Volume 2 Chapter 69 A Thousand Miles of Lonely Graves

Zheng Songjun had just come out of it, and the two took a look. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lord Yu frowned: "Songjun, you came to patrol the prison so late?" Zheng Songjun saluted Lord Yu: "Come and see, there are many prisoners in the prison, so you don't have to do anything." ”

Lord Yu nodded, seeing the guards following behind him, "Thank you for your hard work." The guards said in unison: "It's not hard. ”

Lord Yu patted Zheng Songjun on the shoulder: "You go back early, I'll go to death row to have a look." Zheng Songjun hurriedly bent down to salute him. Seeing Master Yu walking towards the cell, he raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat on his head.

Lord Yu walked all the way, but his pace gradually slowed down, and when he looked back, Zheng Songjun had already led people away.

He knows his subordinates, and in the middle of the night, Zheng Songjun has never been a person who likes to patrol prisons. He asked the captain of the guard beside him, "Where has Lord Zheng been?" ”

The captain of the guard said respectfully: "The first-class, second-class, and third-class prisons have all been there. ”

Lord Yu thought for a moment, walked towards the death row, and walked until he reached the place where the Li clan was imprisoned before stopping.

Everyone is fine, just like the original, no one is missing.

Mrs. Li was still kneeling on the grass, with a string of Buddhist beads in her hand, chanting words, she opened her eyes and looked at Master Yu.

Yu Shangshu didn't know why, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and nodded towards the Li family: "Mrs. Li." ”

was also an official in the same dynasty, but now when he sees his colleagues violating the holy wrath and his family members ending up like this, how can he not sigh and lament.

Mrs. Li said softly: "It's late at night, Lord Yu still has the heart to take a look, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to survive at this age?" Master Yu pondered for a moment and sighed lowly, almost speechless.

Mrs. Li looked at him: "If Lord Yu looks at the past and pities us, let me have a good reunion with a few grandchildren before I die." Lord Yu looked at the other cells, the young children were all shrunk in their mother's arms, their faces were pale and frightened, they were originally young masters and young ladies from famous families, but now they were depressed.

Yu Shangshu nodded and waved his hand at the jailer, who opened the doors of several other cells and brought out a few young children.

Mrs. Li's cell was spacious and in much better condition, and when the children walked in, they threw themselves down one by one beside Mrs. Li and sobbed quietly. Mrs. Li held one in her arms and several in her hands, her eyes immediately turned red, and a low and sad atmosphere spread throughout the cell.

Lord Yu looked at it and sighed, not knowing if it was right or wrong for him to stop them from drinking poisonous wine.

An Ning sat in the carriage of the Zheng Mansion, and the lights outside the window penetrated through the hollowed-out window flowers, sometimes illuminating her cold and beautiful face.

Zheng Songjun sat silently by the door, his heart shook, and he didn't know how to express his feelings - a little princess, hiding from the current saint, colluding with courtiers, using her power, and going to death row. When he left, he was calm and calm, so calm that he didn't panic at all.

Originally, what he valued was the prince and the Qiao family behind Princess An Ning - now, he felt that Princess An Ning might be more terrifying than the prince and the Qiao family.

He was still unsettled, when he heard the slightly immature voice and asked softly, "I want to know, if the people on death row die of illness before the execution, where will they be buried?" ”

Zheng Songjun's heart was bright, and he said in a low voice: "Fengming Mountain in the western suburbs." ”

An Ning nodded: "No matter what happens next, Lord Zheng should not know, and I will not bother Lord Zheng." She said slowly: "I will keep Lord Zheng's help in my heart, and when Lord Yu gives advice, Lord Zheng will definitely get what he wants." ”

Zheng Songjun was both excited and frightened in his heart, cold sweat broke out on his head, and he almost had a sense of humility in talking to the emperor in the Taiji Palace, and he almost didn't dare to refute, just nodded yes.

He knew that if he got on the boat of Princess An Ning today, he might never get off.

- Princess Anning, who is she?

In less than three watches, Lord Yu, who was resting in the backyard of the palace, was hurriedly woken up by the prison guards and came to death row, where there was a mournful cry.

The children beside Mrs. Li were sitting or lying, one by one, their faces were pale and they had lost their breath. A bottle of medicine was scattered on the ground, and there was still the remaining powder.

The jailer handed the bottle to Master Yu: "I have already experienced it, it is poison, let the cat eat it, and die when it falls asleep." Master Yu held the bottle and looked at Mrs. Li, who was crying with her children and grandchildren, and the expression on her face changed unpredictably.

He remembered that Master Zheng had come, and finally sighed deeply: "That's it, let's treat it as an illness." ”

On the execution ground, the hands were raised and the knives fell, and the heads fell to the ground, and the pain was unbearable. How innocent the child is, he can walk like this.

Mrs. Li cried and said, "Lord Yu, this matter has nothing to do with others, I just ask you to have mercy on my grandchildren and granddaughters, and give them a coffin, so that other lonely souls and wild ghosts will not disturb them." ”

After saying that, Mrs. Li was already crying so much that she was about to faint. Mr. Yu looked at those children, thinking of the grandchildren who had no worries about food and clothing at home, and sighed long, and couldn't help but have the idea of resigning.

The moon and stars are scarce, the sky is slightly white, and Fengming Mountain in the western suburbs.

This wilderness is full of skeletons that no one has collected, most of them are felons, and even relatives dare not come to collect the bodies. Wild dogs, wolves, and vultures often come here, and eat the carcasses clean, leaving only the bones so white that a skull can be exposed when stepped on.

Over time, the wind is gusting here, the people are inaccessible, and the ghost fire lingers at night, as if there is a great grievance.

There were many people in black in the forest, silent and cold.

Maple Scars stood in the forest with their chests crossed, while An Ning leaned against the tree, wearing Maple Scars' robes, and slowly yawned. She hadn't slept all night, and she was already very tired.

Soon, some people came up the hill with lanterns and torches, and the light of the fire illuminated their official uniformsβ€”a big word of punishment.

Three or four men pushed a carriage and transported the dead for burial, which was originally the most thankless task, and these officers and men looked impatient and unlucky.

In the past few days, more and more people have died in the Criminal Department, and the people above have been holding on tightly, and the corpses in the warehouse of the Criminal Department can no longer be loaded, and they have to be transported and buried almost every day, and they are exhausted.

The carriage was littered with corpses wrapped in mats or white cloths, and a huge coffin.

Maple Scar straightened up and looked up at the skyβ€”it was almost dawn.

When the men came to the place where the bones were buried, they sat down to gasp, drink water, and tell a few yellow jokes, and then began to pick up shovels and dig pits.

There were so many people buried, the soil was already very soft, so they casually dug a pit and threw a few corpses down.

When it was the coffin's turn, the officers and soldiers had no strength, and a young one said: "It's inconvenient to bury such a big thing, so it's better to burn it." ”

The older one said: "No, Lord Yu has instructed you to bury it alive." A few people immediately had nothing to say, found a vacant lot, and began to dig a pit.

So it took half an hour to dig.