"Your Majesty! You can't do this! Your Majesty!"
Lin suddenly hugged Prince Duan's thighs and held him tightly without letting go.
"Your Majesty! You are asking me to die!"
"You kept saying, 'You won't let me die because of our long-standing relationship,' and now you let someone treat me like this!"
"This is clearly asking me to die!"
Although Prince Duan said he would not sentence her to death, he locked her up in the woodshed and did not allow anyone to bring her food or water. This was essentially forcing her to death.
Moreover, the weather is so cold now that she might not even starve to death in the woodshed, but freeze to death in the ice and snow.
"If you are lucky, you will survive."
With a sneer, several servants came over and pulled Lin back.
Lin's wailing continued to be heard, getting farther and farther away outside.
Gu Qingsheng lowered his eyes, then stood up and said to the servant beside him
"That girl, the maidservant of Lin's family, fell into the water. Is the beating over?"
Because Prince Duan was too angry just now, and the man who fell into the water was crying, thinking of his mistake of falling into the water just now, he had the man beaten with twenty boards.
According to the time, he should have been punished by now after falling into the water.
The servant nodded and responded
"Princess, the one who fell into the water has been tortured. Those beatings almost killed her. She is now lying there dying."
Being beaten with twenty sticks was really fatal for a weak girl, but after hearing the servant say that she fell into the water, it didn't seem that serious.
She nodded
"Let her rest for a while. Isn't it obvious that she is very loyal to Lin? Let her serve Lin."
"Tell her everything and let her take care of Lin. But from today on, Luoshui is not allowed to bring any food or drink from the mansion to Lin. Let's see how this master and servant deal with it."
"Sincerely, I will be sincere until the end. Do you understand?"
No one present had any objection to Gu Qingsheng's words.
Anyway, a servant fell into the water, and asking her to take care of Lin in the woodshed, but just not allowing Lin to eat or drink, was already kind enough to her.
Prince Duan was very angry this time and kept sitting on the chair with his eyes closed.
Gu Qingsheng stood up and said to Prince Duan
"Father, you have thoroughly investigated these matters. When did you discover that something was wrong?"
"From very early on, I felt something was wrong with her."
Prince Duan answered slowly
"She's the daughter of an official, yet she has layers of calluses on her hands. I didn't notice anything wrong before, thinking she always treated you two as her own."
"After your fall into the water and all the subsequent events, I realized her motives were not pure."
"This Lin family won't force me to stay, nor will they force me to stay. Their feelings towards you are no longer the same as before. I don't know when they changed."
"A princess who was promoted from a concubine to a princess, if she doesn't seek favor or children, then she must be asking for more."
"So I sent someone to investigate. I thought her family had ulterior motives, but I didn't expect it to be this way."
What he said was exactly what Gu Qingsheng was thinking. From the very beginning, she had set up the plan, which made Prince Duan suspicious of her.
When Prince Duan slapped her that day, he might have meant to protect her, but if he said that he had no selfish motives and no anger at all, Gu Qingsheng would not believe it.
She looked at Prince Duan, then smiled helplessly.
"Now that things have come to an end, I..."
"Kyomori!"
Gu Fengnan grabbed Gu Qingsheng's arm
"Well! Since the Lin family has received the retribution they deserve, you should come back home..."
"no."
Gu Qingsheng didn't say anything, but Prince Duan frowned and said this
"Although she has been apprehended, the forces behind her have yet to be revealed. When the Lin family was there, they were targeting Kiyomori everywhere. It's hard not to suspect that their target might be Kiyomori."
"So Kiyomori might be in danger at home, so he should go stay at Kokuji Temple for a while."
Raising his eyebrows, Gu Qingsheng said
"That's what I thought."
After that, Gu Qingsheng went back with Xu Qingyi. When they were at the door, Gu Fengnan handed Gu Qingsheng a note and sighed.
"This is what your father told you. You must take good care of yourself."
The sound of horse hooves gradually grew louder, trampling up mud on the road and raising a cloud of dust. Inside the carriage, a few sticks of incense slowly emitted light smoke.
Looking out the window, Gu Qingsheng fell into deep thought. Xu Qingyi saw that she was thinking about something so she didn't disturb her and pushed the pastries towards her.
Seeing that the cakes were about to cool, he reminded
"Want something to eat?"
The greasy pastry in front of him was shiny and gave off a chestnut aroma. Gu Qingsheng suddenly remembered that when the two of them first started going to Luofo Temple, they were in the carriage and it seemed that the pastry Xu Qingyi handed to him was also of this kind.
She came back to her senses and smiled.
"Why do you like this kind of cake? You push it to me all day long."
Xu Qingyi was unmoved, just frowned and said slowly
"When you were a kid, you loved eating this."
Gu Qingsheng was shocked and then stopped talking.
In fact, she had completely forgotten some things from her childhood, and only found out about them through Xu Qingyi's notes.
Maybe I really don’t remember what I liked as a child.
…
In the corner of the side yard, groaning sounds continued to be heard from a small room.
Bai Lu looked around at the door, and when she saw that there was no one around, she quietly pushed the door open and walked in.
A bloody smell hit him. Luoshui was lying on the bed, covered in wounds. He looked up at Bailu and made a move to stand up and salute, but was pushed down by Bailu.
“No need.”
She placed a bag of silver in front of her face, and she couldn't bear to see her covered in wounds.
"The princess said that she really wronged you this time."
"fine."
Falling into the water with a weak smile
“This is the path I chose.”
"After this time..."
Her brows darkened, and Bai Lu sat beside her bed and nodded.
She reached out and applied the best medicine to the wound where she had fallen into the water. The red wound was still oozing blood. When it touched the medicine, she inevitably cried out in pain and her head made a crackling sound.
The pain came unexpectedly, causing the person who fell into the water to scream out loud.
"Be patient."
Bai Lu pursed her lips and helped her soothe the wound.
"It's bound to hurt with such an injury, but it doesn't matter. Just like you said, after this, we..."
She also fell silent.
"Lin's family will definitely have such a day."
I don't know why, under the brilliant sunset, the sound of falling water trembled as if crying out.
"One day, she will get her comeuppance. Then, then..."
"yes."
Bailu said.
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