sbdcsierra Chapter 450: Your Majesty, please deal with it according to the law
Chapter 450: Your Majesty, please deal with it according to the law
The maid Lu'e emotionally recounted the crimes of Princess Yuehua, and every word was filled with heart-wrenching pain.
It turned out that Princess Yuehua had been keeping a lover in the princess's mansion since the third year after her husband's death.
That year, Princess Yuehua held a poetry meeting in the princess's mansion and invited students from Yizhou City to participate.
On the surface, Princess Yuehua provides a place for students to exchange knowledge.
But in fact, she was looking for a well-educated and handsome man to be her lover.
Among those students, there were many who were vain and eager to curry favor with the rich and powerful. Knowing that they had won the princess's favor, they even gave up taking the imperial examinations.
There are people who are willing to be a concubine, and naturally there are also those who are not willing.
At the beginning, Princess Yuehua did not kill people just because they were unwilling.
She just made things difficult for those students who were unwilling to become her slaves, making it difficult for them to move around in Yizhou and making their study journey even more difficult and encountering obstacles at every turn.
Many students ruined their path to the imperial examinations because of her deliberate obstruction, but they were powerless to resist.
The poetry meeting at the Princess's Mansion is held every three years.
When the third poetry meeting was held, Lu'e's brother went to Yizhou Prefecture School alone to study.
But before he had the chance to take the entrance examination for the prefectural school, he was kindly dragged by students from the Yizhou prefectural school to attend a poetry meeting at the princess's mansion.
Lu'e's brother was a man of great learning and good looks. Princess Yuehua fell in love with him right away.
Unfortunately, Lu'e's brother was determined to take the imperial examination and become an official, so he rejected the temptation thrown by Princess Yuehua.
This time, Princess Yuehua did not deliberately make things difficult for Lu'e's brother, but directly detained him secretly in the princess's mansion.
Lu'e's brother was locked in a secret room, and Princess Wen'an would use various means every day to ask him whether he was willing to stay in the princess's mansion.
Are you willing to serve Princess Yuehua?
Lu'e's brother was a stubborn man who would rather die than give up, and was eventually tortured to death in a secret room.
Lu'e heard all these things after she sneaked into the princess's mansion.
The reason why she sneaked into the princess's mansion was because her brother had been in Yizhou for three months and had not sent a letter home to report his safety.
She was worried that something had happened to her brother, so she came to Yizhou to look for him.
After asking around, she finally found a clue at the inn where her brother had stayed.
Because her brother was very handsome, the innkeeper remembered her brother as soon as he saw his portrait.
The shopkeeper said angrily that Lu'e's brother owed rent and asked Lu'e to pay.
After paying the silver, Lu'e took her brother's bag back from the shopkeeper and went to find the Yizhou student who the shopkeeper mentioned had left with her brother.
The Yizhou student knew nothing, and only said that on the day of the poetry meeting, Lu'e's brother suddenly disappeared.
He searched for Lu'e's brother in the princess's mansion for a long time but couldn't find him, so he returned home alone. Since then, he has never seen Lu'e's brother again.
Lu'e believed that her brother's disappearance was related to the princess's mansion, so she sold herself to the princess's mansion.
It took her two years to gain Princess Yuehua's trust. For this, she killed someone and almost lost her life.
After gaining Princess Yuehua's trust, she was able to learn more. Then, she slowly found out about her brother.
Lu'e wanted to avenge her brother, so she secretly collected evidence of Princess Yuehua's crimes and waited for an opportunity to act.
However, Liu Yan discovered that she was secretly collecting evidence.
She thought her revenge was hopeless, but she didn't expect Liu Yan to not report her.
In this way, the two of them secretly joined forces.
It was Lu'e who secretly told Su Yuan that her future husband was dead after disguising herself.
After Lu'e finished telling what she knew, she wiped the tears from her face and took out a cloth bag from her sleeve.
She poured out the contents of the cloth bag in front of everyone, including jade pendants, finger rings, ocarinas, seals, sachets and other things.
Su Yuan saw a bloody handkerchief and felt it looked familiar, so she reached out and picked it up.
Seeing this, Lu'e said, "You embroidered this handkerchief, didn't you? He was holding it in his hand until he died."
Su Yuan grabbed the handkerchief and pressed it against her chest. She looked as if she was in so much pain that she couldn't breathe or speak, and she couldn't even cry.
Everyone present couldn't bear to watch and looked away with red eyes.
Princess Yuehua rushed over like crazy, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it, you guys are framing me!"
Liu Yan reacted quickly and pushed her away.
At the same time, Emperor Yuan pointed at Princess Yuehua and shouted, "Catch her and don't let her hurt anyone."
Upon hearing this, Xie Beixiao immediately went over and caught the man.
Princess Yuehua continued to struggle, "Royal brother, I didn't kill anyone, they all teamed up to frame me. Royal brother, they want to harm me!"
Emperor Yuan was annoyed by what he heard and waved his hand, saying, "Shut her mouth."
Soon, the hall became quiet.
After taking a look at Princess Yuehua who had her mouth gagged, Lu'e introduced the items in front of her one by one.
"Your Majesty, these things are all personal belongings of those captured. These three jade pendants belong to the three young masters, Chen Zixuan of Suzhou, Liu Yifeng of Jingzhou, and Xu Zhicheng of Liangzhou. The ring is..."
Every time she read a name, she could recall their tragic scenes before death, and tears could not stop flowing.
Jiang Yueyang couldn't help but feel tears welling up in her eyes. [Xiaogua, Su Yuan and the others must be in a lot of pain, right?]
"Yes, they are in pain. But I think the pain is greatest for those who died. Not only were they brutally murdered, but their souls were also torn apart." The system said, glancing at Lu'e. "Take Lu'e's brother, for example. He was murdered by Princess Yuehua..."
The system couldn't bear to continue talking here.
After hearing what the system said, Lu'e's heart beat faster and her breathing became rapid. What other cruel things had they done to her brother?
Although Jiang Yueyang could guess that what the system was about to say would be somewhat cruel, he still reluctantly asked: [What did Princess Yuehua do to Lu'e's brother?]
[Princess Yuehua...] The system sighed heavily, [She coveted Brother Lu'e's body and drugged and forced him to have sex.]
As soon as these words were spoken, Lu'e's tears fell like a pearl necklace with a broken string.
elder brother……
All the civil and military officials gasped and were shocked.
Emperor Yuan really didn't expect that Princess Yuehua, who was so well-behaved and law-abiding, would do such a ridiculous thing!
How hungry she is...
Jiang Yueyang didn't understand, but she was also relieved.
She had thought that Princess Yuehua treated human life so lightly that she would be so angry that she would cut people into pieces alive!
At this time, the system said: [Now that we have both witnesses and evidence, there should be no need to continue the trial, right?]
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yueyang immediately stepped forward and bowed to Emperor Yuan, "Your Majesty, Princess Yuehua and Princess Wen'an have committed murder. The evidence is irrefutable. Please deal with them according to the law!"
"Your Majesty, please deal with it according to the law!" said all the civil and military officials in unison.