Chapter 835, Falling into a Trap
After listening to Xiao Yeyang's report, the emperor learned that Duke Wei was still trying to negotiate conditions at this time. He couldn't help but sneer, looked through the Luo family tree, and said, "Tell the Luo family to only keep children under the age of five."
Xiao Yeyang's eyes flashed. There seemed to be only three children under the age of five in the Luo family, and only one of them was a boy, Luo Honghao's legitimate son.
"yes."
Xiao Yeyang came to the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion again and conveyed the emperor's intention.
After hearing this, Duke Wei swayed a bit, and his back bent down helplessly and weakly.
Xiao Yeyang: "Some matters should be dealt with sooner rather than later. Delaying will lead to changes. It is better to lure Xiao Yechi out as soon as possible."
Duke Wei walked tremblingly to the desk, picked up a pen and began to write on a piece of paper.
Xiao Yeyang stood aside and watched the whole process.
After Duke Wei finished writing, he looked at Xiao Yeyang. He used a code word and waited for Xiao Yeyang to ask him.
Unfortunately, he was disappointed. Xiao Yeyang didn't ask anything.
Seeing this, Duke Lao of Wei and Duke Guo of Wei felt even more depressed.
What does this mean?
This means that Xiao Yeyang had already mastered the secret code used by the Eight Kings and their faction for communication.
Duke Wei took a deep breath. No wonder, no wonder the Eight Kings and their party were wiped out so thoroughly and cleanly before.
Xiao Yeyang spoke up. Just as Duke Wei Lao and Duke Wei had expected, he understood the codeword: "Are you sure Xiao Yechi will show up for Luo Qiong and her unborn child?"
Duke Wei said with a bitter face: "Yes, because this letter was written by me. Even if Xiao Yechi doesn't value Qiong'er, he will still consider the Duke's Mansion."
He only said that he knew Luo Qiong was pregnant with Xiao Yechi's child, and did not mention that Xiao Yechen also knew about it. Old Duke Wei understood that if he told him, Xiao Yechi would most likely give up Luo Qiong directly.
Xiao Yeyang nodded: "Then I'll wait for good news."
After watching the Duke of Wei tie the note to the pigeon and then release it, Xiao Yeyang asked, "Do you know why Xiao Yechi didn't leave?"
Duke Wei and Duke Wei exchanged a glance, then smiled wryly and said, "You surrounded the Duke's Mansion so quickly, you should have discovered our relationship with Xiao Yechi a long time ago, right?"
Xiao Yeyang smiled and said, "I know it's my business, I want to hear what you have to say."
Duke Wei looked at Xiao Yeyang and said, "If I tell you, can you please do it?"
Xiao Yeyang interrupted him directly: "Old Duke, one should not be too greedy. It is already a special favor from the emperor that he can allow the Luo family to have a trace of blood."
"The Emperor agreed to your conditions simply because he wanted to capture Xiao Yechi as soon as possible. Without you, we would just have wasted a little more time."
"Even if we can't catch him in the end and let Xiao Yechi escape back to the grasslands and become a prince consort of the Tatars, it's actually not a big deal. Can Daxia still be afraid of its former defeated generals?"
"Your Majesty and the Eighth Prince are enemies. It would be best if we could completely annihilate them, but even if one or two escape, that would still be acceptable. But you..."
"Old Duke, I believe you should be well aware that to the Emperor, you are traitors who are deeply detested. Even now, you have repeatedly provoked the Emperor. Do you think your death is not fast enough?"
Duke Wei sighed and spoke bitterly, "The main reason Xiao Yechi came back this time was to transport the wealth left by the Wan family and the treasures left by the late emperor to the Eighth Prince."
Xiao Yeyang: "Where is the treasure?"
Duke Wei shook his head: "Xiao Yechi doesn't completely trust us. We don't know where the treasure is."
Xiao Yeyang looked at him with a half-smile: "It's impossible that you don't know anything at all. Transporting the treasure always requires manpower. Isn't Xiao Yechi going to ask you for it?"
Duke Wei was silent for a moment. "Have you heard of the Wanwei?" Without waiting for Xiao Yeyang to answer, he continued, "The Wanwei were a group of guards specially established by the late emperor to protect Concubine Wan. After Concubine Wan died, the Wanwei never appeared in public again, so everyone thought the Wanwei had been disbanded."
"Actually, that's not the case. The late emperor moved the Ten Thousand Guards underground to protect the Eighth Prince. After the late emperor's death, the Eighth Prince was sent to guard the imperial mausoleum. At that time, the Eighth Prince did not take the Ten Thousand Guards with him, but instead sent them into hiding."
"Later, when the Eighth Prince rebelled, the Wanwei were not recalled. This time when Xiao Yechi returned, he reactivated the Wanwei and asked them to dig and transport the treasure."
After hearing this, Xiao Yeyang once again realized his royal grandfather's preference for his eighth uncle. No wonder he didn't find anything when he stared at the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion. It turned out that Xiao Yechi had no use for them at all.
In a forest outside Beijing, the secret guard took the note from the pigeon's foot and quickly entered the underground imperial mausoleum to hand it to Xiao Yechi.
After reading the contents of the note, Xiao Yechi looked a little unhappy.
The master beside him saw it and quickly asked, "Master, what happened?"
Xiao Yechi frowned: "Old Duke Wei knows that Luo Qiong is pregnant with my child, and wants to invite me to meet him to discuss how to resolve this matter."
The master immediately said, "Master, the secret guard who was sent to deal with the porters hasn't returned yet. We must be being targeted. We must not show up easily at this time."
Xiao Yechi pondered for a moment, with some hesitation between his brows. He really liked Luo Qiong a little, and he was really looking forward to the baby in her belly.
The master knew what Xiao Yechi valued and advised, "Master, if you want an heir with pure Daxia blood, you can marry a few more Daxia women in the future. Right now, your safety is the most important thing."
Xiao Yechi: "I'm afraid that if I don't go, the Duke of Wei's Mansion won't give up. You saw when I came back this time that the Luo family is eager to get off our ship. Now that they know Qiong'er is pregnant with my child, in order to completely break off the relationship with me, they will definitely eliminate this potential threat."
As he spoke, he glanced at the gold, silver and jewelry behind him, nearly half of which had not been dug out.
"It will take some time to dig these things out. If the Duke of Wei's Mansion moves too frequently, it will probably attract other people's attention." After a pause, "I'd better go and see him."
The master looked worried: "Will there be any explosions in this?"
Xiao Yechi smiled and said, "Don't worry, the Duke of Wei is the last person who wants anything to happen to me."
Master: "It's better to be careful."
Xiao Yechi thought for a moment and said, "You're right. For safety's sake, we can't let the Duke of Wei lead us by the nose. How we meet is up to me."
The meeting place between Duke Wei and Xiao Yechi had been decided long ago, but after being reminded by his advisor, Xiao Yechi did not go to the agreed place, but went straight into the city.
Prince Ping's Mansion.
“Bang!”
Xiao Yechen slapped Luo Qiong again: "Bitch, who is that wild man you're having out there?"
Luo Qiong was knocked to the ground. Her hair was disheveled, blood was oozing from the corners of her mouth, and she looked extremely miserable. However, even so, she looked at Xiao Yechen with eyes full of contempt and disdain. She did not say a word, but just protected her stomach tightly with both hands.
Xiao Yechen was angered by Luo Qiong's attitude. He grabbed her hair and forced her to stand up. "You won't tell me, right? Believe it or not, I'll have someone abort the bastard in your belly today."
A look of fear finally appeared on Luo Qiong's face, but she quickly forced herself to calm down and looked at Xiao Yechen coldly: "You dare not, if you kill my child, I will die with you."
"If I die, what will you say to the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion? Without the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion's support, how can you compete with Xiao Yeyang for the title of the Prince's Mansion?"
Xiao Yechen was so angry that he laughed: "You are a bitch who cheats on men outside. I will beat you to death a hundred times."
Luo Qiong's face showed a sneer: "Xiao Yechen, do you dare to spread this matter?"
Xiao Yechen's eyes suddenly showed a fierce look, but he didn't say anything.
Seeing him like this, the sarcasm on Luo Qiong's face became more and more obvious. "Xiao Yechen, you are no match for Xiao Yeyang. The possibility of you competing for the title of the royal palace is too low. If the news of your wife cheating on you spreads, how will the whole capital look at you? By then, you will really be a joke."
“Bang!”
Xiao Yechen slapped Luo Qiong again, "Bitch! I've treated you well, why do you treat me like this?"
Luo Qiong was lying on the ground, looking at Xiao Yechen with an equally angry face: "You treat me well? You let your mother set the rules for me and let her take concubines for you. Is this how you treat me well?"
"Xiao Yechen, when I married you, I also wanted to be a good wife and mother. But when your mother bullied me, did you ever stand up to protect me once? The situation I'm in today is all caused by you."
"You are not nice to me, but others are nice to me, why shouldn't I accept it?"
Xiao Yechen was stunned for a moment. "My mother is sometimes a little excessive, but what mother-in-law isn't like that? Just because she set the rules for you, you can cruelly kill her, Luo Qiong, don't put all the blame on my mother. In the final analysis, you are a cruel and heartless person."
Seeing Luo Qiong desperately protecting her belly, Xiao Yechen sneered, "Are you still fantasizing that some wild man out there will come to rescue you? Do you still think the Duke of Wei's Mansion will back you up?"
Luo Qiong felt a slight pain in her stomach and did not dare to continue to provoke Xiao Yechen. She lay on the ground without saying a word or looking at her.
Xiao Yechen sneered twice: "Luo Qiong, give up on this idea. I have good news for you. The Duke of Wei's Mansion is about to be finished."
Luo Qiong's expression changed, and he looked straight at Xiao Yechen: "What do you mean?"
Xiao Yechen sneered: "You were having an affair with a wild man in the Duke of Wei's mansion. I wanted to question your parents, but guess what I saw in the Duke of Wei's mansion?"
Luo Qiong asked anxiously: "What did you see?"
Xiao Yechen laughed a few times: "Jin, Ling, Wei."
Luo Qiong was completely panicked: "Why are Jinling Guards in the Duke of Wei's Mansion? No, it's impossible. You must have seen it wrong."
Xiao Yechen was too lazy to argue with her: "Luo Qiong, if the Duke of Wei's Mansion is really finished, what should I do with the bastard in your belly?"
As he spoke, an evil smile appeared on his face.
"Don't worry, I will let you give birth to the bastard. If it's a boy, I will castrate him and make him a lowly eunuch. If it's a girl, I will give her to the most famous brothel owner in the capital to raise and train her to become a top prostitute in a brothel with thousands of men sleeping with her."
Luo Qiong was shocked by Xiao Yechen's words. Anger and panic intertwined in her heart. She looked at him with gritted teeth: "You dare!"
Xiao Yechen laughed heartily a few times: "Why wouldn't I dare? I won't let you die. I will make you witness the scene I just described with your own eyes."
"No!"
Thinking about the child in her belly being tortured by Xiao Yechen, Luo Qiong gradually lost her mind: "Xiao Yechi, you are a devil, you deserve to be childless."
Hearing this, Xiao Yechen was obviously stunned, and then he became furious: "You vicious woman, how dare you curse me!" As he said that, he stepped forward and slapped Luo Qiong in the face.
Luo Qiong looked at him fiercely: "I don't need to curse you. You've already taken the sterilizing medicine. You will never have children in this lifetime."
Xiao Yechen felt his head buzzing, and he rushed over to grab Luo Qiong: "What infertility medicine? When have I ever taken this kind of medicine?"
The severe pain from his arm gradually brought Luo Qiong back to his senses. When he heard Xiao Yechen ask this, he knew that Xue Qiao had not told him about the infertility drug.
Xue Qiao knew that if she told this, Luo Qiong would surely die, so she concealed it.
"What kind of sterilizing medicine do you think it is?"
Xiao Yechen looked at Luo Qiong with a fierce look on his face.
Luo Qiong didn't dare to look him in the eye: "I am cursing you."
Xiao Yechen stared at Luo Qiong for a while, then suddenly stood up and left the room, saying to Gao Yuan, "Go, get me two doctors."
Soon, the doctor arrived.
Xiao Yechen didn't say what illness he had, but looked directly at the two doctors for diagnosis.
After the two doctors took the patient's pulse, they both looked unhappy.
Xiao Yechen's eyes darkened: "What disease has Master contracted?"
The doctor said after careful consideration, "Young Master, you must have taken some poisonous medicine by mistake, which may have damaged your health."
The other doctor nodded.
Xiao Yechen's chest heaved violently. After a while, he looked at the doctor: "What will be the consequences if the root is injured?"
The doctor said with some difficulty: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to have children."
Xiao Yechen stood up in an instant and said, "Tell me the truth, will I be able to have children in the future?"
Both doctors lowered their heads silently.
Seeing this, Xiao Yechen couldn't help but shake his body. He slapped the table and said with gritted teeth: "Luo Qiong~, you are so cruel!" Then he turned and walked towards Chenyuan.
"Bang!"
Xiao Yechen pushed the door open angrily. As soon as he stepped into the room, he was hit hard on the head. He turned around in a daze and saw Luo Qiong hitting him again with the jade pillow that came with her dowry.
Luo Qiong was locked up for two days. She was worried and frightened and didn't eat much. In addition, she was a pregnant woman and had little strength in her hands.
He hit Xiao Yechen twice in a row but failed to knock him unconscious.
"Bitch."
After being hit twice in a row, Xiao Yechen finally came to his senses and tried to snatch the jade pillow from Luo Qiong's hand.
Luo Qiong understood Xiao Yechen's character quite well. She knew that he would definitely not let her go after he confirmed that he had no descendants, so she hit Xiao Yechen with all her might.
While the two were fighting, a figure quietly entered the room and hit Xiao Yechen on the neck. Then Xiao Yechen staggered two steps and fell to the ground.
"Brother Chi!"
Looking at Xiao Ye Chi falling from the sky, Luo Qiong cried with joy and threw herself directly into Xiao Ye Chi's arms.
Xiao Yechi held Luo Qiong in his arms. Seeing the wounds on her face, he frowned and asked, "What happened?"
Luo Qiong remembered what Xiao Yechen had said before, and hurriedly pulled him aside and said, "Brother Chi, hurry up and leave. The Duke of Wei's Mansion has been targeted by the Jinling Guards, and they are definitely going to capture you."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yechi's expression changed drastically. Thinking of the fact that Duke Wei had invited him to meet him, his eyes suddenly darkened.
Seeing that Xiao Yechi didn't respond, Luo Qiong said anxiously, "Brother Chi, did you hear what I said? You have to leave quickly, otherwise you won't be able to leave."
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