My enemies became my companions

Chapter 69 Why bother?

"Did he do to you...what he did to me?"

These words buzzed in Yin Tingxue's mind.

The daughter of King Xiang looked at Zhou Yitang in disbelief. This one-armed woman had a cold face and was as ethereal as a sword fairy, but the same thing was done to her?

Chen Yi also scattered her Momentary Flower?! Tossing this sword fairy-like figure to death?
Yin Tingxue knew that he was a bad person, but she didn't expect him to be so bad. Her cheeks flushed, as if she thought of the sadness of that night.

"Are you here to seek revenge?"

Yin Tingxue asked softly.

"Seeking revenge? I guess so, but not really."

Zhou Yitang's answer left Yin Tingxue a little confused for a moment.

However, the girl could still sense that Zhou Yitang had unusual feelings for Chen Yi.

"So you actually like him and want to be with him?"

Yin Tingxue asked seriously.

Somehow, Zhou Yitang's face turned cold when he heard this, and he said coldly:
"Why do you speculate?"

Yin Tingxue said hurriedly:
"No, no... I just wanted to ask, maybe he would like you too."

Zhou Yitang frowned slightly and said:
"Why are you so sure? Could it be that after just a few days of pleasure together, he has been bewitched by you?"

Yin Tingxue was somewhat overwhelmed by the repeated questioning. She just wanted to ask and understand why this woman was always thinking about other things. She thought it might be her own problem, so she simply kept her mouth shut.

She kept silent, but she never expected that the one-armed woman raised her eyebrows and asked again:
"You have something on your mind, why don't you answer me?"

Yin Tingxue wanted to cry but had no tears. Her fingers were tangled together and her face turned pale.

The water rippled and the boat swayed gently. Zhou Yitang realized that he had behaved a little out of control just now. He paused, pondered, turned around and looked at the remaining lotus leaves in the lake.

After a long while, she finally said, "What happened between him and me has nothing to do with you."

Yin Tingxue breathed a sigh of relief as if she had been pardoned.

After a while, she thought of something and asked, "What do you want to do with him?"

"Behead him three times."

Yin Tingxue was frightened. She naturally knew that beheading the three corpses was a Taoist practice to seek immortality, but she also knew that beheading one of the three corpses would cause a person's character to change drastically and become unlike the original person.

"Don't you like him? Why do you want to behead his three corpses?" Yin Tingxue asked.

"Who said I like him?"

The one-armed woman asked back. Yin Tingxue shrank back, not daring to say anything. Seeing this, Zhou Yitang stopped pestering her and just said calmly:
"I never liked it."

Even with clairaudience, Yin Tingxue couldn't tell whether the words were one and the meaning was the other or whether the words reflected his true feelings.

She didn't bother with it anymore, fearing that she might anger this one-armed woman of unknown origin and throw her into the lotus pond.

"Since you want to chop off his three corpses, then go ahead. It has nothing to do with me. I will pretend I have never seen you."

Yin Tingxue blinked, as if she had thought of something, and said in a discussion:

"But don't push too hard..."

"why?"

"If I push him too hard, he'll bully me."

Yin Tingxue said shyly that she was afraid that Chen Yi would bully her to death if he was unhappy with her.

"Lock you in a small dark room, and only turn on the light when he comes in to share the room?"

The one-armed woman asked faintly.

"How do you know?" Yin Tingxue was stunned. This was what Chen Yi said when he threatened her.

"Ah."

Zhou Yitang laughed. It seemed that he had done almost the same thing to the Pure Saint, but... it was not so ruthless.

Looking at Zhou Yitang, Yin Tingxue thought about it for a few minutes and was shocked.

Would such a sword-fairy-like nun, who was as cold as a snowy night and unwilling to say a few words, be bullied by him like that? Would she be forced to wag her tail and beg for mercy like herself? Beg him to be nicer?
Before Yin Tingxue could think carefully, she heard a sentence that came out of nowhere.

"Do you think if he kills you, he will chop off the body?"

The one-armed woman looked into the distance as she spoke.

Yin Tingxue was shocked, she could sense the murderous intent in these words.

"Why do you want to kill me? I didn't do anything wrong..."

"But he was wrong," she replied.

Yin Tingxue felt wronged and aggrieved. What was the reason? He did something wrong, so what did it have to do with her? She looked at Zhou Yitang angrily and muttered.

"me…"

After mumbling for a while, Yin Tingxue mustered up her courage and said resolutely:
"Then go ahead and kill me, just kill me, I'm not afraid..."

Zhou Yitang put his hand on her head and slowly applied force.

Yin Tingxue's whole body stiffened.

"Forget it, I'm not him."

The one-armed woman let go.

After a near-death experience, Yin Tingxue began to breathe heavily. She knew that if the woman didn't kill her this time, she would never kill her again. After she recovered, Yin Tingxue relaxed a little and asked:

"Why are you so...obsessed with him?"

She actually didn't want to use the word "obsessed", but she felt that other words were not appropriate.

Fortunately, Zhou Yitang was not angry, but asked:

"Have you heard of Ge Sheng?"

"The Tang Dynasty poem in the Book of Songs?" Yin Tingxue knew it of course.

The ancient Tang Dynasty woman who sang "Ge Sheng" looked at the kudzu vines covering the grave when she buried her lover, and they agreed to meet again after a hundred years.

An indescribable look flashed across Zhou Yitang's eyes. She gently pinched the withered lotus leaves, and with her only remaining hand, she rubbed and plucked off petals one by one, which fell into the lake.

The wind blew and the rain beat down the fallen leaves. It was pouring rain on the Cangwu Peak. The night after the rain was so sticky that it could not be dissolved. In order to keep her, he was willing to break her sword. The peony flowers were planted one by one by him, and she would take care of them from then on.

On winter nights and summer days, the ancient Tang woman who sang "Ge Sheng" was left alone, spending the cold spring and warm days, just like Wu Zixu crossing Zhaoguan, her hair turned white overnight.

Sword, heavy rain, peony, and Kudzu vine...

After all, he was just a passer-by on the road to immortality and should have disappeared in a flash, but the mountain of peonies was still a glimpse of beauty in her heart.

"Daughter of the King of Xiang, there are always some people in this world that you want to walk with forever, whether in life or death, you want to walk with them, through spring and autumn, through summer and winter, until the next life, until after you are a hundred years old."

When she had plucked all the lotus petals, she had finished speaking.

"Chen Yi... is that kind of person?" Yin Tingxue kept asking.

"He is not."

This time Yin Tingxue was even more shocked.

The one-armed woman just smiled bitterly.
"So I kept waiting, until the next life, until I was a hundred years old."

The lotus pond was quiet and peaceful. Yin Tingxue, who was sensitive and sentimental, could not help feeling melancholy. Although she was just a concubine, she really felt that Chen Yi was not worthy of this sword-like woman. What was so good about him that made him worth such a entanglement?

She couldn't escape, but if anyone could help a woman escape Chen Yi's clutches, it would be a good deed.

"The past is too painful to look back on...why dwell on it?"

Yin Tingxue couldn't help but persuade softly.

But the woman said:

"I just want to get entangled!"

........................

Chen Yi felt his nose was a little itchy.

After a while, he sneezed loudly.

"what's the situation…"

Rubbing his nose, Chen Yi muttered.

For some unknown reason, he always had a premonition that things were not going well.

He thought about it and remembered that he had looked at the almanac before going out today. He tried hard to recall it and found that there were many taboos today.

On the twenty-fifth day of the winter month in the third year of Huanglong, marriage, coming of age, and praying for blessings are forbidden...

Before he finished his recollection, Chen Yi followed Lin Yan to a side hall, where he saw several dignitaries. He recognized two of them as the Minister of Personnel and the Vice Minister of Revenue. When they saw the Second Young Master Lin come in, they all bowed respectfully.

"The commander of the Western Factory, Chen Zunming."

When Lin Yan brought Chen Yi to those people, Chen Yi took the initiative to bow.

After the few people introduced themselves to each other, the head of the Ministry of Personnel looked hesitant, looked at Lin Yan, and kept asking:
"Second Master Lin, is what's going to happen next really... what Elder Lin meant?"

"My father is going to become an immortal, and he has entrusted all matters, big and small, to me."

Lin Yan replied.

To become a fairy...

Chen Yi frowned slightly. This shouldn't be the case. He had calculated that the merits in Elder Lin's merit box might not be enough for him to become an immortal. It would probably take another three or four years. Where would he get three or four years of merits?
Before Chen Yi could figure out the answer, Lin Yan walked to the depths of the side hall, saying as he walked:

"In addition to Captain Chen, there is another person. I have to show him to you gentlemen."

Several people were stunned. They had been here for so long and didn't know there were other people here.

The visitor was slowly led out from the depths of the side hall by Lin Yan. His face gradually came into view and Chen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

It was a donkey head, with pointed ears and a long nose. He wore a purple and gold helmet and was dressed in a prince's python robe.

It turned out to be the Donkey-Headed Prince, one of the three great demons in the capital!
The Lin family is actually colluding with the Donkey-Headed Prince!
Chen Yi was shocked, his thoughts raced, and then he suddenly thought of something.

If Lord Lin were to become an immortal, then the Lin Party would fall into the hands of Lin Yan. However, Lin Yan is currently just a Hanlin scholar with almost no foundation in the court. Once Lord Lin leaves, the Lin Party will surely fall. That's why the Queen Mother would take this opportunity to reopen the Prime Minister's case, just to destroy the Lin Party when the time comes.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. If Lin Yan wants to save the Lin Party, he can only take action before Lord Lin leaves.

At the moment, the Lin Mansion sent invitations to all the officials for the pre-winter poetry gathering. Officials of all ranks in the court gathered at the Lin Mansion, and their families were all there...

Chen Yi only thought of one possibility.

The Lin family is forcing the emperor to abdicate!

As the Donkey-Headed Prince slowly walked in, the almanac I had read today gradually emerged in my mind.
On the twenty-fifth day of the winter month in the third year of Huanglong, marriage, coming of age, and praying for blessings are forbidden...

Everything goes wrong!

(End of this chapter)