Since they dared to speak recklessly, they naturally had to bear the consequences. The lady was scalded with boiling salt water, but she was so pitiful that she couldn't even scream.
"Pour water into her mouth." Yu Jingchen did whatever came to mind; it was quite interesting, wasn't it?
The scalding salt water was forced into her mouth, leaving the woman barely recognizable. But the punishment didn't stop there; according to Yu Jingchen's instructions, her hand bones were to be broken.
The guards pressed her hands to the ground, striking the back of her hands with instruments of torture, turning them red, then bruised, and finally splattering blood. Yu Jingchen watched this scene unfold without changing his expression.
Everyone watched helplessly as the woman's hands were smashed and her bones were broken, until the cane was broken, and only then did the torture end.
After the execution was over, the woman was barely alive.
“Speaking nonsense deserves death, speaking nonsense on purpose deserves even more death. You dare to use such methods on the Empress? You are simply courting death.” Yu Jingchen said quietly.
"Guards! This man has plotted to murder the Empress. His crime is unforgivable. Drag him away and behead him in the marketplace. The entire Su family shall be exiled to the frontier and never be allowed to return to the capital. All descendants of the Su family shall be barred from holding official positions." Yu Jingchen ordered. The woman in question was the wife of Su, the Vice Minister of Rites.
"Jing Cai Nu (Yu Yan) colluded with court ladies to assassinate the Empress. She is wicked and is hereby sentenced to death with a white silk ribbon." Yu Jingchen issued another imperial edict, directly ordering Yu Yan's execution.
Actually, by this point, everyone had already seen clearly that the woman from today... was probably related to Yu Yan, which was why Yu Jingchen was so angry.
After dealing with things here, Yu Jingchen remembered what the imperial physician had said today: "Go to the common people and find out if there are any doctors with high prestige. Find out their backgrounds and bring them to Yun'er to see if there are any other solutions. Also, investigate the imperial physician who took Yun'er's pulse today." Yu Jingchen wasn't being suspicious, but since this matter concerned Nan Zhiyun, he still wanted to be careful.
"Yes," Luckily agreed.
Looking at Nan Zhiyun's condition today, Yu Jingchen couldn't bear to be so cruel as to abort the child. Besides, wasn't he also looking forward to having this child?
"How is the Empress Dowager's situation?" Yu Jingchen rubbed his temples, feeling quite tired these past few days.
"Lord Gu has been staying in Cining Palace these past few days, but he won't let anyone in, so he doesn't know what's going on inside," Xinglai said.
"Report any news from over there to me immediately, and do not conceal anything." Yu Jingchen was also worried about the situation over there.
"Yes," he said, "these are turbulent times, so I can only be extra careful."
"Any news from Miao Yin?" Yu Jingchen asked, as Miao Yin had been a major concern for him lately.
"Your Majesty, I was just about to report this matter to you. Today, the person I arranged to monitor Prince Jiang Yan at Prince Yu's residence sent word that Prince Jiang Yan secretly met with the mysterious person from before at Tianfu Restaurant." Xinglai's expression became much more serious when he spoke of this.
“That mysterious person has been confirmed to be Miao Yin’s man. We also overheard them talking about that token, but they probably haven’t found it. The guards said… they also mentioned Her Majesty the Empress.” When Xinglai said the last sentence, her head was lowered considerably. After all, anything involving Her Majesty the Empress could not be a trivial matter.
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