Chapter 608: Abandoned Child (12)
Chapter 608: Abandoned Child (12)
"Master, Seventeen knows he was wrong. We were not there in time. If you want to punish us, punish us too."
"Thirteen is also at fault, please punish me, sir."
"I almost forgot about you. Just wait for me." Ye Yi and the others shrank their necks. It was too scary. If there was no other way, they would take all the punishment for Seventeen.
"Seventeen, you are disobedient, so it is difficult for me to keep you by my side and continue to use you. You and Ye Jiu will switch positions and go to the Linyundu Gold Mine."
"As you command." Ye Shiqi stood up, feeling a little exhausted.
After she left, Wu Dejing continued to punish a few secret guards who were slow in their work, and then walked out of the dungeon, with the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously...
After one month.
It was the coldest time of the year, and the entire Xin Dynasty Palace was shrouded in coldness and silence. The cold palace deep inside the palace was even more eerie and cold, with few people visiting.
"Seventeenth Princess, this is a remote and deserted place, and it has been haunted recently. You are a noble lady, so you'd better not go in there." A palace maid timidly advised.
However, the seventeenth princess was not moved at all. Her pretty face showed stubbornness and willfulness: "Does this princess still need you to teach her how to do things? Does the little mute who protected my carriage yesterday live here?"
The palace maid suddenly looked embarrassed and stammered, unable to speak.
Seeing this, Xin Xiu Lian simply ignored the palace servants' obstruction. She stretched out her hand and pushed away the palace servants who were blocking her, then quickened her pace and ran towards the palace they were trying to block.
Arriving at the palace gate, she pushed open the tightly closed door without hesitation. The moment the door opened, a gust of cold wind whistled in, making her skirt rustle.
Looking up, I saw a thin man kneeling on the ground with his back to the door.
He was wearing a tattered, thin outfit, and his hair was disheveled. What was even more striking was that there was a hideous scar across his handsome face, extending from his left eye to his chin.
At this time, a eunuch with a face full of flesh was holding a long whip and whipping the man's back fiercely, cursing: "Hmph! Don't you see who you are? You dare to offend our noble princess. Even if you have ten lives and ten heads, they are not enough to chop off!" Every time the whip fell, it would bring up a piece of torn cloth and a little blood.
"If we escape from our own palace without permission and are discovered by others, we will also lose our heads. Lose our heads!"
Snapped……
"Stop!" Along with this crisp and majestic shout, Xin Xiu Lian's petite but sharp figure appeared in front of everyone like a gust of wind.
The palace servant who was whipping the man in front stopped abruptly when he heard the shout.
When they saw who was coming, the palace maids' faces changed drastically. They knelt on the ground in panic and shouted in fear and trepidation: "Princess!"
Xin Xiulian stepped forward quickly, scanning the kneeling palace servants with a sharp gaze, and asked sternly: "Who allowed you to lynch Cheng Yin?"
One of the leading palace servants replied tremblingly: "Princess, this brat is idle all day long and unruly. We can't stand it, so we want to teach him a lesson on behalf of the masters."
Xin Xiu Lian snorted coldly, put his hands on his hips, and shouted angrily: "I don't know which of you dares to touch him! He is my benefactor no matter what. How dare you treat my benefactor like this today? Will you not dare to do the same to this princess in the future?"
The palace servants were so frightened that they trembled all over, kowtowed their heads like pounding garlic, and kept saying, "We dare not, we dare not!"
"Don't dare? Humph! I think you are very brave! Get back immediately!" Xin Xiu Lian waved his sleeves, with great momentum.
"Yes!" The palace servants retreated quickly to the side, tumbling and crawling, as if they had been pardoned.
At this time, the man in tattered clothes was curled up in the corner and shivering.
He raised his head timidly and looked at Xin Xiu Lian, his eyes full of fear and helplessness. Seeing Xin Xiu Lian walking towards him step by step, he shrank back into the corner like a frightened rabbit.
"Cheng Yin, don't be afraid. This princess will never hurt you. Get up quickly. Don't keep squatting on the cold ground. You will catch a cold and get sick." Xin Xiu Lian slowed down his pace and comforted him in a gentle tone.
The man who was helped up by the woman was stunned. Then he stared at Xin Xiu Lian in front of him and subconsciously distanced himself from her.
"Cheng Yin, this princess needs a capable person who can manage the carriage. You are more suitable. Are you willing to leave with this princess?"
The man shook his head and then waved his hands to refuse. He couldn't speak, but his face didn't look very good.
"Forget that you can't speak. Don't worry, from now on no one can hurt you again. Just leave with me."
The palace servant next to him said, "My princess, you can't do that. He is a hostage from an enemy country. What if he hurts you? Besides, you can't take him away without the emperor's pardon."
"I will go and talk to Grandpa Huang myself."
The group knelt down and begged, "Princess, please think twice. I dare not deceive you because a hostage was taken out a few days ago and his arm was broken. Your Majesty is afraid of causing dissatisfaction among other countries, so he has ordered that no hostages be allowed to leave the country."
"I will never hit Cheng Yin again. Grandfather Emperor will definitely agree. I will go find him right now."
The woman left in a hurry. The palace maid on the ground got up and wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeves. The leading eunuch glanced casually at the scarred man and spat in his face.
"Tsk, what a thing, the Seventeenth Princess is just playing with you in a different way, you're probably going to go in vertically and come out horizontally."
"Lock the door and don't let anyone find out. For the past few days, not to mention stale food, there's even no soup. Otherwise, we won't be able to explain to the little prince."
"Yes."
After all the palace people had left, Wu Chengyin dared to look outside. He was thin, with many scars of varying sizes on his body. He returned to the bed with great effort.
If nothing unexpected happens, no one will come to this place for several days, which means he will have no food to eat for several days.
He was just touched by the woman, and he saw two men and women hugging each other and being killed by a sword. Both of them were very young. The most important thing was that the man had a familiar face. This was not himself in the previous life, but perhaps his future self!
How could he not be shocked? He could see how others died. Although his inner strength had been very solid over the years, he had never been able to use it.
The strange thing is that he can trace the past lives and ways of death of others. Every month he can trace the way a person dies in this life, and all the palace maids and eunuchs’ deaths have come true one by one.
So when he met Xin Xiu Lian today, he was able to glimpse the direction of his future. He must change this fact. Now his royal brother is trapped in Biannan and his mother is trapped in the cold palace. He has to save them.
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