Yu Ying had the person fished out of the bucket.
"You are devils, madmen!"
"You can choose to keep cursing, and you've already tasted the consequences, but this isn't the end; there will be more."
"Yu Ying, you've made a terrible mess of people."
"Yansheng, what you're saying is... I can't exactly go and change her clothes, can I? What if she tries to extort money from me?"
Qin Jue looked at the filthy person on the ground.
"Get out of my way. I'm giving you a chance to say it."
An emperor's voice carries authority wherever it may be, let alone in this gloomy dungeon.
It makes people involuntarily afraid.
"Please let me go, I'll talk, I'll talk!"
After a day of torment, the people on Earth were on the verge of physical and mental collapse.
"Consort Jun, it was Consort Jun who wanted to deal with Consort Li. She went to Consort Wan but was turned away, so she went to Consort Duan, and then..."
Qin Jue twirled the thumb ring on his thumb. Those familiar with him would know that this signified Qin Jue's impatience and the prelude to anger.
"I've said it before, I have little patience."
"If... you don't tell the truth, you'll be worse off than you are now..."
Qin Jue waited for a while, but the person on the ground didn't speak. He glanced at Yu Ying.
Yu Ying understood immediately and had someone bring her silver needles that were thinner and longer than ordinary silver needles.
The people on the ground cried out in terror when they saw the needles in the guards' hands.
"No, no!"
"ah…"
The first needle had already been inserted into Yu Ying's body.
When Yu Ying turned her head, she saw Qin Jue's furrowed brows. He took a rag and stuffed it into the person's mouth, and the noise in the dungeon instantly subsided.
After inserting dozens of silver needles, Yu Ying raised her hand and put the person down.
"This time the silver needles were soaked in salt water; next time it'll be salt water and chili water. You have fifteen minutes to think it over."
The woman lay sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath. Large beads of sweat covered her forehead.
"I...I said, it was...it was Marquis Dingkang who sent...sent me to Consort Jian's side to supervise...to supervise Consort Jian."
"When Consort Jian encounters any trouble, I will have someone exaggerate the situation in her ear."
"Consort Jian sought out Consort Duan to deal with Consort Li, but Consort Duan was foolish enough to believe her after just a few words."
"At first, Consort Duan administered a laxative, but I suggested to Bai Cai that part of it be turned into poison."
"Where did the poison come from? 'Vine' isn't a poison from the Central Plains."
Those on the ground were surprised that Qin Jue's 'vine' wasn't a poison from the Central Plains; they were only momentarily astonished before returning to normal.
But all of this was in Qin Jue's eyes.
"The poison was bought by Marquis Dingkang from a barefoot doctor; I don't know what kind of poison it is."
"You're lying, Yuying."
Yu Ying, who had been called, walked up to the woman on the ground and yanked off her left sleeve.
In an instant, the serpent tattoo on his left arm was revealed.
“You are not from the Central Plains. You brought the ‘vine’ from the South. You are from the South.”
"You were the one who gave the Empress the poison; your goal was to harm the Empress, using your identity as a courtesan to enter the Dingkang Marquis's residence."
"You got into the palace through Wei Kun, don't you think I'm right? Snake Eleven."
The woman called Snake Eleven opened her eyes wide. How could... how could he possibly know her?
Who are you? Who exactly are you?
"That's right, Lord Snake Eleven has already forgotten me."
Qin Jue laughed, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"Since you refuse to talk, then die."
Qin Jue threw a bead imbued with internal force, striking Snake Eleven directly between the eyebrows.
As he finished speaking, Snake Eleven's eyes were still open, but he was already dead.
He died without ever knowing who Qin Jue really was.
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Just as Qin Jue was putting on a show of fatherly love and filial piety, something that would spoil his mood came out.
"Your Majesty, Consort Li has arrived."
Sanhezi knew that His Majesty disliked Consort Li, but what could he do?
I'm just a lackey myself.
"Little dumpling, I don't want to see her. What do you say, should I see her or not?"
Qin Jue pinched the little dumpling's chubby cheeks and asked the little person in his arms.
“Thousand…” (see)
The little dumpling tilted its head back, blinked, and, wanting to see Consort Li, said it was time to see her.
Sanhezi led Consort Li in, and they immediately saw Qin Jue's dark face.
"Li...Liang" (Consort Li)
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects."
"Rise."
Consort Li stood up and looked at the little bundle in Qin Jue's arms.
"Does the little princess miss me?"
"Year...cool" (I miss Consort Li)
"I also wish to be a concubine..."
Xiao Liyun was interrupted by Qin Jue before she could finish speaking.
"My beloved concubine, is something the matter?"
Consort Li remembered the purpose of her visit.
"Your Majesty, there was something wrong with all the food at the little princess's first birthday banquet the other day."
Qin Jue pretended not to know and said, "Oh?"
"Consort Duan instructed her maid, Bai Liu, to put laxatives and poison in the food."
"Qingyun, Lu Shuyi's personal maid, witnessed Bai Liu poisoning the body."
"Fortunately, Consort Lu informed me; otherwise, the banquet would have been disrupted, implicating the little princess."
"Then do you know what kind of poison it is?" Qin Jue squinted at the person below.
"Your Majesty, I am foolish."
"In that case, Consort Duan shall be banished to the Cold Palace, and her personal maid, Bai Liu, shall be executed by dismemberment."
"For her meritorious service in reporting and exposing wrongdoing, Lu Shuyi is promoted to Consort Hua."
"Consort Li, this matter was ultimately your fault. I do not wish for it to happen again. Go back to your palace and reflect on your actions."
"Your Majesty, I thank you. I take my leave."
Consort Li looked at Qin Ruoxi with reluctance.
"Buy..." (bow)
The little dumpling even waved its little hand cleverly.
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