White Fence Dream

Chapter 279 Entering the Urn
The cold palace in late summer is as cold and solemn as winter.

Zhang Ze looked at Guo Shun, neither panicked nor angry.

"What case?" he asked. "What do you want me to admit? I didn't even ask you, so why are you refusing to admit it?"

Guo Shun was not as humble and fawning as he had been when he followed him. He straightened his back and said in a deep voice, "Zhang Ze, where did you go just now?"

Zhang Ze looked at him and smiled: "Where I'm going is not for you to ask."

"You still call this denial?" Guo Shun shouted, waving his hand, "Put him in the jar!"

But the embarrassing thing was that the soldiers standing around did not move.

Zhang Ze laughed and said, "You have been following me for so long, how come you still don't know how to judge a case? Our Supervisory Board is not here to know the other party's answer, but to give the answer and make the other party admit it."

He looked at Guo Shun.

"So, what do you want me to admit?"

After saying this, he thought of something and stopped looking at Guo Shun. Instead, he looked around, as if looking for someone.

"My lady, what do you want me to admit?"

Guo Shun took a step forward, but was a little scared because he was not allowed to wear a sword in the palace. He quickly grabbed a sword from the guard beside him and said, "Zhang Ze, are you colluding with the King of Chu?"

Zhang Ze looked at him and said, "That's the right question. Just frame him directly."

"Don't be so playful with me!" Guo Shun shouted, "You——"

"That's enough!" A female voice interrupted Guo Shun.

Guo Shun quickly stood up, and Zhang Ze also looked into the palace and saw Bai Ying walking out from behind the big urn.

"Don't ask such stupid questions." Bai Ying glanced at Guo Shun, then looked at Zhang Ze, "Zhang Zhongcheng is not a fool."

Zhang Ze looked at Bai Ying and said, "Your Majesty is really quick to act. You just gave me the position and then prepared the charges. Is the charge that I colluded with the King of Chu to commit treason?"

He said, smiling and nodding.

"You have made a good choice. My position is very important. I control the private affairs of many officials. Your Majesty will be very concerned about this."

Bai Ying didn't respond to his words, she looked at him and asked, "Where did you go just now?"

"I did go to see the King of Chu." Zhang Ze said, "To be exact, I went to see Zhou Jingyun. Zhou Jingyun was working for the King of Chu."

After he said that, he looked at Bai Ying.

"If your majesty wants to ask this, there is no need to make a big fuss."

Bai Ying smiled and said, "I know. If I ask you, you will tell me. I asked you in Hanliang Palace, and you told me that the King of Chu invited you to a banquet and you went to monitor him. Now facing the big urn." She pointed to the charcoal fire urn beside her, "You will tell me that you went to collude with the King of Chu."

Zhang Ze looked at her and said, "I will answer whatever your Majesty needs."

Bai Ying looked at him and suddenly said, "Zhang Ze, you really take me for a fool and refuse to tell the truth. In addition to meeting Zhou Jingyun, you also met Bai Li! Do you think I didn't see it? Do you think I don't know that Bai Li was sitting in the carriage of the King of Chu? Don't you know that she went into the teahouse to have a private meeting with Zhou Jingyun?"

At this point she looked angry.

"What do you mean by colluding with the King of Chu? You first colluded with Bai Li, and then she married the King of Chu."

"If it wasn't for you, would she be able to marry the King of Chu? If it wasn't for you, would I have realized that this was my sister when I met the Princess of Chu?"

At this point she laughed a few more times.

"I was the one who made this Princess Chu happen!"

She pointed at Zhang Ze.

"Zhang Ze, how have I, Bai Ying, ever done anything wrong to you? How dare you treat me like this!"

Guo Shun said cautiously, "Don't be angry, Your Majesty." He looked at Zhang Ze and said with great sorrow, "Zhang Ze, you have disappointed Your Majesty so much. How could you betray me?"

Zhang Ze looked at Bai Ying and said, "Madam, are you having a nightmare again? Did you see someone you shouldn't have seen again?"

Bai Ying looked at him warily: "Did you do this?"

Zhang Ze's face was solemn: "Madam, you are in a state of delusion." He took a step forward and said, "Madam, please wake up and don't fall into the trap of others."

Guo Shun pointed the knife at him: "Stand away, stay away from the queen!"

Zhang Ze ignored Guo Shun and just looked at Bai Ying.

Bai Ying suddenly smiled: "Yes, I can't sleep, I am trapped by the devil, but facing you, Zhang Zhongcheng, I am very sober."

She walked slowly around Zhang Ze.

"You haven't been colluding with my sister recently, it started a long time ago."

At this point he sneered.

"I asked you the other day if you felt that the Princess of Chu looked a lot like me. What nonsense did you say to me? You even praised me. You must be guilty."

"You pretended to be very convincing at the time, but in my eyes, you were full of loopholes."

"I deliberately told you my intention, and then you went to see Zhou Jingyun and asked Zhou Jingyun to tell Bai Li my intention."

"You think it's her I want to keep stable?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ze looked at Bai Ying and nodded thoughtfully: "So it's me that the queen wants to keep stable."

Bai Ying stopped and looked at him, smiling: "Yes, I want to keep you stable." Guo Shun shook his head: "Zhang Ze, you really shouldn't have betrayed the queen."

Zhang Ze glanced at Guo Shun and said, "If I hadn't betrayed the queen, you wouldn't have had the chance to succeed."

Is this an admission? Guo Shun's eyes were excited: "My Queen, I will interrogate you!"

Zhang Ze looked at Bai Ying and said, "Don't bother. Your Majesty knows what kind of person I am. I will do whatever Your Majesty needs me to do. I will testify against anything you ask me to do. I will not sacrifice my life to protect others."

Bai Ying looked at him and sneered, "What you are asking to testify is very simple. The King of Chu has been colluding with you for a long time. First, he used the Queen's case to dig up the case of the former Crown Prince, cleared the former Crown Prince's name and restored his status. Then Li Yu transformed himself into the King of Chu. The next step is to get rid of the little prince, and then join forces with the court officials to force Your Majesty to adopt the King of Chu as his adopted son and make him the Crown Prince, just like you forced the late Emperor to make the King of Changyang the Crown Prince."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Guo Shun who was standing beside her, and saw that Guo Shun looked loyal and was holding a knife to protect her.

"Did you write it down?" Bai Ying asked with a frown.

Guo Shun quickly responded yes.

Bai Ying looked at Zhang Ze again and said, "Zhongcheng, do you think this is okay? It's enough to make you lose some skin even if you don't die, right?"

Zhang Ze nodded: "Your Majesty is smart. First, you pulled out the Queen's case and made her appear to be wrongly accused. Then you threatened the little prince. The Emperor will definitely not let the King of Chu go."

Bai Ying looked at him and said, "Someone come here." She waved her hand and said, "Send the Zhongcheng into the trap."

As she spoke, the soldiers rushed forward. Zhang Ze did not resist. Guo Shun also took the opportunity to step forward and commanded the soldiers to strip Zhang Ze of his official robe, tie him up in this way and that, and throw him into the jar.

"I didn't want to get away with it, and I deserve to be punished." Zhang Ze didn't struggle. He stood in the jar with only his head exposed, looking at Bai Ying, "Let me do something for the queen one last time, write my own confession, and organize my evidence."

Bai Ying looked at him, smiled slightly, and signaled to Guo Shun: "Light the fire."

Hearing this, Zhang Ze's calm expression changed: "Because you found this idiot, you want to get rid of me?"

Guo Shun, who was lighting the fire himself, was ashamed and annoyed: "Zhang Ze, how much smarter are you than me? You are just lucky. That nobleman broke your father's leg. If it was my father's leg that was broken, I would be standing next to the queen!"

Zhang Ze pouted at him.

Bai Ying seemed very happy that the two of them were arguing with each other and laughed.

"Zhongcheng, didn't you say that the dead are the least threatening in this world?" she said. "You taught me this, and I will keep it in mind."

Zhang Ze looked at her coldly: "Your Highness's vicious heart was not taught by me."

Bai Ying sneered, "Are you saying I'm a vicious person now? You're not praising me anymore?" She gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think my sister is better than me?"

Her voice suddenly rose and she looked at Zhang Ze hatefully.

"Zhang Ze, you were the first to reach out to me by the Taiye Lake. You said you would help me. You said you would intimidate the villains for me, strengthen my power, keep my spies, and protect me!"

"It's me you're after! I should be the only one in your eyes!"

Bai Ying took a step forward and looked at Zhang Ze who was trapped in the jar. The design of the jar was so large that people could not stand upright inside it, so Zhang Ze, who was originally much taller than her, was now looking at her at eye level.

She reached out her hand, touched his face, and whispered.

"I'm not going to give you the chance to treat my sister like you did to me."

"You can only live for me, and you can only die for me."

Zhang Ze suddenly turned his head and bit her hand. Bai Ying screamed. Guo Shun hit Zhang Ze's face hard in panic. Several soldiers rushed over and worked together to pull Bai Ying's hand out of Zhang Ze's mouth.
A piece of flesh was bitten off Bai Ying's hand, blood was all over the floor, and her face was distorted with pain.

"Asshole, asshole," she screamed.

"Your Majesty, please go and ask the imperial physician to bandage your wound." Guo Shun supported her and walked away.

Bai Ying slapped him in the face, leaving blood all over his face.

"Idiot! What do you want me to do?" she cursed. "Just try me. Prepare the confession and evidence overnight!"

Guo Shun quickly responded yes, and the eunuchs and palace maids came over to help Bai Ying walk out. When they reached the palace gate, they looked back.

Zhang Ze in the big jar had blood all over his face, some from biting her and some from being beaten by the soldiers.

"Who do you think you are?" Zhang Ze smiled when he saw Bai Ying looking back. "How could I die for you!"

Bai Ying gritted her teeth, supported her aching hand and walked out quickly.

pain.

It hurts so much that I wish I could die.

But when the pain becomes unbearable, it will ease again, and then you will feel alive.

This is the characteristic of the jar roasting punishment, which makes people unable to either die or live.

In the past, I found it very interesting to see other people do this, but when it was my turn to experience it myself, it felt terrible.

"Do you think it's better to be alive or dead now?"

A female voice asked softly in my ear.

Zhang Ze slowly opened his eyes, his vision was blurry. Was it already night? No, this was not the cold palace, and he was not roasting in a large urn. In his blurry vision, the sky and the earth were boundless, as if it was the sea, or in the clouds. His body was suspended in it, and he could not feel himself.

This way, you won’t feel any pain.

Zhang Ze sat up suddenly. Could he move freely?
He raised his head and saw the woman standing in front of him. It was Bai Li's face.

"I didn't expect my sister would actually want to kill you," she said, nodding again, "Not surprising, she can kill her own family, let alone you."