"This concubine greets Your Highness the Crown Prince." Yun Shi smiled obsequiously, bowed to Yuwen Linyuan, and then reluctantly curtsied to Si Jin: "Greetings, Eunuch."
"I wonder what brings Your Highness here today?"
While Yun was speaking, Sun Ziyu kept glancing up at Yuwen Linyuan, her cheeks flushed, revealing the shy and timid demeanor of a young girl.
His Highness the Crown Prince is so handsome, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, and an imposing presence. He would be even more handsome if he weren't standing next to that eyesore, bastard Gu Sijin.
I truly hope that His Highness the Crown Prince will visit her alone someday, and that they can enjoy romantic moments together, like flowers in bloom and the moon shining brightly, while brewing wine and tea.
"Oh, I'm fine. I mainly came to accompany the Grand Eunuch."
With just one sentence, Yuwen Linyuan shattered the Yun family's wishful thinking. Wasn't the Crown Prince here to choose a concubine because he had taken a liking to Yu'er?
With an unpleasant expression, Madam Yun continued, "May I ask what brings you here, Eunuch?"
"It's nothing serious." Si Jin waved his hand, and a group of imperial guards who had come with the carriage stood behind him.
The leader handed him a barbed whip, and the next moment, *crack*—
Si Jin lashed Yun Shi's back with a whip, instantly tearing her skin and causing her to bleed.
Unable to bear the pain, Yun knelt down in front of Si Jin.
Her eyes were filled with grievance and resentment: "Gu Sijin! What do you want to do?"
Sun Ziyu immediately knelt down to support Yun Shi, looking at Yuwen Linyuan with teary eyes: "Your Highness, we...we've been law-abiding and haven't done anything illegal!"
She appeared delicate, and her voice was even more delicate than her appearance, attempting to evoke Yuwen Linyuan's pity.
But Yuwen Linyuan just lowered his head and looked at Si Jin carefully, afraid that he would hurt his hand.
Snap snap snap snap—
After lashing her four more times, Si Jin threw the blood-stained whip back to the imperial guards, took the brocade box, and unceremoniously smashed it in front of Yun Shi.
Splash—
The brocade box shattered, and the coachman's head, bleeding from all seven orifices, rolled out. Yun was so frightened that her face turned ashen, and her mind went blank.
Before she could think of any words to question him, Si Jin threw down another confession and said calmly, "This morning, my coachman tried to assassinate me. After a day of interrogation, he finally managed to get your son to confess."
"Sun Siyuan, son of the Grand Secretary, has been conclusively accused of hiring someone to assassinate a high-ranking official. He has been brought to the Eastern Depot and dealt with according to the law. His mother, Lady Yun, was punished for her lax discipline by being given five lashes of the Soul-Destroying Whip."
When Sun Siyuan saw the driver's head, he started to panic. When he saw the confession, he completely lost his composure.
The Eastern Depot, that place was known as the "Hall of Hell on Earth," a place where you could enter with your life but never leave with yours!
He was furious when he heard yesterday that his father had given his newly acquired ivory pillow to Gu Sijin.
He was genuinely afraid that Gu Sijin would recognize his father again, change his surname back to Sun, and come back to seize his family property, which is why he resorted to this desperate measure.
But that coachman had been with Gu Sijin for over ten years and was one of the people he trusted most. How could he be so ruthless as to kill him without hesitation and even take his head back!
"I didn't! It wasn't me!" Sun Siyuan denied it to the death, struggling wildly: "You've abused your power to arrest people arbitrarily. When Father comes back, he'll definitely skin you alive!"
Surely his father would be afraid now?
If Gu Sijin truly wanted to acknowledge his ancestors and return to his clan, he wouldn't dare disobey his father or kill his own brother.
Seeing Gu Sijin pause, Sun Siyuan became even happier and continued shouting his only bargaining chip: "Gu Sijin, Father is in Wenyuan Pavilion and will be back soon. If you dare to lay a finger on me, you will..."
Seeing Si Jin open his mouth, Sun Siyuan stared expectantly, waiting for him to back down and say he would release himself.
To everyone's surprise, the red-robed eunuch simply turned around without a care, casually straightened his cuffs, and said, "Go back and pull out your tongue; it's giving me tinnitus."
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