aircannonsinc Chapter 1732 I Have a Secret
Chapter 1732 I Have a Secret
Zhou Shiyue was starting to get curious.
Lu Zhaoling said just a few words and she made this person cry like this?
"What did she say?"
Aoki said, "I didn't hear clearly either. The princess spoke softly, so it shouldn't have been anything threatening or intimidating."
Zhou Shiyue said, "I will go in and take a look."
Jin Xi wasn't actually difficult to interrogate; they had already identified her, but the talismans on her body that required mystical arts to break hadn't been removed yet.
Zhou Shiyue originally wanted her to suffer a bit more, which is why he hadn't let Yin Yunting and the others handle it before.
Jinxi was always tied up with a cloth stuffed in her mouth. If you pulled the cloth off, she would become fierce, like a wolf cub.
Zhou Shiyue was quite curious that Lu Zhaoling could make her cry like this with just a few words.
He was unhappy about keeping such a person locked up in the palace, finding it unlucky and an eyesore.
So he handed it over to Lu Zhaoling to see how she would handle it.
As for the man who died suddenly, he had already been taken out and disposed of. His soul had been removed, so leaving his body behind was pointless.
The woodshed in this prince's mansion, though called a woodshed, is quite different from the simple woodsheds in ordinary households.
The woodshed was quite large; besides a neatly stacked pile of firewood, there were other things piled up inside.
However, because there were many people in the Prince's mansion, things were not just placed randomly; they were all neatly arranged, and there were also some large cabinets to store things that could not be exposed.
The woodshed was also very clean. It wasn't a particularly rudimentary place, but a woodshed is not a place where people can live. There were no tables, chairs, or beds, so the man who was thrown in earlier just lay down on the floor.
The person has been taken away, and now Jinxi is being held here. Because she is a young woman, the guards have given her a cushion. This cushion is not one of those random ones, but the kind that can be used in the summer to sit on a deck chair or against a railing.
After Lu Zhaoling came in, Qingbao brought her a chair, so now Lu Zhaoling is sitting comfortably in the chair, with her legs crossed, leisurely watching Jinxi cry loudly.
The cloth had been pulled out of Jinxi's mouth, but her hands and feet were still bound. She sat on the mat, her eyes red from crying, tears streaming down her face.
When Lu Zhaoling saw Zhou Shiyue walk in, she raised an eyebrow and asked, "What brings you here?"
Zhou Shiyue walked over, stood behind her, bent down, put his hand on her shoulder, and asked in a low voice, "What kind of monkey show are you watching?"
Jin Xi, who was crying loudly, stopped crying abruptly when she heard Zhou Shiyue's voice.
Upon seeing that it really was Zhou Shiyue, her lips trembled again. She suppressed the urge to cry and said to him in a trembling voice, "Your Highness, I really didn't mean it, and I wasn't targeting you. I just wanted to teach Yao Yutong a lesson."
"Besides, they said that if Yao Yutong succeeds in this matter, she should be able to become a concubine in the Eastern Palace or a secondary consort of the Crown Prince. I'm not harming her; on the contrary, I'm helping her find a good match! So, all things considered, I haven't committed any major crime, have I?"
"I know I shouldn't have done this on your wedding day. I know I was wrong now, please forgive me!"
"You can make me apologize however you want, I'll kowtow to you, okay? When I get back, I'll send the Princess lots and lots of cinnabar over, isn't the Princess the one who draws talismans?"
She sobbed as she spoke, looking utterly pitiful.
Zhou Shiyue ignored her and instead asked Lu Zhaoling, "What did you say to her just now?"
Lu Zhaoling blinked and said, "I didn't say anything. I heard Qiu Yunzhen say that this Jinxi girl cares a lot about her appearance. I just told her that I can draw a talisman that can immediately turn her into an old woman with a face full of wrinkles and white hair, and her teeth will be loose, falling out with a clatter as soon as she opens her mouth..."
Zhou Shiyue: “…”
"I haven't even finished describing her yet, and she's already crying like this." Lu Zhaoling spread her hands.
It's that simple?
"What kind of talisman is on her?"
“It’s already been fixed,” Lu Zhaoling said. “It broke as soon as I came in.”
"what is that?"
"She must have been given a kind of talisman water mixed with beast blood. That kind of talisman would make people's blood boil and make them ferocious and warlike."
"What is its function?" Zhou Shiyue asked again.
"Perhaps it's so that if the Crown Prince tries to run away when she catches him with Yao Yutong, she can catch him and subdue him?" Lu Zhaoling said.
That kind of talisman water can't do anything else besides this.
"Is this Jin Xi the Second Prince's cousin?" Lu Zhaoling asked.
"Correct."
"What are your plans?"
Jinxi had been crying and begging for mercy, but when she realized that Zhou Shiyue and Lu Zhaoling were ignoring her, she covered her mouth and cried. Now, when she heard Lu Zhaoling ask this question, she quickly cried out again.
"Your Highness, please let me go! From now on, I will definitely stand on the Crown Prince's side, and I won't even talk to my cousin, the Second Prince! I... I can tell you a secret, something I overheard when I was a child, and it's related to you!"
"Hmm?" Lu Zhaoling hadn't planned to pay attention to Jin Xi's pleas for mercy, but upon hearing her words, she immediately became interested.
Zhou Shiyue didn't seem to care much. What secrets could he possibly know? He wasn't particularly concerned about his own affairs anymore.
"Tell me about it," Lu Zhaoling said, clearly interested.
"If I tell you, will you let me go?" Jinxi looked at Lu Zhaoling expectantly. "You won't let me become a toothless old woman, will you?"
It seems she is genuinely afraid of this.
Qiu Yun was right.
She's just a brainless girl.
Lu Zhaoling raised an eyebrow. "That depends on whether what you're saying is valuable. If you're just saying something unimportant..."
Before she could finish speaking, Kim Hee quickly called out.
"Important! Really important! It's related to Consort Long!"
Zhou Shiyue straightened up.
"explain."
“I heard it from my grandmother. She said that when Consort Long was pregnant with you, the current Empress Dowager once tried to make her fall into the water and miscarry, so that Consort Long would not be able to give birth to the prince smoothly.”
Zhou Shiyue's face darkened. But he had actually thought about this before. Back when his mother was favored by the emperor, there must have been many people in the harem who wanted to get rid of her.
"That time, Consort Long really fell into the water. It was December, snowing, and freezing cold. The lake was covered with a thin layer of ice. If any other woman had fallen in, she would have certainly lost her baby. Consort Long fell in and was rescued after a while. She was pale and unconscious."