The Female Emperor of Fengshuo Country felt the weight pressing down on her body, as well as the deafening wails ringing in her ears, it really made her head ache badly.
When she saw Lin Zaozao wiping her snot and tears all over herself, the veins on her forehead couldn't help but throb violently.
She pushed Lin Zaozao, who was clinging to her body, a few times with force, but was unable to push Lin Zaozao away.
In the midst of the Female Emperor of Fengshuo's slight pushes, Lin Zaozao clung to the Female Emperor with even greater force and cried even louder.
It can't be said that she was crying now, yelling would be more accurate.
With her brain buzzing painfully from Lin Zaozao's crying and yelling, the Female Emperor of Fengshuo forcibly steadied the affectionate expression on her face and looked down at Lin Zaozao, who was vigorously rubbing her chest.
Before her sister and monarch died, they actually entrusted this damn gem to the hands of the Guardian General, letting her grow up among the common people.
In these dozen or so years, if she hadn't been unable to find news about her, she would have secretly executed this damn thing long ago.
She had clearly secretly poisoned her when Mingzhu was young, but she still managed to survive until now.
She had paid an enormous price to obtain that poison. Yet she was unable to poison this stupid thing to death.
As soon as she died, she, as Mingzhu's aunt, the Female Emperor of Fengshuo Country, could rightfully obtain part of Han Country's power, thereby consolidating her position as Empress.
Unfortunately, that Guardian General was actually able to abandon everything just to take Mingzhu into hiding among the common people and raise her safely until she grew up.
Because she couldn't find that fool, the plans she and the Female Emperor of Canglan had laid for dozens of years also had to be postponed.
Now that this fool had returned, she and the Female Emperor of Canglan's plans should also be put on the agenda.
After all, that large piece of fat meat that was Han Country, everyone wanted to take a bite.
Unfortunately, over the past decades, Han Country had closed its borders, and the Grand Priest controlled the court. This allowed them to spend more than ten years without being able to insert nails into Han Country.
The Female Emperor of Fengshuo put away the darkness in her eyes and looked at Lin Zaozao, who was still lying in her arms smearing snot.
That face really looked exactly the same as her dead elder sister.
Just as annoying, just as hateful, she wished she could strangle her.
The Female Emperor of Fengshuo took a slight breath. If it wasn't to show her intimate side as the young aunt, she really wanted to slap Lin Zaozao, who was pressing down on her, and send her flying.
Daring to wipe snot and tears on her clothes was simply asking for death.
However, when the Female Emperor of Fengshuo's gaze met Uncle Zhang's, her body froze involuntarily.
This prestigious Guardian General Zhang Qianlou was not someone she could afford to provoke right now.
Back then, he was actually able to abandon everything just to take Mingzhu into hiding among the common people and raise her safely until she grew up.
If she dared to harm Mingzhu now, she dared to believe that this Zhang Qianlou could kill her with a slap before her guards could make a move.
After all, his martial arts skill had reached the pinnacle. What’s more, behind this damned girl there was also the National Teacher and Han Country’s Grand Priest.
Those two people...
The Female Emperor of Fengshuo's eyes darkened slightly. If she had a way, she wished she could kill them directly.
Unfortunately, she and the Female Emperor of Canglan joined forces for more than ten years but were still not their match.
Facing Uncle Zhang’s mocking gaze, the Female Emperor of Fengshuo immediately put away the darkness in her eyes. She subconsciously pulled Lin Zaozao into her arms again. Enduring the shrieking cries in her ears, she pretended to be intimate and said,
"Mingzhu, don't cry anymore okay? Hearing you cry so sadly makes your aunt sad too. Your mother is gone, seeing you cry like this, it makes me feel bad too!
It's all because your aunt is not good. In these dozen or so years I let you grow up among the common people. If your aunt could have found you sooner, I wouldn't have let you suffer so much."
After speaking, the Female Emperor of Fengshuo took advantage of the moment when Lin Zaozao was stunned with disgust due to her words to quickly peel the clinging Lin Zaozao off of her body. She turned around to look at Princess Qianyue, who was standing to the side, and said,
"Qianyue, Mingzhu is your sister, the people of the border city are our Fengshuo country’s people. How could you dare to order people to burn down the border city? That is truly a crime deserving death!"
"Auntie, auntie, you've got it wrong. The people in the border city are now Han Country’s people. This was agreed by you, you can't go back on your word!"
As she spoke, Lin Zaozao snatched the edict from Princess Qianyue’s hand, opened it and pointed to the red seal on it, “Auntie, this even has your seal, you can't go back on your word! For the sake of the people of the border city, for the sake of my handsome husband, I had to face the big cow, ah no! I had to work hard singing and dancing for sister Qianyue. How tiring!"
Lin Zaozao's nonsense quickly blocked the words that the Female Emperor of Fengshuo was about to say.
"Alright alright, Mingzhu. Since it's just a small border city, and Mingzhu likes it, your aunt will give it to you.
As for your sister Qianyue, who made a mistake, your aunt will deal with her when I return. "
"Auntie, there’s no need to deal with her later. We can deal with her now! She's so bad now, casually wanting to burn a whole city of people to death.
Auntie, for sister Qianyue’s future, we might as well teach her a lesson! As the saying goes, 'Jade requires carving to become a gem; a person requires learning to know righteousness.'
So in order for sister Qianyue to become a beautiful gem in the future, and then smoothly take your place after you die, we should carve her well today!"
After speaking, Lin Zaozao took the wooden stick that Xiao Taohua was using to beat the drum and handed it to the Female Emperor of Fengshuo.
The Female Emperor of Fengshuo looked at the wooden stick in her hand, then at her dumbfounded daughter and the expectant Lin Zaozao.
She thought for a moment. For the greater good she could only wrong her daughter this time.
So when she raised the wooden stick to hit Princess Qianyue, she was stopped by Lin Zaozao.
"What's wrong, Zaozao? Do you plan to forgive her..."
"Auntie, it’s like this. I feel like hitting with the wooden stick in your hand will definitely not hurt. And hitting too much will make your hand hurt.
So I found a handy tool for you to educate sister Qianyue, which will also make it more convenient for you. "
Lin Zaozao snatched the horsewhip from the guard's hand and handed it to the Female Emperor of Fengshuo.
Damn! After receiving several lashes from this, even a burly man couldn't stand it, let alone the delicate Princess Qianyue who grew up pampered.
With several lashes from the Female Emperor of Fengshuo, it would be strange if she didn't whip Princess Qianyue to death.
She wanted to burn her husband to death, she’ll make sure she buries her. This whipping was just the beginning.
Princess Qianyue wanted to become the Female Emperor of Fengshuo didn’t she? Then she, Lin Zaozao, had ways to make sure she would never get that throne in this lifetime.
When Princess Qianyue met the sinister gaze that Lin Zaozao cast at her, her heart shuddered involuntarily.
The woman before her, had she really grown up among the common people? Why were her eyes now exactly the same as her mother's when she was plotting against people?
Forcibly stabilizing her churning thoughts, Princess Qianyue looked back at her mother's helpless expression.
She knew that the beating today was inevitable.
She only hoped that her mother would go easy on her.
Sure enough, in the next moment, the whip in the Female Emperor of Fengshuo's hand landed squarely on Princess Qianyue's body, hurting her so much that she cried out involuntarily.
"Auntie, beating hurts, scolding shows affection. Without beating or scolding one cannot succeed. You have to whip her well in order to demonstrate your deep maternal love.
After all, this kind of deep maternal love is something an orphan like me who has neither father nor mother can experience.
Now when I think about it, I feel so pitiful. Because I am an orphan without parents, I get bullied. Not only was I threatened to have my husband burned to death, I, the future Female Emperor of a country, also had to sing and dance for her. I really am so pitiful!"
Hearing Lin Zaozao's sarcastic words, Princess Qianyue, who was trembling from the whipping, immediately looked at her with resentment.
"Auntie, look at sister Qianyue! You're doing this for her own good, yet she, she still doesn't repent and is glaring at me."
My dear auntie, Princess Qianyue glared at me, I was so scared! After all, I'm just a poor little orphan without parents."
Hearing Lin Zaozao's coy voice, and seeing her standing behind the voluptuous empress, winking at her, Qianyue was ready to eat her alive now.
"Auntie, Princess Qianyue is still glaring at me. When she glares at me, my little heart leaps with fright. Oh! I can't take it anymore, I'm going to be scared to death by Princess Qianyue!"
Lin Zaozao's inflammatory words led the empress of Fengshuo Country to continue whipping Princess Qianyue.
This silly Qianyue, even at this point, she still won't softly yield to Princess Mingzhu?
If she yielded, it would also allow her to gracefully back down. But now she's still defiantly glaring at Mingzhu, isn't she asking for death?
Compared to seizing power in Han Country, killing a daughter means nothing to her.
After all, there will inevitably be casualties on the road to imperial power.
Even her own daughter is no exception.
Anyone who dares hinder her path forward, she will execute them!
Seeing the endless murderous intent in her own mother's eyes, Princess Qianyue was frightened into paralysis by the empress's gaze.
Lin Zaozao looked at the beaten and bloodied Princess Qianyue, her eyes held no sympathy.
To sympathize with the enemy is to be cruel to oneself.
If she had not come today, or if her current identity was not Princess Mingzhu of Han Country, but just a village woman named Lin Zaozao.
Then wouldn't her mundane husband Fan Tian have been burned alive by the vicious woman before her eyes?
The empress of Fengshuo looked at the coldly observing Lin Zaozao, then at Princess Qianyue, who she had beaten until her breaths grew short.
For a moment, she didn't know how to back down either.
After all, this was her own flesh and blood, she really couldn't bear to kill her over such a trivial matter.
Just as the atmosphere reached an impasse, a gentle voice came from behind them.
"Empress of Fengshuo, Han Ye sends his regards!"
Hearing the gentle yet authoritative voice, Lin Zaozao quickly turned her head to look. Seeing the man in black clothes, Lin Zaozao could only think of one phrase.
That was, his posture was like a graceful orchid, his smile like a bright moon entering one's bosom.
This man's beauty simply could not be described in words. He was just too handsome.
It seemed as if just one smile from him and she would be willing to give her life to him.
