Chapter 72: Wu Qi's Inquiry
Wu Qi calmly accepted everything in front of him, and every face of these people was deeply admiring.
Wu Qi knew that this kind of worship was not for him, but for the mother who had helped them, and wanted to get a better future.
"I'm here to find someone. I'll leave even if I find someone. Then..." Wu Qi said to them frankly.
"Please go to the bottom of your heart, we will not have anything to do here." The leader immediately answered.
Wu Qi knew that the people in front of him stood up for him for the first time and had put the lives of his whole family under the machete; if he didn't do anything well afterwards, these people would be subjected to even more cruel punishment. He saw well-dressed people on the road, and all healthy people, but he knew that Chu State had a lot of torture, especially the punishment, even if the people in the capital were sentenced to death. He heard that those who were sentenced to death were like mad dogs, fearless on the battlefield.
"I will definitely not cause any trouble for you." Wu Qi promised.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and at the same time they were satisfied with the future emperor they served.
"Palace?" Someone asked Wu Qi tentatively.
"Imperial Palace, I won't go to the palace this time. I can't avoid the Queen's affairs." Wu Qi said.
"Your Majesty, you cannot avoid seeing the queen. The queen already knows the news of your coming." A voice suddenly rang out, and the man spoke with a sense of pride. I don't know if it was for the queen to know that he was here or because he was here, and could convey the queen's words to him.
"I'm sorry, please make arrangements." Wu Qi immediately stood up and bowed to the person who spoke.
"You! How do you know it's me?" The man was disbelief. The person who spoke was opposite him, and he did not speak.
"You've spoken." Wu Qi said.
After saying that, he bowed deeply again.
"Impossible." The man retreated in panic and began to block his footsteps with a heavy chair.
Others dared not speak, and their little master suddenly showed this hand. Looking at the man's facial expression, he knew that this was true.
"You and my queen have been together for a long time, so naturally, my aunt understands the queen of Chu." Wu Qi had heard the man's whispering in his mouth, so he naturally refused to tell these people that his hearing was very good. If you want to know more details, just go and inquire with his mother.
"I." said the man.
"You did a good job. I believe my mother will not blame you. I will go to see my aunt. After all, the elders are here, and the younger generation cannot lose etiquette, let alone I am the future emperor of the Wu Kingdom." Wu Qi said slowly.
When I heard the man who spoke behind me, my breathing became heavier.
Wu Qi was even more cautious. Although he couldn't look back, he thought of the poison in his heart.
"What are you doing?" the man behind him was puzzled and asked.
Except for Wu Qi who had already stood up and stood in front of Boss Xu and blocked Boss Xu from the opposite side, everyone else looked at Wu Qi with their bodies tilted. They asked, but no one paid attention to him.
He touched his nose, and thought that he had fallen asleep again just now, he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and stopped talking.
Wu Qi did not wait for the person behind him to speak again, and continued to ask: "Does my aunt have something to do to me, the younger generation, know?"
The man shook his head and looked at Wu Qi in a daze.
Wu Qi still used the posture of answering elders' questions in his younger life, and continued to ask: "What do my aunt like? What gift should I prepare when I want to meet my aunt?"
"..." How could he know what the vicious queen likes? She must have liked people to take medicine. When he thought of this, he remembered how his mother treated him, and muttered in shame, "How can I have the face to see my queen?"
No one could hear what he said except Wu Qi.
Wu Qi refused to respond and asked him to continue to blame himself.
"How can I do this? God, I might as well choose to die at that time."
The others watched Boss Xu sit there in a daze without saying a word, while His Highness the Crown Prince bowed and waited patiently, and asked one after another: "Your Highness the Crown Prince asks, since you want to convey the Queen's words, please make it clear immediately, don't let His Highness stand like that."
This reminded Boss Xu. Boss Xu quickly stood up, pointed to his chair and said quietly: "Sit. Sit."
"I dare not." Wu Qi reached out and pressed Boss Xu down, letting him sit firmly on his chair and continue to punish himself in his heart.
The move of Prince Wu Qi made others dare not speak again. The hall was silent so that the sound of insects in the depths of the hall could only be heard.
Time passed by little by little, and the light shining from outside the room moved little by little, moving to Wu Qi's body, and then moving down.
Wu Qi remained motionless, as if he had turned into a stone statue. The invisible pressure made everyone feel breathless and made them begin to ask themselves what they did.
Wu Qi listened carefully and did not give up any details. It turned out that these people had basically betrayed their mother. The only difference between them was the difference between how much they did.
It seems that her unseen concubine did not believe everyone present, how did she control these people? Wu Qi thought of the poison of Gu.
What is a poison? After I heard about it, I couldn't find out the information about this. It seemed that there was no poison in this world, but someone made it out of thin air. Wu Qi wanted to see his concubine, who poisoned his mother to death.
"Does the food they eat have poison?" Wu Qi straightened his back and asked.
No one answered.
"Who prepared their food?" Wu Qi turned his head and looked at the leader.
"Well. This is what my people prepare. There shouldn't be, they do things very carefully." The man said.
Wu Qi nodded and felt relieved. There was nothing false about what this person said.
The atmosphere suddenly became even more tense. Everyone was a human being. Otherwise, they would not stand out among slaves, nor would they buy personal property and become people in the imperial capital. They were wary of each other, fearing that they would have a small handle to be taken by others, but they didn't know. Thinking of what the queen did to them, under the beautiful face was a poison that they dared not recognize, and everyone lowered their heads in a heavy mood.
"Can I hear what I said at this time? Or can I see it?" Wu Qi asked.
Everyone shook their heads in panic. Wu Qi was very happy to see this situation. He asked in discomfort: "Does my aunt have no such divine power?"
The person who had originally lowered his head looked up at the surroundings, hoping to get the answer from whom he was around.
The scene was extremely awkward, and everyone dodged and looked at him.
"My mother knows the difficulty of you. Before sending you here, I will remind you again and again not to force yourself and take good care of yourself." This sentence was what his childhood mother said to him over and over again. He took it out and said it. He believed that his mother would also say this to them, hoping that they could save their lives.
These people slid down to the ground and knelt down at Wu Qi. They were already a little tough, but they were instantly disintegrated by Wu Qi's words.
"All up. It's not easy for you to live here." Wu Qi said with great sadness, great pain, and great regret: "I shouldn't have come here! I was young and ignorant, and I was full of passion, but it still hurt everyone. My sin. In the future, when I see my mother, should I face her with me?"
"I know the guilt."
"I shouldn't."
"I was wrong." Everyone confessed, and Wu Qi hurriedly stopped him and said, "Dear uncles, you did nothing wrong, my nephew took his leave." Wu Qi raised his foot and walked out.
These people dare not let him go, and they don’t want to live here. Every day, it is their greatest dream to be able to return to Wu and live a peaceful life. Although the opportunity is slim at this time, it is better than not.
Chapter completed!