Princess Promotion

Wu Qi pushed open the broken wooden door and walked into the house carrying a bowl of medicine.

He placed the medicine beside the bed, helped Father Wu up, and fed him the medicine one mouthful at a time.

Father Wu: "Xiao Qi, stop wasting money. Dad won't be alive for long. Just keep the money for yourself."

Wu Qi was silent for a long time and said, "Dad, there's no need to save it. This is the last bit of money we have in the family."

As a common citizen, he didn't understand what disobedience meant when the princess surrounded the city with a large army. He was just feeling grateful.

If the eldest princess had not distributed porridge for free during the siege of the city, the father and son would probably have starved to death.

But these national affairs have nothing to do with ordinary people like them.

Wu Qi: "Dad, I've decided that after the lockdown is lifted in half a month, I will enter the palace and serve as a eunuch."

Father Wu's eyes instantly moistened: "Have you... have you really thought it through?"

Father Wu knew that his son was stubborn and once he made up his mind, no one could change his mind.

Wu Qi stared at the dilapidated roof with lifeless eyes: "Dad, we ordinary people have no choice but to endure the grievances and injustices we suffer."

Wu Qi: "This is how the world works. Only by cutting off your escape route and entering the palace can you earn a way out."

Father Wu: "But that's also a dead end. Over the years, so many poor children who couldn't make ends meet entered the palace and couldn't withstand the blow..."

Wu Qi: "Only by entering the palace can I have a chance to climb up the social ladder and redeem my sister from the brothel."

Just as Father Wu and Wu Qi were still arguing, there was suddenly an urgent knock on the door.

Ever since that incident, the knocking sound left a deep shadow on Wu Qi and his father.

Fortunately, the knock on the door was accompanied by the voice of the lady next door.

Wu Qi opened the door and saw the old lady who had taken good care of them in the past.

Wu Qi: "Auntie, what's going on?"

Auntie: "Xiaoqi, quickly carry your father on your back and follow me!"

Although the roads in the city are now closed, there is no unrest in the imperial capital. Ordinary people can still go out to do small business as usual. The only difference is that they cannot leave the city and there is a shortage of fresh vegetables.

On the contrary, because there are fewer playboys and hooligans causing trouble on the streets, public security is better than ever before.

The old lady had a lot of food stored at home, so she thought that since food prices were high now, she would definitely make a lot of money by selling it.

Unexpectedly, just as I started setting up the stall, I saw the police escorting a group of people towards the execution ground.

The old lady noticed that one of them was the steward who had caused the Wu family next door to be destroyed.

After catching the passers-by and asking them the reason, they learned that it was the eldest princess who asked Lord Yu to settle accounts with these evil people.

But there was only half a month left, so Lord Yu moved the court directly next to the execution ground, preparing to try and execute the suspect at the same time.

The old lady said: "Hurry up, I heard there are too many people. If you go too late, you won't be able to see that damn execution."

Wu Qi was stunned by the great news. He suddenly became unsure whether he was too eager for revenge and that led to the hallucination.

Seeing Wu Qi still standing there motionless, the old lady anxiously slapped him and said, "Why are you still standing there?"

Wu Qi then turned around and ran into the house, picked up his father on his back, and followed his aunt to the execution ground.

When Wu's father was first carried out, he looked puzzled, thinking that the bully had passed Wu Qi again and was running away with him on his back.

I also wanted to ask Wu Qi to run away by himself and not be dragged down by him.

After listening to the elder sister's explanation of the whole process, she turned around and urged, "Run faster! This is too slow! Put me down. I can walk faster on my own."

Wu Qi knew that his father simply didn't have the strength to do that, so he just kept running forward.

When we got to the execution ground, we couldn't squeeze in because there were too many people.

The area outside the execution ground is now crowded with people, not to mention that there are still a steady stream of people running here.

Some even came carrying tablets and dressed in mourning clothes.

At this time, a team of yamen runners rushed over and forced their way through so that Yu Zhijian could pass smoothly.

Yu Zhijian stood up on the podium with difficulty and said: "My fellow villagers, I know you have been looking forward to this moment for a long time."

"But we don't have much time. Only when the princess takes control of the imperial capital can we clean up these bastards."

"Everyone, please don't get too excited. This will cause chaos and give the imperial guards outside the city an opportunity to take advantage."

"This way, we will come in batches and try these criminals in order. Everyone will go to the registration office and line up to wait, so that the victims can witness the criminals being brought to justice and confessing their crimes."

If people have not seen hope, they can still endure living in the darkness, but after seeing the light, no one will be willing to return to the abyss.

Everyone wanted to see the revenge with their own eyes, so they all came to the execution ground for this reason.

An unprecedented scene occurred at the execution ground.

A large number of people flocked in, but there was no stampede. Instead, they lined up in an orderly manner and waited.

You would see a yamen runner reading out the name of a prisoner, followed by a long line of people walking to the center of the execution ground. Then they would listen to the prisoner's crimes and confessions, and look at the evidence.

Then the prisoner was pushed in front of the torture device, and his head fell to the ground with a snap.

The body was directly dragged onto a cart and taken to a landfill. Because the beheading was so fast, the victim usually watched without reacting.

From that day on, the stone slabs of the execution ground never dried up, and gradually the river water next to the execution ground, which was clear all year round, began to turn red, and it became redder and redder.

When the bright red river water flowed out of the city, Commander Wu saw that it was clearly blood and his heart was instantly panicked.

He hadn't even attacked yet, but that crazy woman was already killing people in there?

Just as they were about to launch an attack, a soldier's voice was heard from the city wall.

Soldier: "Commander Wu, don't panic. The princess didn't kill anyone. The Ministry of Justice is investigating the case."

Commander Wu's mind was full of questions. Why was the Ministry of Justice investigating the case at this time?

No sense. What kind of case is this that requires killing so many people? Even the river water has turned red!

Soldier: "The princess said that the people at the border and the people in the imperial capital are all citizens of Da Qi, and we cannot favor one over the other. So she asked Lord Yu Zhijian to be the chief judge and kill all the corrupt officials in the imperial capital who oppress the people."

After saying that, he actually picked up a notebook and started reading out who was killed today, why they killed them, and what crime they committed.

When Commander Wu heard about these crimes, he felt that these people were so cruel that they deserved to die a hundred times.

The lightest crimes include forcing women of good character into prostitution, killing their husbands, and stealing other people’s wives.

Commander Wu had hardly heard of any of the names that appeared in the list, but a few of them sounded familiar to him.

He turned around and asked the deputy general next to him: "Are these the ministers in the court?"

The deputy general seemed to recall for a long time before answering uncertainly, "It seems that none of them are officials. I have some impression of a few of them. They are relatives of some ministers in the court, or stewards."

The imperial capital had a complex network of relationships. It was no exaggeration to say that anyone you encountered on the street and had an argument with might be a relative of a minister.

Commander Wu has always known that some unscrupulous people rely on their distant relatives to bully others.

If you encounter problems, bring some silver and say hello. As long as they are not as stubborn as the children of aristocratic families, they can usually be suppressed.

It’s not that the minister cares about these relatives, but what if these relatives are really arrested.

It will damage the family's reputation. Officials in the court no longer care about their face. Scandalous things must never be made public and become the topic of conversation for others after dinner.

No one cares about the lives and justice of ordinary people.

At this time, the person who had inquired for the news came back and found that the case was indeed being handled at the execution ground, and the people being killed were those the soldiers on the city wall had named.

Commander Wu listened to the list of names and felt that this was indeed something that the eldest princess could have done.

Since they are all unimportant people, they can divert some of the eldest princess's attention, so those people can be put to good use.

Commander Wu has been working in the imperial capital for many years, and it is impossible to stop them just by guarding the city gates.

In the early years, Commander Wu dug a tunnel from the city to the suburbs.

But the tunnel was too narrow and could only accommodate one person at a time.

In the past, this tunnel could easily allow a small group of people to sneak into the city, and then join forces with him from inside and outside to attack the imperial capital.

But Commander Wu happened to meet the eldest princess who did not play by the rules.

She doesn't want to defend the city, she just wants to kill people.

What Commander Wu is facing now is not the difficulty of attacking, but the difficulty lies in how to attack before the princess kills everyone.

The safest way now is to bring people in one by one through this tunnel.

We can't bring in too much at once, for Commander Wu doesn't dare to think about being discovered.