"Consort Deng murdered twenty-three maids in the Prince of Qin's mansion. In addition, twelve maids were stripped naked and piled up in snowmen in the dead of winter and froze to death."
Seven of them were dried out by the scorching summer sun and turned into jerky. Another twenty-seven had their tongues cut off, their ears gouged out, and their eyes gouged out.
Eight more maids were thrown into boiling oil and wastewater, where they were boiled and fried to death. Other methods used to torture and kill the maids were even more cruel. In total, over a hundred maids were tortured to death by Consort Deng, and forty or fifty servants died at her hands.
This only accounts for those killed by Consort Deng within the Qin King's household; many more commoners who offended him likely died at her hands. It's reminiscent of the ruthlessness of Su Daji from the Yin-Shang period.
With that, Zhu Yunwen slammed the piece of paper heavily on the table, then looked at Prince Qin, Zhu Shuang, and said:
"You're telling me you'll spare the life of such a heinous person? How can you do that? What do you have to offer? Look at all these people here. Ask them if they agree to let this vile woman live?"
Prince Zhu Shuang of Qin swallowed hard, while the surrounding commoners, perhaps because they had Zhu Yunwen's backing, began to speak up:
"Kill her, kill her, kill her..."
The crowd was immediately agitated...
In fact, for these common people, killing Consort Deng or convicting her was completely unnecessary; they didn't need the piece of paper in Zhu Yunwen's hand.
There's no need for the maids and servants that Zhu Yunwen mentioned, who were killed by Consort Deng.
Because the people of Xi'an Prefecture knew better than Zhu Yunwen how many lives Consort Deng had taken.
He remembered more clearly how disgusting Consort Deng was than he did from the piece of paper in Zhu Yunwen's hand.
Therefore, they very much hope that Consort Deng will pay the price.
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