OBS Chapter 1316 Mu 9's Stepmother and Stepbrother Sentenced to Death
Chapter 1316 Mu 9's Stepmother and Stepbrother Sentenced to Death
As soon as Ye Xiaohan and Yun Mujiu appeared, the hall inside and outside suddenly became quiet.
The two walked in front, followed by a group of servants from Prince Ye's Mansion, and then came Meng Ninglang, the eldest and third sons of the Ling family.
At this time, Yun Mujiu's sister group members, Princess Ji Ling, Bai Yanshuang and You Luoyan, also arrived.
There were also some unknown figures hiding in the crowd. Wututu hid among them with Mr. Jiang, whom he knew in Zhongyue.
In addition, there are many officials, clans, camps, factions or their spies hiding in the crowd, waiting to watch today's exciting trial.
Ye Xiaohan and Yun Mujiu said to the people outside the hall, "No need to bow." Then, after entering the hall, they waved to a group of people and asked them to bow.
The two of them were located in the front row, just in the two main seats below Zong Quan's right hand side.
Zong Quan slammed the gavel and said, "Keep the court session going!"
The officers shouted in unison: "Mighty...mighty!"
Ye Qingyan and Yun Boliang were immediately frightened. Zong Quan said without saying anything more, "Bring the people up!"
A thin man who looked as haggard as a beggar knelt on the ground and suddenly screamed when he saw Yun Boliang and Ye.
"Yun Jingyu, why are you here!" Both of them looked shocked, completely forgetting that when Yun Mujiu exposed the crime at the Yuexi Palace Banquet, the authorities were already on the way to capture the criminal Yun Jingyu.
Before the three of them could even begin to cry, they heard a shout: "Silence!"
Zong Quan looked at the file and began to pronounce the verdict directly.
Before the court opened today, Yun Mujiu had publicly exposed the crimes of Yun Boliang and his group of people in the Yun Mansion at the Yuexi Palace Banquet.
In the first stage, Zong Quan reiterated the crimes that Yun Mujiu had mentioned today, and also read out and presented the evidence and confession that Yun Mujiu had produced.
The royal family, nobles, and officials who attended the banquet that night witnessed and heard Yun Mujiu's accusations with their own eyes and ears. Those outside the banquet who were unable to attend the banquet only heard rumors.
But at this moment, everyone inside and outside the hall could once again hear the crimes committed by the evil people in the Yun Mansion.
Among them, the reaction of ordinary people was the most intense. They had long been extremely dissatisfied with the Yun family's illegal and arrogant behavior in the capital.
In the second phase, Zong Quan read out a new batch of confessions. These confessions were precisely the ones Yun Mujiu had recorded during his private meeting with Yun Boliang and Ye. Of course, extremely obscure secrets like "Meng Wanzhou's past with a stranger," "Meng Wanzhou was already pregnant before being tricked into marrying Yun Boliang," and "Yun Mujiu was not Yun Boliang's biological child" were not mentioned.
But everything else that needed to be said was clearly stated, from the deception Meng Wanzhou suffered before her marriage, to the hardships she experienced after marrying into the Yun family, and finally her death after giving birth from poisoning.
The audience was able to learn a more complete truth about the matter from this new evidence.
They were even more surprised to learn that "it turns out Meng Wanzhou didn't just fall head over heels in love with Yun Boliang! It turns out she was poisoned by a love spell and fell for that scheming man, Yun Boliang!"
"The people in the Yun Mansion are such scoundrels! They killed a perfectly good person in vain! Princess Ye is so pitiful! How could she have such a tragic and unfortunate background?"
"Is Ye Qingyan still human? She pretended to be friendly with Meng Wanzhou, but ended up hurting her the most! Nothing is more vicious than a woman's heart..."
"It turns out we've all misunderstood Miss Meng Wanzhou for a long time. It turns out she's never been in love with Yun Boliang. It's only because Yun Boliang poisoned her that she's been acting so abnormally!"
The crowd was in an uproar. They pointed at Yun Boliang, Ye Qingyan, Yun Jingyu, Yun Shirou who was brought up later, and a group of the few remaining servants in the Yun Mansion, and they almost pointed at their noses and scolded them.
Amidst the crowd's angry curses, an unusual voice gradually emerged. Someone shouted, "Please make way."
Then, Yun Mujiu and others who were sitting in the hall heard gasps outside.
A hunched figure slowly appeared at the gate of the yamen, with a couple standing beside him, Meng Shihao and Yi, looking ashamed.
Yun Mujiu and Ye Xiaohan stood up and walked quickly towards the door.
"Mu Jiu, Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about me. I can handle it."
Yun Mujiu glanced at Meng Shihao and his wife, and wanted to ask, "Grandpa, why did you come here suddenly?" but the words were stuck in his throat.
Meng Ninglang whispered to Meng Shihao and his wife, "Didn't Mu Jiu tell you to take good care of Grandpa? Why did Grandpa come here?"
After finding out about Meng Wanzhou's murder, Yun Mujiu asked Meng Ninglang to convey some information to Duke Meng in a subtle way after the Yuexi Palace Banquet.
Firstly, it was to clear Meng Wanzhou's name of being wrongly accused of being love-sick for many years and harming the Meng family's support for Yun Xiang.
Secondly, I also wanted to comfort Duke Meng's heart, which was hurt by Meng Wanzhou back then.
Meng Wanzhou never sincerely wanted to hurt her family; Meng Wanzhou has never done anything to disappoint her family. Even when her mind was controlled by the love poison, she always held on to her last bit of rationality and decided not to have children with Yun Boliang. Even when she was about to die, she insisted on passing on the bloodline of Yun Mujiu, the only granddaughter of the Meng family.
Duke Meng nodded slightly to Yun Mujiu and Ye Xiaohan, and then walked into the hall step by step with the support of Yi and Meng Shihao.
His eyes moved slightly, and he looked directly at the man from the Yun Mansion who was kneeling on the ground. Yun Boliang and Ye Qingyan didn't dare to look directly at the old man with sharp eyes and bright black pupils.
Duke Meng said nothing and quickly withdrew his stern gaze from the people in the Yun Mansion.
He insisted on standing and listening to the final judgment.
Zong Quan slammed the gavel and delivered the final verdict.
Ye Qingyan was the mastermind behind Meng Wanzhou's murder, framing her to marry into the Yun family and ultimately her tragic death. She also abused Yun Mujiu for years. She was sentenced to death by beheading, which was carried out the following day.
Yun Boliang is a sinister person. He bewitched and acted as Ye Qingyan's assistant to put a love poison on Meng Wanzhou. He even watched coldly as Meng Wanzhou and the fetus in her belly were poisoned by Ye Qingyan for a long time. After Meng Wanzhou's death, Yun Mujiu was not treated well in the Yun Mansion and was often abused by Yun Boliang and Ye Qingyan.
Apart from common harem crimes such as doting on his wife and killing her, and abusing his wife and daughter, Yun Boliang also had other serious crimes, such as plotting against the family of the veteran general Meng Guogong and his precious daughter Meng Wanzhou, condoning his family's murder of Yun Mujiu, such as poisoning Yun Mujiu with the herb Gelsemium elegans, and repeatedly instigating Yun Shirou and her brother to murder Yun Mujiu.
Yun Boliang was sentenced to death. Considering that he had just been imprisoned, and considering that Yun Mujiu had privately discussed with Zong Quan that he did not want Yun Boliang to die in such pain, Yun Boliang was ultimately caned in public first, then taken into custody and imprisoned for a period of time to endure the hardships of prison before the death penalty was finally decided.
After committing so many crimes, wouldn't it be too easy for him to just die quickly?
As for Yun Jingyu, the inherently vicious and dissolute disciple, he had repeatedly disrespected and tortured Yun Mujiu, who had previously been in the Yun Mansion, and had even orchestrated the poisoning of the Heartbreak Herb upon Yun Mujiu's return to the Yun Mansion. Like Ye, Yun Jingyu was punishable by death for the crime of "conspiring to murder the princess."
Zong Quan judged the case decisively and without delay. After glancing at Yun Mujiu, he directly "rewarded" Yun Jingyu with the same treatment as Ye, that is - beheading him tomorrow!