bestfiction Chapter 422 Anger
Chapter 422 Anger
The meal was finished, and the sun was about to set.
Because there weren't many rooms in the house, Yu Cui arranged for Chen Dao and the other three to stay in the same room. Fortunately, the room was spacious enough that all four of them could sleep on the floor.
After Qingying and Chen Cheng laid out the blankets, the four of them lay on the floor, staring at the ceiling, speechless for a moment.
"Miss."
After staring at the ceiling for a while, Qingying suddenly asked, "Do you think Xiaoyi's sister is still alive?"
Zheng Qiuyan remained silent for a long while before asking in return, "Do you know which of the late emperor's concubines the Prince of Qing was born to?"
"I don't know!"
Qingying shook her head.
“It’s normal not to know.”
Zheng Qiuyan said softly, "The birth mother of Prince Qing was Consort Shu, a concubine of the late emperor. She died in childbirth when she gave birth to Prince Qing."
"Because he did not have a biological mother from childhood, the King of Qing was tyrannical and had a great aversion to women."
"However, aversion to women does not mean the absence of desire."
"When Prince Qing was still in the capital, he was impeached by many officials for frequently abducting women, and was even reprimanded by the late emperor on several occasions."
"But Prince Qing is, after all, the late emperor's own son. How could the late emperor punish him severely? Most of the time, he would only give him a light punishment."
"The late emperor's attitude further fueled the arrogance of the Prince of Qing. He would often order his men to abduct respectable women to his palace, and those women who were abducted to the palace never appeared in people's sight again."
Qingying felt a chill run down her spine and couldn't help but ask, "Are all those women dead?"
"Yes."
Zheng Qiuyan stared intently at the beam on the ceiling: "Every woman who was abducted to the Qing Prince's mansion was tortured to death. In the capital, the Qing Prince had a well-known hobby: torturing women, especially pregnant women..."
Zheng Qiuyan sighed and continued, "Many pregnant women who were abducted to the Qingwang Mansion were often found by their families in the mass graves outside the city. What they could see was often just the woman's corpse, and even the baby in her womb had disappeared."
"..."
Qingying opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word. The evil of the Green King far exceeded her imagination. He not only enjoyed torturing women, but also pregnant women, even going so far as to remove the baby from a pregnant woman's womb...
This is something that no "human" person could do.
Chen Dao and Chen Cheng remained silent. What makes a person human is that they have their own moral bottom line, but it is clear that what Qing Wang did was beyond what a human being could do.
It's utterly absurd that he developed a hatred for women and even tormented pregnant women simply because his own mother died in childbirth.
“I once heard my father tell a rumor.”
Zheng Qiuyan's voice continued: "The way Qing Wang likes to torture women is by trampling their abdomens with horses. Every woman who is kidnapped to Qing Wang's mansion suffers torture like the eighteenth level of hell."
"call!"
Chen Cheng clenched his fists tightly, veins throbbing on his forehead. Just hearing Zheng Qiuyan's description made him feel a surge of anger, wishing he could punch that so-called King Qing to death.
"As you said before."
Chen Dao's voice rang out: "Was the late emperor a wise ruler? Did he not care about what the Prince of Qing did?"
"Mingjun?"
Zheng Qiuyan scoffed and said, "A wise ruler is only relative. The Prince of Qing is the late emperor's own son, while ordinary people are nothing more than ants under the late emperor's feet. How could he possibly punish his own son for the sake of ants under his feet?"
After saying that, Zheng Qiuyan continued, "The one who truly restrained the Prince of Qing was never the late emperor, but the former prime minister. The former prime minister was an upright and incorruptible man who impeached the Prince of Qing many times. Under his restraint, the Prince of Qing's evil deeds in the capital were greatly reduced. However, with the former prime minister's resignation, the Prince of Qing had no one left to restrain him. Especially after arriving in Qingzhou, the Prince of Qing became more and more unscrupulous. He not only forcibly increased taxes, but also plundered beautiful women from the people to fill his palace and serve him. The name of the Prince of Qing, Xia Yuanying, can stop children from crying at night in Qingzhou."
"So, you think it's very likely that Lü Xiaoyu has already died in the Qingwang Mansion?" Chen Dao asked.
"Ah."
Zheng Qiuyan nodded gravely: "There has never been a precedent of a woman who was forcibly brought into the Qing Prince's Mansion successfully escaping."
"..."
A deathly silence fell over the room. Everyone's minds flashed back to Lü Xiaoyi's face. Lü Xiaoyi was still fantasizing about becoming a martial artist and rescuing his sister, but he didn't know…
His sister may have already died in the Qingwang Mansion, and before her death, she was likely subjected to inhuman torture.
No one could imagine the blow that Lü Xiaoyi would suffer to his young heart after learning about this.
"Fuck him!"
Chen Cheng couldn't help but curse, "That King Qing is a beast! I wish I could punch his head off!"
"Be careful!"
Zheng Qiuyan lowered her voice and said, "The Prince of Qing is a prince of the imperial court. Brother Chen Cheng, please don't say such things!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Cheng fell silent, though his eyes still burned with rage. He had no doubt that if Prince Qing, Xia Yuanying, were to appear before him now, he would rush up and smash Xia Yuanying's head with a single punch, even if Xia Yuanying was a prince of the imperial court!
"Go to sleep!"
Chen Dao said something, and then everyone fell silent.
What no one else noticed was the sorrow flickering in Chen Dao's eyes.
As someone who once lived in China, respecting the elderly and caring for the young, as well as women and children, is an inherent part of Chen Dao's character. Therefore, when he heard about Qing Wang's beastly behavior, Chen Dao's anger was no less than Chen Cheng's, and perhaps even greater.
only……
The last shred of reason in his heart told him that he could only hide his anger, because he could not afford to provoke such a behemoth as the Xia Kingdom's court!
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Silent all night.
The next day, when Yu Cui and Lü Xiaoyi woke up, Chen Dao and the other three were nowhere to be found in the room, leaving only a few taels of silver and a letter on the table.
"Mother, my brothers and sisters left us some money!"
Lu Xiaoyi stared at the few pieces of silver on the table with shining eyes. At such a young age, he already knew the importance of money. He knew that with money, he could eat his fill and have more energy to practice martial arts.
"This is too much money, we can't accept it!"
Yu Cui hurriedly grabbed the silver and rushed out the door, but where were Chen Dao and the other three? Only fallen leaves drifted in the wind and swirled in the air.
Yu Cui, who had run to the village entrance but still couldn't see Chen Dao and the other three, looked down at the few pieces of silver in her palm, her gaze quite complicated.