Lie down and eat melon in the protagonist group

Chapter 55 Dust 3
Since that drunken sexual act, Ling Huai was half coaxed and half seduced into becoming an underground lover, and they had been dating in secret for more than five years.

During this period, Ling Huai overthrew the relatives' party headed by Prince Sang. Prince Sang was deposed and only had the title of an idle prince. The queen in the palace grabbed the land with her head and died on the spot, which made Beidi relent and did not send Qi Sang to the fief.

This lays a hidden danger.

The Northern Emperor made Ling Huai the crown prince and handed over the government affairs to Ling Huai step by step. Although the Northern Emperor apparently did not abdicate, in fact, everyone knew that the Northern Emperor stayed in the Xuyue Tower day and night and ignored the affairs of the court. He hugged the portrait of Concubine Yue and fell asleep talking to himself. His Highness the Crown Prince turned the tide, controlled the government, and stabilized the country.

The common people lived in peace, often talking about the marriage of the current crown prince Ling Huai, and the court officials urged him to select a crown princess from among the noble daughters of the aristocratic family as soon as possible to marry.

Ling Huai's face alone is particularly rare.

The first person to bear the brunt was Princess Lou Yu. Her family background was close to that of Ling Huai's grandfather, but later Ling Huai's grandfather insisted on going his own way and married an orphan girl from the south, and moved out of the family tree to establish his own family.

Princess Lou Yu's father was a general with military power and a high position. He intended to marry his daughter to the Linghuai alliance.

Princess Lou Yu, who was born in 1928, was bold and enthusiastic. She and Ling Huai should be uncles and nephews, but she insisted on calling Ling Huai "Brother Huai" and often went to the Prince's Mansion to chat with him. It was known to the whole world that Princess Lou Yu treated the Prince Huai Youyi, the crown princess must be her.

But one or two years have passed, Princess Lou Yu has become an eighteen-year-old girl, Ling Huai has become the prince, and the inner courtyard of the mansion is still empty, and she has never married a wife or concubine.

However, there was a rumor that Prince Huai, who had always kept himself clean, visited the brothel at night and spent a lot of money on the top girl Pingting.

As fierce as Princess Lou Yu, how could she sit still? She led a group of knife-wielding guards from the general's palace and rushed straight to the brothel to find out the girl Pingting.

The night Princess Lou Yu came to find her, Lingdang was in Miss Pingting's room. She was here to deliver hot water, but she didn't expect Princess Lou Yu to rush into the house with her guards. The madam couldn't stop her, and the guards smashed them up when they came in. , and incidentally detained the girls and menial servants serving the girls in the building.

The house was in a mess. The guards held up the girl Pingting and threw her at Princess Lou Yu's toes. At this moment, the girl Pingting lost her previous beauty and arrogance. She lay limply on the ground, her hair and hair were in a mess, and her clothes were disheveled.

Princess Lou Yu hooked Miss Pingting's chin with her toes, looked at her face from top to bottom, and said softly: "Are you Miss Pingting who seduced Brother Huai?"

Pingting smiled lowly, with a hint of sarcasm in her smile. She looked up at the princess without humiliation and said, "The county manager can't control the prince, so why bother venting his anger on such a charlatan like us? I don't mind squandering the princess's golden branches and jade leaves." For the sake of my own reputation, I feel pity for the princess. If a mere man can't handle it, how can he be in charge of the beautiful concubine in the prince's inner courtyard."

The words were so thorny that Princess Lou Yu's face became gloomy.

"You're so presumptuous!" Princess Lou Yu kicked Pingting over, took a step forward, crushed Pingting's chest, leaned over and pinched her chin, staring at her with stern eyes, "Even a prostitute like you wants to Entering the prince's palace? Wishful thinking!"

Pingting coughed up blood and lay flat on the ground unable to turn over. She could only cough upwards. The blood spurted out of her mouth instantly covered her face with blood.

Princess Lou Yu sneered, slowly retracted her feet, her posture was casual, and she slowly spread her palms to her side. Following the instructions of her maid, she turned back and saw the guard bending down and holding a tray.

The plate was covered with a red handkerchief, and two small cups engraved with gold were placed on the handkerchief.

The maid took one of them gently and placed it gently in Princess Lou Yu's hand.

Princess Lou Yu stroked the cover of the cup and circled the cover with her fingertips. She glanced sideways at Pingting, who was as embarrassed as a bereaved dog, and said, "What I can't get, no one else can get. I can allow Brother Huai not to like me, but absolutely No one will be allowed to steal him from me.”

When Ling Dang heard this, his heart pounded. He raised his forehead secretly and glanced at Princess Lou Yu holding a small cup in her hand. He felt that it was not a good thing.

"Do you know what this is?" Princess Lou Yu held the small cup, waved it in front of Pingting's eyes, and spoke out a name slowly, "Marriage Concentric Gu."

She pretended to be profound and praised: "This Gu is a good thing. It is offered as a gift from the Western Territory. There is only one in the world, and one is divided into two Gu. If two people who are in love eat this Gu together, they will enjoy it together." Lifespan; if not, as long as one party changes their mind, the Gu will eat the heart, lungs, flesh and blood of both parties until the lovers turn into bones, and the two Gu will die alive."

Princess Lou Yu sighed, "Killing you will make my hands dirty. Don't you like to seduce people? Well, I want to see if you can seduce people to fall in love with you and be willing to feed you this Gu today. I will sacrifice my life for you, be with you heart to heart, and live and die together.”

Pingting was horrified and struggled to get up to run.

Princess Lou Yu ordered: "Hold her down."

"No!" Pingting was held on her knees by the guards who came forward. She watched with fear as Princess Lou Yu approached step by step. She stared at the Gu cup in her hand and screamed, "No, no, no!" Save me! Save me! The person the prince likes is not me! It’s not me! Save me! Grandma, save me! Someone, save me!..."

No one in the room dared to move or even breathe.

Ling Dang gritted her teeth. She knew what Lord Lou Yu wanted to do. He forced Pingting to swallow a poison, and then randomly found a scapegoat to feed another poison. Pingting would only end up being slowly chewed to death by the poison. Eventually it turned into a red and pink skeleton.

Pingting was clearly taking the blame for today's disaster.

what to do…

What should she do……

Do you want to watch Pingting die...

Tortured to death...

Save her or not, save her, she will die. If you don’t save her, an innocent person will be buried alive...

Pingting is innocent.

This was a disaster that she deserved to endure. She didn't know whether she could be acquitted, but she knew that if she stood by and did not help at this moment, then she would not be innocent, and she would also be a murderer.

Ling Dang thought a lot at that moment, and seemed to only think about one thing: "Save or not." When she came to her senses, she had already stood up and rushed out.

Before anyone had time to react, she had already pushed Princess Lou Yu away.

But when the Gu cup fell to the ground, Princess Lou Yu dropped it to the ground at the same time.

In addition to a few clanging sounds and the sound of a needle dropping, everyone in the room raised their heads and stared at Ling Dang who emerged.

The guards rushed over, stopped Ling Dang, and held knives to her neck.

"Where did this lunatic come from?!" The maid hurriedly went to help Princess Lou Yu, but she pointed at Ling Dang and became furious.

Princess Lou Yu had no time to deal with Ling Dang who ruined her good deeds, so she hurriedly ordered the guards to catch the Marriage Concentric Gu crawling all over the house, "What are you still doing?! Hurry and catch the Gu and feed it to her!"

The guards began to hunt all over the house again. The poisonous insects were small, flexible and even had wings. More than a dozen guards gathered around and scratched their heads, but they couldn't touch any of the poisonous insects.

Some people were so anxious that they drew their swords. Princess Lou Yu shouted sternly: "You have to live!"

During the arrest, they discovered that the route of the Gu worm was traceable, and its purpose was to escape in the direction of the other Gu worm.

"Take that Gu and stand there without moving."

It was indeed a marriage-like Gu, even a small Gu was so loyal, and it flew straight towards the direction of the other Gu.

Ling Dang saw the guards surrounding the Gu insect's flight path, waiting for an opportunity, and saw that they were about to take action. Ling Dang had a strong energy in his daily physical work, and he waved away the knife held by the guards beside him without hesitation, and rushed out , raise your hand at the Gu insect and slap it.

There was a strange dead silence in the room, and she watched helplessly as Ling Dang swatted the Gu insect away to the ground. The insect flapped its wings and became a cricket, and she immediately ran over it with her kick.

"Ah?!" Princess Lou Yu exclaimed, "What are you doing?! Pull her away!"

The Gu insect has a hard shell and is very life-threatening. Ling Dang tried her best but was unable to stomp it to death. She saw the guards rushing towards her, knowing that this evil Gu insect was going to fall into their hands and Pingting would inevitably die.

At that moment, she had no time to let her brain think rationally, and could only make the next move based on the subconscious reaction of what she was thinking in her heart.

Ling Dang raised his feet, and with lightning speed, he got down on his body, grabbed the Gu insect, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.

At that moment, everything was silent.

Before everyone in the room had time to react, a high-pitched and loud announcement from the chamberlain was heard outside the room: "The prince has arrived!"

At first, he didn't feel anything after swallowing the marriage poison. Ling Dang could still be detained by the guards and lay on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief. But when Ling Huai stepped into the house, the pain in his heart changed from the initial mosquito bite to a heart-wrenching pain.

She curled up and rolled on the ground in pain.

I fainted from the pain.

When she woke up again, she was already in her utility room, lying on her back on the bed and staring at the beams, not daring to say anything.

There was no way, Ling Huai, who was sitting on the edge of the bed at this moment, was feeling depressed. He was really looking at her with a look that looked at someone dead.

After a long stalemate, Ling Huai lost his peace and gentleness for the first time, and lost his previous considerateness. He sneered softly: "You are so brave and heroic. You are really not afraid of death. That thing is edible." Of?!”

"Speak!" He pulled her to her feet, rudely and madly. He held her arm tightly, locking her eyes with splitting eyes, "What are you doing?! What does the life and death of others have to do with you?! What do you do to me? land?!"

"She, she has suffered for me." Ling Dang lowered his head with a guilty conscience. She hid a word. She felt that she might not really die. This time of passing through the book was like a yellow beam dream. Maybe she would wake up after dying once. . That's why she dared to rush out to save people. "She is innocent. I can't help but watch her die in front of me. I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."

"She is innocent, so I deserve it." Ling Huai laughed after hearing this, and his smile was sarcastic, "Since you want to die, why not kill me."

"I'm not willing to kill anyone." Ling Dang raised his hand and hooked his neck, coaxing him in a soft voice: "I'm fine. Don't be angry. I know I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again next time. .”

He stared at her coldly: "Next time?"

She quickly changed her words: "I cherish life very much! Cherish life and grow old with you."

After this incident, Ling Huai had some changes. It was not obvious, but she could detect that he became worried about gains and losses. For example, in the past, the two of them tacitly avoided the topic of children, but he made it a point to chat openly on a daily basis.

Lingdang couldn't push him away and begged him: "Ah Huai, don't be like this. It's uncomfortable for me to sleep like this. I'm so sleepy. Please get out..."

He held her tight to prevent her from breaking away, and whispered in her ear: "A Dang, let's have a child."

He was determined to have a child, but she didn't really want to have a child. Since ancient times, some of the princes under the emperor's knees have lived a long and happy life. She does not deny that she likes him very much. If the environment and identity were changed, she would be very happy to be with him forever. Let nature take its course, get married, have a family and have children, and the family of three would be happy. Spend your life hunting for land.

But he was destined to become an emperor who would unify the world.

In the past, he wanted to hide her, and she wanted to hide from the outside world. She was happy to be a pair of wild mandarin ducks in secret.

But it's one thing for two people to fall in love. It's another thing to have children. That's a home, a small family that cares about everything.

Her foundation is not here, and her future is even more unclear. She is afraid of leaving behind a bad fate, and she cannot afford the promise of a future emperor.

It was also during that year that she discovered that Ling Huai was a very stubborn person. Once he wanted to accomplish something, he would tell him directly by saying so. In fact, he had already arranged everything in secret. No matter how you declined, he would He has all kinds of plans to accomplish.

In their seventh year together, despite all the precautions she took, she finally got pregnant.

He placed his palm against her flat belly and his eyes were gentle and affectionate: "You want to raise a baby, so you can't stay in the building anymore. The outside has been taken care of and we will move out in a few days."

The pregnancy was stable and easy. In addition to her increased appetite, she never even vomited during the day. It should have been smooth and peaceful, but she felt flustered for no reason. She thought it was difficult to leave her old home, so she discussed with him and said: "I have been under the pregnancy all year round." It's a physical job and my body is strong. Can I stay here for a while longer? I can't bear to be here."

"Okay, it's all up to you." He was satisfied and easy to talk.

Ling Huai must have said hello to the madam in the building, who relieved her of her duties. During this period, Miss Pingting came to her utility room.

Pingting stood under the tree and said to her: "It's so beautiful to be out of the flower house. Now I really don't know whether to thank you or blame you. Over the years, I have used my name to earn a ransom for myself, and it's only because of you, the prince." It is because of you that I have been able to protect my innocence until now. It is because of you that Princess Lou Yu makes things difficult for me at every turn. I have to compromise and fight against each other on the cusp of the storm. You are the one who succeeds and you are the one who fails. I I just don’t understand why it’s you alone?”

Ling Dang said: "You asked this question to the wrong person, and I can't give you an answer."

Pingting smiled noncommittally, and then said: "He has been hiding you so far, and he is not willing to welcome you into his house even though he is pregnant with you. Have you ever thought that maybe he doesn't care about you that much? He doesn't even want to give you a status. How true can a man like you be?"

"I like him, and I feel so happy to be with him. From beginning to end, I just want the moment when I think of him in my heart. It's just that he shows such partiality to me because he is such a good person. I like it. I have never wanted any status." Ling Dang smiled back at her, "You only see that he is bright and beautiful and stands above all the thousands of people, so how do you know that he is not in a dragon's pool and a tiger's den next to him? Miss Pingting, you said such a thing After all these words, I end up blaming me more in my heart."

Ling Dang had a lot of free time on his hands due to his daily care of his fetus, and he couldn't wait any longer, so he often went out for a walk on the street.

It was also at this time that she met Ling Cen by chance.

"Ah Cen?" Ling Dang intuitively recognized Ling Cen, who had a mole under his left eye. People were coming and going on the street, and it was ridiculous to recognize him at a glance. Afterwards, she even wondered how she could recognize him at a glance. .

As an adult, Ling Cen was gorgeous and handsome, covered in gold rings and silver pendants from head to toe. Not to mention that he was dressed in Western clothing that gave him a unique and exotic look, like an elf from a strange country.

(End of this chapter)