Enemies meet on a narrow road!
Recently, the news that the Eighth Prince led the trouble, wanted to drive Feng Yuheng out of the capital, and threatened her to close Baicaotang had spread throughout the capital. Although people did not dare to do anything to a prince in front of him, they cursed the Eighth Prince from head to toe in their hearts.
Ever since Xuan Tianmo came out of Prince Sheng's Mansion and rode his horse to stroll down the street, he had received countless glares. The people did not come openly, but they did a lot of small actions in secret, and some even threw eggs under his horse's hooves.
Xuan Tianmo was not the third prince back then, and he would not beat and scold the people in the street, because he knew in his heart that if he wanted to gain the world, he could not lose the people's hearts. Now that he had fallen behind, he could not afford to make things difficult for the people in the street. Therefore, as a prince, he had been enduring it all day, until he met Feng Yuheng, and the cold light in his eyes could not help but burst out.
When Feng Yuheng raised his head, he met those eagle-like eyes. The message conveyed in those eyes seemed to reveal death, which made people feel cold at first sight.
Xiangrong was frightened and subconsciously took a step back, but accidentally tripped over the corner of her robe. She lost her balance and fell to the ground with a plop, screaming "ouch".
Feng Yuheng could obviously hold the person up, but for some reason she didn't, not only did she not help Xiangrong, she also backed away with a look of horror, then successfully tripped over Xiangrong's feet and fell down.
If Xiang Rong fell, it might not cause any sensation, at most it would just attract some attention. But Feng Yuheng was different, she was very well-known in the capital, especially in recent days, because of the incident at Baicaotang, Princess Ji'an had almost become a topic that people talked about all the time, some people even cried when they went home to eat, thinking about the good things at Baicaotang and scolding those who were against Princess Ji'an.
At this moment, Feng Yuheng fell down at a busy street corner with many pedestrians passing by, and immediately caught everyone's attention. People gathered here one after another, and Wangchuan and Huangquan, the two maids, received Feng Yuheng's eye hints and hurried to help Xiangrong and their own young lady, asking loudly while helping them: "Miss, are you okay? Miss, I told you not to go out. So many adults in the court don't like you. As soon as you leave the mansion, who knows how many people will be waiting to trip you up!" After saying that, Wangchuan knelt down in front of the mount of the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo, and said with a look of horror: "Eighth Prince, our princess definitely did not mean to disturb you, nor did she mean to block the road. Please be merciful, Eighth Prince, and don't let your mount trample our princess to death!"
As they said this, they and Huang Quan kowtowed to the Eighth Prince, shedding tears as they kowtowed. They even stood in front of Feng Yuheng, as if the Eighth Prince's horse's hooves would step on them the next moment. Xiang Rong, who was behind them, also started crying. On the one hand, she was also a little frightened, but she was not scared to tears. It was mainly a show for outsiders to see.
The Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo, who was still riding on a tall horse, felt his head buzzing. He knew that Feng Yuheng was sharp-tongued and ruthless, and was the kind of person who would fight with real swords and guns. But he didn't expect that she would be so good at acting, and she didn't even blink when she made up such a lie. But his horse didn't even touch her hair, and they were even a few steps apart. How come the two of them sat on the ground? Isn't this blackmail?
He looked at Feng Yuheng with the same message in his eyes, but saw that the girl's eyes were also full of provocation, and the meaning conveyed was obviously: What can I do if I blackmail you?
Even the most moody person got angry. The Eighth Prince's face didn't look good. He was still riding on his horse, looking down at those crying women. He felt annoyed and wished he could raise his horse's hoof and trample them to death.
The onlookers on the street also understood from Wangchuan and Huangquan's words that the man on the horse was the Eighth Prince, His Royal Highness Prince Sheng! People reacted and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, not daring to breathe. They looked very scared and surrendered. But no one knew that what they thought in their hearts was completely different from what they showed on their faces. At this moment, almost all the people kneeling on the ground cursed the Eighth Prince in their hearts. If it weren't for the fact that his father was the emperor and he had to respect him, otherwise he would have cursed even his eight generations of ancestors.
Under the subtle influence of Baicaotang, and in the stories passed down by word of mouth, the Eighth Prince has been confirmed as the driving force behind the closure of Baicaotang, and it has also been confirmed that he instigated those ministers to drive Princess Ji'an out of the capital. It can be said that now everyone in the capital, from officials to ordinary people, is cursing the Eighth Prince behind his back, and even those who were originally members of the Eighth Prince's party have adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards him, all because of the strange theft case that suddenly occurred in the capital.
Of course, Xuan Tianmo had guessed some of the officials' little thoughts, but at the same time, he also suspected that the officials had joined forces to falsely report the theft in order to escape the tribute silver he demanded. The two parties each had their own ideas, and now they were in a stalemate, and no one was the first to speak out.
As for these people, Xuan Tianmo was certainly not stupid. The "Anti-Eight Alliance" was so powerful in the capital that they surrounded Prince Sheng's mansion to make a fuss. How could he not know anything about it? But what could he do even if he knew? He could still deal with a few officials, but the people in the city made him feel a little embarrassed. He couldn't just massacre them, right?
Xuan Tianmo's expression became increasingly ugly. He stared at Feng Yuheng for a long while, then suddenly smiled and said, "Sister-in-law is really careless when walking. She was still so far away from my horse, but why did she sit on the ground? Is the road uneven?"
Feng Yuheng shook his head. "The avenues in the capital were all built by my father, and money is allocated for their maintenance every year. How could it be unfair? Ah Heng just didn't expect a tall horse to suddenly rush out during the commotion, and was frightened for a moment, so he fell down. I really don't dare to blame the Eighth Prince. The prince must have something urgent to do, so he rode into the commotion. Don't delay because of Ah Heng, because Ah Heng can't bear the blame."
She just sat on the ground, with no intention of getting up, and spoke nonsense in a wronged manner, but it sounded so real that even Xuan Tianmo suspected that it was really his horse that scared her. Of course, he knew that Feng Yuheng would never be scared by a horse, and it was good enough that she didn't scare the horse, but he was asked to argue with a little girl on the street?
He had no intention of doing such a thing in front of the people. No matter what kind of identity Feng Yuheng had, when she put down her attitude and wanted to be a little girl, she was indeed a little girl. No matter what he said today, it would be a handle, and the bad image in the hearts of the people would be irreversible. So he chose to compromise and even prepared to take the initiative to apologize. This was a trivial matter. He was a man, and it was not shameful to scare a woman and then apologize to her.
Xuan Tianmo was ready to dismount and wanted to help Feng Yuheng up himself, but just when he had this idea and hadn't yet put it into practice, he didn't expect that the guards beside him couldn't stand it and suddenly shouted: "You bold and unruly people! How dare you stop the Eighth Prince in the street, what crime should you be punished for?"
This shout startled Xuan Tianmo, who then glared at the guard, but the guard didn't think he did anything wrong. He was a new guard, and he was very proud of the job he got to follow the Eighth Prince. He was thinking about how to perform and how to protect his master. If he performed well, he would be promoted to the chief guard next year. In fact, he didn't have any skills, and he couldn't read people's expressions. In the past, Xuan Tianmo would never take such a guard out on the street. But there was no other way at this time, because of the theft case in the mansion, he killed too many people, and he couldn't allocate the manpower at once, and he couldn't go out alone, so he chose this person, but he didn't expect such a result.
The guard said this, and his original plan could not be implemented. It would be bad to dismount and apologize at this time. What's the point of giving sweet dates after offending people? For a moment, the atmosphere was frozen.
But the guard still thought he was doing the right thing, and he was still showing off his power, accusing Feng Yuheng and others of being ungrateful, and even drew his sword from his waist and pointed it at Huangquan. In his opinion, Feng Yuheng was just a princess of a different surname, and his master was a legitimate prince, and the power of the Eighth Prince was not comparable to that of other princes! This princess dared to do this to her master, so he had to vent his anger for her master.
No matter how the guard threatened, Feng Yuheng and the others were not moved at all. Even Huang Quan, who was always impulsive and talkative, could hold back his temper. It was because they had seen the people kneeling on the ground around them react!
The common people did react. They dared not speak out when facing the Eighth Prince, but when facing a small guard, they were willing to go all out to vent their anger on Princess Ji'an. Especially when they saw that the guard even drew out his sword, someone immediately shouted loudly - "Murder! A guard killed someone in the street!"
Many more people angrily accused: "You are just a guard, what qualifications do you have to speak to Princess Ji'an like this?"
"There is no place for you to intervene in the dispute between the princess and the prince."
"You are such a shameless guard. A grown man pointing a sword at a little girl. Bah! You have no shame!"
"That's it! Shame on you!"
Accusations and insults came one after another. The guard couldn't hold back his face and turned around to point his sword at the people. But there were so many people, why should they be afraid of him? Soon, he aroused public anger and people attacked him. The old men and women who were carrying baskets took out cabbage stalks, eggs, and potatoes from the baskets and threw them at the guard.
For a while, it was raining "eggs" on the streets, and some of the "raindrops" even fell off-center. An egg was not a big deal, as it "popped" onto the forehead of the Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo and scatter into pieces!
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