Chapter 693: Xiao Jue plots rebellion and is thrown into death row
Half a month later,
Someone reported that the Regent was plotting treason.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves!
Everyone looked at the person who made the report in astonishment, and that person was none other than the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War!
Wow, you are so brave.
Everyone knows what the Regent is thinking, but no one dares to expose it to his face.
Is this old guy crazy?
During this period, some people found it strange.
Who is the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of War?
That's a lady's.
He dared to report the regent for treason, and it was unacceptable that there was no one behind it who was instigating it.
Could it be that the princess is going to take action against the regent?
Yes, the princess is the future crown prince, and the regent is extremely powerful. Wouldn’t he seize the opportunity to crush such a big threat to death?
The Liao emperor, who was sitting on the dragon throne with a sick look on his face, had a weak voice, and the expression on his face could not be seen through the pearl curtain.
"Search!"
Soon, the Imperial Guards found a privately hidden dragon robe and a voodoo doll covered with talismans in the Regent's Palace, on which was the Liao Emperor's birth date!
The Regent's Palace resisted arrest and in the chaos, the Regent was shot by an arrow, captured on the spot and thrown into death row.
The evidence of the Regent's treason was solid, and all his connections were implicated. For a time, everyone was in danger, and the vegetable market entrance of the Meridian Gate was covered with indelible bloodstains.
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Night falls, death row
The light in the death cell was very dim. There was an oil lamp hanging on the wall. Rats crawled out from the dark corners looking for food, and bedbugs were running all over the floor.
There were spider webs all over the corners, dirty walls, and not even a decent bed in the cell. There was only a torn and messy straw mat with dried blood stains on it.
There was already a person living in this cell. He was sitting quietly against the wall, his hair disheveled, and his prison uniform was stained with blood, which was caused by the whip. The bloody skin was visible through the torn uniform, and the wounds were festering without treatment.
'Clang'
The cell lock was unlocked.
All the yamen runners were dismissed, including the one who followed, leaving only a man in a black cloak.
The man slowly walked into the cell, stood still, raised his hand and took off the hat on his cloak, revealing a cold and beautiful face. "How does it feel in prison?"
There was no trace of pity in the woman's cold voice. Her eyes fell on the man in the corner with a complex look that seemed to be full of sarcasm, sadness and hatred.
Hearing the sound, the man in the corner did not move, as if he had lost the ability to speak.
"You don't even want to look at me now?"
The woman slowly approached, leaned over slightly, and lifted the man's chin with her white hand.
Looking at that cold and pale face, the strength in his hands seemed to be lighter, and his fingertips gently slid along the face to the eyebrows.
She lifted her slightly messy hair to reveal a pair of dark and deep eyes. There was already a dead silence in her eyes, like a pool of stagnant water that could no longer withstand the slightest ripple.
"Why, you don't dare to look at me?"
The woman pinched Xiao Jue's chin, and their eyes met. The woman stared into the pair of deep and dead eyes and sneered.
"Hate?"
"…You should be hated. It was me who placed the dragon robe in the dark room where you and I had our tryst. It was also me who placed the witch doll that cursed Xiao Yan under the pear tree we planted. Even the poison in your body was put there by me!"
"Oh, you don't know yet?"
The woman leaned close to Xiao Jue's ear, her sweet voice filled with morbid madness: "It was also me who caused my sister's difficult labor. I had her belly cut open, and it was a boy."
"Do you know... where that child is?"
"I drowned him... in the lotus pond where you usually feed him..."
The woman's silly smile was creepy and she seemed a little sick. When she saw Xiao Jue's stunned expression, she thought that he was shocked after learning the truth.
"you hate me?"
The woman looked at the man in front of her and laughed: "Haha...haha, hate me, you are right to hate me."
(End of this chapter)
