Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chapter 431: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn

The stars were sparse in the night sky, the water in the moat was flowing quietly, and the cold wind brought about the whimpering of branches, which made people feel helpless and cold all over.

Tang Ran sat silently that night, holding the rabbit lantern in his hand tightly, his mind full of the scene when he first met the Sixteenth Princess.

The little girl at that time was hiding and crying. When she heard someone coming, she looked up in panic, like a frightened little rabbit. Her pitiful look softened his hard heart.

He didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up he felt his mind was in a mess.

He dreamed that the little girl was pressed into the water and struggled constantly. The rabbit lantern slipped from her hand, fell to the ground, and was stepped on by the murderer.

The rabbit lantern broke and the little girl gradually stopped struggling.

Ah Si stepped forward quickly: "Sir."

Tang Ran frowned and forced herself to wake up. When she stood up, her vision went dark and she almost fell down.

"What time is it now?"

"My Lord, it is the morning hour."

Tang Ran looked outside. Even at this hour, the sky was too dark. She could only vaguely see someone walking quickly towards her. She could only see the person clearly in the dim light.

Tang Yan took out the clues he had found overnight from his sleeve. Tang Ran read through it quickly. His deep eyes became even colder and more piercing under the half-floating and half-sunken candlelight. It was extremely cold and silent, as if countless wronged people were struggling to survive.

Tang Ran lowered her eyes and remained silent for a while. When Tang Yan wanted to say something, she slowly said, "I am not a good person. I don't care about what happens after my death. The only thing I have a little attachment to has been destroyed by others."

His face was pale without a trace of blood, and his tone was calm and dead, but it made people's hair stand on end.

Tang Yan sat back silently.

Since Tang Ran has made the decision, what his subordinates should do is to help him implement this decision and reduce the impact and consequences of this incident.

Not only the imperial palace, but the entire city of Bianjing sensed the coming storm, and even the vendors who usually set up stalls to make a living closed their doors for fear of getting into trouble.

During these three days, the palace was filled with the smell of blood.

Tang Ran became ruthless and ordered the Black Water Station to investigate everyone. Even the secret agents of the Chen State who had been hiding in the palace for twenty or thirty years were dug out and sent to the Ministry of Punishment.

"Prime Minister, please spare my life."

"I am innocent. I don't even know anyone from the Chen Kingdom. Why should I suffer this injustice? As long as you can produce evidence to prove that I am guilty, I am willing to be punished."

A palace maid knelt in front of Tang Ran, crying. Tang Ran looked at her and smiled. He swung the sword in his hand, and a bloody hole appeared on the chest of the palace maid.

Tang Ran's handsome face was stained with blood. He smiled and looked at the group of palace servants who would not cry until they saw the coffin.

"Evidence? Haha!"

He raised his eyes slightly, his voice was neither arrogant nor aggressive, but as calm as the stars and the cold moon in the silent night sky.

"When have I, Tang Ran, ever cared about evidence when I killed someone?"

He quietly held the blood-stained sword in his hand, looked at the wailing palace servants, and slowly walked towards them.

The people present were trembling with fear, their scalps tingling, as if the person who was coming was not a human but the god of death who took people's lives. They couldn't help but want to step back, but there was a group of guards with knives behind them.

Tang Ran pointed the tip of his sword directly at an old eunuch, his red eyes reflecting the blood on the ground. He first had someone capture the old eunuch's favorite godson, tortured him to death in front of the old eunuch, and then cut the old eunuch's tendons in his hands and feet.

"You shouldn't have touched her."

"If it weren't for you, she would have grown up safely and lived a long life."

"Your Chen Kingdom." Tang Ran whispered softly, blood splashing in his hands, "I will have someone personally deliver Zhou Wenye's head to the Emperor of Chen Kingdom, and I will also bury your relatives in Chen Kingdom with him at all costs."

The old eunuch was horrified and looked at Tang Ran in disbelief.

As one of the few people in Northern Qi who could contact Zhou Wenye, he naturally knew Zhou Wenye's true identity. When he heard that Tang Ran had sent people to look for his relatives, the madness in his eyes burst out and his face became ferocious.

"Tang Ran, I did all this by myself. It has nothing to do with anyone else."

He looked at Tang Ran, his body suddenly trembled, and he pleaded, "My family doesn't know anything, please let them go."

Tang Ran had a blank expression on his face, he knew nothing?

Li Changan is only five or six years old, what does she know?

Finally, realizing that it was useless to ask Tang Ran for help, he simply started cursing. When he was dragged away, he was still cursing with a rampant smile, saying that the iron cavalry of Chen Kingdom would sooner or later crush Northern Qi, and he was waiting to see that day.

Tang Ran waved his hand and had the old eunuch's tongue cut off.

Even though the palace had been cleansed, Tang Ran knew very well that there were definitely spies from Northern Qi hiding deep in the palace. These people were lurking in many inconspicuous places, like a stone on the road or a weed. They might be maids in the imperial garden, or they might be the empresses' handymen in the palace, or they might be many, many people whose names could not even be told.

Tang Ran slowly closed her eyes, thinking about the terrifying penetration power of the current emperor of Chen Kingdom.

In the past, the old emperor was hit by a poisoned arrow on the battlefield, leaving huge hidden dangers in his body. One day, someone deliberately triggered the poison, causing him to lose his mind and pick up a sword to kill all his children and concubines.

That time, the emperor also massacred the palace with blood, but this time, Tang Ran still caught many people.

There is no safe place in this palace.

Tang Ran was about to enter the yard when she heard a suppressed wailing. Concubine Ning threw herself on the coffin and cried breathlessly, calling the little princess's nickname over and over.

She looked haggard these past few days and had been standing guard in front of the coffin, refusing to leave no matter who tried to persuade her.

I heard that the old emperor also stayed up all night and was finally carried to a side hall by the imperial doctors.

And now the old emperor stood in the middle of the yard, his eyes full of sadness, helplessness, and deep self-blame.

Seeing Tang Ran coming, the old emperor said tiredly: "It's my fault."

The old emperor felt that if he hadn't been hosting a birthday party for the Sixteenth Princess, she wouldn't have been targeted.

After seeing off so many children, he could no longer experience the tragedy of seeing his young children die. However, in just a few short days, the old emperor looked as if all his vitality had been sucked out of him. His cheeks were sunken and his face looked emaciated.

Those people obviously knew his physical condition well, which is why he suffered such a serious injury.

The old emperor regretted and blamed himself very much. Since the birth of the sixteenth princess, he had mostly ignored her and even gave her very little fatherly love.

But he just wanted to give his guilty daughter a good birthday celebration.