Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

When Chu Shitong heard this, he understood that Chu Shiyu had sent him out on purpose.

He discovered that Yun Xiangrong was abnormal. This kind of thing was not a glorious thing and certainly could not be solved in an open and aboveboard manner. To be on the safe side, he transferred his son away first. If Yun Xiangrong died or went crazy by then, he would only hear what he heard when he returned from Huizhou and would have no way to find out the truth.

In my previous life, I did not give Yun Xiangrong hemp leaf tobacco, and Yun Xiangrong did not become addicted to it, so I was not among the candidates sent to Hengzhou.

"So, what is Mother's situation now?"

Wang Zexu said, "His Majesty has sent people to place Concubine Yun in the palace. She is surrounded by royal shadow guards and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will. His Majesty plans to send someone to investigate the reason after Your Highness leaves the capital."

Chu Shitong thought about it and decided that he could not wait for Chu Shiyu to send someone to investigate. If he investigated the matter thoroughly, it would be easy to find out that hemp leaf smoke had been burning in the incense burner for a long time.

"Thank you, sir, for telling me this."

Under the warm candlelight, Chu Shitong's eyes gleamed with a hint of coldness, and his jade-like beautiful face was filled with a resoluteness as cold as a knife blade.

"Father's decision is reasonable, but I feel uneasy when I hear that mother has become like this. Mother gave birth to me and raised me, and we have deep feelings for each other. We are mother and son, so I must see her before I leave."

The implication was that Wang Zexu should arrange for Chu Shitong to enter the palace.

Wang Zexu was embarrassed. "It's not that I don't want to help Your Highness. There is no problem in arranging for Your Highness to enter the palace. It's just that the Royal Shadow Guards have always obeyed Your Majesty. If the Shadow Guards find out, Your Highness will be implicated."

It can be said that the relationship between Chu Shitong and Wang Zexu has long been one of being in the same boat. Over the years, the two have helped each other a lot both in public and in private.

The two of them don’t know each other in front of others, but behind others’ backs they still drink together when they have time.

Wang Zexu knew about Chu Shitong's help to him before, and he always felt guilty about it, but he really had no way to control the matter of the shadow guards, so he could only persuade him earnestly.

"Your Highness, although Concubine Yun is your mother, it is better for you not to interfere in this matter. Your Highness is now strictly managing Concubine Yun. If he knew that you had visited her in the palace without permission, then your favor for many years might be implicated."

Wang Zexu is also a smart man. In this palace, among the royal family, there has never been any place for family affection.

Power is paramount, and as long as interests are involved, killing fathers and sons, not to mention mothers and children, is a common occurrence.

Moreover, in order to prevent the former dynasty and the harem from colluding with each other, Beiqing has specially made a rule that the prince must leave his mother and move to the East Five Residence after he is five years old, in order to prevent the occurrence of such a situation of deep mother-son affection.

"I know that your Highness and Concubine Yun have a deep relationship, but at this moment, your Highness should not violate His Majesty's taboo. Concubine Yun is not as favored as before in the harem, and your Highness is deeply loved by Her Highness the Princess. I am not saying this to accuse your Highness of being unfilial, but I just hope that your Highness can think about this matter carefully."

Over the years, the princess has openly protected Chu Shitong countless times. Most people think that the princess protected Chu Shitong because Chu Shifan had a good relationship with her, and they don't know about the underground dealings between the two.

But everyone knows that Chu Shitong is now under the protection of the eldest princess.

What Wang Zexu wanted to remind was that compared to Yun Xiangrong, who only had favor but no mother's home, the eldest princess was a better tree of protection.

Chu Shitong also knew what Wang Zexu wanted to say, but Yun Xiangrong really couldn't help but investigate. Chu Shitong might not be the only one who knew about the hemp leaf tobacco in Beiqing.

"Thank you for your reminder, eunuch. There is no need to worry about the Shadow Guard. Since I dare to go, I must be confident."

Wang Zexu was stunned and looked at Chu Shitong in disbelief.

"Could it be that Your Highness..."

He didn't dare ask.

Chu Shitong dared to say this, so she must be able to control the Royal Shadow Guards, or she must have someone in the Royal Shadow Guards.

Even if he can only do the latter, he is already an extremely powerful force in the dark.

Chu Shitong drank a sip of hot tea slowly, her glassy eyes narrowed lazily, as if surprising Wang Zexu was nothing more than a normal thing in her mind.

"No need to say more, eunuch. Just arrange for me to enter the palace."

Wang Zexu really didn't expect that although Chu Shitong didn't fight or compete on the surface, his power behind the scenes had become so powerful. He once again refreshed his impression of Chu Shitong.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I will have someone arrange it right away."

......

It was a dark night and the snow was still falling.

The palace road paved with bluestone bricks had been cleared of snow, but a thin layer of new snow had fallen.

Chu Shitong was walking slowly, wearing a thick snow-white velvet cloak, and Bishui was following behind him with an oil-paper umbrella and a fiery red paper lantern in her hand. The candlelight was flickering in the cold wind.

Along the way, I didn't meet a single palace servant.

On the long palace road there were only the sounds of falling snow, the quiet black clothes, and the dull weirdness.

This was the route that Wang Zexu had arranged for her in advance. Even the cleaning servants were sent away to ensure that no one could see Chu Shitong entering the palace.

Because of the confinement, there were no guards in front of Luhua Palace. Bishui went forward to open the door. The lights were still on in the main hall.

After a long time, Chu Shitong came to Luhua Palace again and felt that the present time was different from the past.

When she was young, it was a nightmare from her previous life. Even though she was forced to come here once a year on her birthday, she still felt sick and nauseous.

Chu Shitong stared at the closed door of the main hall for a long time before he stepped in.

When she arrived, Bishui folded her umbrella, put down the light and prepared to open the door, but Chu Shitong stopped her.

"Just stand guard outside the door."

Wang Zexu said that Yun Xiangrong was the only one in the room, and Chu Shiyu had people tie her up with an iron chain to prevent her from going crazy and dying.

Bishui looked at the deserted yard, it was so quiet, and felt inexplicably scared.

She looked at Chu Shitong eagerly and said, "Your Highness, it's dark outside."

Chu Shitong glanced at the flickering lantern on the ground. "Don't you have a lamp?"

Bishui lowered her head, picked up the lantern, and said aggrievedly: "Then Your Highness, please come out quickly. I am a little scared to be alone."

Chu Shitong took a deep breath and snapped his fingers.

Jianying immediately walked out from the darkness.

"See Your Highness."

This time, Chu Shitong specially brought Jianying and Rushuang with him. He called Rushuang back in the middle of the night. Chu Shitong felt that it was not worth it.

Who made Rushuang a member of the Shadow Pavilion? She wanted to order the Shadow Guards of the Shadow Pavilion, and Rushuang was the go-between.

"Jianying, you stay here with Bishui."

"I obey my orders."

Bishui smiled foolishly while holding the lantern, "Your Highness is so kind."

Chu Shitong turned around, pushed open the door and walked into the house.

The house was quiet, still the same as when I was a child, but so much time had passed that the red paint on the carved and painted pillars had peeled off a little.

She looked as if she had never been here before, and looked at the furnishings in the hall with a calm, cursory gaze.

After walking a few steps, he saw Yun Xiangrong in the center of the hall.

Yun Xiangrong was like a criminal, with her hands and feet tied to the four pillars of the main hall with long iron chains. The distance between them was neither too long nor too short, allowing her limbs to move slightly without causing numbness in her legs and feet, yet just enough to prevent her from walking freely.

She lay on the ground, with her back turned, quietly and motionlessly.

I don't know whether he is asleep or dead.

It would be better if I were dead.

Chu Shitong took out a celadon bottle from his sleeve and poured a small pill from the bottle into his palm.

The moment the bottle was opened, Yun Xiangrong seemed to move.

This was something Chu Shitong had prepared long ago. It was pills made from ground hemp leaves, which could relieve addiction better than directly inhaling burning hemp leaves or eating incense ashes.

But because of the addition of other ingredients, the effect of this pill is very short-lived. It only makes you extremely high for a moment, as if you are in heaven.

The next moment, the effect of the drug suddenly disappears, and the huge sense of gap will make the nicotine addiction come back like a flood, which is more uncomfortable than the previous addiction.

In order to avoid direct contact with this thing, Chu Shitong wore gloves on the hand holding the pill.

She pulled a chair over, sat on it, and threw the pills in her hand next to Yun Xiangrong like dog food.

Yun Xiangrong smelled the unique scent of hemp leaf tobacco and her body trembled violently. She got up from the ground in excitement and started looking for the source of the smell on the ground using her hands and feet frantically.

When she found the pill, her expression was twisted with excitement and satisfaction. Even though the surface of the pill was covered with dust, it did not prevent her from putting it into her mouth with her dirty and muddy hands and a happy face.

Chu Shitong looked coldly at Yun Xiangrong, who now looked disheveled and looked like a stray dog.

That pill made her immersed in paradise, and she didn't notice Chu Shitong's appearance at all.

He had a look of ecstasy, as if his soul had left his body, his saliva was flowing onto his torn clothes, but he seemed stupid and didn't feel anything.

Unfortunately, her happiness did not last long.

Like fireworks, they bloom and disappear in an instant.

The effect of Yun Xiangrong's medicine wore off, and she slowly came back to her senses. Her breathing became heavier, and her addiction to hemp leaf cigarettes grew bigger and bigger like a debt.

When she lay on the ground again and began to look for pills, Chu Shitong spoke softly.

"Mother, I'm here to see you."

Yun Xiangrong's body suddenly froze in place. She raised her head tremblingly. Her once stunningly beautiful face was now covered in dirt, with dark circles under her eyes and sunken cheeks.

Her hair, like dry grass, was disheveled and covered half of her face, but what it couldn't cover was her eyes, which were full of hatred and bloodshot and almost popped out.

Seeing this, Chu Shitong's lips curled up slightly. She took out the celadon bottle and asked in a friendly tone, "Is mother looking for this thing?"

Yun Xiangrong said nothing, just glared at her with gritted teeth.

He was full of resentment and hatred, no different from the evil spirits being tortured in hell.

Chu Shitong poured another pill, held it on his fingertips, sat upright on the chair, and stretched out his hand towards Yun Xiangrong.

The mischief on his face and the smile at the corner of his mouth are so ironic.

Mocking the huge difference between the two people now.

When Yun Xiangrong saw the pill, her eyes instantly glowed green, and she no longer remembered how hateful her expression was just now. She suddenly rushed towards Chu Shitong, and when her ghost-like face was about to appear before Chu Shitong's eyes, Yun Xiangrong's body was suddenly pulled by the iron chain, and she fell heavily to the ground.

Her hands and feet were bruised purple by the chains, but that still couldn't stop her from crawling towards this side madly. Her voice was hoarse but sharp.

"Give me!"

"Mother is in such a mess right now." Chu Shitong sighed softly, her fingertips loosened slightly, and she deliberately let the pills fall to the ground, saying, "It's like a dog that can't be tied up."

Yun Xiangrong watched the pill fall. She was still out of reach, so she stretched her hand out as far as she could, her long nails scratching frantically on the wooden floor.

Her body had been feeling uncomfortable for a long time.

“Give it to me! Give it to me!!”

She roared and roared at Chu Shitong, screaming with pleading and hatred.

But not surprisingly, only these two words were repeated.

Chu Shitong was a little tired of her madness and interrupted her madness with a voice.

"Of course I can give it to you, but I have a few questions for you."

Facing Yun Xiangrong, Chu Shitong thought he had nothing to say.

What I want to ask now is about my own life experience.

It seemed that the shock of this scene could make her make up for the damage she suffered in her childhood, but only Chu Shitong herself knew that the damage she suffered in childhood was irreparable.

The cruelty, teasing, and deliberate humiliation she had endured since entering the palace could not overcome the heaviness and depression she felt in her heart.

The blood relationship between mother and son seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Even though the two had become enemies, it still weighed on her heart at this moment.

Yun Xiangrong collapsed to the ground exhausted and gasped for breath. After smoking hemp leaves for a long time, her body was already very thin and she didn't have enough strength to support her madness.

She was still the same, treating her so-called son as if he were her enemy, staring at him with hatred and shouting at the top of her lungs.

"It's you! It's you who drugged me!! It's you!!"

Chu Shitong neither admitted nor denied it.

"I just wanted to ask you a few questions."

Yun Xiangrong learned the truth from her silence. He gasped, his eyes filled with hatred as if he wanted to tear her into pieces. But when he saw the pills on the ground, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva. The blood in his body was clamoring with excitement. After struggling for several times, he gritted his teeth and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Chu Shitong's eyes were as calm as water, and his voice was cold and flowing slowly.

"Who is my biological mother? What is the relationship between Xuan Wu Yue and me?"

Yun Xiangrong's eyes, which were already wide open, bulged out as if they were about to fall out the moment she heard these words.

She froze in place, stunned for a long time, seemingly unable to recover.

After a long time, as if he came to his senses, he suddenly grinned, his teeth were white, his face was like a ghost, ferocious and cruel.

The sharp and arrogant laughter was filled with crazy mockery and sarcasm.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, you want to know? Hahahahaha..."

Chu Shitong covered his ears because of the noise and looked at her coldly.

"You want the pills, just tell me what you know."

Yun Xiangrong laughed wildly and tried to get up from the ground, but his arms were as thin as bamboo poles. He couldn't get up after holding on for a long time and fell to the ground again with a thud.

But this did not affect the gloating smile on her face at all.

She was lying on the ground, with a smile on her face as scary as a ghost, almost making her lose her mind.

"You want to know? Hahahaha... You still want to know? Hahahaha... Do you think I will tell you the truth because of the medicine? Hahaha... You are so ridiculous. I will never let you succeed even if I die! You took my son's place and enjoyed my son's blessings! Still want to know the truth? I will never tell you the truth even if I die. Hahahaha, you will never know it in your life. Hahahaha..."