Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chapter 436: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn

After Li Wenqing told Tang Ran about the old emperor's current condition, he saw Tang Ran's slightly relaxed brows and took the opportunity to ask, "Can I meet this Zhou Wenye?"

Tang Ran was silent for a while, looking at the quiet white clouds. Occasionally, a bird flapping its wings and flying by raised a wisp of gauze. Then he slowly set his gaze on Li Wenqing.

Seeing her change from being calm and composed to being a little hesitant, Li Wenqing was very stubborn. She looked up and looked at Tang Ran, unwilling to take a step back.

"The prison is dark and damp. A princess should not set foot in such a filthy place."

Li Wenqing heard Tang Ran say this, stepped forward and asked the question she had always wanted to ask, "Tang Ran, everyone says that you are disloyal to the monarch, and you abuse your power to harm the country. I used to have many prejudices against you. I really don't understand you, but Tang Ran, I am the princess of Northern Qi, and I have the right to do what I want."

She didn't like the saying that princesses should not set foot in such dirty places.

"I'm braver than you think."

In the end, Tang Ran took Li Wenqing to jail.

Just as Tang Ran had told her, this prison was indeed dark and damp. Even though there were blazing fires on both sides at regular intervals, one could still feel a chilly air that made one's back feel cold.

Zhou Wenye was now covered in blood, no longer looking like the saint he had been before.

Li Wenqing was slightly shocked in her heart, but she did not show any expression on her face. She was mentally prepared before coming here, knowing that given Tang Ran's personality, she would never let Zhou Wenye have an easy time.

Tang Ran seemed to see what she was thinking, and said in a low voice as if it came from hell: "He just suffered some physical pain. I know I can't kill him openly now, but that doesn't mean I can't do it secretly."

"I had someone put croton in his food. After he had vomiting and diarrhea, I gave him some tiger and wolf tonic."

This move was extremely vicious. It not only destroyed Zhou Wenye's dignity inch by inch, slowly breaking down his psychological defenses, but also hollowed out his body.

Zhou Wenye was indeed in great pain and even asked for death several times. As a scholar, he naturally had the character of a scholar and was not willing to suffer from vomiting and diarrhea all the time and to be squeezed in the same room with those excrement.

There was a toilet two days ago, but later Tang Ran had the toilet moved out. Zhou Wenye could only clear out a corner of the cell to solve the problem of defecation and urination.

The smell was so pungent that Li Wenqing gently blocked his nose with a handkerchief. He instantly lost the thought of asking questions and looked at the scene with a complicated expression.

"Tang Ran, you little villain."

Zhou Wenye cursed angrily.

Fortunately, when he realized that everything was wrong, he still felt that Tang Ran was like a half-friend, half as good as his senior brother. It was inevitable that he developed some feelings of mutual admiration. She was also the only person in Northern Qi who could make him feel a little respect.

But I didn't expect that Tang Ran had no bottom line at all.

Tang Ran raised her eyes and glanced at him lazily, disdaining to talk to a prisoner.

When leaving the cell, Li Wenqing smiled and said, "He thinks you are like him. It seems that he has some sympathy for you."

The torches on both sides lit up the corridor. Tang Ran's elegant figure paced along the way, and he said self-deprecatingly, "He just misjudged me. I, Tang Ran, am a mean person to begin with."

Zhou Wenye was conceited and extremely smart, thinking that he could manipulate all the people in Northern Qi at his will. Even though he knew that he had been exposed, he was unwilling to see his years of planning destroyed. Moreover, he had the trump card of the people's hearts, so he had the opportunity to slowly play a game with Tang Ran.

He was indeed very smart, but he had missed the human heart.

Everything he imagined was based on the fact that Tang Ran was the same kind of person as him.

He kept his identity hidden for many years for the sake of his senior brother, and even schemed against his own wife and son. Tang Ran, who was infamous and destroyed the enemy's sails while talking and laughing, and secretly prolonged the life of the crumbling Northern Qi, became the biggest obstacle to his plan.

Zhou Wenye felt that they were the same kind of people, with the same ambitions and determination. He asked himself if their roles were switched today, he would never be able to use these insidious tricks to torture people and trample their dignity into the dirt bit by bit.

When he returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, looking at the several large boxes in the lobby, Tang Ran was stunned for a moment and reached out to open the box.

The box full of gold, silver and jewelry instantly blinded everyone's eyes.

Li Wenqing: “…”

His usually gentle and perfect smile could no longer be held back. He strode forward, stared at the familiar treasures in the box with wide eyes, and turned around to look at Tang Ran in disbelief.

Tang Ran, did she ask someone to dig up her Li family’s ancestral grave?

Tang Ran was also startled for a moment, then came to her senses and quickly closed the box with a snap.

Seeing Li Wenqing staring at her blankly, Tang Ran felt guilty and didn't dare to look her in the eye.

This is indeed his fault.

Not only Li Wenqing recognized him, but Tang Ran also recognized him.

The things in this box were clearly the rewards given by Li Wenqing's grandfather to his brother, Prince Gong. After Prince Gong died, all these things were buried with him.

Li Wenqing wanted to say something but didn't know what to say. She just felt like a fire was burning in her heart, making her anger rise rapidly.

She has always been mature, steady, cautious, gentle and polite in dealing with people. She has rarely lost her temper over the years and has never been so angry.

Now he was really angry, and he scolded Tang Ran severely by citing classics. In the end, he still felt unsatisfied, so he continued to scold after drinking a cup of tea.

Tang Ran remained silent and glared at his tomb-raiding lieutenant fiercely.

Can't we just dig up the ancestral graves of those corrupt officials?

If you insist on digging into the old emperor's house, no matter how much the old emperor dotes on you, you will be severely beaten when the emperor finds out.

Only Tang Ran has this privilege. If it were someone else, not even nine generations of his clan would be killed. Maybe all eighteen generations of his ancestors would be dug out from the ground by the emperor.

Tang Ran thought silently, it would be fine if they just dug it up, but they just put it here openly.

The most important thing is that it was seen by Princess Li Wenqing.

The tomb raider felt very aggrieved. He opened his mouth, but saw his prime minister glaring at him fiercely, so he quickly closed his mouth again.

Although Li Wenqing was angry, he did not say anything without thinking. Most of his words were directed at blaming the tomb-robbing captain. He scolded the captain so badly that he almost committed suicide by slitting his throat out of shame. Even Tang Ran was shocked by the lethality of the words.

He thought that if he was displeased with someone in the future, he would ask Li Wenqing to write an article to criticize them.