Concubine Jiang slumped to the ground, as if all her strength had been drained from her.
"Your Majesty is right."
Her voice was so soft, almost inaudible, "The Eagle Master Tribe's blood-fighting dragon foals have bred to over five thousand over the years..."
The Emperor of Chu's eyes suddenly became sharp, like a wolf that smelled blood.
He leaned over, and the oppressive smell of ambergris pressed towards Concubine Jiang.
"It would be best if my beloved concubine could figure it out!"
Concubine Jiang's face turned pale as she kowtowed, "I will write to my father and ask him to offer a BMW. I only ask Your Majesty... to give Hong'er a chance to live."
"Don't worry!" Emperor Chu said, "As long as you can continue to contain Amur, I will not break my promise."
After the King of Chu left, Concubine Jiang sat dejectedly on the cold ground and did not get up for a long time.
She finally understood that the reason why the Emperor of Chu endured what ordinary people could not endure and was willing to keep her and her child was not for the war horses, but to use Hong'er's blood to ignite the flames of civil war in the Western Regions.
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At the same time, in the prison.
After Chu Lang was imprisoned, his brocade robe had long been stripped away, leaving him in only a thin prison uniform. The scars of Concubine Xie's slap still lingered on his face, his mouth chapped and his eyes bloodshot.
"Damn it!" Chu Lang punched the wall, but retracted his hand in pain the next second.
"It must be Chu Hong. How dare he plot against me!"
He couldn't help but recall everything that happened at the banquet, the singer who suddenly appeared in the imperial garden, the fragrance on her body, and how she 'accidentally' tripped into his arms.
Every step seems like a trap carefully designed by someone.
"My brother is still so irritable!"
At this moment, a mocking voice came from outside the cell door.
Chu Lang looked up suddenly and saw Chu Hong, dressed in a dark brocade robe, walking in gracefully.
Compared to his own miserable and destitute state, Chu Hong at this moment seemed out of place in this dark cell.
"Are you here to laugh at my joke?"
Chu Lang raised a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth and forced himself to stand up.
"Huh! Are you so kind?"
"Don't think I don't know. You were the one who arranged that singer, right?"
Chu Hong looked at him expressionlessly and did not answer. Instead, he slowly took out a bottle from his sleeve.
"My royal brother is not hopelessly stupid, but now that you know everything, I, your younger brother, have even less reason to keep you."
After saying that, he placed the porcelain bottle in his hand on the table in front of the blue door.
"Don't worry, this medicine will allow you to pass away peacefully without too much pain."
Chu Lang's eyes suddenly widened, and his heart was instantly filled with anger.
"Chu Hong! How dare you!"
"Although I was deposed, I am still a prince and my father's bloodline. Aren't you afraid that if you poison me here, and my father investigates, you will be held responsible?"
Chu Hong chuckled when he heard this.
"My brother, you worry too much."
His tone was calm, yet his voice was piercingly cold. "You are now a commoner. The journey to the imperial mausoleum is long. You clearly died of an illness caused by acclimatization. What does this have to do with me?"
Chu Lang's face turned pale as he stared at the porcelain bottle closely.
"Do you think Father will believe me? If I die on the road, the first person Father will suspect is you!"
Chu Hong narrowed his eyes and walked forward slowly: "So what if you doubt it? Do you think the emperor would care about the life and death of a useless child?"
Chu Lang's breathing stagnated and his chest heaved violently.
In an instant, he seemed to have figured out some key information. His pupils suddenly dilated, and he even strode forward and grabbed the railing at the cell door.
"Chu Hong! You did this on purpose, right?"
"You're not even father's bloodline. You already know that, right? That's why you're so anxious to get rid of me so you can seize the throne of Great Chu."
The more Chu Lang thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed the truth, and he couldn't help but feel very excited.
Great, as long as my father knows this news, Chu Hong will be dead!
Chu Hong saw the pleasure burning in his eyes, and his gaze gradually became dangerous.
He turned slowly, a creepy sneer on his face.
"Royal brother..."
"You shouldn't be smart at this time. Isn't it better to continue being stupid?"
"Now that you've exposed everything, what reason do you have for me, your brother, to keep you here?"
The air in the cell suddenly froze.
Chu Lang looked at the murderous intent in his eyes and realized belatedly that he had made a fatal mistake.
He shouldn't have broken this window paper when he was alone and helpless.
"Someone come! Someone come quickly! Someone wants to kill someone to silence him..."
Chu Lang grabbed the bars of the prison door and screamed at the top of his lungs towards the outside.
"Someone come quickly and open the door!"
However, he called out for a long time, but there was no movement outside.
Obviously, everything had been arranged when Chu Hong came in.
At this time, Chu Hong slowly took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole. In an instant, the cell door was opened and Chu Hong walked in with his head bowed.
The space suddenly became oppressive and cramped.
Chu Lang staggered backward until his back hit the cold stone wall behind him.
"Chu Hong! Are you crazy? Are you really going to do it here?"
"If the emperor knew you killed me, he would never let you go!"
Upon hearing this, Chu Hong suddenly burst into laughter, and there was a hint of madness in his laughter.
"Father?"
"Chu Lang, do you know why he has been allowing Concubine Xie to repeatedly target my mother?
Why do you keep me here even though you know my background?"
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