Chapter 67: Death Penalty

  After a moment, the crowd chose ten family members of the children to follow Su Aunt into the palace, and all the others stayed outside the Xuan Yuan Gate waiting for news.

  Su's face revealed a triumphant smile, and she always gave me the feeling that she had planned this for a long time, as to whether the child was really stolen by her or not, it was unknown.

  Xuanyuan led everyone into the palace, with guards on both sides following closely, fearing that these unruly commoners would do something out of line.

  After passing through the fifth gate, Xuan Yuan stopped and slightly raised his hand. The guards on both sides stepped forward together, surrounding ten unarmed civilians.

  I stood behind Xuan Yuan's back with a look of surprise, wanting to remind him not to make trouble, but found that there were several ministers between us. Moreover, in this occasion, it was already an exception for me to follow him, and a palace maid had no right to speak at all.

  Their faces all turned a dull gray color, and even Su Auntie had a tense look on her face.

  Xuanyuan Mou broke through the 'guard' encirclement, walked to the front of everyone: "Tiancang State's 378th law: unauthorized gathering and rioting, attempting to harm the imperial court, can be sentenced to death, even implicated. Do you know your crime?"

  "You, you don't keep your word?" a tall and dark man said with fearful eyes.

  "Do you guys keep your words? The imperial court is looking for the culprit, but you're treating the imperial court as the culprit? Is this reasonable? Just because of her one sentence, you dare to gather a crowd and attack the palace. If she said tomorrow was doomsday, would you believe it too? She says you are the murderer who steals children, are you?" Xuan Yuan Mu pointed at Su Gu Gu.

  Everyone fell silent...

  "Today, I will let you all off due to your anxious state from losing the child, and not handle this according to the law. However, if the child is not found within the palace, you must take responsibility for this matter!"

  Everyone's face turned pale, their arrogance vanished in an instant. Several people were so frightened that their legs went soft. "T-then what if we find the child?"

  "This king will definitely investigate who is behind this palace and give everyone justice."

  "Alright! I'll definitely find the child!" Su Aunt said firmly.

  Everyone followed Su Auntie and headed towards the front hall.

  The entire palace is enormous, occupying one-fifth of Kyoto's area, right in the center of Kyoto, and the front hall is located to the south of the palace.

  In the Tiancang country, facing south, leaning south, and governing east are all major directions representing great auspiciousness and good fortune. Therefore, the houses of ordinary people are generally located in the south, while the east is the position of the master of the house. For example, the Donggong in the imperial palace is the palace of the crown prince, representing the future emperor, who is the master.

  In Feng Shui terms, the front hall facing south is the most important place in the entire imperial palace, and it is also an important political center for the entire Tiancang Kingdom to handle state affairs and solve major national events.

  Su Auntie did not lead everyone to search the rear palace, but instead came directly to the front hall steps.

  "Hold on!" Xuan Yuan didn't expect that Su Aunt would bring him here: "This is the front hall, where the Emperor lives and handles state affairs. You don't think the child is here, do you?"

  Many officials also whispered privately, saying that these ignorant people did not understand reason and actually made a disturbance here.

  "Yes! The child is right here!" Su Aunt's eyes were firm and her face showed a resentful expression.

  Others lost their courage, but at the same time they also hoped that the old woman could find the child, so that their "lives" would be preserved.

  "Just wait a moment, I'll go and report!" Xuan Yuan Mu frowned, somewhat embarrassed.

  Xuanyuan entered the temple shortly after dusk, and soon the people inside came out to spread the word: "Announce that everyone is entering the temple!"

  Everyone walked up the 99 steps and arrived in front of the grand temple, where the guards stood at attention on both sides, staring intently at these people. The solemnity and silence made everyone's heart skip a beat, perhaps only now did they regret it - how could they have come to the most majestic place in Tiancang Country to look for a child? Wasn't this playing with their lives?

  "Old lady, how can my child be here?" One of them couldn't help but want to leave: "How is this possible? I'm going back, I won't go in. My child can't be here. I still have three children at home waiting for me to raise them. I can't die here..."

  "Shut up!" Su Aunt shouted loudly.

  But who listened to her, everyone began to have a rebellious mentality.

  Xuanyuan stepped out of the grand hall and said loudly: "It's not a time for you to take back your words, enter the hall and search!"

  The guards surrounded the ten old men and walked into the front hall, with some officials closely following behind. Xuan Yuan stood on the high platform: "People without official titles can never enter the front hall in their lifetime. Since you have come today, things must be done thoroughly. If the child cannot be found, use your blood to sacrifice to the gate of Xuan Yuan and let all people under heaven know that the imperial court is not to be trifled with. Therefore, for your lives, please hurry up and find your children."

  "Shall we begin?" one of the ministers urged.

  Everyone stared at Su Aunt, some with complaints, some with anger, but she had a determined face!

  Sugugu looked at the entire grand hall, then her eyes fixed on several pillars on the hall. She walked up to them and knocked on them, then she put her ear against a pillar as if listening to something.

  Then she walked towards the high position, which was the dragon chair of the emperor. She actually wanted to 'touch' the dragon chair?

  Just then, an old man rushed in from outside, who was Old Man Su.

  "Ah! Su Lian, do you want our entire Su family to die with you?" He rushed forward, grabbed Su's aunt who was standing beside the dragon chair and pulled her down from the hall by her sleeve.

  "She's crazy, don't listen to her, she's crazy. She has been traumatized since childhood and always wanted to sneak into the palace, but unexpectedly took advantage of everyone!"

  "I'm not crazy, I'm normal! The child is under the dragon chair, there's a secret room below, and the child is in there!"

  "Slap!" Su Gonggong slapped her hard, staring at her fiercely: "Who do you think you are? Want to enter the imperial palace and go crazy? Today I'll make you sober up!" As he spoke, he went forward and punched and kicked Su Gugu.

  "Brother, brother, don't you think about those children? They're so pitiful, yet they've been devoured by this imperial palace. Brother, brother, there are also children from our Su family in here..." Aunt Su wailed loudly, her makeup smudged all over her face.

  Everyone was stunned "It turns out she was made up, she's a fake, she's a cheat!"

  These ordinary people who were chosen to enter the palace went forward and punched and kicked her, venting all their anger and resentment on her.

  I quietly walked to Xuan Yuan Mu's side, reached out and pulled his sleeve, Su Gugu couldn't die, she must know many secrets, although today's events were a bit excessive, but she still had value in being alive, she couldn't die.

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