coobybook Chapter 1054 Sowing the Bitter Fruit
Chapter 1054 Sowing the Bitter Fruit
Chang Mingxiu could tell that Yue Shi was insulting her. She wanted to retort that her inability to keep her man was due to her incompetence, but her current situation was extremely unfavorable to her. She only wanted Xie Kang to come and save her as soon as possible.
At this moment, Xie Minmin and Xie Yun arrived. The group stared at each other, feeling absurd. In fact, they and Shu Yan were sisters, so they were considered family.
Xie Yun stared at his mother for a long time but still couldn't understand her intentions. What did she mean by capturing these two people? Was it to kill them to vent her anger?
Xie Ling'er thought to herself: Now all that's missing is Uncle Kang and his family to be reunited.
Xie Kang married Yue Shi but dared not take a concubine. Unexpectedly, he secretly ran back to Shengjing to meet with Consort Chang and they even had a child. Now, Yue Shi and Consort Chang are enemies and are extremely hostile to each other.
Xie Ling'er left quietly without saying a word, and Shu Yan, fearing that Princess Kang would cause trouble, followed Xie Ling'er out as well.
Xie Ling'er was thinking about how to bring someone into the palace. The Su family's spies in the palace had been basically eliminated, and she couldn't contact them now. She set her sights on Shu Yan.
She said to Shu Yan, "Now that you've changed your identity and are living in the Fourth Prince's mansion, are you getting used to it?"
Upon seeing Princess Kang, Shu Yan knew they hadn't invited her as a guest. She asked, "What does Ninth Princess mean?"
Xie Ling'er said, "Go and send a letter to Fourth Brother, saying that the Dowager Consort is now in the hands of Princess Kang. Fourth Brother is a filial son, he should understand what it means."
Shu Yan was speechless. "Ninth Princess, you should stop making trouble! It's almost impossible for you to get the Fourth Prince to do things for you, and it's even more impossible to use that woman to blackmail him. I know you want to harm the Empress to avenge Consort Su."
Shu Yan recounted how the Fourth Prince was manipulated by the Prince of Kang into rebellion, and then said, "Princess, you don't know the current situation in the palace. The Fourth Prince is under house arrest and can't get out at all. Consort Chang is already dead, so it won't matter what Consort Kang does to her. Such a stupid woman is better off dead!"
Xie Ling'er was shocked that Shu Yan was so cold-blooded and ruthless that she wouldn't even save her own mother: "Are you even human? She's your mother."
"She didn't raise me, I'm not her daughter. My surname is Shu, not Xie." Shu Yan only knew that if she admitted that she was the daughter of Consort Chang and Xie Kang, Princess Kang would definitely not let her go.
She added, "If there's nothing else, Ninth Princess, I'll head back now."
Xie Ling'er was also dumbfounded; she almost let Shu Yan go.
At this moment, Xiao Shang arrived with his men. He glanced at Shu Yan and said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
"You are Prince Xiao of the Northern Xiao Kingdom." Shu Yan stared wide-eyed at Xie Ling'er and said, "So you two are in cahoots."
No matter what, Xie Ling'er is a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, yet she is with a prince from an enemy country.
Xiao Shang walked up to Shu Yan, his eyes flashing with murderous intent. He hadn't expected Xie Kang to dare to lay a hand on the old emperor's woman and even father a bastard child. He said, "Since you know this prince..."
Shu Yan is simple-minded and pitifully naive, but the Dowager Consort secretly told her about Shu Xue and the Fourth Princess Consort when she was at the Fourth Prince's residence. The Kang Princess Consort also has connections with the Northern Xiao Kingdom.
Shu Yan also sensed a hint of danger. She smiled and quickly said, "I am Xie Yan, the Ninth Princess's cousin."
She took Xie Ling'er's arm. "The princess just asked me to deliver a message to Fourth Brother. I'll go now!"
However, before she could leave, Xiao Shang grabbed her by the collar. "I have no intention of relying on that good-for-nothing Xie Yang to achieve great things. You don't need to deliver the letter; I will deliver it myself. Now, there is something more important that you and I need to do together."
Xie Ling'er married Xiao Shang's father as a concubine. According to the Bei Xiao Kingdom's system, the king's principal wife is called the Grand Consort, and the concubines are called the Lesser Consorts.
Xie Ling'er had never received respect from Xiao Shang. The reason he brought her out was because she told him about the grudges between the Su family and Empress Jiang.
Xiao Shang never considered himself a person of this dynasty.
Seeing his cold gaze, Xie Ling'er smiled awkwardly, "What does the eldest prince want me to do?"
"Your chance for revenge has come." Xiao Shang curled his lips into a smile.
Xie Ling'er only wanted to take revenge on Jiang Fenghua, "She stayed in the palace and never came out, so I had no chance to take revenge."
Xiao Shang added, "Yuzhou City is about to be flooded. Empress Jiang has led people to Yuzhou to provide disaster relief. This disaster has brought us an opportunity to help Great Zhou."
Xie Ling'er, as a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, had no pity for the common people and only thought about how to kill Jiang Fenghua to avenge herself.
Xiao Shang stared at Shu Yan again, "You just said you were willing to help Xiao Fei deliver a letter to your good-for-nothing brother."
Shu Yan just wanted an excuse to get away, and she said, "Of course I'm willing to do things for the Ninth Princess."
Xiao Shang sneered. How could he not see through Shu Yan's thoughts? In his eyes, not a single member of the Xie clan was smart; they were just a bunch of fools. Sooner or later, he would ride the iron cavalry of the Northern Owl Kingdom to flatten the Central Plains and destroy the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Xie clan.
In the future, he will also make the Great Zhou disappear from the world. For him, the disaster that the Great Zhou suffered this time has accelerated the speed of its demise. It is also an opportunity that he has been waiting for for many years.
He also knew that the Great Zhou would face this calamity, and it wouldn't have been bad to seize the Xie family's empire a few decades earlier.
"Go tell the Fourth Prince that you saw the Ninth Princess at Huguo Temple, and that she came to chant sutras for her mother's salvation," he said.
Shu Yan didn't understand why she had to tell the Fourth Prince and the Ninth Princess, especially since they weren't at the Huguo Temple.
Before she could figure it out, Xiao Shang tossed a pill into her mouth. "Go back and deliver the message properly. If you say even one wrong word, you'll die a horrible death. Do you understand?"
Shu Yan was terrified. She clutched her throat, trying to stop the poison from going in, but no matter how much she struggled, the medicine burned her stomach, and a burning sensation made her feel as if her intestines and stomach were really rotting.
She said, "If I tell the Fourth Prince, will you give me the antidote?"
Xiao Shang's lips curled into a sly smile. "That depends on whether the Fourth Prince believes what you say. If they believe you, you're saved. If they don't, you're useless to them, so you might as well die!"
Chang Mingxiu happened to come out and overheard this, "What did you do to Yan'er?"
Chang Mingxiu tried to help Shu Yan up, but Shu Yan pushed her away. Shu Yan roared, "It's all your fault! Get out of here! You jinx! You unlucky bastard! Nothing has gone right for me since I met you! I hate you!"
Chang Mingxiu never expected that her daughter, whom she had gone through so much to give birth to, would hate her so much. Her heart ached as if it were being torn apart, and she could only manage to squeeze out the word "Yan'er" before she was in unbearable pain.
She rushed up to Xiao Shang and roared, "Whatever you want to do, come at me! This has nothing to do with Yan'er!"
Xiao Shang said, "Your Highness, don't be anxious. I have a great use for you. You had an affair with Xie Kang back then and even had a child. Your Highness should know better than anyone how Xie Kang managed to sneak into the palace!"
Princess Consort Yue stood behind Chang Mingxiu with a cold face, her eyes shooting out icy glints as if to pierce Chang Mingxiu's heart.
She wouldn't kill Chang Mingxiu; she wanted to know how Xie Kang would save his beloved.