Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 359 Princess's Skirt 05

After a whole day's journey, Gu Li fell into a deep sleep after being coaxed by Shen Qingzhou's casual chat, even before her hair was completely dry.

When she woke up the next day, there was no trace of Shen Qingzhou in the room. The place beside Gu Li where Shen Qingzhou should have been lying was cold.

Caiyi called anxiously from outside the house: "Princess, are you awake, Princess? I'm going in!"

Before Gu Li could say anything, the door was forcefully opened by the maid Cai Yi had brought in. Cai Yi ran towards the bed in panic.

"Princess, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, what happened to you?"

Caiyi knelt on the pedal and saw that only the princess was lying on the bed. She looked Gu Li up and down before saying, "I knocked on the door this morning to wake you up, but I didn't get any response from you. I waited for a long time but didn't hear any movement in the room. I was worried that something might happen to you."

"Where's the consort?"

Since they got married, Gu Li and Shen Qingzhou have been sleeping together. Because Shen Qingzhou always makes a lot of noise at night, the shy Gu Li would not let her personal maid stand guard outside.

However, even if Gu Li slept soundly in the morning, the prince consort, who had learned martial arts since childhood, could not fail to hear Cai Yi knocking on the door to wake her up.

Caiyi waited and waited, worried that something had happened to the princess, so she wanted to push the door open to see what was going on, but she found that the door was locked from the inside.

Caiyi became anxious and quickly asked a servant to knock on the door.

Without Caiyi saying anything more, Gu Li also knew that the matter of the Shen Mansion should have been exposed.

When did the prince consort know about this?

Where did Shen Qingzhou run to again?

Without her help, where could he, a criminal whose property had been confiscated and whose family had been exterminated, escape to?

After hesitating for only a moment, Gu Li stood up and ordered his men to return to Beijing.

No one noticed that the sesame cake in the oil paper bag that had been placed on the table last night and no one cared about was broken into pieces.

In the carriage, Gu Li called her captain of the guards, and after several inquiries, she became more certain that Shen Qingzhou had premeditatedly tricked her into falling asleep and then took the opportunity to escape.

The wind in May is a little chilly.

Gu Li lowered the car curtain and sat back on the cushion.

Shen Qingzhou would not abandon everyone in the Shen Mansion and escape alone. As long as she went back to guard the Shen Mansion, she would eventually catch him.

But how did Shen Qingzhou know about the accident in the Shen Mansion?

Shen Qingzhou indeed knew about the drastic changes in the Shen Mansion, so he kept it to himself and took the opportunity to escape.

Yesterday evening, after he checked into the inn, his pet black hawk came to him. That black hawk was a birthday gift from his second brother when he returned from traveling in the northwest.

Because it was a bird of prey, he was worried that the delicate princess would not like it, so he put the black eagle in the outer courtyard before the wedding. He also never told the princess about the existence of the black eagle.

When Shen Qingzhou heard a few short eagle calls outside the inn, he recognized that it was his black eagle coming. Seeing the princess's cautious and worried expression, he thought that the princess was scared, so he comforted her and said that it was just the cry of a bird passing by outside.

After comforting the princess, Shen Qingzhou went downstairs to get some hot water and found Black Hawk outside the inn. He took the tied note from Black Hawk's claws.

There were only four words scribbled on the note.

The mansion is in danger, don't go back.

The handwriting was so sloppy that he had to look at it again and again to confirm that it was his second brother's handwriting.

When he and the princess went out this morning, everything in the palace was still normal. What kind of crisis could happen in just one day that even the huge Prime Minister's Mansion could not handle?

The mansion is in danger, don't go back.

Shen Qingzhou was puzzled.

Even so, he still did not forget to buy the princess some sesame cakes that others said were delicious.

But when Shen Qingzhou returned to the door of the inn, he saw the princess was in a panic because she couldn't find him for a while. The dignified princess came downstairs to look for him without even putting on her shoes.

Shen Qingzhou suddenly understood.

What else could put the Prime Minister's Mansion in danger?

Except for the imperial power.

Only imperial power.

No wonder the princess, who usually doesn't like to move, wanted me to accompany her to the distant green mountains to pick cherries.

She is a daughter of a wealthy family and has everything she wants to eat.

What if she had known that something was going to happen in the Shen Mansion, and brought him out in advance out of her true love for him?

She is a princess, the most beloved princess by the current emperor.

She should have known about it.

Shen Qingzhou increased the dosage of calming incense in the lit incense burner. After the princess fell asleep, he left in the cover of night.

When Gu Li hurried back to the capital, all the people in the Shen family had been imprisoned, and the seal on the gate of the once glorious Prime Minister's Mansion was now glaringly new.

Gu Li left some people lurking around the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she returned to her own princess's mansion.

Gu Li deliberately relaxed the guard of the princess's mansion and stayed in the mansion for three days, but still did not wait for Shen Qingzhou to come to find her.

The emperor has already made his verdict on the Shen family, and Gu Li knows that Shen Qingzhou will not come to see her.

The entire Shen family was executed for treason.

Originally, the crime was punishable by the execution of nine generations of the clan, but due to Princess Chenxiang's plea, the emperor, who loved the princess so much, finally changed it to the execution of three generations of the clan.

Princess Chenxiang divorced her husband and returned to the royal family.

The case of treason was exposed unexpectedly and ended at lightning speed.

The Shen family has had close colleagues from aristocratic families in the court over the years, but no one has stepped forward to plead for the Shen family.

This is because the emperor has not only two letters with the royal family of the enemy country, but also a definite witness, a prince of the enemy country.

On the day when the Shen family was taken to the guillotine in Caishikou, there were no unexpected events except for the people's discussions, accusations and scolding.

In just four or five days, the Shen family fell from a high position as a noble family to the bottom of the mud, and batches of Shen family members who were pushed to the guillotine kept shouting that they were wronged.

It is possible that only the direct branch of the Shen family or a few core figures of Shen Xiang may be collaborating with the enemy, but so what?

After all, the Shen family is the Shen family where Prime Minister Shen is. If the Shen family succeeds in stealing the country, the entire Shen family will of course rise with it.

One glory and one glory.

These are what they should bear.

Mr. and Mrs. Shen and his two sons were unusually silent at the execution ground.

From the time he was taken to the guillotine to the time his head hit the ground, he made no sound, and he never even raised his eyes to look at the onlookers.

They may be afraid of seeing someone in the crowd, worried that someone will risk their life for them.

Because their youngest son/brother, Princess Chenxiang's husband and the last bloodline of the Shen family, was not trapped in the massacre.

Gu Li withdrew his gaze when the executioner shouted the word "execution".

Standing up from the third-floor window of the teahouse, Gu Li said calmly, "Go back home."

Caiyi followed closely behind.

Shen Xiang and his wife died. For whatever reason, Shen Qingzhou did not appear at this moment, but Gu Li knew that he would come back.

Looking out from the window of the teahouse, the bodies and heads of the dismembered corpses were dragged by the soldiers and piled together randomly, while the criminals who needed to be beheaded were still being taken to the execution platform one after another.

After getting on the carriage, Gu Li called his chief guard and instructed him, "Send someone to guard the mass grave. If anyone comes to collect the remains of Prime Minister Shen's family, arrest them immediately."

"Yes."

"If no one comes, don't let the wild dogs gnaw on them. Dig a hole and bury them!"