Chapter 162 What Crime Has Been Done?
It’s not that Ye Yan and the others underestimated Yun Chen. It’s just that after experiencing several consecutive experiences of “losing and regaining” Yun Chen, everyone was a little worried, fearing that the Yu family had some dirty tricks waiting for them.
But when they arrived at the westernmost water island, they saw Yun Chen standing blankly in the yard, with dozens of pregnant women kneeling in front of him.
They were of all shapes and sizes, tall and short, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly. Each of them knelt on the ground holding their stomachs, begging for mercy in panic.
Ye Yan stepped forward and roughly counted them. There were more than fifty women, including more than forty pregnant women, and a dozen who were not pregnant but had just given birth.
Hua Jue frowned: "Doesn't Yu Yangji only like men? Why does he have so many concubines here?"
Buyan was also very curious, so he grabbed a servant from the Yu family and interrogated him carefully.
After the servant from the Yu family finished speaking, everyone was instantly stunned. Like Yun Chen, they all stood there in a daze, not knowing how to react.
The fifty or so women on the western water island were not Yu Yangji's concubines, but his blood relatives, daughters, sisters, nieces, and granddaughters...
To Yu Yangji, women are just animals kept in captivity for reproduction.
As long as he favors a few of them every month and uses the Yu family's secret medicine to help them get pregnant, they will be considered useful "livestock".
If a baby boy is born, he will be immediately taken to the front yard by the old woman to be raised. When he grows up, he will either work hard in some branch of the Yu family, or if he looks good, he will be raped by Yu Yangji.
If a baby girl is born, she will be thrown on the island to be raised. After she is able to give birth, she will be cleaned and sent to Yuyangji's bedroom. She will endure the disgusting and painful torture, swallow the fertility pills, and become the new generation of "livestock".
This is the secret of why the Yu family has no branch clans, yet has a prosperous population from generation to generation and has an endless number of male descendants.
Everyone felt as if they were standing in front of a thick, foul-smelling darkness, and had no idea that the world could be so evil.
A woman, holding her belly that was about to give birth, knelt before Yun Chen, kowtowed and said sadly:
"Please spare our lives, sir... We really don't know anything... Please, for the sake of these unborn children, let us stay until the birth, please..."
Yun Chen quickly helped the man up, and then discussed it with Ye Yan and others. He felt that this matter could only be decided by Huo Gannian himself.
Yun Chen said to the women in the yard:
"The Yu family is offering bribes and plotting treason. We are here on the orders of the Eastern Palace to arrest them. However, we will only arrest the ringleaders and those associated with them. We will not harm the innocent. Please..."
Ye Yan hurried to stop Yun Chen and prevent her from continuing.
After hearing Yun Chen's half-sentence, the women immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hugged each other in tears to comfort each other.
Yun Chen looked at Ye Yan in confusion, not understanding why he didn't let her continue.
Ye Yanyi frowned and looked at her, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
Soon, Yun Chen knew what this "tangle" was.
After Huo Gang led 3,000 infantrymen to search the Yu Mansion, detained 971 people in the mansion, and Huo Gannian personally submitted a letter detailing all the affairs and how to deal with them, an order from the East Palace followed.
There are only eight words on it:
"Execute the law on the spot and eradicate all evil."
Huo Gannian was silent for a long time after reading these eight words.
Nan Lijun meant that the Yu family's followers did not need to be interrogated or detained, but should be acquitted and executed on the spot; and the Yu family's power must be eliminated completely and thoroughly, without leaving any future troubles.
Now the princess is governing the country and the prime minister is assisting in the administration.
Since this Eastern Palace Order can be released, it means that both Nan Lijun himself and Prime Minister Ni Kun mean the same thing.
The Jade Palace has long been located on a water island, far away from the city.
Over the years, once the two gilded doors were closed, all the talk of "someone is immoral" and "violates the principles of heaven" was suppressed inside.
Even the Huo Gang, the sworn enemy of the Yu family, was unaware of the darkness and didn't even know the existence of these fifty-plus women.
Similarly, even if there are some unjust killings, no one will know about it.
It was like a flood rushing right in front of us, but suddenly turned into a weak stream.
Looking at the fifty-odd women again, the members of Huo Gang just couldn't bear to look at them.
The Jade Palace is gorgeous and dazzling with gold, silver and jade piled up from top to bottom. Only the water island in the west is so simple that it can only provide shelter from wind and rain.
Suddenly, the Huo Gang members who had originally come with murderous intent to kill the Yu family dog began to lend a hand, busying themselves with helping the women on Shui Island to find clothes, bedding, and food...
Here, the women comforted each other, believing that the days of hell were finally over, and they were enjoying the comfort and warmth they had never experienced before.
Over there, on the largest main island, the execution had already begun at night.
Taking advantage of the night, more than 900 members of the Yu family were dragged to the water's edge, where they were killed one by one by the infantry soldiers and their bodies were sunk.
Almost everyone was shouting "It's unfair" and "It has nothing to do with me", and the screams continued for most of the night.
When all the Yu family members were killed and only the fifty or so women on Shuidao Island were left, the infantry commander said to Huo Gan:
"Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief. We, the soldiers, can still take action. If we leave even one troublemaker, even one child, behind, I'm afraid the remaining treacherous officials and their followers will use them to cause chaos. Eighteen years from now, another disaster will bring disaster to the country and the people."
Huo Gannian didn't say anything. He understood the commander's point very well.
"Commander, please wait a moment. I will write to the Eastern Palace to discuss this further." Huo Gannian said.
Then there was a long silence.
Apart from helping the women with their clothes and food, Yun Chen stayed by Huo Gannian's side.
She looked at everything in front of her and felt equally heavy and powerless.
Finally, Huo Gannian held her hand and wrote eight words on the letter one by one:
"If you haven't come to the human world, what crime have you committed?"
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