Chapter 55: Hearing Rumors
Wu Mengyao was escorted by the leaders of the forbidden army and the soldiers to the death row where Zheng Guo held important criminals. Seeing her pitiful appearance, she was the most beautiful princess of Zheng Guo, plus she committed the crime of weathering, and did not take the initiative to hurt people's hearts, so she didn't bring her shackles and anklets, and deliberately cleaned the single cell where she was locked up and replaced it with a clean quilt.
Although this kind of care can keep Wu Mengyao from being ** and abused, the pressure she has to bear mentally is not light at all. It's easy to see what it means to be on death row – the death penalty and a suspended execution.
In modern society, a reprieve on death is a glimmer of life for prisoners, and this ray of life may allow prisoners to regain their freedom after spending more than a decade in prison. In ancient times, when there was no perfect legal system, the meaning of being on death row was to be beheaded after the autumn.
Wu Mengyao naively thought that she was just acting as a stand-in for the princess, with her back to the princess, acting as a fig leaf for the princess's merry and happy life, and the princess could cover anything. Unexpectedly, Princess Ji Shao's actions were too violent, and the mountain turned into a volcano that burned herself, directly kicking Wu Mengyao's fig leaf into the volcanic lava.
Now the princess herself is difficult to protect, and it seems that she, the girl of Yayun Pavilion, can only accompany her to the guillotine.
Entering this gloomy dungeon, the two female prisoners who were locked up next to them saw that the princess was also locked in, first gave a salute, and then asked with concern: "Princess Ji Shao, how could it be you?" You're the king's favorite person, what's going on? ”
Wu Mengyao was speechless, and besides, she didn't know these two people at all, so she smiled bitterly and ignored them, and lamented to herself: Why am I so unlucky.
In Yayun Pavilion, Princess Ji Shao had a hot fight with the guests in Qiuyue's room, completely unaware that she had caused a great disaster, and was completely immersed in free-spirited pleasure. And when she slept in Qiuyue's room until she got up the next day, it was already rumored that the city was full of news that Gongzi had died in his sister's bed and that the king had put the princess on death row, but Princess Ji Shao, the initiator, had no idea and was completely in the dark.
Princess Ji Shao slept until late as usual and didn't get up until late, and waited for Miss Qiuyue after dressing up and washing. The strange thing is that Qiu Yue has been delayed today, and it is almost noon, which is much longer than the time agreed with her before.
Princess Ji Shao couldn't sit still, so she had to ask Yanzi to carry a small jar of Chinese medicine and go to her palace to check and urge in the name of sending medicine to the princess.
Yanzi immediately got up and went to Princess Ji Shao's palace. When she knocked on the door of the princess's palace, it was opened by two heavily armed soldiers, and as soon as Yanzi entered the door, she was controlled by these two soldiers, and the soldiers saw that she was wearing the costume of a maid, and did not listen to her explanation, so without saying anything, they locked her in the backyard, and locked her in a room with the servants and maids of Princess Ji Shao.
When they saw that Yanzi was not wearing the clothes of the palace maid, they hurriedly asked her why she had come in, and when they learned that she was delivering medicine to the princess, they told her the news that the princess had been put on death row and that the two valet maids had been beaten to death. Yanzi suddenly felt bad, if Qiu Yue confessed that she was pretending to be a princess, she would not be able to escape the responsibility as an insider.
In the evening, Yanzi suddenly told the guard outside that her stomach hurt and she needed convenience, so the guard asked her to go out to the toilet. After the swallow entered the latrine, he quietly climbed out of the outer wall from there and quickly ran in the direction of Yayun Pavilion. The guards saw someone running out of the wall, and when they saw someone running out of the wall, they shot an arrow through the swallow's back and into the heart, and shot her on the spot, and the poor swallow died.
Because Yanzi was wearing the clothes of the maid of Yayun Pavilion, the body was taken away by the people of Yayun Pavilion early the next morning.
The swallow that went to find Qiuyue was also like a mud cow entering the sea, Ji Shao faintly felt a sense of foresight, there must be a demon when something went wrong, something unusual must have happened.
At lunchtime, there was still no news from Yanzi, Princess Ji Shao was so hungry that she couldn't eat the lunch sent by Yayun Pavilion to Qiuyue Girl, so she couldn't sleep.
After noon, the nursing home came to Yanzi to take the projection mobile phone charged by the autumn moon girl yesterday, at this time Yanzi has been nearly two hours without news, Princess Ji Shao felt more and more panicked, so she asked the nursing home to call the bustard mother by the way.
"Mom, is there something going on outside? Swallow delivered medicine to the princess in the morning and has not returned yet. Princess Ji Shao asked.
"Oops, my Autumn Moon girl, I forgot to tell you something big. Yesterday afternoon, Gongzi died naked in the princess's palace, I heard that she died of deyang, and Princess Ji Shao couldn't get out of it, which made the king angry and put the princess on death row. Bustard said.
"Huh?" Princess Ji Shao was shocked, and the water cup in her hand fell to the ground.
"I heard that two of the princess's maids were killed with a cane on the spot, and each of them was beaten to death with only seven or eight blows, and all the other servants and maids were also imprisoned, and all the princess's palaces were sealed. Swallow sent medicine to the princess, and eighty percent of them were detained by the person who treated her as a princess. Seeing that she was so surprised, the bustard mother continued.
Princess Ji Shao stayed there, beads of sweat dripping down her face, this kind of thing happened completely unexpectedly, she would never have thought that Gongzi would die violently in her bed, let alone that she might be involved in her own scandal in Yayun Pavilion because of this matter.
Thinking of his brother being killed just by collecting some bird feathers to decorate his hat, and having such a big thing as the violent death of his brother and sister ** and son, the degree of his father's anger can be imagined, and this time it must be more than lucky.
Fortunately, it is Qiu Yue who is holding on to himself first, but it is difficult to say how long it will last, if Qiu Yue confesses that the two of them will drop the bag and deign to mess around with the guests in Yayun Pavilion, his father will add fuel to the fire and will never spare himself.
Seeing that the autumn girl was sweating on her face and couldn't stand steadily, the bustard mother hurriedly helped her sit on the edge of the bed, and asked her if she was uncomfortable.
Princess Ji Shao shook her head, nodded her head unconsciously, and said to the bustard: "Mom, I'm a little uncomfortable, I want to lie down first, if the swallow comes back, let her come up immediately." ”
Bustard Niang was very surprised that Qiuyue reacted so strongly after hearing the news, thinking that maybe it was the reason why the relationship between the two was not ordinary, and besides, they looked so similar, maybe there was something hidden between them, maybe they were twins who were separated for some reason.
The bustard helped Qiu Yue to the bed, opened the door and withdrew.
Princess Ji Shao's tears began to flow down after the bustard mother closed the door. Grieving for her son and worrying about herself, she felt isolated for the first time. Maybe being on death row will not make her feel more desperate than the current situation, because except for Qiu Yue on death row and Yanzi who has not returned, no one knows that she is the real princess.
Now it's even trickier to deal with this unexpected event. Ignore it and act as if nothing happened? It's like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, undoubtedly sitting back and waiting to die; And took the initiative to admit his mistake to his father, and even sent meat to the knife: the daughter is not only **, but also disorderly, and the father who has lost face will feel that he has lost face and has been stripped of his clothes.
Princess Ji Shao, who was reckless and willful and ridiculous before, is finally scared now.
After thinking about it, the only way seems to be only one word: escape. Flee far away, and come back when your father is completely deflated.
But how to escape? Where to flee? How far can she escape as a woman?
Princess Ji Shao had a splitting headache when she thought about it, but she still had no clue.
This news also reached Qu Hao's ears. He has always despised others and gloated, but he actually had some pleasure in this matter, and he did not sympathize with the death of this playboy at all, and even felt that he was innocent of death. I felt angry when I thought of Childeman's hobbled and haggard face when he came out of Qiuyue's room.
Qu Hao is still waiting for the opportunity to meet Meng Yao again. He even thought about staying here and letting Chen Ermao go back to Zhuye first, but he was worried that it would not be safe for Chen Ermao to go back alone, after all, he brought it here by himself, and he couldn't afford any mistakes.