After failing the imperial examination, he began to wield immense power after entering the palace!

Li Fan smiled and shook his head: "No need, it's just investigating two minor assassins, no need to go to the Ministry of Justice."

"Men, pull down these two's pants."

The Imperial Guards were taken aback.

But they still stepped forward and quickly pulled down the pants of the two assassins.

Li Fan, carrying the still-dripping blood knife, slowly walked up to the two of them.

He crouched down and glanced at their crotches, as if examining a piece of meat ready to be cut.

"Our family will have them publicly purified."

These words were spoken.

The eyes of everyone present turned strange.

Especially Zhang Miaozhen, who just moments ago fought six men single-handedly and made them cry for their parents.

At this moment, she seemed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her whole body stiffening, and an unnatural blush rose on her wheat-colored face.

She instinctively turned her head to look, and the two full curves of her chest rose and fell violently a few times due to her rapid breathing.

"Father-in-law, this public castration is an abuse of vigilante justice..."

Li Fan maintained his smile: "Miss Zhang, His Majesty is waiting for news from us. We don't have that much time to waste here."

"If you don't want me to investigate the case, I'll go back to the palace right now and tell His Majesty to convict Zhang Xuan of colluding with the Tartars."

"Ms. Zhang, what do you think?"

Zhang Miaozhen suddenly fell silent.

Looking at Li Fan's smiling face, a chill ran through her.

The gentler the eunuch's smile, the more ruthless he is when he strikes.

But can she say no?

My father is still in the Ministry of Justice prison, waiting for his case to be overturned.

"It's entirely up to you, Father-in-law."

She immediately turned around, and under her tight-fitting clothes, her round and perky peach-shaped buttocks stretched out in a breathtaking arc.

Li Fan glanced at her back and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and start cutting! This is our first time performing a hymenectomy, we're still getting used to it, so we need to watch the knife carefully."

Two imperial guards, steeling themselves, stepped forward and separated the legs of the two assassins.

The two men felt a chill run down their groin, and the hairs on their bodies stood on end.

"That damned eunuch..."

Li Fan crouched down and lightly sliced ​​the inside of one of the men's thighs with the back of his knife.

The back of the knife was icy cold, but the man shuddered violently as if he had been branded with a hot iron.

"No, no, you damned eunuch, you..."

Li Fan interrupted him with a smile:

"Don't be nervous. Although this is the first time our family has performed castration, we are very careful and won't let you die immediately."

"Yes, we'll cut it slowly, one slice at a time, starting with the eggshell and then carefully scooping it out."

"By the way, go find a doctor. If anything happens to him along the way, we can have the doctor save him, and then we can continue the surgery."

"After you're done cutting, seal the wound with wax. I guarantee you won't die."

"We guarantee that the whole process will last at least two hours."

Zhang Miaozhen frowned repeatedly as she listened. This eunuch from the palace was indeed psychologically twisted, and the things he did were simply chilling.

"Two hours..."

The assassin's face was as white as paper.

When he was a suicide squad member, he considered being killed by a single blow, poisoned, or even subjected to slow slicing.

But I never imagined that I would be castrated in public by a eunuch!

Castration should be done slowly!

"I'll talk! I'll talk! It was Consort Xie who sent them!"

Upon hearing this, Li Fan immediately sneered. He pressed the knife in his hand down, the tip of the blade touching the man's pouch.

Icy cold!

"Hey, can you be a little more professional when you're framing someone?"

"It's alright, you can keep weaving. We'll cut the branches while you weave, it won't delay anything."

"Ah, no! No!"

The assassin completely broke down; a heat rose in his groin, and he urinated.

Urine streamed down his thighs and onto the floor, filling the air with a foul, fishy smell.

"I confess! I really confess!"

"We come from an assassin organization called the White Tiger Hall. We were hired by a wealthy patron to kill this family!"

"Our patron said that if anything goes wrong and we get caught, we should say that Consort Xie sent us!"

"It was the gang leader who gave us the mission. We don't know who the big spender is. We're only responsible for killing. Please don't castrate me, I beg you, sir..."

Zhang Miaozhen's eyes immediately turned cold.

The assassin organization could only have wiped out her family because of her father; those people really wanted to exterminate her entire family!

Li Fan stared into the assassin's eyes for three seconds to make sure he wasn't lying before slowly sheathing his knife.

"I hope you're not lying, otherwise, our family really might have to castrate you."

"Now tell me, where is the White Tiger Hall?"

The assassin stammered, "There's a manor in the eastern suburbs called White Garden, which is the White Tiger Hall's stronghold in the capital..."

Li Fan turned to the leader of the Imperial Guards and gave the following instructions:

"Take some men to the eastern suburbs and surround that White Garden. Don't let a single one escape."

"yes!"

The Imperial Guard leader accepted the order and led half of his men away in a whistle.

Li Fan then turned around and looked at Zhang Miaozhen.

"Miss Zhang, would you be interested in coming with us to the Ministry of Justice prison to see your father?"

Zhang Miaozhen gripped the silver spear tightly and took a deep breath.

"it is good."

……

Inside the carriage.

The two sat facing each other.

Zhang Miaozhen was extremely tall, and when she sat down, there was nowhere to put her long legs, so she could only stretch them out at an angle.

The toes of the deerskin boots almost touched Li Fan's calves.

The dark blue outfit was stretched even tighter because of the sitting posture, and the muscle lines of the thighs were faintly visible through the thin fabric, making them look both strong and smooth.

With a slender waist and full breasts, she resembled a female leopard curled up in a cage, exuding a powerful and dangerous beauty.

Li Fan glanced at her legs, then quickly looked away and asked:

"Miss Zhang, who do you think framed your father?"

Zhang Miaozhen clenched her fists immediately.

His phoenix eyes blazed with fury, like two leaping flames.

"Who else could it be besides Ryu Jung-seong, that incompetent general who doesn't know how to fight?"

"This campaign against the Tartars should never have been led by a civil official who had never commanded troops before. I don't know why the Empress recommended him in the first place?"

"Now that they've lost, they want to shift the blame onto their father—how shameless!"

Li Fan leaned against the car wall and spoke slowly:

"Miss Zhang, our family can help you find out the truth and clear your father's name."

"But do you know why, out of so many generals fighting in Liaodong, it was your father who stepped forward to take the blame?"

Zhang Miaozhen was stunned, and the anger in her phoenix eyes froze for a moment.

Why?

Li Fan looked at her and said, word by word:

"Because your father has no power or influence."

"He came from a poor family, had no powerful clan to back him up, and no influential figures in the court to speak with him."

"If Liu Zhengsheng wanted to crush him, it would be as easy as crushing an ant. He would have to be threatened and he would have to obediently confess."

Even if he denies it, no one will overturn the verdict for him.

"Those generals from aristocratic families are more than happy to have one less person from a humble background competing with them for credit."

Zhang Miaozhen's face gradually darkened.

She had seen too many soldiers from humble backgrounds risk their lives to achieve merit, only to have all the credit stolen by the sons of powerful families above them.

This time, I never expected it would happen to my own father...

Li Fan continued, "But now that His Majesty has sent us to investigate the case, it means that His Majesty doesn't want Liu Zhengsheng to have an easy time either."

"But our family belongs to Consort Xie. Now, Consort Xie wants your father to live, so he has hope of survival."

"But your father needs to demonstrate his worth in order to get Consort Xie to protect him."

The reason he laid his cards on the table so clearly was to persuade Zhang Miaozhen in advance so that she could help persuade Zhang Xuan to side with Consort Xie later.