The head of the Luan family knew that these people would tamper with the bucket of water, but he did not expect that the tampering would be so unexpected.
Before the guard's veil even touched his body, he could smell a strange smell coming from the veil quite far away.
He carefully identified them, but unfortunately, he was not very familiar with these spices and Chinese medicines, and he didn't understand them very well. He couldn't tell what was in them. He just felt that the taste was very exciting, and he couldn't help but continue. Sneezed several times.
Ms. Liu also smelled the complex and strange smell next to her. She struggled on the shelf with all her strength and yelled for the guard to stop.
"You are scorning people's lives. When I get out, you will go to the imperial city to beat the drums and report the imperial decree!"
"Mrs. Luan is quite strong-willed, unlike some people who can only pretend to be weak. However, your ambition is quite good. I wonder if you know that in your capacity, you can beat the drum and file a petition." If you do, what will happen to you." Hongye moved a stone bench to Xue Ruitian, asked him to sit down, and then said slowly, "According to the laws of Daxia, civilians who complain to officials, no matter whether they are justified or not, must first be beaten. You guy with a hundred sticks, you can't even withstand ten lashes, how can you withstand that one hundred sticks? Besides, you are not afraid that you will file a lawsuit and we will reveal all the bad things about your family in the hall. , instead of punishing you?"
"You... don't talk nonsense. We are businessmen who earn our hard-earned money. What can't we say? Isn't what you are doing now because I once had an engagement with His Highness Prince Ning, but later regretted the engagement? , only then do you remember hating us, do you want to vent your anger for His Highness Prince Ning? This matter has already been concluded back then, and my father also lost his official position because of it. Isn't this enough? Just an engagement, do you still want our lives? ? Even for the royal family, isn’t this too much?”
"If you want me to die, I have to die." Xue Ruitian looked at Liu's daughter, "What's too much? In your relationship, His Highness Prince Ning is the king and you are the ministers. No matter how he wants to torment you, you will all suffer. , you know? You were the first to regret your marriage, and if you didn't punish the crimes committed by one of you, it was already an extrajudicial mercy. Don't get an advantage and behave like a good boy, okay? You think that just losing your official position can smooth all this away, that is It’s so whimsical.”
"What the Marquis said is right." Jin Miaomiao echoed from behind, "What's more, they didn't just regret their marriage. The Liu family was afraid that the royal family would not agree with their regret, so they hurriedly married someone into the Luan family, regardless of whether it was Luan. The eldest son of the family is still his younger brother, and he is married anyway." She looked at the head of the Luan family who had finished wiping the wound for the first time, "You are quite courageous. If the first emperor and the empress do not intercede for you, the late emperor would not have I will let you go easily. Of course, letting you go is just to catch a big fish in the long run. But you are of no use now, and the accounts that should be settled still have to be settled. So..." She turned her eyes to Liu again. My daughter, "Your regretted marriage not only harmed yourself, but also harmed the Luan family."
"No, no, no, speaking of it, it was the former Empress Dowager who really set a trap for them." Xue Ruitian waved his hand, "She has been married to the royal family for many years, how could she not know the key to this? The reason why she let you get married is So I am begging you, but it is just for today." He looked at the speechless expressions of the Luan family leader and Liu's daughter, and chuckled, "Although you sacrificed your lives for her, she never put your safety at risk. In my heart.”
"One more thing, are you really conscientious businessmen?" Hongye stood next to Xue Ruitian and sneered, "Don't sound too innocent, or you'll get slapped in the face." She looked indifferent. Seeing the guard pressing the handkerchief on the wound of the Luan Family Master, listening to the Luan Family Master's wailing, he picked his ears and said, "Be gentle, slow down, don't act like a sudden storm, we are not in a hurry, everything will be over." Take your time."
The guard agreed. This was already the second wipe. It would actually hurt more than the first, but it was necessary. He changed a handkerchief and slowly and gently wiped the wound of Master Luan. Seeing Master Luan's face pale and looking like he was about to faint, he shrugged helplessly. Although this process was very painful, this bucket of Water is indeed good for wound recovery. If it is not treated in time, the wound will fester and it will be really fatal.
Liu's daughter looked at the way the head of the Luan family started to roll his eyes, then looked at Shen
Hao Lin, Shen Cha, and Xue Ruitian looked calm, but she felt truly scared from the bottom of her heart. It was only at this moment that she was truly sure that these people really didn't care what they said, they just wanted to plead for His Highness Prince Ning. To be fair, they didn't want the two of them to die, they just wanted to torture them in this way.
"No matter what we did wrong back then, it has become a fact. We are already very old now. Do we still need me..."
"Don't!" Hong Ye interrupted Liu's daughter, "We will definitely not ask you to marry His Highness Prince Ning again. This is simply humiliating for His Highness Prince Ning. We will be the ones who turn around and cause trouble." She rolled her eyes, "I didn't know he had such a big face."
"Little Ye Zi, Little Ye Zi, doesn't this mean that she is still thinking about becoming Princess Ning?" Jin Miaomiao slowly touched the head of the Luan family again, "It's so sad, this life is considered to be... Live in vain."
When Liu's daughter heard what Jin Miaomiao said, she felt anxious and said to the head of the Luan family, "Don't believe them, they are all talking nonsense." After shouting, she turned around and favored Xue Ruitian and shouted, "What on earth do you want? What should we do, how can we let us go?"
"Let you go?" Xue Ruitian raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Why do you think we will let you go?"
The head of the Luan family thought for a while, stopped Liu's daughter, and told her to be calm and not to fall into the trap of these people.
"Everyone, I have something to say. I don't know whether to say it or not. No matter what, this has happened in the past few decades. There is really no need to pursue it again, right? If we need to compensate, we will definitely compensate. As long as If you can bring it up, if we can do it, we will definitely do it without any refutation."
"We believe the words of the Luan family head. After all, he is an honest businessman. Although he is a little ruthless, he still sticks to his promises. However, there is one thing that I want to ask the Luan family head. Since a lot has passed, Nian, Mrs. Luan has been married to you for many years, why does Mrs. Luan still miss His Highness Prince Ning, and why does she deliberately try to get close to His Highness Prince Ning and cause trouble to His Highness?"
Shen Cha's question was like throwing a highly lethal fire thunder between the Luan family head and Liu's daughter. It exploded between the two people. For a moment, neither of them knew what to do. In response, he could only look at Shen Cha blankly. ap.
"What, isn't it easy to answer?" Shen Cha smiled, "Or do you want to say you don't want to answer?"
"This general!" The head of the Luan family finally came back to his senses and looked at Shen Cha in shock, "You just said that my wife deliberately approached His Highness Prince Ning. When did this happen?"
"Master Luan doesn't know? Didn't your lady tell you?"
"I don't know at all. We have been in Jiangnan for so many years and have not returned to Xijing City. It was only in the past three or four months that we moved to the vicinity of Xijing City. We originally wanted to move back to Xijing City, but I heard... Hiss!" He couldn't help but moaned, and waited for a long time before continuing, "Hearing that His Highness Prince Ning returned to Xijing City, we chose Wangxin Town, which is a little further away from the Imperial City."
"Then haven't you heard that the guard of Wangxin Town has been replaced by His Highness Prince Ning?"
"What?" The head of the Luan family was completely stunned when he heard this. He endured the pain and shook his head slightly, saying that he had never heard of the news. "We have no idea at all. We just thought that if we go to Xijing City, , it is possible to meet His Highness Prince Ning, and both of us will be a little embarrassed, so I chose Wangxinzhen."
"What about Madam Luan?" Seeing that Mrs. Liu was a little guilty and refused to look at him, Shen Cha sneered, "If I guessed correctly, you should know that after all, Madam met our Highness on the street. You've been looking at it like crazy for a long time, haven't you? I heard that even after our Highness left, Madam refused to leave, right?"
"Is this really happening?" The head of the Luan family looked at his wife eagerly, hoping that she would give him a negative answer.
"I was just surprised to see him there, and I didn't mean to get entangled with him."
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"I'm telling you too
It only increases worries. Ms. Liu was silent for a while and sighed softly, "It was me who was sorry for him back then, not you. They wanted to take revenge, and naturally they came for me. But I didn't expect that they would also do it to you." One piece is tied up."
"You should have told me. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't be as passive as I am now."
"Master, I..."
"That's good, that's good!" Shen Cha clapped his hands gently and said with a slightly sarcastic anticipation, "If I hadn't already heard some information before, I would have been fooled by you and your wife. Head of the Luan family, Mrs. Luan, To tell you the truth, no one who enters here can get out intact, so you don’t have to fight pointlessly because you can’t get out. Even if His Majesty the Emperor knows that we have arrested you, he can only say arrest. Well done, what’s more, your matters are not qualified to be heard by heaven.”
Xue Ruitian looked at the head of the Luan family, then at Liu's daughter, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"We all know why you moved to Wangxin Town, met His Highness Prince Ning in Wangxin Town, and what you plan to use him for. If you didn't know, we wouldn't have brought you here. Do you understand? "
"Since you all know, why bother to ask us? Can't you just kill us?" The Luan family leader was relieved to see that the lies and illusions had been exposed. "Aren't you doing this because you want to know from us? What?"
"Of course not, I just want to torture you."
"How dare you!" Ms. Liu shouted towards Xue Ruitian, "You are so brave, we are relatives of the Empress Dowager!"
"It's the former Empress Dowager. She has passed away for so many years, so there is no need to talk about it all the time. Besides, you and the Empress Dowager are not relatives. You are just useless people doing odd jobs and working for her. So-called human beings "Zu Cha Liang, your backer is gone, and the master's family won't take you seriously. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been so unknown for so many years, right?" Seeing the Luan family's head and Liu's daughter surprised, With eyes wide open, Jin Miaomiao smiled and said, "Why do you look like this? Are you surprised? You think these are very confidential things and we shouldn't know, right?"
"How do you know this?"
"I've told you a long time ago. We already know your details. Who do you belong to, who do you take orders from, who do you work for, what kind of business are you doing in private, and what kind of unscrupulous things do you do? We all know everything about it, and you don’t need to explain it at all.”
"How..." The head of the Luan family couldn't believe his ears, "How is this possible?"
"Everything is possible, what's impossible?" Xue Ruitian sneered, "You think you are the former Empress Dowager, and think that the First Empress Dowager will definitely protect you, but she can't even protect herself. , how can it be possible to protect you?"
"You..." The head of the Luan family endured the severe pain and looked at the people in front of him in disbelief, "For the late emperor's biological mother... ah, such slander? Isn't this disrespectful?"
"The late emperor’s biological mother?"
"Could it be that..." Ms. Liu felt that the news she heard now had completely overturned her knowledge of the past few decades, "could it be that it wasn't?"
"The imperial grandfather never touched her, and she was not qualified to enter the imperial mausoleum after her death." Shen Cha looked at the head of the Luan family and Liu's daughter, "You were deceived by her, or you were deceived by your family and your late wife. The Queen Mother lied."
"Impossible!" Liu's daughter's face turned pale. "At that time, the selection of the princess and concubines for His Royal Highness Prince Ning was personally presided over by the Queen Mother. All the candidates' daughters were brought into the palace by their elders for an interview. The Empress Dowager selected her personally, and I remember very clearly that the Empress Dowager personally said that she was choosing for her youngest son and did not say anything else."
"So, you all believe it, right? Do you think the Empress Dowager is the biological mother of the late Emperor and His Highness Prince Ning?" Seeing Liu's daughter nodding, Xue Ruitian watched the guards wipe her body, gritted her teeth, and insisted on keeping silent. Head of the Luan family, "Your Luan family and the Empress Dowager's natal family are family friends.
, you shouldn’t know how the Empress Dowager married into the palace, right? "
The head of the Luan family really knew nothing about the fact that the Empress Dowager had nothing to do with the late Emperor. He never thought that the person he relied on would have such an embarrassing position in the palace, nor did he think about the situation in his family. The elders would actually place their family's wealth and life on such a person. Now he began to wonder whether it was the Empress Dowager who deceived the elders in his family, or the elders in the family who deceived him.
"How... could it be like this?"
