12dz Chapter 348 Testing
Chapter 348 Testing
An invisibility talisman was placed on Jiang Xing, and Lu Xuan recited the talisman spell. In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xing disappeared.
Patting the air, Lu Xuan whispered, "Go ahead. The invisibility talisman will only last for half an hour at most. Remember to come out early and be careful!"
Without wasting any more time, a gust of wind suddenly blew up his hair, Jiang Xing's pupils became quiet, and he quickly climbed over the high wall and headed towards the East Palace.
Lu Xuan calmed down nervously and quickly looked around.
However, as soon as she swept it, half of her scalp immediately became numb.
At a hidden corner, a corner of the robe was revealed.
Feixing and Sangluo naturally saw it as well, and their brows tightened instantly.
Lu Xuan arranged for Feixing to secretly hide in a treetop, while he and Sang Luo went to take a look.
As the two men approached quietly, she was surprised that even when they reached the robe, the people on the opposite side did not retreat at all.
Smelling the familiar smell of alcohol, a figure quickly flashed through Lu Xuan's mind.
She already knew who this person was.
However, she was a step too slow and failed to stop it in time. Sang Luo quickly took action and caught the man red-handed.
The Third Prince, who was grabbed by Sang Luo, slowly turned his head and leaned against the wall, but the fierceness and murderous intent in his eyes was surging fiercely.
"You, you, why is it you again?"
The Third Prince reeked of alcohol and looked at Lu Xuan with a drunken and wary look.
But soon, he seemed to recall some scene in his mind, and his vigilant eyes disappeared in a flash, and his eyes became scattered and blurred.
"You, you are not like my mother, you..."
Lu Xuan gestured for Sang Luo to release his hand, then chuckled, "Your Highness, you must be joking. I am not your mother, but your aunt."
"Aunt Huang?" He blinked from time to time, as if trying to focus on the person in front of him, but it was always in vain.
After a while, as if he finally figured out who the Imperial Aunt was, he sneered nonchalantly, "A woman from the Duke's Mansion? Then what are you doing here? Aren't you here to protect me from…stealing Jiang Yan's position as Crown Prince?"
Perhaps he was really drunk, the Third Prince spoke without restraint, with two blushes on his face.
The wine jug in his hand had long been empty, but he still held it tightly, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing against it, as if he was still craving for wine.
Lu Xuan glanced around and saw that the Third Prince had no attendants with him, which made him curious.
"Your Highness is drunk. Why is there no one with him? What are you doing here in the East Palace from Chengqian Palace?"
"What for?" He glanced at Lu Xuan with a distracted and blank look, and then gave a mocking smile. "Of course, I came to see my good brother..."
Hearing that the Third Prince was coming to see the Crown Prince, Lu Xuan suddenly became nervous.
"So you, you just came out of the East Palace?"
"You, you say that, I, I love to hear it!"
He waved his hand in the air, "Hey, look, even you think I should go to the East Palace, right?"
He chuckled at himself, "But those dog slaves wouldn't allow me to go in! They said they were afraid someone would harm Jiang Yan!"
"Hmph," a sneer escaped his hoarse throat, "You truly underestimate me, Your Highness!"
"So, Your Highness means that you have never harmed the Crown Prince?"
Lu Xuan said this deliberately, intending to take advantage of his drunkenness to extract the truth from him, so he listened carefully.
Unexpectedly, this sentence was like some magical code. Jiang Xu was actually trying hard to look at her, and even hit his head a few times to keep himself awake.
Lu Xuan patiently coaxed, "It's okay if you are harmed. The Emperor and the Empress dote on you so much, no one will blame you."
Unexpectedly, he looked at Lu Xuan confusedly for a few times, and actually started crying, with a look of aggrieved expression.
"Spoil me? How did they spoil me?!" he roared.
Sang Luo was startled by his roar and hurried to see if there was anyone coming over.
"If they dote on me, they should have given me the throne instead of forbidding me from doing this and that, treating me like a toy! They can't play with women, can't watch actors, and can't even find someone to play with crickets..."
Lu Xuan heard a deeper meaning in his words.
It seems that the emperor and empress knew about his plot to assassinate the prince, and they turned a blind eye to it and did not punish him for it.
A cold light flashed in his eyes instantly, and Lu Xuan was so angry that his knuckles turned white from pinching.
But at this moment, the two eunuchs seemed to have heard the voice just now and walked towards this side.
"I clearly heard the Third Prince's voice just now, why haven't we found him yet? Did I hear it wrongly?"
"Maybe he went in another direction. Let's keep looking. If we can't find this ancestor, we'll be dead..."
Sang Luo quickly pulled Lu Xuan and the third prince to hide behind a large clump of banana trees.
Worried that the Third Prince might make some noise and that the curse he cast on him would backfire, Lu Xuan simply took the wine jug and stuffed it upside down into his mouth.
Then they heard the two eunuchs approaching from the path. "Your Majesty, the night before yesterday, the Third Prince killed so many maids from Kunning Palace. It was said that they took advantage of him being drunk to seduce the Third Prince. Yesterday, he accompanied the Empress Dowager to the funeral, and disappeared early this morning. Do you think the Third Prince is so heartbroken that he found a place to hide?"
Another eunuch sneered, "Sad? Would the Third Prince care about the lives of us palace maids? Even if he had an affair with a palace maid, it was only for sexual gratification, there wouldn't be any real feelings..."
"..."
Listening to the sound of the two eunuchs walking away, Lu Xuan lowered his eyes to look at the third prince whose hands and feet were bound by Sang Luo, his eyes full of contempt.
Unexpectedly, that night in Kunning Palace, a life was involved.
I think it was Jiang Xing who dragged him to the door of the back room, causing the emperor and empress to take their suspicions seriously.
However, Lu Xuan did not think that this matter should be blamed on her and the prince.
Even if she and the prince did not go to Kunning Palace that night, wouldn't the third prince appear in the tree hole?
The back wing is the bedroom of the Kunning Palace maids, the Third Prince must be aware of this.
Then why did he go to that yard?
So even if they didn't go, he might still go there. But if he was lucky, he would not stay there for long when he saw that there was no one there, and the emperor and the empress would not be able to find him for the time being. But one day, those people and those lives would be implicated.
After the eunuch walked away, Sang Luo pulled the wine jug out of the third prince's mouth.
After pulling it out, I thought the third prince would be furious and furious.
Unexpectedly, he seemed to have forgotten Lu Xuan's previous self-introduction of her identity, and glanced at her frivolously, as if he was enjoying something.
Thinking of the scene he had seen in the prince's dream before, where the people around the third prince violated the prince, Lu Xuan's eyes were filled with disgust and his heart trembled violently.
This man appeared drunk outside the East Palace early in the morning. This means he probably didn't get any sleep last night.
The three of them returned to the trail.
Lu Xuan said coldly, "So, what did the Third Prince want to do when he came to the Eastern Palace to see the Crown Prince today? Why couldn't he get in?"
The third prince's steps were unsteady and his body was shaking unconsciously, and he seemed to have lost his balance.
He looked at Lu Xuan in confusion, his words unclear, "What else can I do? I just wanted to find Jiang Yan to vent my anger... But, in the end, I was stopped by that bastard Pei Fan..."
"How do you calm down?" Lu Xuan pursued closely, but there was already murderous intent in his eyes.
"He, he had my father's men kill so many of my Yulin soldiers, and all my people in the Eastern Palace are gone. Jiang Yan is such a fool, and he still occupies his position and refuses to leave.
Is it possible that this prince is not as good as him? I naturally am... I want him to give up the throne of crown prince to me faster..."
Lu Xuan naturally wouldn't believe the word "give in" from his mouth.
To put it bluntly, he wanted to humiliate the prince, or even kill him.
Lu Xuan had already asked everything she wanted to know, but unexpectedly, the Third Prince suddenly regained consciousness and asked her with a half-smile, "Aunt, I've told you so much truth. Don't you want to think about why I'm telling you?"