"What do you mean?!"
The smile on Xu Lan's face gradually disappeared, and he stared at Lin Jiangnian with a hint of...ferocity in his eyes?
What did he mean by that just now?
Not into this one?
Which one do you like?
Xu Lan was not stupid. When she noticed Lin Jiangnian's eyes inadvertently sweeping over her, she instantly understood what he meant.
Is this what she likes?
Wait a minute... She's a woman, what's good about that?
This damn Lin Jiangnian was clearly mocking her on purpose?!
"nothing."
Seeing that her defense was about to break, Lin Jiangnian immediately looked away.
Small breasts and big temper!
Apart from that face, I'm afraid there is nothing good about him.
"Hmph, don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"
Xu Lan's face flushed slightly, she glared at him angrily for a few times, and subconsciously covered her chest, but then she quickly realized pessimistically...it really didn't happen.
I was so angry that my teeth were itching.
"You really are a person of the past...sooner or later you'll die at the hands of a woman!"
Xu Lan snorted coldly.
Lin Jiangnian's eyes were calm, not caring at all: "As the saying goes, if you live under a girl's skirt, then you can die."
"Bah, who said that? How shameless!"
“Me!”
Xu Lan: “…”
"Huh, you haven't learned your lesson yet, have you?"
Xu Lan sneered, "If you hadn't been bewitched and seduced by Chen Yingying's beauty this time, how could you have suffered such a disaster?"
"How do you know it's Chen Yingying?"
Xu Lan crossed his arms and sneered, "It's been spread all over the place... Your Prince Lin fell in love with Chen Yingying, the most beautiful courtesan in Qingfeng Tower. He was so obsessed with her that he almost lost his life outside the city..."
"Just yesterday, the entire Qingfeng Tower was raided by your palace... The city was in an uproar, and the people were criticizing you with their words and writings, and their resentment was deep..."
Lin Jiang frowned and asked doubtfully, "You hate me so much?"
When Prince Lin was attacked, the people in the city gloated over the misfortune and were happy about it, but why did they criticize and resent him?
"What do you think?"
Xu Lan's eyes showed a hint of complexity, and he sighed softly: "What did you, the Lin Wang Mansion, do to Qingfeng Tower?"
Lin Jiangnian was silent.
He remembered what happened yesterday.
"Because... Chen Yingying?"
"It's not just Chen Yingying!"
Xu Lan sneered: "Everyone in the entire Qingfeng Tower who enters your Linwang Mansion will be spared!"
Lin Jiangnian's eyes narrowed.
No one is spared?
What's the meaning?
He suppressed his emotions and said calmly, "Are they all dead?"
"What else?"
Xu Lan glanced at him with a complicated expression, but the sneer on her face deepened. "How could anyone who entered your Lin Wang Mansion survive? That Chen Yingying almost took your life. There's no way you can survive!"
"As for those people in Qingfeng Tower... who knows how many of them are Chen Yingying's accomplices? Would rather kill the wrong person than let him go, hasn't that always been the style of your Linwang Mansion?"
Xu Lan downplayed it, but there was a bit of complexity in her eyes, and even her tone was a lot heavier!
After all, that’s dozens of lives!
Even... much more than that!
Ever since the assassination of Prince Lin, it was destined to usher in the angry reckoning of Prince Lin's Mansion. In recent days, the city of Linjiang has been in chaos and bloodshed. Countless forces hidden in the dark have been uncovered, and countless innocent people have been implicated.
Countless people became dead under the knife!
…
Lin Jiangnian felt a slight chill on his back.
Kill them all?
Who killed him?
The expressionless and cold look of Zhiyuan appeared in his mind.
It's her!
She looks so cold and indifferent, but her heart is so hard?!
Is human life so worthless in her eyes?
Lin Jiangnian took a deep breath and concealed his emotions: "So, their deaths are counted on this prince?!"
“That’s right!”
Xu Lan nodded, and there was a hint of gloating in her eyes when she looked at Lin Jiangnian.
"Chen Yingying is quite famous in Linjiang City, and many talented men admire her. She died in your Lin Palace this time. I wonder how many people hate you to the core..."
"Those talented scholars have been publicly calling you a bastard prince these days in the city. They've written poems and articles accusing you of being completely heartless. They've even threatened to unite and report you to the court, accusing you of wanton killing of innocent people and asking His Majesty to punish you..."
Lin Jiangnian was silent for a moment: "Will it have any impact on this prince?"
Xu Lan looked Lin Jiangnian up and down, then sighed with a hint of regret: "Apart from making your reputation a little worse, I guess it won't have much of an impact..."
This is Linjiang City, this is Linzhou! The emperor is far away, and the emperor's decree is not as effective as a word from the King of Lin in Linzhou.
This is the value of the only king of a different surname who has been conferred in the Daning Dynasty in the past hundred years since its founding!
These talented scholars in Linjiang City may curse and be angry, but in the end they are just a bunch of powerless literati who are furious.
Saying that you want to file a complaint to the imperial court?
If this is true, it is questionable whether they can leave Linjiang City alive.
The Linwang Mansion had been operating Linzhou for over a decade, and countless spies were spread throughout the entire region. Any disturbance would be reported to the Linwang Mansion immediately.
Besides, the Prince of Lin has long lost his reputation in Linzhou. In his early years, he bullied men and women and exploited the common people. He has long been a playboy hated by countless people!
Although so many people were implicated and killed this time, it was Prince Lin who was assassinated first, so retaliation from the Lin Palace was natural. Those people couldn't cause much trouble. In the end, they simply pinned the blame for the deaths of Chen Yingying and the Qingfeng Tower on Lin Jiangnian.
When we had a private gathering after dinner, we would just curse the bastard out of righteous indignation!
Apart from that, there is not much impact!
As if thinking of something, Xu Lan's eyes became more mischievous: "Why? Do you want to listen to how people outside scold you?"
"Not interested."
Lin Jiangnian had no expression on his face.
…
In Linjiang City.
A teahouse!
"Not only did Miss Yingying get slept with by that bastard prince, she was also innocently slandered as the murderer and brutally murdered. How could that bastard prince be so cruel?!"
"Poor Miss Yingying is so kind and beautiful, how could she be the murderer who assassinated that bastard prince? Slander, it must be slander..."
"That bastard prince must be seeking revenge. Miss Yingying is unwilling to commit herself to him, so that bastard prince has become so evil..."
"Miss Yingying... my Miss Yingying, you died so tragically..."
"I cannot swallow this. Everyone, that bastard prince has been bullying men and women for years, wantonly oppressing and humiliating the people. Now he's even more rampant, killing innocent people. Yingying today, and you gentlemen tomorrow... How about we sign a blood oath and jointly go to the capital to file a complaint?"
“…”
A young scholar in Confucian robes stood up indignantly and spoke angrily.
The surroundings suddenly fell into a dead silence.
Everyone in the teahouse looked at this ignorant and arrogant young man with strange eyes... Several guys who were cursing him at the side also quietly moved to the side and kept some distance from him.
The young man was a little confused when he saw that the surroundings had become quiet... Why didn't everyone talk?
Soon, there was a sound of hurried footsteps coming up the stairs, and two officers appeared and took the young man away without any explanation.
"What are you doing?! What gives you the right to arrest me? Let me go... Is there still law? Is there still justice?!"
"I want to report to the authorities, I want to report..."
After they were taken away, the teahouse soon returned to life. Everyone continued to discuss the matter, and those gentlemen started cursing the "dog prince" again.
No matter how much they cursed, from beginning to end, no one mentioned "filing a complaint to the emperor" again!
…
An elegant seat by the window in the corner of the teahouse.
Xu Lan propped up the table with one hand and rested her chin on the other, listening to the noisy discussions outside. She glanced at Lin Jiangnian across from her with amusement: "See? Are everyone scolding you?!"
Lin Jiangnian sneered: "They are just troublemakers!"
But I sighed in my heart...the scolding was so harsh!
Although the one who was scolded was the Prince of Lin, Lin Jiangnian had to take the blame.
"Who told you to be idle all these years? Just those rubbish you did?"
Xu Lan narrowed her eyes and sneered, "I want to give you two stabs!"
Lin Jiangnian ignored her and looked out the window.
From the teahouse window, he could see half of Linjiang City. This was Lin Jiangnian's first glimpse of the prosperity of ancient times.
There is a constant flow of traffic, quaint houses are located in the city, people are coming and going on the streets, vendors and pedestrians are shoulder to shoulder, it is extremely prosperous!
Is this Linjiang City?
Xu Lan looked at Lin Jiangnian across from her quietly, staring at his face for a while. When she looked away, she suddenly remembered something.
“Hey!”
Lin Jiangnian turned around and saw Xu Lan looking at him with a bit of curiosity. He looked around and lowered his voice slightly.
"That Chen Yingying...are you really asleep?"
“…”
