stern wife

Chapter 3 Wedge ③: Infatuated Wrong Payment
Pei Xiaoran paused for a long time, then slowly raised his hand, took the brush, tremblingly wrote his name on the confession, and pressed his fingerprints.

And on her face, there was only a dull ashes.

The criminal officer carefully put away the confession, and then happily went to ask his master for a reward.

Pei Xiaoran felt like he was dead, only his senses remained.

After pleading guilty, the torture was gone. She had a hazy feeling that she was let down from the wooden rack. Someone rudely ripped off her clothes, stuffed her into cold water and rinsed her roughly. The military uniform she wore when she was captured was put on again for her.

The military uniform covered the scars all over her body, and someone came in again, combed her hair and put on makeup, and finally took her out of this torture room full of bloody and putrid smells, and transferred her to an ordinary prison cell.

Pei Xiaoran didn't know what purpose these people had in doing these things to her, and she didn't want to think about it anymore. She was like a puppet who lost her soul, at the mercy of others.

...and can only be manipulated by others.

There are footsteps gradually approaching from a distance.

The heavy chains of the prison cell were opened, and after a while, a pair of black cloud brocade boots and a small section of scarlet hem appeared in Pei Xiaoran's blank vision.

Suzaku respects red, and in Suzaku, the only one who can wear a red dress is...

Pei Xiaoran's pupils shrank suddenly, and he stared at the blood-like redness almost in disbelief, for fear that in the blink of an eye, that person would disappear!

The person she wanted to meet with all her heart finally came!
A glimmer of hope was ignited in her heart, Pei Xiaoran couldn't help but raised her head, looked at the person who came, opened her mouth, and was about to explain something to this person, when a slap hit her face, shattering the last ray of hope left in her heart.

"Pei Xiaoran, you have disappointed me so much!"

A familiar voice, but an unfamiliar extreme anger and harshness.

Limp and bruised, she was beaten and lay on the ground. After a long time, she slowly got up. One side of her face was already swollen, and the corners of her mouth were bleeding.

But as if she didn't feel the pain, she only slowly raised her head, looked at the tall, burly and superior man in front of her again, and said in a hoarse voice:

"...Even you don't believe me?"

The man sneered, his handsome eyes were full of ridicule:
"How do you want me to believe you? Do you believe that you have never even met the prince of the enemy country who keeps claiming that you are beautiful, or do you believe that the letters between you and him found in your palace are actually all because of your boredom?" Is it written for fun?"

Pei Xiaoran wanted to clarify and refute loudly, but the faces of his sister-in-law and the remaining children of the Pei family suddenly flashed in his mind.

No...she couldn't say, if she really clarified for herself, those people would definitely not let them go!

Pei Xiaoran suddenly shut his mouth tightly, not daring to say a word.

The visitor only thought that she was guilty, and her face was full of disappointment, and said coldly:

"If Yu'er and Shu'er hadn't taken people to clean the palace for you to welcome you back, and they accidentally found those letters, I'm afraid that even today, I would still be kept in the dark by you, waiting for you to join forces with the enemy to kill me Only then did I realize that the person next to me was a traitor who wanted my life and the country! Since the evidence is overwhelming, it is useless to say more, so you should do it yourself."

After finishing speaking, the man turned around and left, as if he was tired of even looking at her more.

Yu'er, Shu'er?
In Pei Xiaoran's mind, there were two delicate and flowery faces that were more or less similar in appearance.

Those were her two concubine younger sisters. When she was captured by the enemy army as a hostage and her life and death were unknown, her father couldn't wait to send her to the palace. She was called "Sister on behalf of the emperor", but in fact she just wanted to marry her. To continue to maintain a close relationship with the royal family.

Her relationship with these two concubine sisters has been very good since she was a child. She felt sorry for them who were treated as pawns by her father, and took good care of them after they entered the palace. She was afraid that they would be bullied by other concubines. The notoriety of "treating concubines harshly" has been criticized by officials and censors for a long time.

But what did you get in exchange?
What she has done and what she has not done is very clear, she can swear to the sky, she has never had an affair with the prince of the enemy country, let alone wrote those letters with him!

So, how did they 'search' it out?
Even if these letters were framed by others, even if they found out, they must be the first to tell themselves, instead of submitting them directly to the Holy Majesty!
The red and swollen corners of Pei Xiaoran's mouth slowly sneered.

The day of execution is fast approaching.

It is the beginning of June, the summer is in full swing, noon is approaching, the scorching sun is coming, when it is supposed to be hiding in the shade of trees to enjoy the cool, but the entrance of the vegetable market is full of people, everyone's face is full of anger and hate.

"Rebellious girl! You have completely disgraced the Pei family, are you worthy of the ancestors of the Pei family!"

"General Pei has a spirit in heaven, if he knows that he has given birth to such a daughter, it will be difficult for him to be at peace!"

"Traitor! Rapist! Go to hell!"

"Go to hell! Go to die! Go to die!"

The hot air was filled with angry curses and shouts, and rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown towards the woman who was kneeling on the execution platform.

Look, these are the people she wants to protect with all her heart...

Even if they are deceived by villains, don't they know who she is for many times?They believed that little evidence, those few rumors, but why didn't they believe that she had spent most of her life on the frontier, fighting the enemy in person?

"It's noon—"

Suddenly, a high-pitched voice sounded, and the cursing around him finally stopped for a while.

An eunuch came forward holding the imperial decree, and through the imperial forest army who surrounded the execution platform tightly, fearing that the prisoners would be robbed, he slowly unfolded the imperial decree and declared loudly:
"The Suzaku Red Emperor's edict said: The sinful daughter Pei did not abide by women's virtues. Noble Concubine, Yu Noble Concubine, their mother, and his younger brother are clearly aware of the details, and righteously annihilate their relatives, so that they will be spared the death penalty, hereby—”

The long ending sound fell, and the executioner raised the extremely sharp knife in his hand at the right time, ready to drop it at any time.

The supervisor took a sneak peek at the master in the blood-red robe who was sitting on the supervisor's seat. Seeing that the other party was expressionless and did not express anything, he carefully reached out and took out a token token from the lottery tube, and was about to throw it out. , suddenly heard a delicate voice saying:

"Wait a minute!"

Everyone was startled, and all looked towards the source of the sound.

On the high supervisory platform, a woman sitting on the right hand of Chidi stood up delicately.

The woman's body was graceful, her waist was like a willow, she didn't wear any makeup, her face was beautiful without makeup, and her long black hair was simply decorated with a gold ribbon, but it made people feel pitiful and charming even more.

She walked up to Chidi and knelt down. Seeing this, she sat beside her, and the woman who was dressed in the same clothes as her and looked almost similar to her also got up quickly, and knelt down in front of Chidi with her.

Needless to say, these two are naturally the most beloved imperial concubines of the Red Emperor at the moment - Concubine Shu and Concubine Yu.

(End of this chapter)