Chapter 437 Recalling All the Past Events
Chu Li handed the letter to the shadow guards and asked them to check.
She returned to the house and saw Xue Jinghuai applying medicine to Pei Ye's wound.
"Master, how is he?" Chu Li walked closer and asked in a low voice.
"Now that he's been rescued, it's hard to say what will happen next."
Chu Li took the medicine bowl from his hand and cooperated with Xue Jinghuai to feed the medicine to Pei Ye.
Mu Feng didn't leave. He looked at Chu Li's tired eyes and said, "Your Majesty, you go and rest. I will take care of Commander Pei."
He saw how good Pei Ye was to Chu Li, and he couldn't bear to make Chu Li sad.
After all, Ye Hanting is already dead, and Chu Li must be feeling even more sad after losing his childhood sweetheart.
Chu Li shook his head, "I won't leave. Uncle, please keep the palace safe."
She was worried that the Empress Dowager had some tricks up her sleeve. After all, her mother's family still had influence.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Xue Jinghuai stood up and said, "You guys stay here, I'm next door."
Mu Feng walked closer and looked at Pei Ye's injuries. He was shirtless, covered in wounds, and his bloody clothes were thrown aside. Chu Li wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Xiao Dezi carefully helped Pei Ye wipe the blood off his body.
"Fortunately, it only stabbed Pei Ye near his heart." Chu Li stared at Xiao Dezi's hand movements, "Be gentle."
Xiao Dezi's hands were shaking so much that he didn't dare to move. Chu Li took another handkerchief and helped Pei Ye wipe the blood stains around his chest.
Mu Feng felt distressed. Although Chu Li had taken care of him the last time he was poisoned, she was not so nervous.
Maybe it’s because Pei Ye’s life is hanging by a thread.
He took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to Chu Li, "Your Majesty, this is the Mu family's healing pill. Please give it to Commander Pei."
Chu Li looked back at the pill in Mu Feng's hand, a healing pill. It was said to be an elixir passed down from the Mu family's ancestors, and it had miraculous effects on healing knife and sword wounds.
"Thank you." Chu Li immediately pinched Pei Ye's cheek and fed the small pill into his mouth.
Mu Feng nodded and said, "I am inspecting the palace. Your Majesty, please go to bed early."
"it is good."
After Mu Feng looked around for a few times, he saw Chu Li sitting on the edge of the bed to rest.
He felt a little disappointed.
"Pei Ye..." Chu Li had a nightmare that Pei Ye was dead.
She was sweating profusely and was relieved to see Pei Ye still sleeping soundly on the bed.
She covered Pei Ye with a blanket and leaned on the couch, unable to fall asleep.
As she recalled every detail of her time with Pei Ye, all her memories became clear.
It turns out that what Pei Ye saw back then was true.
Her brother took the stick and pulled her into the water, then went ashore himself, completely caring about her life or death.
Later, she drifted downstream with the current, and her mother brought people to rescue her.
After she woke up, her mother told her that her brother was dead and asked her to disguise herself as a man and become the crown prince.
After many years, she finally remembered that her brother was not dead.
My brother got ashore, where did he go in the end?
Is the body in the tomb in the imperial mausoleum my brother's?
......
Night, Duke's Mansion.
The third master of the Zhou family was holding the newly captured concubine. Next to him sat several playboys of the Zhou family, and they drank together.
One of them looked at the concubine with lustful eyes, "Third brother, this one is more durable than the woman by the river that day."
The third master of the Zhou family raised one corner of his lips and said, "Of course the little widow is hardworking. I will give her to you guys to play with later."
"Thank you, Third Master!" Several people were in a good mood and toasted Third Master Zhou.
The concubine knelt on the ground in fear, "Third Master, please forgive me, my husband is working in the Zhou family's mine."
The third master of the Zhou family poked his cheek with the tip of his tongue, "Your man is dead in the mine. Why, we brothers can't compare to your stinky man."
The woman was stunned, tears welling in her eyes, and she gritted her teeth and said, "You actually killed my husband!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, why are you talking so harshly? He begged us before he died. You are the only newlywed widow left at home. He was worried that you would be lonely, so he asked me, the Third Master, to take care of you."
"It was I, the Third Master, who paid for the burial of your dead husband." Third Master Zhou grabbed the woman's arm.
"Why are you pretending to be a chaste and heroic woman? It doesn't matter who you follow!" He pushed the woman into the arms of those men.
Several Zhou family playboys were laughing lewdly and touching her all over. The woman cried out, "You will be punished!"
With a slap, the third master of the Zhou family slapped the woman in the face. The woman's face was full of humiliation and she struggled hard.
Zhou Sanye looked at the woman with sinister eyes, "I'm giving you face, but if it weren't for your good looks, do you think I would care about a rag like you?"
"Kill her for me!" The third master of the Zhou family stood up, straightened his clothes, and closed the door from the outside.
"No! Please, let me go...ah!" The man's lewd laughter and the woman's cry for help were heard from the house.
Mr. Zhou San shivered when he was blown by the cold wind outside.
His sister Wan'er is pregnant with the late emperor's child. As long as the Empress Dowager makes the decision, the kingdom will belong to their Zhou family in the future.
He is the well-deserved uncle of the emperor.
This woman doesn't know how to appreciate his kindness. He listened to the woman crying and screaming in the house and spat.
With a thud, the people in the house came out screaming.
"Oh no, Third Master, that woman is dead."
The third master of the Zhou family turned around calmly, glanced at the woman who had crashed into the pillar and said with disdain, "What bad luck!"
"Third Master, what should we do?"
The third master of the Zhou family looked as if there was just a dead ant in the house. He raised his head to look at the dark sky and spoke in a sinister tone.
"On a dark and windy night, I sent her home and burned her house and body, without anyone noticing."
......
The next morning, Zhang Zhilong received a report.
Two cases occurred in the suburbs of Beijing.
The first one was about a fire in a village outside Beijing, where a young widow died.
The second one was about a young woman who fell into a river outside Beijing and died, with signs of being raped on her body.
The woman's lame old father fainted several times when he reported the case.
Two lives were lost just like that, Chu Li slammed his fist on the table.
As soon as her decree came out, these people openly opposed her.
"Zhang Zhilong, go find out who the murderer is. Catch him and kill him. Hang the body on the city wall for seven days to serve as a warning to others!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Zhilong went to do it immediately.
Since she ascended the throne, all major cases in the capital have been reported directly to her by Zhang Zhilong.
Xue Yi from the Dali Temple is not reliable at all, and is waiting for her to find an opportunity to deal with him.
.....
Three days later.
The Empress Dowager's family members beat the drum in front of the palace gate to report the incident.
People gathered around to watch.
I saw Old Master Zhou holding the Xiaoyun sword bestowed by the emperor, followed by several elders and dozens of Zhou family members.
Old Master Zhou's old face was filled with anger.
He raised the drumstick and struck it hard, his voice trembling, "God can see that your Majesty is so cruel in persecuting the Empress Dowager. You are totally inhumane!"
"Right now, the Empress Dowager is lying in bed, her life or death unknown. She doesn't allow us Zhou family to visit her. Isn't it because your Majesty is resentful of our Zhou family's Concubine Wan who is pregnant with your Majesty's son?"
Old Master Zhou raised the Xiaoyun Sword and looked at the onlookers. "This is the Xiaoyun Sword bestowed upon our Zhou family by our ancestors. It can kill tyrants and corrupt officials. Today, even if our Zhou family gambles with our lives, we must seek justice for the Empress Dowager!"
People kept coming to watch, saying that Your Majesty was killing the Empress Dowager. How could Your Majesty be that kind of person?
Soon, the imperial guards cleared the way and Chu Li came out.
Old Master Zhou's voice trembled, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there has been no precedent for women committing suicide. The Empress Dowager has reasonable doubts about your identity as the empress, but Your Majesty cannot kill people to silence them!"