Repairing the Past

Chapter 49

Aunt Hui sprinkled the medicinal powder on Chu Yao's body. While Xier apply ointment on each bruise on the face of the master. Chu Yao nodded. Open her eyes and try to sit slowly. Xier helped him stabilize himself carefully.

“Finally miss realized. Thank goodness.” Said Xier and Aunt Hui together.

Chu Yao stroked the top of Xier's head that had not stopped wailing. The young girl was crying. Between sadness and fear.

“Tenace. I'm it's okay. Everything will be fine.” Entertain Chu Yao.

Aunt Hui looked at Chu Yao with a feeling of uneasiness. As if knowing what the old woman was feeling, Chu Yao gave a gentle elusan on the back of Aunt Hui's hand. They talk to each other in the eyes. Trying to strengthen each other even though they know the possibility to be free is minimal.

“They are so desperate to hurt a lady like this. What savage humans!” Omelette Xier.

“You are, in this situation you still have time to curse others!” Aunt Hui replied a little annoyed.

Xier doesn't care. He continued his words, “They deserve to be maki. Oh right, did the lady see the great master or Uncle Tong? We worry about them.”

The look on Chu Yao's face instantly changed, “I saw father.. But not with uncle.”

“How is the state of mister?” Aunt Hui asked curiously.

“Beliau.”.

Not yet had Chu Yao continued her words, two guards had come along with the figure of a middle-aged woman who was thrashing out for release. Madam Xun was herded with her hands tied. The woman was put into a cell that was right in front of them. He was pushed hard until he fell on the floor.

The three people fell silent looking at Madam Xun who was shouting calling out to the guards who had locked her up.

Chu Yao sighed. He was quite grateful to see the situation of his stepmother. There were no visible injuries on his graceful body. At least that woman's condition was better than Chu Yao felt. However, Madame Xun cursed when she realized that Chu Yao was at the end of her eyes.

“Durgan son! Because of you we are all miserable! Because of you the Chu family perished! You fucking carrier girl! You better just die! Fuckin'*m!!” Madame Xun's roar with eyes full of vengeance.

Chu Yao did not bother him. He closed his eyes again while leaning against the prison wall.

Mrs Xun is getting on board, “You, on what basis did you make the general do this crazy thing?! Are you not content enough to live a good life in our family so as to make us hostile to the empress and the crown prince?!”

“Don't pretend just because you're the daughter of an emperor! You're just a child in hiding! You were never wanted by anyone!”

“Does blasphemy reduce the pain in your heart? If so, do as you please! “ Asked Chu Yao with an intimidating look.

His premonition said that the old woman had met the empress before. There was no way Madame Xun was so eloquently scolding, without knowing the true story. Only the empress had any connection to her stepmother. Not the crown prince or anyone else.

Xier glanced at Aunt Hui with a look of bewildered eyes. He almost asked about the information he had just heard. But aunt Hui suppressed her intention with a sharp look. Madam Xun was grumbling. Cussing, swearing and even pointing towards Chu Yao. Hui Aunt who was so patient finally could not bear it.

“Mistress's words are so outrageous! This is not the fault, miss! No one wants this to happen. It's just God's will.”

“God said you?” Madame Xun chuckled, “There is no role of God here! All of this is purely a plan that you put together, isn't it? You, the eighth prince, and also the general. Even the emperor, you guys have planned this for a long time! The Empress has told me everything!”

After being satisfied with the scolding, the woman again shouted, “Guard! Unhand me! I am innocent! They framed me!”

The shrill voice of mistress Xun made a rowdy dungeon. A guard came with a hostile face. The man even hit the iron bars on Madame Xun's cell so strongly that it created a deafening ringing sound. Not only was madam Xun even everyone was aghast at her.

“You're so noisy, madam! If you still have the energy to shout, you better use it to pray that the execution tomorrow can run smoothly!”

Madam Xun flabbergasted with wide eyes, “Dead Execution? WHO DO YOU MEAN?”

“Who else if not general Chu and all of you rebels!”

The guard left with an annoyed face. Leaving Madam Xun sitting limp. Not only the woman, Xier and Aunt Hui could not hide her fear either. Their bodies were shaking with resignation.

“Cannot.. The queen has promised.. He won't let us die.. He only wanted Chu Yao's head.. Not us!” Madam Xun muttered that she seemed shocked to herself.

Chu Yao spoke up without even opening her eyes, “It seems that the mistress has already eaten up the foul promise of the woman. Did the mistress give something to the empress so that she could easily tie a promise with him?”

Lady Xun gurgled. His face immediately paled. He fell silent as if he had just realized the stupidity he was doing. Chu Yao opened her eyes. Curiosity made him repeat the question.

Fearfully, madam Xun replied, “Ti, no.”

“Really?”

Still in a stammered voice, madam Xun again replied, “A, I just took out a jade slip.. Nah! i, just borrowed it to show it to her noble consort.”

Chu Yao's jaw instantly hardened. His premonition said that the jade was not just any jade.

“What kind of guitars?”

Madam Xun grew even more frightened with Chu Yao's serious tone. In a soft voice, the woman replied, “The jade is just an ordinary jade that happens to have a unique shape. It was a dragon carving that gripped a ball.”

Chu Yao's patience suddenly disappeared for a moment. He shouted at the stepmother with the word 'stupid' so loud. He even roared in order to vent his regret over the behavior of the woman.

“Why are you so angry?!” Madame Xun half-cried.

Chu Yao was inflamed hearing the woman's sense of offence, “Of course you made me angry! Does the mistress not know because of the stupidity of the mistress we ended up in this place?!”

“A, What do you mean?”

“That there are only two in this world. One on the eighth prince and one on the father. It is a special object that can double as a plaque and identification that is given directly by the emperor personally.”

“Do you know why you're accused of being a rebel?” Asked Chu Yao in the accompanying arms of Madame Xun's head, “Because it was found to be in the hands of the intruder Alorra!”

Madam Xun's body stiffened. He was silent in shock, “A, was it when I brought him to the empress that the empress had exchanged him for a fake?”

“Now you just think so? Where's your brain you've always been proud of?”

Chu Yao suppressed her increasingly throbbing temple. I don't know why all the wounds suddenly hurt. Chu Yao turned away. He no longer wanted to discuss this matter with the smart-ass woman. He became very tired. Not just physically but mentally. Despite this, his brain kept spinning rapidly. Think of ways to save innocent people.

But in what way?

Ask who to help?

Chu Zhan's? It was certain that he and his wife were forbidden to go to this place by the emperor's majesty. Young master Zhao? Marrying Chu Ling alone had already helped save one head. There was no way Chu Yao could bear to let those people get involved.

Chu Yao sat down with her knees bent to her chest. He hugged himself unconsciously. It was as if it provided strength and support to his soul that had almost lost hope.

***

The next morning, everyone was startled by the arrival of several guards who forcefully pulled Chu Yao and Madam Xun together. Following the same treatment of Hui's aunt, Xier and dozens of other female servants who had worked at the Chu residence.

With their hands and feet tied to iron chains, the guards took them out and headed to the death hall to undergo the execution process.

Madam Xun looked calmer even though her old face was turning pale. Chu Yao knew that the old woman was frightened but also had a sense of regret. He no longer shouted for release like before. He locked his mouth all the way.

Sunlight in winter still does not affect anything. Still provide frost for those who already wear special clothing convicts are quite thin.

Their steps came to a halt when they heard the interruptions from the head of the guard escorting them. Chu Yao frowned for a moment. When pain sometimes occurs in the injured part of the body.

He narrowed his eyes, staring at the figures of several men he knew had kneeled on the platform located in the middle of the vast hall of death.

Two of them were general Chu and uncle Tong. Their condition looked haggard and unkempt. What else is the father. The state of the man with a firm and burly stature was no longer the same.

Chu Yao's heart suddenly ached. It was as if he had been hit by a boulder when he realized that he was helpless. He could do nothing to keep his promise. Let alone to save the father or anyone else, he could not save himself at all.

Chu Yao bit her lip. Stifling the increasingly domineering sense of despair. Fear began to crawl his mind. Not the fear of death. But on the trauma when he was in the dead lives of those he cared about in his previous life.

The woman took a deep and deep breath. Shifting all the shadows of the past that are automatically drawn in his head with good things. But it is very difficult for him to be able to think positively under these circumstances.

Madam Xun's hand suddenly landed on Chu Yao's trembling back. It seemed that the middle-aged woman was aware of Chu Yao's change in attitude. He gently stroked the back of his stepson without saying a word. It was as if it gave a calmness to Chu Yao's mixed feelings.

Chu Yao did not pry him. He was still angry with the woman. Although her stepmother was regretful and was trying to mend their relationship, Chu Yao would still not forgive her. His heart was already sick with the actions of Madame Xun who was out of bounds.

A few minutes later, one by one the people of the capital arrived and filled the hall. Although it had been on the fence with hundreds of fully armed soldiers, it did not also dampen their spirits to witness the great events.

They jostled each other just to watch the execution of the Chu general and his family who were famously loyal to the Empire.

News of the rebellion by the general has apparently made many assumptions in the public. Some believe the opposite, some even care nothing at all.

All that speculation made the atmosphere noisy for quite a long time and came to a halt when the presence of the emperor, the princes and the officials there.

Chu Yao looked up, looking for the crown prince she was desperate to kill. But the figure was not seen in the ranks of the princes who had been present. Among the many influential people there, only Ye Zuan was the one he knew.

Chu Yao looked at him sharply. It was as if he was questioning his promise. The eighth prince replied with an indescribable look then threw away a face. Chu Yao grew increasingly frustrated. A look of disappointment lingered on her pale beautiful face.

“Bangs*t!” Maki Chu Yao who was then heard by one of the guards. The guard gave a punch on Chu Yao's back to make the girl fall to the ground.

“Stop making troublemakers! It's better for miss to pray than to make a futile fight!” Snapped the guard with a furious face.

Chu Yao did not heed it. The woman got up and almost got back on the side when she stabilized herself. He went back to his knees with his mouth closed.

In order to prevent further unrest, the emperor's decision to execute the Chu general and his family was read aloud to echo throughout the hall.

A hysterical voice sounded instantly. Frightened cries as well as pleas for mercy clashed against each other in Chu Yao's ears. The girl was silent with her pupils widened when one by one of the male prisoners who had served her family had died with their necks severed.

With female prisoners. They were called and stood lined up under the gallows. Five people together without face coverings. Look at each other when the hanging was carried out.

Everyone is scared. Not just the prisoners. The civil society is like that too. The punishment this time was cruel. Makes many people shocked to vomit stomach acid. Even some of them fainted and went back home before all the executions were completed.

Xier shouted loudly. Aunt Hui roared with tears, calling out Uncle Tong's name as the man was the victim of his next execution.

“We are innocent!”

“We are just defamed!”

“Our glorious forgiving!”

Their self-defense was not heard by the emperor and his officials. The desperate cries did not also make the people sitting in the hall's stands sympathize. It was as if their hearts had no sense of pity. They even enjoy the situation like seeing a game animal.

Chu Yao's heartbeats grew increasingly uncontrollable as Xier and Aunt Hui's turns were under the gallows. The clear bead caught the bodies of the two people trembling. Their faces pale with fear. Tears of sadness poured down so hard that the bodies of the two hung lifelessly. Chu Yao suddenly fell silent. His voice stuck in the esophagus. The incident was so fast that it had not been recorded clearly in his brain.

Undeterred by his surprise, it was now the turn of the stepmother and general Chu who were summoned to the bridge. Madam Xun stood up without being told. The classy lady raised her chin and straightened her back. He walked with graceful steps.

As soon as he reached the bridge steps, the woman grabbed the sword held by a soldier who was off guard. With a twisting motion, the sword slit the throat of Madame Xun and made her instantly dead. People are suffocating in horror. No exception to Chu Yao. He even sat down on the ground. Her tears flowed without her noticing. The actions that the old woman had done were unexpected. Chu Yao simply did not think that the calmness was the madam's initial plan of suicide.

Chu Yao's lips trembled. He couldn't even pretend he didn't see his father's tears. Despite being blind, general Chu still had a keen sense of hearing. Surely the old man was devastated to hear the death of his beloved wife who was only a few meters away from him in a tragic way. Surely general Chu regretted his helplessness at this moment. The look on his face had clearly illustrated that feeling. And incensed, Chu Yao was able to understand it from afar.

General Chu lay face down under a large knife ready to cut his neck.

Before he spoke, the firm man shouted loudly, “LONG JIN MAO, YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE!!!”

PRAAANGGG!!!

Chu's head general was cut off instantly and rolled towards Chu Yao. Making Chu Yao's brain malfunction for a moment.

“AYAAAAAHHHHH!!!” the voice of Chu Yao that had been lost suddenly came out.

He was screaming hysterically. Trying to run to reach the body of the father who is no longer intact. But his body managed to be held by the guards who were standing on his sides. Chu Yao fought back. With the rest of his energy, he fought with a few guards. The girl didn't even care if her old wounds were open and the blood was flowing again.

Her tears turned red as they were mixed with blood flowing from her temples.

Chu Yao did not care. Even if he lost his life. Life or death is not important to him. Everyone he cared about had left in a tragic way before his own eyes. Chu Yao's fury-filled face had made the emperor's majesty rise from her seat. The number one man whispered something to the eunuch then left the death hall.

“DON'T GO! YOU CAUSED THIS BLOODSHED! YOU'RE THE ONE RESPONSIBLE!!”

“THEY KILLED MY MOTHER! WHY ARE YOU KILLING MY FAMILY?! WHERE'S YOUR JUSTICE?!”

Chu Yao fell to the ground after being content to shout at the emperor. He fainted from the blow that hit his body from one of the guards.

The emperor's decision was read again. Chu Yao's execution was no longer at the gallows, but was replaced with bone-melting poison with a triple dose.