Stigma (Yi Cong Yin)

Chapter 119: betray

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Suiyan had been sick for half a month in the Hou's Mansion, and Duan Ming Chongcai took care of the affairs in the DPRK completely.

"Just... just give a fief, go out to Beijing, and you're done?"

Jun Jingxing said angrily, "Don't you really plan to let the prince kill his brother? For a prince, expulsion from the capital is the heaviest punishment, what else do you want?"

Sui Yan bit the spoon: "I thought I would give you some wine or something."

Jun Jingxing said: "Nonsense."

Suiyan put the spoon back, leaned on the back of the chair and watched Jun Jingxing researching medicine, and said, "Duan Zhisu and Duan Ruwang have never planned to grab that position from the beginning to the end, and let them go out of Beijing. It's exactly what they want - have their fiefs been set?"

Jun Jingxing said: "I only heard that the third prince originally decided on Yongzhou, but I don't know how to change it later."

Sui Yan frowned: "Why?"

"why?"

Duan Zhisu poured the tea into the porcelain cup gently, pushed his two fingers in front of Duan Mingchong, and said lightly, "No reason."

Duan Mingchong looked down at the floating tea leaves in the cup, and said, "Yongzhou is barren, a remote place in a poor mountain, it's really not a good place to go."

Duan Zhisu took a sip of tea and said, "I like it."

Duan Mingchong smiled: "What do you like? The border is dangerous? Yellow sand fills the sky?"

Duan Zhisu slowly drank half a cup of tea, placed the porcelain cup on the small red sandalwood case, and said softly, "Forgetting to know the reason."

Duan Mingchong: "…"

The smile slowly disappeared.

When Duan Mingchong got up and left the Third Prince's Mansion, he glanced at Duan Zhisu.

He sat beside the small table and tilted his head to look at the sparkling lake outside the promenade. His expression was dull, and he did not know what to think.

Duan Mingchong hesitated for a while before saying, "Is it worth it?"

Duan Zhisu didn't move, his eyes staring at the lake seemed to be filled with broken light, and he said lightly, "Is it worth it?"

Duan Mingchong said: "You are also aware of Ayan's temperament. Even if you avoid this disaster for him, he will definitely not forgive you."

Duan Zhisu's hand holding the cup tightened slightly, then tilted his head and stared at Duan Mingchong, before saying for a moment, "I didn't want to ask him to forgive me for what I did."

Duan Mingchong frowned.

Duan Zhisu turned his back to the sunset waves reflected on the lake, and although he chuckled lightly, no one could detect the slightest warmth.

Loneliness lingers around.

I don't know how long it took before Duan Zhisu murmured.

"The debts of the past life will be repaid in this life."

"I… "

"Am I still up?"

Duan Zhisu stretched out his hand to support his forehead and smiled softly, but the more his smile looked, the more lonely and desperate he became.

Jun Jingxing shrugged: "So I don't know why, the prince has set a fertile land in the southeast of Shangluo Mountain, and it is said that he has already handed the emperor a book."

If there is no accident, Duan Zhisu's fief has been set.

Suiyan said, "Oh..."

Jun Jingxing saw through him at a glance, rolled his eyes, and said, "Everyone has blamed you, why are you still thinking of plotting against him?"

Suiyan patted the back of the chair and said, "It's not so easy for me to let go of my past grudges with others. Now I just want to see him unhappy, then I'll be happy myself."

Jun Jingxing snapped his forehead angrily, "What's wrong?"

Sui Yan was slightly thrown back by him: "The problem with the small stomach and chicken intestines."

Jun Jingxing couldn't help laughing, just as he was about to say something, a dark shadow suddenly flashed in front of him, and before he could react, a heavy object hit his forehead hard.

A dull sound.

Jun Jingxing was stunned for a moment before raising his hand to cover his aching forehead.

Only then did he realize that what hit him was an unwilling hand knife that appeared out of nowhere.

Jun Jingxing: "… "

Jun Jingxing forgot how to get angry for a while.

Wuhui stood in front of Sui Yan and looked at him coldly: "Next time I move my hands and feet, I'll use a real knife."

Sui Yan: "Pfft..."

Jun Jingxing: "… "

After a while, Jun Jingxing's roar like a mad dog came from the entire courtyard.

"Is there really something wrong with your brain?! If you have any problems, quickly seek a doctor for a cure, don't always harm others!!"

"Does that mean you need to use your hands and feet? You can't use your eyes without your brain?!"

"Speak! You speak! You answer me!!"

Unwilling to argue with him, she just gave him a pitiful look and said to Suiyan, "Little master, he seems a little crazy, stay away from him and be careful not to get bitten."

Jun Jingxing: "… "

Suiyan: "Good hahahahaha!"

Jun Jingxing was really going to be mad.

After night fell, Duan Mingchong hurried to the Hou Mansion.

After the punishment of the two princes was decided, Duan Mingchong was still busy with the secret rioting of the court due to Duan Ruwang's sudden loss of power. He was busy for half a month.

Xu Shi was afraid that Sui Yan would be angry, so Duan Mingchong squeezed a candied gourd in his hand, and also held a large pile of small piles of candied fruit in his arms.

He waved his servants back and stood in front of the side courtyard of the Hou Mansion for a moment before taking a deep breath, kicking the door and walking in.

It was still early, but Sui Yan rarely fell asleep.

Jun Jingxing was pouring the dregs of medicine outside when he saw Duan Mingchong coming, he hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"I have seen His Royal Highness."

Duan Mingchong nodded: "Where's Ayan?"

Jun Jingxing said: "I have already drank the medicine and fell asleep."

Duan Ming Chong said: "Okay."

He walked to the inner room, first looked at Sui Yan who was sleeping, and he withdrew when he saw that his face was okay.

Before Jun Jing Xing left, he stood by with his head lowered and his hands down, as if waiting for him.

Duan Ming Chong said: "What's the matter?"

Jun Jingxing hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "Your Highness forgives your sins, I entrusted her with the matter of dragging in the past and only now will suffer, and I hope Your Highness will deal with it lightly."

Duan Mingchong looked down at the paper on the bookcase on the side, flipped through it at random and found that it was Suiyan practicing calligraphy.

He chuckled lightly, flipped through the paper casually, and said casually: "She murdered the prince, no matter who ordered her to kill the nine clans, you know?"

Jun Jingxing paused before saying, "I know."

Since Suixun said that his calligraphy was ugly before, Suiyan secretly tried to practice calligraphy, but I don't know if he was mentally ill due to illness, or if he wanted to write it out at first, after practicing five or six pieces, he fell out of the pen. practice.

Duan Mingchong quickly finished the page, seeing that Jun Jingxing was already kneeling on the ground at some point, he helplessly rubbed his brows and said, "The crime of dragging this time has been directly turned over to the bright side, if you say it's not serious The punishment will definitely come true."

Jun Jingxing lowered his head and gritted his teeth slightly: "But she..."

Duan Mingchong interrupted him: "But I know what she did. Gu Gu was also involved in what happened back then, and she will not lose her life."

Jun Jingxing immediately raised his head: "His Royal Highness means..."

Duan Ming Chong said: "The death penalty can be forgiven, but the living crime cannot escape. Gu Hui sentenced her to exile, and directly followed the third prince to the fief."

Jun Jingxing was stunned for a moment.

"The third prince will not treat her badly." Duan Mingchong said, "And if you want to return to the capital later, there is no chance."

Only then did Jun Jingxing relax.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Duan Mingchong waved his hand at will, neatly folded the paper in his hand, and then...

He tucked it into his sleeve without changing his face.

Jun Jingxing: "… "

Okay, I don't see anything.

Duan Mingchong's expression remained calm after doing such a thing. He stood up and said, "Where is Li Zhao?"

Jun Jingxing was surprised.

Sui Yan was hesitant or really forgot about Li Zhao's matter. He had never mentioned it since he returned to the Hou's Mansion.

This delay is more than half a month.

Jun Jingxing said tentatively, "Is Your Highness here today for this reason?"

On weekdays, Sui Yan had to toss for a long time to fall asleep after drinking the medicine. Today, I don't know what happened. After drinking the medicine, he fell asleep before a stick of incense, and he couldn't wake up no matter how much he shouted.

Jun Jingxing seemed to have discovered something in a trance, his heart froze, he hurriedly lowered his head and did not dare to speak any more.

Duan Ming Chong gave him a condescending look, and said lightly, "He can't do anything, I'll take him with me."

Jun Jingxing: "Yes..."

The rooms of the servants of the Hou Mansion were all located in the backyard, it was getting late, Jun Jingxing lit a lamp and led Duan Mingchong to a room, raised his hand to lock the door.

Soon, the door opened from inside.

Candles were lit in the room, and the faint light was swayed by the wind.

Seeing Duan Mingchong and Jun Jingxing standing outside the door, Li Zhao was stunned for a moment before kneeling and salute.

Duan Ming Chong walked in without squinting his eyes, and said lightly: "No need, the courtesy of the people in the southern border cannot be tolerated alone."

Li Zhao trembled all over.

Duan Mingchong walked into the room, glanced at a small boxy box wrapped in red cloth on the desk, didn't know what to think, and sneered.

Li Zhao still knelt on the ground, Xu Shi already knew his end, he took a deep breath and said bluntly, "I'm sorry young master."

Jun Jingxing watched coldly.

Duan Mingchong smiled: "Gu really wants to know what Duan Ruwang promised you, so that you can bear to do anything to your master?"

Li Zhao said: "He didn't promise me anything. I was originally from the southern border. When I was young, I was seriously injured at the border and was rescued by the old marquis. I was willing to submit to the marquis to repay my kindness."

Duan Mingchong looked at him coldly.

Having said that, there is no need for Li Zhao to hide it.

"I thought that I would serve the Sui family for the old and dead mansion for the rest of my life, but I never thought that I would meet someone from the southern border in front of me."

Duan Ming Chong said: "So you should cooperate with the inside and the outside, and plan to trust your Marquis Sui An with all your heart?"

Li Zhao closed his eyes slightly: "National justice is difficult to balance, I have said this, I am sorry for the old marquis, I am sorry... young master."

Duan Mingchong did not speak.

"Mr. Li will ask the old marquis to apologize under Jiuquan." Li Zhao's eyes looked at the small box wrapped in red cloth on the table, and said softly, "Also ask His Royal Highness to hand over the items on the table to the young master. "

After he finished speaking, he raised his arm slightly, and the short knife that had been hidden in his sleeve for a long time flashed coldly and suddenly plunged into his neck.

Blood poured out immediately.

The dull sound of his body hitting the ground resounded throughout the room.

Duan Ming Chong did not change his face, as if he had expected it long ago, but Jun Jing Xing was taken aback.

The smell of blood gradually spread.

Jun Jingxing looked at the things on the table and said, "Your Highness, this..."

Duan Mingchong frowned slightly: "Don't worry, just burn it."

"But Lord Hou's side..."

Duan Ming Chong said: "Even if he committed suicide, he used a knife from the Southern Border, which means that he has already chosen a position. I dare not let Ayan use the things of the betrayal."

Jun Jingxing: "This..."

Duan Ming Chong said: "It's burning it, wait for a while to tell Ayan that he has retired from old age, and there is no need to tell him the truth."

Sui Yan's health is not very good now, and he is afraid that he will not be able to bear the stimulation, and Duan Mingchong does not dare to let him know that he is such a ruthless person who interferes with him.

Jun Jingxing hesitated for a while before saying, "Yes."

He was about to pick up the things on the table, when the half-closed door was suddenly pushed open.

The two were stunned and looked back.

Sui Yan stood outside the door at some point, looking at the room blankly.

Although it was spring, the capital was still a little cold. He was wearing a single shirt and stood barefoot outside the door, his lips trembling slightly from the cold.

Duan Mingchong was taken aback for a moment, his face suddenly pale, like falling into an ice cellar.