The Little Consort's
Eps. 90: People Are Not Responsible
“Your Majesty!”
Li Anlan ran inside Hongwu Palace while shouting. He no longer cared about the injuries on the elbows and forehead he got when he fell on the stairs of the Lanxin Pavilion earlier. The distance from Lanxin Pavilion to Dongling Royal Palace took about an hour. Not wanting to waste a lot of time, Li Anlan decided to go home on horseback alone, not with the carriage that Wang Tianshi had brought. Several times he almost bumped into people passing by on the street in panic. The bustling streets of the capital turned into a racetrack in Li Anlan's eyes.
The person he called seemed to be sitting in his work chair with a gloomy face. As his voice echoed, Long Ji Man raised his head, then stood up to welcome his Royal Empress. A bright hue implied on that gloomy face, as if Li Anlan's arrival carried a hope that brought him out of the deadlock.
Long Ji Man squinted slightly as he looked at the blood marks on Li Anlan's forehead and the bruises on the woman's elbow. Li Anlan's slightly disheveled look made her worry, she was afraid that something bad had happened to this woman's trip.
“Huang An, what's wrong with your forehead? Why are your elbows bruised?”
Li Anlan glanced at the glance of the wound on his elbow, he also touched a moment of the wound on his forehead.
“Ah, this. I fell down the stairs.”
“Are you in a hurry to come here?”
Li Anlan nodded.
“I came straight here when Tianshi told me the news. Your Majesty, is that true?”
Long Ji Man did not answer Li Anlan's question. He took the woman to his chair, and he put her there. Long Ji Man then brought along a box of medical equipment. Slowly, he began to treat the wounds on Li Anlan's elbow and forehead gently.
“You should enjoy your time with your sister.”
“No. That woman is doing trouble again, how can I just shut up?”
“Han Jinxi has indeed gone too far.”
The feeling of betrayal just came out. Even though Long Ji Man never loved her, he was still her legal husband. Which husband is not hurt when his wife cheats and conceives a child from another man?
Does Long Ji Man have to wear a green hat as a sign that his wife is cheating?
It was only natural that Long Ji Man was angry. If Li Anlan were to become him, he would probably be angrier than Long Ji Man. Han Jinxi, a Grand Empress who held the highest title and sat in a very honorable position, dared to betray the king and fornicate with others to have children!
No matter how lonely a woman is, you cannot be alone with another man!
“There are only two possibilities why he is that brave.”
“What possibilities?”
“First, he can't resist his libido or passion. Your Majesty, a woman who is at the age of a quarter century usually has a tempestuous passion. She is a married woman, but has never felt the touch of her own husband.”
“The second?”
“There was someone who forced him to do such a thing. In order to maintain her position, she might need someone to support her until she had to lose her chastity. I bet he's the guy whose voice was recorded on my phone!”
The memories of the two returned on the day that the storage room for the Royal Academy Examination caught fire. Li Anlan handed back her newly discovered phone a few days ago to Long Ji Man. The man was astonished, he could not find Li Anlan's belongings at all while the woman was in a coma. But now, after the owner returned, those items also followed back.
“Try you to listen back to the recording,” pinta Li Anlan. Long Ji Man brought the phone to his ear, then played back the sound recording that night.
That slightly hoarse voice seemed familiar. He forgot to hear where. But clearly, the owner of the voice was definitely one of the members of the royal family. Long Ji Man tried to remember out loud, yet there was no result. He still could not remember who the owner of this wet hoarse voice was.
“Your Majesty, do you recognize his voice?”
Long Ji Man shook his head.
“Allow me to go see Han Jinxi.”
“No. Why did you meet that woman
again?”
“This is the only way. Your Majesty, I'm sure tonight there will be a big show!”
Somehow Li Anlan had faith that the male lead would appear tonight. He was very confident that the irresponsible man would meet Han Jinxi secretly to kill him. The birth of an unwanted child is usually considered a disaster. Long Ji Man said that the owner of the vote is a member of the royal family, so it is certain that the owner of the vote will appear to eliminate something that could be a source of problems in the future.
Long Ji Man had always been unable to refuse Li Anlan's request. The woman had something that made her unable to resist. In the end, he still allowed Li Anlan to meet Han Jinxi despite having to be tightly escorted. Tonight, he was going to follow Li Anlan's plan.
Therefore, as the water in Houchi Lake rippled out reflected by the twilight light, he was already preparing to go to the Palace Justice Bureau prison. Li Anlan's appearance was also not as bad as before. The woman now wears a blue hanfu and a long hairy robe, as the air temperature begins to cool towards the peak of autumn. Li Anlan also asked Long Ji Man to tighten the guard at Hongwu Palace and
Xingyue Palace.
The two went to the Justice Palace prison accompanied by Wang Tianshi, Xiao Biqi, and a few chosen palace guards. The night had come, lanterns and torches in the halls of the Bureau of Justice Palace prison lit up here and there. Some of the officers standing guard lowered their heads in, saluting their supreme superiors.
Li Anlan stopped his steps. Long Ji Man and the others were about to ask, but the snooze was done because Li Anlan hinted that they should be quiet and not make a sound. The woman's steps then became slow, settling down like a thief. Long Ji Man and his two loyal subordinates had no other choice but to follow Li Anlan's movements.
In a passageway leading directly to the cell where Han Jinxi was being held, Li Anlan saw a long-robed, head-covered shadow figure sitting in front of Han Jinxi's cell while talking something. Li Anlan's head poked behind the hall wall, followed by the heads of Long Ji Man, Xiao Biqi, and Wang Tianshi.
“Who is he?” asked Wang Tianshi.
“Sssstttt... Don't make a sound!” li Anlan said while silencing Wang Tianshi's mouth.
The three people who were peeping were sharpening their hearing.
“Jinxi, I'll set you free.”
“Go! I don't want to see your face again!”
“Jinxi, come. You should go with me!”
“Go! I hate you!”
Han Jinxi whose hand was held by the figure rebelled. His eyes were filled with an enormous and deep hatred. It seemed, the person before him was the enemy as well as the person behind him all this time. He hated this figure, but even he could not kill him.
The figure's voice was the same voice as the one in Li Anlan's cell phone recording. Long Ji Man couldn't possibly have misheard. His anger was burning in his chest. He stepped up about to attack the figure, but was restrained by Li Anlan.
“Your Highness, he will run away if you directly attack him!” li Anlan said in a whisper.
“Then what should we do? If we shut up he'll run too!”
“Your Majesty, take off your robe!”
“What?”
“You want to catch that person or not?”
Despite not understanding, Long Ji Man still took off his robe and handed it to Li Anlan. The woman took off the Aladdin shoes she was wearing, then walked quietly silently towards the figure she was in. Thankfully, the man did not realize that a woman was walking silently while widening the robe towards him. That guy's ears must be in trouble.
“One, two, three!” Li Anlan counted in his heart. And at the time of the third count, he slapped the Long Ji Man robe onto the head of the figure from behind. The figure of the man who had absolutely no idea someone was scouting him instantly rebelled.
“Because of you, villain!”
“Let me go! Whoareyou? Let go of me!”
“Enak only! Already impregnating people's wives, even dare to take him away!”
The figure of the man did not expect that Li Anlan had such a strong energy. He was unable to let go of the woman's grip. Li Anlan cheered as he mocked the figure he had captured. He kicked the figure's ass and kicked his shins. Who said that woman is weak? Li Anlan, a mountain climber from the modern world was certainly different from the others!
Long Ji Man ran over to Li Anlan who was locking the mysterious man. Wang Tianshi and Xiao Biqi instantly held both hands of the figure with all their might. Not long after, the robe covering the figure's head was opened until the figure's face was covered with a headscarf.
“Pa..Uncle?” long Ji Man said in disbelief.
The figure captured by his wife was his own uncle, Grand Prince Long Ji Yu! What's the matter? Why would fate play all the members of the Dongling Royal family like this?
“Uncle? This striped-nose guy is your uncle?” li Anlan asked confusedly.
“Mistress, can I tell you something?” whispered Xiao Biqi.
“Come tell me!”
“This person is the Grand Prince, Long Ji Yu, uncle of His Majesty the King,” Xiao Biqi explained as he continued to whisper while his hand remained clutching the Great Prince's hand.
“Hah? What the fuck? My husband was cheated on by his own uncle?”
Li Anlan advanced before the Grand Prince who was turning his face to the side.
Plaque.
One loud slap landed on the Great Prince's cheek. Li Anlan flicked his hand, the Great Prince's skin turned hard as well.
“You cheated on your own nephew's wife? Grand Prince, why are you so shameless?”
The Grand Prince chose to silence. No one knew, he had secretly dropped something from behind his hairy robe.
“Do you really have to fight with your own nephew? Well, Your Majesty, you really should wear a green hat!”
“Uncle, why did you do it?”
Before there was a reply, a dense white smoke suddenly emerged from the floor. The Grand Prince elbowed Wang Tianshi and Xiao Biqi until the cheque came off. With a lightning-fast motion, he had already disappeared out of nowhere. Long Ji Man and Li Anlan coughed as the white smoke fouled his respiratory organs.
“Uhuk...uhuk... What is this smoke that is often in the movies?”
“Supervisor!”
Several guards of the Palace Justice Bureau ran in. They also coughed as the smoke entered their noses.
“Command all warriors, find the Grand Prince right now!”
Although still in a state of disbelief, Long Ji Man was not blind and could not close his eyes to what he had seen just now. Grand Prince, the uncle who had always helped him stabilize the government turned out to be conspiring with his empress and playing behind her!
Long Ji Man immediately ordered all his soldiers to capture the Grand Prince. His uncle has betrayed, he must be arrested and put on trial! His guilt is truly inexcusable!
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