Chapter 60: Grievances
Li Ying didn't seem to hear what he meant, and said tamely: "This lesson is so painful, he must know that he is wrong." β
"Whether it's sincere repentance, or to escape the pain of flesh and skin, it's hard to say." Zhu Rongzhan said slowly: "If you bow your head on the surface, but you are resentful and dissatisfied in your heart, how can this be good?" β
Li Ying was silent.
Zhu Rongzhan refused to let him go, and had to force him to speak: "The eldest son may see if he is sincere or false?" β
"Surely it is sincere."
Seeing that he was still pretending to be stupid, Zhu Rongzhan snorted lightly: "Eldest son, call someone to fetch buckets of water." β
The nurse could only give orders, and after a while, a pale Taoist priest walked out of the view, carrying a bucket full of well water.
A catcher from Jingzhao Mansion stepped forward to take it and unceremoniously splashed it on the Taoist priest on the ground.
The cold water of the well hurt the wounds on his body, and he woke up in a daze.
Yan Yan stepped forward and asked him, "You still have three whips to receive." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is merciful and gives you a chance. Do you know you're wrong? β
The Taoist priest shivered in pain, curled up on the ground, like a fish that had been thrown on the board, struggling in vain, but he couldn't stop the fate of being scraped and disemboweled, and he was busy crying: "I know it's wrong, I know it's wrong!" β
Zhu Rongzhan lowered his eyes and asked, "Do you know what's wrong?" β
"Small, small ways should not be, should not be disrespectful to the government...... Don't talk nonsense! You shouldn't be in the way of your highness......! β
"You ran into me today, what if it's really the right to know Jingzhao Mansion Yin? If he hits you, will you admit your mistake? β
"Yes! Yes! β
"You won't," Zhu Rongzhan smiled slightly, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes: "You have suffered a loss, you can't swallow this breath, you think to yourself, it's just a powerful Jingzhao Mansion Yin, is the authority comparable to the Li family of the fourth world and the third duke?" You are the protΓ©gΓ© of the eldest son of the Li family, what happened to the second-rank master? He should bow down to you for your master's sake. So you will go back to the Star Gate and complain to your master. β
"I ...... I ......"
"Well, now, isn't your master right in front of you?" Zhu Rongzhan's voice became softer and softer, like a demagogic ghost: "Go ask him for help, complain to him, let him be angry for you, and support you?" β
The Taoist priest subconsciously followed Zhu Rongzhan's words and looked at Li Ying, his face was mixed with blood and tears, ash and dust, and it was extremely dirty.
"The eldest son...... Woo...... The eldest son ......"
A trace of anger appeared in the nurse's eyes, she gritted her teeth, and wanted to rush forward, first kill the arrogant dog prince, and then kill this embarrassing fool!
Since Childe is his master, but now he is humiliated because of him, he still has some loyalty and shame, shouldn't he be cut off from this?! Crying and chirping here, such a cowardly nest!
Li Ying frowned slightly, as if he could not bear the humiliation, his already pale lips were even paler at the moment: "Why is Your Highness so ......?" β
"Why, don't you dare?" Seeing that he finally spoke, Zhu Rongzhan looked at the dagger, his eyes were as sharp as a knife: "Then say you don't dare." Then he fell on his knees and said, "Don't you dare!" β
The stern tone, the ruthless tough attitude, even Yan Yan, who belonged to the crown prince guard, couldn't help but feel a sudden in his heart and felt that something was wrong.
The Li family has a very high prestige and great power, and now there is nothing too wrong with it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forced the eldest son of the Li family to be humiliated, and asked him to kneel and admit his mistakes in front of everyone, which is unavoidable...... It's a bit unreasonable.
But...... Yan Yan thought helplessly, who would dare to dissuade the prince at this time?
At this time, a woman wearing a hat walked out of the Star Gate Temple.
Although she covers her face, she is also delicate and graceful and graceful.
Zhu Rongzhan immediately recognized who it was, his face immediately seemed to have overturned the color palette, and a bittersweet meal surged out of his heart.
Ah Yu!?
How could Ah Yu be here!
He had guessed that Li Ying was suddenly going to buy snacks, maybe to give them to Lin Yu to please her, or to prepare them for her when she came to visit, but he didn't think that Lin Yu was in the Star Gate Temple!
Shouldn't she be in the Lin Mansion?!
Her father entered the palace and told such an outrageous lie, asking the Queen Mother for marriage, couldn't she wait for a moment, so she immediately rushed to Xingmen Temple to be with that Li Ying!?
Zhu Rongzhan said angrily: "You-"
But before he could speak, the woman stood beside Li Ying, and gently pinched Li Ying's cold fingertips with the cover of her sleeves, with comfort and apology, and then knelt down towards Zhu Rongzhan.
She knelt on the ground, her tone calm, but like a volcano hidden under the ice and snow waiting to erupt: "Your Highness, I don't dare to wait. β
Zhu Rongzhan immediately jumped off the horse, stumbled when he landed, and almost fell. The left and right guards hurriedly dismounted, and stepped forward in panic to support them.
He walked towards her eagerly, and pushed Li Ying away irritably, Yan Yan immediately stepped forward to separate Li Ying and the nurse from the prince.
Zhu Rongzhan grabbed Lin Yu's wrist and anxiously pulled her up: "What are you doing here...... I'm not asking you to kneel! β
Lin Yu knelt on the ground and did not move, his tone was neither sad nor joyful: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so powerful, who dares to disobey?" β
"You're not convinced!" Zhu Rongzhan looked at her angrily. "You've never served it!"
Lin Yu raised her head and looked at him with a frown, and when she raised her face, the hat in front of her hung down slightly to both sides, revealing a gap.
Through this gap, she saw Zhu Rongzhan's familiar complaining expression, and she wanted to shout in her heart: "Don't you naturally show such a look that seems to be very familiar with me!" β
In the eyes of outsiders, I don't think they have a lot of relationship, and it's strange that there are other hidden secrets!
Zhu Rongzhan didn't care what others thought, but if Li Ying misunderstood something, Lin Yu couldn't explain it.
Li Ying was so humiliated and embarrassed by Zhu Rongzhan because of herself, she really couldn't watch from the sidelines. However, there are many people here, and if Lin Yu doesn't block her face, she doesn't know what the gossip will become, so she simply pretends to be a maid in the Star Gate View.
Just continued to kneel, showing some resentment towards Zhu Rongzhan, Lin Yu was worried that he would incur his anger again, and Li Ying would be affected, so he had to stand up with him.
"You...... and didn't do anything wrong," Zhu Rongzhan also knew that he had to cover up his identity for Lin Yu, so he gave a blunt reason: "How can this palace embarrass a weak woman?" β
After reluctantly giving an explanation to the people around him, Zhu Rongzhan pulled Lin Yu and was about to go to the side to speak alone.
Lin Yu was unwilling, but there was no way to refuse, so he could only be pulled aside.
At first, he was angry, and he walked quickly and fiercely, and his lameness was particularly obvious, but he didn't take a few steps, and he didn't know what he remembered, and suddenly slowed down.
Zhu Rongzhan glanced back at her, but he couldn't see her expression behind the hat, and said with some uneasiness in his heart: "...... The palace was in too much of a hurry, maybe the demeanor was out of shape, and it didn't make the lady uncomfortable, right? β
Lin Yu only felt that he had started pretending again.
She simply asked, "Your Highness, is Bai Lu okay?" β
"Nature is good." Zhu Rongzhan said: "She is your personal maid, how can this palace treat her badly?" β
"Your Highness, you yourself are willing to be good to her, I don't have any opinion, you don't have to say it is because of me every time."
"But ......" Zhu Rongzhan thought to himself, it was indeed because of you. He paused: "Does Ayu not like her?" β
He remembered that it was because Bai Lu leaked his secret to him that he was driven away by Lin Yu, and a sense of crisis suddenly appeared in his heart - Bai Lu took refuge in him, and Ah Yu didn't like Bai Lu, wouldn't he also dislike him?
He couldn't help but excuse Bai Lu, trying to prove that although she leaked the secret, she was still good, and it was not bad to listen to her leak the secret, but Zhu Rongzhan racked his brains for a long time, and he couldn't think of any place for Bai Lu to praise - he was really not familiar with her enough.
In the end, he could only hold back one sentence: "Actually, she ...... The nature is not bad, there is no bad heart. β
Lin Yu said "oh": "Your Highness likes it." β
That tone, Zhu Rongzhan knew when she heard it that she didn't pay attention to it at all, it was purely perfunctory.
He was immediately aggrieved: "You don't like her because she helped me!" You just don't want anyone to help me! Then why did you help Li Ying!? I don't like him either! But you helped him, and I still like you! Why don't you like me? Your father ran to the palace and said that you were sick and important to marry Li Yingchongxi, and asked the Queen Mother to give you a marriage, do you know? β