WAR PRISONER

War Prisoner Chapter 44

Title: WAR PRISONER

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Author: 梨花烟雨(Li Hua Yan Yu) /Lê Hoa Yên Vũ

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War Prisoner Chapter 44

Although Su Yi tended to be blindly loyal, he was also an extremely bright and perceptive man. Listening to Zi Liu and Zi Nong, he could probably guess about seventy or eighty percent of what had happened. However, he simply found it incredibly difficult to believe that people who were close to him would conspire with Wanyan Xu to put on a show to deceive him, all for the sake of forcing him to promise to become Wanyan Xu's Empress.

Zi Liu and Zi Nong were scared of out their wits. Bewildered, they could only stand rooted to their spots and had not a clue about how to rectify the situation. Not daring to meet Su Yi's eyes, they could only stutter plaintively: "Young Master..." But besides those two words, they could not utter anything else.

Su Yi stared at them coldly before abruptly turning to leave. With a chilling smile, he said: "Alright, since neither of you are willing to tell me, I'll just go and ask Wanyan Xu. He, at least, should be able to give me a complete explanation." So saying he started to walk away but suddenly, two shadows flashed past him. When he blinked and looked carefully, he realised that Zi Nong and Zi Liu were now kneeling in front of him, clutching at the hem of his robes desperately. In tearful voices, they pleaded with him: "Young Master, please have mercy on us. If the Great King finds out that we were the ones who had revealed this matter, we would surely lose our lives. On account of the friendship we have with Young Master, we beg you to spare us."

When Su Yi saw that they were weeping, his heart immediately softened, halting his steps he said: "If you wish for me to spare you, you have to tell me everything about what happened on that day in detail. But rest assured, I shall not make any further inquiries to Wanyan Xu. If you refuse, don't blame me for not taking into consideration our friendship." After saying that, he helped the two of them up and saw them exchange a meaningful look. After that, Zi Nong said: "Since Young Master has put it that way, your humble servant does not dare to hoodwink Young Master any longer. But Young Master, we should go to the pavilion for you to take a seat before we begin to explain everything to you thoroughly." So saying, they flanked Su Yi and proceeded to have a seat in the pavilion.

Zi Nong shot Zi Liu another glance, looking for confirmation, before she proceeded to say: "Since matters have come to this, we can only tell you the truth, but we beseech you to never let His Majesty know. That night when you sought to join your country in death by slitting your own throat, your actions truly made His Majesty livid. When he returned to the Royal Study, he immediately sent for the Minister He, who is the high official in charge of the Ministry of Justice and ordered him to find out all the old friends and close neighbours you have that are living in this city and round them up so that he could use them to threaten you."

"But who could have predicted that three days later, when without a single exception, Minister He had covertly apprehended all the people you have close ties to, His Majesty's rage had already abated somewhat. When he saw that among the captives, there were many such people like infirm elders, little children and pregnant women, he knew that they were indeed ideal for the purpose of forcing your agreement. However, he could not bring himself to actually harm them. His Majesty knew that you would certainly not wait for any one of them to actually come to harm before you capitulate, but from the looks of those people, he also knew that none of them could withstand a fright. If any of them collapsed or died of fright, not only would he be unable to account to you but it would also be a heinous deed that would offend Heaven and defy all reason. So he released them from prison, and had them ushered to a small building on the palace grounds instead where he proceeded to tell them about his scheme. He also used flawed logic to persuade them, saying that after you have become the Empress, Jin Liao and Great Qi will become one family, and in future the Jin Liao people will have no grounds to throw their weight around and oppress the people of Qi."