After I was reborn, I was scumbag

Chapter 40

Pink hydrangeas are all the rage in Chang'an, and most of them are used as gifts for sweethearts to express their feelings.

Yuan Qiong's eyes locked on Murong Xing, and finally moved to the tumi flower petals scattered all over the ground.

The hydrangeas passed through his hands just now, and there was indeed nothing unusual.

"I can't see that the crown prince of the Liang Kingdom is still an infatuated species." Yuan Qiong's voice was gentle and elegant, but the words he uttered were contemptuous, "Wouldn't your son feel distressed when he treats the things he gave you like this?"

Murong Xing's phoenix eyes were slightly cold, and the hands under the sleeves slowly clenched a little bit, in the palms were hydrangea buds.

"Distressed?" The handsome young man smiled, and his thin lips curled into a sneering arc, "Is it possible that your Excellency will feel sorry for the son of the enemy who has spent the night?"

"Hahahaha, I was just making a joke, my son, don't take it seriously." Yuan Qiong put the letter paper on a candle and watched it burn into a ball of ashes.

"Since Prince Liang misses your son so much, why don't you go to the East Palace again tonight. By the way, talk to him about the Lingnan Army. What do you think?"

"It doesn't mean that the Eastern Palace has been strictly guarded by the Imperial Forest Army. Is there a way for Your Excellency to enter the Eastern Palace without disturbing the guarding soldiers?"

Yuan Qiong waved his hand indifferently: "This is easy. How can the great cause of restoring the country be achieved by relying on a small Lingnan Army? Naturally, the Imperial Forest Army in the palace also has our people."

"I will send a message to ask the people from the Royal Forest Army to arrange for you to go in. The son is a smart man, so you should understand how to tell Prince Liang about Lingnan affairs."

Murong Xing closed his eyes, as if he was tired: "Don't worry, Your Excellency."

"Today's soup is ready, I'll ask someone to bring it to Shizi."

Murong Xing nodded slightly, feeling a sense of powerlessness spreading from his limbs, a trace of solemn darkness flashed in his eyes.

Although the chronic poison Yuan Qiong gave him didn't feel any pain in his body, it would always make his limbs weak, and he couldn't even exert [-]% of his usual martial arts.

"The poison your Excellency gave me is not from the Central Plains, is it?"

Yuan Qiong didn't seem to have expected Murong Xing to ask such a straightforward question, and said with a soft smile, "That's right, this poison used to be the secret medicine of our court, and it came as a tribute from Miaojiang."

"Your Majesty, don't worry. This medicine is a poisonous poison. As long as you take the antidote on time, you will be cured in a year. I still have to rely on your Majesty to lead the army for me. How can I harm my Majesty's body?"

"Since your Excellency has Miao Jiang's Gu poison, there must be a lot of poison for blood seal throat."

Murong Xing raised his eyes, some shadows fell on the bridge of his straight nose, engraving a bit of gloom on the handsome young man's face.

"Why don't you give me the poison and put it into the crown prince's food, or simply order me to kill the crown prince?"

"With all due respect, although your Excellency says that everything is ready and that the power seems to spread throughout the Liang Kingdom, you are timid in doing things. Could it be that what your Excellency said is just a big picture, a bluff?"

The gentle and elegant smile that had been covering Yuan Qiong's face was suddenly a little sinister. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the young man sitting on the wooden chair, but only saw the indifference and oppression in the pitch-black phoenix eyes.

"... I don't know if my son has heard that when the Emperor Liang usurped the throne, he imprisoned my father and brothers and humiliated them in every possible way, and sent those concubines and princesses into the army as slaves."

Under the sinister and resentful expression, the soft and beautiful face seemed to be impermanent from hell, cold and terrifying, almost ferocious.

"Those are my relatives! I have endured humiliation for so many years. Could it be that I killed Emperor Liang and his concubines so simply?"

"It's too cheap for him. Isn't Shao Guan his only son? I just want his most precious son to suffer a hundred times and a thousand times more pain and insult than me and my relatives."

"Only in this way can I relieve the hatred in my heart."

Yuan Qiong's deep eyes shone with hatred and excitement, as if thinking of the scene of humiliating the Daliang royal family in the future, his hands were almost trembling with excitement.

"Your Majesty should be lucky. If you hadn't chosen to assist me now, I would not have let the Marquis of Pingxi Mansion that helped Emperor Liang usurp the throne back then."

Murong Xing's expression didn't change, but there were already layers of ripples in his phoenix eyes, like waves under a icy lake.

"It's normal for you to have such thoughts because of your deep hatred for Liang Guo's royal family. However, you have already poisoned me. If you don't want me to talk about the deployment of all parties in detail, you just want me to work for you. I'm afraid it's not right?"

"These... As time goes by, the prince will naturally know about it. Besides, the prince has already been sentenced to death by the emperor of Liang Guo. Compared with him, my sincerity should be more impressive to the prince, right?"

After Yuan Qiong finished speaking, he left the thatched cottage, and within a few moments, a dumb coachman drove over with a carriage.

"Tonight, the prince will take this carriage to the East Palace."

Yuan Qiong took a deep breath, his voice was hoarse, as if he had just recovered from his deep hatred for the royal family of Liang Kingdom.

"It is said that a hero is saddened by beauty. My son, don't make a wrong step and go to the bottomless abyss just because of momentary pity..."

In the middle of the night, the boundless night is as cold as water, without any stars.

Murong Xing changed into the armor and clothing of the Imperial Forest Army, followed behind the sergeant leading the way, and stopped in front of the window of Shaoguan's bedroom.

"You go back first, the prince's personal eunuch has always been vigilant, don't let him notice the abnormality."

The sergeant nodded and quickly left the path.

Shao Guan vaguely saw a figure passing by outside the window, heard slight familiar footsteps in the hall, rubbed his eyes and got up, and opened his hands.

"Murong Xing... why are you here today?"

From a distance, Murong Xing saw the thin and straight body of the young man wearing only a thin jacket, his eyes seemed to melt with ice and snow, and a smile overflowed.

"In a few days, I will be returning to the dungeon. His Highness is grounded, and there is no way to visit him."

Murong Xing stepped forward quickly, reached out and took the sleepy-eyed boy into his arms, and stroked Shao Guan's soft black hair.

"It's still cold in early spring, and I don't know how to wear a cloak to get up again."

Shao Guan frowned, his mind was still chaotic, his body had found the most comfortable position in Murong Xing's arms.

"It's okay, with you here...it's not cold at all."

"Is Your Highness feeling better?"

"Yeah. It's just that my father sent the Imperial Forest Army to guard the East Palace. I can't summon the officials, and I can't leave the palace——Have you seen that carrier pigeon?"

Shao Guan raised his eyes, just in time to bump into the unbelievably soft warmth in Murong Xing's drooping phoenix eyes, and suddenly smelled the faint fragrance from Murong Xing's sleeves in a daze.

The person holding him smiled and replied slowly: "Yes. It's just that the hydrangea has scattered, leaving only one flower bud. I put it in the sachet beside me."