"I can give you the dragon ball..." Li Yu's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and every word he uttered was so difficult:
"But how can you guarantee...guarantee that you won't abandon the donkey after it has served its purpose?"
"Do you have any other choice?" Situ Wei looked arrogant, and then changed the subject: "However, the concubine is not the kind of person who does not keep her word. Tomorrow, the concubine will hold a banquet at the West Suburb Villa, which is connected to Qujiang."
"As long as you take out the dragon ball, you can go with the flow. Once you are a fish in water, what can the concubine do to you?"
Li Yu seemed to be convinced. She took a few breaths and responded in a hoarse voice: "...Okay."
Situ Wei got the assurance and raised the corners of her lips happily.
Just as she turned around and was about to leave, Li Yu's voice rang out again: "Who are you?"
"The concubine has been from Anping County since ancient times. Now she is the left concubine of the Eastern Palace, and she will be the Crown Princess in the future!" Situ Wei said with confidence and pride.
Li Yu looked at her deeply, closed his eyes, pursed his lips and said, "I need water, otherwise I will die before tomorrow."
Situ Wei frowned: "Don't play tricks."
Li Yu laughed at himself: "What tricks can I play nowadays?"
Situ Wei snorted coldly, thinking that too, her grandfather Li Yu was almost dead.
After she left, a eunuch came in and dragged Li Yu back to the room in a disgusted manner. Before leaving, he perfunctorily poured half a bowl of water for him, put it on the ground, and then locked the door and left.
After the others left, Li Yu crawled to the bowl of water, carefully licked a mouthful of the water, and was unwilling to drink any more. She put her hand between her eyebrows, clenched her teeth, and tore off a piece of bloody fish scale.
The fish scale glowed with golden light, and after she tore it off, her breath became much weaker.
Throwing the fish scales into the bowl of water, they melted away instantly. Li Yu picked up the bowl of water, climbed up with difficulty, walked to the window, and carefully poured the water in the bowl into the window gap.
The water flowed along the cracks to the outside, as if it were a living thing, flowing into the cracks between the stone bricks, and then slowly flowed outwards through the cracks, silently flowing into the lotus pond, turning into a small koi.
There is a culvert under the lotus pond in the East Palace, leading to the moat.
The little koi fish wagged its tail vigorously and swam out.
In the cold palace, Li Yu fell to the ground, gasping for breath, his face as pale as paper, with a look of determination in his eyes.
She didn't believe a single word Situ Wei said.
After swallowing the dragon ball, she was no longer of any use. How could anyone let her live? She had to earn a way to survive!
As for the prince...
The favor has been repaid, but the debt of love is hard to erase. She no longer owes anything. The other party betrayed her first. Now that life and death are determined by fate, she can hardly protect herself, so how can she have the energy to care about that ungrateful person...
Now that she had exhausted half of her cultivation, she asked the little adult for help. Li Yu was worried whether the other party would be willing to help, but there was no other way now.
I just hope that the other party can give me a helping hand out of consideration for the fact that we are both aquatic creatures.
Nanling Mountains.
Xiao Chenyan also received the news that Qing Wu was going to return to Beijing early, and coincidentally the news from the capital was also delivered to him.
The Ministry of Justice suddenly launched an attack, forcing Huo Yi to use the red-lettered iron certificate to protect Wang Yulang, but the news of the two places was slow, and the East Palace concubine inexplicably sent an invitation to Mu Ying's son, but it had not yet been handed to him.
But Qing Wu should have received the news faster than him.
As for the Liu family affair, Baimei had asked the little fox to report the situation to him. Xiao Chenyan was able to sense some clues from the little fox.
When he heard the word "Witch Clan", his eyebrows jumped inexplicably.
I always feel that these two words are extremely familiar.
These days, Xiao Chenyan always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but when he recalled the past, apart from the vague memories of his childhood, there was nothing strange.
If there was anything strange, it was that he mastered some of the 'spells' that Qing Wu taught him so quickly that his body seemed to have stored them in muscle memory and he didn't feel unfamiliar with them.
These clues only showed signs, but Xiao Chenyan did not miss them.
But the strange thing was that there seemed to be a force preventing him from delving deeper into the matter. As soon as the thought of investigating it in detail came to his mind, it would be quickly extinguished.
As soon as the word "Witch Clan" appeared, he felt an unusual feeling in his heart, but in the blink of an eye, this strange feeling was extinguished.
Xiao Chenyan returned to the Nanling Palace, and before he saw Qing Wu, he met Xiao Yao first.
"Seventh Uncle."
"I heard that my niece-in-law intends to return to Beijing early." Xiao Yao looked worried: "But did something happen in Beijing?"
"Something happened." Xiao Chenyan did not hide it: "Good food and fodder have arrived in Nanling, and the refugees have been properly settled. I will have to trouble Uncle Qi and Lord Lin to take care of the rest."
"Nanling is my fiefdom, and these are my duties."
Xiao Yao knew in his heart that if Xiao Chenyan and Qing Wu had not arrived in advance, Nanling would have been devastated.
"But your mission to Nanling this time was assigned by the imperial court. Would it be bad to go back early now?"
"So this time I plan to return to Beijing secretly. To outsiders, I am still in Nanling." Xiao Chenyan's voice became deeper: "There are too many secrets in the capital. Those people are hiding in the dark. I am in the open, but I can't catch them."
"It would be better to learn from these people and go into the darkness, maybe we can catch their ghosts."
Xiao Yao frowned, thinking of the letter handed to him by Xiao Chenyan.
"You mentioned in your letter the other day that my concubine passed away. At that time, I thought it was too bizarre and hard to believe, but after what happened in Nanling these days, I find it extremely terrifying when I think about it carefully."
Whenever Xiao Yao thought of it, his scalp tingled.
"Xiao Yan, isn't it really His Majesty?" Xiao Yao lowered his voice, his teeth cold.
If his concubine really died in the Yang Dragon Suppressing Yin Phoenix formation in the imperial palace, then what about the crown prince who died first?
Xiao Yao could hardly remember what his father looked like before, and now he just felt that he was scary.
After the death of the former crown prince, the imperial court of Dayong was in a state of chaos for the past ten years. How could there be an emperor who ignored state affairs, only cared about seeking immortality, and left all state affairs to his son to handle?
It would be fine if this son had the talent to govern the country, but the current Crown Prince is such a short-sighted, stubborn and self-righteous person.
It can be said that if Xiao Chenyan had not pacified the northern border and the Huo family had not been stationed in the western desert, Dayong would have been in chaos long ago.
But it is not true to say that there are really no useful people in the court.
Be it the ministers in the cabinet or the current left and right prime ministers, although they all have flaws, they are not without skills.
Xiao Yaoyuan was born in Nanling, and his political sense was not very sharp, but after so many investigations, he was able to figure out something. He found it strange, but he couldn't tell what was strange.
"It seems that the Crown Prince is in charge of state affairs, but in fact, what else have these officials done except forming cliques for personal gain and allowing their subordinates to embezzle and amass wealth?"
"Uncle Qi, don't you think this is all like fishing? Cast a long line to catch a big fish. Some people may seem to be in a good position, but in fact, they are the bait without knowing it."
"Our Majesty has been hiding behind the scenes, cultivating immortality for ten years, and the Crown Prince has not been able to gain the real say. In the final analysis, this court has always been controlled by him, and everyone is a chess piece in his palm."
Xiao Chenyan's voice was calm, but every word in his words made Xiao Yao feel cold in his bones.
"Uncle Qi, why do you think the Emperor's grandfather agreed to my return to the capital from the northern border?"
"He gave me the word 'disgusted', exiled me to the northern border, and 'indulged' me in the growing strength of the northern border."
Xiao Chenyan said sarcastically: "Uncle Qi, what do you think the Crown Prince and I look like in the eyes of the Grandfather Emperor?"
Xiao Yao felt cold all over and couldn't say anything.
Today, the crown prince is like a target that has been deliberately thrown out, and is being fattened and strengthened day by day. He is a "pet" that appears to be glorious on the surface, or in other words, he is like the fattest bait, attracting those termites to swarm towards him.
Xiao Chenyan is a sharp blade that has been polished by ten days of wind and frost. He is the best and most powerful knife that can kill all those termites in one fell swoop.
Looking at how Xiao Chenyan got to where he is now, how he became the King of Hate...
Xiao Yao only thought of two words: raising poisonous insects.
This is what Gu Lingyue told him these days about how the Jiuli people raise Gu.
Countless insects were put together to fight each other until the last one left was the most ferocious and strongest.
䀴Xiao Chenyan... is the strongest Gu King.
The tragedy in the Eastern Palace, the injustice in the Zhenguo Marquis's Mansion, and even the sudden death of his concubine...are they all just part of this?
Xiao Yao suddenly felt that if his guess was true, how lucky he was to have been able to leave the capital alive and come to the Nanling fiefdom?
As soon as his mind turned, his pupils constricted and his heart seemed to be grasped by a big hand.
If his father left the capital safely, was it because his concubine sacrificed her life to get him?
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