Chapter 431: Chen Zhao's Extra (10)
Can you only say three sentences?
Chen Zhaozhi blurted out: "Wanqing."
"This is the first sentence." Xia Wanqing said coldly.
Seeing this situation, Chen Zhaozhi instantly forgot the lines he had prepared. He opened and closed his mouth, and didn't utter a word for a long time.
Only two sentences?
"I'm here to apologize to you." He finally got the answer to this fatal question right and said the most crucial sentence.
However, Xia Wanqing didn't buy it and sneered, "Apologize? Some people went to the casino with Prince Wang, the most dissolute man in the capital, yesterday, and now they come back to apologize to me?"
"I didn't go to the casino for fun, I had other serious matters to attend to. The Yuelai Casino is a casino on the surface, but it's actually a place for physiognomists... No!" Chen Zhaozhi cherished this third sentence very much. "Wanqing, you know my movements so well, and you still pay attention to me!"
If any other girl said this, she would blush and deny it, explaining that it was a coincidence. But Xia Wanqing was never an ordinary girl.
The tip of her spear left a bloody mark on Shen Zhaozhi's neck, and then it hit his shoulder.
"Get up and talk inside." She said coldly.
Is this the default?
Chen Zhaozhi was secretly delighted. His hands were tied up, and he jumped twice on the ground like a carp before he could stand up.
The two returned to Xia Wanqing's boudoir together, and his eyes never left Xia Wanqing on the way.
I haven't had a chance to take a good look at her in the past few years.
Still so beautiful, heroic... and indifferent.
"Stand still and don't look around." Xia Wanqing hit him hard on the leg with a gun.
She asked Chen Zhaozhi to stand while she sat opposite him with her legs crossed.
"You're here to ask for my help, aren't you?" She picked up the brass bell on the table beside her. "Tell me what you want to do. If it's your kind of thing, I'll ring the bell for the guards to rush in, and then I'll report you to the authorities for rape."
Qiang...Chen Zhaozhi wanted to cry but had no tears.
How could this girl not care about her innocence?
Besides, even if it was "rape", it was she who did it to him!
"How did you know I came to ask you for help?" he asked curiously.
"If you didn't need help, why would you come to me?" Xia Wanqing sneered, "I've been like this since I was a child."
Chen Zhaozhi was silent for a moment before he said, "It's like this... It's Mid-Autumn Festival, and I want to give my mother some gifts. I don't know what to give her, and since you're a girl, you might know something, so I wanted to ask you."
He stood directly opposite Xia Wanqing, his hands tied behind his back, as if he was being punished by standing.
"What did you say?" Xia Wanqing frowned. "Your mother? Isn't your family... the only one left? Where does your mother come from?"
Chen Zhaozhi said: "I used to think so too, but later I found out that my parents are still alive."
He quickly told Xia Wanqing everything about his life.
Xia Wanqing was no less shocked than he had been when he first found out. "So, the rumored Third Prince is you, and your mother is the Concubine Hu who disappeared all those years ago?! Concubine Hu turned out to be a fox demon?"
Chen Zhaozhi felt a little relieved when he saw Xia Wanqing's surprised look.
Maybe if she knew the truth, she would understand what he was doing now.
"So you're planning to take revenge on the emperor?" Xia Wanqing asked, "You want to rebel?"
She asked directly, and Shen Zhaozhi nodded honestly: "Yes."
He kept glancing at Xia Wanqing's hand out of the corner of his eye. If she really rang the bell, he would have no choice but to run away.
Xia Wanqing's slender fingers stroked the surface of the copper bell back and forth, constantly touching Chen Zhaozhi's heart.
She knows his purpose, will she report him?
Finally, Xia Wanqing put the copper bell in her hand back on the table.
"Just because I don't ring the bell doesn't mean I support you," she said with lowered eyes, "but I advise you to give up. You can't win. The forces in the court are much more complicated than you think."
At that time, Chen Zhaozhi did not understand the meaning of Xia Wanqing's words. He just felt that she underestimated him, and said proudly: "Don't worry, if I start to take action, I will not touch the Xia family at all."
He almost made a promise.
He also believed that as long as he had no conflict with the Xia family, Xia Wanqing would never betray him.
Xia Wanqing sneered and shook her head, looking at Chen Zhaozhi for a long time without saying a word.
How many years had it been? Three, four, five? They hadn't had any contact at all.
How could he suddenly appear and ask her for help so "righteously"?
…
"So, where is your mother?" she finally asked.
Chen Zhaozhi thought of his true purpose: "Master said she was imprisoned at the bottom of Silver Moon Lake, but I don't know the details, but she will come out to meet me during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I want to give her some gifts, but I don't know what she likes."
After all, she is not human.
"Taking her away is the best option," Xia Wanqing said bluntly. "Aren't you already preparing for a rebellion? The rebellion starts with kidnapping prisoners."
"Not so fast yet. We can only hold our ground for now." Chen Zhaozhi explained, "Also, it seems... my mother still has feelings for the emperor, so she may not be able to take him away."
"You still have feelings even after being locked up?" Xia Wanqing shook her head secretly, but she was not too disgusted. After all, the thinking of humans and monsters is different.
"Is this the first time you've felt guilty?" she whispered. "I've never heard you say this before. You really dislike the half-demon identity he gave you, don't you?"
The one who knows him is Xia Wanqing.
Chen Zhaozhi blushed: "Hasn't it time to turn back now?"
He thought Xia Wanqing was going to tease him again, but she was silent again.
How many times today has she been silent? This is not like her at all.
Did he say something wrong?
"Come with me." Xia Wanqing stood up and used her spear to untie the rope tied to Shen Zhaozhi's hand.
"Okay, okay." Chen Zhaozhi hurriedly followed.
The two of them moved silently around the Xia Mansion.
Xia Wanqing seemed to be very clear about the time and order of the guards' patrols in the mansion. The two of them could clearly hear the guards' footsteps and whispers, but they couldn't see them.
After walking a certain distance, Xia Wanqing said to Shen Zhaozhi, "Wait here."
Then he went to the front alone to dismiss the servants.
She invited Chen Zhaozhi in like a puppy, and inside was...
"Kitchen?!" Chen Zhaoyi choked, "No, Wanqing, I'm not hungry yet, so there's no need to entertain me."
Xia Wanqing turned around and gave him a cold look: "You raided the General's Mansion at night, and you still want a midnight snack?"
She pointed at an old cook who was shivering in the corner of the kitchen and said, "You, learn how to make mooncakes from her."
Not only the old cook trembled, but Chen Zhaozhi also trembled: "Me? I'm learning to cook?"
"It's not cooking, it's making snacks." Xia Wanqing corrected.
Does it make any difference to him?
"Have you ever made mooncakes? Or anything else?" Chen Zhaozhi asked.
"No." In this era where even queens have to know how to cook, Xia Wanqing answered frankly.
"So you want me to do it?"
Xia Wanqing said calmly, "Compared to those vulgar things bought with money, your mother prefers the snacks you make yourself. If you really don't want to cook, just embroider a handkerchief yourself."
"...Then let's go to the kitchen." Chen Zhaozhi didn't dare to provoke Xia Wanqing now, and what she said made some sense.
The two of them were calm, but the old cook in the kitchen was confused.
She was supposed to be on guard in the kitchen tonight to prevent the masters from being hungry at night, but she didn't expect that the eldest lady would bring a man and ask her to teach her how to make mooncakes?
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