Chapter 420: Beating Prince Yong

That night, someone in the palace was favored.

That night, someone climbed over the wall outside the palace.

Several dark shadows, like ghosts, evaded layers of guards and finally sneaked into Prince Yong's Mansion silently.

When Prince Yong saw the uninvited guest suddenly appear in his room, his face turned pale.

"Were you sent by Emperor Zhaowen to kill me? No, no, no, he wouldn't dare... He wouldn't dare..."

He quickly calmed down and said, "The only people who could sneak in without alerting the imperial guards are the Dark Pavilion and the Feiyun Guards. If they were not sent by that dog emperor, then they could only be sent by my Seventeenth Brother."

The men in black stood on both sides. Xiao Jinxuan walked out from the back and took off his mask. "Fifth brother, long time no see."

Seeing that it was him, King Yong snorted coldly and turned his head away, "What are you doing here? To see a defeated general like me make a fool of himself?"

Xiao Jinxuan sat aside with a calm expression, "Fifth Brother, you misunderstood me. I came here just to ask you about the whereabouts of your aide named Yi Ziyan. There are some things I don't understand, so I want to ask him."

Prince Yong waved his hand impatiently, "He's dead. He just disappeared into thin air. How many times do I have to tell him that?"

"Really?" Xiao Jinxuan was not in a hurry. "It doesn't matter if Fifth Brother doesn't want to tell me. Let me guess. The entire Prince Yong's Mansion was surrounded tightly. How did Yi Ziyan escape?"

"Tunnel? There shouldn't be one. Even if there is one, it should have been blocked. Otherwise, it's impossible that he was the only one who escaped, but you, the fifth brother, didn't."

"You stabbed Yi Ziyan to death. Why did you stab him to death? Is there a way that only the dead can leave, but the living cannot?"

"I remember that the Crown Prince Xiao Yi was buried not long ago. Yi Ziyan must have faked his death and hid in the Crown Prince's coffin, and was sent out of Prince Yong's Mansion together, right?"

Every time Xiao Jinxuan said something, the expression of King Yong became more serious. In the end, he directly scolded him in displeasure, "Nonsense, absolute nonsense! My son died so unjustly, and you still slandered him like this. Is it possible that he has already been buried, and you still want to dig up the grave to take a look?"

"Fifth brother, don't be angry. Xiao Yi is my nephew after all, so I will not do that. In fact, there are many ways to find Yi Ziyan. After he gets out, the first thing he will do is to gather people and bring in reinforcements to rescue you. I only need to send people to wait at the gate of Prince Yong's mansion, and I will naturally wait until he falls into my trap."

So it doesn’t matter whether he says it or not.

When Prince Yong heard these words, he gritted his teeth in hatred and vomited blood in anger. "Xiao Jinxuan, do you know? I hate your self-righteous look the most! Do you think you are so powerful? You are just a dog of Emperor Zhaowen! He is so suspicious, do you think he will really trust you? When I die, you will be dead soon!"

Xiao Jinxuan lowered his eyes calmly: "Don't worry about this, Fifth Brother."

Seeing that he was indifferent, King Yong immediately changed his tone and began to beg, "Seventeenth brother, can you help me make a comeback? You are quite prestigious in the army and the court. As long as you are willing to help me, I will definitely succeed! When the time comes, I will share the world with you!"

Facing those expectant eyes, Xiao Jinxuan's face was grim. "The Xichuan Army colluded with the mountain bandits, forcing the common people to become bandits and pay taxes. If they couldn't pay, they would be killed and used as military merits to invite the court to reward them. These things were all instigated by the fifth brother, right?"

After Duke Zheng was imprisoned, he was charged with all crimes, so Prince Yong was placed under house arrest in this palace and was not convicted for a long time.

But if Duke Zheng did not have the support of Prince Yong and Queen Mother Yin, how could he have been so powerful as to turn Xichuan into a hell on earth?

Sure enough, when talking about the people of Xichuan, King Yong's eyes flickered a little, but he did not think he was wrong. "Since ancient times, those who have accomplished great things have not been particular about trivial matters. Which emperor did not step on countless bones to ascend the supreme throne? They are just some lowly people. If they die, they die. They should feel honored to be able to sacrifice for my eternal hegemony!"

Xiao Jinxuan frowned, his breath suddenly sank, "So, Fifth Brother still doesn't think he's wrong?"

"What have I done wrong?" Prince Yong said excitedly, "The throne should have been mine! I am the eldest son, and I have the right to be the emperor! Xiao Jinzhou was born in a humble family and is the least favored. How could my father pass the throne to him? It was obviously him who stole my kingdom. I just took back what belongs to me!"

Xiao Jinxuan said coldly: "You are narrow-minded and vicious. If I were your father, for the sake of the people of the world, I would definitely not pass the throne to you."

As if he had thought of something, Prince Yong suddenly laughed strangely, "You are right, my father will not pass the throne to me, because you are the one he prefers the most."

"As soon as your mother entered the palace, she was given exclusive favor. She didn't even have to pay respects to my mother. The mistress of the harem was like a decoration."

"On the day of your hundred-day banquet, your father was extremely happy and wanted to make you the crown prince. If it weren't for the Empress Dowager and the civil and military officials who tried their best to stop you, I'm afraid you would have been canonized when you were still in your infancy."

"No matter how the ministers advised us later, the emperor always delayed appointing a crown prince. Everyone knows that he was waiting for you to grow up."

"Old Seventeen, have you ever thought about this? You are the seventeenth and Xiao Jinzhou is the seventh. If you add two more words, the meaning of the imperial edict will change completely."

Anyway, he didn't believe that his father would abandon his legitimate son, eldest son, and most beloved son and choose an unknown son to inherit the throne.

Xiao Jinxuan was shocked. According to Prince Yong's statement, didn't it mean that Emperor Zhaowen had privately tampered with the imperial edict?

He didn't have a deep memory of his childhood, but he still remembered some of it. "That imperial edict was approved by the Empress Dowager and the three ministers. How could it be fake?"

"Who knows what conditions he reached with that old woman? Doesn't the Empress Dowager love you the most? Ask her yourself! She wouldn't have told you nothing, right?...Hahaha...Xiao Jinxuan, it turns out that you are the most pitiful one. Everyone plots against you, even your grandmother deceives you. You are just a poor bug who was sold and still counts money for others..."

The prince of Yong laughed more and more wildly, and spoke more and more excitedly. When he was about to continue speaking, he heard a loud "slap" and was slapped in the face.

His smile suddenly stopped. He covered his face and looked at the man in black beside Xiao Jinxuan in disbelief, "You dare to hit me?"

"Not only do you dare to hit me, I will also whip you!" The man in black pulled out a thorny rattan stick from his back and hit King Yong with it.

"You are the one who is pitiful. Your whole family is pitiful. They will be in trouble for the rest of their lives if they have to deal with someone like you who has big ambitions but no real power!"

He whipped her as he spoke, and every time the thorny cane hit her, it would leave a bloody mark.

"Let you do all the bad things you can, let you take human lives lightly, let you make alarmist statements..."

When she got tired of beating, Prince Yong turned into a bloody man, lying on the ground gasping for breath like a dying fish.

Xiao Jinxuan came over, took the reed from her hand, spread her palm open, looked at the red scratch on it, and asked distressedly, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Xie Zhuoning shook his head.

The cane was carefully selected, and the end that was held in the hand was also carefully processed. She came here this time specifically to beat that bastard Prince Yong.

"Wait a minute, why aren't you surprised at all to see me?" She raised her eyes and asked in surprise.

Xiao Jinxuan chuckled, "I trained the Feiyun Guards myself. Do you think I wouldn't recognize you if you changed into the same night clothes and followed me secretly?"

Originally I didn't let her come because I didn't want her to be in danger.

But he was afraid that if he pushed her back, she would come up with some evil idea to sneak over to him next time. So he simply turned a blind eye and kept her under his nose, which made him feel more at ease.

Xie Zhuoning sighed, "I thought I had pretended perfectly. Well, I have asked all the questions and smoked all the cigarettes. Xiao Jinxuan, let's go home."

She smiled and turned around to extend her hand to Xiao Jinxuan.

There was no need to say anything to comfort him. She was telling him with her actions, Xiao Jinxuan, you are not to be pitied at all. You still have me.

Xiao Jinxuan reached out and held her fingers tightly, "Okay, let's go home."