noffsinger Chapter 372 No One Confessed
Chapter 372 No One Confessed
The dispute between Huo Shui and Wei An finally came to an end with Wei An's forbearance.
Huo Qingyun had already left. Luo Xiaoran found that Wei An was a little unhappy after returning, so she asked:
"What's wrong with you?" He was fine just now.
Wei An seemed to be hesitant to talk. Although he had not spent a long time with Luo Xiaoran, he very much approved of and liked her as a person.
Therefore, after Huo Shui said those slanderous words, she couldn't help but fight back. She would not allow anyone to slander her own princess.
But this matter...it's better not to let the princess know about it, it will only pollute her ears.
As for Huo Shui's last threatening words...her coming to the Heavenly Prison was not only the order of Commander Huo, but also the will of the Emperor. How dare she disobey it?
After realizing this, Wei An silently suppressed the urge to complain and shook his head slightly.
"It's just... I'm too full!"
"Puff!" Luo Xiaoran burst out laughing, "Is this true? Are you really okay?"
"Really!" Wei An nodded heavily, and then changed the subject without leaving a trace, "Princess, how many days do you think it will take for us to get out this time?"
Luo Xiaoran shrugged, "I don't know. If we're lucky, we'll be released on our own initiative. Otherwise, we'll have to ask your Prince Yan to come and rescue us."
Speaking of Chen Ji, the little remaining worry in Wei An's heart about Huo Shui slowly dissipated.
"Yes! Counting the days, His Highness will arrive in Kyoto in a few days. By then, no one will dare to bully the princess!"
Huo Shui didn't make any small moves in the next few days, which completely stopped Wei An from worrying about the quarrel between them that day. He would pester Luo Xiaoran from time to time to continue telling her stories.
"You can tell stories, but what is one thing you must remember?" Luo Xiaoran emphasized to Wei An again.
"These stories are only known to me. Don't tell anyone else. Otherwise, it will cause trouble for the princess. Wei An has always kept them in mind. Princess, don't worry!"
"Okay!" Luo Xiaoran pinched Wei An's nose lovingly, "Since our little Wei An wants to hear it so much, let's tell the story of a little match boy today!"
"Princess, what are matches?" Wei An was puzzled.
"Ahem! Matches are similar to the flints we use. Just a slight friction will produce fire."
"Oh~ Then Princess, please tell me quickly!"
"This story is about a New Year's Eve one year when there was a heavy snowstorm. A poor little boy had to sell matches at the market to make a living..."
The story was finished quickly, and Wei An's eyes turned red.
Uh, Luo Xiaoran blinked, feeling a little at a loss.
Thinking back to the first time I heard this story, I seemed to feel that the protagonist was indeed very pitiful.
But I was only in a depressed mood for two or three seconds, and then I went out happily and played skipping rope with my kindergarten classmates.
"Princess, the little match boy is so pitiful!"
Wei An's voice was a little hoarse.
“I used to think that only children like me and my brother, whose parents had both died, were forced to wander outside.
I never thought that some children would die tragically on the streets even if their fathers were still alive!"
So that's how it is. A glimmer of understanding flashed across Luo Xiaoran's eyes.
She had heard Wei An mention that he and Wei Lin were both picked up by Chen Ji on the way to the northern border. Presumably, before they met Chen Ji, the brother and sister had lost the care of their parents and suffered a lot.
Unexpectedly, the story I told brought back Wei An’s sad memories.
"The protagonist's father is an alcoholic. He drinks all the time, and makes the family poorer and poorer. He even beats his children when he's drunk.
The protagonist couldn’t sell the matches and didn’t make any money, so he didn’t dare go home, and finally froze to death on the street, which was an inevitable result.”
Luo Xiaoran first analyzed the rationality of the tragic ending of the little match boy to Wei An. Then, she rubbed Wei An's bangs and said earnestly:
"The vast majority of parents in the world love their children, but there are a few who cannot even stand up for themselves and no longer see themselves as human beings. As a result, they have no time to see others as human beings, even if these 'others' are their own children."
Wei An was just overwhelmed with emotion for a moment, but after Luo Xiaoran finished speaking, she calmed down.
In fact, she had made a mistake.
The first lesson for them as secret guards is to learn to detach themselves from their emotions; showing emotions is a taboo.
However, spending these days with Luo Xiaoran made Wei An often forget that he used to be a secret guard.
As long as she was by Luo Xiaoran's side, she felt like a person in a cold night who had found a big bonfire, and light and warmth came with it.
In Wei An's heart, she has unknowingly regarded Luo Xiaoran as the third most important person in her life.
The first and second are Wei Lin and Chen Ji respectively.
“Princess, I just…just felt that the little match boy was particularly pitiful.
Looking back, before he died, he saw his grandfather who loved him the most. Isn't this a kind of happiness for him? "
"You are right to think so. If death is inevitable, then try to make your death as happy as possible!"
After Luo Xiaoran said this, she was stunned.
What is the happiness of death?
Gray hair and longevity?
Surrounded by descendants?
Successful and famous?
Great revenge?
Who knows?
who cares!
"But if death can be avoided, then we should firmly believe that a good death is worse than a miserable life. As long as there is life, there is hope!"
Thinking of the first time they met, Wei An said he would protect her with his life, Luo Xiaoran urgently added another sentence.
……
Kunning Palace.
"Except for Luo Xiaoran and Wei An and his servant, all the people who were taken to the prison were tortured and interrogated.
But... no one confessed!"
Qinghuan reported the news from the Heavenly Prison to the Queen.
The queen had a calm expression, showing no signs of emotion at all.
"It's really hard for them. It's an unexpected disaster!"
The Queen had Qinghuan put the musk on the red coral in order to lock Luo Xiaoran up in the Sky Prison.
As for the palace maids who went in with them, if they were charged with other crimes, there was still a possibility that they could be tortured into confessing.
But preventing the queen from getting pregnant is a serious crime. If you really admit it, the result will be the extermination of all nine generations of your family.
Therefore, even if those palace servants died by banging their heads against the prison wall, they would not admit it.
The queen was born to be rich and surrounded by flowers and splendor. Even if she used all her imagination, she probably could not imagine that tragic scene.
Therefore, the queen, who felt she was noble, would not feel guilty or sad because of the torture and death of these palace maids.
Her attention at this moment was all on Luo Xiaoran.
"Sun Daquan, this servant, doesn't dare to torture Luo Xiaoran, but dares to offend me?"
Seeing the rare anger on the queen's face, Qing Huan lowered her eyebrows and said with a common hatred:
"Even if Sun Daquan had a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to disobey the Queen. After all, he has the Imperial Guards to help him with the case, so he must be constrained."
"What are you holding back? Didn't Huo Qingyun protect Luo Xiaoran and prevent Sun Daquan from torturing her?"
The Queen's voice suddenly rose, and Qing Huan was so frightened that she immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, secretly annoyed that she had said the wrong thing:
"I have absolutely no such intention. I just feel that even though Luo Xiaoran is the future Princess of Yan, she is still just a commoner girl after all. She is not worthy of Sun Daquan exempting her from punishment!"
As the Queen's personal maid who grew up with her, Qinghuan of course knew that the Queen had been imprisoned for two years by Lin Xiaotian because of Huo Qingyun, and she also knew that Huo Qingyun was the Queen's Achilles' heel.
For so many years, Huo Qingyun has not married and there is no woman in his room, which makes the queen very satisfied.
The man that the queen cannot get, at least so far, no other woman has gotten.
"Qing Huan, you are right!"
The queen smiled. She hadn't smiled for a long time, ever since she was forced to separate from Huo Qingyun and then entered the palace.
"What identity can Luo Xiaoran rely on to be exempted from punishment?
Now someone is trying to harm me, shouldn't the prison and the imperial guards torture all suspects?"
After the emperor ordered the Imperial Guards to investigate the case together, Huo Qingyun went to the Heavenly Prison eagerly and stayed there for more than half an hour.
The Queen originally thought that Chen Lingyi was deliberately deceiving her, but now it seems that Huo Qingyun and Luo Xiaoran... are quite close friends!
"Qinghuan, go to the prison in person and watch Luo Xiaoran being tortured!
I want to know whether the musk on the red coral she gave me was applied by her!"
"Yes!"