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After receiving Empress Li's order, those attendants immediately dropped their scarlet feathers and turned to Zuo Ying.

Zuo Ying slapped people twice in anger just now, and the hand that hurt to the bone still has a few fingers that have not fully regained consciousness, and she can't help but tremble slightly in her sleeve. Based on this alone, she knew that she had no power to fight back now. So even if you struggle now, instead of getting yourself out of danger, you will only get yourself injured and increase your disadvantage.

"Princess! We are doing what we are told, please don't make it difficult for me to wait! One of the attendants said as he reached out to choke Zuo Ying's elbow and twisted it behind him.

But before his hand touched Zuo Ying's sleeve, he suddenly screamed and fell to the ground.

Could it be that I have practiced peerless internal skills? At this time, Zuo Ying didn't have the heart to tease. She jerked her head back and saw another attendant approaching her, who immediately flew a few feet and smashed a pear wood table in two.

"Hugh wants to hurt my princess!" A sweet but unusually decisive and sharp voice came from his side.

Zuo Ying followed the sound and saw that Scarlet Feather was grabbing the arm of a much taller attendant who was attacking her and slamming him to the ground.

Scarlet Feather, who looks like a weak willow supporting the wind and falling down as soon as it blows, actually knows martial arts, and it doesn't seem to be bad at stretching out her hand, which is really unexpected by everyone, and the other attendants didn't dare to rush forward for a while.

Zuo Ying also had an accident in her heart, but her accident had another meaning.

For the average person, showing behaviors that are completely different from the vast majority of people is subject to a certain amount of psychological pressure; And at this moment, Yongning Palace has to endure far more than psychological pressure.

"A lowly girl, how dare to use violence to openly resist the decree of Bengong Yi?!" Empress Li gritted her teeth, her chest rising and falling.

Scarlet Feather stepped in front of Zuo Ying with an arrow step, and opened her arms to protect her behind her, "Queen Mother! The slave and maid know that they are disobedient to the death penalty, but the slave and maid can be disposed of by the queen mother, but the slave and maid of Her Royal Highness the princess cannot let anyone hurt her in the slightest. ”

After hearing this, Empress Li felt even more offended, and shouted angrily to both sides: "What are you doing in a daze?!" Take her down! ”

Those attendants received the queen's order, and all gathered around, glanced at each other, and flashed their sharp blades from their bosoms, and rushed up. Scarlet Feather's bare hands and slender body only parried a few people before she began to look stretched and exhausted. Suddenly, she opened the sharp blade that slashed at her, but she was accidentally kicked in the chest and fell to the ground hard, and just as she tried to turn over, she was held by two sharp blades by the neck, and she could no longer move.

At this moment, there was a scream among the crowd, and everyone followed the sound to see Empress Li sitting on the ground in shock, her hands on the ground, trembling all over, and a dagger against her neck that she didn't dare to move.

The man who held the dagger to her neck, the other five fingers embedded in her bun and grasped firmly, with a hint of laughter was not loud, but in the already silent room everyone heard it clearly, "Queen, let all your rubbish get out." ”

The person who held Empress Li hostage was Zuo Ying - it was more difficult to deal with a powerful man, and it was still a little sure to take advantage of the chaos to put a dagger on the neck of the delicate and expensive Empress Li.

Empress Li's attendants were stunned by the scene in front of them, and did not dare to move forward, let alone exit the house—they could never have dreamed that they would witness such a scene with their own eyes, one Chitose holding a dagger to the neck of another, not to mention how graceful and delicate the one with the knife was usually, and how skillful and accommodating he was when he did such a thing as a gangster, just to say that this meeting was enough for a hundred years. Even Scarlet Feather's always unwavering face couldn't help but show a rare surprise.

"He Lanying, what do you want to do? Are you crazy?! Empress Li was shocked and angry, but she didn't dare to attack, she accommodated the pull on her bun, leaned back, the strength of her hands was completely used to support the center of gravity of her body, and her raised face was facing the chin of Zuo Ying, who was standing behind her with a hunched waist, and saw the corners of her mouth slightly upturned.

"I'm not crazy yet. But if they don't back down, I think I'm going to go crazy with my hand. Zuo Ying said as she gently scraped the dagger back and forth on Empress Li's neck a few times.

Empress Li was so frightened that her hands and feet were stiff, and she didn't even dare to gasp, and her ears seemed to be able to hear the sound of the blade scraping against her skin, "Listen...... Do you hear it...... Get out of here! Retire! ”

Hearing the voice of Empress Li, who had already changed her tone a little because of her fright, none of the attendants dared to insist any longer, and they all carefully supported each other and withdrew from the house. Scarlet Feather stood still, watching warily at those who had exited the house but were still eyeing them.

"Let me go...... Let me go......" Empress Li's tone was already pleading. I think she has been raised in the deep courtyard mansion since she was a child, with fine clothes and food, cared for and cared for, and when she became an adult, she entered the palace to enjoy a higher honor, and everyone served her carefully, lest she be taken care of; For more than 20 years, even a finger has barely been cut, let alone a person who has been held to the neck with a knife to the neck, and at any time he could bleed to death.

Zuo Ying slowly knelt down on one knee, approached Empress Li's ear, and whispered unhurriedly, "You may not mind exchanging your life for your brother's. But will locking me up really save him? ”

Empress Li took a light breath and did not speak.

Zuo Ying sneered, "You can't answer this question, then the next one: For the person who instructed you to do this, is your brother an eyesore, or am I an eyesore?" ”

Empress Li was silent for a moment, her lips moved, as if she had something to say, but obviously she didn't dare to say it because there was no one of her own in the room, for fear that if she said a wrong word, her life would be in danger.

"Wrong." Zuo Ying said word by word, as if she already knew what Queen Li wanted to say.

"I'm a stumbling block to his path to emperorhood, and your brother has evidence of his murder - both of us must die." Zuo Ying spoke lightly and calmly, as if what she was talking about was just a virtual game.

Empress Li swallowed her saliva and whispered in a still trembling voice, "Princess...... It wasn't the intention of Honmiya to force you to get into such a situation...... It's just that...... It's just that if this palace doesn't do it, brother...... I won't survive tonight......"

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