On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

Prince Yun slowly clenched his hands hidden in his sleeves, and the last trace of hesitation in his heart disappeared completely.

"Well, let's do as you said. It's better to be prudent and protect ourselves. Withdraw all our people."

"Your Majesty is wise."

Huo Dao's tone was full of obvious appreciation, and Prince Yun glanced at Huo Dao.

He just ordered, "Go ahead."

After Huo Dao retreated, he looked into the darkness and called out softly.

“Eucommia ulmoides.”

A dark shadow appeared silently in front of Prince Yun.

Prince Yun took out a palm-sized red wood box with a gold buckle from the desk drawer and said, "Send the things out, and get the person out of the city safely before dark."

Du Zhong retreated silently.

Prince Yun looked at the setting sun which was gradually moving westward, his eyes flashing with a frosty coldness.

...

At this moment, at the other end of the cell, Su Qishun and Su Jincheng were hung on the rack, bleeding profusely.

A whip soaked in salt water hit Su Jincheng's skin, where not a single piece of good flesh remained.

Su Jincheng didn't even have the strength to howl.

"Are you being stubborn?"

The whip hit his flesh, making a crisp sound.

The only result of keeping silent was intensified abuse.

Su Jincheng didn't know where he got the strength from, but he yelled at the torturer.

"You keep asking me to talk, but why don't you ask me what to say? If you don't ask, what can I say?"

He doesn't understand.

Didn’t he go to the Gyeonggi Prefecture Government Office yesterday to testify for his father?

How come I was sent to the prison while testifying?

What was even more terrible was that when he arrived at the Tianlao, the people from the Ministry of Justice tied him to the rack and tortured him without even asking any questions.

Without even asking, he just kept asking him to "talk".

no...

He knows nothing, what can he say?

If the people in the Ministry of Justice could explain to him why he had to suffer here, he wouldn't be so unwilling.

But...

"Don't think you can get away with it by playing dumb."

Seeing that Su Jincheng actually dared to "resist", the jailer beat him even harder.

The densely packed whips mixed with salt water, after whipping the skin, caused not only pain but also a tingling and numb feeling, which lingered on the wound like a bone-attaching cancer, making Su Jincheng feel anxious and worried.

He was about to cry, "I'm really not playing dumb. If it weren't for my father's matter, I wouldn't even set foot in the government office in the capital, let alone appear here."

If it weren't for the fact that the wounds on his body were so painful, and if it wasn't the wrong time to get angry, Su Jincheng would have taught these blind people a lesson...

The jailer in charge of the execution sneered, "Of course you will never admit it. You secretly communicated with the enemy country and colluded with the remnants of the previous dynasty to disrupt the government. Any one of these two crimes is a serious crime of quarreling and exterminating the clan. If you are willing to admit it, I will see if there is any trickery."

Wha…what?

Collaborating with the enemy?

Collude with the remnants of the previous dynasty to disrupt the government?

Su Jincheng felt that he could understand what people said.

However, he didn't understand a word that came out of the mouth of the jailer who was torturing him.

"I am the eldest son of the Marquis of Changping Mansion..."

"I don't care what kind of young master you are. Now you and Su Qishun are trying to collude with foreign countries to leak our border maps. Your concubine Zhao Qingwan, who is not yet married, has close contacts with the remnants of the previous dynasty and intends to disrupt the government. The evidence is irrefutable. If our master was not afraid of wrongly accusing a good person and asked us to interrogate him, do you think you can still stay here safely?"

Which good person is afraid of being wrongly accused and beaten to death?

No, that's not the point.

The point is...

"This must be some misunderstanding. Our Changping Marquis Mansion has always taken the safety of the court and the people as our responsibility. How could it be possible..."

"That's General Su from the Su Mansion, not your Changping Marquis Mansion. By the way, speaking of this..."

The jailer who was carrying out the punishment glanced at Su Qishun who was hanging on the rack not far away and said, "Your identity as the son of the Marquis of Changping's mansion is because your father mixed up the bloodline of the old marquis. Don't get involved with the old marquis."

The jailer's words were like throwing a huge rock into Su Jincheng's turbulent heart.

Suddenly water splashed everywhere.

Because of excitement, the man who was originally standing slackly stood up straight in an instant, "What did you say?"

The wounds on his body were torn so painfully that he gasped in pain.

The jailer obviously didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Unable to get anything out of him, they turned around and poured pepper water on Su Qishun again, torturing him severely...

Su Qishun never dreamed that he did not suffer any punishment in the capital government office, but instead lost half his life in just one day at the Ministry of Justice.

He fainted from the pain again and again, and was woken up by pepper water.

By now, even with the stimulation of pepper spray, his body could only produce spasms, and he no longer woke up like he did at the beginning.

Su Jincheng was afraid that Su Qishun would confess all his crimes under torture, so he almost yelled, "You are forcing me to confess under torture, why don't you stop it?"

His situation was not much better.

His throat was so hoarse that he could hardly make any sound.

What he got in return was a cold smile from the jailer, followed by a raised hand.

Two jailers, who had tied coarse cloth under their nostrils to block their breathing, came forward carrying a large bucket of an unknown object that emitted a foul odor and was surrounded by flies...

Before he got close, Su Jincheng was already retching.

"You...what are you doing? According to the laws of the Yuan Dynasty, the prison guards of the Ministry of Justice have no right to torture people. You are abusing private punishment and concealing it..."

When Su Sui'an was being brought to trial, he passed by the torture room and heard Su Jincheng's screams from afar.

The jailer who led the way smiled slightly and said, "Is it because you scared Miss Su? Please."

The two men's eyes met, and Su Sui'an immediately understood that this was "one of his own."

She nodded slightly, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, young lady." After saying this, the jailer's attitude became even more respectful.

it is more than words.

...

Prince Yun was summoned into the palace that night.

Even though he had been mentally prepared, he still couldn't help feeling uneasy when he saw Fu Huai, Fu Jingrong and Gu Xiuyan appear together.

He tried hard to maintain his identity as an innocent victim, and first glanced at the people around him with a confused look on his face.

Then he knelt down and saluted Emperor Mingqing.

"Wei ministers come to see the emperor."

The etiquette is comprehensive and standard.

Emperor Mingqing pursed his lips, "Prince Yun, do you have anything else to say to me?"

"I don't know why the emperor suddenly summoned me, so I dare not speculate on his intentions."

Emperor Ming Qing sneered and threw a pile of letters and a token of Prince Yun's mansion in front of Prince Yun.

"Don't dare? I think you dare."

The letter was like spilled water, splashing all over Prince Yun.

Prince Yun knelt on the ground, glanced at the signature on the letter, and then saw the signed confession on the letter.

He secretly thought that something was wrong, but his face still maintained a look of confusion and fear.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

"Don't try that on me," Emperor Mingqing snorted coldly, striding forward and kicking Prince Yun over. "I must be really blind to think that you have no second thoughts and allow you to discredit the loyalty of Prince Dingbei's Palace in front of me."

After being kicked over, Prince Yun immediately knelt down again and kowtowed, crying, "Your Majesty, this is really a great injustice. Others don't know what kind of person I am, but Your Majesty doesn't know?"

He spoke each word clearly but with disappointment in his voice, as if he had really suffered a great injustice.

That's right, in the eyes of many people, Prince Yun is just a bit of a bastard at ordinary times, but when he is really needed to stand up, he never fails.

But...

It would be even more terrifying if such a person really did something to him, wouldn't it?

Thinking of this, Emperor Ming Qing felt a chill down his spine.

His expression, which had finally relaxed, turned hard again. "King Dingbei wronged you, could Xiu Yan also wrong you? You keep saying that King Dingbei has ulterior motives, but in fact, you are the one who has the most ulterior motives."

Prince Yun never dreamed that Emperor Mingqing would use his ultimate move as soon as he came on the scene.

Just one sentence put him on the opposite side of the King of Dingbei and the Duke Gu's Mansion.

The key point is that Emperor Ming Qing has obviously already convicted him in his mind.

No matter how he defended himself, the final result was just quibbling for himself. If he didn't defend himself, Emperor Ming Qing would give him the title of "guilty conscience", confirming that he had ulterior motives and deliberately provoked...

By then...

His situation will only get worse...