Chen Jin, dressed in casual clothes, was sitting in such a courtyard. He put one hand on the armrest of the chair and tapped it repeatedly, looking calm and composed.
"Master Chen, I've been waiting for a long time." Xuan Qianchen's eyes were cold and he glanced up and down the middle-aged man's body.
Chen Jin just sneered. He slowly raised his head with a disdainful smile on his face.
This move completely angered the head of the bodyguard sent by the emperor.
"The emperor has an edict. Chen Jin has collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country. He has implicated the nine clans. Come here, turn Chen's house upside down and turn all the people out!"
The guards began to move one after another, and every door and window of Chen's residence was violently knocked open. The courtyard echoed with the screams of women and the cries of children.
"Hurry up! What's the ink stain?"
"Get out! Walk faster!"
The guards were heard cursing, and three or five well-dressed women were dragged out, with tears on their faces. They should be Chen Jin's wives and concubines.
One of the women tightly grasped the hand of the one who was busy with other things, and kept wailing: "Let go of my child! Let go of my child!"
"Everyone put on prison uniforms!"
"The head of the guards spoke again, and several guards rushed forward and tore the woman's clothes without mercy."
The cry suddenly started again, and Lin Qingwan frowned. In ancient times, a woman's chastity was more important than her life. For them, it would be better to let these women die.
"Let me go! Let me go!" A middle-aged woman with a beautiful face broke away from the guards, turned around and hit a stone next to her. The woman instantly collapsed to the ground, with her head on the back of her head. A line of bright red blood slowly oozed out from the patch of ground.
"Master, I'll take the first step." The woman slowly got up from the ground, with a last smile on her lips.
A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old rushed forward and hugged the woman tightly, his throat a little hoarse.
"mother!"
Lin Qingwan couldn't bear to see this scene. She took a breath and closed her eyes.
The little maids were a little scared, so they spread their legs and walked towards the door.
A guard picked up a bow and arrow and shot an arrow in the direction where the maid ran away. With a "plop", the maid instantly fell to the ground.
Chen Jin's face turned pale, and his old eyes were full of anger. He stood up and pointed at Xuan Qianchen.
"War King, I have always respected you, but I didn't expect you to be just a traitor who kills innocent people indiscriminately!"
Hearing this, Lin Qingwan felt inexplicably unhappy. She pulled Xuan Qianchen behind her and sneered: "If you hadn't been poisoned by someone from the outside world, how could you have ended up like this today? ?”
These people never care about the consequences when they do what they do, but after the exposed incident, if it is detrimental to the people around them, they will jump out to blame others?
"I am the only one who does the work. My wife and children don't know anything. If they have anything, they just come after me!"
As if he didn't expect Lin Qingwan to speak suddenly, the veins on Chen Jin's forehead popped out, and his whole face turned black.
"Your wife and children are innocent, but what about those people who died tragically? Aren't they innocent?"
"You! You vicious woman?!"
The two of them were confronting each other like this. Three generations of Chen Jin's ancestors had been high-ranking officials. They had always had their eyes set above their own heights since they were young, but now they were accused like this by a woman!
Lin Qingwan calmed down, and the woman raised her forehead slightly, her beauty instrument vague and somewhat scrutinizing.
"If Mr. Chen tells us the source of the poison now, maybe your wife and children can be pardoned."
She couldn't see through this Chen Jin. This sentence was like gambling. If he lost, everyone in the Chen family present today would not be spared.
As it turns out, she lost.
I saw Chen Jin suddenly laughing twice, and then his face suddenly turned ferocious.
"You, a woman from a high-ranking courtyard, don't take care of your husband and raise your children at home, but you are involved in political affairs here. It is really ridiculous! How can you have any good people in your general's mansion? Even if I, Chen Jin, die miserably, I will I will never bow to you!"
Hearing this, the women kneeling not far away softened their legs and fell to the ground instantly, while Lin Qingwan's expression became increasingly ugly.
What kind of organization can make a person ignore his own family!
"Emperor, after I die, I turn into a ghost and enter your dreams every night. You won't be able to live well even if I die." Chen Jin suddenly seemed to be crazy, raising his head and smiling towards the sky, Xuan Qianchen's expression Suddenly, he shouted: "Stop him quickly! He is going to commit suicide!"
But when several guards rushed up, the dagger that Chen Jin had hidden in his sleeve had already been inserted into the middle-aged man's chest, and Yin Hong's primary school blood soaked through his clothes.
Xuan Qianchen covered Lin Qingwan's eyes in the next life, but was pushed away by the woman's hands.
Chen Jin's eyes were still open, but his hands hung weakly on his sides.
"You..." The man with a cold face finally changed a little when he looked at Lin Qingwan, and slowly said one word.
"I'm fine."
Lin Qingwan was very calm and looked at Chen Jin's body motionless.
She had given this man a chance, but he had brought it upon himself. If she died, that would be the end of the world, but a whole family would be left to atone for his sins.
"Someone, take it away."
Xuan Qianchen glanced at a guard behind him. Several people went up and tied the women together, but the men just pushed them away.
The women were sold into slavery, while the men were exiled to the frontiers. A prominent family disappeared in just an instant.
Lin Qingwan calmed down and looked at the messy yard. She turned and walked towards the door.
"let's go."
…………
On the carriage back, Lin Qingwan was unusually quiet. She never thought that what happened today would happen so quickly, let alone that the emperor would directly kill the entire Chen family.
There is the Chen family today, but what about tomorrow? Could it be him, could it be Prince Zhan's Mansion?
She and Xuan Qianchen are both prosperous and devastated. If anything happens to either of them, it will affect both parties.
But except for thinking of her at critical moments, this man may never care about her again.
While she was lost in thought, Lin Qingwan suddenly realized that the man next to her was staring at her. She pursed her lips slightly, then turned her head and raised her eyebrows at him, "What do you think I'm doing?"
Xuan Qianchen didn't hide away, his eyes were very calm, "I just want to ask you about the ingredients of the poison."
He didn't expect this woman to be so calm in the face of danger, and she could remain calm in such a scene. Now when she got back to the carriage, she just looked a little dazed, and she didn't seem to be too affected.
He hadn't seen Lin Qingwan in the palace in the past few days, and he was still a little... not used to it.
Xuan Qianchen sometimes thinks that he is crazy, but this is indeed the case. I really don't know what kind of magic this woman has.
