Chapter 123 - If You Offend Me, Leave Your Life Behind
Chapter 123 If You Offend Me, Leave Your Life Behind
Several men, led by Baiji and Baishao, searched the whole house in detail.
They even looked under the bed, but of course, there was nothing down there.
Sitting behind the screen, Lin Mengya sipped tea slowly.
Those imperial guards inadvertently all showed puzzled expressions.
No, that was not the situation that the superior order had asked for.
“You’ve done your search. Now please leave, my master is going to rest.”
Baiji, with a hint of discontent in her eyes, didn’t hesitate to show them the door.
It was said that when these imperial guards went to other people’s tents, they just looked around at most.
But in Lin Mengya’s tent, they would even arrest a fly to check its gender.
Just now the courteous leader of the imperial guards looked at the shadowy screen. He bit his lips and said, “We didn’t search the back of the screen, Princess, if you will excuse us.”
The instruction from the top was to find certain clues from Princess Yu’s tent.
If they went back empty-handed like this, they would be bound to be punished.
It was better to stick their necks out and hand in a more satisfactory result.
“How dare you!”
Lin Mengya snapped. A blue-and-white porcelain cup was thrown from the screen the next second.
“Bang!” The cup broke into pieces.
In the tent, the entire crowd had been silenced, nobody had ever seen her looked so angry.
“What do you mean? Do you think you can bully Prince Yu’s people and get away with it? Or did someone tell you to do so? And you won’t give up before searching out something. Who is the commander of the imperial guards? Come forward!”
Lin Mengya’s words instantly deterred several imperial guards.
Although they got instructions from the top to find something, they had found nothing yet.
Princess Yu was furious at the moment.
However, the imperial guard meant to be hard on Lin Mengya.
A shadow of something vicious covered his eyes. He thought if he could find evidence, Princess Yu wouldn’t be able to be so arrogant from now on.
“The commander is guarding the safety of the Crown Prince, forgive us, Princess!”
As the imperial guard gave a hint with his eyes, his men immediately surrounded the screen. Baiji and Baishao got mad but could do nothing because they were separated by several strong men.
“Well, if that’s the case, okay, I’ll let you search today. You’d better find something, otherwise you may use your life to make it up to me. Xiaoyu, watch outside. You need to remember all these faces for me.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Behind the wide screen came a young man in a moon-white gown.
His face looked young, but the look in those eyes revealed a slight coldness.
It was like ice in deep winter. It was so cold that it chilled the people.
“Come on, take the screen away.”
With a wave of his small hand, someone came up and took away the screen.
Standing in the corner, the little androgynous face showed a slight sneer.
It was as if they were already beheaded.
The screen was removed, and the three women sitting behind it caught everyone’s attention.
The youngest girl, Yue Qi, looked angry. Reluctance reflected on her pretty little face.
Yue Ting, with a bloodless face, closed her eyes and rested on Yue Qi.
Beside them, a beautiful woman dressed in a purple palace dress showed a look of indifference.
It seemed that what had happened outside had nothing to do with her, as if the person who just demanded their lives for atonement was not her.
The woman held a book and read it without raising her head.
“Forgive us, Your Highness. We only did what we were told to do.”
Was it too late to ask nicely now?
Without looking up, Lin Mengya just ignored them like they were air.
“Go ahead, search. See if you can find anything you want.”
The cold tone of voice was definitely not as detached as it sounded.
The leader of the imperial guards bit his lips, and he harbored bad feelings.
If they couldn’t find anything, they would not be easily spared by this Princess Yu.
“Search!”
With a wave of his hand, several imperial guards began to rummage around. Some were breaking the lock of the cabinet, while some were turning over the carpet.
Half an hour later, these men got nothing.
Meanwhile, Lin Mengya was still reading.
A few drops of cold sweat came out of the leader’s forehead, and before he could wipe the sweat away, he saw the woman who had just been quietly reading raise her head.
“Did you find anything?”
Her red lips slightly opened, she spat out these words, which were like sharp daggers covered with poison that inserted directly into those men’s hearts.
“Your Highness… we didn’t find anything yet.”
His voice just full of confidence before had now become full of regret.
Just thinking of how the second prince of the western vassal state died, these seven-foot-tall men couldn’t help feeling anxious.
“As I said, if you couldn’t find anything, you’d pay with your life.”
A gentle and soft tone of voice resounded, as if there were no hostility.
But Lin Mengya’s eyes suddenly turned cold.
When sister Yue Ting was insulted by that animal, where the hell were all these imperial guards?
Instead, the so-called assassination of the Crown Prince had drawn all these aggressive imperial guards to her tent.
They were all just rats.
“Forgive us, Princess Yu, we were just under orders to do so. If there was any offense, please be understanding.”
The situation had changed dramatically. No matter how incompatible the Crown Prince and Prince Yu were, their behavior just now was also a crime of contempt for the royal family.
What’s more, nothing had been found.
They didn’t know how to end the farce now.
“Invite the lords and Prince Yu to come. I’m a woman and my words don’t count. You guys, just stay here.”
Lin Mengya ordered softly, then dozens of Prince Yu’s guards immediately surrounded outside the tent.
These imperial guards, along with some outside, were all surrounded by Prince Yu’s guards.
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Lin Kui strode in from the outside without looking at the stunned guards.
How brilliant the princess was, she had been on alert for a long time.
After inviting those lords in person, Lin Mengya closed the book and took out a handkerchief embroidered with peony from the sleeve.
“Princess Yu has arrived…”
“Lord Zhang has arrived… ”
“Lord Li has arrived… ”
“Lord Yue has arrived… ”
…
One after another, five or six venerable ministers arrived.
They were all invited here all of a sudden, but they never expected to see a dozen imperial guards in Princess Yu’s tent.
As soon as Long Tianhao stepped into the tent, he saw Lin Mengya, whose eyes turned red in an instant.
“Prince Yu, you’re back at last! My reputation was almost ruined by these shameless villains.”
Infinite grievances hid in the melancholy tone of voice. The tears, like beads with broken threads, flowed down her white face to her delicate chin.
She wiped the tears with her handkerchief, the sound of sorrow made people feel nothing but pity.
The anxious imperial guards all stood there dumbfounded.
Princess Yu couldn’t be more capricious!
“What’s wrong? Why does the princess cry so sadly?”
Lord Yue had to know Princess Yu, so he asked without too much consideration.
No one expected little Yue Qi would run to Lord Yue after carefully putting her sister in the arm of Baizhi.
“Daddy, these people were harassing us. I’m still young, if rumors got out, how could I survive?”
Those words were the tipping point for Lord Yue at last.
Yue Ting was getting close to her end in that scene.
Unexpectedly, now his little daughter was also treated unfairly. Did people really take the Yue family as pushovers?
Consoling his baby daughter, Lord Yue’s face was covered with ice.
He turned around, speaking directly to Lord Zhang, who was in charge of the military.
“Lord Zhang, it seems that the troop in this camp is under your command. Although my family isn’t that noble, we shouldn’t be humiliated by anyone. You have to give me an explanation.”
Being in his early 50s, Lord Zhang’s face darkened perceptibly at once.
Lord Yue, who had been his colleague for decades, seemed to have gotten really mad.
Lord Zhang swallowed and saw Prince Yu’s face was dark with rage standing next to Princess Yu. It seemed that the situation couldn’t end without any damage.
“Don’t worry, I’ll get to the bottom of this mess. Come on, take these stupid men out!”
Lord Zhang’s youngest daughter was one of the Crown Prince’s consorts. So, of course, he knew that these people were the Crown Prince’s men.
However, Lin Mengya turned around and looked at Long Tianhao in sorrow.
“I thought the royal family still ruled the world. Unexpectedly, I, a legitimate princess, could be humiliated by some random people and they can easily get away with it because somebody is backing them up. Prince Yu, I just feel disappointed. I’m afraid the assassination of the Crown Prince was also plotted by someone.”
Lin Mengya’s words sounded quite serious.
First, it was the assassination of the Crown Prince, then the imperial guards searched her tent. It was one thing after another, as if the royal family had done something wrong overnight.
Being blocked by Lin Mengya’s words on the spot, Lord Zhang found it difficult to handle the matter.
Taking these men away meant disrespect for the royal family, not taking these men away meant he couldn’t protect the Crown Prince’s men.
Lord Zhang looked around and found that he was surrounded by the ministers close to the Crown Prince.
And Lord Yue was Yue Qi’s father.
What a risky trick, it seemed that these people were doomed to die here today.
As Lord Zhang glanced at those men, he made a hard decision. Some of them were useless anyway, so it was a disaster to keep them alive.
“These people showed no respect for the royal family and Princes Yu, which is a heinous crime. I sentence them to death right now!”
Lord Zhang surprisingly showed the courage to abandon his pawns.
“Your excellency, your excellency! We were under your command, you said…”
Nobody saw it coming. With just a quick flash of cold steel, the person who shouted had been beheaded.