Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Lu Dongqing looked here, touched there, and stopped at the feet of the cross-legged Buddha statue, bending down to explore.

Hu Muyan's heart was beating like a drum, and her head was buzzing. She wanted to run over, but her feet were nailed to the ground.

Lu Dongqing turned sideways to block the view of the people outside, slowly reached his hand into the hollow space behind the Buddha statue's heel, took out a box from it, opened it, and flipped through it casually.

Lu Dongqing turned around and looked at Hu Muyan.

Hu Muyan's face turned pale instantly, and her lips trembled so much that she could only clench them tightly with her teeth. She had never even said a word to her mother about these things.

Just when Hu Muyan thought that Lu Dongqing would take the box of banknotes away, he put the things back, turned around and walked out.

With a wave of his hand, he said, "Retreat."

The Jinyiwei turned around and left.

"Commander Lu..."

Hu Muyan didn't know why, but suddenly she cried out, her voice broken.

Lu Dongqing turned around, his face still expressionless: "Since Miss Hu said that people have to eat, why don't you think about how to make a living. But the Hu Mansion was just raided not long ago, I don't think it will be easy to make a living."

He glanced at the women of the Hu family, his gaze paused on Hu Muyan's face for a moment, then he left with his men.

Hu Muyan's mother grabbed her shoulders and said, "Yan'er, what did he mean by that?"

Hu Muyan relaxed all over, her inner clothes soaked with cold sweat, and comforted her mother: "Mom, it's okay."

She watched the man with a pine-like figure gradually walk away.

……

That evening, not long after Li Shuangwan and others returned to Prince Heng's Mansion, Nanny Zhao was taken to Ling Heng's border village in the suburbs.

In a secret room, or to be more precise, it was a torture room. The room was filled with a strong smell of blood. The walls were covered with various torture instruments, some of which even had a few strands of flesh hanging on them, some of which were dry and some of which were still bleeding.

There was a piercing coldness in the torture chamber.

Ling Heng sat behind the desk, playing with a dagger in his hand, thick blood still dripping from the tip of the dagger.

Nanny Zhao was so frightened that her calves were shaking. Hasn't Prince Heng always been gentle and kind to others? How, how could he be like this?

At that moment, Zhao Ma's head was buzzing, and she suddenly forgot how to think. She just knelt down instinctively.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I, your servant, did nothing and know nothing. Please spare my life, Your Highness, spare my life..."

Ling Heng raised his eyebrows lightly and gave Si Po a look.

Sipo grabbed Madam Zhao by her collar and lifted her up from the ground: "Old woman, tell me, have you done anything to offend the prince?"

“No, no, I didn’t, I didn’t…” Madam Zhao was so scared that her tears and snot kept streaming down her face, making Sipo feel very sick.

"No, then what are you afraid of?"

"Your servant, your servant... please spare my life, Your Highness. It was the Second Young Lady who found me at the White Horse Temple and forced me to hand over the token of the palace that the princess had locked in the cabinet. But I didn't know that the Second Young Lady would be so bold that she dared to drug you and scheme to lose your virginity to you. If I knew that the Second Young Lady was planning this, even if she wanted to kill me, I would never hand over the token to her. Please spare my life, Your Highness."

Ling Heng investigated the matter thoroughly that night. If it weren't for the fact that she was the confidant and wet nurse of that bitch Li Shuangwan and was still somewhat useful, he would have killed this old woman long ago.

Ling Heng threw the dagger to Si Po, who grabbed it. Nanny Zhao thought Si Po was going to kill her, so she stepped back in fear: "I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong, please spare my life, Your Highness..."

Sipo picked the person up from the ground and tapped the dagger on her wrinkled face, and the blood on the dagger was tapped on her face.

"Old lady Zhao, do you know whose blood this is?"

Aunt Zhao's face turned pale: "No, I don't know..."

Sipo sneered, "This is your son's blood. His evil roots will only cause trouble if they are left. Even if you sow seeds, nothing good will come out. It's better to cut them off and feed them to the dogs."

Aunt Zhao was completely paralyzed: "You, you, you killed him... My son, my son..."

"Kill him? Oh, he owes seven thousand taels. Do you think that piece of junk is worth that much?"

Sipo pushed her and Nanny Zhao fell to the ground, but she had been with Li Shuangwan for more than ten years and her mind was still active.

Since she didn't kill his son and brought her here, it means that both mother and son are still useful to King Heng.

She immediately knelt straight, crawled to Ling Heng, and put her forehead to the ground: "I only beg Your Highness to spare my son and my life. From now on, if Your Highness gives you any order, I will serve you like a cow or a horse, without any hesitation."

Ling Heng then stood up and smiled faintly: "Very good."

He gave Sipo a wink.

Sipo looked down at Mrs. Zhao on the ground and said, "Since your son has become a eunuch, why not become a real eunuch? As for you, His Highness is merciful, considering that you are the princess's wet nurse..."

After Mrs. Zhao finished listening, the fear on her face was completely gone. She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness. From now on, my life and my son's life belong to you."

Ling Heng glanced at Mrs. Zhao and walked away.

Sipo picked the man up, pointed at the rows of blood-dripping torture instruments on the wall, and said coldly: "Mother Zhao, don't play tricks. Otherwise, you and your rootless son will beg the prince and me to kill you!"

Mrs. Zhao's face was as pale as death, her body was shaking like a sieve, and she waved her hands repeatedly: "I dare not, I dare not."

……

At this moment, in Prince Heng’s Mansion, Li Shuangwan had just sat down and took a sip of the tea in his hand.

"Princess." Liang Tianyou's voice sounded outside.

"Come in."

As soon as Liang Tianyou entered the door, he met Roman's fierce eyes glaring at him.

Liang Tianyou rolled his eyes at her and said, "Tsk, didn't he just say in the woods last time that she and Yizhu knew too much and should be killed? It's been so long, is there any need to hold a grudge like that?"

"Roman, go guard the door."

Roman curled his lips reluctantly: "Yes."

"Miss Li, Emperor Jingzhang has just issued an order that all male members of Zhao Mingshan's three clans will be exiled, and all female members will be sent to the Jiaofangsi. When I first came here, I saw that the imperial guards had already taken the men of the Zhao family away."

Li Shuangwan's lips curled up slightly. Emperor Jingzhang was really fast.

"What crime is he charged with?" It's impossible to say that he colluded with the third prince to seize the throne. If that were the case, Ling Yao would also be punished.

In the previous life, when Ling Heng led his troops to surround the Third Prince's Mansion, he found a lot of letters inside, including the three letters between Zhao Mingshan and Ling Yao in private.

Zhao Mingshan is a sinister person, but he has a keen grasp of the situation. As soon as he discovered the signs that Emperor Jingzhang and Ling Heng were going to deal with Ling Yao, he immediately turned against them and secretly collected a lot of evidence of Ling Yao's treason and presented it to Ling Heng.

In exchange, Ling Heng protected the Zhao family's wealth and prosperity. On the day of the house search, he took out Zhao Mingshan's letter and did not present it to Emperor Jingzhang.