nashuaworldcup Chapter 538: This move of yours is such a bad one!
Chapter 538: This move of yours is such a bad one!
In the darkness of the night, the armor of the Royal Guards shone coldly under the torchlight.
Hundreds of people poured into the princess's mansion like a tide.
The eldest princess's hair was askew, and her expression suddenly changed when she saw this scene: "Are you crazy? You dare to trespass into the princess's mansion? Are you planning a rebellion?"
The commander of the Imperial Guards knelt on one knee and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty has ordered that the whereabouts of the young master and his companion have been found!"
"Ridiculous!" The eldest princess sneered, her scarlet nails almost digging into the commander's face. "The princess's residence has been ransacked eight times in three days, even the toilets weren't spared! What do you think..."
Before she finished her words, the commander stood up and raised his hand: "Princess, please accompany me to inspect this."
Everyone rushed towards the girls' school. The two vermilion lacquered doors exploded under the battering ram. Amidst the flying wood chips, screams came from inside the girls' school one after another.
The female teacher who was teaching the class shouted, "How disrespectful! This is the Imperial Girls' School. You can't be so presumptuous!"
The eldest princess pushed through the crowd like a madman, grabbing the lady by the collar, her jewels and jadeite clattering as she moved violently. "Tell me! Have you seen the two children? One is two years old, the other is seven!"
The female teacher stumbled back, her embroidered shoes slipping on the blue bricks, her face as pale as paper: "How could you, how could you..."
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something, her legs softened and she sat down on the ground, the pearls scattered in her hair rolled all over the floor: "Impossible... that's really the young master..."
"How dare you imprison my son!" The princess pinched the man's wrist, her nails digging deep into the flesh. "Where are they being held? If you don't explain yourself today, I'll make you pay with blood!"
The maidservant beside her was so frightened that she trembled all over. She fell to her knees and cried, "In the woodshed! She has been locked up for three days and three nights. I'm afraid..."
The eldest princess’ eyes went dark and she fell straight back.
The commander of the Royal Guards quickly supported her and waved his hand: "Break the door!"
"Bang!" The heavy wooden door fell to the ground with a thud, and dust flew up. Everyone saw two children playing chess intently on the haystack in the corner of the woodshed.
Shen Tao bit his fingers and stared at the chessboard. Bai Wanwan snorted coldly and said:
"How can you be so stupid! The horse moves in a straight line, the elephant moves in a field line. I've told you eight hundred times!
If you don’t do that again, I won’t play with you anymore.”
Shen Tao said bitterly: "No, I'll remember it in a moment, just give me some time!"
There was a bang, and the eldest princess rushed in and said, "Son...you've suffered! You haven't eaten for three days. Are you hungry?"
Shen Tao looked at his mother and said, "Mom, don't come over here. I haven't finished playing chess yet!"
The eldest princess froze at the broken door, not even noticing the embroidered handkerchief slipping from her fingers.
The torches held by the Royal Guards flickered, and everyone stood still as if under a spell.
"Your move was a terrible one!" Bai Wanwan's voice rang out crisply.
She grabbed the horse on the chessboard and jumped forward, just in time to block Shen Tao's rook: "I told you the horse should move in the shape of a sun, but you insisted on rushing sideways. Didn't you just eat it?"
Shen Tao scratched his messy hair, with grass debris still on the tip of his nose: "Oh! I forgot again!"
He stared at the chessboard for a long time, then reached for the cannon and said, "Then I'll use this to shoot at your elephant!"
Bai Wanwan's eyes lit up, and she grabbed the rook and slammed it into the middle of the chessboard:
"Look carefully! I'm trapping your general with my car. This is called a general!
You have nowhere to hide, so just admit defeat!"
Shen Tao craned his neck to stare at the chessboard, his lips pouting so hard they could hold a bottle of oil on them: "I lost again! Teach me one more time, and I'll definitely win next time!"
Bai Wanwan suddenly poked Shen Tao's shoulder: "Idiot! Look who's here!"
Shen Tao turned around and saw the princess's distraught look. He immediately pursed his lips and burst into tears:
"Oh my god! That lady is so bad!
She said we were dressed like beggars and locked us up here for three days and three nights without giving us a single bite of food!
The eldest princess stumbled over and hugged her son into her arms. Her fingertips trembled as she checked his body for any injuries. "My son! Are you starving? How do you still have the energy to play chess..."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Tao cried even harder:
“If someone hadn’t secretly sent me food, I would have starved to death!
I don’t know which kindhearted person actually sent us food.”
Bai Wanwan also wiped her tears, deliberately wiping her eyes with her sleeve in an exaggerated manner: "That's right! I was so hungry that I was seeing stars, and it was all thanks to teaching Shen Tao how to play chess to distract myself!"
She sniffed, and her aggrieved look made the eyes of the maids watching her red.
The commander of the Imperial Guards silently glanced at the corner of the wall, where there was a pile of cleanly gnawed roast chicken bones and half a piece of uneaten osmanthus cake.
The brand new quilt was rolled up into a ball, obviously someone had slept in it.
Look at the two children's round cheeks, don't they look hungry at all?
His Adam's apple moved and he suppressed the urge to twitch the corners of his mouth.
The eldest princess suddenly raised her head, her eyes like poisoned daggers stabbing at the female teacher: "Xiao! I paid a large sum of money to hire you to teach my child, and you dare to kidnap the young master?"
The lady slammed heavily onto the bricks with a "thump", and her forehead instantly swelled up. Her voice trembled:
"Princess, spare me! I-I thought it was a wild child who snuck in...
I am blind! Please, for the sake of my ten years of teaching...”
"Ten years? I think you've been harboring this evil ambition for ten years!"
The princess was so angry that she was shaking all over. She kicked her and said, "Come here! Drag her away! I want the whole city of Bianjing to know what will happen to anyone who dares to touch my son!"
Xiao was dragged by her hair on the blue brick floor, her gold hairpins scattered all over the ground. She cried and struggled, "Princess! I really didn't know! Considering that I have been diligently managing the girls' school for ten years..."
The eldest princess grabbed the teacup on the table and smashed it hard at her feet, and the flying porcelain shards cut her ankle.
"Managing the girls' school? You vicious woman, you even dare to imprison the prince!
There are countless scholars and men of letters in the capital waiting to curry favor with this princess. Even without you, a vicious woman, the girls' school will still be thriving!"
She swung her sleeves violently: "Drag him away! Fifty lashes, not a single one less!"
A shrill scream instantly pierced the sky. At first she could still cry and beg for mercy, but gradually her voice weakened into sobs. Until the eighth time the whip fell, her whole body collapsed.
"Princess!" The guard knelt on one knee, his scabbard still stained with blood. "Ms. Xiao... has died."
The eldest princess was wiping the dust off Shen Tao's face with a handkerchief and sneered:
"It's a good thing for her to just throw the body into a mass grave.
This princess wants to see who dares to touch my reverse scale! "
Everyone was trembling with fear, and Bai Wanwan got goosebumps all over her body.
She originally wanted to scare Xiao, but she didn't expect the princess to beat her to death.
This made her feel powerless. Ancient times and modern times were truly completely different...