The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 948 Punishing Him

"Does Your Highness mean that I am doomed to die today?" Meng Renkang's hands and feet were tightly bound with hemp rope, which made his hands and feet ache and drew bright red blood, but he did not cry from beginning to end.

Now that Li Heng had said that, he thought of his mother, elder sister, grandfather, and uncle, and he felt that they would definitely come to save him.

He did not believe Li Heng's words.

The reason for skipping over his father is that both he and Li Heng knew that his father couldn't help at all in the matter of his kidnapping.

Having no power is equivalent to being useless.

He believed in his father's love, but love is one thing, and belief is another; reality is always more cruel than sentimentality.

Although he was only nine years old, his mother was his father's second wife, so he had heard a lot of gossip since he was a child.

This includes the father's first wife, Zeng, Zeng's eldest legitimate sister, the father's eldest half-brother born to a mistress he kept outside before the mother, and... Li Heng's statement that the death of his eldest sister's mother was related to his mother.

He didn't know if it was true or false, and he had no way of verifying it.

But Meng Renkang only agreed with half of what Li Heng said: "Second Prince is wrong. Grandfather and eldest uncle may indeed disregard my life and death for certain reasons, but my elder sister..."

Li Heng stared at him.

He stared intently at Li Heng: "No."

For some reason, he spoke those two words with unwavering certainty.

Li Heng was drawn to Meng Renkang's determined eyes, and he smiled slightly: "Are you so sure that your older sister will come to save you?"

As he asked the question, a scene from his childhood flashed into his mind: when he went to the East Palace to play with Li Shou.

They were all still young back then.

He was unaware of Li Shou's situation in the Eastern Palace and had not yet conceived the idea of ​​seizing Li Shou's position as Crown Prince. Li Shou had not yet gone so far as to try to eliminate him and break the wings he had painstakingly grown.

Meng Renkang nodded firmly: "Yes!"

"Why are you so sure?" Li Heng wanted to hear how Meng Shisan and Meng Renkang, a brother and sister who rarely saw each other, developed such a firm trust.

Meng Renkang looked down at his tightly bound hands and feet, snorted coldly, and refused to say anything more.

Li Heng was twenty-one years old, while Meng Renkang was nine, a full twelve years older. He believed that he had seen far more than Meng Renkang had. He thought that the reason Meng Renkang had such unwavering trust in Meng Shisan was because he was still young and had not experienced much. So far, the only setback he had encountered was the one that threatened his life. Therefore, he could still have unrealistic fantasies about the so-called blood ties.

He's already of age, so he doesn't stoop to the level of a child. He'll just grumble and that's it; he won't get angry.

But he still wanted to hear more about Meng Shisan's opinion.

So he continued, "If you're willing to talk, and you talk well, I'll loosen your restraints a bit to make you more comfortable, is that alright?"

"What would be considered good?" Meng Renkang had been tied up all day, and his hands and feet were so sore and numb they didn't feel like his own. But he wasn't stupid; he needed to find out what would be considered good enough. Li Heng chuckled, "Looks like you haven't gone stupid from studying. I'd heard that the third and fourth young masters of the Meng family are both bookworms, except one is a handsome, big bookworm, and the other is a chubby little bookworm."

Meng Renkang pursed his lips, ignoring Li Heng's bookish remarks.

"Just tell me, and I'll loosen the rope for you," Li Heng promised, taking a step back.

“Then you’d better keep your word,” Meng Renkang said.

Li Heng nodded slightly: "Okay."

Meng Renkang began, “My classmate Xi Kuangjing’s sister got into legal trouble. Knowing that my older sister could help her, Xi Kuangjing came to me asking me to take him to see her. We were both at the academy at the time. If I agreed, I would have to ask for leave to go back to the city. I was hesitant at first, feeling that I wasn’t very familiar with my older sister. It was during the holidays, and my older sister didn’t even want to get close to me or my second sister…”

Li Heng continued, "Do you think that even if you agree and take your classmate to see your older sister, she won't see you, and even if she does, she definitely won't help you?"

As soon as he heard Meng Renkang start, he knew which legal case Meng Renkang was referring to. He paid close attention to everything about Li Shou, and he also paid close attention to Li Shou's cousin from the Meng family.

This official matter was one of the things he had come to the attention of regarding Meng Shisan.

"Later, I couldn't resist A-Jing's request, so I agreed and took him into the city to return to the mansion and go to Taichen Courtyard to see my elder sister." Meng Renkang didn't respond to Li Heng's words and continued on his own, "When he saw my elder sister, A-Jing knelt down before her, and later, my elder sister agreed to help."

"Is that so?"

“My sister would even lend a helping hand to strangers, so no matter how much she values ​​me, she will never completely abandon me.”

Li Heng suddenly realized: "Is that how you arrived at your conclusion?"

"Does Your Highness find this a bit absurd?" Meng Renkang didn't really have any confidence himself. His firm gaze and confident tone were just for show for Li Heng.

"It is indeed somewhat absurd," Li Heng did not deny.

"Relax a bit." Meng Renkang didn't care whether the reason he gave was absurd or not; he just wanted his hands and feet to feel better. Seeing that Li Heng didn't move, he added, "Your Highness must keep your promise."

Li Heng stood up and walked over to Meng Renkang, who was tied up and sitting in a chair. Meng Renkang was short and stout. Li Heng squatted down and looked Meng Renkang in the eye: "You haven't forgotten that you are a hostage that I kidnapped, have you?"

Meng Renkang was taken aback, then understood Li Heng's meaning, and anger rose on his round, chubby face: "You break your promise! No wonder my cousin, the Crown Prince, doesn't like you!"

Snapped!
No sooner had Meng Renkang finished speaking than Li Heng slapped him across the face, knocking him to the side. Five fingers immediately appeared on his face, and his entire face swelled up at a visible speed. His forehead also hit the corner of the chair, causing blood to appear.

“Not speaking, speaking less, won’t necessarily kill you.” Li Heng looked expressionlessly at Meng Renkang, who had angered him. “But speaking too much, saying things you shouldn’t have, will definitely kill you.”

"You made me say it!" He was still a child at heart; no matter how composed Meng Renkang was, he was only nine years old.

“But you said something unpleasant that made me unhappy, so you got beaten. Therefore, I’m taking back my promise.” Li Heng was just chatting with Meng Renkang and teasing him while waiting for Meng Shisan to come and replace him; he wasn’t really making any demands on Meng Renkang.

The fourth son of the second branch of the Meng family is not qualified to negotiate with him.

Meng Renkang realized at that moment that Li Heng was just making fun of him.