son, don't mess around

"Hey, I told you the princess would be mad!"

In the early morning, the inner courtyard was sunny and the weather was just right.

Jinxiu, who was wearing a light purple double-breasted long dress, carefully lifted the hem of her skirt and came to Lin Jiangnian's side. She looked happy and there was a hint of gloating in her tone.

Blinking his lively eyes, he looked at Lin Jiangnian with a little pride, as if to say, "I knew it would be like this."

"I let you come up with such a bad idea. Let's see what you are going to do now!"

The weather was hot in the early summer. Jinxiu's long skirt was thin, and the silk material looked extremely smooth, which made her look more elegant and noble.

In addition, her smug look at the moment formed a sharp contrast with her temperament.

It's hard to describe!

She quietly approached Lin Jiangnian, with a faint smile on her delicate face: "I went to see the princess this morning. Although the princess looked normal, she was...not normal at all!"

"I must be mad at you!"

Lin Jiangnian looked at her and said unhappily, "Your princess is angry, why are you so happy?"

"Have it?"

Jinxiu blinked.

"You're just short of writing the word happy on your face."

"Your Highness has gone too far!"

Although Jinxiu did not admit that she was very happy, she was indeed quite happy to see His Highness being humiliated.

I let His Highness bully me before, and now I have offended the princess, right?
What do you do?
Of course, Jinxiu would not admit that she had some other thoughts.

After learning that His Highness had a special relationship with the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly God Religion, Jinxiu was not particularly unhappy, but she still felt a little emotional.

However, as a maid and a latecomer, she naturally would not and could not say anything.

And when she saw that His Highness was humiliated by the princess because of this matter, which made the princess angry... Jinxiu was indeed somewhat gloating.

I feel a guilty pleasure of taking a small revenge on His Highness!

After mocking His Highness, Jinxiu asked again: "What is Your Highness going to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"You've made the princess angry. How are you going to comfort her?"

"Do you have any idea?"

"No."

Jinxiu answered promptly and concisely.

Then, the two of them started staring at each other.

Jinxiu has no experience in this area, so naturally she can't guide His Highness. As for Lin Jiangnian...he is about the same.

Is Li Piaomiao angry?
Lin Jiangnian thought back to what happened last night and the last words the princess said, and his heart was filled with mixed emotions.

She is not angry!
But the words 'this won't happen again' made Lin Jiangnian feel even more uneasy.

Even more guilty!

In comparison, Lin Jiangnian even hoped that she would be more angry.

He sighed, but saw Jinxiu sitting opposite him without him knowing when, holding up her little face and looking at him with a smile.

"Is it really okay for you to be so gloating at this time?"

Jinxiu blinked, then nodded.

Then he added: "Who told you to bully the princess?"

"Deserve it!"

The tone was joyful, with a hint of revenge.

However, seeing that His Highness ignored her, Jinxiu soon became bored again.

"Hey, Your Highness."

Jinxiu called out softly.

"how?"

"What are you going to do with the Chen family?" Jinxiu asked curiously.

"Just wait and see what happens."

"Just wait and see what happens?"

Jinxiu blinked in confusion: "Aren't you going to take action?"

"How else can we do this?"

"No, where's your backup plan?!"

Jinxiu was puzzled and asked.

From the beginning, Jinxiu believed that Lin Jiangnian had a backup plan. Even after Chen Junru was kidnapped, His Highness was not panicked at all.

Clearly he had anticipated this!
Right now, this matter is getting more and more serious in the city, causing a lot of uproar, but His Highness suddenly said to wait and see... This is not like His Highness' style? !
"There's no back-up plan!"

Lin Jiangnian spread his hands.

"Then, Chen Junru, you don't care?"

Jinxiu widened her eyes slightly: "Let him be kidnapped by the Chen family and spare his life?!"

"Actually, it's good to let him live."

Lin Jiang laughed young and said meaningfully: "For him, living should be more painful than dying."

Jinxiu was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized what His Highness meant... Although Chen Junru is still alive, he is useless!
This was undoubtedly the heaviest blow to a dandy young man who loved to spend his days drinking and partying and frequent romantic places. It was probably more painful than killing him!
Death would put an end to everything, but living... would be truly painful!
Although Jinxiu couldn't empathize with him, she also agreed with it.

"So, you plan to keep him alive?"

Jinxiu asked curiously.

"It doesn't matter whether he lives or dies."

Lin Jiangnian shook his head. From the very beginning, his opponent was not Chen Junru. Or rather, he did not regard Chen Junru as a human being from the very beginning.

His opponents from beginning to end were Chen Hongsheng and the Chen family behind him, or more precisely, the series of aristocratic families behind the Chen family.

"So how do you plan to deal with the Chen family?"

Jinxiu asked curiously again.

Lin Jiangnian sighed: "How can the Chen family be so easy to deal with?"

"What's so hard about this?"

Jinxiu stretched out her hand to make a knife shape, and said viciously: "Why not just kill them all?"

"Killing is easy, but how to kill legitimately is a problem."

Lin Jiangnian looked at Jinxiu, whose eyes were bright and she clearly said so on purpose, and said unhappily, "If you attack the Chen family without a sufficient and legitimate reason at this time, it will definitely cause a joint resistance from other families."

"It's not good for the Linwang Mansion because the teacher has no reason to do so."

"hey-hey!"

Jinxiu naturally understood this principle. She thought for a moment and then said, "Then, Your Highness, what do you mean by waiting and seeing what happens?"

"Could it be that you are waiting for the Chen family to take the initiative to create a legitimate opportunity for you?"

Lin Jiangnian looked at her and smiled without saying anything.

Jinxiu reacted immediately... guessed it?!
"But, will the Chen family give Your Highness this opportunity?"

Jinxiu was increasingly puzzled: "Now that Chen Junru has been rescued by them, what leverage does Your Highness have on the Chen family?"

"If the Chen family is patient and does not confront His Highness head-on, how can His Highness have a chance?"

“If there is no opportunity, create it.”

Jinxiu blinked blankly: "Create opportunities?" Her smart eyes fell on His Highness, but she saw that His Highness just smiled without saying anything, and did not explain too much.

Jinxiu immediately understood... His Highness must have a backup plan.

"Your Highness, you even hid this from me!"

Jinxiu's eyes were dim and she spoke with pitiful grievance.

"Don't look at me like that. I didn't bully you today."

"Your Highness is bullying me by hiding this from me..."

"Stop it……"

Lin Jiangnian looked at Jinxiu's delicate face and blinked: "Miss Jinxiu, do you want to know my plan?"

"Yeah." Jinxiu nodded repeatedly.

"Then Miss Jinxiu, why don't you call me good brother first?"

"..."

Jinxiu's face blushed instantly.

"Shout or not?"

"Don't shout!"

Jinxiu spoke in embarrassment.

She would rather die than surrender.

I will not satisfy your highness' evil taste.

Let her call me brother in public?

shame!
She wants face!
Angrily rejecting His Highness' unreasonable request, Lin Jiangnian was not annoyed. He blinked and said, "But why do I remember Miss Jinxiu yelling a few days ago..."

"Shut up, Your Highness!"

Jinxiu's face turned red with embarrassment. Before Lin Jiangnian could finish speaking, she pounced on him and covered his mouth with her claws and fangs.

"No, don't say it anymore..."

Jinxiu covered Lin Jiangnian's mouth with her face red, furious.

Your Highness, how can you say such a shameful thing in public?

Jinxiu, who was filled with righteousness, didn't realize that she had offered herself to the door on her own initiative. Lin Jiangnian took the opportunity to hug Jinxiu into his arms.

By the time Jinxiu reacted, it was too late. Lin Jiangnian picked her up by the waist, turned around and strode towards the room.

"Let's go and take Miss Jinxiu to reminisce about how to call me brother!"

Lin Jiangnian smiled brightly.

Jinxiu's delicate body stiffened, her face turned completely red with shame, and she struggled desperately.

"No, no..."

"Let me go... help!"

"Your Highness is bullying me, help me... wuwu..."

"..."

Under Lin Jiangnian's persistent demands, Jinxiu finally felt humiliated. Under Lin Jiangnian's coercion, she reluctantly called out "good brother"!
At the beginning, she was indeed coerced and reluctant. But as time passed, the coercion and reluctance gradually faded, and even in the end, Jinxiu could no longer control herself and shouted out unconsciously.

...There is no need for Lin Jiangnian to coerce us anymore!
great progress!

As for the specific process of progress, that is not important.

Let’s not go into details!
"..."

After calling him "good brother", Jinxiu did quickly learn about Lin Jiangnian's plan... He was indeed prepared from the very beginning.

Although Lin Jiangnian did not attack the Chen family directly, he ordered the people from the royal palace and government offices to start hunting down the remnants of the Heavenly God Cult inside and outside the city in the name of kidnapping prisoners!
Jinxiu was a little puzzled at first, wondering what His Highness was up to.

But soon, she gradually realized His Highness's purpose.

Chen Junru was kidnapped in the street. One group of people believed that it was staged by the Chen family, while another group of people believed that it was closely related to the Tianshen Sect and must be the remnants of the Tianshen Sect seeking revenge on the royal palace!
After all, the Chen family is a well-known and prominent family in Linzhou. Without sufficient evidence, even Lin Jiangnian would not be able to take direct action against the Chen family.

But the Tianshen religion is different!

This evil cult organization is the remnant from a year ago. It is reasonable for the Linwang Mansion to use it to take action against the Tianshen Cult once again.

More importantly, Lin Jiangnian is too familiar with the Tianshen Sect!

As familiar with the Saint of the Heavenly God Religion as he is with the internal affairs of the Heavenly God Religion, not to mention that over the past year, Lin Jiangnian had secretly sent people to investigate the Heavenly God Religion's relationships thoroughly.

Lin Jiangnian knew all about the hiding places of the Tianshen Cult, their places for transmitting intelligence, and their secret codes for contact.

With the intelligence capabilities of the Lin Palace, investigating such a cult organization can be said to be a piece of cake.

Therefore, not long after Lin Jiangnian's order was issued, the guards of the Prince Lin's Mansion quickly discovered the whereabouts of the remnants of the Tianshen Sect in the city. In just a few days, they destroyed several Tianshen Sect strongholds in one fell swoop and arrested many Tianshen Sect believers.

Lin Jiangnian showed no mercy to the remnants of the Heavenly God Sect and wiped them out completely!
At first Jinxiu didn't understand His Highness's purpose, but then she gradually realized... His Highness's purpose was probably not to capture the remnants of the Heavenly God Cult!
Instead, they make things bigger and divert the conflict!
The Chen family hijacked Chen Junru in the name of the Tianshen Religion. In this case, Lin Jiangnian could not directly attack the Chen family, so he chose another way... to kill someone with a borrowed knife!
He took advantage of the situation to attack the Tianshen Sect, intensifying the conflict.

For the Tianshen Cult, this was naturally an unprovoked disaster! They did nothing, but were blamed for the prisoner robbery and were hunted down and killed by the government!
What bad luck!
In this way, they will definitely hate the Chen family for framing and impersonating them!
A small Tianshen Sect naturally cannot threaten the Chen family. But if the leader is also here... everything will be hard to say!
Once the leader takes action, the Chen family will definitely not be able to sit still.

What Lin Jiangnian needs to do is to wipe out the Tianshen Sect completely, and it would be best if he could completely anger the sect leader!
……

"That leader has most likely already arrived in Linzhou..."

In the courtyard, Lin Qingqing's face was solemn, and she spoke in a deep voice: "After my subordinates' investigations these days, and from the words of those arrested Tianshen Cult members, I have confirmed one thing... They are looking for someone!"

At this point, Lin Qingqing paused, glanced at His Highness, and then said in a deep voice: "They are looking for their Saint!"

"I heard that their saint has disappeared for a long time..."

"..."

Lin Jiangnian looked indifferent and expressionless.

His guess turned out to be correct, something might have happened to Liu Su!

Lin Jiangnian asked in a deep voice: "The person who is looking for her is their leader?"

"That's right." Lin Qingqing nodded.

"What's the reason?"

Lin Qingqing shook her head: "That's unknown..."

"The followers we arrested are only low-level members of the Celestial God Cult. They know very little about the situation and are not clear about the purpose of their leader's search for the Saint."

Lin Jiangnian nodded silently.

Why would the leader go to so much trouble to find the saint for no reason?

Something must have happened!

Lin Jiangnian felt a little depressed. Liu Su must have realized the danger of the situation and hid himself just now.

But after so much time has passed, there is still no news from her.

Where is she now?

Lin Jiangnian frowned, but things had not yet reached the worst.

If this matter is really related to that leader, the fact that the Tianshen Cult has not found Liu Su's whereabouts at least proves that Liu Su is still safe now.

Thinking of this, Lin Jiangnian breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Qingqing, who was standing by, looked at the expression of her own prince and asked cautiously, "Your Highness, do you need me to send someone to find the whereabouts of Miss Liu Su?"

Lin Qingqing was naturally aware of the relationship between her Highness and the Saint, so she was extremely concerned about this matter.

"Go."

Lin Jiangnian nodded and warned, "Tell the spies of the Lin Palace in the counties of Linzhou to keep a close eye on them and not to alert the enemy."

"As soon as you have any news about her, report to me immediately!"

"Yes." (End of chapter)