Chapter 161 I recognize my husband as my elder brother 21
Chapter 161 I recognize my husband as my elder brother 21
After returning to Yu State, Hong Yanshan secretly killed those envoys. Then she contacted some secret subordinates in Da Zhou and gave them an order to find a way to capture Gu Chengyuan's sister, torture her severely, and make her live a life worse than death.
In addition to the surveillance by Tuantuan, Si Ying has learned in the past few days that Hong Yanshan and Gu Chengyuan, who were lovers in their previous lives, have now become each other's enemies.
Gu Chengyuan must have been badly hurt by Hong Yanshan in his previous life, so he spared no effort to deal with Hong Yanshan in this life.
Hong Yanshan didn't know, but Si Ying, who had been observing secretly, knew that the methods of stripping her naked and hanging her on the city wall for three days and then throwing her into the military camp as a military prostitute were all thought up by Gu Chengyuan for the emperor.
It can be seen how much he hates Hong Yanshan and he wishes her reputation would be ruined. But it is also good this way. Gu Chengyuan has tricked Hong Yanshan like this, so Si Ying doesn't have to deal with that woman herself.
But what she has to do now is another more important thing, which is to accompany Gu Chengyuan to the two mining cities.
These two mining cities were obtained through Gu Chengyuan's design, so the emperor naturally trusted him more and sent him to mine and forge weapons.
The reason why Si Ying wanted to follow him was not as she lied to Gu Chengyuan, that she was reluctant to leave Gu Chengyuan and wanted to experience the customs and practices of Yu Country.
She had only one purpose, which was that she found out that the misty forest that the original owner wanted to go to was nearby, so she had to go there to fulfill the original owner's wish.
Moreover, Si Ying has not opened the jade box yet. She found that a key is needed to open the box, and the key may be left in the misty forest, so she plans to take the jade box there and open it. Although she can also open the jade box by force, it is a relic left to her by the original owner's uncle Ming after all. If she breaks it violently, the original owner will definitely be sad when he comes back and sees it. If he refuses to hand over the power of his soul at that time, then Si Ying's deal will be in vain.
Soon Gu Chengyuan led an army and took Si Ying to the two mining cities secretly.
Not long after they left, something big happened.
Gu Xinting, who had been bored in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion for a long time, saw that Si Ying, whom she hated, and her brother Gu Chengyuan, who was in charge of her, had left. She was in a rare good mood and went out shopping with her maid.
Then she was put into a sack by a group of bandits and abducted in broad daylight.
When the common people nearby saw this, they hurried to report to the police. The maid who was knocked unconscious by the group of people was rescued by passers-by and hurried back to the mansion to report to the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife.
Someone dared to forcibly rob a woman in the capital, which was simply plucking hair from a tiger's face, especially since the person robbed was Gu Xinting, the daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo. The emperor was originally in a very good mood, but when he heard about this, he immediately issued an order to impose martial law in the capital and ordered the officers and soldiers to conduct a comprehensive search to catch these arrogant robbers.
Soon, officers and soldiers searched house by house in the capital, blocked all the city gates, and checked one by one.
Three days passed, but Gu Xinting's whereabouts were still not found. It was then that the emperor realized that right under his nose, in the capital, there was such a force that could evade the searches of officers and soldiers, and after brazenly kidnapping people on the streets of the capital, they could disappear without a sound and without any news.
No matter how hard the officers and soldiers searched, they could not find that group of people, let alone Gu Xinting's whereabouts. It was as if that group of people had evaporated into thin air, taking Gu Xinting with them.
The emperor was furious. He sent out the Imperial Guards openly and secretly sent his own secret guards. He didn't believe that he would not be able to find these people even if he turned the capital upside down.
Regardless of whether this force comes from Yu Country or Mulan Country, he must eradicate it completely to prevent future troubles.
In the name of searching for Gu Xinting, the emperor surrounded the entire capital city and did not allow anyone to enter or leave.
At this time, everyone in the capital knew that Gu Xinting was kidnapped in the street.
The Duke of Zhenguo and his wife no longer cared about Gu Xinting's reputation at this moment. They also sent all the servants in the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to look for Gu Xinting in the capital.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo cried every day, complaining that the court was useless and that they hadn't found anyone for three days. She asked the Duke of Zhenguo to write a letter to ask Gu Chengyuan to come back. The Duke of Zhenguo was also very tormented these days. He had been looking for him for a long time without sleep, but to no avail. He also knew that the longer the time dragged on, the more dangerous it would be.
In the end, he wrote the letter and sent someone to deliver it to Gu Chengyuan as quickly as possible.
Gu Xinting, who was being sought by everyone in the capital, was now imprisoned in a dark, damp basement that smelled of stench and blood.
Suddenly, the iron door of the basement was opened with a crash. Hearing the sound, Gu Xinting began to tremble uncontrollably, and soon the candles around her were instantly lit by the visitor.
The entire basement was illuminated brightly, and Gu Xinting was seen naked and tied to a shabby wooden bed with iron chains.
The scars on her body showed the inhuman torture she had suffered in the past few days.
At first, she was very panicked after being kidnapped, thinking that these people wanted to exchange her for silver from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion by kidnapping her, so she readily told him her identity and said that she would certainly cooperate and would write a letter personally to ask the Duke of Zhenguo to give them a lot of silver.
It turned out that the kidnappers didn't care about the money at all. They kidnapped her purely to torture her.
She had been living a life worse than death these past few days. First, her innocence was taken away by the kidnappers, and then they tortured and whipped her with various instruments of torture every day. She had new wounds on top of old ones, and her scarred body was no longer as delicate as a legitimate daughter. The tattered bedding beneath her was covered with dried blood from her wounds, as well as her menstrual discharge from the past few days.
She had been chained to this broken wooden bed for three days, no one came to rescue her, and the kidnappers clearly wanted to torture her to death.
Soon, the kidnappers came in and picked out one they liked from the shelf full of torture instruments for torturing prisoners, then slowly walked towards Gu Xinting.
Gu Xinting looked at the things in their hands in horror and struggled and shouted desperately.
“Please, let me go, I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die, no, don’t come over here, ah, ah, ah, ah!”
However, when the kidnappers saw her fear and terror, they not only did not stop, but continued to come forward with a smile.
"If you want to blame someone, blame your brother Gu Chengyuan. He is the one who offended our master. You are his sister, so naturally you should bear the wrath."
As one of them spoke, he swung the whip in his hand fiercely towards Gu Xinting.
"Crack! Crack!"
Soon, Gu Xinting's heart-wrenching screams were heard from the basement.
However, they were all isolated inside by the heavy iron door of the basement and could not be heard from outside.
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