The Hickey of the Demon Lord: The Substitute Princess

Chapter 56

"My lord fought a good battle for the Celestial Dynasty again, otherwise those gangsters in Nandu would think that there is no one in the Celestial Dynasty haha." The emperor raised the golden wine baron in his hand with a high expression.

"Your Majesty, those traitors will come to the capital the next day to listen to you." Nan Gongzheng smiled indifferently on his lips, and left a sentence, tasting the jade dragon in his hand, with deep black eyes.

"Cut them all off! There's nothing to talk about!" The emperor was obviously a little drunk, and shook his head forcefully without leaving any room for it.

"Your Majesty, the next one is Yumei, a dancer from Tingyulou in the capital city. I heard that she dances like a fairy." Xiao Fuzi moved closer to the emperor, smiling all over her face.

The emperor's brows and eyes were full of joy, and under the gentle appearance, there was a burning commotion. "My lord, Zhou Yan, this is a rare opportunity. I specially set up a table for my lord to clean up the dust. I also arranged for the most beautiful and attractive dancers in the capital. You must watch this dance carefully."

"Of course." Zhou Yan said perfunctorily, looked at Nangong Zheng, but remained silent.

Following the sound of Si Le, a woman in purple slowly stepped out of the Jade Lotus pace, her body was slender and soft, she bent over, or twirled around, raising her hands and feet, all in an amazing style...

The emperor was so fascinated that he couldn't take his eyes off it.There were quite a few dancers in the palace, but none of them was more extraordinary in martial arts than this purple-clothed dancer. After the song was over, he turned his face away and looked at Nangong Zheng.

Nan Gongzheng's face was still undisciplined, indifferent and absent-minded as before. Looking at it like this made the emperor feel disappointed, so he said.

"My lord, this time you are a great hero, if you want any reward, just say, I will reward you."

"It's enough for the emperor to reward the three armies." Nan Gongzheng put down the silver wine baron in his hand, and said with a smile.

"You don't want any reward?" Frowning slightly, the emperor's face was a little ugly.

Nan Gongzheng: "I want to eliminate the Black Mountain Army as soon as possible, I hope the emperor can approve."

"Oh? Your lord is really sympathetic and considerate of the people of the world. Of course I will allow you." The emperor wished to hand over the task of destroying the Black Mountain Army to Nan Gongzheng as soon as possible, but he did not expect that he would invite Ying to fight on his own. surprise.

"By the way, why didn't I see the third princess? She's not feeling well, is she?"

Nan Gongzheng could hear the emperor's playful tone, and the smile in his eyes became more and more disdainful and arrogant.

"I want to remind you that the concubine in your mansion is now pregnant, and the concubine will definitely eat it. You can't always spoil the little one. Let's see who is your wife." The emperor smiled and ordered go down. "Little Fuzi, go and get that thing."

Xiao Fuzi carefully walked to Nangongzheng with a porcelain bottle. The emperor looked at Nangongzheng's unchanged expression as before, and said with a smile. "This is the rose water that was tributed by the Western Regions. There is no one in the harem who doesn't like it. I will give it to the third concubine. The prince will take it back."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Nan Gongzheng said, taking the small and elegant golden porcelain bottle, his eyes slowly dripping with coldness.

Intoxicated, Nan Gongzheng and Zhou Yan looked at each other, but did not say any farewell words.Sitting in the sedan chair, Nan Gongzheng silently closed his eyes, the exhaustion from traveling all night for the past three days was leaked between his brows.

The sedan chair gradually moved away from the palace. Nan Gongzheng, who seemed to be taking a nap, suddenly opened his black eyes, lifted the curtain beside him, and threw the golden porcelain bottle full of fragrance out of the sedan chair.

That very faint golden light drew an arc in the deep night, and finally disappeared.

Nan Gongzheng's estimation was correct. Those elite soldiers occupied Montenegro in one fell swoop, and arrested nearly a hundred people from a huge cave.

Nan Gongzheng sat in the middle of the lobby, listening to his subordinates report on the situation after sorting out.

His complexion was ashen, and he looked a little scary.

"My lord, there are at least dozens of women from good families who were captured by the Black Mountain Army from the bottom of the mountain. They were locked in wooden houses on the mountain, and they were raped and taken by the leaders of the Black Mountain Army or the people below every night. When we went, they were already Three unbearably humiliated women committed suicide by biting their tongues in a corner, and their bodies were cold."

In the study of the palace, there was a loud thunder on the ground.

"What did you say?"

Nan Gongzheng, who was originally sitting on the chair, got up suddenly, and looked at his subordinates with a sullen expression. His usual lazy and evil appearance suddenly changed into that of a Shura ghost.

"How many people are still alive?" Nangong Zheng said coldly, suppressing his inexplicable frenzy.

"There are still nine people. Do you want to see for yourself? They are in the Ministry of Punishment."

Nangong Zheng nodded, and followed his men to the Ministry of Punishment. His cold eyes flicked across the strange and different faces, from the first to the last, and finally his eyes darkened.

"These... are not the people the prince is looking for?" the subordinate asked in a low voice.

"It's just them? No one slipped through the net?" Nan Gongzheng sat in the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, turned his face away, and frowned handsomely.

Subordinates tell the truth. "The two Montenegrin soldiers who guarded these women said under torture that two women were so violent that they angered the leader and were killed on the spot. Their bodies were thrown in a mass burial. Inside the post."

Hearing this, Nan Gongzheng held the big palm of the teacup and tightened it secretly.

"When we sent people to dig it, it was so rotten that we couldn't recognize it. Recently, we have issued an announcement asking people nearby to come and identify the corpses. I believe that within three to five days, their identities will be confirmed."

Nan Gongzheng remained silent, and went straight to the morgue. He looked at the corpses inside, those with visible faces and those without, but he paid more attention to their wrists. Only one of them carried Thin silver bracelets, but no trace of dragon and phoenix bracelets.

That bracelet, hidden mechanism, is difficult to remove.

Or was this a sign that she wasn't dead at all?
"Mom, why aren't you asleep?" Hearing the sound of Ran Xiurong turning over, Su Yu sat up, leaned against the head of the bed, and asked softly.

It is still night outside the window now, and it will take another two days in a carriage to reach the capital.

"There is one thing that I can't figure out. When I saw that girl Su Min a while ago, I felt very uneasy..." Ran Xiurong got off the bed, sat by the table, lit a candle, and murmured in a low voice .

"What's the matter?" Su Yu said casually as the brightness in front of his eyes dispelled some sleepiness.

"Do you still remember the time when I asked the master to give us mother and daughter identities?" Ran Xiurong cast her gaze on Su Yu's face and asked earnestly.

"Isn't it just visiting the ancestral hall and meeting the elders of the Su family?" Su Yu yawned and plucked her hair, as if she didn't want to bring up the past again.

"Back then, the elders had a lot of dissatisfaction with your existence. Although you were two years older than Su Min, in terms of the ethics of the Su family, you were still not Master Su's own flesh and blood. They were very opposed to the master making you a Miss Su's decision, insisting that you can be Miss Su's, but you must not take away the position that originally belonged to Su Min." Ran Xiurong was only wearing a white underwear, and the candlelight shone wantonly on her round cheeks without rouge and gouache. Shining, actually exposed her old texture.

"So what?" Su Yu looked away, pulled up the quilt on her body, ignored her mother's words, and only complained in her heart that the bed boards in this small inn were too hard, which made her unable to sleep.

Ran Xiurong's slender willow eyebrows frowned slightly, she had hidden too many words in her heart, and she wanted to confide them all at once. "The Su family has a custom, which has something to do with the history of their fortune. When Grandpa Su Min was in charge of the family, he made a lot of money from the wine making business. Now the Su family's wine business is even more famous throughout the country. Almost every inn and restaurant , all of the Su family’s fine wines are for sale. I heard about this from Master Su. He said that it’s better to test whether you two little girls can identify the latest hibiscus wine from the Su family. Whoever tastes it first will be the winner. Missy."

Su Yu heard this, and couldn't help snorting, full of disdainful ridicule. "It's ridiculous." Sure enough, he is a stupid man. What is the difference between this kind of behavior and the play house between children?What's so smart about claiming that he is a businessman?

Ran Xiurong's eyes flashed, she slowly stretched out her hand, and poured a cup of tea from the teapot to moisten her thirsty throat. "Because he doesn't care at all. Whoever will be the eldest lady is just perfunctory to those elders." That person has always insisted that these two are both his daughters, and he will treat them equally without favoritism.

Su Yu's expression and eyes couldn't conceal the disgust, and he said a word coldly. "I have no memory of this matter."

"But she still remembers it all the time." Ran Xiurong glanced over and tightly held the teacup in her hand, her tone urgent.

"Why? For children, whether they can taste wine is just a game. To put it bluntly, it's just that I have better luck than her. She also takes such trivial matters to heart. She is indeed petty." Is it because She has been holding grudges about this matter until now, just because she squeezed her position away?
Thinking of this, Su Yu's voice became colder and sharper.Like a knife, across the quiet night.

Ran Xiurong's expression changed drastically, and she stared at her daughter from a distance. "You don't know, it's not just your luck, it's me who helped you secretly."

"In those few days, I added a medicine to her meals."

Hearing this, Su Yu couldn't help putting away his lazy expression, turned his face away, and stared at the woman who spoke.

On Ran Xiurong's face, there was no longer the kindness and kindness that she pretended to have in the past, and she had become strong and difficult to get close to. "She wholeheartedly regarded me as her own mother, and she was not at all wary of me, so she was not aware of it when she was asked to take the medicine."

Su Yu got out of bed slowly, put on a robe indiscriminately, Yingying went to the table and sat down, asking questions in a low voice. "What medicine?"

(End of this chapter)