Chapter 561 Are you satisfied?
What kind of secret is it that makes him prefer to be tortured to death than to tell it?
Su Ying reached out and pulled out the silver needle from his neck, and the pain in Li An's body receded like the tide.
Li An's entire body was soaked with cold sweat, and he lay on the ground motionless like a dead dog.
"Li An, tell me the truth and I will leave you with an intact body."
Li An raised his head with difficulty and looked at Su Ying, "I confess, I confess everything!"
"explain."
"Yes, I went to find the Red Devil's people myself. I, I want them to kill King Yu of the Southern Kingdom."
Su Ying raised her eyebrows, "Prince Yu was stabbed. Did you ask the Red Devil to do it?"
Li An said in a firm voice: "Yes, it's me. If I kill Prince Yu, the Southern Kingdom will definitely not let it go."
Li An's plan was that as long as the Chu Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom fought again, the emperor would easily ignore the White Lotus Sect. Then he would let the followers of the Sect stir up trouble and he would be able to achieve his goal.
"King Yu is dead?"
Li An said: "The Red Devil's people told me that the person is already dead."
"Where is the body?" Su Ying didn't believe it. Someone like Li An would not refuse to confirm the body with the other party.
"It has been thrown into the ditch."
"It's clear where the ditch was and when it was thrown."
Li An gave a very detailed address.
"This was all done by me alone. It has nothing to do with the general's wife. I did everything!"
Su Ying narrowed her eyes slightly, "You refused to speak even if you died before, and it was all because of the general's wife." Now that the matter has been dragged down to the national level, they are very likely to be beheaded in public or handed over to the Southern Kingdom for disposal, but no matter what the result is, it is only the difference between death and a death worse than death.
Li An said with a sullen face: "The general's wife has suffered too much these years. She just wants to seek justice and a clear name for the general!"
"You are now trying to provoke a dispute between the two countries. If a war really breaks out, won't it be the common people who will suffer? You are a military commander, but you have forgotten your duty. Do you think the general will be happy if he knows what you have done?"
Li An's eyes were bloodshot and tears filled with blood rolled down.
"When you disregard other people's lives in order to scheme against them, you are asking for more than just justice, so don't talk so high-soundingly."
Li An clenched his fists, "Yes, but the general's wife is not. She only wants justice for the general. I am willing to die in exchange for the general's wife's life. Please grant my wish, Your Majesty."
After getting out of the prison, Su Ying asked the Minister of Justice to go to the address given by Li An. There was a very hidden forest over there. Li An said that he had buried Prince Yu with his own hands at that time, and if he buried him in this place, no one would find him at all.
When the officers went there, they found that the soil in one place was different from that in other places, so they immediately took a shovel and started digging.
But after digging, they only found a torn straw mat stained with blood and a jade pendant on the straw mat, but did not find King Yu's body.
"Look around along the road."
"yes."
The officials scattered and began to search, and finally found Prince Yu in a village at the foot of the mountain, wearing a tattered cotton coat and picking up firewood.
If the outline of the face had not been still there, the officer would not have dared to believe that the person before him was a prince.
Prince Yu was taken back to the palace.
Prince Yu, who had changed back into his gorgeous clothes, looked timidly at Xiao Jin, who was sitting on the dragon throne.
"Your Majesty, Prince Yu has been found, but his brain is injured and he can't remember anything."
Xiao Jin nodded and said, "Have you consulted the imperial physician?"
"Yes, the imperial physician also said that Prince Yu might have blood clots in his brain, which is why he forgot the past."
"Send a message to the Southern Kingdom immediately, telling them that Prince Yu has been found. I will have someone send Prince Yu back to the Southern Kingdom in a few days."
"yes."
Before King Yu disappeared, Xiao Jin wrote a letter to the Southern Kingdom. The Southern Kingdom was very angry and accused the Chu Kingdom of not being sincere in negotiating peace with the Southern Kingdom. After Xiao Jin replied, both sides were playing Tai Chi. It was also obvious that even if King Yu was really dead, the Southern Kingdom would not mobilize troops for this.
Now that King Yu has been found, that couldn’t be better.
On the day when Prince Yu was brought back, the main streets of the capital were also bustling with activity.
The people who were watching the excitement crowded on both sides of the street, watching several groups of people kneeling and bowing in a certain direction, kowtowed with every step they took, and shouted, "It is we who have let the general down!"
"It's our fault. We have ruined the great general's reputation. We deserve to die."
Their action really made the people curious.
"Eh? Isn't this someone from Wu Bohou's mansion? That's the Marquis, what is he doing? What great general? Which great general?"
"You don't know, it's the mighty general, who was once known as the southwestern gate god of Chu, but later died on the battlefield. After the general's death, these people stole the credit for the general. Now that they have been discovered, they are going to kneel in front of the general's grave and kowtow to the general to admit their mistakes!"
Everyone suddenly realized that this was actually happening.
"How despicable! They actually stole the credit from the general without even considering whether they were destined to enjoy it."
"that is."
Gradually the people understood the cause and effect of the incident, and those who had rotten vegetable leaves in their hands threw them at those people. Anyway, there were so many people watching, no one knew who threw them, and they could not be held responsible in the end.
In the teahouse where these people passed by, the general's wife looked at them and couldn't control her tears anymore.
"General, I can finally... do something for you..."
Zhou Qing looked at the general's wife who was almost crying and spoke slowly, "Although you are fighting for justice for the general, some people have been affected because of you. According to the law, you must accept the punishment of the law, but the queen only punishes you thirty times because of your sincerity. If you can hold on, you will leave the capital and never come back."
The general's wife knelt down towards the window and kowtowed three times, "Thank you, Queen, for not killing me."
"I just don't know if Li An..."
Zhou Qing said coldly: "Madam, don't ask if you shouldn't know."
The general's wife clenched her fists in her sleeves and said, "Okay."
Opposite the teahouse, Su Ying leaned in a room on the second floor of the restaurant, looking at the people below with an indifferent expression.
Su Yulun stood behind her with a gloomy face, and his voice was almost squeezed out of his throat, "Now, are you satisfied?" He had offended these people so much these days, and they might make trouble for him in the future! This was all thanks to Su Ying!
Su Ying was satisfied. She smiled and said, "Prime Minister Su really didn't disappoint me."
(End of this chapter)
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