At this time, Li Ruyi was caught.
She deserved it.
After Li Ruyi married the Third Prince and became the Imperial Concubine, she began to abuse her power.
Normally, in front of the Third Prince, she could still appear gentle and virtuous. However, when the Third Prince was out on errands, she would reveal her true colors. She would beat and scold those servants, and sometimes even beat those servants to death.
The servants in the residence were angry, but they did not dare to say anything.
Having gotten used to bullying servants in the residence, Li Ruyi had also become domineering outside. As a matter of fact, after bumping into the stall of an old man selling goods, Li Ruyi directly ordered his subordinates to overturn the old man's stall and beat him to death.
Li Ruyi's servant had been angered by Li Ruyi, and now he was venting all his anger on this innocent old man.
The old man was old and weak, so how could he withstand being beaten to death?
He did not even have time to breathe and stopped breathing.
Li Ruyi did not show any fear after killing someone on the street. She directly had someone throw five taels of silver, saying that it was compensation for the old man's life.
If an ordinary person knew that their father had been beaten to death by the Imperial Concubine, they could only accept the money and swallow their anger.
But what Li Ruyi did not know was that the old man she had beaten to death was the father of this year's top scholar, Xiao Tang.
Xiao Tang was the top scholar and specially brought his father to the capital to enjoy life.
However, the old man was used to being busy all his life. After a few days in the residence, he felt uncomfortable all over, so he had someone set up a stall for him. Like before, he went to the streets to set up a stall to earn money.
Xiao Tang naturally did not approve of his father setting up a stall outside.
He let his old father come to the capital to enjoy his old age. How could he continue to set up a stall and work?
However, seeing his father come back with a smile after setting up the stall every day, Xiao Tang let him do as he pleased after a while.
After all, enjoying one's old age was not only material, but also spiritual.
Since his father was happy setting up a stall outside and was not very tired, he let him do as he pleased.
What he did not expect was that when he returned home after court today, what awaited him was not his father who would give him the unsold sesame seed cakes to eat, but his father's cold corpse.
Xiao Tang lifted the white cloth covering the corpse and saw his father's body covered in bruises. His ribs were broken and his chest was caved in. Xiao Tang's eyes reddened.
After learning that his father had been beaten to death on the street because he had bumped into Li Ruyi at his stall, Xiao Tang hugged his father's body and beat the drum to cry out for justice.
Li Ruyi was the Third Prince's legal wife.
However, Xiao Tang was the new top scorer and was now valued by the Emperor. He couldn't afford to offend either of them. The county magistrate directly reported this matter to the Emperor.
The Emperor, who had been struggling with which prince to give the position of Crown Prince to, was furious when he heard that Li Ruyi had killed the father of the new top scorer, Xiao Tang, on the street. He directly had Li Ruyi arrested.
Li Ruyi was still eating in the Third Prince's residence when he was arrested by the soldiers who suddenly broke in.
Li Ruyi was used to riding roughshod over others. When she was suddenly caught, she was instantly enraged. She raised her hand and slapped one of the soldiers. She shouted, "I am the Third Prince's legal wife. How dare you touch me?"
What Li Ruyi didn't know was that these people who came to catch her were all the Emperor's confidants.
Especially the person she slapped, who was the captain of the Inner Palace Guards.
The captain of the Inner Palace Guards was the Emperor's most trusted confidant. Slapping the captain of the Inner Palace Guards was equivalent to slapping the Emperor in public.
The noisy room instantly fell silent. Everyone looked at Li Ruyi with strange eyes.
Only Li Ruyi didn't understand why everyone was looking at her like this.
Even the Third Prince had to be polite to her when he saw her. Instead, it was Li Ruyi, the Third Prince's legal wife, who slapped her in public.
The captain of the Inner Palace Guards' face darkened and he sneered, "I want to see if your mouth will still be so hard when you're in prison."
She had already revealed her identity, and the other party still wanted to send her to prison. Li Ruyi didn't even think before saying, "If you dare to touch me, I'll have your heads."
"This official is waiting for the Imperial Concubine to take this official's head." The captain of the Inner Palace Guards sneered, "Before you take this official's head, this official's job still needs to be done. Someone come, take her down."
Without waiting for Li Ruyi to react, the other party directly pressed her down with an arm.
Li Ruyi didn't even have time to react before she was taken out.
Because Li Ruyi bullied the servants in the residence too much, when she was taken out, not a single servant in the residence spoke up for her. There were even some who clapped their hands and cheered.
Because there was conclusive evidence that she had killed someone on the street, Li Ruyi was directly thrown into prison.
However, she was the Third Prince's legal wife after all. Her prison cell was still considered relatively clean.
However, even if it was relatively clean, compared to the prison cell Li Ruyi usually lived in, it wasn't much cleaner.
Bugs could be seen everywhere on the ground, and there were even rats in the corners. Li Ruyi, who was incomparably arrogant just a moment ago, instantly became terrified.
Li Ruyi curled up into a ball and kept shouting for people to let her out.
However, the captain of the Inner Palace Guards had already taken care of them. None of them paid any attention to Li Ruyi.
Even when Li Ruyi's voice was hoarse from shouting, no one paid any attention to her.
Li Ruyi, who had lived like a princess for more than ten years, was staying in such a shabby place for the first time. There were bugs and rats everywhere, and it emitted a foul stench. She was about to go crazy.
As soon as Li Ruyi was sent to prison, the Third Prince was summoned to the palace.
Because the Emperor had recently revealed his intention to appoint an Heir Apparent, the Third Prince had been particularly active in this period of time. The tasks that the Emperor gave him, no matter how big or small, were completed particularly carefully. The Emperor had praised him more than once in front of all the civil and military officials.
It was also because of this that the Third Prince felt that he was getting closer and closer to the position of Heir Apparent.
At this moment, the Emperor suddenly summoned him, and it was even at this hour. The Third Prince was delighted. Could it be that Imperial Father was finally going to appoint him as Heir Apparent?
However, when he arrived at the main hall.
The Emperor, who usually had a smile on his face when he saw him in the past, looked indifferent. He expressionlessly sized him up from head to toe. After a moment, he said, "Your legal consort, is she called Li Ruyi?"
The Emperor looked at him coldly and even asked about Li Ruyi, who he had never mentioned before. The Third Prince's eyelids twitched. He knew that something bad had happened.
Sure enough, the next sentence he heard the Emperor say, "That Zhengfei of yours is so awe-inspiring. Not only did she beat Xiao Tang's old father to death in the middle of the street, she even threw five taels of silver at the corpse and said that she had bought his life.
This is the first time I know that a human life can be bought with silver. "
Moreover, with such familiarity, who knew how many times he had done this kind of thing in the past.
If the person who was beaten to death wasn't Xiao Tang's father, he would probably still be in the dark.
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