In the tent that was temporarily vacated, a gentle and elegant man was lying on a soft couch with his eyes closed. The fragrance in the tent was lingering and assailed his nostrils. The green-eyed young man kneeling in front of the couch had his head lowered and his shoulders could not restrain themselves from trembling slightly.
"The Seventh Prince has ordered Bai Haoyu to be executed at noon the day after tomorrow. Bai Qige is currently under house arrest in a tent and is guarded by Chen An himself."
"I have said before that although Lao Qi is good at hiding his patience, he is still a temperamental person." Yi Chenxuan opened his eyes, and Bai Xiu waved his hand towards Su Jinyan. Su Jinyan hesitated for a moment and knelt down beside him, her face buried even deeper.
Low. Caressing his delicate cheek, Yi Chenxuan smiled with satisfaction: "I think he has reached the limit of his tolerance for spending time with that kind of ugly woman. The incident of Princess Hongxiao has added fuel to the flames and aroused his anger. The two of them can't go their separate ways."
, no matter what, Princess Hongxiao is the woman that Old Seven has been in love with for ten years!"
Su Jinyan had a stupefied expression and her tone was as calm as ever: "The Seventh Prince only ordered the execution of Bai Haoyu but did not attack Bai Qige. Doesn't His Highness intend to eradicate the root cause?"
"If we don't cut the roots, there will be endless troubles, but I want to keep Bai Qige. As long as she is here, Lao Qi will never be able to concentrate on the war with the Huoluohe Khanate. As long as there is a slight mistake, he will lose his head.
The pitiful end is just around the corner.”
It is better to harm people than to mess up people's hearts. The most important thing to avoid when leading troops is impatience and blindness. If Yi Chenjing can be defeated as a general and ruined, wouldn't it be better than deliberately risking the risk of being discovered by his father and secretly harming him? Yi Chenxuan's heart
The calculation was very clear. Bai Qige was better off dead than alive. With Bai Haoyu's life on her back, she could not help Yi Chenjing no matter what. She might even become his enemy. The enemy of her enemy was her friend - no, she was a chess piece, a tool.
It would be a shame not to make good use of it.
A series of coughs interrupted Yi Chenxuan's thinking. He raised his eyelids, and Su Jinyan's pale face and increasingly violent tremors were clearly visible.
"How does it feel without an antidote? Are you dying, so unbearable?" He laughed sarcastically, and a sinister voice echoed in the tent, "Jinyan, you have been with me for so many years, I know what you are thinking.
If it weren't for the restriction of this medicine, you would have cut me into pieces and scattered my bones into ashes. It's a pity that you can't escape in this life-" His fingertips traced his long and curled eyebrows, and Yi Chenxuan smiled even more.
He said coldly: "I only have you and Qiqi. Even if I die, you will accompany me to hell. Do you understand?"
Su Jinyan was shaking violently, clenching her teeth and unable to speak at all, and her pupils gradually became blurred.
Yi Chenxuan took out the porcelain bottle from his waist, poured out a pill and forced it into Su Jinyan's mouth. After a while, Su Jinyan's face slowly recovered, her trembling gradually stopped, and she pressed her chest and let out a long breath.
He has endured this excruciating experience too many times, countless hundreds and thousands of times, and every time he thought he was used to it and could get through it, but in the end, he was still unable to withstand the tyranny that Yi Chenxuan exerted in his body.
Poison. Maybe until this life is peaceful and all things are annihilated, no one will know that the dignified fifth prince is actually a terrible man who is extremely good at making and using poisons.
Just as she regained her breath, Su Jinyan was about to leave when she was suddenly stopped by Yi Chenxuan: "Has anyone discovered you have been spying on Lao Qi these past few days?"
"The best person in the Kung Fu Army is the Seventh Prince. He has never noticed that I am in the dark, and naturally neither does anyone else."
"That's good. Among all the princes, Lao Qi is the most cunning. If he finds out that someone is spying on him, he may very well use his tricks to bite us. Be careful in everything. I don't want to be scolded by my father when I return to the capital, let alone those lowly soldiers.
Pointing fingers behind my back."
"I'm just being careful." Su Jinyan responded expressionlessly, turned around and left the camp.
In the distance, a group of soldiers were busy setting up a wooden platform. In two days, the third young master of the Bai family would be engulfed in blazing fire on that high platform. Bai Qige had to watch from the sidelines, either heartbroken or resentful.
In short, there will no longer be any emotional entanglement with Yi Chenjing.
Looking at the wooden platform that had begun to take shape, Su Jinyan squeezed out a rare smile, light and full of expectation.
"For the sake of his great cause, you must disappear."
The mountain rain is about to come, but there is no wind filling the building, only sorrow in the bones.
After hearing the order given by Yi Chenjing, Bai Qige's heart, which had already hit rock bottom, became even colder and more desperate. She knew that he was so hated that he could not be persuaded to return. The only thing waiting for her and her brother Bai Haoyu was crazy revenge. The word forgiveness has been in Hong Kong for a long time.
When Princess Xiao died, Yi Chenjing's heart was completely broken.
Opening the curtain, Chen An was seen outside, who was doing his duty diligently. He lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
"I want to see the general." She spoke in a low voice, and then Bai Qige realized that her voice was extremely hoarse and unpleasant to hear.
"This..." Chen An hesitated, quickly glanced at the darkening sky and the soldiers who were busy enjoying dinner, and then nodded and agreed, "Princess, please put on your leather armor and follow me, and don't let anyone discover you.
"
Bai Qige thanked her gratefully. She knew very well that Chen An took her there at the risk of being punished by Yi Chenjing. According to Yi Chenjing's order, even if she burned down the camp and turned it upside down, he would not see her again - this is the end.
, he is really a ruthless man.
When passing by the prison cage, Bai Qige looked over. Bai Haoyu was sitting in the cage in a daze. His face was much better than the previous few days, but his eyes were filled with more sadness. After all, he was behind the gate. Bai Haoyu knew that the wooden frame not far away was
What to use it for, and the good food and rice that were suddenly delivered to him, all signs indicated that his road had come to an end.
"Princess, please follow closely. The general will have discussions with General Liang and General Xiao later. If you go late, you will have no chance!" Chen An urged in a low voice.
With a faint sigh, Bai Qige retracted her gaze and lowered her head, continuing to follow Chen An towards Yi Chenjing's tent. She wished Bai Haoyu wouldn't be so frightened, and hoped that he could hear what she was saying in her heart.
I am your sister, I will save you even if I risk my life!
When he saw Yi Chenjing, he was burying his head in a high pile of books. There was not much oil in the lamp holder next to him, and the light was dim and swaying. Chen An quietly waved his hand to signal Bai Qige to stay alone, and he turned around and left the tent to wait outside.
——If you mix too much into other people's family affairs, you will undoubtedly make yourself look bad.
Yi Chenjing only knew that someone came in but didn't know who it was. She thought it was a soldier who came in to fill the lamp oil, so he pushed the lamp holder aside, closed his eyes and leaned on the desk tiredly.
Bai Qige did not speak directly about Bai Haoyu. Instead, she took the picture of the army spread out on the table and contemplated it with her eyebrows. She picked up the pen and pointed it at a certain point. Her expression and movements were as if she was in his study in Lianchenxuan earlier.
"Looking for some useless books, this 'Iron Swallow' Formation is recorded in "Hua Clan's Military Strategy: Six Volumes of Shape-keeping Chapters". It has never been mentioned in other books, and you can't find it no matter how much you look through it.
"
The arm pressing under her forehead stiffened, and Yi Chenjing suddenly looked up. Only then did he realize that the person standing next to him was none other than Bai Qige, who should be far away in the tent at the other end of the camp. The expression in his eyes changed several times, and finally stayed at a cold and slightly cold expression.
Anger: "Where is Chen An? Is he dead? Still can't understand human speech?"
"I forced him to come with my sword."
"What do you think? Three-legged cat kung fu will only make you look bad."
Normally, these words would have earned Bai Qige a roll of the eyes and a few light punches. Now that the relationship between the two is as stiff as stone, how could Bai Qige have the heart to listen to whether he was joking or sarcastic? He put down his pen and looked at her clear eyes quietly.
In Yi Chenjing's eyes: "You know why I came."
"You also know that I can't let him go."
"Xiaoyu is the most beloved child of my parents. If you kill him, you will definitely anger your father and second brother. Then Yi Chenxuan will use every opportunity to draw them into your enemy. What benefits will you get? It's not that you want to dominate the world, in order to win
Can the throne tolerate anything? Since it can tolerate me alive, why can't it also tolerate Xiaoyu?"
Repeated questioning failed to move Yi Chenjing, her eyes were still cold and ruthless: "I allowed you because I was deceived by you. You promised over and over again that you would never lie to me again, but they were all lies. If I had known this, I would never have done it in the first place.
Tell me your promise to let you go. I don't want to say more about it now. I won't kill you, and I won't let Bai Haoyu go either."
Bai Qige still refused to give up: "Xiaoyu did what he did after listening to my instigation. The crime will not lead to death. If you have to find someone to take revenge, you shouldn't go to him."
"Are you really Bai Qige?" Yi Chenjing suddenly sneered, stood up, lowered his head, and met Bai Qige's eyes, "When I wanted to torture you to death, you insisted on living. When I let you live, you wanted to die. Yes
Aren't you alive just to fight against me? Let me tell you frankly, it is absolutely impossible to let Bai Haoyu go, and it will be useless no matter how much you beg."
Even though he had said soft words and hard words, he still refused to let her go. Bai Qige sighed and her eyes became cold.
"If you kill Xiaoyu, you will be my enemy. Even if I die, I will never be used by my enemy. Whether you insist on revenge at the cost of losing a good chess piece or let go of your grudges, you decide for yourself."
The sneer suddenly rose. Yi Chenjing seemed to have heard something funny. She smiled with eyes as long as the moon. She stretched her big palm behind Bai Qige's head, moved her fingers slightly, and the hair tie that tied up her bun fell to the ground, causing her hair to fall like a waterfall.
Up to the waist, it looks like a black dragon.
There is no reason, I just want to do it.
"Do you think that without you, I'm like a newborn baby that can't do anything? Bai Qige, you think too highly of yourself."
Bai Qige didn't pay attention to Yi Chenjing's sarcasm. She smiled when she should have been agitated. However, anyone could see that the smile was very cold and there was no joy at all: "I never think highly of myself.
You won’t belittle yourself, don’t you understand why you are close to me? Maybe I am not a key piece in your fight for power, but without me, you will definitely take many detours.”
"Do you think I'm doing it for—" The retort he shouted in anger stopped abruptly. Yi Chenjing swallowed the second half of the sentence, and turned to the side with a cold expression, "That's enough, I don't want to talk nonsense with you, so I can feel comfortable."
To know.”
At this point, there was nothing more to say. Anyway, Bai Qige had not placed any hope in his kindness and generosity. She had other ways to save Bai Haoyu.
When the curtain was lifted, the thin figure looked even thinner against the setting sun, but when the curtain fell, the words left to the tired man in the curtain were firm.
"The method of breaking the Iron Swallow Formation is recorded in "Hua Clan's Strategy; Nine Volumes of Formation Breaking Methods", and... I am just me, and I have nothing to do with Princess Hongxiao."