Who Cares

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Chapter 163 Regret
Bian Min’er woke up while rubbing her sore neck, and as soon as she opened her eyes, even before she could see her surrounding, she was ruthlessly slapped. She jumped up and questioned sternly, “Which damned dog slave dare to…” Before she could finish her sentence, she was slapped again, followed by another, two times, three times… After a dozen slaps in succession, she heard an extremely cold voice slowly speak, “Are you awake? I’ll continue to slap if you’re still not awake.”

“Mother, why are you beating me?” Only then did Bian Min’er see the person in front of her clearly, and she realized that she was not in Qionglin Garden, but in a dark and cramped place, like a prison cell.

“Where is this?” She turned pale from fright and said in horror, “Mother, why are we locked up? Where the hell is this?”

“Why are we locked up, isn’t it all thanks to you?” Madam Bian knew that her daughter’s drinking capacity was not low, even after five to six pots of wine could not make her drunk to the point of going crazy in public. The drink must have been mixed with some drug, which made her say those words that send the Bian family and several princes to their doomed. However, knowing was knowing, and whether they could be forgiven was another matter.

If it wasn’t for the fact that this daughter had always been arrogant and domineering, never care about human life, and was cultivated to have such an ignorant temperament, even if she lost her mind, she would at most say some stupid things about other families’ daughters. Where would be saying to execute all the Han people and even the emperor?

No matter how many of those words were true or false, it was impossible for the Han courtiers to spare the Bian family, let alone allow those princes to sit on their vassals. Among the Jiuli people, in addition to the imperial family and the top ten noble surnames, just like the Han people, there were many poor people with real talents and real learning. They all genuinely followed Emperor Sheng Yuan to fight hard until achieving their current status. However, in the early days of the founding of the country, when the meritorious service was awarded, because their social status was low, their credits were deprived and even robbed, and they could only hold small position in the military.

Once the few princes fall, the top ten noble surnames who were close to them would also be implicated, and the emperor could reasonably lift up those supporters who really rushed to fight with him among the mountains of daggers and seas of flame. He wouldn’t have to worry that he could have no one to use, let alone worry for the Jiuli people who alienated him.

After this incident, his control over the Han people and the Jiuli people would only be deepened, the prestige he established before would only get higher, and the loyalty he got before would only be steadier. He had already turned into a dragon and soared into the sky, but those who used to despise him had always reluctant to face him, which was why today’s catastrophe happened.

Who would have thought that he didn’t need to confront anyone, let alone strategize a plan and slowly scheme, and just use one woman’s drunken words to wipe out all the big problems!

This trick was not very clever, but it was really ingenious. And it was precisely because the Bian family raised Bian Miner into this kind of virtue that he had the opportunity to take advantage of it. Now, even if each Bian family has a hundred mouths to defend Bian Min’er, saying that she was drunk, possessed by a ghost, or even drugged, who would believe it? Her daily actions, words and deeds were exactly the same as her crazy words today. In her eyes, Han people were worse than dogs, and everyone in Yanjing knew this.

In ordinary times, no matter how arrogant and domineering she was, the Bian family and the Empress Dowager would always support her. But now, she did her best to provoke the hatred of all the Han people and provoked a life-and-death dispute between the two ethnic groups, even if the old Heavenly Sovereign came, he couldn’t defend her!