"I am the daughter of Liu Yu, and my late husband is Cui Mubai." Liu Yaozhen knelt down and saluted Feng Ying after entering the palace. "Don't your majesty and the emperor's uncle want an explanation? Every wrong has its perpetrator, and I am here to give your majesty an explanation."
"Okay, okay!" Feng Ying said angrily, "Why don't you tell me what unforgivable crime my son has committed against you that he has to pay with his life? Even if he has done something wrong, there are laws to punish him. How dare you, a daughter of a minister, take his life? You know that he is the second prince of my Taiyan. You dare to kill even a prince. You, the Liu family, have no respect for the law and despise the majesty of heaven!"
Liu Yaozhen sneered: "Your Majesty only knows how to love her son and protect the Second Prince's dignity, but the Second Prince's life is life, so the lives of others are worthless? Or are we all slaves who are worse than pigs and dogs under the imperial power, and should be taken, killed and robbed at will? Even rabbits will bite when they are cornered, not to mention that we are people who have studied the Neo-Confucianism of the Process and Zhu Xi, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and have a sense of shame and ethics! We are all born as human beings, not livestock or poultry, so we have blood and pride!"
Feng Ying was speechless after hearing what she said. Yes, this person was the daughter of Liu Yu, and she had a father who was a man of great learning and scholarship who was highly regarded by all the scholars in the world. Naturally, she had been well-read and eloquent since childhood.
Feng Yuanqi suddenly said, "According to what you said, the Second Prince has a blood feud with you? But as far as I know, all members of your Liu family are alive and well, and no one has been killed."
Liu Yaozhen raised her eyes, her eyes were bright and sharp, and she looked directly into Feng Yuanqi's eyes: "He killed my husband, coerced him, bribed him, and tortured him cruelly for several years. Does this count as a blood feud?"
Feng Ying frowned, tears still in her eyes: "You mean Cui Mubai? He was the second prince's chosen companion when he was young. The two grew up together and have a very good relationship. My son treats Cui Shidu very well. He has never been left out of any reward in the palace. When he was still the crown prince, he promoted Cui Shidu several times. The relationship between the two is like that of brothers. When Cui Shidu was seriously ill, my son sent imperial doctors to Cui's house several times to treat him and visited him in person. How could my son kill Cui Shidu?"
Liu Yaozhen clenched her teeth as she listened, her eyes were bloodshot from endurance, she clenched her fists and laughed sneerfully, her eyes filled with tears of sorrow.
"Your Majesty, do you know that the Second Prince likes to humiliate men?"
Liu Yaozhen's words were not loud, but they sounded like thunder, shocking the two people in the hall. Feng Ying clasped the armrest tightly with her fingers and said subconsciously, "This is impossible..."
"Impossible?" Liu Yaozhen cried with tears in her eyes, her voice was shocking, "It seems that Your Majesty has never understood your son, and has no idea what kind of character the Second Prince is! He is a beast! No, beasts are not as disgusting as him! Do you know that my husband was threatened and intimidated by him before he even reached adulthood, and he used his power to pressure the entire Cui family to their lives, so that they had to submit to him! Your Majesty, you love your son, but what about my husband? The Cui family is a clean and upright family with a very upright family tradition. My husband should have been a handsome and elegant young man from a noble family, but he was bullied by the Second Prince, his self-esteem was broken, and he became a plaything. Doesn't he have his parents to love and spoil him? Isn't he someone else's son?"
"In order to control my husband and make him completely obedient to him, Zhu Zhui drugged him all year round, causing him to be unable to have children, bedridden, and die young. He suffered shame all his life, and his wife and children were separated from him before he died! May I ask, Your Majesty, doesn't Zhu Zhui deserve to die? I wish I could cut him into pieces. No, even if I cut him into pieces, it would not ease the hatred in my heart, nor would it repay my husband's innocent and noble life, nor would it bring him back to life."
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