The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 472: Fisherman’s profit
Chapter 472: Fisherman’s Benefit
“Okay! Let’s go!” Bai Qingyan looked at King Liang coldly and said to Lupin, “Leave two people to capture King Liang… throw King Liang back. Oh… if King Liang really dares to die, it doesn’t matter. Just say… he committed suicide out of fear of punishment for insulting the Princess of Nandu!”
After saying that, Bai Qingyan helped Dong Tingzhen, who was leaning on her arms, into the carriage.
King Liang felt a chill down his spine because of Bai Qingyan’s usual cold tone.
Seeing this, King Liang ran away without saying a word.
“Chase!” Lupin gave the order, and two guards rushed out immediately.
Bai Qingyan turned around and looked at Lupin. Lupin nodded to Bai Qingyan in understanding. Bai Qingyan then bent down and got into the carriage.
Prince Liang ran away like crazy. Hearing footsteps approaching behind him, he turned around and slashed wildly with his dagger, thus forcing back the two Bai family guards who were approaching him.
King Liang’s head was covered with sweat. He had been seriously injured since he was stabbed in the street that day and almost died. With his current skills, he was no match for the two guards.
Just as King Liang’s mind was racing to find a way out, suddenly a skilled swordsman jumped down from the high roof. The sword flashed with cold air, and a moment later… the two guards of the Bai family who had just surrounded King Liang fell straight to the ground.
The swordsman turned his back to King Liang and sheathed his sword.
“Who are you?!”
“I am the subordinate of the Ninth Prince of Dayan! I have been ordered to… protect King Liang from death! My master once said that if King Liang needs me, I can save his life. After saving King Liang, I must tell him this only once. Otherwise, my master will doubt King Liang’s ability and whether he is a suitable ally?” The man still had his back to King Liang and said slowly, “King Liang goes first, I will handle this!”
No one else knew about the cooperation with the Ninth Prince of Dayan except him. Prince Liang glanced at the two fallen guards of the Bai family, nodded without any suspicion, turned around and ran out of the alley.
When they heard the footsteps of King Liang disappear into the alley, the two guards who had fallen to the ground immediately got up and asked the swordsman standing there with a smile: “How was it? Did we two brothers act like it?”
The swordsman raised his hand and patted the two men on the forehead, saying, “Hurry up and leave!”
The three of them quickly left the alley and rode their horses to chase Bai Qingyan’s carriage.
After Prince Liang came out of the alley, he ran towards Prince Liang’s mansion for his life. He was panting heavily and holding the wall to hold his violently beating heart. He couldn’t help but think of what Bai Qingyan said just now. If the prince was allowed to enter the palace… and throw dirty water on him, and step on him to marry Liu Ruofu, that would really be a loss!
Why couldn’t he give Liu Ruofu a taste of his own medicine? Why couldn’t it be that the Crown Prince drugged Liu Ruofu in order to seize the Prince Xian’s only daughter, and he… didn’t know why he woke up in the same bed with Liu Ruofu!
He was a good son and was extremely scared. After quietly leaving Liu Ruofu’s maternal grandfather’s house, he hurried to tell his father and asked his father to make a decision. He was afraid that the matter would get out of hand… and if the old Imperial Master Tan found out, it would ruin the marriage that his father had given him. He was also afraid that Dong Tingzhen would know and think he was a heartless person!
Prince Liang made up his mind and went straight to the palace. He stood guard at the palace gate in a disheveled manner. As soon as the gate opened, he went to see the emperor.
“Father, please make the decision for me! How sad would Ting Zhen be if she knew? I can choose not to marry Ting Zhen, but I cannot let Ting Zhen think that I am a shameless person! Yesterday, I went to the Dong Mansion to ask Lord Dong not to embarrass Ting Zhen. When I came out of the Dong Mansion, someone suddenly told me that the prince wanted to take away Princess Nandu’s innocence and marry her back to the mansion! I thought that our Jin State and Daliang were about to make peace. If the prince took Princess Nandu away, it would definitely give Liang an excuse. So I hurried to the prince’s mansion. Who knew that as soon as I turned around, my eyes went dark and I knew nothing! When I woke up… I saw Princess Nandu lying next to me. I was terrified! I didn’t know what to do, so I hurried to the palace to ask father for advice!”
Seeing the crying Prince Liang, the emperor’s heart skipped a beat. He lowered his eyes and looked at the Prince Liang who was kneeling at his feet, tugging at his clothes with a look of fear. He gritted his teeth and asked, “After you woke up, did you alarm anyone?”
He had thought it through on the way here. If he told the emperor that he had alarmed others before his arrival, the emperor would certainly doubt his intentions, suspecting that he had alarmed others on purpose and then framed the prince in order to gain the upper hand!
Furthermore, if Bai Qingyan was dragged into the matter, the emperor would definitely ask him how he escaped from Bai Qingyan. Could it be that he would tell the emperor that he had cooperated with the Ninth Prince of Dayan? !
King Liang inexplicably thought of Bai Qingyan’s half-smiling face, and felt a sudden chill in his heart!
“No, no! I didn’t dare to disturb anyone! I came straight to the palace! I really don’t know how I ended up lying on Princess Nandu’s bed! Father… please save me! Even when I left Princess Nandu’s maternal grandfather’s house… I sneaked out secretly and didn’t dare to disturb anyone!”
“Secretly?” The emperor frowned. “Are all the people in the palace dead? How could they let you sneak out?”
“My son doesn’t know! When he woke up, there was a Nandu Princess next to him. Then he was so scared that he picked up his clothes and ran away…” As the King of Liang spoke, he seemed to realize that something was wrong. He looked up at the emperor and said, “There was no night watch girl in the room. My son… didn’t meet anyone on the way out…”
The emperor’s mind was in a mess, and he couldn’t help but think of what the prince had said yesterday about Dong Qingyue holding military power.
The emperor knew very well how many people the Prince of Liang had at his disposal. Especially when the Prince of Liang started to make elixirs for him, the emperor checked everyone in the Prince of Liang’s mansion thoroughly. After all, the matter of making elixirs… was of great importance, and he couldn’t let people know that he, the emperor, violated his ancestors’ teachings and got involved in elixirs.
How could the King of Liang bypass the numerous guards in the palace without anyone available, enter the palace, and slip out of the palace without encountering anyone?
The emperor looked down at the weeping Prince Liang, then raised his head and said to Gao Demao, “Go, call the prince over to me. I have something to ask you!”
After that, the emperor said to the King of Liang: “Go, wash your face! What a shame to cry like that!”
Prince Liang burst into tears and said, “Father, please stop this from spreading. Ting Zhen and my son are already in great pain not being together! I can’t let Ting Zhen hear about this again!”
The emperor raised his hand and patted Prince Liang on the head: “Go!”
The prince was changing his clothes to attend the morning court when someone came from the palace to call him in.
Old Fang was quite puzzled. If the emperor sent people to summon the prince because Prince Liang and Princess Nandu were captured, why didn’t the three people he sent out come back to report?
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