Chapter 9: The Cage

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Two days later, Sheng Zhaorong received an order from the emperor's grandmother to personally come to the county lord's mansion to pick up people.

Mama Qin had already prepared all the outfits for the little county lord to go to the Taixue Mansion, if it weren't for the fact that the Taixue Mansion was not allowed to bring the maids, Mama Qin would want to go with her.

Si Xuan wrote down Mama Qin's words one by one, and then got into Sheng Zhaorong's luxurious carriage and left.

Not long after Si Xuan sat up, he heard Sheng Zhaorong, who was sitting opposite, say, "Changyang, long time no see." โ€

Si Xuan followed politely, "Today, I am tired of the Fourth Highness." โ€

"The main thing is that the imperial grandmother asked me to come by name, otherwise I don't really want to come."

After all, Si Xuan grew up with these princes since he was a child, and he still knows more or less about Sheng Zhaorong's character, this person is a drama spirit to put it bluntly, and he is not a bad person, but among all the princes, he is the most difficult to use.

Other princes have begun to divide their respective camps and parties at about this age, preparing for the future struggle for the crown, but Sheng Zhaorong is different, he has been in the Taixue Mansion for a few years, and he has not learned from the political leaders, but he is quite interested in the geology of Chonghua, and from time to time he has to go outside to inspect for a month before coming back, and those people in the capital city are simply incompatible.

Si Xuan heard the subtext that he wanted to slip away, but he didn't pay attention to him, pretending not to understand his words, just at this time, there was a commotion and a deafening animal roar from the crowd on the street, Si Xuan pushed the car window and followed the sound-

There were many people on the side of the street, and it was from there that the howling came from.

Si Xuan clearly saw that under a huge cage with metal hollow patterns, a fierce tiger was imprisoned, and the claws of the beast slapped on the cage door, shaking with the sound of the iron lock colliding.

It gives people a sense of strength that is stretched with blood all over their bodies.

Si Xuan involuntarily slid his throat slightly.

And while she stared at the gorgeous and cold cage without blinking, Sheng Zhaorong's voice came, "It's a beast fighting show, look at their costumes, it should be a troupe from the north." โ€

Si Xuan's eyes were dark, and he looked so focused that he didn't have a brain when he asked a question, so he thought about it and asked, "Your Highness, can this cage be closed?" โ€

Sheng Zhaorong looked at her in surprise when he heard this, and called her full name with a serious face: "Si Xuan, this is a cage that imprisons and tames beasts, of course you can't lock people up, and you have always forbidden to lock people up in various inhumane ways." โ€

"Oh." Si Xuan looked away regretfully and closed the car window.

"You ......" Sheng Zhaorong felt that Si Xuan seemed to be a little strange, and originally wanted to ask something, but when he saw Si Xuan lowering his eyes and crumpling his backpack, Yin Yin looked at a very innocent and fair little face, but at this moment, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes revealed an indescribable gloomy temperament.

Adhering to the concept that more things are better than less, Sheng Zhaorong chose to shut up very interestingly.

Because the Queen Mother had greeted her in advance, after arriving at the Taixue Mansion, Sheng Zhaorong simply took Si Xuan to familiarize himself with the Taixue Mansion.

At this time, there happened to be someone training on the other side of the training ground, Si Xuan looked over and saw a tall and broad man in a military uniform standing on the stone platform of the training ground, who looked very young and handsome, and there were a group of students who were being trained.

"That's the new martial arts leader, surnamed Lin, he is very ruthless, he just cleaned up a few gentlemen who didn't listen to the training two days ago, and you were careful when you turned around."

Si Xuan nodded casually, and when he arrived at the dormitory, Sheng Zhaorong was inconvenient to take Si Xuan in, so he found a female official to take Si Xuan in.

"This is the dormitory," the female official didn't know Si Xuan's identity, gave Si Xuan the corresponding dormitory brand key, and reminded her while opening the door for her, "Although Miss Si doesn't stay, the weather in the capital has been bad recently, and if you can't go back in the heavy snow one day, you can still stay in the dormitory to rest." โ€

After sending the female official away, Si Xuan took a serious look at the simple and clear room, and there were two couches in the room, one of which had been put on the baggage, and Si Xuan put his things on the other side.

She tucked away her belongings a bit and pushed the door open.

At this time, the snow outside was falling heavier, and standing under the porch and watching, the snow was falling wildly, and the trees in the courtyard were frozen in the sky.

Si Xuan originally wanted to follow what Sheng Zhaorong had explained to her before, and put something to find Mrs. Su in Gezhai, but unfortunately, she saw a familiar figure coming out of the opposite room, holding up the oil-paper umbrella, and walking outside the courtyard.

Si Xuan stopped in place, fixed.

Although he only glanced at it in a hurry, Si Xuan recognized at a glance that the person who had just walked out of the courtyard was Princess Zhaohua.

Rime fell from the crushed branches in small pieces, and then covered with falling snow, burying the traces of the broken branches.

Si Xuan stared at the snowy soil for a long time before blinking slightly, raising his hand to tie his cloak and walking out.

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Sheng Zhaohua went back to the compound to pick up an important scroll, and after taking the things, he returned to his own class.

It was probably at noon when class ended, the daughter of the Mu family came to invite her to go to the painting building to enjoy the paintings, and Sheng Zhaohua remembered that he would enter the palace to see his mother later, so he politely declined.

She came out of the class courtyard with the sorted book, and was about to go to the pavilion where Mrs. Su was, but unfortunately she was stopped on the way to the corridor, and the person seemed to be from another class courtyard, and when she came up, she handed her a note, saying that someone asked her to help hand it over.

Sheng Zhaohua took it hesitantly, and before he could ask anything, the man ran away.

She opened the note and saw that there was a sentence written on it.

Sheng Zhaohua looked around at the blurred wind and snow under the corridor, but didn't see why.

It wasn't that she didn't think that this note was a little strange, but she thought that someone might really have an accident, so she went anyway.

The location given on the note is a relatively remote old courtyard firewood room behind the dormitory, which is usually used to pile up sundries, and few students come here.

Sheng Zhao painted outside the firewood room, and was looking around in confusion, when Leng Buding was covered by someone from behind his eyes and mouth.

She tried to struggle but to no avail, kicked her calf a few times, only to hear the creak of the door opening, and then she was pushed in and tied to a wooden bench.

Her eyes were blindfolded, her eyes were pitch black, and even her mouth was stuffed with a cloth, and she couldn't call for help.

And the person who tied her up was calm from beginning to end, calm as a habitual offender.

It didn't take long for the door to be closed again.

Si Xuan lowered his head and buckled his cloak and hat, turned around calmly and left.

However, just as Si Xuan was about to step out of the gate of the old courtyard, a tall figure leaned against the door, blocking her way.

Si Xuan raised his eyelashes, stared at the other party for a while, and finally remembered that the person in front of him was the Lin Jiaotou who would train people in the training ground, and the person Sheng Zhaorong couldn't provoke.

Lin Zhuchen stopped by the door, squinted his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, but he didn't expect that he would be a well-behaved child and be able to do this.

After a while, Si Xuan opened his mouth and called "Lin Jiaotou", and then turned sideways to leave in front of him.

"Go and open the door." Lin Zhuchen didn't intend to give face to this child, and ordered her bluntly.

Si Xuan walked past him without changing his face.

As a result, the next moment, Lin Zhuchen carried the back of the rabbit by the neck, slipped the child back, and buckled it by the courtyard wall.

"Little friend, I don't care which powerful family in the city you are, when you enter the Taixue Academy, I am your martial arts sect, will you be too disrespectful to me if you do bad things under my nose?"

Si Xuan was clasped by him and couldn't move.

She didn't struggle, she honestly let him hold her, and her expression was obedient, as if she was tamed, but the words she said were the same as her behavior: "You can pretend that you didn't see it." โ€

Lin Zhuchen raised his eyebrows slightly, probably it was rare to encounter such a hard bone who didn't know what to do, he smiled and said: "Little friend, give you two choices, one, obediently go and let people go, and second, I will take you to the government now, and you don't want to stay in the Taixue Mansion in the future." โ€

After Si Xuan heard this, he looked at him with light eyes, and he didn't speak for a long time.

I don't know if she was stimulated by his words, she pursed her dry lips, and when Lin Zhuchen let go of her hand, she turned her head and walked back to the direction of the firewood room without saying a word.

Seeing this, Lin Zhuchen squinted his eyes and followed.

Thinking that this child should be a first-time offender, he looks quite timid, so he will be obedient if he is scared.

Si Xuan opened the door of the firewood room, first untied the black cloth that covered Sheng Zhaohua's eyes, and then removed the stuff in her mouth, and then continued to loosen her hands and feet without saying a word.

Sheng Zhaohua was so frightened that his face turned white, but he suddenly saw the time again, and saw that it was Si Xuan who appeared in front of him and squatted down to untie himself, and he was even more startled, his lips trembled slightly and called her name, "Si, Si Xuan?" โ€

Si Xuan ignored her.

Sheng Zhaohua came to his senses a little at this time, and muttered: "Si Xuan, thank you for saving me, I don't know who played a prank just now and locked me up here......"

After Si Xuan finished untying the rope on her body, she stood up and looked at Sheng Zhaohua with an expressionless face: "It's me." โ€

"What ......" Sheng Zhaohua suspected that he had heard something, his eyes widened, and when he looked up, he was even more stunned when he saw Lin Jiaotou standing outside the firewood room.

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Two quarters of an hour later, Si Xuan and Sheng Zhaohua were taken by Lin Jiaotou to Su Taifu's pavilion.

Mrs. Su listened to the incident explained by Lin Jiaotou and Sheng Zhaohua successively, and then looked at Si Xuan and asked, "Is what they said true?" โ€

Si Xuan nodded.

Mrs. Su saw that she didn't look like someone who would do such a bad thing, and frowned, only feeling that her brain was buzzing.

Si Xuan is the person who the Queen Mother specially told to take good care of him, but where did he think that on the first day of his schooling, Si Xuan stabbed him in such a big hole - he actually put Princess Zhaohua in the firewood room......

Seeing that Mrs. Su didn't speak, Lin Jiaotou asked Si Xuan for him unhurriedly: "Which one?" Call your father. โ€

Si Xuan lowered his head and picked up the fur collar of his cloak and said, "My father is dead." โ€

โ€œโ€ฆโ€ฆ What about your mother? โ€

"Dead too."

Lin Zhuchen asked in a calm voice, "Who else is left in the family?" โ€

This time, Si Xuan paused, rubbed his thumb against the side of the ring knuckle, and said lightly, "No one." โ€

"Okay, force me to go through your file."

Lin Zhuchen said, just about to go to the library to look through the files, but was stopped by Mrs. Su, Mrs. Su coughed once or twice, and whispered: "She is the one left by the Si family." โ€

Lin Zhuchen paused, and raised his eyes to look at Si Xuan again.

Only then did I know that the bad boy in front of me turned out to be the little county lord of Changyang who had been imprisoned.

Of course, Lin Zhuchen didn't know much about what happened two years ago, after all, he had just returned from the south last year.

Mrs. Su folded for a moment and chose to discuss with Princess Zhaohua, "Although I am in the Taixue Mansion now, the princess almost had an accident, and the Taixue Mansion has a great responsibility in this matter, I want to hear what the princess thinks?" โ€

At this time, Sheng Zhaohua also slowly recovered from the uncertainty, and she looked at Si Xuan with complicated emotions, "I want to know, Si Xuan, why did you do this?" โ€

Si Xuan looked at her for a moment and told her truthfully: "I just had this idea, so I did it." โ€

As soon as she said this, the little compassion that Lin Zhuchen had just sprung up instantly dissipated cleanly: "It seems that you don't know anything wrong." โ€

As he spoke, Lin Zhuchen called his subordinates in: "Go to the Hanlin Academy and let Dean Wen come over in person." โ€

The subordinate didn't expect that the order given to him was to go to the Hanlin Academy to find the dean, and he was stunned for a moment before asking, "Sect leader, what if that Dean Wen doesn't come?" โ€

They Lin Jiaotou had been in the army for a long time, and it was normal for them not to know about those rumors in Shangdu, but he knew very well that Dean Wen was notoriously cold-blooded, and it was unlikely that he would come here for Si Xuan anyway......

Lin Zhuchen stared at Si Xuan, but his words were said to his subordinates: "Tell him that his sister is in trouble in the Taixue Mansion, if he doesn't care, the Taixue Mansion will send people to the mansion, and if he still cares, let him roll over and lead the people himself." โ€

When the people were ordered to go out, Mrs. Su realized what Lin Jiaotou had done, and hurriedly pulled Lin Jiaotou aside to talk.

During this period, Sheng Zhaohua had been observing Si Xuan, trying to find some flaws in her face.

I don't know how long it took for the head of the Lin sect to really invite the noble dean of the Hanlin Academy.

Sheng Zhaohua turned around and saw Wen Yunjin coming from the outside corridor.

It was snowing a lot outside, and Wen Yunjin was wearing a cloak, and her stiff and slender shoulders were covered with frost and snow, and it could be seen that she had rushed all the way over.

And Si Xuan didn't seem to care about the arrival of that person, his little face was tense, unmoved.

Wen Yunjin walked into the cabinet of the pavilion, took off the cloak and handed it to Zhao Changlin behind him, his eyes swept lightly over the few people in the cabinet, and his eyes stopped for a moment on Si Xuan who was standing on the side of the table.

Mrs. Su recounted what happened today to Wen Yunjin, Wen Yunjin listened quietly, and asked Zhao Shengzhao, "Is there anything wrong with the princess?" โ€

Sheng Zhaohua saw Wen Yunjin's caring gaze, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, although Si Xuan is ...... But soon came back to loosen my ties, and I didn't think it was intentional. โ€

"Wrong is wrong." Wen Yunjin's always gentle voice was a little colder, and finally looked at Si Xuan who was standing alone again, and ordered indifferently with a cold look: "Come here yourself." โ€-

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