My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

Lu Xingcheng raised his hand and said drunkenly: "Stop singing..."

Meng Yao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I haven't even started singing yet, and you don't want to listen. How do you know if I sing well?"

The honest man in this brothel had seen all kinds of people. Lu Xingcheng was about the same age as herself. Meng Yao also knew that this might be his first time in a brothel, so she didn't fear him too much and instead asked him jokingly.

Lu Xingcheng looked at Meng Yao and frowned: "I'm not here to listen to you sing a song, come here and talk to me."

Meng Yao nodded and obediently walked to Lu Xingcheng's side and sat down.

She had never thought that as soon as she sat down, Lu Xingcheng began to touch her all over, very dishonestly. Meng Yao immediately pushed him away and stood up and said, "We agreed that we would just sing songs and talk! I am an honest official and I won't do anything else!"

Lu Xingcheng laughed and said, "It's just a name, how come it still stands up! Look at what this is?"

After saying that, he took out another hundred taels of silver from his pocket and threw it on the bed: "You honest officials do all these things just for money, don't you? Why are you pretending to be shy? Take this silver, and I can do whatever I want tonight."

"It's not like I haven't seen silver before!"

Meng Yao was not convinced, thinking that she had met many wealthy men in Xichunlou, and that many officials from the capital had been generous to her. But brothels also have their own rules, and no one forced this honest official to stay overnight with the guest.

You know, Xichunlou is not a place for trouble. After all, most people can't afford to offend the boss behind it.

"You have received your money. I am an honest official, so I can only talk and sing with you!"

Meng Yao saw that Lu Xingcheng was young, so she didn't get too polite and told him directly that if he wanted to stay overnight, he could just find a girl from the brothel to serve him.

When Lu Xingcheng heard this, he was immediately displeased. He walked over, grabbed Meng Yao, picked her up and threw her on the bed!

Seeing the fear on Meng Yao's face, he felt secretly happy. The Lu family had suffered a lot in recent days, and he himself was in an even worse situation. Now he treated Meng Yao as a lamb to be slaughtered and held him under him. An indescribable sense of superiority arose spontaneously.

When Meng Yao refused to obey, he slapped her, left and right!

Meng Yao had never met such an unreasonable guest. She struggled to break free from Lu Xingcheng in panic and was about to call for help in her dishevelled state. Unexpectedly, Lu Xingcheng grabbed her from behind. Her feet slipped and she fell heavily on a round table beside the bed.

Suddenly, Meng Yao's eyes rolled up, and he kicked his legs twice and stopped moving.

At this time, Lu Xingcheng also sobered up. He stood there blankly for a long time. When he came to his senses, he hurriedly carried Meng Yao to the bed and checked her nostrils, but there was no breath at all.

Lu Xingcheng was scared to death and wanted to go out to call for help, but then he thought that if Meng Yao died, it would be a life. If he went out now, wouldn’t he be committing suicide?

Thinking of this, Lu Xingcheng decided to go all out. He took off all Meng Yao's clothes and stuffed her into the quilt. Then he pretended to be drunk and lay aside!

When someone passed by the door, he walked out with a swagger.

"Did you have a lot of fun, young master?"

"good!"

Lu Xingcheng pretended to be calm, smiled slightly and left quickly.

After he left, the madam didn't see Meng Yao come out to entertain the guests for a long time, so she hurried in to look for him!

But Meng Yao's arms were hanging by the bed, and he was motionless inside the curtain!

The madam immediately scolded, "You lost your virginity just like that? I kept you like a treasure, but you didn't keep it!"

As she was talking, the madam had already walked to the bedside. She saw Meng Yao's face was as pale as paper, and the blood on his head had soaked the pillow. She immediately screamed, "Someone's dead! Someone's dead! Meng Yao is dead!"

Xichunlou quickly sent someone to inform the government, who immediately sent people to investigate the case. However, this was Lu Xingcheng's first time at Xiyuelou, and he was a stranger. After asking around the neighbors, he found several playboys around fourteen or fifteen years old in the mansion. The madam and the girls all shook their heads when they saw him.

Kyoto is so big that it is very difficult to find someone.

Besides, Meng Yao had no parents, so naturally no one would seek justice for her. After a few days, the murder case was temporarily dropped.

When Lu Xingcheng returned to the inn, he was scared out of his wits. He could not hide his feelings any more and told Lu Zhanyao about it. Lu Zhanyao was furious, but it was not convenient for him to teach Lu Xingcheng a lesson since they were in the inn, so he made up his mind secretly.

On the morning when Lu Xingcheng followed a group of young eunuchs to prepare to enter the palace, Lu Zhanyao said to him: "If you want to save your life and not be found out about the Xichunlou incident, there is a way, which is to castrate yourself!"

If he became a real eunuch and changed his identity and entered the Cining Palace, no one would suspect that the incident in Xichunlou was related to Lu Xingcheng.

When Lu Xingcheng thought about purification, he trembled, firstly out of fear and secondly out of despair.

"The doctor confirmed that you can't have sex, so what's the point of castration?"

Seeing his own father say these words, Lu Xingcheng was helpless. Besides, he was only fourteen years old at that time and had no ideas of his own, so he could only agree while crying.

Not to mention that Lu Xingcheng suffered a lot during the castration and had a high fever for three days, which almost cost him his life. Moreover, when the Thirteenth Prince knelt down in the Forbidden City that day, the Fourteenth Prince was furious. After the celebration banquet, he rushed directly to the Thirteenth Prince's house.

"Brother Thirteen, do you know how badly you've hurt Qiqi?"

The Fourteenth Prince was extremely anxious and puzzled: "You know that my brother is always suspicious! You first said that Qiqi disguised herself as a man to go to war with the army, which has already made Qiqi commit a crime under military law! Well... even if you think this was a last resort, why did you say that Niansheng was a spy from Dongcheng!"

"Isn't he?"

The Thirteenth Prince looked at the Fourteenth Prince and said, "Fourteenth Brother, I can't not tell you the truth just to protect Qiqi and help her escape danger! Nian Sheng kidnapped Qiqi, and Qiqi and Diejiu were with the spies from East City! I said this because I hope that you will take our friendship into consideration and ask for her help from East City!"

"You are confused!" The Fourteenth Prince's hands were shaking with anger. "Even if my brother and Dongcheng want people, can Qiqi and Diejiu still live in Kyoto as usual after returning from Dongcheng? Will my brother not be suspicious of the Wen Mansion? Over the years, who of the soldiers rescued from Dongcheng can still be the same as before..."

The Fourteenth Prince looked at the Thirteenth Prince in disappointment: "If you say you didn't do it on purpose, I really don't believe it! However, there are two things I don't understand... First, why do you insist that Niansheng is the spy from East City? There is no evidence at all!"

"second……"

The Fourteenth Prince slammed his fist heavily on the jade table in front of the Thirteenth Prince: "We don't know whether Qiqi is alive or dead, but you gave her a story that she was abducted to East City! How can the sisters of the Wen Mansion bear this? If Qiqi can really come back alive in the future, how will she face the rumors and the suspicion of the emperor!"