The capital, the palace of the king of Yan.

Xu Miaoyi was stunned when she heard the verdict of Li Shanchang's rebellion and beheading, and halfway through the bird's nest porridge, she put it on the case, and was about to take revenge, but she didn't have the expected joy in her heart.

After a long time, Xu Miaoyi asked, "What else?" ”

Zhu Di said: "The Li family's henchmen have all been cut off, and they can't pose any real threat to us. ”

Xu Miaoyi shook her head, "That's not what I asked. Now that Li Shanchang has pleaded guilty and accepted the punishment, then my maternal grandfather Xie Zaixing's rebellion should be avenged, there is kindness to repay kindness, there is revenge, and the Xie family should no longer bear the stigma of rebellion. ”

Zhu Di helped Xu Miaoyi sit down, "Li Shanchang's confession did not mention the Xie Zaixing case. ”

Xu Miaoyi suddenly felt impetuous, and slapped away her husband's hand on his shoulder, "If you are a gentleman, you will be ashamed!" For the elderly! For His Holiness! So the Xie family deserves to die, and does it deserve to bear a dirty name for the rest of their lives? Obviously, Mao Xiang asked the truth, and the evidence such as letters and account books in the study was also handed over to the emperor, but the emperor just didn't admit it! My maternal grandfather was so loyal to the emperor that he even buried the entire Xie family! Isn't the emperor a self-proclaimed emperor who always reflects on himself? ”

"The weather is dry, and he has made an edict against himself; The earth moved, and he condemned himself; The stars are abnormal, and he also makes an edict against himself! Why did he keep silent in the face of the Xie family who died unjustly? ”

Xu Miaoyi had just been hit by her cousin Zhu Shouqian, Zhu Di thought that the fall of Li Shanchang was good news, but Xie Zaixing's death was the rebellion of his father, as long as his father did not let go, no one could overturn the case for the Xie family.

This incident is like a chasm between the wife and the father, and the contradiction is never reconciled. Zhu Di suffered countless splints in the middle. Today is not the first time, nor is it the last.

Zhu Di was silent and did not argue. He can carefully lay out for eight years, step by step, forcing his old enemy Li Shanchang to death and protecting Miaoyi.

But the father ...... That was the king of a country, and his father, his father did wrong, but as a vassal king, he really couldn't change this ending.

Zhu Di said: "You are angry, come to me, don't be angry." ”

Not fighting back and scolding is the basic principle of being a husband. What's more, a small fight is pleasant, a big fight is more pleasant, and after leaving the battlefield for half a year, this copper skin and iron bone should also be practiced.

Xu Miaoyi picked up the feather duster and waved it in her hand, and Zhu Di did not move.

But he never looked forward to the test, the feather duster stopped at his back half an inch, Xu Miaoyi sighed lightly, abandoned the "weapon", and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be angry with you." You have already helped me avenge Li Shanchang when you deal with Li Shanchang, but I am not satisfied, I have too many extravagant expectations, and I blame you. ”

Xu Miaoyi leaned on Zhu Di's chest, her fingertips gently traced the outline of his thin lips, saying that men have thin lips and are ruthless, but her husband has a tenderness deeper than the sea, he silently plans for her and changes for her, although she hates Emperor Hongwu, but she also loves his son deeply.

Zhu Di pressed his wife's hand to his chest, "I won't give up until the dust settles." The road is made by people, and we still have a future. ”

Jinyi Wei edict prison.

The faint Li Shanchang woke up in pain, his head was wooden in pain, his dull eyes looked around the iron fence, and recalled the past: born in a scholarly family, studying, taking the imperial examination, being an official, enduring everyone's ridicule and taking refuge in the bandit Red Turban Army, recognizing Zhu Yuanzhang as the main prince and assisting the lord to divide the world, destroying Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, and the unification of the world......

Then he was crowned as a public minister, and one person was below ten thousand people, and it was extremely glorious. Three years later, he resigned and returned to his hometown, and after eight years of hibernation, he returned to the court, and was involved in a rebellion case.

Forget it, the merits and demerits are commented on by posterity.

Li Shanchang closed his eyes, and now that his tongue was cut off, he couldn't persuade anyone, so he could only wait for death.

The doctor pinched his chin, applied wound medicine to the broken tongue, and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness King Yan, the criminal minister Li Shanchang has woken up. ”

Li Shanchang was stunned: The four princes who were indifferent to fame and fortune in the past are now stretched out to the Jinyi Guard's edict? Hehe, King Yan has a bright future, and the royal family will have a lively future to see.

Li Shanchang opened his eyes, and his cloudy gaze stared at Zhu Di, who was wearing a brocade guard flying fish suit.

Zhu Di said: "I want to make a deal with you, if you agree, nod, if you don't, shake your head." ”

Li Shanchang thought about it, nodded silently, and thought that I still have some use value, so that King Yan can take the risk of visiting the edict prison in disguise.

Zhu Di said: "Your whole family has been sentenced to be decided, and even the three clans, even Li Qi, the concubine, are no exception. ”

Hearing the bad news, Li Shanchang, who was thought to have been numb to pain, sat up from the bed suddenly, and his dying body did not know where the strength came from, and died

Holding Zhu Di's hand, he opened his mouth, revealing a red, swollen and blackened half-amputated tongue, but he couldn't make a sound anymore, and he came out of his throat in vain.

It's like the sound of the cold wind invading the cold wind through the crack in the window.

No way! Li Qi is a colt! The emperor's son-in-law! The husband of Princess Lin'an!

Zhu Di saw what he was thinking from Li Shanchang's hateful and desperate expression, and said lightly: "Li Qi is my eldest brother-in-law, but he knows that you are rebelling, but he does not report it secretly, and the crime is unforgivable. ”

Li Shanchang stretched out his right index finger and quickly wrote in Zhu Di's palm, "You can do whatever you want me to do, as long as I can save my only son." ”

Zhu Di said: "When you framed Xie Zaixing for rebellion, and the Xie family was beheaded, you should have expected today's retribution. Li Qi is a capital crime appointed by his father, and he will be executed next month, and no one can overturn the case. ”

The evidence is conclusive, and the Li family's rebellion case has become an iron case, just like Xie Zaixing's rebellion back then, no one's pleas will help.

Li Shanchang's index finger froze when he wrote, and then he wrote with difficulty in the palm of his hand: "In that case, what deal do you want to make with me?" I have nothing left. ”

Zhu Di saw that he was already discouraged, and said, "Where are Xie Zaixing's bones buried?" If you tell the truth, I will do a little trick in Li Qi's medicine, and I will return to the west in a few days, at least he can keep a whole corpse. ”

The whole corpse is the last dignity of the son.

Li Shanchang trembled and wrote in the palm of Zhu Di's hand: "Why should I believe you? ”

Zhu Di said: "Do you still have a choice? ”

No.

Li Shan wrote out the location of Xie Zaixing's bones like a gossamer.

Zhu Di said: "If you lie to me, Li Qi will go to the guillotine with you." ”

Li Shanchang wrote: "Until now, there is no need for me to lie to you. My old wife is innocent, she doesn't know anything, please leave her a whole corpse too. “

Zhu Di said: "Mrs. Li died in the edict prison last night, and your daughter, they cut off their long hair, tied it into a knot and hanged themselves. Only Li Qi did not seek death, he always thought that with the identity of the colt, he could escape the charge. ”

How similar the histories are! I think that the Xie family also hanged themselves in the ancestral hall back then, and the old and young went to Huangquan together.

Retribution! Retribution!

It turned out that his wife and daughter died so desolately...... Li Shanchang opened his mouth, and the painful spasms rose, the mental pain was a hundred times that of the body, as if there were countless blades smashing his soul one by one.

In Yanwangfu, Zhu Di secretly ordered Ma Sanbao to follow Li Shanchang's guidance to find Xie Zaixing's bones, and three days later, Ma Sanbao brought back a rusty sword, and the word "Xie" on the hilt could be vaguely seen.

Ma Sanbao said: "The bones have been re-collected and buried, and they are buried in the ancestral grave of the Xie family. ”

Xu Miaoyi stood with a sword in her hand, and after a long time, she handed her grandfather's sword to Zhu Di, "I want the blacksmith to re-sharpen it, and I will use this sword to execute next month." ”

"It's noon! Prepare for execution! ”

The north wind is cold, the sky is cold, and it is the human heart that is colder than the wind.

Li Shanchang was wearing a white prison uniform, wearing shackles, his neck and gloves were in a ten-pound shackle, he was the first to walk to the execution ground, outside the execution ground, there were crowds of onlookers, he used all his strength to withstand the heavy shackles, and glanced at the crowd blankly.

What an irony!

Li Shanchang grinned silently, revealing a red and swollen half of his tongue, but it was a pity that there were brocade guards all around the execution ground, blocking the sight of the onlookers, and they did not see that the former prime minister had been tortured inhumanely.

There were boos all around, Li Shanchang didn't care, he had ups and downs in his life, worshiped the phase, and ate prison food. has calculated others, and has been calculated by others, but it is not meritorious, after all, it is written by literati, and it doesn't matter how the people think of him now, his Li Shanchang's lifelong merits have his own history commentary!

"Get on your knees!" The executioner snapped.

Li Shanchang knelt down obediently, just closed his eyes and waited to die, but heard a familiar cry, "Let go of me!" I'm a big horse of the party! Princess Lin'an has already interceded for me! Don't you dare kill me! ”

It's the voice of his son Li Qi!

Isn't he already dead, leaving behind a whole corpse?

Li Shanchang hurriedly opened his eyes and saw that his only son Li Qi, like himself, was wearing a ten-pound shackle, and he was driven by the executioner to go to the guillotine three times.

Li Qi saw his father kneeling, and hurriedly knelt down, kneeling to his father's identity, crying: "Father! They won't kill me, will they? The princess is so virtuous, she also gave birth to two sons for me, she will not watch me die! Not really! ”

I was deceived by King Yan!

Li Shanchang was unwilling, he opened his mouth and looked towards the execution platform, but he didn't find the figure of King Yan, this liar! Despicable and shameless! Not even the dying!

Li Qi was so frightened when he saw his father's broken tongue that he even got his pants soaked, "Father is looking in the wrong direction, the palace is over there, father rest assured, the princess will save us, the holy decree of forgiveness will be sent from the palace immediately, let's wait a little longer!" ”

But reality is not a script, and the miracle of the so-called guillotine's holy decree to save lives has never appeared.

Because Princess Lin'an and her sons had been forcibly sent to Fengyang Palace by Emperor Hongwu, they avoided the turmoil in the capital.

"The hour has come, execution!"

Li Qi was forcibly dragged away by two executioners, his head fell to the ground, he looked at his father in despair, and when he was dying, he still had illusions about Emperor Hongwu's benevolence, he opened his mouth like a fish out of water, and shouted: "Wait! The princess is here with a holy decree! She'll save—"

Li Qi's head rolled to the side, and the rapidly dilated pupils reflected the sharp sword waved by the executioner's hand, and the hilt of the sword was engraved with the word "Xie" in ancient clumsy seal script.

The word "Xie" was dim, but Li Shanchang's gaze was drawn by the font, burning his eyeballs, he wanted to turn his eyes, but he couldn't look directly at his only son dying in front of his eyes, red blood, white brains, overwhelming pain surrounded him, he forgot to close his eyes and forget to breathe in pain.

Li Shanchang stubbornly looked at the executioner's sword, which restored Xie Zaixing's pain before his death to him.

It turns out that this is retribution, it is not enough to bear all the suffering in this life, it seems that he will be reincarnated in the next life, and it is inescapable. 166 Reading Network