Volume One: The Rise of the Western Regions Chapter 33: Game
A look of anger appeared on the woman's face.
But she had excellent control and suppressed it in the blink of an eye, explaining:
"Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, Miss Yuan is not injured or wronged. She is just asleep, and she is sleeping quite deeply."
Hearing what she said, Zhao Rang felt a little relieved.
It seems that after he and Yuan Mingkong left, the inn clerk put smoke on Yuan Kexin and then transported her here while she was sleeping.
And this woman must have something to say to Zhao Rang, so she shouldn't be stupid enough to hit Yuan Kexin hard, otherwise the fragile balance between the two will be broken, which will do no good to anyone.
"Master Zhao, are you relieved now?"
Zhao Rang pondered for a moment before nodding.
Seeing that Zhao Rang was indeed willing to listen to her, the woman was extremely happy. She clapped her hands and asked the servant to bring a table and place it between the two of them.
There is a plate of fruit, a wine bottle, and two wine glasses on the table.
The woman poured Zhao Rang a glass of wine and said:
"Mr. Zhao, this glass of wine is better than the top-quality Western Spring you drank in the Western Merchant Alliance!"
Zhao Rang's expression changed and he asked:
"who are you?"
The top quality Western Spring he got from the Western Merchant Alliance was given to him by Xi Feng, the leader of Xi Feng Lie.
Apart from himself, only the brothers Yuan Mingkong and Yuan Kexin knew about this matter.
Jin Sanliang arranged people to find out, but the next day the entire Jinzhong Escort Bureau's influence in the merchant alliance was bloodbathed, and even he himself was skinned. How could he have a chance to tell others?
Since this woman knows that Xifeng brought him wine, it can only mean that she is a member of Xifeng Lie, and her status is even higher than that of Xifeng.
In other words, everything Xifeng did to Zhao Rang was all instructed by her.
if it is like this……
Then when Zhao Rang and Yuan Mingkong left the merchant alliance, the mysterious team they saw might be this woman's subordinates!
"Yes, Mr. Zhao has a good idea!"
"Xifeng is my clan brother."
the woman said.
Zhao Rang felt relieved!
The Western Regions Business Alliance was established under the leadership of the upper four countries, and Xifeng Lie is the actual controller of the Business Alliance.
When Zhao Rang saw Xifeng that day, he felt that this person was too impetuous and should not be able to shoulder such an important position.
Now it seems that his title as leader is just a false title. His sister, the woman in front of him, is the real person in power in Xifenglie!
"What is your relationship with the fourth prince Anzuo? Is he also your brother?"
The woman shook her head, nodded again, and after thinking for a moment, she said:
"It is and it is not."
From the woman's expression, Zhao Rang knew that she definitely had a very deep entanglement with the fourth prince Anzuo, but due to some circumstances, she had to make a choice, so she didn't know what to say to Zhao Rang.
"After all, he can indeed be called my brother...but according to you Dawei people, we have no blood relationship."
Zhao Rang thought about this sentence for a long time.
They are younger brothers, but they are not related by blood...
He suddenly remembered that Anzuo, the fourth prince, had no blood relationship with the current head of the Lan Mo Kingdom. He could be named a prince solely by virtue of the strength of his tribe. This was a unique rule of the Western Region!
In this case, the woman in front of me should be the daughter of the current head of the country, Princess Lan Mo!
Only this identity is consistent with her previous ambiguous words.
"It turns out to be Her Royal Highness, disrespectful!"
"Young Master Zhao, there is no need to be polite, just call me Amani."
The more senior a person is, the more he likes to talk to smart people.
Smart people can figure it out without any effort at all.
Zhao Rang is a smart man, so he quickly guessed the true identity of this woman.
Although it was okay for Amani to tell him directly, it was still much better for the other party to guess some things than for her to take the initiative to explain.
"Her Highness the Princess first asked her servants to use fake paintings and real swords as a guide, and then used my friends to threaten her. Could it be that she went through so much trouble just to tell me this?"
Amani hesitated slightly.
I thought that Zhao Rang had guessed her identity and he would have the upper hand, but I didn't expect that Zhao Rang's power of words should not be underestimated. He broke the previous peace with just a few words and put the two sides in a hostile position again.
And Amani cannot deny this.
She indeed made a plan to trap Zhao Rang so that he could sit opposite her safely.
As a princess, Amani has a high status and extraordinary strength in this royal city, but she cannot deny what she has done, especially things that are so certain that she cannot even explain them.
"I can only apologize to Mr. Zhao again, but I can also guarantee that I have no ill intentions towards you, Mr. Zhao, and your friends."
"If there is no malice, there is a basis for becoming friends. Do you think so, Mr. Zhao?"
Zhao Rang smiled.
I think people from the Western Regions are really simple-minded.
You can become a friend without any ill will, but you can't just pull a passerby from the street and become a friend?
If someone really believes it and does this, they will only be regarded as crazy.
Zhao Rang has seen people admitting to being relatives for the sake of flattery, but he has never seen people admitting to friends casually.
After all, being a friend means taking responsibility for each other and must be on an equal footing.
How can there be such a person who goes out of his way to force people to become friends?
Seeing Zhao Rang's disdainful face, Amani felt cold in her heart and started sobbing slightly.
Seeing this, Zhao Rang even sneered.
Such a woman's heart has long been as hard as stone.
As for their ability to cry whenever they want, it's because they know that tears are the best weapon at certain times.
How many people can resist the pear blossoms and the rain?
It's a pity that Zhao Rang has already seen it once at Ye Sanniang in Yangguan.
He was able to remain indifferent then, and he can certainly do so now.
Amani sobbed for a moment and saw that Zhao Rang was not moved at all. Instead, he stared at her as if he were watching a good show. For a moment, he felt a little embarrassed.
She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, turned her head and said behind her:
"Bring him up!"
After saying that, he took out a silk scarf from his waist and handed it to Zhao Rang:
"Master Zhao, you should cover up, the smell is really too strong!"
Zhao Rang thought for a while, stretched out his hand to take it, and accidentally touched Amani's cold fingertips.
The waiter who had "rolled" to the back before, shortly after the princess finished speaking, someone stepped forward from the shadows.
Before his body was fully exposed, a pungent stench hit his face, exactly the same as the smell he smelled when he first entered Xiangteng Residence!
I saw a man in rags, his whole body wrapped in a strong felt, with many circles of iron chains locked on the outside, like a giant maggot, wriggling forward little by little on the ground.
The bald head is covered with scabies, half dry, and still flowing with thick water...
Presumably this foul smell comes from these scabies.
"Is this the person Mr. Zhao is looking for?"
Zhao Rang looked at this man. His black pupils almost occupied the entire eye socket, emitting a faint green light.
"Don't look him in the eyes!"
"Where's the hood? Why did you take it off?!"
Amani said sharply.
After coming back to his senses, Zhao Rang found that his heart was beating "dong-dong", almost jumping out of his throat!
My throat was also extremely thirsty, and my limbs were experiencing numbness.
After coughing for a while, Zhao Rang grabbed the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.
Under the stimulation of strong alcohol, this discomfort gradually subsided.
"How could it be, I just took a look..."
Zhao Rang said with lingering fear.
The guy had already put the hood back on the man's head and added an iron chain around his neck.
"Young Master Zhao should know the origin of this person, right?"
Zhao Rang said: "
"He is a poison raised by Yanyu Pavilion!"
The thing was wrapped into a rice dumpling and was still struggling, but when Zhao Rang said the three words "Misty Rain Pavilion", it immediately calmed down and lay motionless on the ground, as if dead.
"The poison that was raised...isn't he a human being?"
Amani originally thought that this man had practiced some special evil technique to make himself look like this, but he didn't expect that this thing was no longer human!
Zhao Rang looked at the "poison" lying on the ground with difficulty, and lowered his voice and said to Amani:
"Princess, it's better to lock him up first."
Seeing how precious Zhao Rang said it, Amani knew that there must be some taboo in it that she didn't know about. She didn't dare to delay and immediately asked her men to drag the poison away.
After a long time, Zhao Rang said with lingering fear:
"I don't know much about Yanyu Pavilion... I only know that everyone in this force practices poison, and then they have mastered an evil method of poisoning the city from living people."
Zhao Rang thought that Amani had captured someone from Yanyu Pavilion, so there was hope that the poison in Mr. Wang's body could be cured.
But all she captured was a poison...
It must have been left behind intentionally by the people in Yanyu Pavilion.
It doesn't matter to them to abandon a poisonous thing, and it may even be controlled by the people in Yanyu Pavilion lurking in the dark.
Just now, Zhao Rang just looked at him and felt that his blood was not flowing smoothly... The poison in this thing has reached the point where people's expressions change and people are frightened when they hear it.
"So this thing is of no use to us?"
Amani asked cautiously.
Zhao Rang nodded and said:
"Useless."
Amani is very disappointed...
She thought that Zhao Rang's capture of this thing was what Zhao Rang urgently needed, so that she would have a bargaining chip with him.
Who would have thought that all her efforts would be in vain!
After letting his mind wander for a moment, Amani stood up quickly and asked solemnly:
"Then if I have another way to detoxify Master Wang San, will Mr. Zhao still be willing to listen to me?"
Zhao Rang frowned, not understanding what the princess wanted to do.
The purpose of detoxifying Master Wang San was just to give them something to rely on when doing things in the royal city. After all, with a local snake helping him, it would be more convenient for him and Yuan Mingkong to trace the whereabouts of the feather arrow.
But Her Royal Highness the Princess seems to have got the priorities wrong!
She thought that if Mr. Wang San had no hope of detoxifying, there would be no possibility of communication between her and Zhao Rang.
In fact, what Zhao Rang cares about most is the matter between him and the fourth prince Anzuo.
Although we cannot be friends just because we have no hatred, our enemies can become partners!