Chapter 234 “The Usurper” (4500 words)

Author: Bachelor in White

Chapter 234 “The Usurper” (4500 words)

The meme "a pair of bed-warming maids from the Western Regions" seems to have spread among the fraternities.

Zheng Xiu asked Qingpi to pay attention to Wei Chen these days.

Maybe Qingpi's description of Wei Chen included "the man who dared to send a pair of maids to test the prince."

Which prince cannot withstand such a test?

When Zheng Xiu couldn't laugh or cry.

A calm cry came from outside:

"Everything depends on people, success or failure depends on fate, fortune tellers can only take a penny!"

A blind man stood in front of the prince's carriage.

He was holding a cane in his right hand and an old birdcage in his left hand. Inside lay a crow with dull fur and no luster. The crow was lifeless and would twitch its eyelids from time to time, as if to prove in this way that it was still alive.

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"Your Highness, this guy is very brave. He knew that Your Highness was in the car, but he still pretended to have met by chance. Should we..." The brother in charge of driving chuckled, but Zheng Xiu could tell from his hoarse voice that he was a little nervous.

Zheng Xiu interestingly stretched out his hand to open a gap next to the curtain, looked outside, and said softly: "No need."

The coachman was silent for a moment, then smiled at the blind man blocking the carriage: "Do you know how to tell fortunes by touching bones?"

The burn scars on the blind man Chen Wei's face made the upper half of his face look extremely ferocious, but when he heard the words, he showed a gentle and calm smile: "I understand a little bit."

The coachman asked: "Is the calculation accurate?"

The blind man Chen Wei shook his head: "It varies from person to person."

The coachman laughed dryly: "So, it's up to you to decide whether it's accurate or not?"

The blind man Chen Wei raised his head, his pale pupils seemed to be able to see things, and he looked towards the carriage.

Zheng Xiu looked at the blind man through the gap in the curtain.

The blind man Chen Wei said with a smile: "The person who borrows the knife calculates the future, and I calculate the present and the past. Whether it is accurate or not, the customer knows it well, I said it, it doesn't count. This is why I say, 'It varies from person to person.'

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Zheng Xiu knew the true identity of the blind man Chen Wei, who was another person who survived Baili Village twenty years ago: Wei Chen.

His true identity is the emperor's illegitimate son who has no right of birth.

Twenty years ago, the treasure king Cangyun, who was armed with sword guards and led Wei Chen to escape from the imperial city, "accidentally" fell into the ghost world of Baili Village.

After Zheng Xiu was imprisoned, as "Zheng Shan", he interfered with the "past" twenty years ago, and the subsequent stories came into being.

If "Bai Li Village" twenty years ago was the beginning of everything and the "cause", then Wei Chen who was blocking the carriage was the other "cause" who was still alive in the world besides Feng Bei.

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When Zheng Xiu was awarded the title of "Red King", Wei Chen once changed the name of "Blind Chen Wei" and said he wanted to give "a pair of maids", but in fact he gave a bad check and gave it, but not completely.

It seemed like he was asking for directions, just to see the reaction of the Red King.

Zheng Xiu deliberately ignored him and was busy with other things.

After waiting for some time, the blind man Chen Wei stopped in front of his carriage in this way. Zheng Xiu was both surprised and not surprised.

To say it was no surprise, if Zheng Xiu was left alone, sooner or later the other party would be unable to bear it and would make some move. To be honest, Zheng Xiu did not expect that the timing of the blind man Chen Weixuan was a bit subtle. Just a few days before he planned to completely reorganize "Ye Weiyang"

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"Let him come up."

The prince's voice sounded cold, and he seemed a little unhappy.

The coachman understood and suddenly realized that the blind man failed to deliver the gift.

Before I became a prince, I hated the profiteering behavior of writing bad checks.

"Get in the car and touch it for our prince."

The driver smiled and asked the blind man to get on.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Chen Wei still had the same calm expression on his face, and his calm demeanor made the people watching around him feel that something was wrong.

The carriage continued to drive.

In the carriage, Zheng Xiu carefully looked at the badly burned face of the blind man Chen Wei.

For a while, neither the blind Chen Wei nor Zheng Xiu spoke.

They all seemed to be waiting for the other person to speak.

After a while, the carriage returned to the Red Prince's Mansion. The driver whistled a few times, and suddenly dozens of shadows fell on the wall. Assassins with hoods on and hidden swords surrounded the carriage.

When Chen Wei heard the commotion outside, he sighed softly: "Your Majesty treats guests so grandly, I am flattered."

"It should be." Zheng Xiu smiled and pointed out the other party's identity: "After all, he is the owner of the incomplete building."

Chen Wei opened his mouth and laughed. After a moment, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It turns out that my identity is not a secret in the eyes of the prince. I am indeed the Zheng family."

Zheng Xiu took the lead in entering the palace.

"please."

Qing Shisan smiled and invited the blind man to come in.

Today is different from the past.

If it were in the past, when Zheng Zhai invites guests to enter, they would also say a few polite words such as "Welcome to the humble house" and "Your arrival will make the humble house shine." But where is this place now? It's the Red Prince's Mansion. Qingshi

Being able to say "please" for San Neng is already a huge honor to the blind man. Many people who want to be guests in Chi Prince's Mansion are now unable to do so.

Nowadays, if you want to be a diner of the Red King, you must have a certain status. It’s not that Zheng Xiu likes to serve, but that he has to serve. Once the shelf is not set up properly, and everyone invites people to the Red Prince’s Mansion, it will be

It caused a disaster in the imperial court that could affect the stability of the imperial court.

Zheng Xiu whistled and ordered: Please invite Jiang Gaoyi, the Minister of Punishment, to come to the house to explain.

Someone go and do it immediately.

After Zheng Xiu became the prince, the Zheng family was still like an efficient machine.

Not long after, Jiang Gaoyi was invited into Prince Chi's Mansion with a confused look on his face.

Jiang Gaoyi didn't hide anything when he entered the Prince's Mansion. He wished that the whole world would know about it. He invited Mrs. Zheng to accompany him and dragged him here. In front of Prince Chi's Mansion, Jiang Gaoyi put on his hat and put on his formal clothes. After tidying up for a while, he carefully entered.

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It's not all luck that Jiang Gaoyi was promoted so quickly in a short period of time. He and Zheng Xiu were familiar with each other, but the prince is the prince, and Jiang Gaoyi distinguishes between public and private matters and manages them thoroughly.

As soon as he entered the living room, Jiang Gaoyi found a blind man sitting in the living room who looked like a street actor. The tragic look on the blind man's face made Jiang Gaoyi's heart skip a beat. He was extremely puzzled, but he quickly bowed his head and said:

"My lord, Jiang Gaoyi, pays homage to the prince."

"Mr. Jiang, there is no need to be polite. It's enough for you and I to get to know each other privately as old friends."

"How can that be possible? The Red King's status is so noble that Jiang does not dare to surpass it." Jiang Gaoyi glanced at the blind man and refused sternly.

He refused, but he secretly changed his self-identification from "Chen" to "Jiang".

"Master Jiang, please sit down."

Zheng Xiu motioned Jiang Gaoyi to sit aside.

"The Red Prince has never treated you as an outsider. You don't have to be reserved in the Red Prince's palace, Mr. Jiang." Qing Shisan came to the side silently and poured tea for Jiang Gaoyi. Thick white smoke floated out of the tobacco stick.

Wrap around and wrap up Qing Shisan and Jiang Gaoyi.

Qing Shisan suddenly leaned over Jiang Gaoyi's ear and whispered: "Master Jiang, the prince specially invited you here, do you understand the prince's thoughts?"

Sitting there, Zheng Xiu and the blind man Chen Wei started talking.

But Jiang Gaoyi, who was shrouded in smoke, only heard a hazy "buzzing" sound. Jiang Gaoyi couldn't hear clearly what they were saying. After being shocked, Jiang Gaoyi understood that the smoke was causing trouble, and he immediately understood

What the prince meant, he nodded quickly: "Jiang knows."

"Your Excellency Laojiang."

Qing Shisan continued to smoke, and Jiang Gaoyi let the smoke cover him. He began to hold his breath and stare at Chen Wei's face.

The sounds of Zheng Xiu and the blind man Chen Wei talking were all "isolated" by the smoke.

As he watched, Jiang Gaoyi felt dazed for a while, his eyes were moist, and he actually stretched out his hand to wipe the mist from his dim old eyes.

Qing Shisan looked at Jiang Gaoyi's reaction in confusion, thinking that Jiang Gaoyi was... crying?

What a weird way.

At this time, the two people chatting stopped talking. The blind man Chen Wei lowered his head and remained silent, as if in deep thought. After a moment, he took two steps forward, stretched out his hand to tear off one sleeve in front of Zheng Xiu, and let Zheng Xiu look at the inside of his arm.

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To be continued...