The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 177

Chapter 177 A femme fatale

"Why do you say that?" King Xuan asked.

Xue Qingyin hurriedly said to him: "I deliberately talked to him about this and that today, and he lost his way while pretending."

"I said I wanted to dig up his wife's grave, and he told me that this was not what a gentleman would do."

"That sounds right. But..."

Xue Qingyin looked at King Xuan and said: "If someone told Your Highness that they wanted to dig up my grave, Your Highness would..." How?

Before she finished her words, King Xuan held her lips.

King Xuan frowned, his face cold: "Why are you using yourself as an example for no reason?"

Xue Qingyin whispered: "I just said that, and that's what I meant. But you see, you got angry just because I said it..."

King Xuan said coldly.

"Your Highness."

"Your Highness, tell me first, what will you do." Xue Qingyin grabbed his sleeve and shook it.

"He has said that, so his head should fall to the ground." King Xuan said in a cold tone.

"Yes. This is the reaction of ordinary people. It's just that ordinary people don't have such powerful skills as Your Highness, but their first reaction is definitely to rush over and fight with him. How can they sit there and talk about whether he is a gentleman or not."

Xue Qingyin pouted and said, "He is not a weak scholar. If he is afraid of my status and position, it doesn't make sense. He dares to act like a fool in front of the emperor, let alone in front of me?"

"Well, ordinary people don't have the mind to analyze the pros and cons when they hear that sentence." King Xuan said.

"Yes, if you really love someone to this extent. It's like a mother seeing her child fall off the bed, she will rush forward to catch him without thinking. This should be an instinct engraved in her bones."

"But he doesn't have this instinct." Xue Qingyin concluded.

"He doesn't love his wife enough, but he really doesn't want others to dig up her grave. So is it really a grave?" Xue Qingyin tilted her head, with interest flashing in her eyes.

"For this, he was even willing to give in and take out 300,000 taels in exchange... You see, this man is still stingy at this time." Xue Qingyin also sighed greatly.

"What is buried underground is nothing more than treasures left over from the previous dynasty." King Xuan said in a flat tone.

"Really?" Xue Qingyin's eyes lit up.

"Emperor Hui of the previous dynasty lost his country and fled to Hedong Road with the gold and silver from the national treasury. His whereabouts are unknown since then."

"Hedong Road..." Xue Qingyin was very disappointed, "It's still a bit far from here."

"Won't we know if we dig it up?" King Xuan said lightly.

"Really digging? I was just trying to trick him. I don't want to dig someone's grave."

"Since the love is fake, the grave may not be real." A little smile appeared in King Xuan's eyes, "Why is Yinyin obsessed with it?"

"Yes!" But after thinking about it, she shook her head, "We don't need such a crude method."

"Huh?"

"Didn't your majesty reward Gan Zixu with the title of Marquis when he saved the emperor?"

"Your majesty was interested, but he refused, saying that he was an old farmer in the mountains and was not worthy of a title."

"He is really a smart man." If he was really awarded a title, I'm afraid the emperor would have caught him long ago.

He now looks like he has nothing, and there are not many people around him. He looks shabby and pitiful. Even if the emperor knows that he has money, he can't do anything about it openly.

"But there are always times when being smart is wrong." Xue Qingyin smiled very sweetly.

She said, "Your Highness, please write a letter and ask our good father to show mercy and include Xingzhou in your fiefdom."

If Zixu has a title, he will naturally be given a fiefdom.

If he lives in Xingzhou and refuses to leave, then Xingzhou will most likely be his fiefdom.

Now it's a bargain for them.

King Xuan's eyes moved slightly: "Father may not agree..."

He paused and said, "But I can find a way to make father agree."

Xue Qingyin couldn't help but kiss him excitedly: "It depends on your Highness!"

She was about to run after the kiss, but King Xuan held her neck with his backhand and took her into his arms.

"How can just one time be enough?" He turned his eyes and stared at her.

Xue Qingyin didn't hesitate, hugged his neck, and kissed him a few more times.

King Xuan: "..." "Like a fish hitting a tank."

The kiss was neither skillful nor emotional.

Xue Qingyin raised her eyebrows: "Your Highness, why are you still picky?"

King Xuan pinched her waist: "Hmm? I'm editing a book for you, and you can't be picky?"

"Yes, yes, yes." At this point, Xue Qingyin's eyes turned, "Your Highness, do you know what it's like in the wild?"

King Xuan: "..." "Xue Qingyin."

He called her by her full name in a deep voice.

I don't know if he was embarrassed or angry.

But Xue Qingyin thought, I'm not embarrassed, why are you embarrassed?

"Your Highness, don't you like it?" she asked.

King Xuan pinched her cheek flesh and lowered his head to bite her lips.

"...There are many insects and ants outside, and the branches are hard and the grass leaves are sharp. How can you bear it?"

"What are you talking about? I just said that it's okay to kiss in the mountains and forests." Xue Qingyin looked innocent.

King Xuan: "..."

This time he lowered his head to bite her harder.

Xue Qingyin was not polite and bit back.

By the time of dinner, Gan Zixu could clearly see His Royal Highness Prince Xuan with teeth marks on his lips.

Gan Zixu was shocked.

It felt like a landslide in his chest.

This Princess Xuan was indeed a vicious woman, with endless tricks...

Even a figure like King Xuan was coaxed into submission by her.

Nong Xia blushed hard when she saw Xue Qingyin's appearance.

She said shyly: "Girl, why are you still biting His Highness?"

Xue Qingyin raised her eyebrows: "I bite him every day, what does it matter?"

"Others have seen some, some..."

"It's just for them to see, so I look great."

"……ah?"

Xue Qingyin lowered her voice and whispered to Nong Xia: "Look, that Gan Zixu must be thinking that this woman is so amazing that even the cold-hearted King Xuan has to be bitten by her. What kind of method is this... …”

King Xuan vaguely heard the voice from the side: "..."

It was getting late very quickly.

Qian Zixu was sitting alone in the room. One of the servants came to the door and said in a slightly anxious tone: "Prince Xuan went into the forest with Princess Xuan in his arms!"

Qian Zixu thought of the tooth marks on King Xuan's lips, and couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth, and responded: "Oh."

He really wasn't weird at all.

It's just that people like King Xuan... actually follow her and act recklessly.

It is really beautiful and seductive.

The servant hesitated again: "King Xuan went for a walk in the mountains and forests in the morning, but found nothing. ... He went there in the morning, and now he goes again. Could it be that he was suspicious?"

"Come on, let me ask you. It is known that the moon is dark and the wind is high, and King Xuan went into the forest with Princess Xuan in his arms. Tell me, what did King Xuan do in the morning?" Gan Zixu called him to him.

"...P-Prying on us?"

Qian Zixu slapped his head: "Silly, use your brain. This is obviously a site survey!"

"Surveying... the site?"

Qian Zixu waved his hand: "So you are an old bachelor."

The servant scratched his head: "Why, why?"

There was confusion written all over his face, and there was stupidity in the confusion.

In this carriage, Xue Qingyin was held in the arms of King Xuan, walking slowly through the forest.

The leaves kept rubbing together, making a rustling sound.

Her eyes were bright: "It's so exciting."

King Xuan: "..."

Xue Qingyin: "Looking for treasures in the middle of the night is so exciting."

"It's almost the same as during the day. I didn't hear any movement." A personal guard came to them and reported in a low voice, "If we go further, we will be deep in the dense forest, and we may not be able to find the way back."

"I didn't hear any movement..." Xue Qingyin listened intently.

Indeed, except for the soft sound of wind, there was no other movement, and even the sound of insects seemed very little.

"This is what's weird." King Xuan said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness?" The guard looked up in surprise.

"Yes, there should be people coming and going here often, and not just one or two people, but many people. Only in this way, the birds and animals in the mountains and forests will disappear at night." Xue Qingyin agreed.

"But there are no obvious traces here. The traces of three or two people walking by can be easily covered up, but when there are more people, the traces will inevitably be impossible to clean up." The guard frowned.

King Xuan was as calm as water, and he said: "The secret path."

"Your Highness is talking about the secret passage in the mountains?" The guard looked slightly solemn, "Then it will be even harder to find."

At this time, Xue Qingyin pulled a leaf: "Have you seen this?"

"Ginkgo? There are a lot of them along the way." The guard replied.

Xue Qingyin: "No, I mean this point on the leaf..."

The guard quickly came closer to take a look: "White powder?"

He recalled for a moment: "It seems...it seems to be on other trees too. I'm not talented enough to tell what it is."

King Xuan twisted it a little: "...it's not powder."

Xue Qingyin also touched it and then threw it away: "It's fluffy, easy to crush, and contains particles."

Xue Qingyin had some guesses at first, but now she is even more certain.

She whispered: "There is a mine here."

This is what Qian Zixu tried so hard to hide! It can also be said to be a treasure.