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The two young eunuchs followed the Third Princess' instructions, helped Xie Zhichan up, and carried him behind the Third Princess to a palace in the southwest direction.

Xie Zhichan didn't know what was waiting for her ahead, but at the moment, it seemed impossible for her to take action in the palace. The palace was full of guards. If she took action, the guards would shoot her for treason, and she would have no way to defend herself. She might even be charged with treason in the Prince of Yan's Mansion.

Although Pei Yi had said how powerful He Ying could be, there was no need to rashly send an entire dark guard team out to accompany her to death.

It would be better to wait until we get to the princess' palace, to a place with few people, quietly knock out the three princesses, and then wait for Pei Yi to come to the palace to pick them up.

After they walked for about a quarter of an hour, Xie Zhichan was brought into a magnificent palace. The decorations in the palace were mainly cherry pink, which matched the princess' outwardly innocent temperament very well. However, if her behavior was considered, the dark color might be the most suitable for her.

Xie Zhichan looked around the palace, thought about something randomly, and then was taken into a woman's study.

Li Youzhi waved to the two eunuchs holding Xie Zhichan, "You all can get off."

The two little eunuchs immediately fled away, as if this room would eat people.

The door of the room was closed, and the originally cherry pink room instantly fell into darkness. Xie Zhichan then noticed that the windows of the room were all closed.

Just when she couldn't figure out what Li Youzhi was going to do, Li Youzhi smiled and said to her, "Princess, I'll take you to play with something fun."

As he spoke, he twisted the base of a blue and white porcelain vase that held a scroll on the antique display stand beside the wall, and the walls opened up on both sides, revealing a pitch-black stone chamber.

Li Youzhi pushed Xie Zhichan and said, "Please come in, Princess."

The anesthetic on Xie Zhichan's legs had only partially dissipated, and she was still a little out of control. Li Youzhi pushed her into the stone chamber.

She took a look at the layout of the stone chamber, and her impression of Li Youzhi became even more disillusioned. She saw that the walls of the stone chamber were covered with torture instruments, clamps, branding irons, whips, tiger-tooth sticks, and everything else.

Xie Zhichan stared at Li Youzhi for a long moment, very curious about what was in this girl's mind. At the age of sixteen, she actually liked to play such violent and bloody things. Was she a born antisocial and violent person?

Xie Zhichan didn't want to be a guinea pig for Li Youzhi's fun, so he had to remind her: "The Third Princess probably doesn't know that I am still very important to the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince is not completely worthless to the Emperor. Although the Turks have reached peace, they can't just sit there and breathe. The command of the Pei family army is still in the hands of the Crown Prince."

Li Youzhi entered the stone chamber and sat backwards on a reclining chair, with his hands on the back of the chair and his chin resting on it. He looked at Xie Zhichan and smiled leisurely, "Oh? Is the Crown Prince's Consort reminding me that I can't touch you?"

Xie Zhichan stood in the middle of the stone room, frowning slightly. He really couldn't understand the Third Princess and said, "It's not a reminder, it's a fact. The princess is smart and must understand what I'm saying."

Li Youzhi laughed and said, "People say that I am the dumbest person in the palace. I just laugh all day long. You insist that I am smart, but I don't like to hear that. This palace is not suitable for smart people. Smart people are fighting for positions, but they all have short lives. I just want to die with the honor of a princess, but I don't want to rush to line up for reincarnation."

Xie Zhichan was a little surprised when he heard this. It seemed that the innocence on the Third Princess's face was all pretended. She actually understood everything in the palace.

Since he is a sensible person, why would he develop such a violent and bloodthirsty character?

This made her a little confused.

Li Youzhi suddenly stood up, walked to a desk against the wall, took a small wooden box from it, and dragged an empty chair towards Xie Zhichan.

He came to her side, put down the empty chair, and took out a steel needle as long as a finger and as thick as an embroidery needle from a small wooden box. He smiled and approached Xie Zhichan and said, "Princess, let's act out a play. If you act well, I will tell you a secret."

Xie Zhichan now felt that he could not understand the Third Princess, so he did not intend to respond to her words and said, "The fewer secrets a person knows, the longer he will live. I do not have the same curiosity as the princess."

Li Youzhi put the needle back into the wooden box, pulled the chair he was sitting on closer, sat two steps in front of Xie Zhichan, looked up at Xie Zhichan and said, "A clue that can help the Hang family clear their name. Don't you want to know this secret?"

When Xie Zhichan heard the name "Hang family", her expression was obviously moved. The original owner's maternal grandfather, the Hang family, was still in exile in Lingnan. She had wanted to wait until the business in the capital was on track, and then go to Lingnan in person to see if it was possible to bring that family back to Kyoto.

She read the "Records of Mountains and Rivers of the Great Jin Dynasty" and knew that the Lingnan area was still plagued by miasma, but there were indeed merchants from Southeast Asia landing in Lingnan. She also went to see if there were any channels to expand the business, or to find some tools from Southeast Asia that could improve the productivity of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Thinking that Xie's mother would probably spend her whole life in the Duke of Wei's mansion, she was the only one who still cared about the original owner and the only one the original owner had ever thought about. If she could, she would help the Hang family, so that Xie's mother would not be left without her family in Kyoto. After all, for women of this era, the only people they could rely on were their husband's family and their family.

She hesitated for a moment, thinking about the possibility of extracting the secret from the Third Princess. However, looking at the girl in front of her, although she was a little crazy, she was obviously very smart and probably would not give her the opportunity to extract information from her.

I had no choice but to cooperate with her first, so I asked, "Princess, what play do you want me to cooperate with you in?"

Li Youzhi smiled and said, "Of course it's a torture scene. I told the Royal Grandmother that I'm going to make the Prince of Yan's Consort look good. The Prince of Yan's Consort has to act well."

As she spoke, her expression changed. She grabbed Xie Zhichan and dragged her onto the chair. She kicked the rope that was randomly placed on the ground into her hand and tied Xie Zhichan to the back of the chair.

Xie Zhichan struggled, but the binding was still quite tight, so he asked, "Is this also part of the acting?"

Li Youzhi nodded and said, "Of course, we must strive for the truth."

Xie Zhichan had no choice but to cooperate patiently and see what Li Youzhi was up to. If the situation changed, she would be able to untie the rope.

Li Youzhi grabbed one of her fingers, took out the steel needle from the wooden box, and poked it into the center of her nail.

Just when Xie Zhichan subconsciously wanted to take out a tube of anesthetic from the space to give to the third princess, she was surprised to find that the steel needle inserted into her finger was not inserted at all, but was shortened section by section like a ladder, and it only looked like it was inserted into her finger visually.

Li Youzhi looked at the surprised expression on Xie Zhichan's face and said with a smug smile, "How is it, Princess, is this magic prop fun?"

The innocent smile on his face seemed to have a little more sincerity at this moment.

Xie Zhichan took another look at the torture instruments on the wall and asked Li Youzhi, "Are those on the wall fake?"

Li Youzhi nodded, walked over and took down the conspicuous mace hanging on the wall, handed it to Xie Zhichan, and said very complacently: "Of course, I designed them all and asked people outside the palace to make them for me. The people who helped me make these things are your old acquaintances. Why don't you guess who it is?"

Xie Zhichan thought about it and realized that the person she was most familiar with was Pei Yi. Then, looking at Li Youzhi's obvious hint, she finally understood why the third princess wanted to take her away from Shoukang Palace.

She was probably in the same boat with Pei Yi. Perhaps the information that Pei Yi deliberately wanted to let Concubine De know was also passed on through the third princess.

Xie Zhichan asked tentatively: "The third princess is the prince's person?"

Li Youzhi immediately said unhappily, "What do you mean I am his? I am the innocent Princess of Dajin, I don't want a man who has another woman in his heart? Pei Yi and I are just partners at best."

When Xie Zhichan heard this, he knew who the Third Princess was talking about, and coughed awkwardly, saying, "Anyway, thank you for saving me, Princess."

Li Youzhi stretched out his hand to stop Xie Zhichan: "No need, Pei Yi will thank me in the future. Besides, I am quite happy to act in this palace. Anyway, this palace doesn't like people who wear real leather."