66 The day of the execution
"What is this?" Lao Zuo asked.
"This, you can use it as a pen for the time being, depending on how you talk, you should all be literate, write out your replaced identity, and know how much to write."
"But, there's no paper."
"Find a way." Qiu Xiaobei blinked her sleepy eyes, and her weakness made her tone a little rushed, "There is always something to write, if it doesn't work, use clothes." ”
After speaking, she closed her eyes and reluctantly squeezed out her voice: "Trouble, you're you, I, I'll sleep." ”
The hand was finally able to hang down without moving, resting on the side of the waist and touching the side of the stomach, and then reluctantly moved to the right wrist to check the pulse of himself.
Fortunately, although the court looked dangerous, but because they rushed to finish the process, they didn't do anything to her, that is, when they met Ying Shurong, they would hurt their hands and were pushed and beaten a few times, fortunately, she protected her stomach when she was struggling, and she didn't let them hit her stomach, but she still suffered some shocks, mainly because she later dealt with the jailers who wanted to be unfavorable to her, and the yin qi also had an impact on her, resulting in her physical weakness and mental weakness now.
She brought some pills to protect the fetus, and she had already taken them, so she could sleep now, and she would sleep well.
When she woke up again, although there was no window and she didn't know the sky outside, Qiu Xiaobei could feel that it was already dark, and the terrible ghost crying wolf howl in her ears that she couldn't break off and others couldn't hear gave her a terrible headache.
"Wake up, wake up."
Hearing the call of Lao Zuo and Lao Right (the cellmate on the right, secretly called Lao Right by Qiu Xiaobei), she opened her eyes that were still a little sleepy, and then grabbed Lan Shan and tried to sit up, Lao Zuo's hand also came over to help her up: "How about the little brother, is it better?" ”
"It's okay, it's much better."
"It's okay, we thought you were badly injured by them, and they scared us out of the way." Lao You said worriedly, or Lao Zuo said that there was no blood on her body, and he sniffed, plus before falling asleep, she looked so firm, not like a person who was about to die, so they let them have a little rest.
Qiu Xiaobei smiled and was about to speak, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that not only the prisoners on the left and right, but also the prisoners in the cells on the opposite side and farther away, tried their best to lean towards her, originally lying down one by one without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and they all looked at her with a kind of glowing and weird gaze.
This place is not a hell, except for a few people who want to survive, most of them are looking forward to being able to go out and see the sun, because they are not real criminals, they are all innocent, and the people who were caught in for some reason, they were all desperate, but suddenly they were told that there was someone who could get them out...... This is the first person in a long time to say such a thing to them!
That kind of mood is indescribable in words, both scared and expectant!
Qiu Xiaobei listened to Lao Zuo's explanation and nodded clearly, she knew that it must have been during her sleep, Lao Zuo and Lao You deliberately went to pass the news to each other one after another.
This made her prove that Lao Zuo was a smart person, and she only gave him black charcoal to write down the information of the person he was acting into, and he immediately understood what she meant.
"How's it going, is it written?"
Lao Zuo nodded: "Written." ”
Then he walked to the other side, pulled open the straw pile, and took out a ball of cloth.
handed the cloth ball to Qiu Xiaobei, after Qiu Xiaobei took it, he slowly untied it, and found that there were four or five pieces of cloth in it, about the size of an adult's back, and each cloth had words written on black carbon stones.
Qiu Xiaobei probably looked at the past, and they all wrote the names of the real prisoners they replaced, and then briefly introduced his family background, which contained many different notes, and it was estimated that they were still written one by one, and then passed back to Lao Zuo here.
"I, I've got it too." Lao You shouted softly, and threw a ball of cloth in his hand towards her, because the movement was a little louder, and he could see his clothes, and the cloth on his back was torn off.
Lao You only gave two pieces of cloth, Qiu Xiaobei's cell was not in the middle, Lao Zuo's side used to be more, and Lao Right was less.
But if you do the math, there are more than a dozen or twenty people in this, not counting those who have been sentenced to be beheaded or confiscated like her, how many innocent people have been named as wicked for no reason, and their lives have been lost, or they have been locked up in such a place and live in despair every day.
The more I knew, the more I felt, the more I felt how heavy these pieces of cloth were in my hands.
"I'm really sorry for the trouble, thank you."
"What are you talking about, if you really have a chance to go out...... Even if it's just a glance and say thank you, it's us. ”
Qiu Xiaobei drilled over with his left hand and patted Lao Zuo's shoulder: "I will definitely not let you down." ”
Lao Zuo stopped and asked, "You want to send these out first, but how do you send them?" ”
"When was the food delivered?"
"It will come in a moment."
After all, these "stand-ins" are all recorded, and not everyone in the criminal department knows about it, such as Ying Shurong and others, when they checked the booklet and found that those prisoners who were sentenced to life were gone, can they not attract attention? Therefore, the meals that should be delivered will definitely be equipped.
Qiu Xiaobei nodded, sat there against the railing, folded a few pieces of cloth well, and made a small cloth bag - she may not have any ability, but she has the ability left to her by her father.
Confess your father and mother every day!
"Here we are." Lao Zuo reminded him in a whisper, and then did not speak, under his leadership, everyone did not look at this side, they all lay on their "beds", turning back to the appearance of half immortal, and the whole dark prison was quiet, dead and silent.
The jailer pushed the cart with the rice bucket from the aisle, and when Qiu Xiaobei was delivering food to the cell in front of him, he quietly moved to the outside railing to lean on, and when the jailer put the rice bowl in, she picked up the rice bowl, and when the jailer was about to go to the next cell, she shouted: "Eh, why is there something in your bowl?" ”
The jailer didn't want to pay attention to it, but who knew that the next sentence would be true: "Well, it seems to be silver, who threw it in here and wanted to choke me to death?" ”
"What are you muttering," the jailer turned around and walked over to Qiu Xiaobei, and slipped through the crack to snatch Qiu Xiaobei's job, "If there is anything in this, if you don't want to eat it, you won't eat it." ”
When he took the bowl out, he cursed viciously as he snuck inside.
"Are you looking for this?"
Qiu Xiaobei asked softly, and the jailer subconsciously looked at her, and she sprinkled the powder in front of him, even if he closed his eyes reflexively, he still inhaled the powder.
The effect of the medicine was very fast, and he instantly felt dizzy and shook his head, because he heard someone snap his fingers, he opened his eyes, and looked at the person in front of him empty.
Qiu Xiaobei quickly stuffed the cloth bag into his clothes and stared straight into his eyes: "After delivering the meal, go outside the criminal department, turn left for three miles, and bury the cloth bag under the first tree you encounter." ”
She repeated the phrase three times in succession, and at her signal, the spirit, which no one could see, wrapped around the jailer's back and blew a black breath on his head, and the jailer looked like he was drunk.
Qiu Xiaobei snapped his fingers again at this time.
The jailer suddenly came to his senses, and immediately lowered his head to check the rice bowl in his hand again, but did not see any silver, Qiu Xiaobei took this opportunity to stretch out his hand and snatch the rice bowl back: "This is mine." ”
The jailer didn't find the silver, but he didn't care about the bowl of rice, and when he saw that she had snatched the bowl of rice, he stepped back, and he couldn't get it back unless he opened the prison door, and the brothers waited for him to go back and drink, so he knocked on the railing, and scolded him viciously as a warning, and continued to deliver the food.
Looking at his appearance, he has no impression of what happened after he snatched his job.
And she didn't make a lot of noise just now, and although the people in the cell next to her were quietly paying attention to this, they didn't know what she had done.
Only Lao Zuo vaguely noticed something, but he chose to keep his mouth shut.
After the jailer who delivered the food and left, Qiu Xiaobei also returned to the cell, eating the rice in the bowl seriously, she hadn't eaten since she was caught here, she was already hungry, if it weren't for the fetal dragon qi in her stomach now becoming more and more vigorous, she could bluff a lot of evil spirits, she was weak, she didn't know what it was like, this would naturally be full first and then talk about other things.
The others inquired intentionally, seeing that she ate so seriously, the food she gave them was so bad, not to mention the hard rice, and it might be ranciful with such a dish, and it was nothing if they were used to eating, but anyone who just came in, unless it was a beggar, was a little unbearable to this meal.
But she didn't look like she had eaten any hardships, but she ate very seriously, as if the rice in her hand was so fragrant and delicious, watching her eat was an indescribable enjoyment, unconsciously, they stared at a person to eat until she finished the last grain of rice, and they forgot what they wanted to ask her?
……
Ying Shurong said goodbye to the bureaucracy, the attendant brought the carriage, and Ying Shurong said: "I've been sitting for a day, and if the official wants to walk around, don't follow." ”
Then I should walk slowly in the direction of home first.
It is not the first time that Lord Ying does not take a carriage or a sedan chair to walk by himself, according to him, it is a walk, knowing that his attendant knows that his master is not as honest as he looks, and likes to go to other places alone, and then go home after a wave, anyway, with his master's treachery and cunning, he will rarely suffer, and the attendant persuaded him several times to bring one or two people to avoid anything happening, and after the master repeatedly did not listen, the attendant was too lazy to care about him.
Ying Shurong walked as usual, and when he walked to Sanli, it happened to be a relatively remote corner, he stopped in front of the first tree, looked left and right to make sure that there was no one, squatted down to twist up a little soil to see, and then found a piece of ground that had obviously just been moved, and began to dig up in that place, and not long after, he found a small cloth bag.
He hid the cloth bag in his arms, got up and checked left and right again, and only left the place after making sure that there was no one, but he did not go home immediately, but avoided everyone and entered a deserted alley, looked around, and knocked on a brick five times, long and short.
Then after staying in place for two breaths, a black shadow flew down to him and showed a sign to Ying Shurong.
After Ying Shurong glanced at it to confirm his identity, he handed him the cloth bag: "I will hand it over to your master immediately, there are only two days." ”
The black shadow nodded and flew away again, and the rest of Ying Shurong straightened his collar and waited for a while before leaving the alley, and then went around a few times before returning home.
After Qiu Xiaobei in the cell finished eating, she took out another piece of rune paper and burned it to the resentful spirit that had been floating in front of her, the one who had just helped deal with the food delivery jailer, this was the reward.
Not all spells are harmful to these goblins, and there are also charms that can act as a tonic for them.
The resentful spirit left happily, Qiu Xiaobei didn't move again, looking at the empty bowl in front of him in a daze.
Did Ying Shurong get the cloth bag?
Her Highness, how is it now......
……
Several shadows in the East Palace were sent out together, and the prince's trusted guards were also mobilized, and the darkness was carried out at the same time, some of them were sloppy, and some of them were looking for people.
Fan Shen Xi was outside the temple gate, looking at the moon gradually slanting westward.
"Your Highness, it's already late, and the day will be dawn in two hours, although you don't have to go to court tomorrow, you have to rest."
Fan Shenxi stopped: "It's okay, the palace is waiting here." ”
"Your Highness!" Gonggong Li persuaded hard, "Your body ......"
"No problem."
The shadow guard would report the news of the criminal department to him at any time, he didn't want any news from there, he couldn't get it in time because he fell asleep.
Moreover, the little minion is most afraid of that kind of unclean place, muttering about the fear of ghosts on weekdays, if she stays in that kind of place, she probably won't be able to sleep, and I don't know if she has eaten enough, as long as she doesn't eat a meal, she can make you faint with hunger, although sometimes it is deliberately exaggerated to make him feel distressed.
So how can he sleep?
"Your Highness," Gonggong Li hesitated for a long time, but still couldn't help but speak, "Do you have some of Xiaobeizi's feelings?" ”
Fan Shen was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes sank, and Gonggong Li hurriedly lowered his head, thinking that His Royal Highness was going to be angry.
But he waited with bated breath and waited, waiting for the calm voice of His Royal Highness the Prince.
"Gonggong Li, how long have you been with this palace?"
"When Her Royal Highness was young, the Queen Mother sent an old slave to serve Her Highness."
"Yes, it's been a few years, so how do you think of this palace after so many years?"
"This ......"
"Bengong is the only child of the queen, a serious concubine, and was made the crown prince early, do you think Bengong is having a good time?"
Gonggong Li didn't dare to answer.
"No, in the heart of this palace, there is nothing but revenge, except for imperial power."
He suddenly slowed down his icy tone again: "But, she's here, do you believe it," he looked down at his hands, "For the first time, Bengong feels that Bengong's blood-stained hands can also be covered with heat." ”
He smiled and joked: "Maybe there is really a past life and this life, in the previous life, she owed the palace, and she came to repay the debt in this life." ”
Otherwise, how to explain the ethereal familiarity and the inexplicable softness of heart for her.
He raised his head and looked at the moon that was far away and seemed to be close in front of him: "As long as Bengong is happy, what does it matter what her identity is, Bengong, I want her to be by Bengong's side." ”
His eyes were red: "No one can stop it, including herself!" ”
Gonggong Li was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
……
Qiu Xiaobei woke up many times.
Physical discomfort and mental exhaustion made her dazed and groggy and wanted to sleep all the time, but she never slept steadily.
The resentment here is too heavy, and as soon as she closes her eyes, she often has all kinds of "hallucinations", like some pictures of the tragic death of some dead people, like a grimace suddenly approaching in front of the "eye", which can force her to wake up.
This is the resentment of the necromancer interfering with her, because she has a magic weapon for self-preservation, and her precious children protect her, and the resentful spirits can't get close, but they will still surround her, trying all kinds of ways to "attract" her attention.
That's fine, she is more worried about the master in the East Palace, afraid that if she is not around, what will happen to him, obviously there are so many people around him to take care of him, and Lin Ziyi, a skilled doctor, but she just doesn't worry.
In the end, there is also the cloth bag about the "identity" of everyone here, if any link goes wrong, that information cannot fall into the hands of His Royal Highness, but is seen by people in the Criminal Department except Ying Shurong, then in order to extinguish the mouth, the people here have to die if they are not dead.
She could feel the same anxiety of her cellmates in the cell next to her, and time had stopped for them day after day, but in the past two days, because of too much hope, she felt the restlessness that would be even stronger when she first came in.
simply didn't sleep, she leaned on the fence separated from Lao Zuo's cell, and chatted with Lao Zuo, who also didn't sleep: "Brother Zuo, what did you do before?" ”
"I'm a businessman, I walk everywhere, often away from home, every time I go home, she must be waiting for me at the door of the house, we are childhood sweethearts, we have lived close since childhood...... I rarely haven't been home for so long, and I don't know if she's still stupidly waiting for me at the door. ”
Qiu Xiaobei comforted softly: "When you get out, you can go back to her." It's late, but it's better than not in a lifetime. ”
After a little silence, Lao Zuo asked in a low voice: "Can we succeed?" ”
Although he believes in his little brother very much, before he really goes out, he will be in a very ethereal void and will not be able to step on the hard ground.
"I," Qiu Xiaobei shrunk his knees and hid his clenched fist in his chest, "I believe him." ”
"She? Who is it? ”
"A very important and important person to me, he is very smart and powerful, as long as I want, he will do it," she lowered her head, rested her forehead on her knees, put her hands down, gently rested on her stomach, closed her eyes and reminisced, "From before to now, he is my hero, and I am alone." ”
"Is it your wife, too?" Lao Zuo was a little puzzled, "But listening to what you said, it's more like a husband, then your wife must be very powerful, a martial arts person?" ”
Qiu Xiaobei was stunned and couldn't help laughing: "Yes, what about my 'wife'." ”
She thought of some interesting stories she had seen before, such as the woman wearing a suit and the man wearing a wedding dress, where the bride can wear the groom's wedding dress and the groom wear a wedding dress...... However, the whole wedding dress was said to be very heavy, and the crown on her head was terrible, and, in this era, if she really did this, her Royal Highness would have to be made fun of.
She couldn't bear it.
The two chatted intermittently, Lao Zuo said some things he encountered when he ran a business, said that he had something to do with his wife, and Qiu Xiaobei also told him about her and Fan Shenxi, without saying his identity, just about the trivial things of life.
said that he was sometimes too strong and had a bad temperament, and he always played with her.
"You must like your wife very much." Lao Zuo said, "Although you are complaining in your mouth, you are complaining happily." ”
Qiu Xiaobei shyly twisted: "Where, where is it." ”
Lao Zuo: "......"
He said: "The more I listen to you, the more I think your wife should be a ...... A very strong woman, but she is a perfect match for you, you know that although you ...... It's pretty powerful, but sometimes it's a little ...... Damn. ”
He described it tactfully.
Qiu Xiaobei: "......"
She didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
The two chatted without a word, to relieve the pain and happiness in their hearts.
During the period, they also vaguely communicated their plans to go out, and from the fact that Lao Zuo could let so many people write down the identity information of the stand-in on the cloth, he knew Lao Zuo's action and persuasiveness, so she handed over the most important task to him.
And every time it was time to eat, Qiu Xiaobei regarded it as an equally important thing, and Lao Zuo, who couldn't eat because of the upcoming "action", had an appetite.
He thought that she was trying to escape from here with the strength, desperately trying to eat a little more, she was a newcomer who didn't care about the food, and could work so hard to get out so seriously, how could he lose to her.
So, when the jailer came to take the bowl, he found that the two of them had the cleanest rice bowl, and there was not even half a grain of rice left.
Little by little, time passed.
On the third day, in the dim cell, Qiu Xiaobei was talking to Lao Zuo, and her tired spirit made her take a nap at some point, and she was suddenly awakened by the sound of chains opening.
It was the jailer who came in.
It's not a food delivery point, and there are no new prisoners who need to be arraigned, so either there are new "stand-ins" who are caught in, or they are ...... It's time for her execution.
Sure enough, two unfamiliar jailers came to her cell, put wooden shackles around her neck, and dragged them up to leave.
"Little brother!" Lao Zuo's hand drilled through the gap and grabbed the hem of her clothes, and his eyes in the messy hair stared at her tightly, seemingly reluctant to her, but in fact he was making the final decision with her.
Qiu Xiaobei turned his head, glanced at him firmly, and nodded quietly, before he slowly let go of his hand.
……
Qiu Xiaobei was escorted to the execution ground.
She was a little glad she avoided trouble and didn't let her parade through the streets, she didn't want to be thrown eggs and cabbage.
She knelt on the Xingtai, her hair fluttering with the gentle warm breeze, and she raised her head slightly, feeling the warmth of the sun shining on her body.
After two days in a cold place, she was finally able to bask in the sun, and she really felt ...... It's very comfortable!
In front of Xingtai sat the supervisor in charge of the case, waiting for the hour to come, and then issued a beheading token.
The surrounding guards blocked the people who came to watch, and they pointed at Qiu Xiaobei, the voice was not small, and Qiu Xiaobei could hear the content clearly.
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