Unaware of Spring (9)

  Outside was silent for a while, then came the sound of a woman's sobbing.

  Liu Sui's body suddenly shook, and she quickly stood up, took two steps forward, and swiftly opened the door.

  Two pale-faced people stared at each other, but the chasm between them had already been filled with blood.

  It's too late, can't go back anymore.

  "Qiu Yuan, as you instructed, we brought her here. We heard everything she said earlier." Luo Da Chun bent down to pick up a short sword from the ground, "But she snatched my sword and was about to take her own life."

  Shen Hongyuan's tears washed away the makeup on her face, making her look exceptionally weak and small. The woman who was holding onto her shoulder, skillfully controlling her movements, was Han Meilan.

  Liu Si Rui stared at her steadily, without moving a muscle, as if the Earth had pressed the pause button.

  "It was me..."; The female prisoner lifted her head, her voice slightly hoarse, and frankly confessed to her crime under the circumstances where we had no evidence but only inference. "All three of them were killed by me."

  Liu Sui had mentally prepared himself, but upon hearing these words, his eyes still widened by a factor of two, and there was a sense of despairing sorrow in his gaze. He muttered to himself: "It's my fault, Ah Hong, it's my fault. If I hadn't left without saying goodbye, you wouldn't have misunderstood..."

  Shen Hongyan's beautiful eyes suddenly ignited with anger.

  "I didn't misunderstand. Things are completely different from what you imagined!"

  "Ten years ago, you disappeared without a word, leaving me alone with this inexplicable thing!"; The woman pulled out a faded silk pouch from her bosom and flung it at Liu Suiyi. Perhaps she used too much force, for after the action, Shen Hongyuan's breathing also became rapid.

  The dark green silk pouch hit Liu Gongzi's face squarely and fell to the ground, scattering a new tea dust. The small silk pouch must have been rubbed by hand many times, its color had faded. The scattered tea dust was of course "Unknowing Spring".

  Liu Sui slowly squatted down, picked up the silk pouch, and tightly grasped it in her hand with great care.

  "I don't care why you left me, even if I knew today, it wouldn't change anything about the situation. It's been ten years, why you left is no longer important. All I know is that everything gradually turned into hatred, more and more intense hatred, hatred for you, hatred for this world. If you hadn't left, none of those things would have happened, my fate wouldn't have become like that. Because..."

  Shen Hongyuan's expression suddenly turned extremely cold: "Do you know that the friends you trust are all wolves in sheep's clothing? Do you know that in this chaotic world, affection and righteousness are not worth a blow? Do you know that after you went missing, those three... humiliated me together?"

  The three of them had long been lusting after her. Without a protector, a beauty in a chaotic world could only meet an untimely end.

  Liu Sui heard this and was like being struck by a thunderbolt on a sunny day, stunned and speechless, his mouth agape as he stared at her in a daze, unable to utter a word. It wasn't just Liu Sui, everyone present was dumbfounded by this sudden bolt from the blue.

  "That day, I threw myself into the river. But Yanluo Wang didn't accept me! Is this fate? Am I supposed to become a malevolent spirit in hell, filled with hatred and seeking revenge?" The woman became more agitated as she spoke, "But what do I have now? How am I supposed to live on?"

  Survival relies on the only thing she has left, a physical body. And revenge also relies on this physical body. With her weak and fragile flesh, she deceived and killed three strong men.

  "Color, desire, is killing people." Shen Hongyuan's face began to hang a cold smile, "Ten years, I finally found them, didn't expect they all lived in the same place. And I, once again surrendered to them, they didn't feel any discomfort at all."

  I don't even remember her very well, let alone apologize.

  "I am already a woman of the wind and dust. So I say that I will let them experience the ultimate pleasure in human life. I serve them, I make them die in the ultimate pleasure of human life..."

  "Don't say it anymore!"; Liu Sui's tears had already fallen. A man has tears but does not easily shed them, only because he hasn't reached the point of heartbreak yet.

  He walked closer, took Shen Hongyan's hand, and gently placed the unknown spring in her palm: "It's all my fault. This is my heart. The unknown spring is a stubborn thing, it has the appearance of spring in its heart, which will never change. I couldn't speak clearly to you, nor do I have the qualifications to expect you to understand my intentions. But for these ten years, there hasn't been a single day when I haven't thought of you. I didn't take a wife, and after returning, I've been searching for you all along. I hope you're already married with children, so even if it would cause me pain, my heart would feel comforted. But...

  Liu Sui turned to Li Shimin and knelt down on the ground: "Please, Your Highness, have mercy and let Sui take Ah Hong's place in bearing the death penalty."

  The King of Qin sighed lightly and reached out to pull him up: "Zi Rui, you're a sensible person, how can you say such nonsense? Is guilt something that can be passed down from generation to generation? If it were so, would sending you to the Eastern Turks make me the culprit? Where is the justice of the law in all this?"

  Liu Sui's face changed color. All he heard was Li Shimin saying: "This matter, the three dead people were at fault first, but no matter what the cause and effect are, the killer must bear the crime. Shen Shi, you have three lives on your hands, originally paying with your life is also justified, do you know that?

  Liu Gongzi's face suddenly showed a joyful expression after hearing this sentence. I had been listening attentively beside him, and at that moment, I also let out a sigh of relief.

  There is "originally", then there will be "but"!

  However, in a country where weak and timid women are bullied by others and cannot get justice anywhere, they can only rely on their fragile bodies to uphold justice by themselves, which is the sin of the country. In the future, one day, laws and government offices will be able to protect you from harm and you will no longer need to do so.

  I stared at him in shock, for the first time I felt heartbroken for a historical figure. What kind of modern judicial concept is this! It's even more advanced than modern times!

  He is indeed a wise and enlightened ruler! He will be a truly great emperor!

  "Shen, today I am acting on behalf of the government and meting out punishment to you, kneel down." Qin Wang said calmly.

  Shen Hongyuan

  According to her words, Liu Si Rui also knelt down beside her.

  "Now I sentence you to be a slave for life, never to be freed. You will serve in the household of Si Rui, and will not be given the status of wife or concubine."

  Two people kneel down to thank and show gratitude.

  "What does it mean?" I whispered to Lu Da Chun beside me.

  Lu Da Chun pouted and said in a very small voice: "What else could it mean? Punish her for the rest of her life as a slave, forget about having any status or dignity, it means to make you humble and unable to hold your head up for the rest of your life. But do you think those two people would care about this?"

  In fact, this punishment is not commensurate with her crimes, after all, it's three innocent lives.

  But this is ancient times, whatever the royal family says goes. Moreover, this is probably the best outcome imaginable. Those two people will definitely spend their whole lives atoning for their sins. For them, being together is happiness, I suppose.

  They asked a few more things, and I didn't listen anymore. I went with Han Meilan to pack up our stuff and get ready to head back to Wanzishan. It's finally over, let me take a break for a few days! To be honest, I really got into the investigation, and it was actually quite exhausting.

  On the way back, Nie Qiuyuan inadvertently told me: "Shen Shi said that she originally had no intention of killing anyone on the mountain. At that time, she had just hooked up with Guan Sheng and wanted to invite him down the mountain to find her and then take advantage of the opportunity to make a move. However, when she entered the room at night, she smelled the tea fragrance of Chun, and her anger surged, which is why she decided to kill."

  Maybe this is fate. If he hadn't acted on the mountain, Guan Sheng's case would have been handed over to the authorities like the previous two cases. Although the people of Bowl Mountain are dead, Nie Qiuyuan will still go to see them, but the original scene, we must not be able to see it. If we can't see it, this case will be treated as an ordinary strangulation case. We may not be able to catch Shen Hongyuan.

  So she also didn't have the chance to see Liu Si Rui again and couldn't start over on a right path.

  Everything will be different.

  Actually, I don't know the taste of Chun tea, but it's not bad. Nie Qiuyuan suddenly smiled slightly and took out a small exquisite package from his pocket, handing it to me, "Do you like it? Take it back to drink?"

  I smiled elegantly and nodded slightly.

  I thought this package was given to him by Liu Gongzi in the spring, but at that time, Liu Gongzi's heart only had Ah Hong in it, and he didn't have the mind to think about these things. It wasn't until much later that I found out that this was actually something that the world's number one thief had suddenly taken a liking to and casually snatched from someone else.

  But all of these don't matter anymore.

  The author fainted.

  It's September now, right? On my way home from work today, I suddenly found that the lilacs in our community have bloomed, and so have the wisterias! They shouldn't be blooming in September, should they?!

  Think hard, they bloomed in April this year! And in previous years, I haven't seen them bloom in September either!

  As spring arrives unknowingly, have you also passed by in a daze?

  Ever since I joined the paranormal channel, everything around me seems to have become paranormal. Just now, I saw a dog again, with the body of a Chinese rural dog and a Samoyed head, rushing towards me with its tongue out, as if it was smiling eerily at me. Oh my god...

  In short, the spring chapter ended just like that...