"How is this possible? Feng Yuqin not only didn't die but also returned to the mansion. Are you sure this information is accurate?" Feng Pingqiu couldn't believe what he had just heard.
After all, he had sent out his two most powerful secret guards.
Thinking back to the time when Feng Yuqin was going on a political marriage and all the assassins he had sent were killed, to be on the safe side, he had also informed the Ji family to send out two secret guards.
Four secret guards, plus so many assassins, how could they fail to kill Feng Yuqin?
"What? Are you disappointed that I'm still alive, Father?" Feng Yuqin's cold voice rang out.
Feng Pingqiu, who was sitting in the study, was startled. He suddenly stood up and stared at Feng Yuqin in disbelief. "How did you get in?"
It was said that those who had a guilty conscience were afraid of death, and Feng Pingqiu was exactly such a person. So his main courtyard was heavily guarded.
But Feng Yuqin had managed to get in so easily.
"Do you mean those guards outside?" Feng Yuqin spread out her palm. "Look, they were all knocked out by this sleeping drug."
"Impossible. Those guards are not weak. Ordinary sleeping drugs won't work on them." Feng Pingqiu stared at Feng Yuqin with a sinister look on his face.
Feng Yuqin smiled. "Yes, ordinary ones won't work, but these were given to me by Mo Xuanye."
In fact, these were the sleeping drugs from the space of Little Gold. They were from ancient times and much more effective than the ones nowadays. Otherwise, how could those guards have been caught?
But it wasn't convenient for her to say that they were from her own space, so she had to shift the blame to Mo Xuanye.
Hearing the name Mo Xuanye, Feng Pingqiu's face darkened even more.
So was it because of Mo Xuanye that Feng Yuqin had returned safely?
But what about his secret guards?
Feng Pingqiu subconsciously glanced behind Feng Yuqin.
"What? Are you looking for your secret guards, Father?" A mocking smile played on Feng Yuqin's lips as she sneered.
Feng Pingqiu's eyes darkened. "I don't understand what you're talking about."
Sending out secret guards to kill his own daughter was one thing when done secretly, but it was another thing if it was made public.
Moreover, the rumors outside today were already unfavorable to him. He couldn't possibly admit to this.
Feng Yuqin wasn't surprised that he didn't admit it. "Don't worry, Father. It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not. After all, your secret guards were very arrogant and didn't even try to hide their faces. Coincidentally, I've only met the leader of the secret guards once. And today, I've returned safely just to take revenge on you, Father. So please get ready to face my attacks."
"Unfilial wretch! Is this how you talk to your father?" Feng Pingqiu tried to use his status as a father to suppress her.
Feng Yuqin laughed upon hearing this. Her laughter was cold and bloodthirsty. "Feng Pingqiu, you don't even act like a father. Do you expect me to respect you? Are you sure you're not here to make a joke?"
The butler, seeing Feng Yuqin being so bold as to call the prime minister by his name, was so scared that he kept lowering his presence, afraid of being implicated by this father - daughter pair.
"Feng Yuqin, who gave you the audacity to call me by my name?" Feng Pingqiu seemed to have finally found an excuse to punish Feng Yuqin. "Butler, send this unfilial daughter to the ancestral hall. I'm going to enforce the family law."
A faint smile played on Feng Yuqin's lips as she said calmly, "The ancestral hall? Go ahead and try. Let's see who will end up in the ancestral hall, you or me? Don't forget, your secret guards haven't returned yet. Don't you want to know where the bodies of your two secret guards are?"
Feng Pingqiu: "..."
He clenched his fists tightly, unable to determine how far Feng Yuqin had actually gone.
"Father, I don't have much patience." Feng Yuqin said coldly. "Your actions tonight have exhausted the last bit of father - daughter affection between us. If you're smart, hand over my mother's dowry as soon as possible. If it's not all handed over in three days..."
"What? If I don't hand it over, do you think you can kill me?" Feng Pingqiu didn't take Feng Yuqin's words seriously at all.
He thought that tonight's failure was just because Feng Yuqin was lucky and had been saved by Mo Xuanye. But she couldn't be that lucky every time.
"No no no... You're overthinking. Killing you directly would be the stupidest thing to do. Do you think I'm that stupid?" Feng Yuqin shook her head.
"So if you're smart, Father, hand over my mother's dowry obediently within three days. If you're not..." Feng Yuqin's tone changed. "I heard that the grandson of the grand scholar is dead, but the murderer has never been found. Maybe I can provide some clues."
Feng Pingqiu stiffened. A look of panic flashed across his eyes, but his tone was still tough. "What clues can you provide? You're just talking big."
Feng Yuqin slowly stepped forward and stood in front of Feng Pingqiu.
Only then did Feng Pingqiu notice that Feng Yuqin had become much more beautiful than before. Why hadn't he noticed this before?
Just as he was thinking this, Feng Yuqin whispered a name, which instantly pulled Feng Pingqiu back to reality, and a look of horror flashed across his eyes.
Feng Yuqin was satisfied with his reaction. "Remember, Father, you only have three days. As for the silver in the dowry, I want it in my hands within two hours."
With that, Feng Yuqin swaggered out.
"Master, are you just going to let him go like this?" Xiao Ying said unwillingly.
Although the master's injuries had healed, it was a fact that Feng Pingqiu had arranged for assassins to kill his own daughter.
"Of course not. Didn't I just drop a bombshell on him? It'll be enough to keep him on edge day and night." Feng Yuqin was good at understanding people's minds. For someone like Feng Pingqiu, beating him up or killing him directly wasn't the most effective form of revenge. Torturing him mentally was the best way.
A cold look flashed across Feng Yuqin's eyes. He dared to assassinate her. She wasn't the old Feng Yuqin anymore. She had no father - daughter affection for this father of hers.
She believed that if someone wanted her life, she would make them wish they were dead.
As soon as Feng Yuqin left, the second wife rushed over.
After all, although the butler might not know about the ambush and assassination, as the second wife of the prime minister's mansion, how could she not know?
So when she heard that Feng Yuqin had returned safely, she couldn't sit still and rushed over in a hurry.
As soon as the second wife saw Feng Pingqiu, she asked anxiously, "My lord, what exactly happened? You and my brother arranged so many people. How could you have failed?"
Feng Pingqiu said with a gloomy face, "Mo Xuanye of the Dongyuan Kingdom is still in the Xisong Kingdom."
With just this one sentence, the second wife understood that Mo Xuanye was backing Feng Yuqin up.
"So what should we do next? Should we continue to arrange more people?" the second wife asked tentatively.
Feng Pingqiu glanced at the second wife. "Return Yan Aoyun's dowry to her within three days."
"What?" A look of disbelief flashed across the second wife's eyes, and her voice was shrill. "My lord, do you know how much wealth that is? Are you really willing to give it up like this? Those silver coins will have nothing to do with us from now on?"
Yan Aoyun was the only daughter of the Yan family. When she got married back then, the Yan family was worried that she would suffer in her husband's family, so her dowry was so generous that it made many people in the imperial city envious.
At that time, the old lady was still alive. After Yan Aoyun got married, to make the old lady happy, she had contributed her dowry to the public treasury of the mansion, and the management of the household was also in the hands of the old lady.
Less than three years later, the old lady passed away, and the second wife took the opportunity to take over the management of the household.
At that time, the Ji family wasn't as powerful as it was now. After the second wife had checked the public treasury, she found that Yan Aoyun's dowry accounted for the majority. She had tasted the benefits over the years, and now asking her to give it up was like cutting off a piece of her flesh. How could she be willing?
"That unfilial wretch is threatening me with the matter of the grand scholar's grandson. I don't know how much she actually knows..." Feng Pingqiu didn't finish his sentence, but the second wife was, of course, well - aware of this matter. She understood that the lord had been caught by Feng Yuqin and had no choice but to compromise.