Chapter 7: A wounded person, yet so strong...

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Fu Jiangyu raised his hand and touched Lin Baige's red lips that were kissed. His tearful eyes made him look both pitiful and adorable. "Do you think I've bullied you? Don't you like me kissing you?"

Lin Baige was kissed so hard that she couldn't breathe, and her clothes were messed up by Fu Jiangyu. It was amazing that a wounded man had such great strength!

"Now that we've kissed, do you still doubt that I don't like you?" Lin Baige asked angrily.

Fu Jiangyu looked at his angry expression, which was always lovable no matter what he looked like. "I really should have made you mine sooner. Your heart is not with me, so keeping your body is useless."

Last night, when Fu Jiangyu had a high fever, he had a very long dream. In the dream, after he was killed by Lin Baige, Lin Xing led a large army to attack and pressed Lin Baige on the guillotine.

In the dream, after Fu Jiangyu died, his soul floated in the air. He saw how Lin Baige died and how Lin Xing destroyed the State of Jin. Without Lin Baige saying anything, he would have eliminated Lin Xing's followers. He said that he didn't believe Lin Baige's words just to provoke Lin Baige to kiss him.

At this time, he also suspected that Lin Baige was also reborn, otherwise Lin Baige's transformation would not be so great. He suspected that Lin Baige was reborn and wanted to use his knife to kill Lin Xing for revenge. In order to get revenge, he even agreed to his request to kiss him.

"It's all my fault for being too indulgent. I ended up hurting you. I will protect you in my own way and won't indulge you anymore." Fu Jiangyu hugged the person in his arms, feeling his body temperature. Everything started over again. No matter whether Lin Baige loved him or not, Lin Baige was his now and would never leave him.

It doesn't matter, whether I don't like you or I use you, as long as you can stay by my side obediently.

Why did Lin Baige feel that Fu Jiangyu had a damp male ghost smell? Could it be because he was stabbed by his beloved yesterday and it was too much of a shock?

Fu Jiangyu called Eunuch Chen in and said, "Prepare your writing brush and ink. I need to convey my order."

Eunuch Chen did not dare to delay and hurriedly brought paper, pen and jade seal.

Fu Jiangyu wrote down the list on Lin Baige's paper on the imperial edict, and then filled in a few more: "Issue the order to arrest and interrogate all those on the list. Those who confess the truth will not be punished for their families. Those who refuse to confess or deliberately conceal the truth will have their entire family executed."

Eunuch Chen was so frightened by the emperor's words that he trembled. The imperial edict in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he hurried out to convey the order.

Within one day, more than twenty palace maids and eunuchs were arrested, as well as seven or eight imperial guards, city guards, and officials of all ranks. A group of detectives and officials involved in the incident were also arrested, and all their homes were ransacked.

Within a few days, someone confessed and another group of people were arrested.

There were too many people this time, and the Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Justice prison were all full of people. Prime Minister Zhang accompanied them in the interrogation.

Lin Baige asked the imperial kitchen to make more supplements for Lord Zhang. Now they only have this old man to use, so as not to exhaust him.

The whole court was shocked. The few remaining loyal ministers thought that the evil concubine was going to persecute ministers again, but they were relieved when they found out that those who were arrested were the treacherous ministers who gave them the most headaches.

Especially Lord Zhang. At first, he thought that His Majesty had been bewitched by the evil concubine and killed innocent people indiscriminately. However, as these criminals continued to confess, many cases were involved, and these confessions repeatedly mentioned Lin Baige's instructions.

Lord Zhang was very pleased. It seemed that His Majesty had finally figured it out and was going to deal with this evil concubine. Lord Zhang continued to send more people to interrogate the criminals. After he had compiled the confessions and handed them over to the Emperor, he brought all the ministers to ask His Majesty to kill the evil concubine and see how she could argue.

But before the case was concluded, news came that the evil concubine had recruited a large number of craftsmen and laborers from all over the country.

They couldn't find out what Lin Baige was going to build. The project was kept strictly confidential and was supervised personally by the emperor's confidants. Even Lord Zhang couldn't find out.

The officials suspected that the demon concubine had mentioned last time that she wanted to build an observatory and had requested that the observatory be so high that it would reach the clouds so that people could touch the stars with just a raise of their hands.

Even building an observatory like this in the palace would be a waste of money and labor, not to mention how much it would cost to build an observatory in every place!

Lord Zhang said indignantly, "No wonder His Majesty arrested so many corrupt officials and confiscated their property. It turns out he was preparing for the observatory for that evil concubine!"