On the other side of the Regent's Palace, Xie Chengyou was lying on the bed with a pale face.
His period was so troubled that he couldn't help but wonder if he should go to the temple to worship?
King Mu stood by the bed and frowned as he looked at him.
"What happened last night?" King Mu asked in a deep voice, "I asked you to win back the heart of that girl from the Luo family, but who told you to find someone to steal her things?"
Xie Chengyou couldn't help but tremble when he mentioned what happened last night. He reached out and grabbed King Mu's sleeve and said, "Grandpa, I...I can't marry Luo Junyao!"
"What did you say?" King Mu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his panicked grandson, "Is it possible that last night...that girl from the Luo family was..."
"No, it's not!" Xie Chengyou quickly denied, and King Mu also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they had ruined Luo Junyao's reputation, since they wanted to marry her, they naturally didn't want anything to happen to her.
Xie Chengyou shuddered and said, "I absolutely cannot marry Luo Junyao!"
"What's the reason?" King Mu asked with a frown.
Because Luo Junyao is a madman!
Xie Chengyou opened his mouth to say something, but Xie Yan's words warning him last night and Luo Yun's face filled with murderous intent suddenly flashed in his mind, and he swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
"In short, I don't want to marry her!" Xie Chengyou said firmly.
He could see that Luo Junyao really wanted to kill him last night. If he hadn't been pulled by Xie Yan, he might have already...
He didn't want to bet that Luo Junyao wouldn't really give him a blow.
King Mu frowned, his face full of displeasure, "What's the reason? You've spent so much time thinking about it, just forget it?"
Xie Chengyou felt distressed when he thought about it, but no matter how distressed he was, it was not as important as his own life.
Besides...Although Xie Chengyou has a high self-esteem, he is not really an idiot. Luo Junyao's attitude towards him during this period would be a bit deceiving if he said it was just a little girl showing her temper.
"I'm afraid Luo Yun has noticed our plan and told Luo Junyao. Otherwise, Luo Junyao wouldn't have this attitude towards me."
Xie Chengyou tried hard to dispel his grandfather's thoughts, and said with difficulty: "Now that it's like this, it's probably impossible to impress the Luo family. If we continue to pester him, it will make the Luo family dissatisfied."
King Mu naturally understood this truth and couldn't help but blame Xie Chengyou again in his heart.
If he hadn't been hanging on Luo Junyao and playing with other girls before, the second girl of the Luo family would have already entered the house by now. Why would there be so much trouble?
"Then what are you going to do now?" King Mu asked.
Xie Chengyou said feebly: "Grandpa, please let me think about it before talking." He was in pain all over his body now, and he really didn't have the energy to think about this.
Seeing him like this, King Mu had a hint of disappointment on his face, and said in a deep voice: "Chengyou, this is related to your own future. Think about it carefully, do you want to be the prince of Chu, the king of Chu, or the king of Chu?"
I want to be an ordinary clan son."
Xie Chengyou's heart tightened. How could he not know what his grandfather said?
"My grandson knows that he will definitely work hard. The Luo family... is really unable to do anything. Please ask your grandfather to choose another suitable wife for your grandson."
King Mu stood by the bed and looked down at him, "Are you sure you won't treat Luo Junyao like that this time?" King Mu actually understood somewhat why his grandson treated Luo Junyao like that.
It's just that Luo Junyao is not what he likes, and he feels that he has lost face by asking him to deliberately seduce him.
Although outsiders did not know all the inside stories, he himself was very interested in it, and naturally he was trying to do Luo Junyao overtly or covertly.
It's not that he couldn't understand this idea. After all, who doesn't have the youth and vitality? But because of this, important events were delayed, which made King Mu displeased.
Xie Chengyou's face looked ugly, but because he was injured and his face itself was ugly, King Mu couldn't tell.
"My grandson knows his mistake, and he will definitely obey his grandfather's teachings in the future."
King Mu then nodded, glanced at Xie Chengyou and said with a hint of warning: "As long as you understand, after all, this is your own business, and this throne is not fought for me. If you don't want it, there are still your other brothers.
"
Xie Chengyou responded quickly and respectfully, but he was a little disapproving in his heart. He might not necessarily be able to get the position of King of Chu, but his brothers were definitely hopeless.
A few years ago, King Mu was able to use Princess Mu to pressure Xie Yan to succeed Xie Chengyou, but this kind of thing can never happen again.
At that time, the clan was extremely dissatisfied with this. Xie Yan was healthy and healthy, so why did he need to pass on his stepchildren again and again?
After finally dealing with his grandfather, Xie Chengyou lay on the bed and let out a long sigh.
In the past two years, he had endured his disgust in dealing with Luo Junyao. Now that he had failed, he would be lying if he said he wasn't heartbroken. However, thinking of Luo Junyao's neat killing skills last night, he really didn't want to provoke this girl anymore.
He even couldn't help but wonder if Luo Junyao had been deliberately playing tricks on him in the past two years.
Otherwise, why would Luo Junyao suddenly wake up and come to his senses when he was about to make a plan that day?
Thinking of this possibility, Xie Chengyou's already pale face became even more ugly.
Bang bang.
The bedroom door was lightly knocked twice, but Xie Chengyou thought it was a servant and didn't pay attention.
After a while, the door opened and someone walked in.
However, the man remained silent. Xie Chengyou opened his eyes impatiently and said, "What's the matter?"
As soon as he opened his eyes, the angry expression was sealed on his face.
Xie Chengyou opened his eyes wide and stared at the beautiful smiling face hanging above him, his expression twisted as if he had seen a ghost.
Luo Junyao waved to him gently and said, "Good afternoon."
"You, you, you...why are you here?!" Xie Chengyou felt that his teeth were chattering.
It was as if the girl in front of him was not smiling sweetly and cutely at him, but was showing her white teeth and would bite him to death.
Luo Junyao said in surprise: "You have such a bad memory? I said last night that I would come to you to collect the bill. Where is the money?"
"..." Xie Chengyou couldn't help but want to howl in pain.
That kind of thing just happened last night, why did you come all the way to the Prince Regent's Mansion today to collect the bill from me?!
Upon seeing this, Luo Junyao immediately stopped smiling and looked at him seriously, "Could it be that you...want to tell me that you really plan to default on your debt?"
If she had been beaten by Luo Junyao before yesterday, Xie Chengyou would not have taken her words to heart.
But now, for some reason, he always felt that Luo Junyao's words contained boundless murderous intent.
The light in the bedroom was already dark, and that serious little face looked a little gloomy in Xie Chengyou's eyes.
"You...don't mess around." Xie Chengyou said, "This is the Regent's Palace."
Luo Jun said, "I know." She was not stupid.
Xie Chengyou secretly swallowed his saliva and said: "It's good that you know. You should leave quickly. If someone finds you here later, it will be bad for your reputation."
Even Luo Junyao couldn't help but laugh a little. She didn't even know that Xie Chengyou actually cared about her reputation.
He spread his jade-white hands in front of Xie Chengyou and said, "Pay back the money."
Xie Chengyou stared at the delicate fingertips as green as green, his eyelashes trembled and he whispered: "I... don't have that much money."
The fingertips slowly gathered together and held it.
Xie Chengyou couldn't help but tremble, he felt that the hand was holding his neck.
"Say it again?" Luo Junyao said softly.
Xie Chengyou said quickly: "I...I really don't have that much money, and I'm already thinking of a way! I've been grounded by my father and can't go out these days, so I can't raise money."
He sneaked out last night.
"I'll pay you something else! That...the cabinet on the bottom floor of that cabinet contains all my property, and I'll give it to you!"
Luo Junyao glanced at the cabinet he pointed to not far away on the right, stood up and prepared to go over and take a look.
Xie Chengyou just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Luo Junyao quickly turned around and tapped him a few times.
"..."
Luo Junyao smiled and said: "Although I'm not afraid of you calling people, but...if you can't disturb others, then you should not disturb them, right?"
I'm a really considerate and good girl.
No longer paying attention to Xie Chengyou, Luo Junyao happily ran to Xie Chengyou's cabinet and opened the cabinet on the floor that Xie Chengyou mentioned.
"Isn't this quite rich?" Luo Junyao knelt down and rummaged through the boxes.
"Ten gold ingots, twenty silver ingots. Silver notes... one, two, three, four... three thousand five hundred taels. Let me see what else there is... a jade pendant, a jade ring, they don't look like valuables. One pearl
Boxes, and jewelry...there are so many jewelry for girls, Mr. Xuanyu, do you have any special hobbies?"
"..." Seeing the girl flipping around without mercy, Xie Chengyou felt his heart aching like a knife.
On the surface, he looks beautiful, but in fact he is not very wealthy. Most of his private houses are already here.
After Luo Junyao finally finished rummaging through all the things, he returned to the bed and said dissatisfiedly: "The total of these is less than ten thousand taels, not even a fraction, are you kidding me?"
Xie Chengyou looked at her without saying anything. Luo Junyao raised his eyebrows slightly and reached out to untie his acupuncture points.
Xie Chengyou coughed lightly and said, "I only have so much."
"Then what should we do?" Luo Junyao frowned, "Are we going to find the regent..."
"No!" Xie Chengyou quickly interrupted him. Now he really believed that Luo Junyao dared to go to Xie Yan to ask for money.
Luo Junyao narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at him dangerously, "You don't really want to default on your debt, do you?"
Xie Chengyou couldn't help but curse in his heart: Didn't you give those things to me yourself? Why do you want me to pay for them!
It's a pity that he didn't dare to say it.
Xie Chengyou thought for a while and said: "I will definitely find a way to return it to you, but you have to give me time to think of a way, right? I also have a shop and a village outside the city. I will return it to you when I sell it later." Those are all
His grandfather and mother gave it to him, and when he thought about Xie Chengyou, his eyes felt dark.
Luo Junyao tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Okay, I'll remember it. It'll be up to ten days, and I'll charge interest if it's overdue."
"Okay, then..."
Luo Junyao said with a smile: "If you erase the small change today, I will give you a discount of 9,000 taels. Tomorrow I will have someone send you the 9,000 taels of the IOU you originally wrote."
Xie Chengyou instantly remembered the IOUs he had written on his hand at the time, and wished he could go back and cut off his own hand.
However, in reality, he could only force out a smile to Luo Junyao, "As long as you are happy."
Luo Jun rolled his eyes and smiled: "Should you give me some interest?"
Xie Chengyou wanted to cry immediately, deeply regretting that he had offended such an untouchable man because of his stupidity.
"What else do you want?"
Luo Junyao smiled and pulled out an icy blue dagger from his waist, made two faint gestures on Xie Chengyou and asked: "How did you take the medicine that day in Yingfeng Pavilion?"
Xie Chengyou said with a sad face: "I didn't take the medicine, it's really not me."
Luo Jun shook the Youyue Thorn in his hand a little closer to him, "Pretending to be stupid?"
Xie Chengyou shook his head quickly and said anxiously: "What I said is absolutely true. I really didn't drug him! Besides...if it was really me, wouldn't the Luo family be able to find out? Will General Luo let me go so easily?"
"It's really not you?"
Xie Chengyou said: "Really not, am I crazy for drugging the Luo family?! Moreover, it was obviously you who asked me that day...me, why should I drug you?"
Luo Junyao punched him expressionlessly, "I didn't let you talk nonsense."
"..." Xie Chengyou dared not speak out in anger.
Luo Junyao asked: "It's not you. You should know who it is, right? Is it my good cousin?"
Xie Chengyou looked at her with a complicated expression, "As expected..." Sure enough, you already knew what Ling Xiang had done to help him.
"It's not Lingxiang, she...she's a good girl. She's doing it all for me. You, please don't hurt her." Xie Chengyou said.
Luo Junyao said: "She is a good girl to you, but to our Luo family, she is called eating inside and outside."
Xie Chengyou was a little worried, "What should I do so that you won't hurt her?"
Luo Junyao thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "More money?"
"..." Are you obsessed with money?
Luo Junyao didn't dwell too much on this question, and asked: "Who are the people you have met who are related to what happened that day? Even if it is just a trivial relationship, you have to talk about it."
"How can I remember after so long?" Xie Chengyou said angrily.
Before he finished speaking, the cold tip of You Yuezhi's knife had already pierced his neck, "Do you remember now? If I can't catch the person behind the scenes, I will assume that you did it."
The sharp sting caused Xie Chengyou's expression to change suddenly, and he quickly said: "Wait! Let me think about it, do you want me to think about it?"
Luo Junyao smiled cutely and said, "Be good, think about it carefully."
"..." Be good, uncle!
Xie Chengyou really couldn't understand how a person could become so thorough?
If Luo Junyao in the past was an arrogant and domineering young lady who was too stupid to look directly at, this one in front of her is a little devil with a sweet smile on the surface.
Xie Chengyou tried his best to look away from the tip of the knife, swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Indeed... there is, there is a person. I received... received your message that day. I didn't want to go. But... that person followed
I said, General Luo will never marry the King of Chu. If the marriage cannot be finalized before the father returns to Beijing, this marriage...even if General Luo agrees, the father will not agree. So...that time
, is an opportunity. It just solidifies the matter and gives General Luo no reason to object."
Luo Junyao narrowed his pretty eyes, "Who is that person?"
Xie Chengyou said: "I don't know..."
Seeing the knife in her hand stabbing him again, Xie Chengyou was so frightened that he closed his eyes and shouted, "I really don't know! I don't know him!!"
The tip of the knife stopped steadily on Xie Chengyou's eyelids. Xie Chengyou even felt the sting of the cold and sharp blade on his eyelids.
Luo Junyao looked at Xie Chengyou who was shaking non-stop with some surprise, "Eh? Are you crying?"
"..."
Really crying?
This was the first time that Luo Junyao saw an adult man cry out of fear. It was impossible for her to really kill someone in the Regent's Palace. Why was she so scared?
Looking at Xie Chengyou who was lying on the bed unable to stop crying, Luo Junyao was speechless.
"It seems that I really don't know him." Luo Junyao put it away and said, "Tell me, how did you meet him, why did he tell you this, and why did you listen to him."
Xie Chengyou looked at the girl sitting leisurely beside his bed with tears in his eyes.
Luo Junyao, you are not a human being!!
"Receive it, the night I received your message... I lived in Prince Mu's Mansion. He suddenly appeared in my yard, and I... I think what he said makes sense. He said... he had a grudge against his father. If his father
Wang knew that he and Luo Yun were related, and his reaction must have been very interesting."
Luo Junyao couldn't believe it, "Do you believe this reason?" Are you a fool?
"..."
Luo Junyao suddenly realized. Oh, the key is that what he said makes sense, and the reason is not important.
After confirming that Xie Chengyou really had nothing to say, Luo Junyao stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm leaving. Stop holding it in and cry slowly."
