At the beginning, Xiao Yujue only sent someone to deliver a letter, allowing the Xiao family to keep those beauties.
It was not until now that Old Lady Xiao came to her senses.
The letter was only signed but not stamped. Although they all knew it was written by Xiao Yujue, at this point, Mu Jingrui refused to admit it and no one could do anything about it.
Moreover, at this moment, Old Lady Xiao finally understood that all of this was already discussed by Xiao Yujue and Mu Jingrui.
Xiao Yujue was determined to eradicate the Zhonglie Marquis Mansion.
In an instant, a feeling of sadness came over me.
"Old Lady Xiao, that's all I have to say. You can do whatever you want."
Mu Jingrui picked up Shangguan Wanning and walked towards the room.
Shangguan Wanning looked at Old Lady Xiao standing there in a daze, as if she had aged a lot in an instant. Her high-spirited and proud spirit was also gradually fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"You and the emperor... are so cunning." Shangguan Wanning said in a low voice.
Mu Jingrui just smiled faintly and did not comment.
"If you want to blame someone, blame the loyal and brave mansion for relying on their merits to do evil things, and even dared to touch the emperor's woman. If they are not punished, who knows how many people will be persecuted. This is also a helpless move."
Shangguan Wanning naturally understood this truth.
She leaned on Mu Jingrui's chest and closed her eyes tiredly.
The next morning, a large group of people rushed to the execution ground early.
Those who had been persecuted by the Loyal Marquis' Mansion wanted to witness Xiao Wenyuan being executed with their own eyes; other people, on the other hand, wanted to see the legendary god of war, the King of Zhennan.
Xiao Wenyuan was taken to the execution ground. He looked up at the sunlight, which was so dazzling that he could not open his eyes.
His father and brothers died on the battlefield for their country, but he...
Xiao Wenyuan looked at Mu Jingrui sitting in the executioner's position and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"As the saying goes, a new emperor appoints new ministers. My Xiao family has made countless military achievements for the royal family, and even our family has been reduced to a small number. But now it has come to a miserable end."
Xiao Wenyuan closed his eyes in pain.
"Mu Jingrui, even though you are powerful now, your end may be worse than mine. When the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked. I am waiting to see how you die on the road to the underworld."
For the first time, Mu Jingrui's heartstrings were touched. He thought of the Yiyong Marquis Mansion. Zheng Guoxun was also a veteran general back then, but now...
"It's noon, kill!"
At Mu Jingrui's command, the executioner took a big gulp of wine and spit it onto the butcher knife in his hand.
He raised it high and chopped towards Xiao Wenyuan's neck.
"Spare his life."
Old Lady Xiao came hurriedly, leaning on a dragon-headed cane, and sat on the cabinet in a daze.
Mu Jingrui picked up a pen at hand and threw it towards the executioner's wrist.
The executioner suddenly felt a sharp pain and subconsciously put down the knife.
Put it away and the knife falls.
Before Old Lady Xiao arrived, Xiao Wenyuan's head and body were separated.
Old Lady Xiao looked at the scene in front of her and felt that the whole world had gone quiet.
Time also stopped at this moment.
All the men around her...husband, son, grandson, all passed away before her.
In the Xiao family, she is the only one left whose surname is not Xiao.
Old Madam Xiao felt dizzy and passed out.
Mu Jingrui ordered his men to clean up the execution ground and send Xiao Wenyuan's body back to the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Lie.
"Your Majesty," the master came over and whispered in Mu Jingrui's ear, "Everything you ordered has been prepared."
Mu Jingrui nodded slightly, and followed his master to the charity cemetery of the government office with only one trusted follower.
The coroner and the prefect were waiting.
"Have you checked?"
Mu Jingrui walked into the inner room and saw Xiao Yikai's body placed in the middle. It had begun to rot and a foul stench filled the air.
"In reply to your Highness, I have checked carefully. There are no obvious wounds on Young Master Xiao's body, and he was not poisoned. He was indeed frozen to death."
"Are you sure?"
"I dare not be careless, nor do I dare to deceive the prince."
"Your Highness, he is a well-known expert in autopsies in the area, and I trust him." The prefect was a little puzzled. "Your Highness, do you think... Xiao Yikai's cause of death is suspicious?"
Mu Jingrui looked at Xiao Yikai and pondered for a long time.
According to Shangguan Wanning's statement and the temperature that night, even if Xiao Yikai took off all his clothes, he would not have frozen to death.
Xiao Yikai's martial arts skills are not weak, and his physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people.
"Come with me to the crime scene again."
Mu Jingrui brought the prefect, his lawyer and the coroner to the trap where Xiao Yikai was frozen to death.
The trap was small, and there were no signs of a fight, but...
Mu Jingrui saw many messy footprints in the trap.
"Your Highness, after the incident, I personally came here to take a look. The footprints here all belong to Master Xiao alone."
The prefect saw Mu Jingrui squatting down to study the footprints, fearing that he had made a mistake or missed something.
"But don't you think...these footprints are a little strange?"
The prefect was slightly startled, and squatted down like Mu Jingrui, looking left and right, and suddenly a light flashed in his eyes.
"It seems... a little deeper. Also, the edges of the footprints are not very neat..."
"With Xiao Yikai's weight, his footprints shouldn't be so deep, unless... the soil here was very soft at the time, so that his footprints sank. This would explain why the footprints are so irregular."
The prefect frowned, took a breath, and said, "That's not right. Your Highness, the soil we see now is very shallow. If we want to leave footprints, it will be very shallow. Judging from the weather in those few days, the soil should not be this wet."
Mu Jingrui nodded. "Then... this is very strange. Why is this happening? The only explanation is that there was a lot of water here that night."
Under what circumstances will there be a lot of water?
rain?
There was plenty of water…and it was cold…but there was no such imagination nearby.
A flash of inspiration came to Mu Jingrui's mind.
"It's ice."
The prefect and others found it somewhat unbelievable.
"It's cold now, but it hasn't frozen yet. Even if it freezes... there can't be so much ice in this trap, enough to freeze Xiao Yikai to death."
"If it's man-made, then it can be explained."
That night, while Xiao Yikai was trapped by Shangguan Wanning and was about to escape, someone killed the followers who were also hung on the tree, and then brought a large amount of ice into the trap, freezing Xiao Yikai to death.
The ice will melt, and the soil in the trap will become very moist and soft. When someone finds Xiao Yikai, they will see him frozen to death.
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