Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 88 Everything is possible

"Where will the colorful parrot be kept?"

Fan Bing walked forward while looking for the bird and muttering to himself.

The sky gradually darkened, and few people were walking in the garden of the palace. The few stone lanterns along the way were not bright, and the dim lights illuminated his drunken face.

"Chirp, chirp."

He imitated the bird's calls and walked farther and farther away.

I walked half way around Yingyue Lake without realizing it...

Suddenly, he saw lights coming from the houses on the lakefront in front of him.

He crouched down, hid in the flowers, and heard a faint whimpering sound.

Isn’t it said that the colorful parrot can imitate various human voices?

Could it be that Prince Duan kept a parrot in his room, and it heard sounds it shouldn’t have heard, and learned to imitate the women’s moans?

A strange, evil smile appeared on Fan Bing's lips. He looked around to see that there was no one around, and then quietly walked towards the faint firelight.
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Pingle ordered warm water for a bath, sent away all the servants in the palace, and then gave instructions to Lulian.

"Stay outside. No matter what noise you hear, don't come in. Do you understand?"

"My maid understands."

Lulian has been following the princess for some time and knows some of Pingle's privacy.

She responded, placed the pills on the stool beside the bathtub, closed the door and walked out.

The princess is very proud.

After being poisoned by such a shameful poison, she didn't want the girl to see her ugly side.

Lu Lian walked out the door, moved a little further away, leaned against a stone lantern, and wished she could cover her ears.

Fan Bing hid behind the flowers, peered out for a while, then tiptoed around the porch column, came to the back window of the bathroom, moved a large bluestone, and looked inside on tiptoe -

Be nice!

He hissed!
When he heard the strange sound, he initially thought it was a colorful parrot calling...

Unexpectedly, when he poked a hole in the window paper with his finger and looked inside, he saw a scene that made him furious and dumbfounded.

Pingle...

The most honorable Princess Pingle of the dynasty.

Her snow-white skin was tinged with a strong blush.

Her expression was dazed, her eyes were distracted, and her hair was scattered messily on her wet shoulders...

After bathing, her delicate body lay on the wooden couch beside the tub, the gauze swaying lightly, trembling slightly with her rapid breathing...

This is the second...

Who could have thought that a princess would be unable to control her emotions after drinking at her brother's birthday banquet, hiding in a side room alone and doing such... dissolute things? -
The back garden of Prince Duan’s Mansion, beside Yingyue Lake.

A thin little woman was wandering by the stone railing.

She was wearing a scarlet brocade cape with an exquisite snow pear pattern embroidered on the collar, which made her palm-sized face look like a pear blossom just blooming in spring, elegant and pitiful.

Li Fuyin, the fifth daughter of Emperor Chongzhao, Princess Wenjia.

She came to congratulate her brother.

It was time to return home, but the prince consort Fan Bing was nowhere to be seen.

A servant said that the prince consort was coming this way, so she led the maids out to look for him.

Yingyue Lake is the largest artificial lake in Prince Duan's Mansion. It draws fresh water from outside the city into the canal and connects to the inner city. It took a lot of manpower and resources to build it.

Li Fuyin, across a pool of clear water and a nine-curve stone bridge made of white stones, can see the exquisite pitching pot equipment placed in the waterside pavilion in the center of the lake...

A group of girls gathered there, playing pot tossing and laughing.

Fan Bing is a man who loves to go to places where there are many girls.

But when I looked around, I couldn't see him...

Li Fuyin stood at the end of the bridge, his brows slightly furrowed, his eyes full of loneliness.

A voice sounded behind her, "Princess, why don't you go play pot tossing?"

Li Fuyin turned around.

She was a woman with kind eyes and brows. Although she was dressed as a servant, her eyes showed a different look from others and she did not look humble at all.

Li Fuyin smiled faintly, "I don't like noise."

The woman said, "This kind of refined taste can remove filth and evil, and is of great benefit to the body and mind."

Li Fuyin was stunned.

Only then did I realize that I shouldn't discuss these things with strangers.

She asked, "Who are you?"

The woman bowed and said, "My master would like to ask Her Royal Highness the Princess to lend me a hand to talk."

"Your master is..."

"Mrs. Xue just came into the mansion today." The woman said with a smile, "Mrs. Xue has just come into the mansion, so it is inconvenient for her to come and greet the princess. We have no choice but to ask the princess to move. Mrs. Xue said that she has something that the princess is interested in."

Li Fuyin didn't want to go, but the banquet was boring and she didn't like making friends. Fan Bing hadn't been home for a long time and couldn't come back for a while, so she might as well go and take a look.

She thought about it and nodded.

"Wen Jiazheng should go and congratulate Ruren. Please lead the way, aunt."

Tanqiuyuan is not far from Yingyue Lake. In order to make it convenient for Xue Sui to sleep with him, Xue Yuechen even arranged for her to live very close to his and Li Huan's residence. Both courtyards were built along the lake.

Li Huan also likes quietness, and the lakeside is quiet and elegant, so few people come here.

As soon as Li Fuyin entered the hospital, she saw a young woman standing at the end of the bright red wedding curtain.

Seeing her come in, he bowed slightly, took light steps, and spoke with a smile.

"Xue Liu meets Princess Wenjia. It would be very presumptuous of you to trouble the princess to come in person."

Li Fuyin asked directly, "Why did Mrs. Xue want to see me?"

Xue Sui stood there and smiled slightly, "Princess, do you have a lover?"

Li Fuyin frowned, "Since Ru Ren knows my identity, she should know that I already have a husband, and... I have a daughter who is five years old this year."

Xue Sui smiled and said, "I know the princess is married, and I also know that the person the princess likes is not her husband."

Li Fuyin's face changed drastically: "Ruren and I are not old acquaintances, why are you making groundless speculations and ruining my good name?"

Xue Sui narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of mystery in his smile, but he did not answer her. He walked forward slowly, and in front of the two maids' shocked gazes, he suddenly grabbed Princess Wen Jia's hand and rolled up her sleeves.

I saw many mottled scars on the white arms.

There were also a few bruises, obviously new wounds, intertwined with the old ones.

"What are you doing? How bold!" Li Fuyin's voice trembled.

Xue Sui did not allow her to retract her tense arms. Instead, he held her tightly and slowly undressed, revealing the scar on his arm, and pressed his arm against hers...

"We are both wanderers in this world. The princess and I are destined to meet each other. How about we get to know each other now?"

Li Fuyin: "You—you—"

She wanted to say something, but her throat was choked and she was so sad that she couldn't continue.

Xue Sui smiled: "No one knows the pain in the princess' heart better than me. You and I are in the same boat, why not save ourselves?" Wen Jia's eyes were red and his shoulders were shaking slightly. He was like a panicked rabbit. He tried to retract his hand several times, but was unable to escape from the clutches of that delicate woman. Finally, he didn't know what he thought of, his nose was sore, and he burst into tears.

She never thought that her deeply buried suffering and scars would be revealed by a strange woman.

Li Fuyin's biological mother was a beauty presented by Xi Zi to the Emperor of Daliang.

Xizi was a small border country that used to rely on Daliang for survival. Later, the relationship between the two countries became tense, and her biological mother fell out of favor with the emperor and was imprisoned in the cold palace for a long time.

Because her biological mother was not favored, Li Fuyin was also disliked by Pingle.

When Xue Sui was a child, he was bullied by Pingle, and so was Li Fuyin.

Compared to the ten years Xue Sui spent in Jiuling Swamp, Wen Jia's experience was even more miserable.

Pingle stole her lover Lu Youan, and Pingle also framed her to make the emperor marry her to Fan Bing, the son of a Jingzhao military officer.

This prince consort had no ambition, but he was addicted to alcohol and gambling, and he loved rare and exotic animals. He often spent money recklessly in the streets with a group of friends, staying out all night in red-light districts, and he loved to play with anything that the dandy boys liked.

Perhaps because he was frustrated in his career, he would take out his anger by beating and scolding Wen Jia when he was drunk.

With Princess Pingle's instructions and Concubine Xiao's support, Wen Jia had no chance of escaping their control.

For many years, she could only swallow her bitterness for the sake of her daughter, not daring to reveal a single word to others. Even in front of Emperor Chongzhao, she had to put on a forced smile...

She sniffed and bowed solemnly to Xue Sui.

"Since you know how miserable I am, why do you have to humiliate me again?"

Xue Sui gently held her shoulders, looking at her intently. She was obviously just a young girl, but because she was half a head taller than Li Fuyin, she looked more like an older sister, half holding her in her arms.

"Princess, you have worked hard over the years! You must take good care of yourself in the future."

Li Fuyin just shed tears silently at first.

Perhaps it was because the embrace was too warm and Miss Xue Liu's voice was so gentle. She cried like a child and threw herself into Xue Sui's arms, sobbing like a tearful person.

Xue Sui stroked her shoulder gently.

"Cry, then cheer up and make them pay the price!"

Li Fuyin shook her head with a sad face: "Pingle and Prince Duan are brothers from the same mother, and Concubine Xiao is the apple of your majesty's eye. I am useless, my words carry little weight, and I am powerless... Miss Xue Liu, I'm sorry, I can't help you..."

Xue Sui had a gentle smile and a carefully dressed face, looking like a demon.

"Then let me help you. Everyone in this world has their own destiny. Pingle's good days are coming to an end."

With tears on her face, Wen Jia raised her head, her pupils filled with fear.

"What is the Sixth Miss going to do?"

Xue Sui took out a clean handkerchief and gently wiped away the tears on her face, "Blood debt must be paid with blood."

Wen Jia shook his head repeatedly, crying and laughing.

This Miss Xue Liu is probably stupid.

The wild crow actually said that he would help the weak dog to avenge the jackal...

useless.

There were people inside and outside the court who hated Pingle.

But what can be changed?

Nothing can be changed!

Although they are both princesses, the emperor only has eyes for Pingle.

She was born noble, grabbing the limelight everywhere, calling the shots and doing whatever she wanted.

Li Fuyin still remembers that when she was a child, she was ignorant and accidentally pushed Pingle down because of an argument with her. When her father came, he glared at her with a terrifying look as if he wanted to eat her. Not only did he scold her harshly, he also punished her to kneel in public and apologize to Pingle.

At that time, her biological mother had not yet been sent to the cold palace.

From that moment on, Li Fuyin knew that her father would do anything for Pingle. Punishing her unreasonably was just a small matter. If he pushed her too hard, he might even kill her and her mother for Pingle...

Wen Jia slowly closed his eyes. "Ms. Xue Liu, you and I are both miserable people. I know all your hatred and resentment. But you and I... you and I cannot defeat them."

Xue Sui was not surprised by her reaction.

Without the ten years in Jiuling Swamp, she would not believe in herself.

"Who said it's just you and me? There are many of us. There are many people who have been oppressed, enslaved, and bullied by them. As long as we have the determination in our hearts, we can get justice for them."

Li Fuyin was stunned.

Then he shook his head bitterly.

"I... I don't have such a high character, and I can't do anything... Miss Xue Liu, please don't look for me anymore... Please, no one has ever hurt me, not even Pingle. Please don't hurt me, please."

Xue Sui straightened her shoulders and slowly revealed a kind smile.

"You are the biological daughter of the Emperor of Daliang. You should have everything that Pingle has."

Li Fuyin still shook his head and insisted on breaking free from her wrist.

Xue Sui pulled her to him and looked at her eye to eye.

"You and your mother, Empress Zhaoyi, deserve the emperor's favor. You should make that damned consort die without a burial place. You should make Pingle suffer the consequences of her own actions and kneel before you to beg for mercy. You should let the people of the world know about her evil deeds. Her name should be engraved on the pillar of shame and despised by people for generations to come. Princess, you are so kind and generous, you deserve to shine and become the most honorable princess of the Daliang Dynasty..."

"I shouldn't, I can't, I can't do it..."

Li Fuyin kept shaking his head.

The voice gradually faded away.

Xue Sui said in a deep voice: "As long as you want, you can! Princess Wen Jia."

Li Fuyin stared at her, his eyes misted with tears.

She didn't move.

But Xue Sui knew that she was moved.

"Princess, no one is destined to be trapped in the quagmire, and no one is born to sink into darkness. Suffering is a tempering, not a shackle. The sky can be done, the earth can be done, Pingle can be done, and you and I can do it too!"

Li Fuyin looked at her straight in the eyes, and after a while asked, "What can I do?"

Xue Sui smiled and said, "You don't have to do anything, just accompany me and watch a good show."

Li Fuyin was very puzzled: "Could you please explain..."

Xue Sui's voice suddenly turned cold, revealing a terrifying chill.

"The princess was also in the Imperial Garden on the day of the Spring Flower Banquet. Did she know about the Bamboo Forest Pavilion?"

Li Fuyin nodded silently.

"There were a lot of rumors that day, but I didn't believe them at all. The prince and the sixth lady are not that kind of people. It must be Pingle who is behind this. She is always like this. She won't stop until she makes others look bad..."

Xue Sui said: "Today, we will treat them in their own way."

Li Fuyin was surprised and understood a little.

"You mean Fan Bing and Ping Le..."

Xue Sui nodded and held her nervously trembling hand tightly, as if to give her strength.

"Don't be afraid. The princess is the daughter of the current Emperor Chongzhao and is also a victim of persecution. No one has the right to point fingers at the princess, a victim..."

Li Zhao: Why don’t you let me come out to watch the fun?

Xue Sui: Don't worry, you are indispensable. Without you, this play can't be performed...

Li Zhao: Okay, our main theme is “revenge for every grievance”.