Ability Shuttle: Don't mess with the black boss

Chapter 23 Qiankun Jade Cup (11)

Xiaocui knocked on the door and entered the room, and brought a Tang Pozi to warm my hands.

Li Rui called her to his side, bowed his head and ordered something, she made no promises, and then backed away.

I put Tang Pozi on my lap, put my hands on my left and right, and a warm current poured into my whole body.The whole person couldn't help shaking, feeling a lot clearer.

Li Rui's story was so real that I had to substitute him as the deposed prince.Thinking of Xiaohong who was missing at this moment, I tentatively asked: "So, the people who watch you on weekdays, including Xiaohong who poisoned the tea water today, are all sent by the emperor... the emperor?"

After I finished speaking, I felt that such a question was too cruel, and I couldn't imagine that there is a father in this world who would poison his own son.Because I thought it was the most tragic thing to be abandoned by my parents like me.

Unexpectedly, Li Rui sighed, as if he was used to it, and seemed a little numb.I heard him write lightly: "Even though thousands of miles away, he always has a grudge against me, and the only way to get rid of it is to avoid future troubles."

I stared at him blankly, and my understanding of family affection became more vague for a while.

Tiger poison does not eat its eggs, let alone human beings with thinking and emotions.

After a pause, I murmured in a low voice: "But, you have been deposed as a crown prince, and there is no longer any threat. Why does the emperor still do this?"

He suddenly laughed, with a trace of bitterness in his smile: "Because every prince is eyeing the throne, in this era of power struggles, all stumbling blocks must be removed. Although I was deposed, I won the hearts of the people. is the greatest threat."

I suddenly realized that it turned out that brothers were fighting each other, and other princes used aggressive methods in the emperor's ears, which made the emperor want to kill this son again.For a while, I felt that the imperial palace was really not a place for normal people to stay. It was fine for a group of women in the harem to fight every day, while a group of big men in the front hall fought to the death every day.

I really don't have any good ideas, and I don't even know how to say the least comfort.After thinking about it, I could only ask in a low voice: "Then what are you going to do now?"

The emperor Lao Tzu wanted to kill his son, and he would be furious if he failed this time.There will definitely be a second and a third time in the future.I simply can't imagine that Li Rui will spend the rest of his life being hunted down by his biological father.

I looked at him intently, and before he could answer me, a sentence flashed through my mind: At the end of the winter of 275 Xifeng Dynasty, Lord Rui led an army into the capital to force the palace. After Shang Gong was captured, he immediately beheaded for public display.

This period of history should have happened not long after Princess Chengya committed suicide, that is, after Shen Yuan and I got the Qiankun Jade Cup and left.So when Shen Yuan asked me to read the history of Xi Fengchao, I didn't seriously study what happened after that, but just caught a glimpse of the cause of Li Rui's death inadvertently.

Just when I was in a daze, Li Rui suddenly answered me calmly: "Since it is a crime that I intend to impose, I will admit it."

There was a knock on the door, and then one of Li Rui's followers entered the room.After whispering a few words into Li Rui's ear, he stood up from the desk and said to me lightly: "The princess is resting, I will come to see you later."

I nodded, and he came over to test the temperature of my forehead before leaving the study with his followers.

I was still indulging in the historical records and the sentence Li Rui just said, and I couldn't calm down the turbulent feeling in my heart for a long time.Why is he so bold that he would tell me such a rebellious thing?It can be seen that the current me must be a very trustworthy person for him.

And it is this sense of trust that makes me, a visitor from time and space who knows the development of history, add a sense of guilt in my heart in vain.

I can't change history, I can't tell him, and I can't stop him from dying.

I said to myself: At that time, I will have completed the mission and returned to the Qing Dynasty with Shen Yuan. How life and death will be in the future has nothing to do with me.

After repeating this to himself several times, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his mood calmed down a lot.

Suddenly, Xiao Cui's voice was heard from outside the door: "Princess, Xiao Cui has brought you ginger soup."

I responded, "Come in." She entered the room with a wooden tray, and placed ginger soup and a bowl of shiny pastries on the coffee table in front of me.

She picked up the bowl and fed me spoon by spoon.After drinking the whole bowl, I took a piece of pastry with chopsticks and put it in my mouth, and the sweetness melted in my mouth.

I narrowed my eyes and asked, "What is this? It's delicious."

Xiaocui held another chopstick for me, and then replied with a smile: "The prince specially ordered Xiaocui to let the kitchen make it. He said that he was afraid that the ginger soup would taste bitter to the princess."

I froze for a moment, remembering the time when Xiaocui gave me Tang Pozi just now.He called her to come forward and give instructions, presumably that was what the instructions were for.There was an indescribable pain in my heart, I smiled and said: "It's not like taking medicine, how can I have a bitter mouth."

Xiaocui blinked her eyes and said to me in an envious tone: "In Xiaocui's opinion, the prince loves the princess from the bottom of his heart."

Although I changed my clothes, I drank ginger soup again.But at that time, I still couldn't help coughing, it seemed that I had been drenched in the rain for too long, and I really caught a cold.

I asked Xiaocui to help me back to my room, and asked her to prepare hot water for me to take a bath.

After taking a bath, my whole body relaxes a lot.I didn't even have time to eat dinner, so I fell asleep in bed in a daze.When I woke up, it was already the next morning.

When he opened his eyes, the person in front of him was actually Li Rui.

Seeing me wake up, he sat on the edge of the bed and asked me, "Does your head still hurt? Are you feeling better?"

I nodded, sat up and asked him: "When did you come?" I thought yesterday that he said he would come to see me later, maybe it was because he stayed with me all night.

He walked to the table and brought me a bowl of porridge: "It's not long."

I saw that bowl of shredded chicken porridge, which is my favorite drink on weekdays.So I received it in my hand, and started to eat slowly with a spoonful, but because I was sick, my appetite was not as good as before, and I couldn't eat any more after eating half of it.

I looked at the imprint carved on the edge of the bed, and there are still 20 days left before I leave Xi Fengchao.Li Rui's various overtures at this time made me very uncomfortable.

I deliberately didn't look into his eyes, and asked lightly: "Is there anything the prince wants to see me for?"

He was stunned, then smiled and said: "There is indeed something. The picture I drew for you in Lianhu earlier is now framed. I planned to inscribe a few words, but I couldn't write. I remembered that I heard Er Niang talk about the princess before. The literary talent is brilliant, and I am here to ask for advice.”

I just remembered that painting. If he didn't mention it, I would have almost forgotten it.I thought for a while and said: "It's Er Niang who made love into elegance. I don't know the main principles. If the prince wants to ask questions, he should ask some easy-to-understand questions."

Hearing what I said, he suddenly laughed: "Okay. Just as you said."

(End of this chapter)