stern wife

Chapter 1 Wedge ①: Flying misfortune
"Pei Xiaoran, you secretly colluded with the prince of the enemy country, intending to take over my Suzaku country, are you guilty?!"

In the torture room, the criminal officer looked at the woman who was kneeling on the ground by four strong men, and asked sharply.

The woman's back was straight, her military uniform had not been removed, her battle-tested eyes were bright and sharp, even though she was being controlled by others, she did not panic or show weakness at all, and said sonorously, neither humble nor overbearing:

"I don't have any."

"Then what are these?" The criminal officer shook out a pile of evidence as if he had been prepared, and said sarcastically:
"If you have no ambiguity towards His Majesty, how could you secretly exchange letters with the prince of the enemy country?"

Pei Xiaoran didn't look at the thick stack of so-called 'evidence', and said unyieldingly:
"I don't know. Those are not written by me. I want to see His Majesty. I will explain clearly to Your Majesty in person."

The criminal officer sneered and refused politely:

"You want to see Your Majesty, but Your Majesty doesn't want to see a traitor! I advise you to plead guilty as soon as possible, so as not to suffer those flesh and blood!"

Pei Xiaoran said without the slightest fear:
"Before I meet His Majesty, I will definitely not draw a bet!"

"Okay—" the criminal officer dragged out his tone in a strange manner, then waved his hand, and said in a deep voice:

"Sentence! Let's see how long you can hold your tongue!"

The four strong men immediately grabbed Pei Xiaoran, pushed her towards the wooden frame of the cross, and violently tore off her coat, leaving only a thin layer of inner garment.

Pei Xiaoran is not stupid. Seeing that a small criminal officer dares to treat her so presumptuously, he must have received orders from above to act.

But even knowing that, when she was about to be punished, she still asked in disbelief:
"How dare you lynch me?! Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will punish you if you find out!"

The criminal officer laughed and said:
"Of course, my subordinates dare not lynch the empress, but this is His Majesty's personal order to let them find out the truth no matter what, so I have no choice but to obey."

Pei Xiaoran heard it like falling into an ice cave.

"You're talking nonsense! Your Majesty, how could he conclude that I'm a traitor just because of a piece of evidence that can be forged at will and a few rumors?! Still treating me like this?!"

She has been married to that man for fifteen years. When she married him, he was still a big prince who was raised under the name of "Kemu" under the new queen's knee. The emperor didn't like him, and even the family of the deceased empress hated him. Extremely unwilling to support and protect each other, it was she who finally persuaded the neutral father to help him secretly, cleared the obstacles for him, blocked open and hidden arrows for him, and he finally boarded the great treasure.

In the following years, for the sake of the stability and peace of his country, after her father and brother died in battle, she personally led the expedition as a queen. The sand bandits in Xinjiang for many years have finally been wiped out and returned with a big victory.

In the end, what greeted her was the villain's framing and his belief that it was true? !

He didn't even have the slightest trust in her? !
"This subordinate doesn't know about it," the criminal officer said, interrupting her thoughts, pointing out:

"However, my subordinates have tried a lot of prisoners. Most of them still keep saying that they are innocent even when the evidence is convincing. This kind of person, right?"

Pei Xiaoran gritted his teeth: "If you want to commit a crime, why don't you have any excuses? I said, before I see His Majesty, don't expect me to be tortured!"

The criminal officer took the barbed steel whip that was handed over by his subordinates, sneered, and raised his hand to slash at her softest abdomen!

... three days later.

Crash, a bucket of thick salt water was splashed on the woman's body.

Pei Xiaoran let out a muffled snort, his whole body trembled, and he woke up from the excruciating pain.

There are layers of wounds from the whipping, the old ones have not had time to scab, and new ones have been added, the blood flow is endless, and when the eversioned flesh touches the salt water, the pain is enough to make life painful and die.

For three whole days, the whipping didn't stop for a moment. Pei Xiaoran didn't get a drop of water, didn't touch a grain of rice, and suffered so much torture that he had already lost a lot of weight.

That person...has never even looked at her.

But her eyes are still bright and sober, full of determination and unyielding.

The criminal officer approached and saw that the woman who was once a queen, full of meritorious deeds and unattainable, turned into such a miserable appearance under his hands that she was neither a human nor a ghost. The pleasure|feeling of abuse, I asked with a smile on my face:
"Ma'am, can you plead guilty?"

Plead guilty?She is not guilty, what crime is she pleading guilty to?

Once this crime is confessed, the reputation of the Pei family behind her, as well as the deceased father and brother, and the ancestors of the Pei family will be ruined by her!
She can't be sorry to her father, brother and the ancestors of the Pei family, let alone abandon her sister-in-law and children for the sake of not suffering for herself!
Pei Xiaoran raised his head proudly, and asked word by word in a hoarse voice:
"I am not guilty, why should I admit it?"

The criminal officer didn't expect that her bones were quite hard, and even though she was a queen, she was expected to be stronger than ordinary people after all these years of fighting abroad.

However, don't think that he can't deal with her anymore.

The criminal officer gave a weird and sinister snort, and instead of intensifying the torture to Pei Xiaoran, he clapped his hands and raised his voice:
"Bring them in!"

As soon as the words were finished, the door of the punishment room was opened, and a group of little ghosts ran in first, and the last one was a woman in a clean suit, with a peerless appearance, which made people forget the world.

When Pei Xiaoran saw them, his expression changed drastically!

Seeing her expression, the criminal officer smiled with satisfaction, and raised his hand to make people stop those little devils and women who wanted to run to Pei Xiaoran's side, and said with a smile:

"Ma'am, do you still recognize them?"

A crack finally appeared on Pei Xiaoran's stubborn and unyielding face, he stared at him firmly, and asked in a hissing voice:
"What do you want to do?"

"The subordinates don't want to do anything, as long as the empress is willing to plead guilty."

Pei Xiaoran smiled bitterly: "If I really plead guilty, they will die!"

"But ma'am, if you don't plead guilty, their life will be worse than death." The criminal officer said, with a stern look in his eyes, he turned his head and winked at his subordinates, who immediately retreated, and after a short while, they lifted up together with others. A charcoal basin came in.

The charcoal was burning extremely vigorously, and the copper bucket buried in the charcoal was also burning red!

The criminal officer glanced at the little ghosts who were staring at him bitterly, and continued to smirk:
"Your Majesty, a child is delicate and can't bear it, you should think twice~"

"you dare!"

The corner of the criminal officer's mouth sank, and he said loudly: "Catch them all!"

(End of this chapter)