lcionline Chapter 172: Cherish women? Does he think he is still a young man?
Chapter 172: Cherish women? Does he think he is still a young man?
Emperor Pei Lingsong sat in the middle of the courtyard with a frosty face, listening quietly to the Ding sisters kneeling on the ground complaining.
The Ding sisters cried to Pei Lingsong about their experiences, and their tears made him feel heartbroken.
Watching the two Phoenix girls being bullied, Pei Lingsong felt as if Mu Wanyan was challenging the dignity and destiny of the Dafeng Kingdom. He wished he could arrest her immediately and sentence her to death.
Before Mu Wanyan was taken away by the guards, she deliberately knocked Princess Qiluo unconscious with a knife. Her body had not fully recovered yet and she could not withstand any punishment.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Ding sisters only reported Mu Wanyan to Pei Lingsong, so Mu Wanyan was the only one taken away by the guards.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." Although she had been married to Pei Mochen for several months, she was still unwilling to call Pei Lingsong father.
Pei Lingsong lowered his eyelids, hiding his emotions in his eyes. He said coldly: "Xichang Mu Wanyan, why did you come to Fengnu Academy to make trouble instead of staying in Prince Chen's Mansion?"
He took the list from Su Deping, and a hint of coldness appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's really not easy. Now that the Phoenix Girl Selection has been going on, there are less than ten places left. I didn't expect that Princess Xichang is also among them. You really took a lot of trouble."
He had a gloomy face and his tone sounded calm, but every word he said was full of sarcasm, which was really unpleasant to hear.
Pei Lingsong had never looked at this daughter-in-law who came for marriage with a foreign government with a clear mind. His dislike for her started when Pei Yuzhu fell into trouble.
If Mu Wanyan hadn't introduced such a handsome doctor to Zhu'er, would his Zhu'er have been unable to control himself and had an affair with someone else?
As a result, Yuzhu lost her reputation in the royal circle in the capital, and there was not even a man willing to marry her.
Pei Lingsong thought: The culprit in this matter is Mu Wanyan. His pure and innocent Zhu'er was harmed by this Xichang spy.
When Su Deping saw that the person involved was Princess Chen, his eyes rolled and he quickly ordered the palace servants to clear out the outsiders and only leave those who were related to the incident.
As soon as the girls left, Pei Lingsong's chameleon-like face began to return to its usual cruelty and arrogance.
He walked up to Mu Wanyan and for the first time in his life, he looked at this Princess Chen who was married to a foreign prince from Xichang.
Her cheeks are like a lotus and her face is like a peach blossom. Her skin is as delicate as cream and her figure is more graceful than a willow branch.
“Hmph—” Pei Lingsong sneered and sighed sarcastically, “An embroidered pillow wrapped in straw is indeed a vase.”
It was at this time that he finally understood why his brave and resourceful son was so bewitched by a spy that he lost interest in state affairs. He was just greedy for her beauty.
Pei Lingsong hid his surprise at seeing such a beautiful woman, and his tone remained dignified and arrogant:
"Mu Wanyan, Princess Xichang, you should have died as early as that incident in the loquat forest, right?"
Mu Wanyan was slightly stunned. Was Pei Lingsong too lazy to even pretend? Was he going to get rid of her right now?
She straightened up, with some sarcasm in her eyes, "Your Majesty, I don't understand what you are saying. The one who died in Yushan Paddock was a spy, but I am not one of them, so I will not die."
Pei Lingsong smiled sinisterly, "Sharp-tongued, quick to react."
He looked at Mu Wanyan's delicate little face and said coldly:
"There are three types of women I hate the most in my life. The first type: spies; the second type: vases and straw bags; the third type: those who play tricks and do some shameful little tricks to scare people."
He looked at Mu Wanyan and said ruthlessly, "Princess Xichang, which one do you think you are?"
"Or all three?"
Mu Wanyan said calmly, "I don't have any of the three. I am not a spy, I am not a vase, and I don't like to play tricks."
His peach blossom eyes drooped as he said word by word, "I don't have the courage."
Pei Lingsong raised his head and laughed twice, his voice revealing a bit of teasing and mockery: "Princess Xichang, your courage is really impressive. You can say such humble words with such an arrogant attitude. Your scheming and means really make me admire you."
When Ding Ruolian and Ding Ruoqiu heard this, they couldn't help but panic. Why didn't Pei Lingsong punish Mu Wanyan yet?
Hurry up and slap her, strangle her, and hit her with a stick.
Pei Lingsong seemed to sense the anxiety of the two "Phoenix Girls". He bent down and directly pinched Mu Wanyan's chin.
"The selection of Phoenix Girls concerns the fate of the entire Dafeng country and the country. I hope that Princess Xichang will not extend her hand too far, so as not to bring about unnecessary disasters."
Until now, he only called Mu Wanyan "Princess Xichang", which shows how distant the two are.
Coincidentally, at this time, the Ding sisters also presented evidence to the emperor: a wooden barrel and a peasant woman dressed in dusty clothes.
As soon as the peasant woman saw Pei Lingsong, she knelt down tremblingly, "I pay my respects to the emperor. Long live the emperor. Long live the emperor. Long, long live the emperor."
This was a merchant who made a living by selling fish and shrimp in the market. She had never met any noble people. On weekdays, when she met some servants or servants of wealthy families, she would miss them for several days.
Therefore, you can imagine how excited and nervous she would be when she met the emperor for the first time today.
Her tongue was no longer straight, and she stammered and trembled for a long time before she finally made up the whole story:
Mu Wanyan went to her place last night to buy eels, asked her to help draw blood, and gave her a lot of silver.
Mu Wanyan was so shocked when she saw a peasant woman she didn't know pointing at her.
It seemed that the Ding sisters really wanted to die. They were too lazy to even look for the shovel and wooden barrel that she had hidden, and they directly found a vendor from the fish market to "wrongly accuse" her.
She was speechless, but still refused to admit it: "How can you wrongly accuse me based on this woman's one-sided words?"
"I may not be a Phoenix girl, but I am definitely not stupid. If I wanted to harm someone, I would definitely go catch the eels myself. Why would I be so stupid as to buy them at the market?"
He looked at the Ding sisters with a stern look, "Two junior sisters, do you think this princess is so stupid?"
(I did do it, but you guys are making me look stupid by putting the blame on others. Don’t I have any dignity?)
There was a trace of panic in the eyes of the Ding sisters. They did not dare to look at Mu Wanyan, and the handkerchiefs in their hands were almost broken by the two sisters.
Pei Lingsong felt distressed when he saw this, and quickly rebuked Mu Wanyan: "Princess Xichang, please stop trying to intimidate these two powerless girls. You don't deserve to scare them."
"With the witnesses and the evidence, there is no need for you to quibble."
"If you confess your crime soon, I will punish you with fifty lashes of the cane and expel you from the Phoenix Girls Academy. This matter will be over."
He was unwilling to listen to Mu Wanyan's explanation and just wanted her to leave the Phoenix Girls Academy as soon as possible so as not to affect the Ding sisters' Phoenix Girls' enthronement ceremony in ten days.
Mu Wanyan: "Your Majesty, I will never admit to anything I haven't done."
(She couldn’t tell anyone about the hedgehog because no one would believe her. So she could only deny the eel blood incident.)
Seeing that Mu Wanyan was being stubborn, Pei Lingsong narrowed his eyes again, and this time he actually pinched her slender neck.
"If you don't admit it, I will no longer care about the royal family relationship."
"Cough, cough, cough." The force in his hands was so great that Mu Wanyan's little face soon turned the color of liver. She kept coughing and really wanted to curse the emperor as an old thief.
At the same time, Pei Lingsong touched Mu Wanyan's smooth skin and saw her unyielding peach blossom eyes. For a moment, he felt guilty. Did he wrongly accuse the Princess of Xichang?
However, Mu Wanyan was now offending Fengnu, so he had to consider Fengnu's face no matter what, so he continued to increase the strength in his hands.
"I really don't know what Chen'er likes about you? You are so stubborn, maybe it's just that this skin has some deceptive effect?"
Pei Lingsong's eagle-like eyes met Mu Wanyan's peach blossom eyes. After a long pause, he said, "I am not Chen'er. I will never show mercy to a beautiful woman and let you off easily."
The sound was a little hoarse, as if it had been sanded.
The Ding sisters looked at each other again and muttered to themselves, "Why does what Pei Lingsong said sound a bit weird?"
Even Mu Wanyan noticed something was wrong. Pei Lingsong's tone seemed a little abnormal. He actually used the word "cherishing women" to describe his daughter-in-law, which was ridiculous. Did he think he was still a young man?