The soft-waisted princess was pinched and pampered by the ascetic prince after her rebirth

Chapter 537 Beixiu Yan is still alive?

Bei Xiuyan woke up and found himself in a stone room, with his hands and feet chained by heavy iron chains.

He struggled hard but couldn't break free.

The chain swayed and made a "bang" sound, alerting the guards outside. Two masked men in black heard the noise and came in to check.

"Don't waste your efforts. You can't escape." One of them shouted sharply.

Bei Xiuyan looked at them with cold eyes and asked, "Who are you and why are you arresting me?"

One man in black snorted and did not answer, but the other man in black said: "You don't need to know who we are, you won't live long anyway."

Without waiting for Beixiu Yan to say anything else, they turned and left.

Even though they only met briefly, Bei Xiuyan still guessed their identities in his mind.

There were no windows in the stone room, only a dim oil lamp in the corner, and it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night.

Beixiu Yan didn't know how long he had been unconscious here. He suddenly disappeared that day, and Shen Ruzhou must have been worried.

Just as Beixiu Yan had expected, Shen Ruzhou had been having a hard time these two days. She couldn't sleep all night long, always worrying about Beixiu Yan's safety.

In the afternoon, she reluctantly forced herself to eat a bowl of rice porridge in order to hold herself together and wait for the Beixiu banquet to come back.

When Qin Ming walked in and saw Shen Ruzhou like this, his eyes flashed with distress.

Before Shen Ruzhou could ask, he reported back the investigation, "Miss Shen, there is indeed something wrong with the stones used to build the embankment. According to the regulations of the imperial court, the hardest blue stones should be used to build the embankment, but the ones on the embankment are all of the lowest quality. Gray stone, the price difference between the two is more than ten times. Someone must have cut corners and passed off inferior materials."

Hearing this, Shen Ruzhou was stunned for a while, and then sighed with emotion: "If the river embankment was built with blue strips of stone, maybe the embankment would not collapse when the flood hit, and so many people would not die."

After hearing this, Qin Ming's eyes showed anger, and the hands under his sleeves were clenched into fists, "These local officials have caused the tragic deaths of many people for their own selfish purposes. They are really unconscionable!"

Thinking of the tragic scenes he saw along the way, Shen Ruzhou's heart was violently pulled.

She slowly closed her eyes and suppressed the sadness in her heart, "They must have been afraid that the prince would find out there was something wrong with the river embankment, so they took action. Qin Ming, go find out who was responsible for building the river embankment back then, and find this People can follow the clues and find the prince."

After listening to Shen Ruzhou's words quietly, Qin Ming finally understood his intention to check the river embankment, and immediately accepted the order, "I will check it now."

After Mr. Dongfang came back from Miao Hope, he went straight to the post house where Xiao Chenyan was staying. When he entered the room, Xiao Chenyan was already waiting for him.

After being seated, Mr. Dongfang said straight to the point: "There is already news about the Beixiu Banquet."

Xiao Chenyan glanced sideways slightly and motioned for him to continue.

"It was Miao Hope who sent two men with good water skills to pull Beixiu Yan under the water and capture him while he was unprepared."

"Why did Miao Hope take action against the Beixiu Banquet?" Xiao Chenyan felt that the Yongzhou magistrate was too courageous and dared to arrest the dignified regent in private.

"Because the river embankment in Yongzhou was built by Miao Hopeful's father, he was worried that Beixiuyan would find out about the embankment's corruption, so he would take action first."

Mr. Dongfang had stayed in Yongzhou in his early years and naturally knew something about these things, so as soon as he heard that Beixiu Yan was missing, he immediately went to find Miao Hope.

Xiao Chenyan didn't care about the river embankment at all, he just felt that a great opportunity was in front of him and he had to seize it, "Beixiu Yan is still alive?"

Mr. Dongfang nodded, "Miao Hope planned to take action tonight, but I stopped him."

"That's good." Xiao Chenyan raised a sneer on his lips and said gloomily, "It would be too easy to execute Bei Xiuyan quietly. I want him to be ruined and die with a thousand cuts."

Not long after, Xiao Chenyan and Mr. Dongfang quietly left the city under the cover of night. The carriage stopped in front of a secluded courtyard. Mr. Dongfang got off and went straight to the stone room.

In the stone room, Beixiu's banquet has been going on for two days without any water or rice, and he is so exhausted that he has no strength at all. He forced his eyes open and looked at the old man in front of him, and couldn't help but be surprised.

Mr. Dongfang had someone remove the shackles on Bei Xiuyan's hands, and personally pulled off his shirt to check.

I saw that Bei Xiuyan's back was smooth and white, with nothing on it.

Mr. Dongfang opened his eyes in disbelief, lit another oil lamp and took it over to examine carefully.

"It seems that it has been washed off." Mr. Dongfang brushed his fingers over the slightly darker skin color, and he instantly understood.

He knelt down and asked Bei Xiuyan, "The tattoo on your back is a blue dragon soaring into the sky?"

Bei Xiuyan did not answer him directly, but said with all his strength: "Who are you?"

Hearing this, Mr. Dongfang stroked his silver beard and said proudly, "I am Dongfang Qing, the junior brother of the founding sect leader."

The founder of the mountain. That was the honorific title of Master Beixiuyan. After hearing this, he was horrified. The thing he least wanted to believe happened.

Although there was a storm inside, the North Xiu banquet did not show any signs of it. Yun Danfeng replied lightly, "I haven't heard of it."

Mr. Dongfang was not annoyed at all by being so slighted. Instead, he smiled more kindly. He sat down cross-legged in front of Beixiu Banquet, as if he wanted to reminisce about the past.

"I left the master very early. You don't know that I'm normal. But I went back later, and my senior brother once mentioned to me a young apprentice he had taken in. He said he was extremely talented and a martial arts prodigy. It's a pity that he was so early. Gone."

Having said this, he noticed the change in Bei Xiuyan's expression, but the person in front of him always had a calm expression and his eyes were as calm as water.

Mr. Dongfang praised in his heart that he was so calm.

He took a sip of tea and continued: "I have sent someone to invite senior brother here, but I don't know whether he is happy or painful to see his beloved disciple still alive."

Mr. Dongfang's words were like a knife, piercing into Bei Xiuyan's heart, stabbing him to the bone. Fortunately, he had already learned to keep his emotions and anger hidden.

"I don't understand what you are saying."

Mr. Dongfang saw Bei Xiuyan's calm face and his words were unhurried. At this moment, he was shaken by Bei Xiuyan's identity as the former prince, but he soon suppressed the doubt in his heart and said with a sinister smile. : "It's okay if you don't understand. Once you meet Master Kaishan, everything will become clear."

After saying these words, Mr. Dongfang stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and said to the man in black guarding him: "Feed him something, don't let him die."

"Yes." The man in black lowered his head and responded.

Mr. Dongfang didn't stay long and went out with his hands behind his back.

In the main hall outside, Xiao Chenyan was sitting at the main seat and had already drank a cup of tea.