The little princess was torn, and the demon emperor patched her up

Chapter 39 Hong Jiayi willingly lay on the demon-slaying knife

Yaoyao tried hard to recall.

After a while, she said seriously: "The master is a big eater."

Xiao Baojing thought of the peddler swallowing the rabbit candy cake and thought to himself that he was indeed a big eater.

No wonder they are so poor.

Ji Zhengyan came back late at night.

Xiao Baojing and Yaoyao were playing the little trick of flipping the bracelet under the candlelight, and asked, "What did the prince say?"

"His Royal Highness has sent someone on a cloud ship to Yejing overnight to look for the files of the imperial examination that year." Ji Zhengyan explained, "The cloud ship can travel thousands of miles a day. If nothing goes wrong, it will be able to return to Rongcheng with the exam papers and my body before midnight. Ji Huaisheng is serving as an official in the neighboring Xiangshui County, and His Royal Highness has sent someone to invite him over. The truth will be revealed tomorrow morning."

"That's good." Xiao Baojing breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's just..." Ji Zhengyan frowned, "The Ji family is the maternal family of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Fourth Princess, and Ji Huaisheng is their uncle. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, will you really make the decision for me and Miss Huo?"

Xiao Baojing hesitated: "I think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a good person. He should not be partial to others and bend the law, right?"

She comforted Ji Zhengyan in this way, but she couldn't help but curl her fingers.

It turns out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Fourth Princess are siblings.

She remembered that when she was in the Julu County Magistrate's Mansion, Qiu Yuejian once said that it was the Fourth Princess who secretly ordered her to kill the Ninth Princess.

The fourth princess, Xiao Nanjia, is the only heroine in the original game.

What kind of person is she outside of the game?
If she really was the one who killed the Ninth Princess, did Xiao Qian know?

What is his attitude?

The next day.

Xiao Baojing and Shang Bingjiu went to watch Xiao Qian try a case together.

The envoy boarded a cloud ship and brought back the examination papers from twenty years ago from Yejing overnight.

The Southern Tang Dynasty adopted the method of transcribing the examination papers, that is, after the examination, the clerks would copy the examination papers of the examinees with a red pen, which were called "red papers", and the original examination papers were called "black papers".

The handwriting on the red scroll is consistent, so naturally it is impossible to tell what it is.

Xiao Qian opened the two ink papers and found that the two test papers had been swapped during the transcription process.

The envoy also brought Ji Zhengyan's body.

After the autopsy, the coroner found that the corpse had died 20 years ago and was drowned in the river. Perhaps he struggled desperately before death, because his palm was tightly grasping a gold-plated jade plate buckle, and even after many years, he still never let go.

Xiao Qian stared at the button.

The Ji family was wealthy, and his uncle was fond of using this kind of custom-made gold and jade buttons. He was the only one who used them in the huge Yejing.

Combined with Ji Zhengyan's confession, the evidence was now irrefutable that Ji Huaisheng had bribed officials from the Ministry of Rites to cheat in the imperial examinations and to murder candidates.

As for the case of Huo Yingying being abandoned, someone from the Huo family came overnight and stated that Ji Huaisheng had indeed stayed at their house at that time. An old woman who served Huo Ying also came forward to testify that she had been entrusted by Ji Huaisheng to take care of Huo Yingying in the loquat garden for a period of time.

Xiao Qian asked Ji Huaisheng: "Do you plead guilty?"

Ji Huaisheng sat leisurely in the court, not taking the interrogation seriously at all, thinking that his nephew was just practicing on him.

Just a yellow-haired kid.

He twirled his beard and smiled, "It's been many years since that happened. I don't remember it anymore."

Xiao Qian frowned: "So it's true?"

Ji Huaisheng sneered, skimmed the foam in the teacup, and said slowly: "Maybe not, maybe yes..."

"The evidence is irrefutable. You will not be allowed to play verbal tricks." Xiao Qian slammed the gavel, his sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes were stern and solemn, "Ji Huaisheng seduced a commoner girl and abandoned her first, and then cheated in the imperial examination and murdered the candidate. He deserves to be executed! Today, I will enforce justice on behalf of heaven and supervise the execution of Ji Huaisheng!"

Ji Huaisheng was stunned, and suddenly shouted: "I am your uncle!"

"I was appointed by heaven to rule for the people. I don't have an uncle like you who disregards human ethics and takes human life!" Xiao Qian's face was so wicked that he slammed the gavel again, "Come here, why don't you drag him out and behead him immediately?!"

Without waiting for Ji Huaisheng to argue, the guards of the Eastern Palace actually dragged him away and beheaded him in public!

Xiao Qian closed his eyes, but they were red. Under the guillotine, blood flowed all over the ground.

Shang Bingjiu raised his sleeves to cover Xiao Baojing, who was eager to look outside.

Xiao Baojing looked up at him in dissatisfaction: "What are you doing?"

"Children should not watch beheadings."

"You are the child."

Xiao Baojing muttered, lifted his wide sleeves and was about to go out to see.

Shang Bingjiu grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her back, pressing her face directly against his chest.

The young man's clothes were filled with the fragrance of grass and dew, which instantly lingered in Xiao Baojing's nostrils.

Her fair, plump cheeks were pressed tightly against his chest, like a flattened fresh petal, and she only blinked her almond-shaped eyes blankly.

Xiao Qian ordered his men to behead Ji Huaisheng, and ordered the demon-slayer to bring up the red wedding dress.

Several demon hunters from Rongcheng and the Eastern Palace have teamed up to capture Hong Jiayi from the loquat garden.

Without the nourishment of the loquat garden and Huo Yingying's resentment, the red wedding dress could no longer transform into a human form and looked fragile and dying.

Xiao Qian judged, "You were blinded by revenge and could not distinguish good from evil. You have murdered countless people in the Loquat Garden for the past twenty years. Your crime is unforgivable and you should be executed. However, you stood up for Huo Yingying. Although you are a monster, you have developed human emotions. The deep sisterly love is touching. After you die, I will ask the monks to chant sutras for you and pray for your reincarnation as a human. In your next life, do not do evil again."

The demon hunter brought out the demon-slaying knife.

Hong Jiayi was half-kneeling in front of the demon-slaying knife, with her collar tilted to the side, as if she was looking at Ji Huaisheng's corpse.

After a moment, she willingly lay on the demon-slaying knife.

Xiao Baojing was still held tightly against his chest by Shang Bingjiu.

She had her back to the yard, knowing what was happening there.

The slender body was tensed.

As the demon-slaying guillotine fell, a pair of dark, moist almond-shaped eyes instantly filled with tears.

She closed her eyes.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and tears finally rolled down uncontrollably.

Shang Bingjiu's clothes were wet.

In a place where no one was paying attention, a ray of golden light of merit quietly flowed into Xiao Baojing's body.

...

It's almost dusk.

The golden crow sets in the west, and the city is filled with hibiscus.

Xiao Baojing came to Yuhua Lane with the "Analects of Confucius" in his pocket.

Before they entered the alley, Ji Zhengyan called her nervously: "Look, is this the right outfit for me?"

Xiao Baojing asked, "Where did you get the new clothes?"

"Yunniang made it for me before I went to Beijing for the imperial examination." Ji Zhengyan stroked the clean and tidy collar of the clothes lovingly. "I had planned to wear it back home after passing the imperial examination and bring Yunniang to enjoy the good life in a grand manner. Who knew that I would never have the chance... I have never worn it in these years. I have always hidden it in my fish lantern crown for fear that it would get dirty or damaged."

Xiao Baojing curved his almond-shaped eyes and said seriously, "You look really good in this dress!"

"That's good..." Ji Zhengyan nervously straightened his clothes and said shyly, "Let's go in."

There are many craftsmen making fish lanterns in Yuhua Lane.

Xiao Baojing found an old lady and asked, "Grandma, is there a girl named Yunniang here?"

Ji Zhengyan blushed slightly, and added tenderly: "Yunniang is only 28 years old, fair and pretty, and likes to wear emerald silk skirts."

(End of this chapter)