Chapter Seventy-Six: Feng Huang Wants Her Life
This is just a royal courtyard, naturally not as good as the palace, and those ancient books are just for pretense, so they have been neglected to clean them all these years.
As soon as Yu Zhiyan pushed the door open, a musty smell came straight to her nose, choking her so much that she could barely breathe.
She covered her nose and slowly pushed open a window, and the sunlight outside suddenly shone into the gray room.
At this moment, Yu Zhiyan saw a man lying on a wooden table in the library pavilion, dressed in white like snow, with a peerless posture in the sun.
As if disturbed by the movement she made, Feng Huang slowly opened his eyes.
"Why are you here?" In the empty library cabinet, there were only two of them, and the silence was a little excessive.
Feng Huang slowly opened his eyes, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, outlining a kind of smile, and the whole person exuded a warm and jade-like temperament, "I've been here for a long time." β
Only then did Yu Zhiyan find a book on his desk and a cup of tea that had already been cold.
When they looked at each other, the two of them were silent, and Yu Zhiyan slowly picked up the rag in his hand. Wipe the thick dust off the shelves.
It was just a few hours of incense, and the window that Yu Zhiyan had originally opened was closed from the outside, and with a bang, the rag in Yu Zhiyan's hand almost fell to the ground.
The room suddenly darkened, and the man who had been reading on the desk slowly raised his eyes.
Yu Zhiyan hurriedly pushed the window, but found that he couldn't push it at all.
A chill crept down her spine, and she understood something, and ran to the door, pushing the closed door.
The dust on the door fell and she was covered all over her, but the door didn't move.
Feng Huang also understood something, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.
In a trance, a strange fragrance came from outside, and Yu Zhiyan hurriedly covered his nose with his sleeve, but it was already too late.
She only felt as if there were countless ants crawling on her body, covering her clothes, tormenting her in pain.
Feng Huang put down the book in his hand and hurriedly walked over, "What's wrong?" β
However, he also smelled the strange fragrance, and his fair face gradually turned pale. Yu Zhiyan was obviously more out of mind than he was, and her robe slowly fell to the dusty ground.
When she saw him coming, she put her arms around his neck, and her lips pressed to his cheek.
"Folding cigarettes." Feng Huang slowly grabbed her unruly hand.
However, she slowly opened her eyes, and there seemed to be some gloomy emotion in her misty eyes, and she opened her lips slightly, "Donglang-"
Feng Huang's originally hot heart was so cold that the aroma could no longer take away his reason.
At this moment, the door of the library was pushed open, and the sunlight poured on the people who came, especially the woman standing at the front, who was extraordinarily luxurious.
The rich aroma dissipated, and she regained her senses.
I saw that she and Feng Huang were half lying on the ground, her coat had been withdrawn, and the rest of her clothes were also very messy.
Feng Huang's clothes were also very messy by her, especially the buckle on his chest, which had been torn open by her.
The queen slowly came in with the support of everyone, her eyes were like sharp blades, and she slowly stabbed at the two people, and the extremely beautiful phoenix eyes faintly spread with killing intent.
And Sun Xi looked at the two of them with a smug face, this kind of look made Yu Zhiyan's head sober all of a sudden, which clearly caught his trap.
"Woe to the palace, are you guilty?" Sun Xi said in a sharp voice, and his tone was all rampant after the villain's ambition.
"Slaves don't." Yu Zheyan slowly knelt in front of the queen after putting on a cigarette, and his voice sounded very calm, "It was Gonggong Sun who asked the slave maid to clean the library pavilion, and I don't know who lit the aphrodisiac incense here just now, intending to frame us." β
"Idiot, I don't ask clearly when I think of a reason." The queen looked at him coldly, "Sun Xi has been worshipping Buddha in the side hall with the main palace, where is the time to instruct you to do this?" β
The cold sweat had already soaked Yu Zhiyan's clothes, and a cold wind blew, and there was a chill on her back, and she couldn't help but shiver.
"It was Gonggong Sun who asked a palace maid to tell the slave maid." Yu Zhiyan then remembered that he didn't know the palace maid at all, and obviously everything had already been arranged seamlessly.
Sun Xi, who was beside the queen, glanced at her coldly, "I don't know which palace maid actually faked the word like this, and Miss Yu said her name, so she was arrested and interrogated." β
Where can Yu Zhiyan say it, just glanced at Feng Huang a little helplessly, she knew that she had hurt her, she should have been a little guarded.
Feng Huang's face was still flat, as if all this had nothing to do with her at all, but there was no bottom in his dark eyes.
At this moment, the queen's cold voice thought above her head, "I can't say it now, see how you quibble, this palace will call the person who complained, see what you say." β
After she finished speaking, she waved her hand, but saw that sure enough, another thin little maid ran in, and fell to the ground with a plop, "The slave maid returned to the queen's mother, the slave maid has been taking care of the flowers and plants next to the library pavilion, and I have seen Miss Yu come here quietly in the past few days, and the slave maid dare not hide it, so I will return to you today." β
Yu Zhiyan knew that she couldn't get rid of it completely, but her eyes were still full of shock. "The slave didn't do all that."
However, a voice sounded behind her, and his shallow words completely pushed Yu Zhiyan to death, "She has indeed come over day by day these days, intending to seduce." It's just that the grass people have rejected her all these days, and today she uses incenseβ"
The people around her seemed to be talking about her, and although the sound of pointing and pointing was not loud, it clearly reached her ears.
Trembling, she seemed to be a leaf in the wind and rain, she didn't dare to move or speak, she didn't dare to say the words just now from Feng Huang's mouth.
"What a shameless woman." The queen's mouth moved slowly, and her restrained eyes looked at her closely, "Don't you recognize it now?" β
"The slave doesn't recognize it." Yu Zhiyan turned his head to look at Feng Huang, and slowly muttered this sentence, "Why do you want to frame me like this?" β
However, at this moment, Ling Ning slowly walked to Yu Zhiyan's side and knelt down slowly, "These days, the slave maid has been complaining about Mr. Qin Rong when I hear Yu Zhiyan, saying that he ignores him, and then holds a grudge. β
Her voice was soft, but it was heavily pressed on Yu Zhiyan's body. Ling Ning is not a shrewd girl, and she is timid and unassertive, obviously someone taught her these words.
However, the person who can teach her all this can only be Feng Huang, because her words are clearly exonerating him, Sun Xi hates Feng Huang no less than he hates Yu Zhiyan, and it is impossible for him to arrange a good person to exonerate him.
Obviously, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and Yu Zhiyan is the poor cicada.
"Please also ask the queen to punish the grass people, and the grass people will never shirk it." Feng Huang said slowly.
"Whatever is wrong with you, it's all the fault of this." There was tenderness in the queen's voice, as if the killing intent just now was just nothingness, "It made Mr. Qin Rong feel wronged." β
She waved her hand slightly, but Feng Huang slowly stood up, and when she walked past Yu Zhiyan, she didn't look at her.
"The palace has set up a banquet in the garden, you go over and play the piano." The tenderness in the queen's eyes gradually dissipated, and then there was endless coolness, "Pull this out and put her in prison for interrogation, and wait until she says it, but your mouths are closed tightly for me, if you let Dong Lang know about this, you know the means of this palace." β
When the people heard this, no one dared to say anything.
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In the dim cell, Yu Zhiyan buried his head tightly between his legs, and the whole person looked so petite and weak.
The high iron windows let in a faint glow, and finally disappeared into the darkness of the night.
Yu Zhiyan's body did not have any strength, and the weather in the prison was cold and damp, and even the shoe-sized rats got into the hole and refused to come out.
Just when she was groggy, a sound of unlocking suddenly came to her ears.
She slowly raised her head, but saw Feng Huang standing outside. He still exuded the smell of smoke from the Queen's Palace, as well as the faint smell of food.
His gaze condensed on her pale face, he seemed to be an impenetrable lake, and the quiet bottom of the lake did not know whether it was turbulent or undisturbed.
"Why?" Yu Zhiyan stared at him tightly, and after a long time, he said in a dry voice: "Why do you bother to calculate my person, it will always be you." β
After a moment of unspeakable silence, Feng Huang raised his head and looked at her, "If you exchange your life for what I want, I am willing to do it." β
Yu Zhiyan's heart shook slightly, tears welled up in her originally hot eyes, and she said slowly, "What do you exchange me for?" Sun Xi's life is still the trust of the queen, or the power you want, or the enmity between Gu Jue and the queen's sister and brother. β
Feng Huang didn't hide it, "As long as I become the most trusted person of the queen, even if it is a sharp blade in her hand, at least I am powerful." β
Yu Zhiyan only felt that the Feng Huang in front of her was so strange, as if he had never known him, as if the prince of Nan'an, who shared the bed with her and was not stained with dust, was a dream of spring flowers and snow.
Feng Huang slowly handed the food in the basket along the railing, and placed them on the black ground one by one.
She was half starved, but she didn't even have the slightest appetite.
In the end, he put a pot of mellow wine on the ground, and from such a distance, Yu Zhiyan could smell its aroma, which was actually the aroma of wine from Jiangnan.
The dust on the ground stained his clothes, and he frowned and slowly brushed it away. Yu Zhiyan felt that he was just the dust on his body.
"There is poison in the wine, if you don't want to suffer tomorrow, drink it." Feng Huang's voice was quiet, but there was no expression in his eyes, "I'll let you die no matter what, even if it's for Moshu." β
"Moshu?" Yu Zhiyan thought of his child, and suddenly anger slowly appeared in his eyes, "You killed his own mother, but said it was for him, what is the reason, Feng Huang, you tell me." β
Feng Huang's eyes revealed a glimmer of light, he looked at her deeply, but did not answer her words, and left directly.
Yu Zhiyan reached out to wipe the tears from her face, then walked over to the pot of wine and slowly picked it up.
Perhaps she really didn't have a reason to live, she held the flask above her head, then tilted her neck and slowly opened her mouth.
As the wine fell, Gu Jue's face suddenly appeared in her head, and his willful, nonsensical, and affectionate expression slowly appeared in front of her eyes.
His smile was like the sunshine reflected on the ice edge, so bright that it seemed to illuminate this eerie prison.
At the last moment, she closed her mouth, and the mellow wine slowly fell down her pale cheeks and onto her wet clothes.
She didn't want to die like this.
She was hot all over the night, maybe this prison was really gloomy, frozen, she took the straw and covered her body, and it seemed that she was gradually getting better.
It wasn't until the window was lit by the light from outside again that there was a long thud from the quiet depths of the prison, and then the jailer entered.
Then she felt like her legs were chained, and it was as heavy as if she would be dragged into an endless hell at any moment.
She struggled to open her eyelids, knowing that this moment was finally coming.
Seeing that her thin body could not stand up at all, the jailer unceremoniously kicked her off the wooden board to the ground, and then dragged her out of the cell door.
Walking along the dark passage, Yu Zhiyan saw every person in the cell, including the elderly, men, and women, looking at her with empty eyes, without pity, as if they had long been surprised by these things.
Until she was dragged into a bright room, when he looked up, he saw Sun Xi sitting at the desk with a proud face, looking at Yu Zhiyan with a proud face.
Sitting beside him was Feng Huang, his long black hair hanging low, like the depth of the night.
"The queen mother ordered me to interrogate you, Mr. Qin Rong was ordered to supervise this time, rest assured that we will never let you recruit you carefully."
Yu Zhiyan trembled and looked at the cold smile on Sun Xi's face, she seemed to be an ant who was pinched in her hand and held the power of life and death.
Where is the interrogation, if it is really the interrogation where to get him, the eunuch and a violinist, but the queen sent him to torture him, they will not pay attention to what she says, as long as she confesses her guilt.
Obviously, Sun Xi knew that Feng Huang had already been exonerated from the crime, so naturally he couldn't pull him into this matter anymore, but it was undoubtedly a happy thing to be able to torture Yu Zhiyan with his own hands, and it was in front of Feng Huang.
"Someone, torture." Sun Xi shouted, as if he didn't want Yu Zhiyan to say anything at all.
As soon as he finished speaking, two jailers came up with torture instruments.
Yu Zhiyan was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, maybe she should really drink that wine, so that she didn't have to suffer such a big sin.
The torture tools brought by the jailer were made of a few pieces of bamboo sticks and hemp rope, and Yu Zhiyan only felt a tremble when he knew those things.
Then her hand was inserted into the center of the clamp, and her jade fingers curled up, a piece cold.
She couldn't help but look at Feng Huang's eyes, but saw that he was still unfazed, even what Sun Xi said to him, and he responded lightly, as if he didn't care about everything that happened here.
However, it was Feng Huang who spoke, and his thin lips moved slightly. "Pullβ"
As soon as the words fell, the jailer next to her had already pulled the hemp rope to both sides, and suddenly a sharp pain came from her fingertips, and she suddenly let out a terrible scream, "Ah-"
"Plead guilty or not?" Sun Xi's urging voice sounded in her ears, "As long as you sign the paper, you don't have to suffer such a crime." β
She slowly looked at the piece of paper in front of her, which clearly wrote how she seduced Qin Rong, even the side details were written so clearly.
Yu Zhiyan knew that the queen wanted her life to have such trouble, she was just trying to torture Feng Huang and torture her. As long as she signs and draws the charge, the queen will have a reason to execute her, and it will be useless for Gu Jue to ask for the crime in the future.
Yu Zhiyan convulsed in pain, she bit her lip tightly, the skin of her mouth was broken, and the tip of her tongue immediately felt a trace of fishy sweetness.
"I didn't seduce him, you deliberately framed him." Yu Zhiyan's voice was stubborn and unyielding, "I only have this sentence from beginning to end. β
"It doesn't hurt to look at her, isn't it because you don't have the strength." Sun Xi saw that her words were pointing at him, and he couldn't help but be furious, snatched the rope from the jailer's hand, and pulled it with the strength of milk.
The hemp rope has been stretched to the extreme, and even the stick clamp has been deformed, Yu Zhiyan only felt that the bones of her fingers had been broken, and her ten fingers were connected to her heart, and such a heart-rending pain made her whole body spasm.
Her thin body couldn't bear it anymore, and she slowly fainted.
The last word that reached her ears was Feng Huang's voice, "Wake her up." β
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In the Chengguo Mansion, Gu Jue fell on the bed and had already slept in the sun before waking up, and the room was already in chaos, with powerful wine bottles swaggering under his feet.
Seeing that there was movement in the house, the little guy who was probing his brain outside hurriedly came in, and said with a smile: "General, the adults outside are waiting, saying that they want to discuss the construction of the dam with you, they are very anxious, and they have called the servants several times to urge." β
Gu Jue sneered, "What do you want me to do with this matter, I am not a saint, I only said that General Ben is sick, and he is going to die." β
As he spoke, he went to pick up the bottles on the floor, and there were a few drops left, all of which he held up and drank cleanly.