Xie Ling'er was leisurely trying on the new clothes made for her by the Clothing Bureau in the palace when Xie Shang walked in angrily. Before she could say anything, Xie Shang slapped her in the face, and his eyes seemed to be spewing fire.

Xie Ling'er was also stunned for a moment. Before she could react, Lin Feng and Ye Ying led the secret guards to surround the Ninth Princess's palace. Soon the palace maids who served her were also detained. Jian wanted to escape, but she was no match for the secret guards.

Ye Ying brought her directly in front of the emperor. Xie Shang said coldly, "Whose are you? When did you enter the palace? Tell the truth, otherwise..."

Lin Feng handed her the wasps in the bag and said, "If you don't tell the truth, let her have a taste of how powerful these things are."

Jian was so frightened that her pupils seemed to burst. She calmed down and said, "I don't know what the emperor means."

"Torture her." Xie Shang was too lazy to waste time talking to her. "I won't waste time talking to you either. Since you want to die, I will make your life worse than death. Bring all her people here."

Soon the soldiers brought all of Jian's people to her, including palace maids and eunuchs. They were all Su Qingqing's confidants cultivated in the palace. In fact, even Jian might not know everything. At most, she communicated with them through secret codes.

Among them were several people Xie Ling'er knew. She was frightened when she saw this. Could it be that her fifth brother had already known that their mother had escaped from the palace?

Her lips were trembling: "Fifth brother?"

"I don't have a sister like you. I gave you a chance, Ling'er, but you disappoint me so much."

Xie Ling'er wanted to say that I didn't...

Jian saw that the truth could no longer be concealed, "Princess, you don't know, I was the one who placed the wasp in the Dawn Palace, and I brought it back from outside the Great Wall."

"You have been locked up in the cold palace in place of Su Qingqing. When did you bring it back?" Xie Shang was also guessing, because if she had brought this thing into the palace a long time ago, why didn't she harm people earlier, but took it out now? Unless this thing was sent into the palace recently, and even envoys would be strictly searched when entering the palace.

"Who gave you these things, where did Su Qingqing hide them, and what collusion do you have with the Hu tribe?"

Jian didn't expect that the emperor knew everything, even the people of the Su family hiding in the palace. "I didn't hide in the palace all the time. I left the palace for a while. Since I can come and go freely in a place like the palace, I can also bring some bugs in. It's a pity that I didn't kill Jiang Fenghua to avenge the eldest son."

"Are you Su Xuan's man? How many people do you have besides these?" Xie Shang asked.

Jian said, "I can tell the emperor everything, but the emperor must let the Ninth Princess go. She knows nothing. The lady also knows herself well. She has no intention of going against the emperor. The only person she wants to deal with is Jiang Fenghua."

Xie Shangwei's eyes were cold, "A person who wants to kill my wife and children has no right to negotiate with me. No matter what, Ling'er is a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty and she is also my sister. I will not hurt her. Since I have already agreed to let her marry the young prince of the Hu tribe, I will not go back on my word and let her reunite with Su Qingqing and her daughter. The prerequisite is that I must know how many people in the Su family are still hiding in Shengjing."

"Now the eldest son has been killed by Queen Jiang, and the Su family has been uprooted by you. The Su family cannot threaten the emperor at all. What the emperor should really worry about is Queen Jiang, and Queen Jiang's power is what the emperor should worry about." Jian said deliberately.

Xie Shang knew that she was trying to sow discord between him and Jiang Fenghua. No matter how many secrets Jiang Fenghua was unwilling to tell him, she could not threaten the Xie family's empire. But what did Su Xuan know?

Jian knew that Xie Shang had become suspicious. His master had said that an emperor was most worried about someone threatening his throne, and he was even more worried that the person next to him had bad intentions.

Jian continued, "Now that we have been caught by the Emperor, there is nothing we cannot say. Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning are not four people, but four codenamed death squads, and I belong to the squad that starts with the word Rain. My name is Jian. We don't know how many people there are in each other. The last team of death squads survived because they stayed with the lady to protect her, and the others were all hunted down. This situation can only mean one thing, there was a traitor among us, someone was betrayed, and that led to the killing of these four codenamed death squads."

"We later found out that the person behind all this was a wealthy businessman named Ruan. Our Su family has no enemies named Ruan, but they mobilized such a large force to hunt down the Su family members, and they were so accurate. The eldest son could have escaped from Shengjing, but someone forced him into a desperate situation. The eldest son said that it was not the court who wanted to kill him..."

After saying all this, Jane peeled off the human skin on her face and returned to her original appearance.

Xie Shang stared at her face. He had seen her before when he was repelling the enemy at the border. She was Su Xuan's maid.

He smiled coldly after hearing this, "The Su family has committed many evil deeds, and everyone has the right to punish them. No matter what his surname is, he is eliminating harm for the people. If I knew who he was, I would reward him."

"But you dare to murder the Queen and the Crown Prince. I will not forgive you." Xie Shang's eyes were already filled with murderous intent. If Xie Ling'er was left alive, Su Qingqing and the Su family's assassins would not be able to escape. He would catch them all in one fell swoop.

Xie Shang said solemnly to the secret guard, "Kill them all."

Ye Ying and Lin Feng have now formed an army of secret guards, which can be regarded as the regular guards to protect the emperor closely.

When the time came, Jian was still very scared, "Doesn't the emperor want to find the lady? Can I..."

"I don't need you anymore. You and your people have been exposed long ago. I haven't kept you alive until now so that you can kill my princes and princesses." He would blame himself if anything happened to Xun'er and You'er. He shouldn't have kept Su Xuan's people to test Jiang Fenghua.

After executing Jian and her subordinates, Xie Ling'er was terrified. They fell one by one in front of her. She never knew that her gentle and kind fifth brother could kill people without even blinking an eye.

She felt that he had become terrifying.

Xie Shang walked up to Xie Ling'er, his eyes cold, "From now on you will stay here and cannot go anywhere until the day you get married. I will personally send you off."

Xie Ling'er was stunned and tears started to flow. The ground was covered with corpses and their blood. She just felt sick and wanted to vomit. He was still willing for her to marry. Could it be that he wanted to use her to lure out the mother and then kill her?

The more Xie Ling'er thought about it, the more scared she became. "Brother, please don't kill mother. Ling'er only has mother as a relative. We will never seek revenge on Jiang Fenghua again. I will persuade mother. Since she is already dead, let her never return to Shengjing City or the Great Zhou Kingdom. She has actually married the king of the Hu tribe and become his wife."

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