idle mistress

Chapter 184 Like, Not Like
Qi Jing came to supervise the execution for King Ling. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at the execution ground, and saw a woman lying on the execution platform.

Soon, a basin of water was poured on the top of her head, and Shen Qing came to her senses. Before she could react, the executioner behind her forcibly lifted her up and made her continue to kneel.

She coughed violently, looked up at the scorching sun above her head, and the clouds in the sky were spinning around. She closed her eyes and passed out again.

This time, Qi Jing saw the female prisoner's face clearly, and couldn't help but froze for a moment.

Seeing that the time had come, the official just wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, and didn't want to make any troubles, so he picked up the beheading token, drew a circle with a Chinese ink brush, and threw it on the ground.

When he was about to call out the word "execution", Qi Jing beside him raised his hand to stop him: "Wait a minute."

After finishing speaking, he hurried up to the execution platform, came to the fainted female prisoner, and wiped the water off the woman's face with one hand.

The stain was wiped off, revealing a thin and fair face.

With this touch, Qi Jing was stunned again.

"Like, it's too similar."

Seeing this, the official got up and hurriedly followed, and asked him with a puzzled face, "Master Qi, is there any problem?"

"What crime did this woman commit? Why did she have to be beheaded?"

"Returning to my lord, this person was captured together with that Amu Daxiu, what's wrong with that?" The executioner knew that this person surnamed Qi was a celebrity in front of King Ling, so he dared not disrespect him.

Qi Jing pondered for a moment, and said: "The identity of this woman is suspicious, the sentence is suspended, take her back to the prison for a retrial, others can be executed..."

Hearing this unreasonable request, the official was immediately stunned: "This...my lord, this, this little one can't be the master. In case His Royal Highness Mausoleum blames me..."

"I will bear the blame. What are you afraid of?"

That's what the executioner was waiting for. Hearing what he said, someone immediately lifted the fainted woman off the platform...
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Mo Yun followed Qi Jing to the dark prison camp. Inside the cell, a woman curled up lifelessly on the ground.

Qi Jing glanced inside through the fence and asked, "Is the person still awake?"

The jailer who followed the two quickly replied: "My lord, no, I passed out."

Qi Jing turned his head and looked at Mo Yun. He turned around and picked up a torch from the wall, signaling the jailer to open the cell door. The two approached the unconscious woman with the torch.

When he came to the woman, Qi Jing took a picture of the woman's face with a torch, and said, "Mo Yun, do you think it looks like it?"

Mo Yun looked down

The woman lying on the ground was as skinny as a stick, and had been tortured out of shape. He really admired Qi Jing, how did this person associate the person in front of him with the passing away concubine.

He shook his head: "Not like."

After hearing this, Qi Jing was obviously not reconciled: "Look carefully, don't be so perfunctory."

Indeed, he just took a quick glance and didn't take a closer look. He never believed that people who died in Huaicheng would appear in Cangcheng thousands of miles away.

Hearing Qi Jing's complaints, Mo Yun became serious.

The woman lying on the ground was so thin that her whole face collapsed, her cheeks were slightly sunken.However, upon closer inspection, the eyebrows and eyes were somewhat familiar.

"The resemblance is very similar." He let go and said, "Then let's report to His Highness."

As soon as these words came out, Qi Jing hesitated instead:

"Wait, the world is so big, it's not uncommon for people to be alike, and things to be alike. Didn't you see that girl Xu from Lanyang in the palace, isn't she somewhat similar to your empress?"

Hearing this, Mo Yun couldn't help standing up straight, looked at him and asked, "Then what do you want?"

For a while, Qi Jing couldn't make up his mind, he thought for a while: "Why don't we wait a little longer, and ask the girl clearly when she wakes up."

Mo Yun nodded: "This is a good way, but how long do we have to wait for her to look like this?" To be honest, he didn't want to stay in this place for a moment. Bear.

The two were discussing, when the person lying on the ground finally moved, Qi Jing's eyes were sharp, and he immediately reacted, and said to Mo Yun, "Wake up."

While speaking, he moved closer to others.

The first time Shen Qing regained consciousness, she stretched out her hand to touch her intact neck, and then felt stupid, if her neck was broken, would she still be conscious?

She opened her eyes with difficulty, and what she saw was an infinitely magnified man's face.

Seeing her wake up, the man opened his mouth and called her, "Mother..."

In fact, Qi Jing was calling for the empress, but she had just recovered and she was a little deaf, so she only heard a monophonic word.

She twitched the corner of her mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't call me mother, I can't give birth to a son as big as you."

This woman was quite courageous, and she still wanted to joke around when she was about to die. Seeing this, Mo Yun, who was not far away, couldn't help feeling a little admiration in his heart.

Qi Jing was not angry at being taken advantage of in vain, he stared at Shen Qing's face and asked, "You don't know who I am?"

Shen Qing searched for the memory of this face in her mind, but she had no clue, so she couldn't help asking: "Have I seen you?"

Her dazed look really doesn't look like a faux pas. Could it be that there are really similarities between people?
Now, Qi Jing hesitated again...

The two walked out of the prison camp one after the other, and Mo Yun said as he walked:
"You are really brave. If you pull the death row prisoner back from the execution ground privately, you are not afraid that your highness will kill you too?"

"I'm also impatient, what if she is?"

"What if she isn't?"

The two couldn't stop arguing, and Mo Yun couldn't help but said: "You and I have only met the concubine for a few times, and His Highness has the final say on whether this is true or not."

After all, the two looked at each other.
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On the training field of the army, King Ling, the commander-in-chief and general, rode on horseback in armor and galloped along with the horse. He held a longbow in his hand, turned around, and fired four arrows at the target in the distance.

Qi Jingce behind him immediately took a look, and all four arrows hit the bull's-eye.

He got off his horse and pulled the four arrows from the archery target, turned around, and saw that King Ling had come behind him on his horse.

Qi Jing quickly raised his arms and offered the long arrows in his hands.

King Ling reached out to take it.

Seeing that there was no one around, Qi Jing knew that this was an excellent opportunity, so he finally couldn't hold back, and risked being punished, he knelt on the ground on one knee and reported to King Ling about the woman in prison.

After hearing what he said, King Ling looked down at him, and said two words: "Nonsense" and then there was no more to say.

Qi Jing was suddenly dumbfounded.

He knelt on the spot and watched King Ling ride his horse away...

He detained the death row prisoner in private, but there was no punishment or reward. For a while, Qi Jing was not sure what he should do with the woman in prison.

(End of this chapter)