Chapter 8 Exactly the same
To her surprise, before lunch time, another palace maid brought in a batch of snacks, and after that, food was delivered every hour or so.
I can’t even finish it.
Liu Zhiyuan was confused. Is this the legendary death of drought and death of flood?
There was nothing to eat yesterday and she almost starved to death. Today, she was fed once an hour and she died of overeating.
With food, Liu Zhiyuan had basically no worries. He spent the whole day counting how many meals were delivered to him, so he didn't reload the game.
Xiao Yu spent a "peaceful" day "safely" and breathed a sigh of relief with an almost imperceptible intensity.
If he had known that sending a few meals would make that evil woman behave herself, he should have moved the imperial kitchen to the cold palace yesterday!
"Tomorrow, continue to have people deliver meals to Liu Zhiyuan. Send her whatever she wants to eat, and make sure all her requests are met."
This way Liu Zhiyuan will be happy and he will have less to worry about.
Liu Dehai was shocked again. Why did the emperor care so much about Concubine Liu? Could it be that the emperor fell in love with Concubine Liu?
Yes, before Empress Liu entered the palace, she was known as the most beautiful woman in Dayong. It was because of her beauty that she was noticed by the Prime Minister and sent to the palace.
Even a eunuch like him couldn't help but be moved by that beautiful face, let alone the emperor who was a normal man.
Oh no, I almost forgot, the emperor is not normal.
And that doesn't make sense. Concubine Liu has been in the palace for three years, and the Emperor has seen her only a few times on one hand. He has never favored her. If he wanted to fall in love with her, he would have done it long ago. Why would he wait until now?
He even banished her to the cold palace.
I don’t understand. I don’t understand at all.
The early morning sunlight shone through the broken windows of the cold palace onto Liu Zhiyuan's face. Her delicate and smooth skin was almost white and transparent in the sunlight. Her red lips were slightly open, and her thick eyelashes trembled because the light was too bright.
The bed was too hard. She tossed and turned most of the night before finally falling asleep. Unexpectedly, it was already dawn.
I turned over, with my back to the sun, and was about to continue sleeping when the door to the cold palace was kicked open with a bang.
Liu Zhiyuan was startled and quickly turned over and sat up.
"Who are you?"
She looked alert and fiercely at the guards who suddenly appeared.
The evil spirit comes with ill intentions.
Liu Zhiyuan's eyes were alert, and he had already called up the file loading page, ready to load the file at any time.
One of the guards said impatiently, "Liu Zhongyuan is going to be executed today. Come with us now and serve them their last meal."
Liu Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment.
Only then did he realize that today was indeed the day when the Liu family would be beheaded. That was why the original owner resolutely went to plead for mercy the day before yesterday even though she knew it would anger Xiao Yu, because that was her last chance to save her father.
After all, she was just a person who came in through a book. She didn't have a very clear perception of this identity and everything around her, and many of her memories were not organized.
To her now, the Liu family is more like emotionless NPCs.
The guards who broke in saw that she was in a daze and lost all patience, so they just picked her up and dragged her out.
"Hurry up and go, why are you dawdling?"
The imperial palace is a place where people are eaten without leaving any bones. There are many people who flatter the powerful and look down on the weak. For a concubine like this who has lost her power, the final outcome is only death. Her status is even lower than that of the lowest-ranking guards like them.
Naturally, he didn't have much respect for Liu Zhiyuan.
Liu Zhiyuan was a little confused when she was roughly taken out of the palace. Can concubines in the harem leave the palace at will?
After leaving the palace, she was stuffed into a narrow and shabby carriage, and then an ordinary set of coarse linen clothes and a white gauze hat were thrown in.
"Hurry up and change." The guard said in a bad tone, raised the whip impatiently and hit the horse's butt, and the carriage began to shake.
It was bumping left and right, and almost threw Liu Zhiyuan out.
After finally getting used to the bumpy ride of the carriage, she clumsily changed her clothes and put on her bonnet, covering herself up tightly.
The carriage swayed and stopped near the execution ground. Liu Zhiyuan got off the carriage and a simple black food box was stuffed into his hand. Then he was taken to the execution ground by the guards.
At a glance, I saw the Liu family members kneeling there.
The Liu family is small in number. Although it is said that the entire family was executed, there are actually only three direct blood relatives in total.
Liu Zhongyuan, Madam Liu, and Liu Changjia, the eldest son of the Liu family.
The three men were wearing shackles and bloodstained prison uniforms, and their bodies were covered with wounds of varying sizes and depths.
Obviously, they were tortured.
At this time, the three men were kneeling on the execution ground without any dignity, with their heads lowered. They were surrounded by angry people who were cursing and throwing vegetable leaves and eggs at them.
"You dog official! You even embezzled the money for disaster relief. Your conscience has been eaten by a dog!"
"It's all because of corrupt officials like you that we ordinary people have such a hard time."
"Go to hell! Corrupt officials should be beheaded and their bodies hung on the city walls to dry in the sun!"
"I used to admire Master Liu so much, but I never thought you were also a corrupt official!"
Bang--
An egg hit Liu Zhongyuan on the head, and the egg liquid dripped down his forehead. Liu Zhongyuan raised his head in embarrassment and happened to meet Liu Zhiyuan's gaze.
Liu Zhongyuan's lips trembled, "Yuan, Yuan'er."
dad!
Liu Zhiyuan's face was filled with shock.
How could this happen? Why does the person kneeling on the execution ground look exactly like my father!
Madam Liu and Liu Changjia heard the voice and looked up in panic, only to meet Liu Zhiyuan's shocked face.
Liu Zhiyuan was shocked!
She couldn't help but be shocked. The three people kneeling there looked exactly like her father, mother and brother!
Liu Zhiyuan looked flustered and ran up quickly.
This was the first time the three of them saw Liu Zhiyuan after the incident at the Liu family, and they were all a little excited.
"Yuan'er, Yuan'er, why are you here?"
As Liu Zhongyuan spoke, he struggled to stand up, but was kicked by the guards behind him and knelt back in embarrassment.
Madam Liu crawled forward two steps on her knees, tears falling, "Yuan'er, how are you? Did the Emperor give you any trouble?"
The Liu family has encountered such a disaster and is powerless to save the situation. What she is most worried about now is her youngest daughter Liu Zhiyuan. She hopes that the emperor will not vent his anger on her because she has been in the palace for three years.
"I'm fine." Liu Zhiyuan's voice choked with sobs, and he tried to touch the whip marks on Madam Liu's face with trembling hands. "Mom, does it hurt? Does it hurt a lot?"
Her mother had been a spoiled rich girl since she was a child. She would consult a private doctor even if she scratched her finger. She had never suffered such a serious injury.
Liu Zhiyuan was heartbroken.
A trace of confusion crossed Madam Liu's face. "Yuan'er, what did you call mother?"
Liu Zhiyuan was stunned, and her tear-filled eyes swept across the faces of Liu Zhongyuan and the other two. Then she suddenly realized that they should just look like her parents and brother, but her parents did not travel through time as well.
This made her tense nerves relax.
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