jdhmnovel Chapter 554 Ratings
Chapter 554 Ratings
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"The old emperor is old and his health is declining.
The situation in the court is becoming increasingly tense, and the struggle for succession among the princes has reached a white-hot stage.
The two factions fought openly and secretly, and there were endless arguments inside and outside the court. The court officials were either recruited or wanted to follow the emperor, and they all took sides privately, forming two major camps headed by the eldest prince and the second prince.
The eldest prince was the oldest, had fought in the battlefield, and his supporters were mostly military generals. The second prince's mother was the Imperial Noble Consort, and the Empress had no children, so the second prince was considered a semi-legitimate son, with the support of foreign relatives and many civil officials.
The emperor's health was deteriorating, and the dispute between the two sides became more and more intense, to the point of a fight to the death.
Li's father considered himself a scholar, aloof and arrogant, and even disdained the prince's attempts to recruit him.
Therefore, when the eldest prince ascended the throne and began to purge the second prince's faction, Li's father, the Minister of Personnel who had embarrassed the eldest prince, was used by someone with ulterior motives to curry favor with the emperor, and his property was confiscated and he was exiled.
Only then did Father Li realize that no matter how aloof and arrogant you are, the Li family is just a pawn in the power game. Even if you can't please both sides, you still have to bear the consequences of the power struggle.
The front and back of the house had been surrounded. The imperial edict had been issued, and the emperor was not joking. The Li family's property was confiscated. On the road to exile, it was difficult for men, and women would be coveted even more.
Father Li held a roll of white silk and walked to the women in the family: "My Li family has been a clean family for generations. This white silk is the last dignity I can give you."
Some of the women were willing to die to preserve their reputations, while others cried and refused to do anything. Father Li's eyes flashed with pain, and he was about to say something when the soldiers came in.
The yard was filled with cries and shouts, and no one noticed that Li's mother was not among the crowd.
That girl Qianqian sneaked out through the dog hole to play again this morning. Mother Li had discovered it a long time ago, but she just tacitly covered it up for her daughter.
Her daughter was about to reach marriage age, and Mrs. Li was worried that her daughter loved playing too much and would be hard to find a husband. But now she was glad that her daughter had sneaked out and escaped.
The soldiers had the list, so her daughter was not really safe. Mrs. Li had been kind to others all her life, but at the critical moment of life and death, she planned to do something evil for her daughter. She wanted to catch a maid who was about the same height as her daughter and set them on fire together.
Purchasing servants also requires going to the government to get a deed, which is not completely a problem, but Madam Li has no other choice. Madam Li is like a headless fly, planning to catch the maid, but she is knocked unconscious by someone.
Mrs. Li fainted, but the fire in the Li family's backyard was still burning.
The mother and daughter of the Li family were burned to death, their faces were completely disfigured, the government noticed something was wrong, checked the maids and nannies in the house but found nothing unusual. They surrounded the house first and then searched it to prevent anyone from escaping. Logically, there were soldiers guarding the front and back yards, so no one could escape.
After multiple inquiries, no clues were found. Half of the women in the Li family hanged themselves. The officer in charge of confiscating the family's property thought that perhaps the mistress and the eldest daughter of the Li family were more stubborn, which was why they chose such a tragic way of suicide.
Mrs. Li woke up slowly, and in the pitch-black room, she saw her daughter in the dim light of the candle. She thought that both of them had gone to the underworld, and she hugged her daughter and cried loudly, "My heart, my liver."
When she had almost finished crying, she suddenly realized that her daughter had body temperature and both of them were still alive.
Mrs. Li cried for a while, and when she calmed down, she learned from her daughter that they were now in the basement of a small courtyard next to the Li Mansion.
It turns out that Li Jingze and Yu Mo have been in contact for these years. Yu Mo wants to overturn her father's case, and Li Jingze has been helping her. In order to make it easier for them to meet, Li Jingze bought the small courtyard next door to his house in the name of a friend many years ago.
Occasionally, prostitutes in the brothel would be afflicted with venereal disease. According to the brothel's rules, they should be rolled up on mats and thrown into a mass grave. After Yu Mo took power and became the madam of the brothel, he could no longer be so cruel. He asked the doctor to prescribe medicine and secretly sent the prostitutes to the courtyard one by one to see if they could be cured.
It turns out, no.
In the past two years, four people have been sent here, three of whom have died. The last one watched a little girl with a less severe condition than himself pass away. He was so disheartened that he left a suicide note and committed suicide.
After Yu Mo found out, he couldn't handle it himself, so like the previous two times, he called Li Jingze and Li Jinghuai to come over for help.
We were planning to take the body out and bury it, but the next door was surrounded by government forces.
Li Jingze knew something had happened, so he climbed over the wall and went back, just in time to see his mother walking around. The situation was urgent, so he had no time to explain, so he simply chopped his mother unconscious with a knife and sent her to the next room.
The two brothers brought the two bodies from the next door and threw them into the attic, then pretended to know nothing and ran to the front yard. They were stopped by soldiers halfway and dragged by pretending to be ignorant. Unfortunately, there were too many soldiers and smoke was already rising in the backyard. Some soldiers ran to the backyard. Fortunately, the two brothers were smart and did not set fire to their mother's room, but to the attic which was made entirely of wood. The fire started quickly, and the soldiers did not know what was going on inside and would not fight desperately. The mother and daughter of the Li family escaped.
In fact, the older Hua Niang and Li's mother are about the same size, and the younger one is a little shorter than Li Qianqian. Fortunately, the Li family has very strict family education, and the eldest daughter of the Li family never leaves the main door or the second door. Outsiders have never seen her, so naturally they won't notice anything. "
In the second episode, Zhang Ziyun appeared and the ratings increased significantly...