The daughter of the emperor is reborn to be beautiful and cool, and the King of Zhenbei loves her wi

Zhou Jinxuan was tied to the armchair and couldn't move. Even his mouth was covered by the maid from behind. No wonder he couldn't make any sound just now.

This is not the most important thing.

The worst thing was that there was a red snake coiled under her feet that was thicker than the rim of an enamel bowl.

There is a golden circle on the snake's tail and its head is an inverted triangle. It looks extremely poisonous.

The snake's body is estimated to be about ten feet long, or even longer. It is rare to see a snake that can grow so large and be so poisonous!

However, at the moment, Shen Nanzhi had no time to think about the relationship between this red snake and Getana.

It coiled several circles at Zhou Jinxuan's feet, and its raised head was almost as high as Zhou Jinxuan's knees.

This scene was something Shen Nanzhi, who was afraid of snakes, would never forget.

This red snake is obviously bigger and more poisonous than the one on the pleasure boat!

No wonder Zhou Jinxuan made such trembling sounds just now after he finally broke free from the restraints.

If it were Shen Nanzhi, she wouldn't be sure she could be so strong, let alone a weak woman like Zhou Jinxuan.

"Sister Zhou..."

Shen Nanzhi's mouth was covered by someone, and he could only call out silently in his heart.

Zhou Jinxuan, who was wearing a dark green dress, was speechless. She just looked at Shen Nanzhi and Xiao Huaimin with red eyes. Her eyes were full of disapproval. She was telling them with her eyes to leave quickly.

"Ah Xuan."

Xiao Huaimin's eyes instantly turned red, and he was about to rush forward, but before he could take a step, the red snake seemed to have sensed his intention. It suddenly raised its head, moved close to Zhou Jinxuan's knees, and made a threatening hissing sound, as if it would bite Zhou Jinxuan if Xiao Huaimin dared to take a step forward.

Xiao Huaimin was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

After being stiff for a moment, Xiao Huaimin glared at Xiao Shihua, who was sitting across from him and watching the show at ease: "Xiao Shihua! What are you going to do to your sister-in-law!"

In just a split second, Xiao Huaimin's eyes were red, and his gentle and generous image was completely gone. He frowned and looked at Xiao Shihua: "She is not in good health to begin with, if you have anything to say, come to me! Why make things difficult for her!"

Hearing this, the second prince Xiao Shihua burst out laughing.

He used the tea lid to move the teacup, took a sip, and then said slowly: "Brother and sister-in-law are really a loving couple. Even I, a younger brother, am very moved when I see this."

Even at this moment, he still had a playful smile on his face, which made Xiao Huaimin subconsciously clench his fists.

However, before Xiao Huaimin made any move, he heard Xiao Shihua chuckle and say, "Brother, if you don't care about my sister-in-law's life or death, you can just hit me. Then we'll see whether you are faster or the snake venom that kills people instantly takes effect faster."

Xiao Huaimin was stunned. He looked at Xiao Shihua with red eyes: "What do you want?"

Xiao Shihua did not answer but asked: "Brother, do you know why I have never targeted you before?"

Xiao Huaimin said nothing.

Xiao Shihua continued leisurely: "Of course it's because your weakness is too obvious. I can easily control you without any tricks. Therefore, from the beginning, the only targets I can take seriously are Lao Wu and Lao Qi. Now..."

Having said that, he stood up with a smile on his face, but that smile looked creepy.

"Big brother may not know yet, not only is the seventh brother dead, but the fifth brother is also dead."

"The sickly Third Brother is hanging on by a thread, and he lost the chance to take that position a long time ago. So, now the only ones who can take that position are you and me, so don't blame me for being ruthless."

Hearing this, Xiao Huaimin's eyes were full of disbelief. He asked, "Old Five is dead? Where did you get the news? Wasn't he confined to the mansion before?"

Xiao Shihua laughed and said, "I care about him more than my elder brother, so of course I won't let go of his every move in the Fifth Prince's Mansion. This news can't be false, because it is related to Southern Xinjiang, and it happened to be at the time when the Zhou family was plotting a rebellion. Father didn't want to cause panic among the people, so he had it concealed, but paper can't cover up fire, right?"

Xiao Shihua was in high spirits and did not feel the slightest bit of regret for the tragic death of his brother.

On the other hand, Xiao Huaimin sighed with a look of sorrow, "After all, he is a brother. Although he did some ruthless things before, his crime does not deserve the death penalty."

“Does sin not lead to death?”

Hearing this, Xiao Shihua seemed to have heard a huge joke. After laughing, he raised his finger and pointed at Shen Nanzhi, whose mouth and nose were covered by someone: "You probably don't know what he has done. Without saying anything else, just ask this person from the Shen family, do you want him to die?"

Hearing this, Shen Nanzhi's heart skipped a beat.

Although judging from Xiao Shihua's reaction and expression, he probably didn't realize that Xiao Ziyi's death had anything to do with her, but this person accidentally pointed it out correctly.

After being ordered by Xiao Shihua, the maid who was holding Shen Nanzhi hostage also let go of Shen Nanzhi's mouth, but the dagger that could cut through iron like mud was still placed on Shen Nanzhi's neck. Any deviation would cause Shen Nanzhi to bleed to death on the spot.

As soon as he got the chance to speak, Shen Nanzhi quickly reminded Xiao Huaimin: "Your Highness, be careful! There is a muscle softener in the room!"

However, this made Xiao Shihua sneer: "Miss Shen, I praised you for being smart before, but now, do you think he can leave? Even if I give him a chance to escape alone, will my good brother be willing to leave?"

Xiao Huaimin's expression said it all.

Xiao Shihua then smiled and looked at Shen Nanzhi: "Although I haven't been to the Spring Hunting Ground before, I have heard about what happened that night. My good brother not only wanted to kill and silence her, but also wanted to completely destroy Miss Shen."

In fact, apart from Shen Nanzhi and Xiao Ziyi's respective people, the only people present that night were Emperor Shunqing and a few eunuchs around him.

Afterwards, even if someone tried to find out, the only thing that was spread out was that Xiao Ziyi and Liu Jingyi had a secret meeting and were caught by Shen Nanzhi and Ye Qingwan, and that they were immoral, so they were punished by Emperor Shunqing. There was no mention of Xiao Ziyi planning to attack Shen Nanzhi, and even Xiao Huaimin didn't know about it.

But Xiao Shihua knew it so clearly.

Obviously, there were his people in the main tent at that time.

At that time, those who followed Shen Nanzhi and Xiao Ziyi were all their confidants, and whether it was Mo Yun's intelligence network or the list given by Wen Lanxiang before, there was no problem with these people.

The most likely ones are the eunuchs around Emperor Shunqing.

If that's the case, then he knows too much information.

Xiao Huaimin looked at Shen Nanzhi in surprise: "Miss Shen, are you serious?"

This was the fact, and Shen Nanzhi had nothing to deny. She nodded and said, "Fortunately, I had secret guards with me at the time, and I sent someone to invite Eunuch Chang Xi in time, so nothing went wrong."

Hearing this, Xiao Huaimin's expression was very complicated.

For a moment, it was unclear whether he was more sad about Xiao Ziyi's death or more angry about Xiao Ziyi's previous actions.

Xiao Shihua was very satisfied with his reaction. He casually leaned against the sealed window and said with a smile, "Brother, let's not keep you in suspense. Now that you are in my hands, for the sake of our brotherhood, I will give you two choices."

Xiao Shihua raised his hand and knocked on the table, his voice as cold as jade: "I'll give you one stick of incense. Only one of you three can survive. You can think carefully about who to choose."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Huaimin looked at Zhou Jinxuan first.

Seeing this, Zhou Jinxuan, whose mouth was still covered and unable to make a sound, shook his head vigorously and kept signaling Xiao Huaimin with his eyes to choose Shen Nanzhi.

Her action startled the red snake coiled under her feet. It suddenly swept its tail and climbed up along Zhou Jinxuan's ankles. In a blink of an eye, it had tightly wrapped Zhou Jinxuan from legs to waist and abdomen.

At this time, even the maid who was covering Zhou Jinxuan was frightened and took two steps back, and instantly let go of Zhou Jinxuan.

The cold snake head passed through Zhou Jinxuan's shoulder and landed on the side of her cheek.

Zhou Jinxuan was obviously similar to Shen Nanzhi, and was extremely afraid of this thing.

Even though she was calm and dignified, she couldn't help trembling at this time, but she still looked at Xiao Huaimin with determination: "Don't worry about me, take Shen's sister away!"

The closer the situation is to life and death, the clearer a person's true nature can be seen.

From the very beginning, Shen Nanzhi had doubted her purpose in approaching him, whether it was to win him over or to make friends with him.

Perhaps it was both, but at this moment, even though she was extremely terrified of the red snake, she was still able to firmly leave the chance of survival to Shen Nanzhi. How could Shen Nanzhi not be moved?

She choked up and said, "Sister Zhou! Don't move!"

She was afraid that Zhou Jinxuan's reaction would be too intense and would completely enrage the red snake, and by then, everything would be irreversible.

The venom of this snake is almost fatal on impact, and is even more powerful than that of the Bungarus multicinctus.

Not to mention that Lu Pianpian couldn't detoxify it, even if Lu Pianpian could detoxify it, the snake venom took effect so quickly that it would be too late!

It's almost certain death!

"Ah Xuan! Don't move! Please, don't move..."

There were tears in Xiao Huaimin's eyes, and his voice was already hoarse when he opened his mouth.

Xiao Huaimin, who had always been gentle, generous and graceful, had completely lost his usual grace and composure.

When facing Xiao Shihua, his tone even couldn't help but add some humble pleading.

"Xiao Shihua, what do you want to do to let them go?"

Seeing that Zhou Jinxuan finally calmed down and stopped talking and moving, Xiao Huaimin finally took a deep breath and turned to look at Xiao Shihua: "You just want that position, you want my life, I will give it to you, but you have to promise not to hurt them."

Perhaps he had been in this room for too long and had inhaled a lot of muscle-softening powder. In addition, he was too excited, so the muscle-softening powder worked even faster. As he said this, his body could no longer hold on.

Seeing this, Xiao Shihua became even more proud: "Brother, you can't even protect yourself, what can you use to negotiate with me?"

Hearing this, Xiao Huaimin looked at him coldly and said firmly: "You can force me, but you can't kill me yourself, otherwise it will violate my father's taboo. Even without me, he would rather support other younger princes and would never choose you! You know this in your heart, so you set up this game, just to force me to commit suicide."

At this point, Xiao Huaimin paused, turned his head and glanced at Shen Nanzhi before saying, "Third brother is not a threat to you, but if you touch Miss Shen, you will definitely become enemies with her. I think the result is not what you want to see."

Hearing this, Xiao Shihua smiled brightly: "Brother, how do you know this is not the result I want? A woman who can make the third brother even willing to hand over the military token to marry her must be very dear to him. His feelings for his sister-in-law are no less than yours. Now he is seriously ill and on the verge of death. If he hears the news that his sweetheart is in trouble at this time, do you think he can still hold on?"

The more he talked, the more proud Xiao Shihua became.

Shen Nanzhi was originally worried about Xiao Chuyun because there was a eunuch who was Xiao Shihua's spy around Emperor Shunqing. She was afraid that after Xiao Chuyun knew his whereabouts, he would secretly deploy a killing move against Xiao Chuyun.

Now it seems that Xiao Shihua was obviously unaware of Xiao Chuyun's whereabouts, and just thought that Xiao Chuyun was still recuperating in the Zhenbei Palace.

Before Shen Nanzhi could completely relax, he heard Xiao Shihua laugh with great pride: "Brother, an incense stick of time is very fast. Besides, even if I have patience, this snake may not have such good patience."

As it spoke, the red snake wrapped itself around Zhou Jinxuan even tighter.

Zhou Jinxuan's body was weak to begin with, and she was in a state of extreme fear, so how could she withstand the weight of the red snake? If she had not been tied firmly to the armchair, her body would have collapsed long ago.

The red snake was still spitting out its tongue on her shoulder from time to time. Zhou Jinxuan's face had already turned as pale as paper, but even so, she still signaled with her eyes to Xiao Huaimin to take Shen Nanzhi away and choose Shen Nanzhi.

Xiao Huaimin's expression was tense, and he said with determination: "At worst, we will die together. If something happens to them and me, you will not be able to achieve your goal. Not to mention the emperor, you will not be able to pass the test of the court officials!"

Seeing this, Xiao Shihua tutted his tongue twice and softened his tone, saying, "Well, since you are my eldest brother, I will use you to exchange for the two of them. Isn't this a good deal?"

Seeing Xiao Shihua give in, Xiao Huaimin finally lowered his head and said helplessly: "Okay, what do you want me to do specifically? You can't kill yourself here, right?"

Hearing this, Xiao Shihua smiled and casually threw a brocade bag to Xiao Huaimin.

"There is a snake pill in it. After taking it, within a quarter of an hour, your liver and gallbladder will be shattered, and you will bleed from all seven orifices and die. There is no medicine that can cure it, no medicine that can save you. I want you to go see the emperor right now and take it in front of him. Of course, you should weigh what you should and shouldn't say, brother. Their lives all depend on your thoughts."

"From here, we will enter the palace, until something happens to you, and my people will pass the news back. It will take at least one hour. I will remember it for you, big brother. If my people don't pass back the news I want after one hour, I will send them on their way immediately."

Seeing that Xiao Huaimin acquiesced, Xiao Shihua raised his hand and personally handed a cup of tea to Xiao Huaimin, and kindly reminded him: "This tea contains the antidote for the soft tendon powder. If big brother agrees, you have to hurry up."

Made a gesture of please.

He seemed not to be worried at all that Xiao Huaimin would go for help or leak the news, because he knew how important Zhou Jinxuan was to Xiao Huaimin.

What's more, there is Shen Nanzhi here.

Xiao Shihua looked confident of victory and looked at Xiao Huaimin with a smile.

Xiao Huaimin took the teacup and was about to drink it, but Shen Nanzhi suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"