mesbooks Chapter 276 It’s her?
Chapter 276 It’s her?
Now the emperor has sent another corpse from afar. These three things must be related in some way.
Could it be that the emperor has never changed his mind, and someone falsely conveyed the imperial edict, which is why they have food and supplies?
So, who would commit such a capital crime for them?
Who would risk their lives to deliver food and supplies to them?
Could it be her?
She remembered that she knelt down to Xiaobei just to get him to accept the two hundred thousand taels of silver.
Mo Lingchen felt that Chu Qinghe was capable of such a thing as forging an imperial edict!
But... he didn't believe that the emperor would be so cruel as to kill her and hang her body on the city wall at the border.
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Chu Qinghe is the emperor's most beloved daughter!
Even if she falsely conveyed the imperial edict, the emperor would only be angry and furious, and would never be so heartless.
What's more, there are Concubine Jing and Chu Zhongyuan. How could they allow the emperor to do this!
Thinking of this, Mo Lingchen's heart finally settled down.
He went over the whole thing from beginning to end. It must be Chu Qinghe who forged the imperial edict, but the corpse hanging on the city wall must not be Chu Qinghe.
Perhaps, the officials were obsessed with the fact that Chu Qinghe had forged the imperial edict. If the emperor did not punish him, he would not be able to explain to the officials, so he found a substitute.
And send it far away so that no one will find it.
Yes, that must be the case!
"Sir, I received a letter today. It was written to you by the master."
Xiaobei suddenly handed over an envelope.
Li Quan left tactfully. He would not join in the fun of reading other people's letters.
Mo Lingchen opened the letter, and the more he read, the more strange his expression became.
In the end, he threw the letter home, stumbled out of the tent, ran towards the city gate, and kept muttering, "Impossible, impossible."
Xiaobei was frightened by his reaction and hurriedly chased after him.
"Master, Master!"
"What happened? What happened to you?"
"Don't scare me!"
The scene of the master and servant chasing each other attracted many people.
Li Quan had just walked to his tent and had not had time to go in when he saw Mo Lingchen rushing out like crazy, crossing the huge training ground and heading straight for the city gate.
Then Xiaobei also rushed out!
What happened?
Li Quan couldn't figure it out, so he could only chase after him to check it out!
Mo Lingchen ran to the city gate and looked at the corpse that had been frozen into an ice sculpture and was swaying in the cold wind. His eyes were bloodshot and his face was frighteningly gloomy.
How could it be her?
He still didn't believe it!
"Sir, what happened to you?"
"Is there something wrong with this body?"
The man said in a low voice: "Ladder!"
"what?"
"Ladder!" Mo Lingchen repeated.
Xiaobei reacted and immediately went to move the ladder.
Not far away, Li Quan, who was running towards this side, saw Mo Lingchen preparing to climb the ladder and immediately stopped him: "General, you must not do this! You must not do this!"
"Without the Emperor's order, no one may remove the body, including you."
"Do you intend to disobey my order?"
Mo Lingchen seemed not to hear and continued to climb up.
When he climbed to the same height as the corpse, he suddenly stopped and stood there for a long time, not daring to touch the woman's messy hair.
Seeing that he was standing still, Li Quan thought he was hesitating, so he continued to stop him and persuade him.
Mo Lingchen couldn't hear anyone's voice at all. He just wanted to confirm that the body was not Chu Qinghe.
He didn't know how long it took, so long that his hands and feet were numb and stiff from the cold wind. He slowly reached out to sweep the snow off the corpse and peel off the woman's messy hair.
"what!"
The moment Mo Lingchen saw the face clearly, he let out a low growl, as if he was frightened.
He was indeed scared, not because the corpse looked horrible, but because the corpse was really Chu Qinghe.
"how come?"
"how come?"
"impossible!"
He kept repeating two sentences as if he was talking to himself.
"General, whose body is this?"
"But what happened?"
Li Quan asked anxiously below!
Mo Lingchen carefully held the corpse in his arms, holding it tightly with one hand and cutting the rope with the other.
Li Quan shouted from below: "General, no, absolutely not!"
"What are you doing? I didn't see anything. My eyesight is not good when I came in."
Li Quan said this and turned around, pretending that he saw nothing.
He was actually very panicked. Could it be that this female corpse was General Mo's family member?
Otherwise, why was the general so excited?
Mo Lingchen came down from the ladder. Xiaobei saw that he was unsteady and hurried forward to support him.
He was also curious about who the body belonged to.
As a result, after just one look, he was frightened and exclaimed: "Princess?"
"Why is it the princess?"
His shout startled Li Quan so much that he turned around suddenly and stared at the woman in Mo Lingchen's arms with wide eyes.
Although he was a military general and held a low official position, he lived in the capital and often dealt with officials in the capital. He also occasionally saw Chu Qinghe in some princely and marquisate mansions.
Li Quan was shocked and surprised, and hurried to look at Mo Lingchen's expression.
No wonder the general was so excited, no one would be able to remain calm!
How could the emperor bear to do this? This is his own daughter!
The royal family is indeed ruthless and cruel!
Even if the princess falsely conveyed the imperial edict, she should not be treated like this.
"General, this...this..." He wanted to say something comforting, but didn't know what to say.
The person is already dead, so nothing you say seems meaningful!
"General, I will tell everyone not to tell anyone about what happened tonight."
He felt that Mo Lingchen needed time to accept this cruel fact.
"Sir...why...why is it the princess?"
"What did the princess do to deserve to be treated like this?"
"Isn't the Emperor the one who dotes on the princess the most?"
Mo Lingchen said calmly, "Because she falsely conveyed the imperial decree and sent us food and fodder."
Xiaobei's eyes suddenly widened, and he finally understood why the imperial edict for the transport of grain and fodder was burned.
It turned out that the emperor had never changed his mind from beginning to end, and it was the princess who falsely conveyed the imperial edict to save them all.
"The Emperor is too cruel. The princess was trying to save us and she wasn't guilty of any crime. How could he be so cruel?"
Xiaobei's voice choked with sobs, and he couldn't help but recall the scene of the princess kneeling down to him before they set off.
Such an infatuated woman ended up with such a miserable end.
Mo Lingchen pursed his lips into a line, said nothing, and left the city wall with stiff steps, holding the ice-sculpture-like corpse.
Li Quan blocked Mo Lingchen's way and said, "General, the princess's body cannot be brought into the tent."
"The princess has been dead for many days. If it thaws, her body will immediately rot and decay."
"Let's build an ice cellar to store it temporarily."
Mo Lingchen nodded silently, then sat outside his tent holding the corpse.
Li Quan Xiaobei led people to dig ice from the river and build an ice cellar overnight.
Mo Lingchen was in a complicated mood. He didn't know whether he hated or loved Chu Qinghe.
Before Chu Qinghe fell from the platform, he only hated her!
When she woke up from her coma, he watched her imitate Peony, and then his feelings changed, and he seemed to hate and love her at the same time!