Rebirth of Poisoned Empress, by 颜若优雅

Chapter 91

"No..."

Fwoosh! Fwoosh! Fwoosh!

More than a hundred arrows fired at them, intertwined into an airtight net as they rushed towards the prisoners tied to the wooden stakes. The sharp arrows pierced through their skin and grinded through their muscles and tendons, immersed in their pained screams. Before they could recover and their screams could cease, a second wave and rain of arrows were released. Several waves ensued and when it stopped, those who were tied on the stakes had been drilled with arrows and were covered by a myriad of gaping, bloody holes that pooled out their innards, like blood dyed hedgehogs. No one noticed the streams of tears that quietly streamed down Huo Yelin's cheeks.

"Pass the Imperial decree!" 

Without sparing the dying people another glance, Pei Yuanxian waved his arm and a eunuch hurriedly stood up and slowly unraveled the royal yellow edict scroll. "By orders of the Heavenly disposition, relayed by the Emperor's decree, Qin Yunshen as ascended the throne for three years..."

"Hence, the emperor has judged Qin Yunshen death by three thousand cuts. The demoness Imperial Concubine Shen Qinag will have her limbs severed and made into a Meiren Zhi, placed in the downtown region for the common people to vent their anger. Stated by His Majesty, the emperor himself!" *Meiren means beauty. Zhi has several meanings but can mean furniture. Viewer's discretion before reading the rest of what Meiren Zhi means. In the Chinese ancient scriptures, there was such a story in which ten prostitutes crawled out of bed naked and stretched out their necks. They opened their small peach blossom lips before the wealthy clients and accepted being spit on. Afterwards, these prostitutes had to lick their lips and swallow the spit with a smile on their lips. Such was what a Meiren Zhi was.*

After the series of deliverances, the eunuch finally finished relaying the Imperial decree. Back then, Qin Yunshen had once sentenced Shen Liang to death by a thousand cuts. Pei Yuanxian returned the sentence to him. Shen Qiang severed Shen Liang's limbs and gouged out his eyes. Pei Yuanxian returned the treatment twofold. Shen Liang choked and gasped before he finally couldn't restrain himself and let out a sharp cry of anguish. Regardless of whether this was real, he was willing to believe that this was what happened after his death. All of those people who had once harmed his eldest brother and the Wei Family, each and every one of them had paid the price for it.

"No. No. I was wrong. I shouldn't have forced him to his head. Ah..." What ensued afterwards was a gory scene. The executioners walked up to Qin Yunshen and Shen Liang respectively. Qin Yunshen seemed to have suffered from a traumatic blow. Even when his gown was pulled off and he was wrapped in a fish net, he didn't respond in the slightest. Shen Qiang was different. She screamed frantically and desperately but the executioner still raised the heavy executioner's knife and threw it down, severing off her limbs mercilessly.

The execution process took more than two hours. Shen Qiang had both her feet and arms severed, her facial features cut off, her tongue removed, and her eyes gouged and placed into a jar with preservatory solutions. Afterwards, what remained was directly carried out for the rest of her sentence. As for Qin Yunshen, the fish net tightened and cut into his flesh. As the executioners continuously tightened the net, the thin and sharp threads drove through his flesh and muscles. At certain parts, bloody innards pooled out until only a bloody skeleton remained. However, his eyes still moved and the executioner had no choice but to deliver a final blow. 

Shen Liang felt overwhelmed. Just as he found himself unable to shed any more tears, the scene changed once again. This time, there was no bloodshed. There were no killings. There was only the giant coffin Pei Yuanxian and others carried out from the Imperial Mausoleum. As the coffin was pried open, a rotten smell immediately permeated the air. When it finally subsided, the Wei Family were amongst the first to rush forward.