Chapter 72 Dead End

"Does the princess know about this?" Feng Qingsui asked, "Did she send you here?"

The servant's eyes flickered: "The princess sent me here."

There's something strange.

Feng Qingsui was cautious.

"Wait for me, I'll go back to the hospital to get the medical kit."

The servant said hello.

After Feng Qingsui returned to the courtyard, he sent Wuhua to Princess Shouyang's mansion, and he went out with Zisu and Iris and the servants.

Before the donkey cart left the city, Wuhua caught up with it.

"I've asked Princess Shouyang, and she doesn't know about this," Wuhua reported. "But Master Xuan did go to his villa outside the capital. She was afraid something might happen to him, so she had a carriage prepared for him to leave."

Feng Qingsui was certain that this was a trap.

"You go ahead and keep an eye on the villa outside the capital."

Wuhua nodded, then got off the donkey cart, blended into the crowd, and disappeared in an instant.

Feng Qingsui's donkey cart followed the servant's horse-drawn carriage all the way out of the city. After traveling about ten miles, they arrived at Princess Shouyang's villa.

Then get off the car and walk into the garden.

"Master Xuan is here." The servant led her to a courtyard in the south.

As soon as I entered the yard, I heard exclamations from the house.

"Someone come! There's an assassin!"

The servant's face changed drastically.

He left Feng Qingsui behind and hurried to the main house.

The door opened from the inside, and Wuhua walked out carrying a masked man in gray. Behind him were gray-clothed men lying on the ground and Ji Xuan sitting on the couch with a frightened look on his face.

The servant rushed in anxiously: "Sir, are you okay?"

Ji Xuan raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: "I'm fine, thanks to this fat...woman who saved me."

Wuhua threw the assassin, whose poison sac had been removed, onto the ground. Feng Qingsui glanced at the assassin, his eyes narrowed slightly. "Master Xuan, didn't you ask me to treat your illness? How did it become a life-saving measure?"

Ji Xuan seemed to have just remembered: "That's what happened... I'm fine now."

"Do you know who sent this assassin?"

Feng Qingsui asked again.

Ji Xuan shook his head.

Feng Qingsui squatted down, took out silver needles from the medical box, and pierced the assassin's lower abdomen several times. The assassin immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

"Tell the truth and I'll give you a quick death."

The assassin said in a trembling voice, "Yes, Prime Minister Ji sent me."

"Oh."

Feng Qingsui gave a few more injections.

The assassin was in so much pain that he couldn't even breathe. He just wanted to roll on the ground, but his chest was firmly stepped on by the fat maid, and he couldn't move at all.

The feeling of being bitten by ants is getting stronger and stronger.

Every minute and every second is like torture in hell.

Finally, he couldn't hold it anymore: "I, I was sent by the Second Young Master Wei."

"Wei Er?" Ji Xuan screamed, "How is this possible! He was the one who asked me to..."

He suddenly got stuck.

Feng Qingsui looked at him quietly.

"If I hadn't been careful and sent the maid to the villa first, you would have died at the hands of these assassins. Even at this time, you still want to hide the truth?"

Princess Shouyang happened to arrive and saw the situation in the courtyard. She was shocked and asked, "What's going on?"

Ji Xuan hung his head and told her the whole story.

"Yesterday I went to a restaurant to listen to music and met Wei Er. He said he had a clever golden monkey. I was interested and went to his private house to see it."

"That monkey has golden fur and is prettier than the monkeys I have. I really want to come over."

"He promised to give it to me, but asked me to do something for him."

Having said that, Ji Xuan looked up at Feng Qingsui.

"He said he had long admired Madam Ji, but he had nowhere to express his feelings, and it was difficult to ask her out. He hoped I could help him arrange a meeting at the Villa so that he and Madam Ji could meet."

“Nonsense!”

Princess Shouyang scolded sternly.

"Just for a golden monkey, you're doing something like pimping? Have you read so much that it's like a dog's stomach?"

Ji Xuan blushed. "I, I didn't think too much about it. That monkey was so beautiful... I just did as he said. I didn't tell anyone. After arriving at the villa, I sent a servant to find Madam Ji."

"I didn't expect that Madam Ji would just arrive at my courtyard and several assassins would break in and try to kill me. It was Madam Ji's maid who saved me..."

Princess Shouyang wanted to beat him up.

"Where are the guards I gave you? Did you listen to him and send them somewhere else?"

Ji Xuan buried his head in his chest: "Well... I asked them to go hunting in the back mountain."

Princess Shouyang: “…”

"Why did I raise such a fool like you!"

She scolded Ji Xuan harshly, and then apologized to Feng Qingsui: "I'm sorry, I didn't teach my son well, and I almost got you into trouble. Thanks to your vigilance, otherwise..."

Feng Qingsui smiled slightly. "It's not a big deal for me to be framed. If I hadn't caught up just now, Master Xuan would have been... Second Master Wei really doesn't take the royal family seriously. Even if he wanted to frame me, he shouldn't have risked Master Xuan's life."

Princess Shouyang's expression became serious.

"Yeah, who gave him the guts to even touch my son?"

She immediately ordered people to search for Wei Er.

Wei Er thought he had set up a perfect trap and was drinking proudly with the courtesan he had hired.

"Ji Changqing's widowed sister-in-law has already rushed to Princess Shouyang's villa. As long as Ji Xuan and his servants are dead, Ji Changqing's widowed sister-in-law will become the murderer."

"Given Princess Shouyang's protective nature, she will definitely keep biting Ji Changqing and his widowed sister-in-law. When a tigress goes crazy, she won't stop until she sees blood."

Thinking of this, he smiled and took the oiran into his arms.

"Have fun with me today."

The courtesan smiled angrily and was about to speak when the door was slammed open.

Wei Er raised his head angrily: "Who dares to disturb my elegant mood?"

What caught my eye were several guards in uniform.

When he recognized that they were from Princess Shouyang's mansion, he was slightly startled, but he quickly calmed down.

Presumably, Ji Xuan was dead, and Princess Shouyang wanted to kill those monkeys to bury him. She probably knew that Ji Xuan wanted the golden monkeys he had, so she came to ask him for the monkeys.

"Is it Master Xuan who is looking for me?" He smiled, "Is it about that monkey..."

Before he could finish his words, the leading guard drew his sword and slashed at him.

He felt a pain in his neck, and then the world spun around him, and a headless corpse came into view.

The oiran let out a sharp scream and fainted on the ground.

-

The emperor delayed the court again.

Ji Changqing felt the light in the Qinzheng Hall gradually dimming, and his mind began to wander.

What is that little liar doing now? He should be back from walking the dog. That big black dog has a really comfortable life. He eats and sleeps every day, sleeps and eats, and can go out for a walk in the sun in the afternoon.

Unlike him, he is either in the Qinzheng Palace or in the government office all day long, and has no idle moments.

People are really worse than dogs.

The sound of footsteps interrupted his mumbling.

The eunuch Zheng Gonggong, the official in charge of the imperial pen, approached the emperor and whispered something. The emperor frowned and said to his ministers, "We will discuss this tomorrow."

Ji Changqing breathed a sigh of relief and was about to see the emperor off.

But the emperor said, "Ji Qing, please stay."