Chapter 177: The Punishment of Beheading

The death of Empress Xie of Daliang shocked the whole country!

The eastern capital of the capital of Daliang, in order to celebrate the prince's wedding and the annual Hanrui Festival, and specially dressed up in a red and festive atmosphere, the next moment has been replaced with a plain white and painful white, and the goose-feather-like snow is non-stop sprinkling and falling, wrapping the entire eastern capital in a layer of silver white, not seeing the slightest bright color, extremely heavy and solemn

When Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao rushed to the queen's Yaohua Palace, it was already crowded with people, and the concubines and palace people who were crying and mourning in each palace and hall knelt all over the Yaohua Palace. [Full text reading. 】%d7%cf%d3%c4%b8%f3 and King Liang, who was paralyzed in bed, was alarmed and carried to Yaohua Palace by the palace people with a soft chariot.

In the dormitory of Yaohua Palace, Queen Xie was lying on the bed with a peaceful face, except that her face was too pale, everything else was the same as her usual, and she couldn't see that she had died at all, so that when Mu Lingzhi entered the palace, he couldn't believe that the queen mother had passed away, until he threw himself on the side of the bed and touched her cold and piercing hands, and he couldn't feel a trace of anger on her body, so he knew that the queen mother was really dead

Xiaodao was also so shocked that he couldn't believe it, a few days ago, Queen Xie was fine when she made trouble in Changle Palace, how could it be suddenly

His heart hurt so much that he couldn't breathe, Mu Lingzhi's eyes were red and he looked at the palace people who were kneeling on the ground, as well as the imperial doctor waiting next to him, and said fiercely: "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Son!" King Liang's lower body was paralyzed and unable to move, but his mind was still clear, and he was able to speak these days under the diagnosis and treatment of Master Yiqing.

He leaned back on the soft couch, pointed at Mu Lingzhi and the crown prince and gasped and scolded fiercely: "If you hadn't brought that ominous person back to Daliang, if you hadn't insisted on marrying her as the crown princess, how much more would you have let her kill your queen mother."

King Liang was already furious when he thought of all this, and when Mu Lingzhi and the prince heard this, they were even more shocked as if they had been struck by lightning and petrified on the spot----

They never imagined that the death of the queen mother was related to Yu Ruyan!

King Liang's anger made the entire dormitory dare not come out, except for sobbing, no one spoke again. The whole hall was oppressive and dull

Mu Lingzhi's mind kept 'buzzing', blank, he didn't know what was going on, why he went to the south once, and then came back here has completely changed

After a long time, he came back to his senses from the shock and blurted out: "I don't believe it, I don't believe that it is Yan Yan's mother who harms her, she will not do such a thing!" ”

And Xiaodao also followed his words and said: "Yes, my sister has been staying in my East Palace, how could she kill my mother, there must be a misunderstanding in this, father." You can't listen to slander! ”

When King Liang heard this, he was already furious, and with a wave of his hand, he actually smashed the incense burner at hand towards the two of them, and his face turned black with anger.

"Son, your mother's bones are not cold, but when that ominous person killed your mother, everyone saw it with their own eyes, and you even helped that ominous person cry out for grievances without asking, did you even ignore the death of your mother?"

King Liang's anger made everyone's scalp tingle, and although the incense burner thrown out did not hit the two brothers, King Liang's words made Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao speechless in an instant.

At this time, Yu Mingzhu, who was kneeling aside, couldn't help but speak.

"Back to the words of the two Highnesses. Before, the concubine and the county lord of Mingyue and Master Yiqing were serving in front of His Majesty's bed, and then they suddenly heard the summons of the mother, so that the concubine, the county lord and the master came to Yaohua Palace to see her, however, when our group just came here, the moment we entered the door, we happened to see the fifth sister her"

Yu Mingzhu's face was sad and sad, but when she said this, she was sad, and the expression on her face was flustered, but the following words could not be continued.

Mu Ziyue continued her words in a timely manner, Ying Yingxing's eyes flashed with tears, and her voice was sad and angry: "When we came in, we just saw the third princess, no, it was the crown princess who pushed Niangniang down, Niangniang's head hit the beam pillar at that time, we were all frightened, and hurriedly asked people to call the imperial doctor, and my master also immediately stepped forward to rescue Niangniang, but in the end there was no rescue of Niangniang."

From the moment Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue spoke, hostility had formed in Mu Lingzhi's heart, and the words of the two of them, especially such a unison, made him unwilling to believe it.

His red eyes looked coldly at the two beautiful, harmless women in front of him, and others were often confused by their appearance, so that they believed everything they said. I will also believe that they are as beautiful and kind as they appear on the surface. But Mu Lingzhi knew that the two women in front of him were like quenched wine, looking moving, but they were the most poisonous poison in the world.

His eyes were cold and lingering on the faces of Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue, and the look of hatred on his face obviously told them that he would never believe what came out of their mouths ---- the two of them.

Seeing this, Mu Ziyue's heart was cold, she knew that now there was a distance between Mu Lingzhi and her, and he no longer believed in her, and it could even be said that he was already disgusted with her.

Thinking of this, Mu Ziyue's hand in her sleeve clenched tightly, and she suddenly felt that she had done everything she had done tonight but she had done it right.

Now, she wants to see that under the conclusive evidence, that slut is charged with killing the mother of a country, this time, to see how she escapes this catastrophe?

And she wants to see what the man who abandoned her in front of her, between his queen mother and that slut, what is he going to do?

Yingying's apricot eyes flashed with coldness, and Mu Ziyue's voice sobbed sadly: "If Your Highness doesn't want to believe me and the side concubine, you can ask the other palace people, who entered the palace with us at that time, but there are also palace people from Yaohua Palace, Your Highness can ask them to see if we are lying?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the palace people kneeling on the side all nodded and said: "The slave maid also saw the crown princess push down the queen mother, and the mother's head will only be killed when it touches the beam!" ”

Everyone's words proved that it was Yu Ruyan who pushed down the queen, and let the queen's head hit the hard beam and lose her life, and the imperial doctor on the side also stepped forward and replied: "Niangniang's fatal wound is indeed on the back of the head, and there is only that wound on the whole body!" ”

Everyone's words pointed at Yu Ruyan in unison, but no matter what they said, Mu Lingzhi just didn't want to believe that Yu Ruyan would attack his mother.

But so many people, so many testimonies, but he didn't even have a chance to refute, and the despair in his heart spread up like endless seawater, flooding his mouth and nose, making him almost suffocated.

While grieving the death of his mother, he was worried about Yu Ruyan, and his heart seemed to be tormented between the two heavens of icebergs and fire, and the pain was extreme!

Suddenly, he turned around and saw Aunt Qin, who had been kneeling beside the bed guarding his mother, and her desperate and dejected eyes flashed with a glimmer of light.

He rushed to Aunt Qin with staggering steps, his voice trembling but with the last hope: "Auntie, you tell me what happened?" I only believe what you say, tell me quickly. Who killed the queen mother? ”

No matter what happened in the palace, Aunt Qin kept kneeling beside the queen's bed, looking at the queen who was no longer breathing on the bed with her eyes dazed, the description on her face was grief-stricken, and tears rolled down silently

After a long time, she looked back at Mu Lingzhi indifferently, and said sadly: "Your Highness, the old slave didn't take good care of the mother, when the old slave came back from the prison, the queen choked her anger The old slave is useless, the old slave didn't take care of the master, and the old slave deserves death!" ”

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi's whole body froze. couldn't speak anymore, and the ministers and hundreds of officials, under the leadership of Mu Xiang and the eldest prince, knelt down in front of King Liang and asked King Liang to order the execution of Yu Ruyan and pay for the queen's life

In the snowstorm, Yu Ruyan was imprisoned in the prison.

Along the way, those vicious grandmothers didn't say anything politely, let alone ignore the fact that the fracture on her right leg was not complete, and dragged her forward, the wound on her right leg was torn open and oozing blood, and the bright blood fell on the snow along the way, which was particularly eye-catching

When she came to the prison door again. Yu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, looking at the familiar gloomy cell in front of her, she couldn't help but hook her lips and smile bitterly----

She was aggrieved and wanted to save Mu Lingzhi from here, but she didn't expect that in the end, she fell in, and she couldn't protect herself, so what could she do to save him!?

When passing by the cell where 'Mu Lingzhi' was kept, she pleaded with the jailer: "Ask the jailer to let me take a look at the Third Highness, just take a look, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll never have a chance in the future."

Her voice was choked and trembling to the point that she could barely make a sound, and her dead heart cramped again when she thought of Mu Lingzhi----

No matter what kind of ordeal she faces, she is no longer afraid, even if she is allowed to die now, it will not be painful for her, it will only be a relief.

However, Mu Lingzhi was the only one, when she thought of him, she was reluctant to let go of her dead heart, and he was also her last concern. She thought sadly in her heart, now that the queen has passed away, who else can save him again?

Thinking of this, she dragged her numb legs to her knees in front of the little jailer. He begged again: "Please be kind, two eldest brothers, let me take another look at the Third Highness!" ”

The two jailers looked at each other, not knowing how to answer her for a moment.

About Yu Ruyan's killing of the queen, it is now known to everyone in the palace, and I believe that it will not be long before the whole world will know that the five princesses of Daqi and Qin brutally killed the queen of Daliang. So the two jailers also knew that under such a crime, she would inevitably die, thinking of the secret in the cell, and then looking at her heart that she couldn't let go of until death, she couldn't help but speak: "Princess, tell you the truth." The person you saw before is not the real Third Highness I heard that the Third Highness has returned to the Eastern Capital, so he must have entered the palace at this moment."

The whole body was stunned, and when Yu Ruyan heard this, she looked at the two jailers in disbelief, and her face was even more gray to the point that she had no brilliance.

How could she not understand the meaning of the jailer's words, and knew that all this was just a trick by the knife to deceive herself, and she was so anxious and sad that she didn't even find out

But she thought about it, in this way, Mu Lingzhi was fine, and she couldn't help but show a trace of joy on her face, forgetting her current sad situation

In this way, she can really have no worries!

There is no day or night in the prison, and all that can be seen is the small dim butter lamp in front of you. She leaned against the cold frosty wall, groggy and sleepy, her whole body was cold and hot, and her mind was sometimes awake, sometimes confused

When she was awake, she lay in the corner of the wall, listening to the sound of snow outside, and the crying and mourning from far away, she thought sourly, people must be grieving for the queen when they were crying, but also cursing and hating themselves, because everyone believed that the queen was pushed down and fell to death, and no one believed that she was innocent!

And this time, Mu Lingzhi never appeared in the prison, she stared at the cold prison door blankly, and thought stupidly, why didn't Ling Zhi come to see her after so long?

She had hoped countless times that the cold cell door would suddenly open, and Mu Lingzhi would rescue her domineeringly like the last time he rescued her from Jing Zhaoyin's prison, he warmly hugged her into his arms, hugged her and walked out firmly, his voice was pure and gentle, like a hot spring gurgling into her heart, and said, "Don't be afraid." I'll take you home! ”

But this time, I heard from the jailer that he had already returned to Beijing, so why didn't he come and take her home?

Could it be that he also believed their words, thinking that it was the queen he pushed and killed his mother?

Thinking of this, Yu Ruyan felt extremely sad in her heart, she could not care if anyone wronged her, but his trust was what she cared about the most.

In the days of looking forward to Mu Lingzhi, the flood of memories returned to that terrible night again----

Thinking that it is impossible for him to be with Mu Lingzhi in this life, thinking that because of himself, their brothers turned against each other. In despair, she drank the Heding Red in the bowl in front of Queen Xie

Crane top red is the most poisonous poison in the world, see blood to seal the throat.

At the moment of death, she closed her eyes, her heart was unusually calm, there was no fear, no resentment, the only regret was that she did not see the last face of the person she loved most in her life!

However, the next moment, the expected heart-piercing pain did not come, and she did not die!

When she opened her eyes in surprise, she was greeted by Queen Xie's frightened and even somewhat dull gaze, and her expression was as if she had seen a ghost.

She also had a moment of surprise, not understanding that she had obviously drunk Heding Red and was ready to die, but she was still alive.

She looked at the queen in a bit of a daze, and Chunhua and Qiuyue, who were crying beside her, couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when they saw that she was so good: "Master, you are not dead, great!" ”

Her mind was full of doubts, and a bright light quickly crossed her mind, too fast for her to grasp

The next moment, the panicked look on Empress Xie's face had disappeared, and she swallowed her throat with difficulty and snorted coldly at Yu Ruyan: "Hmph." This bowl is just a test of your sincerity by this palace, since you don't really want to marry the prince, I will spare your life for the time being, you immediately go to Yaohua Palace with this palace, and this palace will find a way to send you out of the palace or hide it, as long as you are gone, tomorrow's big wedding will not be able to be carried out. ”

After that, the queen immediately led her back to Yaohua Palace.

Thinking that the queen was willing to let herself go and send herself away, her heart came alive again.

As soon as she arrived at Yaohua Palace, the queen immediately asked the palace maids around her to go to the Imperial Palace to summon the sick Jade Mingzhu to come to Yaohua Palace for questioning, and Mrs. Yiqing was in the palace to see a doctor for King Liang during this time, and Mu Ziyue was also by her side. So the queen called them over as well.

Hearing that the queen was going to summon Jade Mingzhu and them, she had taken the initiative to ask for a recusal at that time, but the queen kept her.

However, while waiting for Jade Mingzhu and them to come over, Empress Xie actually took the initiative to tell her about the grievances and grievances between King Liang and the former emperor.

At that time, Empress Xie was sitting on the high throne, her narrow phoenix eyes were slightly closed, the expression on her face was very tired, and she said in a deep voice: "Do you know why Your Majesty suddenly turned against the emperor ten years ago, killed the emperor and seized the country?" ”

She never thought that the queen would suddenly talk to her about the old things of Daliang ten years ago, and she couldn't help but be stunned, she keenly felt that from just now, the queen seemed to be a little wrong!

Without waiting to speak, Empress Xie said again: "Do you know why His Majesty has always been strict with people in Zhaohua Palace, where the former Empress lived?" And the last time Prince Yi appeared in the palace with such a good opportunity, His Majesty let him go and didn't kill him? ”

Hearing this, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, as if she had thought of something----

As a woman, she is very sensitive to emotional matters, and she now personally experiences the kind of entanglement and pain between the two brothers of Mu Lingzhi, so after hearing 'Zhaohua Palace', she already understands something, and her expression becomes solemn.

"In fact, His Majesty and the former emperor more than ten years ago were just like Ling Zhi and the crown prince today, and the two brothers fell in love with Queen Zhu at the same time. That is, the stepmother of Prince Yi, even if she later wished the queen to marry the former emperor and give birth to Prince Yi, His Majesty has never broken off his thoughts about her, so he rebelled ten years ago"

Although the coup d'Γ©tat ten years ago cannot be blamed on Empress Zhu, she is the source of the disaster that cannot be ignored, and it is also the trigger of the incident. And you, like Queen Zhu ten years ago, are finally a moat between the two sons of the palace, and they are their doom."

Hearing Queen Zhu talk about this, she was shocked all over, and she didn't expect it. The mutiny that caused great damage to Mu Lingzhi's heart ten years ago was actually related to Empress Zhu.

And now, because of himself, between Mu Lingzhi and Xiaodao, as Queen Xie said, it seems that he is repeating the path of King Liang and the former emperor ten years ago

A layer of cold sweat soaked her back, and she felt like her breath was stagnant

A helpless sigh escaped from Queen Xie's mouth, she looked straight at her, her eyes were unusually tangled and complicated, and her eyebrows were twisted.

In fact, how could she understand the shock in Queen Xie's heart.

Queen Xie was shocked when she suddenly thought of a possibility from the bowl of crane top red just now----

If it was really as she expected, then. The jade Ruyan in front of her is not only kind to the prince, but also kind to herself, and as a jade girl, her blood can detoxify all kinds of poisons, how precious is it, how can she kill her?

, Queen Xie thought again, since Yu Ruyan is a jade girl, then, Yu Mingzhu and they are deceiving themselves, so she will summon them to Yaohua Palace for questioning as soon as she returns to the palace.

When I thought that I was deceived, I treated the fake jade girl like a daughter. But to the person who really saved her life, she frowned coldly, Queen Xie was angry and annoyed in her heart, and her narrow phoenix eyes rose with murderous aura----

She is a person who loves and hates unusually clearly, if Jade Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue really dare to cooperate to deceive her, she will definitely not spare them!

Empress Xie was upset, and came down from the first place step by step, but when she stepped down the last step of the steps, she suddenly looked suffocated, and her body stiffened and fell straight down, and Yu Ruyan, who was standing at the bottom, saw it, and instinctively reached out to help her, although she grabbed the corner of her clothes, but Queen Xie's head still hit the beam on the side

And at this time. The door of the palace happened to open, and Yu Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue walked in, just in time to see Queen Xie falling, and even saw Yu Ruyan's outstretched hand, so the two took the lead and shouted loudly, saying that she pushed Queen Xie.

All this happened too quickly, which made Yu Ruyan unexpected, and even more at a loss. And the palace maids who poured in and Yu Mingzhu helped the queen together, and when Mrs. Yiqing stepped forward to help her check her wounds, she found that Queen Xie was out of breath

From the fall of Empress Xie to her death, it was only a moment. Yu Ruyan had been stunned all the time, watching everyone crying and calling the imperial doctor, and then a grandmother came up and grabbed her hands and feet, she seemed to be having a terrible nightmare

It wasn't until she was dragged down in the cold snow, until the heart-shattering death knell came, that she realized that everything was true

Recalling everything that night, an indescribable wry smile overflowed her lips, and the coldness in Yu Ruyan's heart was as cold as this cold prison like an ice cave, and her heart was full of ice and snow.

She knows that the world is so big that there is no longer a 'home' for her

The longer she stayed in the prison, the less time she was awake, and the more often she was in a coma.

She seemed to have returned to the small meditation room of Putuo Temple, and she begged the master to help her cure the tearless disease, but the master did not agree, and was unwilling to help her

She returned to her small cherry hibiscus hall, where her mother, Brother An, and even Mu Lingzhi came. The mother washed her hair under the apricot tree in the yard, and she said to herself while washing, hoping that after she married to Daliang, her life would be as smooth as this green silk, even if it was stained with dust, it would pass

She thought about telling Mu Lingzhi when he left the Eastern Capital not long ago. Let her wait for him to come back, and they will celebrate the festival together and be sugar men together

In the muddy days, she became more and more unable to distinguish whether it was a dream or a reality in front of her, and she didn't know which one was who she was now.

Suddenly, she smelled the scent of her favorite hot pot in her nose, and she thought she was still dreaming. But when she opened her misty eyes, she realized that everything in front of her was not a dream----

I don't know when, someone in the cell actually prepared a hot pot for her.

The hot pan with red oil was spicy and delicious, and the tantalizing smell provoked the last shred of her senses.

Her eyes were sore and swollen and uncomfortable, she crawled over with difficulty, gritted her teeth to suppress the trembling of her hands and went to take the chopsticks, but her hands didn't even have the strength to pick up the pot to eat!

She couldn't eat the last hot pot he made for himself

When she was taken out of the prison and saw the light again. The snow outside had stopped, and she hadn't seen light for days, and her eyes were pierced by the scorching sun outside.

The jailer stepped forward to put heavy shackles on her neck, both hands and feet, dragged her into the prison car, and drove out of the palace.

The prisoner car traveled outside the palace, and along the way, the people of the entire eastern capital were standing along the way, and everyone was angry, shouting and calling her a murderer and an ominous person. And with everyone's abuse, countless vegetable leaves and eggs, and even hard stones smashed into her face

She was numb all over, she couldn't feel the pain, her ears were buzzing, and she couldn't hear everyone's shouting.

She just tried to open her eyes and search the side of the road, hoping to see Mu Lingzhi's figure

However, as far as she could see, she didn't see the person she wanted to see, but in the teahouse on the side of the road, she saw Jade Mingzhu and Mu Ziyue sitting on the street leisurely drinking tea.

The two of them were dressed in precious white robes, and although they were holding a funeral for the queen, they were still graceful and luxurious, and they were gorgeous and compelling.

Seeing Yu Ruyan look over, the two of them were very proud, the corners of their mouths hooked up a vicious smile, they both raised the teacups in their hands and raised them to Yu Ruyan, but the next moment, they poured the tea in their hands on the ground----

This is the practice of offering to the dead!

Also, now in their eyes, and even in the eyes of the whole world, Yu Ruyan is already a dying person!

The imperial list along the way was plastered with the death oracle issued by King Liang himself, and when Yu Ruyan was finally escorted to the execution ground at the entrance of the vegetable market, she was pressed to kneel in front of the eunuch who sent the edict, and the eunuch's voice was sharp and raised----

"Fengtian transported, the emperor edict said: The five princesses of Daqi are as jade as Yan, arson, murder, mutilate the lives of 27 prostitutes in Qin Xianglou, and then kill the queen, the crime is extremely heinous, heinous, and outrageous. Today, the two countries of Qi and Liang are banned, and the five princesses are now given the punishment of beheading, which will be executed immediately without delay! Chin this! ”

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