Adoption brings disaster

There was something weighing on my mind, and I couldn't sleep well. I kept having strange dreams.

After a while, I dreamed that Prince Yong was captured by the Crown Prince and was to be beheaded in the vegetable market for the crime of treason.

I tried my best to save him, but the prince held me down so tightly that I couldn't move at all. I could only watch Prince Yong being beheaded.

After a while, I dreamed that His Royal Highness Prince Yong inherited the throne, and the first thing he did after taking the throne was to settle the grudges between him and me when we were children.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong cried bitterly and described me as a selfish villain. Not only did he confiscate all my property, he also gave me a golden bowl to beg for food. I couldn't get any food and was even chased and bitten by a dog. I was so sad and desperate in my dreams that I wanted to kill His Royal Highness Prince Yong.

Then I dreamed that Chongguang, now the emperor, took pity on me and took me back to the palace. I was naturally enjoying life in the palace, but Chongguang wanted me to do shameful things, and I refused.

Chongguang lost his patience and was about to hit me in a rage. After being slapped a few times, I became even more daring and bit Chongguang's arm.

"What are you doing?" King Yong looked at me suspiciously, his arm still in my mouth, which looked very funny.

Seeing my hazy eyes and the sleepy look on my face, Prince Yong was quite fond of me and teased me, "You ate so much for lunch, are you hungry again?"

I hadn't recovered yet and thought I was still dreaming, so I bit on and refused to let go. King Yong just let me bite. Fortunately, he was wearing thick clothes in winter, otherwise King Yong's forearm would have been bleeding from my bite.

After biting for a long time without any response, I slowly came to my senses. Seeing His Royal Highness Prince Yong smiling at me in a frivolous way, I wanted to find a hole to crawl into and bury myself alive. It was really embarrassing.

Fortunately, being thick-skinned is also a core skill for a teacher. I remember when parents were being sarcastic in front of me, I pretended not to understand and remained unmoved.

This is achieved by relying on the core idea that if it is not said directly, then it does not exist.

I pretended to be calm. Although I wanted to find a place where no one was around to kill myself, I said in a normal tone, "What time is it now?"

I looked at the sky outside and saw that it was already pitch black. I pretended to sigh and said, "I didn't expect that I slept for so long that it was already dark."

After saying that, I pretended to get up and put on my clothes to cover up the embarrassing scene.

Prince Yong didn't dismantle me, but simply smiled and said, "Actually, I didn't sleep very long. Winter days always get dark early, and it's snowing today, and it's the first day of the new year, so the sky just looks a little darker."

After Prince Yong finished speaking, he handed me a nightgown and said, "The whole city is under martial law now. We have to be secretive if we want to go to Prince Yong's Mansion."

"It's already under martial law." I said in surprise. "I saw that Xiaotian and Xiaodi were able to leave the city in the afternoon. I originally thought that martial law wouldn't be enforced."

As I spoke, I put on my nightgown.

"During the day, they just surrounded us from three sides and left one side open. They just wanted to lure us out. Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sees that we are not fooled, he will naturally impose martial law in the entire city and conduct a search." His Royal Highness Prince Yong said after fixing the places I had not fixed properly.

With Chongguang's help, I was dressed in no time. The shopkeeper also brought me some simple food. There wasn't much food but it was enough to satisfy my hunger. I guess it was carefully prepared for the action that night.

It's so cold today, I actually don't want to go with Prince Yong. With my martial arts skills, they may be of some use against ordinary people, but if I face a master, I'm afraid I will be a burden to His Royal Highness Prince Yong.

I know in my heart that those who can come to capture His Royal Highness Prince Yong must be the best of the best, and they are all His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's most powerful people.

My martial arts skills are naturally not enough to face these masters. Not only can I not help King Yong, I might even become a burden to him.

But I don’t know where King Yong got the confidence from, he actually insisted that I go with him.

I explained to him how serious it was, but he didn't care at all. He just thought that the others were all worthless. Only the prince, who had inherited decades of skills from the empress, could he barely look at them.

Seeing that His Royal Highness Prince Yong insisted, I also understood that His Royal Highness Prince Yong must have a trick up his sleeve, so I said no more and just followed His Royal Highness Prince Yong out of the small building and went to Prince Yong's Mansion.

The city is in great chaos right now. In addition to the soldiers and officers searching openly, there are also assassins from the Thousand Killing Organization under the command of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, hiding in the dark and ready to deal a fatal blow to His Royal Highness Prince Yong at any time.

In addition, there are some people in the underworld who want to make a name for themselves and take this opportunity to muddy the waters and make a big move, so they hide themselves in the dark and wait for the opportunity.

I originally thought that the two of us, wearing night clothes, would have to sneak around and be cautious when heading to Prince Yong's Mansion, but I didn't expect that Prince Yong would arrogantly appear on the street holding me in his arms, and directly appear in front of the searching officers and soldiers.

When the officers and soldiers saw His Royal Highness Prince Yong, they naturally rushed to capture him. This capture caused a lot of excitement.

The officers and soldiers chased and intercepted the killers with drums and gongs. Although the killers were hiding secretly, they were outnumbered. After a while, dozens of killers were found, and another melee broke out between the officers and soldiers and the killers.

People in the underworld are the most impatient. They wear night clothes and sneak into wherever they see a fight. They attack anyone they see as suspicious, making it so that even among those who have been killed thousands of times, it is unclear who the real killer is.

There were only some frictions between the three parties at the beginning, and everyone had the same goal, but as the fight went on, they became really angry.

The three parties all thought that the other side was a hidden chess piece laid by His Royal Highness Prince Yong, so they took action without hesitation. At first they were just ruthless, but later it turned into a bloody fight. For a while, the scene was extremely chaotic, and the ordinary people were so frightened that they hid under the bed and trembled.

Seeing the three parties fighting like this, they naturally felt something was wrong. After their respective leaders tested the situation, they led everyone to retreat and no one mentioned it again.

It is said that if the three parties had not retreated in time, the Thousand Killing Organization that the prince had painstakingly nurtured would have been completely destroyed here today. This is just gossip, so I won't say more.

Let’s get back to the topic. His Royal Highness Prince Yong caused a scene because of three parties. I thought Prince Yong was going to take me straight to Prince Yong’s Mansion.

But the Prince Yong's Palace is in the west, and Chongguang took advantage of the chaos and did not hide his whereabouts, but took me to the south. It was really strange.

Everyone watched us fleeing to the south. Some people with high martial arts skills even caught up with us and followed us all the way to the south gate, where they lost us.

So now everyone firmly believes that we hid in the houses near the South City Gate, but we have actually left that area and returned to a place not far from Prince Yong's Mansion.

"How many rats do you have in the capital?" I said, brushing off the dirt on my body. "Why are your tunnels everywhere?"

After hearing this teasing remark, His Royal Highness Prince Yong said nothing but just looked at me meaningfully and smiled, which made my scalp tingle.

I felt a little dangerous, so I quickly changed the subject and said, "You're lucky. These people wanted to kill you, but they actually started fighting among themselves."

After saying that, I was also a little envious and said, "Your luck is unmatched."

His Royal Highness Prince Yong chuckled and said, "I used up all my luck to meet you, how could I possibly be any luckier?"

This sudden cheesy love talk made me shudder with shame, and I said, "Please stop talking. I regret reading these romance books to you. You can't even talk properly now. If you become the emperor in the future, what will happen to this country...?"

As I was talking, I understood what Chongguang meant and asked suspiciously, "Could this also be your plan?"

"I've already said that every high-ranking official in the capital has people under his command," Prince Yong said. "Even though there aren't many, they're just there to fan the flames. These people are still enough."

After hearing this, I felt a little uneasy. I am now curious about how I, with my intelligence, could live so prominently in Beijing.

However, His Royal Highness Prince Yong didn't give me long to feel numb. He looked at the brightly lit south and pulled me into a tunnel.

This tunnel was much better than the previous one. It was clean, spacious, and had sophisticated mechanisms. As soon as we entered the tunnel, the candles on both sides started burning by themselves.

I don’t know what fuel is used for the candle flame, but it smells very fragrant and has a refreshing effect. Just smelling it for a moment makes me feel a lot more energetic.

"The house we just saw was originally built specifically for you." His Royal Highness Prince Yong suddenly said this for no reason.

Before I left the palace, His Royal Highness Prince Yong brought quite a few houses for me to look at, many of which were better than this one in every way.

So I didn't really care about what he said. I just thought it was another cheesy love talk from His Royal Highness Prince Yong. So I just said "oh" lightly and continued to walk forward with Prince Yong.

Since both of us have practiced martial arts, the distance was not very far and we reached the end in just half an incense stick of time.

When we reached the end, we saw His Royal Highness Prince Yong open the mechanism, and in a moment, we appeared in a secret room. With my current eyesight and hearing, I didn’t even notice it. This mechanism was really magical.

Looking at this secret room again, it is not big and there are very few things in it. There is only a training bed and a stone on the bed. The stone that can appear in such a secret place must be the so-called Yangyu Stone from outer space.

There was also a desk next to the bed, with two books on the desk. Judging from the worn look of the books, they must be extremely important things, otherwise His Royal Highness Prince Yong would not have read them so frequently.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong picked up the foreign Yangyu Stone and casually threw it to me, saying, "Take this. If I am left behind, you can also become emperor with this."

Seeing that he was full of confidence, I didn't know where he got the confidence to say this, so I naturally asked: "How many people did the King of Zhenbei leave for you to make you so confident?"

"Not many, just 20,000 Northern Army soldiers." His Royal Highness Prince Yong carefully put the book on the table into his arms and said, "But they are all masters of the Northern Army like Wu Da, who can fight ten to one in the army. With 20,000 Northern Army soldiers and the equipment of your Divine Artisan Camp, there is no one in Beishang who can stop you."

How did the 20,000 masters of the Northern Army hide, how did they communicate, and most importantly, how did they hide it from the omnipresent spies? Just thinking about these things makes one's scalp tingle, let alone doing it and accomplishing it.

It seems that over the years, the little fat boy who only knew how to cause trouble has grown into a towering tree that is out of my reach.

But the more numb it is, the less numb it is. I am numb now. Even if His Royal Highness Prince Yong tells me now that all this is a trap set by him just to bring down His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I will believe it.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong put the book away, and then he touched some mechanism again, and in an instant we appeared in the tunnel again.

The interweaving of light and shadow must have been someone. Two people stood up at the corner and said jokingly, "My dear brother, how come you came out so soon? Are you not feeling well? Do you need me to do it for you?"

The prince's voice was extremely gentle and polite, but it frightened me so much that I quickly hid behind His Royal Highness Prince Yong, saying over and over, "Why is he here? What should we do now?"

"Zhongde greets His Highness Qianqiu." The Crown Prince said with a junior's courtesy, "I'm afraid my good brother won't be able to leave the capital tonight. Qianqiu, when we become husband and wife in the future, you will know that I am no less than my good brother."

The more respectfully the prince spoke, the more afraid I became. I didn't try to play tricks on him, but just kept repeating in my mind what to do.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong sneered and said, "If I want to leave, no one in this world can stop me."

Prince Yong’s domineering words instantly made me feel more at ease.

"My dear brother, do you have any tricks up your sleeve?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said with great interest. "I have moved all the people south just as you wished. Now there are only four of us here. I'm afraid even if you have a trick up your sleeve, you won't be able to use it."

His Royal Highness Prince Yong did not answer, but just smiled and casually patted the wall twice, and a steady stream of rockets came out from the wall.

These arrows definitely cannot hurt His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but the arrowheads are loaded with large amounts of explosives. If they explode in the secret passage, they will definitely bury you underneath, and you will die no matter how good your martial arts skills are.

The Crown Prince's face was no longer as gentle as before. He sneered and said, "You are only one thousand years older than me. Even if I let you escape from the secret passage, do you think you can leave the capital?"

After saying that, he ran towards the exit.

His Royal Highness Prince Yong took some photos casually, and we appeared in the secret room again. After we came out of the secret room, we were in an inconspicuous bamboo forest in Prince Yong's Mansion. Then His Royal Highness Prince Yong took me and rushed towards the East Gate at a high speed.

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