Chapter 99
Rong Xiangmian didn’t want to make things difficult for him, anyway, the most crucial news she had already learned, so she instructed Xiao Bei: “Tie this assassin to the woodshed, from head to toe, don’t be afraid to waste the rope. Don’t let him kill himself, and wait for His Highness to come back tomorrow.”
“Yes!” Xiao Bei brought the man out and handed him over to Wu Feng.
Xiao Nan said, “Your Highness, just go to bed, Wu Feng’s men will be waiting outside the courtyard all night, and Xiao Bei and I will be on guard under the porch tonight.”
Rong Xiangmian could not sleep, she gripped her dagger, raised her eyes to find Meng Zhenru popping out of the compartment, and upon closer inspection, her hands and feet were bound, and her mouth was stuffed with something.
“What’s going on here?” Rong Xiangmai was alarmed, thinking that she had been assassinated.
Xiao Bei walked back while explaining, “It was my momentary haste. Wu Feng’s people just now detected a dark shadow sweeping into the mansion from outside the second door. We were guarding the corridor, so how could this person dare to show himself? He had to hide in the compartment and invited the king to enter. This girl says she won’t leave without the Princess. The situation is urgent, I can only do this.”
“Don’t be quick to untie her.” Rong Xiangmian was still scared, but was now amused by Meng Zhenru’s appearance.
Xiao Bei undid the bindings in three tries, and Xiao Nan removed the cloth from Zhen Ru’s mouth.
Meng Zhenru shed a few tears and wiped them away with her sleeve, walking silently this way.
Seeing that she wasn’t in a good mood, Rong Xiangmian asked, “Did something hurt you?”
“No, the slave girl just remembered the time of the copying of the family, was also so tied up, mouth stuffed.”
Xiao Bei hurriedly came to her and apologized to her, “Miss, please bear with me, for the sake of the Princess, you have been wronged.”
Only then did Meng Zhenru feel better and asked, “How could someone break into the royal residence at night and find the bedroom in the dark? It’s as if they have a map of our mansion.”
Rong Xiangshi asked, “Do you remember that florist?”
“Did you ask him to reveal it to the Kai Wang Mansion? This assassin, then, is from the Qi Wang Mansion?”
Rong Xiangshi shook his head, “Not necessarily. For one thing, it’s unlikely that there’s only one eye in our mansion, and secondly, I know a little bit about King Kai’s temper, he doesn’t have the guts to do this kind of thing, but faking it is his usual trick.”
Meng Zhenru doesn’t understand these outside matters, she comes over and helps Rong Xiangshi into the house, “Life in the royal residence is much harder than the Meng residence. Your Highness should rest first, the slave girl will keep watch outside. What’s the matter, tomorrow wait for his highness to come back together to think of ideas.”
Rong Xiangshi saw strange: “You are not afraid?”
Meng Zhenru laughed, “What is there to be afraid of for someone who has experienced a copycat? If the sky collapses, there are several people in this courtyard to hold it up. I’m just a maid, I’m only responsible for keeping watch and serving you, I can’t control the rest .”
“Good, it’s hard for you few.”
Knowing that they would only get more tired if he didn’t sleep, Rong Xiangxian consciously lay back on the bed, gripping his short sword and forcing himself to calm down.
The blazing fire seemed to be able to burn people to ashes at any time.
Zhou Xian Yang nervously searched for the trapped person in the fire.
He managed to see Rong Xiangyang and tried to pull her up, but she slapped her hand away, “I don’t want to see you! Go save third sister.”
Behind her, Rong Xiangshi did not know where she was trapped and cried, “Your Highness, save me!”
Zhou Xian Yang’s heart was anxious, no matter how hard he pulled, Rong Xiangchi refused to follow him.
He had no choice but to turn back and take Rong Xiangshi out of the fire.
When he returned, he saw Rong Xiangmian with his back to him, cowering in a corner, his entire back burnt to a crisp.
“Xiangmian!”
He exclaimed in his sleep, waking himself up.
The moment he woke up, the indescribable pain at his heart stretched from the dream all the way out.
Zhou Xian Yang took a while to slow down before he came to his senses, realizing that he was in General Qi’s residence.
The hangover was hard to get rid of, so he got up and sat down for a while before getting out of bed.
Someone who had been waiting for him heard the commotion and pushed the door in with a basin of water, then led him to breakfast.
When Zhou Xian Yang finished eating, General Qi said to him, “There’s something, don’t be in a hurry.”
It was fine if he didn’t say this, but once he did, Zhou Xian Yang immediately panicked.
“Someone from your mansion said that someone broke into the royal residence last night and was ……” Before the words were finished, the silhouette had already disappeared.
General Qi shook his head, picked up the short stool that tumbled to the ground, and said to the close guards at his side: “I knew it, yesterday for a little quarrel with the king’s consort to drink into that ghost, if I had told him a moment earlier, breakfast he would not eat.”
When Zhou Xian Yang leaves the mansion, the guards from Yul Wang’s mansion have been waiting by the door for a long time, briefly telling him about last night’s events along the way, and asking, “This man should be a dead soldier, and is locked up in the woodshed, so will you go over and try him in person, or will you bring him up to the master?”
Zhou Xian Yang ordered a few words and rode straight to the royal residence.
Fei Yun Fei Xue was guarding the bedroom door, when he saw King Yu hurrying in, although he saluted, his face was not even pretty.
He didn’t care and only asked, “Is she still asleep?”
Feiyun answered, “The girl didn’t sleep all night, and only fell asleep at dawn, Your Highness should still not enter …… first.”
Zhou Xian Yang had already gently pushed the door in and sat on the edge of the bed. Wangfei was still holding his bedclothes asleep, with an extra short sword in her hand.
On the way here, he had cursed himself ten thousand times in his heart. Why did you get so drunk yesterday? What could be more important than her life?
Zhou Xian Yang reached out, wanting to take down the weapon in her hand, so as not to accidentally injure her.
Who knew that he wouldn’t be able to do so?
She clutched it with both hands. He broke her fingers a little bit, and when he reached her little finger, Rong Xiangmian woke up with a start and raised her short sword to stab her.
Zhou Xian Yang grabbed her wrist and the short sword grazed his throat, almost piercing the skin.
When Xiangmian saw the person clearly, she was startled, and then she breathed a huge sigh of relief, throwing away the short sword and waking up, ”I’ve only squinted for a while, and you’re here to mess with me! General Qi’s mansion is so nice, why did you come back?”
Zhou Xian Yang smiled sarcastically, picked up his sword, got up and returned it to its scabbard, and sat on the edge of the bed again.
Rong Xiangyang’s eyes closed and her body rolled inward, not caring.
Not long after, she felt the bedpan sink, and then her waist was wrapped around Yu Wang’s hand, and her entire body was held in his arms from behind.
Rong Xiangmian didn’t know why, her eyes burned, and she tried hard to keep her eyes wide open, so at least she didn’t let her tears flow out.
“I deserve to die.” She heard King Yu whispering behind her ear, and Rong Xiangmian kicked him, “What nonsense?”
“I deserve a beating.” Zhou Xian Yang had to change his words, filled with remorse and storing a trace of gratitude. Luckily, he let Xiao Bei follow the princess back first, and luckily, the guards in the mansion were all set up, or else he really could not be redeemed.
Rong Xiangmian actually knew that these things would happen sooner or later, she was psychologically prepared, so she refused to leave the royal residence, and wanted to work together with him.
She just didn’t expect that she would be the only one to face it alone when it happened, and instantly felt that her righteousness had been fed to the dogs.
She smelled the lingering odor of alcohol on his body and said with disgust, “How much did you drink last night? Drunk like this!”
“Not much, even Xianhui wasn’t drunk, I somehow got drunk.” Zhou Xian Yang rubbed his forehead against the crown princess’s hair and smelled her body, “Perhaps it was because he was in a bad mood yesterday.”
“Oh, I don’t know where I misbehaved and made Your Highness angry?”
“No, it’s all my fault. I cared for your third sister and caused you grief time and time again. I will never see or speak to her alone again, okay?”
Rong Xiangxian grunted, “I don’t care about you!”
Zhou Xian Yang’s hand traveled all the way up and touched the Wangfei’s puffy face, the touch was soft and delicate, “You just mind me, no one ever minded me.”
Xiangyang’s nose soured, “That’s a nice thing to say. Why didn’t you tell me about your assassination in Jiangzhou?”
Zhou Xian Yang was silent for a while and sighed, “This mouthy one.”
“Don’t you scold him! If it wasn’t for him, you were still planning to hide it from me for the rest of your life?”
“What’s the big deal, since the person is fine, why bring it up?”
Rong Xiangxian was anxious and rolled over to push him away, “How much longer are you going to lie here? Don’t go and interrogate that assassin yet! What if he really gets hit one day?”
“The people in the palace are good at fighting, but not at interrogating, leave it to the specialists.” Zhou Xian Yang said and embraced the princess into his arms, “I’ll stay with you, so you can sleep in peace.”
She pushed him away in annoyance, “The sun is so high, you don’t mind the heat!”
Zhou Xian Yang knew that she had a bellyful of grievances and was sick of him to the core, in his place he would only be even more sick of him.
He quietly got up, “I’ll ask them to fetch some more ice, you have a good night’s sleep, I’m going to the palace and won’t be back until lunchtime.”
He finished his words and never left.
Rong Xiangmian pretended to be on the bed for a while, and finally couldn’t help but instruct him, “Bring more people, go in a carriage, don’t ride a horse.” After saying that, she rolled over and faced inward, continuing to sleep.
Zhou Xian Yang smiled at her back, “Got it.”