Chapter 429 Don’t Use Feelings as an Excuse

To be precise, this is just a group of unkempt prisoners huddled in the corner of a wooden bed. Yes, prisoners who are almost indistinguishable from other prisoners.

Yan Li signaled the jailer to open the cell, but the jailer hesitated: "Princess, it's dirty inside."

"It doesn't matter."

"yes."

The jailer took out the key and opened the cell. Yan Li walked in silently. After standing there for a while, the figure in the corner slowly raised his head as if he was aware of something.

The once gentle and handsome face had become so thin that it was shapeless. At this moment, he looked at Yan Li silently, and it took him a while to recognize her: "Yan Li?"

"It's me." Yan Li smiled faintly and glanced at his blood-stained prison uniform, "Brother Four Emperors has been wronged."

Yan Jin's eyes narrowed, staring at Yan Li, and sighed softly for a while: "Are you sent by God to destroy us?"

Yan Li raised his eyebrows.

"Since you came to the Jin Kingdom, the situation of our four princes has been getting worse day by day. One after another, we have been defeated miserably at your hands. Sometimes I can't help but wonder, who are you? Why can you have the imagination of others? What you can’t do?”

Yan Jin's voice was dry and he spoke every word very slowly, but precisely because of his slowness, the resentment and unwillingness in his voice could be clearly heard.

Even though he still maintains his usual gentle way of speaking, a clear sense of resentment can still be heard in this gentleness.

Yan Li didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

"I have thought about being nice to you before, but no matter how nice I am, your sister who has been living outside since childhood and has no relationship with us at all, how can you compare with our brothers who depend on each other for life?" Yan Jin lowered his eyes and said in a voice Much softer, "Yan Li, you simply cannot understand the feelings between our princes."

Yan Li said indifferently: "I really can't understand it, and I don't intend to understand it, and I have no interest in competing with you about the brother-sister relationship."

"I only know that if someone is kind to me, I will be kind to him. If someone plots against me, I will plot against him. If someone wants me to die, I will not sit still and wait for death."

"How can adults, especially adults in the royal family, have so much true feelings?" Yan Li smiled coldly, "What you want is power, there is no need to use feelings as an excuse here."

Yan Jin's eyes were filled with shame and anger, and she finally tore off the gentle mask completely: "Why do you say that we have no true feelings? The four of us have gone through hardships since childhood and depended on each other for life. How much do you know about us? You are from a foreign race. Orphan girl, why are you dictating our feelings——"

"Be impudent!" the jailer scolded, "You must not be rude in front of the eldest princess."

Yan Jin's face was green and white, and his eyes could not suppress the shock and anger.

The noble prince was reduced to the point of being scolded by a jailer. Although it was not uncommon in history, it still made people feel humiliated and miserable.

"If you really valued relationships so much, the four brothers would not have been dealt with one after another." Yan Li spoke calmly, as if analyzing the reasons for his failure, "Jin is your territory, and you know Jin better than There are more officials who are close to you than me. Even if it is out of consideration for their own interests, the relationship between the distinguished family members and you will be much closer than that of a newly arrived princess like me."

After a pause, Yan Li continued: "But you are not united. Everyone is thinking about their own interests. When Yan Zheng was dealt with, weren't you three thinking that 'the snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman benefits'?"

The Jin State was completely corrupt from top to bottom, and it had to be governed from within.

But if the four princes join forces, with the power they have managed for so many years, no matter how powerful she is, she will not be their opponent in a short time.

So talking about brotherhood at this time is simply hypocritical and ridiculous.

Yan Jin's expression changed little by little. He looked slumped and leaned weakly on the corner of the bed.

"As long as you all work together, how can I get rid of those corrupt officials and dirty families so smoothly?" Yan Li mocked, "So let alone brotherly love, it's just an excuse."

Yan Jin lowered his eyes and had to admit in embarrassment that what she said was the truth.

Before she returned to the Jin Kingdom, even if the queen was regent, the four princes had their own factions. If they worked together, Yan Li, a foreign princess, would not be driven out of the Jin Kingdom, but she wanted to rely on her daughter's identity to It is almost a fantasy to gain a foothold in the Jin Dynasty court. m.

But in the end, why did they fail?

I don't know how long it took before Yan Jin spoke again: "What do you plan to do with me?"

"How to deal with you is the emperor's business. I will not deal with any of you until I ascend the throne."

Yan Jin fell silent again.

"Yan Jin, if the person you were dealing with was just me, if you dared to be upright, I would still look down on you." Yan Li's expression was cold, with a hint of disgust on his face, "But on the surface, he is gentle and affectionate, but behind his back, he is murderous. For this reason, you did not hesitate to implicate innocent people and let so many people lose their lives. This is your unkindness and I cannot forgive you for what you did."

Yan Jin argued: "A real man should do whatever it takes to achieve his goals."

"So I will do whatever it takes to repay you." Yan Li asked, "When did you hook up with Prince Yan?"

Yan Jin said indifferently: "No comment."

Yan Li looked at him steadily, turned around and walked out of the cell for a moment.

The jailer quickly locked the cell door.

Yan Jin suddenly looked up at her back, as if he didn't expect that she would leave like this.

But that’s fine too.

Yan Jin laughed at himself and continued to huddle in the corner of the bed in silence.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.

He, a loser, was no longer worth the winner's time.

Before leaving the prison, Yan Li ordered the jailer to take her to see Shen Yunniang.

Because the Fenglu case was closely related to the prince, all prisoners were imprisoned in the prison, but because Shen Yunniang was proficient in evil arts, her cell was far away from Han Yunping and Yan Jin.

Shen Yunniang's cell was in the innermost and most secluded place. The jailer of the prison had received an order that no one was allowed to approach Shen Yunniang just in case.

The jailer who was responsible for delivering her food was a mute. He left after putting down the food, and Shen Yunniang's tricks were useless.

But later she had no tricks.

Because her bewitching technique needed to rely on the blood of young and beautiful women to maintain it, she lost all her blood when she arrived in Shengjing from Fenglu. After being imprisoned in the prison, she got nothing except the shabby and simple three meals a day.

When Yan Li saw her, Shen Yunniang had aged, looked haggard, her black hair had turned completely white, and her skin had lost all its luster. She looked like an old woman over fifty years old. Where was her former charm?

Even Yan Li stood outside the cell for about an incense stick of time before he confirmed that this person was indeed Shen Yunniang after the jailer nodded repeatedly.