Chapter 73: Beheading

Ye Xuemei pondered for a moment and said, "Compared with his identity, I am more curious about how he knew Emperor Song's thoughts, whether he guessed it like us or ......"

Rong Xiang waited for a long time, but she didn't see her say the next sentence for a long time, and couldn't help but ask, "Or what?" ”

"Nothing." Ye Xuemei didn't say anything uncertain, "What happened to those dart masters?" ”

The prisoner replied: "Wan Delin has been convicted, and they are no longer required to testify, so they will leave Kaifeng tomorrow and return to Jiangning." The prince has already asked the heavenly prisoners to escort them along the way and send them to a safe place, and their family members have also sent someone to pick them up, so the girl can rest assured. ”

"That's good."

After the prisoner and the prisoner had finished explaining what they had to say, they left. It was already late at night, so draining her mind, Ye Xuemei fell asleep after they left.

Early the next morning, in the Tianqin Pavilion, a middle-aged man arched his hand to a woman standing in front of the window with his back to him: "Miss Qiqi, they have already left the city. "They are the witnesses of the group.

The woman turned around, and it was Yingyi, "What about our people?" ”

"Follow them out of the city, and there should be good news soon."

"Okay." After saying this, the middle-aged man bowed and withdrew.

The winter weather is always gloomy, as if nothing can be sunny, and when the last bit of light is swallowed up by darkness, a rush of footsteps rings in the backyard of this building.

The middle-aged man walked in eagerly and said to Yingyi: "Girl, something happened!" ”

Yingyi put down the half-read volume in her hand, raised her eyes and said, "Didn't you kill those people?" ”

The middle-aged man shook his head hurriedly, and said something that made Yingyi change in shock, "What about those group of dart masters, the villain doesn't know, but the person we sent is dead." ”

Yingyi Huo Ran got up, her eyes burst out with a cold light as cold as a blade, "You say it again!" ”

The villain had thought that they would be back before dark, but they had not seen anyone for a long time. The villain was a little worried, so he planned to go out of the city to have a look, but as soon as he arrived at the city gate, he saw someone outside the city running over with a panicked face, saying that he found a group of corpses ten miles away from the city. The villain followed the defenders to the place where the man had spoken, and found ...... Found ......" The middle-aged man said with fear on his face: "The dead are all the people we sent, six corpses." ”

Yingyi clenched her hands tightly, "We have sent a total of six people, that is to say, all of them are dead, and there is no one left!" ”

The middle-aged man lowered his head and didn't dare to answer, for a long time, Yingyi calmed his breath and said coldly: "Do you know who killed them?" What about the group of dart masters? ”

"The murderer left no trace, and the group of dart masters is nowhere to be found. The villain guessed that it was the hand of the group of dart masters at all? ”

"No, it won't." Yingyi said coldly: "I asked Wan Delin, except for Liao Ping, the head of the dart, who can barely rank among the second-rate masters, the rest of the martial arts are ordinary, and it is impossible to kill our people, there must be someone who is secretly helping them." ”

"So what now?"

Yingyi said hatefully: "Check! We must find out who is secretly working against us, and send another group of people to Jiangning, and those dart masters will definitely escape back there! ”

After the middle-aged man left, Yingyi rushed into the palace to tell Gongliang Rongruo about these things before the palace gate was closed. When he learned about this, he was also very surprised, but it was useless to be angry, so he could only ask Yingyi to speed up the investigation, and make sure to find the group of murderers and the dart master.

On September 25, the prisoner van carrying the prisoner Wan Delin drove out of the prison of the Criminal Department. The prisoner car drove all the way to the execution ground at Caishikou. There have been many ordinary people surrounded there, and in the past 20 years, the Wan clan has been powerful, even if they have committed any crime, at most, they will be dismissed from the government and their homes, and it is the first time that they have been beheaded.

Cheng Langzhong, who was in charge of the Autumn Trial Division of the Criminal Department, was about to return to the prison after verifying his identity, but saw a vermilion-topped carriage parked outside the execution ground, and an old man with a long beard held the coachman's hand and got out of the carriage. This person is none other than Wan Jin.

Cheng Langzhong hurriedly greeted him and said respectfully: "Xiaguan has seen Lord Wanhou. ”

After signaling Cheng Langzhong to be exempt, he said in a dumb voice: "The old man wants to send the dog on his last journey, I don't know if it's convenient?" ”

"Of course you can, Master Hou, please!" Cheng Langzhong was full of promises, and continued: "The matter has come to this point, and I hope that the Hou Ye will mourn." Come to think of it, I don't want to see you sad. ”

Wan Jin's eyes turned red, he raised his sleeves to wipe the corners of his eyes, and said in a choked voice: "The old man understands what Master Cheng means, but he just ...... Delin is the only son of the old man, and now he is about to be beheaded, the old man ...... It's like a knife in my heart. ”

Cheng Langzhong sighed, led Wan Jin to the execution platform, and then retreated, leaving them father and son to get along.

Wan Jin took the food box in the housekeeper's hand, took out a few plates of delicate side dishes, and said hoarsely: "These are your favorite side dishes on weekdays, your mother got up early in the morning to make them, eat more." ”

The housekeeper said on the side: "Madame was originally going to come, but before going out, she fainted because of excessive sadness, and she couldn't come to see her son." Wan Delin listened silently, without even moving his eyelids, and he didn't know if he listened.

Wan Jin brought a plate of jade and white jade balls to his mouth, and talked about what happened when he was a child while feeding it. But he never said a word, mechanically chewing the food that was fed into his mouth.

Looking at him like this, Wan Jin seemed to be more and more sad, and hugged him with tears: "It's all because my father is useless, I can't save you, if you want to blame it, blame it!" ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the executioner walked up to the execution platform with a wide axe knife, and the butler packed up his things and said in a low voice: "Master Hou, it's almost three o'clock in the afternoon, let's go down, so as not to miss the time of execution." ”

"In the future, your mother and I will go to see you on the day of Qingming and cold food, life and death, so that you can live a good life...... Go ahead! After saying this, Wan Jin reluctantly let go of his hand, and the housekeeper helped him off the execution platform.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Langzhong took the red stick in the lottery holder and threw it on the ground, "Execution!" ”

With these two words, the brand on the back of Wan Delin's neck was removed, and the executioner raised the extremely sharp ghost head knife with an expressionless face and slashed it down on his neck.

After a knife, the head fell to the ground without any suspense.

Wan Jia took the body back for burial, and thus the case of corruption and bribery came to an end. But...... Is it really over?

The next morning, when the people living near the east gate went out, they were surprised to find that the city gate, which had been opened early, was still tightly closed, but a man was gagged and hung on the tower. There was a sign hanging on his body, on which were written eight words - stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix, Delin is not dead!

Delin, Wonderlin?

But obviously many people saw him beheaded on the execution ground yesterday, how could he still be alive?

There were more and more onlookers, and some people who had seen Wandelin recognized the person who was hanging in the city tower as Wandelin.