"Ying Geng, did you hear me? If you want to save Qiao Wan'er's life, you have to exchange one life for another. Hang yourself quickly, otherwise I will light the firecracker and blow her up to the sky!" Chen Daniu yelled at Ji Ying.

When Qiao Wan'er heard this, she struggled and shook her head at Ji Yin, making anxious "no no no" sounds, which meant "don't do it."

Ji Yin did not dare to look at Qiao Wan'er, perhaps because he was worried that their flirting would annoy Fuzhi and cause her to do something extreme. After hearing Chen Daniu's threat, he immediately showed a look of sorrow and sighed deeply: "Alas! After being hanged, people will look ugly. Can you change the way you die so that I can die more beautifully?"

"Daniu, he said he wanted to die in a more beautiful way. What way of dying can be more beautiful?" Fuzhi was very reasonable and actually considered Ji Ying's request seriously.

Ji Ying could easily name several ways to kill people, all of which he had imagined since he was a child to kill Xiao Qian. He had thought of hundreds of ways to kill the old woman, but none of them worked. He felt a little regretful. Today, he happened to encounter two people like this - they wanted to kill someone, but they hadn't even figured out how to kill him. So he couldn't help but open his mouth to give some advice, but he heard the big bull scolding him: "Ying Ying, you are about to die, and you are still bargaining here. Don't dawdle, don't talk nonsense, just do what I say! Go to that tree and hang yourself, or I will light the fire signal and let your woman die ugly!"

After Daniu finished speaking, he shook the smoking lighter in his hand vigorously twice next to the fuse on Qiao Wan'er's body.

Ji Ying seemed to be really frightened. He had to swallow back the many good ways to die that were on the tip of his tongue, and obediently walked to the tree as Da Niu said.

Then, he took off his corset and saw a wooden block under the tree for resting and cooling off. He stepped on it with both feet and swung the hand holding the corset upward with force. One end of the corset was thrown up and hung on a thick branch.

Ji Ying skillfully tied the hanging belt into a knot and a loop, as skilled as if he had done it hundreds of times.

Soon, a rope loop was formed that was big enough for his head to fit into, and the height was just in front of his face. At this point, as long as he put his head in and exerted force with his feet to kick the wooden block down, he could help Da Niu and Er Niu kill him.

"Hurry, hurry, hang yourself!" Da Niu urged.

Ji Yin held the two sides of the rope tightly with both hands, as if he was very reluctant to leave this world. After sighing deeply, he was reluctant to move.

"What? You don't want to die? Then just watch Qiao Wan'er get blown to pieces by these firecrackers!" Seeing Ji Yin's hesitation, Fuzhi threatened again viciously.

"Fuzhi, do you know why we look so similar?" Ji Ying faced the rope circle, ignoring the threats and urging of the two men, looking forward with empty eyes, as if he saw another world through the rope circle, and asked in a slow and deep tone.

"The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things. It is not impossible that two people happen to look exactly the same." Fukue replied.

"No, the fact that you and I look so similar is not just a coincidence." Ji Yin turned to look at Fuzhi, and continued with a serious expression and a low voice.

"What? Not a coincidence? Why? Are you and I twins?" Fuzhi's voice rose several degrees. She really wanted to hear why Ji Ying came up with this idea.

"Fuzhi, you are right. This was actually a secret unknown in the palace back then. You and I are indeed twins."

"What, what did you say? What's going on? Tell me quickly!" Fuzhi was shocked when he heard this.

"Erniu, don't listen to his nonsense. You are obviously Erniang's biological daughter. He just wants to delay time by saying that you are his brother so that you won't have the heart to kill him." Da Niu quickly poured cold water on Erniu, telling him not to get excited and stay sober.

"It doesn't hurt to let him talk. It won't take too much time. Ying Geng, tell us quickly! What's going on?" Although Fuzhi was also skeptical, he was still very curious.

"My mother was pregnant with twins, but giving birth to twins in the royal family is a bad omen. One of them will be killed after birth. So in order to protect her own flesh and blood, my mother secretly concealed this fact when she was pregnant (Note 1). No one in the palace knew that she was pregnant with twins. When the two of us were born, my mother used some tricks to make everyone think that she only gave birth to one child. The other child was secretly sent out of the palace by her. Because there were not many people who knew about this at the time, and most of them are no longer alive now, the whereabouts of the child who was sent out of the palace are unknown..."

"What? Are we really brothers? I am actually a person with royal blood!" Before Ji Ying could finish his words, Fuzhi interrupted him and said excitedly.

After hearing Ji Ying's words, Fuzhi's original surprise immediately turned into surprise - since Prince Ying Geng had a twin brother who was stranded among the people, and she looked exactly like him, it must be her. As for how she ended up stranded and why she was born in a landlord's family, those were irrelevant. What mattered was that he was a prince, not a landlord's son!
"Who said it wasn't true, Fuzhi? You and I are brothers, connected by blood! Do you really want to put me, your brother, to death? We are of the same roots, why are you so eager to harm me?" Ji Yin sighed and regretted.

When Fuzhi heard Ji Yin personally confirm that he was his biological brother, which meant that he was indeed a person with royal blood, he was immediately overjoyed and opened his mouth for a long time without saying a word.

"Erniu, regardless of whether what he said is true or not, if what he said is true, then wouldn't you have no worries in killing him?" Da Niu reminded Fuzhi.

Fuzhi came to his senses immediately after being reminded by Da Niu, and said to Ji Yin, "That's right, since I am also of royal blood, I can legitimately replace you as the crown prince. Even if those people in the Restoration Army knew that I killed you, they would not dare to do anything to me. One prince has died, how could they kill another one! Hahaha!"

"Fuzhi, we are brothers. How could you ignore even our blood relationship? If you can spare my life today, I will definitely consider our blood relationship and forgive you for what you did today. I will make you a prince and you can live a life of luxury and wealth." When Ji Yin said this, there was an expression of pleading on his face.

"Erniu, don't listen to him. He said this just to trick you into sparing his life. If you really let him go, he will surely turn around and deny it. What blood relationship? There is no such thing as blood relationship in the emperor's family?" Da Niu shouted at Erniu after hearing Ji Yin's words.

"Daniu, I know it without your reminder." Fuzhi replied to Daniu, then turned to Ji Ying and said, "Ying Ying, don't try to persuade me with brotherly love. I won't fall for it. As the saying goes, a man without ruthlessness is not a hero. Your method doesn't work on me!"

"Brother, will you really not reconsider it? I will never go back on my word." Ji Ying continued to plead, with a hint of despair in his voice.

"Hahaha, Ying Geng, you miscalculated! You thought that telling me the secret of your brother would influence me, but you didn't expect that you gave me a reason to kill you without any worries." When Fuzhi said this, he had a vicious expression, and all the viciousness in his heart was displayed on his face. After a moment, the viciousness on his face was slightly restrained, and he continued: "Alas, Ying Geng, don't blame me for being heartless! After all, there can't be two tigers in one mountain. How can I become the emperor if I don't get rid of you? You'd better end your life quickly! I will give you a decent burial, and I will take good care of your woman for you, so go with peace of mind!"

"You are such a wicked person that you can even kill your own brother!"

Just as Fuzhi finished speaking, a woman's voice was heard, followed by a series of "crackling" sounds, which sounded very much like the sound of firecrackers set off during the New Year.

The three men who were talking were awakened by the sound. They found that Qiao Wan'er, whose hands were tied behind her back, had untied herself, loosened the bandage on her mouth, and removed all the explosive cartridges from her body.

Qiao Wan'er had been to the guillotine before, and she was actually pretending to be scared to death just now in order to numb their awareness of vigilance against her - for a girl who was as timid as a mouse, they would definitely be lax in their supervision.

Then, while Da Niu and Er Niu were concentrating on listening to Ji Yin's story about the twins, he took out a pair of small scissors hidden at his waist with his hands tied behind his back, and cut the ropes that tied her and the ropes that tied the explosives little by little. The two men who were so focused on listening to the story didn't even notice the series of small movements made by the woman who was held hostage beside them.

After Qiao Wan'er took off the several bamboo tubes tied to her body, she threw them on the ground at the feet of Da Niu and Er Niu. Unexpectedly, the bamboo tubes "exploded" when they hit the ground. The bamboo tubes "jumped up and down" in front of them, "bounced" up and down, and scared the two brothers so much that they retreated straight back.

It turned out that although the bamboo tube was the shell of a large firecracker, it was not filled with a lot of gunpowder, but small firecrackers and blasting cannons. The blasting cannons exploded immediately after being thrown to the ground, and ignited the firecrackers in the bamboo tube. When the firecrackers and blasting cannons exploded in the bamboo tube, they blew the bamboo tube up from the ground - igniting those bamboo tubes would not kill people at all, but could only scare people.

Accompanied by the crackling sound of firecrackers, the bamboo tubes jumping up and down on the ground scared Da Niu and Er Niu so much that they stepped back.

Qiao Wan'er didn't expect that the bamboo tube she casually threw on the ground could become a weapon to repel the enemy. So while the two bad guys were blocked, she rushed towards Ji Yin who was standing on the wooden block in two steps.

"Your Highness, I am here to rescue you!" Qiao Wan'er shouted as she rushed to Ji Ping, grabbed one of his arms, and pulled him off the wooden block... She performed her movements very quickly, as if she was afraid that if she was a step late, the prince would hang himself.

After Ji Ying was pulled down, he seemed to have lost his balance and leaned forward. Seeing this, Qiao Wan'er quickly moved to his front and wanted to support him. As soon as she moved forward, she felt something gently brushing against her lips - the man took advantage of the close proximity and gently kissed her lips. The posture of him almost falling down just now was actually pretended!
Before Qiao Wan'er could react to how she was successfully "attacked", she saw the man in front of her put his index finger and thumb into his mouth, then blew out a loud and long whistle with his mouth. She immediately understood that he was using the whistle to call for help.

This... the most urgent thing for the mouth is not to blow the whistle and call for help, but to kiss yourself first?
When the whistle sounded, more than a dozen soldiers of the Restoration Army rushed in from the roof, the top of the courtyard wall and outside the gate, led by the "chatty" Lu Yi.

Da Niu and Er Niu were so frightened by the jumping bamboo tube that they were subdued by the soldiers of the Restoration Army who rushed in before they could come to their senses.

The two men were so scared that they begged for mercy. Fuzhi even stretched his neck and shouted at Ji Ying: "Brother, Your Highness Ying Ying, I am your brother. We are from the same roots, from the same roots!"

"Erniu, don't beg him. The story he told you is obviously fake. He just wanted to divert our attention so that that woman would have the opportunity to do something. He deliberately delayed time and waited for reinforcements. We both fell for his trick! The fact that you look exactly like him is purely a coincidence." After understanding everything, Da Niu said to Erniu dejectedly.

Ji Yin quickly gave a wink to Lu Yi who was walking forward. After Lu Yi understood, he immediately gave orders to the soldiers of the Restoration Army who came to rescue. He asked several soldiers to escort the two brothers who were begging for mercy down the mountain first, and the rest to leave the yard and wait.

Seeing everyone leaving the courtyard, Lu Yi was about to follow suit. Halfway through, he seemed to have thought of something, so he stopped and bowed to Ji Yin, saying, "Your Highness, the midwife that Concubine Ling sent out that year has been found."

Ji Wei asked anxiously, "Found it? Where did you find it? What did she say?"

Lu Yi replied, "We found it in a leprosy village. In order to reassure Concubine Ling, she took this secret and volunteered to work as a doctor in an isolated leprosy village. Now there are no new patients in that village, so she lives there. When she heard that Empress Xiao's regime was overthrown and saw the token left by Concubine Ling that we brought, she believed us and told us the whole truth. She did ask a distant relative to give her other baby up for adoption. She said that she gave it to a family in Suning Prefecture. She didn't know whether that family was a tenant or a landlord."

Ji Wei didn't seem surprised after hearing what Lu Yi said. He just sneered and said, "As expected, oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are different from oranges grown in the north of the Huai River. A prince was raised like this by a landlord!"

Qiao Wan'er, who was standing nearby, was stunned after hearing their conversation. What she thought just now was the same as what Daniu said, that Ji Ying told the story just to delay time and attract the brothers' attention. She didn't expect that the story about the twins was actually true!
Yes, if they are not twins, how could there be two people in the world who look so similar?
After Ji Yin went up the mountain, he saw the useless looks of Da Niu and Er Niu, and he knew that everything was under his control. He also discovered that although his brother Fuzhi seemed to be clamoring to kill Qiao Wan'er, he actually still had feelings for her and would not even allow him to take off his clothes in front of her. So Fuzhi did not really want to kill Qiao Wan'er, so there was no need to worry about Qiao Wan'er's safety.

The reason why he spent so much time acting with these two losers was for one purpose, which was to destroy Fuzhi's image in front of Qiao Wan'er. Even if they were brothers, they were still his rivals in love. After all, the rivals had the advantage of being childhood sweethearts, which made him feel unsure. So when Fuzhi said he wanted to kill his brother regardless of blood relationship, although Ji Yin couldn't stand it, a person with the same face as himself said such vicious words, but he was still secretly happy in his heart - how could Qiao Wan'er like such a vicious person?
To be honest, Ji Yin really had to thank his brother for not taking Qiao Wan'er away or hiding away to live a good life. Instead, he wanted to kill his brother and become the emperor, comparing himself to a good man with a kind heart, and gave his wife to him. If not for this, he would really be a little worried that he would have to lose face and snatch his wife from his brother in the future.

After Ji Yin finished speaking, he winked at Lu Yi, meaning that you should disappear as soon as possible... He had just cursed Lu Yi in his heart and wanted to cut off his tongue, but now he felt extremely kind to this person. He should thank him for his gossip that allowed Fuzhi to overhear that he liked Qiao Wan'er, and in the end, this matter could end so perfectly.

After Lu Yi finished his report, he saw Ji Yin's impatient look as if he wanted to drive him away, and he couldn't help laughing. So he tactfully and quickly left the yard and closed the gate tightly.

After seeing Lu Yi go out, Ji Yin turned to look at Qiao Wan'er, only to find that the woman who had been standing close to him was now standing far away from him, with the look of a respectful servant.

"Wan'er, why are you standing so far away? Come closer. I want to reward you for your contribution in saving the emperor."

Although Qiao Wan'er knew Ji Yin's true identity, before he kissed her just now, she had always felt that the man in front of her was not unfamiliar, and was indeed the man she liked. But when he whistled to summon so many soldiers of the Restoration Army, and saw that the soldiers called him "Your Highness" and obeyed his orders, she immediately felt that this man was a little strange. How did the eunuch who ate with him become a high and mighty prince?

This feeling of strangeness made her involuntarily take a few steps back, subconsciously wanting to keep a distance from the man who was about to become the king of a country.

"Come over here quickly. Do you want me to go there myself?" Ji Yin urged Qiao Wan'er when he saw her standing there without moving.

When Qiao Wan'er heard that the king had given the order, she could no longer remain reserved and had to obey immediately. So she walked quickly to Ji Yin... The king could just say something, how could she let the king do it himself?
Unexpectedly, just as she got closer, she was ambushed by the man again - as expected, this king only knew how to use his mouth - his hot and wet lips covered her lips again, heavily pressing on her lips.

This time, Qiao Wan'er found the familiar feeling from last time. She did not avoid it. After all, she was an experienced person. The first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar. Although the time was much longer than the last time, both of them had the same feeling - why was it so short? Maybe it was because the sweetness in each other's mouth could never be tasted enough.

"Wan'er, how did you find out that Fuzhi was not my wife?" Ji Ying has always been curious about this question.

"He found that I had hidden a pair of scissors, and asked what the scissors were for. I replied that scissors could be used to kill people, so they were for self-defense. Then he laughed and said that this was the first time he heard that scissors could be used to kill people. I noticed at the beginning that his words and deeds were quite different from before, and when I heard him say this, I immediately recognized that this person must not be Your Highness." Qiao Wan'er replied.

"Then you took Ji Ning and ran away? After he caught you, did he tell you the truth?"

"At first, I suspected that he was wearing a human.skin.mask.that looked like yours...didn't I hear stories when I was a kid that someone would make something like this...this person must be a bad guy with bad intentions, and then he kept quiet and found an opportunity to escape with Ji Ning, but he failed and was caught by his two brothers. Then Chen Erniu told me about the substitution by yours, saying that yours was the real...liar. I was skeptical the whole time until I saw yours."

"Oh, that's how it is!" Ji Wei heard that what Qiao Wan'er said was almost exactly what he guessed. "Wan'er, didn't you use the scissors hidden on your body to secretly cut the rope just now? Chen Erniu clearly knew that you would hide this object on your body, so didn't he search you for the scissors beforehand?"

"He searched, but he only knew that I had a pair of scissors hidden in my sleeve, so he only found that one. He didn't know that I had a spare pair hidden at the back of my waist! Your Highness, don't you always hide a spare knife in your boot? I learned this from Your Highness." There was a hint of pride on Qiao Wan'er's face when she replied.

"Well... Wan'er, you still know how to keep a backup plan. You have a very good understanding!" Ji Yin praised sincerely.

"Wan'er, did Chen Erniu do anything to you that he shouldn't have done?" Ji Yin originally felt that he shouldn't ask such a question, but he couldn't help but ask.

"Your Highness, what can he do to me? Isn't he just a eunuch?"

"I am not worried. What if he is a fake like me?"

"It's not fake, it's absolutely genuine." Qiao Wan'er replied.

"What, Wan'er, how... do you know he is the real thing? Did... you... see something?" Ji Ying's voice trembled a little.

"Your Highness, I have indeed seen it!" Qiao Wan'er answered very quickly.

"Oh! Just see it, it's no big deal!" Ji Yin deliberately pretended to be indifferent.

"Your Highness, what are you thinking? Chen Erniu had his thing bitten off by a dog when he was very young. I bandaged his wound when I was a child, and I did see it a long time ago." Qiao Wan'er had a half-smile on her face... She definitely did not finish her words on purpose.

"What? It turns out that he was bitten by a dog when he was a child! So he became a eunuch and didn't even have to undergo castration!" When Ji Yin heard Qiao Wan'er say this, he suddenly remembered what she said when she bandaged his wound last time, saying that she had seen him a long time ago. So this is what she meant.

Ji Yin suddenly felt that he was worrying too much - this brother had been short of weight since he was a child, and compared to him, he was not at an advantage both physically and mentally. How could he possibly win over him in snatching a woman?
"By the way... Your Highness, are you... really fake?" Qiao Wan'er held it in for a long time before finally mustering up the courage to ask.

Ji Wei: “!”

Sure enough, this is what this woman cares about most!
(End of this chapter)

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