Pei Xingli's face was solemn: "I haven't found any abnormal movement now, either the other party is hiding too deeply, or there is no ambush." ”

Xiling Yue instantly felt very nervous and couldn't help biting her lower lip.

Seeing this, Pei Xingli smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, I will protect you." ”

Xiling Yue laughed dryly, and secretly caught a glimpse of Xiao Yi on the side with a bad expression.

Unexpectedly, Adan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke at this time, and said coldly: "Don't bother General Pei, the servant will protect the county lord." ”

Xilingyue was very surprised, and couldn't help but look at Adan, and saw her look of displeasure, her jaw tightened coldly, and she was like two people who were laughing and lively on weekdays.

Xilingyue was about to ask her a question, when a rumbling drum suddenly sounded in her ears, and the time for execution had arrived. Everyone looked intently at the execution platform, and saw Li Chengxuan facing Li Qi and asking: "This king will ask you one last time, who is the person behind you?" ”

Li Qi was not afraid, and laughed three times in the sky: "I won't say it if you ask a thousand times!" ”

Li Chengxuan narrowed his handsome eyes slightly, only said the word "good" in a deep voice, and then stopped talking.

Fang Tingwei of Dali Temple immediately raised the arrow and signaled the execution. The subordinates on the side shouted loudly: "Before the end of the time, the offense will be killed!" ”

At the sound of an order, all the prisoners on the stage were pushed to the front of the guillotine at the same time and fell to their knees. Xilingyue only heard Li Hui crying and shouting: "Father, father, recruit, recruit, recruit, they won't come!" ”

Half of Li Qi's body was blocked by the guillotine, and in the direction where Xiling Yue was, only his side face could be seen. He seemed to hesitate, opening his mouth several times and looking around, as if looking for someone.

Finally, he looked at the southwest corner under the torture platform, and his sharp gaze shot straight at Xiling Yuezhi, and he didn't move a single bit. Xiling Yue suddenly felt shocked, and couldn't help but tug on Adan's sleeve, and said in a nervous tone: "Is he looking at me?" What does he want to do? ”

Pei Xingli was silent for a moment, and replied: "He's not looking at you, he's looking at me." ”

Xilingyue suddenly remembered that Li Qi was arrested by Pei Xingli himself, and in terms of the relationship between the two, it was impossible for Li Qi not to hate him, and his eyes were more like staring at him.

Only then did she feel a little relieved, and tried not to look at Li Qi, but instead looked at the prison beheading platform, only to see that Fang Tingwei had raised the arrow again, and said at the same time in his mouth:

"Execution."

The drums beat again, and the executioners raised their knives in unison, and the prisoners were brought under the guillotine, ready to be beheaded. This kind of punishment is very cruel, it will cut the prisoner in two, but the person will not die immediately, and often have to crawl for a while before dying, and the blood will flow sideways, and the pain will be extreme.

Pei Xingli was worried that Xilingyue wouldn't be able to stand it, so he took the initiative to raise his hand to cover her eyes, and said in a low voice, "Don't look." ”

Xilingyue knew that it was most likely to change at this time, so she hurriedly pulled his hand away and stared intently at the execution table.

Fang Tingwei had raised the arrow for the third time, and the drum was beating again, seeing that the guillotine was about to fall......

At the last moment, Li Qi suddenly struggled and shouted urgently: "I have changed my mind!" Your Highness bears me, the pavilion master deceives me, I want to face the saint! Face Saint! ”

Li Chengxuan immediately got up and raised his hand to signal the executioner: "Bring him over." ”

The executioner took the order, lifted Li Qi from the guillotine, and was about to take him to the prison beheading platform, when something happened suddenly!

Xilingyue only heard a "boom" in her ears, and a silver light had passed over her shoulder, shooting towards Li Qi with lightning speed.

Pei Xingli shouted "get down", pressed the back of her neck, and pressed her into his arms.

At the same time, Li Chengxuan quickly jumped out of the desk and drew his sword to stop the hidden weapon. However, he was a step too late after all, only to see Li Qi being shot in the temple from the side by a dart, and fell in front of him with a "bang". The body of the dart is peculiar, and the tip is quenched with a strange blue light, which is very familiar.

The next moment, Li Qi's face had turned purple and black, and he suddenly twitched a few times, and his face was hideous.

Seeing this, there was chaos up and down the torture table. The onlookers shouted in horror, but fortunately Jin Wuwei maintained order and drew his knife and shouted: "All squat down, hold your heads in your hands!" ”

The people did not dare to disobey, so they had to do it in a panic. Xiling Yue also broke free from Pei Xingli's arms and looked anxiously at the execution table. Dali Siqing and the executioners were still calm, Li Qi's clansmen were panicked, and Li Hui cried loudly: "Father, father! ”

In the chaos, Li Chengxuan raised his eyes to look at the watchtowers on all sides, and saw that Wuhou raised a black flag one after another, that is, he didn't see who the murderer was.

But Li Chengxuan saw it very clearly, the dart was clearly shot from the southwest corner of the prison beheading platform, and there was ......

As soon as he looked at it, he saw the people squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, only a few people were still standing, and their postures were extremely eye-catching, it was Xilingyue and the others.

He ran over with his sword and looked at the people in the audience: "Have you seen any suspicious people?" ”

Several people were shocked and silent, only Xilingyue hesitated and replied: "I just seem to have heard...... Hidden weapons flew past my ears. ”

Li Chengxuan's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's fine." Xilingyue turned around and wanted to look for a suspicious person, but except for the people who were squatting with their heads in their hands, they didn't find anything. She looked at Adan again and asked, "You were right behind me, did you hear anything?" ”

Adan shook his head.

Xilingyue looked at Xiao Yi and Pei Xingli again, and the two were silent. She couldn't help but show a faint blank look, and said to herself: "Strange, could it be that I heard it wrong?" ”

"Perhaps." Although Li Chengxuan said this, his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, and finally collided with Pei Xingli's gaze. In the midst of the electric light, the two looked at each other, and quickly exchanged a look, tacitly.

Pei Xing immediately opened his mouth and said, "It's not safe here, I'll send you back to the house first." ”

Xiling Yue was worried about the hidden weapon, raised her head and asked again: "Lord Wang, is it still a poisoned dart?" ”

Li Chengxuan nodded: "It's exactly the same as killing Shopkeeper Liu and Adu." ”

In other words, the person who shot Li Qi was probably the one who saved her in Qing Xiuyuan, and it was even possible that he was the one who killed An Cheng.

Xiling Yue felt scared for a while: "Then what should I do now?" ”

"Li Hui should know something inside, I'll try him again, you can go." After saying that, Li Chengxuan turned around and walked to the center of the execution platform, signaled Dali Temple to suspend the execution, and brought Li Hui and others back for retrial.

Xiling Yue and the others had no choice but to return to the Eldest Princess's Mansion under Pei Xingli's escort......

"General Pei, we have arrived, please go back." When the carriage arrived at the gate of the eldest princess's mansion, several people got off the carriage one after another and saluted each other to say goodbye.

Pei Xingli looked at Xilingyue again and again, wanting to say something, but after all, he didn't speak, only warmly concerned: "Today, you and Guo Jungong are frightened, remember to take some calming medicine when you go back, so as not to have nightmares at night." ”

These words are very close, and Xiao Yi has changed color slightly when he heard it.

Seeing this, Guo Zhongting preemptively replied: "Thank you General Pei for your concern, we have Brother Xiao here, you can rest assured!" ”

Xiao Yi also spoke at the right time, with a cold attitude: "If General Pei needs it, he can also come to Xiao." ”

Pei Xingli only smiled faintly: "Thank you, if there is a need, Pei will not be polite." ”

(End of chapter)