Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 1190 - 1187_1

The next day,

Fifth Princess, Du Yijin, Gu Qiqi, Ruan Weizhen, and Fu Ranhui, among others, all came to the Prince Rui’s Mansion.

The event of the previous day could be described as having stirred the entire city.

Apart from them, several other designated ladies also came to visit. Such a significant incident had occurred that even the common people knew about the parade of shame through the streets for Prince Rui. How could they not show any response? Moreover, they had an excuse to visit and build a relationship with Prince Rui, a rare opportunity. Therefore, early in the morning, the Prince’s Mansion was crowded with visitors.

Xiao’er received groups of people, but as more and more people arrived, she became somewhat overwhelmed with dealing with them all.

Shangguan Xuanyi returned to the Mansion at noon. Learning of the situation, he instructed his servants to refuse all visitors in the afternoon on the ground that their child had been frightened and was not ready to receive guests.

After all, even if Xiao’er didn’t receive them, none would dare to object!

Posters were already plastered on the street, spreading the news. Everyone knew that the assassins would be paraded in public in seven days. The public was indeed enthusiastic; they even saved their foot bathing water for the event, not to mention, some people eagerly washed their foot-bindings that had not been washed for years and saved the water to use that day.

Those who had livestock industriously cleaned pig pens, chicken coops, and sheep pens every day, causing their domestic animals to fear that they might be butchered due to such unusually clean homes.

Every household was busy preparing for the parade of shame in a few days. Rotten eggs, spoiled vegetables leaves, dirty water, and the like were all essential items.

A few days later, the long-awaited day of the public humiliation of the assassins arrived amidst the anticipation of the city’s residents.

As soon as the city gates were opened, many people brought their prepared "spoils of war" and queued to enter the city.

For the first time, the entire city gate was filled with a foul stench, but everyone seemed unperturbed. Some even envied others when they saw their well-prepared, foul smelling arsenal, feeling that their own preparations were inadequate.

As the sun rose, the prison cart carrying the two convicts emerged.

The old man and the woman initially weren’t scared of being paraded in shame, but the stench in the air and the sight of the city’s folks with their pots and basins full of filth, made their faces change. This wasn’t an ordinary change - it was drastic!

Were all these things prepared by the people to punish them?

Could it be that the people of Minze Country were all insane?

They hadn’t abducted their children or desecrated their ancestors’ graves. Why were they being treated with such collective hostility?

A soldier shouted to the people: "These two are the ones who abducted Prince Rui’s eldest son! They are traitors from Nangong Country! Even the Empress Dowager was injured by their people!"

Upon hearing this, the woman snorted derisively in her heart: "That’s not all! I even poisoned Prince Rui’s eldest son to muteness!"

To test the effectiveness of my mute drug, I even pinched him forcefully! And it worked!"

Sure enough! The child opened his mouth wide to cry, but no sound came out! Ha ha... eh!"

Suddenly, a silver needle flew into her wide open mouth, pinning her tongue!

This left the woman unable to laugh out loud anymore!

On the rooftop, Shangguan Xuanyi retracted his hand, gripping Xiao’er’s trembling hand tightly.

When the people heard this, their anger intensified:

"Poisonous woman! She’s so vile!"

"She’s not even as good as pig manure, as she dares to hurt a child and even the Empress Dowager! Eat shit!" After saying this, a man splashed a basin of pig manure on the woman.

"The most hateful ones are those who abduct children and abuse the elderly and children. They are utterly devoid of humanity! Taste the flavor of my foot bathing water, which I only wash once every ten years!" An old woman may be old, but her aim was accurate. She splashed a basin of foot bath water, rinsing the woman clean of pig manure.

"Oh, why did you rinse off all my pig manure?" The man who had earlier thrown the pig manure stomped his foot in frustration when he saw this.

"I have cow dung over here too!"

"I have it here too! There’s plenty along the way! Let them taste different types!"

The prison cart slowly passed by, and the two assassins were splashed by buckets of filth until they could barely open their eyes. The old man tightly closed his eyes and mouth, regretting it all in his heart!

Even going through a thousand cuts would not be as painful as this baptism by the masses.

The woman, her mouth sealed with a silver needle, couldn’t close it, she was forced to swallow the filth along the way.

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The people cursed and splashed all along the way:

"They actually dared to kidnap the child of our Princess Rui, they are simply seeking their own death! We must make them regret coming to Minze Country as assassins and regret being born! Everyone, throw whatever you have at them, don’t hold back, if we don’t vent our anger today, we’ll request to continue tomorrow from the Imperial Court!"

"We won’t stop unless we’re satisfied, we’ll continue tomorrow! We’ll keep splashing until no one from Nangong Country ever dares to become an assassin here again! Until no one dares to be a lapdog for Nangong Country!"

"Right, we’ll splash until no one dares to kidnap someone in our Minze Country!"

The adults splashed with all their might.

The children threw eggs as hard as they could.

Xiao’er, Shangguan Xuanyi, Shangguan Xuanhao, and others were all on the rooftops, everyone with cloth over their noses, watching the enthusiastic masses in the street.

Two hours had passed, the criminals finally completed the punishing parade, both of them fainted.

The bodyguards allowed them to reek, and only after a full day, they washed them clean and threw them back into the cells!

The woman and the old man vowed in their hearts that if there was an afterlife, they would never want to be human again, it was too harsh!

After the humiliation parade, the people voluntarily started cleaning the streets with brooms, so as not to stink up the local residents and the emperor in the palace.

The women washed the streets, the men carried water, and they worked a whole afternoon before the entire street was cleaned.

Only then did Xiao’er feel satisfied, and she sighed: "The quality of the common people is really getting higher and higher!"

"Those two people stink to death, and you still thought of sending me them as medicinal subjects, can I refuse?" Shangguan Xuanhao glanced at the departing prison cart with disgust.

"What do you think?" Shangguan Xuanyi gave him a cold look after hearing these words.

"Then you have to wash them clean before sending them to me, otherwise, I don’t want them!"

"Let’s talk about that in a few days!" They have to suffer for a couple of days anyway, otherwise, how could they justify the hard work of the people who have been busy for days preparing this grand event.

In the evening, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a heavy rain soon poured down. The rain lasted for two days, and even the lingering smell in the air was washed away!

News of this incident soon reached Nangong Country. Gong Zixuan couldn’t imagine that all the assassins he had sent had been killed, not to mention the people who kidnapped the baby were so inhumanly tormented, who would dare go and kidnap Shangguan Xuanyi’s child in the future!

Additionally, those heads outside the Nangong Dynasty caused many people to have continuous nightmares!

Gong Qinghua vomited blood out of anger again, he was once again openly provoked by Shangguan Xuanyi!

The king of Eastern Jin Dynasty sighed after hearing this: This is the power of public opinion.You have nothing to worry about when the Imperial Court is aligned with the people. Who can fight against the united hearts of the people, the public’s power is astonishing.

It was indeed possible for Nangong Country to attack Minze Country ten years ago, but everyone was on guard against Nangong Country at that time. Now it is difficult for Nangong Country to want to attack Minze Country again!

However, when Shangguan Xuanyi retaliates, it is indeed always fresh and unexpected!