Chapter 47: I am the Fourth Master's Woman

  Qin Lei smiled as he gazed at the palace maid on the ground, and just as she opened her mouth, Qin Lei kicked her right in the face. The maid fell backwards, swallowing back the words that had been about to come out of her mouth.

  Qin Lei's kick was not heavy, and the palace maid who was lying on the ground soon came to her senses, staring at him with a resentful expression, about to open her mouth again.

  Qin Lei's foot gently came down again, and the palace maid hurriedly covered her head and closed her mouth. In the end, his foot did not fall. Qin Lei said softly, "As long as you are quiet for two hours, can you do it?"

  The palace maid looked at Qin Lei's footboard that was about to fall, and sighed in her heart: "It's so hard to scold someone." She lost interest in opening her mouth, and obediently curled up in the corner of the wall without moving.

  Qin Lei smiled warmly and said, "That's more like it. If you persist, I'll give you a reward." Then he whispered a few words in the ear of one of his guards, sat down with his eyes closed, and ignored her.

  After a while, Shen Qing reminded softly by his side: "Your Highness, it's been two quarters of an hour."

  Qin Lei nodded and said to the palace maid in the corner of the wall: "You can go now."

  The palace maid didn't react for a moment, and after a while, she exclaimed in surprise: "Your Highness, you're not joking, are you?"

  At this time Shen Qing drew out his waist knife and went forward to cut open the ropes on her body.

  Qin Lei flipped his eyelids and sneered: "Within ten breaths, if you don't leave, it's equivalent to you wanting to be a camp prostitute."

  The palace maid rubbed her sore shoulders, supported herself on the bed and stood up, not daring to ask again. She moved slightly and then stumbled out. Qin Lei followed her out and laughed behind her back: "The farther you go, the better. Go south. Stay away from that person."

  The palace maid's footsteps paused for a moment, and she nodded slightly before turning to leave. Qin Lei shouted again: "Halt."

  The palace maid was startled by Qin Lei's sudden movements, completely unable to guess what he would do next. Already a nervous wreck, she immediately turned around and knelt down, not saying a word.

  Qin Lei took a package from the guard's hand and handed it to the palace maid, saying softly: "Sister, this is your reward, take it and go. Live a good life, don't get entangled in these messy things in the capital again. Go."

  The palace maid saw Qin Lei make no move, knocked her head, and with a brain full of questions, turned around and ran towards the door.

  At this time, a sharp cry came from the west wing: "Your Highness..." The voice was high and mournful.

  The palace maid who had just run out of the gate suddenly realized, and was about to turn around and shout loudly, when a dark short blade from behind cut off her throat. The palace maid softly fell towards the outside of the gate. She was caught by the black-clad guard and carried into another horse carriage that had stopped at the gate at some unknown time.

  Two horse-drawn carriages happened to block the entrance, preventing outsiders from seeing the evil happening inside.

  Qin Lei slightly shook his head in disappointment. The high-pitched female voice continued to shout: "Your Highness, I surrender too, spare me! I don't want to be a camp prostitute... I also want to go home..."

  Qin Lei waved his hand, and the exceptionally dilapidated west wing door opened. Shi Meng pulled out a palace maid who was limp like mud from inside. Although her whole body was soaked with sweat, her clothes were intact, and she had not been ravished by Mengzi.

  Qin Lei glared at Shi Meng with a fierce gaze. He coldly snorted: "Not needed, you'd better go back to being a camp prostitute."

  "That palace maid struggled and cried out in a hoarse voice: 'Don't, Your Highness, I am the fourth prince's woman, she is not. I know many things that she does not.'"

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  That carriage, which had set out from the East Palace at dawn, was once again traveling down a bustling street. The carriage was well-insulated, and Qin Lei couldn't hear any of the outside noise inside the compartment. He remained staring blankly ahead, thinking back to the infuriating news he had received in that dilapidated courtyard.

  Actually, Qin Lei had no intention of asking the first palace maid from the very beginning. His past work experience told him that women, these strange creatures, were largely controlled by emotions. If it was only through physical torture, it might only make their hatred or anger dominate their body. At that time, even if they were tortured to death, they wouldn't be able to get a single word out of them.

  So Qin Lei had been mentally attacking the two palace maids from the start, finally scaring one of them into not daring to speak and fleeing in a panic. The other thought she was the first to be summoned, her mind collapsed, and naturally confessed everything.

  Qin Lei knew that as a strictly trained female spy, it was impossible for her to collapse so easily. So Qin Lei didn't expect the first female spy to say what he wanted. As long as she could give the second one an illusion that had already been confessed, it would be enough.

  As for that one cry, it was purely accidental, the cloth stuffed into the female thief's mouth had fallen out. This accident also led to another female thief's sudden death.

  All of this is irrelevant. What matters is that Qin Lei finally got the news he wanted. Although the news wasn't so pleasant.

  Nian Yao indeed did not commit suicide.

  When he heard that Nian Yao had hanged herself, Qin Lei was shocked and couldn't believe it no matter what.

  A girl who dares to scold the prince as "worse than a beast" must be of a strong and independent character, how could she die silently? Even if she died, she wouldn't choose such a miserable way to hang herself.

  Qin Lei remembered that there was a pair of scissors on Nian Yao's bed, and he believed that if Nian Yao used those scissors to commit suicide, it would be consistent with her character.

  Of course this is just speculation and evidence is needed.

  The evidence is on Nian Yao's body. Apart from the purple mark on the front of her neck, there is also a green mark on the back of her neck, and her face is terrified, with silk residue between her fingers. This is clearly a case of being strangled to death.

  According to the silk thread in Nian Yao's fingernail seam, Qin Lei confirmed that it was done by a palace maid, and all suspicions pointed to several palace maids who were present at the scene that day.

  Finally, taking advantage of two palace maids going out to buy rice flour yesterday, Shi Meng captured them in one move.

  In the end, the palace maid who claimed to be the Fourth Prince's woman spoke out the truth: The Fourth Prince was in charge of the Imperial Harem, and a month ago, he handed her a beautiful girl with a fiery personality for training. However, the purpose of the training was somewhat strange, asking her to spoil her as much as possible, giving in to her every demand, catering to her every whim, just like serving a princess.

  Qin Lei clearly remembered that the woman under the four palaces still had a lingering fear, apparently having been tormented by Nian Yao.

  Finally, on the eve of Qin Lei's return to China, they were sent to the East Palace, and Nian Yao was told to go as a female official in the Crown Prince's study. She barely coaxed the little ancestor to follow her.

  Nian Yao didn't dare to present this explosive gift in front of the Crown Prince, so without even seeing the Crown Prince's face, it was transferred under Qin Lei's name.

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