Chapter 2: The Prison is Bustling
Gu Yuexuan stopped involuntarily and handed the divorce letter to Eunuch Ying with a smug look on her face.
However, the next moment, her jaw almost dropped to the ground in shock.
"Hey, why did you tear it up?!"
What a deep hatred this is!
Eunuch Ying snorted coldly, throwing the scraps of paper into the air and mockingly saying, "This kind of stuff is completely untrustworthy. What's the point of keeping it? Madam, please kneel down with the Crown Prince to thank him for his decree!"
These words carried an unquestionable majesty, like a gust of cold wind, piercing Gu Yuexuan's heart.
Before he finished speaking, the guard, holding his sword tightly, stepped forward and drew his sword without hesitation.
Gu Yuexuan immediately became intimidated, her face turning as red as an eggplant. As she was roughly held down by the shoulders and forced to kneel, she turned around and her eyes met Tu Subo's head-on.
She couldn't help but ask angrily, "What were you doing this morning?"
Even if she had been sent away a moment earlier, the outcome might have been different!
Her words floated past Tu Subo's ears, and the fingers hidden in his sleeves trembled suddenly and involuntarily. His face, which was already as pale as ice, now looked even more desolate and depressed.
His voice was so low that it was almost unnoticeable, and he murmured: "Sorry..."
The voice was too soft for Gu Yuexuan to hear clearly. She asked in confusion, "What did you just say?"
"Silence! No private conversation!"
For Gu Yuexuan, this night was her first long night after experiencing the cycle of life and death. It was also the first major disaster that the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion experienced after a hundred years of glory.
This was the first time in Gu Yuexuan's life that she encountered such a shocking scene. She instinctively followed Tu Subo closely, not daring to move away even a step.
Tu Subo stood there like a sculpture, remaining dead silent amidst countless heart-wrenching cries.
Following a stern order from Eunuch Ying, countless guards armed with sharp blades rushed into the depths of the Marquis' Mansion like tigers descending from the mountains, carrying box after box of heavy property.
The family property flowed away like running water. The people of Tu Su's family were forced to take off their fine clothes and stand there, watching the busy figures of the guards in panic and helplessness.
The Marquis's Mansion collapsed like a huge tower.
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The next day, in the afternoon, after a day and night of searching, the house-raiding team finally got a moment's respite.
Eunuch Ying glanced at the boxes of property deeds and account books carried by his followers, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This is truly a century-old family that lives up to its reputation. This family fortune is indeed rich."
"However, you must all be extremely tired after all the hard work you have done. The Emperor, grateful for our old friendship, has granted you permission to depart for Fangling tomorrow. You may rest well in the prison tonight in preparation for your departure the next day."
"Prince Tu Su, please follow me."
Before the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion was confiscated, Tu Subo had been holding an idle position in the Ministry of Justice.
No one knew the path to the prison better than he did.
Gu Yuexuan was still in shock and terrified. She followed Tu Subo closely and accidentally entered the men's prison.
Surprisingly, the jailer turned a blind eye and did not stop it.
She simply went with the flow, shrank her neck, sat down in a corner, and began to think carefully about her current predicament.
The family relationship in the Jingyuan Marquis's Mansion is not complicated. The old lady and the old marquis constitute a separate branch, and the other three sons each have their own families and form three separate branches.
Tu Subo was born as the eldest son of the eldest wife in the eldest house and inherited the title of crown prince.
He also has a three-year-old brother and a sister who is less than two years old, and the one who caused this disaster was their biological father, Tu Suyong.
On their left, an iron door was closed, and inside lay the panicked and unconscious old marquis, while on their right, their second uncle Tu Suye and third uncle Tu Suting were imprisoned.
Many of Tu Subo's nephews and nephews of the same generation were detained in the most remote corners. From where she was, she could only vaguely catch a glimpse of their figures.
However, if you just look up, you can clearly see the scene on the opposite side, where the women of the previous generation of the Tu Su family are imprisoned.
After careful observation, I found that the scene was extremely lively.
The second wife, Mrs. Yu, came from a merchant family. Perhaps because she was as timid as a mouse, when the family of confiscators rushed into the house like wolves and tigers, she panicked and grabbed a three-foot white silk and hanged herself. Fortunately, she had fainted when she was found and was rescued. She is still unconscious at this moment.
The third wife, Mrs. Li, was the legitimate daughter of the Hanlin family. On the surface, she seemed calm and composed, but tears were always welling up in her eyes and her body was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
As for her mother-in-law, Xi Lanfang, she covered her face with her hands, weeping bitterly, her voice choked with sobs and despair: "How could the Marquis be so foolish and ignorant? How will our family continue to live now..."
Tu Subo spoke with a resolute tone, "Mother, father would never sell out his country for personal gain!"
"Are you still defending him?"
Tu Suye's face was distorted, and he was filled with rage. "If your father hadn't been deceived by evil thoughts, how could the Tu Su family have suffered such a devastating disaster? He collaborated with the enemy and betrayed his country! It was he alone who pushed the entire Tu Su family into the abyss!"
Veins bulged on Tu Subo's forehead, his teeth were clenched, but he said nothing.
Tu Suye continued to curse angrily: "I have long said that Big Brother's reckless actions will eventually bring us disaster, but unfortunately no one believed! Now, everything has come true!"
"Second brother..."
Tu Suting suppressed a cough, a bitter smile on his face, and said slowly: "When disaster strikes, what's the point of blaming Big Brother? We should think of a countermeasure."
"Yes...looking for a solution..."
The old lady, who was so frightened that she fainted several times, held Yu's hand tightly, struggled to sit up, and said anxiously, "Quickly send someone to inform Yi'er, and ask her to find a way to ask Prince Rui for help. Maybe there will be a glimmer of hope!"
Tu Suyi, the old lady's youngest daughter, has now become the princess of Prince Rui's mansion.
If she could really get King Rui to intervene, then this crisis might still have a chance of being salvaged!
The old lady's heart surged with uncontrollable excitement as she thought of this: "Tu Subo, quickly send a servant to the Rui Palace to report the news! Tell them that the Tu Su family has suffered misfortune! Ask Princess Rui to find a way to help as soon as possible!"
Tu Subo's eardrums were buzzing from her hysterical yelling. He weakly clasped his fists towards the jailer outside the cell and pleaded, "Lin Qi, please do me a favor and go there for me."
The jailer sighed helplessly and left.
Witnessing this scene, the old lady tried to calm herself down, muttering frantically to herself, "Yier will definitely be able to convince Prince Rui... She will definitely be able to..."
Gu Yuexuan watched coldly, frowning slightly.
She thought to herself that the old lady's expectations were probably doomed to be in vain.
The news that the Jingyuan Marquis's mansion was ransacked shocked the entire Shengjing. On the streets and alleys, even the peddlers and hawkers were talking about it with relish. How could Princess Rui be unaware of this?
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