Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 39: Yu Zhen Cried in Anger (Part )

Following Gou Xiangxi's loud shout.

Inside the warehouse, a big man dragged out the bruised and battered Hai steward like a dead dog.

Butler Hai, who was originally dying, was like seeing a savior when he came out and saw Princess Yuzhen. He crawled to Yuzhen's feet, hugged her thighs and began to cry.

"Your Highness, you have to make the decision for me! These damn people really beat me to death. Look at my teeth. Ouch~~~ I have always been loyal to you. How dare I embezzle a single cent from your house? Those money are clearly mine..."

"That's enough, shut up! Where's the money?"

Yu Zhen yelled with a dark face, then looked at Butler Hai who was holding her legs and crying, with disgust in her eyes, and kicked him away.

Gou Xiangxi pointed at the butler Hai who was kicked to the side, looked at Yu Zhen and said, "Everyone in the mansion, if there is someone who can deceive the superiors and the subordinates to the point that even Your Highness doesn't know, it must be Hai Huaiyi! Now that he is here, Your Highness, how do you think we should deal with him?"

Hearing the voice, the old steward Hai shuddered, and lay on the ground without getting up, crying and trembling. The wounds on his body oozed blood, staining his clothes red. He looked so miserable, and kept muttering: "Your Highness, I have served Concubine Zhen for twenty years, and have been at your service for ten years. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. My life is miserable. You must make decisions for me..."

Gou Xiangxi's questioning and the tears of Butler Hai made Yu Zhen irritated but unable to hide her sympathy.

No matter what, Butler Hai did nothing wrong. He was an old man in the palace who had watched her grow up. She could not be bullied by an outsider under any circumstances!

She calmed herself down and was about to speak...

But at this moment, Gou Xiangxi suddenly walked quickly towards the butler Hai Lao who was lying on the ground, pulled out a knife from the waist of the guard beside him, with a ferocious look on his face, and stabbed the butler Hai Lao in the heart from the back with his backhand.

"Pfft!"

No one expected this sudden attack, and no one could react.

Butler Ebi slowly lowered his head in disbelief, looked at the white blade piercing his chest, and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

He raised his head with difficulty, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and reached out to Yu Zhen with his blood-stained hand: "Your Highness..."

When the bright red blood splashed before his eyes, Yu Zhen's mind went blank and he stared at the scene in a daze.

Gou Xiangxi remained calm, drew his sword, and stabbed again.

"puff!"

"puff!"

"..."

He stabbed her several times in a row until the old butler's eyes lost all light, his raised hand dropped limply, and he was completely dead and motionless.

Gou Xiangxi finally drew his knife and wiped the blood off his face. His ugly face was like a demon, and he grinned at Yu Zhen, revealing a few yellow teeth: "I almost forgot, I am receiving monthly salary from the boss, and I am following the boss's orders, why should I discuss this with Your Highness? You say..."

When the blade turned, it pointed towards Yu Zhen.

"Is that the truth?"

Yu Zhen seemed to have come back to her soul. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the silent Hai Lao steward on the ground, then looked at Gou Xiangxi whose face was covered in blood. She was so shocked and angry that she stared at Gou Xiangxi with her eyes wide open and filled with anger. She looked like a volcano about to erupt.

She pointed at Gou Xiangxi, her chest heaving violently, her breathing rapid and heavy: "How dare you..."

Yeah, how dare he?

He is just a dog of Zhao Qi'an!

Even Zhao Qi'an doesn't dare to act like this in front of me. He's a slave, a dog...

Facing Yu Zhen's accusation, Gou Xiangxi calmly put the bloody knife in his hand back into the guard's scabbard and said in a deep voice: "The country has its own laws, and the family has its own rules. Killing a family slave is a warning to others. Killing him is not a pity!"

"Somebody come!"

Yu Zhen shouted loudly, and the guards from the princess's mansion rushed out one after another.

She pointed at Gou Xiangxi and cursed, "Aren't you just a slave? If you dare to kill my slave, I will kill you! Capture him for me!"

"Who dares to kill me!!!"

Facing the many guards of the princess's mansion, Gou Xiangxi roared, and the guards around the princess's mansion stopped in their tracks. He glared, took out the fish talisman from his arms, and held it high:

"I am a disciple of the emperor! I won the first place in the imperial examination in the 36th year of Tianwu. I never kneel before an official and I never receive any punishment. Who dares to come forward and kill me?!"

All the guards were stunned. They never expected that the man in front of them had such honors.

The imperial examination was held every four years. Countless scholars from Daqian Kingdom flocked to it, but how many people could pass the exam? And how many people could enter the top three among all the Jinshi?
This short, ugly man was actually the top scholar among all the scholars?!
Seeing the guards beside him hesitate to move forward, Yu Zhen immediately became anxious and shouted, "You dogs, didn't you hear my order? Kill him for me!"

This……

The guards looked at each other in confusion.

If a scholar passes the imperial examination, it is equivalent to holding an official position. Killing him is equivalent to killing the official!

For a moment, none of the nearly one hundred guards in the courtyard dared to step forward.

"A bunch of useless trash!"

Yu Zhen was furious and snatched the knife from the guard beside her: "If you don't kill me, I will do it myself!"

She was about to move towards Gou Xiangxi with a knife in hand, but the burly men stepped forward and blocked her way again.

"Get out of the way!"

She got angry and chopped at the strong man in front of her without caring about anything.

But the strong man did not dodge or evade, allowing the knife to hit his body.

Yu Zhen used all his strength in this strike, but when the knife fell, the imagined scene of blood and flesh flying did not happen.

All I could hear was a clanging sound, like the sound of metal clashing.

The blade cut through the big man's clothes and touched his shoulder, but only left a shallow white mark on his shoulder.

On the contrary, Yu Zhen felt pain in the palm of his hand due to the huge recoil force brought by the knife. As soon as he let go, the knife flew out.

"Ha ha……"

She covered the base of her right hand, tears coming out of her eyes due to the pain, but she heard a burst of laughter beside her.

She raised her head in disbelief, tears welling up in her red eyes, only to see the guards pointing at her and laughing at something.

Not only the guards brought by Gou Xiangxi, but also the guards of the princess's mansion... many of them were laughing.

Are they... making fun of me?

I am a princess, and these lowly slaves... are they making fun of me?
Yu Zhen's mind went blank, and a feeling he had never felt before surged into his heart.

Her nose felt sore and she didn't want to stay here anymore. She bit her lip and turned to leave.

Behind him, Gou Xiangxi's voice came loudly:
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will investigate all the money in the Princess's mansion, no matter if it is a thousand or twenty thousand taels... or even a copper coin!"

……

That night, Gou Xiangxi came to Zhao Qi'an's courtyard.

"My boss."

He no longer had the arrogance he had during the day, and when he looked at Zhao Qian'an, like a humble servant, his eyes were full of awe and longing.

Zhao Qi'an nodded slightly and gestured towards the chair opposite him:
"sit."

I have something to inform you all. The book will be renamed tomorrow and will be changed to "Lying dormant in the capital for ten years, the world calls me the Night Emperor".

The reason for changing the name is that the original title is a bit inconsistent with the content of the book... Readers have reported this and the editor has also mentioned it, so after much thought, I decided to change it.

I am very sorry for causing trouble to you all, and I hope you don’t recognize the wrong book~
Finally, I beg everyone to continue reading and pamper your children, godfathers!
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(End of this chapter)