Buried Alive, Deposed Prince

Su Liang returned home, the sky was getting dark, and Yan Yu was preparing dinner.

"You're back?" Yan Yu put down the spoon and turned to greet him, "How is it? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Su Liang smiled, "Someone is fine for now. The next scene is more serious, I hope he can keep calm."

Su Liang washed her hands, cooked with Yan Yu, and talked about what happened after she entered the palace.

Yan Yu sighed at Su Liang's intelligence, "You are so amazing! Killing people invisibly!"

Duanmu Sheng must be very anxious at this moment.

"Xiao Nian cooperated well." Su Liang said.

"But..." Yan Yu looked worried, "Even if the emperor knew that the prince had an affair with the former second prince's wife, no matter whether it was the prince or the second prince who killed your family, the emperor would not let his son pay for his life, right?"

Yan Yu felt that Su Liang was good enough, but how could the emperor let his son pay for the grievances of the common people?

Su Liang's face was calm, "Indeed."

Yan Yu paused while cutting vegetables, "What should I do? Knowing that you and the crown prince and the second prince are at odds with each other, if the emperor wants to protect his son to calm things down, he might..."

"Kill me." Su Liang smiled slightly.

Yan Yu sighed repeatedly, "You know? Then why are you still laughing? How will the matter end when it's so big? What if the emperor really wants to get rid of you?"

Su Liang was very calm, "My brothers Duanmu Sheng and Duanmu Ao and I are destined to be in a life-and-death relationship. If the emperor wants to get rid of me, I will run away and secretly kill his two sons."

Listening to Su Liang's understatement, Yan Yu felt frightened, "You said it so lightly, it's very dangerous!"

"Dangerous..." Su Liang chuckled, "I believe in my intuition, if there is danger, I will be careful."

She didn't believe in her intuition, but Ning Jing's ability. If her life is in danger, Ning Jing will predict it.

Su Liang had a clear conscience. According to the "rules", she thought that there should not be a situation where someone wanted to kill her, she could not hide, but Ning Jing could not see it.

Yan Yu looked helpless, "Of course I believe you, but I still think this matter is too dangerous. Otherwise, while nothing happens now, you should hide, and you will have a better grasp of what you want to do next."

Su Liang shook his head, "I can't hide forever. It has come to this point, let's see what the emperor will do."

Yan Yu gave up when she saw that she could not persuade Su Liang, but she still felt uneasy in her heart.

After dinner, Ning Jing went to send Zheng'er home, and Su Liang went to see Duanmu Ao again.

Duanmu Ao collapsed on the ground, his mouth was blocked, and he looked at Su Liang with resentment.

Su Liang took off the cloth that was blocking Duanmu Ao's mouth, and he coughed heavily.

Su Liang sat down not far away, looking at him calmly, "With no water to drink and no food to eat, it seems not bad to starve you to death. How do you feel?"

"Bitch! You are so bold! If I die, you will be buried with me!" Duanmu Ao gritted his teeth.

Su Liang snorted, "You are so strong, it seems that I am too kind to you."

After saying that, Su Liang took out the whip used last night, and saw Duanmu Ao trembling, obviously recalling the fear of being dominated by this whip.

Su Liang strangled Duanmu Ao's neck again, tightening it to a degree that made Duanmu Ao difficult to breathe, but not suffocating, and watched him struggle in pain.

"I entered the palace today, you should want to know what happened, right?" Su Liang smiled and told Duanmu Ao what happened after she went to the palace.

"I think your good brother who cheated on you should regret not killing me earlier, and also regret not killing you earlier." Su Liang looked at Duanmu Ao and said, "But in fact, I think the person you should have killed the most back then was your brother, the crown prince. He did that kind of thing, but you actually endured it. I really admire you."

After saying that, the whip in Su Liang's hand loosened a little.

After Duanmu Ao coughed, he suddenly laughed wildly, "Don't be so proud! Do you think that the emperor knows that Duanmu Sheng and Xiao Mulian had an affair, and the Su family was killed by us, will he do anything to me and Duanmu Sheng for a group of ants in your Su family?"

Su Liang's face was slightly gloomy.

Seeing this, Duanmu Ao snorted coldly, "Don't be naive! So what if you are the top martial arts champion? Even if you have made great achievements in the war, so what? Low-class people are low-class people. You don't think that just because you are so capable, your life can be compared with ours, right? No matter how much your father values ​​you, he still treats you as a dog who is loyal to the royal family of a country! You think of yourself as a human being! Hahahaha!"

Su Liang's eyes were cold and he remained silent.

Duanmu Ao sneered, "Do you think your plan is brilliant? If the emperor knows about the ugly things Duanmu Sheng did, he will do justice for you? It's ridiculous! For the sake of the royal family's face, the emperor will only choose to kill you, instead of doing anything to me and Duanmu Sheng!"

Su Liang suddenly stood up, approached Duanmu Ao, and strangled his neck fiercely, "Have you forgotten where you are?"

Duanmu Ao seemed to have suddenly gained confidence, staring at Su Liang with wide eyes, and said intermittently, "If you dare to kill me...you can't live...keep me...you may have a chance of survival..."

Su Liang let go of the whip, and Duanmu Ao coughed non-stop.

"You claim to be smart in vain, but unfortunately, you don't recognize your own identity, hahahaha!" Duanmu Ao looked at Su Liang's ugly face and laughed wildly again.

Su Liang sat down and said with a cold face, "I thought the emperor was a wise ruler, but you should know him better than me."

Duanmu Ao snorted, "It's good that you know!"

"I want to leave now, but I'm afraid I won't be able to leave anymore." Su Liang's face was serious. "If you don't want to be missing arms and legs when I am a hostage, tell me why you asked my grandfather to come to treat Xiao Mulian in the first place?"

Duanmu Ao sneered, "It's okay to tell you now. I knew that the day Xiao Mulian was pregnant with the bastard, she refused to admit it, so I sent someone to ask your grandfather to come and take her pulse. I didn't think too much at the time. I couldn't ask an imperial doctor. , then things can’t be covered up. The blame for this incident is that bitch Xiao Mulian. If she hadn’t done such a shameless thing, your grandfather would not have been implicated!”

"Then what?" Su Liang asked coldly.

According to Prime Minister Xiao Qi, three days passed between the time Xiao Mulian was discovered by Duanmu Ao and her sudden death.

"When I finally pried open Xiao Mulian's mouth and found out who the adulterer was, I brought Duanmu Sheng to confront me. I said Xiao Mulian must die. Duanmu Sheng didn't object to a single word, and he also promised to give me his concubine to play with. Months as compensation, hahahaha!" Duanmu Ao smiled evilly, "If you want Xiao Mulian to die, you have to find a reason. It's because your grandfather is unlucky and knows things he shouldn't know! Who told him to just be a civilian? ? An ant that no one cares about will die! It’s a pity that the people Duanmu Sheng sent didn’t let you die!”

Su Liang's heart sank, "My grandfather didn't catch Duanmu Sheng having an affair with Xiao Mulian in Changchun Garden. It was you who invited my grandfather to come and take her pulse in order to confirm that Xiao Mulian was pregnant. He knew that Xiao Mulian was pregnant, but he didn't know that Duanmu Sheng was pregnant." Why are you so vicious about Sheng and Xiao Mulian? "

Duanmu Ao looked at the anger in Su Liang's eyes and snorted coldly, "Why, Duanmu Sheng said he wanted Xiao Mulian to die. The matter couldn't get too big. We had to find someone to take the blame. Your grandfather was chosen. It was Duanmu Sheng who said he wanted to kill you. Silence the whole family!”

"Where is the person who did it?" Su Liang's tone was cold.

"Everyone involved, except me and Duanmu Sheng, has been silenced. It's a pity that you slipped through the net!" Duanmu Ao said coldly, "I dare to tell you this just because I want to tell you, even if you It's useless even if you know the truth! How can you try to fight against the royal family with all your efforts? It's simply ridiculous! To be honest, every time I think about Xiao Mulian in the past two years, I want to kill Duanmu Sheng, but it's a pity that I don't have the chance! What happened back then was all the fault of that couple. I just refused to save him, but I had no choice! Let's work together. You can use me as a hostage to escape. As long as you don't move me, I will kill Duanmu sooner or later. If Sheng is killed, it will be regarded as revenge for your family!"

Su Liang said nothing and looked at Duanmu Ao intently.

Duanmu Ao calmed down a little, and when he faced Su Liang's eyes, he suddenly felt a hair in his heart...

"I realize that I underestimated you." Su Liang said coldly, "You have some brains."

Duanmu Ao's face froze, "What do you mean? What I just said is true!"

Su Liang shook his head, "Really? I don't believe it."

"You better believe it, stop being so naive and thinking that your father will be on your side!" Duanmu Ao snorted coldly.

At this moment, Ning Jing walked in.

"Do me a favor." Su Liang said.

Ning Jing nodded slightly.

"Take him to the Su family's cemetery, dig a hole, and bury him alive." Su Liang's face was expressionless.

Duanmu Ao's eyes widened in disbelief, "You...you dare?!"

Su Liang grabbed a stool and hit Duanmu Ao hard on the head, hitting him more than a dozen times, causing his head to bleed. "You are very noble, right? Are all my family members ants? I want to Look how many noble lives you have!"

The stool was broken, Ning Jing frowned, "It still needs to be repaired. Use stones next time."

Duanmu Ao's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and his head was covered with blood. He was no longer as arrogant as before, shivering and trembling, and kept saying, "I am useful to you, you can't kill me..."

"The greatest use you have to me is that you have to die to comfort my family's souls in heaven!" Su Liang said coldly.

In the dead of night.

Ning Jing carried a sack and quietly left the city, went up to Guowangxiang Mountain, and stopped at the Su family's cemetery.

He chose an open space among several graves, threw down the sacks, and started digging.

After digging a deep pit, Ning Jing untied the sack and kicked Duanmu Ao down, whose hands and feet were tied and his mouth was gagged.

Duanmu Ao struggled at the bottom of the pit, but he couldn't make any sound and couldn't get up. His frightened eyes were frighteningly bright in the night.

Ningjing did not bury the soil back, but cut down branches and made a cage-like cover on it. Then he put the soil-laden grass on top, covered it with dead branches and leaves, and spread the excavated soil on top. Go to some nearby graves.

After doing this, Ningjing returned to the pit again and moved the position of the two grasses to ensure that Duanmu Ao could see a glimmer of light below.

But because of the location chosen by Ningjing, it was impossible for anyone to come. Even if someone did walk by or over the pit, it would be difficult to notice that there was someone below.

"You," Ning Jing said to Duanmu Ao at the bottom of the pit, "enjoy it slowly."

After saying that, he cleared the traces around him, then went down the mountain and left.

When she got home, Su Liang was still awake and copying books under the lamp.

"Do you think the emperor would choose to get rid of me to protect his two sons?" Su Liang asked.

Ning Jing shook his head, "No."

"Do you think he is a wise man?" Su Liang asked.

Ning Jing shook his head again, "It's not stupid."

"That's good. Otherwise I have to start planning an escape route." Su Liang yawned, "Sleep, good night."

…

The next day is Mr. Qin’s birthday.

Three days ago, Qin Yujin had given Su Liang the invitation to Huguo Temple.

But Su Liang had been busy these two days and forgot about it. Ning Jing reminded him that he had not prepared a birthday gift for Mr. Qin.

Su Liang asked Ning Jing to take a box of tea that he couldn't buy from him and count it as a gift for both of them.

Anyway, outsiders now think they are a couple.

Yan Yu didn't go and wanted to go to the shop to continue looking at the account book.

Before Su Liang and Ning Jing left the house, Xing Yusheng came and asked, "Have you heard about it?"

Su Liang asked, "What?"

"You didn't know?" Xing Yusheng sat down, the shock on his face had not faded, "The emperor suddenly abolished the prince! The court was in chaos! No one knew what happened! Ning Jing, didn't you go to court this morning?"

Ning Jing shook his head, "My official rank is too low, I don't have the qualifications."

"My father went!" Xing Yusheng looked at Ning Jing, then at Su Liang, and lowered his voice, "Did you do something secretly about the prince's abolition?"

Su Liang snorted coldly, "Xing, what do you mean? We just started to be officials yesterday, I am just a deputy general, Ning Jing doesn't even have the qualifications to attend the morning court, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Xing Yusheng coughed lightly, "I don't mean anything else. When I learned about the abolition of the prince, I felt that you were the one... Oh no, it might be related to you."

"Why don't you guess it has something to do with your father?" Su Liang asked back.

Xing Yusheng shook his head, "My father's courage is not comparable to yours."

Although Su Liang denied it, Xing Yusheng still felt that there must be some unknown reasons for Duanmu Sheng's sudden dethronement. Even if Su Liang and Ning Jing did not do anything secretly, they must know something.

Xing Yusheng was very curious, but did not ask. Some things are safer to be unknown.

"My grandfather's birthday is today, you should all go, right?" Xing Yusheng asked.

"Are you here to pick us up?" Su Liang asked back.

Xing Yusheng smiled and stood up, "I passed by your door and came in to see. I have to pick up Qing'er."

Xing Yusheng left after he finished speaking. He is now very familiar with Su Liang and Ning Jing, there is no need to be polite, come when you want to, leave when you want to.

After Xing Yusheng left, Yan Yu closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief, "The emperor has deposed the prince. It seems that he wants to do justice for the Su family."

Su Liang shook his head, "The reason why Duanmu Sheng was deposed was not because he had promiscuous relationships with men and women, but because he was a waste."

Yan Yu was stunned.

Su Liang's face was calm, "The emperor has been giving Duanmu Chen opportunities to perform, and he has seized them all. I originally thought it would not be easy for Duanmu Chen to ascend to the throne, after all, the empress and the prince's faction are very powerful. But the fact that the emperor asked all adult princes to participate in the literary examination before made me think that he really wanted to choose the most outstanding son as the heir. The affair between the prince and his brother's wife can be big or small. In the eyes of the emperor, it is the best opportunity to change the prince. In this matter, the empress's faction is in the wrong and dare not make a fuss."

Yan Yu frowned, "I thought the emperor was a man of justice."

Su Liang's smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, "Duanmu Ao said I was too naive, how dare I. What kind of person Duanmu Chen is, the emperor who will reuse him will be even smarter. At any time, don't believe that the royal family will be moral, they will only make choices that are beneficial to themselves."

This is what Ning Jing had warned Su Liang a long time ago.

"No matter what, this result is not bad." Yan Yu sighed, "But, the emperor has abolished the prince, will you let him go?"

Su Liang shook his head, "No. But no matter what happens to the eldest prince next, the emperor will be the first to suspect me."

"What should I do then?" Yan Yu felt that the matter was too complicated, and human hearts were really unfathomable.

Su Liang picked up the tea box on the table, "I think Duanmu Sheng will not be willing, even if he is content, it will only be temporary. In the royal family's struggle, there is only one position, either sit on it or die, he will not give up. So, even if I do nothing next, Duanmu Sheng will destroy himself. Maybe in the end, the emperor will kill him personally."

Yan Yu nodded, "I think what you said is very likely to happen. What about Xiaonian? When will he be allowed to come back? The longer it takes, the easier it will be for him to be discovered, and then it will be bad."

Su Liang walked out with the tea leaves, smiling, "How to let someone get away, leave it to you to figure it out. If you can't think of it, forget it."

"Hey! How come..." Yan Yu looked at Ning Jing and Su Liang walking away, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "He is obviously your friend, why do you seem to be responsible for him."

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