Chapter XXII
Hearing this sound, Scarlet Smoke's first thought was to count the days. At this time, it was the second day of the third month, and it had only been less than twenty days since the last time King Xinling had poisoned his hair, so it shouldn't have anything to do with his poisonous hair, so what happened to make these secret guards whistle?
Wei Ting put the stunned look on the woman's face in his eyes, and couldn't help but ask, "Miss Scarlet?" ”
Scarlet Smoke was pulled back by this call, and hurriedly said apologetically, "Fifth Highness, there is an urgent matter in the little girl's family, and you need to go back first, and I hope Your Highness will forgive your sins." Since she heard this sound, the fifth prince must have also noticed, and Scarlet Smoke knew that she couldn't hide it from the man in front of her, so she was honest, but begged him to understand.
"Well, why are you all in such a hurry? Is His Highness some kind of flood beast? Wei Ting shook his head helplessly, but he didn't ask anything, and still said gently, "Since Miss Scarlet has something, then let's go." It's just that if there is a chance, I want to go to the house to disturb the scarlet picture with a cup of top hair, I wonder if the girl can bring the words? ”
Is this a disguised invitation? Scarlet Smoke raised her eyebrows, seeing that the man's face was open, and the warm smile was a little comforting, this gesture made Scarlet Smoke unable to open her mouth to refuse, she had to respond softly, and immediately turned around and left the meditation pavilion.
Looking at the figure of the woman who resolutely left, Wei Ting stood in the pavilion with a slight smile. I don't know if she is really the person he is looking for, this woman is elegant with a touch of heaviness, elegant and chic mixed with a little resolute toughness, one bright and one dark, one soft and one rigid, although it sounds contradictory, but it is very well combined in her, but it really makes people care a little.
"Let people follow and keep her safe." Only a faint sentence, although no one answered, but not far away in the forest, the branches of the trees swayed gently, the perched birds flew away, and a few green leaves fell for no reason, showing that this place is not as uninhabited as it sees.
Out of Shufang Garden, Scarlet Smoke hurriedly walked to the carriage of the Prime Minister's Mansion, a look stopped Xiangling from asking suspiciously, she lifted the curtain of the car, and only dropped a sentence, "Go to the Xinling Palace." ”
Xiangling was taken aback by the fierce aura exuded by her young lady's body at that moment, and immediately didn't dare to ask more, urging the coachman to go to the Xinling Palace.
In the carriage, before Scarlet Smoke had time to catch his breath, he found that a note appeared on the small table that did not exist before, and he immediately unfolded it with his fingertips, and there were only six words on the note, "The prince has poisonous hair, return quickly", but it was these words that set off a shocking wave in Scarlet Yan's heart.
How come?! Didn't the poison in him come out at fifteen o'clock every month? How did it happen so quickly? Scarlet Yan forced herself to calm down, and then thought about it, this poison on King Xinling's body, although she didn't have any medicinal materials that could detoxify it at hand at the moment, but there were some things that could trigger the onset of this poison...... Could it be that he came into contact with something that caused the poison to attack prematurely?
When the carriage had not stopped in the Xinling Palace, Scarlet Yan told Xiangling to go back to the mansion first, and he got off the carriage himself, and before he reached the door, he saw Yu Chimu's personal guard Mu walking around in front of the mansion, with a worried look on his eyebrows.
Seeing the scarlet smoke coming, Mu's expression froze, and he hurriedly greeted him. Scarlet Smoke walked to the depths of the Xinling Palace, led by Mu, and asked, "Has the prince come into contact with anyone today?" ”
Mu was stunned, and when he heard the chill in the voice of the prospective princess, he didn't dare to hide it, so he said, "Today, the prince was summoned into the palace by the emperor, and met Concubine De halfway, and after talking a few words, he went back to the house, but he didn't want to ......."
"Okay, I got it." Scarlet Smoke looks uncertain, is the emperor and Concubine De? The corners of his mouth hooked up a mocking smile, Scarlet Smoke came to the dungeon, felt the roar and tremor from the dungeon, the silver teeth bit slightly, and with a wave of his bare hand, he let the wood open the door, and without waiting for him to say anything, he stepped in.
The arm-thick iron chain made a deafening sound under the pull of the man in the middle of the dungeon, three thousand silver threads scattered around his waist, the originally deep eyes were scarlet, and the trace of blood on his face made the man's already handsome face look even more demonic.
Scarlet Smoke walked towards Wei Chimu in the center of the dungeon step by step, looking at his pain, madness, only to feel that a heart seemed to be hit by something one by one, arousing a dull pain. Walking up to the man, Scarlet Smoke took out the dagger that had been stuffed into his hand before, chuckled, and took the dagger, passing over his left wrist. A huge pain poured from his wrist to his heart, and the scarlet hand was unstable, and the dagger fell to the ground with a "ding", but I saw that on the girl's wrist, a bright red thin line-like wound, first one drop, two drops, and then dark red blood flowed down into the stream, and the smell of blood gradually spread.
Without waiting for Wei Chimu, who was tied up in chains, to react, Scarlet Smoke endured the severe pain and sent it to the man's mouth with a wave of his hand. Wei Chi Mu, who was poisoned, cared about something, and immediately lowered his head and swallowed the blood fiercely, and sucked it in a big gulp.
Feeling the strange feeling coming from her wrist, Scarlet Smoke forgot the pain for a while, but as time went by, the blood on her wrist flowed more and more, she couldn't help but feel dizzy, struggled slightly, but couldn't break free, a sense of emptiness gradually hit her heart, Scarlet Smoke smiled bitterly, I am afraid that it will not be long before she will become the first nominal princess to be sucked dry of blood and die. Time passed minute by minute, and in a trance, the scarlet smoke only felt that the sky was spinning, and the dizziness turned into a wave, and the world finally turned into darkness and fell into the silence.
In her coma, she seemed to feel a warm embrace around her, and some warm liquid flowed through her lips. I don't know how long she slept, Scarlet finally woke up and lay down looking at the sky, she was a little glad in her heart that she was still alive. Turning her head to look, there was a thick gauze wrapped around her wrist, the poison in the human body should have been suppressed, she smiled weakly, struggling to sit up, but she was weak, and tried several times in vain. At this time, the maid who was feeding her medicine came in, and was surprised to see that the person on the bed had woken up, and ran out as soon as she put the medicine bowl on the table, and shouted, "The princess is awake!" The princess is awake! ”
Isn't it a big deal, is it worth shouting about? Scarlet Yan frowned, a little helplessness on her pale face, when she struggled to sit up again with her arms, but she didn't want to fall into a pair of powerful arms in the next second, and with a slight effort on those arms, she half-sat up. The faint fragrance of Long Yanxiang drilled into his nose, and he knew that the person who came was Wei Chimu, and he couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart.
Yu Chimu looked at the woman's slender eyelashes that flickered like a small fan, her pale face was haggard, and a moment of fear flashed in her heart. Fortunately, after he regained consciousness, he gave her medicine in time to stop the bleeding, otherwise she was afraid that she would never wake up again. I'm afraid that after that, it will inevitably be a little complicated, and she could not have come. Last time, she broke into the dungeon by mistake and suppressed the toxicity for herself with blood, which she didn't know, and this time Mu sent her a letter without telling herself, and she could have ignored it with her temperament, but she still came, and even risked her life to suppress the toxicity for him. Why is that?
Although the pain and consciousness of the poison were difficult, he had been like this day after day for more than seven years. Since the first poison hair seven years ago failed to torture him, the attack seven years later still can't bear him. And why did she bleed to alleviate his suffering? As long as she can't die, she has a strong backer, just look at it coldly, and each one can do what she needs, isn't it?
Being stared at by that complicated gaze, Scarlet Yan roughly knew what he was thinking, and after thinking about it for a while, she said softly, "Lord Wang, you don't have to thank me, we all have our own needs." ”
"Oh?" Yu Chi Mu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Leaving the ghost gate is also your need for revenge?" ”
Scarlet Smoke chuckled, but didn't look at him, "No, it was an accident. However, Yan'er used blood to suppress the poison in the prince's body, but she wanted to ask the prince for a few things. ”
Blood-for-life? A flame burst out of Wei Chimu's heart for no reason, and his eyes darkened, but he still asked patiently, "What is it?" Is it worth your blood in exchange? ”
Scarlet Yan pursed her lips and said slowly, "Yan'er wants to ask the prince for a thousand taels of silver, two shops, a personal jade pendant of the prince, and some bits and pieces to be written down before the prince can be seen." ”
Hearing her words, Yu Chimu's eyes suddenly became dark, and even a few clusters of flames rose, "In your opinion, is your blood worth these things, or is this king's life worth this?" ”
Scarlet Smoke knew that he was thinking about it, but he didn't explain, there was no slightest temperature in his sharp eyes, facing the deep seclusion, Scarlet Yan endured the dizziness that struck again, and said, "I'm afraid the prince has forgotten, there is only a transaction between us." ”
"Good! Good! Two consecutive "good" words are enough to show the monstrous anger in the man's heart, Wei Chimu pulled out, and didn't care that the scarlet smoke fell because of the lack of support, and his thin lips hooked up a smile, full of irony, "Fire!" Did you hear that, and prepared all the things that Miss Scarlet needed for her. ”
Scarlet Yan endured the discomfort, a weak smile spread out on her pale face, and she bowed slightly, "Thank you, Lord Wang." ”
Seeing her like this, Yu Chi Mu became more and more panicked in his heart, and he snorted coldly and walked away. Huo looked at the weak woman from the sidelines, and couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart. On that day, when Mu informed her of the news that the prince had poisoned, only a moment later, she appeared in front of the dungeon door with Mu. The fire guarded the dungeon so she saw it clearly, how scared and anxious she was at that time, and how distressed she was when she looked at the prince, if he said that these were all pretended, he would not believe it. But why did she face the anger of the prince? Why not explain? Is it really like what the prince said, this woman only has hatred in her heart?
Thinking of this, Huo finally couldn't help but say, "Miss Scarlet, why are you doing this?" ”
Scarlet Smoke raised her head and looked past the window, looking at the white sky outside the window, her heart was blank, yes, why? When I saw the man in pain in the dungeon, why did I want to save him so strongly? Why did she feel a sense of joy and fear in her heart when she faced him before? Why?
Just when the fire thought that she would not answer herself, and turned to leave, she heard a light voice behind her that was almost disappearing, muttering,
"Probably if you are stumped, you will soften your heart......"