Chapter 54 Chapter 54 Locked up in a small dark room with Ayu...
Two people were trapped in a carriage. One wanted to escape but had no legs, and the other had legs but couldn't escape. The two quarreled and disliked each other all the way.
When they returned to Beijing later, they were both tired from arguing and fell asleep with their heads resting on each other's shoulders. As they slept, their postures gradually changed.
"We have arrived at the Princess's residence. Help our Prince Yin get off the carriage and go to the residence for a visit."
Prince Consort Sun pushed open the carriage door and was surprised. "Oh my! Are these two sleeping together? Should I avoid them?"
He thought to himself, this prince has a really big heart! His head is hanging on his belt, and he can still be so sentimental?
Hanyu was awakened by the noise of the door being pushed open. When she woke up, she found herself lying in Yin Jinglong's arms. No wonder she felt warm even without any bedding.
Huh? No! Wasn't she taking a nap by the window? How did she end up in his arms?
Moreover, outside the carriage, two guards and Prince Consort Sun were staring at them with six eyes. What was shameful was that Yin Jinglong's hand was still placed on the spider mark on her chest!
She silently removed the dirty hand from her chest and smiled at the three people outside: "Have we arrived in Shangjing?"
At this moment, Yin Jinglong behind him also slowly raised his eyes and looked at the large characters on the plaque in front of him, his face looking as ugly as if he had eaten a spider.
"My Lord, are you seeking revenge? You keep saying I'm a traitor. Why didn't you bring me to the palace for questioning, but instead brought me to your own residence? Could it be that Aunt is trying to force a confession out of me?"
"What do you mean by forced confession? The evidence of your treason is all in the Princess's residence. Your Highness must personally bring your name before His Majesty for this to count as a reward for the Princess."
Yin Jinglong suddenly understood. Oh, the princess is still guilty! No wonder the prince consort tried every possible means to bring him back to the capital and to his aunt.
When Princess Chaoyang heard that her husband had suddenly returned and heard the servants report it, she almost knocked over the teacup in her hand and walked out cursing.
"I asked you to investigate a case. What did you find? Didn't I ask you to stay in the southern border for a while before coming back?"
Prince Consort Sun quickly dismounted and supported the pregnant Princess Chao Yang, fearing that the hard-earned child would not be able to sit firmly.
"Your Highness, please don't worry. Your health is more important! Please listen to me and I will explain it slowly."
"I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't even know when Auntie became pregnant. How could such a happy event be kept secret from His Majesty and the Queen Mother? Why not have the Prince Consort go to the Goddess Temple and pray for Auntie to have a safe birth!"
The more the prince consort tried to calm the princess down, the more angry Yin Jinglong became.
When she saw her nephew again, Princess Chaoyang was surprised at first. How could he be so calm and composed at this critical moment when His Majesty had threatened to arrest the rebellious Regent?
When she saw Yin Jinglong's limping legs when he got off the car, she was even more shocked. How could he become like this after not seeing him for so many days?
Noticing the princess's strange gaze, he smiled bitterly and said, "My legs are crippled, so you should be happy. Why do you have such an expression?"
Prince Consort Sun scolded him to shut up and stop saying provocative words. After all, the baby in her belly was important and everything else could be put aside.
He ordered his soldiers to imprison Yin Jinglong and Hanyu separately. After all, Prince Yin was a member of the royal family, and even if he was guilty, he had to be treated with some dignity, so he just found a decent room to trap him.
But Min Hanyu was just a humble Snow Mountain girl, and there was no need to treat her well. Moreover, they would capture her in the future to drain her blood to feed the statue, so they had to tie her up and lock her up in that dirty and smelly sewage room.
Before Hanyu was taken away, she looked at Yin Jinglong with pitiful eyes: "Can you bear to see your sister-in-law suffer such humiliation?"
"Why can't you bear it? Could it be that my sister-in-law still wants to share the same bed with me?"
"You! How could there be such an ungrateful person?"
He actually gloated over her misfortune!!! Who hadn't despised his crippled body and risked his life to rescue her from that spider? And who had cared for him day and night?
Now that his goal has been achieved, is he going to start demolishing bridges?
Hanyu's hands were tied behind his back, and he could only kick with his two intact legs. However, he didn't control his strength well and kicked too hard, injuring his already half-crippled leg.
Yin Jinglong suddenly fell to the ground, hugged his leg and roared, "Are you deliberately not wanting my leg to get better?"
The servants wanted to help him up and continue walking, but he slumped to the ground and couldn't get up. He looked at Princess Chao Yang with a wronged look.
"Aunt, you've seen it too. This woman is rude and unreasonable. She's tried to assassinate me many times before but failed, and now she's trying every possible way to cripple me! I beg you to quickly lock her up in that stinking water room, so I don't get upset just by seeing her."
After Yin Jinglong said this, Princess Chaoyang not only did not do as he said, but changed her mind and deliberately locked Hanyu and him in the same room.
"The stinking water room is too smelly. After all, she is a woman. I can't bear to abuse her like this. I will consider it as a virtue for the child in my belly. I just want you, Prince Yin, to endure her for a few days. Once I have collected evidence of your crimes, I will send you on your way."
Hanyu was pushed to Yin Jinglong's side. They locked the door from the outside and sent guards to guard the door day and night.
Yin Jinglong calmly stood up, dusted off his body, and then walked steadily to the window. His legs seemed... not lame at all?
Hanyu then realized that he was just pretending and putting on a show for them!
But when did his legs heal?
"Your legs?"
Yin Jinglong made a shushing gesture, glancing at the guards standing guard outside the window. Then he quickly walked over to Hanyu, cupped her face, and asked gently, "You seem a little disappointed that my leg disease has healed? Could it be that you like the stronger-willed me with my disability?"
"What are you talking about? You've never been the one I like!"
Her evasive eyes seemed to have made him see through her. If she didn't like him, then why was she hiding?
Well, now the situation of the two is not as leisurely as it was in Miao Village. This princess's mansion is full of hidden dangers and spies. If they take even the slightest wrong step, they will be caught.
What's worse is that his aunt, who is extremely cunning, has many ways to harm people, and she is paired with a prince consort who is full of evil intentions. The two of them are in cahoots with each other, and the wife follows the husband's lead, turning the princess's mansion into their private cage.
"It's not as free here as it was in Prince Yin's mansion. You and I are both caged birds. If you want to live, you have to listen to me obediently. You have to do whatever I tell you to do, including..."
Yin Jinglong's tiger's mouth firmly grasped her jaw, pouting her soft pink lips, his eyes captivating and seductive.
"Then can you tell me honestly, what is your next plan? How can I cooperate with you to complete this scene? Can we both escape from this cage safely?"
"Everything has its own destiny, just like me at that time, I wanted to keep my lost love, but fate made me the one who harmed her."
When Yin Jinglong said this meaningfully, the painful memories of her suicide in her previous life came flooding back. She was wondering, who was the lover he was talking about?
Before she could speculate any further, Yin Jinglong interrupted her thoughts and analyzed his own situation in detail.
That day, he learned from the spider that not long after he left Beijing, something unexpected happened in the palace. Apparently, someone reported that the Regent was plotting a rebellion. He also just heard from Princess Chaoyang that she had evidence of his rebellion. It seemed as if all this was deliberately arranged by someone behind the scenes.
But the biggest problem was, Prince Yin himself didn't even know he was planning a rebellion? He was the regent, the imperial seal in hand, able to make clouds and rain at the flip of a hand. Even the young emperor had to call him brother. He was already so powerful that he had already undermined the imperial power. So, was there any need for him to rebel?
The empress dowager behind the little emperor was a woman without any political acumen. This time, she might be used as a murder weapon.
Yin Jinglong wondered, who was it that truly wanted him dead? Was it the ambitious Princess Chaoyang? Or was it the ruthless and vicious Princess Chunyu, who bore him a grudge due to past entanglements? Or was it his long-missing brother who had suddenly reappeared?
Suspicion abounded. Who had set him up? Since he was already in the game, why not go along with the person's wishes? Want him to rebel? Then just pretend to rebel and show him!
After listening to his detailed analysis, Hanyu also felt that those people were suspicious, except for Ajiang.
"He's your own brother. Even if there's a huge grudge, he wouldn't harm his own brother, right? Furthermore, back at the Southern Frontier Post Station, he plotted to hurt you. Why didn't he take this opportunity to kill him? Why did he let you return to the capital after your legs healed?"
"You truly love your brother deeply! I haven't concluded that he's the one behind this yet. Why are you so eager to defend him? Haven't you considered me, who's been with you through thick and thin all this time?"
Yin Jinglong was jealous. He crossed his arms over his chest and listed his brother's mistakes to her one by one without any hesitation, such as when he was lazy in practicing martial arts as a child and was punished by being whipped by his father, he insisted on dragging him into the matter.
On the surface, the elder brother pretends to be a loving brother, but secretly wants to enjoy his father's love alone. Whenever he sees his father being a little nicer to him, the elder brother will constantly hint to his father that he is weak and not suitable for martial arts.
He lied to me that he cared about his brother, but when he was eight years old, he was so cruel that he didn't step forward to rescue him when he saw him fall from a tree.
Yin Jinglong raised his right hand, which had been disabled for many years, and told Hanyu that this was the evidence of his brother's crime of murdering others!
"What brotherly love? He's been aiming to keep the title for himself from the very beginning. He despises my birth mother's lowly status as a merchant woman, and he also despises my frail body. He recognizes a thief as his mother, and considers Chunyu the mother who gave birth to and raised him. Furthermore, he's worried that my birth mother and I will hinder his future as a general, so he's trying every possible way to drive us out of the palace!"
Yin Jinglong was very excited and pushed Hanyu to the edge of the bed step by step.
"Ayu, don't you understand? He's not the innocent and kind-hearted Ajiang you love. Everything is just a disguise for his lofty ambitions! There's no way he could fall in love with a stupid woman who has no use to him at all!"
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