Thousand Miles of Bright Moonlight

Chapter 100: cross-examination

Views:

There was a series of chaotic footsteps, and the soldiers rushed up and down.

Yaoying glanced downstairs and saw that all the guards Zhu Luyun brought were subdued. She let go of Zhu Luyun, took out a few pieces of parchment, and spread them out on the long table.

Zhu Luyun was so frightened that she was helpless. Seeing her let go, she turned to flee, but was stopped by her personal soldiers as soon as she took a step.

"Since the princess has been begging to see our princess several times, why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

The personal soldiers grinned, and pressed Zhu Luyun to sit in front of the open window.

Yaoying sat opposite Zhu Luyun without raising her eyelids. She held the dagger in her right hand and tapped on the parchment in her left hand, "Let her draw the letter."

The personal soldiers agreed, raised Zhu Luyun's hand, and forced her to press the seal on each piece of parchment.

Zhu Luyun struggled a few times, unable to move, seeing her own fingerprints left on the parchment.

Lightning strikes, all in one go.

Yuanjue has not yet recovered from the shock, and Zhu Luyun is also horrified. Yaoying has already taken away all the parchment, carefully scrutinized it, and handed it to Yuanjue.

"Princess Beirong intended to harm me when she was dispatched to the royal court, and was captured by my personal soldiers on the spot. The evidence is solid."

Zhu Luyun could understand some nonsense. Hearing the words, her face suddenly turned pale: "Qiniang, you frame me!"

Yaoying smiled faintly, raised her dagger, and stabbed the back of Zhu Luyun's hand that was pressed against the long case.

The light of the knife is stern, as fast as an electric shock.

Zhu Luyun lost her soul and cried out in surprise.

With a buzzing sound, the dagger rubbed the back of Zhu Luyun's hand and nailed it to her sleeve.

Yaoying's eyes slanted slightly, looking at Zhu Luyun's eyes full of fear, she gently pulled the dagger, the sharp point of the knife cut through Zhu Luyun's sleeve.

"Yes, I'm just framing you."

In the rustling sound of the sharp blade cutting through the fabric, Yaoying said word by word, "I can still kill you here."

Zhu Luyun was frightened and calmed herself: "Qiniang, I am Princess Beirong now. If you kill me, Beirong will not let it go."

The corners of Yaoying's lips twitched: "You went to Wang Ting and asked to see me in the name of Princess Fukang several times. I promised to come to meet Princess Fukang, not Princess Beirong. Zhu Luyun, I am not from Wang Ting, and this is not Wang Temple. , not the post house, you and I meet with old friends, I killed you, you can take responsibility alone."

She changed the topic, "Beirong's diplomatic missions to other countries have always had official and deputy envoys, most of them are officials and children of nobles. This time you are on an envoy to the royal court, Beirong did not send officials from nobles to accompany you. For Bei Rong, it is just a pawn, and Bei Rong will never go to war with Wang Ting for you."

Zhu Luyun was silent for a while, then trembled: "If you kill me, you have to lose your life, Qiniang, are you crazy?"

Yaoying rubbed the dagger lightly with her fingers and said, "If I was moved by what you and your aunt said, and thought you were really here to atone for my sins and make amends for me, then I would be crazy."

Zhu Luyun bit her lip, her face pale.

Yaoying looked up at Yuanjue: "The things are put away."

Yuanjue holds Zhu Luyun's "criminal evidence" in his hand, and is in a dilemma.

The king said that Princess Wenzhao knew what to measure. Is this what it is? !

Do you want to block it? But the princess doesn't seem to hurt anyone... If the king is here, will the princess restrain herself? The princess doesn't seem to be afraid of the king at all...

Yuanjue stood blankly, with the battle between heaven and man in his head, and his jaw couldn't close for a long time.

At this time, there was a roar from downstairs.

The corners of Yaoying's mouth were slightly raised, and she patted the back of Zhu Luyun's hand with a dagger: "Look downstairs."

Zhu Luyun shuddered and looked downstairs, her eyes widening.

Downstairs, the guards dragged Zhu Luyun's guards into the snow and knelt down. Among them was the Han guard who had frequent eye contact with Zhu Luyun. The guard next to him drew his sword and drew his sword. Quasi-Guardian.

Zhu Luyun asked in a trembling voice, "Qiniang, what do you want to do?"

Yaoying said in a leisurely manner: "I will ask you a few questions. Your guard needs to answer the same question. As long as the answers of several of you are different, it means that some of you must be lying, and I will let you cut off your guard. One of their fingers, theirs is cut off, and yours is next."

Zhu Luyun's teeth trembled, "Qiniang, I'm really sorry for you, but I really didn't mean to hurt you! I can swear to the sky that I have no ill intentions towards you! My aunt told me that Wang Tingren hates Han people and will not treat you sincerely. , Buddha is a monk, you have nowhere to go after one year... I am a Han Chinese, you are also a Han Chinese, you and I are in a foreign land, it is better to let go of the previous suspicion... Have you ever been imprisoned by Haidu Aling? You don't have to be afraid, Haidu Aling is afraid of my uncle, as long as my uncle speaks, Haidu Aling will not dare to..."

Before Zhu Luyun could finish speaking, Yaoying stood up and poked her dagger in her face.

The icy tip of the knife approached, and Zhu Luyun stepped back in horror.

Yaoying smiled and said, "You are Han, so I should believe you? I have been away from Chang'an for more than two years. Whether it is Han or Hu, there are good people and bad people. I have met many good people, and I have also met many good people. A lot of gangsters, I met a lot of new friends. People who treat me well, whether they are Han Chinese or Hu people, I will repay them with sincerity. I remember the gangsters who harmed me clearly.”

She leaned over and patted Zhu Luyun's face with the back of the knife.

"Zhu Luyun, if you truly repented and knew what happened to me in the past few years, you wouldn't be so stupid that you could impress me with just a few simple words."

Yaoying looked directly into Zhu Luyun's eyes.

"You haven't bothered to inquire about my situation at all. In your eyes, I'm just a fourteen-year-old who was forced to have a relationship. When I saw an old man from the Central Plains, I cried and cried, and when I heard a few words of promise, I would settle my quarrel with you. I beg you and you. Aunt rescued me from the sea of misery, Xiao Qiniang, didn't she?"

Zhu Luyun was speechless.

Back then, after Li De and Li Xuanzhen rescued Zhu Luyun, they were obedient to her. All the demands she made were met. She was the best when it came to food, clothing and expenses. All the girls in the Li family had to fall behind. Li Yaoying is frail and sickly. She has lived in Jingnan with Li Zhongqian for many years. She is busy with Li Xuanzhen and doesn't know much about Li Yaoying. She only heard that Qiniang is a beautiful embryo.

Later, Li De defeated the powerful enemies one by one and became the hegemon of the Central Plains. Li Yaoying grew older, and the name of her beauty spread throughout Guanzhong. Zhu Luyun met her several times at the banquet and found that she was indeed as beautiful as the legend. At that time, Zhu Luyun was full of hatred for the Li family and had no friendship with Li Yaoying.

Before and after Li De became emperor, the contradiction between Li Xuanzhen and Li Zhongqian became deeper and deeper. The staff headed by Wei Ming frequently fought with Li Yaoying, and Zhu Luyun ran into Li Xuanzhen and Wei Ming several times because of Li Yaoying arguing.

At that time, she still didn't take Li Jiaqiniang to heart.

Later, Zhu Luyun and Li Xuanzhen became angry, and were bewitched by their aunt's loyal servant. In grief and anger, they agreed to marry, and then backtracked. In order to keep her, Li Xuanzhen and his staff let the lecherous Yelu chief meet the beautiful and beautiful woman at the Buddha's birthday ceremony. Li Yaoying…

After several twists and turns, Li Yaoying replaced Zhu Luyun with his relatives, and Zhu Luyun breathed a sigh of relief.

She thought it was all over.

Li Xuanzhen deeply hated Concubine Xie, and also hated Li Yaoying to the core, marrying his enemy's daughter on her behalf, just killing two birds with one stone, she could watch Li Yaoying marry far away with peace of mind.

However, after Li Yaoying got married, Li Xuanzhen had a sullen face all day, and it didn't look like a big revenge at all.

Zhu Luyun knew that she was capricious and fluctuated between hatred and restoration of the country, which made Li Xuanzhen very embarrassed. He would rather push his sister into the fire pit by treachery and keep her. She was deeply moved. When she was brought into the East Palace, she resisted and struggled for a few days, and began to shake, thinking: It's better to leave it like this, Li Xuanzhen saved her, she couldn't repay her, so she used her body to repay him.

Li Xuanzhen did not touch her.

Zhu Luyun cried all night.

She didn't know what happened. Li Xuanzhen was her enemy. She should be happy if he didn't touch her. Didn't she refuse to marry him because she hated the Li family all these years

Why did Li Xuanzhen burst into tears when she would rather read the military book in the next wing room all night than step into her boudoir

The next morning, Zhu Luyun pretended to be fine, dressed in new clothes, and went to salute Zheng Biyu.

When she raised her face, she saw that there was no jealousy on Zheng Biyu's face, only sarcasm and sympathy.

Zhu Luyun seemed to have been slapped in the head, all the camouflage turned into a joke, her eyes were red and she couldn't stand still.

Holding the tea cup, Zheng Biyu glanced at her lightly, without a trace of surprise on her face: "Niang Yun, do you know what you did wrong?"

Zhu Luyun looked at her blankly.

Zheng Biyu took a sip of tea, "You have done something wrong: the person who replaced you and your relatives is none other than the Seventh Princess."

After coming to Beirong and reuniting with her only relative and aunt, Zhu Luyun often thinks of the words of the Crown Princess.

She didn't understand the sound of the princess's words.

What's so special about the Seven Princesses

I heard that this beautiful princess fell into the hands of Haidu Aling, and was imprisoned by him for half a year. Zhu Luyun had mixed feelings in her heart, and she heard from her aunt that the king's Buddha son rescued her, disregarding gossip and telling all countries for her, she would rather be criticized She also wanted to protect her, and Zhu Luyun gradually understood in her heart.

The special thing about the Seventh Princess is her beauty. The Yelu Chief gets excited when she sees her. Everyone in Beirong knows that Haidu Aling likes to possess beautiful women, and Wang Ting's Buddhist son must also be seduced by beauty, so he will act for her. Exceptional.

So, when my aunt asked Zhu Luyun and Li Yaoying's character, she replied: "Li Qiniang is frail and sickly, and she has lived with her brother since childhood, and raised her very delicately."

Zhu Luyun did not mention that Li Yaoying saw through Haidu Aling's plan and sent troops back to the Central Plains to warn everyone. Everyone in the Central Plains knew about Princess Wenzhao's feats, but in Beirong, these things were rarely known - obviously, Haidu Aling did not want to be ridiculed. , deliberately concealed it.

The aunt pondered for a long time, and decided to ask Zhu Luyun to go to the royal court to see Li Yaoying and see what secrets she had with the Buddha.

"The king's Buddhist son is very strict. He never glances at the beautiful women sent from various countries, but he has repeatedly made exceptions for Li Qiniang. There must be something different about Li Qiniang."

Zhu Luyun refused to agree at first. She finally made up her mind to leave Li Xuanzhen. She had just reunited with her aunt and did not want to travel thousands of miles to send an ambassador to the royal court.

My aunt insisted on asking her to come, so she had to come.

Yaoying was right, Zhu Luyun did not bother to inquire about what happened to Yaoying in the past few years, but only heard about it. She saved others by herself, thinking that Yaoying is now isolated and helpless, and she will definitely agree to her conditions.

However, she hadn't put forward the conditions, and the words her aunt had taught her had not had a chance to spit out. Yaoying turned her face when she met her, and held her directly.

Although Zhu Luyun was a princess of the previous dynasty, she was spoiled since she was a child, and she never suffered much. After arriving in the Li family, she was even more pampered. She had never been treated so rudely, facing Yaoying, who was younger than herself and firmly suppressed her. , was ashamed, angry, and annoyed, unable to speak for a long time.

Yaoying turned around and went downstairs.

Yuanjue quickly followed her.

Yaoying motioned him to show the parchment to Zhu Luyun's personal guard, and said to the guard, "This is what your princess admits."

The guards looked at the parchment and were shocked and angry: Princess Fukang was really confused, with these confessions, Princess Wenzhao would be able to mess around! Before the departure, Princess Yiqing gave thousands of instructions, but Princess Fukang didn't listen to a word!

Yaoying stood in front of the steps and gestured to the soldiers with her eyes.

The guards pulled the guards down, wrapped them in black cloth hoods, covering their faces, and took them to different rooms, leaving only the Han guard, so that Zhu Luyun could see him being tortured, and then began to cross-examine at the same time: "Princess Fukang How did you become Princess Beirong?"

Several people had their faces covered and were in different rooms, not knowing what other people's answers were, so he hesitated for a while, feeling that this question was not a secret, and answered in a low voice.

After they had finished answering, the guards walked to the house of the man who answered the slowest, and slashed them with a knife. The guards screamed in agony.

The scream was full of pain, and the blood on the faces of the others faded.

Yuanjue clenched the long knife, hesitating whether to step forward to stop her, Yaoying shook her head at him.

He sighed and said to himself: The princess didn't kill anyone... she just hurt someone... is it still reasonable

Upstairs, Zhu Luyun looked at the Han Chinese guards kneeling in the courtyard, and listened to the miserable howls from different rooms, her face turned pale.

The guards continued to ask questions. This time, the voices just fell, and several guards answered at the same time.

After a few questions, the soldier's tone suddenly changed, and he began to ask about Princess Yiqing.

The speed of the guard's reply was noticeably slowed down.

After they finished answering, a personal soldier trotted upstairs, and after a while, stood by the window and shook his head downstairs.

Zhu Luyun's answer was different from that of the guards.

The personal soldiers immediately raised their swords, and the swords fell from their hands. The Han personal guards rolled on the ground in pain, a broken finger on the snow and blood all over the place.

Several guards in the house were shivering with fear.

The soldiers continued to ask questions.

Upstairs, Zhu Luyun looked at the bloody fingers on the snow, knowing that Yaoying was not trying to scare her, she was about to collapse.

"Whatever you want to ask, I will answer it! Stop it!"

The soldier grinned.

An hour later, Yaoying got a few confessions, looked at each other, and gave them to Yuanjue.

Yuanjue was full of surprise.

The personal guards are all well-trained people. This method of comparing confessions does not really help them much, because they have already made confessions, but Yaoying asked the personal guards to interrogate Zhu Luyun and Zhu Luyun upstairs and downstairs respectively. Among the three groups of guards and general servants, the answers given by Zhu Luyun and the servants were always different from those given by the guards. The guards watched the people upstairs shaking their heads again and again, knowing that Zhu Luyun and their answers were different. It must have been confessed, his will was gradually shaken, and he was quickly broken through the defense line.

But the price is to cut off the finger of Beirong's guard... If Beirong refuses to forgive, the royal court will not be able to protect the princess...

Yuanjue glanced at Yaoying quietly, her heart heavy.

Yaoying, however, went back upstairs like no one else, and told her soldiers to let Zhu Luyun go.

Zhu Luyun slumped to the ground, unable to stand up for a long time.

Yaoying walked up to her and wiped her cheek with the dagger: "Zhu Luyun, I know, you never regretted because you thought you didn't take the initiative to harm me. You have always been like this, no matter how many people are innocent because of your willfulness. If you are implicated, you will not take it to heart, you feel that everyone in the world is sorry for you."

Zhu Luyun bit her red lips tightly.

Yaoying's hand was slightly harder.

Zhu Luyun's back was cold.

Yaoying patted her face: "your father is debauched and incompetent, abolished state affairs, incompetent, reckless and reckless, Zhu's dynasty is exhausted, the world is the world of the people, not your father's world, you are the descendant of the Zhu family. Being treated favorably, making big mistakes time and time again, no one owes you anything."

A trace of grief flashed across Zhu Luyun's eyes.

Yaoying looked down from a height and looked down at her: "The matter of marriage is between me and Li De, Li Xuanzhen and his son. How you and Li Xuanzhen are entangled is your business."

She wiped the dagger lightly in her hand.

The cold light flashed, and a bunch of black hair on Zhu Luyun's temples was cut off by the dagger and fell down.

Zhu Luyun shivered.

Yaoying said slowly, "This time it's just a warning, you'd better stay away from me in the future, don't run into it yourself, and don't try to use me, otherwise, what I cut off next time will not be a strand of hair."

After she finished speaking, the dagger struck Zhu Luyun's forehead.

"Send Princess Fukang down."

Zhu Luyun shivered a few times before being picked up by the personal soldiers and sent downstairs.

Yaoying asked Yuanjue to return the parchments just now, threw them into the brazier, and burned them.

Yuanjue was stunned: "Princess, why did you burn this thing? You... Aren't you going to frame Princess Beirong?"

Yaoying smiled and said, "Do you really think this fabricated confession is useful? I just frightened Zhu Luyun just now."

As soon as they met, the attack could isolate Zhu Luyun from the guards, and Zhu Luyun was vulnerable when she left the guards. When Zhu Luyun collapsed, it would not be difficult to find the flaws of those guards.

Yuanjue was stunned, shook his head and laughed, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his eyes, turned and ran downstairs, came to the snow, rummaged on the ground for a while, found the bloody fingers, picked them up and looked closely.

After a while, he scratched his head and smiled honestly.

These fingers are fake.

What Wang said was right, Princess Wen Zhao really knew what to do.

Yuanjue was completely relieved this time, ran back upstairs, and clasped her fist towards Yaoying: "Princess, have you prepared those fingers?"

Yaoying nodded: "After all, they are the people sent by Beirong. The situation in the city is tense now. I hurt the Beirong mission at this time. Isn't it difficult for Buddha to do it? Don't worry, the Beirong mission is unscathed. , but received a few needles, neither internal nor external injuries."

Yuanjue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: The guards screamed so badly just now, he thought their fingers were really cut off!

Yao Ying said: "After getting these confessions, you can go back to Wang Temple."

Yuanjue hummed and carefully put away the confession.

The author has something to say: ah, it's too late, beat myself