flstandardbreds Chapter 367: Poison again!
Chapter 367: Poison again!
"How can it be!"
Eunuch Sun smiled apologetically, pointed at the circle of prisoners, and said calmly:
"Once these prisoners confess and sign their names, they will all be sentenced to death. We can deal with them directly in Tianlao without having to keep them locked up."
"Then what crimes did they commit? What a coincidence, they are all capital crimes. Do they need to be punished so severely?"
Luo Xiaoran glanced at Eunuch Sun with a half-smile and spoke in a joking tone, but there was a hint of coldness in her eyes.
Eunuch Sun was a shrewd man. He keenly noticed that Miss Luo seemed to be feeling a little resentful.
Glancing at Luo Xiaoran carefully, Eunuch Sun spoke carefully:
"These are all servants in the palace. If they make the master unhappy, they will be sent to the Heavenly Prison. It has been like this for so many years."
Luo Xiaoran stopped.
Yes! She should have known it in her heart long ago, so why bother asking again?
"Nothing, really a capital crime?"
Eunuch Sun was stunned. Aren’t these people guilty of capital crimes?
To offend the master is to offend the superior...
"Murder, rape, bullying...are there none of these?"
Seeing that the curiosity on Luo Xiaoran's face didn't seem fake, Eunuch Sun felt even more surprised.
“As Miss Luo said, the one who could do these things must be a servant with some means in the palace, and also a servant who has someone to rely on.
Slaves like that don't need to come to the Heavenly Prison."
"That's right! I... didn't think it through."
Luo Xiaoran looked back at Wei An and said, "Let's go back!"
Wei An raised the food box in his hand, looking embarrassed. Why did he leave when he hadn't found anyone to test the poison yet?
When Eunuch Sun saw this situation, he suddenly had an inspiration.
Miss Luo is a cautious person. She unlocked the door and came out. Could it be that she suspected that there was something wrong with the food and wanted to find someone to test it for poison?
"Miss Luo, these slaves have cheap lives. If you want to give them a bite to eat, it will help them not to starve to death on their way to the underworld."
After that, Eunuch Sun pointed to several cells nearby and introduced them to Luo Xiaoran:
"This slave broke Li Liangren's bracelet and was sent to the Heavenly Prison that same day.
When the little palace maid was combing Concubine Chen's hair, she pulled out several strands of her beautiful hair.
And this little eunuch, he didn't know how to show respect to the chief eunuch during festivals, so the chief eunuch got angry and sent him to me..."
Listening to Eunuch Sun’s introduction, Luo Xiaoran felt that the “heinous charges” he mentioned were outrageous and absurd.
"After all, they have all been selected through layers of selection to enter the palace. Is it really okay for them to die so easily in the prison?"
Eunuch Sun did not answer Luo Xiaoran. He once again put on his signature apologetic smile and remained silent.
Luo Xiaoran nodded imperceptibly. She understood that the existence of all this was reasonable in this palace.
This was an era with clear hierarchies, where the superior could kill the inferior as easily as crushing an ant.
She understood this principle from the very beginning when she came here, didn't she?
So I just wanted to find a small mountain village to live a peaceful life and didn't want to get involved in any power disputes, but now I have come to the palace...
The smell of decay and blood kept assaulting Luo Xiaoran's nostrils. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that everything was dull, so she turned and walked towards her cell.
Wei An behind him glared at Eunuch Sun, stuffed the food box into his arms, and left.
Eunuch Sun watched the two girls leave in silence, not knowing what to do with the food in his arms.
After thinking for a while, he opened the door of the cell and put out all the food in the lunch box, including the fruit he had specially prepared for Luo Xiaoran.
"Eat! And then have a good sleep!
I can only send you away when the person who sent you here agrees!
...Don’t enter the palace in your next life!"
……
“Princess, the soldiers in the barracks will be punished if they violate military regulations.
The soldiers guarding His Highness's mansion and the secret guards under my brother will also be punished if they make mistakes.
These palace servants really did not serve well. Although this punishment is too harsh, if they had not made any mistakes, they would not have to come to the prison."
Wei An spoke in a low voice after careful consideration, but in the end he couldn't get over his conscience and added:
"The punishment is indeed too harsh..."
Luo Xiaoran pinched Wei An's face. The frightened little girl widened her eyes, and then she heard her own princess say:
“I do think their end was too tragic, but it wasn’t me who caused their tragic end!
I just had the instinct of a kind person and showed compassion for my fellow sufferers for that brief moment.
So~~ Xiao Wei'an, you don't have to comfort me in such a dry way."
Wei An: “…”
She thought the princess was so sad about the palace servants that she couldn't eat, so she gave away all the food boxes.
"So, Princess, what shall we do next?"
Luo Xiaoran rubbed her stomach. The feeling of not being able to eat on time was really eroding her already limited sense of security.
"Let me continue telling you stories! Last time we told you the story of Prince Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This time we will tell you the story of the Mermaid."
"Okay, okay! Last time after I got out of the prison, the princess didn't want to talk about it. I still don't know why Prince Snow White woke up after being kissed by the princess of a neighboring country. He was obviously poisoned to death by his evil stepfather's apple!"
Luo Xiaoran laughed dryly, because this was the power of so-called "true love"...
After organizing the words in her mind and just as she was about to start talking, Luo Xiaoran saw that behind Wei An's expectant face, the serious face of Eunuch Sun appeared through the wooden fence.
"Eunuch Sun, are your footsteps silent?"
The atmosphere switched from a fairy tale channel to a horror channel with a "flashing scene" in a second. Even Luo Xiaoran, who had seen a lot of storms, couldn't bear it.
Wei An was even more furious. She really liked listening to the princess' stories. Finally, the princess was willing to tell her a story, but she was interrupted again.
Eunuch Sun naturally didn't know that the master and servant were just playing the game of "adults telling gender-swapped fairy tales to children". He just encountered an emergency and had to bite the bullet and find Luo Xiaoran again.
“Miss Luo, just now, Miss Wei An handed your meal to me.
I could see that you had compassion for those palace maids, so I took the initiative to give them the food.
But after they ate, they all died suddenly!"
Wow!
Luo Xiaoran and Wei An looked at each other, their expressions were indescribable.
After a long while, Luo Xiaoran asked:
"Why are you telling me this?"
Eunuch Sun said with a sad face, "Miss Luo, you have a special status. If something happens in the prison, or you are poisoned, then I will be dead."
"The emperor did not send the imperial guards this time. I am flattered that Eunuch Sun still attaches so much importance to it."
When Luo Xiaoran said this, Eunuch Sun was really about to cry.
"Oh my Miss Luo, please stop testing me!
I swear, this matter has nothing to do with the Heavenly Prison!"
"What do you think about Hong Shanhu's case?" Luo Xiaoran asked again.
"I didn't understand it at first, but now I see that even if I tortured all the palace servants, I still wouldn't be able to interrogate the real murderer." Eunuch Sun replied after a moment's thought.
"Eunuch Sun is a smart man. Since he knows that this case is directed at me, you, as someone who follows orders, should know what to do!"