Chapter 398 Prince Duan's Death
The next day.
As soon as Lin Pianran got up, all kinds of news came in.
Yesterday afternoon, Shen Mubai, who was sent to ambush the mine, returned with a full load. Not only did he kill nearly a thousand men in black, but he also had people transport away a large amount of ore.
It's like killing two birds with one stone.
Fortunately, Baili Qingyun and Han Chaolin completed their mission and assassinated Huo Mao and Princess Qinghe. They also hung their bodies at the gate of Prince Zhao's Mansion for passers-by to see.
The news spread throughout the capital in an instant.
Once Chen Lihua gets the news of their tragic deaths, it will surely arouse the hatred in her heart.
If he finds someone who has a say over the emperor and creates trouble and sows discord between them, he will surely cause a complete quarrel between her and Emperor Wu of Qin.
Sure enough, in the second half of the night, Prince Duan was assassinated in his wing room by the imperial guards sent by Emperor Wu of Qin. It was said that he was stabbed 20 to 30 times and died in agony...
Of course, the news brought by the secret guards said that in addition to Emperor Wu of Qin, Prince Chang was also involved. He also knew the truth about his torture. Those men in black who kidnapped him and tortured him to the point where he was worse than death were all sent by Prince Duan.
Between the two of them, there was a deep blood feud for the murder of their mother, as well as a deep hatred for being poisoned and having their legs crippled. Naturally, Prince Chang hated Prince Duan too.
After Emperor Wu of Qin's royal guards tortured Prince Duan to death, the guards sent by Prince Chang whipped Prince Duan's corpse...
Prince Duan himself could never have imagined that after all he and his parents had planned, he would still die so miserably...
Even Lin Pianran felt it was too bloody after hearing about it.
As expected, what goes around comes around, it's all karma.
King Chang also avenged himself.
Early in the morning, Su Qingfeng actually brought Su Yuying to the Prince's Mansion to ask for an audience.
Lin Pianran was also very surprised when she got the news.
They haven't been in touch for a long time, why did they suddenly come to see me?
What exactly is he planning?
Lin Pianran couldn't guess the reason for a moment.
Could it be that he came to curry favor with her because he saw that she became the Crown Princess?
Lin Pianran felt that it was not that simple, perhaps there were other reasons.
After all, when she was the future Crown Princess, marrying into the Eastern Palace was basically a foregone conclusion.
It would be illogical to try to curry favor with him at this time.
Although Su Qingfeng had once thought of winning him over, he was probably frightened by the assassination in Puhua Temple and had not been in contact with him for a long time.
Now, they suddenly came to her door again. Lin Pianran always felt that their intentions were not that simple.
After hearing the servant's report, Lin Pianran was not in a hurry to meet Su Qingfeng and the others.
Instead, he called Jingfeng and asked him about it in detail.
"Have you heard any news about Su Qingfeng recently? Have you seen her interacting with anyone?"
Jingfeng lowered his head respectfully and spoke in a low voice.
"The secret guards saw her visit Grand Tutor Gu once."
"By the way, when the Su family held a flower banquet, the secret guards also discovered that Su Yuying and Gu Qingcheng were having a very pleasant conversation."
After hearing this, Lin Pianran had a playful smile on her face.
It seems that Gu Qingcheng has become active again. Is she trying to use Su Qingfeng to plot against her?
It's really interesting.
A little brain, but not much.
Since Lin Pianran knew that Su Qingfeng had bad intentions, she was naturally very contemptuous. After more than half an hour had passed, she slowly went to the front hall to meet the guest.
As soon as he entered the front hall, Su Qingfeng's face was immediately filled with smiles when he saw Lin Pianran.
"Pian Pian, you look even better after marrying into the Prince's Mansion! It really makes people feel so refreshed when they are happy!"
Lin Pianran did not respond, with a look of arrogance on her face, which was completely different from the calmness and gentleness she had shown when she met Su Qingfeng before.
Ma Ma, who was standing beside Lin Pianran, immediately scolded her with a serious face, "You are not showing proper respect to the Crown Princess when you meet her?"
Su Yuying was furious to see Lin Pianran, newly married into the Crown Prince's Mansion, already putting on airs in front of the elders. She immediately retorted, "Madam Su is the adopted mother of your Crown Princess. How can an old slave like you be so rude? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the world?"
Lin Pianran's eyes suddenly became sharper.
Ma Ma immediately understood what she meant and ordered the two strong maids beside her, "Since Miss Su doesn't know how to behave, give her twenty slaps to teach her a lesson!"
The two maids had strong execution ability and rushed forward. One of them held Su Yuying down, making her unable to move, while the other one waved her hands and started beating her.
In just a few breaths, Su Yuying's face was beaten into a pig's head.
When Su Qingfeng saw this, he hurried forward to grab Lin Pianran's sleeve, but she dodged it easily.
Nanny Ma stepped forward and pushed Su Qingfeng hard, causing him to stagger and almost fall.
Su Qingfeng still didn't give up and shouted, "Pianpian, Yuying is your sister, how could you treat her like this?"
"Sister, you really dare to try to establish connections. From the moment you came to the Crown Prince's Mansion and harbored evil thoughts, you no longer have the face to make any requests to the Crown Princess."
"No...no, is there some misunderstanding? How could we have any evil intentions? We just haven't seen the queen for a long time and wanted to invite her to go shopping together."
Lin Pianran didn't want to beat around the bush anymore and spoke directly to the point.
"Shopping? Are you planning to plot against me? I might as well tell you straight out that I can let you go this time without further investigation. This will be considered as severing the mother-daughter relationship between you and me. If we meet again in the future, we will just treat each other as strangers!"
Su Qingfeng looked incredulous.
"Pianpian, have you forgotten? It was me who brought you to the Lin family when you were little, otherwise you might not have survived..."
"You can't be so ungrateful, or you'll be laughed at by the world."
Lin Pianran sneered.
"You still have the nerve to mention your time at the Lin family. What did you do to me? Do you still need me to tell you everything you did back then?"
"Originally, there was still some thin affection between us, but from the moment you tried to plot against me with Gu Qingcheng today, you deserve to die!"
"I will not kill you two this time. I will only sever our past friendship. If you continue to seek death, I will crush you to death, just like crushing an ant."
"Including the entire Su family, it would be easy for me to make sure you no longer have a foothold in the capital."
Su Qingfeng stammered, "Pianpian, you...how did you know?"
"Could it be that you have been sending people to monitor every move of the Su family?"
Lin Pianran sneered, "Not really. You're just clowns who think you're smart. Anyone with a bit of brains can easily guess your intentions."
After Su Qingfeng's conspiracy was exposed by Lin Pianran, his face turned pale and blue.
She stopped struggling and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.
"Pianpian, we know we were wrong, please forgive us!"
"From now on, we will never bother you again. Please let us go and let the Su family go..."
After saying this, he kowtowed vigorously.
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