Chapter 49: Confiscation and Beheading of Duke Anguo

The colorful auspicious clouds above the princess's mansion and the strange sight of hundreds of birds paying homage to the phoenix.

Not only did the people in the princess's mansion see it, but most of the people in the imperial city saw it, and it spread throughout the imperial city at the fastest speed.

Everyone was shocked, and each had different thoughts.

…

The Mansion of Duke Anguo.

Duke Anguo sat in the hall with an extremely gloomy look on his face.

Until the sky gradually darkened and his face couldn't get any darker, he turned around and asked the servant waiting beside him.

"The Second Young Master hasn't sent anyone to deliver the message yet?"

The servant shuddered and forced a stiff smile.

"My Lord, I think the Second Young Master was too busy with Princess Qingyang's childbirth to deliver the letter. I also heard that the Emperor and the Crown Prince are in the Princess's residence today, so..."

He didn't dare to say the following words.

After all, the emperor and the crown prince are of noble status, and the second young master has no official position and only the title of son-in-law. No matter what, he has to accompany them to avoid being impolite.

With a "bang", Duke Anguo slapped the table hard.

Then, he grimaced in pain, with a ferocious expression on his face, and kept shaking the hand that was slapping the table, "Hiss, it hurts so much."

The servants were disdainful in their hearts and looked anxious on their faces.

"My Lord, are you alright? Do you need me to call the palace doctor to treat you?"

Duke Anguo was ashamed and angry, and shouted at the servants, "Get out, get out of here, I get angry when I see you."

The servants rolled out of the hall quickly like horses that had broken free from their reins.

Tsk, you think they want to serve him?

Now, Duke Anguo is the only one left in the entire hall.

He was almost mad at himself. All of them were a problem. Even the second son, whom he had praised so much just a few days ago, was now not to his liking.

"Humph, I'm so pissed off. Didn't the idiot Lao Er say earlier that he was going to kill Luo Shihan twice? Why did he let her give birth to a child now?

But the key point is that when this child was born, colorful auspicious clouds descended from the sky and hundreds of birds flocked to him. Such a spectacle showed that this child had an extraordinary origin and was not an ordinary person. ”

It seems that this child cannot die.

If possible, he could only try his best to establish good relations with him. Who knows, maybe his Anguo Mansion could soar to the sky with the help of this child's fortune.

Second son, please don’t let your father down!

Just then, panicked shouts of servants were heard outside the hall.

"Duke, it's bad. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has led a large number of imperial guards and has surrounded our Anguo Mansion. Please come out and take a look!"

"What?"

Duke Anguo's expression changed drastically, and a bad premonition filled his mind.

Could it be that what he had done was exposed?

No, no, no, he obviously did it so secretly, it would not be easily exposed. If it was really exposed, he would never admit his guilt easily.

Duke Anguo was extremely frightened.

But he remained calm and quickly came to the gate, dragging his heavy body.

One after another, the wife of Duke Anguo and her family members came here in a panic. She hurried to Duke Anguo and asked.

"Master, what on earth is going on?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

Duke Anguo retorted angrily, "Woman with long hair and short knowledge, can't you see that he is also very anxious now?"

The wife of the Duke of Anguo pursed her lips.

"Master, aren't you the Duke? You are the pillar of our Anguo Mansion. If you don't even know this, you might as well give up the position of Duke to your son as soon as possible."

With a "slap", Duke Anguo slapped his wife viciously, knocking her to the ground on the spot.

"You vicious woman, I'm not dead yet, but you're already thinking about asking me to give up my position. I think you're living too well and can't tell who's the master of this family?"

Duke Anguo was still not satisfied after slapping him.

He picked up his fat pig leg and kicked the wife of Duke Anguo several times, causing her to scream in pain and shout for help.

"Oh, it hurts so much, help me, someone come and save me, I'm about to be kicked to death by my husband!"

The family members of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion looked at each other in bewilderment.

No one was willing to step forward to mediate.

An Guogong was so angry that anyone who tried to persuade him would be asking for death. They were not brainless fools like the lady who could not see the situation clearly and dared to say anything.

It was precisely because she was stupid and easy to control that the Duke of Anguo allowed her to sit on the throne of the Duke's wife for so many years, otherwise he would have divorced her long ago.

"Tsk tsk, Duke Anguo is so majestic!"

At this time, the prince's handsome and tall figure slowly appeared at the gate, and he looked at Duke Anguo with extremely mocking eyes.

Duke Anguo's eyes changed.

He suppressed his panic and bowed to the prince. "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you. I wonder why you came to my house today?"

The prince curled his lips in a cold smile and picked up the imperial edict in his hand.

"Duke Anguo, the imperial edict is here, please accept it!"

Duke Anguo's pupils suddenly shrank and his face turned pale with fear. It had come, what was coming had finally come. How could he escape from it safely?

Then, his legs went limp and he fell heavily to his knees.

Upon seeing this, the rest of the people in the Anguo Mansion quickly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Long live the emperor."

The prince opened the imperial edict and read:

"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, proclaims: The Duke of Anguo has secretly colluded with India, intending to betray the country for personal gain. Now the evidence is irrefutable. I detest it and am furious.

In addition, his family was corrupt and accepted bribes, sold official positions, oppressed the people, robbed and plundered, harmed innocent people, occupied the people's fertile land... and so on.

He will be punished for several crimes and his nine clans will be exterminated. All members of the An family will be beheaded tomorrow as a public display. The crimes of the collateral relatives will be investigated and dealt with according to the law. The rest will be exiled to the border in three days.

All the slaves in the mansion will be sent to the government. If they are found innocent, they will be sold as government slaves. This is my decree! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of crying and begging for mercy in the Duke of Anguo's mansion.

The wife of Duke Anguo was filled with resentment. She quickly rushed to Duke Anguo, grabbed his hair and started tearing it, punching and kicking him.

"It's all your fault. It's all your fault for being so ambitious. You've ruined our entire An family. Why don't you just die? If you die, we won't have to worry about you anymore.

Woo woo, my two sons are so young, and they are implicated by you, their father. They will be beheaded tomorrow. Please give me back my sons! ”

Duke Anguo was furious and grimaced in pain.

He kicked the wife of Duke Anguo to the ground and said, "Bitch, you think your sons are good people, but you don't know that they are colluding with the country of Tianzhu just like me, and the crimes they committed are no less than mine."

"No, impossible!"

Lady Anguogong's wife was full of disbelief and looked around hurriedly, but she still hadn't found any trace of her son. Not only her son, but all the men in the mansion over ten years old were missing.

She quickly looked at Duke Anguo and felt happy.

"You, you hid all the men?"