The cell was damp, cold, and narrow. There was only a small window about half a foot high in the narrow space. It was slightly transparent and warm in the daytime, but it could not disperse the chill in the cell.
A person walked out of the corridor. "Fourth Miss." The person spoke in a sharp and soft voice.
In the cell, Li Yunqing raised his head and there was a deep scratch on his face. If it was someone else's face, it would be terrifying. However, it was hidden by her face or her calm face. It was insignificant.
"I have been demoted to enslaved for five years. Why do you mention my old name again?"
In front of the cell, the man was in his thirties, wearing an internal servant uniform. He had a strange face and a feminine look. He held a tray in his hand and looked at her. She didn't know him.
The servant said, "How could a born noble person be like an ordinary mortal just because he was momentarily covered in dust?"
Whether it was the former daughter of the prime minister's principal wife or the inhuman treatment of the five-year slave house, he had never come to see her. In these five days, he was not the first one to visit the prison, but the first one not to add insult to injury to her.
"What brings you here, Eunuch?" she asked.
"I'm here to repay Miss's kindness on the order of the current Crown Prince, the former King of Cultivation."
The eunuch saw her suspicious expression and said, "Miss, do you still remember five years ago, when you played the song to calm your dead mother's soul in the Million Buddhist Temple, His Highness asked you to play a song for His Highness's mother and imperial concubine?"
"It's just a small favor, but Your Highness still remembers it." She thought of that and could not help but look at the tray and the delicate wine cup on the tray.
The jailer behind her unlocked the lock and walked in. He handed the wine to her and said, "Duke Ji didn't say how to deal with you. As the person in charge of this case, His Highness used this cup of wine to ask for your corpse."
The three words "Duke Ji" made her face slightly pale. "His Excellency, Duke Ji." She asked with great difficulty, "How is it going?"
The eunuch looked at her hesitantly and said in a lower voice, "His Excellency, the Heir of Duke Ji, is going to die today."
With a "bang", she felt as if her heart had been hit. She kept quiet and her face was pale.
Duke Ji's son, her cousin, Ji Qingchen, had finally asked the imperial edict to take her out of the enslaved house after five years. However, he had blocked a fatal arrow for her on the way back to the capital and died tragically.
Then, a group of imperial guards came and surrounded her. They said that she had murdered the Heir of Duke Ji. How could she not see that this was a plot? Who in the Ji General Manor could not tell that this was a plot.
But so what? Ji Qingchen did come out of the city to save her, and he did lose his life to save her.
Twenty years ago, Duke Ji's only son, Ji Huaiyang, was her biological uncle. He was called out of the city by her mother and was hacked to death.
Since then, Duke Ji's Manor had severed ties with her mother. Twenty years later, she had killed her only grandson. Even she could not find a reason to forgive herself.
"Have you found anyone else who killed the Childe of Duke Ji?" Duke Ji would definitely not allow the real murderer to get away with it. He wanted to know who did it.
The servant shook his head. "Not yet."
"Then I dare to ask." She closed her eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Have you found all the bodies of my second brother?"
Five years ago, her two elder brothers were exiled because of her incident. When they learned that she was taken to the prison and rushed back to the capital, their second elder brother was also killed in the suburbs and his body was eaten by wolves.
The eunuch said in a low voice, "The Eldest Young Master found a nearby wolf's den, found a few broken bones, and brought them back."
She suddenly opened her eyes, and the color of blood surged in her eyes. There was a hint of violence in them. The servant was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Fourth Miss!"
Suddenly, footsteps could be heard from outside. Five or six maidservants surrounded a young woman in her twenties and walked into the prison. She looked at Li Yunqing's face and was very happy.
Especially the extremely ferocious scar on Li Yunqing's face, it looked disgusting and enjoyable.
"Li Yunqing, you've also come to this day!" As he spoke, he struck Li Yunqing's face without warning.
However, one hand was faster than hers and slapped back.
"Ah!" With a scream, Li Yunfei stumbled backward. The nannies and maids behind her hurried up to help her up and screamed, "Madam!"
Li Yunfei covered her burning face in disbelief and said angrily, "Li Yunqing, how dare you hit me!"
Li Yunqing put down his hand. "I don't think I need to be humble when dealing with a concubine who is promoted to be the younger sister of a co-wife."
Li Yunfei was so angry that her whole body was trembling. "It's your mother's fault for giving birth to you. She didn't have the life to continue being the prime minister's wife. Don't blame my mother for being carried up!"
"Everyone in the capital knows that the Prime Minister's first wife gave birth to a useless person. Only my mother gave birth to a daughter of a noble family. My sister is now the crown prince's consort. I am also the Marchioness of the Marquis of Pingyang. How dare you be so disrespectful to me!"
"Come on, catch this bitch!"
As soon as she called out, the maids behind her all went forward. Ignoring the servant's warning, they grabbed Li Yunqing.
Li Yunfei pulled out the hairpin from her head and slashed towards the other half of Li Yunqing's face!
One hand stopped her!
The man's eyes were cold. "What are you doing?"
"Your... Your Lordship."
Li Yunfei was so frightened that her face turned pale.
Bai Yang looked at her coldly. "You know, I don't like disobedient people."
She trembled all over. "Marquis, marquis, I..."
He left the man behind. "Come on, Madam met a criminal when she went out, and she died with her servants."
Everyone was shocked. They all knelt on the ground and begged, "Marquis, please spare my life! Please spare my life! Please!"
Five or six men in black came out, grabbed everyone's necks, and gently stopped breathing. All of them were dead.
The candlelight on the corridor shone on Bai Yang's side, and several lives disappeared in front of him. His expression did not change. He turned his head and looked at Li Yunqing.
His gaze swept across her disfigured cheeks and he fell silent. "It's been five years since we last met. You've become much more haggard."
Li Yunqing looked at his handsome and gentle face. "We haven't seen each other for five years, but you are as ruthless as ever."
Back then, she had been infatuated with this man. When he was framed, he took the blame for him, and was demoted as a slave by the emperor for five years.
At this moment, although she should hate him, she hated the stupid fifteen-year-old girl who was pregnant with a girl.
Bai Yang didn't answer. He waved his hand, and some heavy footsteps came. She looked at the extremely luxurious Phoebe zhennan coffin.
He also set his eyes on the coffin. "There is a kind-hearted noble who wants to send you to hell. This coffin was specially prepared for you by that noble. She is going to bury you in a grand grave, walk around Yunyang City, and finally bury you at the foot of Yunyang Mountain to suppress the mountain for Prince Cheng."
Speaking of this, he paused and looked at her to explain, "A Taoist priest said that five years ago, after Prince Cheng was buried in Mount Yunyang, he had always done evil things on Mount Yunyang. He needed a ferocious soul to kill him."
"The noble said that you are a dead man. It's a merit to be able to do a good deed after death. There is a tiny hole in the coffin, which is enough for you to stay in the sealed space and hang on until you die."
"The journey around the city should be extremely fulfilling. That sinister face should be enough to restrain evil."
When the servant saw the coffin made of Phoebe zhennan, he thought of something and kept quiet. He did not dare to speak again.
Li Yunqing noticed the eunuch's fear and did not know which great noble she had offended. She walked up to the coffin and was about to enter when she stopped.
He looked at Bai Yang. "Have you ever liked me?"
At the last moment of her life, she wanted to give herself an answer to the only man she had ever fallen in love with.
At this moment, she had already walked to the corridor and showed it. The candlelight just happened to reflect the horrible face. He said, "I like it."
He said frankly, "The rumor of the good-for-nothing in the capital is just a false rumor of the Shen Group. You are very kind. Although Prince Cheng liked you very much, he wanted to tie you up with my affection for you."
"In the end, he died. I can't deny that I was a little sincere to you."
"I've thought about it. Although you have nothing to rely on, you can still make an exception to marry you. Unfortunately, I was framed in the palace at that time, so I can only let you take the blame. I like you and admire you, but I can't be unconscious because of a woman."
"I don't want you to die now, but I can't harm our family's interests for a slave. Although Duke Ji didn't say how to punish you, you should know that Duke Ji would never agree if you were alive."
"You made it clear." Li Yunqing's eyes flashed with self-mockery. "Back then, I might not have known that you had other plans, but I refused to be conscious."
Thinking about it again, she smiled with a little bitterness in her eyes. "After five years of suffering in the human world, you know how difficult it is to be a human being. Back then, you were too arrogant. The Ji Duke's Manor disdained me, and I also treated you coldly."
"I hope the marquis won't feel ashamed. Please apologize to the old duke for me. If there is a next life, I will pay for it."
Bai Yang nodded. "Sure."
She turned around and lay down with the help of the coffin. Four strong men stood by her side, and Bai Yang personally covered her with the coffin.
Looking at her beautiful and calm face lying in the coffin, he put away the pity in his eyes and sighed, "It's a good journey. If there is an afterlife, I'll try not to use you."
Li Yunqing smiled and said, "If there is an afterlife, I'm afraid you'll have to die." Then, as he gradually covered the coffin, the darkness gradually submerged her.
Next, it hurt!
Densely packed, tearing pain!
Her chest and entire body were trembling. Veins stood out on her hands in the narrow and dark space, scratching the coffin wall. Every blood vessel in her body was spurting out. She opened her mouth, but she couldn't take a complete breath.
Until a certain moment, his eyes went blank, his limbs lost control, and the pain gradually disappeared.
Vaguely, he heard the sound of the gong, the Taoist priest singing, and the sound of the shovel.
She thought, "If there is really an afterlife, those schemes will cover the sky and cover the earth, and those swords will be stabbed into my closest kin's blood. I will return them as many times as possible."
