In the blink of an eye, Shang Xiye's voice turned as cold as ice: "Who ordered you to do this!"
"This servant doesn't know. This servant is only responsible for serving the dishes. These dishes were not cooked by this servant," one of the palace maids answered, kneeling on the ground and trembling. With one sentence, she shifted the blame entirely to the cooks in the kitchen.
"Bring everyone from the kitchen over here," Shang Xiye ordered Wuying and Wuhen behind him in a deep voice.
“Yes, Your Highness!” Wuying and Wuhen replied.
Both men were close to Shang Xiye, so they naturally knew that the initial show of force was crucial when arriving in a new place. Seeing Hei Xiao present, they went together to arrest the person.
A short while later, Wuying and Wuhen returned empty-handed with a group of guards, their faces extremely grim.
Shang Xiye frowned slightly and asked with his eyes.
Wu Ying glanced at Ji Fengyao with apprehension, then clasped his hands in a low voice and said, "Your Highness, you should go and see for yourself."
Apart from the clueless Xique and the somewhat naive Bailu, everyone else present was astute. Seeing Wuying's expression, they understood that someone must have died in the kitchen.
"Tie him up," Shang Xiye's voice grew even colder, almost freezing.
"Your Highness, spare us! We really didn't know anything, it has nothing to do with us!" Two palace maids struggled and cried for mercy in the hands of several guards. Seeing that everyone in the room was unmoved, and knowing that they could not escape this calamity, one of the palace maids stuck out her tongue and tried to bite it off to commit suicide.
Black Owl had anticipated this move and swiftly struck their pressure points.
The palace maid's tongue had barely touched her teeth when she was paralyzed with fear, her eyes filled with utter terror.
The Ninth Prince's reputation is well-known. It is said that he has been involved in border battles since childhood, and started leading troops into battle when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. Every enemy who falls into his hands has to give something back.
Shang Xiye glanced at the palace maid who was trying to bite her tongue and commit suicide as if she were a dead person, and then casually looked away: "Take her away."
"Your Highness, I'll go too," Ji Fengyao said, quickly chasing after Shang Xiye when she saw that he didn't intend to take her with him.
"Your Highness, that scene is rather disgusting, you'd better not go," Wuying whispered a reminder.
"When we robbed and killed those corrupt officials before, we saw all sorts of gruesome scenes, like intestines being ripped out. It's just a dead person, is it any more disgusting than that? If Miss wants to go, we'll go." Xi Que put his arm around Ji Fengyao's arm and said with great bravado, "Miss, let's go!"
Therefore, a girl must have one like Lin Shuang and Bai Lu, and she must also have one like Xi Que!
Ji Fengyao and Xi Que, exuding a bandit-like air, flicked their sleeves and took the lead, looking as if they were rushing to seize a treasure.
The two rushed to the kitchen door and looked inside. Ji Fengyao paused and stepped back, saying to Lin Shuang and Bai Lu, who were still a few feet away, "You two just wait there and don't come any closer."
Lin Shuang and Bai Lu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if they had been granted a pardon. They really didn't dare to look at dead people.
"What's wrong?" Shang Xiye saw the little bandit girl stopping her maid and assumed she was also frightened.
"Well... Miss, Master, I probably don't feel like eating meat lately," even Xi Que said with a strange look as she retreated from the kitchen.
Seeing that even the usually bold Magpie was acting this way, Shang Xiye and Hei Xiao stepped forward at the same time and glanced into the filthy kitchen from the doorway. After seeing the situation inside, even the two seasoned veterans couldn't help but frown deeply.
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