SEC Chapter 337 Burned to death
Chapter 337 Burned to death
The scene in the courtyard was once very chaotic.
The King of Qi wanted to kill Shen Xian.
The Prince of Changping tried his best to protect him.
He didn't care about Shen Xi's life or death, but the piece of meat in her belly would not be lost to the Prince of Changping.
Marquis Changping only has him as his son. He has seen many doctors and taken many large jars of medicine, but he has never been allowed to touch a woman. He cannot let anything happen to his only offspring.
If the baby in the Wang family's eldest lady's belly was still there, he would have let the King of Qi do whatever he wanted.
Shen Tang asked, "What happened in the end?"
Chen Qi said, "The prince of Changping Marquis told the King of Qi that the baby in the Qi Princess' belly is the only child of the Changping Marquisate, and asked the King of Qi to hand it over to Concubine Ye for disposal."
"The Prince of Qi took the Princess of Qi away, leaving no one alive in this courtyard."
As for whether the King of Qi would kill or keep the Princess of Qi after she was taken away, he had no idea.
After a pause, Chen Qi said, "Prince Yu's people have also come to watch the fun..."
This was expected. Prince Yu would definitely not miss such a big event.
Marquis Changping is not Concubine Ye's biological brother, but only her cousin. He was able to inherit the title because it fell into the hands of others. The power of Marquis Changping's Mansion almost entirely depends on Concubine Ye. How could Concubine Ye tolerate the fact that the Marquis Changping's son cheated on the King of Qi?
Shen Xian will not have a good ending for causing such a huge rift between the King of Qi and the Marquis of Changping's Mansion.
Given how cruel and ruthless Concubine Ye is, she will definitely make Shen Xie's life a living hell.
That night.
Shen Tang finished his bath and prepared to go to bed.
Ginkgo Qiutong extinguished most of the candles, yawned, and prepared to go back to sleep.
He went out yawning, and came back refreshed, saying anxiously, "Princess, someone's house in Kyoto has caught fire, and flames are shooting up into the sky..."
Shen Tangren was already sitting on the bed, so Qiu Tong got out of bed immediately. She was afraid that she would catch a cold, so she quickly took a cloak and wrapped it around her.
When Shen Tang went out, Xie Guimo just came in from the study.
Shen Tang looked at the fire in the distance.
That direction——
"Isn't this Prince Qi's Mansion?"
Xie Guimo said, "No doubt, it is the Prince Qi's Mansion."
Here, Shen Tang and Xie Guimo were watching the flames, while over there, on the observation tower of Prince Yu's Mansion, Prince Yu was also watching Prince Qi's Mansion being engulfed by the flames.
The guard standing behind him said, "The Taoist priest's words have come true."
The Taoist priest said that the Princess of Qi would die from a flood.
It’s exactly the same.
It was windy at night, and Shen Tang only looked at him for a while before Xie Guimo carried her back to the house.
The next day, when Shen Tang woke up, Yin Xing came forward and said, "Princess, last night an assassin broke into Prince Qi's mansion and set it on fire. Princess Qi couldn't be rescued and was burned to death in the fire..."
Killing a princess who cheated on him and framing the assassin, isn’t the King of Qi tired of living?
The princess was burned to death in her own palace by an assassin who broke into it. If the assassin cannot be caught, how will the reputation of the King of Qi and the royal family be preserved?
He just wanted to kill Shen Xi, just like letting her fall into the lotus pond and drown. There was no need to sacrifice his own palace and reputation.
Shen Tang felt that it was unnecessary, but she soon realized that the King of Qi did this because he was targeting her and Xie Guimo.
Not only Princess Qi had an accident last night, but also the Second Master and the Second Mistress.
A masked assassin broke into the second house and broke the second master's other leg. The second wife was given a mute drug and could no longer speak.
In the entire Kyoto, the only ones who have grudges against the Second House are Shen Tang and the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion.
Suspecting that it was Shen Tang who broke the Second Master's leg and cut off the Second Wife's hair, Shen Xian made trouble for Shen Tang. She forced Shen Tang to let the Second Master and the Second Wife go in the palace, but failed. She even threatened to commit suicide and ended up hurting herself by mistake. These words that Shen Xian used to excuse herself were widely circulated.
Now the Second Master and the Second Mistress were injured by the intruders, and Shen Tang fell into the water in the palace a few days ago and almost drowned. How could people not suspect that it was Shen Tang and Xie Guimo who did it?
Even Ginkgo and Qiutong were worried. "I heard that the Second Master's leg was badly broken, and he'll be confined to a wheelchair from now on. If the old lady knew..."
If only the second house had been in trouble, the old lady could have kept it a secret, but now the Princess of Qi has been burned to death.
The old lady will definitely know.
The two maids were worried that the old lady would think that it was Shen Tang who harmed Shen Xi and the second master and second wife, but Shen Tang was not worried at all.
If the only ones who were to get into trouble were the Second Master and the Second Mistress, the old lady might suspect her, but since Shen Xi was also in trouble, the old lady would not think of her as the cause.
When Shen Tang expelled the second wife from the house, he told the old lady directly that Shen Xi was pregnant with the child of the Marquis of Changping.
Shen Xian committed a capital crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of her clan.
She and Xie Guimo had no such kindness as to help the King of Qi remove his green hat. If they wanted to kill Shen Xian, they only needed to tell the King of Qi about Shen Xian's affair with the Prince of Changping. The King of Qi would deal with Shen Xian himself, and they didn't need to do it themselves and get their hands stained with blood.
Even if the old lady could guess that they were the ones who revealed the affair to the King of Qi, what could she do?
How could the old lady not know that it was not just an accident that she fell into the water in the palace and almost drowned? Shen Xi could take her life, but she was not allowed to fight back?
If only one of her and Shen Xian could survive——
The old lady will choose her.
Shen Tang still has this confidence.
Shen Tang was glad that she was pregnant, otherwise she would have to go to Prince Qi's mansion to pay homage to Shen Xi.
Gratitudes and grievances disappear after death.
No matter how fiercely they fought in the past, now that Shen Xian was gone, if she didn't even go to pay her respects, she would be the one to be criticized, after all, Shen Xian was the Princess of Qi.
She died as the Queen of Qi.
Shen Xian and the King of Qi were married by imperial decree, and they would be buried together a hundred years after the King of Qi passed away.
From the perspective of King Qi, just thinking about it makes him feel disgusted.
The King of Qi would not allow such a thing to happen.
Thanks to the unborn baby, Shen Tang did not have to go to Prince Qi's mansion to pay his respects, but Xie Guimo had no choice but to go. After all, he and Prince Qi were cousins, and the princess and Concubine Ye had a very good relationship as cousins.
No matter what happens in private, it must be maintained in public.
The King of Qi was supporting and handling the funeral, and his face was longer than that of a donkey.
He didn't even know who to blame.
They had plotted against Xie Guimo first, so they had no choice but to let Xie Guimo fight back.
Even Xie Guimo's plan was to let the heartless Prince of Changping be responsible for Shen Xi, but the plan went wrong. The Prince of Changping had health problems, and in order to win over Xie Guimo, Prince Yu pushed the person to him.
His own people deceived him, but it was the quarrelsome Prince Yu who told him the truth to save him from being kept in the dark and having a cuckold put on his head!
An assassin broke into the Prince of Qi's mansion and burned the Princess of Qi to death. This was a shocking incident. The Emperor was furious and ordered the Ministry of Justice to thoroughly investigate the case. He also granted the Princess of Qi a coffin and a grand burial.
The body will be kept for seven days.
Seven days later, the Princess of Qi was buried with great ceremony.
If the King of Qi met Shen Xian, he would have been unlucky for several lifetimes.
When he married Shen Xi, he was soaked like a drowned rat.
On the day Shen Xi was buried, there was a heavy storm and the King of Qi was completely soaked.