The first day of the fifth month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen was the day when Qiu Xiang and them were executed.

Li Tianyang, Wu Jie, Gan Dabiao, none of them actually forgot the existence of this day, but when it came to the day of execution, none of them were present, and no one wanted to see this sad execution ceremony.

"Qiu Xiang and Wang Zhengjian...... do you have any last words to say?"

The law enforcement officers who executed, Zhengse, stood in front of Qiu Xiang and questioned them for the last time.

"What should be said has been said in these days, and there is nothing more to say!"

Qiu Xiang raised his head, smiled back at the executioner calmly, and then turned his head to greet the twelve companions beside him: "I am very fortunate to be able to work with you in this life, this is my honor, I hope that if there is an afterlife, I can still meet you and be a confidant!" ”

"Stick to your wishes !!"

A handful of prisoners with sadness and fear in their hearts opened their hearts and strode up to the gallows in front of them, waiting for the executioners to put the noose on them.

"The hour has come, and the execution !!"

The members of the inspection department who supervised the execution took the pocket watch in their hands to check the time, and then gave an order to the executioners, and a group of prisoners who were executed were obediently pulled onto the gallows and put on the noose.

"Smack!!"

As soon as the fat mechanism of the gallows was triggered, Qiu Xiang and his thirteen prisoners fell into the air, and the whole person fell down with their own weight, and after a few clicks like a broken bone, there were thirteen corpses floating around on the gallows.

Li Tianyang was unwilling to face the miserable scene, and sat quietly in his office looking at the impossible execution ground.

When the bell struck twelve, he suddenly looked up and tried to get out of the office, but at last he did not muster up the greatest courage to take a step, and finally sat down again until there was a knock at the door.

"Come in."

It was Li Tianyang's current secretary Zhao Zhongyi who walked in, and when he saw his arrival, Li Tianyang knew that the things in the execution ground had come to an end.

"Is it done?"

Li Tianyang asked faintly.

"That's it, my lord!"

Zhao Zhongyi nodded lightly and gave Li Tianyang an affirmative reply.

"Nothing went wrong, did it?"

"Everything went according to plan, no problems."

"That's good!!"

Li Tianyang let out a long breath, but the whole person finally regained some popularity.

The executioners in the execution ground are cleaning the execution ground, and the thirteen corpses that were floating on the gallows before have now become thirteen coffins wrapped in the field, and then the thirteen coffins will be sent to the crematorium for incineration, and then buried in Keelung Town and other martyrs' cemeteries.

Although Qiu Xiang was a criminal, but in terms of their contribution to Hongmen, it was enough for them to enter the martyrs' cemetery after their death and accept the admiration of future generations, which is a fact that Li Tianyang, Wu Jie and Gan Dabiao agreed on.

"Alright, 'We'll take care of these things!'"

The executioners were about to transport the body to the crematorium, but they were stopped by the soldiers who supervised the law enforcement of the Hongtang Military Department and took the initiative to take over the matter.

The law enforcement officers at the execution ground looked at these colleagues and handed over the bodies to them with tacit understanding, turned around and led people to clean up the execution ground, and immediately left the matter behind.

Turning his gaze to the other side, the members of the Hongtang Military Department who carried the corpses did not transport the thirteen corpses to the crematorium in Keelung Town, but carried the thirteen coffins into the three tightly wrapped carriages outside the execution ground, turned around and drove away in the direction of the dock.

Soon, the thirteen coffins were secretly carried onto a 400-grain ship docked at a remote part of the dock in Keelung Town, and then the ship set sail and headed southwest.

When the sky gradually went west, I didn't know how far away from Keelung Town, the thirteen originally sealed coffins had been opened on the four hundred sea ships at this time, and Qiu Xiang and their thirteen corpses were also carried out of the coffins and placed on top of the quilts that were temporarily laid on the bed.

"Hmmm......"

Suddenly, one of the corpses moved his hands and feet, and a gasp sounded from his mouth.

With this sound, the original owner of this corpse, Qiu Xiang, who was supposed to die by hanging, woke up faintly, and then turned his head around a little dazed.

"You're awake."

In the dark place on the side of the corner, a voice suddenly sounded, startling Qiu Xiang, making him suddenly sit up vigilantly and stare at the place where the voice came from.

"Where is this? Who are you? ”

Qiu Xiang cautiously stared at the shadows, and at the same time, without a trace, gently probed the body of his companion with his foot.

"This is the South China Sea, we are now more than fifty miles away from Keelung Town, and you have all been in a coma for five hours."

A voice in the shadows slowly answered Qiu Xiang's question: "As for who I am, as a colleague, you shouldn't be strangers, right?" ”

The voice in the shadows waited for the master to speak, and slowly walked to the bright place, revealing his true face in front of Qiu Xiang.

"It's !! you"

Qiu Xiang was shocked, he didn't expect that the person who saved their lives would be Dong Haoran, the chief treasurer of Qixintang: "Why do you want to save us?" ”

"Don't think about it, it's not me who wants to save you, but our Admiral, he doesn't want to watch your group of manufacturable materials die like this in the end, so he let people arrange this scene."

Dong Haoran interrupted the other party and told the other party the ins and outs of the matter.

"My lord said that the foundation of Hongmen lies in the rules and regulations, and all private feelings need to be based on rules and laws, so that Hongmen can continue to develop and grow, and at the same time, it can also bring different changes to this era."

"Therefore, you must pay the price for your crimes."

"It's just that the adults also don't want to see you guys who are beneficial to the team, but hinder the life and death of the Hongmen system, and waste the investment that Hongmen has invested in you for more than ten years."

"From now on, you are already a dead man in Hongmen, don't think about returning to Dayuan Island, this ship will take you to the town of Apa in Luzon, and then there will be a ship there to take you south, and then it depends on your own will whether you will go west to India or whether you will go west to India."

"Don't try to secretly contact Dayuan Island, if you still regard adults as the supreme leader, don't let him lose trust with other adults again for your business!!"

Dong Haoran solemnly told Qiu Xiang the facts, and gave instructions to him in a serious tone.

(End of chapter)