The two people who were laughing and joking felt that the temperature around them suddenly dropped to freezing point.
Changle pursed her lips and lifted the curtain nervously.
Just seeing Xiao Xian's cold back, she felt as if her heart was being tightly squeezed, and even her breathing became disordered.
Xiao Xian's ears moved slightly, and he just glanced at Qu Li out of the corner of his eye, then continued to stare at the front with a gloomy face.
The carriage finally stopped outside Prince Chen's mansion. Xiao Xian dragged Qu Li out of the carriage and said to Guangping, "Take Changle to the side hall," and then left in a hurry.
Qu Li felt like his bones were about to be crushed. He struggled hard but failed to break free.
There was a storm in her eyes, and a terrifying cruelty emanated from her body.
Xiao Xian, however, curled his lips in a mocking manner, and with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, he sneered, "You want to stab me again? I'm telling you, it won't be that easy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he bent his fingers and sent out a stream of internal force towards Qu Li.
In an instant, Qu Li froze there motionless, anger rising in his eyes.
Xiao Xian picked her up and carried her horizontally, and went straight to Qinghe Garden.
The maids and servants in Qinghe Garden were all shocked when they saw this.
Caiju narrowed her eyes and quietly slipped into the study while no one was paying attention.
She had observed before that there were secret guards here, so it would not be easy to get in.
But what she wanted was not to enter the study, but...
Thinking of her sister's tragic death, Caiju clenched her fists.
The secret guard had already reported the matter to Xiao Xian when she appeared stealthily near the study a few days ago.
Xiao Xian pondered for a moment, then told the secret guards not to intervene and just to watch in secret.
Therefore, when Caiju appeared outside the study in a panic, the secret guard did not appear.
Caiju pretended to open the door of the study and held her breath.
However, the surroundings were quiet and the secret guards did not appear!
She was confused and hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but wonder if the secret guards were planning to catch the man red-handed.
He took a deep breath, walked into the study, and searched around.
According to the places Cui Liu told her before, Cai Ju searched very quickly.
When she accidentally touched the inkstone on the desk, a secret compartment popped out.
Parchment?!
Her eyes flashed with ecstasy.
This is probably the defense map, right?
There is also a black iron waist badge next to it. Could it be a tiger talisman?
Caiju put her hand on her chest, walked to the window, opened it a crack, observed the situation outside, then quickly went back and stuffed the two things into her arms.
Adjust your breathing and leave quietly.
The secret guards standing in the dark watched all her actions, their eyes as cold as the coldest days of winter.
After Caiju left, she went directly to Qinghe Garden.
At this moment, the secret guard suddenly appeared, and his strong hands tightly grasped her slender neck.
The pain of having her breath taken away drained all the color from her face. She clutched the back of his hand and uttered with difficulty, "Who are you and what do you want?"
The secret guard shouted, "Your Majesty, we've caught a spy!"
Xiao Xian, who was in the inner hall and glaring coldly at Qu Li, frowned deeper when he heard this, and the murderous aura around him surged even more violently.
Qu Li's heart sank.
Could it be that Cai Ju has already taken action?
Xiao Xian withdrew his cold gaze from her face and said loudly, "Bring her in."
The atmosphere in the entire Qinghe Garden was extremely cramped.
Caiju was thrown to the ground. She didn't even bother to cry out in pain. She just held her neck with her hand and coughed violently.
"Cai Ju?" Qu Li stared at her stiffly. "You are actually a spy?"
Caiju burst into tears, "Princess, this servant..."
She choked up, looked at her deeply, and knelt in front of Xiao Xian again: "My Lord, all of this is my own idea, and has nothing to do with the princess!"
The more eager he is to distance himself from Qu Li, the more it proves that Qu Li was the one who ordered this matter.
The smile on Qu Li's lips deepened.
Oh!
This acting is really superb!
A storm swirled in Xiao Xian's eyes, "Keep talking!"
Caiju turned to Qu Li again and kowtowed to her three times.
Qu Li couldn't help but sneer sarcastically.
Caiju didn't say a word, and suddenly rushed towards the cabinet beside her and was about to hit it.
The secret guard quickly stepped forward to stop Caiju, but even though he was strong, he was still knocked away by Caiju's huge momentum.
"search!"
The secret guard no longer cared about the woman's reputation at this time. He immediately stepped forward and took out the parchment scroll and the tiger talisman from Caiju's arms.
"Your Majesty!"
Xiao Xian took the tiger talisman and the sheepskin scroll, his eyes so gloomy that it seemed as if he could torture Qu Li to death directly.
"Qu Li, how do you explain?"
He threw the sheepskin scroll and the tiger talisman at Qu Li.
Qu Li's acupoints were sealed and he could not dodge. He could only let the iron tiger talisman hit his head. The bright red blood flowed down, which was extremely glaring.
Xiao Xian was slightly moved, but he resisted the urge to go forward and check.
Even though the blood blocked her vision and the wound was burning with pain, Qu Li remained calm and asked, "What do I need to explain?"
"Is this your maid?"
Qu Li nodded.
"You brought it back from outside, right?"
"yes!"
"So what else do you have to say?"
Facing Xiao Xian's gloomy eyes, Qu Li sneered repeatedly: "What do you want to say? Or, you should ask Cai Ju what she wanted to do when she went to such lengths to follow me back to Prince Chen's Mansion, even at the cost of self-harm!"
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