Shengjing Noble

Chapter 363 Parade in the Streets

Since he asked, Su Lanyin naturally didn't act like a saint and walked up to ask the yamen runner beside her.

"According to the laws of this dynasty, how should those who eat and drink should be punished?"

Yamen runner: "Pay back the money, and give him 30 lashes of the cane and parade him through the streets as a warning to the public."

"Very good, let's punish him according to the law to prevent some people from feeling dissatisfied." Su Lanyin nodded.

Fu Wuyang winked, and then two yamen runners rushed up and dragged Su Lanxin to the stool in the middle and forced her down.

"Let me go, you can't hit me, and I've already said I'll pay you back, I can give you more money, let me go...ah!"

She cried and struggled, but before she could finish her words, she was hit hard between the waist and hips by a thick stick. The pain was so severe that cold sweat instantly broke out on her forehead.

Su Lanxin was hit by sticks one after another. At first she could scream a few times, but in the end she didn't even have the strength to move her legs. Her face was pale and she looked half dead.

Su Lanyin just stood there and quietly admired this wonderful scene.

In her previous life, her screams were much more miserable than Su Lanxin's. These thirty lashes were just interest.

He would make those people in the Su family die as miserably as possible, and let them experience what real hell on earth is.

After being beaten with thirty sticks, Su Lanxin was already dying and had passed out.

Then, the bailiff came over with a basin of cold water and poured it over her to wake her up.

"Don't... let me go... I..."

Su Lanxin was too weak to struggle, but still resisted in a low voice unwillingly.

Two yamen runners put heavy shackles on her, put her in a prison car, and then dragged her out to parade through the streets.

At this time, the streets of Shengjing were bustling with traffic.

From afar, there seemed to be no end to the shadows of people.

A loud gong sounded behind the crowd, and in an instant, everyone consciously moved to the side, leaving a path large enough for the prison van to pass.

Su Lanxin sat in the prison car with a deathly pale face and a hopeless look. She wanted to cover her face with her hands, but the shackles were so heavy that her hands could not move. She could only shrink her neck as much as possible.

The yamen runner at the front loudly announced the names of the prisoners in the prison car and the crimes they had committed.

Therefore, the news that Su Lanxin was beaten with 30 boards and paraded through the streets for eating and dashing was widely known and spread throughout the streets and alleys of Shengjing.

The people despised such behavior and picked up rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs from the roadside and threw them at the prison car.

"You are so shameless to be dressed so beautifully and yet you go and eat a free meal!"

"If you can't afford it, don't eat it. It's too much to not pay after eating!"

"I heard that she is the owner of Chunfenglou. Why did she go to Zuixianlou to eat when her own restaurant was out of food? Is she trying to pick a fight?"

"She thought she had someone to back her up, but she didn't know that King Xiaoyao was a regular customer of Zuixianlou. She's hit a wall now, right?"

"A freeloader like this doesn't deserve to live. Whoever dares to marry a woman of such low character will be laughed at by me for the rest of his life!"

……

Su Lanyin and Fu Wuyang walked side by side at the back of the prison car.

As she looked at Su Lanxin, who was beaten badly by rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, the hatred in her heart grew more and more intense.

Not enough...not enough at all!

In her previous life, she, her mother, and her three brothers had all experienced what it meant to be devastated by gossip.

So this level of disgrace is far from enough!

Su Lanxin reaped the fruits of her own actions, but the suffering she endured was less than one-tenth of what she had experienced in her previous life.

This is the beginning!

Su Lanxin, let’s take it slow from now on!

……

Zuixian Tower.

In order to thank Fu Wuyang for arriving in time to help her, Su Lanyin specially asked the chef to prepare a sumptuous dinner.

All the dishes were served and Su Lanyin picked up the wine glass.

"Thank you for what happened today, Your Majesty. If you hadn't arrived in time to rescue me, I would have spent the night in a cell. I might even have been the one to be beaten and paraded through the streets."

Although she was reborn, she wanted to take revenge on her own.

But Su Lanxin still clung to the prince.

In the face of power, all her efforts are a joke, even a clown.

As long as Fu Mingheng said a word, she and even the entire Lu family would become stepping stones on his road to power.

In order to fight against it, she had no choice but to cling to the man in front of her.

Apart from him, it seems that no one can compete with the prince.

Fu Wuyang drank the glass of wine and said with a smile: "This is the first time you have thanked me so seriously."

Su Lanyin said a little embarrassedly: "How could that be? I was grateful to the prince before."

"Really? I don't remember that."

"Your Majesty, please eat."

Su Lanyin felt a little guilty because she had been a little arrogant and disrespectful to him before.

But isn’t that because of the friendship built through sharing the joys and sorrows along the way?

Now that they were back in Shengjing, the gap between their identities suddenly widened. This sense of disparity made her feel uneasy, so she became somewhat distant from him.

When they are on the road, the two of them can lean against each other, share a piece of bread and drink from the same pot of water.

But now, she carefully picked up food and poured wine for him.

Even the look in her eyes when she looked at him lacked the clear and soft light.

Thinking of this, Fu Wuyang suddenly pressed the wine jug in Su Lanyin's hand.

The broad palm easily contained her slender little fingers, warm and powerful.

"Your Majesty!"

Su Lanyin's face turned red instantly. She tried to free her hand but was held down with force and could not pull it free.

Fu Wuyang raised his eyes and stared at her flushed face without blinking, especially the pair of eyes that didn't dare to look at him, and her eyelashes fluttering, which was very beautiful.

"I still like your previous rebellious look."

He curled his lips and smiled wickedly, with a teasing tone that made people feel uneasy.

Su Lanyin pretended to be angry but actually glared at him in shame and anger.

"It's the same now as before, let me go!"

Sure enough, the tone was quite right.

He let go of her hand, and then his expression became serious.

"The Crown Prince was originally confined to his house for at least three months. These three months would be enough for me to eradicate some of the cancer that he had planted in the court, but..."

"But what?"

"But the Queen seems to be planning something for the Prince."

"What do you mean?"

"The Crown Prince's birthday is in a few days. In previous years, the Queen did not approve of a grand celebration, but this year, she proposed to hold a banquet for the Crown Prince in the palace, and might even ask the Emperor to grant him a marriage in public."

"Arranged marriage?" Su Lanyin was stunned and suddenly remembered something.

In the previous life, the prince’s birthday banquet was not held in the palace, but in the prince’s mansion.

It was also at the birthday party that he set the date for his wedding with the Queen's brother, who was also the legitimate daughter of his uncle.

Originally, the two families had only talked about it verbally and had not really set up a marriage contract, but this time, they directly determined the candidate for the future Crown Princess.

I heard that this Miss Wei was also a talented woman. Unfortunately, before she could become the Crown Princess, she was framed by Su Lanxin and fell off a cliff and died.