Chapter 1091 Dilemma
"Of course I have to speak my mind."
Feng Ziqing slowly stood up, leaning against the carved railing:
"On the night Jiang Xiaowei was about to give birth, I specially picked out thirteen death row prisoners from the palace. Those people had massacred three cities in Mobei, but they were particularly gentle to pregnant women."
The bronze lamp shattered into powder in his palm.
Feng Ziqing stroked the faded red string on his wrist, which was the trophy he casually threw to her on his thirteenth birthday: "If you had accepted my wedding wine back then, we should be teaching our child archery in the general's mansion now..."
"Shut up!" Lan Feng shouted so loudly that the copper bell on the eaves fell off.
The blood-red moonlight penetrated the iron bars of the cell, leaving strange lines on Feng Ziqing's face.
The woman who once made all the beauties in the harem pale in comparison was now curled up under the rack with disheveled hair, still smiling venomously with her peach blossom eyes.
"General, do you know that Madam Jiang was still protecting her belly before she died?"
She ran her nail-stained fingertips across her belly: "Those rough men dragged her for three miles by her hair. The bloodstains on the palace bricks stretched for miles!"
Lan Feng's action of kicking the rack in pieces startled the jackdaws and caused the chains to fall to the ground with a crash.
But she suddenly burst into laughter, and her crazy laughter shook the torture instruments on the wall. "Guess how many bodies were found in the end? Jiang Xiaowei's, the bastard in her belly, and..."
"Someone, bring mermaid glue."
Lan Feng looked coldly at the guard holding up the glass jar and said, "Since the Queen Mother loves to talk so much, why not save your tongue and speak slowly."
Feng Ziqing wiped her lips with her bloodstained sleeve, a broken smile frozen on her face: "Jiang Xue is really good at it, she even forged the imperial edict of the phoenix's death."
"Compared to the thirty-seven poison arrays you set up in the Summer Resort, the Princess is indeed merciful."
Lan Feng signaled the jailer to unfold the black iron chain: "I heard that there is a method of skinning people alive in southern Xinjiang, which can ensure that the prisoner will not die for seven days?"
She finally changed her expression, digging her gold-inlaid armor deep into the cracks of the bricks: "The emperor's imperial decree granting marriage was delivered to your tent that year. If Jiang Xue hadn't led the troops to rob the decree overnight..."
"shut up!"
Lan Feng waved his sleeves and swept the torture instruments off the wall. "When you colluded with the eunuch party to frame loyal officials, did you ever think about the censors who were tortured to death? When you poisoned the military rations in the northern border, did you ever think about the children who starved to death on the border?"
The dark cell suddenly fell into silence, with only the sound of dripping blood.
She looked up at the crescent moon outside the air window, and her crazy eyes and eyebrows faded away, revealing some of her youthful beauty: "In the spring of the third year of Jianzhao, you rescued the little palace maid from the wolf pack. Why didn't you want to take another look at her later?"
Lan Feng tightly grasped the broken jade pendant on his waist. This was Xiao Wei's last thought. He turned and stepped into the thick night: "Because that day, I met a silly girl who could bandage a wild wolf with a handkerchief."
The iron door slammed shut, covering up the heart-wrenching screams behind him.
Lan Feng's iron-like palm clamped Feng Ziqing's jaw. A cold metallic light flashed, and the short blade accurately cut off half of the scarlet tongue.
Blood splashed on the bluestone bricks, turning red plum blossoms into bloom. He shook off the woman's staggering figure, and his black combat boots rolled over the blood stains on the ground:
"This is just an appetizer. Xiaowei will slowly pay off the pain that she has endured a hundred times."
Fu Dong took the copper key handed to him by the guard and sighed as he watched the general's receding back.
She understood that the prisoner must be transferred to the dungeon before dawn, otherwise something unexpected might happen if the Queen Mother's guards discovered that the eldest princess was missing.
As his fingertips stroked the key's teeth marks, he suddenly heard a dull thumping sound coming from the cell - Feng Ziqing was pressing his severed tongue against the wall and making an indistinct roar.
Green smoke of soothing incense rose from the gilded incense burner, and Xiao Zhan tucked in the corner of the quilt for the sleeping Jiang Xue.
He noticed a hideous scar on his wife's bulging belly, which was left by her trying to save Lan Feng's posthumous child half a month ago.
The delivery room was filled with the smell of blood during the heavy rain. When the eldest princess personally cut open Xiao Wei's body and took out the fetus, the umbilical cord was still wrapped with three circles of gold threads - a unique birth mark of the royal family of Tianshui Kingdom.
Lan Feng wiped the dark patterns on his sword "Po Jun", which was a birthday gift given to him by Jiang Xue when she came of age.
The neighing of war horses could be heard in the distance, and 30,000 Black Armored Soldiers were getting ready. With his eyes closed, he could hear Huangfu Shang's wild laughter in the Council Hall.
The palm of his hand suddenly felt a sharp pain. It turned out that he had crushed the white jade ring on the sword tassel without knowing it. It was this jade ring that Xiao Wei touched for the last time before she died that day.
When Fu Dong turned around, he didn't notice that the secret report that slipped out of Xiao Zhan's sleeve was stained with brown blood, and the words "Tianshui Kingdom Witch Doctor" were faintly visible on it.
The shadow of a night owl passed by the window, and a messenger wearing a bronze mask was delivering a bloodstained swaddling cloth to the border...
"clear."
When Xiao Zhan's footsteps disappeared at the end of the corridor, Jiang Xue opened her eyes with trembling eyelashes.
Fu Dongzheng's hand holding the medicine bowl trembled: "Your Highness is not asleep at all?"
"I felt like there was a stone pressing down on my heart. I couldn't close my eyes."
Jiang Xue looked at the tassels hanging from the ceiling of the tent: "I just don't want Yun Che to worry for nothing."
She suddenly grabbed the corner of the quilt: "What's going on with Lan Feng?"
"The general chose the death penalty by flaying."
Fu Dong tapped the spoon lightly on the edge of the bowl and said, "He said he wanted to seek justice for Madam Lan and Miss Xiao Wei."
"Feng Ziqing deserves to die."
Her fingers were twisted white under the quilt. "But what if I get cut a thousand times? My mother won't comb my hair with a smile anymore, and Xiaowei won't be able to hear her new music anymore."
She choked up and asked, "Were you okay when you saw him just now?"
"The general specifically asked me to tell you that when you recover, we will go to the imperial city of Tianshui Kingdom to personally collect the debt from Huangfu Shang."
"really?"
"Every word is true."
Fu Dong handed the warm medicine cup to her and said, "Since you can say that, I think you can hold on."
"Can you hold on?"
Jiang Xue suddenly laughed out loud, shaking the gauze on her chest and making it bleed again: "When he was ten years old, he hunted a white fox. He was obviously very happy, but he had a stern face and said, 'It's just an ordinary prey.' Now..."
The last syllable dissipated in the thick medicinal smell and turned into a sigh.
The maid was about to comfort her, but she saw her master had closed her eyes and turned aside: "Go find Jiang Xiaoan and ask him to prepare more warm wine in the next few days."
In the study room of the other side of the courtyard, Yun Zhen was holding a black jade chess piece and studying the endgame.
"Your Excellency the Prime Minister has arrived at the right time."
He dropped the white piece with his fingertips on Tianyuan: "Want to play a game?"
Xiao Zhan sat down, his black sleeves sweeping the stars in a mess: "You knew I was coming."
"From the moment the Suzaku Guards sealed the courtyard, I prepared the chessboard."
Yun Zhen twirled the chess piece and chuckled, "Saving Miss Xiaoxue was an opportunity, but it put you in a dilemma."
"If you are willing to answer my three questions, we should be drinking and chatting happily now."
"Even a thousand cups of fine wine cannot extinguish the clouds of doubt in a person's heart."
Bai Zi suddenly flew across the Chu River and Han River: "Your Excellency, please feel free to ask, but..."
When he raised his eyes, there seemed to be cold stars in his eyes: "No regrets on this move."
The man's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his voice was hesitant:
"I can only reveal all these secrets to the eldest princess. But please believe me, I will never hurt her in the slightest, and I will definitely send Jiang Ke back to her in one piece."
"Since you are unwilling to be honest, you will die here."
The black official robe swept across the chessboard, causing several jade chess pieces to roll to the ground.
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