The sickly boss always wants to get close to her

"Your Highness, please don't lie to me," Ji Yan raised his head, resting his chin on Chu Bainiao's waist and abdomen. His eyes looked especially clear and bright after he had just cried. "I took it seriously."

"They say that if you betray someone who is sincere to you, you have to swallow 10,000 needles. The prince is so good to me. Even if the prince cheats on me in the future, I will not let him swallow needles."

Chu Bainiao stroked his senior brother's eyebrows with his fingertips and emphasized again: "This king will not lie to you. This king will always treat you well."

Ji Yan didn't say anything more, but silently tightened his hands around the slender waist, pressed his pretty face against the clothes, and muttered, "Prince..."

After comforting her senior brother, she went to the palace to meet the emperor under the cover of night.

In the imperial study, Chu Bai Niao briefly explained the matter of Xiyu Tower: "That bandit den is indeed one of the dens of Xiyu Tower, but unfortunately no one was caught. The captives with innocent backgrounds were released, and the others are still in prison for interrogation."

His Majesty of the Great Chu Dynasty was wearing a bright yellow phoenix robe and sitting on a phoenix chair. His eyes were kind but also majestic and noble. "Xiyu Tower is a cancer that must be eradicated. These rats are good at hiding. We haven't found any clues in the past few years."

The so-called Xiyu Tower was originally a gathering place for a group of underworld killers. They were active in the underworld, and no one in the imperial court cared about them.

They all thought that the other party was just a low-level killer in the underworld, so how could he extend his hands to the capital and the court?

The incident happened five years ago.

Xiyu Tower has a new owner. No one knows the name, age, or whether he is a man or a woman. This leader is quite mysterious.

No one paid attention at first, until the first thing the owner of the building did after taking over Xiyu Tower was to summon the assassins in the building to go to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty next door and kill a fourth-rank official of the Zhou Dynasty.

They sneaked into the official's house under the cover of night and killed the official, her husband, his wife, daughter, and son, a total of 23 people, and then left a prepared evidence of the official and his family's crimes in the house.

The remaining papers filled with evidence were scattered all over the streets like snowflakes.

This move is tantamount to telling the world that what they are doing is just and is to eliminate harm for the people.

He also threatened that if there were any corrupt officials who took human lives lightly, Xiyu Tower would take care of those the court did not care about, and would kill those the court did not kill.

The main purpose is to make decisions for the people.

The owner of Xiyu Tower also became famous from this battle.

Over a five-year period, many officials and gentry were killed.

At first glance, it seems like a good thing, but in fact it is not. The country has its own laws and the family has its own rules. You can say that the national laws are not perfect and there are loopholes that can be exploited by others.

But you cannot act on behalf of the court. If you do, it will be regarded as lynching.

I wonder if the people will lose trust in the court in the long run. Will the court still have prestige if it loses trust? Will Your Majesty still have the power to rule?

Can he still govern the country? Will anyone obey the laws he issues from now on?

The country will be in chaos.

Moreover, when the water is too clear, there will be no fish. Who dares to say that Xiyu Tower will always be just and correct?

What if someone is deliberately slandered and killed because of personal vendetta?

Therefore, whether it was the Great Chu or the neighboring Zhou and Song countries, they all wanted to eliminate Xiyu Tower as soon as possible.

The approach taken by Xiyu Tower cannot eliminate the existence of corrupt officials, but will only make them hide, thus treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.

Chu Bai Niao said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I will definitely arrest the owner of Xiyu Tower as soon as possible."

The two continued to talk for a while until the hour of Hai, when Chu Bainiao returned to the palace.

Before she had time to bathe and change clothes, and before she could even sit down to warm up, the servant who had been serving her came running in from outside and said, "My lord, my lord, something bad has happened."

Chu Bainiao rubbed his brows and asked, "What's wrong?"

The attendant panted, "Master Zhuang and Master Zhong are arguing, and the other masters are here too!"

Chu Bai Niao had a blank expression on her face. "Tell the housekeeper to send them all back. Why are they making such a fuss so late at night?"

The servant looked at her cautiously, then ran out in response.

In just ten minutes, she came back again, crying, "My Lord, the housekeeper failed to persuade them, and the young masters are all coming to you!"

Chu Bainiao’s head really started to hurt.

There weren't so many things to do when the original body was here, right?

She stood up with a gloomy face, but just as she stepped over the threshold, the noisy voices of a group of men came into her ears from far away.

The handsome man in emerald green robe was about to pounce on Chu Bainiao the moment he saw her, but was pushed away by another man in blue.

The man who was pushed down whimpered, "Your Majesty! Look at Zhong Shuyao! He bullied me!"

Chu Bainiao was still wearing the black clothes she wore during the day. In the dark night, she stood at the door with an indifferent expression, making people feel cold for no reason.

"The palace is not a place for you to make a scene."

The voice also had a chill to it.

"Tell me, what happened that the housekeeper couldn't stop you and you had to bring it to me?"

Zhong Shuyao, who was dressed in blue and looked a bit bookish, was a little stunned by Chu Bainiao's inhuman look. "Your Highness, I saw Zhuang Yan sneaking outside your yard when I was watching the moon tonight."

"Then there was a quarrel with him."

Zhong Shuyao is the younger brother of the deputy general who died on the battlefield five years ago while blocking the sword for his original body.

Chu Bainiu's expression softened a little when he looked at him.

Zhuang Yan, who had fallen to the ground, stood up immediately, "Nonsense! Prince, Zhong Shuyao wronged me, I was not sneaking around, I just missed you and wanted to see if you had returned home!"

Zhong Shuyao retorted, "No, Zhuang Yan had something on him. I saw it. I didn't say anything just now because I was afraid that he would throw it away secretly. Your Majesty, you can have someone search him."

Zhuang Yan looked flustered for a moment, then calmly said, "Your Majesty, it was Zhong Shuyao who wronged me. He blocked me on the road and quarreled with me, and also attracted so many people."

"Your Majesty, do you really want to listen to Zhong Shuyao and search me in front of so many people?" Zhuang Yan said aggrievedly, "I obviously didn't do anything."

Chu Bainiao ordered his troops to set out from the capital at yin hour today, and it took them two hours to reach the location to suppress the bandits.

After cleaning up the mess, he and his senior brother spent another two or three hours rushing back to the capital. After returning to the capital, he was not idle either. At this time, he had just returned home from the palace.

How can I have the leisure and elegance to deal with such matters?

"Butler Zhu." she called.

The butler stood out from the crowd and said, "I'm here."

"Send someone to search him." Chu Bainiao said coldly, his dark eyes scanning the people in the yard.

"Yes." There was no man serving in the original yard, so Butler Zhu immediately left to look for other people.

Zhuang Yan suddenly panicked. He wanted to pounce on Chu Bainiao, but was held back by Zhong Shuyao.

"Your Majesty! Do you really want to search me in front of so many people? Are you really so cruel?"

Chu Bainiao recalled the memories of her original body. This man named Zhuang Yan was the one who sold himself on the streets of Beijing a year ago to bury his mother, and was brought into the mansion by her.

Because of his handsome appearance and enthusiastic personality, he seemed to be very much liked by the original body. However, he tried to climb into her bed several times and was chased away by the original body to a yard farthest away from her.

"Your Majesty, we have arrived."