"She gave a piece of crazy advice --- It is better to kill you and burn the evidence!" Qi Hao answered in anger. The Han Emperor didn"t plan to kill Xiao Fang, but that vixen was!
Xiao Fang was taken aback. "Burning the evidence should be enough, right?! Why did she tell the Emperor to kill me out of nowhere? After all, there is no grudge between me and that wicked concubine!" Xiao Fang was seriously pondering over this matter.
She couldn"t believe what she had just heard, but she knew that Qi Hao wouldn"t lie to her about such an important matter. Kill her?! Really?! She did nothing wrong and that concubine was even planning to take her life away! It wasn"t enough for that concubine to ruin her mother, but she still had the gall to target her too!
Xiao Fang started to think that this woman must have been using her beauty trap to control the Han Emperor. She remembered something that Tao Gu Gu had said --- it seemed that this concubine used to be a courtesan in a low brothel. How could a woman like that be any good?!
Yao Ling was also surprised and she had the same thought as Xiao Fang... that treacherous couple was truly unbelievable! She looked at Xiao Fang sympathetically from the corner of her eyes and when she saw Xiao Fang"s pale face, she held Xiao Fang"s hand to give her a little bit of comfort.
"To change the tide and so that you will become the new rumor," Yao Ying said bitterly while he pitied Xiao Fang for her misfortune. However, he didn"t dare to show his pity openly because he knew that it would hurt Xiao Fang"s ego.
"Huh?" Xiao Fang still didn"t understand what exactly they were talking about. What was the connection between the new rumor with her? A rumor about the death of the prime minister"s daughter?! What was so interesting about that? She was just a woman who lived in the boudoir and rarely went out --- she wasn"t even sure that the commoners would recognize her.
After all, whenever she went out of this manor"s gate, she always wore her veil.
Yao Ying, Lin Jian, and Qi Hao didn"t know how to answer Xiao Fang"s question and they looked at each other. The answer was quite ugly. Finally, Lin Jian gave the others a signal that he would be the one who told Xiao Fang.
"They want to kill you and cut your head off to be displayed in the capital"s gate. They will give you the nickname "evildoer" --- the one who is behind those slanderous rumors!" Lin Jian answered softly. "They also want to use you as an example, so no one will bring up this subject again..." He trailed off at the last part.
Yao Ling and Xiao Fang"s face turned pale because of this. How cruel! Not only the plan, but also the method! Display Xiao Fang"s head in the capital"s gate?! For such a woman to think of that method, it showed how evil that woman was.
Thet wicked concubine should be the one who was called as an "evildoer"!
Xiao Fang could only gape at them and feel really bitter inwardly. "How... how could they do that to her?! They are so vicious," Xiao Fang thought to herself while trying to hold back her cry. She tried to be brave but the onlookers knew that she felt the despair inside her heart.
Her feeling was a mixture of hurt, fear, disappointment, and anger --- after all, he was still her father!
However, the youngsters didn"t know how to comfort her...
Feng Yong Rui sighed when he saw their expressions --- no matter how clever those kids were, they were still too young and inexperienced when dealing with this matter. He decided to be in charge of the next step.
"Xiao Fang, you are not allowed to get out of this house for the time being. Your situation is very dangerous!" Feng Yong Rui gave Xiao Fang a strict order because he didn"t want to lose his baby girl. "Once they capture you, everything will be too late! You have to use your disguise at all time."
Xiao Fang could only nod numbly because she understood the point clearly. The treacherous couple wanted to use her to dispel the rumor --- replacing the old rumor with new juicy rumor and hoping that everyone would forget about the list and the blood letter.
"d.a.m.n!" Xiao Fang who had never cursed before couldn"t help but curse inwardly. If her father actually knew her real ident.i.ty as his own blood-related daughter and still did this, she wouldn"t know what to do! Thus, she could only comfort herself that the Han Emperor didn"t know about it --- even though it didn"t justify that man"s cruelty.
Qi Hao sighed. "As long as the Han Emperor couldn"t find Xiao Fang, that plan wouldn"t work. So, we just need to be careful for the time being."
Yao Ling remembered something, "What about the spy? If the Han Emperor couldn"t contact him, wouldn"t he feel suspicious?" After all, Yao Ling also heard that Feng Yong Rui always pretended that the defense in his manor was quite weak.
Feng Yong Rui answered with a smile because he liked how smart this young girl was, "Don"t worry! It"s easy to deal with it, just leave it to me!"
He would just let people say that there was an a.s.sa.s.sin and his people killed the latter. With this explanation, the Han Emperor would notice that his spy was being found out. Feng Yong Rui also planned to leak out that they couldn"t find out the mastermind"s ident.i.ty so that he could give the Han Emperor a way out. He still didn"t want to have a real fall out with the Han Emperor at the moment.
It wasn"t the right time yet.
This could also serve as a warning towards the Emperor that Feng Yong Rui knew that he was the one behind this matter. Feng Yong Rui was confident... even if the Emperor wanted to do something to him, he couldn"t due to the circulating rumor. His name was on the list, if he died, everyone would point at the Han Emperor and the other officals who were in the list would become restless as well.
This could also be said that Feng Yong Rui wanted to challenge the Emperor a little bit. What was the use of being loyal if he kept being targeted from time to time by the Emperor?! If it was all about him, he could hold himself back, but he had targetted his daughter! What kind of father would be quiet when someone was bullying his daughter?!
However, he didn"t explain himself to the others, fortunately, the others trusted his abilities and didn"t question him.
Xiao Fang asked with a voice full of hatred --- something that they never knew that Xiao Fang would be capable of, "Father, can we kill that wicked concubine?!" She didn"t beat around the bush and she didn"t even realize that she was behaving out of characters by suggesting that.
Everyone was surprised by her sudden outburst and Yao Ling was the only one who understood her feelings.
Feng Yong Rui and Qi Hao were the most surprised ones! They started to realize that Xiao Fang must have known something because she would never hate someone to this point --- unless she had been hurt a few times by the same person. In this regard, she was the same as Feng Yong Rui.
They looked at each other and wanted to ask a question to Xiao Fang. Did she know that she was adopted?