"Wait..." Li Yuanzhen suddenly spoke.

However, this time, the guards, under Ji Zhen's instructions, reacted very quickly. Before Li Yuanzhen could finish his words, they quickly stripped the man and Tian Fugui of their clothes, leaving only a piece of cloth hanging on their bodies.

The man who had fainted on the ground had no power to resist, and Tian Fugui, who was tied to the rack, couldn't even struggle. His face turned purple, and he was so ashamed and angry that he shouted:

"A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. A villain only wishes to die!"

"Are you embarrassed now? What were you doing before?"

Ji Zhen spoke slowly, her eyes were extremely cold, sweeping across Tian Fugui's flushed face like a knife, and she snorted coldly:

"A man can be killed but not humiliated? How can you be considered a loyal man? You are nothing but a traitor who colluded with the traitors and undermined the defense of South Vietnam. You are a traitor who sold out your country for personal gain!"

Tian Fugui's face suddenly turned from red to blue, and his bloodless lips turned pale.

Every word in Ji Zhen's words was a serious crime punishable by death and the punishment of all nine generations of the family. He could not bear any of them.

He looked at Li Yuanzhen in despair, but Li Yuanzhen's face looked not much better than his at the moment. She lowered her eyes and no expression could be seen.

Tian Fugui looked at the man on the ground who didn't know whether to live or die, and the guy who was curled up with his head in his hands and his eyes closed. The string in his heart that was always tense suddenly broke. In an instant, he lost all hope and opened his mouth to bite his tongue to commit suicide. However, he didn't expect that when he bit his tongue with all his strength, he actually bit on a hard object, and his teeth were so sour that he shed tears.

"Want to kill yourself? Did I agree?"

Ji Zhen's eyes were like knives. She slowly loosened her whip and let the black handle lie across Tian Fugui's mouth, pressing down on the root of his tongue and making it impossible for him to close his mouth. She gently patted his cheek and said calmly:

"Don't worry, I still need your words to answer my questions."

Li Yuanying looked at the two half-dead men in front of her and felt it was disgusting. She covered her mouth and nose and waved at Ji Zhen:

"Hurry up, drag it out after checking it out. It's so disgusting!"

In fact, Yu Bojun had already tested it, and testing it again here was just killing the chicken to scare the monkey.

He glanced at Ji Zhen, who nodded slightly. He then signaled the guard to turn the man lying on the ground to the side, lifted up his arm, pointed to a brand on the inside of his arm, near his armpit, and said:

"It is this seal. According to this person's confession, this seal is the seal of the Eastern Palace's assassins."

"What nonsense!"

With a clang, a teacup was smashed to the ground and shattered completely. Li Yuanzhen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly became angry and glared at Ji Zhen:

"He is just a half-dead man who can't even open his eyes. You say he is from my Eastern Palace, so he is from my Eastern Palace? It's just a brand. Who knows what it is? You say he is the brand of my Eastern Palace's assassins, so he is the brand of my Eastern Palace's assassins? Qingyan, is this the case you are trying? Are you letting them make random accusations?"

Ji Zhen raised her eyebrows, turned sideways and saluted to Li Yuanzhen, saying:

"Your Highness, calm down. It is an open secret that the princes and nobles of Nanyue have always kept assassins and used branding to distinguish their identities. If Your Highness wants this boy to speak and testify, it is not difficult. Just let him wake up."

"That's putting it lightly."

Li Yuanzhen looked at the bloodless face of the man on the ground and her heart sank.

Of course she knew who he was, because he was the assassin she had raised, and she had given him the sketch of the Northwest Defense Map.

The purpose is nothing more than to lure Li Yuanying into the trap.

As the princess of Nanyue, her most sensitive nerve is her own safety.

When everyone thought that Li Yuanying was a useless princess, she realized that she had bad intentions towards her. Li Yuanying thought she had hidden her jealousy and resentment well, but Li Yuanzhen saw it all.

She was on guard against her, not just now, but five years ago, she was on guard against her, and against the seemingly peaceful second princess Li Yuanmei. She had spies around everyone who was close to her, anyone she paid attention to.

Just like what the empress did before, build your own intelligence network and put your eyes into every dark corner. This is the only way to be safe.

No one else is allowed to covet her position, and no one else's snoring is allowed beside her pillow.

But she didn't expect that Li Yuanying would be so stupid as to take the bait. She also didn't expect that Ji Zhen, whom she used as a chess piece, could suddenly see through the chess game and detain the two of them here. And Li Yuanying was so bold that she followed the interrogation and didn't even stop it.

Did she really not know that the Zhang Quansheng kneeling on the ground was her assassin? Did she really not know that Zhang Quansheng had really bought the Northwest Defense Map?

Why does she not care about the same death penalty that will implicate the entire clan?

Li Yuanzhen frowned, but Ji Zhen smiled indifferently. Yu Bojun bowed respectfully to her and said:

"Your Highness, this boy was exposed and bit the poison in his mouth, but I acted in time and saved his life. Now if you want him to talk, you only need one shot."

"The young general actually has such a great ability. I am really impressed by him."

Li Yuanzhen knew very well what the poison of the assassin was, but he did not expect that Yu Bojun could save him from such a poison.

Yu Bojun glanced at the man lying on the ground and said coldly:

"So many brothers died on the battlefield in the northwest, leaving behind so many orphans and widows. The peace we fought so hard to gain and the border we defended must not be harmed by such traitors. If I don't bring him back to reply, I will be sorry for the brothers who died in Wanren Pass."

Li Yuanzhen's face turned pale. She didn't dare to look at Yu Bojun and Ji Zhen's eyes. She just slapped the table and pretended to be angry:

"There is no way such a disaster would happen in my Eastern Palace. Shuoxue, go and see if he is from the Eastern Palace."

The female official standing next to Li Yuanzhen suddenly raised her head and met her cold gaze. She moved her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing and just lowered her head. She replied softly:

"Yes."

She walked to the guard and bowed to Ji Zhen:

"Your Highness Qingyan, would you allow me to verify the identities of these two people?"

Seeing that her hands were clean and she wasn't wearing even a gold bracelet, and that it was impossible for her to hide any hidden weapons in her tight-fitting official uniform with narrow sleeves, Ji Zhen agreed because she thought she couldn't do anything fancy.

So the female official named Shuoxue stepped forward, stretched out two fingers, walked to the side of Tian Fugui, brushed the brand on his body, and took a look.

Then he walked to the man lying on the ground, and moved his fingers up along the man's arm until he reached the mark. He paused for a moment, then gently brushed across the mark and said lightly:

"The mark here is blurry and it's hard to tell what it is. It's possible that he accidentally hurt himself."

Yu Bojun frowned, and felt that something seemed to be wrong. Just as he was about to speak, he heard her say:

"But this boy is already dead, so I'm afraid he can't explain how this mark came about."

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