Chapter 116 The Twisted Woman
"And you actually captured someone to eat?" Prince Yu's eyes widened as big as copper bells, his face full of horror.
"Quiet." Wang Gangzheng glanced at him and motioned Princess Yu to continue.
"So what if I have stunning beauty, skin as white as snow, and a figure as young as a young girl? The prince is only interested in cultivating the Tao and becoming an immortal.
He is old, with white hair on his temples and his skin is no longer firm. Even when we sleep in the same bed, I can still smell the old man's scent on him."
Princess Yu was filled with grievances, "He even tried to drag me into practicing Taoism. I come from a humble background and worked so hard to marry into the royal family. I haven't even enjoyed the blessings yet, so why should I become a Taoist nun?
God took pity on me and let me meet Liu Huan. He was younger than the prince and knew how to cherish me better than the prince. It was with him that I truly experienced what it was like to be a woman.
Those people are going to die anyway, so what's wrong with letting them experience the ultimate happiness in this world before they die?"
Her expression was shy and angry, but her words were extremely absurd. Not to mention the others, even the three presiding judges who were used to seeing all kinds of strange cases could not help but show anger.
Wang Gang slammed the table, "How dare you! They are the people of the Great Wei. How can they be bullied and killed by you?
It's impossible for the two of you to murder so many people without being discovered. Who else could be your accomplices?
With your financial resources, you two wouldn't be able to build such a luxurious underground palace. Where did your money come from? Tell us the truth."
Princess Yu seemed to be frightened by Wang Gangzheng. Her body trembled, and she gasped violently, her proud chest heaving violently.
When she looked up again, she was about to cry, "They say men are like limbs and women are like clothes. Liu Huan got me drunk and climbed into my bed with Luo Zhifu, who was returning to Beijing to report on his work.
After that, every year when he returned to Beijing to report on his work, he would stay at the manor for a few days. He had tasted the benefits and was asked to help arrest a few people. Why wouldn’t he be happy about it…”
She spoke in a sweet voice, as if she was chatting casually.
But it made everyone in the room's scalp tingle.
Such a seemingly delicate and gentle woman, actually treats human life as worthless and does things worse than animals.
She started cannibalism more than a decade ago, initially doing it on two people a year, in a covert manner.
Gradually, she could not bear the loneliness anymore, so she hooked up with Liu Huan and used the method of curing the like with the like on Liu Huan. She set up a den of evil there and started to capture young boys and girls for her amusement.
Liu Huan's wife became aware of their relationship, and Princess Yu designed a plan to drag her into the affair as well.
Starting three years ago, for some unknown reason, her and Liu Huan's health began to deteriorate at an accelerated rate, and they needed to receive treatment every 49 days, and each treatment cost two lives.
As more and more people were needed, it was not easy to catch them, so they dragged the Linzhou prefect into the trap and opened several inns in Linzhou.
They would either take advantage of the guests' deep sleep or directly put drugs in their food and abduct them to the underground.
The guards at the village also had assigned tasks. After completing them, they would be rewarded and could spend the night with the captured boys and girls.
If you fail to complete the task, you will suffer from the poison and be unable to live or die.
The money spent on purchasing the underground was the family property that was taken away by Prince Yu ten years ago.
Wang Gangzheng immediately asked the doctor to take the pulse of several people. There was nothing abnormal in the pulse, but it was not difficult to verify that Princess Yu had injured her body during childbirth. The yamen runner left to look for Princess Yu's pulse record from that year.
Upon hearing this, Prince Yu was furious. He grabbed Princess Yu's skirt and said, "Didn't my son take away the family property? Then where is my son? Did you eat him too?"
His voice was trembling violently, and his eyes were fixed on Princess Yu, as if he still couldn't believe that this woman would really do those things.
"I didn't." Princess Yu's eyes were full of joy. "He at least called me Mother, how could I eat him?"
"You just ordered someone to kill him and dump his body in the wilderness, and then announced to the public that he eloped with an actor. In fact, it was you who arranged for the actor to get close to him, right?" Gong Mingcheng's voice sounded.
Wei Qingyan was unable to show up, so he told Gong Mingcheng about Shi Chengze's affairs and asked him to clear Shi Chengze's grievances.
Princess Yu smoothed her messy hair. Her fingers had been tortured, her bones were almost broken, and her hands were covered in blood, but she tried her best to make an elegant movement.
He said calmly, "He is uneducated and unskilled. If Prince Yu's Mansion falls into his hands, it will fall into decline sooner or later. I am doing this for Prince Yu's Mansion's sake.
If he were alive, he would occupy the position of the crown prince. In fact, for a person like him, living is just a waste of time. What is the difference between him and being dead?
If I end his life early, I can also let him reincarnate earlier and have a new life..."
"You vicious woman, you evil woman, I'm going to kill you." Prince Yu suddenly jumped up and slapped Princess Yu in the face.
"That's my son, my eldest son, and my and Yuan'er's only child. No matter how useless he is, he's still my son. How dare you kill him and deceive me?"
Yuan'er was the maiden name of his first wife.
"Sir, help me." Princess Yu was knocked to the ground and looked up to the three presiding judges for help.
The three of them turned their heads away in tacit understanding.
For people like this, their humanity has been twisted to the extreme, and any beating they receive is not excessive.
Gong Mingcheng's voice rang out again, "He wasn't born incompetent, it was you who deliberately flattered him and led him step by step to become a playboy.
Ever since you married into Prince Yu's mansion, you never considered treating him well. You deliberately let Prince Yu see his worthless side, sowing discord between father and son, causing them to be disappointed in each other, right?
"Is that what he said?"
Prince Yu punched Princess Yu in the face again, his eyes red, "I remember when my son was little he said he wanted to be a useful scholar and serve his uncle the Emperor in the future.
But within two years, he skipped school, saying he was a royal, born rich, so why should he study as hard as the poor kids? So it was you who instigated it?"
"That's because he is weak-willed. How could His Majesty blame me?" Princess Yu curled her lips, her eyelashes moving slightly, tears welling up in her eyes, about to fall.
Prince Yu looked at her like this and could no longer utter a word. His hands and feet twitched and he collapsed limply to the ground.
In the past, whenever she showed such a pitiful expression, he felt that it was his son who was wrong, and even he himself was wrong.
He was originally just a farmer, but he rose to prominence with the late emperor and became a member of the royal family. Her family background was not as aristocratic as his, but she was also the daughter of an official.
She was so much younger than him, yet she was willing to follow him. He felt touched and inferior at the same time, so he tried his best to treat her well.
When she proposed to raise the child herself, he readily agreed. Although she was a girl, she grew up in the capital and was literate, so she was better than him.
He had no talent and no ambition. Suddenly he no longer had to worry about food and clothing, and he had no spiritual sustenance. He followed others to learn calligraphy and accidentally came into contact with Taoist law. He felt that he had found comfort and it immediately touched his heart.
The affairs of the mansion and the children were handed over to her, and she always did a good job in front of him...
"Pa, pa, pa..." Prince Yu slapped himself frantically for more than ten times before walking back to Princess Yu. "Where did my son die? Where is that witch doctor?"
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