At first, Xiao Yujue just sent a letter, allowing the Xiao family to keep those beautiful girls.
It was only now that Mrs. Xiao came back to her senses.
The letter only had a signature and no seal. Although they all knew that it was written by Xiao Yujue, but now that Mu Jingrui did not admit it, there was nothing anyone could do.
Moreover, at this moment, Mrs. Xiao finally understood that Xiao Yujue and Mu Jingrui had already discussed all this.
Xiao Yujue made up his mind to eradicate the Zhonglie Hou Mansion.
In an instant, a sadness surged into my heart.
"Old Mrs. Xiao, this is what I have to say, so you can take care of yourself."
Mu Jingrui hugged Shangguan Wan Ning and walked to the room.
Shangguan Wan Ning looked at Mrs. Xiao standing there blankly, as if she had aged much in an instant. The high-spirited spirit full of arrogance was gradually declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"You and the Emperor... are so cunning." Shangguan Wan Ning said in a low voice.
Mu Jingrui just smiled faintly and was noncommittal.
"If you want to blame it, blame it on the Zhonglie Hou Mansion. They dared to touch the emperor's women because of their merits. If we don't punish them, we don't know how many people will be persecuted. This is also a helpless act."
Shangguan Wan Ning naturally understands this truth.
She leaned on Mu Jingrui's chest and closed her eyes tiredly.
The next morning, a large group of people rushed to the execution place early.
Those who had been persecuted by the Zhonglie Hou Mansion wanted to see Xiao Wenyuan beheaded; other people wanted to see the legendary God of War, King Zhennan.
Xiao Wenyuan was escorted to the execution ground. He raised his head and looked at the sun, which was so dazzling that he couldn't open his eyes.
His father and brothers all died on the battlefield and sacrificed their lives for the country, but he...
Xiao Wenyuan looked at Mu Jingrui sitting in the supervisor's position and couldn't help laughing.
"As expected, we are once an emperor and a courtier. My Xiao family has made countless military exploits for the royal family, so that the number of people has withered, but now it has ended dismally."
Xiao Wenyuan closed his eyes in pain.
"Mu Jingrui, despite the fact that you are now in power, you might end up worse than me. The cunning rabbit dies and the lackey is cooked. I am on the road to hell, waiting to see how you die."
For the first time, Mu Jingrui's heartstrings were touched. He thought of the Yiyong Hou Mansion. Zheng Guoxun was also a veteran general back then, but now...
"Noon has arrived, kill!"
After Mu Jingrui gave the order, the executioner took a big gulp of wine and spit it on the butcher knife in his hand.
He raised his head high and slashed at Xiao Wenyuan's neck.
"The sword will save you."
Mrs. Xiao came in a hurry, leaning on a dragon-headed crutch, looking a little dazed on the cabinet.
Mu Jingrui picked up a pen at hand and threw it towards the executioner's wrist.
The executioner suddenly felt a sharp pain and subconsciously put down the knife.
Put it away, the knife falls.
Xiao Wenyuan's body and head were missing before Mrs. Xiao arrived.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Mrs. Xiao felt that the whole world had become quiet.
Time also stood still at this moment.
All the men around her...husband, son, grandson, all left before her.
She is the only person left in the Xiao family who is not named Xiao.
Mrs. Xiao felt like the world was spinning, her vision went dark and she fainted.
Mu Jingrui had people clean up the execution ground and sent Xiao Wenyuan's body back to the Zhonglie Marquis Mansion.
"Your Majesty," the master came over and whispered into Mu Jingrui's ear, "what you ordered has been prepared."
Mu Jingrui nodded slightly, took only one of his confidants, and followed the master to the yizhuang of the government office.
Both Fu Zuo and the prefect were waiting.
"Has it been checked?"
Mu Jingrui walked into the inner room and saw Xiao Yikai's body placed in the middle. He had begun to imagine decay, and the air was filled with a stench.
"Returning to the prince, I have carefully examined Mr. Xiao's body. There are no obvious injuries on Mr. Xiao's body, nor is he poisoned. He was indeed frozen to death."
"you sure?"
"The villain dare not be careless, nor dare he deceive the prince."
"Your Majesty, he is well-known as an expert in autopsy in the area, and I can trust him." The magistrate was a little confused, "My lord, do you think... the cause of Xiao Yikai's death is suspicious?"
Mu Jingrui looked at Xiao Yikai and pondered for a long time.
According to Shangguan Wan Ning and the temperature that night, even if Xiao Yikai took off all his clothes, he would not be frozen to death.
Xiao Yikai's martial arts is not weak, and his physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people.
"Come with me to the crime scene again."
Mu Jingrui took the prefect, master and Zuo Zuo to the trap where Xiao Yikai froze to death.
The trap was small, and there were no signs of fighting, but...
Mu Jingrui saw many messy footprints in the trap.
"Your Majesty, after what happened, I personally came here to see it. The footprints here belong to Mr. Xiao alone."
The prefect saw Mu Jingrui squatting down and studying the footprints, fearing that he had made a mistake or missed something.
"But do you think...these footprints are a little strange?"
The magistrate was slightly startled, and like Mu Jingrui, he knelt down and looked left and right, when a light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"It seems...a little deeper. Moreover, the edges of the footprints are not very neat..."
"With Xiao Yikai's weight, the footprints should not be so deep, unless... the soil here was so soft at that time that his footprints were sunken. This can explain why the footprints are so irregular."
The magistrate frowned, took a breath, and said: "That's not right. My lord, look, what we see now, the soil quality is very clear, and it is very shallow to leave footprints. Judging from the weather in those few days
, the soil should not be so wet.”
Mu Jingrui nodded. "Then... this is very strange. Why is this happening? The only explanation is that there was a lot of water here that night."
Under what circumstances would there be a lot of water?
rain?
There was a lot of water... and it was cold... but there was no such thing as imagination nearby.
An idea flashed in Mu Jingrui's mind.
"It's ice."
The prefect and others all found it a bit incredible.
"The weather is cold now, but it hasn't frozen yet. Even if it freezes... there can't be that much ice in this trap, enough to freeze Xiao Yikai to death."
"If it is man-made, it can be explained."
That night, while Xiao Yikai was trapped by Shangguan Wanning and walked away, someone killed the followers who were also hanging on the tree. Then, they brought ice cubes and threw them into the trap, freezing Xiao Yikai to death.
The ice will melt, so the soil in the trap will become very moist and soft. When someone finds Xiao Yikai, what they will see is that he has frozen to death.
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