Chapter 51: Ni Lin Xiao Da, No One Can Hurt You
Si Yao originally thought that he had nothing to do with the Chenghua prince anymore.
But I didn't expect that when I came to Jiayifang to pick up my wedding dress today, I learned from the shopkeeper that the dress had been taken away.
"Female..."
The shopkeeper's eyes were filled with guilt. "Prince Chenghua insisted on doing this. I'm just the owner of a small clothing shop. How could I dare to disobey him? Prince Chenghua said that if the lady wants a wedding dress, she must go to the eldest prince's residence in person."
Finished.
The shopkeeper lowered his head, not daring to look Si Yao in the eye.
Si Yao frowned, having never expected this Cheng Huajunzi to be so persistent. What on earth was he trying to do?
There was a cold glint in her eyes.
There are still three days before she gets married to her young father, and she won't allow anyone to get in the way.
Si Yao didn't look at the shopkeeper again.
Turned around and left Jiayifang.
At the eldest prince's mansion, after waiting for these days, when County Master Cheng Hua heard the guards outside the door say that someone outside the mansion wanted to see him.
He immediately sat up from the chaise longue.
With his eyes slightly shining, he asked the messenger, "Is that lady the new top scholar this year?"
The guard replied, "She only calls herself Si Yuzhuo."
"quick!"
Cheng Huajunzi couldn't wait, "Go and invite him in!"
Seeing his own prince so excited, the guard lowered his eyes and retreated to quickly bring the person over.
After a while, Si Yao was led by the guards into the small pavilion in the backyard of the eldest prince's mansion.
From a distance, she saw the brightly dressed Cheng Huajunzi sitting in the pavilion waiting for her.
The guard did not move forward, letting her pass alone.
Si Yao's eyes were cold as he stepped into the small pavilion.
He asked bluntly, "I wonder what your intention was in taking the wedding dress I had ordered? Now that I've come here, you've forgotten my promise to return it."
She looked inhuman.
The first thing he said was a question.
When Cheng Huajunzi saw her happy face, it turned cold.
"Does the Lady Number One Scholar really not know or is she pretending not to know? Do you really have to get a man like me to tell you personally?"
He stood up with a whoosh.
He raised his chin slightly and looked at Si Yao with his usual arrogance: "Since this prince has taken a fancy to you, you naturally cannot marry anyone else, and I will not give you a wedding dress."
Si Yao's eyes suddenly turned as cold as winter.
Cheng Huajunzi was almost frightened by the look she gave him.
"presumptuous!"
He immediately shouted, "What's that look in your eyes? How can it be that I, a noble son, am not as good as that little father you secretly raised at home?"
Fang Zhiyue is Si Yao's Achilles' heel.
I heard the word "little father" come out of Chenghua Junzi's mouth.
The coldness in his eyes could no longer be hidden.
She looked at Cheng Huajunzi calmly, and pushed him back to the corner of the pavilion step by step.
The tall figure suddenly approached, easily obscuring Cheng Huajunzi, so that the guards waiting outside could not see anything unusual.
Cheng Huajunzi was frightened by the hostility revealed in her eyes.
Fang Han's arrogant face turned pale in an instant.
"Come……"
He was just about to call someone over.
Si Yao grabbed his neck and slowly tightened his grip.
Looking at Cheng Huajunzi's face, which was gradually turning purple due to lack of oxygen, she whispered in his ear, "Junzi, do you really think I would let you bully me? Why are you so blind as to provoke me? Do you really think that the power in your hands is all-powerful?"
"Your father, though the eldest prince, fathered you through an affair without a matchmaker. He even secured a title of prince for you in front of the Saint to silence the gossips of the people. But a bastard is a bastard. Those people in the capital are going crazy over this. If you continue to be ungrateful, you should quit while you're ahead. Don't blame me for being merciless."
Si Yao moved away from his ear.
She looked at him with disdain.
He was just a noble in name only. He relied on the favor of the saint to really think he could control her? He even dared to threaten her with Fang Zhiyue.
The beast in her heart gradually came out of the cage.
The hand that was pinching Cheng Huajunzi's neck kept tightening.
"Put...put...uh"
Cheng Huajunzi began to roll his eyes as if he was suffocating.
Just before he fainted, Si Yao loosened his grip.
He suppressed the gloomy expression on his face and hurriedly shouted outside, "Help! Junzi suddenly fainted!"
The guards and servants who were waiting not far away immediately trotted in.
Looking at Cheng Huajunzi lying unconscious on the ground, his eyes immediately fell on Si Yao who was standing beside him.
"Lady Zhuangyuan, what on earth is going on? Why did the prince faint for no reason? You are the only one accompanying him in this pavilion."
The guard's eyes were sharp.
Si Yao lowered his eyes and shook his shoulders. "I don't know why, but Junzi suddenly fell to the ground while he was talking. We have to find a doctor quickly--"
As she spoke, she pushed the guards aside in a panic and tried to move Cheng Huajunzi.
As a result, I tried to move it several times but failed, and I ended up being exhausted.
The guards looked at her frail appearance.
There was a flash of contempt in his eyes.
He is indeed a scholar who only knows how to study and can't even hug a man.
She pushed her away, quickly picked up Cheng Huajunzi, and quickly left the pavilion.
After everyone in the pavilion left, Si Yao's eyes returned to calmness. He glanced at the figure in the distance without any fluctuation, then raised his feet and followed.
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Jingxiangju
The residence of Chenghua County
The court doctor carefully examined the patient's pulse and stood up.
He said to the young servant standing beside him, "It's nothing serious. The prince just fainted due to a lack of energy and blood. Drinking more porridge to replenish energy and blood will help alleviate the symptoms."
She explained in detail to her personal servant how to make several kinds of medicinal porridge.
Then he walked out carrying the medicine box.
The guards and Si Yao were both guarding in the yard.
The two men haven't come forward yet.
Upon receiving the news, Prince Shuhe hurried in.
Looking at the court doctor coming out, he asked anxiously, "How is my son? Why did he suddenly faint?"
"Don't worry, Eldest Prince. The princess fainted due to a temporary lack of energy and blood. She will recover after slowly nourishing herself with medicinal porridge."
Upon hearing this, Prince Shuhe breathed a sigh of relief.
After having the court doctor sent away, he noticed Si Yao standing in the yard.
He immediately frowned, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
Si Yao bowed, lowered his eyes and replied, "I am this year's top scholar. My surname is Si and my courtesy name is Yuzhuo. I greet His Royal Highness the eldest prince."
"Jiayifang sent the wrong clothes to you, the princess, and sent the wedding dress I had ordered here instead. You were very angry, so you sent a message to the shopkeeper, asking me to come and pick it up in person."
Prince Shuhe frowned when he heard this.
Seeing Si Yao cowering and not daring to look up was really displeasing.
He has always been fond of bold and unrestrained women.
Shuhe and the eldest prince looked away.
Hua'er was spoiled by him when he was growing up, and she would never suffer any loss, so this is something he can do.
He directly called over a servant who was serving in Chenghua Junzi's house and ordered, "Go and get the clothes that Jiayifang sent over the past two days for this lady."
"yes."
Upon hearing this, the servant immediately entered the house.
Prince Shuhe didn't even look at Si Yao anymore, and also went into the house, anxious to see Prince Chenghua.
Si Yao stood outside quietly.
He was not worried at all that Prince Shuhe would notice anything unusual about Princess Chenghua.
She specifically asked Shi Qi to teach her some unconventional methods.
Unless one is a knowledgeable and experienced person who hangs around in the streets, no one else can tell.
The waiter quickly brought the clothes.
After Si Yao took it, he opened the box and took a look. After confirming that there was a wedding dress inside, he turned and left.
Not long after she left the eldest prince's mansion, the unconscious Princess Chenghua woke up slowly.
When he saw Prince Shuhe sitting at the head of the bed, he immediately asked, "Father, didn't you say my mother was a lowly scholar? It was only because the Imperial Grandmother despised her background that the two of you were forced to separate. Why do some people say I'm a bastard, the child of you and a wild woman without a matchmaker?"
"Where did you hear this nonsense?"
Prince Shuhe was a little happy to see him wake up.
Suddenly hearing the question from his mouth, his expression changed immediately.
He couldn't hide it for a moment, and his eyes flickered. "You believe such words! Is this how I usually teach you to believe everything I hear? What about wild women and unmediated adultery? It's just that some people in the capital envy me for my saintly eyes and are jealous of you."
"alright……"
Prince Shuhe changed the subject, "You don't look like you're in any serious condition. I still have to go back to the palace. You should stay in your room and rest today."
After saying that, he stood up and walked out in a hurry.
Prince Chenghua lived with him day and night and was also his son.
How could he not see that his father looked unwell?
The tears that had been pent up in my eyes finally couldn't be contained anymore and flowed down the corners of my eyes.
Is he, is he really a bastard?
"Jian, Junzi..."
The servant who had just brought Si Yao's clothes came to the bedside and whispered to him, "His Royal Highness the Eldest Prince has ordered that the wedding dress be returned to Si Zhuangyuan..."
"What did you say?"
Cheng Huajunzi instantly wiped away the tears in his eyes.
He glared at the young servant, "Why didn't you wait for me to wake up? You useless piece of shit!"
The young servant hunched his shoulders and dared not say a word.
Cheng Huajunzi told him to get out.
He stared at the curtain above his head with red eyes and gritted his teeth: "Si Yuzhuo, don't think that I am afraid of this!"
Here, Si Yao returned home with her wedding dress.
She called Shi Qi over and instructed him, "Continue investigating the affairs of the Prince's mansion. It would be best if you could find out the identity of the woman who had an affair with the Prince. The sooner the better."
That day, after being inexplicably chosen by the Master of Chenghua to be sent back home, Si Yao became more cautious.
Immediately let Shi Qi investigate the secrets about the eldest prince's mansion.
The capital city is so big that there are always some secret information hidden in the corners and places where good and bad people mix.
These scoundrels specialize in reselling information about powerful and famous people.
Shi Qi was very efficient and helped her find someone who knew the news.
Based on the anomalies in her words regarding the eldest prince's mansion, Si Yao deduced that the mother of Cheng Huajun might not be a poor scholar at all, but a lie made up by the eldest prince Shuhe to deceive others.
She told the story to Mr. Chenghua half-truthfully.
Given his impetuous nature, he was certain to question Na Shu and the eldest prince after waking up.
If Shu and the eldest prince were not guilty, they would definitely be furious and ask who had said this to him.
But she returned home safely. It seemed that Prince Shuhe was feeling guilty. He probably scolded her but didn't bother to ask Princess Chenghua how he heard it.
This is a gamble—
Obviously, Si Yao won.
She reminded Shi Qi again, "You can also wait in the eldest prince's mansion for a few days to see if anyone comes out and acts suspiciously."
Si Yao doesn't believe that there is any impenetrable wall in this world.
There must be someone who knows the identity of the woman who committed adultery with Prince Shuhe.
If Prince Shuhe was a cruel person, he might be eager to shut people up.
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