Chapter 14: Not Responsive to Anything

"If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext! Yan Qing, if you don't want to marry me, just say so. Why do you want to hurt me like this?"

Xiao Jinghan was forced to sit on the stool. His back hurt as if hot oil was poured on it. The heavy wooden stick hit him, and his skin was torn apart in a few hits.

He gritted his teeth and tilted his head to look at Yan Qing, "You framed me so viciously. My father will not let you go! The emperor will never let you go!"

The louder he shouted, the heavier the Qilin Guards hit him. After just a few hits, his face turned pale and he was sweating coldly.

Xiao Jinghan hated Yan Qing in his heart.

Seven years?

No, he didn't want to endure it for another day. He wanted to poison this evil star to death immediately and let her go to the eighteenth level of hell to be arrogant!

"Framed?" Yan Qing sighed, her voice becoming more lazy, "I went to Hongyuan Tower to catch you having an affair, and saw you having a tryst with the girl with my own eyes. There was more than one person who saw you doing something good at the scene. How dare you, Mr. Xiao, say that this is a frame-up?"

The stick had been hit more than ten times, and Xiao Jinghan's face was distorted in pain: "Don't play dumb!"

He was not talking about visiting the brothel at all.

Seeing that he was in great pain, Madam Xiao couldn't help but scream out of control: "Your Highness, the Princess is too much! Even if he was wrong first, this mistake doesn't have to be magnified so much. Which man hasn't visited a brothel? Should all men who have been prostitutes be punished so severely?"

"Visiting a brothel is indeed not a big mistake, but marrying me with the intention of murdering me is an unforgivable crime and should be executed by slow slicing!" Yan Qing said, turning around and trying to leave, "I have something else to do, and I don't have time to listen to Madam Xiao defending her son here."

Madame Chen said anxiously: "Your Highness, the Princess, please stay!"

"After the twenty strokes, throw Xiao Jinghan back to the prison." Yan Qing tilted her head slightly and ordered, then looked at the two maids, "Since you are sent by the Queen Mother, you should first teach Madam Xiao what the hierarchy is, and then come to see me."

After that, she walked away without looking back.

Nanny Chen said in a hurry: "Your Highness, the Queen Mother has ordered you to release Prince Consort Xiao immediately!"

"The Queen Mother's order has no effect on me." Yan Qing turned her head away and said coldly, "If you have time, Madam Xiao should go and worship the gods."

Queen Mother?

She was exiled from the palace when she was young and ignored her. Every time she saw her, she had a cold attitude. She was obviously her biological daughter, but she was like an enemy in the previous life.

What qualifications does she have to order her now?

Yan Qing had done a lot of good deeds in the past, trying to change her mother's attitude towards her, but after dying once, she felt that family affection was no longer important to her.

So what if she was abandoned by her relatives?

Since ancient times, those who hold power will become lonely without exception. Only by getting rid of the ties of emotions can they become indestructible.

After experiencing all kinds of things in the previous life, family affection, love, friendship... all emotions are no longer worth mentioning to her. All she wants is the supreme power.

Yan Qing went to the study.

Every time she was in a bad mood, she would practice calligraphy in the study for an hour, so that she could calm down as quickly as possible.

However, she was destined not to calm down today.

"Your Highness!" A Qilin Guard came hurriedly, "The chief steward of the Jinyiwei, Lu Guozhong, was killed. The emperor ordered the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice to jointly investigate the case. Now the two adults have brought the yamen runners to the princess's mansion. They want to ask the eldest princess."

Yan Qing raised her eyes: "Do they suspect that I am the murderer?"

"Yes."

"Then go out and tell them that if I want to kill a eunuch who dares to offend me, what can they do to me?"

Qilin Guard said in a stern voice, "Yes."

Yan Qing wrote with a pen, and Wen Jin's handsome and gentle face and the sadness that always flashed between his eyebrows appeared in her mind for no reason.

Yan Qing was silent.

She really couldn't be cruel to the young man she raised with her own hands. After all, even if she raised a dog, it is impossible to have no feelings for so many years.

But a dog that will bite its master back still needs some lessons.

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The death of Lu Guozhong was a huge blow to the emperor and a blatant provocation to him as the new emperor.

Yan Chen sat in the imperial study, looking at the pile of memorials. Thinking of the current mess, his eyebrows were full of anger.

"He is the chief steward of the Jinyiwei, and he was killed just like that. The lives of all the civil and military officials in the court, including my life, are all in the hands of the assassin?" The imperial desk was slammed loudly, and all Yan Chen's demeanor was destroyed. "What are the Jinyiwei doing? What are the Imperial Guards doing? Trash! A bunch of trash!"

Wei Changhai stood aside trembling, and after serving tea, he retreated silently.

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice knelt on the ground and raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat. He was really afraid that the emperor would scold the Ministry of Justice for being trash.

Yan Chen looked at them coldly: "Yan Qing is not seeing anyone?"

"Yes." The Minister of Justice and the Dali Temple were two of the people who were rejected in three days. They knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty, "We are incompetent."

Yan Chen stared coldly at the memorial on the table: "Lu Guozhong is an eighth-rank master. There are only a few people in the imperial city who can cut off his head."

"Yes." The Dali Temple continued to nod, "I have already investigated. There are no signs of fighting in Lu Zongguan's residence. There are no other scars on Lu Zongguan's body. So the person who killed him must be very good at martial arts. He is a master among masters. Lu Zongguan is not his opponent at all."

Yan Chen's eyes were narrowed: "Could it be Qilin Guards?"

"It's not like that." The Minister of Dali Temple respectfully replied, "Qilin Guards are soldiers. Although they are well-trained and extremely powerful in combat, their martial arts skills are different from those of killers. Moreover, most Qilin Guards are fully trained and are good at using swords. , bows, crossbows, and arrows, he is good at military formations, and has strong and durable physical strength, but in a single fight, there should be few people who can match Mr. Lu. "

Yan Chen's expression was gloomy and he didn't say a word.

Lu Guozhong went to the eldest princess's mansion to convey the decree the day before, but was beheaded the next day. If this incident had nothing to do with Yan Qing, who would believe it?

"Mr. Lu was injured when he fought with Commander Shen of the Princess's Mansion." Wei Changhai reminded from the side, "So if someone goes to assassinate him, Mr. Lu's reaction may not be as sharp as usual."

Injured people's reactions will always be a little slow, and their skills will also be affected to some extent.

Yan Chen's eyes were cold and unpredictable: "Mrs. Xiao and the two nuns sent by the Queen Mother entered the eldest princess's mansion?"

Wei Changhai lowered his head and responded: "I heard it was admitted."

"Send someone to guard them and ask them about the situation after they come out."

"This slave obeys your order."

"Dali Temple will continue to investigate, and we must get to the bottom of it." Yan Chen said in a furious tone, "If the murderer is found, I will cut him into pieces!"

The majestic king of the country has been frustrated one after another recently, and his anger has reached its peak.

I thought that Yan Qing would be easy to deal with, but I didn't expect that she would be so difficult to deal with. She was so stubborn that she was unwilling to even do superficial things.

Do you really want to make enemies of everyone based on the reputation of a lone star?