Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

"What! Mining?"

Hong Feng was stunned. "How could we, with our noble status, possibly be mining? Let me tell you, we are all descendants of the former Long family. Our grandmother is Brother Nanqi's grandmother. If you're sensible, you'd better be respectful to us. After all, we are Brother Nanqi's few blood relatives in this world!"

It turned out to be the Long family.

Song Zhixin understood, no wonder he was so arrogant.

She gave a mocking smile, "Blood relatives? Even I know that in order to consolidate the Long family's position, your family sent your younger sister to the palace when the late queen was seriously ill, hastening her death. How dare you be so despicable and cold-blooded as to come to me and claim your kinship? Are you sure that Aqi will accept you instead of hating you?"

She narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing a dangerous light, "Brother Nanqi, I've never met him before, but he sounds familiar?"

"Blood is thicker than water. Brother Nanqi won't hate us. No matter what you say, we are all family. Please let us see Brother Nanqi as soon as possible."

Zi Xuan crossed her arms, looking determined to achieve her goal, without showing any respect at all.

"You are disrespectful and disrespectful, Xiao Tao, what should I do according to the law?"

Song Zhi frowned slightly. He challenged her authority time and again. If she continued to tolerate it, she would be unworthy of her current status.

Xiao Tao looked up in confusion, "According to...according to the law?"

They established the country in a hurry and were still discussing national laws with Lord Li and Lord Song. There was no law at all.

But the arrow was on the string and had to be shot, so she suddenly had an idea and said, "According to the law, he should be given fifty lashes!"

Song Zhi was shocked. This girl was so cruel that it was outrageous.

Fifty lashes of the cane would mean the other person would be wiped out!

She made faces and gestured to him to lose some weight.

Xiao Tao thought she had said too little, so she said, "Oh no, sixty! Sixty lashes."

Song Zhi held his forehead, thinking that those two people were going to be beaten to ashes.

Hong Feng and Zi Yu's faces turned pale when they heard this. "How could you so easily kill innocent people? How can you rule a country with such brutality? You wouldn't just be crowned emperor and start slaughtering ordinary people like us."

Song Zhi gave up asking Xiao Tao to pass on the message and directly called Xie Ting in. "These two people are rude. Drag them out and give them ten lashes each."

Xie Ting was very smart. He directly ordered his subordinates to drag the two men to the outer courtyard and beat them in front of more than 500 women to make an example of them.

The moment the board fell, screams resounded throughout the courtyard. The five hundred women were terrified and clenched their fists to move forward.

Song Zhi threw a look over, and Xie Ting immediately brought a team of guards armed with swords to surround them.

They didn't dare to act rashly anymore and just looked at Hongfeng and Zixuan with concern.

The ten strokes of the board were quickly completed, and the two men fell to the ground howling and screaming, pointing at Song Zhi and saying, "You! You've gone too far!"

Seeing that she still had this attitude, Song Zhi's eyes became sharp.

As expected, they still lack experience. If it were the dog emperor, I'm afraid these two people would have been beheaded in order to establish their authority, and there would be no chance for them to jump like this.

On the one hand, she also wanted to establish her authority.

She is well aware of the importance of dignity, which involves many far-reaching issues.

But on the other hand, she felt that as women, it would be too cruel to take their lives just for a few words.

After much thought, I decided to give these two people a chance.

"These people are just trying to make connections, they don't look like they're surrendering. Get them out now."

"You! Song..."

Zi Xuan was about to call her by her name again, but faced with Xiao Tao's fierce slap, she saw that the situation was not good, so she gave in and changed her words immediately.

"Your Highness, we were ignorant just now. Please let us see my brother first. Grandmother said that Brother Nanqi also has the blood of our Long family flowing in his body, and he will not ignore us."

"It's hard to say."

Song Zhi sat back in his seat, looking at the two embarrassed people nonchalantly and said, "When he was going through such a hard time, you didn't come forward to help him, but now that things are getting better, you are sticking to him. How can this be a good thing?"

Zi Xuan quickly defended herself, "We were exiled to various places, and it was difficult for us to survive. That's why we didn't take care of Brother Nanqi. But Grandmother and the others never forgot him. We fought hard to make a comeback, hoping that one day we could be of help to Brother Nanqi."

“That’s very nice to say.”

Song Zhi couldn't help but applaud.

She narrowed her eyes at the two people and asked, "You are the only two left in your entire Long family. Is there no male heir?"

According to everyone's idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, since Zixuan and Hongfeng can grow so strong, those men must have been raised better.

But there are only so many women here today, there must be something fishy!

Sure enough, after asking this question, both of them avoided her sight guiltily.

"Empress, you will understand. There are male descendants, but they look down on women just like ordinary men. That is why we have fled and come here to seek refuge with you. Now everyone knows that you are the only guiding light for women."

Zixuan reacted very quickly and came up with an excuse immediately.

After saying this, he pulled Hongfeng, who immediately agreed, "Ah, right, right, actually, we came here because we were treated harshly and had a hard time. We were afraid of being bullied, so we acted like that in the beginning to prevent others from thinking we were easy to bully."

Song Zhi pretended not to notice anything unusual about the two men and jokingly said, "You guys know that your appearance is annoying. You're quite self-aware."

The two of them clenched their fingers in humiliation, and a fierce look flashed in their eyes.

But he still smiled ingratiatingly and said, "I apologize for the offense just now. Your Majesty, please forgive my mistakes and don't hold it against us."

This kind of flexibility is totally unlike their impetuous temperament.

It only means that they are enduring for a more important plan!

Song Zhi looked at the two of them and said, "Since you are descendants of Aqi's maternal grandfather, I really can't refuse you. How about this? I'll have a doctor examine your injuries first, and then arrange for you to live in a good courtyard."

The two sisters couldn't suppress their upturned lips and said, "Okay, whatever you arrange, we two sisters will live there."

Song Zhi didn't dare to wink at Xiao Tao. She called Xiao Tao to her side and ordered, "Tell someone to clean up Mantingchun and let the two sisters live there. Make sure they are treated well."

After saying this, he looked at the other 500 people and said, "As for you, I can see that you can't mine, so why don't you follow the people to quarry stones?"

Now is the time when a large amount of stones are needed for the construction of a new palace. Although this group of women may not be able to produce a lot of stones, it will definitely temper their temper.

"No, they're following us to protect me... No, they're doing other things to serve us."

As soon as the words fell, Hongfeng jumped out again.