In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

princess mansion

Princess Daning stared with wide eyes at her second son, whose broken leg was tied with cloth and wooden strips on the bed. She felt so distressed that she almost cried.

She gnashed her teeth and cursed angrily, "It's fine if the marriage proposal fails, but you actually dared to hurt someone! I will make sure that all the sons of the Qi family have their legs broken. No, no, I will make sure that all their heads are cut off!"

Her father-in-law, General Qin, waved his hands and consoled her: "Your Highness, calm down! Don't worry. Based on my many years of experience, I know that Qi Lu, the father and son of the eldest branch of the Qi Mansion, would never do such a thing."

Princess Daning was still a little skeptical and asked, "Who did it?"

She continued, "I heard that Master He was also injured."

"Your Highness, please calm down and listen to me." General Qin, with his keen intuition gained from years of fighting on the battlefield, felt that this matter was of great importance.

He carefully analyzed the situation to the princess, saying, "Our mansion and the Qi mansion are discussing a marriage. Even if the marriage fails, there is no need to make enemies. What good will it do them if they injure the young masters of the two mansions?"

Princess Daning frowned and asked in confusion: "Who will benefit from this?"

The prince consort thought calmly for a while and said, "I'm afraid someone doesn't want Miss Qi to marry someone else."

He mentioned: "In the past two years, there have been rumors about how unbearable Miss Qi is, so Her Royal Highness the Princess decided to withdraw the horoscope."

Prince Consort Qin then told the princess the truth, "A few days ago, I heard that the Prime Minister's Mansion held a matchmaking party for Miss Qi. That day, I took my two sons to the Prime Minister's Mansion to see it. Miss Qi was not as arrogant and rude as the rumors said. She was just as Master Qi and my father said."

That day, the Prime Minister was a little unhappy when he saw Prince Consort Qin coming with his second son.

The Prime Minister agreed to give the second son of the Qin family another chance because he felt that the second son of the Qin family was a third-rank official in the Zongzheng Temple at a young age, and he might be able to become the Zongzheng in the future, which would give him great power and no risk.

"My Lord, go in and see if she is as the rumors say." The Prime Minister said bluntly, "You will regret it for the rest of your life if you miss her."

Prince Consort Qin took his second son to see her. After seeing Qi Wan clearly, Qin Gaoming cursed her on the spot: "Who the hell is talking nonsense outside? Otherwise, she would have been my wife."

After Prince Consort Qin returned, he persuaded the princess and asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. However, the other party refused on the grounds of incompatibility. Then, the second son's legs were broken.

Qin Gaoming, who was lying on the bed groaning in pain, said, "She is not the person as rumored, and my leg was not injured by the Qi family."

"Who is that?" Princess Daning asked loudly with a dignified look on her face.

Prince Consort Qin looked at his father. They counted all the suspects in their minds, with horror in their eyes.

In this world, there is only one person who dares to set up a trap against the eldest daughter of the general’s mansion.

Anyone who dared to break the legs of Princess Daning's second son, a third-rank official of the Zongzheng Temple,

How many can there be?

Who set up this trap and what benefits do they want to gain?

They first set the question and quickly came up with the answer: only people from the royal family would dare to do it!

Then he guessed who that person might be.

The crown prince and the second prince married and had sons.

The only prince who should get married is the third prince.

The fourth prince was thirteen years old and the fifth prince was only twelve years old.

The prince consort did not dare to say directly that it was the third prince who did it.

He asked the angry Princess Daning, "Your Highness, think about it, who in this world would benefit the most by marrying the eldest daughter of the Qi family?"

Princess Daning said unhappily, "If I were a prince, I would marry her and I'm afraid I would be able to..." She stopped talking instantly, thinking of something, and cursed, "How dare he, such a heartless person!"

Her son and the third prince are cousins!

And she was very kind to the third prince in raising him.

The emperor has two elder sisters, the eldest princess and Princess Daning.

Back then, the third prince was born to a concubine. His mother died when he was one year old. His biological mother, the princess, had a son and a daughter, so she threw him to be raised by a wet nurse.

It was the Grand Princess and Princess Daning who sent people to take him to the princess's residence and took turns to take care of him and raise him up.

The third prince has been on good terms with his cousins ​​since he was a child, and his relationship with them is closer than with his biological brothers.

Unexpectedly, the third prince sent people to hurt his cousin, Qin Gaoming, the second son of Princess Daning.

This made Princess Daning curse loudly with hatred, "Beast, for that position, the royal family always has human-like beasts who kill each other..."

"Your Highness, please be careful with your words." Prince Consort Qin hurriedly advised.

"Let's get to the bottom of this first. It's just a suspicion now." He tried to comfort the princess kindly.

Because of the good relationship between husband and wife, the princess listened to the advice of her husband and decided to investigate the matter first. "If he did it, I will make him pay the price."

The next day, at the morning court, Lord He, the Minister of Rites, stepped forward and accused Qi Lu of sending someone to break the legs of his son He Datong.

The emperor asked weakly, "My dear, why did General Qi break your son's legs for no reason?"

"Your Majesty." Lord He bowed and said, "Two years ago, my son Datong, by the way, Your Majesty, was the third place in the imperial examination. Now he is a fourth-rank official in the Hanlin Academy, majoring in history..."

"Let's talk business." The emperor leaned on the dragon throne, supporting his head with his left hand and waving his right hand impatiently.

"Ahem... He learned that Qi Lu had a fourteen-year-old daughter and proposed to get engaged. But, the horoscopes were not compatible, so the two families failed to get engaged."

"The day before yesterday, Datong proposed to get engaged to Qi Lu's daughter again. I asked the official matchmaker to go, but the Qi family rejected it because their horoscopes were not compatible."

"Isn't this normal? The first time their horoscopes were incompatible, could they be compatible the second time?" the emperor said with his eyes closed.

"But Qi Lu actually broke Datong's leg. Your Majesty, Qi Lu is too arrogant. He dared to injure an official's leg. He must be severely punished."

"You hand over the witnesses and physical evidence to the Dali Temple."

"None of that." Lord He whispered.

The emperor glared at him and said angrily, "Asshole, are you kidding me? You have no evidence at all, and you dare to say that Qi Lu broke your son's leg?"

All the officials lowered their heads and chuckled. Lord He was just a stubborn fool who dared to sue the general who held military power in the Golden Palace without any evidence.

"Your Majesty, calm down." Lord He saw that the emperor was furious and hurriedly said, "Princess Daning's second son also had his leg broken last night. They also offended Qi Lu because of the marriage proposal."

Prince Consort Qin stepped out and said calmly, "Your Majesty, this is absolutely not the case. The second boy fell off his horse and broke his leg."

"Prince Consort Qin!" Lord He exclaimed, "Don't be afraid, speak out in front of the palace and let the perpetrator be punished."

Prince Consort Qin turned around and said, "Sir He, I don't understand what you mean. Qin Gaoming did break his leg by himself. It has nothing to do with others."

Lord He was speechless and stood there in a daze.

The emperor stood up and announced, "He Shi falsely accused the general and demoted him to vice minister, and fined him one year's salary."

"Hmph!" The emperor flicked his sleeves and strode away.

All the officials left the court and walked out of the palace. Lord He, who wanted to cry but had no tears, ran up to Qi Lu and asked, "Did you send the men in black to break my son's leg last night?"

Qi Lu looked at Lord He with a pair of bright eyes and shook his head, "No." After saying that, he lifted the hem of his clothes and strode down the long stone stairs.

Prime Minister Pei glared at Lord He and said, "You are brainless. You asked for it." He turned away.

Lord He looked at Qi Lu's back with tears in his eyes and asked in confusion: "If it wasn't you, then who could it be?"

He was demoted and was very upset.

He was demoted and didn't know who had attacked his son, so he felt scared and panicked.

Qin Fu Ma was walking in front, and when he saw Qi Lu passing by, he whispered, "General."

"Prince Consort Qin." Qi Lu bowed.

He stood still, thinking that Prince Consort Qin would also question him, "Did you hurt my son's leg?"

Prince Consort Qin stood for a moment, and after the Crown Prince, the Second Prince, and the other princes had left, he whispered, "The Third Prince did not come to court today. I heard that he took people out of the city to hunt in the East Mountain early this morning."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Qi Lu with his bright eyes.

Qi Lu looked up at Prince Consort Qin, and the two of them looked at each other.

He was keenly aware that Prince Consort Qin and Princess Changning knew that the Third Prince was responsible for their second son's broken leg, and they had a deep hatred for him, so they began to pay attention to the Third Prince's movements.

Prince Consort Qin said this to him as a reminder.

There was a constant stream of officials passing by them.

Qi Lu said nothing, just bowed his head and saluted.

Seeing that there was no surprise on Qi Lu's face, Prince Consort Qin guessed that Qi Lu probably knew the Third Prince's plan, and said no more.

The two of them understood each other tacitly and walked out of the palace one after the other.