Chapter 106 The Sinner Is Willing to Die
"Is there someone hiding outside?"
Jiang Yan asked again.
"Or maybe you are hiding someone from the Pei family in the Guozhang Mansion. Are you teaming up with the Pei family to get something on me and put me to death?"
Shen Xiunian remained silent and did not answer.
"I was wondering, it's been a few years, why are there suddenly voices in the court asking for a thorough investigation of what happened back then? Someone must have deliberately framed me to harm me. I thought it was the work of the father-in-law's mansion, but I didn't expect that you, General Shen, were involved."
"You..." Jiang Yan laughed at Shen Xiunian twice.
He turned around and waved to the people below, indicating that they should bring him a stool.
"You entered the capital without permission. If His Majesty knew about this, aren't you afraid of being punished?"
Jiang Yan sat down on the chair, looking lazy.
"You led me here, so what? Even if you and Pei Guozhang took me to the palace, we have no evidence. What can you do to me with just your mouths? On the contrary, you came to the capital privately and held the son of an important official hostage. I want to see how many mouths you can use to refute it."
No matter what he said, Shen Xiunian never responded.
Seeing him like this, Jiang Yan sneered even more.
"Tell me, if you had submitted to me earlier, you wouldn't be in this situation today. You could have continued your relationship with Su Su and had a son to raise. With Ben Xiang backing you up, you would have a bright future. Why would you abandon the prosperous city of Shangjing to suffer in the desolate frontier?"
“Chen Xiunian, you…you!”
Jiang Yan suddenly straightened up in shock because Shen Xiunian stabbed the knife deeper into his son's neck.
"Let them all leave." Shen Xiunian said.
The Jiang family has many wives and concubines, but Jiang Huai is Jiang Yan's only son. Jiang Yan can't give him up and has no choice but to value him. He suppressed his anger and hated the helplessness of being forced by Shen Xiunian, but he could only wave his hand and let the people behind him leave the door.
"Antidote." Shen Xiunian asked Jiang Yan to hand over the antidote.
Jiang Yan's eyelids twitched, and no matter how reluctant he was, he had to reach into his arms.
Jiang Huai has been poisoned for two days. Although the poison is not very strong and will not kill people immediately, it is almost time for it to take effect. Without an antidote, he will surely die.
He threw the medicine bottle over, and Shen Xiunian caught it steadily in his hand.
Shen Xiunian opened the bottle stopper and saw two red pills in the bottle. He had checked and found that one plant of Xiu Shi grass could only produce two antidotes for Jiang Xin Poison. He just didn't know whether these two or only one of them was the real antidote.
If you want to detoxify, you must swallow the whole pill.
Shen Xiunian pulled out the knife that had stabbed into Jiang Huai's neck. The blood flowed down Jiang Huai's neck like water, which made Jiang Yan feel chilled.
Then, Shen Xiunian poured out both antidotes from the bottle.
He then used a knife to split the two pills into two halves, took half of each pill and stuffed them into Jiang Huai's mouth. If the poison was removed by then, it would prove whether the two pills were both antidotes.
"You are very careful."
Jiang Yan said this in a sarcastic and mocking tone.
Perhaps this also means that the bottle of medicine he gave is indeed the antidote.
Perhaps he has held the power of life and death for too long and has long been accustomed to such a high-handed and confident state. He does not think that Shen Xiunian can leave here alive today. The entire street outside has been planted with his people, and Shen Xiunian will definitely not be able to escape.
So even if he was given the antidote, he wouldn't care.
"I'll give you another chance. As long as you are willing to submit to me, I can forgive you for what happened. Otherwise, even if you send the antidote today, you are in the Shen family in Yunnan, your mother, your wife, and I heard that you have a pair of lovely twins. They will all be imprisoned because of you. You have to consider them, right?"
"Consider them?" Shen Xiunian smiled at Jiang Yan with a cold face.
"Who will think about the civilians and soldiers who died tragically in Zhaoxi back then? Prime Minister, there are more than 100,000 civilians in the city and soldiers who died unjustly. Can you really sleep peacefully at night? Have those wronged souls never entered your dreams once?"
Jiang Yan's hand on the seat handle trembled slightly.
"Chen Xiunian, it was you who secretly let the enemy troops into the city and harmed the people of Zhaoxi, not me."
"What about the letter of treason with your seal?"
"Your Majesty has already found out that it was Minister Yu who framed me. I have long been suspected..."
"Do you think I only have that letter and no other evidence?"
Jiang Yan's face froze and his fingers tightly grasped the seat handle.
"Prime Minister Jiang, don't you think about it? If I didn't have a perfect plan, how could I dare to lead you here alone? If I die today, you, Prime Minister Jiang, will also die."
"Someone come here!" Jiang Yan stood up.
"Go check again for me. Search every house carefully. Make sure to find Shen Xiunian's accomplices."
Jiang Yan took a few steps closer, his anger seemed to turn into a sword and chop at Shen Xiunian.
"If anything happens to me today, everyone in your Shen family will be buried with me!"
Shen Xiunian was unmoved, and slowly said, "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end. Prime Minister Jiang, there is no need to be anxious. What is coming cannot be avoided."
"You bastard!"
Jiang Yan pointed at Shen Xiunian, his face ferocious with anger.
"I should have set you up like I did with Pei Zhouwu. Pei Zhouwu has the protection of the father-in-law and the queen, but you are the only one in your Shen family. It's much easier to kill you than Pei Zhou. I wouldn't have kept you as a trouble until today to threaten me."
"Why, Prime Minister, are you going to let hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Yunan die like you did back then?"
"Who are they? As long as my grandson sits on the throne of the crown prince, the entire country will belong to my Jiang family in the future. The lives of a few hundred thousand people can help my Jiang family ascend to the throne, so their deaths are worthy!"
Suddenly.
There was a loud bang in the house. Jiang Yan's face changed and he looked over, and saw a bright yellow figure slowly appearing.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"
The current emperor Zhao Youheng actually walked out of the house.
Accompanying him were Pei Guozhang and a group of guards and eunuchs.
“How could it be…”
Jiang Yan knelt down subconsciously, but he had clearly checked carefully just now and there was no place to hide in the house.
Secret room!
Jiang Yan was shocked, thinking there must be a secret room in the house.
When he looked at Shen Xiunian again, there was more than hatred in Jiang Yan's eyes.
Just now, Shen Xiunian said that he still had evidence of his crime, which was probably false. They were all used to trick him.
"Do you know why we couldn't find Shen Xiunian after searching the city for several days?" Zhao Youheng looked at Jiang Yan coldly, and then said, "Because they are not in the city, but in the palace. I have known about him since he entered Shangjing. This plot has really uncovered your Prime Minister Jiang's evil ambitions."
"Your Majesty... No, Your Majesty, please listen..."
"Come here, take Prime Minister Jiang away to await my punishment!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
Jiang Yan was still in a daze, thinking he was in a dream, and had not yet fully reacted until he was dragged out of the yard.
After the person disappeared, Zhao Youheng turned around and looked at Shen Xiunian.
Shen Xiunian also bowed his head and knelt down.
"Although you have made merit in exposing the truth this time, it cannot make up for the mistakes you made back then. Otherwise, how can you explain to the world and give justice to the 100,000 innocent souls in Zhaoxi. However, during these three years of war, you have indeed made great contributions to protecting the people and territory of our dynasty. I promise you that I will not punish the Shen family and will not let them be implicated by you, but you have committed heinous crimes in the past, and you cannot escape death."
"I am a guilty subject, and I am willing to accept death."
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