C4 Frame-up

He stepped into the empress dowager's palace and threw a piece of white cloth at Du Jiuyue's face. Before she could react, he heard a cold shout from above, "Kneel!"

Du Jiuyue raised her head and saw the person who had spoken to her.

A graceful, elegant, middle-aged woman who was Lady Xu's age. Though well-dressed, her eyes were cold and merciless as she stared at her. From the looks of her seat, it was Esteemed Empress Dowager.

"How dare you!" A court lady by the side saw Du Jiuyue standing there and sizing her up. She stepped forward and pushed her aside. "Hurry up and pay respects to Esteemed Empress Dowager?"

Du Jiuyue hesitated for a moment before she kneeled down. She was under the roof, and a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him.

"Do you know your crime?" When she was on her knees, Her Majesty trembled and pointed her finger almost at the tip of her nose.

"I don't know!" Du Jiuyue gritted her teeth. If they wanted to add insult to injury, they had no choice but to accept it! When that white piece of cloth was thrown at her face, she knew that Sima Qi had made a fool of her.

It was indeed a good method. She gritted her teeth in hatred, only wanting to bite that person to death with a single bite.

"Humph!" The empress dowager gave a cold snort. Her face was extremely gloomy as she asked the woman beside her, "If the marriage wasn't clean, according to the laws of Qianyan, how should we deal with it?"

At this moment, Du Jiuyue discovered a beauty sitting next to the empress dowager. That beauty was already similar to her age, and should also be around seventeen or eighteen years old. She was extremely beautiful, and her clothes were gorgeous.

Her resentful almond-shaped eyes glared at her as if she were about to eat her. At the empress's question, she merely glared at her and said, "Soak in the pig cage!"

"Alright, let's soak in the pig cage!" "Drag him out!" When the empress dowager heard her words, she waved her hand and spoke without even looking at her.

"Wait!" Du Jiuyue was shocked and stood up abruptly with a loud shout.

"How dare you!" How dare you disrespect the empress dowager? " young eunuch, who was standing at the side, immediately went up to her and drank. He glared at her with hatred and wanted to force her down.

"In any case, I'm a dying man. So what if I'm disrespectful?" Du Jiuyue sniggered, simply yelled at the top of her lungs, "You guys can even make me die twice?"

"Indeed, you are worthy of being called a servant, you have never had any respect at all." The beauty by the empress dowager's side spoke up once again. She stared coldly and disdainfully at Du Jiuyue, her eyes filled with unspeakable arrogance and malice.

Du Jiuyue was not afraid of her at all. She looked at the empress dowager and retorted, "And what are you? Can you still be the empress dowager's master with the empress dowager? "Could it be that you're even more noble than Esteemed Empress Dowager?"

She did not know if the original owner had offended this woman, but at this moment, no matter how humble she was, it would not end well for her.

"You …" The woman was filled with hatred. Her face was distorted with anger, and her fingers were trembling with anger, as if she was going to eat Du Jiuyue.

"What else do you have to say?" The empress dowager actually looked at her in surprise, as if she hadn't expected her to have so much guts to actually stir up trouble. But she still remembered that Du Jiuyue had to die.

"I have nothing to say, but I would like to ask, is my crime capital punishment? Must I die? " Du Jiuyue looked coldly at the empress dowager, her eyes cold as she spoke each word.

"No!" Her Majesty wanted to laugh, but she suppressed it.

"That's good!" Du Jiuyue had a face full of relief.

The beauty at the side of the empress dowager could not help but laugh. She proudly struck out at her and said, "For thousands of years, none of those who went to soak in the pig cages were able to come back alive. So what if it wasn't a death sentence? Do you still want to come back alive? "

"Lian-er!" The empress dowager warned the woman beside her.

Lian`er glared coldly at Du Jiuyue, but didn't say another word.

The empress dowager looked at Du Jiuyue as if she were looking at a fool. She gave a cold laugh and said, "Immersing the pig cage is indeed not a capital offense. If you can survive, I guarantee that I won't hold anything back for you."

"If there's nothing else, just drag them out!" The empress dowager waved her hand. She'd agreed to help kill Du Jiuyue, but she didn't want to blow the matter up. After all, if the investigation ended, it'd be hard to explain everything to the emperor.

This time, Du Jiuyue didn't struggle. Since she had already gotten what she wanted, she relaxed and obediently followed the eunuch beside her out. Before she left, she took a deep look at the woman called Lian-er.

She had remembered this grudge.

However, Sima Qi only wanted to kill the woman who was in the name of the Sixth Princess. Since he had already achieved his goal, he didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble anymore.

Du Jiuyue was directly dragged to the side of the Lanjiang outside of the city. His Lanjiang billowed, waves splashed against the shore, and a thousand layers of snow piled up on top of each other. It was indeed not easy to survive in this turbulent river.

The palace maid checked and confirmed that it was Du Jiuyue herself. However, when she saw the jade bracelet on Du Jiuyue's wrist, she couldn't help but feel greedy. She wanted to grab it along the way. Unfortunately, she exerted all her strength, but the jade bracelet seemed to have grown on Du Jiuyue's hand and didn't move at all.

Du Jiuyue glared at her coldly and allowed her to attack. She merely laughed coldly without saying a word.

In the end, the palace maid felt very embarrassed. She gritted her teeth and could only give up. She coldly snorted and said: "A servant's concubine is probably not a good person. Who cares …"

After confirming that she did not have any weapons, she nodded to the head eunuch. On the other side, two small palace maids stepped forward and tied Du Jiuyue up.

If it was an ordinary person, let alone entering the pig cage, even if they were to be thrown into the Lanjiang, they would probably not be able to survive.

"Put it in!" The chief eunuch waved his hand and a few young eunuch immediately came forward. They carried Du Jiuyue up and stuffed her into the bamboo pig cage.

Being put into a pig cage, not to mention whether they were dead or alive, just this alone was a great insult to them. How many girls had the courage to survive such a matter as immersing themselves in a pig cage?

Du Jiuyue, on the other hand, was not an ordinary person. She was a modern secret service agent who had transmigrated to this world, so she did not care about the matter of chastity. Furthermore, she knew very well that it was just an excuse for Sima Qi to kill her.

Even young eunuch, who was in the pig cage beside him, felt the hatred in his eyes. Because of that bone-piercing chill, his hands couldn't help but tremble.

Even the Chief Eunuch looked at the woman in front of him in surprise. However, Du Jiuyue did not struggle as if resigned to her fate. Thus, he did not create unnecessary trouble.

When they left the palace, Noble Consort Liu had specifically ordered for her to add a few more rocks so that this woman would never have the chance to walk out of the river alive again.

"One — two — three, throw it!" Several young eunuch shouted as they lifted the pig cage horizontally, and then fiercely threw it into the surging flow of Lanjiang.