Chapter 020: Self-Inflicted Consequences
The city lord's wife immediately knelt down and walked a few steps towards the Nine Kings, looked at the Nine Kings deeply and said, "Ji Rou has been with the concubine since she was a child, and she has always been a kind-hearted child. The concubine can vouch for her own life, and she will never hurt the red-waisted girl. ”
The four words of this kind-hearted child sound really ironic, but such a "kind-hearted" Ji Rou will appear in a place like the torture room, pull out the nails of a dumb girl with cruel means, and talk about it with relish.
Of course, only the red waist was the one who saw Ji Rou do it to the dumb girl, but after all, the red waist still retains a trace of reason.
The Nine Kings slowly looked at the white-faced coachman: "Draw a knife for Hong'er." ”
The City Lord's Lady kept staring at the Nine Kings, and then followed his words to look at the red waist lying on the bed, and at a glance she almost made the same frightened expression as the Guan City Lord, the red waist was covered in blood, which had dripped from her skirt.
However, it's already like this, and it's not even angry?!
The city lord's wife inhaled the cool air, and her face burned white: "This ...... What's going on?! ”
Jiuwang looked at her with a faint smile: "That's the case, Mrs. Fei, is it Ba looking at my servant girl to die?" ”
The city lord's wife immediately fell to the ground and shook her head: "No, naturally not!" Red Waist ...... The red-waisted girl is auspicious! Like His Royal Highness the Nine Kings, they are all people who have been blessed by blessings, and they will definitely be fine! ”
The white-faced coachman walked up to Redwaist and looked coldly at the knife in her chest. Then he took out a packet of medicinal powder from his arms, held the handle of the knife in his hand, and the moment the knife was pulled out, the white-faced coachman quickly pressed the medicinal powder on the wound on the red waist, but when he turned around, his face was covered with blood splashed from the red waist.
Ji Rou screamed and knelt directly next to the city lord's wife.
The city lord's wife covered Ji Rou's mouth stiffly, and said: "There are really many capable people around His Royal Highness the Nine Kings, and the maids of the concubines don't understand the rules, please don't blame His Royal Highness the Nine Kings." ”
The red waist really fainted in pain this time, the pain of the heart-cutting is not really bearable, and the medicine carried by the white-faced coachman can either turn people into a puddle of water, or even people like the red waist will be fainted to death by pain.
The white-faced coachman directly wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve, stood beside the Nine Kings, and handed over the dagger in his hand.
The Nine Kings played with this bloody dagger, looked at the three people on the ground, and said lightly: "This dagger is also engraved with the Nine Dragons totem, which is the mark of the Chen State Palace, unless it is a relative in the Chen State Palace, there will be no such thing." ”
The Guan City Lord has not spoken again since he was discouraged just now, and at this time he seemed to have finally grasped the handle, and looked at the Nine Kings and said: "What Xia Guan said is right, this is all done by the female spy of Chen Guolai, King Chen must have given her this dagger, and let her instigate Xia Guan and His Royal Highness the Nine Kings to turn against each other, this is her purpose, so that Chen Guo can reap the benefits of the fisherman!" ”
The couple of Guan City Lords love to shirk responsibility, and they are upright and meticulous in their prevarication, which is almost believable.
The Nine Kings said lightly: "The city lord has already seen the corpse of that dumb girl?" ”
The city lord seemed to be stunned for a moment, not quite understanding the meaning of the Nine Kings asking this, but the city lord's wife next to her had already quietly lowered her head, as if she didn't want people to see the expression on her face.
The little Jiujiu of these people on the ground, what they were thinking in their hearts, the nine kings knew it at a glance, and the corners of his mouth were not easy to imperceptibly show a smile. The Guan City Lord must have never seen the corpse of the dumb girl, and the Jin State tattoo on the arm has already explained the identity of the dumb girl, but the Guan City Lord is still pretending to be stupid.
But looking at the city lord's wife's secretive and secretive performance, she obviously already knew, after all, Ji Rou had woken up, and when she woke up and saw the dumb girl for the first time, she naturally understood that the nine kings already knew the true identity of the dumb girl.
However, the city lord's wife and the Guan city lord are named husband and wife, but the city lord's wife concealed this extremely important information, watching the Guan city lord make a mistake in front of the nine kings, if the nine kings are really angry because of this, the city lord Guan will definitely die......
It seems that the reputation of the Nine Kings accompanying death has really been reduced to the careful calculation of some people.
However, who can decide who will die and who will not die next to the Nine Kings?
The Nine Kings smiled leisurely at this time, as if they had seen enough of the wonderful expressions of the three people on the ground, he got up to look at the city lord, and asked as the city lord's wife looked at: "But the city lord, as far as this king knows, the corpse of the dumb girl is engraved with the jackal tattoo of the Jin Kingdom." ”
What is a jackal tattoo, just look at the fierce and miserable face of the city lord Guan to understand, it is the exclusive love of the King of Jin, this dumb girl has this tattoo on her body, so what Chen Guo dagger is not worth mentioning.
The city lord knelt on the ground: "The lower official really doesn't know ......"
The city lord's wife just had a lotus tongue, and the crying pear blossoms brought rain, and at this moment, she saw that the city lord had offended the nine kings, but she watched coldly, and she had no pity.
It's really a husband and wife, who are birds of the same forest, and fly separately when the disaster comes.
The Nine Kings said softly: "Before all the maidservants enter the mansion, they must have a physical examination. The tattoo on the body is impossible to hide. Do you want to say that you don't actually know that the dumb girl is from the Jin Kingdom, or do you not know that this king already knows that she is from the Jin Kingdom? ”
Guan Chengcheng's face turned red when he was asked, and those who didn't know thought that he was more dying than the red waist. I saw him fall to the ground and began to crawl towards the Nine Kings: "Xia Guan really doesn't know anything, the matter of the body examination belongs to the affairs of the family, and it is all handled by Xia Guan's wife......
The city lord's wife was immediately shocked, fell to the ground and said: "Back to His Royal Highness the Nine Kings, that woman came to the concubine's mansion two years ago, and the concubine also looked at her pitiful, at that time, the concubine handed her over to the inner house woman to be trained, and the concubine did not see the body examination in person, obviously the inner palace woman deceived the concubine!" ”
The Nine Kings took a sip of tea and said, "This king guesses, that woman must not be in the mansion now." ”
The city lord's wife's face stiffened, and she stumbled and replied, "Last year, the concubine took pity on her old age and frailty, and let her go back to her hometown. In the years of war, her place was leveled by Chen Jun, and now she is nowhere to be found. ”
The most seamless lie is probably the most unproven.
The Nine Kings looked at the City Lord's wife, "Madame is really doing her best. ”
The voice was soft, and her eyes fell on the slightly cramped face of the city lord's wife, the city lord's wife was frightened and surprised for a while, this was the first time that the nine kings came to the mansion and looked at her "squarely".
But she is not so brainless, Jiuwang's words are clearly not really praising her for her dedication, but the real meaning is creepy.
But the beauty is probably like this, even if the mouth is honey and the sword is hidden in the smile, the actual smile is poisonous, it will still make you shake for his beauty, and then no matter how rational you are, you will become confused.
The Guan City Lord turned his head viciously at this time: "How do I remember that it was the lady who personally brought the mute by her side, and she didn't hand it over to any inner women. ”
The city lord's wife gritted her teeth, and said with a smile: "The husband is busy with nobles on weekdays, and I'm afraid you can't remember these things in the inner courtyard at all." ”
The lord of the city sneered: "Even if I can't remember anything else, that dumb man has always followed you, and I won't forget to go in and out every day." ”
The city lord's wife's face turned iron blue, she looked at the city lord, where was there still a little husband and wife between the two.
Jiuwang watched them sing double reeds, and smiled slowly: "Actually, I have always called that woman mute, but I was wronged, I asked the coachman to check the scar in the woman's mouth, but it was far from being dumb two years ago, it was a new injury within half a year." ”
Undoubtedly, it was another dose of fierce medicine, and the faces of the city lord and his wife changed in shock at the same time. But the lord of the city was really shocked, shocked by the fact that he knew nothing about what he had heard. And the surprise of the city lord's wife was a little like a fright.
The Nine Kings asked the City Lord's wife more softly than before, "How, ma'am, what do you have to explain to this king?" ”
The city lord's wife began to learn from the appearance of the city lord, knelt on the ground and said, "The concubine really doesn't know anything......
The Nine Kings sighed lightly and said, "Since the mute girl has not left the mansion for two years, how can the lady not know that her tongue has been taken away?" ”
The most terrifying thing about the Nine Kings is that no matter how elaborate the lie is, he can capture the fatal point and use the words of others to checkmate others step by step. In the eyes of those people, this is to dig a pit and bury themselves.
The look of the city lord's wife at this moment can be described as sincere and fearful: "The concubine must have remembered it wrong!" The concubine's memory has been bad over the years, and she can remember many things badly......"
The Guan City Lord, who had recovered from the shock, slowly looked at the City Lord's wife, and the expression on his face became even more vicious: "Misremembered? Didn't Madame just say that I have a bad memory, and that I remember the situation of the mute girl badly? Now it seems that Madame knows much more than I, the lord of the city. ”
At this time, the two of them were more like fighting in the nest, and after the initial pain passed, the red waist also diverted her attention, and at this time, looking at the mutual accusations between the city lord and his wife, she felt as if she had seen something that the nine kings saw.
For example, the identity of the mute female assassin must have been known to the city lord and his wife, and they hid the dumb girl in the mansion together. But the dumb girl was not really dumb, no matter what the reason was hidden, but the city lord's wife must know it. However, she didn't tell the lord of the city.
Therefore, when the city lord heard the nine kings say that the dumb girl's tongue was taken away half a year later, he showed a sincere shock.
To sum up, the couple is not clean, but on the one hand, they are embarrassed, and on the other hand, they also drink each other's flesh and blood.
At least each of them wants to protect themselves more, and they all want to push each other to die for their own sake.
The forgotten dagger was between the fingers of the Nine Kings, and it seemed to cut his hand several times, but it was all brushed without danger. The Nine Kings held the dagger in the palm of their hands and looked at the couple: "Then the king should treat you as if you don't know anything." Why don't you tell this king about the origin of this dagger? ”