Chapter 163: Too Young to Know Better
"You... I’m going to kill you! Guards, come and beat this little bastard to death! Beat her to death!" Gao Yunyue shrieked, exasperated.
A smile played on Ye Qianning’s lips, her eyes regarding Gao Yunyue as if looking at a jumping clown.
The Prime Minister’s wife’s face darkened. Her husband, the Prime Minister, had suffered a great loss at Lou Mountain just a few days ago, and she was already simmering with anger. To think this child would dare to barge into the Prime Minister’s residence and cause a scene.
Twenty-one Hidden Guards charged in from outside in unison.
Their auras were chilling. Every one of them was stained with fresh blood, and their longswords still dripped red.
The sudden intrusion made Gao Yunyue fall silent at once. The Prime Minister’s wife was also quite startled, the scent of blood reaching her nose.
"Young Miss, they’ve all been taken care of," the leader of the Hidden Guards reported.
"Mm, are you injured?" Ye Qianning’s gaze swept over the group, finally landing on him.
"Not at all. It’s all the enemy’s blood."
"Mm, good. Did you leave them alive?" Ye Qianning asked.
"Rest assured, Young Miss. We did not inflict any fatal injuries."
"Very good. There will be rewards when we return."
"Thank you, Young Miss." The leader of the Hidden Guards returned to his position in the ranks.
The Prime Minister’s wife was thoroughly frightened. ’Seeing these men covered head to toe in blood, could the Prime Minister’s guards really still be alive?’
A terrified Gao Yunyue clung to her mother’s arm.
Gao Yunqin’s face was also deathly pale.
"What was that little bastard screeching about just now? I didn’t quite hear." Ye Qianning watched the mother and two daughters huddled together with amusement.
"I... I..."
"Heh." Ye Qianning chuckled.
"Miss Xiang, you are new to the Capital City. I’m afraid you don’t understand its customs. If you wish to pay a formal visit, please have General Xiang come in person," the Prime Minister’s wife said.
"How could I trouble my father with such a trivial matter?"
’A trivial matter?’
The Prime Minister’s wife’s brows furrowed. "Miss Xiang, you brazenly trespassed into the Prime Minister’s residence and brought men to commit violence. If the Emperor were to find out, it would be a crime punishable by the extermination of your nine generations."
"Wife of the Prime Minister, don’t think you can scare me just because I’m young," Ye Qianning said. "The Emperor knows right from wrong. He is an enlightened ruler, a hero. He is not as cruel as you make him out to be."
The Prime Minister’s wife fell silent. She hadn’t expected such a young child to be capable of such words. ’There is no emperor who dislikes praise.’
’If these words were to reach the Emperor’s ears, the Prime Minister’s residence could be accused of insulting the imperial family’s honor.’
"If you dare touch the Prime Minister’s residence, the Emperor will exterminate your nine generations!" Gao Yunyue retorted angrily.
"Yun Yue, do not be impudent," the Prime Minister’s wife chided.
"Are you saying the Emperor is unreasonable?" Ye Qianning said languidly.
"Whatever the Emperor says is reason!" Gao Yunyue had been spoiled since childhood and her mother had never so much as scolded her. But now, she was being reprimanded in front of an outsider.
Resentment flared in her heart, and the more she was scolded, the more she acted out.
"The Emperor’s reasoning belongs to the imperial family, not to your Prime Minister’s residence."
"The Prime Minister’s residence’s reasoning is also the imperial family’s reasoning!"
"Yun Yue!" the Prime Minister’s wife cried out in alarm.
"The Prime Minister’s residence’s reasoning is the imperial family’s reasoning? How impressive, truly impressive. No wonder the third miss of the Gao family is so quick to order people killed," Ye Qianning praised sarcastically.
"Miss Xiang, Yun Yue is young and insensible. She just lost her head because she was angry," the Prime Minister’s wife said, a chill of fear in her heart. ’These words must not reach the Emperor’s ears.’
"Young and insensible? She’s seventeen, isn’t she? Eleven years older than me." Ye Qianning walked up to the Prime Minister’s wife.
The Prime Minister’s wife looked down at the small child and suddenly felt as if she had been brutally slapped, her face burning with shame.
Gao Yunqin’s expression shifted as well. She observed Ye Qianning furtively. ’What a formidable child. She trapped Yun Yue in just a few sentences.’
"Mother, are you afraid of a little child... AHH—"
Before Gao Yunyue could finish her sentence, the Prime Minister’s wife landed a solid slap across her face.
"Shut your mouth," the Prime Minister’s wife snapped.