The Prime Minister's Darling

Chapter 303: 166 His son (Third Watch) _3

No one could hear Xiao Jingkong’s words because he wasn’t powerful enough.

Because he was not powerful enough, Gu Jiao’s life was deemed less important than those from the East Palace. @@novelbin@@

Xiao Liulang’s fists tightened bit by bit.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his heart had become frigid.

Over there, they had already fastened the ropes and were preparing to move the stone slab.

Suddenly, Xiao Liulang threw away his crutch, leaped forward, and slid underneath the gap in the stone slab.

An official was shocked, “What are you doing? Are you crazy? It’s dangerous down there! Come up! Everyone, stop, stop now!”

The palace servants who were moving the stone slab stopped.

A maid flew into a rage, “Why did you stop? Who told you to stop? If he wants to die, let him die! What does he have to do with you? Doesn’t he know it’s dangerous? Those people are in cahoots! They want to harm the prince! Are you also in league with them?”

With such a sizable accusation made, who had the time to care about the lives of two ordinary people?

However, Xiao Liulang turned his head to glance at the official through the crack, uttering a cold sentence that stunned everyone.

…

In the never-ending bustle of the streets, a seemingly insignificant horse carriage was moving at a steady pace.

Inside the carriage sat Lord Xuanping and Manager Liu.

Manager Liu had just encountered his lord and got into his carriage.

Lord Xuanping asked indifferently, “How’s everything going?”

Manager Liu laughed nervously.

When they left the Capital City, he boasted that he would bring the illegitimate son back home for the New Year, but now it was almost New Year’s Eve, and the son was unwilling even to acknowledge his identity.

Lord Xuanping casually said, “If you failed, just admit it.”

Manager Liu admitted awkwardly, “I did find the person. But the young master… he probably still broods over the past and doesn’t want to come back.”

“Hmm,” Lord Xuanping curtly acknowledged, showing neither happiness nor anger, “If he doesn’t want to come back, then let him be.”

Lord Xuanping didn’t like to force people.

Manager Liu let out a sigh of relief, thank goodness he was not being punished.

Lord Xuanping seldom punished his underlings. People who’d just entered his service often found him different from the rumors – rather, he was very kindly and never lost his temper at his subordinates.

That’s because, well, anyone who made him angry was dead.

Those who’d survived had never irritated the lord.

Lord Xuanping could be somewhat capricious.Update by n0vgo. co

He could be engaged in genial conversation with one person one second, and cut them down with a knife the next.

Of course, Lord Xuanping was indeed very lenient in many respects.

After all, he wouldn’t have been able to reach his current position without such tolerance and vision.

“My Lord!”

A personal guard rode up to them.

Lord Xuanping glanced up.

Manager Liu got the message and halted the carriage.

Lord Xuanping raised the curtain, “What’s the matter?”

“The prince’s consort had an accident, the basement of the Music Hall collapsed shortly after you left, and she was buried underneath. Also, there was another person buried in the storage room inside.”

The presence of a person in the storage room was important information.

It suggested that Lord Xuanping’s meeting with the prince’s consort might have been exposed.

Lord Xuanping’s expression did not change.

But Manager Liu on the side began to worry.

The personal guard continued, “Both of them were trapped under the same giant slab. The officials couldn’t lift it, and they could only opt to tilt the slab to rescue one while causing the death of the other. The prince’s consort’s maid presented her identity from the East Palace, and the officials decided to rescue the prince’s consort. At that moment, a scholar jumped into the pit, and he told the officials…”

When he got to this point, the personal guard turned to Lord Xuanping, hesitant to continue.

Lord Xuanping said casually, “What? Does this matter have something to do with me?”

The personal guard spoke awkwardly, “The scholar said that the other person buried underground… was you, my lord.”