Chu Qingluan didn't stop, she just asked coldly, "Fainted?"
"Then pour it on him to wake him up!"
The housekeeper looked miserable. "I have already poured it out, but——"
"But what?"
"Master Qi smashed the medicine bowl and said... that if he couldn't see the princess, he would rather die of illness in this stable."
Butler Zhou wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and felt contempt for Qi Che in his heart.
A man of such stature actually used such a lowly method to try to gain the princess's sympathy. If it weren't for Prime Minister Xie's order, and if this man was still of some use, he would not have bothered the princess with such a thing.
Chu Qingluan suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at the gradually darkening dusk outside the corridor, and chuckled: "In this case, let him die of illness."
She will no longer waste her time and energy on irrelevant people and things.
Allowing him to linger in the princess's mansion is already the biggest concession.
If he still refuses to give up, then he can only blame himself for being a cheapskate.
The housekeeper frowned and confirmed, "But he also has a high fever. If someone dies..."
"Go tell Qi Che—" Chu Qingluan opened her red lips slightly, speaking words as cold as ice: "What my stable lacks the least is pretentious beasts. If you want to die, die far away."
As soon as he finished speaking, a light laugh suddenly came from behind him.
I saw Xie Yunqi leaning against the pillar, playing with an ebony folding fan in his hand.
"Why should your highness be angry?"
He walked slowly towards Chu Qingluan, his tone carrying a bit of coldness: "Why not let me go and take a look? After all, I am best at taming animals."
Chu Qingluan glanced at him and said, "Prime Minister Xie is quite enthusiastic."
"Just to share your worries."
Chu Qingluan left with a wave of her sleeves, and two faint words came into the air: "It's up to you."
She didn't care at all about Qi Che.
Although Xie Yunqi was crazy, she firmly believed in his methods of punishing people.
Soon, Xie Yunqi stepped into the stable in the backyard.
The afterglow of the setting sun was shining onto the straw through the gaps in the thatch. Qi Che was curled up in a corner. When he heard footsteps, he was delighted at first, then subconsciously looked up.
However, when he saw who was coming, his expression suddenly changed again.
"Xie Xiang? Why is it you?"
Xie Yunqi was still casually playing with the folding fan in his hand, with a smile on his face: "What? Do you think that if you play a trick on yourself, the princess will come to see you?"
Qi Che's heart was touched and his face didn't look very good.
"The princess wouldn't be so heartless." He excused himself, and suddenly thought of something. He looked up at Xie Yunqi and said, "You were the one who stopped her, right?"
At the same time, a truth gradually pieced together in Qi Che's mind.
The next second, his eyes suddenly widened, and he struggled to get up without caring about his physical discomfort.
"You, you treat the princess..."
Before he could finish his words, a fan bone knocked out one of his molars without any warning.
Xie Yunqi leaned over with a gentle smile on his face, and admired Qi Che's mouth full of blood with satisfaction: "I have reminded you, horse slave, you should lie down like an animal, there is no need to stand up."
Qi Che endured the pain, stared at Xie Yunqi with anger with his red eyes, and suddenly laughed ferociously.
"Hahaha……"
"It turns out that Prime Minister Xie is... just a person who doesn't want to be seen in public... haha..."
Xie Yunqi admired his madness with an expressionless face. After a while, when Qi Che had laughed enough, he gently raised his foot and the sole of his shoe embroidered with cloud patterns rolled on Qi Che's fingers.
"Crack!"
The sound of bones breaking rang out in the stable, and it was particularly clear. Then came his cold voice:
"I don't care whether I can see the light or not."
"I'm just curious about how you convinced that idiot Gu Yanran to get you out of jail even at the cost of hurting the baby in her belly?"
Qi Che was in so much pain that he was speechless, his teeth were clenched, and his expression was ferocious, but after hearing these words, the smile on his face froze instantly.
"It seems that you really have something on the Gu family."
Seeing this, Xie Yunqi narrowed his eyes dangerously: "You are willing to lower your status to stay in the princess's mansion. Do you really want to repent sincerely, or is it Chu Hong (the third prince)'s intention?"
After he finished speaking, Qi Che suddenly froze, held his breath, and his pupils dilated slightly.
After a long while, he found his voice again: "I don't know what Prime Minister Xie is talking about. I have already said that I came to the Princess's Mansion only to atone for my sins."
Xie Yunqi sneered and had no intention of continuing to argue with him on this issue.
Qi Che's facial expression already told him the answer, didn't it?
He nonchalantly lifted Qi Che's chin with the handle of his fan, his voice so soft as if he was talking about today's weather.
"It seems that the Third Prince thinks highly of you. He even told you about such a big thing as the assassination of the real leader."
Qi Che's breathing was slightly stagnant, and the fear in his eyes could no longer be hidden. "Thank you for your understanding, Prime Minister. I have never..."
"Hush..." Xie Yunqi put his folding fan against his lips, his eyes flashing with a dangerous light, "I only want to ask you one question now, what did Chu Hong promise you? The princess's life? Or... a position below one person, above ten thousand people?"
boom!
At this moment, Qi Che suddenly trembled all over and his heart began to beat wildly.
He finally understood that all his thoughts could not escape the eyes of Xie Yunqi.
He did make a deal with the third prince in private.
As long as he could help the Third Prince get what he wanted, the other party promised that after the success, he would send him to the position of the head of all officials, and Chu Qingluan would also be at his disposal.
He knew the plan was crazy and risky.
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