Zhu Xueyan heard it clearly, and smelled the sour smell of vinegar from afar, the sour plum soup she had just drunk began to surge upwards again, she saw the narrow smile at the corner of Lin Yiqing's mouth, realized that she had fallen for Lin Yiqing again, glared at him fiercely, and pressed the sour plum soup that was pushed up to her throat again.

"Yan'er, don't look at it, actually...... This kind of thing shouldn't be seen by women......" Lin Yiqing turned his head and couldn't help but sigh when he saw those men and women in a state of madness.

What he had only seen in Mr. Lu Xun's books before, now it really happened in front of his eyes.

There are so many things that need to change in this ancient empire......

Because of Hu Yulin's severe bite, the executioner was angry, and he wanted to take revenge on Hu Yulin and make him suffer more, but he couldn't mess up the rules, and when he hesitated, he heard a shout from the prison officer: "Cut off the prisoner's tongue!" ”

Hearing the majestic and annoyed voice of Lord Fortitude ringing in the back of his head. The executioner couldn't help but look back and saw the pig's liver-colored face of the squire of the criminal department.

Gangyi glared at the executioner and waved his hand: "Cut out the prisoner's tongue!" Don't let him howl! ”

It turned out that Hu Yulin's howl was too irritating to the resolute nerves, and it was he who asked the executioner to cut off Hu Yulin's tongue.

The executioner's order was in the hands of the executioner, and he sang loudly: "Order! Turning his head, he looked at Hu Yulin and took a deep breath.

He was already very tired, and probably wouldn't be able to cut five hundred knives, but he resolutely cut his tongue and ordered. But he was given time to take a break.

He gasped and glared at Hu Yulin. At this time, Hu Yulin's mouth was already open. Blood foamed out of his mouth one by one, and there was no way to get a knife.

The executioner smirked, such a problem could not stop him. After a little thought, he put the knife in his mouth, lifted a bucket of cold water with both hands, and splashed it on Hu Yulin's face. Hu Yulin was suddenly dumbfounded. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he reached out and pinched Hu Yulin's throat and pinched it to death. Hu Yulin's face turned purple-red, and a blue-purple tongue was spit out of his lips. The executioner pinched Hu Yulin's throat with one hand and did not let go, and with the other hand took the knife from his mouth, and with a shake of the tip of the knife, he cut off Hu Yulin's tongue. This improvised program immediately caused an uproar among the soldiers and spectators, as if the tide had overflowed the beach. The executioner held Hu Yulin's tongue in his hand, held it high and turned it around to show the public, he felt that the tongue was still trembling, so he threw his tongue on the ground.

Seeing the tongue rolling on the ground, one of the spectators rushed forward as if he had gone crazy. snatched Hu Yulin's bloody tongue in his hand.

"What do you want this tongue for?" Seeing this, a soldier asked puzzled.

"Master Jun...... Yes...... I don't know. This Hu Yulin ...... Yes...... Make a fortune, all ...... Hold on to ...... This...... Clever tongue like a spring, in the lower ...... Clumsy mouth, this ...... Tongue...... Take it back...... Cook it and eat it as meat, so that it can ...... Tongue...... Be smart! One of the spectators stammered, his bloody tongue clutched tightly in his hand.

"Get the money!" One of the executioner's apprentices shouted. The spectator hurriedly took out a handful of copper coins from his arms and threw them over, but the apprentice didn't pick them up, just nodded, and the spectator squeezed into the crowd with his tongue in his hand and disappeared.

Hu Yulin's face gradually turned into a white paper-like color. Blood spurted out of his mouth. On his body, blood and water were mixed. Without a tongue, he was still howling, but his voice was already low.

The executioner rested for a while, felt his strength regained, and he was determined to cut five hundred knives and never lose the reputation of the first executioner. He used a salt water towel to wipe Hu Yulin's body stained with water, vinegar and blood. As he dipped the wet towel, he soaked his hot hands in the bucket for a moment, then lifted them up to dry. Hu Yulin's tongueless mouth was still actively opening and closing, but the sound he made was getting weaker and weaker. The executioner understood that the speed of execution must be accelerated, the slices of meat must be reduced, the areas with dense blood vessels must be avoided, and the original cutting plan must be adjusted realistically. He shook his spirits, operated like the wind, reported the number like hail, and the pieces of meat that slipped from Hu Yulin's body flew down like beetles. He used 200 knives to rotate the muscles on Hu Yulin's thighs, 50 knives to rotate the muscles on Hu Yulin's arms, 50 knives on Hu Yulin's abdominal muscles, and 75 knives on the left and right buttocks. At this point, Hu Yulin's life is in danger, but his eyes are still bright. Clouds of foam overflowed from his mouth, and his internal organs were swelling outwards without the restraint of their muscles. His stomach, in particular, is like a nest of poisonous snakes in a thin leather bag. The executioner straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief. He was already sweating, and his legs were sticky, I don't know if it was blood or sweat. For the honor of the first executioner in the lobby of the Criminal Department, he can be said to have done his best.

Only the last six knives remained. The executioner felt that the victory was in hand, and he could take the final performance more calmly. He used the 490th knife to cut off Hu Yulin's left ear, and when he threw Hu Yulin's right ear on the ground, a group of intoxicated spectators, like a surging tide, broke through the dense defense line of the prison squad and pounced. Infected by the person who snatched the tongue just now, they wanted to grab that ear, but the executioner saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly swirled down Hu Yulin's other ear and threw it vigorously and exaggeratedly far away. The frantic crowd immediately diverted. He secretly admired himself, he was really smart!

At this time, Hu Yulin looked terrible. The executioner is about to slash the 497th. According to the rules, there are two options at this time, one is to gouge out the prisoner's eyes, and the other is to cut off the prisoner's lips. But Hu Yulin's lips were already tattered, and he really couldn't go under the knife. The executioner decided to gouge out his eyes. He knew that Hu Yulin would not be blind to death, but what was the use of not being blind?

When the executioner aimed the sharp knife at Hu Yulin's eye socket, Hu Yulin's eyes suddenly did not turn, but just stared at him tightly, and his heart tightened, because even for a professional executioner who kills like a murderer, it is not a pleasant thing to gouge out the blazing eyes. He avoided Hu Yulin's gaze. Let the tip of the knife turn around along Hu Yulin's eye socket...... "Four hundred and ninety-seven knives!" He hissed the numbers.

"Four hundred and ninety-seven! ......" The apprentice's voice was even more hoarse than his.

When he raised the knife to gouge out Hu Yulin's right eye. Hu Yulin's right eye widened. Meanwhile. Hu Yulin let out a final howl. This cry even felt chills down the spine of the executioner, and when he put down the knife, his hand trembled, and when the blade of the knife rotated along Hu Yulin's eye socket, it made an extremely subtle "gurgling" sound, which was inaudible to Gang Yi, and the soldiers who stood around the execution ground with their heads bowed like wooden men would not hear it. All they could hear was the howl of a dying beast coming from Hu Yulin's broken mouth. Such a howl can destroy the nerves of ordinary people, but the executioner is used to it. What really thrilled the executioner was the sound of the knife hitting the flesh. For a moment he felt that he could not see or hear. The sounds penetrated his flesh, wrapped around his organs, took root in his marrow, and could not be removed in this life and in this life.

"Four hundred and ninety-eight swords......" he shouted again.

"Four hundred and ninety-eight!" His apprentice was already crumbling.

Hu Yulin's two eyes fell to the ground, and although they were covered with dirt, there were still two white, cold dead lights shooting out, as if they were staring at something. The executioner didn't know who it was trying to star. But no matter who you are staring at, the light emitted by these two eyes will often make the targeted person have nightmares, right? The executioner thought a little blankly.

At this point, the executioner felt exhausted.

The 499th knife swirled Hu Yulin's nose. At this time. Hu Yulin's mouth could only spit blood foam, and he couldn't make a sound anymore. The neck, which had been stalked, also hung softly on the chest.

In the end, the executioner stabbed Hu Yulin in the heart, and a stream of black dark blood flowed out along the knife like boiled honey. The smell of blood was so strong that the executioner once again experienced a disgusting taste. He used the tip of the knife to cut out a little of Hu Yulin's heart, then held the knife high, turned to the prisoner Gangyi and said, "Five hundred knives!" Please judge the sentence! ”

Gangyi nodded, waved his hand again, the executioner put down the small knife, took a big knife handed by the apprentice, removed Hu Yulin's internal organs one by one, and threw them into a basket on the case, and then dismantled Hu Yulin's naked body into eight pieces, and threw them into the basket.

"Finished?" Afraid that she would see any more disgusting scenes and make herself vomit, Zhu Xueyan didn't look at it again, and when she heard a different noise from the execution ground, she asked.

"It's over." Lin Yiqing said, stepped forward to support Xu Rui, who was slightly shaking, and Zhu Xueyan saw this, and also came over to support Xu Rui's arm.

Seeing that the enemy turned into a pile of flesh and blood, Xu Rui let out a heavy sigh and slowly stood up with the support of Lin Yiqing and Zhu Xueyan.

"It's all done, and that Luo Cuihuan hasn't appeared, you can't say it this time!" Zhu Xueyan noticed that none of the people who were ambushed in the various hidden places showed up or sent any signals, and turned her head to Lin Yiqing and said.

"Han Peng, I also think that Luo Cuihuan, I'm afraid that I expected that we would lay a net in the law field and arrest her, so I didn't come to see off the thief at all." Xu Rui also said.

"Also, although it is said that the thief helped her father to clear her grievances, had great kindness to her, and was extra gracious after marrying her into the door, she may not be in danger for her own safety." Lin Yiqing nodded, "I've thought about this part a little wishful thinking." ”

Listening to Lin Yiqing's words, Zhu Xueyan raised her eyebrows proudly and snorted.

"Let's go! Luo Cuihuan, let's find another way! Xu Rui said.

Out of the city of Beijing, there is an endless wilderness, and now is the hottest time, under the scorching sun, it is difficult to take a breath.

At this time, on the spacious official road, a carriage was walking slowly under the escort of several horses, and the wheels and hooves of the horses raised puffs of smoke and dust from time to time.

"I didn't expect to hunt geese all year round, but now I was pecked by wild sparrows!"

Zuo Jigao, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and was still indignant in his heart.

When he came to Beijing to report on his work, he was still holding a big sign of "avoidance" and "silence" to open the way, but now it was just an ugly car, and four relatives followed.

He never thought that one day, he would fall from the sky all at once. And it fell so hard.

After the imperial court imprisoned him in Xianliang Temple. He had a premonition that something was wrong. has been trying to find out the news and prepare countermeasures, but he never expected that the imperial court would deal with Hu Yulin and himself so quickly.

Due to the conclusive evidence of Hu Yulin and his embezzlement of military salaries in Mexico, and Hu Yulin's bloody life, the Empress Dowager Renxi was furious when she heard about it, and ordered Hu Yulin to be executed Lingchi, and his family property was confiscated from the official. And on the merits he had made before, he did not announce the punishment for the time being. But he didn't expect that the old case of killing Liu Dai's Huai army in order to cover up the defeat of the Wucheng Battle Army was turned over, and Jin Shun, who was the deputy marshal, took the initiative to report and expose himself, and it turned out to be his friend Pan Fengsheng, who was also a dead party, also instructed his protégé to impeach himself, and finally the court removed him from the post of governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and "returned to his hometown", but he still retained the title, but he was demoted from the first-class Ke Jingbo to the second-class Ke Jingbo.

"Lin Yiqing! Vicious villain, you wait. Sooner or later, you want to look good! ”

"Pan Fengsheng! You ungrateful! I can't spare you and your protégés! ”

At this time, Zuo Jigao, although he had already gone to the official uniform. Dressed in casual clothes, he looks like a landlord and old wealth, but when he chatters and curses, he is still an official and powerful, and he still calls himself "his true appearance"!

"Snake and scorpion child, after relying on Lin Wenzhong, he used his tricks to tie up the queen mother, and he dared to do this to his own face! This will never spare you! ”

"Oriental shaft, you dare to show off in front of your own prime minister for your little work in Japan! The great achievement of the western expedition to return to Xinjiang can be compared with you? Don't look at the fact that the imperial court is now going to return to his hometown, the credit of the prime minister's expansion of territory, who in the world doesn't know, who doesn't know? If you succeed in framing your own appearance for a while, in a few days, the court will summon your prime minister back to office! At that time, you will be left to care about the situation one by one! ”

When Zuo Jigao said this, he remembered Pegasus's entourage who went to send a letter to his beloved grandson Zuo Guanxi, and there was a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Presumably, when Zuo Guanxi received his own handwritten letter, he would understand the seriousness of the situation and would definitely do what he requested.

As long as Zuo Guanxi destroys the evidence, transfers a huge amount of family assets, and can't find evidence when the court searches, he still has a chance to turn the tables!

Perhaps, if you can't wait for that time, the imperial court will remember the great achievements of your western expedition, and it will issue an order to recall itself.

Zuo Jigao was thinking there, but the carriage suddenly stopped.

Zuo Jigao was feeling strange, and the relatives outside followed Zuo Ting and said, "Master! The will of the imperial court has arrived! ”

"Hahahaha! Let's just say it! The queen mother and the emperor will not forget the merits of the prime minister! Zuo Jigao laughed happily and jumped out of the car.

As soon as Zuo Jigao stabilized his fat body, he found that the eunuch and the guards in yellow coats were looking at him with disdain.

"Zuo Jigao takes the order!" The eunuch shouted loudly, and Zuo Jigao instinctively immediately knelt on the ground.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Due to the difficulties of current affairs, whenever there is an impeachment, for the sake of understanding the important ministers of the court, even if there are occasional mistakes, I will not condemn them, and I will take care of them. This is my heart of respectful and respectful treatment, sympathy for the minister's intentions, and the ministers of the world should have forgiven each other a long time ago. Unexpectedly, Zuo Jigao, the former governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, colluded with the profiteer Hu Yulin, in the name of helping the military expenses of the Western Expedition, borrowed the high-interest amount of foreigners to engage in greed, and his cumulative embezzlement of treasury funds reached 10 million. I thought that Zuo Jigao was old and faint, and was deceived by profiteers, so he did not punish him severely. Unexpectedly, Zuo Jigao actually wrote a secret letter to Hu Shang, asking him to abscond immediately, and there were words in the book, such as 'try to do it as soon as possible, destroy the documentary evidence, transfer money elsewhere, quickly avoid, and eat the umbilicus if it is late'. It can be described as unscrupulous and extremely rebellious. If it is not severely punished, it is afraid that the gap between the traitors and the internal and external collusion will be opened. Zuo Jigao was immediately dismissed and returned to his hometown, never to be restored, as an example. Chin this! ”

Like thunder in his ears, Zuo Jigao knelt there in a daze, raised his head and looked at the holy decree in the eunuch's hand, his eyes were full of lost soul.

"Zuo Jigao takes the order!" Seeing that he looked stunned, the eunuch snorted coldly.

Zuo Jigao suddenly found that the voice of this eunuch was so familiar, he looked up, and only then did he find that this eunuch who was delivering the decree was the young eunuch Zhang Demin who embarrassed his boss in Fuzhou last time!

"Zuo Jigao takes the order!" Zhang Demin glared at Zuo Jigao and drank again.

"Minister, Zuo Jigao...... Receiving ...... Xie En ......" Zuo Ji Gao said indifferently, stretched out his hand to take the holy decree and just stood up, only to feel a sweet throat, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body fell to the side.

"Master-" Seeing this, Zuo Ting hurriedly wanted to help, but Zuo Jigao was as fat as a pig and fell down, how could Zuo Ting support it alone, and he was taken by Zuo Jigao and collapsed to the ground.

Zhang Demin was not moved at all in this situation, and it was not the first time he had seen the criminal minister who collapsed after the decree, he beckoned the guards to pick up Zuo Jigao and stuff it into the carriage again, "You all listen to me, escort Zuo Jigao back to his hometown and hand it over to the magistrate for strict supervision, I will go back to the queen mother to hand over the decree, don't give me anything wrong, do you understand?" ”

"Huh-" The guards responded, urging the carriage to continue on the road.

Zhang Demin watched the carriage gradually disappear, and his clenched fist slowly loosened.

"Old thief! It's a bargain for you today! Wait! Let's come a long way! (To be continued......)

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