Chapter 51: Mounted Archery Competition
The coachman stopped the carriage and looked around.
A carriage followed them slowly.
Impermanence's voice sounded outside the car, "Miss, the prince invites you over." β
Lu Xihe refused without thinking about it, "I still have something to do, tell the prince another day." β
Impermanence smiled awkwardly and ran back to reply to Ning Yi.
I didn't want Ning Yi to laugh instead of being angry, so I got out of the car and walked to Lu Xihe's carriage.
"Get out of the way." He said coldly to the coachman.
The coachman hesitated for a moment, and immediately got out of the car after bumping into his murderous eyes.
When the curtain was lifted, it was Lu Xihe and the master and servant of the pothos.
The pothos retreated in amusement.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the carriage dropped to freezing point.
"His Royal Highness King Gong is here, I don't know why?" As soon as Lu Xihe opened his mouth, he made a nameless fire rise.
"Shall we have a good talk?" Ning Yi said solemnly.
"What do I have to talk about with the prince?" She said stubbornly.
"Don't make a fuss, Ruan Ruan." "I'm serious," he said. β
Without waiting for Lu Xihe to speak, he said to himself: "We have been together for so many years, even if there is any misunderstanding between us, isn't it good to say it?" β
"The prince said that he laughed, there was no misunderstanding between me and the prince." She said calmly.
Ning Yi knew that she was stubborn, so she said, "Start with me." He sat opposite Lu Xihe, "Where to start?" If you think about it carefully, I really have a lot of things to hide from Ruan Ruan. Before you took the female officer exam, I sent someone to withdraw your answer sheet. It's just that I didn't expect the prince to send someone to put your answer sheet in a conspicuous position, so that it was noticed by the emperor. Also, there used to be a maid by your side, and she wanted to betray you, so I sent someone to lock her up, and I wanted to send someone to kill her just in case. In exchange, she told me many things that I didn't know. We'll talk about that later. Later, you already know, she committed suicide in the Lu family. Nguyen Nguyen, now I'm going to tell you something. β
He said very seriously, "Listen well, I don't know about Lu Yiming. As he spoke, he took out an object from his arms, which was the bead flower that Lu Yiming held in his hand back then.
"If I had known you were suspicious of me," he said, "I've checked my men, and they haven't hurt him. Therefore, the real murderer may be hiding in the Lu family. β
After hearing these words, Lu Xihe felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
"You dare to swear it has nothing to do with you?" She gritted her teeth and uttered the words.
Ning Yi raised his hand solemnly, "If I have harmed Ruan Ruan's family, I will not be able to die a good death." β
"But, my brother's nurse said it was you." Lu Xihe complained, "It's you! Because your brother found out your secret, your people killed him! β
Her eyes were red, but she couldn't cry.
Ning Yi's voice was painful, "Even if I kill all the people in the world, I will never do anything to the people you love." Why don't you understand..."
At this moment, Lu Xihe was very helpless.
"Who is that, who killed my brother..."She covered her face and cried bitterly, "I've been investigating for so long, why can't I find the murderer..."
Ning Yi stepped forward and hugged her, "I'll help you, let's find the murderer together..."
"But you are no longer my eldest brother, you are King Gong, you are Ning Yi, you are not my eldest brother Lu Yiran." She sobbed, "You're not..."
"I'll always be there for you as long as you want...," he muttered.
Lu Xihe sat up straight suddenly, "I'm going to see Grandma Sun, I don't believe it, I can't pry her mouth open." β
Ning Yi stopped her, thinking that this move was inappropriate.
"Grandma Sun is just a nurse, what can she know?"
Lu Xihe doesn't think so, since this grandmother Sun dares to deceive herself, maybe there is someone behind it. And the person who instructed her must have nothing to do with this matter.
"What she knows, she won't know until she interrogates it."
She has always been stubborn, Ning Yi understands, "You weren't so impulsive before. β
After hearing this, Lu Xihe was not as impatient as he was just now.
Seeing this, Ning Yi said, "When it comes to his affairs, you can't calm down, can you?" β
Her fingers were embedded deep in her palms, and bean-sized blood dripped down.
How do you want her to calm down? That's her favorite brother, the brother who has always tolerated her, taken care of her, and given her love since she was a child.
It took her three years to accept her brother's departure
But her hatred for herself is increasing day by day.
If it weren't for himself, how could my brother die without knowing it? Why did she have to be a gift from her brother?
If she hadn't been so headstrong and not so squeamish, maybe her brother wouldn't have died.
"It's all me... It was my fault... I hurt him. She hugged her head, in pain, "If it weren't for me, he would be alive and well now, maybe he would have married and had children, and had a happy family." If it weren't for me, Liu Feng and they wouldn't have died..."
"No, it's not your fault. Don't take everything on your head. He said, "Your existence is the most beautiful thing in the world." Even if some people speak ill of you and are prejudiced against you, you must believe in yourself. Only you are qualified to judge yourself, and no one else has it. I know how they slander you and hurt you, and you must not surrender. You have to make those who despise you pay the price. β
Lu Xihe's headache rose.
At the age of eight, her mother pointed at her and scolded the broom star;
At the age of nine, Lu Jingshu poured hot water on herself, and her father only regarded it as a joke between children, but she was reprimanded for being ignorant;
At the age of ten, Aunt Liang locked herself in a dark firewood room for a day and a night on the grounds that she was disobedient;
At the age of eleven, she overheard Aunt Bai and others' evaluation of herself, scheming and villainous, claiming that she would wait for her to wait for her to marry her to a wasted nest with no interest...
She has been pointed at her nose, hunted down by assassins, and deceived by ill-intentioned people.
She has lived and died several times, but she is still regarded as a wicked person.
"Big brother, why?" She asked with tears in her voice, "Why can't those people have a little kindness to others?" β
Ning Yi held her shoulder, "It's human nature, you don't have to be sad about it." β
Lu Xihe raised his head, "I understand." "She can't be decadent anymore, she can't be influenced by people who don't matter. She will continue to investigate until she finds out the real murderer!
No one could stop her.
Ning Yi saw that she had calmed down a lot, and asked, "Do you want to come to my mansion to have a look?" You haven't come to see it once since it was built. β
Asking her like this, Ning Yi himself felt a little abrupt. After all, she is no longer her nominal eldest brother, and it is no longer appropriate to meet each other rashly, wouldn't it be even more inappropriate to invite the house as a guest again...
"Since my eldest brother has been invited, I have no reason to refuse." She said with a pretended to be relaxed.
Actually, she wanted to refuse.
Thinking back to his crazy words that night, and the hatred he had for years. How could she easily let go of these and face him?
But after today's open-hearted conversation, the knot in her heart seems to be slowly untied.
Even if she couldn't believe him right away, she wasn't as resistant as she used to be.
There's no need for her to set up enemies for herself, is she?
Ning Yi was happy in his heart, this was the beginning of their relaxation.
"Big brother, aren't you going to get out of the car?" Lu Xihe thought he should go back to his carriage.
"Out of the way, I'm with you." He sat opposite Lu Xihe, coughed lightly, and looked outside.
Lu Xihe found that he seemed to have lost weight recently, probably because he had been too busy recently.
After he recovered his identity, the emperor took him very seriously.
He deserves it.
Lu Xihe looked down at the tip of his shoe, "I haven't congratulated my eldest brother yet, and I have recovered my identity." β
"It's better to be at ease than before." He said to Lu Xihe, "On the contrary, I should congratulate you, but in just a few months, you have become the head of the Criminal Department, and your future is immeasurable." β
"You..."
"I didn't want you to be a female officer before, because that road was full of dangers. I don't want to see you fall into danger or be taken advantage of. You are very smart, but you have experienced too little, you don't know the darkness of the human heart, and you don't know what people will do for power. When Mrs. Lu entrusted you to me, she told me that I must take good care of you. β
"You mean, my mother?" She couldn't believe it.
Ning Yi nodded slightly, "Over the years, it's not that she doesn't care about you, it's just that she has her own troubles." β
Lu Xihe was reluctant to mention these things, so he simply remained silent.
"Prince Gong's Mansion has arrived." The little guy shouted.
Ning Yi was the first to get out of the car and stretched out his hand to her, his face full of warmth.
"Be careful of slipping." Seeing that she didn't move, Ning Yi slowly withdrew her hand.
Pothos hurriedly stepped forward and took her hand and walked down.
Ning Yi gave the little guy next to him a look, and the little guy understood it and ran away.
"I'll show you around." He always kept a step away from her.
Lu Xihe is indeed very curious about Prince Gong's Mansion.
Prince Gong's Mansion is huge.
After walking around, Lu Xihe felt that this place did not look like a palace, but more like a labyrinth.
In addition, the heavy snow stopped at the beginning, and it was covered in silver everywhere, which made people even more disoriented.
"The eldest brother's mansion is very exquisite." She commented.
Ning Yi chuckled softly, "You can be careful with your words. β
Lu Xihe said embarrassedly: "If I comment nonsense, wouldn't I want everyone to see the joke." β
"It seems that you have made a lot of jokes in front of me." Seeing that Ning Yi didn't mean to stop, Lu Xihe hurriedly interrupted: "It must be that the eldest brother is mistaken!" β
Ning Yi followed her and pondered: "Well, that's probably the case." β
Prince Gong's Mansion staged a warm scene of brother and sister reminiscing, but there was a dead silence on the side of King Chu's Mansion.
Everyone knows that the King of Chu has been uncertain recently, and no one dares to make a mistake.
Bai Xi is the one who knows the whole thing best.
If the king of Chu is furious, it proves that it is not the worst situation. But this time, for some reason, after the prince received a letter, the whole person was terrifyingly gloomy.
Bai Xi remembered that the last time the prince was like this, it was when he washed the queen mother's palace with a knife.
Could it be that Lord Lu did something that touched the bottom line of the prince?
After the prince personally drove away Lord Lu today, the prince asked: "Would you believe a person who is full of lies?" β
Bai Xi replied: "It depends on who the other party is, if it is a person close to the prince, you can't trust it once." If that person insists on not changing, why should the prince care? β
"She actually hid so many things from me..."The look of the prince who lost his soul was something Bai Xi had never seen before." Why didn't she tell me that she was such a person in the first place, why did she expose me to a false her? β
"Maybe there's something hidden in that." Bai Xi said.
"Secrets." As if he was drunk, the prince said to himself, "What do you have to hide? If you're just trying to take advantage of me, you don't have to be so wronged and put up with me for so long. Why are you teasing me? Why, use me as your tool? You think I don't have a heart, do you? β
Bai Xi scolded secretly, the old saying that the fruit of red face is true. That Lord Lu, although he looked good, his heart was also broken. She did something sorry for the prince. Poor prince, he didn't pursue it, and he was sad alone in the room.