Chapter 3: The Queen
It is also a rainy day, but Jiangnan and Jiangbei are very different. The rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is lingering, and the rain is like a spring silkworm spinning silk, no matter how it pulls, it is five or six days.
Outside Jiangning City, in a delicate courtyard with pink walls and tiles, Yao Fengge sat under the bright Xiaoxuan window, quietly looking at the account book in his hand.
In her hands, four long tables were put together to build a large case, covered with dark green satin tablecloths, and eight bookkeepers sat around, their fingers flying, crackling abacus beads. The sound of the abacus and the sound of the rain hitting the plantain outside were indistinguishable from the inside and outside for a while.
Yao Fengge carefully read the account book in his hand, raised his hand and took a brush dipped in blue ink to draw a mark on the last page of the account book, then put down the brush, waited for the ink to dry, took a cup of tea at hand, gently blew the tea powder, and took a sip.
A young man in Tsing Yi came in with light steps, walked to Yao Fengge and said softly: "Madam, there is a letter from the capital." ”
"Huh?" Yao Fengge's gaze retracted from the plantain outside the window, and a hint of joy flashed, "Is it the second uncle?" ”
"Mrs. Hui, it's Ninghou Mansion." The little mustache said, holding a letter in both hands. Since returning to Jiangning, Yao Fengge specially picked a thirteen or fourteen-year-old clever girl and found a gentleman to tell them to be literate and settle accounts, not to read the subset of scriptures and history, but to be able to read and write, settle accounts, and be an understanding person. So all the newly selected little maids around her are literate.
Yao Fengge took it and said with a smile: "You go down." ”
The little maid bowed and retreated, Yao Fengge put the letter in his hand but was not in a hurry to open it, just waited for a few account gentlemen over there to check the account book in their hands, and after handing it over, Fang said: "You have worked hard today." ”
A few bookkeepers hurriedly bowed down and said, "Madame's words are serious, this is my own business." ”
"The side room has prepared food and drinks, please come over and eat first. The remaining books will be checked tomorrow. ”
"Yes." Everyone answered, and they all quit in unison.
In an instant, only Yao Fengge was left in the huge room.
Yao Fengge got up, closed the window sash himself, blocked the sound of rain from the window, and then reached out to pick up the letter, cut the envelope with the paper cutter at hand, took out the snow-white letter paper, unfolded it and read it slowly.
The letters were written by Yao Yanyu himself, in blue-blue handwriting, read from left to right, in horizontal lines, and the various styles of the letters were completely different from those used in the Great Cloud Dynasty. But Yao Fengge is used to it.
People are like this, when you are strong, the people around you will adapt to your various habits, and think that you should be a moth no matter how you are. But if you are not strong enough, these small faults will become a good resource for the elders to blame, and they will pull these things all kinds of beatings, and try to tell these little mistakes so that you can obey and obey again without limit.
Just like this letter format, Yao Fengge felt strange at the beginning, but now, not only her, but even Yao Yuanzhi just frowned when she saw it, and said "You just like to do two things".
Because writing is not limited by the brush, Yao Yanyu writes a lot.
She slowly conveyed the little business knowledge she had heard in her previous life to Yao Fengge through her own filtering as a suggestion, hoping that she could give full play to her talents in Jiangnan, where capitalism had already emerged, and create an unprecedented foundation.
Yao Fengge was really attracted by her strange ideas, and the merchants at this time were at the end of their social status, and they were not even as good as those handicraft owners. Businessmen are labeled as 'camping', 'not thinking about work', 'opportunistic', etc., and many people are ashamed of doing business.
But Yao Fengge doesn't care about these, she is a woman, and she has the Dingbei Hou Mansion and the Yao Mansion behind her, so naturally she doesn't have so many worries. As for the future of her children, with Su Yuping in charge, she doesn't have to worry too much.
Influenced by Yao Yanyu, she really wanted to try her skills in Jiangnan, not to mention how big her family business was, she couldn't lose the face of the Yao family.
Yao Fengge looked at the letter written by Yao Yanyu carefully, and carefully considered her suggestion in her heart. After seeing the most embarrassing, Yao Yanyu mentioned a sentence by the way: Emperor Taizu's mausoleum has collapsed a little, and the emperor sent someone to repair it.
Seeing this, Yao Fengge's heart jumped suddenly, although the letter did not mention the word King Hengjun, but she knew that the person who went to repair the emperor's tomb must be him.
Looks like he's fine! Yao Fengge exhaled softly - as long as he could live.
Coral came from outside the door, urging her to eat.
Yao Fengge put away the letter and put it in his arms, then got up and walked outside the house.
Time flies, the rainy season has finally passed, summer goes to autumn, frost leaves are stained with blood, and it is already the frost season in a blink of an eye. The dry grass is frosty and white, and the cold window is a new shadow. The farms in the north and south of the river are busy with the autumn harvest and gradually enter the farm.
In September, Xiao Lin and his wife, who sent their grandfather back to their ancestral home for burial, had completed their filial piety for a year, and the couple returned to the capital with their mother, Mrs. Yan, son Xiao Xu, and their attendants.
After more than a year of absence, Han Mingcan has become more mature and charming, and Marquis Xiao has also become more personable.
The brothers and sisters reunited, and naturally there was a lot to say, Marquis Xiao and his wife congratulated Yao Yanyu on getting a daughter, and prepared a generous gift to visit, Yao Yanyu set up a banquet to entertain them, and directly left Han Mingcan's mother and son to live at home for two days. and Su Yuxin got together and talked for a few nights.
After Xiao Lin came back, he was ordered to go to the summer palace to face the saint, and then accompanied Emperor Jinglong to the Xishan hunting ground to hunt.
In order not to disturb the people of the Great Cloud Imperial Capital, Emperor Jinglong, under the protection of his entourage, quietly returned to the Cloud Capital City on the night of the high autumn moon.
When the emperor returned to Beijing, he naturally had a lot of political affairs to do. Several cabinet elders arrived outside the gate of the Qianyuan Hall before dawn the next morning and asked for an audience.
Emperor Jinglong was young and energetic. In the past two years, he has developed a good habit of smelling chickens and dancing, getting up every morning and four watches, practicing a set of fists and feet, sweating and coming back to wash without delaying the summoning of ministers.
When the emperor returned to Beijing, he was busy with the civil servants and the military generals. The elders of the cabinet reported to the emperor in the Qianyuan Hall and discussed some important matters that needed to be solved urgently. Ninghou Weizhang was immersed in the sweet and gentle township, sleeping soundly.
Yao Yanyu was woken up by Yiyi's crying, frowned and wanted to sit up, but found that her waist was heavy, and she was actually pressing one of Wei Houye's long legs. So she sighed helplessly, raised her hand and pushed the long leg down, but he grunted again and reached out to pull her into his arms.
"Yiyi cried." Yao Yanyu had no choice but to whisper.
"Isn't there a wet nurse?" Wei Zhang didn't comply, hugged the person into his arms, and continued to sleep.
Yao Yanyu heard the little girl's crying getting higher and higher, pushed his arm helplessly, and sighed: "She is not used to sleeping with the nurse for a while, you sleep with yours, I'll go over and take a look." ”
"Hmm...... This stinky girl. Wei Zhang had to let go of the fragrant and soft pillow, and turned around to hold the quilt in his arms.
Wei Zhang was not at home for a while, his daughter has been sleeping with Yao Yanyu, and when Wei Zhang returned home last night, he naturally did not allow his daughter to pester Yao Yanyu, so he let the nurse take the little girl away early, and he hugged his wife and did whatever he wanted. Unexpectedly, I slept for a while and was woken up by a stinky girl.
Yao Yanyu endured the pain in her waist and legs, put on her coat and got out of bed, put on her shoes and asked outside, "What's wrong with Yiyi?" ”
Zisui, the little girl on night duty outside, had already gotten up, and when she heard Yao Yanyu asking, she hurriedly turned the screen and waited for Yao Yanyu to go out and took the cloak to put it on for her wife, and replied in a low voice: "Sister is afraid that she is hungry, and when she wakes up to breastfeed, she finds that her wife is not there, so she is crying." ”
Yao Yanyu smiled helplessly, she expected that this would be the case, so she ordered: "Let's go and see." ”
At this time, the little girl was writhing and crying in the nurse's arms, she woke up because she wetted the bed, and opened her eyes to see that the person next to her was not her own mother, so the little temper came up, wow, wow, crying, the nurse couldn't coax left and right, and was holding back and forth in the house.
"Give it to me." Yao Yanyu smiled helplessly: "It's really pampered that you don't look good, crying and making trouble in the middle of the night, be careful that your father beats you." ”
Xiao Yiyi, who has been eight months old, stopped crying when she heard her mother's voice, twisted her little body and desperately struggled into Yao Yanyu's arms, and when she was hugged by her mother, she hugged her neck and didn't let go, muttering while gasping: "Is it ...... Hemp. ”
Yao Yanyu's heart was screamed by her daughter's choked and muffled voice, and she directly carried her back to her bedroom.
Although Wei Zhang didn't move, he definitely couldn't sleep, and when he saw Yao Yanyu hugging his daughter, he patted his forehead helplessly and asked, "Should you drive me to the study at this time?" ”
Yao Yanyu put her daughter on the bed, turned to look at someone with a bitter face, and said with a smile: "Forget it, three people can squeeze here." ”
So, the little girl was put in the innermost part of the bed and slept sweetly in her mother's arms. Then, Yiyi's mother also leaned into someone's arms and fell asleep.
The outermost stack of spoons on the bed leaned sideways and hugged Mrs. inward to look at her daughter, one big and one small, sleeping faces, so quiet, so content. And they were in his bosom, and they were in him, and they were in him...... For a while, Wei Houye felt very satisfied, and then he couldn't sleep excitedly.
Early the next morning, Yao Yanyu was woken up by the whispering sound in her ears.
In fact, she was still very sleepy and tired. Of course, this is nonsense, no matter how good her physical strength is, she was pressed on the bed by a fierce military general who has been hungry for more than half a month, and she was presumptuous for most of the night, and then she was shocked by her daughter's crying, and after a good dream, she would be tired and sleepy, and she couldn't wait to sleep directly until the sunset.
"Hmm-ah-" Wei Yiyi's child's clear voice reached Yao Yanyu's ears sweetly, and Mrs. Yao was instantly relieved - with her father here, let's sleep for a while.
"Shhhh Wei Zhang made a silent movement, his voice was pressed to the lowest, with a rustling dullness, sexy and terrible.
"Huh?" The little girl didn't understand what her father meant at all, and her little mouth pouted like a peach like his father.
"Good." Wei Zhang smiled with satisfaction, thinking that his precious daughter understood his words.
"Ha Lu Ha ......" Yiyi saw her father laugh and laughed proudly.
Yao Yanyu helplessly pulled up the quilt and blocked her ears - laughing like this, she didn't let people sleep!
"Hey! Stinky girl is really ignorant! Let's go out and have fun. Zhang reluctantly got up from the bed with his daughter, went to the door in his pajamas and called the maid to send his daughter out.
It turns out that the eight-month-old baby really can't understand her father's words!
Accompanied by the autumn hunt back, Wei Zhang finally had a few days of leisure, hiding at home every day to talk and laugh with his wife and daughter, and his life was happy.
After breakfast that day, Wei Houye changed into a blue-gray home-style robe, and came out of Yan'an Hall with his daughter in one hand and wanted to go out of Yan'an Hall.
Wei Zhangyin asked, "What are you running when you get up early in the morning?" ”
"Father, father, they said that the heads of bad people should be cut off outside, and the chief manager will not allow us to go out, can you take us to see it?"
"Chop off the bad guy's head?" Wei Zhang was stunned, and then remembered that the first thing the emperor did after returning to Beijing was to collude with the death row prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department.
Last year, because the first emperor was seriously ill, the imperial court suppressed the execution of those condemned prisoners, and this year the new emperor ascended the throne, and the political affairs were initially stable.
Rebellion and forcing the palace have always been the most important crimes, although the princes can be spared death by virtue of their status, but those who follow below are not so lucky.
Not to mention anything else, in addition to the large and small officials in the Huguang area who were bribed by Yun Jin, in addition to being exiled to the army and reduced to their posts for the people to never be used, there were 120 people sentenced to death. Not to mention the Feng family, the four sons and sons of the Xianfei Emperor, and the death row prisoners sentenced in the palace case.
All in all, there were more than 600 death row prisoners who were beheaded by the Autumn Queen in the first year of Jinglong.
Wei Zhang's thoughts were pulled back by his daughter's little hand, he turned his head and kissed the little girl's face, and whispered: "Baby, you better go back and play with your mother." With that, he turned and walked back.
Seeing this, Ling Xiao and Jill looked at each other stupidly, and also followed with their calves.
Yao Yanyu heard that Wei Zhang was going out, so she asked the nurse to take her daughter down, and asked Ling Xiao and Ji'er: "What do you two want?" ”
Ling Xiao was more afraid of Wei Zhang and Yao Yanyu, so he immediately leaned over and squeezed into Yao Yanyu's arms and said, "They said that bad guys are being killed on the street, and Jill and I will also go to see it!" We're going to kill the bad guys, too. ”
Yao Yanyu looked at Wei Zhang in surprise: "What bad guys did you kill?" ”
"The former emperor issued a holy decree to execute the death row prisoners in the prison, and the day of the Qintian election is today, I have forgotten it."
When Yao Yanyu heard this, she felt a chill rise up her spine, and hurriedly coaxed Ling Xiao: "This is not a good thing, Ling Xiao is still young, don't go." Mom asked Sister Xiangzhi to make you delicious hibiscus cake, you and Jill go eat it. ”
"Mom, everyone is three years old, not a child anymore." Ling Xiao pouted and coquettishly pouted.
Yao Yanyu asked funny: "Who said that a three-year-old is not a child?" ”
Ling Xiao didn't dare to refute, but quietly glanced at Wei Zhang.
Wei Zhang smiled: "Anyway, I don't have any errands today, so I'll take the two boys out of the city to go shopping, boys, it's not a bad thing to see the formation." ”
"Will it work?" Yao Yanyu asked uneasily.
"Why not. We don't go to the execution ground, we just find a place in the street to see. ”
Yao Yanyu told him uneasily: "Tell General He, don't look back, people can't find the child in a hurry." ”
"I know it." Wei Zhang smiled and beckoned to the two little guys: "Do you want to go?" ”
"Let's go!" Ling Xiao immediately climbed down from Yao Yanyu's arms.
"Let's go!" Jill was even happier, and jumped up happily, shouting as she jumped: "Look at the excitement!" ”
"Don't give them random food!" Yao Yanyu watched Wei Zhang go out with the two little guys, and chased after him uneasily.
"I know it." Wei Zhang bent down, clamped a small cub under his armpit in one hand, and strode away.
"Woo......" Xiao Yiyi, who was held in the arms of the wet nurse, looked at the back of her father leaving, and pouted unhappily and blew out a bubble.
Yao Yanyu was completely immersed in the matter of the death row prisoner, and her thoughts drifted far away, not noticing her daughter's emotions at all. Seeing that Mrs. was thoughtful, the nurse didn't dare to disturb, so she hurriedly hugged the little girl and quietly retreated.
After sitting alone for almost a quarter of an hour, Yao Yanyu suddenly shouted: "Someone! ”
In the middle of the summer outside the door, Mai Dong and the two hurriedly entered, Yao Yanyu took a deep breath and ordered: "Change your clothes and prepare to go out." ”
"Yes." Banxia answered, turned around and went to the closet to take out a set of finch tweed skirts.
Yao Yanyu glanced at it and shook her head directly: "I want men's clothes." ”
"Huh?" Banxia was stunned for a moment, Madame hasn't worn men's clothes for a year, right? Why did you suddenly remember to wear men's clothes?
"Let's go and see in the streets." Yao Yanyu said lightly.
The two maids immediately understood, reopened another closet, and found a set of moon-white satin cross-collared deep coats and an iron-gray heavy satin cloak and came out.
Yao Yanyu spread out her hair and re-twisted it into a single bun, pinned it with only a white hosta, changed into men's clothes and went out of the west corner gate of the Hou Mansion and went directly to the direction of Xishi Street.
Today's Yundu City can be described as a sea of people. Whether it was a pawn of a trader or a family with a surname, all kinds of people from all walks of life up and down in Yundu City paid great attention to this execution.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that 'the queen of autumn asks for beheading'. The reason for this is probably because in ancient times, it was mainly agriculture, and the harvest was finished after the autumn, and it entered the agricultural slack, at this time, the centralized treatment can gather the crowd to watch, which plays a deterrent role, and there is a kind of killing atmosphere in the autumn and winter, and it may also be because the weather is cold at this time, it is easy to dispose of the corpse, and it is not easy to cause the spread of the plague.
At this time, the frost has passed, and it is orthogonal early winter. The sun was shining brightly, and the north wind blew through the bone-chilling cold. Yao Yanyu stood on the crowded street, raising her hand and tightening the cloak on her body.
The streets leading from the prison to the west entrance of the criminal department are crowded with people, and all kinds of shops on both sides are also crowded with people, whether they are selling jewelry or embroidery villages, as long as there are houses with windows facing the street, they are full of people.
Yao Yanyu took Bai Koyu Guoer and the three of them out, and they couldn't squeeze in before they reached Xishi Street.
When he was in a hurry, someone suddenly called out from the side: "Lord Yao? ”
Yao Yanyu hurriedly turned around to look, but saw a white-faced bearded man, wearing a blue cotton robe, hunched over and arching his hand towards him. Yao Yanyu felt that this person was a little kind, and couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, so he only nodded at the other party.
The man took a few steps closer and whispered, "My master is on the Yinhua Tower over there, please come over." ”
The man's voice was slightly sharp, Yao Yanyu was in a daze, suddenly understood, and hurriedly responded: "Then please lead the way." ”
"Your Excellency, please." The person who came turned sideways, didn't say much, and only took Yao Yanyu to squeeze through the crowd and go up to the Yinhua Building next to him.
Yinhua Building is a silverware shop, specializing in all kinds of silver utensils, silver bowls, silver chopsticks, silver wine jugs and so on.
Yao Yanyu followed the little eunuch into the back door of Yinhua Building, walked through the courtyard to the front floor, and went directly to the third floor into a plain room.
There were two people sitting in the room, one was Emperor Jinglong, who was dressed in a cotton robe, and the other was the leader of the Tai Hospital, who was seconded to the Chinese Medical Museum to be in charge of the Huaxi Linghua master of the folk ancient recipes.
As soon as Yao Yanyu came in, Hua Xiling stood up. Seeing that the emperor was sitting, Yao Yanyu naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to prepare to bow and salute. The emperor raised his hand to stop: "If I go out on patrol, the gift will be waived." Madame, please be seated. ”
Yao Yanyu still bowed in the end, and after Hua Xiyu bowed to him and returned the salute, Fang sat down under the emperor.
After the greetings, the emperor asked Yao Yanyu: "Today's thing, I didn't expect that Yao Yuan's judgment would also come to see the excitement." ”
Yao Yanyu frowned slightly, and sighed: "The minister doesn't want to come out to join in this fun, but I always feel that it would be a pity if I don't come out to take a look at such a big event." ”
"Regrets?" The emperor listened to Yao Yan's words, but still followed her words and asked, "I don't know what regrets Yao Yuan felt?" ”
Yao Yanyu wants to say that I have never seen such a big scene in my life, isn't it a pity? But the one on the other side is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, so he can't say that, so he bowed and said: "It is a pity for the minister not to witness the rebellion and rebellion and the people of the country being punished, and not being able to witness the prestige of my Dayun Guowei with his own eyes." ”
The emperor smiled indifferently when he heard this, but said to Hua Xixuan: "You lost." ”
Hua Xi hurriedly bowed and said: "The emperor is wise, and the ministers are convinced. ”
Yao Yanyu was confused all of a sudden, thinking to herself that these two people were betting? And this bet has something to do with yourself?
Looking at Yao Yanyu's puzzled gaze, the emperor smiled faintly and said, "Xixuan, you can tell the Yao Yuan judge yourself." ”
Hua Xi replied, Fang turned to Yao Yanyu, leaned over and asked, "Don't you think it's a pity that these prisoners are just like this?" ”
Yao Yanyu was stunned, thinking to herself, how do you know the Dao?
Hua Xiyu said: "These more than 600 death row prisoners were beheaded at the same time today, the scene is naturally grand, and the deterrent effect on the people is naturally strong enough. But after all, it is a life, and although they are innocent of death, they should also be allowed to contribute again before they die. ”
Yao Yanyu looked at Hua Xiyu in surprise, if it weren't for the fact that she knew the whole thing about this kid, she would even think that he was the same as herself, and he had crossed over.
"What does Master Hua mean, how should these people contribute?" Yao Yanyu suppressed the excitement in her heart and asked quietly.
"Test the drug." Hua Xiyu smiled indifferently and said softly.
Hua Xiyu obviously understood that Yao Yanyu was knowingly asking. But the emperor had just said that he had lost the bet, so he couldn't reveal Yao Yanyu's old story, besides, although the woman in front of him was also the woman he admired the most in his life, even if he didn't care about the emperor's face, he would follow her words.
"Test?" Yao Yanyu's heart gradually stabilized with excitement, it turned out that it was just a test of medicine, which was not the same thing as what she thought!
She also wanted to say that if no one wanted the bodies of these prisoners, as soon as the big knives were brought back, she would immediately send someone to freeze the bodies and send them to the Chinese Medical Center for the students to dissect.
I thought that this guy had been in the Chinese Medical Center for more than half a year, and he should be interested in anatomy or something, but he didn't expect it to be a white excitement.
"As far as I know, Lord Yao is compiling the "Dayun Pharmacopoeia" on the basis of the pharmacopoeia of the previous dynasty, I wonder if this is true?" Hua Xiyu asked.
"Yes." Yao Yanyu nodded, "This matter has been done since my master Zhang Laoyuan Ling was alive, and it is the will of the first emperor. ”
"Have you ever thought of compiling a copy of the Great Cloud Pharmacopoeia?" Hua Xilu asked again.
"Copy? What copy? Yao Yanyu was confused, thinking that you should be a boss brush, or a copy?
"It's the poison spectrum." Hua Xiyu broke through Yao Yanyu's doubts, "There are tens of thousands of herbaceous species in this world, and there are more than thousands of people who can be used in medicine. Some things can be directly used in medicine, and some things are poisonous and need to be processed or matched with others before they can be used in medicine. But there are also some things that cannot be removed from their toxicity no matter how they are concocted. But sometimes, to cure diseases and save people, it is necessary to use dangerous tactics to fight poison with poison. In this case, we need to test the drug. Normally, the doctor will test the medicine by himself, but because of the different constitutions of people and the instability of toxicity, the doctor will not only test the medicine very accurately, but also risk his life. So, why can't we test the medicine with those death row inmates? In this way, we can test the medicine repeatedly, and finally make a detailed annotation of those poisonous drugs and pass them on to future generations, isn't it also a merit? ”
"Ahh I understand! You want to compile a Chinese herbal medicine-" Yao Yanyu suddenly realized, her brain spun rapidly, and then a word suddenly popped up in her head: "Blacklist!" ”
"Blacklist?" Hua Xixuan was stunned when he heard this, and then high-fived excitedly: "Okay!" It's the 'blacklist'! After speaking, he sighed again: "Don't you think, don't you think, the toxicity of annotated herbs is as important as the availability of annotations?" Just like the case of the 'Qingxin Pill' during the reign of the first emperor, if the matter of Tianzhu cassava is too clear to the people in the hospital and the Chinese Medical Center, how can the danger happen? ”
Yao Yanyu nodded slowly and said, "You are right. I've been using things like cats, dogs, chickens, and rabbits to test medicines, and although it works, these things are different from people. The toxicity of some drugs can only be accurately tested in people. It's just ......" Yao Yanyu glanced at Emperor Jinglong hesitantly, thinking that this matter is reasonable, but it is always inhumane, and the emperor must carry the black pot in this matter, otherwise he will not dare to go out casually in the future.
When the emperor saw Yao Yanyu's gaze, he smiled slightly and said, "If Yao Yuanju also thinks that this matter is feasible, go back to the main book of Hua, write a fold and hand it over." ”
"The master is wise." Hua Xi hurriedly gave up his hand and secretly glanced at Yao Yanyu again, but Yao Yanyu had already turned his face to look out the window.
When the time came, the people on the street suddenly retreated to both sides, and the crowd quickly dodged a passage like a flood cut by a water divider.
A team of Jinlinwei dressed in dark brocade suits, wearing a big red and gold tweed cloak, wearing a green sword at the waist, and stepping on deerskin military boots, walked through the street with powerful steps, and walked in the back of the most Lu without three steps to stand on the side of the street, and the people in front of the leader rushed all the way, and there were two more rows of majestic sentry posts on both sides of Xishi Street.
After another two quarters of an hour, there was the government's reliance on the passing, and the tall head and big horse sitting on the back were this year's chief and deputy supervisors - He Yong, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Sun Yin, the left attendant of the Criminal Department.
Behind the overseer was a fierce and vicious team, there were not many people in this team, at best there were only a hundred or ten people, but all of them were five big and three coarse, with a fierce face. Everyone was dressed in soap-colored official clothes and carried a ghost-headed knife in their arms. - This is the executioner in charge of the execution.
The powerful atmosphere of slaughter shocked the people who were watching the excitement along the street, and everyone stopped laughing, and watched in a daze as the official master and these executioners who took people's lives passed in front of them, and there were hundreds of people, except for the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves, no one made a noise.
Yao Yanyu couldn't help but sigh softly - it seems that the deterrent power of collective questioning is really not to be underestimated!
Soon after this group of people, it was the prisoner cart of the prison of the Criminal Department.
More than 600 prisoner cars walked through the streets of Xishi, and the wheels of the cars ran over the bluestone ground, making a creaking and gurgling sound, and the onlookers on both sides began to discuss.
After all, the rebellion had little to do with the people, and there was no real fight, so the people just pointed and discussed, and there was no excesses.
The shops on both sides of the street began to pour water outside, and more business was better, and the shops with bigger backers simply poured wine outside. Is it meaningful, it is nothing more than to ward off evil spirits, send some wine to death row prisoners, so that their souls can go to their homes as soon as possible, and don't hang around at the door of their own homes.
In front of the rebellious death row prisoners passed, and behind them were a hundred and ten felons who had nothing to do with rebellion, murder and arson for money, and of course a few corrupt officials.
As soon as these people passed, the people on the street immediately became excited, and all kinds of rotten vegetables, leaves, rotten fruits, bottles and cans were thrown over. Of course, there are also those who lose eggs, the world is the same, no matter where you go, you have to spend money to buy happy ones.
These people are really a waste, so they can throw away their eggs and use them to help the victims! Yao Yanyu rubbed her eyebrows helplessly.
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