Let's Squander A Billion First!-Chapter 508 - 508 Difficult to be a Hostage (3)
Chapter 508 -508: Difficult to be a Hostage (3) Chapter 508 -508: Difficult to be a Hostage (3) “Did the Thirteenth Prince hit someone?”
“No,” Chuzheng replied calmly and collectedly.
Upon hearing Chuzheng’s denial, the kneeling general immediately rebuked, “Your Majesty, this is the evidence of his assault.”
The general pointed to his own forehead.
Chuzheng glanced over, “I’m just a weak prince without the strength to truss a chicken. How could I possibly have beaten you to such a state? Don’t talk nonsense.”
Chuzheng might as well have written ‘I’m weak, don’t frame me’ in large characters on his face.
“Your Majesty, he’s lying!” The general, so angry that the lump on his head seemed to swell even bigger, said, “There were so many witnesses at that time, Your Majesty can ask someone.”
Right!
He had witnesses!
Chuzheng: “…”
Damaged goods.
No good.
If it doesn’t work out, I’ll just have to get rid of the Emperor as well.
[…]Miss, your ‘no good’ makes me feel so good!
“Your Majesty…”
The Emperor of Jin raised his hand, suddenly interrupting the general, “Enough! Are you not ashamed?”
“Your Majesty!” The general did not understand, “But it was clearly him…”
The Emperor of Jin stated, “What the Thirteenth Prince has said makes sense. You, a mere warrior, could not possibly have been beaten to such an extent by the Thirteenth Prince. Restrain your impertinence! Perhaps…”
“Your Majesty, this man has maligned me; what punishment does he deserve?” Chuzheng quickly seized the opportunity.
The Emperor of Jin’s words ‘it was all a misunderstanding’ stuck in his throat.
Why did he feel like he had just dug himself a hole?
“At most twenty lashes,” the Emperor of Jin ordered sternly.
The general: “…”
–
Chuzheng stepped out of the hall as the general, pressed down outside the hall, was being loudly lashed.
When Chuzheng came out, the general glared at her with eyes red with rage as if he wanted to flay her alive and drink her blood.
Chuzheng passed by with an expressionless face.
Go ahead and look all you want.
Glare all you like.
It’s not as if you can hit me!
But, the Emperor of Jin had clearly had the opportunity to verify the facts, yet he didn’t…
Anyone who could sit on the Emperor’s throne surely couldn’t be too foolish.
He must be plotting something else.
So scary.
Surely, it would be easier to just get rid of him to avoid trouble.
Sigh.
This bastard is such a dumbass.
[…]Good, now I have one more insult to hurl at it! So infuriating! But still, I can’t hit her!
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Chuzheng: “…”
–
After the general was flogged, he was brought inside.
“Your Majesty.” The general, in extreme pain, lay prostrate on the ground.
Why was it him taking the punishment today?
He could not understand it at all.
“Do you feel aggrieved at heart, my subject?” asked the Emperor of Jin.
“Your Majesty, I do not understand,” said the general.
“This Prince of Wei Country has changed a great deal,” the Emperor of Jin said, with a vague implication, “Tell me again what happened today, in detail.”
The general did not dare to disobey.
He recounted the incident respectfully.
“He was meant to be on the Princess’s painting boat.” The Emperor of Jin stated, “The painting boat has already left Chu Cheng. If he truly wanted to flee, why would he come back?”
The general: “…”
Even if he had no intention to flee.
But he did hit someone!
“How many years has the Prince of Wei Country been in Jin?”
“Back to Your Majesty, five years,” the general replied.
“In five years, have you ever seen him lay a hand on someone?”
“…Never.”
“His behavior today…” the Emperor of Jin paused, “is very peculiar. There have been quite some disturbances from Wei Country in the past six months, keep a watch on him.”
“Does Your Majesty suspect that Wei Country has made contact with him?” The general caught on quickly this time.
“Don’t alarm the enemy, just watch what he is up to,” the Emperor of Jin instructed.
A hostage is nothing to be feared.
What truly needed to worry about was the Wei Country following behind him.
Wei Country could use this hostage, and so could he.
–
Xiao Shanzi was waiting in the palace.
He had already inquired earlier and heard the hostage had attempted to escape, was stopped, and even beat someone up.
Xiao Shanzi thought to himself that he would surely be punished now.
He had expected to see the hostage come back on the brink of death after being punished.
At the very least, completely dispirited.
Instead, he saw the hostage return not on the brink of death or dispirited, but with quite a few nice things in hand, tranquil and composed, leisurely and content.
It’s nothing…
How could it be nothing?
And where did he get so many nice things from?
Could it be a reward from His Majesty?
Impossible, right?
Xiao Shanzi had all sorts of thoughts running wild in his head.
Chuzheng didn’t even look at him and went straight to his room.
Xiao Shanzi loitered outside Chuzheng’s room for two laps, full of various doubts and trepidation.
“Xiao Shanzi.”
Xiao Shanzi was startled.
It took several seconds for him to push the door open and enter.
The room was somewhat dark, Xiao Shanzi only saw a vague outline sitting in the shadows, indistinct to the eyes.
But that bearing was not at all inferior to the Princesses and Princes of Jin Country.
Xiao Shanzi suddenly felt a chill at the soles of his feet.
As if a cold wind was creeping up his body.
“Thirteenth Prince…”
“Whose man are you?”
The voice of the boy in the dark was low and lingering in the room.
The temperature in the room seemed to have dropped considerably.
“Thirteenth Prince, this servant is here to serve you,” Xiao Shanzi replied with much finesse.
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Click—
Something fell on the table,
Xiao Shanzi’s nerves tensed up at the sound.
Thump thump thump—
In his ears was the sound of his racing heartbeat.
He inexplicably thought of the past, facing this hostage whom he had never taken seriously.
Fear spread from deep within his heart.
Like vines entwining around his heart, he could not breathe.
“Whose man are you.”
The voice came again from across the room.
The air in the room seemed to have stopped moving, the oppressive feeling causing Xiao Shanzi to break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.
Sweat trickled down his cheeks and dripped from his chin onto the ground.
Thump—
Xiao Shanzi’s legs weakened, and he knelt down.
His voice trembled, “Thirteenth Prince, this servant… this servant belongs to Princess Her Highness.”
The silhouette on the other side slowly rose.
The shadow began to fade, revealing the boy’s handsome brows and eyes.
Her figure was somewhat slender, and the silhouette cast on the wall was even longer and thinner, like a ghostly wisp.
Xiao Shanzi felt as if he was facing not a person.
But an evil ghost from Hell.
The evil ghost spoke, “Which Princess.”
“…Princess Yun Lan,” Xiao Shanzi said with his head lowered, not daring to look at the person in front of him.
Princess Yun Lan.
That was the Princess of Jin Country who couldn’t stand him.
No wonder, no matter what the original host did, he always encountered the Princess of Jin Country who would stir up trouble by any means possible.
It turned out there was someone passing on messages.
After some thought, Chuzheng picked up something from the table and tossed it in front of Xiao Shanzi, “Do you want your life or wealth?”
Xiao Shanzi: “…”
The gold and silver jewelry crashed in front of him, gleaming brightly, dazzling his eyes.
The room was silent for nearly a minute.
Xiao Shanzi reached down to pick up the gold and silver jewelry on the ground and bowed his head, “From now on, this servant will listen to the master.”
Chuzheng sat back down and asked indifferently, “Have they returned yet?”
“This…” How would he know that! The will to survive made Xiao Shanzi quickly say, “This servant will go and find out right away.”
