At this moment, the guards who were encoffining the corpses nearby reacted and quickly stepped forward to subdue the female assassin.
The female assassin, blood trickling from her mouth and nose, struggled to look at Ji Fengyao in disbelief: "You're not a bandit! How can your martial arts be so good? No bandit has such good martial arts. Who are you?"
"It's terrible to be uncultured. Mountain bandits make a living by fighting. If you weren't good at martial arts, you would have been beheaded long ago. Why would you wait to go to the capital for me to assassinate you? You should be reincarnated in your next life and study more." Ji Fengyao was in a good mood after finally hitting someone.
“Miss, Miss, your martial arts skills have indeed improved! You look even more powerful than before!” Xi Que happily stepped forward.
"That's right, I've been diligently studying last night and all day. If my martial arts don't improve, wouldn't it make me look too stupid?" Ji Fengyao shook her head and pretended to be dumb.
Gao Chengwei and the Imperial Guards: "..."
If you can improve your martial arts skills like this in just one day and one night, then what have they become after years of training?
After Gao Chengwei returned to the palace, he reported the assassination of the Ninth Prince and the destruction of Song Family Village.
Shang Xiche was shocked, and the thought filled him with dread.
It was bad enough that these people assassinated the Ninth Prince right under his nose, but to commit such a heinous act as destroying a manor was practically telling him that they had become powerful enough to not even fear him, the emperor.
At that time in Kyoto, the number of people who dared to assassinate the Ninth Prince could be counted on one hand!
"It seems that the Ninth Prince cannot be touched for the time being. You did the right thing today, very well," Shang Xiche said in a low voice, barely paying attention to his hand.
Gao Chengwei lowered his head knowingly and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, as long as the Ninth Prince doesn't rebel, he doesn't want to confront him.
The Empress was even more shocked upon receiving the news.
She only ordered that Yu Ying's family be killed, not that the entire manor be slaughtered!
Who on earth would frame her like this?
Could it be one of the other princes who covet the position of Crown Prince?
After returning to her residence from Songjiazhuang, Ji Fengyao went straight to Yu Ying's Chunhen Pavilion.
Sure enough, when Xique lifted the bed sheet, she saw a large wooden box shining brightly under the bed.
Ji Fengyao: "..."
Isn't this too obvious? She thought there might be a hidden compartment or something under the bed.
I opened the box and rummaged through it.
Besides many valuable gold and silver jewelry, land, shops, and houses, there was also a stack of secret letters.
The secret letters originally had no beginning or end, and each one ended with an instruction to burn it after reading it; Yu Yingfei did not burn these secret letters, but instead clearly marked the date of delivery and how and by whom the secret letters were delivered.
Yu Ying didn't utter the word "Empress" completely before she died, but she mouthed it again as she breathed her last.
Although Ji Fengyao couldn't read lips, she could still understand these two simple words.
It seems that all the people Yu Ying marked are related to the Empress.
Ji Fengyao held the stack of secret letters in her hand and weighed them in her hand:
The person bestowed by the Emperor was actually the Empress's spy.
Heh, interesting.
Ji Fengyao handed these secret letters to Shang Xiye. After reading them, Shang Xiye shook his head: "The Chen family's ancestors were founding heroes of the Great Zhao Dynasty, and their influence in the Great Zhao Dynasty is deeply rooted. As long as the Chen family does not fall, the Eastern Palace will not fall, and the Empress will remain standing. These pieces of evidence are not enough to shake the Empress, but they can be kept as evidence to bring her down in the future."
"No rush, no rush," Ji Fengyao waved her hand dismissively.
She hasn't earned enough money from the Chen family yet, how could she be hoping for their downfall?
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