Wei Wan walked in and glanced at Jing Yi first, with a mocking smile on her lips.
"Slave of the traitor!" She cursed angrily in a low voice as she passed by Jing Yi, who turned pale.
But seeing Wei Wan walking towards Shen Dingzhu, Jing Yi returned to Shen Dingzhu immediately and stared at Wei Wan with defensive eyes.
Shen Dingzhu sat with a relaxed and calm demeanor: "This is an open-door business. People with evil intentions are not welcome. Go back where you came from. Don't let me send people to drive you away. It won't be a good sight."
Wei Wan's expression froze and he pursed his lips slightly: "Empress, I came here just to prove to you that you are about to lose. Even if the emperor suspected that I had instigated Jing Yi to harm you, he still did not restrict me. freedom of."
Shen Dingzhu listened numbly, expressionless.
Xiucui was angry, pointed at her and scolded: "What a shameless person, get out of here!"
It was known in the palace that Wei Wan was not an honest person.
Wei Wan chuckled: "Empress, I might as well advise you one last time. I heard that the emperor will welcome the daughter of the Huang family as his concubine. If you leave now, the emperor will no longer care about Miss Huang, and you will not completely fall out of favor. "
Shen Dingzhu finally heard her purpose.
Wei Wan was scared. Without her, Shen Dingzhu would have another Huang Yunmeng.
So she wanted to use Shen Dingzhu to run away again to force Xiao Langyan to put down everything in front of him and chase her.
Shen Dingzhu's red lips sneered, with such a charming and charming demeanor, and the bright light shining in her beautiful curved eyes, it made everything eclipsed.
Wei Wan frowned for a moment, jealousy flashing in his eyes.
"Miss Wei, if you have the skills, you'd better work hard on your own. Don't always put your ideas on others. Even if you risk your life, you won't get what you want."
"You..." Wei Wan didn't expect Shen Dingzhu to be so uncooperative, "Have you forgotten our agreement?"
Xiucui gave Wei Wan a strange look.
Before Shen Dingzhu could speak, Jing Yi beside him said dullly: "No need to beg her."
Wei Wan suddenly glared at Jing Yi: "You really let me down. When you first came to Dajin, you clearly said you would always protect me and do your best for me. But look at what you are like now. You have completely become hers." slave!"
Jing Yi clenched his fists silently, veins popping out on the back of his hands.
After a while, he said: "You lied to me, you didn't save my life."
Shen Dingzhu couldn't understand this sentence, but Wei Wan turned pale.
Wei Wan quickly calmed down and stared at Jing Yi with dark eyes.
"Okay, it seems that you don't want to recognize me as your master anymore, but Jing Yi, don't forget that according to our customs, you drank my blood when you recognized your master. If you betray me, you will be next The master who recognizes him will also die a miserable death!"
Shen Dingzhu was shocked when he heard this.
She remembered the pen pal she met at a poetry meeting many years ago and heard about this custom of Chang Liu Country from him.
In the Changliu Kingdom, there is a way to cultivate dead soldiers. More than a hundred people with no identity background fight each other. The last person left behind is the best dead soldier.
Training usually begins at a young age.
In order to make him obey, the wizard will also ask him to drink the blood of the master he is about to follow, which means that he will swear allegiance to the death and protect each other life and death.
This is called the Bloodthirsty Covenant.
If he betrays his master, both the dead man and his next followers will not end well.
Therefore, in Changliu Kingdom, there are very few such dead soldiers, and those who can survive among a hundred people are all good young men who are absolutely loyal.
Shen Dingzhu looked at Jing Yi in surprise, could this be his background?
Seeing Jing Yi's throat rolling and his eyes fluctuating complicatedly, Wei Wan smiled proudly: "You betrayed me, and you will be the trash no one wants wherever you go. But if you are not afraid of hurting others, you can continue to follow Queen Shen. Bar."
After Wei Wan said that, he raised his head and walked away.
Suddenly, just as she passed by Jing Yi, even Shen Dingzhu didn't react. Jing Yi suddenly took out the iron tongs for turning the charcoal from the brazier.
Wei Wan turned around when he heard the voice, his eyes startled: "What do you want to do?!"
Jing Yi's tiger eyes were dark and fierce, and his thin lips moved: "The covenant between you and me is broken today."
As he spoke, he opened his clothes and pressed the red-hot iron pliers to his heart. A sizzling sound came out, and Shen Dingzhu was so frightened that he froze.
Xiucui reacted and screamed: "Put it down quickly, why are you doing this!"
Wei Wan was shocked.
Jing Yi's arms were shaking with pain, but he gritted his teeth and stared at Wei Wan with fierce tiger eyes, determined to break off the alliance with her.
Suddenly, he threw away the iron tongs, picked up Shen Dingzhu's paper-cutting knife, and cut off the small piece of cooked meat in his heart.
His face does not change color.
A bloody piece of meat was thrown at Wei Wan's feet.
Jing Yi's face had turned pale, but his eyes were browner, darker and colder.
"Give it back to you. From now on, I am not your slave."
Wei Wan's lips trembled, she was already frightened by his fierce look: "You are crazy... you are really crazy!"
She turned around and left, her steps hurried as if she was running away, as if she was afraid that Jing Yi would go crazy and kill her.
Shen Dingzhu saw blood flowing on his chest and dripping down to the ground along his abdominal muscles. Her pretty face turned pale and she said, "Xiucui, hurry up and get some ointment to stop the bleeding."
There was a carriage parked in the darkness on the street corner outside.
Huang Yunmeng lifted a corner of the car curtain and stared at Wei Wan's hurried away figure.
She narrowed her eyes: "No wonder this Wei Wan is always hanging around the emperor and can't get rid of him no matter how hard he tries. It turns out he is her spy!"
Huang Yunmeng snorted coldly, put down the curtain, and a coldness flashed across his eyes: "Let's go."
…
The Golden Crow sank under the mountain, and the sky was filled with burnt black and blue. The lights on the street were just starting to turn on, and the antique shops were still lit with warm lights.
Shen Dingzhu bent down and used pliers to gently clean Jing Yi's injury. Her frowning eyebrows looked particularly beautiful.
The white porcelain cheeks were clean. Jing Yi looked at her appearance, then looked down at the scars all over his body.
Shen Dingzhu felt pain for him when she saw the pink flesh turning ferociously from his wound.
"Why are you doing this? Wei Wan is that kind of person. Is it worth inflicting another injury on you?"
Jing Yi's brown-black tiger eyes looked at her quietly for a while before he said, "We believe that the blood you drink will flow to your heart, which represents loyalty."
So he cut the flesh from his heart to repay the bloodthirsty promise he made back then.
"I won't bring disaster to you." Jing Yi emphasized again in his dull voice.
Shen Dingzhu and Xiucui helped bandage him together. Circles of bandages went around his body. The hemostatic ointment was extremely painful, but Jing Yi remained motionless.
"I don't believe this," Shen Dingzhu said. "This method itself is cruel and uses witchcraft. It just captures the fear of being cursed. Even if you don't do this, I won't be afraid."
Jing Yi's eyes were dull, but they seemed to be lit up by a small bush of fireflies.
Shen Dingzhu felt that he was looking at her. When she raised her eyes, he quickly lowered his head.
Xiu Cui was so frightened that her face remained pale. Mr. Shi and the others came back, and Shen Dingzhu asked them to send Xiu Cui to grab some tranquilizing medicine.
Jing Yi and Shen Dingzhu were the only ones left in the shop.
The guards were hiding not far away, watching quietly.
Shen Dingzhu locked the silver account of the cabinet. Suddenly, Jing Yi said to her: "Wei Wan is almost out of dandelion grass. There must be something wrong with the prince. In ten days, there will be the last batch of dandelion grass in Chenshi." It was transported in from the east gate before.”
"You can capture the person responsible for transporting the dandelion grass. He can prove Wei Wan's plan and allow you to show your innocence to Emperor Jin. With my confession, Emperor Jin will know that you were forced. .”
After hearing this, Shen Dingzhu frowned immediately, worry surging in her beautiful pupils.
"Without the dandelion grass...what should he do with his legs..."
When Jing Yi heard this, there was a moment of silence in his brown-black eyes.
The stunning beauty in front of him didn't care whether she had been wronged in her husband's heart. Her first reaction was that she was worried that his leg would not recover.
As Wei Wan said, the queen loved the emperor, but the emperor didn't believe it.
Jing Yi was injured and needed to recover for two days. Shen Dingzhu didn't want to take him with him, but he insisted on following him. Therefore, considering his physical condition, Shen Dingzhu stopped going to the shop.
However, he didn't expect that two days later, at noon that day, Aliang ran back in a hurry.
"Oh no, the shopkeeper has been arrested by the officials!" He looked panicked and knelt directly in front of Shen Dingzhu.
Shen Dingzhu's beautiful eyes were startled: "Why?"
A Liang almost burst into tears: "I heard that Mrs. Yuan sued the shopkeeper to the government, saying that the shopkeeper had previously slandered the paintings given to her by the county governor as fakes, so she was suspected of disrespecting the county governor, so she let the government take her away. "
"I went to the gate of the government and knelt for a long time. I heard that the shopkeeper's unjust charges were true. He was beaten ten times and sent to jail. Master Azhu, you are very capable. Please save the shopkeeper! He is old and is in jail. Something will happen if you stay in jail for too long!"
Without saying a word, Shen Dingzhu immediately asked Jing Yi to drive a carriage and rush to the government office.
Unexpectedly, the official did not even let her enter the official door.
"Reporting to the official or avenging grievances? By what status?" Those officials looked at Shen Dingzhu, deliberately making things difficult, and asked many irrelevant questions.
Shen Dingzhu knew that Mrs. Yuan must have used money to gain connections. This time it was because of what happened last time and she had to give Mr. Shi some color.
Even if she said she was a queen now, no one would believe her.
Shen Dingzhu turned to call the group of guards responsible for guarding her.
"You come forward for me and find the county magistrate. Uncle Ren is innocent. Those words are not what he said and have nothing to do with him!"
However, the guard just handed over his hand: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the Emperor has ordered that other than taking care of you, no other menial position can interfere."
Shen Dingzhu's beautiful eyes suddenly appeared, and she bit her lower lip with her teeth, looking anxious.
Jing Yi said from the side: "I can rob the prison."
Xiucui was startled: "Don't be confused. Mr. Shi might have been released after being imprisoned for a few days. If you rob the prison, everyone will be punished by death!"
After saying that, Xiucui held Shen Dingzhu's arm and said, "Empress, please go find the emperor. The emperor can release the person with just a command for this kind of thing."
Shen Dingzhu thought about what Xiao Langyan said last time, and how she could ask him for help now.
She took some money left by Mr. Shi and went around the city to help smoothen relationships. When those former friends of Mr. Shi learned of her purpose, they all said they were helpless.
Until night, when the stars begin to rise.
Shen Dingzhu had exhausted all her options and arrived at the door of Huang's Mansion, but hesitated and never came forward.
