The onlookers, who usually enjoy watching gossip, never expected to be so disappointed this time!
Everyone gasped in surprise and instinctively moved away from the injured person, creating a small vacuum around them, leaving them to cover their bloodied mouths and scream in agony.
Some people in the crowd from other directions, sensing something was wrong, turned and tried to slip away.
Unfortunately, there were just too many onlookers, which severely hampered their retreat.
After removing the gold hairpin from her own head, Ji Fengyao also removed the hairpins from Lin Shuang, Bai Lu, and Xi Que's heads, throwing them into the surrounding crowd. Each one hit its mark, injuring more than a dozen people instantly.
At first, some people dared to shout, "The Ninth Princess has hurt someone!" But after that person was also injured in the shoulder by Ji Fengyao's hairpin, no one dared to shout or scream anymore.
People were all alarmed.
This is a real bandit; even the Emperor and the Ninth Prince don't care about her. She's the kind of person who would actually kill someone in the street!
"Bring them all out!"
With a sharp shout from Ji Fengyao, Wuying and Wuhen led the way, leaping into the crowd and picking up those injured by the hairpins like chicks, then throwing them heavily onto the open ground in front of the carriage.
The dozen or so men were thrown around by the guards until their bones were almost broken, and most of them were so frightened that they trembled and dared not utter a sound.
Only the man with the pointed face and monkey-like features, who had hidden the hairpin that had stabbed him, covered his mouth and shouted indistinctly, "What do you want to do? Not only did you injure us for no reason, but you also want to kill us in the street in front of so many people?"
Ji Fengyao jumped out of the carriage and asked the guard in charge of driving, "Did you bring a riding whip?"
"Yes, Your Highness," the guard replied respectfully, taking a horsewhip with a gold-embroidered handle from the bench under the carriage.
Ji Fengyao took it and swung it twice, the tip of the whip making a sharp whistling sound in the air.
"Wow, Miss, your martial arts have recovered!" Xi Que was overjoyed, even happier than if her own martial arts had improved.
“Not fully recovered yet, but I can still whip people without any problem,” Ji Fengyao said, shaking the whip in her hand as she walked up to the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man and looked down at him condescendingly: “You’re a tough nut to crack. I admire opponents like you. It’s perfect to take a few more lashes to vent my anger.”
"Ninth Princess Consort, you...you really dare to kill me?" the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man exclaimed in surprise.
"Killing you is like stepping on a bug to me. I'm a bandit, what wouldn't I dare to do?" Ji Fengyao said slowly, leisurely taking out her dragon pendant and the Empress Dowager's gold badge with the character "Yi" and hanging them on her waist. Then she suddenly lashed out with her whip, lashing the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man more than ten times like a storm.
Before the man could react, Ji Fengyao's merciless whip lashed him, sending him spinning like a top across the ground. He didn't even have time to catch his breath before his clothes were instantly torn to shreds and soaked in blood.
At this moment, Zhao Yin Xiong Yingxiang, who had inexplicably received a report of a murder, arrived at the scene.
Seeing that only the Emperor had left in the procession, while all the other civil and military officials were still gathered around watching the Ninth Prince's wife commit violence in the street, and that the Ninth Prince was sitting in his carriage without doing anything to stop her, he was immediately at his wit's end. In his heart, he cursed the ancestors of that damned mysterious informant for eighteen generations.
He can't possibly manage this matter. How many lives does he have to dare to lay a finger on the Ninth Prince and provoke him?
He doesn't care, he's openly derelict in his duty in front of the whole world!
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