Chapter 55: The Marquis's Adopted Daughter and the Cold Prince 27
"Xiao Wen Ge, why aren't you dead yet?" Shen Chi Su screamed.
Xiao Wen Ge dragged her to an empty alley with a sinister expression: "Do you really want me to die?"
Today's Xiao Wen Ge is no longer as handsome and charming as he used to be. He is blind in one eye and his left ear is half missing. The skin on his face and body is dark and rough, and he wears coarse linen clothes, looking very down and out.
That day in the forest, Ning Changting did pierce his left chest.
However, Xiao Wen Ge's heart was different from that of ordinary people. It was located on the right side, which just saved his life.
Only he, Madam Xiao, and Shen Chi Su knew about this.
Xiao Wen Ge had always considered Shen Chi Su as his lifelong wife, but he never thought that she would be so cruel as to abort their child and sell herself to Ning Chang Ting for fame!
Those are a pair of dragon and phoenix twins!
Madam Xiao was so grief-stricken that she only had time to tell Xiao Wen Ge all the evil things Shen Chi Su had done before she died.
Xiao Wen Ge was filled with hatred. Shen Chi Su had been hiding her identity for six years, and he had been looking for her for six years!
He stared at the red cloth in Shen Chi Su's hand with his bloodshot eyes and asked fiercely, "Who are you planning to marry now? Is it that fifty-year-old imperial merchant with yellow teeth who still has no children?"
"I tell you, I won't let you get what you want!"
Xiao Wen Ge grabbed her and tried to drag her away.
Who knew that the one who responded to him was Shen Chi Su, who stabbed a cold dagger into his right chest.
"You!" Xiao Wenge staggered back in disbelief, then fell to the ground, holding onto the wall.
Shen Chi Su pulled out the dagger and looked at him coldly: "I will never let you ruin my rich life again."
She had been the imperial merchant's mistress for several years, and had given birth to two sons for him thanks to her fertility. Now was the day that the imperial merchant was willing to take her in, so how could she let Xiao Wen Ge easily ruin their plans?
She has had enough of that life of hunger and cold!
She wants to be rich and live a life of being served by others!
Even as a concubine!
Xiao Wen Ge was completely out of breath, and died with his eyes open in the dark alley.
Shen Chi Su ran back to the courtyard holding the red cloth tightly, still dreaming of marrying into a wealthy family.
Who would have thought that as soon as he entered the room, a sack was put over his head and he passed out.
Several servants tied the sack tightly. The leader asked, "Madam, what should we do with this bastard?"
The wife of the emperor's merchant walked out from behind the door, kicked the red cloth on the ground, and said disdainfully: "Since the child has been born, there is no point in keeping her. Sell her to the widower in the suburbs. It's pitiful that he can't get married at his age."
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After Chunrui entered the palace to accompany him in his studies, Taisun's temperament became noticeably calmer and he studied harder.
The prince was very happy and gave many gifts to the marquis's mansion.
But something went wrong that day.
Xiaozhu, the personal maid who followed Chunrui into the palace, hurried back to report that Chunrui had choked in the palace.
Cha Jiu, who was checking the accounts, quickly dropped what he was holding and followed the carriage to the palace. He happened to meet Ning Changting who was holding a child outside the palace.
Ning Changting looked serious and indifferent, but his gesture of patting Chunrui's back to soothe her was very gentle.
"It's okay, Junrui, father is here."
Chunrui lay on Ning Changting's shoulder, her eyes and nose were red, and she was hiccuping violently.
Taisun stood by, his face full of guilt: "It's all because I didn't take good care of my sister Chunrui that she was bullied by my aunt."
The little aunt he was referring to was Princess Qiongxia, the daughter of his favorite concubine Lin.
Princess Qiongxia once fell in love with Ning Changting at first sight at a banquet in the royal palace. At that time, Ning Changting was a first-rank official, extremely handsome, and it was said that his childlessness was also cured.
She cried and made a fuss to the emperor, asking him to issue an imperial decree to grant the marriage, allowing Ning Changting to divorce Cha Jiu and become her consort.
His Majesty would naturally not agree to such an absurd thing.
Princess Qiongxia also stopped Ning Changting on the way out of the palace many times to express her feelings, but was coldly rejected every time.
So she turned love into hate and hated Cha Jiu and the children in the Marquis's mansion very much.
Taking advantage of the fact that Taisun was not paying attention today, Princess Qiongxia ordered people to bring Chunrui to her palace, and she fed her lotus root powder balls vigorously and deliberately frightened her.
Chunrui was force-fed while crying, and the meatball got stuck in her throat, and she almost choked to death in the Qiongxia Palace.
Fortunately, the Crown Princess arrived in time and saved Chunrui.
After hearing the whole story, Cha Jiu was so angry that his hands and feet were shaking, and he wanted to rush in and tear Princess Qiongxia to pieces.
Ning Changting held Chunrui in his left hand and embraced the angry Chajiu in his right hand, his eyes were frosty.
He said in a deep voice: "I will make her pay for this."
Cha Jiu couldn't swallow this anger, so he asked the system: "Is there any prop that can be used for revenge? I want Qiong Xia to suffer a fate worse than death."
The system looked down in the small mall and pulled out a few items: "'Nightmare seeds' give people nightmares for six months in a row. They are the things that people fear the most in their hearts."
"There are also 'Sudden Baldness' seeds and 'Corpse Odor' seeds... You know what the effects of these things are as soon as you hear them."
Cha Jiu said without hesitation: "Exchange."
System: "But these seeds will only work if you throw them into Princess Qiongxia's palace."
Taisun was still standing there with his head down, not daring to look at Chunrui. Suddenly, Chajiu's calm questioning voice came from above his head.
"Your Highness, would you like to do me a favor?"
Taisun was already feeling guilty, so he certainly wouldn't refuse at this time: "As long as it can make Sister Chunrui feel better, I'm willing to do it."
Cha Jiu placed those ordinary-looking seeds in his palm and said, "Chun Rui was frightened in Princess Qiong Xia's palace. Your Highness, please help me drop these seeds in front of the princess' palace gate to calm Chun Rui's mind."
Taisun took it without hesitation.
System: "How do you know that Taisun will definitely help you? Wouldn't he think it's weird to drop seeds at someone else's door?"
Cha Jiu: "Taisun really likes Chunrui, I can see that, he will definitely do it."
Moreover, the relationship between the Crown Prince and the Lin family has always been bad, so the Crown Prince naturally has no good feelings towards the Lin family and Princess Qiongxia.
One is a beloved younger sister, and the other is an annoying little aunt. It is obvious who Taisun will help.
Sure enough, news soon spread from the palace that Princess Qiongxia was troubled by nightmares day and night, looked as haggard as a ghost, had baldness on her head, and her body stank of a corpse.
The imperial doctors were helpless.
In the spring of the following year, the Huns invaded the border again. Ning Changting proposed in the court to replace war with marriage so that the people living on the border would have more time to recuperate.
His Majesty agreed and finalized Princess Qiongxia as the candidate for marriage.
Princess Qiongxia cried and made a fuss as usual, and even tried to resist by fasting and hanging herself, but she could not change the emperor's will.
Whenever she went on a hunger strike, His Majesty would send someone to pry open her mouth and feed her porridge.
She attempted to commit suicide, so the emperor had people watch over her day and night, even when she went to the toilet.
The favored concubine Lin's pleading was in vain. Instead, it only added to the emperor's troubles, and she was reprimanded and demoted.
In the end, Princess Qiongxia got married as scheduled. It was said that the Xiongnu king was old and cruel in bed, and Qiongxia was afraid that she would suffer a lot there.
That night, Qingfeng Garden.
Cha Jiu was sitting at the dressing table, removing the hairpins from her head. She looked at Ning Changting, who was changing clothes in the bronze mirror, and asked curiously, "Doesn't His Majesty love Princess Qiongxia very much? Why did he agree to marry her off to a distant place?"
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