Xiao Mubai's heart suddenly sank, and there was an extremely cold and sharp pain that went up his spine and finally pierced into his brain.
A kind of panic that was more frightening than the emperor poisoning him made his breathing suddenly quicken.
"Why did you suddenly mention this?"
Xiaoyun, who was sitting on his knees next to him, wrapping the crushed tea leaves in pure tissue paper and grinding the tea, paused for a moment with his hands inconspicuously.
Concubine Li placed the broken pear blossom next to her cheek, suddenly leaned forward a little, approached Xiao Mubai and said, "I have a question that I am very curious about. The young marquis was sent to the mountains to recuperate since he was a child. , why did I become so friendly with you after we came down from the mountain?"
Xiao Mubai only felt sharp stabbing pains in his head. He inadvertently glanced at Xiaoyun who was grinding tea: "This king and him fell in love at first sight. I must have never had a close friend, so I can't understand it."
"We felt like old friends at first sight?" A meaningful smile appeared on Li Fei's lips.
She put her hands on the stone table, moved closer and closer, and whispered in his ear: "You two have such a good relationship, what if he knew that you were his mother-killing enemy?" good?"
Xiao Mubai's eyes suddenly darkened. The clouds in the distance and the flowers and trees nearby were all blurred into one in an instant, and could no longer be seen clearly.
The faint fragrance of pear blossoms filled his nose, reminding him of the words that Concubine Li had just leaned forward and said carelessly in his ear.
"You're talking nonsense!" Xiao Mubai stretched out his hand and pinched Concubine Li's neck. Niancha Xiaoyun screamed in shock, and hurriedly stood up and tried to pull Xiao Mubai away: "Your Majesty, please let go."
Xiaoyun's voice was clear and tense. Although there was a roar in his ears and he could only hear the sound of blood boiling, her voice lingering in his ears made Xiao Mubai suddenly wake up and let go of his hand.
But his hand was still hanging in the air, maintaining the slightly bent state of his fingers when pinching Li Fei's neck. Due to the extreme force, the veins on the back of his hand popped out.
Xiaoyun held his wrist, tightened it and pushed back: "Your Majesty, you'd better sit down and talk to your Majesty."
Xiao Mubai saw the clarity in her eyes, and did not have the slightest suspicion because of Concubine Li's words. The warmth from her wrists and the force of the tightening made him gradually calm down.
Xiao Mubai clenched his hands into fists and hung them at his sides. He moved his eyes away from Xiaoyun's face and stared at Concubine Li for a moment. He said in a deep voice: "Zhao Lansheng died to save the emperor. What does this have to do with me?"
Li Fei raised her head and stroked the red mark on her neck that he had just pinched. After listening to his gritted questions, there was no anger on her face. She waved to the people from the mausoleum gate who were scattered around and pointed at the servants in the house with their swords. They sheathed their knives.
As she looked forward, she raised her eyebrows and glanced at Xiao Mubai with an even brighter look. Her tone returned to her usual charming tone: "What His Highness King Mo said is true. Then how did the Emperor... get poisoned?"
Xiao Mubai only felt a bone-chilling chill that was even worse than the ice poison in his body before. It slowly climbed up from the soles of his feet and poured all the way to the top of his head. The terrifying feeling of ice and cold made his body stiff and unable to move.
Seeing that he was silent, Concubine Li laughed more and more: "His Royal Highness, King Mo, is so smart, so he must have guessed it. Otherwise, why do you think that the emperor's poisoning was not investigated vigorously back then, but instead he pretended to cover it up. Because in the final analysis, that person... It’s you, if the emperor finds you out personally, how should you deal with it?”
Xiao Mubai didn't want to believe what she said, but he couldn't refute her every word. He seemed to have glimpsed an unimaginable dark abyss.
And he was standing on the top of the abyss, looking down at the cold darkness below that could swallow him mercilessly.
A cup of hot tea was pushed in front of him. It wasn't until the hand holding the cup withdrew that Xiao Mubai said hoarsely: "I was a four-year-old child back then. How could I poison my father?"
Concubine Li smiled soothingly and her breath was uneven. She took a sip of tea and then cleared her throat: "Yes, the prince was only four years old at that time, and he was deeply in love with the emperor and his son. How did he poison the emperor? ?”
The remaining hope on Xiao Mubai's face gradually melted away like spring snow, leaving only despair and pain that ate away all the color on his face bit by bit, leaving a pale white complexion.
His breath was very heavy, and the words he spoke seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he squeezed them out word by word: "Where is he? I want him to admit it himself."
Xiao Mubai's expression at this moment was like that of a beast on the verge of death, spreading the aura of perishing together. He stared firmly at Concubine Li's eyes: "You let me enter the city but didn't kill me. Don't you just hope that I will... Uncover these bloody truths with your own hands."
Li Fei saw that his body was trembling, and the veins on his temples were pulsing. She could almost feel the feeling of blood flowing desperately in his body.
She was very happy to appreciate his gaffe at this time, with a little regret in her words: "Before you left Beijing, I also tried my best to let you meet. You also know that he didn't want to see you."
Xiao Mubai's pupils shrank suddenly. He stood up abruptly and shouted towards the end of the corridor: "Zhong Guo, what are you hiding from? What are you hiding? Why did you fake your death back then? Come out to me, you owe me an explanation! You... "
His angry words suddenly stopped, and Xiaoyun, who was lowering his head to order tea, was shocked when he heard Zhong Guo's name.
Zhong Guo... wasn't he the attendant who took away Xiao Mubai who was seriously injured by the lake seven years ago
She looked up at Xiao Mubai and followed his gaze to the end of the rockery and flowing water corridor.
There. The figure of a masked man appeared.
Xiao Mubai saw the person he wanted to see the most, and the person he was most afraid of seeing.
The masked man appeared as he wished, but at this moment, he was at a loss. He felt that the masked man was advancing and descending on him mercilessly step by step until he was completely destroyed.
Li Fei turned to look at the masked man approaching, and Xiao Yun took the opportunity to quickly help Xiao Mubai, who was shaking.
It was just a touch of strength, as fast as if she had never helped her before, but the warmth in the palm reminded Xiao Mubai, who was on the verge of collapse, of what Xia Chu said to him on the edge of the cliff: " No matter where you are, I will be by your side."
He picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp. The tea was slightly astringent, like a lump in his throat.
Li Fei looked at the masked man who came forward and sneered: "He is no longer your master, what? You heard him calling your name, but you still can't help but obey the order?"
The masked man looked directly at Concubine Li: "You said so much just to force me out."
Li Fei put her hand on his shoulder and breathed into his ear: "This is an injustice to me. I have already warned the prince a long time ago that the truth is unbearable. It is he who insists on knowing, and I have no choice but to do so." .”
(End of chapter)