Chapter 560 What exactly are you and the King of Qin up to?
Outside Nan'an City, in a dilapidated and deserted mountain stronghold.
When Emperor Chu awoke, he saw not only Zongzheng Xingyao with his hands and feet bound, but also his fourth son, Zongzheng Wuxie, who should have been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison.
His eyes were filled with intense emotion, but since all three of them had Seb in their mouths, no one could speak.
The Chu Emperor was so angry that his chest heaved violently and his eyes rolled back. After a long while, unable to utter a sound, he could only slowly calm down.
Just as he calmed down, the door creaked open.
Li Qingluo, dressed in men's clothing and with her face covered, walked in.
Upon seeing her, the Chu Emperor immediately began to struggle again, making muffled noises.
However, Li Qingluo didn't even glance at him, and walked straight towards Zongzheng Xingyao.
He then removed the gag from her mouth and handed her the water pouch.
"Drink water."
"Such a delicate princess, I don't want you to die of thirst."
Her deliberately low voice, combined with her men's clothing, made her gender indistinguishable.
Zongzheng Xingyao glared at her angrily: "I won't drink! Release my father first, or I'll kill myself!"
Li Qingluo: "Oh dear, that really scared me."
"He's a tyrant, yet he has such a filial daughter like you. Heaven is truly unjust."
Zongzheng Xingyao's eyes reddened with emotion: "You madmen!! If it weren't for the Nangong clan burning down my father's secret chamber that day, you traitors wouldn't have had the opportunity to kidnap my father!"
"Of course I will not stand by and watch you harm my father. Even if I am powerless to save him, you will not be allowed to lay a finger on his head again!"
Li Qingluo winked at Zongzheng Xingyao forcefully.
He gestured with his eyes: He's already sung it.
Zongzheng Xingyao's face stiffened, and he quickly changed his words: "Whatever you want to do, come at me first if you dare!"
Li Qingluo smiled, her lips curving upwards beneath her veil.
"Alright, how about we make you, our noble princess, the wife of our rebel army?"
"Then, we'll use this tyrant to seize the country and its treasury!"
"You'd better prepare well! We'll get married tonight, when night falls!"
After saying that, Li Qingluo got up and prepared to leave.
Upon seeing that the Chu Emperor had awakened, he merely gave a cold smile.
As for Zongzheng Wuxie, she didn't even glance at him.
She simply and decisively walked away.
Emperor Chu and Zongzheng Wuxie were thinking to themselves: "Water! We want water too!"
Zongzheng Xingyao looked at Emperor Chu with red eyes.
"Father, your daughter is unfilial... I saw these people trying to take you away in the palace, but I was powerless to do anything and failed to save you."
As she spoke, Zongzheng Xingyao shed a few tears.
The Emperor of Chu spat out a "Pah!"
Finally, he managed to spit out the wad of cloth that was no longer too tight in his mouth.
He gagged twice before asking in a hoarse voice, "What on earth is going on?!"
Where am I right now?
"And what about the fourth brother?"
"And you, Yao'er, I clearly saw you talking to that Nangong family member when I was half asleep... Yao'er, don't tell me you're in cahoots with them to deceive your father."
Emperor Chu narrowed his eyes and stared at Zongzheng Xingyao with an extremely cold gaze.
In the past, Zongzheng Xingyao would have been truly intimidated by that look in his eyes and might have said everything.
But she has experienced quite a few big events in the past two days, and was also given some urgent training by Nangong Qingluo, so she can handle this kind of storm.
Naturally, they were able to suppress their fear and appear less afraid.
Zongzheng Xingyao: "The Nangong family?"
With tears still in her eyes and a look of surprise on her face, she said, "Father, no."
"Yao'er only saw those people leading you out from near the artificial hill. She didn't see any Nangong family members."
"Father, they say that the Nangong clan set fire to your study. Is that all true?"
"Could she have fainted somewhere, and some traitors happened to be trying to kidnap you, so they knocked you unconscious and took you away?"
"Father, are you having another nightmare? This is all real now, Father!"
Hearing Zongzheng Xingyao call him "Father Emperor" repeatedly, Li Qingluo, who was openly listening outside the door, secretly sighed.
This seventh princess is truly a promising talent, capable of both flexibility and singing and dancing.
Wouldn't this completely confuse the Chu emperor?
Sure enough, the Chu Emperor shook his still somewhat dazed mind and actually believed what Zongzheng Xingyao had said.
Zongzheng Wuxie, who was standing to the side, was having his tongue pressed down hard as he tried to move it.
However, even after gagging several times, he couldn't vomit up a large clump of bisaccharide.
Zongzheng Wuxie looked utterly defeated. He was actually not even as good as that old man, the Chu Emperor.
Zongzheng Xingyao sobbed and then looked at Zongzheng Wuxie and said, "As for the fourth prince, I don't know what happened either."
"The moment I opened my eyes, I saw him there."
"Fourth brother, weren't you in the imperial prison? Did you escape?"
Zongzheng Wuxie: Who escaped from prison and ran into the den of traitors?!?
He smiled coldly to himself, but with his mouth tightly sealed, he naturally couldn't explain.
So he closed his eyes and simply stopped trying to explain.
At that moment, a sound came from outside, Li Qingluo's deliberately low voice: "Has the Prince of Qin's residence replied?"
Sha Er replied, "Reporting to Master, there is no movement."
Li Qingluo sneered: "This tyrant is fond of killing. Of his dozen or so brothers, only the King of Qin remains."
"The King of Qin knew his brother was kidnapped, yet he didn't come to his rescue?"
"It's just asking him to prepare 100,000 taels of gold. How could a dignified King of Qin not be able to produce that?"
"They really don't take our rebel army seriously!"
"Go and send another letter to the Prince of Qin's residence. Say that the Fourth Prince, Zongzheng Wuxie, is now in our hands as well."
"If he still wants Zongzheng Wuxie to live, he should bring 200,000 taels of gold to ransom him!"
The sounds outside gradually faded into the distance.
The Chu Emperor looked at Zongzheng Wuxie with a chilling gaze.
"Why are they so certain that your royal uncle won't save me, yet they're offering twice the amount of gold to ransom you?"
"Fourth brother, what exactly are you and the King of Qin up to?!"
Zongzheng Wuxie: ?
How did he know?!
The King of Qin had doted on him since he was a child.
Zongzheng Wuxie even suspected that he might be the illegitimate son of the King of Qin and his mother!
Fortunately, he had been observing in secret for many years and discovered that the King of Qin and his mother were not close, and had not even spoken a word to each other for several years.
The fact that the King of Qin's uncle was cultivating him was also a private matter.
They secretly arranged for him to have a better teacher.
They brought in helpers from the Miao region for him.
Give him more staff.
Even piles of military strategy books, political treatises, and essays were sent to him in countless numbers.
Zongzheng Wuxie believed that the King of Qin was simply too fond of his nephew.
He wanted to identify himself as the future emperor, which is why he was so different.
At this moment, how could Uncle Qin possibly choose to save himself rather than his father?
These people must have gone mad to make such a ridiculous choice for Uncle Qin when they were desperate.
Unfortunately, he couldn't spit out the gag in his mouth, so he could only look at the Chu Emperor with an innocent and aggrieved expression.
Starting with the witchcraft of stabbing voodoo dolls, the emperor fell into a bizarre madness, wrongly accusing his once most beloved son.
To lose everything.
Now, do you still want to falsely accuse yourself of things you didn't do?
Zongzheng Wuxie looked at the Chu Emperor with tears in his eyes, hoping to awaken a bit of the Chu Emperor's compassion.
Emperor Chu: "If I were to find out that all of this was your conspiracy, that you wanted to use it to gain my mercy or to claim some merit in saving my life, I would personally kill you, you wicked beast!"
Zongzheng Wuxie: He's even more aggrieved than Dou E!!
Zongzheng Xingyao, who was standing to the side, glanced away guiltily.
The long day is finally almost over.
During this time, both Emperor Chu and Zongzheng Wuxie nearly fainted from hunger.
Each of them only received a bowl of vegetable soup.
Their faces were both turning green.
The Chu emperor took a sip and immediately started cursing, saying that even dogs wouldn't eat it, so he wouldn't eat it either.
Then he continued to go hungry.
Zongzheng Wuxie did drink it.
Before he could say a word, his mouth was shut with soup.
Thirsty and hungry, he didn't hear the Chu Emperor's comment that "even dogs wouldn't drink it," and drank it all up, mouthful after mouthful.
After all, he had spent several months in the imperial prison.
I can still get used to this kind of soup.
However, before he could even swallow the vegetable leaves after finishing the soup, his mouth was stuffed with a gag.
When Zongzheng Xingyao was served steamed buns and vegetables with meat, Emperor Chu's eyes widened in disbelief.
Zongzheng Xingyao said with tears in his eyes, "If Father Emperor can't drink vegetable soup, he certainly can't eat such simple food either."
"Father, you should at least eat something, otherwise how will you have the strength to wait for your opportunity?"
Zongzheng Xingyao ate with great relish.
The Chu Emperor was deeply distressed.
"You brat, can't you even be filial and let the person feeding you force-feed your father a few bites as well?"
The Chu Emperor had been starving for several days.
So even though he could smell the meat and vegetables, he couldn't eat them, and he felt completely drained.
When the soup was served again that evening, he reluctantly gulped it all down.
The taste reminded him of the days when he was a child in the cold palace, but it wasn't actually that bad.
Zongzheng Xingyao didn't get steamed buns and meat this time; instead, she received a bright red wedding dress and a pearl hairpin.
"Come, Your Highness."
"Our rebel army's young general is already waiting outside to marry you. Why don't you hurry up and put on your wedding dress?"
"With a little dressing up, she'll be our leader's wife! Hahaha..."
Granny Zheng and A'duo laughed wildly.
Zongzheng Xingyao was pulled into a wedding dress and had her hair styled in a bun, looking terrified.
The Chu Emperor was so angry that his face trembled.
"You insolent wretch! Release my daughter!"
Zongzheng Xingyao cried out, "Father, save me! Father—"
The Chu Emperor seemed to have a paternal instinct awakened in him: "Yao'er—"
"I will kill you all!!"
"You're not allowed to touch her!!"
"She is the princess whom I personally arranged to marry into the Western Regions for a political alliance. You lowly commoners would better release her immediately if you don't want to be torn apart by five horses and have your bones crushed to ashes!"
Zongzheng Xingyao was taken aback.
Then I felt a chill run through my whole body.
So even at this time, he didn't feel sorry for his own daughter, but for the pawn who was to be married off to the Western Regions.
Zongzheng Xingyao shed a tear.
Granny Zheng scoffed, "She said it herself, so that you, the Emperor, can suffer less. Just come after her."
"Now, once she marries our young general, you, as her father, will finally be able to enjoy a hot meal with meat."
"Your Majesty, have you thought this through?"
"We're giving you one chance. Tonight, will the Seventh Princess marry, or not?"
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