Lu Jinping sneered and said: "This rebellious son, it was not good to take care of the old lady at the beginning, and now he is going to be executed, so that he wants to trouble his old lady to send the white-haired person to the black-haired person, and he is sad for a while, and he has to take care of the aftermath for him. I heard that he had not taken care of his mother before, so his mother was very resentful of him, and his mother never visited him after he was imprisoned. In that case, why bother the old man who is already in his seventies to take care of this kind of aftermath for him? Let's let him fend for himself, just say that he didn't notice. ”

The sauce room hurriedly agreed, bowed and saluted, and turned around to go out.

Lu Jinping thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate, the so-called tiger poison does not eat children, although his mother did not come to visit him before, she may not come before the execution, and it cannot be concluded from this that the old woman is unwilling to take care of his bones, since he brought up this matter, he should still send the words for him. In fact, even if he does not mention the time of execution and the disposal of the body of the death row prisoner, the yamen has the obligation to inform his family, especially the disposal of the bones, and should seek their opinions.

So, Lu Jinping stopped the sauce room and said, "Let's inform me, does their mother live far away?" Time waits for no one. ”

"Not far away, just outside the city in the countryside, it is precisely because of this, so I feel that this disobedient son is really unfilial, my mother lives in the countryside outside the city, there are no relatives around, helpless, he eats and drinks spicy food in the city, but he never thinks about his mother. This is about to be executed, but I think of asking his mother to collect his body for him, which is really hateful. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said: "He is unkind, we can't be unjust, let's notify his mother and see his mother's attitude." This is the obligation that our yamen should fulfill, and it is up to her to decide what to do with his mother. ”

Sha Sifang hurriedly nodded in agreement, saying that he would send someone to inform him immediately, and then he said goodbye and left.

It was afternoon. Sha Sifang came to report to Lu Jinping again, saying that his mother said that the life and death of this disobedient son are up to heaven, and he doesn't care. Lu Jinping shook his head and said, "If you do your own evil, you can't live." Let him go, prepare a straw mat, and after the execution, bury him in a mass grave according to the rules, or tell the servant to dig the pit a little deeper, and don't let the wild dogs dig it. ”

The sauce room hurriedly agreed.

Next.

The execution was scheduled for noon.

When he got up early in the morning, Lu Jinping heard the voices of two little maids outside. Lu Jinping originally took care of her life by Ye Qingqing, but seeing that she couldn't be busy, she asked Ye Qingqing to choose two lovely maids to help her take care of the housework. At this moment, Lu Jinping listened to the two little maids building snowmen in the yard and discussing what to use to make the snowman's nose. Although their voices were relatively soft, the ancient windows were not soundproofed and were made of white paper, so they still reached Lu Jinping's ears. Lu Jinping couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, is it snowing?

This winter is almost over, and the Spring Festival is coming soon, but there is only a handful of snow. The last time they went to Yunya Mountain, they encountered a heavy snowstorm, but the sun was shining in the next two days, and the snow quickly turned away.

Since then until yesterday, it has been dry and cold. The wind was cold but there were no snowflakes. Yesterday afternoon, seeing that the sky was like lead, I thought there might be a layer of snow, and it really started to fall.

Today's execution was going to be carried out, but it was snowing heavily. Although snow is a natural sight in winter, it always gives people a scene of grievances with snow falling in July. This made Lu Jinping chuckle in his heart, stayed for a moment, sighed somehow, and then slowly sat up.

Ye Qingqing, who was looking at the two girls building snowmen outside at the door, seemed to have a sense with him. Turning his head to see him, he hurriedly walked over and said, "You're awake, I told them, don't quarrel with these two crazy girls, they don't seem to have seen snow, so happy, what's the matter." ”

"Kids, for sure, love snow. It's almost time for me to get out of bed anyway. ”

Ye Qingqing said: "That's right, if you don't get up in a while, I'm going to call you, hurry up and get dressed." I'm going to be beheaded today. ”

Ye Qingqing took Lu Jinping's underwear from the bamboo strip drying cage in the fire shop. In winter, Lu Jinping's clothes were all baked and warmed by Ye Qingqing when Ye Qingqing estimated that he was about to get up in the morning, so that Lu Jinping would not feel cold when he wore them.

Lu Jinping was accustomed to Ye Qingqing's meticulous care, she smiled, put on warm clothes, put on the official robe under Ye Qingqing's service, and then sat in front of the dresser. Ye Qingqing stood behind her and helped her start combing her long hair.

The hair was combed and tied into a bun, and then, the two little maids already knew that the lord was up, so they hurriedly brought hot water, served Lu Jinping to wash his face and rinse his mouth, and then put on his official hat.

Lu Jinping paced to the dining hall of the side room, he now has a special place to eat, and his chef has already prepared breakfast, which looks quite rich and placed on the table.

Lu Jinping was eating breakfast, when he heard the little maid outside say, "It's snowing again, it's snowing so much!" Lu Jinping couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if the snowflakes had been floating until noon, and the execution was carried out under the heavy snow, what a miserable thing it would be.

Lu Jinping threw down the chopsticks, stood up and walked to the door, Ye Qingqing lifted the curtain, Lu Jinping stepped out to the porch, looked up at the sky, sure enough, one by one, the goose feather snow fell from the sky, and the ground was already covered with thick snow. The snowmen in the yard before had become fluffy and covered with snowflakes, and the two eyes embedded with their index fingers were also covered by the falling snowflakes.

Lu Jinping stared at the snowman in a daze, until Ye Qingqing next to him reminded him that the time was almost up, and he should go to the yamen to prepare for the execution ground, and Lu Jinping came back to his senses.

The groom had already prepared Lu Jinping's carriage, which was configured by the yamen, Ye Qingqing played a red oil paper umbrella, held it to block the snow for him, accompanied him to the front yard and got into the carriage, and watched Lu Jinping's carriage go out from the small door.

The wheels of the carriage crushed the thick snow and made a creaking sound, Lu Jinping lifted the curtain and looked out, the cold wind blew and shivered, the snow was overwhelming, and there were few pedestrians on the street, all hiding in the house.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty traveled far less than the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, neither sounding gongs to open the way, nor driving away passers-by, but more close to the people, with only one carriage followed by two retinues.

What he could see was actually seen every day, that is, the wandering beggars shivering from the cold under the eaves of the corners of the roadside walls and begging for food. Even in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, beggars can still be seen everywhere, after all, natural disasters**, the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, is only for the Tang Dynasty as a whole, and specific to everywhere, there are always natural disasters**, and the displaced victims for various reasons have become beggars. They had nowhere to shelter in the cold and the earth, so they could only shiver in the cold wind.

In a blink of an eye, he arrived at the yamen, Lu Jinping came to the signing room, the servant had already lit two fires, put one in the warm house, and sat in the warm pavilion to review the chapters, only to feel that the room was full of spring, and did not feel the cold outside.

An hour before the execution, Lu Jinping took the adjutant to the City God Temple in the Yamen, where there was a special separate worship in the ancient Yamen, and one of the important functions was to pray to God when executing the condemned prisoner, indicating that the execution was in accordance with the will of the people, not the slaughter of living beings, hoping to be blessed by God.

After the ceremony, Lu Jinping ordered the prisoners to be raised.

The prisoners were taken out of the cell and placed in the cages of death row inmates. The cage is made of iron pillars the thickness of a child's arm, and once locked, it cannot be opened easily, just to prevent anyone from robbing the prison.

All the people in the Yamen participated in the safety and security of the court, and of course most of the forces were arranged along the way from the Yamen to the execution ground and around the execution ground, and there were no more people in the heavily guarded Yamen.

The prisoner cart was escorted out of the prison, crushing the thick snow heavily, and came to Lu Jinping, Lu Jinping looked up, only to see the butcher's messy hair fluttering in the cold wind, his hands were resting on the iron cage with his back, heavy iron chains were hanging on his feet and waist, and there were a lot of rice grains sticking to his beard, he couldn't help frowning, and said to the bear catcher: "Why is this the case?" Neither will I wash him. ”

Xiong Zhutou hurriedly agreed, and quickly called the jailer to bring a basin of hot water to help him wash his face and hair, but there was no hair dryer in ancient times, and after washing his hair, the wet hair could be pulled into a bun and coiled on his head, although the water on it was frozen, but it was not easy to see that there was a problem, but his full beard could not be braided, and he was allowed to float in the cold wind, and the water droplets on it were blown by the cold wind and became frozen, just like weeds growing indiscriminately, looking at Lu Jinping couldn't help but shake his head. But it's much better than the image just now.

During this period, the butcher kept saying: "I am wronged, I didn't kill anyone, I am wronged, I don't die blindly, my lord." ”

Lu Jinping and Sha Sifang had heard him cry out many times in the previous interrogation, and they also explained to him that they were not responsible for the review of his case, because this case had been completed and sent to Lu Jinping before he became a judge. After the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department reported to the emperor, the emperor had approved the death penalty. Their duty is only to carry out the death penalty. Now that he is about to be sent to the execution ground, he is still shouting grievances, Lu Jinping no longer wants to explain to him, so he turns a deaf ear and stands there watching the snowflakes fall all over the sky, although there are attendants behind him with umbrellas to cover him, but he still feels the chic and desolate feeling of being in the snowflakes in the sky, especially before the execution of a condemned prisoner.

After dealing with his messy hair and beard, Lu Jinping ordered to set off for the execution ground. The prisoner car was in front, with the officials and soldiers in front of the road, and the official car made by Lu Jinping followed behind, leaving the prison and out of the yamen. (To be continued.) )