Chapter 167: Tianji Pavilion Master
"What did you say?" Emperor Showa was a little incredulous.
He looked at the woman next to him. Her eyes were red and she was staring at him intently, which made him a little unconvinced.
He has been deceived for so many years?
"Xingzhi, is what you said true?"
"How could Yan Ning be a Qin citizen? Have I been kept in the dark this entire time?"
Huo Xingzhi's face was calm as he glanced at the woman beside him.
"Father, if you don't believe me, then I'll use blood to prove my kinship."
"Let her write down everything she's endured over the years. Family ties and blood ties cannot be faked."
"These days, Heng'er and I have been planning to rescue those in the King of Qi's underground prison."
"Father, guess who else is in the underground prison of Prince Qi's mansion?"
Emperor Zhao frowned and asked, "Who is it?"
Huo Xing said word by word: "Some missing officials in the court, and Shen Tingzhou, the eldest son of the Shen family."
"Well, what on earth has the King of Qi been doing? I won't kill him myself!"
Emperor Zhaohe looked at Huo Xingzhi and said coldly: "Tell me everything you know!"
"I want to see what these people are up to!"
Huo Xingzhi nodded and told Emperor Zhaohe the identities of Prince Qi and Duke Gao, Su Yuheng's life experience, and even the underground prison in Prince Qi's mansion word for word.
After hearing this, Emperor Showa's already ashen face became even gloomier.
"Over the years, these people have played a good game of chess."
Huo Xingzhi asked, "What are your plans now, Father?"
Emperor Zhaohe said coldly: "Now that the border war is tense, I will naturally not kill the King of Qi so quickly."
"I have my own way."
After he finished speaking, he instructed Wang Dequan who was beside him.
"Go prepare some warm water. I want to testify my blood relationship with her."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Not long after Wang Dequan went downstairs, a maid came in with warm water.
Emperor Showa took a dagger and cut his index finger.
Bright red blood dripped into the basin along the sword.
The woman also picked up a dagger, just like Emperor Showa.
The moment the two drops of blood mixed in the warm water, Emperor Showa's eyes instantly turned red.
He turned around and looked at the woman beside him in disbelief. She had been tortured beyond recognition, and said in a choked voice, "Are you really Yan Ning?"
The woman pursed her lips and said nothing, but her eyes were red.
Emperor Showa choked up and said, "It's all my fault. I let those people harm you like this!"
"How can I face my deceased mother now? If her spirit is still in heaven, she will definitely blame me!"
"I'm sorry for you!"
The woman babbled something, her voice choked with sobs, but she couldn't make herself clear.
"Father, now is the time to find a way to arrange for my aunt. She has been imprisoned in the underground prison of Prince Qi's mansion for so many years. It's time for her to take good care of herself."
Emperor Showa nodded.
"Xingzhi is right. Now is the time to make good arrangements for your aunt. You did a good job this time. I didn't make a mistake in choosing you."
"I've been thinking a lot these days. The Queen doubts the Prince of Qi's identity, and even Liu Jinshu doubts it. I'm not a fool, so how could I not see clearly?"
"But the war is tense now, and the King of Qi cannot die yet."
Huo Xingzhi was silent for a moment.
"Father is right."
Emperor Showa sighed and looked at Wang Dequan beside him.
"Go secretly to the Imperial Hospital and ask the imperial physician to come and treat the princess."
"By the way, have the palace maid arrange a bedroom for the princess. She will live in the palace for the next few days to avoid being discovered by the King of Qi's men."
Wang Dequan said: "Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Father, should we tell our grandfather about this?" Huo Xingzhi asked.
Emperor Showa looked at the eldest princess sitting on the chair next to him and felt a little uncomfortable.
Now that she has been tortured to this extent, if she tells the emperor, he might worry again.
"When the time is right, I will tell my father myself."
Huo Xingzhi said: "Yes, Father."
After Emperor Zhaohe made arrangements for the eldest princess, Huo Xingzhi and the eldest princess stayed in the palace for a while before leaving and heading towards Prince Li's mansion.
When he returned to Prince Li's mansion, guards came hurriedly.
Huo Xingzhi asked, "How's things going with the King of Qi?"
The guard said, "I heard that they haven't found the antidote yet. They've already sent people to look for a doctor privately, and also sent people to Medicine King Valley to look for Divine Doctor Feng Wu."
"Young Master Yu sent a message saying that if a doctor who can detoxify the poison cannot be found within three days, the King of Qi will..."
"Are you planning to cut it?" Huo Xingzhi raised his eyebrows.
The guard stifled a laugh: "That's what the King of Qi is planning."
"Now that Zhang Nan is pregnant with his child, he doesn't care about anything else in order to save his own life."
Huo Xingzhi's eyes dimmed as he said coldly, "He wouldn't think that the Zhang family girl's belly is really his child, would he?"
"He has such beautiful thoughts."
After Huo Xingzhi finished speaking, he strode towards Prince Li's mansion.
After taking just two steps, Bai Ze caught up.
"Your Majesty, we will be leaving for the border in a few days. The Fire Lotus is still in His Majesty's hands."
Huo Xingzhi said calmly, "I understand. Send a message to the Tianji Pavilion tonight and have the Qinglong Envoy there write a letter to my father."
"Tomorrow, as the Master of Tianji Pavilion, I will personally bring the Fire Lotus to Heng'er."
Bai Ze nodded: "Yes, Your Highness."
The next day, when Su Yuheng woke up early, Huo Xingzhi was not by his side.
She knew he was busy with military affairs now, so she didn't ask any more questions.
Now that Shen Tingzhou had just been rescued from the underground prison in Prince Qi's mansion, and his body had not yet recovered, she planned to go to the house on the outskirts of the city.
Su Yuheng took the two maids, Bai Lu and Yun Sheng, onto the carriage. Not long after they left Prince Li's Mansion, Bai Lu discovered something.
"Miss, someone is following us."
Su Yuheng opened the carriage curtain and saw that behind his own carriage was an ordinary carriage.
She lowered the carriage curtain and said to the coachman in front, "Turn the carriage around and go to Ming Street."
The groom was a little confused: “Princess, are we not going to the outskirts of the city to see Master Shen?”
Su Yuheng said, "Let's go later today. Let's go to Ming Street to buy some things first."
"Yes, Princess." The coachman whipped the carriage and turned it towards Ming Street.
In the carriage following behind, Yun Tianhe lowered the carriage curtain and said to the coachman in front: "Let's turn the carriage around and follow Princess Li."
The groom said, "Yes, sir."
"Miss, the carriage is still following us."
Su Yuheng said: "Let him follow. I want to see who he is."
After the carriage arrived at Ming Street, she got off with her two maids, Bai Lu and Yun Sheng.
Behind him, Yun Tianhe's carriage also stopped.
Su Yuheng had an expressionless face as he took Bai Lu and Yun Sheng into a cosmetics shop.
The master and his two servants picked out some rouge and powder and came out of the shop.
A burst of noise passed by my ears from the crowd.
"Get out of the way!" Several low and majestic shouts came from the front, carrying an unquestionable sense of oppression.
Just as Su Yuheng was wondering, he saw the crowd retreating quickly and silently to both sides like waves split by a sharp blade.
There was a passage about two meters wide in the middle.
Everyone's eyes were cast towards the end of the passage.
Then I saw eight burly men in dark clothes with long swords on their waists. They walked with steady and powerful steps, like iron statues, carrying a sedan chair steadily.
"Miss, it looks like the sedan chair from Tianji Pavilion." Yun Sheng beside her spoke.
"Could it be that the head of the Tianji Pavilion has entered Yanjing City?"
Su Yuheng's eyes fell on the eight big men carrying the sedan chair.
Their temples bulged high, their eyes were as sharp as hawks, and they exuded a cold aura that kept strangers away.
However, what is more eye-catching is the figure sitting upright in the sedan chair.
The man was wearing a dark brocade robe with intricate and mysterious dark patterns embroidered on it with extremely fine silver thread, which was faintly visible in the flowing light.
The man was wearing a silver mask and leaning lazily in the wide seat, with one hand casually resting on the armrest and the other hand supporting the side of his head.
Su Yuheng stood in the front row of the crowd and was involuntarily attracted by the silver mask.
She looked at the man and her eyes met the person in the sedan chair.
Heng'er? Why is she here?
Under the mask, Huo Xingzhi frowned slightly, and when he saw Su Yuheng looking at him, he quickly looked away.
Bai Lu covered her mouth and chuckled softly: "How come the Pavilion Master of Tianji Pavilion is shy when he sees our young lady?"
Su Yuheng: "For some reason, I always feel that his figure resembles that of a prince."
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