Just as I was thinking about it, a group of assassins suddenly rushed out from all directions.
Chen Qingmo was not someone who would always carry a sword with him. He held Qu Lingyuan tightly in his arms and waited for the outcome of the confrontation between the secret guards and the assassins without any nervousness.
The secret guards hired by the Regent are no pushovers. When he was with Cui Yue before, the assassin succeeded because he sent the secret guards away on his wedding night.
Obviously Liu Huiyin knew this. The number of assassins in this operation was more than double that of the last time they dealt with Cui Yue, but the well-trained secret guards were not at a disadvantage at all at this moment.
Moreover, Qu Lingyuan also has secret guards...
She was stunned when she saw the secret guards who appeared out of nowhere.
"I... didn't even remember that I also have secret guards." Qu Lingyuan contacted Yi Ling embarrassedly.
"...The Empress Dowager loves her daughter so much, how could she not arrange secret guards for you?" Yi Ling looked at him as if he were an idiot.
For some reason, there were many assassins this time, but their quality was so poor that four of them were quickly captured alive, taken to the dungeon, tortured, and interrogated.
"Yuan'er, you are not scared, right? Let me take you back first." Chen Qingmo stared at Qu Lingyuan carefully, and only felt relieved when he saw that there was nothing abnormal about her.
"Let's go together," Qu Lingyuan shook her head and did not agree. Who knows if Liu Huiyin has any other preparations? What if these assassins have any problems? How would she know how to solve them if she is not there?
Chen Qingmo wanted to refuse, but seeing Qu Lingyuan's concerned eyes, he swallowed the words back.
The two of them went to the place where the assassins were being held. Just watching the tortures used by the palace guards made Qu Lingyuan's scalp tingle. How could these assassins keep such a secret? She always felt that something was wrong.
After watching for a while, the assassin began to look in Qu Lingyuan's direction frequently. She was confused and prepared to wait and see what would happen.
Sure enough, after the torture lasted for a minute, one of the assassins shouted, "Your Highness, the Grand Princess! Please save me! I was entrusted with this task by you!"
At this time, the other assassins also shouted, begging Qu Lingyuan to save them.
Shen Qingmo thought of what happened to Cui Yue before, and his face instantly darkened. He was ready to see how Qu Lingyuan would perform. He still had enough trust in his heart, and his reason told him that Qu Lingyuan had no reason to assassinate him.
Qu Lingyuan sneered and walked a few steps closer to the assassins. Liu Huiyin still had some brains. If these assassins insisted that Qu Lingyuan was the mastermind behind the scenes, even if she refused to admit it and even if Shen Qingmo didn't believe it, this incident would create a rift between the two of them.
However, Qu Lingyuan was in poor health and never went out. Very few people in the folk had seen the Grand Princess, and there was no portrait of her. How could these assassins know what the Grand Princess looked like?
"Are you sure that I was the one who told you personally about assassinating the Regent?" Qu Lingyuan began to set a trap for the assassin.
The assassin nodded hurriedly: "Yes! Your Highness, the Grand Princess, please save these servants."
Qu Lingyuan forced a forced smile. "That's such a shame. Don't you know? Her Royal Highness, the Grand Princess, had an accident when she was young, so she was taken back to the palace by the Grand Empress Dowager. That's why she has a disfiguring knife wound on her face... Look, do I look like her?"
After hearing this, the assassin was dumbfounded and stammered, unable to speak. The man spoke so seriously that it was difficult to tell whether he was telling the truth or not.
The assassins only guessed based on the information provided by Liu Huiyin that the person following the Regent was the Grand Princess, but no one had ever seen her, so no one dared to assert that their guess was correct.
Everyone saw the four assassins looking at each other in bewilderment, and immediately exposed their lie. Qu Lingyuan turned around with satisfaction and walked back to Shen Qingmo.
You think you can frame her with this little trick? It won't be too late to wait a few more years~
"Yiling, how could these assassins be so obedient? They are not Liu Huiyin's assassins, are they?"
The assassin organization will not accept missions that will ensure their death. They will seek guarantees from the employer before accepting the mission. If their lives are threatened, it means that the employer's information is false and they have the power to betray the employer, so Qu Lingyuan found the matter very strange.
"These are people who have been poisoned or injured and are about to die. There is a special team like this in the assassination organization. The employer will pay their families a large sum of money to buy their lives and let them do missions that will surely lead to their death." Yi Ling was very disgusted with this behavior that disregarded human life.
"So Liu Huiyin is quite rich?" Qu Lingyuan pushed the hair away from her chest and started to prepare for the show again.
She turned around and grabbed Shen Qingmo's sleeve, and her aggressive look instantly turned into tears: "Yuan'er has always been kind to others. She never interacts with others, let alone makes enemies. Why would someone want to frame Yuan'er?"
Chen Qingmo could also see that Qu Lingyuan was pretending. He finally understood that this girl was not a timid person who could be easily frightened. He held her in his arms with a mixture of amusement and heartache, and comforted her softly: "Be good, Yuan'er, don't be sad. This king will catch this person and cut him into pieces."
However, what Qu Lingyuan just said was all true. After hearing this, Shen Qingmo vaguely guessed that the mastermind behind the assassin was Liu Huiyin. Thinking of the incident in September Garden half a month ago, the way Liu Huiyin targeted Qu Lingyuan for no reason was still vivid in his mind.
Who else had contact with Qu Lingyuan? I'm afraid no one. This girl has been kept in captivity in the palace by the Grand Empress Dowager for half a month.
Perhaps, even Cui Yue's incident was caused by Liu Huiyin...
Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Qu Lingyuan stopped pretending, patted Shen Qingmo, who was still thinking about life, and said, "Let's go, Yuan'er is a little tired..."
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