"You're looking for your mother, why do you come to my place?" Changping endured the pain, "How would I know where your mother is?"
I must not admit that offending this little girl is the least of my worries. But if Gu Yong really knew that the woman he liked was in my hands, that would be a big deal.
"What are you doing? Get out now. This is the Princess's Mansion. No one is allowed to come in!"
There was chaos inside and chaos outside as well.
A group of soldiers holding torches broke into the princess's mansion. Gu Yonggao, sitting on horseback, said, "I received news that there is an assassin in the princess's mansion. I came here specially to check it out!" As he said that, he ignored the man who was blocking his horse and rode to the inner courtyard of the princess's mansion. At this moment, because of Princess Changping's exclamation, all the servants in the mansion were at the door of her boudoir.
"My Lord, it's right here. The assassin is inside!"
Changping, who was being held hostage by Shen Qingqiu, heard what Jia Ding said outside and wanted to bite his lips off.
But it was too late now. Gu Yong pushed the door open and looked at Princess Changping, who had a wound on her knee and looked pale. He then looked up at the little man in black with a stern face, but thought in his heart: The little girl is quite fast. He had already rushed here without stopping, and it looked like she was about to finish her job.
"My lord, the assassin is right behind me, why haven't you caught him yet!" Changping said angrily.
Gu Yong raised his eyebrows, "Princess, the assassin is holding you hostage. If I take action now, what will happen if the assassin shakes his hand and causes you to lose your reputation?" After Gu Yong said this, Shen Qingqiu also shook his hand in cooperation, and only stabbed the knife that was stabbed in Changping's leg further into the chair.
A normal person would have to use a hammer to poke a knife into wood, but she could even go through human bones with her bare hands.
"The princess saw it," Gu Yong said, and then looked behind him, "You all saw it too. This thief is quite strong. I dare not act rashly."
Changping's face was covered with more and more cold sweat. The pain was so severe that she almost fainted. But how could she faint from such pain!
"Where is my mother?" Shen Qingqiu asked again.
"How would I know where your mother is? I am not a constable nor a county magistrate. If you want to know where your mother is, go and report to the authorities!"
Shen Qingqiu smiled, "I didn't expect that a spoiled noble lady would have a man like you..." As she spoke, her eyebrows turned cold, "You don't care about your legs, but your face is okay..." As she spoke, she used the knife to touch her face. The breath sprayed on her face made Changping feel extremely terrified.
"I see the nose is in the middle of the face. How about I cut it off as a souvenir?"
Changping shuddered instantly, "You don't dare?"
Shen Qingqiu looked cold and was about to cut her nose with a knife, "Then just watch."
Just like stabbing her leg, she did not hesitate. Changping looked at the horrified expression on her face and said, "In the warehouse, your mother is in my warehouse!" As soon as he finished speaking, his nose tip hurt, and then drops of blood fell. Changping thought that his nose was really cut off.
The Crown Princess' dream was shattered in an instant, she screamed and fainted.
Gu Yong nodded at Shen Qingqiu, and Shen Qingqiu put down his knife and walked to Gu Yong. Gu Yong was too lazy to pretend at this moment, "The thief has been captured by me, take your princess to find the imperial physician quickly."
The maids and servants below clearly saw that the great Marquis Gu was holding the hand of the little assassin and walking away. What did they mean by "capture"? But the princess had fainted, so how could the servants dare to say anything? They wanted to help her up from the chair, but they found that the chair and the princess's legs were pierced by the knife. If no one rushed to pry them apart, who would be responsible for the princess's broken legs? "Quick, go find the imperial physician!" Changping's personal maid hurriedly took out a waist badge for entering the palace from under her bedside.
He handed it to the housekeeper in the mansion, who hurriedly took a carriage to the palace to find the imperial physician.
The Princess's Mansion was in chaos, while Shen Qingqiu and Gu Yong had already reached the warehouse. There were still two guards there, and before they could stop them, they ordered Gu Yong's men to overturn them. They kicked open the door of the warehouse, but what they saw was jaw-dropping.
The storehouse in the princess's mansion is so huge that you can't see the end of it at a glance.
Walking inside, the two sides were like prisons, filled with women, all kinds of women, with dishevelled hair and numb expressions, and most importantly, they were all naked. If you look closely, you will see that these women are all pretty, with tender and fair skin, which is not something that a poor family can raise.
When Gu Yong and the others came in, these women were numb and didn't even scream.
Gu Yong was startled, but he walked faster, searching for Liu. He only found Liu in the last room. Fortunately, her clothes were still intact. Many women next to her room were also wearing clothes. When they saw someone coming, they didn't look numb like those women, but shrank back with fear.
"Ayun, wake up."
Gu Yong gently patted Liu's face and called her maiden name, but Liu just frowned in pain and did not wake up.
"She has been crying since she came here. She has been given medicine several times. I am afraid she will not wake up now." A woman lying next to the cage said. Gu Yong looked up and nodded at her.
He picked up Liu again and prepared to leave.
"Sir, sir, please save us too!" When the women saw Liu asking someone to take her away, they also shouted.
Shen Qingqiu took the knife and cut the prison chain directly, and then loudly ordered the soldiers brought by Gu Yong to take off their outer robes. Then he handed them to the naked women in front one by one. Gu Yong brought a total of 70 to 80 soldiers, and the number of these women was almost the same.
When they saw Shen Qingqiu handing them clothes, their confused expressions finally cleared up a bit.
He took the clothes and put them on, and after a while he started crying loudly.
"Don't cry, you have a home to go back to. Those who have a home to go back to should go home quickly."
Some were abducted like Liu, and were from the capital, so they returned immediately. Some were women from other places, kneeling on the ground and crying, "My little girl, my father is a wealthy businessman in Hangzhou, and I am his only daughter. If you send me back, I will definitely repay you."
Some of them were daughters of high-ranking officials who had made mistakes and had just been demoted or imprisoned.
These women were supposed to be waiting for their fate with their father, but now they are all in the prison of the princess's mansion.
They were homeless, and they couldn't be sent to another prison at this moment. Shen Qingqiu asked Tu Jiu to rent a courtyard in the suburbs not far from the capital at a low price, and temporarily settled these women there. Then he hurriedly caught up with Gu Yong, because Liu was still unconscious, and it was not easy to find a doctor at night.
The marquis's mansion had a hired doctor, so he took Liu directly home.
The doctor felt her pulse and said, "It's fine. This girl just drank some potion for a few days and was too frightened to wake up. She just needs to take good care of herself for a few days."
Gu Yong felt relieved and asked the doctor to prescribe medicine. Then he sat in front of Liu's bed and held her hand tightly.
Shen Qingqiu's worried eyes fell on her mother's face, and after a moment he gritted his teeth again, "That woman is really hateful!" Although he hadn't interrogated her yet, it was not difficult to guess why Changping kept so many women.
It is no exaggeration to say that this princess has a heart of a vicious snake, and it is no exaggeration to say that the storehouse in the princess's mansion is a hell on earth.
Gu Yong listened to Shen Qingqiu's angry words and put down Liu's hand. It was wrong for him to indulge in the love affair at this moment. He had to give an explanation for breaking into the princess's mansion before dawn, and Shen Qingqiu had to give an explanation for stabbing the princess.
"Your mother is my soon-to-be wife, Qiu'er, did you know that?" Gu Yong patted Shen Qingqiu's shoulder and said so.
Shen Qingqiu was not stupid, he knew this was an excuse.
Otherwise, even if the Marquis behind Gu Yong broke into the Princess's residence in the middle of the night for no reason, he would still be held accountable.
"I will record you in the family tree and change your surname. From now on, you will take my surname Gu. If you were the daughter of the Gu family, the emperor would not punish you severely." Shen Qingqiu was stunned when she said this. She didn't expect that he would still think about her, a person who was not related to him by blood, at this time.
On the other side, Changping also woke up, and the first thing he did was to look in the mirror.
Only after seeing that the tip of his nose was not cut off and only had a light bloodstain did he feel relieved.
"Go to the palace, go in quickly, I want to find the emperor, I want to find my aunt!" Gu Yong is a marquis, so what? He dared to break into the princess's house at night, is he going to turn the world upside down! His leg bone was pierced, although it was not a broken leg, but if his son went out now, his leg would hurt.
Changping was also a ruthless man. He asked the people in the palace to carry him onto the sedan chair. He treated the wound on his leg and knocked on the palace gate before dawn.
The royal princess was covered in blood and knocking on the door. The gatekeeper didn't dare to stop her and hurriedly helped the servants of the princess's mansion to carry the person into the palace.
At this time, the son had not yet arrived for the morning court, and the emperor had just gotten up. At this time, the son was wearing the dragon robe under the help of the eunuchs, preparing to go to the morning court. Just as he rinsed his mouth, the eunuch outside knelt in with a plop, "Your Majesty!"
The emperor was frightened.
"What's the matter? Why are you making a fuss here so early in the morning?" The emperor straightened his sleeves and looked at the eunuchs below.
"Princess Changping, I'm here to file a complaint with the Emperor!"
The emperor's eyebrows moved, "Who to sue?"
"Gu... Lord Gu!"
Gu Yong?! How could these two people who have nothing in common be torn together? Emperors are suspicious, especially Gu Yong, who holds military power. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has power over the government and the country. Thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind at once, and he ordered, "First, inform the court officials that today's morning court session will be postponed."
He then ordered the eunuch beside him, "Go and invite the queen over."
Not to mention that Changping was a female relative and the niece of Empress Pei, she had to be called over anyway.
"Your Majesty, Aunt, please help Changping!" Princess Changping climbed down from the sedan chair as soon as she entered the palace. She knelt on the ground, crying pitifully. The wounds on her body and the red blood on her nose were really shocking for a princess of the royal family!
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