Chapter 185

Time passed quickly. On the day when Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong were executed, Jiang Li had an early meal and was about to go out. When Jiang Yuanbai learned that she was going to see the punishment, he stopped talking and finally said, "it's terrible. Don't go to see it."

"Nothing, I don't see the punishment, just stand outside and have a look." Jiang Li smiled and said, "also take a breath for the third sister."

Jiang Yuanbai felt more guilty in his heart. He didn't plan to see the punishment. I don't know if it was because of Princess Yongning. Emperor Hong Xiaodi felt guilty for him and called him frequently these days. When talking with princes and ministers, there was a shadow of being honest in the past.

However, Jiang Yuanbai himself couldn't tell whether this was the emperor's skill or his sincerity. Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. He doesn't dare to be careless. He has to do what he should do. He won't relax his vigilance and allow himself to make mistakes because of the sudden closeness of emperor Hong Xiao.

However, Jiang Youyao was crazy. The initiator was sentenced today. He didn't go to see it himself, but let Jiang Li, who was always embarrassed by Jiang Youyao, see it. Jiang Yuanbai couldn't tell the complex feelings in his heart.

Fortunately, Jiang Li didn't discuss this matter with him much. After saying goodbye to Jiang Yuanbai, she left the door. Jiang Li knew that ye Mingyu and Xue Huaiyuan would also go to see the punishment today, but Jiang Li didn't tell them that they would also go to see it.

She hasn't figured out how to face Xue Huaiyuan yet. The next time she sees Xue Huaiyuan, Jiang Li plans to tell the truth and tell Xue Huaiyuan that she is Xue Fangfei. She knew that it must be difficult for Xue Huaiyuan to suddenly accept this matter, so she had to think of a mild speech, but she couldn't see Xue Huaiyuan before she thought it over. She was also afraid that she would say it directly under her excitement, that she would scare Xue Huaiyuan, and that Xue Huaiyuan would not believe it at all. Instead, she had been thinking about it for the past few days.

Bai Xue and tong'er helped Jiang Li into the carriage.

On the streets of Yanjing City, there are many fewer people walking today. It used to be that many people went to the execution ground to watch the excitement. One was the once proud champion Lang, the young and promising zhongshushelang, and the other was the sister of King Cheng, the serious Jinzhiyuye. Now the princess has jointly committed such heinous crimes. People always like to watch the excitement, and they all want to see these two people pay a price.

When Jiang Li's carriage drove outside the execution ground, it could not enter, and the people and the carriages that watched the excitement blocked the road. Bai Xue and tong'er had to take money to open the way. When the people took the money, they were naturally talkative and gave way one after another, so that the carriage stopped a little further, and at least two people on the scaffold could be seen.

Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong were dressed in dirty prison clothes, with disheveled hair. They were no more exquisite than before, and were no different from other dead prisoners. Moreover, they are worse than other dead prisoners. Because the indignant people had already spontaneously carried vegetable baskets, constantly throwing eggs and vegetable leaves on their heads and bodies, which was very embarrassing.

About shenyurong himself didn't expect such a day.

Jiang Li thought that even if Princess Yongning reached this position, she should still maintain her domineering nature and scolded loudly. But she didn't even have a word today. She hung her head and couldn't even see her expression. But Shen Yurong was gentle, or numb, facing everything in front of him. His eyes wandered through the crowd as if looking for someone.

Knowing that he couldn't see himself, Jiang Li stepped back and hid behind snow white. She suddenly felt funny again. When Xue Fangfei was killed by Princess Yongning, Shen Yurong was outside the door, witnessed it with his own eyes, but stood by and watched her die. Now that Shen Yurong is dying, she has become a bystander and sent Shen Yurong on her last journey.

Things in the world are really a strange reincarnation.

Suddenly, a woman's wailing came, sometimes mixed with abusive voices. Jiang Li looked along the voice and saw a familiar figure, which was Shen's mother.

Shen's mother cried and fell in front of the scaffold, shouting "my son" and abusing Princess Yongning. Jiang Li heard her scolding clearly. Shen's mother scolded that Shen Yurong had a bright future, but was implicated by Princess Yongning, an adulteress. Even Xue Fangfei's mother Shen took it out and said that her former daughter-in-law Xue Fangfei was kind, virtuous, capable and considerate, but she was killed by Princess Yongning by vicious means and planted on Shen Yurong.

Shen's mother's pain is not fake, because she only has Shen Yurong, a son, who has endured hardships to raise Shen Yurong, and the hopes of the whole family are placed on Shen Yurong. And Shen Yurong also lived up to expectations. He really became a senior official, but he didn't expect people to miss and horses to stumble and fall over. Shen's mother is used to shifting all the responsibilities on others. Since Princess Yongning is useless, she naturally blames Princess Yongning for all this.

Jiang Li smiled in her heart. Shen's mother was reckless at the moment. Due to various reasons, King Cheng and Princess Liu failed to save Princess Yongning, but it doesn't mean that they really don't care about Princess Yongning. Princess Yongning fell to the present field. For Princess Liu and King Cheng, it was precisely because of Shen Yurong. If there were no Shen Yurong, the subsequent events would not have happened at all. Shen's mother moved to anger Princess Yongning, and Princess Liu also moved to anger the Shen family. Shen Yurong is dead. Shen's mother's indiscriminate abuse will naturally annoy Princess Liu.

I'm afraid that Shen's mother won't live long after the execution. Princess Liu was already angry with Shen Yurong, and how could she allow an ordinary woman to insult her only daughter.

If Shen Yurong still has his mother in his heart, he should open his mouth at this time and remind her a word or two. Shen's mother may not listen to other people's words, but Shen Yurong's mother must listen more or less.

But Shen Yurong didn't, he was just confused, hopeless, persistent in the crowd searching again and again. His eyes were so obvious that many people felt it and looked at each other, thinking that he was the one who had found the Dharma field and was waiting for help.

But no, nothing. There was no rescue, and the person Shen Yurong expected did not appear.

Until the time comes.

The executioner stood behind Shen Yurong, and his hand fell from the knife. The silver light flashed, dripping, and a line of blood sprayed on the ground. His round head rolled down, covered with mud, and he couldn't distinguish anything.

Princess Yongning screamed beside Shen Yurong, as if she finally understood her fear and screamed "no", but before she finished, the light of death followed.

The crowd suddenly cheered, as if it had achieved great success.

Jiang Li drooped her eyes, turned away expressionless, and everything was over.

……

No matter how shocking the case of "No.1 scholar killing his wife" is, with Princess Yongning and shenyurong being executed, everything seems to be over.

There are still people talking about this matter in the teahouse restaurant on the street, lamenting the innocence and pity of Xue Fangfei's sister and brother, but the number of people talking about it is slowly decreasing.

Good people get the opportunity to redress their grievances, and bad people fall under the law. This seems to be a happy ending. In spring, everything began to get busy again. Farmers were busy sowing seeds. Children began to go to school and learn new words. Everything was thriving.

Jiang Li's days were also spent in peace day by day. After this matter is solved, she sometimes doesn't know what she should do. Like an ordinary lady, she embroidered and wrote at home, lived peacefully and contentedly, and when one day there was a worthy marriage, she put on her wedding dress and married, gave birth to children for her husband, and ran the housework, which seemed to be the end of the rest of her life.

But Jiang Li didn't want to do that. When she became Xue Fangfei, she had done these things once and exhausted all her energy and life. She really didn't have the courage to do it again. Moreover, Jiang Li also resisted the marriage. The young lady who is the head of the auxiliary family is very likely to be married by Jiang Yuanbai to a young talent who has not met a few times and who just sounds good on the surface. She knew Shen Yurong at that time and thought she knew Shen Yurong very well. Finally, she found that she had never understood him, let alone someone she had never been close to several times.

But she can't refuse this fate. She is now the young lady of the Jiang family and the daughter of the prime minister. No matter how willful, she can't earn her fate in marriage.

Jiang Li still often goes to Ye's house, and Xue Huaiyuan still stays at Ye's house, although he has said several times that he wants to return to Tongxiang, Xiangyang. But ye Shijie tried his best to keep him. On the one hand, from Xue Huaiyuan, ye Shijie could get many official proposals, which would be of great benefit to his future career. On the other hand, Cheng Wang was afraid that he would still hate Xue Huaiyuan. It would be dangerous to let Xue Huaiyuan go out alone.

Ye Mingyu promised Xue Huaiyuan that when he returned to Xiangyang at the end of the year, he would bring Xue Huaiyuan with him. As for this year, he would first let Xue Huaiyuan live in the Ye family in Yanjing city. Xue Huaiyuan thought that the Ye family had great kindness to the Xue family's rehabilitation, so it was not easy to refuse, so he agreed.

This let Jiang Li breathe a sigh of relief.

She often goes to Ye's house, ostensibly to see ye Mingyu, but actually she wants to get along with Xue Huaiyuan for a while. After this case, Xue Huaiyuan became calm and gentle. He was no longer like his father, who was sometimes strict and sometimes loving, just like an ordinary old man. He didn't fall down. On weekdays, he looked at writing and writing in the Ye family. He was very leisurely. It seemed that he didn't suffer from the tragedy of the Xue family.

But Jiang Li's heart knows that she is really sad, and she won't say it in her mouth. She chatted with Xue Huaiyuan several times. The sentence "I'm Xue Fangfei" had reached the lips, but she couldn't say it.

She also has places of fear and times of anxiety. What if she says that Xue Huaiyuan won't believe it? She really couldn't bear the scene of being denied by her father.

At that moment, she even left to miss Ji Heng. It would be best if Xue Huaiyuan could believe in the strange things like Ji Heng, or what she said.

Ji Heng... Jiang Li droops her eyes. It's urgent for Cheng Wang to raise an issue. These days, Ji Heng should be busy with many things. But since that day he knew her identity, they have no contact anymore. Not to mention her and Ji Heng, even Zhao Ke disappeared from the Jiang family. Jiang Li couldn't ask a gardener to avoid attracting others' attention, but Zhao Ke really didn't appear again.

This may be the evidence that Ji Chen wants to draw a line with her. Jiang Li thought, he couldn't help laughing again. This person is really very ruthless. When he helps, he seems to be a close friend. After the transaction is over, he goes his own way, as if he had to cut off a little contact.

But that's fine.

Just thinking, tong'er came in from outside and said, "girl, the maid just came back from outside the house and heard something."

"What's the matter?" Jiang Li asked.

"The prince of Ningyuan divorced his wife!"

"Zhou Yanbang divorces his wife? Shen Ruyun?" Jiang Li was stunned, "why?"

"It must be because something happened to the Shen family." Tong'er said carelessly: "When the prince of Ningyuan married the Shen family, it was not because the elder brother of the Shen family was a Chinese scholar, so he wanted to give an account to the Shen family. Now that Shen Yurong had his head cut off, the Shen family was nothing, and the Shen family was of course useless. If he still sat in the position of the wife of the prince, the prince of Ningyuan must be laughed at. The people of the prince of Ningyuan were so selfish, of course, he would divorce his wife quickly."

Tong'er was bitter about the fact that Jiang Li almost died when Ningyuan Marquis repented of marriage. Speaking of Ningyuan Marquis, he was also extremely sarcastic. Jiang Li smiled, "you're right."

The people of the Marquis of Ningyuan were afraid that they were still dreaming that Zhou Yanbang could resume his official career. In this way, they just kicked Shen Ruyun away and found a daughter of a high-ranking family. Jiang Li thought that Zhou Yanbang would have a rest so soon. If Jiang yu'e hadn't been involved in it, she wouldn't believe it. Jiang yu'e must take this opportunity to constantly fan the flames, so that Shen Ruyun will fall down so quickly.

"And then?" Jiang Li asked, "how is Shen Ruyun?"

Tong'er shook his head, "the number one scholar's mansion is gone. I heard that Shen Ruyun found Shen's mother, and the two women went to ask for help from the rich family they had made friends with at the beginning... But girl, you know, the Shen family is full of evil, and who dares to help him? They can't avoid it. They got a snub, and don't know where they are now!"

Jiang Li smiled: "I see." Shen Ruyun and Shen's mother were destroyed by their greed after all. To say that if it was good at first, or let Shen Yurong climb up step by step, although it was a little slower, it still had a lot. Unlike now, overnight poverty, even worse than before, such as rats crossing the street, everyone shouted.

This is karma.

Don't want to think about this anymore, Jiang Li said, "forget it, the matter of Ningyuan Marquis house in the future has nothing to do with us."

The rest of Jiang yu'e was either proud or frustrated in Ningyuan Hou mansion, which was far away from her.

Her own affairs are not very clear-cut.