The servant seemed to have heard something funny and burst into laughter, "Prince? Where is the prince? Hahaha!" He laughed so hard that he fell backwards, looking extremely arrogant.

At this moment, a stone hit the boy's knee accurately with such force that he was caught off guard and knelt on one knee in front of Qinghe.

"Ouch!" He cried out in pain, covering his knees, his face instantly becoming ferocious.

"Who is it! Come out here!" He roared angrily and looked around, trying to find out who was plotting against him.

Li Zhong's figure appeared out of nowhere like a ghost, standing steadily beside Qinghe, staring at the two servants with cold eyes.

The servant struggled to his feet, pointing at Li Zhong and shouting, "Who are you? How dare you touch me? I'm the princess's personal bodyguard. Be careful or I'll have the princess kick you out!"

He rubbed his knees, his eyes filled with resentment.

Li Zhong had a blank expression on his face and spoke in a cold tone, "I am the personal bodyguard of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. You, the princess, have no right to decide whether I stay or go."

He exuded a powerful aura that made the two servants dare not look directly at him.

The servant pointed at Li Zhong and then Qing He, and said viciously, "Just wait for me!"

After saying that, he left in disgrace with the people behind him.

Qing He watched them walk away, stamping her feet in anger. "What kind of people are these from Anguo? They are so barbaric, rude, and unreasonable. How despicable! Li Zhong, quickly tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince about this and have him teach these people a lesson!"

Li Zhong gently touched Qinghe's head, as if he was comforting a furry kitten.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. I won't let those who bully you have an easy time."

His tone was gentle, with a hint of doting.

Qinghe's originally flushed cheeks instantly turned a shade of crimson.

She lowered her head uncomfortably and whispered, "Then I'll go to the warehouse first. The queen has something to tell me."

Li Zhong smiled indulgently, "Go ahead."

He watched Qinghe leave, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and his gaze fell on the direction where the group of Anguo servants disappeared.

As night fell, the Prince's Mansion was shrouded in silence.

Several people dressed in the clothes of Anguo servants sat around a few rough wooden tables, which were filled with wine jars. The air was filled with a strong smell of alcohol.

"Boss, is this really okay?" A slightly worried voice broke the noisy atmosphere. "After all, this isn't the An Kingdom of the past. If we're discovered and Princess Anman is implicated, we'll be in big trouble."

Sitting at the main seat, the "boss," dressed in red servant's attire, waved his hand nonchalantly, "What are you afraid of? Our Princess Anman is the mistress of the mansion, after all, and we're popular with her. Even if we're discovered, no one would dare to stop us! Come on, keep pouring the wine!"

As he spoke, his tone was full of arrogance and arrogance.

The boss was already drunk and his eyes were blurry.

At this time, a man in black came over with a pot of wine and stood beside the table without saying a word.

"Quick, fill my glass!" The boss was drunk and couldn't see who was coming. He just reached out and patted the wine glass in front of him.

The man in black didn't say anything, but silently poured a full glass of wine for the boss, and then poured a full glass for everyone else.

Everyone picked up their glasses and drank them all, except for a servant next to the boss. He just leaned back in his chair, half drunk and half awake, looking at the man in black with a dazed look in his eyes.

"You...you...why do you look so familiar...Aren't you the guard who protected that girl during the day?"

The servant suddenly woke up and shouted in fear: "Boss! Boss! Let's go, we've been discovered!"

He pushed the boss beside him in panic, then turned around suddenly, only to find that everyone except himself had fallen on the table.

Li Zhong's figure appeared particularly clear under the dim light. He stared at the frightened servant with cold eyes, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

The servant was so frightened that his legs went weak and he fell to his knees on the ground.

"Have mercy, Guard Li! I was only following our boss' orders. I didn't mean to drink!"

He begged for mercy incoherently, his voice trembling.

Li Zhong's eyes were as cold as a knife, and his tone was stern. "The rules of the Prince's Mansion are very strict. If anyone is found to be neglecting their duties or gathering people to drink, they will be expelled from the Prince's Mansion and will never be employed again!"

The only sober servant was half awakened by the fright, and he fell to his knees on the ground, kowtowed profusely.

"Guard Li, spare us! Guard Li, spare us! We are all guards that came with Princess Anman when she married. You can't kick us out!"

He was crying and sobbing, his face was covered with snot and tears, like a mouse whose tail was stepped on.

Li Zhong slowly squatted down, a sneer on his face, like a hunter looking at prey caught in a trap. "What if you molested decent women and were sent to the government office?"

Before the servant had time to digest the shock of these words, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck, his vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness.

Li Zhong withdrew his hand and brushed off the non-existent dust on his sleeve, as if he had just done something insignificant.

"Strip off their clothes and throw them into the Dali Temple." Li Zhong ordered his men, his tone calm and without a trace of emotion.

"Yes!" The subordinates were already accustomed to Li Zhong's swift and decisive style. They immediately obeyed the order and quickly stripped the group of drunken servants naked and dragged them out of the prince's mansion like dead dogs.

The next morning, the streets of Kyoto were abuzz with discussions, and the news spread as fast as it could.

"Have you heard? The guards that Anguo brought with her during her marriage are too rampant. They molested decent women on the second day after they arrived!" An aunt gossiped with her neighbors in vivid detail, with saliva flying everywhere.

"That's right! Fortunately, someone discovered it in time and sent the person to the government office, otherwise the order of our Kyoto city would have been destroyed by these foreigners!" Another auntie quickly echoed, her face full of indignation.

"What a disgrace! The An people have gone too far!"

When the news reached Princess Amman, she was dressing in front of a bronze mirror. Even her exquisite makeup could not hide the shock on her face.

"Amber! What's going on? Why would Xiao Xiong and the others tease decent women?" Anman slammed the jade comb in his hand on the table and asked angrily.

Amber carefully glanced at Anman's face and spoke carefully, "Princess, yesterday, the maidservant beside Concubine Ping was trying to get some silver from the treasury, but was stopped by Xiao Xiong and the others... Perhaps they were the ones who framed Xiao Xiong."

Anman's face darkened even further, anger almost bursting out of his eyes. "How can this be! How can I let them bully my guards?"

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