The Demon Concubine of God

Chapter 324 I Have the Secret Order of the Late Emperor

One day, the Beifan people reported that the corpse of Princess Wanfu was buried in the mansion of the General of the Guards in the capital. The emperor received the report and sent the imperial guards to search the mansion. As a result, they actually found a pile of rotten body parts inside. After the coroner's examination, it was indeed the corpse of a woman of the same age as Princess Wanfu.

The Royal Guards carried the body into the palace. At that time, the envoys from the Northern Fan Kingdom who were negotiating for peace were in the palace. With a heavy heart, they ordered the wet nurse who had served Princess Wanfu to come and identify the body. When the wet nurse saw the three red moles behind the ears on the head, she was so scared that she collapsed to the ground and cried and called them princess.

After everyone gathered around a pile of rotten meat and cried and made a fuss for a while, the envoy finally remembered to go back to the imperial study to meet Emperor Daju, and vowed that Emperor Daju would give an explanation to their country.

Unexpectedly, when the envoy broke into the door of the imperial study, the guards stopped him and refused to let him in no matter what, saying that His Majesty was meeting guests from their Northern Fan Kingdom.

The envoy waited outside the imperial study for a while in confusion. Then a eunuch ran out and called the envoy in to discuss something.

The envoy followed the eunuch in and saw the Beifan Kingdom's imperial teacher present.

Ye Zhaoye, the state teacher of Beifan State, said to the envoy, "You are too slow. If you delay for a few more days, Princess Wanfu's body will turn into bones. By then, it will be lost in the sea and you won't be able to find it."

Bo Tantu pointed angrily at the little emperor on the high throne and said, "They are too much of a bully. We agreed to exchange the city and money for the princess, but they broke their promise and not only killed the princess but also cut her into pieces in such a cruel way! You have to compensate our noble princess!"

The little emperor was questioned, but he continued to drink his tea calmly.

The little emperor drank two cups of tea, put the cup in his hand on the imperial desk, and suddenly said: "Come here! Arrest all the people coming from Beifan Country and put them in the sky prison."

As soon as the little emperor finished speaking, a group of soldiers and horses rushed out from all directions and surrounded the envoys from the Beifan Kingdom, the Beifan National Master and others.

Bo Tantu was startled, and pointed at the people around him with a trembling hand, saying, "You! What are you doing? When two countries are at war, they don't kill envoys. What's more, we are here to negotiate with your country with sincerity."

Ye Zhaoye, the imperial teacher, asked the emperor on the high throne, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? Are you killing us to go to war with my Northern Barbarian Kingdom?"

The little emperor raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you think I dare not?"

Ye Zhaoye said even more respectfully: "Your Majesty, don't you think it is unwise to cause the lives of the two countries to be destroyed because of us insignificant envoys?"

Seeing him say this, the little emperor changed his tone and said warmly, "The Imperial Master has misunderstood. I have put you in jail to investigate the real murderer of Princess Wanfu."

Bo Tantu was puzzled and asked, "What is the connection between the two? Can't we find the real murderer if we are detained in the posthouse?"

The Imperial Master beside him had the urge to cover his face to hide his shame when he heard his words. He didn't know why the Queen of Northern Fan would send such a brainless envoy. Although he admitted that he was a die-hard fan of the Queen.

The little emperor said, "Of course we can't let you go. Princess Wanfu has been chopped into pieces. Who would have thought that the first person to find her in the general's mansion was you Beifan people."

The Imperial Master twitched his fingers calmly. He knew that the little emperor would make things difficult for them. There was nothing he could do! The Immortal Sect Master who came with him predicted that Princess Wanfu had died. He wanted to find the hidden body of Princess Wanfu and make trouble with it. But he didn't know that the other party was using the body to set up a trap to block them. The Immortal Master had just instructed them to dig out the body, but before he could do anything, he was caught by the black-clothed secret guards on the spot.

Thinking back now, the Imperial Master looked at the emperor sitting on the throne, wondering who was responsible for all this.

The Imperial Preceptor bowed again and said, "Your Majesty, this is all because the resentful spirit of our murdered princess is unwilling to give in. She has appeared in my dreams to complain to me every night and asked me to go to the burial site to dig her out so that her spirit can rest in peace."

The little emperor smiled contemptuously and said, "Master Ye, you think you can explain all these unreasonable actions in my country with just an illusory dream. Can I believe it?"

Bo Tantu said quickly: "My national teacher has supernatural powers! Everyone knows that the national teachers of all generations have been respected because of their supreme magical powers! Your Majesty's Great Digging Kingdom also has a national teacher, isn't it the same? Is he just an ordinary secular person?"

The two sides were engaged in a verbal dispute when the summoned Imperial Master Yi Dao entered the imperial study. He also pleaded for the people of Bei Fan, "Your Majesty, a disturbed soul will appear in the dreams of the living. This is not made up out of thin air. Ordinary people also have relatives appear in their dreams. Now that it has been confirmed that the corpse dug up in the dream is Princess Wanfu, it is enough to prove that Imperial Master Ye was not talking nonsense."

The little emperor said, "Well, I will spare you from prison for the sake of Master Yi Dao's plea. However, when you return to the post station, I still cannot let you walk around. I will not release you from your confinement until the real murderer of Princess Wanfu is found."

After saying this, the little emperor left on his own without listening to the shouting of the Northern Barbarians.

The explosive news in the past few days has made people in the whole capital gossipy. Who would have thought that the Duke of Shen, who was as famous as the Duke of Ji's Mansion, oh, the later Shen Hou Mansion, had so many twists and turns in the past year. A few days ago, more than a hundred people in the family were arrested, and yesterday someone saw that the old marquis was released again.

The nosy neighbors outside the Shen Mansion all looked at his house with gossipy eyes.

In the Shen Mansion, the old marquis was lying on the bed groaning. He was in a lot of pain from both injuries and illness.

The old couple and a few servants in his family were released. The old marquis' wife handed the medicine prepared by the servants to Lord Shen. He barely raised his body to take the medicine and drank it in one breath.

The old marquis's wife had lost her former brilliance. Her originally gray hair had turned completely white after an imprisonment. It was also dry and fluffy, making her look disheveled. She sighed softly. This was the seventh or eighth time she had sighed in the old marquis's house.

"Don't stay around me. It's really unlucky." The old marquis finally couldn't help it and said angrily to the old marquis' wife.

The old marquis's wife was scolded and she no longer had the energy to quarrel. She looked up and saw the maid who was standing beside her like a dead person. She lowered her head in shame and wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

Lord Shen saw that she looked so aggrieved and was about to scold her again.

Just then a servant came running in and said in a panic, "My Lord, it's bad. Soldiers are coming outside to arrest people again."

When the old marquis's wife heard this, her whole body twitched twice, her eyes rolled back and she fell down limply. Fortunately, the maids were quick-eyed and quick-handed and supported her. The maids were also frightened and cried.

The old marquis was in disbelief, thinking he had heard it wrong. He forced himself to stand up and asked the servant, "What did you say? Explain clearly! What's going on?"

But before the boy could reply, the officers and soldiers he was talking about rushed in rudely and said, "Your Majesty's order, take Lord Shen to the Heavenly Prison for questioning."

Lord Shen stared with sweat pouring down his head, and said in disbelief: "What? Didn't His Majesty let me go? Did you make a mistake?"

The guard said, "Lord Shen is not blaming the emperor this time, nor is he directly blaming you, Lord Shen, but your brother! General Shen's second master, Shen Yan, the Princess Wanfu who brought chaos to the Daju Dynasty, was actually dug out in General Shen's mansion. She was still a pile of rotten and chopped corpses. Now the envoys and the Beifan State Master are in Kyoto. They ask the emperor to arrest the General Shen's mansion and the Lord Shen's mansion and apologize to their princess."

Lord Shen was dumbfounded. He said blankly, "What's the logic? They just found the body, but they haven't confirmed that it was the Shen family who killed it. Why?"

The guards didn't care about all this. They just followed orders and arrested the man. With a wave of their hands, they lifted Lord Shen from the bed to the ground.

Before leaving, the leader of the Imperial Guards said, "Lord Shen, the Shen family is really going to be wiped out this time. Alas! Poor Shen family, I don't know if there will be anyone with the surname Shen in the future."

Lord Shen's face turned pale. He was dragged out of the door. He shouted in panic, "I am innocent, innocent! My Shen family is innocent! Your Majesty..."

Lord Shen was once again taken to the prison, still muttering that he was wronged.

But when he saw Shen Pingyang tied to the rack, he was shocked again, and felt that he was falling into the infinite abyss even faster.

The person in charge of the trial of the Shen family this time was the Minister of Justice, Lord Min. Lord Min said, "My Lord, how many things did your second brother do behind your back? Don't you care about it?"

As he said this, he waved towards the darkness, and two jailers dragged over an unconscious man. They lifted the man's face to show Lord Shen.

Lord Shen cried out, "Seventh Brother!"

It turned out to be the seventh son whom he hadn't seen for many days.

Minister Min said, "It turns out that Shen Pinggong murdered the prince. Not only is there evidence and witnesses, but Shen Pinggong himself just confessed. It was your good second brother, General Shen Yan, who ordered him to kill the prince on the back hill of Hongni Village in Dai County. Do you know how miserable the prince's death was? He was trampled into mud by that beastly horse."

Minister Min still couldn't control himself when he thought of this beast's behavior. He grabbed Lord Shen by the collar and slapped him a few times. The crown prince of a country! The image of the entire Daju Kingdom, the crown prince is such a noble and inviolable existence, but he died in such a tragic way, how can it not make people excited?

After beating Lord Shen, Minister Min pointed at Shen Pingyang, who was tied to the rack, and said, "Do you know what your nephew has confessed?"

Lord Shen stared at Shen Pingyang blankly.

Minister Min said, "He privately made weapons and built large-scale buildings. He wanted to establish himself as king. He sent people to kill Princess Wanfu and provoke a war between the two countries. He wanted to rebel. Lord Shen, are you planning to join forces with your second brother to turn the Daju Kingdom into your own?"

Lord Shen was so frightened that he was shaking like a sieve. He said in a trembling voice, "No! I am innocent. My loyalty to the late emperor is evident to all. I would go through fire and water for the Great Digging Nation. How could I possibly collude with the foreign bandits to rebel? I want to see Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty! The late emperor has a secret decree in my hand. Your Majesty will believe me after seeing it!"