Chapter 149 (1/2)

Xie Yingmei swallowed a mouthful of medicine and looked at Xiang He timidly. ”Princess, do you have anything to tell me?”

”I really have something.” Xiang He's complicated eyes fell on her. ”Why on earth were you chased and killed by bandits?”

Xie Yingmei's eyes darkened. She put down the medicine bowl and sucked her nose. ”I thought the princess wouldn't ask.”

”Although you are my cousin, I am still responsible for Qi and Qin countries. I can't let people with unknown whereabouts come in.” Xiang he stared at her firmly. ”Was your house robbed by bandits when you passed here?”

Xie Yingmei nodded in tears and said softly, ”yes. My father and mother were killed by the bandits, and I was almost taken away by them.”

Xiang He half narrowed his eyes. ”So it is. Do you know where those bandits came from?”

Xie Yingmei shook her head. He said blankly, ”I don't know, but the bandits in this section are famous for their ferocity and cruelty. I don't know whether the soldiers of any side fled and gathered into bandits.”

Xiang he asked again, ”since you said I was your cousin, your home should be in the state of Qin. Why did you come from the state of Qi?”

Xie Yingmei bit her lip and said, ”my family does business in the state of Qi.”

Xiang he smiled. His eyes lowered his voice menacingly, ”you'd better tell the truth honestly. I won't leave innocent people here. Do you want me to go there to look for your parents' bodies?”

Xie Yingmei begged for mercy and said, ”princess, forgive me. I didn't mean to hide it from you.”

”Well,” Xiang He raised his eyebrows. ”It seems that you are really deceiving me. Who the hell are you? Why can't four or five bandits catch you and escape, and how have you seen me before?”

”I've seen the princess before,” Xie Yingmei said hurriedly, ”but the princess seems to be a little different.”

”As like as two peas, I see how it is now,” he said. ”He has coughed his throat.” you haven't said who you are yet.

Xie Yingmei showed an embarrassed expression and scratched her head. ”I don't really know who I am... I only remember my father saying I am Xie Yingmei, and I don't know anything else.”

Looking at her ignorant appearance, Xiang he almost laughed. ”You'd better be honest, or I'll send you back to the bandit's nest. Since you don't know who you are, how do you come? These lies are endless.”

Xie Yingmei hurriedly said, ”this is what my father taught me. He told me that if I met someone who asked your identity, he would say that his parents were killed by exile bandits and ran out alone.”

”What does your father do?” Xiang he became more and more confused. ”How can he hide his identity?”

Xie Yingmei shook her head. ”I don't know if the princess can't send me back to the bandit's nest.” she prayed.

Xiang He sneered: ”are you half true or not? How can I believe you? Why don't you take it to the bandit's nest and see who you are.”

Xie Yingmei pulled her sleeve in panic, ”no, I don't want to go back. The people there are fierce and scary.”

”The people here are also fierce, especially in the face of liars,” said Xiang He with a smile. ”Why do you pretend to be the princess's cousin? Don't you even know that the princess doesn't have a cousin?”

Xie Yingmei was stunned and muttered, ”I didn't expect...”

”Lying also needs to make a draft,” Xiang he rubbed his head distractedly. ”There are so many cousins. Zhao Qingyao's mother is also Mrs. Heyi's cousin. You have another cousin.”

Xie Yingmei listened to her, her lips trembling.

Xiang he asked impatiently, ”what else have you not explained?”

Xie Yingmei tilted her head and thought for a while before slowly saying, ”princess, you are not the emperor's child. How can you marry the state of Qi? Isn't the emperor asking for an orthodox princess?”

Xiang he trembled and looked at her incredulously, ”Princess Poyang is a dignified princess. What is not the emperor's child...”

”But my father said the princess belonged to King Chen,” said Xie Yingmei strangely. ”That's what he told me when I saw the princess when I was a child.”

Xiang he stood up stiff, his trembling hands pushed to the edge of the bed, and the bowl of soup medicine splashed all over the ground.

Xue ronghua looked at the pale Xiang He and hurried into the tent. For a moment, he was puzzled, ”didn't you interrogate the woman saved yesterday? How did you become this face?”

Xiang He twitched at the corners of his mouth and asked, ”you know the reason why the emperor can't accommodate the princess is that the former queen said before she died that the princess's life experience is in doubt.”

Xue ronghua nodded unidentified. ”Both Duan Wang and I know this and are ready to argue with the emperor. Unexpectedly, we were stopped on the way to the imperial study.”

Xiang He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, ”the woman I met last night said she had seen the princess when she was a child.”

”Didn't she make it up herself?”

”Then she asked me why the princess was not the emperor's child and could still marry to the state of Qi,” Xiang He looked at her faintly. ”She also said that her father had told her when she was a child that the princess belonged to King Chen.”

Xue ronghua's face grew gloomy. ”Her father?”

”She didn't say who she said. She said she only remembered her name and forgot everything else,” Xiang He clenched his sleeves and clenched his teeth. ”How could the princess not be the emperor's child and how could she be a traitor's child.”