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Ye Nuonuo looked at her distracted appearance, and couldn't help asking, "Why is Sister Mo so curious about these things?" It seems that you don't know much about these things, haven't you heard people mention them in your daily life? ”

Mo Ye was stunned for a moment and then came back to his senses, smiled, looked back, and said, "I'm still thinking about what happened just now." I've heard you say a lot, and now it seems that no one wants to harm the second prince. His illness this time may really be caused by a small omission. ”

Mo Ye suddenly turned her head and mentioned the second prince again, Xiao Yu's eyes standing beside her really moved slightly, and she also used this topic to avoid answering Ye Nuonuo's question just now.

Ye Nuonuo sighed and said, "Why did you talk about this again?" ”

"In order to make Xiaoyu feel at ease, and if someone really wants to mess with the harem, it is indeed not a good thing, and it is not wrong not to take this matter lightly." Mo Ye pondered for a moment, and then continued: "You and His Royal Highness the Prince are good friends, if the three of us sum up their respective thoughts, what can we find, and it is not wrong for you to go and talk to him." ”

"It's not bad to plan for a friend when he's in trouble." Ye Nuono looked at it and nodded. After being silent for a while, she asked again: "Sister Mo doesn't live in Kyoto often, and even hearsay about the affairs in the palace is not as rich as the residents of Kyoto, just based on the three of us chatting for such a short time, how can we have the confidence to come to the judgment you just made?" ”

"Although you are only two people, you are friends of the second prince, and every sentence in your conversation is much more accurate and true than the news you heard." Mo Ye smiled slightly, sorted out the thoughts in her head, and then said slowly: "Tong Guò learned some past things from you, I think that at present, there is no obstacle between His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness the Second Prince does not seem to have reached the forefront of the need to face the matter of establishing a prince or sealing the king...... At this time, he should be the most laid-back. ”

When Mo Ye's words came to the last sentence, he obviously hesitated and paused slightly.

She ended up speaking very vaguely. Some hastily closed the topic, also because she took into account the taboos. No matter how generous and virtuous the current Son of Heaven is, the prince is always the thunder pool of the people's public opinion, not to mention that the current emperor is in full bloom. The emperor and the prince are not in a hurry, and the idle people are waiting for any fun, and the remarks of stepping on the line should also be extremely cautious.

Ye Nuonuo heard the hesitation in Mo Ye's voice, but after thinking about it, she also understood a little. So she didn't answer, just nodded slightly.

Seeing Ye Nuonuo nodding silently, the gaze in his eyes gradually brightened. With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Mo Ye did not continue the topic, but looked sideways at Xiao Yu. asked something she was also curious about: "Actually, I've always wanted to ask, why is Miss Xiaoyu so worried about the second prince?" Although Sister Nono said this, I didn't mean to joke. ”

She suddenly asked with a slightly gloomy face, and in the eyes of others, it really didn't seem like she was joking.

"I ......"

Xiao Yu hesitated to speak. However, she only said one word, and suddenly the sound of the door opening the door in the backyard interrupted her speech.

If the front yard door is open, it may be that Master Ye is back, but if you think about it, he went to the palace. Even if only one round trip is counted, there will be no such speed. The backyard is open at this time, and it will probably only be a case. The two aunts in the back kitchen came back from grocery shopping.

It's just that they came back much earlier than usual.

"Ouch, what a scary thing just now!"

"yes, how can anyone like to watch that kind of scene, and make me so sick that I don't even buy fish."

The two aunts in the back kitchen of Yefu. One surnamed Wu and the other surnamed Zhao. At this moment, they were already holding each other's arms and chatting slowly into the backyard. It's just that depending on the situation, their chats today are not very pleasant, and the time when they came back from shopping for vegetables today was more than half an hour earlier than usual.

As soon as she stepped into the inner courtyard of the back house, Aunt Zhao had already seen Miss Ye who was sitting on the railing of the corridor, and then Aunt Wu, who was gently pushing her heart with her wrist, also looked at this side, and the two who were going to walk directly to the kitchen next to the eaves took a few steps around and bowed slightly to say hello to the corridor.

Ye Nuonuo saw that Aunt Wu had been holding her heart with her palm since she entered the hospital, and hurriedly slid down from the railing, leaned over and said with concern: "Mother Wu, where are you uncomfortable?" ”

Ye Nuonuo's eyes showed true feelings, although the two aunts in front of him were not his biological mothers, but the two of them had participated in and implanted in her body that she had grown up year by year. Ye Nuonuo hopes that these two aunts can always live happily and healthily, and can't bear to see them suffer, and they are also happy to see Ye Nuonuo's growth year by year, and they are even more happy to see that the eldest lady cares about them.

Because of what she saw on the street just now, Aunt Wu was still a little uncomfortable at this time, and she didn't want to mention those things in person. Aunt Zhao, who was supporting her by her side, was obviously more psychologically receptive, and when she came back with her, her spirit was much better than her.

The two old sisters Zhao and Wu have known each other for many years, so when Aunt Zhao saw Aunt Wu's appearance, she knew that she was still worried about what had just happened, and her heart was blocked. But the eldest lady cares, and she can't say nothing. So after she coughed lightly, she temporarily put Aunt Wu aside and pulled Ye Nuonuo to the other side, explaining what she had just seen on the street when she came back from grocery shopping.

It turned out that today was the execution period of the former official Shangshu, who was imprisoned for many crimes such as taking huge bribes and distorting the law, and the two aunts happened to meet the prisoner car passing by on the way to buy vegetables.

According to the practice of this level of execution, before the convict is escorted to the Xishikou beheading platform, the prisoner carriage has to go around the city for a week. Ordinary people can express their condemnation to the sinners in the prison car, and in addition to lethal weapons, what rotten melons, moldy vegetables, leaves, beans, pods, and trees can be thrown vigorously. Therefore, this kind of street prisoner car will be smashed very badly when passing by the entrance of the vegetable market, and the number of people surrounding the prisoner car is also the largest.

This seemingly inhumane punishment was actually inherited from the previous dynasty.

After today's change of state name, several tortures that had been decreed by the previous dynasty have actually been lifted, but only this rather humiliating punishment has been completely retained, but those who can bear this punishment must be the most heinous criminals.

As the saying goes, killing is not enough to wash away his crime, and dissecting and amputating his limbs is too violent, so it is better to wait for the charges to be verified, and return part of the power to vent anger to the people.

Fortunately, Wan Defu, the former secretary of the ministry, was not the first sinner to have the opportunity to 'enjoy' this kind of punishment, and after the prisoner car had walked around, he was only smashed into the sky by the rotten vegetable gangs that kept flying along the way, and his eyes were slightly protruding, making him feel that the sun was so dim that it turned into a moon today.

Today, Kyoto has regained the equivalent of seventy percent of its heyday, and the happiness of the people can significantly reduce the accumulation of their indignation. I think that back then, about a year after Emperor Zhou Ling's abdication, the first Hubu Shangshu Ren Huai Brother Tai who was escorted to this kind of street prisoner car was smashed badly.

Many Kyoto residents can still recall that that day, the captain of the execution escort team saw that he was only halfway through the street, and Ren Huai had been knocked unconscious. As a result, when the prisoner cart arrived at the cutting platform, although Ren Huai was still angry, he was almost fished out of a cart of vegetable scraps by the soldiers.

suffered the same punishment, but the difference is that Ren Huai was almost directly cooked by the people on the spot, and today, Wan Defu was not only not smashed as badly as Ren Huai, but the soldiers who escorted him to the beheading platform also encountered the killer who robbed the prisoner on the way.

However, to everyone's surprise, when all the soldiers were guarding against the robbery of the prisoner car, this killer team paid all the members of the team to cover one of the killers to approach the prisoner car, but instead of robbing people, they went to kill people.

On the prisoner car, if the special shackles made by the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Industry are cut with ordinary swords, they cannot be cut with a single sword, but the sword in the killer's hand can pass through the fence door of the prisoner car without hindrance, accurately handing the sharp long sword into Wan Defu's heart, and easily cutting off his lifeline.

"There were a lot of dead people, and there was blood everywhere on the ground and on the walls of the houses around West Street."

In the end, Aunt Zhao couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Ye Nuonuo also felt a little chilled when she heard this, and looked Aunt Zhao up and down with a slight frown, and she asked again: "The scene must have been very chaotic at that time, didn't you touch anything?" ”

A few days ago at the East City Gate, there was a horse in such a spacious place that was startled, and it could cause a small riot, not to mention that today at the most lively time in the vegetable market, the prisoner convoy and a group of killers slashed and slashed together, and the prisoner car was surrounded by three layers of people inside and three layers outside, in such an environment, just a little mess can cause many people to be injured.

"Neither of us is fine, those killers didn't mess with the people." Aunt Zhao shook her head, then let out a long breath, and said: "It's just that the scene is too bloody, although when the two of us walked to the entrance of the vegetable market, we only saw the backs of the group of killers fleeing, but after the big guys dispersed a little, the blood and a few dead bodies on the ground were too dazzling, and Wu Mei was frightened." ”

The Wu Mei she said was naturally Aunt Wu who kept rubbing her heart just now, so uncomfortable that she didn't want to speak.

Ye Nuonuo sighed softly: "I see, ......"

Ye Nuonuo was born in a medical family, and the thing she saw the most since she was a child was that her father tried his best to save people's lives, so she has a different view of life from ordinary people. No matter who the deceased is today, it is always easy to resist the death of several people at once.

After a slight pause, she suddenly exclaimed: "Mother Zhao, my father just went out." ”