Chapter 453: Killing
Fan Li and Luo Jiang hooked up a few, thinking that Xiao Xia had been executed, and the impact of this matter was minimized, and King Wu verbally praised Fan Li's handling of it, and the matter passed.
Actually, they were all wrong. None of them were kings, nor did they see things from a king's point of view.
Dealing with this matter in Fan Li's way is like a leaf falling into a pond, stirring up a little ripple that will soon disappear. This scandal is only known to King Wu and Fan Li. The entire ministers of the court, including Wu Zixu and Bo Yao, and of course the most annoying historians, did not know about this. The common people of Wu didn't know about it, and of course the other vassal states wouldn't know about it.
This incident is as if it has never happened, it will not become the laughing stock of the world, and it will not make King Wu and even Wu Guo unable to raise their heads. Isn't that great?
Yes, it's good, it's good from the eyes of the average person. But from the king's point of view, King Wu is very bad. Because the authority of the king was challenged. And the authority of the king cannot be challenged.
In particular, the king's women are not allowed to be touched. In that year, Queen Yayu of Yue was coerced by Wu Zixu to serve the envoys of the Jin State, so that the Wu State took a great advantage in the diplomatic struggle with the Jin State.
This would have been a good thing. Yayu, just a female captive, isn't it cost-effective to use her to win a diplomatic victory for the country? But King Wu doesn't think so. In his opinion, the female captive is also his woman, and his woman can be given to a minister by the master, and can be killed at will, and can be disposed of at will. But others can't, neither can Wu Zixu, Wu Zixu coerced Yayu to serve the envoy of the Jin Kingdom, which was an offense to King Wu and made him a cuckold.
Since then, King Wu and Wu Zixu have formed a bond, and this contradiction has become deeper and deeper, and there is no sign of easing.
As for the harem, not only the queen is her woman, but also those concubines and talented women, those famous and unknown palace maids are his women, and he King Wu can be happy at will, and others are not allowed to move.
He can't take care of so many women as a man, but it doesn't matter if he can't take care of them, let them be idle, and he can't let others move when he is idle.
Now Xiao Xia suddenly appeared, a normal man who has lived in the palace for thirty years, and if you want to say that he hasn't done anything bad, ghosts don't believe it.
But Natsu has already been executed. King Wu felt that this breath was not finished yet. I still don't understand the hatred in my heart. Those women who were ruined by Xiao Xia are disgusting when they think about it.
But the execution of these palace maids must be a separate action, and cannot be involved in the Xiao Xia incident. Therefore, King Wu came quietly for a while, and then suddenly ordered his ministers to conduct a physical examination of all the women in the harem, not all the virgins.
The more than 30 palace maids who were executed that night were all unjustly killed, and none of them were virgins, but the bad things were all done by King Wu himself.
Xiao Xia only his wife Gou Hui, but he didn't dare to track down Gou Hui, once he tracked down, the scandal couldn't be covered, and he couldn't kill Gou Xuan, Gou Huang is the queen, and there is another country behind her, and he poured dirty water on the queen without any evidence, which was to cause a war.
It is true that Prince You is his biological son, and when he was fortunate to be hooked, Ouchi has a record, which is well documented.
So before he acted, he took Gou Yu and the prince to Gusutai. Don't let them know, don't let them see the bloody killing.
Gou Yu was arranged in a special palace room. She almost didn't sleep all night, he didn't know why King Wu also took her to Gusutai at night, and after picking her up, he didn't say a word, just arranged for her to sleep.
Before dawn, Gou Yu couldn't lie down. She got up and wandered along the winding path in the middle of the flower bed. It was still dark, and there were still stars in the sky. The mountains and forests on the opposite side are fluttering, and the morning birds have begun to cry.
"Why is Madame here?" A familiar voice sounded behind him. As soon as he turned around, Fan Li was standing in front of him.
Gou Yu said: "Fan Lang, I encountered a strange thing. β
Fan Li said: "What's strange? β
Gou Yu said: "Last night, the palace attendants suddenly forcibly took me and You'er here, and they didn't say anything to me. I don't know why. β
Fan Li looked around, there was no one quietly, King Wu was blessed here, and he would not get up until three poles in the morning.
Fan Li said: "You and the prince are here, where is Luo Jiang?" β
Gou Yu said: "The chamberlains are not allowed to bring us an entourage, and Sister Luo Jiang is still in the palace. β
Fan Li pondered for a while and said, "Madam, listen to me, something big may have happened to Wu Gong last night." I'll have to take a look. Listen to me, if I leave the country of Wu, you must take care of yourself. If you go back to Wu Palace, you must live in seclusion, guard the prince, and protect yourself. If you really can't do it, try to escape from the Wu Palace and go to the Chunfeng Inn in Gusu City, where the boss will help you. Remember my words? β
Gou Yu nodded: "Remember." β
Fan Li said: "Repeat the name of the inn." β
Gou Yu said: "Spring Breeze Inn." β
Fan Li said: "Okay. I'm leaving. "Turn around and run. He came to the stable, prepared a horse, jumped on horseback, and galloped away.
When Fan Li arrived at Gusu City, he was just in time for the city gate to open, he didn't get off his horse, he jerked, and the horse kept rushing into the city.
The palace has not yet been opened. Fan Li jumped off the horse, slammed the palace door, and shouted, "Open the doorβ"
After a while, the palace door slowly opened, and the minister bowed down and smiled: "Uncle is here?" β
Fan Li's body moved, and the sword had already pressed against the throat of the village chief, and shouted, "Why don't you open the door for a long time?" β
Chen Zhi panicked and said: "Uncle is angry, the old slave heard the knock on the door, so he immediately rushed to open the door"
Fan Li withdrew the sword and said, "Uncle Ben came to inspect on the order of the king, how are things going?" β
Chen Zhi said: "Back to Uncle, the matter has been done." Leave a 100% virgin guarantee. β
Fan Li frowned: "Take me to see." β
Chen Zhi said: "That's nothing to look at, it's miserable." β
Fan Li's hand stretched out to the sword handle: "You can't understand my words?" β
The minister said, "Okay! The old slave took his uncle to see it. β
Opening the door, Fan Li almost vomited all of a sudden. The floor and walls of the room were covered with blood, and there were brains like tofu brains, and the room was full of corpses of women, some of whom were still naked.
Fan Li held back the churning in his heart and asked, "How many are there?" β
The minister said, "There are forty in all." β
Fan Li said: "How can there be a man's corpse? β
The minister said: "Don't mention it, the prince's maid Luo Jiang suddenly took out a knife and killed four chamberlains in the blink of an eye. β
Fan Li said, "You go and find out Luo Jiang's body." β
The minister said straightly: "Uncle......"
Fan Li shouted: "Hurry up! β
The minister said, "Yes, yes, the old slave will do it." β
Chen Zhi rummaged in the corpse team for a long time, pulled out a corpse, Fan Li squatted down and recognized that it was Luo Jiang's corpse. Her head had been smashed. The flesh and blood are blurred, and the facial features can no longer be seen clearly.
After a long time, Fan Li stood up and said in a calm voice: "Father-in-law, the king said that everyone has meritorious service in this operation, and they should be rewarded heavily, how many people did you participate in this operation?" β
The minister said: "The old slave chose forty means to participate ruthlessly. β
Fan Li said: "You go and inform these forty people to go to Qinghe Palace, and I will announce a king's decision, and reward meritorious deeds." β
Chen Zhi said: "But four of them were killed by Luo Jiang." β
Fan Li said: "That's thirty-six." One is not less, go and inform. β
There was not much time, and all the thirty-six attendants were concentrated in the Qinghe Palace. The minister said straightly: "Uncle, everyone has arrived." β
Fan Li nodded, turned around and bolted the palace door shut. Then he drew his sword and pointed it at the executioners, and said, "Listen, you are all poor people, and you have been cut off from your eggs, and you have been made no one and no ghost. You are also victims. But when you kill people, you don't blink your eyes, and you all become demons. It's not worth being pitied. Murder is paid for life. I will avenge the forty girls who died unjustly today, and you will suffer death! β
The attendants knelt on the ground together and cried, "Uncle, spare your life-".
Fan Li stopped talking, and danced the sword like a dragon out of the water, the cold light flashed, and the flesh and blood splashed. The ghosts in the Qinghe Palace cried and howled. There was not much time, the crying stopped, the ground was full of corpses, and two were not dead, Fan Li stepped forward to make up for two swords. That's the end of it.
Fan Li stood stunned for a while, tears flowed from his eyes, and muttered: "Sister Luo Jiang, Fan Li has avenged you!" β