stonecrandall Chapter 200 Regicide
Chapter 200 Regicide
Li Yuanke laughed, grasping her hand as she prepared to cause trouble. "How dare you speak so arrogantly! Then why are you asking me for anything?"
Shen Shixi leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Li Yuanke, wouldn't it be exciting if we just sat here under the open sky?"
There was no excitement, but there was definitely some fright.
Li Yuanke suddenly turned his head and looked around. There were people everywhere. How did this bastard think of sleeping under the open sky?
Shen Shixi burst into laughter at his panicked appearance, rolling off his back onto the ground. Li Yuanke quickly picked her up, angrily brushing the grass clippings off her, and said, "What are you laughing at?"
Shen Shixi rested her head on his lap and said, "Li Yuanke, the way you were just now was really funny. You were like someone who was actually very excited, but also very scared, and trying to hide it."
She tilted her head to look at Li Yuanke, "Actually, you also want to give it a try, right?"
"Shut the hell up!" Li Yuanke cursed in a low voice.
Shen Shixi stopped teasing him. Looking at the cloud-like light reflected in his eyes, she raised her hand and touched his sword-like eyebrows. "So handsome, Li Yuanke, how could you be born so handsome?"
[I want to have two little Li Yuankes in the future, one a girl and one a boy, both looking exactly like Li Yuanke. I'll beat them up every day for no reason, watching them cry their hearts out. Haha, just thinking about it is hilarious!]
Li Yuanke was furious. He turned his back to her and ignored her!
Is this what a mother should do?
Not far away, Lin Guiyou was talking with her father and brother. The three of them saw the interaction between the emperor and the empress. Lin Junji sighed, "Can't you learn from the Imperial Noble Consort, soften your stance a bit, and learn to coax people a little? Wouldn't the emperor like you then?"
Good heavens! How could a father talk to his daughter about something like this!
Lin Guiyou stomped her foot in anger, "Father, do you also think your daughter is boring? Is it that I don't want to be? I usually find it difficult to even see the Emperor, how am I supposed to coax him?"
From the time I entered the palace until now, we've only spent a total of one hour alone together, and that was all in bed doing *that*, without saying a single word. How am I supposed to coax him?
It really doesn't hurt to stand and talk.
Lin Quan was a sister-obsessed man, and he was furious when he saw this. "Your Majesty is really... Father, you should submit a memorial. How can Your Majesty favor Shen so much? The harem should be equally blessed."
Lin Guiyou was furious. She jumped up and kicked her brother, "How dare you talk to the Emperor like that? Why do you favor that Silla maid? She's from a barbarian tribe. How can you expect her son to inherit the family business?"
Old Man Lin was furious. "You two, shut up! What does the Empress mean?"
Lin Guiyou said, "Didn't I say before that I can't have children anymore, and I don't want to have children? Chen Yuan said that it's better to adopt a child than to have one."
Last month, that spy, Lady Xue, gave birth to the fifth prince. Father, please plead with the Emperor to let that child be raised in my name. From now on, I will have a prince too.
"Did the imperial physician really say you can't have children?" Lin Quan didn't approve of his sister raising someone else's child, especially since it was a disgraced concubine.
What can I do in the future?
Lin Guiyou said nonchalantly, "I definitely can't have children anymore. I've had a stab wound in my abdomen. How big would my belly be when I'm pregnant? Do you want me to die a horrible death?"
Old Man Lin stomped his foot in anger, "You! You were hunting, knowing there was danger, why did you rush in there?"
Although time has passed and it's no use talking about this now, Old Man Lin is truly heartbroken. It would be a huge loss if his daughter entered the palace and couldn't give birth to a prince!
Lin Guiyou knew her father didn't care about her, and now he was still saying such things, clearly rubbing salt into her wounds.
"Don't even dream about it. Even if I could give birth, I wouldn't. Doesn't childbirth hurt? You yourselves can't give birth, yet you're forcing me to!"
"You, you, you, how could you say such a thing?" Old Man Lin was stunned. Was this really his daughter?
Ah, that feels so good! Xi Xi was right after all; people should live for themselves.
"I'm useless anyway. If you still want to make use of this piece of trash, go talk to the Emperor. The prince is registered under my name, so isn't he mine? In the future, won't he have to call you Grandfather?"
Seeing her father and brother being held hostage by their own interests, Lin Guiyou was very happy. She wished she had met Xixi sooner.
She went home happily.
What else can Old Man Lin do?
He found an opportunity to negotiate with the Emperor, who agreed to let Lin Guiyou raise the Fifth Prince. However, the Emperor was willing to take the lead in placing supervisors in his army. These supervisors would only be responsible for carrying out ideological and political education in the army, without interfering with training or getting involved in the war.
Old Man Lin's negotiations reminded Li Yuanke, who then instructed Li Fude to send someone back to execute Lady Xue.
The fifth prince was taken back to the palace and temporarily cared for in the Empress Dowager's palace until Lin Guiyou returned and took him away.
Poor Xue, who was hoping to survive by relying on her son, ultimately could not escape death.
Over the next two days, Li Yuanke spent time with the soldiers and even went hunting on the grasslands, bringing back a lot of game and showcasing his extraordinary crossbow skills.
Shen Shixi first went hunting with Lin Guiyou, along with Yuan and Guo. Hunting was secondary; the main thing was to have fun.
Without Shen Shixi, the Yuan and Guo families would never have dared to play so freely. After all, they were imperial concubines who were not favored by the emperor. If they displeased the emperor, not only would they lose their lives, but their families would also be implicated.
Shen Shixi encouraged them to have fun and brought them out. They were very respectful to her the whole way, so she couldn't very well not be a good leader.
Later, she didn't have the time for that anymore and locked herself in her tent to tinker with her own things.
Li Yuanke watched her grind and assemble for a long time before finally understanding that it was a weapon worn on the arm.
"What are you doing with this?" Li Yuanke asked curiously.
"Kill your lord!"
Shen Shixi didn't even raise his head. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the tent knelt down, trembling.
"Speak like a human being!" Li Yuanke said irritably.
"Oh, what do you think? Besides killing people, what else can it be used for? For fun?"
She pulled Li Yuanke down to sit, strapping a larger one to his arm. "Watch closely. I'll only teach you once. If you can't learn, you're just stupid. If you encounter danger, pull this trigger beforehand. When firing, clench your fist and rotate your wrist like this to activate a switch here, whoosh..."
As Shen Shixi uttered an onomatopoeic word, a small silver arrow, about the size of half a little finger, flashed with silver light and flew out with a whoosh. A phantom image flashed by, and only a small part of the arrow tail remained trembling on the sandalwood pillar.
Rosewood is hard and dense, and like ebony, it was often used to make imperial utensils, hence the saying "rosewood in the south and ebony in the north".
Such a small arrow, launched like this, almost completely penetrated the flesh and blood; it's unimaginable what would happen to a flesh and blood body.
Li Yuanke felt terrified.
Li Fude wished he could rush up and shield the emperor from behind, because he saw Shen Shixi tie a smaller one to her arm. Imagine if she twisted her wrist like the emperor did, would the emperor still be alive?
Seeing Li Yuanke studying it, Shen Shixi reminded him, "You're not very skilled at using it, so don't use it on me. If you can kill me with one move, that's fine, but if you leave me half-dead, I'll take you with me on my way."
"Shut up!" Li Yuanke cursed.
Then, she concocted some extra-large firecrackers and some round, dark things. Li Yuanke watched from the side, and those things made his hair stand on end.
Her hands-on skills are truly impressive; she is both skilled and precise, as if she has done it many times before.