Chapter 214: Seven Bone Instruments (Part 1)
Xiao Zirui grabbed Yun Bailian's neck and lifted her up.
Yun Bailian almost suspected that she was going to be strangled to death. She clung to his arm tightly, looked at him in fear and pleading, and tears fell from her eyes. However, she did not get any sympathy from Xiao Zirui. Instead, she saw deeper disgust in his eyes.
Yun Bailian fainted.
When she woke up, she had returned to her room and found that the door was guarded by guards, who said it was an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
The Crown Princess was immoral and cruel to the concubine, so she was forbidden to leave the room again.
The seal of the head of the rear house was also transferred to Su Yurou.
Yun Bailian wanted to find Xiao Zirui to explain. She was clearly framed by Su Yurou, but she couldn't leave the house, and the maid she sent out to pass the message never came back. She was furious and shouted and made a fuss, but there was nothing she could do.
The door suddenly opened. Yun Bailian thought it was Xiao Zirui who came and looked up in surprise.
But he saw Su Yurou standing in front of him with a smile on her face, and there was undisguised malice in her eyes.
"Why is it you!" Yun Bailian screamed, "It's all because of you, this bitch..."
Bang!
Su Yurou interrupted her curse with a slap and said coldly:
"Hold her down for me!"
The servants behind her immediately rushed forward and pressed Yun Bailian to the ground.
"How dare you! What are you doing! Let me go! I am the Crown Princess! You are a bunch of treasonous slaves! I will let the Crown Prince chop off your heads!"
Su Yurou smiled happily:
"Yun Bailian, do you still think you are the Crown Princess who is held in the palm of the Crown Prince's hand? He doesn't even want to look at you now, what qualifications do you have to shout here!"
She picked up a mirror and placed it in front of Yun Bailian, saying:
"Look at your own face, even ghosts are more handsome than you. How can you have the nerve to covet the prince brother?"
Yun Bailian was forced to face the mirror. She saw her face swollen like a pig due to the bee venom. She screamed and closed her eyes.
“Take it away, ahhh—”
Su Yurou admired her miserable appearance for a while, then her eyes turned fierce and she slapped her again.
"Bitch! I've been waiting for this day for a long time, and today is your retribution!"
Yun Bailian heard the cruelty in her voice, and shuddered as she looked at her:
"What are you going to do! I tell you, even if the Crown Prince is deceived by you and is angry with me, I am still the Crown Princess! The house arrest will end sooner or later! When the time comes, I will definitely let His Royal Highness know what you did behind his back!"
Su Yurou stared at her sarcastically and spoke slowly:
"If you want to sue, you must have evidence!"
"What do you mean……"
"Shut her mouth!"
Before Yun Bailian could react, her mouth was tightly stuffed.
Su Yurou looked down from above, her eyes filled with the pleasure of revenge:
"Yun Bailian, you relied on your status as the queen and the phoenix to bully me and caused me to break my arm. Did you ever expect that there would be a day when you would be despised?"
Yun Bailian looked at her and suddenly understood what she wanted to do. She struggled desperately in fear, making "mmm" sounds with her mouth, but it was useless.
Su Yurou ordered fiercely:
"Break her legs for me!"
Accompanied by a back-chilling snapping sound, Yun Bailian fainted from the pain.
Su Yurou exhaled a breath of foul air and ordered in a cold voice:
"Throw her under the courtyard wall and assign someone to guard her. Tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince tomorrow morning that the Crown Princess tried to climb over the wall and sneak out, but ended up falling and breaking her leg!"
"Whoever dares to leak even a little bit of what happened today will lose his tongue!"
After leaving Yun Bailian's yard, Su Yurou finally showed a victorious smile.
"The Prince's Mansion can only have one mistress, and that is me, Su Yurou!"
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Nightfall.
Xiao Changheng sat upright in a wheelchair, holding a book in his hands and turning the pages slowly, but his eyes were not focused on the pages.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Yun Qingqing who was squatting beside his legs and giving him acupuncture.
The girl wore no makeup, but her skin was fair and rosy, so tender that it seemed as if water could be squeezed out of it. Her long, silky hair was casually tied into a half bun, and then hung down from her shoulders, revealing her slender, white neck.
Her drooping eyelashes covered her black gemstone-like eyes, but he clearly remembered how pure and bright those eyes were when he first saw her.
Her focused look at this moment was like the most dazzling treasure in the world. He couldn't take his eyes off her and was filled with greed.
Xiao Changheng clenched his hand holding the book slightly.
After Yun Qingqing gave the last injection, she looked up and met the man’s bottomless black pupils.
"..." She was stunned, "What?"
Xiao Changheng's eyes regained clarity. He calmly turned his gaze back to the book and coughed lightly.
"How long will it take?"
Yun Qingqing thought about it for a while before realizing that he was asking how long it would take to heal the leg.
"Oh, the last seven days, including today." She stood up, straightened her dress, and said with a smile, "You will be able to stand up in seven days. How about it, are you happy?"
She felt it. When he said there were still seven days left, his breath paused. He must be excited to finally be able to stand up after being paralyzed for several years.
Yun Qingqing was also very happy. Once his leg healed, their deal would be complete. Then he would be free and unrestrained in the vast world and could concentrate on cultivation and strive to reach a higher level as soon as possible.
Xiao Changheng raised his eyes and looked at her, his face expressionless.
This little girl has the words "looking forward to divorce" written all over her face.
He gritted his teeth secretly.
Nan Zheng asked for a meeting in a low voice outside. After being allowed to come in, he did not avoid Yun Qingqing and began to report.
Ever since the princess went to the border in person for the prince, everyone in the palace knew that meeting the princess was like meeting the prince, and they treated her with the utmost respect.
"Your Majesty, Xilan and several barbarian envoys will arrive in Beijing in three days. The secret sentry reported that Xilan does not seem to intend to pay the compensation honestly, and is likely to use the opportunity of peace talks to stir up trouble."
Xiao Changheng narrowed his eyebrows slightly, revealing a hint of sarcasm:
"Oh, if they still dare to dance in front of me after this, let them try."
Although the medicinal bath has reached the last stage and he cannot leave the house, but as it is just a peace negotiation between a defeated country, some of the ministers in the court are capable people promoted by him and are enough to handle it.
"Your Highness, there is one more thing..." Nan Zheng's expression was a little solemn, "Nan Yu also sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that he would send an envoy to visit."
Xiao Changheng frowned, and Yun Qingqing, who was originally meditating peacefully, also opened his eyes.
Nan Yu clearly came to visit Xi Lan at this critical moment when they were negotiating peace. Considering that Daliang and Jingguo have now formed an alliance, and Nan Yu has been coveting Jingguo for a long time...
The assassin he encountered when borrowing grain from Jing State before was sent by Nan Yu. This time, the other party obviously had ulterior motives.
Xiao Changheng pondered for a moment:
"Bring me a pen and paper, and deliver my handwritten letter to my brother tomorrow morning!"
Yun Qingqing raised her eyebrows:
"You already have a plan?"
"I can't say I have any plans." Xiao Changheng chuckled, "I just told my brother to leave Xilan and the barbarians alone for now."
"Since you are all here together, let me go and meet them in person!"
"Oh..." Yun Qingqing nodded in understanding.
Looking at the subtle sneer on this man's face, it seemed that one of the messengers was about to be in trouble again.
She timed it to a full stick of incense, then withdrew the needle and returned to her own courtyard.
When she was the only one left in the room, she took out a bronze mirror from the jade ring.
It was the bronze mirror that Zhiluo had stolen from Yun Bailian's house, the one that stole other people's luck.
Yun Bailian had no idea that the one in her hand had been replaced with a fake one.
Yun Qingqing held the bronze mirror in her hand with the back facing up.
I saw that the originally jade-white decoration in the center had lost its luster and its color was no longer moist, but had turned into a pale white with a bluish tint.
Her eyes turned cold.
When she first got this insidious magic weapon, she discovered that the small white decoration was infant bone.
However, at that time, the bronze mirror was working properly to cover up the evil aura of the infant bones. She only had a guess in her mind and could not directly confirm the source of the infant bones.
But today, all the stolen luck has dissipated, and the bad luck of the owner of this mirror has reached its peak. Yun Qingqing sensed the evil aura emanating from the mirror in the space, and knew that its true face had been revealed.
She took out the baby bone hairpin and the small skull and placed them next to the mirror.
That’s right, the bronze mirror is one of the seven evil-gathering bone tools that Wen Youde mentioned.
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