Chapter 349 Will someone escort you to your wedding today?
Prince Xin turned slightly to the side: "What?"
Qingling gripped the railing tightly with her fingernails, lowered her eyes, and said, "Get them a doctor to treat their injuries, and I'll go with you."
Lou Yue cried out anxiously, "Miss!"
The others disagreed as well. This Prince Xin was no good; if Yao Qingling yielded, she wouldn't be treated well.
Once Prince Xin tires of her, her corpse will soon appear in a mass grave.
Prince Xin scrutinized Qing Ling from head to toe, the corners of his lips curving upwards repeatedly.
I thought she was going to hold on for a while longer, but she couldn't take it anymore?
"What a touching display of master-servant affection, huh..." The man chuckled, then his face suddenly turned cold. "You think I'd believe you? You want to prolong their lives, buy them time..."
Yao Qingling interrupted him: "Why extend their lives? It's just keeping them alive so you can torture them repeatedly. In that case, it's better for them to just die. Since I agreed to go with you, I'm leaving."
"To survive, I can cooperate with bandits, just like you. What's the difference? However, Your Highness seems quite suspicious. Are you perhaps afraid of me?"
He shifted his gaze slightly: "I remember Zhan Xingzhuo also came to persuade you. You're not so easy to talk to."
Qingling said, "What is Zhan Xingzhuo? His power is not as great as yours, Your Highness. My life and death are not in his hands, but in yours."
Prince Xin narrowed his eyes: "Are you really willing to betray Lin Shiyuan?"
Yao Qingling was silent for a moment. Prince Xin sneered disdainfully and was about to say something when Qingling spoke up: "I will not betray him."
Prince Xin closed his fan, turned around and left.
Qingling said, "Since Your Highness has the means and ability, show it to me. If you can capture him, won't I admire you even more?"
"Furthermore, since you intend to use me to lure him out, do you think Lin Shiyuan will show up if he hears that I've followed you?"
"I just don't want my people and myself to suffer anymore."
“But I will not betray him. I am the daughter of a general, and I must have this sense of duty. Besides, if I easily betray someone because I can't endure hardship, the prince will not trust me in the future, will he?”
A playful smile appeared on Prince Xin's lips as he pondered something.
Qingling continued, “I did not betray him, so I have not betrayed my principles. But if he is arrested for coming to find me, he is courting death. If that day really comes, please allow me, Your Highness, to dig a pit for him and bury him. That will be the end of our fate.”
Yao Qingling's voice was low and slow, as if there was a sense of difficulty and reluctance, as well as a despicable desire for survival and glory.
Prince Xin stared at her for a while, then pointed to the iron chains on the door with his fan, signaling the jailer to open the door.
He added, "Please call a doctor to treat their injuries."
Yao Qingling walked out of the cell, with Lou Yue and the others calling out mournfully behind her. The jailer cracked his whip and shouted, "What's all the noise about! Shut up!"
Prince Xin held Yao Qingling's wrist, and the two walked forward together. Qingling listened to the crying and shouting behind her, but never turned around to look at them.
He was walking too slowly, his legs gave way, and he almost fell.
Prince Xin, however, gripped her wrist bone and used only that tiny point of force to pull her up. Qingling felt as if her wrist bone was about to shatter.
"Is Madam Yao too weak to walk because she hasn't eaten enough?"
Qingling swallowed the blood foam in her mouth and forced a smile: "Yes, the food in prison is terrible. Your Highness will know once you try it."
Prince Xin curled his lips into a smile: "That won't be necessary. Just thinking about how Lady Yao finally lowered her noble head to avoid going to jail makes me realize how unpalatable that food must have been."
He added, "But once you get out, Lady Yao, you must behave well and please me. The people in prison are still worried about you."
Qing Ling smiled calmly: "His Highness will be satisfied."
...
A woman with half her face burned was walking hunched over on the street.
The city was in turmoil, and many soldiers from the military police were patrolling the streets, driving away civilians, and carrying out so-called public order management.
The woman, dressed in tattered clothes, was mercilessly struck with a stick, pushed aside, and nearly crashed into the wall.
"Hey, have you heard? That Lady Yao from the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion has gone to be Prince Xin's concubine. I heard Prince Xin is going to hold a banquet to celebrate his newfound beauty."
"Hmph, that woman is a scourge to the country and its people. We even used to buy her things all the time. She's in cahoots with the bandits. This city is in such chaos because of her."
The woman turned her back, listening to the murmurs of the crowd. She clenched her fingers tightly, and after the group had passed, she took off running.
...
To celebrate the prince's new bride, Jinmantang held a grand opening sale, attracting a constant stream of customers to its shop.
Above the shop, two red silk ribbons were hung directly, with the words written in a blunt and vulgar manner: "Celebrating the Prince's happy marriage and wishing the Prince a long and happy life together."
They were afraid others wouldn't know that Prince Xin was going to take a concubine.
Yao Qingling's former Hui Ba Fang shop was the same, except it had a different banner: "Our shop is having a grand sale to celebrate Madam Yao's remarriage."
She was afraid others wouldn't know that Yao Qingling was going to remarry.
So blatant and naked, the purpose is obvious.
At this moment, Yao Qingling, dressed in a red wedding gown and adorned with peony hairpins, stood in a private room of the restaurant opposite Hui Ba Fang, looking every bit the bride. The window was open, and she gazed at Hui Ba Fang through it.
Prince Xin, dressed in the wedding attire befitting a prince, stood smiling beside Qingling, fanning himself with a sandalwood folding fan. He asked with a smile, "Yao Qingling, do you think someone will escort you to your wedding today?"
Qingling said, "His arrival is the beginning of his misfortune. If he hadn't come, I wouldn't have felt any disappointment."
"But Your Highness, the banner hanging here is written so poorly. Couldn't you have found a scholar to write a couple of nice poems?"
Prince Xin said, "I want all the people in the city to be able to understand it. If it is written as a poem, I am worried that some people are not cultured and will not know that I am going to get married."
As the weather grew warmer, a layer of sweat appeared on Qingling's forehead, and her fingers clenched quietly under her sleeves.
She stared intently ahead.
There are no longer any of her staff at Hui Ba Fang.
Not a single one.
Those people were either arrested or fled in panic; those who are still inside are all people arranged by Prince Xin.
He will be captured as soon as Lin Shiyuan appears!
Prince Xin glanced at her and said leisurely, "My lady seems a little hot. Shall I fan you?"
He fanned Qingling with his fan while wiping the sweat from her forehead with his other hand, looking incredibly tender.
But the venomous smile in his eyes only gave people more goosebumps.
Qingling resisted the urge to push him away and forced a smile: "Thank you, Your Highness."
Just then, footsteps sounded behind me.
Zhan Xingzhuo arrived with Zhou Zhining.
"Congratulations... Your Highness." Zhan Xingzhuo bowed and offered his congratulations through gritted teeth.
Yao Qingling eventually submitted to Prince Xin. It was all for the best... better than her choosing to die for Lin Shiyuan and losing her life in vain.
Zhan Xingzhuo was unwilling to bring Zhou Zhining out, but Prince Xin demanded that he bring her.
When Zhou Zhining saw Yao Qingling again, her gaze suddenly paused, and she began to look Qingling up and down.
Then she burst into laughter: "Yao Qingling, you're finally getting married? That way, you won't be competing with me for Brother Zhuo!"
She waved and cheered happily.
Yao Qingling stared speechlessly at the woman in front of her, who seemed to be acting crazy.
She turned to Prince Xin and said, "What does Your Highness mean? Isn't it unlucky to invite a madman to your wedding?"
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