Chapter 21 Beat Your Head Broken and Bleeding!

At this time Jiang Yashuang walked to Gu Yan and was about to give him another kick. Hearing Qiu Yelan’s warning, he knew something was wrong and backed off quickly like a swimming fish. It was a narrow escape—the dagger only scratched his sleeve. The edge of the bagger seemed to be blue. It was poisoned!

“How dare you carry a weapon into the Palace!” Jiang Yashuang’s calm face turned sulky. He looked down at the breach in the sleeve and said severely, “Are you going to rebel?”

“You think you have something on me?” By now, Gu Yan’s golden hat slanted to the back of his ears. He unloosed the strings to throw it at his feet and laughed awfully, “This Water-Cutting Bagger is an antique of the last dynasty. Empress Dowager likes all kinds of weapons as a hobby. Today is the Lunar New Year’s Eve. I took it to the Palace to give to the Empress Dowager. I had got the permission from the Empress Dowager before I came! I didn’t think it could also be used to kill you who were seeking your own destruction!”

Deng Yi’s pupils contracted slightly and stood between the two, “This is the Empress Dowager’s residence. Don’t fight here! Cousin, General Jiang…”

He wanted to stop this fight but Gu Yan, who had been beaten, wouldn’t agree.

“Now that you are my cousin, back off!” He glimpsed at Qiu Yelan gruesomely, “Teach your shameless fiancée a good lesson. She hooked up with Jiang in broad daylight! No wonder she said she didn’t want to marry you. She must have already devoted herself to…”

Qiu Yelan interrupted him with a yell, “In broad daylight! Gu Yan, do you deserve to say it? If it were not for General Jiang’s help, I wouldn’t believe a young Prince dared to flirt openly with an equally-ranked Commandery Princess in the Empress Dowager’s residence! It’s more than just an immoral act, but a disregard for the imperial titles. And now you dare to insult me in return! Prince’s Mansion of Guangyang is the Empress Dowager’s mother’s home. Why is a despicable man like you was also born there?”

If she had more power now, she would have cut this dirty bastard into pieces!

Deng Yi glared at her, “It was you who triggered this!” He flung his sleeve and said angrily, “And you have the nerve to say it! Hurry to apologize to my cousin!”

“I’m Commandery Princess by imperial mandate. What are you talking to me like this?” Qiu Yelan didn’t have a good impression of him and at this time was irritated to death. As her nominal fiancé helped Gu Yan to oppress her and showed no respect for her, she sneered and said, “Do you think with an engagement you can behave like a master of me now? Do you deserve it?”

Although Deng Yi only had a nominal title of Rank 6 Officer and was a Juren, as a nephew of the Duke of Guangyang and a young man valued by Empress Dowager, he was even usually respected by some princes and princesses. Hearing what she said, he raged and stopped persuading Gu Yan and Jiang Yashuang not to fight. Pulling up his sleeves, he walked off the porch, “Do you think I won’t teach you a lesson because you are Commandery Princess?”

“Your Grace!” At this time, in Liuchun Pavilion, Su He also noticed something was wrong outside. She wanted to go out but was stopped from helping Qiu Yelan immediately after only one yell.

“It can’t be better that you come here for your own death! If I kill you, I will be free from the engagement!” Qiu Yelan looked coldly at Deng Yi who was striding quickly and angrily toward her. In her wide sleeves, her slim and fair fingers were warming up quickly like blooming orchids, “As long as you don’t die on the spot… no one will suspect me!”

However…

Deng Yi was still walking when suddenly a scream came behind him, “Young Prince Gu, how dare you try to kill our young master?”

“What?” Deng Yi was surprised. Looking back, he saw Gu Yan, with the sharpness of and the poison on his Water-Cutting Bagger, driving unarmed Jiang Yashuang to retreat continuously. But in reality, the fifteen-year-old and still growing Jiang Yashuang had no less strength than Gu Yan, who was nearly thirty but had been indulged in alcohol and women.

Just now Jiang Yashuang beat up Gu Yan so hard. It was because, for one thing, Gu Yan had been firstly hit heavily by Qiu Yelan and he still felt hurt; for another, Jiang Yashuang beat Gu Yan unexpectedly before Gu Yan was prepared.

Now Gu Yan had Water-Cutting Bagger but Jiang Yashuang had no weapon on him for entering the Palace and now he had to be careful of the poison on the bagger as well. So, he was soon at the disadvantage!

Seeing the scene, Jiang Tan, Jiang Yashuang’s servant who had followed his master into the Palace, yelled angrily and loudly, “If my young master was hurt, Empress will definitely skin