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Chapter 1301: You have a serious illness (Part 1301) [Seeking monthly votes]

"Ho ho ho ho..."

As Miao Ne's strength gradually increased, the eyes of the King of Qi were bloodshot and almost bulged out of their sockets. She desperately made meaningless hoarse sounds, and her hands and feet struggled with less and less strength. She couldn't understand, she couldn't understand why "You Bao" would betray her.

It was obvious that everything Youbao had was built on her, the king! Once she lost the king's trust, Youbao would be nothing. Why did she betray him? Why did she betray him! The force in her throat was so heavy that the king felt as if his neck was about to be broken, and the scenery in front of him gradually blurred: "Why..."

She just wanted to ask, why!
Miao Ne was not a kindhearted man, so he would not let the other party die knowingly. Just as he was about to kill him in one fell swoop, the string of his zither broke. When the King of Qi was about to faint, he felt the fatal restraint on his neck loosen.

Her body rolled half a circle.

Before the joy of escaping death reached her brain, she saw "You Bao" above her with an impatient look on his face, his fingers forming claws, strangling the blood marks from the strings. He exerted force decisively, and the bones under his fingertips shattered. The King of Qi tilted his head and died, but his eyes were still wide open. Miao Ne bent her fingers to feel the breath, and only when she was sure that the person was completely dead did she breathe a sigh of relief.

"Finally dead." Miao Ne came to her senses and found that her back was covered with cold sweat, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and her hands were so nervous that she had no strength. The man in front of her was the ruler of a country, and she had called him "Lord" for several years, so he was her real lord. It would be a lie to say that she was not nervous to assassinate the other party alone.

Miao Ne had no time to sigh.

She regained some strength, stood up, put the body of the King of Qi in a sleeping position, lowered the tent hook, and used the little trick of words she learned from wandering around to fake the breathing of a living person. The guards who were transferred away soon came back, and the breathing could deceive for a while.

After erasing the traces of the king's struggle before his death, everything was done. Miao Ne took a deep breath, calmed her pounding heart, and left with a normal look. Back at her residence, she thought about what to do next - leave before anyone noticed the king's death, or continue to hide and disguise? Both paths have risks.

Continue to lurk and disguise?

No one knows how many magical spirits there are in this world. Can these spirits trace back the scenes before death from the corpse?
Leave now?

All the checkpoints here are under martial law and no one is allowed to enter or leave.

To rush into the process rashly is to incriminate yourself.

Hiding inside the pass makes it easy to be caught.

Miao Ne is not afraid of death. She encountered more dangers when she was out there, but no one wants to die if they can live. She stroked the teacup, thinking about whether to use Cui Xiong. As Cui Xiong is now the leader of the Cui family, whether she threatens him as a hostage or tricks him into sending her out, the chances of success are not small. Miao Ne took a sip of herbal tea and made a decision.

The footsteps of a servant were heard outside the door: "Madam."

"What's the matter?"

The servant said, "Lord Cui is visiting."

Miao Ne raised her eyebrows. Isn’t this too much of a coincidence?
Just when I was about to trick Cui Xiong, Cui Xiong came?
I was dozing off and a pillow appeared.

"Don't be slow, please let someone in."

Cui Xiong was still dressed as she was during the day, looking very worried. Miao Ne stood up to greet her. Cui Xiong came to his senses when he heard her footsteps. He naturally and familiarly held her cold hand, frowned and said, "Why don't you let someone light a lamp at this time?"

"After all, I'm not used to it, so it's normal to be negligent occasionally."

Cui Xiong said: "You are too lenient to them."

"Now that I'm living under someone else's roof, why should I be picky?" The military generals in this area cannot be fully trusted. Since I have suffered a defeat and fled to someone else's territory, I still have to keep a low profile and behave myself.

Cui Xiong took out a lighter and lit the oil lamp.

The candlelight illuminated his angular face.

Miao Ne had to admit that the Cui family's children were quite capable. They took advantage of their parents' appearance. Cui Xiong's appearance could be ranked in the top ten among the people she had seen. If personality was taken into account, he would be ranked first. The others were too cunning.

Cui Xiong didn't know what she was thinking: "You don't have to feel so wronged."

"You mean you want me to take advantage of the situation?"

"Why not? We can neglect anyone, but we must not neglect the future daughter-in-law of the Cui family. Neglecting you is neglecting me, and neglecting me is going against the Cui family." Cui Xiong's words made Miao Ne alert.

She asked tentatively: "Is someone unhappy with you?"

If not for this, how could Cui Xiong have such a "dramatic change in temperament"?
Normally he was a modest and gentle man, and he would never say such things.

Cui Xiong put away the tinder, lifted his hem, and sat down elegantly opposite Miao Ne. He didn't say anything, but stared at Miao Ne with deep and obscure eyes, which made Miao Ne's back cold. He couldn't help but cover it with his long sleeves and touched the dagger on his wrist: "You——"

"Hou Bai."

"Ok?"

"Call me Hou Bai. I rarely hear Baojun call me that." Cui Xiong blinked, and the deep and obscure look disappeared, replaced by the gentleness that Miao Ne was familiar with. "Or call me Brother Bai?"

Both names seem too intimate.

Miao Ne didn't choose any of them.

She wanted to know why Cui Xiong came here so late at night. Even if they were engaged for many years, it was a bit rude to suddenly let someone call him "Bai Ge'er". If Cui Xiong's breath was not normal, she would have suspected that he was fake.

Cui Xiong is definitely hiding something.

"Why did you come here this time?"

Cui Xiong's question forced Miao Ne to flip the table first: "Do you know, Baojun, that among the royal guards, there are Cui's confidants?"

The table rolled over several times.

A dagger was pressed against Cui Xiong's neck.

Miao Ne said: "You know?"

Cui Xiong's body was stiff, as if he had not expected Miao Ne to react so decisively and ruthlessly. Without knowing his intention, Miao Ne had already assumed that he was an enemy? He calmed down and said, "The guard rotation is different from the past. There is a half-minute gap... You normally wouldn't make such a mistake... But I didn't expect that Bao Jun would actually kill the king. Why did he do this?"

He asked the question that the king did not have time to ask.

Miao Ne said: "Guess?"

Cui Xiong's tense muscles gradually relaxed, and his brows relaxed - before seeing Miao Ne, he thought that an enemy had secretly replaced You Bao, but now he can be sure that this is her real body.

Cui Xiong whispered, "You underestimate the holder of the national seal. Without special means, the ability of a ruler who is a scholar to protect himself is far lower than that of a ruler who is a warrior... He would have been assassinated many times."

His words made Miao Ne's pupils tremble.

She said fiercely: "She's not dead?"

The dagger in his hand scratched Cui Xiong's skin, leaving a bloody mark.

Cui Xiong ignored the existence of the dagger, and patted Miao Ne's tense back with his other hand that was not pressed by her knee, and whispered to her in comfort: "Don't worry, the person is dead, and the fake death has become real death."

A simple sentence, but contains a huge amount of information.

Miao Ne asked: "Did you kill him?"

I was thinking whether or not to take advantage of the situation.

Cui Xiong was completely unaware: "No, the injuries you left were too severe. She woke up halfway but no one called a doctor for her."

The guards were deaf and didn't hear any unusual noises in the house, nor did they go to check - considering that there were no medical practitioners nearby, even if the guards broke in and found out, the king would not be likely to survive, but You Bao's murder of the king would definitely be exposed, and he would be unable to escape.

It was You Bao who killed the person.

At most, I am an accomplice who watched someone die without helping.

Miao Ne's heart finally settled down, but there was a more difficult problem in front of him: "Cui Houbai, what is your purpose?"

You knew she murdered her master, yet you helped her cover it up?

Cui Xiong whispered, "I should be the one asking this question."

Why did she want to kill the king?

Such a big thing can't be done on a whim. Miao Ne wanted to laugh after hearing this: "What's so difficult about this question? People go up and water flows down. She's done for, and I don't want to be her grandson anymore. If she doesn't find another way forward, will she hang herself on a tree? If you want to kill her, just kill her. Is this answer satisfactory?"

Cui Xiong was not satisfied at all.

"You're not telling the truth."

"You won't survive if I tell you the truth!"

This is a disguised admission that the above paragraph was just perfunctory.

Cui Xiong said: "I don't want anything to happen to you."

"what?"

"Didn't Baojun ask me what my purpose was? I don't want you to get into trouble! Between the king and you, naturally... you are more important."

Miao Ne's hand holding the dagger was shaking a little.

Not because of being moved, but because of being shocked.

I was shocked that Cui Xiong, a law-abiding and honest man, could have such a crazy side. He dared to kill the king and cover up for the murderer just because he "didn't want you to get into trouble"? Was Cui's family education okay? Miao Ne seemed to have just met Cui Houbai for the first time.

"Do you think..." She swallowed, "I will believe it?"

I can't believe it at all.

She was expecting Cui Xiong to say something like - the Qi State was doomed and he wanted to make plans as soon as possible to benefit the Cui family.

Cui Xiong asked: "Why don't you believe it?"

Miao Ne: “…”

Why should she believe it? If Cui Xiong was a normal person, how could he believe someone who was hypocritical from beginning to end?
Miao Ne looked at the young man under her with sincere eyes.

"Cui Houbai."

"Bao-kun?"

"I'll borrow you as a hostage!"

Miao Ne acted decisively and hit Cui Xiong's neck hard. If Cui Xiong was lying, it would expose his lies; if he was not lying, he could clear his suspicion by being a hostage and escape smoothly, which was a two-birds-with-one-stone move...

It is indeed easy to use Cui Xiong to open the pass.

The garrison commander owed the Cui family a favor, so he would not allow the young master of the Cui family to be killed by the villains in front of him. He opened the gate and let Miao Ne leave. Cui Xiong was thrown onto the horse, and he did not forget to persuade Miao Ne: "Bao Jun, you don't have to do this."

Cui Xiong said: "In fact, changing the ruler right now will do more good than harm to the Cui family. You and I are on the same page..."

It wasn't entirely for his fiancée, it was half and half.

"Shut up!"

"Oh."

The hostages cooperated very well and Miao Ne escaped safely.

After running for fifty or sixty miles, they finally saw a river. Miao Ne left Cui Xiong behind and said, "Stay here. Someone will come to find you."

"Bao-jun!"

"I'm not!"

Even though he was mentally prepared, when he heard the truth, Cui Xiong's breathing became heavier for a moment, and his heart seemed to be squeezed by something, making it hard for him to breathe. Was it all fake?
Miao Ne used one hand to make a gesture and set up a word spirit confinement.

"I will untie it when I am safe."

After saying that, he used the Word Spirit [Crossing the River with a Reed], and his figure disappeared at an extremely fast speed in the vast river. Cui Xiong took a step forward but was blocked by the Word Spirit under his feet. His lips were dry and his mouth was dry, but he could do nothing. In less than half a minute, Cui's guards came over with the garrison commander's confidants.

Cui Xiong was able to get out of trouble: "I'm fine."

"But your neck is still bleeding..."

“It’s okay.” Cui Xiong bandaged the wound with a handkerchief. This handkerchief was a gift from Baojun. He always carried it with him. “The villain has been taken away. We can’t catch up with him now. Don’t delay here. Go back and investigate quickly!”

Cui Xiong did not pursue the criminals, and the defending general's confidants were also happy to see it happen. He was most afraid that these children from noble families would take advantage of the situation to make things difficult for others.

However, no one expected that the king was assassinated! Not only did the king die, but the body of the king's confidant was also found in the pond. It is said that this lady of the You family was Cui Dalang's fiancée. Cui Dalang, who had just escaped from danger, fainted on the spot when he heard about this!
Miao Ne restored his original appearance, dressed as a male knight, and mingled in the market, but he did not hear any news about the king being assassinated, let alone the king's death. Instead, he heard rumors that Cui Xiong was seriously ill and Cui Zhi came to visit despite his illness.

She did see a convoy carrying the Cui family emblem along the way.

"Is Cui Zhishan really here?"

Miao Ne pressed down the brim of his hat and blended into the crowd.

Anyway, what happens afterwards has nothing to do with her.

Little did he know that Cui Zhi was now in a state of great difficulty.

Cui Zhi, who was seriously ill, rushed to his eldest son's room at a brisk pace. The room was filled with a strong smell of medicine. Cui Xiong looked pale and sick. Seeing his father standing outside, Cui Xiong put down the medicine and stood up to salute.

Then, he was slapped by his father.

"Cui Houbai, you are so brave!"

Cui Xiong did not argue but bowed down to plead guilty.

Cui Zhi asked: "Did you kill her?"

Cui Xiong swallowed the blood secreted from his gums and said, "Yes."

He admitted it so readily that Cui Zhi couldn't slap him again. He thought his eldest son was the least troublesome, but he didn't expect that he would give him a "surprise" out of the blue. Cui Zhi sat down with his clothes lifted, and said angrily: "You'd better explain it clearly!"

Cui Xiong said: "There is nothing to explain."

Cui Zhi nearly crushed the teacup.

He lowered his voice and said, "Cui Houbai, what are you crazy about? Do you know that you are now wilfully taking advantage of your own future? If the matter of killing the master gets out, who will tolerate you and the Cui family in the future?"

Cui Zhi is still worried about his son's future.

For various reasons, Cui Zhi's retirement was inevitable.

It was inevitable that Cui Xiong would be pushed to the front, but he was too young, and the elders in the clan were difficult to deal with. In the future, when he integrated into Kangguo, he would need to deal with the royal court and the aristocratic families of Kangguo... Cui Xiong could not be without edge, but he could not be too sharp, and he could not leave room for criticism. Everything was fine, but Cui Xiong went to kill the king?
Cui Zhi could never imagine that it was his eldest son who did it.

"Who are you hiding this for?"

Cui Xiong did not even blink, and asked, "When will father announce the news that our lord is suffering from a serious illness?"

Cui Zhi was so angry that he laughed.

"Good, good, good, what a lawless person!"

He did such a big thing, and yet he could lie without batting an eyelid.

However, Cui Zhi only had two sons and only one heir to be trained, so he could only hold his nose and deal with the aftermath.

"Go back and wait for your punishment!"

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Cui Xiong was lucky to save his life.

PS: Love-brained is probably the biggest misunderstanding about Cui Xiong.