HLnovel Chapter 175 Sin
Chapter 175 Sin
The Fairy of Supreme Virtue had already been sweating profusely with tension when she watched Master Qinglian and Handong being tortured in the crowd.
She had a bad feeling early this morning. Fortunately, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Empress Dowager should invite her to the palace. So she specially sent someone out early this morning to deliver a message, insisting that she go to the palace to mention this matter to the Empress Dowager. As long as she entered the palace, no matter what happened, she would be fine.
But she never expected that the Crown Prince would send people to surround the mountain, and even when the Empress Dowager's people came, they were unable to take them away.
But she still held onto a sliver of hope, thinking that as long as the Crown Prince couldn't find any evidence, nothing would happen, nothing would happen.
However, that little bastard Lu Yangyang actually, actually actually found her!
In that instant, Shangshan Fairy felt dizzy and disoriented, her legs felt like they were filled with lead, and her ears were ringing so loudly that she couldn't hear anything.
Before Lu Yangyang could finish speaking, two guards stepped forward and restrained Shangshan Fairy.
It was midday, and the bright sun was shining down, but the Fairy of Goodness's face was ashen white, devoid of any color.
The guards dragged Shangshan Fairy directly into the main hall, and also dragged in Qinglian Master and Handong, who had been whipped many times.
Lu Yangyang carried the child into the main hall.
Two teams of guards followed them in and stood beside their masters.
Princess Liduan and Sheng Yunjiao helped each other inside. The moment Princess Liduan saw the eldest princess sitting there, her eyes welled up with tears, and she rushed towards her, crying, "Mother—"
When the eldest princess saw that she was all dirty, she was about to reach out to stop her, but when she touched her hand and found it was ice-cold, she panicked: "What's wrong? Xiao Li? What happened to you?"
"Waaah..." Princess Li Duan buried her face in the Princess's arms and sobbed.
"Alright, sweetie, it's alright, it's alright, Mother's here. Little Pear, don't be afraid, Little Pear, don't be afraid, ah." The princess quickly hugged her and gently stroked her back, soothing her gently.
Then she said apologetically to the Crown Prince, "Ah Que, Xiao Li must be frightened. I'll take her to rest first."
The crown prince nodded slightly.
"I, I won't go, Mother, I won't go, I'll stay here." Princess Li Duan clung tightly to the princess's waist, clearly terrified, but still firmly said, "I won't leave."
"Okay, okay," the princess coaxed gently, tidying up her messy hair bit by bit with her hands.
The Crown Prince withdrew his gaze and looked at Lu Yangyang.
Lu Yangyang quickly came to her senses and said to the Crown Prince, "Your Highness, the County Princess and I discovered the place where they hid the children, and we also caught someone there, that is, A Liang. He was arranged by the Fairy of Goodness to be by Uncle Cheng's side. The Fairy of Goodness used Uncle Cheng to traffic children, but she didn't really trust him, so she arranged for A Liang to be by his side to monitor him, and also hinted to Han Dong, who was working for her, to seduce A Liang. She was manipulating things from behind the scenes. In fact, it was A Liang who helped transfer the children to Qinglian Temple every time."
"To prevent him from committing suicide, I have already handed him over to His Highness's men to guard. The maid from Chunfang Pavilion who I witnessed can testify that the man is Uncle Cheng's adopted son, A Liang. A Liang has been present at many of their transactions. The person behind A Liang is this Shangshan Fairy."
"Her original name was Huang Sangu, and her younger brother was Huang Aliang. They were originally just a shaman in Songzhou Prefecture. They accidentally obtained a recipe for a heart-nourishing pill from a Taoist temple and used it to start swindling people."
"The reason they go to great lengths to abduct young children is because one of the ingredients in their 'Heart-Nourishing Pills' is the brain marrow of young children. The 'Ling Shu·Jing Mai' states that when a person is first born, essence is formed first, and when essence is formed, brain marrow is produced."
As Lu Yangyang spoke, her voice trembled slightly: "And this beast, in order to refine the so-called Heart Nourishing Pill, smashed the heads of those young children and extracted their brain marrow to refine into medicine."
Upon hearing this, the Fairy of Goodness turned ashen-faced.
Even the usually composed Crown Prince couldn't help but clench his fists, his gaze like a sharp sword piercing the ashen-faced Fairy Shangshan.
Sheng Yunjiao couldn't hold it in any longer and ran to a corner to dry heave.
Even Eunuch Qi couldn't help but feel nauseous.
"No, I didn't, you're slandering me..." Fairy Shangshan suddenly became frightened and murmured, "You're slandering me, you're framing me because I said you were a jinx before, and you're holding a grudge and slandering me!"
"Take him down!" the crown prince shouted sternly.
Pei Ji personally stepped forward and pressed down on the Fairy of Supreme Goodness.
The Fairy of Virtue was still unwilling to give up, and pleaded with the Princess and Eunuch Qi: "Princess, Princess, you must believe me, you must believe me, I didn't, I really didn't, I don't know anything about the child, she's just slandering me, Eunuch Qi, Eunuch Qi, even if I had the greatest audacity, I wouldn't dare to deceive the Empress Dowager, please take me to see the Empress Dowager, I'll tell her, I'll tell her..."
Despite his nausea, Eunuch Qi tried to suppress his reverie, but seeing the Crown Prince's expression, he hesitated and dared not plead for mercy.
Looking at the unrepentant face of the Fairy of Goodness, Lu Yangyang was so angry that she put down the child, walked up to her, and slapped her twice.
"I won't kill you, you should be torn to pieces in front of everyone!" Lu Yangyang had never been so angry. In all her life, she couldn't describe the shock she felt when she saw that scene!
"Your secret cave leads directly to your backyard. Do you really think you've covered your tracks perfectly and no one knows about it?"
"Still not giving up, huh? Just wait, those boxes of bones in that cave are all watching you!"
Lu Yangyang kicked her in the chest.
"Ah—" Shangshan Fairy cried out in pain.
At this moment, Abbess Qinglian, who had been silent ever since she was dragged back into the main hall, finally came to her senses and subconsciously denied it: "Your Highness, Your Highness, you found out, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, I don't know anything, it has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with me..."
Han Dong immediately begged for mercy: "Your Highness, I... I was just... forced to give you money. I didn't do anything, I don't know anything, I really don't know anything—"
They cried more and more miserably than the other, as if they really knew nothing.
Lu Yangyang then looked at the legendary Qinglian Abbess, who was said to be obsessed with alchemy. "So you're that Qinglian Abbess. Do you know what I saw when I entered that cave? I saw open earthenware jars, filled with ice, and inside each jar was a freshly opened head. Half of the cave wall was stained red. Do you know what that is? It's drained blood—"
"Because it was summer, they were worried that the bodies would decompose too quickly and be smelled, so they caught wild cats and kept them in the cave. They ate all the bodies clean and then threw the wild cats off the cliff to their deaths."
"There were no children's remains at the foot of the cliff, only countless wild cats."