Chapter 287: The Emperor (Extra)
Zhao Che asked people to cut off Li Shan's lifeline in front of Shen Bai, and twisted his tongue again.
Li Shan is just a child in the end, even if he repays Shen Bai's kindness with the determination to die, he still follows his instinct and screams all the time in the process.
Twisting his tongue, he choked on the blood gushing out and coughed violently, and after a while, he passed out in pain.
Shen Bai had never seen someone being tortured so closely, and the whole person was stupid, just looking at the eyes stupidly and crying, but he couldn't say a word.
After Li Shan passed out, the jailer perfunctorily probed his snort and said to Zhao Che: "Your Highness, there is no gas." β
Zhao Che asked in a deep voice: "How were the bodies of the death row inmates in the prison disposed of before?" β
"Back to Your Highness, in addition to the decree law, Kai En can ask the family to collect the body, and the rest must be chopped up and fed to the dogs."
When the jailer said this, Shen Bai finally had a little reaction, she blinked slightly, Douda's tears couldn't stop rolling down, she knelt down in front of Zhao Che, and cried helplessly and fearfully: "Your Highness, I was wrong, I was wrong, please don't feed him to the dog, woo woo woo ......"
She cried so sadly, her little shoulders trembled, and she was also scared.
Zhao Che didn't relent, and said to the jailer: "Do it according to the rules and take the body away." β
The jailer obeyed the order to take Li Shan away, Shen Bai couldn't stop crying, Zhao Che squatted down in front of her, Shen Bai was also full of fear of him now, and subconsciously hid back, but Zhao Che held his shoulders and couldn't move.
Zhao Che looked straight into her eyes and asked word by word: "Do you still think there are good people in this world?" β
Shen Bai didn't know how to answer, Zhao Che pulled her up, forced her to walk to the place where Li Shan had just been tortured, let her look at the warm and viscous blood on it, and said bewildermently: "He trusts you, thinking that you can help him avenge justice and uphold justice, and he is still defending you until he dies, but you killed him, why are you so naΓ―ve, naΓ―ve enough to think that Hanjing is full of good people?" β
"I don't, and I don't want to."
Shen Bai defended himself helplessly.
This time is different from the last time in Chenshu Palace, last time the two palace people wanted to kill her, in order to save her life, she was forced to kill people out of desperation, this time Li Shan really suffered for her, and she also saw with her own eyes how much inhuman torture he endured.
Zhao Che didn't let her go, and continued to say in her ear: "You really don't want to do this, but people have been killed by you, what's the point of saying this?" β
Shen Bai cried breathlessly, she had been restless since she came back from the palace, and tonight she was completely pulled into hell by Zhao Che, and her world was almost completely destroyed and collapsed.
She doesn't even know what exactly is good and what is evil.
Let Shen Bai cry for a while, feeling that the time was almost up, Zhao Che said the last words to Shen Bai.
He said: "Shen Bai, you have killed a person who trusts you, if you don't learn to be smarter, many people will die because of you." β
After saying this, Zhao Che took Shen Bai out of Dali Temple, it was too late, he asked the Praetorian Guards to send Shen Bai back to Taifu's mansion, and he got into the carriage, and when the carriage was about to leave, the jailer ran out and asked, "Your Highness, what should you do with that child?" β
Li Shan's life is big, and he hasn't died yet.
Zhao Che wiped the wetness of his palm with a sweat towel, and said calmly: "Raise it for a period of time and send it to the palace to learn the rules." β
The jailer retreated, and under the cover of night, the carriage hurried back to the palace.
Sitting in the car and relaxing, Zhao Che was a little sick to his stomach, Shen Bai was the first time to watch such a scene tonight, and so was he. Swift Reading.com
As the party who calls the questions, he is actually under much greater psychological pressure than Shen Bai.
But he couldn't cry like Shen Bai, and knelt down to admit his mistake.
He knows very well that he has no chance to admit his mistake, the queen is dead, the Wei family is scattered, and he can only see the light of day if he goes on without hesitation.
The most important thing after the year is the spring exam, and the children of the Tai Academy are all eager to try, wanting to come out on top in the exam, and the learning atmosphere is much better than usual.
Shen Bai was sick again, and he didn't enter the palace to participate in the banquet during the Lantern Festival, and Zhao Che didn't see Shen Bai until the Tai Academy opened.
When the spring warmed up, she was not so thickly dressed, and she was obviously much thinner, and her small body stood there as if she was about to be blown away by the wind, which was strange and distressing.
Zhao Che only looked at Shen Bai from a distance a few times, and did not go over to talk to her.
After that incident, she is now very afraid of him.
There are a lot of things to prepare for the spring exam, with Jiang De'an, Taiwei and Shen Ruxiu as the chief examiners, and the masters of the Tai Academy assist them in jointly determining the exam questions.
Emperor Hengde asked Zhao Che to supervise, but he actually wanted Zhao Che to observe and learn something.
After a few days of auditing, Zhao Che figured out some ways, the position of the Taiwei Department was more pertinent, Jiang De'an advocated the family, and Shen Ruxiu advocated the great cause of people's livelihood.
There are many differences of opinion between the two, and most of the time Shen Ruxiu will make moderate concessions, but when it comes to issues of principle, he will still stick to his own ideas.
The official positions of the two are not low, even if they quarrel, they are gentle and gentle, and they will not make a move.
Zhao Che only felt Shen Ruxiu's edge at this time, he would not speak insinuating like Jiang De'an, but he could always dismiss Jiang De'an's words like a martial arts master.
The confrontation between the two seemed to be Jiang De'an's aggressiveness, but in fact, Shen Ruxiu was much more clever.
Zhao Che benefited a lot, and he understood why the queen chose the Shen family to escort him in the first place.
Although the Shen family is a scholarly family, it is still different from these families in Hanjing, the Shen family has the arrogance of scholars, and is not contaminated with the slightest sense of businessmen, and has never had the idea of forming a gang in private.
However, it is such a family background, in the big dye vat of Hanjing, the Shen family can save their own wind and bones from being eroded and corrupted, and they still sit firmly in the position of Taifu without being pulled off the horse, Shen Ruxiu's ability is unimaginable to ordinary people.
After recognizing this, Zhao Che found Shen Ruxiu for the first time and had a long talk.
He gave enough sincerity, got straight to the point, and made his position clear.
He knew the secret place of Shen Bai's daughter, even if he was despicable, he wanted the Shen family to stand in the same camp as him, he wanted to ascend the throne steadily, and asked Shen Ruxiu to teach Shen Bai all his skills, so that Shen Bai could assist him in handling court affairs.
Only when he ascends to the throne and sits firmly in this position can Shen Bai recover his daughter's body, otherwise the Shen family will be buried with all the doors.
Shen Ruxiu has been a loyal minister all his life, and although he understands the queen's feelings of defending Zhao Che, he still feels uncomfortable.
Knowing that Shen Ruxiu was sad, Zhao Che knelt down, personally poured tea for Shen Ruxiu, called him a teacher, and swore a poisonous oath to promise that when he succeeded to the throne, he would be a good emperor for the benefit of the people.
He will, and return the Shen family and Shen Bai to freedom.