The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

Early the next morning, Long Qi took the hairpin to ask Bahar, after all, it was he who gave it to him.

"This was a gift from the previous king." Bahar stroked his short beard and explained, "She has kept this thing for more than 20 years, so I snatched it... uh, gave it to my husband."

"In other words, she has always kept the things that King Yanqi gave her?" Long Qi said.

Bahar disagreed and squinted his eyes. "In my opinion, this thing is valuable. Maybe it's worth a few dollars, so she didn't throw it away."

"No, if she was greedy for money, why would she go against you? Wouldn't it be better for her to hand over the antidote and leave the cellar? The manufacturing method and shape of this hairpin are obviously different from ordinary hairpins. There is also a hidden key hook on it. It must be the key to open something?" Long Qi thought of Li Xiying's guess last night, and began to analyze.

Bahar thought it made sense and after taking a closer look, he found that it was indeed true.

“If we want to restore the appearance of all the Yanqi people to their original state, we may need to start with the secret of this hairpin.” Long Qi said.

He promised Bahar that if he was willing to help him join the team to rescue Li Xiying and the emperor, he would do his best to help him solve the problem of the antidote.

Bahar had done it, and now it was up to him to find a way to deliver on his promise.

They came to the house of Concubine Yanqi together. She had seen the sunlight while lying on the couch. Her food and accommodation had also improved, but she was not as energetic as when she was in the cellar.

Bahar couldn't wait to take the hairpin and show it to her. "Tell me, is this a key?"

She was in a daze for a moment, then turned her head and chose to remain silent, without saying a word.

Bahar said anxiously, "You must know which lock this key can open, right? Whether it is related to the antidote or the late king, everything depends on this key, right?"

Bahar was too eager for success, so Long Qi stopped him and asked him to take a break from talking.

She lowered her eyelids and sneered, "Open what? Open your crown? So what? Can opening it change the facts? You are deceiving yourself!"

Bahar was so angry that he could only glare and puff his beard. Seeing that Long Qi was there, he had a clue and listened to him without answering her.

"Since you don't want to open it, why didn't you throw it away decades ago, but chose to keep it until now?" Long Qi asked.

"Since the King of Yanqi has betrayed you, shouldn't the evidence be more biased towards or in your favour? You kept this key because you think there is established evidence to prove how he did that? If it is as I guessed, wouldn't it be better to make the Yanqi people convinced?" Li Xiqi appeared slowly, also speaking words of persuasion.

Yesterday, Long Qi said that Bahar went to rescue people to "help him", and he said it quite easily, but she knew it must not be that simple, so she guessed that there was a transactional relationship between them.

Otherwise, why would he help the people who had hurt his mother for decades and then ask her for the antidote?

Bahar looked at Li Xiying with a questioning look on his face, "How could our late king betray a spy? If you don't understand, don't make up stories..."

The rest of the words were swallowed by Long Qi's deathly gaze, and only then did he realize what Li Xiying meant.

"It's you?" The woman looked at Li Xiying with a calm face and recalled their encounter in the cellar that day.

"You once said that the man betrayed you. So-called death row prisoners must have evidence before they can be punished. If we only rely on speculation, will there be any discrepancies between what you saw?" Li Xiqi spoke slowly, analyzing various possibilities.

She remembered what Concubine Yanqi said in the cellar, so she combined it with her own speculation and said that it was correct.

Concubine Yanqi suddenly laughed and said, "They imprisoned you in the cellar and fed you poison, but you still spoke for them? Were you fed with a drug that made you mad?"

Li Xiqi didn't take it seriously, and then continued: "They should be punished for their wrongdoings, but have you ever thought about why innocent people should be implicated? Taking a step back, you look at the current state of those Yanqi people. They have been punished for the Yanqi King's disloyalty to his promise, but you kept your promise, and the Yanqi King died, but you didn't suffer any loss at all."

"The dead are gone, and punishment is for the living. You only punished the innocent people in Yanqi and yourself, right? How can this be fair?" Li Xiqi's words were piercing and well-reasoned, poking into her heart, leaving her stunned for a long time.

After working so hard for so long, it turns out she is the one who has to bear the consequences!

"You shouldn't have a trace of remorse in your heart. If you can find peace in your heart, why hide it? Why keep your things with him? I'm afraid that your heart is suffering!"

She guessed that Concubine Yanqi had never seen the key that could open the door. She had been living in the cellar, trying to keep her life intact. What was she waiting for?

Concubine Yanqi burst into tears instantly, and her tears flowed into the wrinkles on her face. Her face had aged in the past twenty years, but the late king was just sleeping in the ground. Thinking of this, she was in a daze. Yes, why should she bear so much?

"Tell us? This matter should have a result." Long Qi said.

Concubine Yanqi raised her eyes to look at Long Qi, and it seemed as if she saw the late king. He had a clear mind and a refined character, without a trace of royal arrogance, just like... him!

After a long pause, she said in a daze, "I do have a box. It was given to me by him. He said that he would put some memorable things in it every year, and promised to open it and look at them together when we are old, recalling the past one by one."

"In less than two years, he broke his oath... What will you see when you open it? You will only see the false face of a treacherous person." After saying this, Concubine Yanqi opened her eyes and sneered.

Now she just felt that the box was a huge irony.

"In that case, you have kept this key, but do you want to open the box one day?" Long Qi asked a question that struck deep into her heart.

Li Xizhen agreed slowly, "Since you kept the key, you must have thought that you would have to open it someday. Since you will have to see it sooner or later, why not take a look now?"

As if she was convinced, she half-opened her eyes in a trance and said, "It's just a box. The box is buried in his grave. Go and dig it up."

Bahar was slightly shocked, frowned, and denied it: "The former king's tomb does not have the box you mentioned. I buried him personally, so it is impossible for him to have such a box!"

"I buried it later. Believe it or not." She raised her eyes and sneered. She said it lightly, but it frightened Bahar so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Bahar bit her sparse back teeth, which means that she dug up the grave of the late king after he was buried?

Concubine Yanqi said calmly: "I placed the box next to him. Don't worry, I didn't destroy his body. I just whipped him a few hundred times. I hated myself for being blind."

Bahar was in tears, but his corpse was whipped. He said angrily, "Stop disturbing the tomb of the late king. Forget it, I won't dig it anymore!"

But she looked up with a mocking expression and sneered, "Didn't you say you wanted to see it?"

Long Qi said in a deep voice, "Dig!"

The tomb was buried on the territory of Yanqi, and the round trip to retrieve the box would take at least half a month.

Bahar wanted to detoxify the Yanqi people, and for the sake of the Yanqi people, big and small, they had to listen to her and went there with gritted teeth.

Long Qi looked at her, Li Xi smiled, and left with peace of mind.

Since he helped her, she should repay him with all her might, but the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it. Only when the box is opened will the answer come to light.