336 Entering the city, the storm is coming
Silence!
The Ninth Prince was going to kill all those who knew about this. Feng Qingchen was shocked and quickly sat up straight. He turned his head and said seriously, "Ninth Prince, they are just helping me. They don't know much. I didn't tell anyone about the plan."
She understood the Ninth Uncle's thoughts and his concerns, but she could not agree with them and could not do it.
Those people were just working for her. If she really wanted to wipe out all the people involved, the first ones to die would be Su Wenqing and Sun Zhengdao. How could she do that?
The Ninth Prince knew Feng Qingchen would say this, and held Feng Qingchen's body down: "Okay, don't worry about this matter, I will take care of the rest."
A thousand-mile dam can be breached by a small negligence. A small negligence may cost a life. The Ninth Prince is unwilling to gamble with Feng Qingchen's safety.
"No, don't kill them. They don't know about this. Even if they can guess something, I believe they won't tell anyone. They are innocent." Feng Qingchen's face turned pale and she hurriedly grabbed the Ninth Uncle's clothes. She didn't care about the life and death of strangers, but she really couldn't bear to watch the people around her die because of her.
"Innocent? Feng Qingchen, is it too late to be soft-hearted now? With the loud noise just now, not only Li Xiang died, but also many innocent palace maids, eunuchs, and even guards." The Ninth Prince said sarcastically. He did not want to hurt Feng Qingchen, but just wanted her to understand that this is how the world is. If you want to live, you should not care about insignificant people.
There are no innocent people in this world, and no one who died unjustly. If you want to blame someone, just blame it on their bad luck.
Today Feng Qingchen can implicate innocent people because of Li Xiang. Similarly, tomorrow someone will implicate Feng Qingchen for killing another person. Those people will not stop killing people because of Feng Qingchen.
"No, I didn't kill innocent people. The time of the explosion and the range of the bomb were calculated accurately by me. At that time, Li Xiang was the only one in the hall, and people outside the hall would never be implicated. You saw that the fire cloud was rolling violently, but in fact the lethality was not great. As long as there was a room between them, those people would not die, at most they would be injured. The only person who died today was Li Xiang." Feng Qingchen explained hurriedly.
She is not kind but she does not kill indiscriminately. She is not hypocritical but acts according to her conscience. For those who have not hurt her, she will do her best not to hurt innocent people. If innocent people are really implicated, she will not cry hypocritically and blame herself.
For ten days, she observed Li Xiang's living habits and calculated the best time to take action, just to minimize the damage.
Implicating innocent people and actively killing people who knew the truth were completely different concepts. She couldn't bring herself to kill Sun Zhengdao and Su Wenqing because these two people helped her. If they died as a result, how could she face Sun Sixing and Su Wenhang?
The Ninth Prince snorted coldly, neither agreeing nor rejecting. Feng Qingchen said again: "Ninth Prince, I will clean up the subsequent hidden dangers myself." She is not the Ninth Prince, she cannot do such a thing as abandoning the donkey after it has done its work.
Moreover, Sun Zhengdao and Su Wenqing had already known that helping her with this was extremely dangerous, but they agreed without any hesitation. Just for this reason, she would not take any action against these two people.
"How will you deal with it? Warn them one by one or let them die in the "sky fire" like Li Xiang? Feng Qingchen, don't be naive. If you deal with those people, you will leave more clues behind, and the secret of your making the thunder bomb will be exposed earlier.
Feng Qingchen, this matter is no longer under your control, nor is it your business alone. Don't worry about the rest. I will handle it. As for those you don't want to kill, I will let them go. I hope they will take care of themselves and don't give me a reason to kill them. "The Ninth Prince held Feng Qingchen down, not allowing her to refuse, and took over the matter directly.
This matter is of great importance, and he is not acting just for Feng Qingchen. If Feng Qingchen falls into the hands of someone else, it will also be a blow to him.
Feng Qingchen thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
The Ninth Prince was very satisfied with Feng Qingchen's obedience: "Sit down, we are going into the city."
The city gates were closed and a long queue had formed at the gate. Carriages and people were mixed together. Everyone was getting impatient waiting, but no one dared to curse or make trouble. The people should not fight against the officials. It was not the first time that the city gates had been closed. At most, everyone gathered together to chat, speaking louder and with more aggressive tones.
The Ninth Prince saw this from afar and loosened the reins to slow down the horse to prevent it from jumping up and hurting anyone. He did so without any intention but instinctively. This was his innate dignity and elegance.
Feng Qingchen nodded, thinking that although this man was cold-blooded and ruthless, he did not have the arrogance and contempt for the common people like the royal children. At least he treated the common people as human beings.
But there is a kind of person who can make the people submit to him and respect him even if he is approachable and does not show off his status and style. The aura surrounding the Ninth Prince is so impressive that even the princes and grandchildren would be convinced, not to mention ordinary people.
When Feng Qingchen and the Ninth Prince appeared on horseback, everyone didn't think anything was wrong at first, and looked away immediately. But as the two approached, everyone realized that they were different...
Especially the man on horseback, he said nothing and even his eyes were cold, but he made people inexplicably awe-inspiring. He exuded an aura of dignity that made them yearn for and fear.
The atmosphere outside the city gate suddenly changed, as if it were two different worlds. Those who were chatting fell silent, those who were staggering stood up unconsciously, those who were casually sitting on the ground got up, and the carefree men became uneasy in an instant. The women pulled their sleeves, dusted off, and smoothed out the folds on their clothes from time to time. They all wanted to see the person on the horse clearly, but after seeing the Ninth Prince, they lowered their heads one by one, not daring to breathe.
Looking at the awe-filled eyes and cowardly expressions of these people, Feng Qingchen couldn't help but think of the situations when he entered the city early in the morning several times before. It must be said that people have different fates.
They are all human beings, so why is there such a big gap? Feng Qingchen was sure that even if the Ninth Prince came into the city in dishevel early in the morning, these people would not dare to look at him with presumptuous eyes or hurt him with vicious words.
Thinking of this, Feng Qingchen's mood suddenly became low for no reason. Every time she went into the city early in the morning, nothing good happened. This time, with the Ninth Prince being here, she wondered if she would be unlucky.
"What are you worried about? I'm here for you no matter how big the problem is." The Ninth Prince thought that Feng Qingchen was worried about what would happen next, so he quietly held her hand and comforted her.
The matter is not as serious as he said. He just exaggerated it in order to keep Feng Qingchen. Li Xiang is already dead. What is really painful is the anger of Nanling, Xiling and Beiling. The emperor will be very busy. No matter what, the emperor will not ignore the country for Feng Qingchen.
Feng Qingchen did not explain, but quietly sat up straight. In her plan, there was no Ninth Uncle, and there was no plan to ride into the city with the Ninth Uncle, so she did not know what she would face after entering the city...