Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 283 Princess, please get in the car

Suddenly, there was no wind at all. The lotus flowers, weeping willows, the water surface, and even the gauze curtains on the boat were all as motionless as the stone boat itself. The world seemed to have stopped.

Xiao Yuyao frowned. In fact, she was afraid to see Xiao Yan's scary face. After a long pause, she said impatiently, "I know. Let them wait for a while."

Xiao Baoyin reminded him softly, "There are many ghostwriters here, it doesn't seem like they invited you normally."

Xiao Yuyao shuddered when she heard this, her face turned pale, and she said calmly, "It's just to protect my safety. The streets have been uneasy lately, and I heard that several members of the royal family have been attacked."

"I arranged for someone to do that." Xiao Baoyin glanced out the window and said calmly, "If you're sure there's no problem, I'll leave first."

Xiao Yuyao followed his gaze and saw dozens of ghostwriters in black armor surrounding the stone boat. There were even people on the water, so it was obviously not just to protect themselves.

"It's okay, the old man won't really do anything to me." Xiao Yuyao still insisted to save face. But it was true, her biggest confidence was that she was sure that Xiao Yan couldn't really do anything to her.

The weight of the eldest princess is no joke.

"Then you take care of yourself." Xiao Baoyin was just polite to her and then disappeared out of thin air.

In fact, when he appeared in the princess's mansion, he was using the Fengyue Mirror of his sister-in-law Pan Yunu. He was not even an incarnation and had no ability to fight at all.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have realized it until he was surrounded by the ghostwriters.

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After hesitating for a long time, Xiao Yuyao finally walked down the stone boat proudly with the help of the palace maids.

Then I saw a black carriage parked behind the ghostwriter.

"Princess, please get in the car." The officer from the Gou Chensi who led the team opened the car door sideways.

When Xiao Yuyao saw that the carriage was not only painted black but also had no windows, she immediately flew into a rage and asked, "Who do you think I am? I am not a criminal, I want to ride in my own carriage!"

"Haha," the young officer leading the team was none other than Ren Yuan. He lifted the mask of his phoenix-wing helmet and said in a deep voice, "No, you are the criminal!"

"..." Xiao Yuyao was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that her father would be so angry this time and didn't even bother to hide it.

Seeing her standing still, Ren Yuan stepped forward, grabbed Xiao Yuyao's arm, pulled her down from the steps, and roughly stuffed her into the carriage.

Then he slammed the car door and ordered, "Let's go!"

Everyone in the Gou Chen Division was stunned. They had heard that this guy was reckless, but they didn't expect him to be so reckless. If the princess was safe in the end, could she still settle the score with him?

Little did they know that, although it was their first meeting, they had already been at loggerheads. The grudges and hatreds between them were like vines hidden in the darkness, tangled and deeply rooted, and only they themselves knew.

The ghostwriters were like a black torrent, surrounding the carriage and slowly leaving the princess's mansion. All the guards of the princess's mansion gathered around, but they did not dare to stop them, and could only watch the princess being taken away.

The black carriage drove through the long street, and the people gave way one after another, wondering who the important person was inside? Why did so many ghostwriters have to be dispatched?

The carriage was pitch black, and Princess Yongxing was about to suffer from claustrophobia, which was caused by Xi Hui's confinement when she made a mistake as a child. Endless fear came from all directions, and she curled up in a corner, her body shaking... Xiao Yuyao felt that she had not done anything wrong recently, and she really didn't know why the old thief treated her like this? So she felt wronged.

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The journey was safe and uneventful. The black carriage drove straight into Guangzhai Temple and stopped steadily in front of the main hall.

Ren Yuan opened the car door, and Xiao Yuyao rushed down impatiently, breathing in the fresh air in big gulps.
But Ren Yuan roughly pushed him into the hall.

Princess Yongxing staggered a few steps, but still couldn't stop herself and fell to the ground. She raised her head in embarrassment and said angrily, "If my father doesn't want me to live, he can just issue an imperial decree and give me a cup of poisoned wine. There's no need to humiliate me over and over again like this!"

"Don't worry, there won't be a next time." Xiao Yan sat in front of the Guanyin statue with his back to her.

After the palace door slowly closed, the light in the hall suddenly dimmed. The light on the emperor's neck became more distinct.

This is the light aspect, one of the thirty-two characteristics of a Buddhist enlightened person, also known as the "body-dependent light" or the "great light aspect", and is a manifestation of his attainment of the Arhat stage.

Xiao Yan slowly turned around, his face dignified and stern. He narrowed his eyes and looked at his eldest daughter sharply, and asked, "Tell me, how did your mother die?!"

"This happened so many years ago, why is father bringing it up again?" Xiao Yuyao's heart skipped a beat, and she said calmly, "I've said it many times, she died of complications during childbirth of my third sister."

"Because I just saw your mother." Xiao Yan said calmly: "She said that's not the case."

The emperor's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Xiao Yuyao's heart hard. She couldn't help but tremble again, and she relied on her tough words to hold on:
"Is Father missing Mother too much that he is hallucinating? Mother has been dead for so many years, how could she suddenly appear again?"

"Because your mother is not a mortal. She is a real dragon just like me! With the means your sixth uncle has, he can't kill her!" Xiao Yan's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and a terrifying aura instantly filled the hall.

The temperature in the hall dropped suddenly and frost formed on the ground. Xiao Yuyao felt a piercing chill and shivered even more violently.

"Now that she has been resurrected, your doom has come!" Xiao Yan's voice echoed in the hall like a huge bell, causing her eardrums to hurt.

Xiao Yuyao collapsed on the ground like a deflated bladder. She knew that the old thief knew everything, and it was useless to deny it...

But the next moment, her body slowly floated up involuntarily and drifted towards Xiao Yan.

"It was Uncle Six who forced me to do it. I had no involvement, Father." The familiar feeling came back. The fear of death made Xiao Yuyao shiver uncontrollably, begging for mercy with tears streaming down her face.

"Nonsense, I know my own brother well, it must be you who instigated him!" Xiao Yan didn't believe it at all, and grabbed Xiao Yuyao's neck again, looking at his eldest daughter with disgust, and said:

"I really regret having spared you time and time again, you hopeless bad guy! Letting you commit evil again and again!"

"Then you can kill me. Yuhuan will definitely not save me this time." Xiao Yuyao saw that it was irreversible, so she simply threw the jar into the air. Her face was full of madness, and she retorted sharply:
"But remember, anyone can accuse me except you - you killed the king and usurped the throne, I killed my mother and committed adultery, like father, like daughter!"

"You!" Xiao Yan was hit in a sore spot and became furious. He increased the force on his hand and Xiao Yuyao suddenly couldn't breathe.

(End of this chapter)