Chapter 337 - Chapter 337: We Can Do Something Else
Chapter 337: We Can Do Something Else
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Hea Shouyi never imagined that Consort Wei also wanted to poison the Emperor that day!
His heart was filled with grief. “Your Highness, don’t blame Consort Wei. Ever since the Wei family’s incident, Consort Wei felt too much bitterness in her heart.” Hea Shouyi was an outsider and he himself couldn’t bear the torment and thought of taking revenge for the Wei family every day, let alone Consort Wei.
Xiao Jin used to be puzzled. He was still so young, so why was his Consort Mother willing to abandon him?
However, later, he realized that if she lived, he wouldn’t be able to survive.
“I only want to tell you that Consort Mother’s matter has nothing to do with you. As for the people who are looking for you now, we can beat them at their own game. Let’s see what they want to do.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
The great stone that had been weighing down on Hea Shouyi for so many years finally disappeared after knowing the truth. He walked out of the study, laughing at first before crying.
Zhang Shuming shook his head as he looked at Hea Shouyi’s back profile which was swaying a little wildly.
In fact, he had recognized Hea Shouyi the day he met him. Back then, he was just an unremarkable eunuch who was saved by Consort Wei when he was bullied. After Consort Wei got into trouble, he thought of a way to get near to Xiao Jin to serve him in order to help Consort Wei protect her only son.
When he thought of Consort Wei, Zhang Shuming’s eyes also turned red-rimmed. He asked the servant beside him to bring two jars of wine and carried them to Hea Shouyi’s place.
When Xiao Jin returned to the house, Su Ying was coaxing the two children to sleep.
Upon seeing Xiao Jin enter, Su Ying asked, “How is it?”
Xiao Jin’s eyebrows drooped slightly, and he looked a little downcast. “At that time, Consort Mother also wanted to poison the snacks. This matter is not directly connected to Hea Shouyi.”
Su Ying wasn’t too surprised. When Su Ying heard Hea Shouyi’s words, she felt that the words Consort Wei said to him were a little strange.
Consort Wei did not know that Hea Shouyi had poisoned the cake, so why did she say those words of farewell? It was obvious that she had her own plans.
“I’ve already told him to beat the other party at his own game. Let’s see what the other party wants to do.”
Su Ying nodded. It seemed that the other party could not wait any longer.
“Are the children asleep?”
“Mm-hmm. They fell asleep after playing for a while. You should go to bed early too.”
“Mm-hmm.”
The two of them lay down on the bed, but Su Ying could hear Xiao Jin lying on the bed but did not fall asleep.
“Can’t sleep?”
Xiao Jin opened his eyes and turned over to hug her. “Did I wake you up?”
“No. Are you thinking of your Consort Mother?”
“Mm-hmm.”
Xiao Jin gently pressed his chin on the top of Su Ying’s head, and his voice was a little broken. “1 realized that 1 can’t even remember what my Consort Mother looked like now. 1 only remember that she was always very gentle, not like a woman from a military family at all.”
He didn’t dare to think about how much determination a delicate woman like her had to summon when she made that decision.
Su Ying didn’t agree with Consort Wei’s actions. Revenge must be taken, but it could only be done after one’s ability had reached a certain level. After all, she still had a child to think of. Did she never consider that Emperor Kangze might vent his anger on Xiao Jin?
“Why didn’t Emperor Kangze take your life back then? Wasn’t he afraid that you would take revenge on him like your mother did?”
“He was scared!”
When he ordered the execution of the entire Wei family three years ago, he had already left a brutal impression on the people. If he still killed Xiao Jin, this act of killing own his son would only worsen his reputation.
So he didn’t take action against Xiao Jin immediately. Instead, he only ordered people to take action against Xiao Jin three years after Consort Wei’s death.
It was also these three years that gave him room to grow, even though he was still a child.
“To tell the truth, I almost died in his hands that one time.”
At that time, Xiao Jin was pushed into the lake. If it wasn’t for Duke Zhenguo who passed by and saved him, Xiao Jin would have really died.
Later on, the Imperial Physician said that even if Xiao Jin was saved, he would not be able to live for long due to the illness that had taken root. Thus, Emperor Kangze decided to leave Xiao Jin to fend for himself.
However, Duke Zhenguo proposed to bring Xiao Jin to the border to train at that juncture.
The border was a place where the sandstorm raged and the biting cold persisted. Even a healthy man might not be able to withstand such a climate, much less an illness-riddled boy like Xiao Jin. Therefore, Emperor Kangze agreed without hesitation.
On the surface, he hoped that his son could be trained up.
In reality, he hoped that Xiao Jin would die at the border so that the world would not blame the child’s death on him.
However, the Emperor never imagined that Duke Zhenguo would try everything to cure Xiao Jin’s illness and even bring him to train and fight at the border.
Emperor Kangze never thought that Xiao Jin, who should have died, would become a defense barrier for the Great Chu State. Xiao Jin even mastered those things that Duke Zhenguo’s sons were unable to pick up.
By the time Emperor Kangze realized this, he found that he could no longer easily take Xiao Jin’s life.
It was also because of this that he was extremely wary of Xiao Jin.
“He treated you like this, and you still defended the state for him?” Su Ying couldn’t understand.
Xiao Jin lowered his dark eyes and gently held Su Ying’s hand as if he was trying hard to absorb the heat from her body to warm himself up.
“This was my promise to Duke Zhenguo.” Back then, he had promised Duke Zhenguo that he would guard the Jin Gate Pass in Jin City. Now that he had already returned the favor, he had nothing else to worry about.
“Aren’t you afraid that you’ll become the enemy of Duke Zhenguo one day?”
“I’m not afraid. It’s just a matter of life and death.”
Su Ying turned around and found a comfortable spot in his arms to nestle in and closed her eyes. “It’s good that you know what you’re doing.”
“Su Ying, where are your parents?”
Su Ying’s eyelashes trembled. “1 don’t know…” Before she finished speaking, she realized that something was wrong and changed the topic. “Xiao Jin, what are you trying to say?”
Xiao Jin tightened his grip on her. “Nothing. Go to sleep. If you can’t sleep, we can do something else.”
“Get lost.”
Two days later, Hea Shouyi found the former Imperial chef, Zhang Gang, whom he met that night.
Zhang Gang looked at Hea Shouyi in front of him and smiled with satisfaction. “I knew that Brother Hea was a sensible person. Let’s go. I’ll bring you to meet the master who will make you rich in the future.”
As Zhang Gang spoke, he took out a black cloth sack and put it over Hea Shouyi’s head.
Hea Shouyi’s face showed a touch of displeasure, and he dodged in a flash. “What are you doing? Could it be that your master has something to hide?”
Zhang Gang smiled. “It’s nothing. There are some things that won’t hurt us both if we don’t know. Put it on. Don’t think too much.”
Hea Shouyi wanted to refuse, but the smile on Zhang Gang’s face gradually became sinister. Hea Shouyi didn’t say anything else and allowed the other guy to put the sack on him.
Zhang Gang called out to two men and they grabbed Hea Shouyi on each side and brought him into a horse carriage.
The moment the horse carriage emerged, Zhao Neng brought his men and followed it in the dark.
Zhao Neng and his men followed them all the way and found that they returned to their previous residence after traveling one round. However, after they brought Hea Shouyi down, they brought him into another house.
Zhang Gang and Hea Shouyi didn’t come out again after they went in.
Zhao Neng hid on the roof quietly. If he remembered correctly, there was no one else in this house, but he heard the voices of three people..