klisemfg Chapter 1221: Cut off and eliminate a pot of trouble
Chapter 1221: Cut off and eliminate a pot of trouble
In the afternoon, the sun was warm and golden, shining through the gaps between the bamboo branches and leaves, reflecting an orange glow on a patch of land in the forest.
The scenery looked cozy, but when everyone heard the cruel story narrated by Yun Mujiu in a calm tone, and then felt the wind in the forest blowing, they felt a chill on their backs and their hearts were blocked and cold.
Yun Mujiu said, "In addition to the groom, Gao Yang also arranged another man with ill intentions in the bamboo forest to attack this princess."
The two men Gao Yang had prepared for her had already been beaten to a pulp by Ye Xiaohan's personal guards.
At that time, when Gao Yang wanted to go to the wing room to catch Yun Mujiu's "evil", Yun Mujiu had already moved his position, quietly left the wing room, and went to the bamboo forest again.
She and Ye Xiaohan searched for a long time but could not find any trace of the girl. Later they learned that the girl had died a long time ago, more than ten years ago. The girl's relatives and friends were also killed overnight. As for the girl's bones, they had long been buried in the murderer's home. So this is why it has been so difficult to find the girl.
Recently, she and Ye Xiaohan uncovered the final truth and sent secret guards to investigate the whereabouts of the girl's remains. They discovered that the girl was buried in the princess's mansion. After apprehending several key confidants of Gao Yang, they sent cold shadow guards to quietly search the princess's mansion and discovered the unusual place in this ordinary bamboo forest.
Yun Mujiu did not tell the people present about the specific investigation process of the case.
She just said that the place where she found the wretched servant was where the girl's body was buried.
In the forest where the breeze was blowing, Ye Xiaohan did not send his personal guards to dig the ground, but asked the few guards and housekeepers of the princess's mansion to do it.
It only took a cup of tea to dig up a corpse.
That poor girl didn't even have a grave or a tombstone. She kindly saved a little boy, but when she grew up, she happened to pass by the grown-up boy in the capital, and they never met again.
When the girl wanted to see the man again, she died on the way to meet him, and then dozens of her relatives and friends were all killed by a group of killers.
At that time, Ye Xiaohan had invited the coroner from Jingzhao Prefecture to the scene in advance.
The ladies all covered their eyes, and even the men showed pity on their faces and dared not look at the tragic scene.
Zong Quan and several coroners reported their findings to the crowd. The body was that of a seventeen-year-old girl, who had died over twenty years earlier. The victim had been brutally tortured, with many bones broken. Another small detail was that her hair had been shaved when she was buried, leaving her naked, devoid of dignity.
Cao Hanmo's expression could no longer be described by human standards. His originally handsome and fair face was distorted into an indescribable weird look.
He knelt on the ground and dug the soil with his bare hands. After digging hard for a long time, he found an object that was emitting a silver light when he was in a mess.
It was a silver bracelet engraved with a small chrysanthemum. Perhaps because it was stained with blood, or perhaps because it had been buried for many years without seeing the light of day, it had long lost its original silvery appearance and was now dim, gray, and deformed.
It is hard for people to imagine how the girl, who did not even have clothes to wear at the time, could protect the bracelet she wore when she met Cao Hanmo as a child from being buried under severe torture and humiliation.
Cao Hanmo cried and said that he didn't remember much about the cute little girl in the carriage, but he remembered that the girl described the bracelet to him. It was given to her by her mother, and she wanted to give one to him if she had the chance.
He asked Gao Yang where the bracelet was, and Gao Yang lied to him and said it was lost.
Cao Hanmo had a terrible headache. Yun Mujiu stepped forward and gave him an injection on the back of his neck. He felt something flash through his mind, as if he remembered something again.
Yun Mujiu turned his head and looked at Ye Xiaohan, who nodded.
A personal guard behind Ye Xiaohan stepped forward and handed Yun Mujiu a rolled-up portrait.
Yun Mujiu handed it over. Cao Hanmo took it tremblingly, opened it, screamed, and fell to the ground again.
He had seen this girl on the street before. It was just a quick glance at her, but for some reason, he was deeply impressed by the pure and lovely girl with a gentle smile.
"You vicious woman! Why did you lie to me!" Cao Hanmo pounced over and beat Gao Yang like crazy.
Gao Yang was acupunctured by Yun Mujiu and was unable to speak. Yun Mujiu patted Gao Yang's shoulder considerately.
The screams filled the entire bamboo forest. They were Gao Yang's. She was able to make a sound, but she didn't have time to speak.
"If it weren't for you, how could her family have died tragically! You deceived my family so badly! I never loved you, you bitch!"
People could not imagine that Gao Yang was so vicious. For the sake of beautifying her own image, she deprived the innocent girl of everything, cruelly killed so many people, and harmed Cao Hanmo's family, dragging them into hell for the rest of their lives.
If it weren't for Prince Ye and Princess Ye, they wouldn't have known the horrific truth. Unbeknownst to them, how many innocent people had been harmed by these naughty people like Gao Yang?
The Emperor stared coldly at Gao Yang, who was beaten to death, with no emotion in his eyes. The Empress was even more composed, her face icy cold.
Cao Hanmo knelt on the ground and spoke in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, Gao Yang has harmed innocent people and deceived me for a long time. He has also committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. I beg Your Majesty to allow me to divorce Gao Yang! Oh no, divorce him!"
Gao Yang was deposed from her princess title and demoted to a commoner. Cao Hanmo and the Cao family also suffered losses together. Their status became commoners. In front of the emperor, empress, regent and others, they could only speak as pariahs.
When Cao Hanmo learned that Gao Yang wanted to frame Yun Mujiu again today, he already wanted to divorce Gao Yang. But before he had the courage to bring it up, he was stunned by a series of negative news about Gao Yang, and he became even more determined to leave this vicious woman.
Ye Xiaohan and Yun Mujiu spoke up in support of Cao Hanmo. The seventh and fifth princes, Princess Ji Ling, the two sons of the Ling family, the second prince of Nantai, Meng Ninglang, the right prime minister and his daughter, General Bai and his daughter, the Duke of Ju and others also followed suit.
The emperor frowned, mainly due to the pressure from King Ye and his wife, and slowly said the word "approved".
Ye Xiaohan walked up to the emperor and handed him a memorial reporting all of Princess Gao Yang's crimes over the years, along with relevant paper evidence. Among them was a report that Gao Yang had sent people to monitor and follow Meng Ninglang, trying to find an opportunity to commit misconduct against him.
The emperor was furious but helpless. He tried to plead, "Gao Yang is also a commoner. He was banished to the temple to live a hard life. Is this enough?"
"Could it be that the Emperor still remembers the kindness shown by Gao Yang's father?" Ye Xiaohan sneered. "Kindness and crime are two different things. Hasn't the Emperor gone through enough trouble for Gao Yang over the years? Furthermore, Gao Yang has committed so many heinous crimes that they cannot be tolerated. Furthermore, if Gao Yang is not thoroughly punished, the ministers and the people will eventually lose heart. How will other countries view the ethos of our dynasty?"
The Emperor and Empress were speechless, and he completely gave up struggling. Actually, he hadn't been completely sincere in forgiving Gao Yang just now for the sake of his deceased brother, but he also wanted to regain some control of the situation today and pretend to be a kind and benevolent monarch in front of others.
Yun Mujiu said, "Gao Yang has repeatedly used sinister means to murder the princess and implicate the regent. He even wanted to harm many people in the Night Palace. Gao Yang also killed countless innocent people and committed all kinds of evil."
Ye Xiaohan continued, "Gao Yang brutally murdered the people and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. Furthermore, he committed many other crimes, including adultery, multiple husbands, lack of moral integrity, and promiscuity."
The couple spoke in unison: "According to Zhongyue's decree, he should be beheaded!"