slave like jade

Chapter 187
Since noon yesterday, Mu Lingzhi has been so busy that no one is seen. Until now, he has not been seen in the public trial. No one knows where he went...

Yu Ruyan demanded that Mu Ziyang be sentenced to death. Since King Liang had agreed to let her judge, he naturally agreed, so he sentenced Mu Ziyang to beheaded.

With the imperial edict of King Liang, Mrs. Mu couldn't bear to faint again, and Prime Minister Mu couldn't bear to see that after the Mu family was cut off by his hand, he was afraid that they would not be able to do business with their ancestors after death, so he couldn't help crying and solemnly addressed to King Liang. He bowed down, and said in a weeping voice: "Your Majesty, this pair of unfilial sons and daughters of the old minister made a big mistake, and it is not a pity to die, but... Please see that the old minister has dedicated himself to Liang, let the old minister die for the little one, old minister I am willing to risk my life, I just ask His Majesty to forgive me, leave him a humble life, and let the old minister replace him..."

Mu Xiang's half-white hair was all gone in a moment, and he no longer cared about the slightest bit of face. He cried and begged King Liang for mercy. Such a miserable description made everyone feel sad.

From the moment King Liang judged him to be beheaded, Mu Ziyang was so frightened that his mind went blank, and he was stunned on the spot——

He always thought that his crime was lighter than the other three, and under the protection of his father and the first prince, the punishment was unavoidable, but King Liang would not really want his life, but unexpectedly, he also could not escape death .

At this moment, he was really scared, and his body was like a trapped animal facing life and death, roaring in pain, not only did not feel sorry for Mu Xiang who pleaded for his mercy for him, but he kept screaming to Mu Xiang: "Father! , you must save me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

When Mu Xiang heard his distressed voice, his heart ached, and he kowtowed to the King of Liang and begged with tears...

Mu Ziyue on the side looked at her elderly parents, because of the wrong things she had done, she was humiliated and painful in front of others, and her parents' lives also fell from the high clouds and fell into the quagmire of life because of her. , can no longer come out.Until now, a trace of regret flashed in her heart...

Seeing the elderly mother fainted on the ground, and the father who has always been the most majestic is also because of their embarrassment, and because of the last bloodline of the Mu family, even his own life...

Everything in front of her eyes made Mu Ziyue's eyes tear open, and her nails dug deep into her flesh. She suddenly hated herself because of the fire of jealousy, for killing her happy family, her parents and herself... …

It was only at this time that she realized that because of her crazy feelings for Mu Lingzhi and her deep jealousy for Yu Ruyan, she wanted her to die by all means and let her leave Mu Lingzhi's side ...

Because of the crazy demon in his heart, he even implicated the innocent, killing so many innocent people, but in the end, he ended up harming others and eventually killing himself. All the retribution was not only on himself, but also on his family...

However, what she doesn't know is that all this is not the final outcome now, a greater disaster hits like a strong wind, and completely reduces their Mu family, the most prestigious noble family in Daliang, to ashes in an instant...

Mu Lingzhi, who hadn't shown his face for almost a day, rode a tall horse and rushed into the public trial field like lightning. When he heard Mu Xiangliang's pleading, his deep eyes turned cold, and he got off the horse. His voice was cold and piercing: "I'm afraid Mu Xiang will not be able to replace your young master's life!"

The sudden appearance of Mu Lingzhi in front of everyone made King Liang and everyone feel a little surprised. It stands to reason that he should be most concerned about today's public trial, but he has not seen him come out until now.

As soon as he fell off the horse, Mu Lingzhi ignored the others, strode up to Yu Ruyan, held her hand tightly, and said with suppressed excitement in his voice: "I'm back, everything is done! "

After hearing his words, Yu Ruyan felt relieved, and was even more happy that he came back safely. She couldn't help holding his hand tightly, and worried: "Is Your Highness injured? Did those vicious gangsters hurt you?"

Thinking of what he had just done, Mu Lingzhi finally let go of a big stone in his heart. On the way to Dali Temple, he heard that the verdict of the case had been settled, and Yu Ruyan cleared her suspicions. The bad guys got their due punishment too...

In this way, the haze that had shrouded his heart for a long time finally cleared up completely.His brows are flying with joy, and his face that has been gloomy for a long time has a bright smile on it, as if it can melt the ice and snow in winter and welcome the warm spring that is coming...

Ever since Mu Lingzhi appeared, Mu Ziyue had been covering her face with her hands, cowardly not wanting him to see her inhuman appearance, but also couldn't help but look at him secretly.

However, from the beginning to the end, his eyes did not stay on her for a moment, and he always took good care of Yu Ruyan, even if his eyes swept over her, there was disgust in his eyes.

Suddenly, her dead heart was completely cold and hopeless...

Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi trembled when they heard Mu Lingzhi's words, but Liang Wang was full of doubts. Only Yue Yu let out a sigh of relief when he heard the words, his expression was clear, and his eyes became more and more cold. Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi were a little flustered and confused.

Amidst everyone's doubts, Mu Lingzhi stood tall and tall, and bowed respectfully to the king of Liang, who was above him, and said: "Earlier, my father ordered my sons and ministers to go to the flood disaster area in the south to investigate the case of the death of the Qincha Minister. I rushed back to the Eastern Capital ahead of time, but this matter has always been on my mind, and I never dared to forget about my job. Therefore, during these days, I have been quietly investigating the affairs of the disaster-stricken areas in the south—finally, let my son The minister found out the cause of the imperial envoy's death, and successfully captured the real culprit who killed the court official."

Mu Lingzhi was originally handsome and handsome, plus he was upright and brave, instantly became the focus of everyone in the audience.

And what he said is even more shocking!

Before Liang Wang asked in detail, Mu Yunzhi's face changed drastically, and he couldn't control his voice: "You...you found out who killed the imperial envoy...the real culprit!!"

"Yes, we found it!" Looking at Mu Yunzhi whose expression changed drastically, Mu Lingzhi was not only disgusted, but also shocked——

Although he had long locked the real culprit behind the murder of the imperial envoy on the eldest prince and his gang, he was still greatly shocked when he learned the truth...

Sen Leng's eyes looked coldly at Mu Yunzhi who looked flustered, and Mu Lingzhi's lips curled up into a cold smile, and he said coldly, "It's a coincidence, the murderer is none other than the emperor's confidant!"

As soon as this statement came out, the audience was in an uproar!

Liang Wang had already thought of something in his heart, and disappointment and hatred came to his face, he gritted his teeth and said to Mu Lingzhi in a deep voice: "What did you find, report it quickly!"

No longer paying attention to the despair and panic of Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi, Mu Lingzhi told all the things he found out in front of the people of the whole Dongdu with awe-inspiring momentum——

In fact, Mu Ling knew about the real cause of death of the imperial envoy and about Mu Xiang and Mu Yun's embezzlement of huge funds for disaster relief, but he knew that everything should be based on evidence, so he asked for orders to go to the south in person Taking over the position of the imperial envoy, while doing disaster relief, he is also investigating cases.

Although later he had to interrupt the investigation and rush back to the capital because of Xiaodao's forced marriage of Yu Ruyan, and later because of the queen's death, Yu Ruyan was framed and killed the queen, and was bestowed to death by King Liang... A series of things made him exhausted physically and mentally. But his strong perseverance and sense of responsibility kept him from continuing to investigate Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi's crimes...

Huangtian paid off, and in the end, Mu Lingzhi successfully found strong evidence that Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi did evil!
Originally, when Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi brutally killed the imperial envoys for corruption, they pretended to be the imperial envoys killed by bandits and did not leave any evidence. Everything seemed to be done seamlessly, so that Mu Lingzhi could not get any handle on them.

But later, when Mu Lingzhi analyzed the case in detail, he felt that the only way to start from the 20 taels of silver embezzled by Muxiang and Mu Yunzhi...

He firmly believed that as long as he found the 20 taels of silver embezzled by Muxiang and his gang, their crimes could be exposed.

However, Mu Xiang and Mu Lingzhi are old treacherous and cunning, ever since Mu Lingzhi took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the south for disaster relief, they have carefully guarded against Mu Lingzhi, knowing the importance of the 20 taels of silver, so they hid them It was so appropriate that Mu Lingzhi couldn't find out.

Until recently, because of Yu Ruyan's matter, Mu Lingzhi was exhausted while busy saving Yu Ruyan, and at the same time he was also busy with Xie Empress's funeral. Yes, Mu Xiangcai and Mu Yunzhi discussed the 20 taels of silver, taking advantage of the time when the whole girder was busy for the funeral for Empress Xie, and had people smuggle the silver hidden in the south back to Dongdu...

They originally thought that when the princes and ministers from all over the country returned to Beijing for the funeral, people came and went at the gate of the eastern capital every day, and there were too many horses and horses so that no one would notice. The official seal can wipe out all the criminal evidence, and then everything will be safe. Unexpectedly, at the last moment, Mu Lingzhi still found out...

Mu Lingzhi solemnly said to King Liang: "I have found out that the so-called gangsters who killed the imperial envoy were not real gangsters, but people pretending to be the most capable people around the elder brother and Mu Xiang. confidant bodyguard..."

Before he could speak, Mu Yunzhi interrupted him angrily, and roared: "Nonsense, nonsense, what evidence do you have to prove that those bandits belong to my family? I think all this is just your intention Slander, use it to frame me and Muxiang, just add insult to injury!"

Mu Yunzhi was so anxious that he couldn't finish his sentence, and almost bit his tongue several times.

Angrily, he rushed to the calm Mu Lingzhi, wanting to bite him to death.However, in the eyes of King Liang and everyone else, his hideous description was an expression of a guilty conscience when the matter was revealed and he was furious.

King Liang was already very angry. He looked coldly at Mu Yunzhi, who had a hideous and deformed face, and then at the crowd of Daliang people who were crowded below him. He felt cold in his heart, and asked Mu Lingzhi coldly, "Look at your description. , everything should be investigated clearly, in this case, everything will be dealt with today!"

Hearing this, Mu Yunzhi's whole body was shocked, and Mu Xiang was even more desperate and panicked, and the other ministers also became serious and panicked——

Liang Wang did not evade everyone's private interrogation, but asked Mu Lingzhi to provide evidence in front of the world. His attitude was very clear——

That is, if everything Mu Lingzhi said was true, King Liang would not let Xiang Mu and his son go easily.

With King Liang's permission, Mu Lingzhi waved his hand and asked the attendants waiting outside the venue to carry dozens of heavy boxes, as well as a dozen or so masked prisoners.

When the cloth covers on the heads of those criminals were taken off and they were held up by the officials of Dali Temple, they were the most trusted confidants of the First Prince and Mu Xiangfu.And everyone wears the waist badge of their respective houses, which is clear at a glance.

When Mu Lingzhi caught them, in order to prevent them from committing suicide and apologizing, he immediately sealed the acupuncture points on their bodies so that they could not move, and even tightened their mouths with cloth strips to prevent them from biting their tongues and committing suicide.

The faces of those criminals were all ashen, and their eyes were dodging in horror, not daring to look at their masters.

And their master was even more like a dead man, collapsing on the ground——

Mu Yunzhi and Mu Xiang wanted to quibble that these people were only threatened by Mu Lingzhi to slander them, but when they saw the heavy boxes being lifted up, their expressions changed drastically, and their faces became lifeless Xiang, already felt that one foot had stepped into the gate of hell, knowing that this time there would be no escape...

Sure enough, when Mu Lingzhi asked people to open those boxes one by one.Looking at the boxes of official money, King Liang knew everything. While feeling sad and disappointed, he hated his son and his trusted ministers for taking advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters when the people were suffering and the country was in danger. After doing such an outrageous thing, he couldn't help being so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.

Because it was related to the power of the court and the prince, the matter was not trivial, and the scene became abnormally silent for a while...

All the officials dared not open their mouths to speak casually, and the people below pricked up their ears, for fear of mishearing a sentence. Suddenly, the entire Dali Temple's vast campus was completely silent, waiting to hear Mu Lingzhi's report. The ins and outs of the case.

The cold wind howled across the sky and the earth, blowing away the haze in the hearts of Yu Ruyan, Mu Lingzhi and others, but made the whole body of Mu Pang, who did bad things, even colder, feeling immersed in the icy cold ten thousand years of ice. In the cave, there is no life left...

Mu Lingyi wore a black cloak and stood in front of those silver boxes.He stretched out his hand to pick up a piece of official silver and showed it to King Liang. The official seal was clearly printed on the underside of the silver ingot. He picked up another shapeless ingot of silver, and his heavy voice pierced fiercely like a sharp knife in the cold wind. Into the hearts of Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi——

"I haven't found the 20 taels of silver that you coveted before. But in the recent period, dozens of well-covered carriages loaded with goods entered the city every day. The cloth and tea leaves are no different from ordinary wagons, but the wheel marks left by the wheels in the snow are extraordinarily deep, indicating that the things in the wagon must be very heavy..."

"Following these carriages, I found an extremely secret blacksmith's shop hidden in a civilian area. The outside of this blacksmith's shop is an ordinary blacksmith's shop, but inside it is a place for selling stolen official silver... I am not only in the 20 taels of white flower silver were found in the blacksmith shop, and the criminal who killed the imperial envoy was arrested. It was even found out that this blacksmith shop is owned by the Mu family!"

"The people who sold the stolen official money were the ones who killed the imperial envoy with fake identities, and they also confessed the fact that they pretended to be bandits and killed the imperial envoy. Will be killed by them..."

Dozens of boxes of white silver dazzled the eyes of the people, but hurt the eyes of King Liang——

At the beginning, the south suddenly suffered from large-scale floods, and at the same time, a plague broke out. For a while, there were heavy casualties, and the people were in dire straits.

In order to control the disaster in time and prevent the spread of the plague in a large area, King Liang used all human, material and financial resources for disaster relief. In order to collect 40 taels of silver for disaster relief, King Liang tried his best.Unexpectedly, half of the 40 taels of disaster relief money was embezzled by his son and his most trusted courtiers, and even dared to kill the imperial envoy whom he personally appointed...

The monstrous anger made Liang Wang's eyes red, and the stove in his hand slammed down on the two kneeling below...

The next moment, King Liang couldn't stand the blow, he vomited blood in anger, and passed out...

Mu Xiang and Mu Yunzhi'bangdang' go to jail...

The next day, King Liang woke up, and an edict determined the crimes committed by Mu Xiang and the eldest prince Mu Yunzhi——

The eldest prince Mu Yunzhi corrupted the law by corrupting the law, murdered the officials of the court, committed a heinous crime, cut off the imperial loan, demoted to common people, exiled his whole family in Jingdi, and will never be able to return to Beijing!
The family of woodsman murdered the prince, poisoned the empress, corrupted the law with corruption, disregarded human life, and committed heinous crimes, all of them were sentenced to be beheaded!
With the imperial decree, there was an uproar in the capital——

There was a sound of wailing in the eldest prince's mansion, and the side concubine Yu Wan led the female family members of the back house to kneel in the courtyard to receive the order. As soon as the official's voice fell, Yu Wan couldn't help but her eyes darkened, and she fell to the ground— —

She also happened to be pregnant around the same time as Yu Mingzhu, but in order to avoid being exposed, she has been carefully concealing the pregnancy. However, she finally waited until Yu Mingzhu had an accident, lost her child and was thrown into prison. Relying on the child in my womb, not only can I regain Mu Yunzhi's favor, but I will go back to the time when I covered the sky with one hand in the palace...

However, her sweet dream hadn't come to fruition in time, she never expected that in one night, the house would collapse, the eldest prince would be relegated to common people, and even the concubines and family members of the whole family would become common people, and exile would be the most terrifying and difficult Jingdi...

In this way, the child in her womb is no longer the noble grandson of the emperor, but will be demoted overnight from the incomparably noble son and grandson of the dragon to the lowest exiled sinner. The difference is simply immeasurable!
Yu Wan could endure such a blow, but no matter how shrewd she was, she had to accept her fate. In the end, she had to take off all her brocade clothes and put on rough and coarse clothes, endured the hardships of pregnancy, and set foot on the After the inhuman road of exile, he had to endure the beatings and scolding from the manic and fiery Mu Yunzhi, whose temperament changed drastically due to his status plummeting. It was really miserable...

And the Mu Mansion is even more miserable——

The evil deeds committed by Mu Xiang were exposed, and he and his two sons and daughters were immediately imprisoned in the prison of Dali Temple.After Mrs. Mu woke up, she looked at the empty mansion, and thought of her husband and children being imprisoned and became death row prisoners. is coming.

Amid the chaotic cries, Mrs. Mu had already been chained and handcuffed, and she and hundreds of people in the mansion were taken to a cell and locked up. They will all be beheaded at noon tomorrow...

The next day, the people of the entire Eastern Capital got up early again, and stood guard at the Caishi entrance early, and the execution platform that was specially erected there before to cut Yu Ruyan, has now become a death-killing place for the family of Mufu. ...

A few days ago, here, in order to save Yu Ruyan, Mu Lingzhi fought bloody with Xiaodao, beheaded the Yulin army, and dyed the snow at the entrance of Caishi red with blood.

But now, the bloodstains of the past have just dissipated with the melting of the snow, and a new massacre is about to begin...

Today's supervisor and beheader is none other than Mu Lingzhi.

He was sitting on the high execution platform with a dignified and dignified body, while on the execution platform, there were hundreds of people kneeling from the whole door of the Mufu, kneeling from the execution platform to the bottom of the execution platform, all of them wrapped in prison clothes. , crying endlessly...

But there are two people missing here, one is Mu Ziyue who will be executed with Yu Mingzhu tomorrow, and the other is Diexiang, the maid beside her who escaped by chance!
Since Die Xiang found out about the accident in the Mu Mansion in Dali Temple yesterday, she immediately wrapped up her parcel and left, planning to sneak out of the city and return to Daqi, but there were some things that she never expected...

In the prison cell of Dali Temple, Mu Ziyue watched her parents and elder brother being dragged out and beheaded, her heart ached to be torn apart alive.

Regardless of whether Mu Lingzhi could hear her cries or not, she cried frantically, begging Mu Lingzhi to let her go out, and begging him to send her parents and brother off for the sake of their growing up together. last leg...

Heart-piercing cries resounded throughout the empty and cold prison of Dali Temple, but Mu Lingzhi went to the execution ground early in the morning, even if she shouted loudly, no one came to answer her.

Finally, just when she was in extreme despair and pain, a thin figure appeared at the door of the cell, Yue Yu's voice sounded coldly in the empty cell: "Are you sure you want to see your parents beheaded?"

Mu Ziyue suddenly heard Yue Yu's voice, she was stunned for a moment, and the next moment she rushed forward, lying on the edge of the prison door, her rotten hands firmly grasping the edge of Yue Yu's robe through the prison pillar , never letting go——

"Brother Yi, please, please, based on the friendship we had when we were young, let me send my parents off for the last time... It was I who killed them. Even if I am going to be quartered tomorrow, I will try my best to be human." The last bit of filial piety for my children...Brother Yi, please...I'm going to die tomorrow, this is my last wish, please..."

Terrible pus flowed from her rotten left eye, but tears flowed from her right eye, and the right hand holding Yue Yu's robe was also twisted and deformed.

With a heavy sigh, Yue Yu said: "On the contrary, I think it's better if you don't look!"

Having said that, he still had someone open the cell, and let the jailer escort Mu Ziyue to the execution ground to send her parents off for the last time.

When Mu Ziyue walked out of the cell, she was grateful to Yue Yu, but when she stepped out of the last cell door of Dali Temple and saw the light outside again, the only remaining right eye shone with a stern coldness. mango……

(End of this chapter)