Chapter 65
Chapter 65 To Execute Him by Five Horses
Zhou Zhicheng frowned his eyebrows after hearing what Mr. Wang had said. "Did those people say anything?"
"They asked her not to contact with Zhou something. Alas, I’m too old to remember what they said!" Mr. Wang sighed gently. A wave of huge anger arose from Zhou Zhicheng’s heart and he thought, "They must be Princess Huizhen’s people!"
Coming out of the Wang’s, Zhou Zhicheng was filled with anger, after all, Wang Yu was the girl he was in love with even if she had been married twice. And Wang Yu was much better than that witch Princess Huizhen in everything.
Back to the fourth floor of Dong Hai Restaurant, Zhou Zhicheng looked around and noticed that the two guards of Princess Huizhen’s were standing there and looking at him coldly. Coming out of the room, Nanny Zhou whispered at once when she saw Zhou Zhicheng, "Childe Zhou, Her Highness asked you to come in."
Zhou Zhicheng hummed. After he entered the room, his fair face was heavily slapped by the princess before he properly stood in front of her.
"You b*stard. How dare you poison me!"
Zhou Zhicheng was astonished and he took a closer look at Princess Huizhen’s face and realized that her extremely ugly face made him want to vomit. However, he still pretended to be shocked and said, "Your Highness, what do you mean? How dare I poison Your Highness?"
"Humph! It was just because you poisoned me these days that my face became like this!"
"Your Highness! Someone framed me! Just like last time when Princess Huiling had her meals here, she ate a dead mouse. Your Highness… please…"
Slap!
Another slap fell on his face. Princess Huizhen was enraged and scratched and bit his face, trampling on Zhou Zhicheng crazily.
Zhou Zhicheng stood there just like a block of wood, letting Princess Huizhen do whatever she wanted to him. Eventually, Princess Huizhen was really tired and she screamed with gasp and tears in her red eyes. "Zhou Zhicheng, you should go die!"
In the decade of marriage with Rong Qiyue, Zhou Zhicheng had never lived such a life. And now, he realized that the woman standing in front of him had no competence with his virtuous and tender ex-wife!
Unfortunately, it was too late to regret!
"Your Highness… it’s true that I’m framed! Even Princess Huiling once ate a dead mouse here before… If Your Highness doesn’t believe it, Your Highness can inquire others… I, Zhou Zhicheng, am loyal and devoted to Your Highness with complete faith." Zhou Zhicheng swore harshly with his eyes turning red.
Princess Huizhen calmed down and realized that she was now neither like a real person nor a ghost, and suddenly she remembered what Hua Qiyue had said to her.
"So… will you marry me?" Princess Huizhen slowly asked.
Zhou Zhicheng shrunk after hearing this, but he still answered immediately, "Yes, I do! But Your Highness needs to change your identity…"
Hearing this, Princess Huizhen smiled with relief and satisfaction and she didn’t misjudge Zhou Zhicheng. It seemed that Hua Qiyue had worried too much.
Princess Huizhen smiled delightfully and held Zhou Zhicheng’s hands, "Get up, I won’t blame you anymore… It seems that I’ve worried too much since you’re still into me even if I’m so ugly now."
Zhou Zhicheng felt grateful in tears, and got up and hugged tightly with Princess Huizhen, "Your Highness, don’t worry about it, I will not let you down!"
Although his words sounded like honey, his eyes looked like a sword dipped in poison, shining with cold light.
The sun was setting in the west, and night fell.
That night, the fourth floor of Dong Hai Restaurant was covered by blood and permeated by the smell of blood. An interrupted screech came out of the room which was like the sound from a person whose mouth was covered by something.
Zhou Zhicheng stood in front of Princess Huizhen’s bed and he was holding a sharp knife and his hands were trembling. He, together with Butler Wu and others, secretly put knock-out drops into Princess Huizhen and her servants’ dinner so that they would sleep like a log, which was convenient for Zhou Zhicheng’s action.
He wasn’t the idiot who would get married to a disfigured princess!
Zhou Zhicheng valued fame and money very much, how could he marry someone like Princess Huizhen? She had got nothing and she was a dead woman walking. So, once the truth was exposed to the public, Zhou Zhicheng would die without a burial place!
Princess Huizhen, lying in the bed, glared at Zhou Zhicheng who was drawing his bloody sharp knife. Her throat made sounds of a cackle, and finally, several words constrainedly came out of her mouth…
"Why… why did you treat me like this…? Zhou Zhicheng… you… are so cruel!"
There were crystal tear-drops on Princess Huizhen’s horrible face and Princess Huizhen still didn’t figure out
It seemed that Hua Qiyue knew about him… she asked Princess Huizhen to be cautious and careful, but Princess Huizhen still believed in him, and finally, she got such a sad ending!
There arose a weird smile on Zhou Zhicheng’s face, "Your Highness, there is no room in my heart for you, so, enjoy your life when you get to the nether world!"
"Why…" She looked at Zhou Zhicheng with her eyes filled with resentment, and she regretted that she didn’t listen to Hua Qiyue. She treated this man with her whole heart, however, this man raised a sharp knife to her!
"I’ve always taken his side, but he is a man of a beast nature. How pathetic and regrettable it was!"
"Actually, Princess Huiling has already known that you lived here. And since you’re a dead person, once she discloses what happened to us, my family and I will be buried with you!" Zhou Zhicheng laughed coldly, and he raised his sharp knife and ended Princess Huizhen’s life.
The color of blood pervaded the night sky, and Zhou Zhicheng took back the knife in a fluster. Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhicheng heard a sound of bustle downstairs when he was about to ask Butler Wu to clean up the mess. Zhou Zhicheng freaked out and he hurriedly opened the door, only to see the gate of the restaurant was kicked open and here rushed in a crowd of guards!
Zhou Zhicheng felt fainted in his head and his throat was too dry to speak a word. Those guards besieged the restaurant tightly. And he couldn’t escape from being suspected because of his bloody cloth!
And the guards’ action woke up the people living around the restaurant. Numerous people got up to see what happened. Through the light and fire, they saw Zhou Zhicheng standing there in a bloody cloth and his eyes were dull.
"Ah, someone was killed!"
"Gosh, is that Zhou Zhicheng, the boss of Dong Hai Restaurant?"
"Yeah, the restaurant is in a good business, but why did he kill people?"
"Must there be some interest dispute?"
"That’s horrible! This restaurant is really weird. I’ve heard that Mrs. Zhou was also killed by a break-in robber."
"…"
The guards rushed to the fourth floor and arrested Zhou Zhicheng who was still in a daze. In the entire process of arrest, he didn’t do anything to revolt and he seemed to have submitted to his fate.
People were shocked by his bloody cloth, and his red eyes were dull and blank. He watched those guards kicking him without any facial expression.
Butler Wu had intended to give a hand to Zhou Zhicheng, but he was frightened to freeze when he heard the sound outside. And now that he saw Zhou Zhicheng had already been arrested, he sat on the second floor and couldn’t help crying loudly.
"Zhou Zhicheng, how many people did you kill?" The prefect stepped forward when he heard someone was beating the drum outside the court and appealed for justice. A woman reported that a homicide case happened here, which freaked the prefect out to wear his cloth while rushing out.
And now, the prefect was shocked when he saw that the floor was covered by blood and the three rooms were pervaded by the smell of blood.
"Five…"
Zhou Zhicheng answered torpidly and he suddenly laughed, "Haha, God wants me to die! God wants me to die! I killed five people, and it has nothing to do with my parents. Your Excellency, please don’t give them a hard time!"
He laughed and cried, and teardrops fell down on his face. The prefect ordered that Zhou Zhicheng be taken away and the dead people’s identities be verified.
When pushed out of the restaurant, Zhou Zhicheng vaguely saw an extremely beautiful face in the crowd, and it turned out to be Hua Qiyue’s face…
But why was she here? His eyes must have been dazzled and blurred, weren’t they? Because just now, what he saw in Hua Qiyue’s eyes was cold and her two eyes looked like a deep lake as if she could see through what was in his mind.
And right now, in the palace, the Empress was carefully looking at the clues that spies collected.
"…"
"On July 27th, a strange woman entered Hua Qiyue’s Mansion of Feng."
"On August 6th, Hua Qiyue went out of her mansion with her foster son, and on the way, she met a disfigured woman. They talked for a while in an alley…"
The Empress frowned slightly, and she carefully combined Hua Qiyue’s whereabouts and suddenly she screamed, "Someone, did the princess really go out for travel?"
"Yes, according to the information, the princess traveled to the south and she hasn’t come back yet." The private guard reported in a soft voice.
The Empress’ heart was pounding rapidly and her fingers couldn’t help trembling, "Go… go to Dong Hai Restaurant, and find the princess!"
Somehow, a strong disturbance, like a deep dark night, rose from her heart, which blinded her from the light.
That two private guards answered and disappeared immediately.
However, when they arrived at the restaurant, they only saw that the guards were busy doing their jobs and the entire fourth floor was covered by blood. And after they talked to the prefect, they got the princess’ Jade of Blood. The Jade of Blood was given back to the Emperor after the birthday of his mother. However, the Emperor was so disappointed and he gave it to the Empress.
Of course, the Empress gave the Jade of Blood back to Princess Huizhen, hoping that she would be safe and sound for the rest of her life and live a stable and comfortable life. But unexpectedly, the bad news came to her so quickly.
When the Empress saw Princess Huizhen’s horrible face, she screamed and fainted at once. Two hours later, she woke up slowly and looked at the curtains coldly with her eyes turning red. There was a ferocious voice sounded in her heart. "Hua Qiyue! You’re so evil! I’ll never let you and your Hua’s Mansion go!"
And Zhou Zhicheng, of course, was convicted of murder and was going to be executed by five horses.
And the day after the seventh day was the date of execution. And it was known to people that the persons were killed were three women and two men. They were the passing by merchants and they were killed by Zhou Zhicheng because they had divergences with each other.
On the last day before the date of execution.
A pretty young lady came to the jail. She was in white and looked dustless. Her eyebrows were picturesque and her steps were steady.
It was her—Hua Qiyue that came to visit Zhou Zhicheng.
Of course, she came here in the name of his "relatives". And this shallow relationships of relatives wasn’t some excuse in terms of the prefect. But after all, she was Princess Jinghua, therefore, the prefect unconditionally agreed that she was able to meet Zhou Zhicheng.
It was smelly in the jail, but Hua Qiyue didn’t frown and came to the front of Zhou Zhicheng’s cell. The surrounding prisoners saw a pretty young lady and frivolously whistled to her.
Zhou Zhicheng was surprised because Hua Qiyue, after all, was an infanta, and she should visit him because of their old relationships?
He came to the door of his cell, gawking at Hua Qiyue’s pretty little face. If Miss Wang was the girl he lately fell in love with, then Hua Qiyue was definitely his dream lover who could only be watched in a distance but not be gotten closed to.
And now, she came here, and Zhou Zhicheng was excited to seize the pillar of the cell, intending to be closer to Hua Qiyue.
As he wished, Hua Qiyue came closer and there was an only five-finger long distance between them, "Zhou Zhicheng, you’ve always been cunning. And I’ve never thought that this time you were defeated by me so quickly."
Hua Qiyue said calmly. Zhou Zhicheng was astonished and looked at Hua Qiyue in his incredible eyes.