Chapter 13 Death of King Qin
There is a reason why King Qin doesn't care if these maids hurt him. If these maids dared to harm King Qin, not only would they die, but their families, and even everyone related to them would die.
The killing of nine tribes by scholars can be passed down for hundreds of years, but the slaughter of villages and households by nobles to vent their anger has been suppressed in the history books.
But there are limits to what people can endure. This kind of torture that is worse than death time and time again, the torture of not knowing who is being killed time and time again. In this case, who would think of anything else? Many times, for them, death is the only thing they can do. Maybe it's a relief.
The youngest maid said: "Sister, we will definitely die. But I don't want to die in vain. I want to kill him." The maid pointed her bloody finger at King Qin.
For a moment, several palace maids were stunned.
Then it became silent.
No words were spoken, no one said no, no one said yes.
There was only deathly silence, and King Qin's tsunami-like snoring, which seemed to become louder as King Qin slept deeper.
The youngest palace maid suddenly stood up, and the gauze fell off her body, revealing her scarred body with bloody typhoid fever. The palace maid picked up a rope from the ground and walked towards King Qin step by step.
Suddenly she was grabbed by another palace maid.
The older palace maid said, "Let me come."
Several palace maids picked up the ropes and gently tied them around King Qin's hands and feet, and then walked around the beams and pillars of the room.
The palaces in Beijing are all made of beams and pillars. There are pillars in the rooms. These palace maids worked together and slowly pulled the rope. The rope tightened little by little. King Qin felt the restraint and opened his eyes in confusion. eyes.
Wine is the medium of sex.
How could the King of Qin not drink when he was venting his anger? I was still in a deep state of drunkenness and couldn't react for a while. When King Qin opened his eyes, the maids were so frightened that they immediately exerted force. The four ropes tightened, and King Qin's body was dragged far away.
King Qin finally reacted at this time. He still wanted to struggle and shout, but a ball of gauze was stuffed directly into his mouth. He could only make whining sounds and couldn't speak loudly.
Several palace maids looked at each other, showing expressions that seemed to be crying and laughing at the same time. They picked up the candles on one side, stuffed a lot of quilts and other things under King Qin, and then lit them.
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"Your Highness, Your Highness." The prince was suddenly awakened by numerous urgent voices while he was sleeping.
The prince also felt aches and pains all over his body. After all, he was in his thirties, and he had not fought with anyone in so many years, and others who fought with him would definitely not fight as hard as King Qin did.
The prince still felt very uncomfortable in his sleep. Being called out at this time made him even more angry. He could only open his eyes and saw Mu Ying.
Mu Ying looked very anxious.
The prince immediately woke up.
Without him, the prince knew very well what kind of person Mu Ying was, a person who could command thousands of troops and horses, and his appearance would remain unchanged even if Mount Tai collapsed. In other words, no matter what happens, it is difficult for Mu Ying to have any emotional changes.
Now Mu Ying is so out of control.
Something big must have happened.
The prince even couldn't think of what happened for a moment. The Tatars were coming? Is there a rebellion somewhere, or maybe the father has died?
He immediately woke up and asked, "What happened?"
Mu Ying's expression was hard to describe, and he said: "Your Highness, His Highness King Qin has passed away."
The prince was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have no reaction and said, "What did you say?"
Mu Ying said: "The King of Qin is dead."
"What's going on?" The prince was furious, grabbed Mu Ying's lapel, and said sternly: "How is this possible? I saw him during the day, and nothing happened, and now you tell me that he is dead. How is this possible?"
It’s not that the prince doesn’t believe Mu Ying’s words.
He knew that Muying would not joke.
Especially joking about something like this.
But the prince still couldn't believe it, because the impact of this incident was too great, and it would have a great impact in all aspects, if King Qin died. No matter how King Qin died. Even the prince is to blame. It can even be said that if the prince said that King Qin was not killed by him, everyone would say yes, yes, yes. But privately I must have felt that the prince ordered the killing. How could the prince personally intervene in such a matter?
This is completely unclear.
The image of the prince will be seriously damaged, even for the Ming royal family, and mutual trust within the royal family will be destroyed. After all, for the kings who hold power in various places, this means that their life safety is threatened.
If the kings didn't feel it at all before, the emperor would kill them. No matter who this emperor is? But things are different now.
The prince had no idea how to explain this matter to his father, how to explain it to his brothers, how to explain it to the Ming court, and how to explain it to himself.
Yes. In his heart, the prince had murderous intentions towards King Qin.
However, the prince still made a clear distinction between what he wanted in his heart and what he could do. Even couples want to kill each other five hundred times in their lives. Although there are some barriers between the prince and the king of Qin, they are brothers after all, and the king of Qin is also the daughter of Queen Ma.
True brothers from the same father and mother.
At his core, the prince was not a vicious person who would kill his own brother without any psychological burden. Even if he had no psychological burden, wouldn't he think about Empress Ma?
All these things gathered together in the prince's heart, forming the prince's current reaction, which was that he was unwilling and did not dare to accept the reality.
There was no way he could clean up this mess.
But reality is reality.
It’s not whether you are willing to accept it or not, it’s whether you are there or not.
Mu Ying could only say: "Your Highness, it's true. There was a fire in His Highness King Qin's residence just now, and the guards quickly put it out. But His Highness King Qin is no longer here. Moreover, this is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster."
Then Mu Ying briefly told the prince the cause and effect in a few words.
The prince was stunned for a long time.
It would be a lie to say that the prince had not heard of some of King Qin's practices. But when it comes to evaluating politicians, personal ethics are not important at all. Regarding the King of Qin, what everyone cares about is that the King of Qin sits in the northwest and suppresses all parties. He also calms people's hearts and appeases local problems.
Some of the little hobbies of King Qin were kept taboo by His Holiness.
No one told the prince.
There may be many victims asking for help, but they have absolutely no way to get to the prince. Not to mention, they are not close to each other. What would happen even if the prince knew? Kill King Qin? Impossible, just a reprimand, a fine, and at most a few years of imprisonment in the clan's mansion.
But as long as King Qin does not die, no, only the bloodline of King Qin will remain. With just one breath, the whole family of anyone who reports on the King of Qin will be killed.
Under such circumstances, who would tell the prince something?
Unless you can't hide it?
But under the circumstances, what can't be hidden?
Only now did the prince know that King Qin still behaved like this.
The prince stood up suddenly and said, "Go and have a look."
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The majestic hall was only half burned. The place where King Qin was located was surrounded by people who were guarding him. After the fire started, he was discovered. Naturally go in and put out the fire. It's just that fire is easy to save, but people can't be saved.
King Qin was almost tied up in a quilt, stuffed with candles and then lit.
In this case, even if King Qin was not burned to death, he would not survive after being burned. Severe burns are a very troublesome disease even in modern times. In ancient times, there was almost only one outcome, and that was death.
And the death was ugly and painful.
In this way, King Qin was burned to death. For King Qin, it might be a good ending, at least not so painful.
However, when the prince saw King Qin, he saw King Qin's burnt body. The prince was silent for a long time and said to Mu Ying, "Are you sure it's King Qin?"
Muying didn't want to believe this structure, but she had to admit the reality. He said: "I have already seen it. It has the personal jade pendant of King Qin on it, and there are other traces that can confirm that it is His Royal Highness King Qin."
The prince fell to the ground, opened his mouth slightly, hesitated to speak, and said to Mu Ying: "I said it was not me who killed King Qin. Do you think anyone in the world believes it?"
