diskusbooks Chapter 270 Anger, Abandoned Pawn
Chapter 270 Anger, Abandoned Pawn
The eldest princess liked Xie Ying very much, but although Xie Ying was granted the title of county lord, her father's status was too low, which would inevitably drag her down.
So she decided to test Xie Xiu's ability. If he was a promising talent, she would talk to her brother and arrange a position for him.
Xie Xiu heard the princess's probing intent and said with a helpless smile, "It's obvious that someone is plotting against the Jiang family and the imperial concubine in the palace. It's a pity that my Yingying, at such a young age, became a pawn sacrificed by the person behind the scenes just because she was named a county lady."
He shouldn't know about the little prince yet, so naturally he can't mention it.
Seeing that he understood, the princess asked again, "I remember that you participated in the provincial examination. Are you confident that you will pass?"
Xie Xiu finally smiled with relief. "If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to pass the imperial examination. I've already wasted years, and I really don't want to waste any more time and let my wife and children suffer with me."
The eldest princess smiled with satisfaction: "Your father..."
She wanted to say "your father," but then she thought of the feud between Xie Xiu, Xie Yun, and Chen Fang, and quickly changed her words. "It's very good that you have such a kind heart. If you pass this time, will you take part in the Spring Examination next year?"
Xie Xiu nodded: "I do have this plan."
Seeing that he was neither humble nor arrogant, and his attitude was calm, the princess was even more satisfied with him. "In that case, I wish you success in the imperial examination next spring!"
After that, she added meaningfully, "The capital has been in turmoil recently. It's better not to stay in this suburban villa for the time being. Come back later."
Xie Xiu's expression changed, and he bowed solemnly to her. "Thank you for your advice, Your Highness. I'll have someone pack up and return to the city immediately!"
The princess was very pleased with his advice, so she said directly: "You go and pack up, and let Yingying stay here with me. When you are done, you can return to the city with me."
Xie Xiu did not refuse. After thanking her again, he went out with Tu Jiaojiao.
After they left, the eldest princess hugged Xie Ying in her arms with a distressed look on her face: "I was really scared to death. Fortunately, Yingying is okay."
Xie Ying blinked her big eyes and smiled sweetly at her, "One by one."
The eldest princess' eyes lit up: "Yingying, are you calling me aunt? Oh, Yingying can even call people! You are worthy of being my little lucky star! Come on, call me aunt again!"
Xie Ying: “One by one.”
"Oh my! This child is becoming more and more lovable!"
After saying that, she felt so angry when she thought about how Xie Ying was almost bitten to death by Jiang Er's black dog.
"That Jiang Er is such a bastard! Why did he have to raise such a big dog when he could have raised anything else! Luckily Yingying is fine, otherwise I would have skinned him alive!"
Xie Ying opened her big eyes innocently, looking silly as if she didn't understand anything, but her mind was already sharpening a knife, ready to attack someone!
[You actually let the dog bite me, you think I'm easy to bully, right?]
Soon, Xie Xiu and others packed up their things and followed the princess back to the city.
This time, the princess did not follow in, nor did she ask to take Xie Ying to the princess's residence. After sending Xie Xiu and others to their doorstep, she turned around and entered the palace.
Tu Jiaojiao hugged Xie Ying in her arms with heartache. Although she knew her daughter was fine, she still couldn't forget the horrific scene when the black dog pounced on Xie Ying and Xie Xiu!
Seeing her grim expression, Xie Xiu hugged her and Xie Ying together in his arms: "Don't be afraid, Yingying and I are fine. I promise that this won't happen again."
"I don't blame you." Tu Jiaojiao's voice choked with sobs. "I just hate the person behind this. If they want to fight for power and profit, they can fight for it among themselves. What does it have to do with Yingying? Why should Yingying be sacrificed?"
Xie Xiu's face grew even colder, but he said nothing.
The truth is that those people are used to being superior, so they never care about the lives of little people like them.
Although Yingying was named the county lady, in the eyes of outsiders, she was just a lucky little girl from a humble background.
Nature can be sacrificed at will.
Xie Xiu could only say, "I will work hard to climb to a high position so that those people will never dare to bully you and the children again!"
He is not strong enough to compete with those people now, so he can only join forces with his uncle to catch those people one by one!
On the other side, inside the palace.
"boom!"
Imperial Concubine Jiang was so angry that she slammed the table. "How dare those people plot against the Jiang family like this, and even do such cruel things to a baby! They are worse than animals!"
Letting a huge black dog attack a baby, how vicious is that?
Emperor Taihe's face was also ashen. He had just named Xie Ying the Princess of Fu'an County, and someone wanted her to be bitten to death by a vicious dog. Not only was it vicious, but it was also a slap in the face of him as the emperor!
He directly sent someone to convey the order to Lu Xuan, asking Lu Xuan to find out the mastermind as soon as possible.
Concubine Jiang also asked Luo Zheng to conduct a thorough investigation.
Luo Zheng smiled coldly and took his men to search Jiang Er's villa. He soon found the Xiaoyao Pill hidden by Liu Xi.
After Feng Xinyi examined the black dog, he also found that its symptoms were very similar to those of Xiaoyao Pill addiction.
Lu Xuan had Liu Xi interrogated, but the man could not bear the torture and quickly confessed.
He lost a large sum of money gambling a few days ago, but he didn't dare tell Jiang Er, fearing that Jiang Er would drive him away.
So when someone gave him some silver and asked him to feed medicine to the black panther, he agreed.
He first mixed the Xiaoyao Pill in raw meat, then took the small clothes worn by Xie Ying and let the black panther smell it so that it could remember the smell, and then fed it the raw meat mixed with the Xiaoyao Pill.
After eating it once, Black Panther particularly liked the raw meat with Xiaoyao Dan added, and had no interest in ordinary raw meat.
Liu Xi deliberately starved it, and when it became crazy with hunger, he fed it the puppy that had been fed with Xiaoyao Pills.
There were still pieces of Xie Ying's clothes tied to the puppy.
After a few days of training like this, the black panther would go crazy whenever it was hungry, and would pounce and bite madly as soon as it smelled the scent of Xie Ying's clothes.
Moreover, if the black panther is not fed Xiaoyao Dan for more than one day, it will go extremely crazy.
Every time Liu Xi saw the black panther going crazy, he would be extremely scared and would not dare to get close to it.
But thinking of the money he owed, he obeyed the other party's orders obediently.
Yesterday, after Xie Xiu brought his family to the hot spring villa, the man found him and asked him to take action today.
He also gave him a lot of silver, enough to pay off half of his gambling debts.
So after receiving the order, he began to starve Black Panther, and he has been starving until today.
When he heard that Xie Xiu and others had gone to the orchard, he immediately released Black Panther.
But seeing the black panther rushing out like crazy, he was really scared, so he secretly followed behind.
He thought that with Black Panther's speed, he would never be caught.
Even if he was caught, he could get himself out of the crime by saying that someone deliberately fed Black Panther drugs and let Black Panther harm people.
Anyway, the imperial concubine loves her younger brother and will never let Jiang Er bear the infamy of letting a dog commit crimes.
Who would have thought that Jiang Er would directly push him out to be the abandoned pawn!