Silent Lover 2 (Tanhua) - Chap 38
Chapter 38 I don’t want it anymore!
“Qiyu?”
Song Liqing thought he was hallucinating.
He was stunned, this is…an order from Jun Qiyu’s mouth?
Not only was he stunned, everyone was extremely puzzled, but those guards didn’t act immediately, but looked left and right, at a loss, waiting for Jun Qiyu’s next words.
“Song Liqing is suspected of poisoning the emperor, immediately sent to the dungeon for interrogation!” Jun Qiyu repeated the order, “Didn’t you hear?!”
“Wait! Your Royal Highness!”
It was Qi Miao who rushed out first.
He knelt down and said anxiously: “The person who poisoned and assassinated has not been identified, how did you determine the crime of the Crown Princess? Even if it is a suspicion… how can you just go to the sky prison… that is… that is the place where repeat offenders stay. A martial artist can’t last for a few days, but the Crown Princess is just recovering from a serious illness, how can she stand the torture?!”
Jun Qiyu looked at Qi Miao coldly, unmoved.
“Murdering the emperor is a serious crime that implicates the entire family! Isn’t it enough to go to the prison?”
“But after all, there is no conviction! Waiting for someone to pass through the prison and suffer a lot of torture, what’s the use of innocence one day? Even if he doesn’t die, he will be physically disabled… Your Highness, please think twice! I kowtow to you Already!”
Qi Miao kowtowed on the ground with such great force that it was unbearable to watch.
Many old imperial physicians also tried to persuade: “Your Highness… Imperial Physician Qi’s words are not unreasonable, and the relationship between you and the princess will be damaged at that time, and there is no way to make up for it.”
“Your Highness, think twice!”
I don’t know who started it, and the guards also knelt down in unison.
Most of these personal guards had fought with Emperor Xuan and Song Qing, so they dared to disobey orders and plead for mercy.
“Shut up! What do you outsiders know?”
Jun Qiyu scolded angrily, and everyone lowered their heads and dared not say anything more.
He lowered his head and pointed at Qi Miao and said, “Qi Miao, I know you have a heart for Song Liqing, you can think about it, your Qi family has had hairpin tassels for generations, and you can ask him for a favor, so that he can be dealt with by colluding with regicide!”
Qi Miao opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Song Liqing.
“Mr. Qi, thank you very much.” Song Liqing shook his head at him, “Take good care of the emperor first.”
After all, Qi Miao is a soft-spoken person, the more he protects Song Liqing, the more he will annoy Jun Qiyu.
Song Liqing walked up to Jun Qiyu.
“Qiyu, do you really want me to go to the prison?”
Jun Qiyu was overwhelmed by hatred, how could there be room for turning around? Even if there is such a little bit of affection, it is not as important as the assassination of Emperor Xuan.
“Song Liqing, I won’t trust you anymore.”
There was no emotion in Jun Qiyu’s eyes, only a bottomless chill.
Song Liqing nodded, he accepted his fate.
Why did Jun Qiyu ever trust him?
“Can I not be escorted? I will go by myself.”
All he can do is strive for a little bit of decency.
Qi Miao watched Song Liqing leave helplessly. He knelt on the ground and could not get up for a long time. He waited for no one to pay attention, then he got up and quietly left the inner hall.
Qi Miao rode his horse overnight to the post station outside the palace. The person he was looking for was Pei Xingxu.
As soon as Pei Xingxu heard the news that Song Liqing was being imprisoned in the sky prison, he started to shoot the case.
“Why? You bastard Jun Qiyu! He doubts anyone, and he shouldn’t suspect Song Liqing!”
Qi Miao sighed and said, “I’m also puzzled… Maybe, maybe it’s not just because the emperor was poisoned?”
Pei Xingxu couldn’t sit still: “I’m going to find Jun Qiyu now!”
“Wait a minute!” Qi Miao said, “What’s the use of you going like this? It’s not like I didn’t say a word of pleading. His Highness regards you as a rival in love. Once you go, he might turn his anger on Qing Li even more ruthlessly!”
Pei Xingxu was very depressed, but after thinking about it for a while, he listened to the persuasion.
“It’s true that I have limited mobility now. All those who participated in the Wanshou Banquet are under house arrest and are not allowed to leave the capital. You just saw that there are guards on duty outside the station.” Pei Xingxu had a flash of inspiration, “Jun Qiyu Before ordering, where have you been? Who have you met?”
“I didn’t see anyone else.” Qi Miao thought for a while and said, “I went back to Qilin Mansion.”
“Kirin House…”
Before the two of them could take any action, they heard another bad news.
That night, following the order of the crown prince, several groups of banned troops rushed into the General’s Mansion and arrested Song Qing and related persons. The charges were not made public, but hundreds of people from the General’s Mansion were all imprisoned in the prison.
For a while, people in the capital panicked.
The general who was favored by the emperor the day before, was under one man and over ten thousand people, and he was imprisoned overnight!
Even the news that the Crown Princess had entered the Heavenly Prison spread like wildfire, and people couldn’t help but wonder what serious crime this family had committed that provoked the royal family’s fury.
…
There is no sky and no sun in the sky prison, and non-felony criminals cannot enter.
The cell where Song Liqing was held was gloomy and damp. There was only a hole in the wall for ventilation, through which some light could enter.
A mouse crawled to Song Liqing’s feet, and Song Liqing shrank back.
There was a sound of iron chains colliding, and someone opened the cell door.
“Princess, please.”
Song Liqing got up from the ground. He was wearing heavy chains on his hands and feet, and his skin was worn out when he walked.
From the corner of his eye, he saw all kinds of instruments of torture in the dungeon, some of which were strangely shaped, and he didn’t even know how to use them.
“Afraid?”
The cell boss’s voice was like rusty scissors.
“Afraid.”
Song Liqing swallowed.
“It’s right to be afraid, hehehe…” The prison chief laughed grimly, “If you are afraid, you should confess as soon as possible. We will save energy, and you will also avoid the pain of punishment.”
“I did not poison the emperor.”
Song Liqing’s voice seemed too clear and out of place in this dark prison.
“fine.”
The warden patted him on the shoulder.
“Before the execution, everyone said so.”
In front of him was a wooden stool with shackles on it, and he could only sit on it. Once it was locked, he couldn’t move or hide.
“Don’t blame me, we rats in the prison will only follow orders. Those who come here are not distinguished. There have been first-rank officials and Lord Marquis… You are the one with the highest status, but Who sent you in under the order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?” The cell boss said in a flat tone, as if it was commonplace, “Please take a seat, Crown Princess.”
“I don’t blame your lord for cannibalism, salary and loyalty.”
Song Liqing took a deep breath, sat on the wooden bench, his limbs were chained.
The head of the prison was flattered: “You are the only one who is polite to people like us… Tsk tsk, what a handsome young master, I can’t bear it anymore. Crown Princess, as long as you are willing to mark this confession, I will never touch a hair of your hair, how about it?”
Song Liqing glanced at the crime on the paper.
“The one who cleans himself will clean himself. My lord has exhausted all the punishments in the prison, and I will not plead guilty.”
“That’s fine.” The cell boss ordered, “Brothers, try to be as simple as possible, don’t let people suffer too much, give me a caning first, just add some salt, no need for chili water, the princess has delicate skin and tender meat, It hurts to watch.”
Song Liqing saw the whip clearly, it had iron barbs on it, and it had been soaked in salt water.
How could Song Liqing not be afraid? Since he was a child, he was timid, afraid of pain, afraid of ghosts, afraid of the dark, afraid of being alone and being abandoned by others, but he couldn’t plead guilty.
If Jun Qiyu made him suffer punishment, then he will suffer these punishments all over again! This will always prove his innocence, right?
Snapped–
In one fell swoop, Song Liqing was so painful that his forehead was covered with sweat. The iron thorns on the whip scratched his skin, and the barbs could go straight into the flesh.
“Crown princess, if you confess your guilt, just say it. If you said it earlier, you would save yourself a whip.”
Song Liqing gritted his teeth and remained silent.
slap… slap—
The sound of the whip slamming on the flesh echoed in the dark prison, the second, the third… until the execution guard’s arm softened, Song Liqing didn’t make a sound.
“Could it be dead?”
The cell boss was worried that his small body would not be able to bear it, so he pinched Song Liqing’s chin.
“He’s still breathing, but he passed out from the pain, wake him up.”
Song Liqing was awakened by a bucket of cold water. It was very cold in the dungeon, and his body was shaking.
“Princess Concubine has integrity.” The jailer laughed and said, “Shall we proceed to the next dish?”
The jailer took a splint and put it between Song Liqing’s fingers.
“grown ups!”
Song Liqing spoke suddenly.
“Can I change it? I still need to… write with my hand.”
Tears rolled down his eyes, he could hold back the pain, but these hands were for him to read and write, and they were his dignity.
“This… oh, I feel sorry for the one who cried so much. I heard that you are a Tanhualang, and you can write a good hand. It would be a pity if your hand is broken.” The cell leader changed the subject, “But you want If you want to have room for negotiation, you must first make a pledge.”
Song Liqing closed his eyes.
“Then these hands… I don’t want them anymore.” Song Liqing bit her lip and said, “I don’t want them anymore!”
Song Liqing didn’t know how many times he had been tortured, because he always passed out, and was always woken up by the cold water. Later, he was unconscious for a long time rather than awake.
When he was unshackled and lifted off the wooden bench, he looked as if he had no bones, and was as thin as if someone was carrying a piece of clothing.
The prison chief looked at Song Liqing who was thrown back into the cell, and said with emotion: “I thought he would be able to plead guilty within half a day. The son of the Song family looks weak in writing, but he is arrogant in his bones…”
You know, even those ruthless characters with hard bones, who can’t receive several kinds of punishments, will piss and urinate, scream and plead guilty, and would rather be beheaded than suffer from a hundred and eight punishments in the sky prison.
“His Royal Highness is here…”
Someone announced, and the jailer got down from the chair and hurried to greet him.
“Your Highness is a thousand years old!”
Jun Qiyu wrinkled her nose as soon as she came in, the smell inside was really disgusting.
“Has he pleaded guilty?”
“Uh, Your Highness forgives the crime… The punishment has already passed eight times, but the Crown Princess refused to plead guilty. Look, the Crown Princess has become so thin. The minister is mainly worried that if a few more punishments are imposed, the person will be gone.”
Jun Qiyu glanced at Song Liqing who was in the cell, his white clothes had turned blood red, like a butterfly whose wings had been broken and bones dismantled, in dilapidated condition.
