She fell out after crying at the wrong grave

Ying'en was pressed to the ground, and in an instant A'ao began to kowtow again.

"Your Majesty, please understand. She was just a maid who followed orders. I was negligent. Your Majesty is kind-hearted and a wise ruler. You always give rewards and punishments clearly. Please forgive me. I am willing to accept any punishment."

Ah-yi heard a muffled sound when her forehead touched the cold brick surface. The rapid beating of her heart in her chest reminded her all the time that Ying-en's life was in her hands.

The rest of the people who should be taken away were taken away, and those who should be dismissed were dismissed. Xiao Jin gave a look, and Xue Ping understood and dismissed them.

Shen Zhuo did not rush to take action, but admired Ah's crawling and begging appearance for a long time. Long Xin was very happy and leaned on the seat with his limbs stretched out.

"Yuan Ning, Yuan Ning, you have been thinking evil things since you were captured. There is no place in my palace where you can't be involved in any trouble." Shen Zhuo's eyes were cold, but his tone was nonchalant, which made people's scalps numb. "With your personality, if you escape, no matter how many people chase you, they won't be able to find your trace, unless you want to come back."

Ah's fingers pressed to the ground couldn't help but curl up.

"What kind of thing is worth giving up your stolen freedom and going through so many dangers to come back and find a result?" Shen Zhuo smiled, but it seemed more like he was poisoned.

Xu Tingzhou was still lying on the ground. Today, he finally understood why the death of a small person like You Tong required the Duke of Zhao to investigate the case personally, and why he brought his wife with him whose foot injury had not yet healed.

It seems that the one who was interested in You Tong's death was not Zhao Hou, but Princess Xuancheng who had already noticed it.

So what is her purpose?

Shen Zhuo seemed to have remembered something happy. He laughed like crazy for a long time until his face turned red, and then he gasped for breath with a sound of "ouch, ouch".

"Niece, niece, you really remind me of an interesting story." As he said this, he grabbed the back of Xiao Jin's hand and patted it, "My beloved, do you want to hear it?"

Xiao Jin was so frightened that she dared not even breathe, fearing that he would go crazy and do something. She smiled apologetically with a pale face, "Your Majesty, why don't you tell me about it?"

Shen Zhuo's mood has become increasingly unstable over the past month. If it weren't for A'ao and Xiao Jin's intervention, I'm afraid things would not have been so smooth.

If a person falls asleep in an atmosphere filled with a certain smell for a long time, it will become a habit over time, and Shen Zhuo is no exception.

He left Chong'an Palace and moved to the temporary palace. At first, he could still enjoy himself by living a life of drunkenness and dreams, sleeping soundly in the arms of beauties. But as time went on, he soon got bored of the days without the constraints of government affairs and court officials.

So Shen Zhuo asked the imperial physician to prescribe tranquilizing and sleeping-inducing decoctions every day, and he remained in a daze until he learned that Xiao Jin was pregnant.

He probably knew that after such a long time, his health must be poor, so he instructed Shen Yuren to find a Taoist priest to make him a longevity elixir.

When A'ao heard Xiao Jin talk about this, she felt calm.

Shen Zhuo is a layman. All the emperors in the world pretentiously call themselves the Son of Heaven, but they are all laymen without exception. After obtaining supreme power, they become more afraid of death and fantasize about immortality and the eternal stability of their country, which is understandable.

It might be a good thing for an emperor who has made great achievements to live forever. But for someone like Shen Zhuo, even living one more day would be too long, so it would be best if he took more pills and died.

Ah-yi thought about it and asked Xiao Jin-shi, "Do you feel that there is always a strange fragrance in Chong'an Hall? Under the sweet fragrance, there is always a fishy smell?"

Xiao Jin frowned and said, "That's indeed the case."

The smell is different from other incense. It feels uncomfortable at first, but the more you smell it, the more you become addicted.

After a period of time, Shen Zhuo treated Xiao Jin coldly. After she went to Chong'an Palace less often, she no longer thought about the smell.

Ah-yi took out a packet of red powder and threw it on the table in front of her. "Use this as a spice and mix it into the incense burner, and he will be cured."

Xiao Jin accepted it doubtfully.

A month later, the bag of powdered incense was burned out. Shen Zhuo returned to the palace in anger to deal with the people in the Production Supervisor, and once again walked on the edge of madness and anger.

That's today.

"I hung your father on the threshold in front of Chong'an Palace, Yuanning." Shen Zhuo walked a few steps in front of A'an and bent down.

He was forced to raise his eyes to look Ah-yi in the eye. Most of his pupils rolled back into his upper eyelids, revealing a large area of ​​white, which looked very ferocious.

"Then bring your mother here, make Chen Zhaoying kneel before me, and ask her who she would choose between losing her chastity and you."

Ah'ao raised her head suddenly, anger gradually growing in her eyes, and glared at Shen Zhuo.

He still looked indifferent, "Guess what? Your father is known as a man of great talent?" He seemed to have thought for a long time before coming up with such a descriptive word, and shook his head contemptuously, "Chen Zhaoying cried bitterly and knelt at my feet, begging me to spare your life."

“My royal brother, he said all the most vicious and filthy disgusting things in his life, cursing Chen Zhaoying, hahahahahaha!” Shen Zhuo pulled A’s sleeve, “Laugh, why don’t you laugh, niece, hahahahahahaha!”

He laughed so crazily that his waist broke, and he staggered everywhere, finally leaning on the railing beside the Danbi, his eyes red and his tone empty, "And then guess what? Shen Cong was so mad! Hahahahahahahahahaha, I have never been so happy in my life!"

His wide eyes, along with the emphasized tone, looked extremely funny.

Ah's heart sank. According to Shen Zhuo's usual beastly behavior, she was now standing here well and had lived to the age of eighteen.

She clenched her fists so hard that her nails scratched her palms and she even felt the dampness.

The sharp pain constantly reminded her that the nails she had smoothed down for painting were all in the service of her enemies.

Ah'ao almost didn't dare to listen to what Shen Zhuo said next.

"You definitely don't know, I was in your father's mourning hall, and I had sex with Chen Zhaoying. My sister-in-law, she's as gentle as water." That infatuated expression made people want to nauseate, "Marrying someone like Shen Cong is such a shame."

"She just cried like that until her voice became hoarse. She really didn't know what was good for her. I fucked her, but she grabbed and bit me in return. It was so boring."

"But I am still kind and I allowed her to be buried alive with the emperor. But it is because of the emperor's promise that you have lived to this day." So it turns out.

It turns out that it wasn't that he didn't love her or distanced himself from her.

It turned out that every time Mrs. Cui mentioned Chen Zhaoying, she sighed and kept silent.

The mountain in Ah's heart that she thought was solid suddenly collapsed, and the rubble fell down, smashing her fragility, resentment, and self-perceived misery hidden behind her into a bloody mess.

The tremendous pain quickly spread to every part of her body. Ah'ao could hardly kneel, and she could not maintain her dignified posture. Her body began to tremble.

The mother she regarded as the most important person was also the mother she never mentioned the resentment she had for a long time.

Three years after her death, when she had long since turned into a handful of bones, A'ao discovered her silent kindness in the most painful way.

Most mothers in the world are like this.

Even though he suffered inhuman hardships, he was willing to humiliate himself for the sake of his daughter in order to give her a chance of survival.

A'ao couldn't stop asking herself in her heart, why, why did you agree, why couldn't you take me with you to die.

What's the point of living alone?

She had only a few opportunities to meet Chen Zhaoying in her life, and her encounters were even less impressive than those of her closest maid.

Every time she just looked at him from a distance, Chen Zhaoying didn't respond to her. Gradually, Ah-yi no longer liked to go to the palace to pay respects during festivals.

She never got the care she longed for.

Every time she left Changsheng Hall in despair, there was Chen Zhaoying's worried joy, and lost regret behind her.

Ah'ao never saw Chen Zhaoying until her last moment before her death.

When she rushed there from the Shangshu Mansion, Chen Zhaoying had already become a cold corpse.

Over the years, Ah'ao kept asking herself in her heart, do you hate me so much?

The questions and confusion that had been piling up like dark clouds in my heart finally vanished in an instant today.

"What's wrong? Yuan Ning is crying." Shen Zhuo walked over and raised his sleeves to wipe her tears. "Oh, oh, oh, look how aggrieved you are. You..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Zhuo raised his eyes, and the cold hatred in his tearful eyes instantly overwhelmed him like a winter snowstorm.

Shen Zhuo was startled and took a few steps back.

Ah'ao had never hated anyone so much in her heart.

Perhaps it was because she was born with a free and easy life. Huaicheng read Laozi and Zhuangzi every day and taught her word by word. A'ao always felt that she was open-minded about everything.

Being free from the seven emotions and six desires of the world is simply because one has never been trapped in this mundane world.

I was young at that time and didn’t understand anything.

And now, as he looked at Shen Zhuo in front of him, a desire arose in his heart. He wanted to cut him into pieces piece by piece, and then throw his torso into the raging fire to burn him until he would never be reborn.

Such thoughts pulled A'ao from the clouds to the secular world where she could not empathize with saints.

But for Ying'en, for Xu Tingzhou, and for those who shouldn't die to not be buried with her today, Ah'ao had to endure it.

"Hmph!" Shen Zhuo flicked his sleeves. He was furious at losing face in front of everyone. "I think you are stubborn and you deserve to die! Come! Drag the princess and the maid away and give each of them thirty strokes of the cane! You are not allowed to kill them!"

Xiao Jin stood there in amazement. She had not yet recovered from the fact that Shen Zhuo had raped the emperor's sister-in-law, when she heard that A'ao was going to be dragged down and punished, she knelt down in panic.

"Your Majesty! There must be something behind this. If the princess is injured and can't get up for a while, I'm afraid it will also delay the reception of the envoys in Chong'an Hall. Why don't we listen to Lord Xu's words first and see if there is any way to remedy the situation."

Xu Tingzhou glanced at Xiao Jin and thought that this woman was not completely useless after all.

He once resented Xiao Jin for setting fire to win favor because of his sister's death, but after all, it was Shen Zhuo who actually killed the person, so he was too lazy to give Xiao Jin a good face.

If Xu Tingzhou wanted to protect Ah'ao, he had to find a reason to tell the excuse they had prepared two days ago and fight for it.

"Your Majesty." Xu Tingzhou folded his hands and bowed respectfully. "I am not talented, but I know a little bit about the art of Liu Yao. Before the construction started, I cast a hexagram for Chong'an Hall. It said that the Qi was dry and not flowing, which was a sign of decline. If you want to reverse it, you need to change the existing things and get rid of the old to create the new."

Shen Zhuo glanced at him and said after a while, "What do you mean by that?"

Xu Tingzhou bowed again, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for my disrespect. For the sake of your Majesty's prosperity and the eternal stability of our great country, I will tell you the truth. This hexagram is ominous, which means that the pillar is damaged and difficult to repair because it is God's will. The dragon energy is trapped in the pillar and it is not flowing smoothly, so it has angered God. I have a method that is quick and convenient, and it may be able to solve the problem."

Shen Zhuo has always believed in these things. After hesitating for a moment, he asked reluctantly, "What's your explanation?"

Xu Tingzhou rolled up his sleeves and took out a blueprint.

I will not stop until I have confused right and wrong.

(End of this chapter)