Ah Liu and Ah Xing didn't know what to do, they looked out of the car, one screamed "ah", and the other had leaned over to the outside of the car and retched violently.

Downstairs at the city gate, there were five corpses hanging upside down side by side, although they couldn't see their faces clearly, they could only see a puff of unkempt hair, moving slightly in the wind, but they could still see that the carrion was about to be peeled off the corpse, and several black crows were hovering over the corpse, and when they found the opportunity, they pounced on it and took away a piece of carrion. A foul smell wafted through the air, and the people who passed by covered their noses and hurried past with their heads down, not daring to take another look.

Du Ruhui pushed Ada, "What's the matter, don't hurry up and leave." With one hand, he brushed down the curtain and said inward, "Sit tight." ”

Ada slammed his whip, and the carriage suddenly sped up and moved forward. Mu Qing eased his senses slightly, and subconsciously rubbed his nauseous belly, seeing that the faces of the two people around him were ugly, he couldn't help but say a few words of comfort. After walking for a while, she expected to be some distance past the castle tower, and she lifted the curtain again and asked, "But the captured rebel general?" ”

Du Ruhui didn't look back or answer, only nodded silently.

Approaching the entrance of Nanshi Street, I don't know what's going on, the people in front of me rushed up again, squeezing each other to the street, this scene is comparable to the excitement of the curfew on the Shangyuan Festival. The carriage was blocked at the corner of the street, unable to move, and neither could it retreat, so Ada had to stop.

Mu Qing looked along the crowd and saw a high platform piled up at the corner of the street, and there were two sturdy men on the platform, half-naked with their upper bodies, with bright red heads on their heads, and each carrying a broad-faced axe in their hands. Looking further at their feet, there were two corpses lying there.

Mu Qing closed his eyes vigorously, and said in his heart that these two people were dead, and the execution must have been completed. At present, when the rebellion is in peace, there are a group of people who are going to die, and a group of people who are going to be promoted. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a trotting group of soldiers came from nowhere, separated the onlookers from a distance, separated a clearing under the high platform, and followed several generals into the open space in turn, standing facing the high platform. Seeing that the momentum was not like that of ordinary generals, there was an uproar around them, whispering and talking, and listening carefully, those few people were all powerful and powerful generals.

Someone stepped forward and loudly announced the guilt of Yang Xuangan and his brother Yang Jishan. Mu Qing asked in a low voice, "Is that Yang Xuangan on top?" ”

Du Ruhui was still silent, and only nodded in reply.

After the guilt was announced, the two strong men with knives on the high platform raised their broad-faced axes in unison. Mu Qing was stunned, isn't he dead, how can he still be executed. Before she could turn her senses, she saw the two big axes falling together with a cold light, cutting off the two corpses at the waist, so shocked that she fell and sat on the car, her heart seemed to have been violently pinched, and she didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at it, so she only closed her eyes tightly and pressed her forehead against Du Ruhui's back.

Du Ruhui also seemed to be settled, not moving at all, looking up at the high platform, she could feel the tight and hard muscles on his back. Even with the eyes closed, you can hear the dull sound of a knife and axe cutting through the bones, and the sound falls on the center of the human ear, and the fear lingers like a maggot on the tarsal bones. There was a lot of screaming and retching around, but they didn't dare to make a loud noise, they seemed to cover their mouths and blindfold. In the past two years, the people of the eastern capital have taken beheading as commonplace, and they thought that there would be a lively beheading today, but they never thought that they would encounter such a cruel and brutal scene.

After a long time, the dull sound of chopping bones stopped. Mu Qing plucked up his courage and looked up, the high platform was black and red, shattered, stunned, disgusting, the strong man who was executed had a little blood stains on his face, and the generals in the open space below were still standing and untouched, and the armor was also full of blood stains.

Du Ruhui turned around, stretched out his hand to cover her eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't look." As he spoke, a fire had already ignited on the high platform, and Mu Qing could see the leap of the blazing fire through his fingers, and he also caught a glimpse of the executioner picking up the bloody corpses and throwing them into the fire piece by piece.

Her heart trembled, and she trembled all over, a layer of fine and slippery cold sweat appeared on her palm and forehead, and her heart seemed to be drenched with extremely cold ice water, and it was as hot as if it was scorched by the flames on the high platform.

Although her body is paralyzed, her mind is clear, although she secretly thought about the situation on the day of defeat in the past, but she has never faced it in such a real and detailed way, if one day, it is defeated, who will be on the high platform at that time? Which generals will be the ones who will stand in the audience as a warning? She lifted her trembling hand, grabbed his palm that was blocking her eyes, and pulled it twice before pulling his hand down.

Mu Qing's gaze crossed the raging fire on the high platform, and looked at Du Ruhui, his eyebrows and eyes were solemn, his face flickered in the light of the dancing fire, and the masseter muscle in his jaw bulged, she was suddenly fearless, whether it was hanging corpses in the city tower, or breaking bones and scattering ashes, if she could go together, it would be in vain in this life.

Ada looked at it for a while, and sighed heavily, "Even if you have a heart for the horse leather shroud, you won't teach people to get their wishes." A great head, who has not been thrown on the battlefield, and yet has to suffer such humiliation......"

For more than half an hour, the fire weakened, and someone came to read out the proclamation, and the Yang family changed the surname Yang to the surname Xiao to warn future generations. The onlookers were in an uproar again, the emperor's methods were vicious, and he had to be humiliated again and again before he stopped, how could he not teach people to tremble and be frightened.

About half an hour later, the flow of people and cars at the entrance of Nanshi Street slowly evacuated, a carload of people from Du Ruhui to Ah Xing, after this horror, they were all uneasy, they were silent, staggered around Nanshi, and entered Sishun Fang. From afar, they saw Du Qi standing in front of the workshop and looking up, and Ada added another whip, urging the horse to hurry up two steps.

Ah Liu didn't dare to come out of the car to watch the execution just now, at this time his mind was on the house in Sishunfang, and when he heard Du Qi shouting loudly, he hurriedly lifted the curtain, poked his head out of the car to look, and was the first to jump in the crowd.

After a while, the carriage slowly stopped, Ada and Du Ruhui got out of the car first, Ah Liu set up the stepping stool, and helped Mu Qing, who was still a little pale, to get out of the car. He Sui led Ah Yue and Ah Yun and a group of servants in the house out of the second door to greet them, and saluted together.

Du Ruhui took her into the front yard, it was the middle of August, the two tall laurel trees in the front yard had already fainted a little golden cinnamon, and a few wisps of sweet fragrance spread out with the wind, diluting the bloody smell that lingered on the tip of the nose at the mouth of the Nanshi Street. "I left home on February 18, and I didn't realize that I was half a year old." Mu Qing smiled and said to Du Ruxuan, "Everything is as usual, it's like the home I left yesterday." ”

Du Ruhui also smiled: "Then it should only be regarded as a trip to the house that only came out yesterday." But I don't know that you have a pond of lotus leaves......"

Before he could finish speaking, Mu Qing gently shook off his hand, pushed the hood on his cloak back, walked quickly through the front yard, and stepped on the curved bridge to the main house. After walking a few quick steps, his feet slowly slowed down, and finally stopped on the curved bridge.

The lotus leaves are full of lotus leaves, the blue color covers the sun, the lotus plate rolls, dozens of lotus flowers in the vicinity greet each other, she can't help but stretch out her hand and gently drag it, white as jade, pink as the glow, tender and quiet, so clear that I dare not breathe at it, for fear that it will be contaminated with the vulgar world.

Du Ruhui quietly walked behind her at some point, put his hands on her shoulders, hugged Lian, leaned over and buried his head deep in her neck, and said softly: "It's finally home." ”

Mu Qing thought that she would be able to live in peace for a while after returning home, but she didn't expect that the next day people hadn't woken up, but the post had already come to the door, and it was not a copy or two, Ah Liu handed her a thick stack, teaching her to be at a loss for a while, only stunned at this stack of posts sprinkled with gold or decals.

"Treacherous mountains and rivers, slaughter and slaughter, now that you can deal with it, how can you not deal with these invitations?" Du Ruhan said behind her with a smile. Because Tang Guogong returned to the Eastern Capital at the beginning, the handover and replacement of official duties were heavy, but he was temporarily free for him, so he had to accompany her at home for a few more days.

"This ...... I didn't expect this to be a lot of posts. She looked at it one by one, "You are not an official, and I am not an official lady, how can there be so many entertainments." ”

"This time Yang Xuangan was pacified, although Tang Guogong did not go into battle in the end, he suppressed all parties in the northwest and cut off his back road, which is also indispensable. And at present, there are few people left who can be trusted by the emperor, and Tang Guogong can be regarded as one. Granting important towns to stay behind, allocating military powers, and adding officials to knighthood, which one is not conspicuous and favorable? Du Ruhui took a sip of Guizi tea and said lightly: "People in the world are trying their best to make friends. Those with high power and high power went to the Tang State Mansion to deliver posts, and those with low power and light access only went to Li's henchmen to find their way. ”

Mu Qing was bored, and swept the flower sticker to the corner of the table. Du Ruhui put them back in front of her. "This kind of entertainment is admittedly annoying, and sometimes it is very interesting, just like the Moon Fang, all kinds of news go the fastest there, and it doesn't matter if you go to listen to it, and you don't have to respond to it, just choose."

She pursed her lips, thought left and right, and didn't read the post or refuse, "Wait for me to think about it." ”

This thought taught her to think of another person. "I don't know if Kang Saburo can be in the Eastern Capital, Jincheng County is in a hurry, this trip, he worked hard to find out the business road to teach me to be damaged, and I haven't thanked him properly."

"Kang Saburo came here a while ago, and I only asked Ah Lang's wife if she had returned." mentioned Kang Saburo, Du Qi remembered such a incident, "He dropped the word that he was going to Jiangnan, and he wanted to ask the lady if he had anything to do, but because he saw that Ah Lang and the lady had not returned, he gave up."

In the following days, Mu Qing was busy shuttling between the ladies and ladies, one time Chongyang ascended, one time the golden autumn chrysanthemum, and then her lotus pond rose tender lotus root new lotus seeds, which were divided into several parts according to the level of intimacy and sent to the mansions. By the time she was busy for a while, it was already late autumn, and the north wind was blowing, and it was cold day by day.