Mingzhu looked at Anle for help, hoping that she could help her out, but for some reason, Anle looked at her as if nothing had happened, as if she was still waiting for Mingzhu to answer this question as easily as she did just now.
Mingzhu felt a chill in her heart. She had to wonder whether a pampered royal girl like Anle didn't even know that there was such a thing as a household registration certificate in the world.
Mingzhu's lips moved a few times, but she couldn't think of a suitable answer. Wu Sansi's eyes stared at her unblinkingly, as if a vulture had seen the dying body and was waiting for her to swallow the last breath.
tone, and then immediately flew over and feasted hard.
"I haven't applied for household registration yet." Mingzhu replied in a low voice.
"Nothing can be done?" Wu Sansi's eyes flashed with a cunning light, "Why can't you do it?"
"Because..." Mingzhu was about to try to explain, but Wu Sansi interrupted her directly:
"You don't need to explain. In this case, I will send someone to take you to handle it now. After the handling is completed, I will send you back intact. Princess, what do you think of this?"
Wu Sansi looked at Princess Anle, because in Wu Sansi's mind, Mingzhu's opinion was not worth listening to at all, as long as Princess Anle could accept this method.
"In this way..." Anle was stunned. She couldn't think clearly for a moment whether she could agree to Wu Sansi.
At this time, Queen Wei suddenly spoke:
"Your Majesty, I think this is a good idea, so I asked Mr. Wu to send someone to take Fang Mingzhu to go through the household registration procedures. Once it is done, she will come back soon."
"But, what if..." Anle whispered to her mother in a low voice, hoping that her mother could understand her worries.
But before she finished speaking, Empress Wei said in a voice lower than hers:
"Your Majesty, why are you confused! If this Fang Mingzhu is innocent, then she can get the household registration smoothly and come back soon, everyone will be happy. But if she is really a repeat offender, Mr. Wu will find evidence
After that, arresting her would be better than just taking her away from you. If you really wait for them to find the evidence of Fang Mingzhu’s crime and take her away from your house, your reputation as a hidden criminal will disappear.
No matter what! Be obedient and let Mr. Wu take her there!"
Anle wanted to say something more, but Mingzhu suddenly spoke:
"Princess, you don't have to worry. It was my negligence that I didn't apply for the household registration certificate in time. Now Mr. Wu happened to send someone to help me do it. This is a good thing. I will follow them and I will be back soon.
"
Wu Sansi no longer gave Anle time to think too much, and he ordered:
"Come, please go back home and ask Miss Fang to come with us."
After saying this, he said goodbye to Empress Wei and An Le, and walked away. When only Empress Wei and her daughter were left in the hall, An Le shouted in dissatisfaction:
"Mother, I think you are too indulgent of Wu Sansi!"
"Your Majesty, what do you know? Don't talk nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense!" Now that there was not even a servant in the hall, Anle spoke even more brazenly, "You want to imitate Empress Zetian in everything, but you are not like the empress in this regard. Empress Zetian was the same at the beginning.
Treat these men who serve her as slaves!"
An Le's words hit Empress Wei's pain point, and Empress Wei's face suddenly changed color. How could she not know this? No matter how much Wu Zetian favored her male favorites, those male favorites always obeyed Wu Zetian's words. It was not like that at all.
As she is now, she has to follow Wu Sansi's wishes in everything, and she doesn't dare to offend him at all. But Queen Wei will never admit this in front of her daughter until she dies:
"You still haven't shut up! Do you know why Wu Sansi dares to be so arrogant? It's not because I can't control him, but because the Queen Zetian you admire gave him too much power, so now there is no one at all
I can control him."
"Hmph," Anle sneered disdainfully, "You are the queen, and my father is the emperor. If you are willing, you can take back the power given to him by Queen Zetian!"
Anle told another fact - Queen Wei and the emperor did have this power, but they couldn't do it because the emperor was weak and Queen Wei was incompetent. They simply couldn't use the power in their hands well. It's not that they didn't want to take it back.
Wu Sansi, and even the entire Wu family, have the power, but they don't know how to do this legitimately, and they don't have the courage to offend the powerful Wu family.
If Wu Zetian chose their husband and wife to rule the world just to protect the Wu family, then her decision was absolutely correct.
Empress Wei didn't want to be entangled with An Le anymore, so she walked away directly. And until she returned to the palace, her heart was still filled with raging anger. An Le's words today were too irritating to her.
Everything An Le said was true. Empress Wei didn't understand why she was so inferior to Queen Zetian! Is it because the Queen was more beautiful than herself? She might have been a little more beautiful than herself when she was young, but when she favored her male favorite
She was already over sixty years old! Couldn't I be more charming than an old woman in her sixties?
Empress Wei's eyes flashed with fierce light:
'If you must find out the difference between yourself and Empress Zetian, then there is only one point. She is the empress, and I am just the empress. Yes, that's right, that's the difference! If she becomes the empress, then Wu Sansi will definitely
Just listen to yourself!'
Queen Wei began to imagine in her mind the scene of those men crawling at her feet after she became the queen. She felt that her desire to be the queen had never been as strong as it is now!
Wu Sansi did not send someone to take Mingzhu to apply for a household registration certificate, but took her directly back to his mansion. In his mansion, there was a secret room dedicated to lynching, and now Mingzhu was brought here.
Wu Sansi was sitting on a large chair, and Mingzhu was standing opposite him. The entire secret room was made of stones, and no light could come in. It was only illuminated by the huge burning torches on the wall.
The flames on the torches flickered, leaving many changing shadows on the walls, making the entire secret room even more terrifying and inexplicable.
"Say it." Wu Sansi said coldly, his voice echoing in the secret room.
"What did you say?" Mingzhu asked calmly without panicking.
"Huh," Wu Sansi sneered, "You don't have to put on such a front for me. Now, you have fallen into my hands and no one can save you. You'd better tell the truth.
So that your skin will not suffer."
Fang Mingzhu also sneered:
"I think you'd better let me suffer some pain. I don't have a good memory, so I might have to suffer some pain to be able to remember certain things."
"Hehe," Wu Sansi let out a strange laugh, "Originally I was not sure that you were from the Fang family in the Western Region, but looking at your current posture, you are really from the Fang family."
In Wu Sansi's view, if he were an ordinary person, he would not be so tit-for-tat with him. You know, just by looking at these bloody torture instruments in the secret room, most people would be scared to death.
Not to mention, he actively asked to give it a try.
Mingzhu smiled faintly:
"Do you think it's strange why I don't deal with you? In fact, it's nothing strange, because I know that since I fall into your hands, there will definitely be no hope of escape. You would rather kill me by mistake than kill me by mistake.
Let it go. So since I can’t escape death no matter what, I will simply be more honest and upright, so that I can be worthy of the Fang family’s reputation that I bear!”
"Okay, you have some backbone!" Wu Sansi nodded, "So, are you really from the Fang family in the Western Region?"
"My surname is Fang, so I must be a member of the Fang family. As for whether this Fang family is the Fang family of the Western Region, and everything about the Fang family, I have no comment!"
"Do you really want to force me to torture you severely?"
"Whether you want to be punished or not is up to you. Anyway, I won't tell you anything you want to know."
The more Mingzhu behaves like this, the more Wu Sansi feels really unsure. Over the years, he has tortured countless people in this secret room, whether they are court ministers or wealthy people, but he has never seen anyone.
A person as calm and composed as the woman in front of me. It seems that this Fang family in the Western Region is really a bit evil.
Wu Sanxi thought for a moment and then said:
"Do you still want to rely on your relationship with the Li family, so you dare to be so rampant? Today, you also saw in the princess mansion that the queen and princess of the dynasty did not dare to go against my wishes, so,
You should understand that the Li family is at the end of its rope, what else does your Fang family have to rely on and be arrogant about?"
Before Wu Sansi finished speaking, Mingzhu suddenly let out a burst of laughter, as if she had heard some particularly funny joke:
"We rely on the Li family, how about we rely on today's cowardly and incompetent emperor? That stupid queen and princess? You are really humorous!"
"Then who do you want to rely on?" Wu Sansi pressed forward step by step.
Mingzhu turned her head and looked at the torture instruments in the secret room, and then said boringly:
"Okay, I'm tired of talking. From now on I won't talk anymore. It's up to you whether you want to kill, chop or torture."
As she spoke, she actually found a torture device that she could sit on, leaned on it, and closed her eyes.
Looking at Fang Mingzhu who had begun to close his eyes and fall asleep, Wu Sansi was at a loss to decide:
"This Fang Mingzhu's behavior is too weird. It seems that she is both good and evil, but I really can't figure out where she is coming from. Is she bluffing, or is she really not afraid of death or torture? Do I deserve it?
Should she be tortured?"
Wu Sansi pondered for a long time, then suddenly waved his hand heavily and shouted: