Chapter 362 Execution
Jiang Fenghua walked up to her and said in a deep voice, "Even when you're about to die, you're still trying to deny it. It's clear that you had the idea of currying favor with the powerful and wealthy long ago, which is why you cooperated with Su Xuan to have a child. You wanted to use this child to infiltrate the royal family and become a grandson of the emperor, so that you could support the child to seek more benefits in the future. Ye Susu, I think you're insatiable."
Ye Susu was stunned, tears still streaming down her face. She wanted to say that if she hadn't saved the Crown Prince's life, she wouldn't have married him, but that statement was even less convincing.
All she wants now is to survive; if she continues to oppose Jiang Fenghua, she'll suffer the consequences.
She said, "The child is dead."
Upon hearing this news, Jiang Fenghua clenched her fists and silently thought to herself, "He has no right to choose his parents, which is why he chose to leave. I hope he will be reborn into a good family in his next life."
Ye Susu continued, “Whether the Crown Princess believes it or not, I have never conspired with Su Xuan. Instead, he approached me, forced me, bullied me, threatened me, and I became pregnant. I was very scared, which is why I kept it to myself. I was even more afraid that if I spoke out, the Crown Prince would hate me. None of this was my intention.”
“I am a helpless orphan with no one to rely on but His Highness the Crown Prince. Yet Su Xuan has bullied me. I dare not tell anyone. I don’t even know if the child is His Highness’s or Su Xuan’s. I am a woman, unlike the Crown Princess who comes from a prominent family and is pampered and loved in every way. My fellow ladies in the hall, think about it. If you were to encounter something like what I have experienced, what would you do? I’m afraid that in that case, I would really only have one way out: death.”
Those in the hall, after hearing her story, could empathize with her and understand that a woman who has been bullied truly faces only death.
If Jiang Fenghua hadn't known her character so well, she might have actually believed her nonsense.
Jiang Fenghua didn't tolerate her and said directly, "Please trouble Commander Gao to bring the child up!"
She then said to Steward Cao, "Please ask Steward Cao to invite Physician Wang here."
Commander Gao brought the child over, saying, "He has indeed died. He was such a young child, it's pitiful to look at. The woman in front of me doesn't seem to care about the child at all. If it weren't for the Imperial Guards taking pity on him, this child would have been abandoned like those traitors."
No matter what, she is still the mother of the child, which shows how heartless she is.
Jiang Fenghua placed him in front of Ye Susu and said coldly, "Take a look!"
Ye Susu asked, "What are you looking at?"
"When he was still in your belly, did you really not know whether he was Su Xuan's child or the Crown Prince's child?" Jiang Fenghua asked him.
Ye Susu was stunned and dared not answer.
Jiang Fenghua said sternly, "Don't you dare to say it?"
"You dare not say it because you already knew that the child was Su Xuan's, and that you and Su Xuan conspired to have him."
Ye Susu shook her head, "No, I thought he was His Highness's child."
"So you think he's His Highness's child, and you love him?" Jiang Fenghua continued, "I think if you love the Crown Prince, you should love his child in the same way!"
Ye Susu felt as if Jiang Fenghua's voice was haunting her like a vengeful ghost. Why did he have to force her like this? Couldn't he just let her go?
"Doctor Ye is kind-hearted and a mother. Are these two simple questions really that difficult to answer?"
Ye Susu fidgeted with her fingers. “If he is His Highness’s child, I will naturally love him. If he is Su Xuan’s child, I will hate him. They are the ones who harmed me. I also thought he was His Highness’s child at first, but after he was born, I realized something was wrong. That’s why I don’t like him, but I don’t dare to say it.”
“Wrong,” Jiang Fenghua said directly. “You don’t have the child in your heart at all. You just want to use him to climb the social ladder. He is the child you got from Su Xuan, so you will never like him, because you have known all along that he is Su Xuan’s child.”
Before Ye Susu could argue any further, Jiang Fenghua directly opened the swaddling blanket. "You're a doctor, skilled in medicine. Look at the cruel things you did to him while you were pregnant with him! Take a look!"
Ye Susu was startled, and even the old lady Su next to her looked at the child, only to see that the old lady Su's pupils also changed color.
Jiang Fenghua pulled Ye Susu's hand and touched the child. "You are the one who wronged him. You harmed him. When he was in your womb, in order to change his birth date and make it impossible for people to find out that he was actually born prematurely, you turned him into a child born with a disability. Ye Susu, as a doctor, how could you be so heartless?"
Ye Susu touched it, she couldn't believe it, "The child..."
Jiang Fenghua wrapped the child in a blanket and instructed Commander Gao, "Let the child rest in peace and be properly buried!"
Only after Commander Gao took the child away did Jiang Fenghua say, "Since you want to use him to gain wealth and status, why are you so heartless? Ye Susu, you are not worthy to be his mother."
At this time, Imperial Physician Wang was also invited. After paying his respects to the Emperor, Empress, and Crown Princess, he explained the whole story.
After saying that, he added, "Miss Ye is skilled in medicine, which is why she was able to do so many things during her pregnancy, indirectly causing the child to be born with a disability. It is also because Miss Ye did too much to her body that she damaged her uterus during childbirth, and she will never be able to have children again in this lifetime."
Ye Susu broke down, "What did you say? I can't have children? How is that possible? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
After saying that, Physician Wang stopped talking. As for why, that was the Crown Princess's idea. Now that Su Xuan had rebelled, he knew why: it was to avoid alerting the enemy. The Crown Princess truly had a clever method!
People were talking amongst themselves, "Such a scheming woman, and she's still pretending to be pitiful."
"God has eyes after all. If she can't be a mother in the future, no child will be taken advantage of by her."
"She knew all along that she wasn't pregnant with the Crown Prince's child, so she came up with the idea of 'borrowing a seed.' Tsk tsk, if this isn't called cunning, what is it? She pretended not to know anything and even said that the traitor Su Xuan forced her. Clearly, she was the one who actively engaged in sexual relations with the traitor, trying to make the traitor's child the heir to the throne. Her heart is despicable!"
"A woman like that should be sentenced to death; keeping her alive would only bring harm to others."
As Ye Susu listened to the accusations leveled against her, she knew she was finished.
"Jiang Fenghua, I have no grudge against you, why are you so determined to hold me accountable?"
Jiang Fenghua straightened her back and said in a deep voice, "I just don't want to wrong an innocent person, and I certainly won't sympathize with a bad person and help the wicked." She didn't believe that Ye Susu would quietly become a concubine in the future, and removing her would be like eliminating a threat to the Eastern Palace.
“I have never harmed anyone. Was I wrong to scheme for myself?” Ye Susu said.
"I only know that right and wrong in this world should have a definite result. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. You have not harmed anyone because you have not had the opportunity. You have used any means to plot against the Crown Prince and the imperial heirs. That is the wrong thing you have done." Jiang Fenghua's voice was clear and her eyes were bright, which made people feel convinced.
The Emperor said in a deep voice, "Throw Ye Susu into the imperial prison and behead her on a chosen day as a warning to others."
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