How could my childhood sweetheart be the current empress?

"Oh, who is being unreasonable?"

Yan Qiaoling couldn't help but smile slightly, ignoring Cao Jingxiu's threats. She walked in front of Xu Chengling and said in a soft voice:

"Cheng Ling, what do you think?"

Xu Chengling was sitting on the sidelines and had no chance to get a word in, so he stood up and said to Cao Jingxiu:

"Master Cao, I must seek an explanation for Miss Su and the father and daughter for what happened today. Please call Master Cao out so that we can talk face to face."

Seeing Xu Chengling speak, Cao Jingxiu's attitude softened a lot. After all, he couldn't afford to offend the Prime Minister, so he smiled and replied:

"Master Xiangguo, as I just said, my son is not in the mansion. How about you come back another day?"

"Come back another day? Once you come, you'll be gone forever."

Yan Qiaoling shrugged and said sarcastically.

"This matter is neither big nor small. It's just that my son didn't recognize the great man and didn't know Xu Xiangguo and Miss Su. For the sake of the harmony between our three families, how about we just settle this matter privately?"

Cao Jingxiu didn't want to offend these two people. He couldn't afford to offend either of them, so he suggested settling the matter privately.

To put it simply, the Cao family gave them more silver, and he would punish his son later, and the matter would be over.

Yan Qiaoling on the side nodded, raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and said:

"It's fine if you want to settle it privately, but it's not enough to just settle it privately with us. All those who have been oppressed by Master Cao should be settled privately with them and gain their forgiveness. What do you think, Master Cao?"

"Miss Su, are you deliberately making things difficult for me?"

Cao Jingxiu's eyes narrowed and he couldn't help but reveal a gloomy expression. The other party was clearly deliberately making things difficult for him and had never intended to settle the matter privately from the beginning.

Even a clay man has some temper. If it weren't for the face of the Prime Minister and Su Daxueshi, Cao Jingxiu would have lost his temper long ago with his hot temper.

But now, he could no longer endure it, and slammed the table, shouting at the servant beside him:

"Come here, see the guests off!"

"Master Cao, I gave you a chance."

Yan Qiaoling smiled coldly, looking at the angry Cao Jingxiu as if she was watching a monkey show.

"I want to see who dares to touch me!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Yan Qiaoling took out a gold medal from her waist, on which was engraved the words "Imperial Order".

"Golden Imperial Order!"

When Cao Jingxiu saw the golden imperial order in the other party's hand, his expression changed drastically. Seeing the golden imperial order was like seeing the emperor. Even if he had the courage of a god, he could not afford to provoke the emperor.

But Cao Jingxiu couldn't help but snorted coldly and laughed coldly:

"Humph, even if His Majesty were here, he wouldn't dare to do anything to me!"

"Here, let's see the guests off!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen aggressive servants surrounded him and tried to drive him away by force.

"Let me go, let me go now!"

Just then, a noisy sound was heard not far away.

Cao Jingxiu frowned. Wasn't this voice the voice of his son Cao Jingsheng?

At this moment, a figure appeared in the living room, holding a man with a bruised face and nose like a chicken.

"Your Majesty, I have brought the person here."

The person who came was Xue Yuan, and the person she was holding was Cao Jingsheng.

Just now, while His Majesty was dealing with Cao Jingxiu, she sneaked into the backyard of Cao's mansion and found Cao Jingsheng. The young man with the sword was also there.

However, the other party knew that he was no match for his opponent, so he admitted defeat and left without hesitation.

Xue Yuan remembered the instructions His Majesty had just given her, so she spent some time beating Cao Jingsheng into a pig's head, trying to be as hard as possible but not to kill him.

Only after making sure that he had been beaten so badly that even his father could not recognize him did Xue Yuan bring him over.

Xue Yuan threw Cao Jingsheng to the ground like throwing away garbage. Yan Qiaoling on the side secretly gave her a thumbs up, saying, "Well done!"

"Mr. Cao, who beat you up like this?"

When Cao Jingxiu saw his son being beaten beyond recognition, his eyes suddenly became bloodshot and he was furious, as if he had gone mad.

Cao Jingsheng raised a trembling finger, pointed at Xue Yuan beside him, and said with gritted teeth:

"is her!"

It was not until then that Cao Jingxiu realized that he had fallen into a trap!

Cao Jingxiu was so angry at how his only son was treated that he shouted at the servants behind him:

"Go ahead, don't let them go!"

I saw a group of servants surrounding here, not intending to let them go.

At this moment, Yan Qiaoling's mouth corners secretly raised. This was exactly the result she wanted to see, giving her a reason to start a killing spree.

At her signal, Xue Yuan took a step forward and drew the sword from her waist. The sword was sharp and had two large characters engraved on it: Shang Fang!

Xue Yuan held the imperial sword in his hand and shouted at everyone:

"Here is the Imperial Sword. Who dares to come over?"

Chapter 224: Dazongsi

When everyone saw the sharpness of the imperial sword, their faces suddenly changed and they dared not step forward.

Seeing these people retreating, Cao Jingxiu was furious and couldn't help but yell at them:

"What a bunch of rubbish! She has the Imperial Sword, so what? She is alone. Catch her!"

So everyone rushed towards Xue Yuan again, trying to catch her.

Xue Yuan has already given it a chance. This imperial sword has never seen blood before. Now it’s time to see some blood.

She took a step forward and swung the imperial sword in her hand. Blood splattered and the people standing in the front fell to the ground first.

Then, Xue Yuan's figure flashed and rushed into the crowd like a ghost. Amidst the flashing of swords and sabers, the group of people fell one after another.

Looking at Xue Yuan who was killing everyone, Xu Chengling was secretly amazed. He knew that the empress's personal guards were very powerful, but he didn't expect them to be so powerful that they could easily fight against dozens of people alone.

With the sharpness of the imperial sword, Xue Yuan passed through the crowd without getting a single leaf on her body. Blood splattered everywhere, but not a single drop of blood stained her body.

In a blink of an eye, the living room was filled with wailing. The servants were either dead or injured, and all of them had lost their ability to fight.

Xue Yuan flicked the sword lightly to wipe off the blood on it. She placed the imperial sword at her side and walked slowly towards Cao Jingxiu and his son with an expressionless face.

"What are you going to do? I...I have a golden medal of immunity from death bestowed by the late emperor!"

Cao Jingxiu looked horrified and fumbled around his body, only to pull out a gold medal that would grant him immunity from death.

Seeing the death-free gold medal in the other party's hand, Xue Yuan couldn't help but frowned slightly, looked back at His Majesty, and asked helplessly:

"Your Majesty, he seems to have a golden ticket to immunity from death. I can't kill him."

Seeing this, Yan Qiaoling nodded and said:

"Indeed, if he has a golden ticket to immunity from death, then we really can't kill him."

But she changed the subject, raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and said:

"But you can kill those who don't have a golden ticket to immunity."

"Ah, what!"

When Cao Jingxiu and his son heard this, their faces changed drastically. Cao Jingsheng didn't want to die, so he snatched the death-free gold medal from his father's hand, raised his hands high, and shouted:

"I have a golden ticket to immunity from death, you can't cut me!"

Cao Jingxiu saw this and realized that this rebellious son wanted to kill him. He let go and snatched the death-free gold medal back, and shouted to Xue Yuan who was holding the imperial sword:

"I have a golden ticket to immunity from death. Don't look for me, go find him!"

"Dad, you're already quite old, why don't you let me live?"

Cao Jingsheng snatched the golden medal of immunity from death back into his own hands.

"You rebellious son, I raised you an ungrateful bastard, why don't you hand over the golden medal of immunity from death!"

Cao Jingxiu and his son immediately fell out and started chasing each other in the living room, fighting for the ownership of the golden medal of immunity from death.

The other party has the imperial sword in his hand. No matter who you are, he will kill you as long as you don't have a golden medal of immunity from death.

Xu Chengling and Yan Qiaoling sat aside and watched the scene where the father and son turned against each other. They even fought each other for the golden medal of immunity from death and beat each other up.

The so-called father-son affection is not worth mentioning in the face of life threats.

At Yan Qiaoling's signal, Xue Yuan stepped forward with a sword and accidentally stabbed out.

"Tear"

A splash of blood appeared and one of the men fell in a pool of blood, bringing this farce to an end.

The person lying in a pool of blood was Cao Jingsheng.

Cao Jingxiu's clothes were disheveled and he was holding the golden medal of immunity from death tightly in his hand. He looked at Cao Jingsheng lying in a pool of blood and stood there in a daze.

"No, my son!"

Cao Jingxiu threw away the golden medal of immunity from death and burst into tears on Cao Jingsheng's body.

Seeing this scene, Xu Chengling and others felt no sympathy for the father and son.

Cao Jingsheng committed many evil deeds and he deserved such an end. Cao Jingxiu protected and condoned him, and now he deserves to experience the pain of losing his son.

Facts have proved that compared to the golden medal that can save your life, the imperial sword that holds the power of life and death is more useful.

The death of Cao Jingsheng could be considered as getting rid of a threat to the people, and the father and daughter no longer had to worry about being retaliated by the Cao family.

After leaving Cao's house, Yan Qiaoling had been thinking about a question.

The reason why Cao Jingsheng dared to do evil was not only because of the protection and connivance of his father Cao Jingxiu, but also because of the golden medal of immunity from death, which gave him the confidence to be arrogant and domineering.

The golden medal of immunity from death was originally used to reward meritorious officials, but it ended up becoming a tool for the meritorious officials' descendants to use to save their lives when doing evil. Anyway, no matter how big a mistake they made, as long as they had the golden medal of immunity from death, they would not be afraid of being beheaded.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the existence of the golden medal of immunity from death that there are so many people who dare to act recklessly and disregard the law.

"Cheng Ling, do you think the golden medal of immunity from death is really necessary?"

Yan Qiaoling couldn't help but ask Xu Chengling this question. Cao Jingsheng was a living example.

But the golden medal of immunity from death is a rule established by the previous emperor and a privilege granted to meritorious officials. Does she want to violate the rules established by her ancestors?

Xu Chengling thought about it, then shook his head and said:

"I think there is no need for a gold medal of immunity from death. Once a person has privileges, if the privileges cannot be restrained, he will become a devil."

Although Xu Chengling also wanted a gold medal of immunity from death, in his opinion, such a privilege should not exist in the first place, and such a privilege would only turn more people into devils.

But the golden medal of immunity from death is an ancestral law, and it is not so easy to change it.

"I've decided. I'm going to make a decision that goes against my ancestors."

At this time, Yan Qiaoling couldn't help but speak.

After this incident, she became more resolute in her decision. She couldn't help but say:

"I want to revise the clan system of Dayan."

Xu Chengling couldn't help but gasp. This was indeed a decision that went against his ancestors.

It is easy to say that changing the clan system is easy, but it is extremely difficult to do it.

The so-called clan system refers to the various systems established by the ancestors of Dayan. This system plays a role in maintaining the political hierarchy of Dayan and stabilizing the social order.

If the clan system is not modified properly, it will easily lead to a ripple effect, destroying the entire current order of the geese and may even lead to the extinction of the geese.

"Ling'er, we must not rush to amend the clan law. We must do it step by step."

Xu Chengling persuaded Yan Qiaoling that, as the empress, she did have the power to amend the clan system, but amending the clan system was a matter of great importance and had to be done step by step.

"Yes, I know. First, we need to amend one of the clan laws and cancel the privilege of the golden medal of immunity from death. At the same time, we should no longer grant privileges to meritorious officials and their descendants."

Yan Qiaoling nodded. Her purpose in wanting to amend the clan system was to take back all the previous privileges.