slave like jade

Chapter 160
When Brother An saw the Qinxiang Tower on fire, his first reaction was that Yu Ruyan was inside, and his heart ached. He rushed into the fire without thinking about it to save people, but was dragged away by the coachman of the palace.The coachman said: "Miss, it's such a big fire, if you go in, you will die! Besides, maybe the princess has already come out and is not in the building."

The crowd watching around did not allow her to go in, and a few aunts who watched the excitement also persuaded her earnestly. Brother An suppressed the despair in his heart, looked at the fire in front of him in horror, and felt countless chills in his heart.

She frantically searched for the prostitutes who had escaped from the Qinxianglou fire in the crowd, and asked them about Yu Ruyan. Three words, one by one stared at her immediately, and cried bitterly: "It's your princess who set fire to Qin Xianglou, pity us so many sisters can't escape inside, pity us The little pension money that we worked so hard to save is gone, how will we live in the future?"

The cries of the prostitutes exploded in the crowd like a thunderbolt. When they heard that the person who set the fire was actually the evil third princess who was getting more and more popular in the Eastern Capital, the crowd was enraged, and no one cared about the third princess any more. As for the identity of the princess, she began to yell at Yu Ruyan, who has lost her conscience, is reincarnated by a malevolent star, is an ominous person without tears, and brings disaster to the country and the people...

Brother An seems to have fallen into a terrible nightmare, and he doesn't understand why Yu Ruyan's tears-free ominousness is known to everyone, why do the people in Daliang know it?

Also, was the princess setting off the fire in Qin Xianglou?impossible!Absolutely impossible!
Brother An frightened and denied all this in her heart, but she suddenly remembered that the last time in Qinxianglou, the princess had said that if Mother Qiu was unwilling to hand over the deed of sale, she would burn Qinxianglou down and burn those The deeds of prostitution of the girls were burned together with the fire...

The endless cold made An Ge tremble all over. If, if the princess really set the fire, then...

Qinxianglou, the No. [-] brothel in the eastern capital, was reduced to ashes overnight, and the fire burned from the afternoon until late at night.Fortunately, when the fire broke out, Qin Xianglou hadn't opened for business yet, but even so, many people were burned to death, most of them were prostitutes in Qin Xianglou.

The fire was finally burnt out, and Jing Zhaoyin also came. The officials carried out black charred corpses from the fire scene. Brother An froze on the spot. He wanted to go to check the corpses, but he was afraid of seeing himself inside. The person she didn't want to see, in the end, she finally gritted her teeth and stepped forward. She was obviously as timid as a mouse, but she insisted on turning over the charred corpses to examine them, crying while searching, praying to God in her heart, please don't worry about it. Don't let her see Yu Ruyan among these people.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes, and Yu Ruyan and Dongcao were not found among the more than 20 corpses. Brother An breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to leave here to go back to the mansion to see if Yu Ruyan had returned. Another female corpse was lifted out of the fire.

Brother An was about to leave, but his eyes were stunned by something on the wrist of the female corpse. She stared wide-eyed in disbelief and shuffled to the last female corpse that was lifted out. She looked at the silver bracelet on the female corpse's wrist stupidly, In the next moment, I couldn't help but burst into tears!

Although the female body had been burnt beyond recognition, Brother An recognized the bracelet on her hand. This silver bracelet engraved with the words "Fu Lu Shou Xi" was given to Yu Ruyan by Dongcao Chuchu. For her meeting gift, she helped her wear it herself...

Dongcao died in the fire, and Jing Zhaoyin's official staff found a jar of kerosene and Huo Yizi beside her, and at the back door of Qinxiang Building, Jing Zhaoyin also found a carriage, a carriage There are several jars of kerosene piled up inside, and the carriage is exactly the carriage of the palace where Yu Ruyan left the palace.

When the incident was exposed, the people were even more furious. Looking at the corpses that had been placed halfway across the street, although these women were all low-born prostitutes, they were still living lives.I don't know who took the lead, but all the people in Dongdu knelt in front of Mr. Wang of Jing Zhaoyin, asking him to arrest the third concubine who set fire to the murder and let her pay for the lives of more than 20 people!

In fact, such a sensational case occurred overnight in Dongdu, which has already alarmed officials of all sizes in Dongdu. Countless sedan chairs rushed into the entire long street, and all the ministers came, standing majestically. In front of Qin Xianglou, looking at the corpses all over the floor, he said sadly to Lord Wang who bowed and obeyed his orders: "Long Lang Qiankun, such a cruel and inhuman thing happened at the feet of the emperor. Parents who suffer from body, hair and skin, although they are prostitutes, It is also raised by father and mother, this kind of practice is really disgusting, I hope you Jing Zhaoyin can be selfless and give justice to these people who died in vain, and also give us peace!"

Mu Xiang's last words were quite meaningful. After hearing this, the people couldn't help shouting, asking the court to get rid of the evil star and the ominous person, kill the three princesses, and keep the country in Daliang in peace.

Mu Ziyang on the side listened, and his eyes flickered almost inaudibly. After receiving Mu Xiang's words, he said to the embarrassed Wang Daren with a serious and sincere face: "My lord, last month, the third princess once Leading people to make a big fuss in Qinxiang Building, not only lynching the proprietress in the building, Mother Qiu, but also threatening her to hand over the girls' contracts of prostitution, threatening that if she didn't hand it over, Qin Xianglou would be burned down. This sentence was heard by many people at the time, including His Royal Highness. If His Majesty Wang needs it, I don’t mind going out to testify against the rampant third concubine Jing Zhaoyin."

This statement was more solid evidence of Yu Ruyan's crime of arson and murder, and Lord Wang, who was still afraid of Mu Lingzhi, completely dispelled his worries when he heard Mr. Youmu and the eldest prince testify.

It is often said that the emperor commits the same crime as the common people. Therefore, although Mr. Wang felt embarrassed, he still reported Yu Ruyan's crimes to the Ministry of punishment with a pleading, and then the Ministry of punishment will report it to King Liang tomorrow morning.

And in an inconspicuous place at the corner of the street, there is a beautiful and luxurious carriage parked.In the carriage, Yu Mingzhu half-lyed in Mu Yunzhi's arms with a shy face, her tone was heartbroken, but her description was full of complacency.

"Your Highness, even though she is my younger sister, she has done such unconscionable things and killed dozens of people at once, not to mention that there is also His Highness's beloved girl Mo Ling'er, which is really heartbreaking. , even my elder sister can’t speak for her.”

Although Mu Yunzhi was amazed at how she knew that she was taking care of Mo Ling'er in Qinxianglou, but now this is not the point. Thinking of Mo Ling'er dying in this fire, he must be very angry in his heart, wishing to kill Yu Ru Yan Jiehen!

His hostility appeared on his face, and he said in a hateful voice: "This time she caused such a big incident, with so many lives on her hands, and she is still an ominous person who affects the fate of my country. How can Mu Lingzhi protect her!"

Yu Mingzhu lay in his arms and didn't say anything more, but in a place where Mu Yunzhi couldn't see, she proudly raised the corners of her lips, and the viciousness in her glazed eyes could be seen at a glance...

Just at this time, a little maid gently stepped forward and said through the sedan chair curtain: "Your Majesty, Miss Mu Family welcomes you!"

It turned out that Mu Ziyue had also come, Yu Mingzhu thought about it again, yes, such a big event happened in Dongdu, and such a sensational event was planned by the two of them, how could she not resist coming out to see for herself!
Yu Mingzhu stood up delicately and pressed her lips against Mu Yunzhi's. The lilac tongue stuck into his mouth and entangled with his tongue. After a few strokes, Mu Yunzhi's desire was successfully ignited. When he was intoxicated, Yu Mingzhu suddenly left him, and was about to go out as soon as he lifted the curtain of the car.The lustful Mu Yunzhi was willing to let her go, grabbed her waist and was about to press her down, but Yu Mingzhu pushed her away with a coquettish smile, her hands slid down the man's collarbone like spirit snakes, He exhaled like blue in Mu Yunzhi's ear, and said evilly: "Your Highness, don't worry, when the concubine goes to see Miss Mu and comes back, I will definitely obey His Highness and serve you well. Your Highness, why don't you go back to the concubine first?" I'm resting in my room, and I'll come later!"

Mu Yunzhi thought that someone was waiting outside, so he had no choice but to let her go, and reluctantly said: "Hurry up and come back, I'm waiting for you to come back!"

The little maid led Yu Mingzhu into another carriage, and Mu Ziyue was sitting in it with a peaceful and contented face. When she saw her come in, she smiled and said, "I wanted to go to visit the empress in person, but seeing that His Highness is also there, It's not good to disturb the two of you, so I have to ask the empress to move over!"

"The princess is very scheming, and the current situation is indeed happier than killing that bitch with a single knife." Yu Mingzhu looked at Mu Ziyue with cold eyes, and said with a sneer: "It's just that if she doesn't die for a day, the third highness will die." I won't marry you for a day, I thought that the Princess is more looking forward to her death than I am!"

Mu Ziyue resumed her previous description of the most beautiful woman in Daliang. Not only her appearance but also her demeanor, she was as gentle and elegant as before. Put it into his mouth, chew it carefully, half-closed his eyebrows, and said in a flat and slow tone: "Now in my heart, I only wish that those who have hurt me--all die!"

Her tone was unusually flat, as if she was speaking the most understated words in the world, but the chill that couldn't be concealed deep in her body made people feel cold.

Yu Mingzhu smiled with satisfaction, and said softly: "The person who hurt you in the mouth of the princess includes the third highness?!"

"What do you think!" Mu Ziyue smiled very lightly, "When all love turns into hatred, there is nothing in this world that I, Mu Ziyue, cannot do!"

Yu Mingzhu's expression became clear, and she said with a smile: "It is said that once this woman hates and becomes ruthless, she is better than the most poisonous poison in the world. It is really true. But the meaning of the Princess is to let him taste the most important and most caring thing. The kind of pain that people die in front of him but are powerless?"

"My lady knows me." Mu Ziyue smiled indifferently, "Now my master has successfully obtained that bitch's blood, as long as you heal the queen, our plan will be smoother, that bitch He will be charged with evil stars, ominous people, and murderers. If the empress knows that this bitch is hooking up with her two sons at the same time, I don't know how he will die in the end to relieve the hatred in the empress's heart. I mean."

The two looked at each other and smiled, their expressions were incomparably carefree and proud...

Dongcao's body was found in the fire scene, Brother An cried so hard, and at the same time his heart was broken, wondering if Yu Ruyan was also killed?

She looked for Yu Ruyan all around like crazy, but she couldn't find Yu Ruyan's trace, and she couldn't be seen when she ran back to the palace. Brother An was impatient and desperate, so she had to go to the gate of the palace to ask to see her Mu Lingzhi.

But the Forbidden Garden of the Deep Palace was where she wanted to enter. Brother An was so anxious that he said all kinds of good things and showed the token of the palace to the guard, and the guard agreed to help her go in and pass it on.

After waiting for a long time, I saw Mu Lingzhi rushing over with the copper coins. As soon as he saw him, Brother An couldn't stop crying, and tremblingly told what happened, before she could finish the last sentence , Mu Lingzhi's face was ashen, and he was about to speak, when a shadow flew to his side, it was the hidden guard beside him.

Mu Lingzhi was in great panic and anger, and asked the hidden guard sharply, "What happened? Where is the princess?"

The dark guard was sweating all over his body, and he said in a trembling voice, "This subordinate is incompetent and did not protect the princess well. The five brothers who followed the princess out of the mansion... died in the Hong River in the suburbs, all of them died of poison. She was thrown into the river. But the concubine...is already locked in Jing Zhaoyin's prison, and the subordinates found out too late..."

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi's whole body was icy cold, his heart was full of endless chill, his deep eyes were blood red, he got on his horse and drove towards Jing Zhaoyin...

Tong Qian wanted to go after Mu Lingzhi, but when he turned around, he was about to ask the hidden guards to send Brother An back, but Brother An grabbed his clothes and begged, "Take me, I want to see with my own eyes that the princess is fine..."

Helpless, Tong Qian just carried her on the horseback, and led her to chase after Mu Ling.

In Jing Zhaoyin's prison, Yu Ruyan was imprisoned in a daze. She stood blankly in a damp and messy cell, as if she was having a terrible and weird nightmare, and she didn't understand what happened?
After the incident at Qinxianglou last time, Yu Ruyan didn't rush into Qinxianglou directly this time to ask Qiu's mother for help, but wrote a post to send Dongcao to Qinxianglou and ask Qiu's mother to come out for an interview.

Before she left the house, she prepared the silver ticket to redeem the girl's body. She believed that a mercenary businessman like Qiu's mother should be able to redeem the girl's body as long as she gave her a higher price. As for the other girls, she I believe that based on Liu Mazi's confession that she asked the secret guard to secretly take out from Jing Zhaoyin, Qiu's mother will definitely feel timid. Do not agree.

But after Dongcao took her post and went out for a long time, she never saw her bring that autumn mother back, and then...

Later, she remembered very clearly that when she was waiting for Dongcao to come back, a servant woman in the inn came in to bring her tea. After she passed by her, she felt a numbness in the back of her neck and lost consciousness...

When she woke up again, Jing Zhaoyin's official officer had already rushed into her room and detained her without saying a word. She was astonished and asked the official officer what happened, and the official officer told her that she set fire to Qin Xianglou , burnt to death 27 prostitutes...

With a stagger, Yu Ruyan almost fell to the ground——

Must be dreaming!
At that time, Yu Ruyan's first reaction was that she was still dreaming!

But when she was taken out of the inn, she realized that it was already late at night outside.

The long street was surrounded by people. It was clearly late at night, but the people in the entire Eastern Capital seemed not to go to rest. Everyone held torches in their hands. When they saw her come out, they came to her with swearing and cursing overwhelmingly. Pointing to her with both hands, everyone is saying, look, this is the evil star who has brought disaster to the country and the people, the ominous man who was born without tears, the broom star who wants to affect the fate of the country, and the murderer who set fire to the death of more than 20 people in Qinxianglou ...

Yu Ruyan's mind was blank, she walked step by step in a daze, thinking, she must be dreaming, in the dream she returned to Daqi, because only people in Daqi would scold her like this, scold her It is the man without tears, the unlucky man, the broom star...

But why is the dream so real? She felt the coolness brought by the night wind, and smelled an unpleasant smell of burning. She even felt the spittle of the angry crowd splashing on her face...

Jing Zhaoyin's official escort escorted her through the long long street, and finally came to a tall building that had been burnt into ruins. The dead body on the street smelled the unpleasant and disgusting burning smell in her nose, and the panic in her heart was already hitting her heart like a storm...

She couldn't move her feet, she stared blankly at the terrible things in front of her, her face was white in the firelight, her ears were filled with roaring, she couldn't hear people's curses, and she stared coldly at the charred bodies on the ground I feel like my whole body has fallen into the [-]th floor of hell, and I will never turn over again...

Master Wang of Jing Zhaoyin brought her in front of a female corpse, and said in a cold voice: "Third Princess, please claim it, this is the girl who serves by your side?"

Yu Ruyan also recognized the silver bracelet on the female corpse's wrist at a glance. It belonged to Brother An, and it was given to Dongcao by Brother An. In front of her, Brother An personally put it on for her...

With a bang, her mind completely collapsed, Yu Ruyan Hong stared at the female corpse on the ground, her whole body shook like fallen leaves in the wind, and said in a trembling voice: "This...what the hell is going on?"

Lord Wang said with endless sarcasm: "I want to ask the princess what's going on!"

Yu Ruyan didn't pay attention to the meaning of Lord Wang's words, she touched Dongcao's corpse with trembling hands, the horrible touch made the hairs on her body stand on end, and finally couldn't help but choked up: "Dongcao, Dongcao, you ...how did you...how did you become like this..."

Thinking that the scorched corpse in front of her was actually winter grass, Yu Ruyan felt so painful that she was about to suffocate. Her voice was full of tears, her eyes were red, and she looked sad. She called the name of winter grass in disbelief, but there was no sound A tear comes.

Seeing this, the surrounding crowd shouted in shock: "Look, everyone, look, she is really a person without tears, so scary..."

The people in the entire Dongdu couldn't cry when they saw Yu Ruyan with their own eyes. For a while, there was no doubt that she was an ominous person.

Everyone looked at her as if they were looking at a man-eating monster, and they all stepped back in fright, not daring to approach her again.

For all of this, Yu Ruyan didn't realize it, her whole body was immersed in endless pain——

Dongcao is her maid, although she has not been with her for a long time, but Yu Ruyan is grateful for her loyalty and honesty, although she has not been in Yunsongyuan for a long time, but she always has a smile on her face when she is by Yu Ruyan's side Joyful and happy, jumping up and down every day, and the relationship with Brother An is like sisters...

But I didn't expect that when I accompanied her out of the house, she was still alone, a lively young girl, but in a blink of an eye, she had become a charred corpse, lying lifeless on the cold ground, how could she accept it, how could she not be sad grief?
However, no one sympathized with her grief. Everyone just heard that she admitted that the girl with kerosene and fire sparkles on her body was hers, so it was even more certain that she was the one who set the fire and murdered.

Mrs. Wang personally escorted her to Jingzhao Yin, Yu Ruyan walked in a daze, her dull eyes seemed to see several familiar and terrifying figures, there was Yu Mingzhu, there was Mu Ziyue, and Mu Xiang Mu Ziyang...

The expressions on these people's faces were terrifying, they all smiled viciously and triumphantly, their eyes were vicious, and the teeth they showed were like the snake's letter, which made her terrified...

Staying in the gloomy cell in a daze for a long time, a prisoner brought her a bowl of clear water, but Yu Ruyan didn't drink it, but raised her hand and splashed the water over her head with a 'splash', taking advantage of the biting cold feeling Let yourself wake up from the shock!

However, what happened this time caught her tightly like a net, making her unable to move, and even her breathing was blocked.

Whenever she wanted to clear up her chaotic thoughts, the back of her head would feel like a needle-pricking pain. She was stunned, as if thinking of something in her mind, she reached out and groped towards the back of her head near the back of her neck. Touched a protruding silver needle!

A cold light flashed across her eyes, she never expected that she had carefully avoided it, instead of directly causing trouble in Qin Xianglou like last time, but she still stepped into someone else's trap...

Gritting her teeth, she was about to pull out the silver needle nailed into the back of her head. Just as she was about to use force, a sharp pain came from her left wrist. She rolled up her long cuffs in a daze, and her pupils suddenly widened!
At some point, a deep gash was cut on her left wrist, which was extremely terrifying.It seemed that some medicine powder had been sprinkled on the bloody mouth, which stopped the bleeding and made her feel no pain. It wasn't until she pulled out the silver needle forcefully with her backhand just now, which pulled the bloody mouth back to bleed and caused pain. ...

Feeling dizzy for a while, she almost fell down, Yu Ruyan panted and sat down while supporting the cell's moss-covered wall, countless questions flashed through her mind...

Once again, she felt that she had fallen into a bottomless vortex. The road ahead was dark and gloomy. She couldn't find the direction and light...

(End of this chapter)