
She tried to pull her hand back, but he held it firmly. As if he knew in advance that she had a knife wound on her wrist, he took out the golden medicine he had prepared long ago and applied it to her himself.
The careful and considerate look and gentle movements were very similar to the Ajiang in her memory. Hanyu obediently did not move, staring at him in a daze as he applied medicine and bandaged her.
After a long pause, she asked, "You are a regent of noble status, how come you are so skilled at bandaging wounds and applying medicine?"
Yin Jinglong didn't look up at her and replied calmly, "No matter how precious a person is, they will get hurt sometimes. I was not loved by my father or mother since I was a child. After being hurt, I could only lick my wounds alone like a lone wolf."
These words reminded Hanyu of the day when he was injured in the basement of the temple, and she unconsciously began to sympathize with him. When she heard him say "my father doesn't love me and my mother doesn't care about me", Hanyu's eyes inexplicably became moist.
She wondered what had happened to her. How could she empathize with her former enemy? Was this what they called empathy?
Seeing her secretly wiping away tears, Yin Jinglong sneered, "Why are you crying? Don't worry, this is a high-quality golden wound medicine sent as tribute by foreign countries. It won't leave you with scars."
Hanyu pouted: "I'm not crying about this."
"So, after hearing about my childhood experiences, you sympathize with me?"
"How is that possible! You are not Ah Jiang, why should I empathize with you?"
There were two lines of pearly tears on her stubborn face. Her pitiful look actually made him feel a little moved, but the word "A Jiang" sounded really harsh to him.
Yin Jinglong suddenly said sternly, "Forget it, just apply the medicine on your feet yourself!"
He ordered the guards to stop the carriage and was unwilling to ride in the same carriage with Hanyu anymore. On the way back to the palace, he didn't even want to look at her, let alone say a word.
Steward Xu, who stayed behind in Prince Yin's mansion, covered his mouth in surprise when he saw Hanyu returning injured.
"Oh my! Oh my God! Who dares to hurt our prince's people? The prince will not be able to vent his anger until he has been skinned alive."
The guards whispered to him that the princess was responsible, and Steward Xu immediately said, "How could this family feud involve innocent outsiders? Poor Miss Min is all alone and helpless in the Central Plains. No matter what, even if it's the princess, the prince must demand an explanation for her!"
After all, Manager Xu's words were just casual remarks from an outsider. He just felt sorry for Min Hanyu. But how could others interfere with the interests and grievances between the prince and the princess?
The reason why Yin Jinglong was able to discover Princess Chaoyang's secret room and corridor this time was indeed due to the secret reporting of Li Yu who was lurking in the princess's mansion.
But Li Yu was not the princess's confidant. He only told him about Han Yu's imprisonment, but he didn't know where the princess hid the statue.
Knowing that Princess Chaoyang was going to take Hanyu to the secret room, Yin Jinglong followed her secretly and sent the palace guards to prepare gunpowder. Finally, he found the entrance to the secret room on the ground, blew up the door of the secret room in one fell swoop and rescued Hanyu.
After the incident of killing people and taking blood to sacrifice to the statue of the god was exposed, Princess Chaoyang became controversial in the court. Even Prince Xian, who always stood on her side, did not dare to speak easily at this time.
Although the young emperor, who ascended the throne at a young age, was approaching the age of twenty, he had no real power. At the morning court, he received stacks of memorials impeaching the princess. He had no choice but to throw the questions to the empress dowager who was behind the scenes ruling the country.
Unable to resolve the emperor's embarrassing situation, the empress dowager immediately interrupted the morning court and took the little emperor to the empress dowager's palace, Cining Palace, for private discussions.
The young emperor knelt on his knees on the futon and asked cautiously, "According to your mother's opinion, how should I execute the princess?"
"Your Majesty, what crime do you think Princess Chaoyang has committed?"
"I believe that the princess committed murder with intent and seized the statue with the intention of treason.
"Nonsense! These charges are completely unfounded! The Snow Mountain Girl is still alive, so how can she be charged with murder? Even though the princess stole the statue that Prince Yin brought back for Your Majesty, she simply hid it. Besides, the statue isn't moving at all right now. She poses no threat to Your Majesty's throne, so how can she be charged with treason?"
The Queen Mother criticized the young emperor for being brainless, only aware of the current situation, but unable to see the various interests behind this farce.
As the emperor's biological mother, although she could not hold all the power, she was still the nominal decision-maker after all. She had to plan carefully for her own and the emperor's future.
"I am ignorant, please forgive me, Queen Mother! I also ask Queen Mother to show me a clear path!"
"Hmph! You've been with Prince Yin for so long, and you haven't learned a single bit of his methods. I really don't know how a mind as smart as mine could have given birth to a foolish son like you!"
The Empress Dowager angrily overturned the piles of memorials on the table.
"Back when the Great General was still at court, he and Prince Yin were secretly at odds with each other, and even obstructed each other in court. Plus, the princess's old aunt and that old, impotent Prince Xian weren't on good terms either. That's why you and I, mother and son, were able to survive these power struggles. But since the Great General's disappearance, power has gradually come under the unilateral control of Prince Yin. If it weren't for the Yin clan's dissatisfaction with his style of conduct and the constant attempts to trip him up, the throne wouldn't be in your hands today."
"Prince Yin is a man of great cunning. Over the years, I have followed my mother's instructions, ostensibly obeying him, while secretly supporting the general's faction and stirring up discord between his two brothers. This was the only way to prevent Prince Yin's power from monopolizing the region. But now the general has disappeared, and I am left with no one to rely on. What should I do?"
The Empress Dowager has been troubled by this matter for a long time. If Yin Jingheng had not disappeared three years ago, she and the Emperor would not have fallen into the situation where they are controlled by others today.
She paced back and forth restlessly, thinking over and over again, and there was only one way to solve the immediate problem.
She leaned close to the little emperor's ear and whispered, "The general is only missing, not dead. As long as his body hasn't been found, there's still a chance he could return. It seems we can only take a risk and make a feint to the east and attack in the west."
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