Chapter 986

Claw You to Death, You Bitch!

The eighth prince’s faction had made a mess, and Feng Yuheng led everyone from Hundred Herb Hall to participate in the rescue effort. This time, however, she did not go and steal money from the Sheng Palace. She even refused to accept money that the Sheng Palace had offered. She even loudly said in front of everyone: “Put away your Sheng Palace’s dirty money! My Hundred Herb Hall is able to handle this bit of an expense. Even if Hundred Herb Hall could not afford it, there are still my imperial daughter’s manor and the Yu Palace. Your fake benevolence would never get a chance. When you were doing that sort of utterly heartless thing, what were you thinking? You want to come and act like good people now? Too late!”

The citizens were very welcoming of Feng Yuheng’s resolute attitude. After thinking a bit, when it came to a discussion about a real Bodhisattva, it would be the current Princess Yu, the former Imperial Daughter Ji An! Over the years, whenever there was some sort of mishap, it would be Feng Yuheng who quietly did good deeds and quietly helped people. Back when there was the winter disaster, back when there was the flooding, which time saw Feng Yuheng take a step back? Especially during the flood, she had worked with the ninth prince and exited the city to treat the refugees. In the end, she prevented an epidemic and did not let the capital fall into chaos.

Now that the eighth prince had caused a chaotic mess, they needed to rely on Feng Yuheng to tidy up “the battlefield.” In an instant, the people felt that the capital would be fine if anyone else was missing, but it could not be lacking Princess Yu.

Exiting Hundred Herb Hall, the academy had also sent people over to help. It would be a chance for the students to practice. At the same time, it would relieve the pressure brought on by the lack of numbers.

The palace’s imperial physicians had also come out, but those antiquated imperial physicians did not have much that they could do. Not only could they not do much of anything, but they were also an impediment. Feng Yuheng simply had them observe and not join in. They would just watch the situation here then go to the palace to report to the Emperor.

Yao Xian also came over to join in the rescue efforts. Feng Yuheng found a place where there were no people and sent him into her space. He was responsible for preparing the medicine. With him and Feng Yuheng joining the effort, the situation for the poisoned was quickly stabilized.

Feng Yuheng let out a sigh of relief. Just as she wiped away some sweat from her brow, she saw that Zhu Kongshan had already reached her side, squatting down and asking her: “I watched for a few hours but could not think of what I can do. Look… where can I be of help?”

Feng Yuheng coldly snorted, “I don’t dare ask the great young miss Zhu. The reason for the death and poisoning of the citizens in the northern part of the city, you should be very clear on the cause. I won’t say anything more. I trust you know what you should do.”

Zhu Kongshan nodded, “I understand. Don’t worry. I will repay with my life for those who have died, but it won’t be now.” While she spoke, she looked toward the other end of the road and coldly said: “That person, I feel that I must drag him down to hell; otherwise, wouldn’t these people have died for nothing?” After saying this, she suddenly stood up and ran in that direction.

Feng Yuheng turned back and looked. There, she saw an imperial carriage coming over. She recognized that imperial carriage. It belonged to the Sheng Palace. At this time, she heard Zhu Kongshan run over while loudly shouting: “The eighth prince has come. If everyone wants an impartial judgment, surround him with me. If he doesn’t provide an explanation today, we won’t let him leave the northern part of the city!”

Being led by Zhu Kongshan, a large number of people charged in the direction of the imperial carriage. It was such that the imperial carriage was forced to stop before it even reached the middle of the northern part of the capital. Just as the person inside the carriage lifted the curtain, they heard a female shriek: “Eighth prince! Repay with your life for killing others! You must provide the people from the northern part of the city with an explanation!”

Xuan Tianmo furrowed his brow. He was too familiar with this voice. Was this not Zhu Kongshan? What sort of insanity was this woman up to?

Xuan Tianmo still did not know the situation over here with Zhu Kongshan. After he left the palace, he had been tripped up by the Board of Punishments, delaying him for a long time. Although he had sent servants to the northern part of the city with money, he did not receive the report from the northern part of the city. Because of this, he did not know that Zhu Kongshan had changed sides. He was still thinking about how he would use Zhu Kongshan to calm down the people in the city while on his way over.

Unfortunately, his calculations were off. Standing outside the carriage, there were commoners standing everywhere with looks of anger and disdain. In truth, as he saw it, if these people in the northern part of the city died, they died. They were all people with lesser value. It was a waste of food to keep them alive. But the one thing that absolutely must not happen was for them to die at this moment, nor die in this fashion. Now, he could not cleanly distance himself from this. It truly was a displeasing thought.

Seeing Xuan Tianmo standing on the carriage but not speaking, Zhu Kongshan spoke up once more. Her bashful expression from earlier had been dyed with ferocity. This woman had been feeling nothing but hatred for him for a while. He had believed that dominating her body would mean controlling her as a person; however, who knew that this woman’s thoughts were even crueler than his own. While he was scheming, she was also scheming. She had done it even more quietly and ended up catching him.

When it came to Zhu Kongshan’s accusations, Xuan Tianmo naturally could not admit to them. He coldly looked at the citizens standing around Zhu Kongshan and loudly said: “What sort of explanation do you want from this prince? What is there that you can bring to light? This prince has been working solely for the people; however, now that this sort of thing has happened, I wanted to personally come and investigate why so many people would die in a single night, and why so many people would suddenly end up poisoned. And…” He fiercely stared at Zhu Kongshan, “This is not something that you can distance yourself from!”

Zhu Kongshan raised her head and stood there resolutely. It looked as though she was facing Xuan Tianmo after summoning all of her courage. At the same time, she loudly said: “I’m not worried that you won’t investigate. I’m more worried that you would not investigate! You and Noble Lady Yuan replaced good things with shoddy things, giving those sorts of rotten clothes to the people here. In just a single night, so many people froze to death! Eighth prince, could it be that your heart is not made of flesh? Could it be, that in your eyes, these people are even lower than crickets and ants?”

Her accusations connected the hearts of the people, as they joined her in shouting: “Eighth prince, repay with your life! The eighth prince’s heart is black!”

For a brief moment, Xuan Tianmo nearly felt as though he had returned to the time when Feng Yuheng had closed Hundred Herb Hall. At that time, there had also been a large number of citizens that gathered in front of the Sheng Palace to denounce him. It was just that this time was many times more serious than that time. With so many lives lost, it was not something that he could just ignore.

“Woman, could it be that you’ve become possessed?” Xuan Tianmo ignored the citizens and spoke directly to Zhu Kongshan: “Your words are utter nonsense, and this prince cannot understand a single thing you’ve said. Servants,” He said to the subordinates he had brought with him: “The young miss has gone crazy. Get her in the imperial carriage and send her back to the palace.”

“You’re saying that I’ve gone crazy?” Zhu Kongshan sneered, “With me being crazy as the reason, none of my words count. Is that it? Don’t forget that there are so many doctors here. Whether I’ve really gone crazy or not, they will immediately know.”

Upon hearing the word “doctor,” Xuan Tianmo subconsciously looked forward and happened to see Feng Yuheng standing there. She was looking at him with her eyes squinted and a grim smile. The smile caused him to feel a chill. Intuition told him that seeing Feng Yuheng here was definitely not a good thing for him. Xuan Tianmo almost wanted to turn around and climb back inside his imperial carriage to return home. But in the end, there were so many sets of eyes watching. Even if he wanted to leave, he could not.

He watched Princess Yu slowly walk over and stand next to Zhu Kongshan. Grabbing Zhu Kongshan’s wrists with a smile, she put on a show of checking for a while before saying: “The Zhu family’s young miss has a steady pulse. Aside from anger, there is nothing out of the ordinary. As for you, Your Highness the eighth prince, why do I see some darkness between your eyebrows? There must be some sort of bad omen for today!”

Just after saying this, some of the poor people related to those who had died suddenly became agitated and shouted: “Kill him! Kill him and get revenge for your loved ones!” While they said this, many people suddenly charged forward and surrounded the eighth prince. The citizens had seen red and begun throwing punches and kicks at him. Even if the eighth prince had guards with him, they were powerless to suppress so many citizens.

Feng Yuheng dodged quickly and moved out of the crowd. She avoided being squeezed in by the crowd, but Zhu Kongshan was not so lucky. She did not know martial arts, and her body was weak. With the crowd pushing forward, she subconsciously charged toward Xuan Tianmo. She was already standing toward the front, and this put her directly on top of Xuan Tianmo. As for Xuan Tianmo, he saw her and immediately had an appropriate measure, grabbing her and using her as a meat shield to protect himself against the attacks from the people.

Zhu Kongshan thoroughly hated this man. At this moment, she could not think about anything else. While Xuan Tianmo was looking to the side to avoid the punches being thrown by the crowd, she quickly raised her hand and scratched at his face.

Xuan Tianmo did not think that Zhu Kongshan would resort to such a thing and was unable to dodge. His left cheek was scratched, leaving behind five bloody scratch marks. Zhu Kongshan had used a lot of force, and girls already had long fingernails. This scratch claimed a bit of flesh and blood, leaving Xuan Tianmo’s face bloody.

Zhu Kongshan burst out laughing; however, she was angrily pushed away by Xuan Tianmo. She stumbled out of the crowd and nearly fell over but was supported by Feng Yuheng. Looking at the blood on her fingernails, Feng Yuheng laughed: “You really were able to do it!”

Zhu Kongshan gritted her teeth The Bodhisattva’s appearance had long since faded, as she hatefully said: “If I had a knife, I really would have wanted to stab him to death!” After saying this, she looked toward Feng Yuheng and pointed toward some clothes that had been given away the previous day and said: “Can you arrange for me to go into the palace to make a complaint to the Emperor? Aside from the eighth prince, there’s also Noble Lady Yuan! Even if you can’t do it, you must try. I know that you hate old eighth. Since we have a shared enemy, we are on the same side.”

Feng Yuheng shrugged and laughed, “I don’t dare be on the same side as you. At the very least, I would not harm innocent citizens as a result of my hatred. But I am very interested in this complaint. Don’t worry, I will arrange it.” After saying this, she said to Wang Chuan, who was at her side: “Bring young miss Zhu to the imperial daughter’s manor and have her stay there for a few days. I will naturally have arrangements for what follows.”