flstandardbreds Chapter 143 Lin Zhaoyue, there is not a single truth in your words
Chapter 143 Lin Zhaoyue, there is not a single truth in your words
When Lin Zhaoyue walked in, she saw Xiao Yun standing in front of the sand table. He stood tall and straight, tapping the tabletop nonchalantly with his thin, white fingers. He lowered his head slightly, and his long, thick eyelashes hid all the emotions in his eyes.
Beneath the black robe, he concealed a natural coldness and imperial arrogance that penetrated into his bones, as if he could decide life and death and change the world with just one word.
Hearing the noise, he looked up at her and said softly:
"come over."
Lin Zhaoyue walked over obediently.
His dark eyes just glanced at her lightly, and then placed them on the sand table:
"Repeat what I just told you."
Lin Zhaoyue looked at the sand table and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, she pointed to the center of the sand table and said:
“There are three parties in the court: the royalist party, the prince’s party, and the grand prince’s party.
The eldest prince's party is headed by Marquis Xuanping, with Censor Marquis Wen'an as his left arm and Minister of Personnel Si Fangqi as his right arm. The others are just barking dogs and are not to be feared."
Xiao Yan hummed lightly and said:
"anything else?"
"The rest are the Emperor's royalists, His Majesty's forces."
Lin Zhaoyue paused for a moment, glanced at Xiao Yun's expression, and seeing that he did not seem to be surprised and was even encouraging, she continued:
“Although Your Majesty has not explicitly stated which side he supports, all the officials in the court know that Your Majesty is leaning towards the Prince’s Party.
The royalist party is headed by my father, Duke Lin, with Song Xinian, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, as his left arm, He Yanzhi, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, as his right arm, and the cabinet minister as his right arm. These people are all important officials of the court and their strength should not be underestimated. As long as they do not lean towards either side, the crown prince and the eldest prince will form a check and balance. However, with the emperor's preference for the crown prince, the eldest prince has no chance of winning."
Xiao Yun nodded slightly, his eyes still on the sand table, as if thinking about something.
After a moment, he asked:
"If you were the eldest prince, how would you deal with the current situation?"
When Lin Zhaoyue heard Xiao Yan's words, her heart skipped a beat.
Is he testing me?
Regardless of whether it was a test or not, Lin Zhaoyue concentrated her mind and said tentatively:
"Are you sure you really want me to tell you, Prince?"
"I ask you because I want you to speak."
Lin Zhaoyue took a breath and said:
"Of course, I will kill the crown prince and become the master of the East Palace myself."
When Xiao Yan heard her say that the prince should be killed, there was a hint of secret joy in his tone.
He lifted his eyelids and glanced at her.
When Lin Zhaoyue was looked at like this by Xiao Yun, she felt a chill down her spine and said:
"The Crown Prince allowed me to say this."
"What if he can't kill me?"
What else can I do if I can't kill him? I will be imprisoned by him like in my previous life.
"Lin Zhaoyue, if you want to sit in that position, the most fundamental thing is not to be alone."
Lin Zhaoyue's mind suddenly shook slightly.
The most fundamental thing... lies with the Emperor.
But in his previous life, Xiao Chen did not do anything to persecute the emperor...
While Lin Zhaoyue was thinking, she suddenly heard her stomach growling, a signal that she was fighting hunger.
Her face was slightly hot, her fair cheeks were flushed, and her red lips were slightly pursed with a hint of embarrassment.
She wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, but her stomach rumbled again and again.
Xiao Yan admired her slightly embarrassed look with great interest. When he had admired her enough, he inserted the green flag in his hand into the sand table, walked out, and asked someone to bring in some food.
Soon, someone brought four dishes and a soup.
When they arrived at the door, Feng Xin checked the food as usual, and only carried it in after making sure it was okay.
The soup was lotus root and pork ribs soup. Maybe she was really hungry, so she finished half a bowl of rice in one go, then scooped up a bowl of soup and drank it in small sips.
Her face was very small, and she was holding a porcelain bowl that almost covered most of her face.
Occasionally chewing the lotus root in his mouth, he was quiet and well-behaved, like a little kitten.
These days, she is always like this... pretending to be good.
"tasty?"
Xiao Yan on the opposite side suddenly asked.
She swallowed what she had in her mouth, took the bowl, and nodded:
"It tastes good. Your Highness can try it."
“No bowl.”
He said calmly.
Lin Zhaoyue looked around and found that there were only three bowls.
"I'll have someone bring another bowl over."
Just as he was about to stand up, he heard Xiao Yan say:
"They are busy. It's just one bowl. You can use yours."
As he said this, he naturally took the bowl of soup she had just drunk.
Lin Zhaoyue: …
He doesn't find it disgusting either.
Lin Zhaoyue frowned slightly, but finally said nothing.
Xiao Yun filled a bowl of soup and said politely:
"Are you still drinking?"
Lin Zhaoyue shook her head and continued to eat with her bowl.
Xiao Yan held the soup bowl, scooped it with a spoon, and drank it slowly.
After drinking, she looked at Lin Zhaoyue and asked without any context:
"Lin Zhaoyue, where would you go if you left the capital?"
Lin Zhaoyue covered her mouth with her hands, swallowed the food in her mouth, and asked in confusion:
"Why does Your Highness ask this?"
She felt that Xiao Yan was acting strange and unpredictable today.
He chuckled and said leisurely:
"I'm just curious, if I hadn't threatened you with Qingzhu last time to go to the capital, where would you be now?"
Lin Zhaoyue paused for a while and said seriously:
“Probably going to the border!”
At that time, the eldest brother asked her if she wanted to go to the border with him.
She was happy at that time.
In her previous life, her father and brother died in battle at Beiyang Pass. She thought that if she died there, perhaps she could become their patron saint and protect her father and brother from death.
border?
Xiao Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, said "oh" softly, and didn't ask any more questions.
It seemed as if he was just asking casually because he was in the mood.
He stopped asking and Lin Zhaoyue said nothing.
Just after finishing his meal, Feng Xin walked in and whispered something in his ear. Xiao Yan's eyes darkened slightly and he stood up without any expression.
Before leaving, he took a few files from the desk and placed them in front of her, and said in his usual unyielding tone:
"I will check when you have finished reciting and when you come out."
After saying that, he lifted his feet and left.
Lin Zhaoyue saw several men in black coming up to him with serious expressions, saying something in their mouths.
The stone door slammed shut with a loud bang.
The sound insulation here is excellent. Once the door is closed, the sound from outside is almost blocked out.
The file in Lin Zhaoyue's hand was a detailed explanation of the sand table. She opened it, took a look, and closed it again.
He tiptoed to the stone gate and listened to the sounds outside. After confirming that he could not hear anything, he looked around.
There is no possibility of being eavesdropped or spied on.
She left the stone gate and came to the shelf, looking at each cabinet one by one.
The picture of hundreds of birds and thousands of mountains should be a painting scroll.
But these cabinets are almost entirely filled with bamboo slips.
Some are placed in a palm-sized wooden box.
Lin Zhaoyue looked at the wooden box, and after making sure that she had avoided the holes of the poison needles, she moved the chessboard in the same position that Xiao Yan had just fiddled with.
Unexpectedly, she actually opened the cabinet.
The glass piece shrank down, revealing a dark wooden box, which brought with it a stale smell.
Lin Zhaoyue: …
So easy?
Lin Zhaoyue carefully took out the wooden box, inside of which was a sign that she could not understand.
Forged from fine iron, but with a small piece missing.
This is not some picture of a thousand mountains and hundreds of years.
Lin Zhaoyue closed the box and put it back.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but she had looked through all the shelves and still couldn't find any trace of the Painting of a Hundred Birds and a Thousand Mountains.
But she had a strong intuition that the picture must be here.
But where would Xiao Yan be hiding?
Lin Zhaoyue took down a night-shining pearl and searched and knocked against the wall inch by inch.
I don't know which brick she hit, but a hollow sound came out.
She was stunned, went to look for it again, and knocked again.
This time she slowed down and hit one of the pieces, and the sound was indeed unreal.
She took the night pearl and looked around, and found some tiny gaps that could not be seen without careful observation.
Could it be that the picture is hidden here?
Lin Zhaoyue pressed it tentatively, but there was no response.
She looked around carefully again and found that the stone was behind Xiao Yan's desk.
Could it be that the switch is on that table?
She walked to the table and looked at it carefully.
There was nothing else on it except bamboo slips, files, paper, pen, inkstone and ink.
She looked around again, but there was no device that looked like a switch.
She squatted down and studied them one by one.
Afraid that Xiao Yan would become suspicious, she put everything back the same way she had it after trying it.
Until the last one, she was about to move it, but found that the inkstone was stuck directly on the table and could not be moved.
Her eyes lit up and she turned to the left out of habit.
There was a continuous creaking sound. Before Lin Zhaoyue could feel happy, the sound became louder and more urgent.
She thought to herself that something was wrong and was about to leave when suddenly the blue bricks beneath her suddenly separated into two sides and the entire table fell straight down.
There are sharp iron objects everywhere. If someone falls down, his intestines will be pierced and he will surely die.
Lin Zhaoyue didn't even think twice and jumped to the side by stepping on the table.
However, the falling table could not lend her much strength, and she barely grabbed a corner of the blue brick floor and half hung on the wall.
My knees and hands were scratched. It was painful at first, and then warm liquid came out.
bleeding.
The wall was made of smooth blue bricks and there was no place to step on, so she had no leverage.
Her current skills were not enough to use the little support in her hands to throw herself out.
A cold chill came from below. Lin Zhaoyue looked down and saw a few white bones scattered there.
It seems that someone has been hit and died in there.
The smell of blood mixed with the smell of corruption hit her. Lin Zhaoyue gritted her teeth and gripped the floor even harder.
The blood made her hands even slipperier. If she relaxed, she would fall and eventually become one of the white bones.
I don’t know if Xiao Yan had ever thought about what would happen if he accidentally touched something and fell down when he designed it that way?
After Lin Zhaoyue tried everything but failed, she finally decided to conserve her energy.
If Xiao Yan really waited until she finished memorizing those files before coming back, she would probably have died.
Her fingers were tightly gripping the blue brick floor. Even though they were stained red with blood, her finger bones were still slightly white. She felt exhausted and her clothes were soaked with sweat...
……
At this moment, in the monitoring room, the silver bell was ringing gently.
The person in charge of monitoring immediately said:
"There is something unusual in the main hall, report it to the Pavilion Master immediately."
Upon hearing this, a man in black hurriedly ran into the meeting room.
Feng Xin was outside the meeting room. When he saw the man in black approaching, he reached out to stop him.
"What's important?"
The man in black saw Feng Xin and said hurriedly:
"The silver bells are ringing. Something is wrong in the main hall. I hope Guard Feng will report to the Pavilion Master."
"Okay, wait a moment."
Feng Xin responded to the words of the man in black, turned around and walked towards the meeting room.
When Feng Xin entered, he could clearly sense that the atmosphere in the meeting room was very solemn.
But he was not surprised. He leaned close to Xiao Yan's ear and conveyed to Xiao Yan what the man in black had just said.
There was only Lin Zhaoyue in the main hall. Xiao Yun's eyes changed slightly, and he slightly pinched the jade ring on his hand, stood up, and said coldly:
"I want results within seven days."
After leaving these words, he took Feng Xin and walked towards the main hall.
A heavy rumble sounded in her ears. Exhausted Lin Zhaoyue heard the sound and couldn't help shouting:
"Xiao Yan!"
When Xiao Yun saw what was happening inside the house, he knew that Lin Zhaoyue had triggered the mechanism.
He waved his hand, asking Feng Xin to retreat, then walked to the cave entrance with an unclear expression and looked down at her.
The girl's delicate wrist was broken, and blood kept flowing out, flowing down her arm and staining her light green dress red.
There was a pool of blood on the blue brick under her hand, which was randomly grasped by her fingers. With the weight of her body, the white finger bones kept sliding out.
After sliding to a certain extent, it retracts tightly inward to prevent the fingers from falling empty.
The girl's hair was messy, her chest was heaving violently, sweat was sliding down her jawline, and her neckline was slightly open, revealing her fair and delicate collarbone.
Lin Zhaoyue felt heavy-headed, but she still keenly caught the scrutiny and suspicion in Xiao Yan's eyes from his deep black eyes.
"Your Highness, are you planning to laugh at me? Are you not planning to save people?"
There was not much warmth in Xiao Yan's eyes. He just stared at her quietly and said indifferently:
"Lin Zhaoyue, what are you looking for?"
Lin Zhaoyue frowned and said:
"Your Highness? What could I be looking for? I just wanted to write a few words, and I moved your inkstone, and it fell here."
Xiao Yan sneered:
"Lin Zhaoyue, there is not a single truth in your mouth."
He was too lazy to listen to her excuses and said directly:
"The reason you fell down was not because you moved the inkstone, but because you knocked on the blue bricks on the wall.
That is a special mechanism with a delay, and the inkstone on the table is just to confuse you."
Lin Zhaoyue's hands gripping the blue brick grew paler.
"So, Lin Zhaoyue, what are you looking for?"
He took a step forward and stepped his clean soap shoe on one of her hands.
The way he looked at her was like he was looking at an ant.
The pain in the hand ranges from mild pain to sharp pain.
He pressed his feet harder and harder.
Lin Zhaoyue endured the pain and looked down again. Her eyes turned slightly, and when she raised them again, she sneered:
"Xiao Yan, is it true that you won't believe anything I say now?"
Xiao Yan didn't say anything, but stared at her with cold eyes.
She smiled sadly and let go of his hand.
The petite body fell straight down.
The man's eyes tightened instantly, and his body reacted before his brain.
Lin Zhaoyue is gambling.
When she saw Xiao Yan jumping down, she knew she had won the bet.
The man gnashed his teeth:
"Lin Zhaoyue, you are looking for death!"