"Hasn't anything been wrong after all this time? Why haven't you thought about it properly?"
Xie Ming felt that Xie Shuli was indeed a "good puppet," possessing all the flaws that humans could have: pride, arrogance, stupidity...
The funny thing is, people like this really are the most useful puppets.
"You! You! You..."
His mind kept leading him to the places he least wanted to go, and Xie Shuli was so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly.
"In your past life, you received the favors of my Kangwang Mansion, yet you conspired with others to completely destroy my direct lineage. You called me 'Father' but allowed me to grow weaker day by day. Were you particularly smug when you fed me poison in the end?"
"Father! Father! I was wrong. I shouldn't have trusted others so easily and shouldn't have done such a rebellious thing!"
Xie Shuli kowtowed repeatedly, looking just like a servant in the palace who had made a mistake, but the people in front of him remained unmoved.
He stopped what he was doing and crawled to Xie Ming on his knees, his face covered in tears and snot.
"You shouldn't say you shouldn't have done it, you should have done it all! For your grand ambition, didn't you kill half the officials? For your peerless beauty, didn't you build towering skyscrapers? How could you achieve your grand ambition if you didn't wipe out my direct descendants?"
Xie Ming grabbed his hair and pulled it back violently, his bloodshot eyes staring at him like a demon.
"No! No! I killed those people because they disrespected the royal family, and those beauties weren't what I wanted; they were all stuffed into the harem by those traitors... Father, you know I'm the most filial son. I'll be obedient from now on and will definitely bring glory to the Kang Prince's Mansion..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xie Ming grabbed his hair and flung him away, causing him to crash into a nearby table and chairs and spit out blood.
Still thinking of going back to the Prince's mansion as a master? Xie Ming was astonished by this man's naivety and shamelessness...
At this moment, the guard outside knocked on the closed door and asked, "Your Highness."
"No problem, guard your gates and don't let anyone near."
Xie Shuli, who was lying to the side, turned pale with fright upon hearing this, and vaguely sensed that he probably wouldn't escape his fate today.
He couldn't die, he couldn't die! He wanted to live. Unwilling to accept his fate, he endured the excruciating pain in his body, raised his head, and looked at Xie Ming with hopeful eyes: "Father, Father! Spare me, spare me, I will be obedient, really."
"Aren't you going to ask about your parents' side of the family?"
"No, no, no! My father is the Prince of Kang. Those are all traitors and rebels. You should cut off their heads. Please don't let them bring disaster to Dasheng's country."
Xie Shuli's face was flushed, his eyes were wide open, and he was in a state of excitement.
"You're right. I really don't know how to deal with them right now. Since you, my own flesh and blood, have said so, then let's do it this way!"
Xie Ming took a pen and paper from the table and handed it to him, asking him to write down the good deeds his family had done and a petition requesting a retrial.
Lying on the ground in pain, Xie Shuli stared at the object on the ground, unable to bring himself to touch it.
If you write about him, his whole family will die; if you don't write about him, he will die.
"Not writing? It's so lonely traveling alone! Perhaps the Emperor will consider your grandfather, father, uncles... for being honest and law-abiding and let you go back to your ancestral home. In the future, your cousins and your half-brothers will all be able to have a son or daughter, or even start a family business and live a good life."
Xie Ming sat down in the chair at the head of the table, took off the beads from his wrist, and began to fiddle with them.
The man on earth is not a simple 9-year-old child; he has been an emperor who is supreme and has enjoyed the glory of being shouted "Long live the emperor!"
The people of the world are like ants in his hands. His family has gained wealth and power from him alone, so why would he suffer alone now?
Sure enough, a few breaths after Xie Ming finished speaking, the man on the ground, trembling, recounted his family's affairs word by word.
He knew what to confess and how to confess in order to ensure those people died cleanly, so he wrote this document with exceptional care.
After he finished writing, he thought carefully about what he might have missed.
Then, with difficulty, he got up, respectfully placed the items on the coffee table next to him, and then went back to kneeling.
Xie Ming came over, looked at her, and said, "I heard that your mother is from the Yang family, a cousin of the Imperial Concubine, and also studied under the Poison Master of Guannan..."
"I haven't finished writing, I haven't finished writing, I remember now." Xie Shuli hurriedly started looking for the unfinished paper on the ground.
Half an hour later, Xie Ming turned and left the house. Xie Shuli, who was slumped on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had gotten through this ordeal.
But soon someone took out medicine and a dagger and went in. Immediately, sharp, painful screams came from inside the room, and then their mouths were gagged.
Fuquan, who was waiting outside, quickly followed his master when he came out. Xie Ming said calmly, "Keep the man inside alive. We'll take him and his family with us later. Then we'll give what he wrote to the Crown Prince!"
"Master, please leave these matters to this old servant from now on!" Fuquan didn't want those things to dirty his master's hands.
"Um!"
"This old servant will go to the Crown Prince's residence immediately."
The Crown Prince had been preoccupied with the Crown Princess and the Black Feather Army, but now that he had some free time, Fu Quan handed over the items, and the Crown Prince immediately surrounded Xie Shuli's house.
Xie Ming was interrogating Xie Shuli alongside the Crown Prince, and there was a reason why Xie Shuli was considered stupid and vicious. The executioners only needed to use a little trickery, and the few men managed to spill all the beans.
Staring at the four major families mentioned in the confession, the Crown Prince's clenched fist turned white at the tips.
However, the matter was too far-reaching, and no one dared to touch the powerful aristocratic families at this time. Nevertheless, the imperial concubine in the palace was implicated in the matter and was completely disliked by the old emperor. The Yang family still sent a daughter to the palace to appease the old emperor's anger.
Xie Shuli's family was accused of plotting to harm a royal heir, and the entire family was beheaded.
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