The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1327: Yang Feng Yin Yin Violation
Chapter 1327: Pretend to Obey but Disobey
“It’s getting late. I guess Zhong Xingxiao will be back soon. Uncle Feng, you should go to bed early…” Xiao Rongyan still had to wait here for Zhong Xingxiao to bring back some useful information he got from meeting Lu Jin. He also had to let Zhong Xingxiao know that he went to the palace and came back with nothing interesting.
As soon as Xiao Rongyan finished speaking, Yue Shi rushed in, panting and saying, “Master, something happened. Someone in our delegation…assassinated the Minister of Rites of the Great Zhou, Liu Rushi. He has now been captured by the people of the Liu Mansion! Lord Liu Rushi’s injuries should be serious. The Liu family has already sent someone to bring a name card to invite the imperial physician!”
When Xiao Rongyan heard this, his palms tightened and his eyes suddenly darkened: “Whose man?”
“Yes…it’s someone brought by the uncle of the king!” Yue Shi said with gritted teeth. This uncle of the king always causes trouble for his master, and there is no peace for him even for a single day.
Xiao Rongyan sat firmly in the chair and spoke slowly, “Uncle Feng, send Pingyi to visit Lord Liu on my behalf. Also… tell the people in Liu’s house that even if the people of Yan commit crimes on the territory of Great Zhou, they should be handed over to Great Zhou for punishment. We in Yan will never protect them, and we will never complain!”
I hope Liu Rushi is safe, otherwise… at this juncture, Zhong Xingxiao’s people went to assassinate the Minister of Rites who was in charge of the country’s gambling affairs. This simply means they don’t want to negotiate and want to fight directly!
“Also, Yue Shi, go check the background of this guard and find out why he attacked Lord Liu!” Xiao Rongyan knocked on the table with his hand, his eyes cold and stern, “Zhong Xingxiao is back, let him come to see me!”
If this Zhong Xingxiao was not my sister-in-law’s brother, according to Xiao Rongyan’s style, the grass on the graves of Zhong Xingxiao and his son would probably be more than three feet high.
When Xiao Rongyan’s cold voice came, Zhong Xingxiao, who had already received the news, was about to enter the room. Hearing the Regent’s voice, which was as cold as ice, he hurriedly picked up the hem of his clothes and ran towards the Regent’s room with an appearance of fear and trepidation. He thought he ran too fast and too panicked and almost tripped over the threshold. Fortunately, Feng Yao, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, held him up.
Feng Yao still had that smiling face: “Old uncle, you better be careful!”
Zhong Xingxiao was overwhelmed, thinking that he had to be careful. He immediately lifted up the hem of his shirt and knelt in front of Xiao Rongyan to kowtow and plead guilty: “Prince Regent, please forgive me! I don’t know what is going on. I was the first to agree with your majesty’s strategy of gambling the country. Before I came here, the Queen Mother and your majesty earnestly instructed me. Even if I die, I dare not disobey them and do something like assassinating an important official of the Great Zhou!”
Zhong Xingxiao is a man who knows the current situation very well. He understands that he is now in the Great Zhou with the Regent, and he is the brother of the Queen Mother Yan who harmed the brother of the Emperor of the Great Zhou. If the Regent wants to get rid of him, and his guards try to assassinate an important official of the Great Zhou court, and the Regent goes with the flow and hands him over to the Great Zhou, how can he still survive?
Xiao Rongyan looked at Zhong Xingxiao’s appearance, lifted the hem of his robe without saying a word, crossed his legs, and glared at Zhong Xingxiao who was kneeling at his feet: “Logically speaking, the guards that Lord Zhong brought this time should all be his confidants! Lord Zhou’s confidants went to assassinate important officials of the Great Zhou court. How do we know that Lord Zhong is not saying one thing in front of His Majesty and another behind his back, deliberately opposing His Majesty and pretending to obey but secretly disobeying him?”
“Your Majesty, I am innocent!” Zhong Xingxiao kowtowed heavily. “Your Majesty, I know that I am the Queen Mother’s brother. I have been trembling with fear since I came to the Great Zhou, fearing that I would make a mistake and make the Great Zhou Emperor unhappy. I am afraid that my life will be lost here. After all, our Yan State is now in decline and begging the Great Zhou. If the Great Zhou Emperor really speaks up, I will have to die for the sake of Yan State. But I am also a human being… I am afraid of death. Why do I seek death? Please understand, Your Majesty, the Regent!”
“Do you know the details of the person who assassinated Liu Rushi?” Xiao Rongyan asked, holding up the teacup at hand, seemingly in no hurry.
Seeing Xiao Rongyan’s attitude, Zhong Xingxiao became more and more anxious, fearing that Xiao Rongyan would hand him over. He quickly turned around and signaled his personal servant to deliver the detailed whereabouts of the guard to Xiao Rongyan.
Yue Shi took the bamboo slips and handed them to Xiao Rongyan, who then slowly unfolded them and read them carefully. His eyes were not idle, and his mouth was not idle either: “Lord Zhong is really quick and efficient. Something just happened here, and even I, the regent, just got the news, and Lord Zhong brought all the documents about this person’s life.”
Zhong Xingxiao kowtowed again in fear and said, “My Lord Ninth Prince, the people I brought with me this time were carefully selected. We were afraid that something might go wrong before we came, so we brought their indentures and documents of their origins.”
“Are you afraid of something going wrong, or are you trying to send me to protect you so that you can escape…” Xiao Rongyan’s eyes never left the bamboo slips in his hand, and he just said, “Lord Zhong, please don’t be so mysterious in front of me.”
Zhong Xingxiao just kept shouting his injustice and kowtowing, not daring to say anything else.
After Xiao Rongyan finished reading the bamboo slips, he threw them in front of Zhong Xingxiao, which scared him.
“Lord Zhong has always been smart and cunning. How could he believe in such a flawed background and even bring people to the Great Zhou to cause trouble?” Xiao Rongyan said sternly.
“I beg the Regent to forgive me and show me a clear way out! My death is a small matter, but I have delayed your majesty’s gambling strategy. Even if Zhong Xingxiao has ten thousand heads, he cannot afford it!” Zhong Xingxiao put himself in a very humble manner. After saying that Xiao Rongyan was hoping that the gambling strategy would not succeed, he kowtowed to Xiao Rongyan again, pretending to be extremely distressed, and said worriedly, “Moreover, the Queen Mother has been weak since childhood. Since the death of the late emperor, the Queen Mother has often been overly sad. It doesn’t matter if I die, but I’m afraid that the Queen Mother will know! If the Queen Mother’s body is ill because of my death, I really can’t redeem myself even if I die a thousand times!”
Before coming to Da Zhou, Zhong Xingxiao knew that his life depended on the Regent.
He originally begged the Queen Mother to try not to let him come to the Great Zhou, but his sister, the Queen Mother, did not want to disappoint the Regent, so she sent a message to him, saying that the Regent would not let him get into trouble in the Great Zhou for her sake.
Seeing that he couldn’t rely on his sister, he selected a dozen experts to protect him. Who would have known that these guards came to the Great Zhou and actually assassinated an important official of the Great Zhou court? Who can Zhong Xingxiao go to for justice?
“A way to survive…” Xiao Rongyan looked at Zhong Xingxiao with a half-smile, “It’s simple. With such a big incident, I believe the Great Zhou Emperor has already received the news. You should take this document and go to Lord Lu, whom you just visited, to show your sincerity and cooperate with the Great Zhou in investigating this case without any conditions. Just say… you have no complaints about being imprisoned, so be frank!”