055 “Drunken Bones (Guyan 1v1 High H)” torture

“What’s wrong? Why didn’t you say anything all of a sudden?” Yan Zhaozhao looked at the man in front of her, who was dazed by the sight of her, with some suspicion, “Is my face dirty?”

Xie Ciyan curled his lips, “I was just thinking about how to make Zhao Zhao repay this life-saving grace.” He ate all the porridge she fed, and then looked into her expectant eyes and said, “Think about it carefully, instead of asking you to repay your kindness now, I might as well use this kindness to ask you, Yan Zhaozhao, to stay with me in the future. How about that?”

This disguise is asking for a promise from her, and it is also testing her heart.

Yan Zhaozhao understood the meaning of Xie Ciyan’s words, lowered her eyes and thought for a moment.Does she have feelings for Xie Ciyan?After falling off the cliff, she could no longer ignore her feelings.

She was happy with Xie Ciyan, and she fell in love with him since he became her support every time.But at that time, she deliberately ignored him and didn’t want to let herself have the opportunity to fall into the same situation as her mother, so she avoided it, not to mention admitting that she was attracted to him.But at the moment she fell off the cliff, she suddenly realized that all her worries in the past seemed to be just her own troubles. If she lost her life, her biggest regret would be that she didn’t say a word of thanks in the Phoenix Tower that day.

This time, she wanted to make a brave move.

“It’s what my benefactor wishes, and I agree to it.” She smiled, with a little cunning in her eyes, which was both smart and charming.

Xie Ciyan caressed her reddish cheeks and chuckled suddenly, “Then it’s settled.” He probably never thought that the person he thought could never belong to him in this life would now land in his hands like a miracle.

After the injury was almost healed, the old man still didn’t come back. Xie Ciyan had no choice but to thank him and went to find the old man himself.

By chance, the old man just happened to be carrying a basket of dead branches back to the thatched house. He couldn’t escape, so he had to stand in front of Xie Ciyan.Then he turned slightly unnaturally and said, “Young master, are you here to find something to do with me?”

Xie Ciyan’s eyebrows were frivolous, but her sharp eagle eyes were always looking at him.”My injury has healed greatly, and I came here to express my gratitude to the old man.”

He glanced at Xie Ciyan without leaving any trace, and then nodded, “As soon as you are healed, leave as soon as possible.” When he said this, his eyes were a little dodgey, as if he did not dare to look directly at him.”This place is so simple that I won’t leave you two noble people here.”

After that, he carried the basket and walked straight past Xie Ciyan to the kitchen.

“Eunuch Lu.”

Xie Ciyan’s voice suddenly sounded, and he spoke an unfamiliar name, but the old man suddenly stamped his feet, his face suddenly changed, and the blood faded. If you look closely, his rough hands were trembling slightly.He pretended to be calm, “I can’t understand what the young master is saying.”

Yan Zhaozhao, who was hiding by the door, was shocked when she heard this. She was the queen, and all the maids and eunuchs in the palace were recorded one by one.Among them, the late emperor once had a favored father-in-law named Lu Eunuch.He was not a high-ranking eunuch, but the father-in-law who was responsible for grinding beside the late emperor. He also followed the late emperor long after he left.

“How could you not understand? Old man, you are Eunuch Lu.” As if knowing that he would continue to refute, he gave him a heavy blow, “I saw you when I was young, but Eunuch Lu thinks I will admit my mistake?”

When I first came to this thatched house, I didn’t pay special attention to the old man’s appearance. It was when he was seriously injured, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.When he was about to recover from his injury, he took a serious look at the old man’s face in order to observe the strangeness of this man. At that time, he felt that this man seemed to have a kind face, as if he had seen him somewhere.

But after thinking for a long time, he didn’t remember who this person was.But gradually, Xie Ciyan discovered that he couldn’t change some of his habits that were brought from the palace.There was a very thick callus on his tiger’s mouth, and there was an equally thick callus on the edge of his index finger. He thought about it for a long time, and then he remembered that only when grinding ink, he would use the edge of his index finger to exert force, and then use the tiger’s mouth to bear weight and rotate.

How could an old man living deep in the mountains and forests have such character?And he didn’t even have a pen in his thatched house, so why did he need to grind ink?With this layer of thinking, Xie Ciyan gradually thought deeply, and it was not difficult to discover the fact that he was an eunuch.He often bowed his body subconsciously, and even used his hands subconsciously to hand things to others. He tried his best to restrain himself in order not to let them see it, but how could these habits that were ingrained in his bones be concealed and changed at will?

And these are all Xie Ciyan’s guesses. What really exposed him was Xie Ciyan’s tentative name just now.

Eunuch Lu’s face was ashen, but he admitted it frankly without any further refutation.”The Third Highness is really smart.” He was old, and his appearance was no longer the same as when he served the late emperor in the palace, but he recognized the Third Highness born to Concubine Ning at a glance.He originally wanted to shut these two people out, but seeing that the Third Highness was injured, he still let them in. He was worried that they would recognize him, so he kept avoiding the Third Highness, but he did not expect that they would be discovered in the end.

“It is recorded in the palace roster that Eunuch Lu has already left with the late emperor. Why are you still alive now?” Xie Ciyan vaguely felt that the fact that Eunuch Lu was not dead was not as simple as it seemed.

Eunuch Lu looked at Xie Ciyan, who looked very much like the late Concubine Ning, and felt guilty in his heart.In a daze, it seemed as if Concubine Ning, who was kind to him, was standing in front of him, crying and saying to him, “You must, must… let my son ascend the throne!”

When the late emperor passed away, he had already failed Concubine Ning once.It seemed that this matter could no longer be hidden. Perhaps it was Concubine Ning’s spirit that made His Highness appear in front of his door. It was Concubine Ning who had a spirit in heaven and asked him to repay her great kindness.

Suddenly, Eunuch Lu’s expression became quite depressed, and he did not even dare to raise his eyes to look at him.”It’s me…I’m sorry for Concubine Ning and His Highness the Third Highness.” He lowered his eyes and told the story of that year in detail.

Back then, when the late emperor was still alive, he saw that His Highness Xie Ciyan was very talented. He had the ability to govern the country at a young age, and his love for talents and the people was really rare.However, as the legitimate son, His Highness relies on his direct bloodline and believes that the throne is already within his grasp, so he never works hard for it and only cares about having fun.He thought that as long as he ascended the throne and became the emperor, all kinds of trivial matters could be left to the courtiers below, and there was no need to read poetry and books. It was all bullshit.

The late emperor once ordered the queen at that time to supervise His Highness, but since ancient times, loving mothers often failed, so how could the queen be willing to let her only legitimate son endure hardships?

At that time, the late emperor saw that His Highness still had not made any progress, so he began to consider appointing His Highness the third prince as the next prince. However, he was taboo on the motto that if the throne is not passed on to the direct line, the country is not guaranteed, so this idea only lingered in the heart of the late emperor.However, as time passed, this idea that had been lingering for a long time gradually took root. When Eunuch Lu was waiting to study ink, the late emperor told him this.

Eunuch Lu did not dare to speak falsely, and the late emperor did not make things difficult for him.As time went by, His Highness became more and more indulgent and indulgent, and even got into the bad habit of pampering the maids of honor.The late Emperor couldn’t stand it anymore, and he felt deeply that if the country he had worked so hard to build was handed over to His Highness, Da Sheng would probably be destroyed.

The late emperor finally made up his mind, violated the motto of his ancestors, and wrote a testamentary edict appointing His Highness the Third Prince as the next crown prince. However, the late emperor only told Eunuch Lu about the location of the edict.

He kept this secret tightly, but the queen still found out.

The late emperor fell seriously ill, and his body gradually became weak, to the point where medicine and stone had no effect.At that time, the queen personally attended to the illness, but did not allow anyone to visit, and she placed the late emperor under house arrest in disguise.Soon, the news of the late emperor’s death came out, and the whole court was filled with sorrow. However, at this time, the queen took out the imperial edict of the late emperor establishing his highness as the crown prince and announced it to the world.

He was the only one who knew about the appointment of His Highness as the Crown Prince. Due to his direct bloodline, His Highness ascended the throne, and all the courtiers thought it was normal, so they naturally did not have any doubts.Eunuch Lu took the real imperial edict to the Phoenix Tower, hoping that Concubine Ning would announce the matter to the world and make His Highness the legitimate crown prince.

But it was this last edict that cost Concubine Ning her life.Before she passed away, she asked him to take this testament and fly far away, and then return it to the third prince when he grew up.The queen’s power was overwhelming, and Eunuch Lu was intercepted by the queen before he could leave the palace.In order to save his life, he gave the imperial edict to the queen, but the cruel queen still killed him and had no intention of letting him go.Eunuch Lu narrowly escaped death and escaped by pretending to be dead. He has been hiding here and eking out a living.

“Third Highness, I know I can’t help you! But the queen’s methods at that time were so terrible. If I didn’t hand over the imperial edict to her, I would not be able to escape death!” Eunuch Lu knelt down and kowtowed to Xie Ciyan,

After listening to what Eunuch Lu said, there was no emotion on Xie Ciyan’s face, as if he didn’t care much.Yan Zhaozhao, who was standing behind him, could clearly see that the hands hidden in his sleeves had already been clenched into fists, and he was clearly resentful.

When he was young, he thought that his mother-in-law’s death was because she thought too much about her father and died in depression.But he never thought that his mother and concubine, and even his father, would actually die in the hands of that poisonous woman, just for the sake of the noble dragon throne for his cowardly legitimate son!

The clenched fist was suddenly grasped, and Xie Ciyan was startled. He lowered his head and glanced, and it was Yan Zhaozhao’s soft little hand holding his.Suddenly, he unclenched his fist and held her hand in his palm.

“After you handed over the edict, wouldn’t she also drive you out and kill you?” A mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, but the smile was like ice, as if it would freeze the old man kneeling on the ground in front of him.”For a person like you, have you never dreamed of my father, emperor, mother, and concubines coming to you in your dreams to demand your life?”

Eunuch Lu’s face was pale, his eye sockets were sunken deeply, and he seemed to have lost all energy for a moment, like a dying tree.

Xie Ciyan never looked at him again, let alone killed him. He just changed into his own clothes and left the thatched house.If someone like him were killed, it would only bring him relief. What Xie Ciyan wanted was for him to be tortured and live in fear every day to understand the rest of his life.

Sometimes, living is a kind of torture.

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