Adoption brings disaster

When His Royal Highness Prince Yong heard what I said, he was obviously anxious. After leaving the palace, he didn't even take a carriage. He just carried me back to Prince Yong's Mansion.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong is incredibly fast. If I hadn't been thinking of a suitable excuse to use to fool His Royal Highness Prince Yong, I would have discovered that His Royal Highness Prince Yong's current lightness skills are even stronger than the previous Thief Saint. This is something that even the Prince of Zhenbei couldn't do. This is something that would never happen in Zhaixing Tower.

As soon as we returned to Prince Yong's Mansion, His Royal Highness Prince Yong dismissed everyone. In the main room of Prince Yong's Mansion, His Royal Highness Prince Yong pressed my vital points and shouted almost maniacally: "Am I not good enough to you? You still want to escape? Where are you going to escape to? Tell me, where are you going to escape to?"

His Royal Highness Prince Yong's frantic behavior frightened me. I hadn't thought of a suitable excuse yet, so I could only say, "Don't talk nonsense. I'm a minister appointed by the emperor himself, with the same status as a prince. I own an escort agency, a poor medical clinic, and a college. I'm considered rich and powerful in the Northern Shang Kingdom. I haven't violated any laws, so why should I run away?"

His Royal Highness Prince Yong was not so easily evaded. He sneered and said, "Don't talk to me about this. You know best what I mean."

I know that His Royal Highness Prince Yong is very impatient now, because I can feel his hand pinching my vital point, and he is already very impatient.

I was terrified and was about to offer some words to comfort him, but then I heard His Royal Highness Prince Yong threateningly say, "If you truly want to escape, don't blame me, your son, for being unfilial."

Although this kid has always been respectful to me, he is actually quite crazy. I am still very afraid that he will do something strange, such as imprisoning me.

After hearing this, although I rationally felt that I should give in now, I had been domineering for so many years that it was difficult for me to give in all of a sudden.

I also trembled and said, "Don't mess around, I'm not someone you can easily mess with. I'm the leader of the Wulin Alliance, I'm Qianqiu Qing's father, I'm not someone you can easily bully."

"Hmph." His Royal Highness Prince Yong sneered and said, "I regard Qianqiu as my own father, how could I possibly do something to humiliate him? But I can still cripple Qianqiu's martial arts and keep him safe in the mansion."

My pupils dilated when I heard this. For a moment, I couldn't imagine how miserable it would be if I became that weak and sickly person with no martial arts skills again.

Seeing that I was frightened, His Royal Highness Prince Yong let his true energy flow through my body at the right time, as if he could destroy my martial arts at any time, which made me even more frightened and unable to move.

Just then, a brilliant idea suddenly struck me.

I didn't put up much resistance, but pretended to be aggrieved and said, "Logically speaking, your fight with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the supreme position has nothing to do with me. Today is the best excuse to leave the capital. This way, even if you inherit the throne, you won't resent me for leaving you at this critical moment."

These unreasonable words made His Royal Highness Prince Yong pause. For a moment he didn't know what I meant, but he felt comfortable listening to them, and his expression naturally eased a little.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong also said gently: "As long as you don't run away, I will never resent you. In fact, I hope you leave at this critical moment. If I lose, you won't be implicated."

I patted Prince Yong's head and said with some sadness, "Although we are not biological father and son, I have been your father-in-law for many years, and our relationship is no less than that of biological father and son. Your love for me is the same as mine for you."

"If that's the case, then why are you still running away?" His Royal Highness Prince Yong was not easy to fool and continued to question me.

I knew that His Royal Highness Prince Yong was not so easily fooled, so naturally I had something to say back and forth. I said, "I never meant to escape. I will always be by your side, but people always admit defeat before they say victory."

After I finished speaking, I squeezed out two more tears with great difficulty, pretending to be sad, and said, "I have to say something disheartening. Chongguang, you are indeed extremely powerful, but the Crown Prince is not weak either. If you fight and you lose, although I am greedy for life, I will always protect you. I am afraid that by then, we, father and son, will die together. That's why I want to leave something for this world."

This sounded very ridiculous, but it fooled His Royal Highness Prince Yong. His mood instantly changed from rage to touching. The two of us talked heart-to-heart for a long time in the main room, and our feelings were even stronger than before. I won't mention it anymore.

While we were engaging in a battle of wits and courage inside, the guards outside thought that His Royal Highness Prince Yong was extremely impatient. Last time, they had revealed the secret affairs of His Royal Highness Prince Yong's bedroom and received a reward, so naturally, they were even more excited to talk about it this time.

"How come Your Highness came out in just one hour this time? Didn't it always take two or three hours before?"

"What do you know? Time is important, but experience is also important. Now that I'm used to it, it won't take long for me to get to the point of ecstasy."

"I heard that the current Heavenly Master created a technique that has amazing recovery abilities. I didn't believe it before, but you see His Highness Qianqiu is completely normal. It seems the rumors are true."

"You said that when the Heavenly Master created this technique, was this how it was used?"

"Hahahaha, you've revealed the truth. These monks and Taoists appear pure and unselfish on the surface, but I don't know what they're like behind the scenes."

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When His Royal Highness Prince Yong and I came out of the main house, we heard the secret guards in the dark saying these filthy words. I was so angry that I raised my poisonous anaconda and was about to hit His Royal Highness Prince Yong.

But then he thought that the child was grown up now, and using the anaconda would leave marks, which was not good after all, so he could only hit the wall next to him hard. One whip knocked down the wall, and then he kicked it hard before he felt relieved.

This group of ignorant secret guards paid no attention to my impatience. Instead, they became excited and even their voices became much louder than before.

"Your Highnesses have such a wonderful relationship. I've never seen anyone so close to His Highness Prince Yong."

"Since she is my bedmate and my sweetheart, how can I not think about her?"

"Hahahaha, you and your mother-in-law have a pretty good relationship. Look at the wound on your face, it hasn't healed yet."

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Listening to this, I felt incredibly ashamed and inexplicably irritated. I rolled my eyes at His Royal Highness Prince Yong and said, "This is your good secret guard. How dare he talk about the master so blatantly?"

His Royal Highness Prince Yong knew what I was upset about, so he naturally didn't blame these servants. He just chuckled and said, "These servants are just a little talkative, but they are very loyal."

After His Royal Highness Prince Yong finished speaking, he looked at me with some worry and said, "The situation in the capital has been undergoing major changes recently. I have defended you so much in the court today. I am afraid that someone will harm you. I will arrange for more guards to protect you. You should also be patient and stay in Prince Yong's mansion for a while to avoid giving those with ulterior motives an opportunity to take advantage of you."

I know in my heart that although those words just now fooled His Royal Highness Prince Yong, given His Royal Highness Prince Yong's wisdom, it is naturally impossible for him to believe them completely.

And even if he believed it completely, he would still arrange more people to stay by my side, firstly for protection and secondly for surveillance, so I didn't refute it, but just asked him to arrange fewer gossipers.

After the commotion that day, I naturally had to be quiet for a few days to appease His Royal Highness Prince Yong. So in the next few days, I lived a life of retirement in Prince Yong's mansion, eating and waiting to die, with someone to serve me.

During this period, Li Er came once, but it was nothing important, just a routine report. Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and I was enjoying my retirement life more comfortably.

In this way, I was at ease for a few days. One morning, not long after His Royal Highness Prince Yong left, A'er came to report that there was news from the Ministry of Justice that the housekeeper wanted to see me and asked me if I wanted to go and see him.

Originally, I didn't plan to go because the Ministry of Justice was far away, and Er kept persuading me not to go.

They talked about how dirty and messy the Ministry of Justice prison was, and how the prisoners' urine buckets were only emptied once every three to five days, making the entire prison smell like a toilet. They talked about how the prison was dark and damp, and the straw inside would become moldy after only three to five days, and when mixed with the smell of urine, the smell was really life-threatening.

Just hearing this made my stomach ache. Naturally, I didn't want to go to the Ministry of Justice's prison to see that stupid butler.

But in the end I still went there, without any reason. If I had to give a reason, it would be my intuition. I always felt that the butler had a big secret of my original body.

Although this secret is not important to me, the desire to explore it still made me go.

It is said that Ah Er did not lie. Before I even entered the Ministry of Justice prison, the stench that Ah Er described came straight to my face and almost made me faint.

The jail warden knelt down upon seeing this and confessed his guilt, saying, "These filthy things have violated Your Highness's beautiful body. I truly deserve death. Your Highness, why don't you wait a moment while I have my men sweep the area again, which will lessen our guilt."

I knew that this smell could not be removed by simply sweeping it away, and naturally I didn't want the prison warden to do that useless work. I frowned, waved my hands, used the breath-holding technique, and walked into the prison.

When I walked downstairs, I could clearly see that it had been swept and clean, and there were some water stains, but the smell was still strong due to the lack of ventilation.

Going further inside, all the items had already been put away. A tattered table was cleaned and covered with a red cloth that had been washed to a pale color. Tea and some cheap-looking food had already been placed on the red cloth.

When they saw me come in, all the jailers hurriedly saluted and stood up. The head of the prison then asked someone to bring the housekeeper over.

I leaned back in my chair, looking at the butler, whose face was gaunt and clearly suffering greatly, and said, "I heard you were looking for me. What's the matter? Tell me."

The housekeeper was very excited when he saw me. Although his clothes were still neat and tidy, he must have put them in order earlier, but he still nervously put them in order again. Then he excitedly bowed and said, "Greetings, young master. May you have good fortune and success in everything."

He didn't call me His Highness Qianqiu, nor did he call me the Third Young Master, but Young Master. I always felt that this title had a special meaning, but I didn't know much about this butler, so I didn't understand what it meant.

So I didn't say much, just nodded and motioned him to continue.

"Master, this old servant is incompetent and cannot protect the eldest young master and the old master. I can only use this method to get the young master out." The housekeeper sobbed and babbled, "Seeing that the young master is living so well now, this old servant can also see the old master when he goes to the underworld."

The butler was still babbling, and the prison warden hurried forward and said, "This man is maliciously accusing Prince Gong. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already investigated the matter thoroughly, and His Royal Highness Prince Yong has also approved it."

I ignored the person in charge because I felt very distressed when I saw the housekeeper's appearance, but I would never have such feelings towards a housekeeper. This feeling must be from the original body.

Seeing my tearful eyes, the housekeeper felt very distressed. He leaned forward and said kindly, "Master, I can still hold your hand like I did when we were little."

The butler had been tortured in prison for several days, and there was mud in the cracks of his fingernails. I felt sick just thinking about it, and I definitely didn't want him to hold my hand, but my body reached out uncontrollably.

The butler held my hand without saying anything, but just quietly drew patterns on my hand. These patterns had no meaning, but I could clearly understand what the butler meant. It seemed that the butler and my original body often did this kind of thing, and my body already had the memory of it.

These patterns don't have any special meaning, they just represent a scene where someone was framed and the entire family was executed.

The only slightly interesting thing is that the housekeeper secretly replaced the young master and rescued him. This kind of story is obviously boring. No one would write it in the early years, and there is no market for it now.

Even though it was such a boring scene, it was deeply imprinted in my mind. Coupled with the housekeeper's behavior, I had almost guessed the inside story.

The housekeeper drew the last pattern and let go of my hand, but the meaning of the last pattern made me sad and heartbroken all of a sudden.

Because the last sentence is, the dead have the tightest lips. Take care, young master. I will go find you first.

This sad emotion made me tremble all over. When I recovered, the butler had been taken back to the cell. It should not be said that he was taken back, because not long after he let go of my hand, he bit the poison in his mouth and died in an instant.

No one would care about the life or death of a butler, and no one would blame me, who is protected by His Royal Highness Prince Yong, for a dead butler, except for some emotions in my body that made me uncomfortable.

Emotions come and go quickly. Before the butler was carried out, I had already recovered. I recovered with the comfort of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Predict what will happen in the future, and listen to the next decomposition.