Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Li Huoyue's study is a separately designed room and is not located in Li Huoyue's courtyard.

It is a two-story building with an empty ground floor, designed like a pavilion. One has to climb up a wooden ladder on the side to reach the second floor.

The surroundings are empty, with no flowers, only a shallow lawn and a path formed by white gravel in the middle, which looks extremely simple.

As soon as Xu Jiaoer stepped onto the gravel road, a crunching sound was heard.

She paused, feeling that it was a bit strange for her to make such a loud noise here, as sinful as eating potato chips in the library.

She wondered how Li Huoyue walked and why she was the only one who made a sound.

When she looked up, the woman was already waiting for her at the stairs.

"Why are you walking so fast!" Xu Jiaoer followed him angrily.

Li Huoyue saw Xu Jiao'er catching up and walked up the stairs, saying, "You hesitated there for too long, not because I walked fast."

This time when going up the stairs, Xu Jiaoer deliberately observed and found that even Li Huoyue made a sound, so she followed him with confidence.

Unexpectedly, when she stepped on the wooden ladder, it made an even louder noise, as if it would collapse at any time.

The noise frightened Xu Jiao'er so much that she dared not move. She stood on a wooden step and complained to Li Huoyue above her, "Aren't you rich in the Li Mansion? Why did you use such shoddy and shoddy construction? You didn't even bother to repair this staircase when it's in this state? What if it breaks one day and you fall to death?"

While Li Huoyue was complaining, she had already reached the second floor. She stood on that high place, looking down at Xu Jiaoer who was clinging to the railing tightly and dared not move.

"Are you going to stay there forever?" Li Huoyue asked.

No matter how much Xu Jiao'er gritted her teeth, there was nothing she could do. She could only control her inner fear and move upwards.

Li Huoyue went into the room early and prepared tea for her.

After a while, Xu Jiao'er also entered the room, complaining as she entered, "You will fall to death sooner or later. By then, there will be no one here. You will have to wait three days before someone comes to collect your body!"

"Why do you have such malice towards me?" Li Huoyue said calmly, not getting angry or irritated by Xu Jiao'er's vicious curse. "I will withdraw from the marriage, and I don't want your life. We don't have any conflicts, and we are even irrelevant. You don't focus on how to survive, but instead focus on me all day long. Is this good for you?"

Xu Jiaoer opened her mouth, but couldn't answer.

Your Majesty either already has something better, or this is not what he wants.

But facing Xu Jiaoer, she couldn't say that she had presented the drawings yesterday but they didn't catch the emperor's eye at all.

"Impossible!!! With the war at the border so intense, it is impossible for him not to be tempted by the production of thermal weapons!" Xu Jiaoer categorically denied Li Huoyue's statement.

Li Huoyue speculated in front of Xu Jiao'er: "Could it be that someone has already presented these things to the emperor? What kind of firearms did you write on your test paper?"

Xu Jiaoer didn't want to believe it at first, but when she thought about the steps of making the gun, which was told to her by Sang Baohe, she began to feel anxious.

Sangbao and...

I heard from Sang's mother recently that Sang Baohe was captured by King Liang, and she asked Sang Fuqing to help find a solution, but Sang Fuqing's official position was too low, and he only knew a limited number of people, many of whom were ordinary elegant scholars who had never been officials, so he could not help at all.

Even Sang's mother, who had been asking about the cause, had no idea why Sang Baohe was arrested, let alone Xu Jiaoer.

Xu Jiao'er didn't care why Sang Baohe was captured by King Liang. At first, she thought that Sang Baohe liked to show off and was taken back by King Liang to be punished.

Now that I think about it, could it really be like what Li Huoyue said, that Sang Baohe had presented the things to His Majesty in exchange for his life, which led to His Majesty's lack of interest in the gun concept drawings in the missing person notice? !

The more Xu Jiao'er thought about it, the more scared she became. Until now, she only had the title of top scholar. Apart from this, she had nothing else. If the emperor wanted to get rid of her, what could she use to save her life?

When Li Huoyue saw Xu Jiaoer's face gradually turning pale, he knew that this girl had already realized the consequences.

"You'd better think about it. You should have something else that His Majesty values. I think it's most likely more than just gun making." Li Huoyue guided Xu Jiaoer to think.

Xu Jiao'er was already panicking, but she still did not forget to question Li Huoyue, "Why do you think so?"

Li Huoyue replied: "Because you are still alive and well now."

"But...but I..." Xu Jiaoer hesitated for a long time but could not come up with any further words.

The bell by the window rang twice, and the crisp and light sound prompted Li Huoyue to start chasing people away.

"It's okay if you can't think of it now. Go back and think about it slowly. You won't die immediately anyway." Li Huoyue stood up, walked to the door and opened it. "By the way, you broke five teacups in my house today. Someone will send you the compensation slip this afternoon."

"You also want me to pay compensation?!" Xu Jiaoer was shocked.

Li Huoyue was also somewhat shocked: "Could it be possible that he could fall for nothing?"

"Are you trying to chase me away?" Xu Jiaoer saw that Li Huoyue had already stepped out of the door and was waiting outside.

Li Huoyue nodded slightly: "You are quite sensible."

Xu Jiaoer stamped her feet in anger. She no longer had the confidence she had when she came here. The reason for her to ask for punishment no longer existed. Now that people wanted her to leave, she really didn't dare to say anything.

She stepped heavily out of the door and said to Li Huoyue: "I...what if I really can't figure it out?"

"Death? What else can happen?" Li Huoyue watched her come out, turned around and closed the door.

"You!" Xu Jiao'er really couldn't understand why this woman was so difficult to communicate with. Every time she spoke, she didn't care about other people's feelings at all. "Can't you help me think about it?"

"????" Li Huoyue looked at Xu Jiao'er in confusion, "Are you the princess left behind by the emperor? Why should I help you? And you did it all by yourself, how can I help you? Rely on your imagination?"

Xu Jiao'er snorted, "Forget about not giving me any hints. I can figure it out myself!"

"Yeah." Li Huoyue was thinking about going to the fourth brother's study. She guessed that the second brother had been released.

There are still broken porcelain pieces in the room. I'll trick Lao Wu into coming over to clean them up later.

"Even if I thought of it, I wouldn't tell you!" Xu Jiaoer thought that Li Huoyue would still be curious about her information.

Your Majesty either already has something better, or this is not what he wants.

But facing Xu Jiaoer, she couldn't say that she had presented the drawings yesterday but they didn't catch the emperor's eye at all.

But facing Xu Jiaoer, she couldn't say that she had presented the drawings yesterday but they didn't catch the emperor's eye at all.

"Even if I thought of it, I wouldn't tell you!" Xu Jiaoer thought that Li Huoyue would still be curious about her information.