"Your Majesty?!"
Although sixteen years had passed, the handsome face of the visitor had changed little. Kang Fulai recognized at a glance that the man in front of him was the owner of the Qiongyu Palace - Imperial Noble Ouyang Yuming.
"I, Kang Fu, come to see the Emperor!"
Kang Fulai, half lying on the ground with his hands covering his chest, bowed slightly and lowered his head towards Ouyang Yuming.
"I'm asking you, where is that baby from back then? Is he dead or alive now?"
Ouyang Yuming bent down and half-knelt in front of Kang Fulai, gently lifted Kang Fulai's chin, and looked at him with a smile in his beautiful phoenix eyes.
Although this noble prince had a beautiful face and a warm smile, Kang Fulai inexplicably felt a chill down his spine. It was as if he were a venomous snake, spitting out its tongue, waiting for its chance to strike, ready to deliver a fatal blow.
"Soon...soon!"
"Oh? How did he die?"
"Of course, according to the Royal Lord's orders, he was thrown into the Lai River to feed the fish, and not a single bone was left..."
“Bang!”
Ouyang Yuming raised his palm and slapped Kang Fulai on the left cheek. Kang Fulai, who was already injured, spat out blood again.
"Since you successfully completed your mission, why didn't you return to the palace to report? Instead, you chose to hide in a remote village for sixteen years under an assumed name? Hmm?"
"The Phoenix Queen gave birth to a civet cat demon child. I... I was afraid that I would end up like the twenty 'Bixia Flying Eagles' and be executed by the Emperor. I had no choice but to hide."
"Excuses! They're all excuses! Since the baby is dead, what about Hua Qingcheng who lives in the Binyue Inn, huh?"
Although the General's Mansion was heavily guarded and Nalan Junxue's men could not get in, Hua Qingcheng was able to come out of the General's Mansion, and Nalan Junxue's men also found out that she was staying at the Binyue Inn in the city.
When Ouyang Yuming received the message from Nalan Junxue outside the palace, he immediately ordered people to go to the Jade Maiden Sect branch of Luosha Sect and issued a reward for the assassination of Hua Qingcheng.
“Bang!”
Ouyang Yuming raised his palm again and slapped Kang Fulai's right cheek, causing both sides of his handsome face to swell up.
"It looks... much better this way!" Ouyang Yuming patted Kang Fulai's face and sneered.
"Your Majesty, the similarities between these things and the similarities between people are just coincidences." Kang Fulai said embarrassedly with his eyes flashing.
“Things are the same, people are similar?”
Ouyang Yuming narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at Kang Fulai with a cold gaze. He had just been deceiving Kang Fulai. After all, the emperor had become suspicious after visiting the General's Mansion, and the only outsider who had recently visited the General's Mansion was the woman named Hua Qingcheng. He hadn't expected that he would actually trick Kang Fulai into revealing something.
Moreover, the name Hua Qingcheng sounded very familiar. She was clearly the peasant girl that the father-in-law had mentioned before, who took him in when he was wandering among the people.
This is very interesting!
This Hua Qingcheng is not only connected to the emperor's father-in-law, but she also has access to the emperor...
Ouyang Yuming glanced at Kang Fulai meaningfully. He just didn't know what kind of similarity Kang Fulai meant. Did Hua Qingcheng resemble the Emperor? Or did she resemble Feng Lingyan?
"Kang Fulai, do you know what the consequences are for betraying me?"
Ouyang Yuming had a ferocious look on his face. He raised his hand and strangled Kang Fulai's neck. He didn't let him go until he was almost dead. He repeated this four or five times.
"Back then, I placed you beside Feng Lingyan, not to help him fight me, but to allow that bitch to die peacefully and unnoticed. Yet, you actually dared to disobey my orders. The evil child born from that bitch isn't dead at all, is it? It's Hua Qingcheng from Huaqiao Village, Fufeng County, right?"
"The Queen's daughter is dead. Even if Your Majesty asks me a hundred times, I will give the same answer. As for Hua Qingcheng, she is just the daughter of a country peasant. Everyone in the village can see this. How could she be the Emperor's bloodline?" Kang Fulai, who was lying on the ground spitting blood, looked at Ouyang Yuming with a determined face.
"Stubborn!"
Ouyang Yuming was very angry and kicked Kang Fulai on the ground several times.
"Mingming, why are you so angry with such a disobedient servant! I'll help you kill him and save you from getting your feet dirty."
Yu Lianhuan walked out of the darkness, came to Ouyang Yuming's side, and touched the base of his thigh.
"No, Huanhuan~"
"Killing this traitorous slave like this is too easy for him! I want him to be unable to live or die!"
"Huanhuan, I'm a Buddhist and can't stand the sight of blood. Help me cut his tendons, then sprinkle half of this powder into his eyes and feed him the other half."
As Ouyang Yuming spoke, he took out a packet of medicine powder from his bosom, took Yu Lianhuan's hand and put it into her palm. This packet of medicine powder was given to him by that woman for self-defense, and he had never been willing to use it.
"I want him to be unable to see, speak, write, or walk, and then I'll throw him into a beggar's den outside the city. Tsk, tsk, tsk, with his handsome appearance, even though he's a bit old, I'm sure those beggar women will be happy to have such a handsome man to share with them!"
In the past, Nalan Yunzhi, enraged by Empress Feng's birth of a civet cat demon, ordered the execution of all the palace maids in Bixia Palace, including the twenty "Bixia Flying Eagles." Kang Fulai, Ouyang Yuming's spy planted by Feng Lingyan, was spared by him under the pretext of castration. However, the person who was castrated and handed over the "treasure" for the emperor's inspection was actually someone else.
"He's really the most vicious husband! But I like it!"
Yu Lianhuan gently lifted Ouyang Yuming's chin and bit him hard on the mouth before letting him go.
The next moment, Yu Lianhuan put away his playful smile, first fed half of the powder in his hand into Kang Fulai's mouth, and then sprinkled the other half into his eyes.
Lying on the ground, Kang Fulai suddenly felt a stinging pain in his eyes and a burning pain in his throat. The severe pain made Kang Fulai roll around on the ground. After a while, he found that his vision became increasingly blurred until it was completely dark, and he could no longer utter a single word.
Taking the dagger presented by the eunuch behind Ouyang Yuming, Yu Lianhuan unsheathed the dagger with a "swish" sound, and then went towards Kang Fulai who was lying on the ground...
After blinding and poisoning Kang Fulai, and cutting his tendons in his hands and feet, Yu Lianhuan put him into a black cloth bag.
In the middle of the night, Yu Lianhuan, carrying the unconscious Kang Fulai, flew out of the Qiongyu Hall of the Imperial Palace like a ghost and headed towards the south of the city.
Before going to the Si family in the south of the city to look for her old lover Nangong Chen, Yu Lianhuan also dropped Kang Fulai off at a beggars' den on the way...
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