Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 839 - 841: Escape from the Wolf’s Den (3)

Chapter 839: Chapter 841: Escape from the Wolf’s Den (3)

"Useless!"

Jin Guifei erupted with fury, her phoenix eyes sharply coming to life as a sense of aloof and piercing coldness burst forth from her elegant visage. With a "slap" on the table, she exclaimed angrily, "To think I entrusted you with such faith, and yet you can’t even handle a woman. If that’s the case, why should I keep you around?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Maotai was instantly terrified, his face turning ashen. With a "splash," he knelt down and began kowtowing audibly with "thud thud thud."

"Your Highness, spare my life, please give your servant one more chance, I will surely not fail my mission..."

Gritting her teeth, Jin Guifei said sternly, "Get out, if you are this useless again, I will certainly not keep you!"

Sun Maotai kowtowed once more and scurried away, rolling and crawling. Li Shanggong, seeing Jin Guifei’s anger, hurried forward to pat her chest to calm her, speaking in a gentle and soft voice, "Your Highness, there is no need to worry, we still have a card up our sleeve."

Jin Guifei said, "Counting the days, Mu Caiwei has been gone for twenty days now; she should be close to Lingbei by now, right?"

Li Shanggong said, "Exactly. As long as Mu Caiwei reaches Lingbei, she will definitely find a way to kill King Qin. At that time, no matter how great military merits King Qin has achieved, what good are they if he’s dead?"

"Ah, King Qin is always crafty; it won’t be easy to kill him. Over the years, I can’t remember how many times I’ve sent people to kill him. Each time I believed it would be successful, but in reality, he’s always escaped. Take this northern campaign, for example, I placed more than a dozen spikes close to him, and he pulled every single one out and even sent me their heads... I can’t be certain of success this time either!"

As she spoke, Jin Guifei rubbed the center of her brow, her face full of worry.

Li Shanggong said soothingly, "Although the people Your Highness arranged before were experts, King Qin has always been cautious, and there are many experts around him, so our failure is understandable. But this time, Mu Caiwei is the woman whom King Qin loves; he surely won’t guard against her. Thus, I think Mu Caiwei has a great chance of success. Her family’s lives are in Your Highness’s hands; she wouldn’t dare to fail!"

Jin Guifei felt somewhat relieved by her words and silently wished, "I hope she succeeds..."

...*...*...

As night fell, a light horse carriage arrived at the side door of the Guangling prince’s mansion. After the carriage stopped, a woman in black clothes leapt out nimbly and waved to several maids waiting by the door. The maids hurriedly lifted a bound maiden out of the carriage and stuffed her into a sedan chair parked inside the door, carrying the chair toward Feixue Courtyard within the mansion.

In Feixue Courtyard, Nangong Jin, the crown prince of Guangling, sat under the eaves of the gallery, swaying his fan with a careless smile, watching the maiden being hauled out of the sedan chair by the maids with a look of smug satisfaction.

At that moment, the maiden was petrified with fear, her slender body shivering uncontrollably like a leaf fluttering in the wind. Her large, tear-filled eyes streamed with tears, and she sobbed so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath, even her little nose turning red from crying, looking pitifully heartbreaking!

Seeing the young beauty crying so pitifully, Nangong Jin’s heart softened immediately, and he rose to approach her, coaxing, "Little treasure, don’t cry. As long as you obey, I definitely won’t mistreat you..."

With that, one hand cupped Fei’er’s chin while the other wiped away the tear beads on her face...

Fei’er had originally been scared out of her wits, barely able to stand upright if not for the support of the maids. Her teeth would have chattered uncontrollably if her mouth hadn’t been stuffed with a handkerchief. But when Nangong Jin demeaned her like that, the fear inside her was quickly replaced by rage!