Chapter 123 Prince's Brother-in-law
Zhou Ruolan clenched her fingers suddenly, her knuckles turning white.
She suppressed her panic and forced a smile, "May I ask, Your Majesty, what do you want from me?"
Pei Jing raised his eyelids, and his dark eyes swept over, "You want to sit down and talk to me?"
Zhou Ruolan reacted suddenly, quickly stood up, almost rolled and crawled out of the carriage, and stood aside with hunched shoulders.
Pei Jing: "Zhou..."
Duan Jiu knew at a glance that the prince hadn't remembered the name again, so he whispered, "Zhou Ruolan."
"Zhou Ruolan."
Zhou Ruolan lowered her head and said, "Yes, it is your servant."
Pei Jing's lips curled up in a creepy arc, "Look up."
Just as Zhou Ruolan raised her head, she saw Pei Jing raise his hand, and a white object slid across the sunlight and flew towards Zhou Ruolan.
Zhou Ruolan thought it was a hidden weapon and dodged quickly. The thing fell to the ground and she saw that it was a string of beads, the same string of beads that Pei Jing had been holding in his hand.
Pei Jing stood up slowly, bent down, walked out of the carriage, and stood firmly on the shaft.
"This is a gift from the king. Why, you don't like it?"
There was a chill in the voice. Zhou Ruolan quickly picked up the pendant from the ground, held it in her hand, and said with deep trepidation, "Thank you, thank you for the reward, Your Highness. I like it."
Pei Jing suddenly chuckled, "As long as you like it, it's also my favorite thing."
This pendant is made up of several beads, which are milky white in color. It is not as smooth and delicate as jade, but has a unique and soft texture, and feels slightly cool to the touch.
Pei Jing leaned forward slightly. "Do you know what this string of beads is made of?"
"Your Majesty, I don't know." Zhou Ruolan's voice trembled.
"Then why don't you take a guess first," Pei Jing glanced at her with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes, "If you guess correctly, I will give you a reward."
Zhou Ruolan's hands holding the beads began to tremble uncontrollably, and the white beads glowed with a strange luster in the sunlight.
"Your servant is stupid..." Her voice trembled, "This...this is not the best ivory..."
Pei Jing suddenly burst into laughter, and his laughter was particularly creepy.
"Ivory?" he asked. "Do you know, human bones?"
Zhou Ruolan was struck by lightning, and the beads in her hand fell to the ground with a "click".
Her eyes widened in fear, her legs softened and she fell to the ground, "My lord, please spare my life..."
Pei Jing stepped down from the carriage, bent over to pick up the string of beads, and wiped them slowly. "This was made by my own order, using the finger bones of someone who had wrongfully criticized the emperor's relatives. There was a palace maid who was too talkative and said some things she shouldn't have said. I didn't like what she said. Her finger bone is the first bead in this string of beads."
Zhou Ruolan's face was ashen and her whole body was shaking like a sieve.
Zhou Ruolan was so frightened that her soul was about to flee, tears welling up in her eyes: "Your Majesty, please spare my life. I will never dare to do this again. I won't tell anyone, and I will never tell anyone in my lifetime."
"I want you to watch your mouth, but I don't want you to never speak."
Pei Jing stroked the beads and said, "If you tell anyone now, the cat will get angry and it will be difficult for me to coax you later. When the time is right, I will let you speak."
Zhou Ruolan was full of doubts and didn't dare to ask too much. She could only ask tentatively: "When is the right time?"
"When the king needs you to speak, I will naturally send someone to inform you." Pei Jing got on the carriage, turned around, and his eyes circled around her neck. "If the king hears you talking about her behind her back, this string of beads should be replaced."
After saying that, he got into the carriage, and Zhou Ruolan collapsed to the ground.
As the carriage turned the corner, Duan Jiu asked, "Isn't this string of giant clam pearls, Your Majesty?"
Pei Jing was in a good mood, fiddling with the beads in his hand, "I'm not so perverted as to kill people and grind them into bone beads just to scare her."
Duan Jiuxin is right. Just standing there can scare a lot of people to death.
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After Jiang Ruolin saw Zhou Ruolan off, she went to Yao's Fusuiyuan.
"Did Zhou Ruolan really say that?!" Yao was shocked after hearing this.
Jiang Rulin nodded and pulled Yao aside, saying, "I was also shocked when I heard that. You said she was about to get married, but why was she still entangled with Prince Zhaoning and even did such a shameless thing? If this gets out, where will our Jiang family put their face?"
Yao's face was full of uncertainty. "Could Zhou Ruolan have seen it wrong?"
"Mother forgot?" Jiang Rulin said, "Jiang Rufei disappeared in Tingquan Mountain and was found with Prince Zhaoning. Who knows if she was already involved with Prince Zhaoning at that time?"
Yao recalled everything that had happened before, putting aside the incident at Tingquan Mountain. Later, when Jiang Rufei was kidnapped, King Zhaoning went to look for her personally and sent her back personally, and also supported that little bitch Jiang Rufei.
She slammed the teacup in her hand onto the table. "I knew she wasn't someone who would settle down."
Jiang Rulin rolled her eyes and lowered her voice, "Mother, how do you think we should handle this?"
Yao narrowed her eyes and drummed her fingers on the table. "We need to think about this matter carefully."
"What do you mean by long-term consideration?" Jiang Rulin asked anxiously, "Are we just going to let her do what she wants? We can use family rules. Can Prince Zhaoning even do something like that?"
"What do you know?" Yao scolded. "Prince Zhaoning has killed countless people and acts erratically and violently. If you act rashly, you'll only end up bringing disaster upon yourself. Why didn't Zhou Ruolan spread the news but came to tell you? It's because she's afraid of offending Prince Zhaoning."
Jiang Rulin said unhappily, "Ruolan and I are close friends. Of course she told me the first thing that happened in our family."
"If this gets out, it will tarnish our family's reputation and affect your future marriage."
Yao stood up and paced back and forth in the room: "We must suppress this first and not let anyone know."
"The Wei family's marriage..."
"Are you still thinking about the Wei family's marriage?" Yao sneered, "The wedding date has been set, so just give up on it. When Jiang Rufei marries, the Marquis's wife and I will be relatives, so it will be easier for us to have a say. Then we can ask the Marquis' wife to choose a good husband for you."
Jiang Rulin twisted her handkerchief unwillingly, "But Jiang Rufei is so shameless, secretly having sex with a man outside her family, and mother doesn't care?"
"Why are you so anxious?" Yao said soothingly, "The master will be in the capital for only a day or two. Once he strengthens the formation, all of Jiang Rufei's luck will be yours. Are you still worried that she won't get better?"
Outside the door, Jiang Chenglang lay under the window and listened to the whole thing from beginning to end. He crawled to a place where there was no one, got up and ran to Jiang Fei's yard.
Jiang Chenglang trotted into Jiang Fei's yard and almost tripped over the threshold.
He leaned against the door frame, breathing heavily, his face flushed red, "Second, Second Sister! I heard it!"
Jiang Fei was counting the banknotes. Seeing this, she put down the banknotes and asked Jiu Tao to pour some water. "Speak slowly, don't be impatient."
She took out a handkerchief to wipe Jiang Chenglang's sweat, "Drink some water first."
Jiang Chenglang gulped down the entire glass of water and wiped his mouth with his sleeve. "Mother and my third sister said..."
The words suddenly stopped at his lips and he scratched his head. "What did you say?"
Jiang Fei was speechless. With such a fish-like memory, Yao still wanted Jiang Chenglang to be the top scholar. It would be better to just bake a big pancake.
"Think about it again, what made you rush here?"
Jiang Chenglang suddenly slapped his forehead, grasping what he thought was the key point, "I remember now, it was you and the prince's brother-in-law who kissed in the restaurant."
Wen Zhu rushed to Jiang Fei like an arrow and stared at her intently: "Kissing again?"
Jiang Chenglang also looked up at her and asked in confusion, "Why again?"
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Q&A time: Let’s talk about the character. I saw some people say that the prince’s character has collapsed and the way he speaks is different from before.
Let me explain. Personally, I think this character setting is intact. Because the character setting itself is very contrasting. When facing other people, the prince still speaks in the same way as before, and only when facing the heroine does he show a different side.
It's like I am a normal person outside but I act like a madman in front of people I know. If they all have the same face, then the character will be too tense. I don't know if I have expressed myself clearly.
Whether it has collapsed or not depends on personal perception. Thanks to the readers for raising this question, so that I can explain it to everyone.
The atmosphere of this article is quite light-hearted. There will be some abuse in the end but the overall tone is still light-hearted. Have fun reading it.
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