half an hour.

Lin Qingyan walked out of the room, pretended nothing had happened and went back to the eunuch palace, returning the key to Wang Lian.

"Luckily you found my key. I almost thought I had lost it and was just about to look for it..."

Wang Lian was frightened to death. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief and took the key ring that Lin Qingyan handed to him.

Lin Qingyan wrote and asked: [Is the matter you just dealt with very difficult? Why is there a slap mark on your face? ]

"Oh, this... Oh." Wang Lian waved her hands and said, "Don't mention it. It's that trouble-making King Qi. He has been here before, but at that time, the Nine Thousand Years Old was here, so no matter how much he made trouble, nothing could happen. Now that the Nine Thousand Years Old is not here, who can control him?"

After all, he is a prince. Wang Lian is just a eunuch, but she is not as bold as Yang Li who dares to challenge even the prince.

[He must have a reason for making trouble, right? ]

"Of course I have reasons, but they are all reasons to deliberately stir up trouble. Today he broke in under the pretext of checking for stolen money. Not only did he insist on checking the accounts in our palace, he also wanted to search the Nine Thousand Year Old's study. We cannot let him enter that place. If the Nine Thousand Year Old knew about it, he would beat me to death."

"So I tried my best to stop him, but ended up getting slapped by His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi. Fortunately, I stopped him from going in, so it wasn't in vain."

Wang Lian took a breath of cold air. His face did hurt.

If the King of Qi hadn't made a fuss, he wouldn't have realized so late that he had lost his key. He was really in too much of a hurry to rush over.

[Is he still in the eunuch palace now? ]

"It's still here. I can't get rid of it."

"No more talking. Thank you for returning the key. I'm going to go see where he is. I hope he doesn't go to places he shouldn't go again."

Wang Lian sighed. He was just a eunuch and he really couldn't stand a prince making such a fuss. It was not easy for him to say anything offensive, so he could only endure it.

Seeing him and his men leaving in a hurry again, the direction seemed to be the backyard, Lin Qingyan followed them.

On the way, Lin Qingyan was thinking about what she had just seen in the room.

In fact, she did not stay in the room for long. It was a mess, with all kinds of things in it. There was a pile of scattered papers on the floor with all kinds of words written on them. She picked up a few and read them. The person on the bed showed signs of waking up, and she was so scared that she quickly closed the door again.

Because the person imprisoned inside was a bearded man, and his features could not be seen clearly. I could only tell from his body shape that he was a very tall man.

From the papers on the ground, she could also infer one thing - the man was a mute.

So the paper is full of things that would be discussed in daily communication, such as what food to bring, what things are needed, etc. If it is not very confidential, it has to be written down on paper.

Therefore, the person imprisoned inside was a mute man.

Lin Qingyan suddenly understood why Yang Li knew sign language. Maybe it had something to do with this man.

But who is this man, and why is he imprisoned there by Yang Li...

"Stop the king?"

"A bunch of eunuchs, are you qualified to stop me?"

The noise interrupted Lin Qingyan's thoughts, and before she knew it, she had followed Wang Lian into the courtyard.

Wang Lian and a dozen eunuchs were kneeling on the ground trying to stop Qi Wang Song Yunji from causing trouble, but Song Yunji refused to listen and kicked one after another, saying arrogantly, "I will investigate this eunuch thoroughly today. If you continue to bother me, I will call the Shangfangsi to come and lock you all up!"

Shangfangsi was the place in charge of the punishments of palace maids and eunuchs.

After hearing this, Wang Lian and the others were so scared that they begged for mercy, but they would not really let Song Yunji continue to make trouble.

Wang Lian flattered him, "Your Highness, can we talk about it in a few days? The eunuch is now——"

"Get lost, you're the most annoying person here!"

The King of Qi pushed him aside and walked straight in.

What are you waiting for? If you wait any longer, that damn eunuch Yang Li will be back. There's no point in making trouble, and it's all in vain that you came back early.

In the center of the courtyard stands a plum tree, which has grown several new branches and looks vibrant.

"What a lousy tree, it's not dead yet? It's useless to wait for its last burst of vitality. It might as well just die early!"

Song Yunji went up and kicked the tree, kicking off a few leaves, but the tree didn't fall down yet.

Wang Lian shouted hurriedly, "Your Highness, please don't touch that tree. The Ninth Prince loves that tree the most. If you really damage it, we servants will not be able to bear the punishment. Please have mercy on us, servants!"

He ran to stop them despite the pain in his body, but Song Yunji didn't care about his life or death and kicked him to the ground again.

"Like it? I think it's fine as long as that damn eunuch likes it. Is a man like him worthy of appreciating plum blossoms? He is simply defiling the plum blossoms. I am doing a good deed to prevent the tree from being soiled by him!"

Seeing that the new branches were an eyesore, Song Yunji reached out and broke them, throwing them to the ground.

This made Lin Qingyan unable to stand idly by, so she walked forward and blocked the plum tree with her body, trying to persuade him not to destroy it with simple gestures.

However, Song Yunji didn't understand at all. He just felt that the person in front of him looked familiar, so he was stunned. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized: "Aren't you the mute who hid behind the dead eunuch that day?"

After being recognized, Lin Qingyan could only nod in acknowledgement. She tried to stop him from continuing to make trouble with a gentle attitude.

But Song Yunji ignored her and mocked her instead: "How dare you, a dumb fool, come to stop me? Look at your condition, if I kick you, you'll be half dead. I advise you to be a good dog and not block the road, otherwise I don't mind kicking you a few more times to kill you."

It was just accidentally killing a little eunuch, which was no big deal for him.

"Your Highness! Your Highness the Prince of Qi! Please forgive me, she has only been here for a few months and is not very sensible."

Wang Lian crawled over with a grin on her face, hugged his thighs and smiled flatteringly, hoping that he would not attack Lin Qingyan. He could not withstand Lin Qingyan's small body.

"Humph, I didn't think she was ignorant last time when she hid behind that damn eunuch Yang Li. I guess that damn eunuch really cares about this mute. Otherwise, why would a mute like you stand out to protect this tree?"

Song Yunji disliked Yang Li to the extent that he disliked anyone who had any connection with Yang Li. He didn't care about that and just went up and grabbed Lin Qingyan's neck, strangling her tightly.

He picked her up and said with a nasty smile, "I didn't expect that you, a dead mute, have such white skin. You look more like a woman than those eunuchs. If you look closely, you are quite pretty. It's a pity to strangle you to death like this."

Lin Qingyan only felt that breathing was becoming more and more difficult, and her struggles became weaker and weaker. She did not hear clearly what the other party said afterwards.

"Your Highness Prince Qi, please spare her life. She is also a pitiful person..."

Blood was oozing from the corners of Wang Lian's mouth, but he still shouted a few words to stop him.

"What a pitiful person! He is clearly a cripple like Yang Li, unable to speak. It would be better if he died. Yet he still wants to protect this plum tree. What a dog slave!"

"It's just that the more I look at this appearance, the more strange it seems to me..."

Song Yunji raised his eyebrows, and suddenly he didn't want to strangle her to death, so he simply threw her to the ground, then leaned over and asked, "You're not really a woman, are you?"

But Lin Qingyan didn't want to pay any attention to him at all. She just felt pain in her lower abdomen, which was hit by this man when he threw her to the ground.

She didn't even have time to rejoice that she was able to breathe again before she covered her abdomen with her hands and broke out in a cold sweat, with waves of pain coming one after another.

[Save me…]

Lin Qingyan fainted before she could even finish the sign language.

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