CHAPTER XXXI

"Ridiculous. The Emperor slapped the piece in his hand fiercely, and with a furious rebuke, he stared at me, his eyes as if they were about to burst into flames.

My body was shocked, I couldn't care about anything else, I was so frightened that I only broke out in a cold sweat, and my back was wet. I hurriedly kowtowed, shouting, "Father's forgiveness, father's forgiveness." Erchen didn't mean to, Erchen just couldn't get used to the words and deeds of the third emperor brother and wanted to teach him a lesson. Erchen didn't mean to alarm Concubine Hua's jade driver. Father's life......"

Xia Lingran and Mo Xiyu obviously didn't want to do much, and the two watched this somewhat absurd farce. Unfortunately, it was a one-man show, and I was the only harlequin.

Mo Nanhuan looked smug and calm, as if he was enjoying an absolutely fun drama.

The emperor didn't say anything more, just lightly gestured to Gonggong Wu beside him with his eyes.

Gonggong Wu deserved to have grown up watching the emperor, and he immediately understood the meaning in the emperor's eyes. He shouted at the top of his voice, "Someone!"

Several waiting guards outside the hall immediately stepped into the hall in unison, their eyes staring straight ahead, as if no one was around. They walked up to a meter or two behind me, knelt down neatly, and said in unison: "See Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”

The emperor said in a flat tone: "Flat." Drag the prince out and hit the twenty boards. ”

After saying that, he got up, waved his sleeves, and the bright yellow and luxurious dragon robe turned around and left.

Gonggong Wu also shouted at this time: "Congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

So, Xia Lingran, Mo Xiyu, and Mo Nanhuan bent down slightly, holding the jade wat in their hands, and shouted at the emperor's back: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." ”

When I heard the emperor say "Twenty Great Boards", my body was already paralyzed on the ground, my eyes were blank, and I couldn't stop shouting: "Father and Emperor spare life, Father and Emperor spare life...... I didn't even pay attention to the person leaving.

Although I knew in my heart that begging for mercy was purely useless, and I couldn't help but spit on myself for being stupid, but I did a full set of plays, anyway, this is how the cowardly and incompetent prince has been refined in the past few years.

Two red-clothed guards walked out behind him, expressionless, dragging the already frightened prince and turning away.

Outside the imperial study, the light moon and the stars.

A few thick clouds flashed suddenly, the sky was darker, and even the white jade lamp under the Danqi was dimmed.

The two rows of guards were still standing majestically, but Kowako was kneeling on the ground, weeping and rippling.

I lay on the wooden bench, my hands held tightly by the two guards just now, unable to move. Looking at Kowako in front of me, I felt a little ashamed. Wu Xian was still waiting outside at the moment, and I secretly thought that twenty strokes would soon pass, and I would just bear with it.

I am not allowed to think about it, but there are already eunuchs standing on each side of each side, and even if there is a lantern shining next to them, I cannot see their faces clearly, but I can imagine that they are cold. The two stout wooden canes in their hands put me as much pressure as meeting the Emperor in person.

An elderly eunuch in front of him, with a gloomy face, stood straight with his back to the light. At this moment, a flash of lightning swept through the sky, cutting through the gloomy sky and brightening his face. With a heavy wave of his left hand, he silently commanded with that flash of lightning.

The thunder roared and shook the wooden bench beneath me, and my heart sank. Heavy raindrops fell from the thunderclouds and poured down on the carved jade palace, hitting the white jade slabs heavily.

"Pop ......", the two wooden sticks slapped down evenly one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one behind. At first glance, it seems that there is not much force, and when you knock it down, it is like a tap. In essence, each stroke of the wooden staff carries a heavy force, and a few strokes of the rod are enough to make your skin open.

I gritted my teeth, my eyes cracked, my ears filled with the sound of violent thunder and rain, and all I could think of was the tormenting pain. The whole person is like a rock, even if it is extremely hard one moment, but the next moment it may be smashed fiercely. The pain is like an inextricable black shadow, enveloping the senses of the whole body, implicating the most subtle nerve endings. Even though there was only a small place on the body where he was beaten, the whole person was like being rolled by a stone, and it was so painful that people couldn't scream out loud.

The clenched palms had been pierced by sharp nails, and blood was slowly oozing through the cracks of the fingers. The clothes behind him were already soaked with bright red blood, and the falling rain wet a large area of blood, impregnated, dripping, and printed into dripping red flowers on the ground one by one, which was gorgeous and unusual.

In less than a moment, the twenty strokes of the cane had been completed, the guards had let go of my hand, and the eunuch in charge had left. In a few moments, it was like a world away. By this time I was having trouble breathing, my teeth were bleeding from my clenched teeth, and my mouth was full of fishy sweetness. A bloody stain on the corner of his mouth still hasn't dried.

Kowako knelt on the ground, her big round eyes and nose were red from crying, and her face couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears. On this cold and rainy night, his clothes were all wet, his body was shaking, and his mouth was crying: "Your Highness, Your Highness......"

I lay on the wooden bench with all my body weak, my eyes opening and closing.

On the side, four gray-clothed servants carried a soft sedan chair with blue and blue flowers, their eyes did not squint, and their feet landed quietly and easily, walking in the rain curtain as usual.

A pair of slender hands lightly lifted the curtain of the car window, and the slender and cold eyes glanced at it gently, and the eyes flashed. Putting down the curtain, he gently wiped the few raindrops that had just been splashed on his hands, and his shallow eyes slowly lifted up, sweeping forward, silent.

Maybe no one will notice that the moment the sedan chair leaves, a sigh can be vaguely heard, which is inaudible.