slave like jade

Chapter 177 The Punishment of Beheading
The death of Empress Xie of Daliang shocked the whole country!

In the Eastern Capital of Daliang, the bright red and festive atmosphere specially decorated to celebrate the prince’s wedding and the annual Hanrui Festival has been completely replaced by plain white and painful onyx in the next moment, and the heavy snow like goose feathers is even more eloquent and non-stop Falling down, the entire Eastern Capital was covered with a layer of silver and white, and no bright colors could be seen, it was extremely heavy and solemn...

When Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao arrived at the Queen's Yaohua Palace, it was already full of people, the mourning concubines and courtiers from all palaces and palaces filled the entire Yaohua Palace.King Liang, who was paralyzed on the bed, was alarmed and carried to Yaohua Palace in a soft chariot by the palace servants.

In the bedroom of Yaohua Palace, Empress Xie was lying on the bed with a peaceful face. Except for her pale face, everything else was the same as her usual, and it was not obvious that she had passed away. When I entered the palace, I couldn't believe that my mother had passed away. I didn't know that my mother was really dead until I threw myself on the bedside and touched her cold hands, and couldn't feel any anger on her body...

Xiao Dao was also shocked to the point of disbelief. A few days ago, Empress Xie was fine when she made a big fuss in Changle Palace. How could she suddenly...

Heartbroken to the point where he couldn't breathe, Mu Lingzhi looked at the palace servant kneeling on the ground with red eyes, and the imperial physician who was waiting beside him, and said harshly, "What's going on here?"

"Niezi!" King Liang was paralyzed in the lower half of his body and could not move, but his mind was still clear, and he was able to speak these days under Mrs. Yiqing's diagnosis and treatment.

He leaned on the soft couch, pointed at Mu Lingzhi and the crown prince, panting and scolded fiercely: "If you hadn't brought that ominous man back to Daliang, if you hadn't insisted on marrying her as the crown prince, what would have happened? Let her kill your queen mother..."

When King Liang thought of all this, he was already furious, and when Mu Lingzhi and the prince heard this, they were even more shocked to the point of being struck by lightning, petrified on the spot——

They never imagined that the death of the queen mother was actually related to Yu Ruyan!
King Liang's fury made everyone in the dormitory afraid to vent their anger. Except for the sound of sobbing, no one spoke again. The whole hall was oppressive and dull...

Mu Lingzhi's mind was buzzing all the time, blank, he didn't know what happened, why he went to the south, and came back here completely changed...

After a long time, he recovered from the shock, and blurted out: "I don't believe it, I don't believe it's Yan Yanhai's mother, she wouldn't do such a thing!"

And Xiaodao also followed his words and said: "Yes, my sister has been staying in my East Palace, how could she kill my mother, there must be a misunderstanding, father, you can't listen to slander!"

Hearing this, King Liang was furious. With a wave of his hand, he threw the incense burner at the two of them, his face turned black with anger.

"Niezi, your mother's mother's bones are not yet cold, and when that ominous man killed your mother, everyone saw it with their own eyes. You actually complained for that ominous man without asking. You actually didn't even care about your mother's death." Is it?"

King Liang's anger made everyone's scalps tingle. Although the incense burner thrown did not hit the two brothers, what King Liang said made Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao speechless for a moment.

But at this time, Yu Mingzhu, who was kneeling beside her, couldn't help but speak.

"Returning to the words of the two highnesses, before the concubine, Princess Mingyue and Master Yiqing were waiting in front of His Majesty's bed, and then suddenly heard the summons from the empress, let the concubine, the princess and the master come to Yaohua Palace Please see, however, when our party just came here, the moment we entered the door, we happened to see Fifth Younger Sister..."

Yu Mingzhu had a sad and sad face, but when she said this, she had a sad face, a flustered expression on her face, but she couldn't continue her words.

Mu Ziyue continued her words in a timely manner, with tears in her almond eyes, and said in a sad and angry voice: "When we came in, we happened to see the third princess... no, it was the crown princess who pushed the empress down, and the empress' head hit the beam. Zhushang... At that time we were all terrified, so we quickly asked for the imperial physician to be called, and my master also stepped forward to rescue the empress, but in the end, the empress could not be rescued..."

Ever since Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue opened their mouths, Mu Lingzhi had developed hostility in his heart. What the two of them said, especially when they spoke in unison, made him unwilling to believe it.

He stared coldly at the two beautiful and harmless women in front of him with red eyes. People are often confused by their looks, and believe everything they say, and believe them She is as beautiful and kind as she appears on the surface.But Mu Lingzhi knew that the two women in front of him were like fine wine quenched with poison. They looked attractive, but they were the most poisonous poison in the world.

His eyes lingered coldly on the faces of Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue, and the disgusted expression on his face clearly told them that he——would never believe what they said.

Seeing this, Mu Ziyue felt a chill in her heart. She knew that the distance between Mu Lingzhi and her was already as far as thousands of mountains and rivers. He no longer believed in her. It could even be said that he was right. She loathes it.

Thinking of this, Mu Ziyue tightly clenched her hands in her sleeves, and she suddenly felt that what she did tonight was the right thing to do.

Now, she wants to see, based on the conclusive evidence, that bitch is charged with killing the mother of a country. This time, how can she escape?
And she wants to see more, what will the man who abandoned her in front of her do between her mother and that bitch?
There was coldness in Yingying's almond eyes, and Mu Ziyue wept bitterly: "If Your Highness doesn't want to believe me and the side concubine, you can ask the other palace people. At that time, Yaohua Palace was the one who entered the palace with us. Your Highness can ask them to see if we are lying?"

As soon as this remark came out, the palace people kneeling aside nodded and said: "This servant also saw the Crown Princess push down the Empress Empress with her own eyes, and the empress will die only when her head touches a beam!"

Everyone's words proved that it was Yu Ruyan who overthrew the queen, and the queen's head hit a solid beam before she lost her life, and the imperial physician at the side also stepped forward and reported: "My lady's fatal wound is indeed on the back of the head. There is only that one wound up and down!"

Everyone's words pointed to Yu Ruyan in unison, but no matter what they said, Mu Lingzhi just didn't want to believe that Yu Ruyan would attack his mother.

But with so many people and so many testimonies, he didn't even have a chance to refute. The despair in his heart spread up like endless sea water, drowning his mouth and nose, making him almost suffocated.

While grieving the death of his mother, he was also worried about Yu Ruyan. His heart seemed to be tormented in the double sky of iceberg and sea of ​​fire. It was extremely painful!
Suddenly, he turned his head and saw Aunt Qin who had been kneeling by the bed guarding his mother, a gleam of light flickered in her despairing eyes.

He staggered and rushed to Aunt Qin, his voice trembling but with the last hope: "Auntie, you...you tell me what happened? I only believe what you say, tell me quickly, queen mother Who killed it?"

No matter what happened in the palace, Aunt Qin knelt by the queen's bed, staring blankly at the lifeless queen on the bed, her face was full of grief, and her tears rolled down silently...

After a long time, she looked back at Mu Lingzhi blankly, and said sadly: "Your Highness, this old slave did not take good care of your mother. When this old slave came back from the prison, the queen died... This old slave is useless. This old slave did not take good care of my master. The old slave deserves to die!"

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi's whole body froze, and he could no longer speak, while all the officials and officials, led by Mu Xiang and the eldest prince, knelt down in front of King Liang, and begged King Liang one by one. Ordered Yu Ruyan to be executed to pay for the Queen's life...

In the wind and snow, Yu Ruyan was imprisoned in the prison.

Along the way, those vicious nuns didn't speak politely at all, not to mention that the fracture on her right leg was not healed, and dragged her forward. The blood color fell on the snow along the way, which was particularly eye-catching...

When she came to the gate of the sky prison again, Yu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, looking at the familiar gloomy cell in front of her, she couldn't help curling her lips into a bitter smile——

She humiliated and begged for justice, and she wanted to save Mu Lingzhi from here, but she didn't expect that in the end, she was trapped in it, and she couldn't protect herself, so what could she do to save him! ?
When passing by the cell where 'Mu Lingzhi' was locked up, she begged the jailer: "I beg the jailer to let me take a look at the Third Highness, just take a look, I'm afraid... I'm afraid I won't have the chance again..."

Her voice was so choked and trembling that she could hardly make a sound, her dead heart was thinking of Mu Lingzhi, and it throbbed again——

No matter what kind of tribulations she faced, she was no longer afraid. Even if she were to die now, it would not feel pain to her, but only a relief.

However, only Mu Lingzhi, when she thought of him, she couldn't bear to let go in her deadly heart. He was also her last concern.She thought sadly in her heart, now that the queen has passed away, who else can come to save him?

Thinking of this, she knelt down in front of the little jailer with her legs that were so painful that they were numb, and begged again: "Please show kindness to the two elder brothers, and let me take another look at the Third Highness!"

The two jailers looked at each other, but for a moment they didn't know how to answer her.

About Yu Ruyan's killing of the empress, it has been spread to everyone in the palace, and I believe it will not be long before the whole world will know that Da Qi and his relatives, the Fifth Princess, brutally murdered the empress of Daliang.So the two jailers also knew that under such a crime, she would inevitably die. Thinking of the secrets in the cell, and looking at her heart that she couldn't let go of until she died, they couldn't help but said: "Princess, to be honest! Let me tell you, the person you saw before is not the real Third Highness... I heard that the Third Highness has returned to the Eastern Capital, so he must have entered the palace by now..."

The whole body froze, Yu Ruyan heard the words, and looked at the two jailers in disbelief, her face was even more ashamed to the point of no brilliance.

How could she not understand the meaning of the jailer's words, knowing that all this was just a trick tricked by Xiaodao, and she was too anxious and sad at the time, so she didn't realize it...

But she then thought that Mu Lingzhi was fine after all. She couldn't help showing a trace of joy on her face, for she had forgotten her current sad situation...

In this way, she can really have nothing to worry about!
There is no day and night in the sky prison, and all you can see is the small dim butter lamp in front of you.She leaned against the cold and frosty wall and fell into a drowsy sleep. Her whole body was hot and cold, and her mind was sometimes sober and sometimes confused...

When she was awake, she lay on the corner of the wall, listening to the sound of snow falling outside, and the sound of mourning from far away, she thought sourly, people must be mourning for the queen, and also I was cursing and hating myself, because everyone believed that the queen was pushed to death by her, and no one believed that she was innocent!

But this time, Mu Lingzhi never showed up in the sky prison. She stared blankly at the cold prison door, thinking foolishly, why hasn't Lingzhi come to see her after so long?

She had hoped countless times that the cold prison door would suddenly open, and that Mu Lingzhi would rescue her out of Jing Zhaoyin's prison as he did last time when he rescued her from Jing Zhaoyin's prison. He hugged her warmly and hugged her She walked out firmly, with a deep and gentle voice, like a hot spring flowing into her heart, said: "Don't be afraid, I'll take you home!"

But this time, the jailer said that he had already returned to Beijing, why didn't he come to take her home?
Did he also believe their words, thinking that the queen he pushed killed his mother?

Thinking of this, Yu Ruyan felt extremely hurt and sad. She didn't care if anyone wronged her, but his trust was what she cared most.

In the days of looking forward to Mu Lingzhi, the tide of memory returned to that terrible night again——

Thinking that there would be no possibility of her relationship with Mu Ling in this life, and thinking that because of herself, their brothers would turn against each other. In despair, she drank the Hedinghong in the bowl in front of Queen Xie...

Hedinghong is the most poisonous poison in the world, and it seals the throat when it sees blood.

At the moment of death, she closed her eyes, her heart was extremely peaceful, without a trace of fear, and without a trace of resentment. The only regret was that she did not see the person she loved the most in her life for the last time!
However, at the next moment, the expected piercing pain did not come, and she did not die!
When she opened her eyes in astonishment, what caught her eyes was Empress Xie's horrified, even somewhat dull gaze, which looked like she had seen a ghost.

She was also surprised for a moment, not understanding that she drank Hedinghong and was clearly prepared to die, but she was still alive.

She looked at the queen in a daze, and Chunhua and Qiuyue, who were crying beside her, saw that she was well, and couldn't help being pleasantly surprised: "Master, you are not dead, that's great!"

She was full of doubts, and a bright light flashed across her mind so fast that she couldn't catch it...

The next moment, the panicked look on Empress Xie's face disappeared, she swallowed hard and snorted coldly to Yu Ruyan: "Hmph, this bowl is just for me to test your sincerity, since you are not really If you want to marry the prince, I will spare your life for the time being. You will immediately go to Yaohua Palace with me. I will find a way to send you out of the palace or hide you. As long as you disappear, tomorrow's wedding will not be possible. "

After all, the queen immediately led her back to Yaohua Palace.

Thinking that the queen was willing to let her go, and was willing to send herself away, her heart came alive again.

As soon as she arrived at Yaohua Palace, the queen immediately asked the maids around her to go to Yugan Palace to summon Yu Mingzhu, who was sick, to come to Yaohua Palace for questioning, while Mrs. Yiqing was in the palace to see a doctor for King Liang during this time, and Mu Ziyue They were also by the side, so the queen called them over as well.

I heard that the queen was going to summon Yu Mingzhu and the others. At that time, she had voluntarily asked to avoid it, but the queen kept her.

However, while waiting for Yu Mingzhu and the others to come over, Empress Xie took the initiative to tell her about the grievances and resentments between King Liang and the first emperor.

At that time, Empress Xie was sitting on the high throne, her long and narrow phoenix eyes were slightly half closed, her face was very tired, and she said in a deep voice: "Do you know why your majesty suddenly turned against the late emperor ten years ago?" , killed the first emperor and seized the country?"

She never thought that the empress would suddenly talk to her about Daliang's past ten years ago, and she couldn't help being stunned. She keenly felt that from just now, there seemed to be something wrong with the empress empress!

Before she could open her mouth, Empress Xie said again: "Do you know why His Majesty has been keeping people close to the Zhaohua Palace where the former Empress lived? And the last time Prince Yi appeared in the palace such a good opportunity, His Majesty let him go. Kill him to silence him?"

Hearing this, she couldn't help feeling cold, as if she had thought of something——

As a woman, she is very sensitive to emotional matters, and now she has personally experienced the entanglement and pain between the two brothers Mu Ling, so after hearing "Zhaohua Palace", she is already After understanding something, his expression became solemn.

"Actually, Your Majesty and the First Emperor more than a dozen years ago are like Ling Zhi and the Crown Prince today. The two brothers fell in love with Empress Zhu at the same time, who is Prince Yi's stepmother. , but His Majesty has never cut off his thoughts on her, that's why he rebelled ten years ago..."

"Although it is said that Queen Zhu cannot be blamed for all the reasons for the coup d'etat ten years ago, she is the source of the disaster that cannot be ignored, and it is also the introduction of the incident. And you are like Queen Zhu ten years ago. In the end, it will be a moat between the two sons of this palace, and it will be their doom..."

Hearing Queen Zhu mention this, she was shocked. She never expected that the mutiny in Daliang ten years ago that caused great harm to Mu Lingzhi's heart was actually related to Queen Zhu.

But now because of himself, the relationship between Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao is indeed as Queen Xie said, as if they are repeating the path between King Liang and the first emperor ten years ago...

A thin layer of cold sweat soaked her back, and she felt her breathing was stagnant...

A helpless sigh escaped from Empress Xie's mouth, she looked straight at her, her eyes were unusually tangled and complicated, her brows were furrowed.

In fact, how could she understand the shock in Queen Xie's heart.

Empress Xie was shocked when she suddenly thought of a possibility from the bowl of crane-topped red just now——

If it is really as she expected, then the Yu Ruyan in front of her is not only kind to the prince, but also to herself. As a jade girl, her blood can cure all kinds of poisons. How precious is she? she?
Later, Empress Xie thought again that since Yu Ruyan was a jade girl, then Yu Mingzhu and the others were deceiving her, so she called them to Yaohua Palace for questioning as soon as she returned to the palace.

Thinking of being deceived and treating the fake jade girl like her own daughter, but turning her brows coldly at the person who really saved her life, Empress Xie felt angry and annoyed, murderous aura rose in her long and narrow phoenix eyes——

She is a person who is very clear about love and hate, if Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue really dare to lie to her together, she will definitely not let them go!

Empress Xie was upset, and stepped down from the first place step by step, but when she stepped down the last step, she suddenly felt suffocated, her body stiffened and fell straight down, and Yu Ruyan, who was standing at the bottom, instinctively She reached out to help her, although she grabbed the corner of her clothes, but Queen Xie's head still hit the beam on the side...

At this moment, the door of the palace just opened, Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue walked in, just in time to see Empress Xie falling down, and also saw Yu Ruyan's outstretched hand, so the two took the lead He shouted and yelled loudly, saying that she pushed Queen Xie.

All this happened so fast that Yu Ruyan was unexpected and even more at a loss.And the maids who rushed in together with Yu Mingzhu and the others helped the queen up, and when Mrs. Yiqing stepped forward to help her check her wounds, they found that Queen Xie had lost her breath...

From Queen Xie's fall to her death, it was only a short moment, Yu Ruyan was stunned in a daze, watching everyone crying and calling for the imperial doctor, and then a nanny came up to hold her hands and feet, she seemed to be doing something A terrible nightmare...

It wasn't until she was dragged and walked in the icy snow, until the death knell that shattered her heart, that she realized that everything was true...

……

Recalling everything that night, an unspeakable wry smile overflowed her lips, Yu Ruyan's heart was as cold as this prison as cold as an ice cave, her heart was covered with ice and snow.

She knows that the world is so big that there is no longer a 'home' where she can stay...

The longer she stayed in the dungeon, the less she would be awake and more and more in a coma.

She seemed to be back in the small meditation room of Putuo Temple again. She begged the master to help her cure her anemia, but the master disagreed and was unwilling to help her...

She went back to her little Yingjin Palace, where her mother and concubine, Brother An, even Mu Lingzhi came.The concubine mother washed her hair under the apricot tree in the yard. While washing, she said to herself that she hoped that after she married Daliang, her life would be as smooth as this hair, and even if it was stained with dust, it would pass after washing. up...

She also thought that when Mu Lingzhi left Dongdu not long ago, she told him to let her wait for him to come back, and they would celebrate the festival together as sugar figurines...

During the muddle-headed days, she became more and more unable to distinguish whether what was in front of her was a dream or reality, and she didn't know which one was her present self.

Suddenly, she smelled the aroma of her favorite hot pot, and she thought she was still dreaming.But when she opened her misty eyes, she realized that everything in front of her was not a dream——

At some point, someone in the cell prepared Daqi's hot pot for her.

The hot pot glowing with red oil was spicy and delicious, and the tempting taste aroused the last trace of her sanity.

Her eyes were sore, swollen, red and swollen. She crawled over with difficulty, gritted her teeth to suppress the trembling of her hands, and went to get the chopsticks, but her hands didn't even have the strength to pick up the food from the pot!
She couldn't eat the last hot pot he made for herself...

……

When she was brought out of the dungeon to see the sun again, the heavy snow outside had stopped, and the light had not been seen for many days, and her eyes were hurt by the scorching sun outside.

The jailer stepped forward and put heavy shackles on her hands and feet around her neck, dragged her into the prison car, and drove out of the palace.

The prison car drove outside the palace, and along the way, people from all over Dongdu stood there. Everyone was furious, shouting and calling her a murderer and an ominous person from the evil spirit.And following everyone's abuse, countless vegetable leaves, eggs, and even hard stones were thrown on her face...

Her whole body was numb, she couldn't feel pain, her ears were buzzing, and she couldn't hear everyone's yelling.

She just tried to open her eyes and search the side of the road, hoping to see Mu Lingzhi...

However, as far as she could see, she didn't see the person she wanted to see, but in the tea house by the roadside, she saw Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue sitting by the street and enjoying tea leisurely.

The two were dressed in precious white fur robes. Although they were mourning for the empress, they were still elegant and gorgeous.

Seeing Yu Ruyan looking over, the two of them were extremely proud, with vicious smiles on the corners of their mouths, they both raised the teacups in their hands and raised them towards Yu Ruyan, but the next moment, they poured the tea in their hands on the ground ——

This is the practice of enshrining the dead!
That's right, now in their eyes, even in the eyes of the whole world, Yu Ruyan is already a dying person!
The emperor's list along the way was covered with death-giving oracles issued by King Liang himself, and when Yu Ruyan was finally escorted to the execution ground at Caishikou, she was pressed and knelt in front of the eunuch who passed the decree, and the eunuch's voice was sharp and loud. Read aloud——

"Following the fate of heaven, the emperor's edict said: The five princesses of Daqi, Yuruyan, set fire to murder, killed 27 prostitutes in Qinxianglou, and then killed the queen. The crime is heinous and heinous. It is heinous. Today, the peace between Qi and Liang is banned. , the five princesses, Yu Ruyan, are now given the punishment of beheading, and it will be executed immediately without delay! Hereby!"

(End of this chapter)