Xia Mansion is not far opposite the Prince's Mansion.
Jiaqian's appearance lured Xia Shang back to his home.
Putting a pot of tea on the table, Jiaqian sat in the living room of Xia Mansion, her eyes showing a lot of worry.
"My father has been in a bad mood at home recently. He often gets angry. Coupled with injuries, his health is getting worse."
"Is your health deteriorating?"
Xia Shang frowned, and there seemed to be a feeling from Jiaqian's words that Li Xin was about to die.
This surprised Xia Shang, although when he was in the palace, he saw Li Xin covered in blood and his life and death were unknown.
But Li Xin is a master after all, and as long as there are no rumors that he is dead, he will definitely be able to recover given time.
Now I heard that he was dying soon, which made Xia Shang a little unexpected.
Jiaqian lowered her head and looked at the tea in her hand. The young princess seemed to have lost her former innocence and became much more mature than before.
"The reason why I don't let Mr. Xia go see my father is because I don't want to expose my father's current situation, and I'm even more worried that Mr. Xia's appearance at this time will anger my father. Moreover, although my father is injured, if he gets angry, no one in the family can restrain him.
I’m afraid I’ll hurt Mr. Xia.”
Normally, even if someone begged Xia Shang to meet Li Xin, Xia Shang would not agree.
But today is different. Since he chose to meet Li Xin, Xia Shang must meet him.
"Princess, what Xia did today is extraordinary. Although there are many inconveniences for the prince, Xia still hopes to meet him. If possible, princess, please be accommodating."
"Do you have to meet me, sir?"
"I have to see you."
Seeing Xia Shang's determination, Jiaqian nodded helplessly: "Since your mind has been made up, sir, then come with me to meet him."
The unmelted tea in the Xia Mansion was placed on the table again. Before the few servants left behind had time to ask what the master wanted to eat, the master hurried away with the daughter of the Prince's Mansion.
With Princess Jiaqian leading her, no one will stop her when she arrives at the Prince's Mansion.
Although he and the prince have been neighbors for a long time, this is the first time for Xia Shang to visit the prince's mansion.
The Prince's Mansion is not as gorgeous as imagined. When you enter the courtyard, you feel empty, lonely and deserted.
This feeling is somewhat similar to the previous palaces. Perhaps it is the reason why the emperor's family was sparse but the residence was huge. When you enter it, you lose a sense of home. I don't know what the people who live here are like.
Can get used to it.
Jiaqian led the way: "Sir, please follow me."
After Jiaqian returned home, the maid next to her also followed her, looking at Xia Shang curiously all the way, as if she was curious about the young lady personally bringing a man home.
When we arrived at the gate of the courtyard where Li Xin was, we could hear Li Xin throwing things angrily in the courtyard. The dozen or so servants inside were all frightened and did not dare to move.
The little maid saw the young lady coming here and hurriedly came out to stop him: "The prince is in trouble with evil spirits. Please don't provoke him."
Jiaqian looked at Xia Shang and smiled bitterly: "Sir, that's it. Ordinary people don't dare to come close. Do you have to see me?"
Xia Shang didn't care: "Thank you for leading the way. I'll go on my own."
After saying that, Xia Shang stepped in.
"Miss, he..."
"It doesn't matter, sir, he will definitely be able to handle it."
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In the large flower bed in the courtyard, the newly planted young bamboos were cut off by Lazy Yap and scattered on the ground. The bluestone floor was covered with scattered soil and broken porcelain pieces. I don’t know how many precious porcelain pieces were broken.
The small pine tree was uprooted and rolled over in the middle of the road. Li Xin stepped on the root of the tree and shouted something unknown, muttering to himself. He was holding a huge stone in one hand, but the other hand was hanging down weakly. The white cloth bandaging his chest was still there.
With blood oozing out and a pair of bloodshot eyes, the whole person was indeed a demon as the little maid said.
More than a dozen servants surrounded Li Xin, but they didn't say anything. They were all sweating profusely, trying to control the prince, but there was nothing they could do.
Just as Li Xin was about to smash the stone in his hand, a quiet voice suddenly came from the crowd.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really very elegant."
The sudden voice immediately attracted everyone's attention. More than a dozen servants looked at this strange and handsome face, with doubts in their eyes.
At the same time, Li Xin, who was standing on the tree stump, turned his attention to Xia Shang.
The moment Li Xin saw Xia Shang, his pupils shrank slightly, but he soon stopped paying attention to Xia Shang and frantically dropped the boulder on the ground.
There was a loud bang.
The bluestone floor in the courtyard was smashed to pieces, and the boulders were broken into countless small pieces. The surrounding servants ran around in panic to avoid it.
Xia Shang took this opportunity to walk not far from Li Xin and lowered his voice: "Your Highness, you'd better stop pretending. If you are really delirious,
, how can the servants here still have their lives and run around?"
Li Xin took a deep breath, then got down from the tree stump and reached a place less than two meters away from Xia Shang. Then he stared hard: "How did you get in?"
"Is this important?"
Li Xin was silent for a long time, with a hint of dejection on his expression: "Are you here to see my prince's joke?"
Xia Shang smiled: "I don't want to come to this place. If there is nothing serious, I won't come even if I am beaten to death. Of course, I can't talk about watching the prince's jokes."
"What's up?"
"Before that, I would like to know what happened to the prince? What made the once arrogant prince become so decadent?"
"That's nothing to worry about."
"As a citizen of Dahua, it doesn't seem too much to care about the prince of Dahua."
"Prince?" Li Xin smiled sadly, "Which dynasty and which generation had a crippled prince?"
Xia Shang frowned slightly and looked at Li Xin's hanging right arm.
"Is it caused by the battle in the palace?"
Li Xin didn't answer, but he didn't deny it either, but he could feel the incomparable unwillingness in his eyes.
Li Xin's performance was a bit beyond Xia Shang's expectations. He didn't expect the prince to behave like this because of a disabled arm.
Xia Shang actually wanted to say, "Who stipulated that a disabled person cannot be a prince or an emperor?"
But after thinking about it, he let it go. He didn't want to continue to fuel Li Xin's ambitions.
It would be a good thing to have something to deal with this arrogant prince now.
Maybe he really felt that losing one hand really disqualified him from inheriting the throne.
Or perhaps seeing what Xia Shang was thinking, Li Xin added: "You and I don't know, the rules of the world have already been set, and it's not something you or I can change."
Xia Shang frowned and didn't understand.
"Tell me the story! While I'm still in the mood to listen to what you have to say. Otherwise, if you make me feel bad, I might kill you."
"Xuzhou was harassed by Japanese pirates, and the garrison suffered heavy losses. The garrison generals did not dare to report it, but they urgently needed to replenish their troops. Prince, you have the power of the world's military. Your subordinate is here to lend troops to the Xuzhou Navy."
"How much to borrow?"
“The more, the merrier.”
"You can go. Today I will order five thousand people from various places to go to Xuzhou for reinforcements."