The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 70: Hanging and Beating

Xiao was the elder after all, and she felt very embarrassed to be asked to burn incense and kowtow to a junior.

But he didn't dare to disobey, so he performed the actions very stiffly and reluctantly.

Mu had been helped to sit on the chair and was staring at her. Seeing her reluctance, she said, "If you don't want to kowtow, then get up. Who are you showing this to?"

Xiao was frightened and quickly expressed his opinion: "I want to kowtow, I want to kowtow." The next action was very willing.

Three heads, three incense sticks. Xiao finished this set, then stood up and inserted the incense into the incense burner. Then she asked Ye Wenyan: "Fourth Miss, what's next? What else do you want Second Aunt to do?"

Ye Wenyan ignored her and just squatted down to talk to Ye Chulian who had been kneeling beside her: "Thank you, Fifth Sister, for burning more paper money for your Fourth Sister. You are the only sister here, and only the paper money you burn can be accepted by her."

Ye Chulian nodded timidly and started burning paper again without saying a word.

She stood up and glanced into the hall. Ye Jingsheng's hands had been pressed into cold water by the servants, and he was shouting, "I won't leave! I just want to see what she wants to do."

Ye Wenyan snorted and asked, "Where is the third young lady? Why didn't she come?"

A servant answered: "The third young lady may have gone to bed."

She expressed her dissatisfaction: "She's resting? If she's resting, pick her up! Don't you see what kind of day it is tonight? How can she, the culprit, sleep?"

Xiao was terrified and said quickly, "Hongzhuang is pregnant and can't afford to be tortured. Fourth Miss, please forgive her!"

"Has she ever forgiven me?" Ye Wenyan narrowed his eyes slightly. "If she had shown me some mercy on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, things wouldn't have gotten to this point. Don't worry, Second Aunt, you don't have to worry about being pregnant. I can cure a mute to speak, so how can I not cure a child? Not to mention torturing her, even if I hang her up and beat her, I can still save her child."

She seemed to have come to an understanding when she said this, "Yes, that is to hang her up and beat her. This is the only way to vent Miss Ye Si's anger!"

After saying that, he ordered Madam Ji and Zhuier, "You two go to Tianwuxuan and bring Ye Hongzhuang to me. Hang her on the beam at the entrance of Xuming Hall and give her fifty lashes!"

Madam Ji took Zhuier away. Xiao was so frightened that her face turned pale. She kept muttering, "What should I do? What should I do?"

Ye Jingsheng shouted from the side: "You dare? Ye Wenyan, you dare! Hongzhuang is pregnant with the Sixth Prince's child!"

Ye Wenyan wanted to laugh when he heard it. "What's wrong with the Sixth Prince? Are you reminding me to call the Sixth Prince to the General's Mansion to have him beaten? I have no objection, it depends on whether you dare to do it. How about it, Second Master Ye, do you want me to ask someone to go to Prince Su's Mansion right now and tell them that you invite the Sixth Prince to come over and kowtow and burn incense to Fourth Miss Ye?"

"When did I say I wanted him to come?"

"You just said that." Ye Wenyan snorted coldly, "If you don't know how to talk, just shut up. If you keep talking nonsense, I will press your whole head into the brazier, and then burn you for the seventh day after seven days."

Ye Jingsheng was so frightened that he shuddered and dared not say anything anymore.

Xiangdong also came to the front hall. At this moment, Nanny Ji and Zhuier went to find Ye Hongzhuang. Although Xiangdong was frightened by the scene, she still took two steps forward and stood firmly behind Ye Wenyan.

Ye Wenyan nodded, showing satisfaction, and then ordered: "Xiangdong, go and ask the old lady to come. All the family members must be present, otherwise how can we comfort the dead?"

Ye Jingsheng couldn't help but said, "The old lady is old, can't you have a little conscience?"

Ye Wenyan rolled his eyes, "She herself has no conscience, so why should I have one? If the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam will be crooked, and I am just like that. Xiangdong, go quickly, it's almost midnight."

Xiangdong ran away.

Xu Mingtang fell into silence. It was so quiet in the hall that the only sounds that could be heard were Ye Chulian throwing pieces of paper into the brazier one by one and Ye Jingsheng gasping and crying out in pain.

After a while, Ye Hongzhuang arrived first.

Madam Ji and Zhuier held her arms one on each side, completely ignoring her struggles, and just ran towards this side at a very fast pace. Zhuier said as she ran: "Miss Third, please stop struggling. I am not strong enough to begin with. If you continue to struggle, I will not be able to hold on and will have to let go. If you fall and get hurt, don't blame me."

Ye Hongzhuang didn't dare to move.

Fu You also followed behind, trotting all the way. When they reached the entrance of Xu Ming Hall, Nanny Ji and Zhuier stopped, and Zhuier seemed to be looking for something. Fu You didn't care about anything else, just lifted her skirt and stepped into the hall, and ran directly to Ye Wenyan and knelt down. "I greet the fourth young lady. Please forgive the third young lady for being late. I will burn paper and kowtow to perform the first seven sacrifices for the fourth young lady."

After saying that, he knelt down and crawled to Ye Chulian's side, grabbed the paper money and threw it into the brazier.

The flames suddenly jumped up, singed Fuyou's eyebrows, and her bangs were also burned with sparks. She didn't care, just raised her hand to wipe her face and continued to burn paper.

Ye Hongzhuang had been hung up by Nanny Ji and Zhuier. Xiao was crying and was about to rush over to save her, but Jinxiu held her back and refused to let her rush over no matter what.

Ye Hongzhuang's shrill cries finally attracted Fu You to look back, but Mu's words immediately followed: "Burn your paper well. My daughter said that she would save the baby in her belly." Fu You ignored her.

She was sent by Empress Dowager Li to look after Ye Hongzhuang's baby. She only wanted to save the fetus. As for Ye Hongzhuang as a mother, she didn't care. Her life or death was not within her responsibility. Xiao saw Fuyou's attitude and knew that she could not be relied on. She wanted her man to speak, but the man was so painful that his face was pale, so he could not be relied on.

She was really powerless and could only sit on the ground and cry. While crying, she watched Ye Hongzhuang being hung upside down, and then watched Ye Wenyan produce a whip from somewhere, dip the whip in the cold water that Ye Jingsheng used to soak his hands, and then hand it to Nanny Ji.

Nanny Ji was really cruel and started whipping them.

A whip dipped in cold water hurts the most. Ye Hongzhuang was whipped so hard that she kept spinning in circles. She could still cry out at the beginning, but in the end she was completely motionless and swayed like a dead person.

Fu You turned sideways and stared at Ye Hongzhuang's body nervously while burning paper. Soon she realized that staring was useless because the whip drew a lot of blood and she couldn't tell which part of the blood was caused by the whip and which part was caused by miscarriage.

Ye Wenyan stood in the middle of Xu Ming Hall, with her arms folded in front of her and looking up, occasionally reminding: "Use harder!" Nanny Ji listened to her and used force as she was told, beating Ye Hongzhuang until she looked like a bloody man.

Xiao kept muttering, "How can this child be saved? How can it be saved?" She even shouted at Fu You, "Aren't you sent by the Empress Dowager to help Hong Zhuang with her pregnancy? Do you think this baby can be saved?"

Fu You didn't know if she could keep the baby, but she always remembered what Empress Dowager Li said to her before she left the palace: "Going here to keep the baby is one thing, but the most important thing is to ease the relationship with the Fourth Miss that night. I don't want a baby whose gender I don't know, I want my Lu'er to recover! Only when Lu'er recovers, there will be hope!"

So she couldn't answer Xiao. What she had to do was to stabilize Ye Wenyan. Even if she didn't flatter him, at least she couldn't sing a different tune.

Finally, the old lady arrived, accompanied by Ye Lianmian and Jun Tao.

From a distance, she saw Ye Hongzhuang being hung on the beam and beaten. She shivered with every beating, as if she was being beaten. She didn't feel sorry for Ye Hongzhuang. Whether it was the Mu family's child or the Xiao family's child, to her, they were the capital for the Ye family to gain a foothold in Northern Qi, but they were just capital. What she wanted was to maximize the interests of the Ye family. As for who brought the interests, it didn't matter.

She was just afraid, because she knew why Ye Hongzhuang was beaten, and she knew that Ye Wenyan was holding this seventh day ceremony to settle the score for that day.

After all, she was the mastermind behind what happened that day, so this wasn't a criticism of Ye Hongzhuang, it was clearly a criticism of her!

Ye Lianmian was also frightened, so she supported the old lady all the way into Xuming Hall, not daring to say a word. Especially when she passed by Ye Hongzhuang, she saw the blood dripping on the ground, and she thought Ye Hongzhuang was dead, and that the funeral tonight was for Ye Hongzhuang.

The old lady came in trembling, and heard Ye Jingsheng howling, "Mom! My hand was burned by that little bitch!" As he said that, he raised his hand from the bucket. The old lady almost fainted when she saw it.

Ye Feiyu stepped forward and said loudly: "Uncle, please tell me why my sister burned your hand." Ye Qingmei also stepped forward courageously, "It was Uncle who hit my mother first. My younger uncle hit my sister-in-law, and Uncle has no business in this matter."

"Ye Qingmei, are you trying to rebel?" The old lady finally found someone to vent her anger on. She always knew that she would pick on the weak. So she raised her cane and hit Ye Qingmei.

Ye Feiyu stepped forward and blocked the blow for his sister. The cane landed on his shoulder, causing him to frown in pain.

Mu stood up in a flash, and before she could say anything, Ye Wenyan said, "Madam Ji, my grandmother's cane is very dangerous. It can either smash gold bricks or people. Give it to her! Send it to Yanhua Palace to burn in the fire."

The old lady was furious: "How dare you!"

She curled her lips and said nothing, but Nanny Ji came over and snatched the cane away, "What's there to be afraid of! If Yanhua Palace needs to light a fire, let alone a cane, even if it's the emperor's throne, the emperor has to hand it over respectfully. Does the old lady have any questions?"

The old lady didn't dare to have any doubts. As long as anything was related to Yanhua Palace, no one in the world would dare to doubt it.

Watching the cane being taken away by Madam Ji, she waved her arms, looking at this and that, as if she wanted to pick someone to beat up, but unfortunately she didn't pick the right person in the end. She had no choice but to give up, took a deep breath, and then asked Ye Wenyan: "What are you doing?"

Ye Wenyan turned back and looked at the desk. "I won't make any fuss. I'm just sending the former Fourth Miss Ye off. After all, after tonight, she will truly disappear from this world..."