82. Shock
◎There are too many suspicious points about her◎
Chapter 82
The forest was silent, with only a gust of wind blowing a few leaves that fell before my eyes.
Ji Ci's eyes were cold and unfamiliar, the love from the past disappeared from his face. He just stared at the motionless Jiang Qiuye, and his heart began to calm down from the initial panic.
He seemed emotionless at that moment, showing neither anger nor disappointment. This made her even more anxious.
She immediately threw the bow and arrow in her hand and the quiver behind her to the ground, deceiving herself that the weapons had nothing to do with her. With her hands empty, she suddenly didn't know where to put them. No place seemed right, so she could only let them hang limply at her sides.
She only felt a buzzing in her head and waves of panic hit her.
When Zhao Wan'er saw Ji Ci, she was overjoyed. She opened her eyes wide and cried out, "Cousin! Cousin! Save me, cousin!"
Jiang Qiuye stared blankly at Ji Ci as he took a step forward and slowly approached.
She said nervously, "Husband, please listen to my explanation."
But Ji Ci ignored her and walked straight past her towards Zhao Wan'er. He drew a dagger from his waist, cut off the arrows in her legs, picked her up from the ground, called his horse over, and helped her onto the horse.
Ji Ci jumped on his horse, sat behind Zhao Wan'er, and rode away from Donglin at a rapid speed.
Jiang Qiuye did not cry at this moment, but just stood there, watching the two figures gradually disappear in the forest.
She didn't know what to do at the moment and could only stand there in a daze. The wound on her back was still bleeding, and the blood loss made her lips turn white.
Unfortunately, he didn't see the injury.
Instead, he saw all the unbearable things, and everything was over...
Unlike when he knew that he had killed Susu, this time he saw it with his own eyes and stopped it with his own hands.
Not only did she deceive him, but he had bent the law for her, lowered his bottom line, and no longer cared about the matter of Susu. He made her promise to be a good person from then on.
But what was she doing just now?
She was trying to torture Zhao Wan'er, not just to kill her, but to make her die painfully. She deliberately used hunting methods to make Zhao Wan'er panic, afraid, terrified, and struggle, and after experiencing all of this, she would kill her.
It was so vicious that Ji Ci saw it with his own eyes.
Did she say anything she shouldn't have just said?
She raised her hand and knocked her head hard, and found that she couldn't remember a word of what she had just said to Zhao Wan'er.
What should she do?
What else could she do?
Is there any chance to save it now?
Jiang Qiuye's pupils kept dilating and then contracting. He stood there motionless until dark, then he reacted, mounted his white horse, and headed towards the camp at the foot of the mountain.
She hadn't figured out how to face Ji Ci yet, but she had to. She couldn't just run away, because then everything she had done would be in vain.
The lights in the tent were dim. After she got off her horse, she could no longer wait and ran straight to her own tent.
She thought, no matter how Ji Ci wanted to punish her, she would stick to him. If he wanted to marry Zhao Wan'er as his princess and let her give up the throne, she would accept it, as long as she could stay by his side.
She must not lose him!
She stumbled to the tent and opened it, but it was dark, quiet and empty.
how so?
Where is Ji Ciren?
Could it be with Zhao Wan'er?
She immediately ran out and headed towards Zhao Wan'er's tent. She passed many people along the way, all of whom were staring in amazement at the hurried Princess Qi, covered in blood.
Arriving at Zhao Wan'er's residence, there was no attendant by the tent. Jiang Qiuye grew increasingly panicked, and, hoping for a chance, he went forward and opened the tent, only to find it empty.
She bit her thumb nail tightly and frowned.
Where did they go? Why did they disappear?
Oh right! Zhao Wan'er is injured!
They must be with the imperial physician.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qiuye looked up and quickly ran towards the tent where the imperial doctors were. She couldn't wait to be informed and went straight into the tent.
There were four or five imperial doctors sitting in the tent, and two of them were injured, none of whom she knew.
Seeing Princess Qi covered in blood, her hair disheveled, and a large bloodstain on her back, the imperial physician panicked and asked, "Princess? Are you injured? Are you here to seek treatment from me, your honorable servant?"
Jiang Qiuye felt the wound on her back had healed, but her heart felt empty and cold. "No need."
She walked out of the imperial physician's tent in a daze, her head hanging low, until a voice called out to her, "Princess."
Jiang Qiuye immediately turned around and saw that it was another young guard under Ji Ci.
The young guard didn't know what had happened between Jiang Qiuye and Ji Ci, but seeing her ghostly appearance, he paused for a moment and said respectfully, "Princess, the prince had to return to the capital for an urgent matter, and specially arranged for us to stay here to take care of you. There are still five days before the end of the spring hunt. After the hunt, your princess will return to Shengjing with the team."
Jiang Qiuye calmed down, knowing that Jici didn't want to see her at the moment. It was better not to see her, as he must have hated her to death.
She returned to her tent and called upon the bright moon to bathe her.
She gently took off her dirty and torn riding clothes. The wound was stuck to the clothes, so she pulled it off without any feeling.
When Mingyue entered, she saw the scratch on her back and said in shock, "Princess, what happened? How did you get such a serious injury? I will go and get the imperial physician right away."
"No need." Jiang Qiuye stopped her without looking back. "Just use the water to wipe my body, avoiding the wound. It won't be a problem."
Mingyue hesitated and took back her steps, looking at the horrible wound again. She found that the princess' mood seemed different tonight. She said "yes", took the handkerchief and began to clean her.
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On the carriage back to Shengjing, the imperial physician carefully pulled out the arrows from Zhao Wan'er's legs. She cried out in pain.
After applying the medicine and bandaging the wound, the imperial physician did not dare to ask any more questions and left.
Zhao Wan'er's eyes went dark, and her hands tightly grasped her still dirty riding clothes.
After the imperial physician ordered him to get off the carriage, Ji Ci walked onto it and sat opposite Zhao Wan'er, still indifferent and expressionless.
"Cousin." Zhao Wan'er's eyes started to turn red when she saw her get in the car. "I am so grateful to my cousin today. If it weren't for my cousin, I would have... would have..."
"I've repeatedly emphasized to the princess that Donglin is dangerous and there are tigers there. But for some reason, she insisted on going there. I kept trying to dissuade her, but it didn't work. It's all my fault. If only I could stop her in time."
She took out a white handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, glanced at Ji Ci secretly, and continued to cry: "Fortunately, the princess is very capable and killed the tiger alone. But...but I really didn't expect that the princess would actually..."
"Madam Lou." Ji Ci interrupted her directly, "I will send someone to send you back to Shengjing. After you return to Shengjing to rest, Madam will return to the south."
"What?" Zhao Wan'er's expression froze and she was dumbfounded, as if everything was different from what she expected.
Princess Qi revealed such a vicious side in front of Ji Ci, why did he still protect her?
"W-why?"
Ji Ci closed his eyes, then opened them again and said coldly, "I have just sent someone to investigate. It was you who first brought my wife to Donglin. You took her there knowing there was a tiger, and then sent someone to look for King Liang."
"You chose to seek out Prince Liang instead of all the other people. Could it be that... you suspect Prince Liang and my wife are having an affair? If Princess Liang hadn't come to me and explained everything, I wouldn't have known you were planning to kill my wife. I don't want to speculate any further on your intentions."
Zhao Wan'er had never expected that he would find out about her so quickly. She had always seemed to have underestimated Princess Qi, and underestimated him as well.
Zhao Wan'er's lips trembled, and a chill swept through her body. She said unwillingly, "Cousin, I can't refute the rest of the matter. But there is one thing I am sure of: Prince Liang and the princess are definitely having an affair!"
"I've noticed privately many times that the way Prince Liang looks at Princess Qi is definitely not the way a nephew should look at his imperial aunt!"
Ji Ci's heart trembled violently. The scene of King Wei's coronation ceremony and the small jade hibiscus hairpin that fell from King Liang's sleeve flashed through his mind.
He lowered his eyes calmly, ignoring her reaction, and continued, "Madam Lou, slandering and spreading rumors about the royal family is a capital crime!"
Zhao Wan'er was stunned, closed her mouth and looked at him, not daring to say another word. Finally, she avoided his sight and lowered her head.
Ji Ci said, "Today, although my wife was wronged and caused you to be injured, it was you, Madam Lou, who initially harbored ill intentions. If Madam leaks even a single word about what happened to my wife today, please do not blame me for not considering our childhood friendship and... the Empress Dowager's reputation."
Zhao Wan'er raised her head abruptly, and said in disbelief, "Cousin, don't you care about my influence in the south?"
"The former King of Han's power is nothing to worry about." Ji Ci sneered, "If Madam still wants the support of King Han's old followers, remember what I said today."
After saying this, he didn't want to say another word. He got off the carriage, found his own black horse, mounted it, and a group of guards followed him and headed straight for Shengjing.
Zhao Wan'er's carriage soon became a small black dot and was never seen again.
The cold wind whistled past, sweeping across his stiff cheeks. The horse rode faster and faster, so fast that Tian Qu and others felt a little tired just to keep up.
Donglin shocked him greatly today. He really didn't expect that his wife was not only vicious but also deceived him.
Her archery and kung fu were so amazing that she could kill a tiger by herself. Qiu Ziye, who grew up in Wuzhou, should not have such powerful kung fu.
Recalling Susu's death, although she admitted the crime she committed, many doubts still exist.
How on earth could she sneak back into the palace quietly, avoid the surveillance of all the secret guards, and kill people without making any sound?
He needed to calm down and rethink every detail of his acquaintance with her.
He really couldn't face her now, so after taking Zhao Wan'er down the mountain, he immediately fled in a hurry.
After leaving Songshan, he still asked people to secretly investigate the Donglin incident.
Luckily, she just fought back.
In his opinion, she must love him, otherwise why would she risk her life to block the sword for him?
But there are too many suspicious points about her.
Why is she so cold-blooded?
What exactly happened to her?
who is she?
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