Chapter 9: Mass Grave
Hearing the shouting coming from the room, the maid outside the door became even more panicked.
They heard that the third young lady was angry, so they could only tiptoe into the house.
"Third Miss." The maids' voices trembled, and they were so scared that they didn't dare to raise their heads.
"Do you all want to be sold? Why do you come just now?" Shen Jinghuan glared at the maids.
They were so scared that they knelt on the ground and trembled, but no one dared to answer.
Shen Jinghuan looked at the people who were afraid of her and slowly calmed down her anger.
This is the identity gap.
Looking at them trembling, Shen Jinghuan was very satisfied.
If I become the Crown Princess in the future, who would dare to anger me?
"Get up, there shouldn't be a next time." Several maids stood up silently and stood there not daring to move.
They were afraid that the moody Third Miss would suddenly get angry and beat them to death.
Shen Jinghuan turned around and sat beside the bed. Looking at Guilan who was limp on the ground, the corners of her mouth slowly curled up: "Guilan has offended me, drag her out and beat her to death!"
The guards standing outside the door heard Shen Jinghuan's voice, and two of them came in and dragged Guilan out of the door.
"Miss Third, please spare me, spare me..." The pleading became weaker and weaker, and Guilan was soon dragged out.
She really wanted the Third Miss not to beat her to death, but she was also worried that she would get angry again and implicate her only sister.
The guards quickly pushed Guilan onto the bench outside. Guilan's tears kept flowing, but she did not dare to beg for mercy.
"Ah..." As the guards' board fell, Guilan couldn't help but scream out, and the board hit her again and again.
Guilan tried hard to endure the pain and didn't want to make any sound.
But her tightly bitten lower lip was already bleeding, and the whimpering sound still couldn't be stopped.
"Hmm..." The board kept hitting Guilan, and she gradually felt her vision go dark.
The board fell again, and she finally couldn't hold on and fainted.
The door was still open. Shen Jinghuan sat on the bed with a smile on her face and her eyes looking beyond the door.
Shen Jinghuan felt happy as she watched the guards outside hitting Guilan with their boards again and again.
The moment he heard Guilan screaming in pain, the smile on his lips gradually widened and then slowly rose.
Several maids in the room looked up inadvertently and saw the third young lady looking outside with a big smile on her face.
They hurriedly lowered their heads, all thinking that the Third Miss was too scary.
Until the noise outside stopped and the guards came to report that Guilan had been beaten to death, the smile on Shen Jinghuan's face did not stop.
"Throw her to a mass grave," Shen Jinghuan calmly decided Guilan's destination after her death.
It seems that deciding a person's life or death is as easy as stepping on an ant.
Guilan's sister Guizhi was watching from afar, biting her lips and covering her mouth tightly with her hands.
She saw her sister being executed, but could only watch from a distance.
I didn't even dare to shed tears, let alone make a sound.
Her life was bought with the death of her younger sister.
My sister was afraid of being implicated, so she didn't even dare to cry out in pain. She wanted to live well...
Guizhi quietly turned around and left. She was going to guard the mass grave, collect her sister's body, and bury her properly.
Shen Jinghuan beat Guilan to death with a stick, and after getting rid of the anger in his heart, he picked up the ointment that had just fallen on the ground and applied it gently.
After she applied the medicine, she lay back on the bed, thinking about the pleasure she had just felt from beating and killing the servant.
Thinking about becoming a crown princess, or even a queen in the future, she gradually fell asleep.
The prince she wanted to marry was being scolded in the palace because he accidentally mentioned that he wanted to cancel the engagement.
"Prince, your mother will not allow you to have the thought of breaking off the engagement. You are the future crown prince. Even if you don't like him, you can just marry him and settle him down. Why do you have to break off the engagement?"
"She is the only legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Marrying her will be helpful to you in the future."
"Although she is stupid, her father is a general who protects the country. Even if he dies in battle and his troops are taken back, you cannot underestimate him."
"She still has the grandfather of the Duke of Zhenguo around, and the Duke of Zhenguo loves her like the apple of his eye. How can you underestimate her?"
"Just marry any woman you like. Why do you have to cancel the engagement? You should think more about your future."
The queen kept talking to the prince, and when she saw that he was just looking at her without saying anything, she became even more angry.
"Whether you agree or not, your mother will not agree to your breaking off the engagement, and you are not allowed to go to your father." The Queen stood up and yelled at the Prince.
She knew that the prince had a woman he loved, so she was only thinking about breaking off the engagement.
"Mother, I won't marry that fool. If I marry her, I will be laughed at for the rest of my life."
"As a prince, the princess he married is a fool. Do I have no respect for myself?"
"Even if I don't have the help from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, I still have my uncle's Prime Minister's Mansion, and I can marry other women from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion."
"I can rely on myself, and I don't need a foolish princess to help me."
"Other women in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion?" The Queen remembered that the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion had only one legitimate daughter, Shen Jingxuan. When did they have other legitimate daughters?
"Doesn't the Duke of Zhenguo have only one legitimate daughter?" She frowned tightly, staring at the prince without blinking, waiting for his answer.
The prince raised his head and glanced at the queen, then slowly lowered his head: "No, it's from the second house."
Upon hearing this, the queen stood up suddenly and pointed at the prince with one hand: "I think you are crazy."
"Get out, get out, don't even think about it. I won't agree to it. You're ruining yourself." The queen yelled angrily.
She wanted to see what kind of woman could have seduced the prince's soul.
Xie Zihan quietly left the Queen's bedroom. Thinking of the Queen's words, his anger grew little by little.
It seems that he can't get past his mother, so he has to go to his father and ask him to issue an order to cancel the engagement.
Thinking of going to find his father, he turned and walked directly towards the imperial study.
When approaching the imperial study, Xie Zihan saw that his uncle had walked in before him.
Xie Lingxiao walked into the imperial study and saw the emperor reviewing memorials. He did not make a sound to disturb him and just stood there quietly.
With the emperor's oral order, he didn't need to perform the ceremony.
After standing for half an hour, the emperor raised his head and pretended to have just seen him.
"Royal brother, why didn't you make a sound when you came? I was too focused and didn't hear you enter the hall." The emperor greeted Xie Lingxiao hypocritically.
"Royal brother, government affairs are more important," Xie Lingxiao pretended not to notice the emperor's embarrassment and responded casually.
He knew that the emperor was suspicious, not to mention that he held two-thirds of the military power of Beiling Kingdom.
The emperor has been looking for his faults, but he has no idea where to start because he not only has military power but also is the regent.
"I summoned you to the palace because I heard that you were hunted down when you returned to Beijing. Have you found out who did it? How is your recovery?" the emperor asked tentatively.
After receiving the news, he has been worried about being exposed. The secret guards reported back that some of the people sent to assassinate him disappeared alive.
The emperor suspected that he was detained and interrogated by his younger brother, and was worried that he would be implicated.
"It's fine now, but the cause has not yet been found," Xie Lingxiao saw the emperor's worry.
He always knew that it was the emperor who sent people to assassinate him, but he just didn't want to pay any more attention to it.
Xie Lingxiao knew that the emperor was testing him, but he was not a good person.
Although we cannot assassinate him back, we can make up for it from other places.
The emperor asked some other questions, but when he found that he could not get any information, he let Xie Lingxiao leave.
Did the emperor think that Xie Lingxiao was a soft persimmon? He wanted to let himself suffer this loss, was it possible?
If the emperor sent someone to assassinate him, how could he be injured and poisoned, and he would not have gone to the cold pond to suppress the poison.
I will never meet that ugly woman and have any embarrassing experiences. I will have to pay for all these.
Xie Lingxiao walked out of the imperial study, still thinking about what happened on the day of the assassination, and the anger in his heart was slowly ignited once again.
He thought of asking someone to investigate the ugly woman, but there was no result yet.
Xie Lingxiao's eyes became deep. It was hidden really well. If you have the ability, you should hide it for the rest of your life and not let others find it.
"Uncle." The prince bowed to greet Xie Lingxiao when he saw him ignoring him and passing by.
He had been afraid of this imperial uncle since he was a child, fearing that he would be caught doing something wrong.
Xie Lingxiao was interrupted by him and couldn't help but yelled, "Get lost."