Chapter 334: Killing relatives for justice
Chapter 334: Killing relatives for justice
"Lord Wen's act of selling his daughter for fame and fortune is, to put it mildly, selling his daughter for fame and fortune. To put it more seriously, it is private contact with other officials and collusion with each other. I wonder what Lord Wen's intention is in this act."
Officials in the court who were related to Wenshun were now sweating profusely and their legs were trembling.
Wenshun was wiping his sweat off his face. He was so scared that he almost collapsed to the ground, his heart in his throat.
The more anxious you are, the more you talk, and the more loopholes you will find.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am innocent, I am really innocent—"
Tang Taifu glared at him, "You are wronged? You are wronged, it's all written in the storybook, you... I have heard it all, the evidence is irrefutable, just stop talking nonsense!"
If the eunuch hadn't held him back, he would have kicked the man.
Emperor Xuanming pricked up his ears and heard it clearly, but he did not stop the farce because he was really confused as to why Master Tang suddenly targeted a person who had no sense of existence at all.
He looked as if the other party had ruined his marriage.
When Emperor Xuanming heard the word "huaben" slip out of Tutor Tang's mouth, he became even more confused.
Storybook.
Another storybook.
This was the nth time he had heard these two words from people around him.
Previously, they had caused trouble outside the palace, and it was all about the word "huaben".
He looked like he was too immersed in the role.
I heard it again today.
He didn't think that it was really because Master Tang spoke too hastily that he made a mistake. He was more inclined to believe that he had let the secret slip.
So he was too immersed in the play and targeted real people???
But Emperor Xuanming knew Tutor Tang, and he was not the kind of person who would wrongly accuse someone. It was impossible for him to target someone just because of what was written in a story book.
Some officials who had never read the novels were as confused as the emperor. They didn't understand why they were suddenly targeting a person who had no sense of existence.
Did they miss something?
Maybe he felt that he would die if he didn't argue, so his docile brain started working quickly and he insisted that he had never done it.
"Taifu's words are not enough. If there is evidence to prove that I did this, I will be punished without complaint. I just don't want to be wronged."
Tutor Tang stared. Of course he couldn't produce any evidence. He couldn't just show what was written in the storybook.
"I can prove it, your Excellency."
The hall was silent for a few seconds, and then a voice suddenly sounded at the end.
Under Wenshun's incredulous gaze, Wen Tianyou walked out slowly, his face silent, and knelt beside him.
Emperor Xuanming said, "Just say it."
Wen Tianyou said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I am Wen Tianyou, the son of Lord Wen. Today I have the audacity to tell you about the misfortune of my family. What Taifu Tang said is true..."
Wenshun slumped on the ground, his lips trembling but unable to utter a word.
The calm and steady young man in front of him was very different from his usual silent and cowardly image.
For the first time, Wenshun realized that he had never really understood his son.
When he was young, he was so smart that he thought that God had opened his eyes and sent a literary star to the Wen family. But why did he suddenly become insignificant and why did he talk about death every day? He never thought about it in detail...
He used to think that the hatred he occasionally showed towards him was because he had pushed him too hard and was too disappointed in him.
But now I know that he really wants to drag him to hell.
But why.
Wenshun didn’t understand. Even though he was disappointed in him, he never gave up on him because he was his son.
Wen Tianyou revealed word by word everything the Wen family had done over the years, including those unscrupulous deeds that they had tried so hard to erase all traces of.
The bones of the daughter who was eaten without bones were refined into steps for the men of the Wen family to climb up. They stepped on the ladder made of women's bones and ascended step by step.
Every single incident is frightening.
Wen Tianyou took out the evidence from his sleeve. It was the words he had gritted his teeth to record since he knew everything at a young age.
The sage book told him that even a tiger would not eat its own cubs. But in the Wen family, the sisters he always called out to seemed not like his own children, but like pigs and sheep to be slaughtered at will.
Everything he encountered seemed to break down the spiritual fortress that books had built for him.
He was precocious, but still very young, and there were many things he could not understand, and books could not explain them to him.
If a loving and peaceful father wants to eat his sisters, what should he do.
He didn't know, so he could only give up on himself.
Wen Tianyou kowtowed, "My sisters and mother are all innocent and pitiful people. I hope Your Majesty will have mercy on me. I am unkind and unfilial. My crime is unforgivable. I beg Your Majesty to grant me the death penalty."
The civil officials covered their mouths and whispered, while the military officers listened with a frown.
Tutor Tang opened his mouth wide, realizing that the story was still too conservative and that what was written was just the tip of the iceberg of what the Wen family had done.
Emperor Xuan Ming had a gloomy expression. If he really wanted to watch the fun at the beginning, then when Wen Tianyou appeared, it was no longer something that could be simply dismissed as fun.
He didn't even look at Wenshun who was crying out for justice on the ground, and said casually, "Drag him away and sentence him to death."
“A thorough investigation of this case and all officials involved will be conducted. If the facts are true, they will all be punished for serious crimes to uphold the law and reassure the people.”
Some officials who were in cahoots with Wen Shun felt their legs go weak and their eyes turned black.
No one involved in this case was spared.
Emperor Xuanming had originally intended to find a reason to thoroughly investigate and punish the chaos of collusion among officials. It just so happened that the Wen family incident happened right under his nose, so he just went with the flow and did it. If he was going to investigate, he had to investigate it thoroughly.
Emperor Xuanming lowered his eyes and looked at Wen Tianyou who was kneeling on the ground.
Wen Tianyou is regretting.
I regret that I didn't buy the new book last night because I was afraid to go out in the middle of the night.
If he had known he would die today, he would have just held on and endured until the end.
The more you read, the better.
Once you go to hell, can the underworld provide you with storybooks?
"Wen Tianyou."
Emperor Xuanming called out once, but Wen Tianyou didn't hear him and was still in his trance.
It was only when Master Tang beside him pushed him that he reacted.
"I am here, I am here."
"Your sacrifice of your own family for the sake of justice is truly a model for the court. I am very pleased and I will pardon you."
After Emperor Xuan Ming finished speaking, he glanced at Wen Tianyou's reaction. Why didn't he look like he had escaped death and was so relieved that he wanted to collapse on the ground?
Wen Tianyou kowtowed, "I am going to die now...ah?"
Emperor Xuanming: "Do you really want to die?"
Wen Tianyou lowered his head again and said, "I don't really want to."
I haven't even finished the two books yet.
Can I write you an IOU first?
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[Is it possible for a person to die in a closed space?
"According to the drunk's description, this was the scene that night."
"He got drunk in a restaurant, and on his way home, he took the wrong road and passed by the cave, and was knocked unconscious by someone."
"But he woke up soon and found himself being dragged into the cave. His survival instinct made him desperately climb out, but there was always a force inside pulling him down."
"While struggling, he grabbed a stone nearby and threw it down without thinking, hitting someone and escaping the disaster."
Hua Niang walked around the few people and sat back in her seat. "This is what really happened. The drunkard was drunk and confused."
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