Then their discussion just now would be meaningless.
There is no need to think about conviction, and there is no need to worry about being implicated too much. It seems that a heavy burden has been lifted off.
Yes, death is the simplest and best outcome.
He's dead and everyone is fine.
"Since the thief has been put to death, let's investigate the accomplices responsible for tonight's thief. The guilty will be punished, and the meritorious will be rewarded." The queen said, looking at the courtiers, "As for rewards and punishments, there are laws. Please discuss them according to your responsibilities."
The courtiers responded in unison.
The sky gradually brightened, and the night that shrouded the imperial city faded away. Last night's artillery fire, dead bodies, blood, grief, and terror were displayed one by one between heaven and earth.
In fact, the capital had already been awakened. First, there was the confrontation between the garrison running on the street in the middle of the night and the city defense, and then there were the two cannon shots in front of the imperial city, which shook half of the capital.
Even though she was hiding in the cellar, Li Mao's wife still screamed and hugged the children tightly in her arms.
At the same time, other people shouted that the earth was shaking, the earth was shaking, and the lights in half of the city were lit up, but those who rushed onto the street were quickly blocked back.
The streets were filled with garrison troops.
"It's not an earthquake. Please stay home and don't go out."
The stunned people looked at the gleaming armor and weapons and dared not say anything more. However, as people in the capital, they had keener perceptions than people in other places, and they probably guessed what was going on.
The sound of horse hooves outside the door became more and more loud, and as the door was knocked open, the servants in the yard were not as panicked as expected. They were all neatly dressed. Although they were trembling, they were not panicked.
The garrison soldiers were stunned.
"Sure enough, they are worthy of being part of the Prime Minister's family. They are a bit more generous than other families." One of the garrison soldiers couldn't help but say.
However, if you don't act as a good husband and insist on being a thief who murders the monarch, you are really doing your own evil.
The leading military general Shula unfolded the imperial edict in his hand.
"...Chen Shao has been executed for his rebellion, and his family has been confiscated..."
The red and green drapes in the backyard have long been taken down, the door of the house is wide open, and Mrs. Chen is sitting inside in a formal dress.
A servant girl rushed in hurriedly.
"Madam, madam..." They staggered on their feet, their voices choked with sobs, and they knelt down as they stepped on the corridor.
Seeing this, Mrs. Chen knew it. She stood up and walked towards the white silk hanging that had already been hung without hesitation.
"Madam..." the servants cried and rushed to hug her legs.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Chen raised her eyebrows and yelled, "Can't you even save the last bit of face? These garrison troops all know that if someone like us commits an offense, the women will hang themselves. If
Without permission, they will break in soon. Are you willing to watch me be confiscated as a slave in a prostitute camp?"
For those who have committed crimes, it is a great mercy for women to have the opportunity to commit suicide with dignity.
People live a busy life for the sake of wealth and honor in life, and also for the dignity and honor when they die.
Being able to die with dignity is also a blessing.
"Mother!"
Chen Danniang's shout came from outside the door, and along with the thumping of footsteps, people rushed in, hugged Mrs. Chen who was standing on the stool, and burst into tears.
"Mother, don't you want Dan Niang anymore? Mother, don't you want Dan Niang anymore?"
Mrs. Chen's tears suddenly fell like rain, and the servants fell to the ground and cried loudly.
"You, you wait for the little lady to go on her way." Mrs. Chen cried.
The servants and women cried loudly.
"Slaves can't do it."
Mrs. Chen then reached out and pulled her belt.
"Danniang, don't be afraid, mother is with you." She said and put the belt around Chen Danniang's neck.
Chen Danniang cried loudly. Although she was young, she vaguely understood something.
"Mother, I'm not afraid." she cried.
It would have been better if she didn't speak. When she spoke, Mrs. Chen's hands shook so much that she couldn't hold her belt.
"Oh my god." She covered her face and cried loudly, "What evil did she do in her previous life?"
I'm crying here, and the footsteps are noisy outside.
"Everyone stand up, don't move around, don't get involved." Accompanied by shouts.
Mrs. Chen's face turned pale and she couldn't wait any longer. She gritted her teeth and pulled in the belt with force.
Chen Danniang shouted, her face turned red and she reached out to grab the belt around her neck.
The soldiers rushed in, rushed over and snatched the belt from Mrs. Chen's hand.
Chen Danniang fell to the ground and coughed violently.
"Please," Mrs. Chen shouted and knelt down in tears, "let her go away innocently."
After saying that, he kowtowed.
"Let her go away innocently."
Don't act like a prostitute, don't fall from wealth and prosperity into the quagmire, let everything stop in the best moments of your life.
The soldiers had seen this kind of scene many times, and they didn't have any expressions of sorrow and sigh, and they drove away numbly.
"Let's go, let's go," they said.
The servants were driven out staggeringly, and Mrs. Chen had to help Chen Danniang get up.
There are thousands of ways to die.
Mrs. Chen thought silently and stopped crying. All for the sake of dignity, leaving this trace of dignity.
"I want my bow."
They had already reached the front yard, and Chen Danniang suddenly broke away from her hand and ran back.
The soldiers immediately gathered around and pointed their swords and guns at Chen Danniang.
"Danniang." Mrs. Chen shouted and rushed over to catch her, her body trembling.
If you run around at this time, you will be killed on the spot.
Thinking of this, she smiled bitterly.
It's all death anyway, and it doesn't matter if you die like this.
In fact, he doesn't want to die.
"Danniang." She hugged Danniang and cried, "Don't run around, this is no longer our home, there is nothing belonging to us."
"Mother, I want my bow. You said it before. Sister Cheng gave me the bow and you want me to hold it properly." Chen Danniang cried, reaching back and saying, "I want to hold my bow."
The general standing in the courtyard suddenly came over.
"What does the lady want?" he asked.
Mrs. Chen looked at the general with some vigilance.
"I don't want anything." She held Chen Danniang in her arms and said.
"My bow." Chen Danniang struggled out and shouted, "This is the bow Sister Cheng gave me."
The general said.
"Then go get it." He said.
Mrs. Chen was stunned for a moment, but Chen Danniang was so happy that she ran away.
"Little lady," the general shouted again, "take it carefully and don't lose it. When someone comes to ask you for it, it won't look good if you can't find it."
Chen Danniang turned around.
"Of course not, I won't lose it," she said.
But here Mrs. Chen finally understood something, covered her face and knelt down and cried loudly.
There was a sudden commotion outside Chen's house.
"Stop, don't come any closer." The officers and soldiers shouted, pointing their weapons at the approaching woman.
Chen Shiba Niang stopped.
"What's wrong with His Royal Highness?" she asked, looking at the officers and soldiers with a pale face.
No one answered her.
"What's wrong with His Royal Highness?" Chen Shiba Niang shouted sharply and rushed over again, "What's wrong with my father?"
The officers and soldiers thrust their swords and guns in without hesitation.
The servant girl next to Chen Shiba Niang screamed in fear and stretched out her arms to hug her tightly. There was only one finger away from the tip of the gun.
"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Chen Shiba Niang didn't notice at all and still shouted.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was plotted to death by Chen Gao Er," an officer said coldly.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was murdered?
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dead?
Chen Shiba Niang's face turned pale and her expression was horrified and in disbelief.
Impossible, impossible.
She shook her head slowly.
How is it possible, how is it possible.
If a Prince Ping dies, then the prince dies too...
"Because if I have it, I will still have it, and if someone doesn't have it, I will still have it."
If some people don’t have it, they still won’t have it…
Chen Shiba Niang suddenly raised her head and pointed with her hand.
"It was they who murdered the prince!" she screamed, "it was she who murdered the prince! She did it! She did it!"
Before he could finish his words, the servant girl who rushed over held her mouth tightly.
"Pull the lady back quickly," the stout servant shouted.
The maid who followed couldn't help but excuse herself and left.
Seeing the surrounded door getting further and further away, Chen Shiba Niang struggled hard and tears flowed from her eyes.
Father, mother, her home!
She did it! She did it!
It was she who harmed the prince! It was she who harmed his father! It was she who rebelled! It was her! It was her!
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"...The rebellious Chen Shao, Gao Lingbo, is dead. He will be deprived of his official title, his family and property, and his men and women will be exiled to a distant place and serve as prostitutes in military camps."
A chamberlain read out in a sharp voice what the courtiers had written.
The queen was silent for a moment.
"What about the members of the Gao and Chen families?" she asked.
The court officials present looked at each other.
The Chen family is easy to talk about, but the Gao family is also the Queen Mother's clan.
After all, the Queen Mother has not made any accusations to others, so it would be bad to involve the Gao family.
"You can do such a treasonous thing and not implicate your clan members. How generous the royal family is."
The voice of Prince Jin'an sounded from the side.
When the courtiers were discussing, he indeed sat quietly like the Prince of Yanping County without speaking, but as soon as he spoke, the courtiers couldn't help but flutter in their hearts.
He said that the imperial court was really magnanimous, but his eyes swept over the sitting courtiers.
They were the ones who made this kind of conviction, not the imperial court. So the King of Jin'an County did not mean that they, the courtiers, were expressing magnanimity on behalf of the royal family.
The royal family has been in such great danger, but you can express your generosity in an airy way.
"Doesn't this sound a bit childish?" Prince Jin'an continued, looking at everyone with a smile on his lips.
But this smile looked particularly cold, and the courtiers couldn't help but avoid looking at him.
"Yes, that's right. This kind of treacherous conspiracy to murder the prince, how could it be so lightly carried out? Wouldn't it make the people suspicious and pursue the three clans." A court official immediately said, "Send all of them to the department for interrogation and verification."
Prince Jin'an nodded.
"After the conviction, the Queen will issue a pardon." He said, "This not only expresses punishment, but also does not lose the honor of the Queen Mother. What do you think of this?"
What do we think?
Didn’t you say everything?
If I disagree, what are you going to do?
Think of the garrison outside, think of Gao Lingbo who committed suicide in the blink of an eye...
Now that things have come to this, the Prince of Jin'an County will never give up.
"That's right." A court official nodded and said.
More courtiers nodded in agreement.
Prince Jin'an nodded and his expression returned to solemnity.
"Since everyone has said this, I have no objection." He looked at the queen, "It is already dawn, and the courtiers are already waiting to go to court. I also ask the queen to issue an edict as soon as possible to make this matter public.
To serve as a warning to others and to calm people’s hearts.”
The queen nodded, stood up and raised her hand.
"The ministers' families will go ahead," she said, "I will change my clothes and go to court later."
The courtiers bowed in response.
At this time, a chamberlain hurriedly came in, and without caring about the queen, he went straight to King Jin'an and whispered a few words. King Jin'an's expression suddenly changed.
"I'll take my leave first," he said and stood up.
The palace was quiet, and the courtiers had complicated expressions on their faces, looking at the queen with vague eyes.
The queen's expression remained the same, and she did not feel at all that she had become a decoration in the palace.
"If the two thieves Gao and Chen are able to plot rebellion in the palace, there must be others left. Today tomorrow, the King of Jin'an County will go and investigate again." She said solemnly.
The Prince of Jin'an County bowed in response, turned around and hurried out.
Seeing the King of Jin'an striding away from the palace surrounded by a group of imperial guards, the officials standing at the palace gate preparing to go to court had complicated expressions.
"It's quite Taizu-like, but I don't know if it's good or bad for the court." A courtier couldn't help but murmured in a low voice.
King Jin'an paid no attention to the courtiers' speculations. He walked quickly, and the morning light gradually passed through the palaces and shone on him, but he did not feel any warmth, and instead his body became colder and colder.
"Your Highness, it's right here." A guard said, pointing to a palace in front of him.
Prince Jin'an's steps stopped instead.
Is there no rescue?
Why did the chamberlain say something was wrong?
What would she do if Zhou Hui failed to save her? What would she do?
There were many guards standing in front of the palace gate, surrounding it, and some people rushed out from inside.
"Your Highness."
Doctor Li shouted in a trembling voice.
Seeing Doctor Li's face, King Jin'an couldn't help but take a deep breath again and walked towards the palace door.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, please listen to me first. If you see it, don't worry." Doctor Li stretched out his hand to stop him and said hurriedly.
urgent?
How could he not be anxious?
He lost his sixth brother, which was very sad, but he had always been sick, so he was somewhat prepared in his heart, but what about her? Her brother was fine and had always been fine, but suddenly something happened overnight...
…
How could she always be so miserable...
Why are they always so miserable?
Can't, can't.
"Cheng Fang." Prince Jin'an pushed open the palace door and walked in. His words stopped suddenly and he was stunned.
There was blood everywhere, on the ground and on the walls, overwhelmingly pouring into his sight.
The woman was lying on the bloody ground, her clothes had been cut to pieces, and her flesh and blood were exposed, as if she had rolled over a mountain of knives.
Prince Jin'an's head was pounding, his legs softened, and he knelt down.
Cheng Fang?
Cheng Fang!
A scream came from the hall, almost piercing the eardrums of everyone present.
It simply didn't sound like a human shout.
Doctor Li stretched out his hands to cover his face and slowly slid down the door.
Your Highness, please don't worry. Your Highness, please... give me my condolences.
