Then they swung their red and white striped fire-and-water clubs and began to beat our plump buttocks.
They gave us no chance to explain.
By the time we realized what was happening, the thick, long fire-and-water clubs had already landed heavily on our buttocks.
With each "smack," my mother and I trembled violently.
Watching the beautiful women being tortured, the men's penises involuntarily hardened, while the women, imagining themselves being publicly spanked, clenched their legs tightly.
"Ah...sir, what...ah...what crime have we committed?...Ah...how can you...um...beat us without any reason...oh?"
The mother shouted loudly, questioning Qi Yuandao.
Beforehand, I hadn't told the mother about this program, only that she cooperate and not resist under any circumstances.
The mother had no objection; her questioning was merely a way to stir up the crowd's emotions.
Because her cries weren't pitiful at all; they sounded more like the moans of a harlot enjoying being fucked.
With each cry, the men's penises grew harder, and the women's vaginas became even wetter.
"Hmph! Shameless harlots! The law stipulates that adult men and women cannot publicly expose their genitals. Except in brothels and bathhouses, men who expose their buttocks receive five strokes of the cane, and those who expose their penis receive twenty. Women who expose their breasts receive ten strokes, those who expose their buttocks receive ten, and those who expose their genitals receive twenty. Long Tianxiang, as the crown prince, you openly violated the law; your crime is compounded, and you are sentenced to fifty strokes. Lan Lingsu, as the princess, you exposed your breasts, buttocks, and genitals; you should have received one hundred strokes, but considering your pregnancy, you will only receive fifty. Tell me, do you deserve these punishments? Do you accept them?"
Qi Yuan said sternly.
Upon hearing Qi Yuan's words, everyone was immediately stunned, because Qi Yuan was not speaking carelessly; this was indeed a provision in the laws of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this law had long been a dead letter, never enforced since its inception.
Because the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jingtian, had repeatedly engaged in public debauchery.
Although he was wise and powerful, he was also an exceptionally lecherous man, a rarity in history.
The open-mindedness of the Tang Dynasty was inextricably linked to him.
During his more than seven hundred years as emperor, over nine thousand women were recorded as having been raped by him.
Many of them were even the wives, daughters, or mothers of his subjects.
None of the beautiful female ministers escaped his clutches.
These nine thousand women were recorded because they were all raped in broad daylight.
In the capital, Zhongjing, every beautiful woman had been fucked by his penis.
While he traveled to other places, he rarely slept with the same women every night.
He raped so many women, yet not a single one hated him.
Because his penis was incredibly powerful, mature beauties who had tasted it all longed for his return.
And the inexperienced girls, after tasting his penis, all turned into sluts who couldn't live without it.
Moreover, although he was lecherous, he was a rare and wise ruler.
Those officials whose wives, daughters, or mothers had been violated, though feeling ashamed, remained loyal to this emperor who had violated their wives for the sake of the people.
However, unofficial historical records state that these officials remained loyal to Li Jingtian because whenever the emperor violated a minister's wife, the empress or empress dowager would summon him.
Shortly after he entered the empress's palace, the empress's lewd cries, the most beautiful woman in the land, would be accompanied by the sounds of penetration.
Then, he would use the empress's token to freely enter and leave the rooms of other concubines.
In the imperial harem at that time, nine of the ten most beautiful women in the land were the emperor's concubines.
Any man would have traded his good-looking wife for seventy-two high-ranking beauties.
Emperor Li Jingtian was also very good to his officials and never unjustly killed a single person.
Those founding heroes who feared being discarded after their usefulness was over all met a peaceful end; even those whose contributions threatened the emperor were not purged.
Aside from his lust and the fact that he raped countless women, he was a perfect emperor.
Centuries after Li Jingtian's reign, women even considered it an honor to be raped by him, as it proved they were beautiful enough to interest him.
Men, on the other hand, considered it an honor to marry a woman Li Jingtian had raped, even if they were cuckolded countless times afterward.
During Li Jingtian's reign, the entire mainland was already under the Tang Dynasty's control.
If it weren't for the emperors two generations later, the Chinese mainland would likely still only have one country.
Therefore, even though Li Jingtian openly raped women, violated the wives of his officials, and even repeatedly entered the Empress Dowager's palace, causing her to have a child late in life, people still praised and admired him.
And the events recorded in unofficial histories are also mentioned when people talk about him.
He even said, "If it were true, I'd trade my wife for the Empress!"
When Qi Yuan finished explaining his reasoning, everyone almost burst out laughing, because in the thousands of years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no one had ever been punished for this reason.
When Li Jingtian publicly raped women, did he never strip them naked?
When did he never expose his penis and buttocks? Therefore, this law had never been enforced.
Because not only had the founding emperor openly exposed his penis and buttocks, but after he made several women he had raped his concubines, the emperor's concubines had also openly exposed their breasts, buttocks, and genitals.
However, after hearing Qi Yuan's sentence, my mother and I not only didn't object, but my mother even said, "I understand, he accepts it, he deserves to be beaten. Beat me, this shameless princess who openly exposes her breasts, buttocks, and genitals! Beat my big buttocks that I'm willing to let anyone see!"
Amidst my mother's lewd cries, the thick, fiery rods fell relentlessly on our plump buttocks. Amidst the "slap, slap" sounds, my mother's and my beautiful, fair buttocks gradually became covered with purplish-blue welts.
"Ah...so good!...Brother, hit me harder! Beat my filthy ass to a pulp!" I cried out excitedly under the officer's paddle.
As the officer beat our buttocks, the pain only fueled our excitement, and everyone's attention was completely focused on our buttocks being slapped so hard.
When the fifty lashes were finished, people realized the "slap, slap" sounds hadn't stopped; the sounds still echoed in the hall.
Although not as loud as the sounds of my mother and me being beaten, people were absolutely certain they wouldn't mistake the sounds, because they were the sounds of a man and woman's bodies violently colliding.
And with my exceptionally keen senses, I immediately realized that Yue Tao was having sex with my wife in the back of the hall.
In my perception, I saw my wife lying on a table, legs spread wide, letting Yue Tao's penis, which was even larger than mine, thrust forcefully into her cunt.
With each rapid thrust, copious amounts of vaginal fluid were squeezed out of her vagina.
While Yue Tao was fucking my wife, several other men were watching.
They were already naked, their thick penises erect, waiting to enjoy ultimate pleasure inside my wife's cunt.
My wife, being vigorously fucked, covered her mouth with her hands, trying hard not to scream.
She wasn't covering her mouth to avoid being heard moaning, but because Yue Tao didn't want her wanton moans to disturb the "trial," so he ordered her to be gagged.
However, although my wife wasn't moaning, the "slap slap" sounds of their fucking still reached the front.
When I was a slave, I looked at my wife with contempt, but in front of her lover, she was both servile and obedient.
Not only did she silently endure Yue Tao's rape, but she also kept looking at him with extremely servile eyes, as if saying, "Good lover, your cock is so powerful! You're fucking this bitch so good! Fuck this bitch's cunt until it's raw!"
Yue Tao, who had never fucked such a peerless beauty as his wife, was now extremely excited, because the woman beneath him was not only beautiful and charming, but her status was also far superior to his.