Immediately afterwards, Feng Qing changed the topic and started to undermine Feng Yuqin. "Second cousin, tell me, is there some misunderstanding here? Or did sister do something that really angered you, which made you lose your head and hire killers?"
Seeing Feng Qing shift the blame onto her in an instant, Feng Yuqin sneered and said, "Little sister, what could I have done to anger Young Master Ji? Is it worth him hiring fifteen killers to take my life? How much hatred must he have for me? Did I kill his parents or dig up the Ji family's ancestral graves?"
"Right. Although there have been conflicts, it's not enough to want someone's life."
"The Ji family and the Prime Minister's Mansion are in-laws. They're at least relatives."
"He hired fifteen killers. He was planning to kill Feng Yuqin on her way to the marriage alliance. How vicious."
The whispers made Feng Pingqiu and Feng Qing look rather uncomfortable.
These people didn't know that it wasn't actually Ji Wenjie who hired the killers. The real masterminds were their family and the eldest cousin. The second cousin was just involved in the execution.
So when they heard these people say that Ji Wenjie was vicious for hiring killers, didn't it mean they were being called vicious too?
If these people knew it was them who did it, the consequences might be even more serious than if they knew it was Ji Wenjie.
After all, there was an extra layer of relationship between Ji Wenjie and Feng Yuqin.
But they were truly family with Feng Yuqin.
Thinking this way, Feng Pingqiu and his daughter exchanged a look and understood from each other's eyes the plan to push Ji Wenjie out as a scapegoat for now and then figure out a way to get him out of the yamen later.
"Wenjie, it seems I can't protect you this time. After all, hiring killers is a serious crime," Feng Pingqiu said to Ji Wenjie with an expression of sadness and regret.
Ji Wenjie looked at Feng Pingqiu in disbelief. It was clearly his uncle and elder brother who came up with the idea of hiring killers, and the silver was also provided by his uncle's family. He had only been involved in a small part of it. How had it suddenly become his crime?
He wasn't very smart and couldn't think that Feng Pingqiu just wanted him to go to the yamen for a while and would figure out a way to get him out later.
So all he could think about now was that his uncle was sacrificing him. A hint of anxiety flashed in his eyes.
"This isn't right. It was actually..." Ji Wenjie wanted to speak up and defend himself, to expose the real masterminds.
But would Feng Pingqiu give him a chance to defend himself?
Of course not!
So when Feng Pingqiu realized that Ji Wenjie was about to expose them, he quickly slapped him again.
This time, he used 70% of his strength and knocked Ji Wenjie unconscious, leaving him no chance to speak.
"You scoundrel! You hired killers and still try to argue. You're such a coward!" Feng Pingqiu said angrily and righteously to the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion. "Take this scoundrel to the yamen. I'll uphold justice by punishing my own relative."
Feng Yuqin sneered. What a great act of upholding justice.
Did he really think she was a fool?
The magistrate in the yamen was on good terms with the Prime Minister's Mansion. Although Ji Wenjie was going in as a killer - hirer.
But with Feng Pingqiu around, Ji Wenjie's stay in the yamen would just be a formality.
Then the people from the yamen would come out and say that Ji Wenjie was innocent and that someone else had hired the killers. Then he would still be the second young master of the Ji family.
Feng Yuqin shook her head. It was a pity. Ji Wenjie had met her this time. Once he went in, there was no way out.
"Father, I didn't expect second cousin to do such a thing. Don't be too sad," Feng Qing said, looking as if she had been severely hit.
In fact, Feng Qing was feeling unwilling and angry at the moment.
Originally, she had asked Ji Wenjie to bring people here today to intimidate Feng Yuqin.
Although they had been forced by Mo Xuanye to go to the inn to pick up Feng Yuqin and take her back to the mansion.
But Mo Xuanye hadn't said that they had to bring her back intact.
So they planned to damage her reputation so that she wouldn't be able to cause any trouble even if she returned to the mansion.
By then, Feng Yuqin's reputation would be damaged. And since Mo Xuanye was in the Western Song Kingdom, once he heard about it, he wouldn't stand up for her.
As long as Mo Xuanye ignored Feng Yuqin and no one wanted to marry her, Feng Yuqin's future would be worse than death.
But Feng Qing didn't expect that things wouldn't develop as she had planned. Before the tricks she had asked Ji Wenjie to come up with were fully implemented, Ji Wenjie had to be sent to the yamen by her father.
Although she thought with her father around, her second cousin would just go in for a stroll. But the outcome she wanted for Feng Yuqin hadn't happened as she wished. How could she be willing?
Thinking this way, Feng Qing looked at Feng Yuqin again and said, "Sister, now second cousin has gone to the yamen because of you. Don't be so stubborn. Come back home with father." Feng Qing looked so aggrieved and patient that many of the men present couldn't help but want to hold her in their arms and comfort her.
The people arranged by Ji Wenjie immediately spoke up. "I think she's just a jinx. If she hadn't come back, nothing would have happened. As soon as she came back, she got Young Master Ji into the yamen."
Some of the more malicious ones even cursed. "I think even if she couldn't succeed in the marriage alliance, she should have died outside. As soon as she came back, she caused such a mess."
"Master, I want to go out and kill these people," the Gold - Devouring Beast was furious when it heard these people's words.
Feng Yuqin comforted the Gold - Devouring Beast. "Don't worry. These people are just lackeys of the second young master of the Ji family. We'll have a chance to settle the score with them slowly. The most important thing now is to embarrass this father - daughter pair. Then I have to go back to the mansion quickly to check on mother's condition."
"I say a jinx like her shouldn't even be allowed back into the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"Prime Minister, Second Miss, don't take her back."
"Second Miss is so kind. Who knows she'll be bullied by this jinx again and the Prime Minister's Mansion will be in a complete mess."
Feng Yuqin laughed when she heard this. This was exactly what she had planned.
It was okay for the original owner to be weak and unable to practice before.
But now it was the modern Feng Yuqin who had returned. She was here for revenge.
She wouldn't let go of anyone who had harmed the original owner.
Feng Qing looked at Feng Yuqin, expecting her to cry in a corner like before. But when she looked up, she saw her cold and indifferent smile, which made her heart skip a beat.
Before, she had thought this bitch was a bit different, but she had thought she was overthinking.
Now it seemed that this bitch had really changed after going on the marriage alliance.
But so what? She was still a useless first - level soul master.
"Don't say such things about sister. Sister... she's actually very nice. Although second cousin went to the yamen because of sister, you can't call her a jinx. What if she doesn't come back with us because of what you said? Then the Fourth Prince of the Eastern Yuan Kingdom will cause trouble for father. I won't be polite to you," Feng Qing pretended to say to everyone.
"Master, this woman is just a jerk. She's not helping you at all. She's clearly trying to make you hated," the Gold - Devouring Beast had lived for so many years and had never hated a woman so much. Feng Qing was an exception today.
"Second Miss, you're really too kind. She got your cousin into the yamen, and you're still speaking up for her."