Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 637 - 635

Chapter 637: 635

Xiao’er quickly pulled out the knife and immediately covered her wound.

Red liquid flowed from the back of her hand, dripping all over the floor.

Shangguan Xuanyi glared intensely at Xiao’er’s wound, as if trying to gaze a flower into existence.

Seeing this, the Third Prince burst into laughter! Die! You two should hurry and die!

You dare to trap me, I’ll make sure you don’t die peace!

"Sixth Prince, does your heart ache? hahaha..."

While the Third Prince was intensely watching Shangguan Xuanyi and Xiao’er trying to kill each other, Shangguan Xuanhao and Huang Wei had already made their way behind him!

Now, he saw that the Third Prince’s sword had moved two centimeters away from the Empress Dowager’s neck due to his laughter.

Shangguan Xuanhao quickly struck a blow to the hand wielding the sword.

The Third Prince’s right hand was in pain, instinctively he tried to use the sword to slash the Empress Dowager’s neck.

Huang Wei also quickly stepped forward and grabbed his sword bare-handed, hitting his acupoints simultaneously. He had no other choice, mastering the technique of hitting acupoints from a distance is not easy, and he hasn’t mastered it to the point of gambling with it in such a crucial moment.

This sudden change scared the Empress Dowager to the point of fainting again.

Luckily, the Empress had already prepared to rescue and quickly supported her, otherwise the Empress Dowager would have really killed herself.

Huang Wei carefully took the sword away, and the maids who were serving the Empress quickly came over to support the Empress Dowager.

The bodyguards easily took Chang Guiren into custody.

Finally, the game was up for the Third Prince!

The emperor commanded people to use a palanquin to carry the Empress Dowager back to Cining Palace and asked the director of Imperial Hospital to examine her.

The Empress said to Doctor Luo, "Doctor Luo, hurry, hurry and check on the Sixth Prince and the Lady of Rui’an County."

Shangguan Xuanyi stepped forward and held Xiao’er’s shoulders: "Girl, are you okay?"

Xiao’er shook her head: "The dagger has a mechanism, it retracts back into the handle whenever it hits something hard. Didn’t you feel it? How could anything happen to me!"

This person is too overly cautious, but Xiao’er felt a little sweet inside because this showed that Shangguan Xuanyi really cared about her.

Even though he knew that there was very little chance of her being injured, he didn’t dare to do it, didn’t dare to gamble. This kind of feeling moved Xiao’er’s heart.

Listening to her, Shangguan Xuanyi calmed down. He was beaten once by a snake and was now afraid of the rope for ten years!

The dagger has a mechanism, and can retract into the handle when it hits a hard object? Everyone who heard about this was shocked: Is there really such a magical dagger in this world? How come they had never heard of it? They were really ignorant!

"So you guys are not injured?" Hearing this, the Empress sighed with relief, as long as they were not injured, that’s good, they almost scared her to death!

"No! Look, our clothes haven’t even been pierced!" Xiao’er reminded.

The Empress took a look, indeed, apart from the bloodstained clothes, there was not even a small hole. She nodded her head, no wonder they were quickly covering their wounds with their hands, because they were worried that someone would see through it!

Upon hearing this, Shen Chengyao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was scared to death!

"What about the blood on your body?" asked the emperor.

While the dagger can be rigged with a mechanism, how could the blood be fake.

Xiao’er took out a bottle: "Fortunately, I was carrying two small bottles of cinnabar powdered red ink. I was planning to buy them for my younger brother to highlight his notes when studying, who could have thought that it would come in handy here."

Everyone understood when they heard this, so it was cinnabar! It was really too coincidental! However, the Marquis Shengping’s family was truly extravagant, cinnabar was not cheap!

Cinnabar is the substance used by emperors throughout the ages when they were commenting on documents, hence the term "cinnabar comments".

Shangguan Xuanyi gave Xiao’er a glance, he always thought that it was not simple for this girl to prepare a dagger with a mechanism and two bottles of cinnabar in her space, but now was not the time to dig deeper.

The Third Prince who was hit by acupoints could not move. When he heard that Shangguan Xuanyi and the Lady of Rui’an County had played a drama, fooled him and they were both unharmed, he was so angry that smoke was coming out of his seven orifices!

"Lady of Rui’an County, you cunning and insidious bitch, how dare you deceive me! You will not die a good death!"

"We’re not fools, how could we really kill each other because of your words? Are you worth it? Besides, if your brain is not bright and someone is too smart, can you blame them!" Xiao’er contemptuously looked at the Third Prince.

The civil and military officials laughed when they heard this, wasn’t it because the Third Prince was stupid to believe it? Could they blame the Lady of Rui’an County for being too smart and coming up with such a great solution!

"I will not let you guys go even if I become a ghost! Father, Shangguan Xuanyi purposely pretended to fall off the cliff, plotting against me! Also, the person who pretended to be you must have been arranged by Shangguan Xuanyi too, he deliberately said he would pass on the throne to me! This led me to make a big mistake! Father, the one who truly wants to seize power and usurp the throne is Shangguan Xuanyi! He wants to kill off his brothers one by one, so that he could ascend the throne in the future!" The Third Prince, even at the brink of death, did not forget to sow discord!

The emperor was completely disappointed with this son, still trying to shift the blame and absolve himself of guilt at this point. He shook his head, let him die with a clear understanding then! The emperor said weakly, "The person who pretended to be me was a mute. I needed to recuperate in the villa, but a country cannot be without a king for a day. So I arranged for him to pretend to be me! Xuanyi’s fall from the horse was an accident, you misunderstood."

Hearing this, the Third Prince laughed out loud: "Misunderstood? Yes, I misunderstood, I thought this was done by the Sixth Prince, I forgot, the one who really wants to set a trap to kill me is my father! Sixth Prince, it is possible that your fall from the horse was not an accident! It was a plot by the emperor, aiming to kill you! The emperor has long been worried that your merits are too large and would threaten his position!"

Knowing that he was not going to live, the Third Prince just wanted to plant a seed of doubt in the hearts of this father and son!

He wanted to see whether they would still be loving father and son in the future!

"Let someone put the Third Prince in death row, and we will decide on the execution date! All soldiers and officials who rebelled with the Third Prince today will all be put in death row! We will decide on the execution date!" The emperor was once again angered by the Third Prince! If he is looking for death, then the emperor wouldn’t stop him!

"I don’t need you to behead me!" the Third Prince said before biting his tongue and committing suicide!

He couldn’t choose his birth, having such a father had already oppressed him enough! He absolutely didn’t want to die by his father’s hands!

The Third Prince committed suicide by biting his tongue!

Everyone was shocked by his action and opened their mouths wide in surprise!

The emperor watching this also felt uncomfortable. He said to the civil and military officials, "The audience had been shocked today, leave the palace early and go home to rest! You officials who got hurt all get a bottle of Jinchuang ointment, go and collect it from the Imperial Hospital."

"Lady of Rui’an County is very resourceful, she helped save the Empress Dowager, I will give you a great reward, the reward will be sent to your home later."

All civil and military officials knelt down to thank for the emperor’s grace.

Xiao’er also kneeled to show her thanks.