Border Cook

Chapter 668 Understand the ghost

The jade bracelet in the hands of the Patriarch of the Cui family fell to the ground. His expression suddenly became nervous. He stood up from the armchair and could not help pacing back and forth.

No, no, no…

There is something obviously wrong with these things.

The Wen family killed Xiao Luoan and was discovered by Xiao Luohe. Wen Yongze and Xiao Luochen were held accountable and investigated. The Wen family put the blame on Xiao Luohe and the Cui family and began a crazy revenge on the Cui family.

At this critical juncture, the Cui family wanted to bring down the Wen family and took many measures.

Now that Xiao Luochen has been killed, the Wen family will naturally think that it was the Cui family and Xiao Luohe who did it. The conflict between the Wen and Cui families will escalate and the fighting will become more intense.

Especially now that both sides have no one to rely on, it will arouse the deepest anger in their hearts, and they will fight to the death.

From then on, the Wen and Cui families would not be completely wiped out, but would be severely damaged and would have no possibility of rising again.

If you ask who would like to see such a situation the most, I'm afraid there is only one person!

A figure appeared in the mind of the Cui family's head, and his face turned extremely pale at that moment...

"Hurry, hurry, hurry..." The head of the Cui family hurriedly called out to people, "Hurry up and send someone to bring back the male descendants of the Cui family who have good qualifications..."

"It's bad, Patriarch!" Someone rushed over and shouted, "A large number of servants have surrounded this place!"

It’s over. It’s all over.

The Cui family is in his hands and it’s over!

The head of the Cui family staggered and fell to the ground.

"Homeowner!"

"Homeowner..."

The Cui family's house was in chaos at this time.

The news that the second prince Xiao Luohe killed the eldest prince Xiao Luochen in an attempt to wipe out the roots and help himself ascend to the throne of crown prince quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital.

Just when everyone was extremely shocked by this matter and didn't know how to judge it, memorials impeaching the Wen and Cui families fell on the emperor's desk like snowflakes.

They formed cliques for personal gain, engaged in corruption, illegally occupied salt ponds, seized civilian land, and killed innocent people to take credit for their crimes...

The crimes are numerous and heinous.

After the last piece of fig leaf was torn off, everyone saw the true face of the two famous families, Wen and Cui, and began to despise and curse them.

Many emotionally excited students who took the world's mission as their own were filled with righteous indignation. They gathered at the gates of various examination halls and wrote letters of confession against the Wen and Cui families.

The Wen and Cui families became the rats crossing the street that were criticized and wanted to be beaten by everyone.

Amid the calls for the Emperor to hold the Wen and Cui families accountable, he convicted them based on the crimes they committed during the investigation.

The second prince, Xiao Luohe, murdered his elder brother, a heinous crime that was unforgivable. He was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in his original residence, and no one was allowed to visit him without an imperial decree.

The virtuous concubine was not good at educating her children, colluded with her maternal relatives, and was in cahoots with the Cui family. She was stripped of her title, demoted to a commoner, and imprisoned in the cold palace.

In the Cui family, all direct descendants and side branches within three generations who are over fifteen years old will be beheaded, and their female relatives and children will be exiled to Lingnan and will never be allowed to enter the capital.

Concubine Shu was stripped of her title, demoted to a commoner, and imprisoned in the cold palace.

The Wen clan, all the direct descendants and the side branches within three generations, will be beheaded if they are over fifteen years old, and the women and children will be exiled to Lingnan, and will never be allowed to enter the capital...

The execution came with great force and force, like a sudden storm in summer, pouring down and washing away all the dust floating in the world.

After this rainstorm, there will be another fresh and beautiful scenery.

After the rain, the world seemed to have a new look. Many people talked about the execution of the Wen and Cui families with relish, and praised the virtue and decisiveness of the emperor of the time.

There are even street storytellers who turn these events into books, describing them vividly in teahouses and on the streets every day, drawing rounds of applause.

Some are happy and some are sad.

The common people were delighted by this, but those who had close contacts with the Wen and Cui families were now being investigated by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice. They were in fear all day long, not knowing what their fate would be.

Every day, people were taken away and imprisoned. In the lighter cases, they were dismissed from their official positions and banned from entering the capital for life. In the heavier cases, they were beheaded and their entire family was executed.

For a moment, the entire capital city was shrouded in a solemnity that was unnoticed by ordinary people.

On the execution ground, because people were executed every day, the ground had been soaked with bright red blood and turned black and purple. Under the sunlight, it looked extremely horrifying.

At this moment, the head of the Cui family and the head of the Wen family, Wen Yongze, were still in the sky prison.

Originally, the two should have been sentenced to be beheaded like the other people from the Wen and Cui clans, but the emperor gave an order. Considering their advanced age, he could not bear to execute them, so he only imprisoned them in the Sky Prison, where they were well fed and watered every day until they grew old.

Seeing such grace, many people praised the emperor for his kindness and for being so tolerant towards such a person.

The head of the Cui family sneered and even sneered at the food brought by the jailer, and was indifferent.

The jailer couldn't stand it anymore and glared at you, "Eat it if you want! Do you still think you are the patriarch of the Cui family who was so prominent in front of others? Now you are just a rat crossing the street that everyone wants to beat! It's because the emperor is merciful that he spared your life and you can eat and drink well all day long. Otherwise, you should have been torn into pieces by five horses long ago. You are still not satisfied and don't know how to be grateful to the emperor. You are really worse than pigs and dogs!"

Grateful to the Emperor?

The emperor is kind-hearted and spared his life out of kindness?

Ah……

He was just waiting to die in this dark prison, watching his juniors die one by one, feeling powerless and filled with regret.

Such torture can be said to be more painful and terrifying than killing him.

He would rather be torn into pieces by five horses than live in this world and watch the Cui family disappear from this world bit by bit!

The head of the Cui family was furious and glared at the jailer fiercely, "You ignorant idiot, you don't know anything at all, yet you are talking nonsense in front of me!"

Seeing that he was still being stubborn, the jailer was too lazy to argue with him and just put the food in at random. He snorted coldly and left.

"You can't tell good from evil, you deserve this!"

The voice floated over faintly, and the head of the Cui family was so angry that he knocked all the food to the ground.

"At this point, does the head of the Cui family still have the energy to get angry with irrelevant people?" Wen Yongze in the cell next door couldn't help but let out a "tsk".

"At least you are not like me. Even at this point, you are still indifferent!" The head of the Cui family roared.

"It's come to this, there's nothing we can do to save the situation. No matter how unwilling we are, there's nothing we can do." Wen Yongze snorted coldly, "But if you think about it carefully, it's a rare pleasure to see an old man like you suffer all day long."

"After all, there is nothing more joyful and pleasurable in this world than seeing your enemies fall down bit by bit!"

Even though the collapse of the Wen family made him extremely sad, he felt much more comforted when he saw that the Cui family and the Wen family had ended up in the same situation.

"Ignorant fool!" The head of the Cui family had a look of contempt on his face, "Do you really think that it is our Cui family's fault that the Wen family has fallen to this point?" "Otherwise, are you going to say that our Wen family has brought it upon ourselves?" Wen Yongze curled the corners of his mouth.

"With a stupid head like you, it's no wonder that the Wen family has ended up like this!" The head of the Cui family sneered, "Now that both the Wen and Cui families have been defeated and will no longer exist, have you ever thought about who will benefit the most?"

Who is it?
Logically speaking, it should be the third prince Xiao Luoan.

But Xiao Luoan was already dead.

No, wait...

Wen Yongze's eyes suddenly widened, "You mean..."

"You've figured it out now?" The Cui family's patriarch sneered, "It's not too late. At least before I die, I've become a ghost who understands!"

Since ancient times, the king’s bed does not allow others to sleep soundly.

Their family is powerful and is always what the king least wants to see.

However, the aristocratic families are deeply rooted and it takes a lot of energy to clean them up, and a strong reason is needed. If the reason for the disposal is not tenable, it will be difficult to convince the public and may even lead to revenge from the aristocratic families.

But if he provoked a fight between the two families, letting the Wen and Cui families fight to the death, then the emperor could reap the benefits and clean up the remaining mess without any effort, and from then on he could rest easy and enjoy a stable regime.

After figuring this out, Wen Yongze's eyes widened again.

It was a huge trap from beginning to end.

But when did this trap begin?

Since the Wen family wanted to get rid of Xiao Luoan and his group, Ma Liu was eager for quick success and took Xiao Luoan's jade back. But on a whim, he kept the jade?
Yes, if it wasn’t the emperor, who could have the ability to steal the jade from the Wen family’s mansion and hang it on Xiao Luochen during the palace banquet?
At that time, Xiao Luohe was eager to bring down the Wen family and Xiao Luochen, so after discovering this matter, he couldn't wait to expose it.

The Wen family naturally concluded that this was a conspiracy of the Cui family, and then began to retaliate against the Cui family.

The Cui family wanted to kill the Wen family, so they wanted to strike first.

The fight between the two families ended in failure, and both suffered losses. The emperor actually reaped the benefits and no longer had to worry about the threat to his throne posed by the aristocratic families.

This trick is indeed brilliant!

It is indeed cruel...

He was so cruel that he pushed both of his sons out and used them as pawns on his chessboard, just to achieve his ultimate goal.

The Wen and Cui families believed themselves to be powerful families that could influence government affairs and even wanted to interfere with the throne. They treated the whole world as their chessboard, but in the end they became just pawns in the hands of others.

It's really retribution...

A bright red color gradually appeared in Wen Yongze's eyes, and he raised his head and laughed out loud.

He laughed wildly, laughed wantonly, laughed until tears came out, and couldn't stop slapping his thighs.

However, those tears were not transparent, but deep red. They dripped one by one onto his white prison uniform, looking horrifying.

After a moment, Wen Yongze's laughter stopped abruptly, and his body, which was originally slumped on the ground, slowly fell to the side.

Bang!
It was like a heavy sack that fell to the ground, and there was no movement after a moment.

The head of the Cui family was stunned for a moment and closed his eyes.

At this time, isn’t it a blessing to be able to follow the entire tribe?
And what he faced later was endless fear...

The sun gradually rose higher and reached its highest point in the sky.

The two brothers Wen Liyan and Wen Lixin looked at each other as the time approached, with bitter expressions on their faces.

They had never imagined such a situation.

They hoped that this was a dream, and when they opened their eyes again, they would still see the prosperous Wen family with its many children and grandchildren.

It’s a pity that they didn’t have the chance to open their eyes again.

The executioner at the side was sharpening his knife. The extremely sharp blade shone with an eerie cold light in the sunlight, foreshadowing that their lives were coming to an end.

Someone came towards them with a tray with two glasses of wine.

The rule before the execution was to drink some wine as a farewell, and after the wine was drunk, the executioner would chop off their heads.

Wen Liyan and Wen Lixin both took a deep breath and couldn't bear to exhale.

Taking this breath, the two of them raised their eyes to take another look at the world.

Both of them saw a person in the crowd.

Lu Qiyan.

He stood with an imposing manner, his eyes slightly lowered, as if he was looking down on the world, but also seemed to be full of pity, pity for the misery of the Wen family at this time.

It was obvious that Lu Qiyan came here to see the joke.

Look at their jokes, look at the Wen family's jokes...

Wen Lixin's face suddenly turned pale.

Part of it was because he was about to be beheaded, but a larger part of it was because he suddenly remembered something.

He was surprised at the beginning why when he came to find Lu Qiyan, Lu Qiyan listed the evil deeds that the Wen family had done to the Lu family and was full of anger, but did not take his life on the spot. Now it seems that it was because Lu Qiyan had known that this day would come?
The reason why they didn't touch him at the beginning was that if he died, the Wen family didn't have someone who could take charge of the situation and deal with the Cui family as efficiently and decisively as he did.

Then the Wen family's actions against the Cui family would not be so drastic, and the situation in which both the Wen and Cui families suffered losses would not be as thorough as it is now.

Lu Qiyan let the tiger go back to the mountains in order to let him fight the Cui family to the death, while he watched the joke from the sidelines.

It’s a pity that you, Lu Qiyan, planned so shrewdly, but you never thought that even if the Wen family is gone in the future, the plan he set up will still be there.

When this matter is revealed, you, Lu Qiyan, will be unable to refute it, and you will be beheaded like them.

Let’s wait and see!
Wen Lixin cast a fierce look at Lu Qiyan, but was blocked by the executioner who came over.

A mouthful of strong liquor sprayed onto the sword. The executioner raised the sword high in his hand and brought it down heavily.

The head rolled on the ground like a Cuju for a long time before it stopped. The blood spurting out from the wound on the neck was still flowing out, covering the entire area.

Many people present couldn't help but scream and cover their eyes.

Lu Qiyan looked at everything in front of him calmly, then turned and left.

Mounting his horse, Lu Qiyan headed home.

As the Lantern Festival approached, the capital city was decorated with lights and was very lively. There were many stalls and shops selling lanterns on the streets. Lu Qiyan stopped and after selecting for a long time, he picked out several lanterns with exquisite workmanship and took them back.