OBS Chapter 396: Humiliation
Chapter 396: Humiliation
Two rays of resentful light flashed between Ji Bozhou's fingers. He slowly raised his head, but did not accept the order or express gratitude.
He chuckled softly, a laugh that sounded like a mockery, a lament, "Duke, my father has become a living dead. It makes no difference whether he's alive or dead. Why bother..."
"How dare you! The Emperor has given the order, do you think you are going to disobey? According to the law, the Ji family must be punished along with all nine generations of the clan. It is because the Duke is kind that he requested the order to kill the entire family. Later, considering that the Marquis is young, he could not bear to vent his anger on the innocent, so he only asked for the surrender of Ji Xiangli. If the Marquis does not hand him over, it is really asking for an inch more, how audacious!"
Before Ji Bozhou could finish his words, Pei Fan beside him stopped him from saying the rest.
The people on both sides of the road who had been whispering and talking were now no longer restrained.
"This Ji family is so ungrateful. They're responsible for the lives of three people from the Duke's Mansion. Previously, when the Duke was away at war, they sent people to hunt him down. It's a good thing they didn't kill them all, and they even tried to disobey the Duke's order!"
"That's right. Have you forgotten the rumors that arose when the eldest son of the Ji family was executed? He exposed all his crimes in detail. I thought that committing such unscrupulous and murderous acts was heinous enough, but I didn't expect him to murder so many people in the Duke's Mansion! Pah, he's really not a human being!"
"Oh, forget it. If it were any other official or commoner, they would have been wiped out long ago after committing so many evil deeds. But look at the Ji family, they're still doing well, and even had their title restored a few days ago. After all, they have a daughter who is the queen!"
"If you ask me, this emperor is too unfair. Now the Ji family only has that old man Ji and this new marquis left, and he still wants to protect them..."
In the past, when an imperial edict was announced, people from the palace would go to the courtyard of Ji's mansion to announce it. There had never been a precedent of announcing an imperial edict in the street.
Today Ji Bozhou finally understood that this meant that he would not be allowed to resist at all.
Pei Fan glanced at him impatiently and held the imperial edict high. "My Lord, would you like to accept the edict and express your gratitude?"
Looking at today's scene, Ji Bozhou knew that he had no way out.
Pei Fan represents the emperor's intention.
It was obvious that the emperor didn't want him to make any more trouble about this matter.
As for Lu Xuan, just by looking at him, he knew that he wished he would die!
A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, and Ji Bozhou shivered when the wind blew.
He clenched his fists, remembering the faces that pointed and criticized him today. After a long while, he kowtowed heavily and squeezed out a few words from his throat: "Ji Family Marquis Mansion, thank you for your grace!"
Seeing that Ji Bozhou was now sensible, General Lu did not make things difficult for him.
He placed Ji Xiangli's body on a large prison cart and took it all the way to the Duke's Mansion.
There were many common people following along the road. Although they felt sorry for Ji Xiangli as he was unconscious, so they refrained from throwing rotten eggs and vegetable leaves at him, their resentful gazes still spared no effort and almost pierced a hole in his face.
Arriving at the palace gate, Lu Xuan greeted the common people and said, "Thank you all for escorting me back to the palace. Today, Ji Xiangli will be detained in the Duke's Mansion for one night. Tomorrow at noon, the execution will be carried out at the Meridian Gate. I will personally carry out the execution!"
"The Duke is mighty, the Duke is mighty!"
"Punish the evildoers severely, punish the evildoers severely!"
"..."
The people's cries rang out in front of the Duke's Mansion. Jiang Xing and Lu Xuan had already been waiting in the mansion early, waiting for General Lu to bring his men in.
However, the people were too enthusiastic, and Ji Xiangli was blocked at the door, being scolded and criticized by everyone, unable to move into the mansion at all.
Lu Xuan glanced outside the house and whispered to Lu Yuehe, "Set up a stall on the street to distribute rice. Give each person who comes to see you off half a liter of rice. I'm sure the crowd will disperse soon."
Lu Yuehe's eyes lit up, and she immediately called eight servants and went to do it in a hurry.
The common people who came to watch the fun never thought that after they just said a few fair words, the Duke's Mansion would actually distribute rice to them!
After receiving the rice and grain, everyone felt even more that the Anguo Mansion was a loyal and capable general, and the Lu family was a kind-hearted and blessed family in Daliang.
Otherwise, how could someone suffer such a great injustice and not only get a living dead, but even not reduce the title of the Ji family, and even distribute rice to the people?
If I were to encounter this situation, I would definitely not be so magnanimous!
Therefore, the people who received rice felt more and more that they should do something for the Duke's Mansion to justify the bag of rice they received.
Therefore, they all carried rice and rushed towards Ji's mansion.
Dense piles of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs once again rushed towards the high gate and courtyard wall of Ji Mansion. Some people with strong strength even threw them directly into the courtyard wall.
This is the second time.
This was the second time that the Ji family had suffered such a great humiliation!
Ji Bozhou was holding a sword that he hadn't used for a long time, and was practicing martial arts frantically in the outer courtyard where he would occasionally fly into the rotting and smelly things.
His eyes were wide open, bloodthirsty and terrifying hatred surging in his scarlet eye sockets.
He must remember the stench at that time, the humiliating insults at that time, and the disgusting things in front of the gate of Ji Mansion!
We can’t wait much longer. Since they want to kill us all, my Ji family will definitely not be pushovers!
When the time comes, I will make you all kneel on the ground, kowtow and beg for mercy!
I want those people to lick the foul smell off the door for me, one bite at a time!
……
In the Duke's Mansion, after Ji Xiangli's prison car entered the mansion, he was sent to a courtyard that was usually uninhabited.
Lu Xuan, Jiang Xing and others followed suit and entered the yard.
General Lu ordered the people at the door: "Guard this small courtyard and don't let anyone in."
"Yes!"
Looking at Ji Xiangli lying in the prison van with his eyes closed, Lu Xuan poked him with a silver needle to make sure he had no reaction, then lifted his eyelids and took a look.
Then he said, "I will enter his consciousness within an incense stick of time and find out everything about the emperor, Jiang Yuanfeng, and him. Remember, if I don't come out within an incense stick of time, you must call my name several times!"
Everyone knows the seriousness of today's situation. They went through so much trouble to obtain Ji Xiangli's physical body just for this moment, so that they can enter his consciousness and find out the secret behind it.
So everyone's heart was hanging in the balance, and they all nodded heavily, not daring to be careless at all.
The incense was ignited by the flames, the talismans were offered, and the incantations were chanted softly.
Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on a low couch and soon lost consciousness.
There was a gloomy cloud in Ji Xiangli's sea of consciousness.
"How was it? Did you meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today?"
Ji Xiangli from more than ten years ago looked at the young Ji Jiaru and asked with some concern.
Ji Jiaru walked in from outside the mansion, shook her head, and pursed her lips. A layer of moisture instantly climbed up along with the redness in her eyes. She felt very aggrieved: "Dad, if I can't see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, will the child in my belly... face the fate of being aborted?"
Ji Xiangli was so angry that he gritted his teeth and was about to slap someone, but he managed to hold himself back, and the slap landed on his own face.
"You and your elder brother are siblings, and your elder brother hasn't even gotten married yet. You're also at a critical juncture where the Emperor wants the Crown Prince to take you as his concubine. Tell me, what's the point of you being together like this?!"
"Blame me, blame me for not raising my son and daughter well, that's why you two debt collectors were born! Now the Emperor has already appointed you as the Crown Prince's concubine. If you enter the Eastern Palace and are found pregnant, not only will you be buried with the child, but the entire Ji Mansion will be buried with you!"
Ji Jiaru came over crying, pulling at Ji Xiangli's clothes, "Dad, my brother and I... just couldn't help ourselves. Who made that prince keep rejecting the emperor's marriage proposal for him and me? Look at all the times, he never even looked at me straight in the eye. My reputation in the capital is almost ruined!"
"I was so angry that I drank a little more with my brother. We..."
"Shut up!" Ji Xiangli was so angry that his veins popped out and his face flushed all the way to his neck. "If you dare to say a single word of these, I, Ji Xiangli, will kill you myself!"
Ji Jiaru was so frightened by Ji Xiangli's murderous look that she shrank her neck. With tears in her eyes, she looked at him cautiously and asked pitifully, "What should we do now? Today I went to the restaurant that the prince often visited, but his people guarded it so tightly that I couldn't even see a corner of his clothes... If we delay for a few more days, the child will grow up day by day..."
"Boom boom boom!"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Ji Xiangli trembled, quickly glanced at the backyard, and signaled Ji Jiaru to leave quickly.
After watching the pink skirt disappear at the corner of the corridor, Ji Xiangli opened the door.