The Story of a Stroppy Princess Chapter 19: Defer to Her

Getting down from the stairs, Hua Yueling conversed a few words with the fright-stricken female boss and turned around, setting out for Osmanthus House opposite the tea house. Few customers remained there and there was a great mess on the tables. Nangong Lieye, together with Hua Yujin, was inquiring about the total number of servants.
"Sister!" Hua Yujin greeted her warmly when Hua Yueling came in.
"Bitch, it's none of your business!" Nangong Lieye would automatically curse her the moment he saw her.
"Damn you, you'd better seal your foul mouth. Don't you ever know that a lurking disaster is waiting for you?" Hua Yueling glanced at him and said with a sneer.
"What are you talking about? Pure nonsense." Nangong Lieye was shocked and felt a little bit uneasy.
Suddenly an officer of Yamen (The government office in feudal China) came out and shouted in panic. "Your Excellency! Someone died inside!" "What!" Hua Yujin rushed in."
Nangong Lieye's face changed and he quickly followed Hua Yujin. Hua Yueling also came in with a cold smile on her face.
The passage winded its way into the back yard. The corridor was also full of people coming and going, running in and out, very chaotic.
"Halt!" Hua Yueling shouted at a servant-looking man near her. In such a chaos, everyone was either questioned or scared except the man who had a towel flung over his shoulder and carried a tray with a smiling face and calm manner. What aroused her suspicion was that he walked out rather than rushing out.
The man was startled and turned around, uttering respectfully: "My Lady, what can I do for you?"
"Who are you going to serve right now?" Although Hua Yueling asked him in a delightful tone, there was actually no smile at all on her face. She step by step approached the man who seemed to be an honest guy.
Seeing that, the man suddenly threw the whole tray to Hua Yueling, making a dash for the doorway.
With her head tilted, the tray missed her by a hair's breadth. Hua Yueling immediately shouted, "Catch him!"
Nangong Lieye and Hua Yujin felt their heart missed a beat as they saw that dangerous scene.
They almost at the same time flew here only to find that Hua Yueling was already out to chase that guy.
The loud crying for help from Hua Yueling alerted all the guards of Yamen who wasted no time in defending the gate when they saw a man rushing out.
"Catch him alive" shouted Hua Yueling who was afraid that the guards would kill that guy immediately.
Realizing the impossibility of escaping, with a fierce glare, the man who was in a desperate situation, took a dagger out from his bosom and stabbed straight to Hua Yueling.
"Sister, be careful!" Out of fright, Hua Yujing shouted loudly.
Nangong Lieye was startled by this. And in that instant, Hua Yueling had already fought back, which left no time for them to protect her.
Hua Yueling shouted in a rather cold tone and gave a straight kick to the dagger in the man's hand.
"Bitch, die with me." The man shouted. The dagger was still in his hand, which was a good display of his excellent Kongfu. With much fiercer look, the fearless man made another stab toward Hua Yueling.
With that, they two almost at the same time bump against each other. Hua Yueling aimed at cracking him over his head with her elbow, letting her invincible breast be stabbed.
"Oh no!" Hua Yujin was half dead with fright. Seeing the dagger in her breast and the white foam in the man's mouth, he fainted and fell down to the ground.
Hua Yueling took three steps backward and she bent over in the great pain of stab. Shit! This man was strong, but she knew the Soft Gold Vest had protected her.
"Sister! Are you all right? Why are you such a fool?" Hua Yujin rushed to get her up and shouted out: "Call the doctor!"
"Bro, I'm fine. Just a little painful." Hua Yueling was only a little dizzy. She was just suffocating and begged for a breath. But what was beyond her anticipation was that her younger bro was so concerned about her.
Nangong Lieye gave a heavy kick at the fainted man who then bumped against a wooden stake. With his bloody mouth, the man raised his head and looked at Third Prince.
"Jingfu, YOU are the spy for the Kingdom of Lanyue?" Nangong Lieye roared.
The man screwed a weird smile and cast a quick glance at every face here and finally fixed his eyes on the face of Hua Yueling.
"Go and open his mouth!" Hua Yueling knew it was a desperate look, which meant he was about to commit suicide. And the way for a spy to commit suicide, as it were in all ages, was to make a small hole in his teeth to hide poison. It only took one bite to kill the spy instantly.
Nangong Lieye was astounded. He moved quickly and stuck his finger into the man's mouth with a speed that amazed Hua Yueling a lot.
"Ouch!" It was the scream from Nangong Lieye.
With that, that man had already breathed his last while Nangong Lieye, looked at his mangled finger in anguish, getting sweated.
"Stupid!" Hua Yueling rolled her eyes out of anger and let Hua Yujin put her down.
"Sister, are you sure you're ok?" Hua Yujin was very worried about her. But to his astonishment, his sister seemed to be transformed into another person, completely different from the one in the past. The gallantry she showed in fight really scared him a little bit.
"I'm ok, but the clue will be frozen. Third Prince, I really don't know whether you did it intentionally or unintentionally by letting him bite his tongue since you have already known the man is a spy. So how could you let him commit suicide in front of you?" Hua Yueling sneered at Nangong Lieye whose face had turned black.
"Hua Yueling, what do you mean?! You mean I deliberately let him die?" Nangong Lieye was so angry that his black face changed into red. Looking down at his painful fingers, he was at the very verge to be ballistic.
"Then I really have no idea." Hua Yueling ignored him and squatted down beside the dead man.
"Mi, Miss..." Out of fear, Ping'er stepped behind Hua Yueling, thinking that it was so horrible to see the face of the dead and how could her Miss squat down and observe the dead in such a calm manner.
"Ping'er, leave here now. Yujin, did the man who died inside commit suicide in the same way?" Hua Yueling groped around the man with a serious expression.
Before Hua Yujin came to himself, his assistant Wu Liang responded immediately, "Miss, the person inside was stabbed by a knife."
"Oh, is this knife? Where is Post-mortem Examiner? Let him have a quick inspect!" Hua Yueling asked expertly.
"Ah Cai, Who's the one that died inside?" Nangong Lieye cast a resentful look at Hua Yueling and turn his head, asking the clerk in the store.
"Prince, it was Liang Bo who once took care of the livestock." Ah Cai replied with his brow dripping with sweat.
"Take care of the livestock?" Hua Yueling turned her head in surprise.
"Yes, there will be coming a lot of livestock in the store every day. Liang Bo has been here, doing the job for two years." Ah Cai replied.
Hua Yueling quickly stood up and said: "Where are the livestock kept? Show me, please. Yujin, you are back to yourself?" Patting her stunned bro on his shoulder, Hua Yueling ran to the shed.
Nangong Lieye had no idea what she has up her sleeve and he tapped the dumbfounded Hua Yujin, giving a hint to follow her inside. But the undeniable fact that the spies of the Kingdom of Lan Yue were from his men would invite some trouble to him.
"Mr. Hua, you don't want your sister's involved in the case, do you?" Nangong Lieye reminded HuaYujin.
Hua Yujin calmed down a little at the moment, he said with frowned eyebrows
"Third Prince, I'm afraid I'll have to listen to her in the future."
"What do you mean?" Nangong Lieye did not understand.
"The Ministry of Penalty needs my sister's help and the Emperor might appoint her the Minister!" Hua Yujin gave him a sideways look, recalling how the damned man once bullied his sister and he failed to spare some time to argue with that jerk yet.
"What! How is that possible? What's the use of this damned woman?" NanGong Lieye almost screamed out.