The next day, after washing and tidying up under the service of the little cicada, I could basically ignore the fact that he was of the opposite sex - if I only looked at his beautiful face and the size of my eyebrow bone, it was not impossible to treat him as an ordinary girl.

After a light and delicious breakfast, Yan Ke came to my room with a few guards, holding a bowl of dark brown Chinese medicine with a bitter taste in his hand: "Your Highness, how did you rest last night?" ”

I drank the decoction in her hand in one gulp, handed her back the empty bowl, and said with a slight smile, "Very good." ”

She looked at me in a slightly surprised way, and then said gently: "Your Highness is so obedient today, drinking medicine is as refreshing as drinking water, it is very different from the previous highness who would cry whenever he drank medicine. ”

As he spoke, he took a small jar of candied fruit from the guard's hand and brought one to my mouth.

I just laughed at one in her hand: "When I woke up, I forgot some things, but I knew some truths, and I always felt that I couldn't be as willful as before." ”

"My face is much better, not as before, and I always have to toss and turn on the sickbed for a while to see improvement." She wiped her hands, and laughed at me—I noticed that her hands were not as delicate as the skin on her face, but they were calloused and weather-beaten.

"Aunt Ke, since I listened to your words and recuperated well, shouldn't you also fulfill your promise and let me meet that Jiang guard?" Looking away from her hand, I asked as I tried.

"Your Highness!" She glared at me disapprovingly, but it was more pampering than helpless, "Okay...... You just go and see her, so that you don't have to worry about it all the time, and you don't have to recuperate - only a quarter of an hour. ”

"I know." I nodded hurriedly and obediently - this Aunt Ke is really obedient to Kuang Xihan.

"C3, C4, follow to protect Your Highness, don't let the surnamed Jiang collide with His Highness." She turned back to the two guards behind her and instructed, and said to Xiao Cicada as if she was not at ease, "You also serve by His Highness's side, and when the quarter of an hour is up, you will send His Highness back to rest." ”

"Yes." The cicada nodded hurriedly.

At last I was allowed to step out of the bedroom, surrounded by a large crowd of people, and walked towards the courtyard of the courtyard.

After a while, the body felt a little tired, and finally reflected a flowery pavilion in front of me, the plaque with the three words "Yongle Tang" written in the official script that I am very familiar with, the font is clear and beautiful, but the wind and bones are slightly inferior, it can be seen that the calligrapher has not been able to catch it, and the stamina is insufficient - I am only glad that I can understand the words here, so as not to be an illiterate person with black eyes.

Just standing outside the door of this Yongle Hall, I can smell a mellow fragrance, not like the sweet fragrance of ordinary fat powder, but like the intoxicating sweet liquor that has been fermented for many years - there seems to be a faint trace of blood hidden in it, I don't know if it is my illusion.

The cicada pushed open the door one step ahead of me, and then bowed his hand respectfully to the side, waiting for me to enter.

I swept around the attendants and guards who followed behind me, all of them silently using themselves as background as he was, as if they were afraid of drawing my attention.

I was glad that no one was following, and without surveillance, I stepped into the room with layers of red gauze tents, which concealed the inside and could not be seen—the fragrance was even stronger, and it seemed to carry other indescribable elegance...... In the same way, the smell of blood became more and more obvious.

Lifting the veil of the vague fragrance one after another, the outline of a person gradually appeared in my eyes, and when I passed through the last layer of covering, I finally saw the slender figure clearly, and finally saw the whole picture of this mysterious Yongle Hall.

- I think I probably understand why the little cicada has such an unnatural look when talking about Yongle Hall; I also began to understand how unruly Kuang Xihan, the original owner of this body, was.

I vaguely remember that I read such a sentence in "Historical Records of Yin Benji": "Da Yan music plays in the sand dunes, (纣) with wine as a pool, county meat as a forest, so that men and women are naked in the meantime, for the long night to drink." "It's an allusion to the wine pond meat forest of the king of Shang - now it seems that Kuang Xihan is also one of the supporters here.

The huge room is divided into two parts, on one side is a square jade pool that has been dug out by hand, and the clear blue water is so full that it seems to overflow the whole pool, and the aroma of wine is scattered, and the straight people are drunk and do not know what day it is; There are vivid pictures hanging on the wall, which are so vivid that it is embarrassing, and there are several beautiful young men sitting and lying by the pool, laughing and playing, and their eyes are like silk.

Seeing me walk in, he didn't step forward, just smiled and beckoned to me, maybe he was so drunk that he didn't have the strength to get up...... I couldn't help but look away.

On the other side, it's a very different picture.

Whips made of various materials, bottles and jars of indescribable effect, clubs and knives of different sizes, mostly with barbed mechanisms, piles of wax oil for candlesticks, and gold and silver needles that make the scalp tingle...... It was an eye-opener for me to suspect that I had come to a prison where torture was used to extract confessions.

However, all of these are far less eye-catching than the thin figure standing alone in the middle; Or, after sweeping around the spectacle, I can only see that one person in my eyes.

The man was wearing only a loose white silk robe, barely covering the roots of his legs, revealing a pair of white and beautiful long legs; The large uncovered skin on her shoulders and neck was covered with bruises, and even a few were bloodshot, and there were a few cuts in her white dress, which led to shocking whiplashes—her hands were hung high, and a gold bracelet encrusted with precious stones was cuffed at her wrists, and a ring of dazzling red marks was cast; His face was as pale as snow, his black hair was thick as a crow feather, and his long eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, like a remnant leaf floating in the wind, but it revealed a kind of vague poignancy.

"You ......" I stood stunned, struggling to move - if I had come forward, how would I have spoken, what would I say? If you turn around and leave, you will inevitably go against your will and regret it.

Who is she? What went wrong? How can it be handcuffed here?

One question after another quickly passed through my mind, but none of them could pull me back from the soulless amazement.

Probably sensing my gaze, the hanging woman moved slightly, and the bracelet tinkled; The slight feather eyelashes also slowly lifted, as if a breeze was blowing across my cheeks, crispy and soft...... I subconsciously held my breath.

When she raised her eyes faintly, I felt as if I had been struck with a sharp stick, and my heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, and I forgot all about the original purpose of my coming here—I could not imagine that for the first time in my life, I was embarrassed by a person who was just like me, a woman.

She had a pair of extremely deep eyes, and when I met her gaze, it was as if I saw a touch of amber in the cold star-like pupils, and when I looked closely, it was just a calm pool, reflecting my almost stupid gaze.

She didn't seem surprised by my appearance, and when she saw me staring straight at her, she didn't have the slightest shyness, but just opened her lips lightly and said, "Jiang Zhuo has seen His Royal Highness King Ling. Her voice was soft and elegant, but her tone was calm, as if she were not a prisoner under the ranks who was imprisoned and tortured.

- Jiang Zhuo?

It turned out that she was the Jiang guard.

I suddenly remembered what Xiao Cicada said: For Kuang Xihan and the people around her, the so-called pampering and fun are really extraordinary......

"You ......" I paused, my eyes casually turned to the few tulle teenagers who were drinking and having fun on the other side, and the words turned to my lips again, "You go out first." ”

Maybe Kuang Xihan has been accumulating power in the minds of these people for a long time, and my expressionless appearance really frightened these teenagers, and they immediately retracted their frivolous attitude, and hurriedly bowed and pushed me away.

When it was just me and her, the room fell silent—I licked my lips and thought for a moment that maybe it wasn't the best decision to kick the teenagers out.

"Is the prince's body okay?" There was silence for a while, but it was she who broke the deadlock first.

"Already, it's all right......" I bit my lip, intending to get straight to the point and ask what had happened.

It's just that before I could speak, the door behind me was gently knocked, and the voice of the cicada came through the layers of gauze tents: "Your Highness, the time has come, you should go back." ”

I ignored him, just looked into Jiang Zhuo's eyes, but lost the courage to speak again.

"What instructions does the prince have?" Thinking about it, she also saw that I wanted to say something, so she asked lightly.

"Someone, uncuff her." I turned around in frustration and raised my voice outside the door.

The door was opened, and the two guards sent by Xiao Cicada and Yan Ke walked in.

Xiao Cicada lowered his head and didn't dare to look at me, Bingsan bowed half a kneel, and said in a deep voice: "Your Royal Highness, this pair of handcuffs is a tribute from His Majesty the Emperor, and the key is kept by you personally, and your subordinates dare not overstep it." ”

"Where's the key?" I asked the little cicada.

He glanced at me cautiously, stepped back a bit, and replied in a low voice, "Back to Your Highness, the key ...... Thrown by you. ”

"Where?" Although it was not my order, after all, I took this body, and now it is up to me to bear the consequences.

"In the backyard...... of the lake. As soon as he finished speaking with great speed, he stepped aside, bowed his head and held his breath, as if he were afraid that I would be angry with him.

- worthy of being a relative of the emperor, there is even a lake in the courtyard.

Optimistically, at least Kwong Xihan is not one of those declining aristocrats who rely on borrowing to maintain his honor...... This is the only place where I can comfort myself.

Sighing silently in my heart, I was actually a little afraid to look back at Jiang Zhuo's expression - perhaps, you can send a craftsman to pick the lock? Or just cut it with a knife?

I hesitated and didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to speak without permission, and out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the little cicada as if he was intentionally reminding me that I knew that a quarter of an hour had passed from Yan Ke's mandate—but I couldn't see it.

I didn't want to leave until I solved Jiang Zhuo's problem.

"But the prince is going to release Jiang Zhuo?" Seeing our every move, the hanging woman asked unhurriedly.

"Yes, it's just ......" I turned my head and met her clear eyes, only to feel a burst of shame on my cheeks, and I wanted to apologize, but I couldn't say anything - my current status would not allow me to do so.

"Since that's the case," but seeing her nod clearly, her hands suddenly made a mistake - only to hear a "click", and she actually broke the handcuffs with her bare hands, "Please forgive me." ”

I subconsciously glanced at her wrist, and there was a bloody mark from the metal handcuffs, and I couldn't help but feel a pain in my wrist.

She shook her hand as if unconsciously, not caring.

Doesn't this man feel pain?