Qin Yang nodded in agreement, and after the two landed in a deserted place outside Bingzhou City, they walked straight to Bingzhou City.

Bingzhou is the hometown of Qinyang, an important town in the south of Yunluo country, with many scholars, and is known as the hometown of talented people. Qin Yang's father, Qin De, was a famous Confucian in Bingzhou and served as the dean of Bingzhou Academy.

When Qin Yang was seven years old, an inconspicuous incident happened in Bingzhou, and Bingzhou Academy accepted a student from other places, this person is called Yin Tianyang, he lived in Bingzhou Academy for half a year, and some poems were mentioned on the wall of the dormitory where he lived.

Soon after Yin Tianyang left, the state government received a report that someone in Suzhou Academy had made anti-poems, and the state government acted vigorously and immediately seized Suzhou Academy, and sure enough, on the wall of the house where Yin Tianyang lived, several anti-poems insulting the current emperor were found.

The state government immediately brought all the more than 100 slightly famous scholars of Suzhou Academy into the capital for questioning, and as for the family members, they were all beheaded on the spot.

Qin Yang's father was taken into the capital as the first offender to be questioned, but Qin Yang's mother, sister, and uncle who did not have a family were all taken by the Suzhou City Government and beheaded. Qin Yang was at a distant relative's house in the countryside at the time, and the Yuan relatives were afraid that the government would chase after him and arrest Qin Yang and cut off the roots of the Qin family, so he brought Qin Yang to Suzhou City overnight.

The strange thing is that a similar case also occurred in Suzhou City, still a study tour, after living in Suzhou Academy for half a year, leaving a ** of the dynasty, the government checked it, and all the more than 100 scholars of Suzhou Academy were brought into the capital for questioning, and the family members were beheaded by the local government.

Suzhou Academy was also auctioned by the government, and after being bought by one person, it became a brothel. After Qin Yang fled to Suzhou, it happened that the brothel was recruiting talents, and the old bustard saw that Qin Yang was quite clever, so he asked him to be a young man, specializing in chores in the back hall.

In order to conceal his identity and to make ends meet, Qin Yang stayed in a brothel for six years.

Qin Yang, who was bent on revenge, pondered ways to kill the emperor every day, he mingled with street gangsters, and even thought about forming a rebel army to enter the capital to avenge his parents.

In the end, he still felt that by studying, he won the examination and became famous, and splashed the golden palace with the emperor's blood during the palace examination.

Scenes from the past emerged from the depths of Qin Yang's memory, and Qin Yang entered the city with a frosty face. They walked on the longest long street in the city, which used to be the most prosperous street in the city, and used to be full of pedestrians and all kinds of vendors, but now it seems deserted and there are few people.

Revisit the old place, see things and think about people. The last time Qin Yang was on this street was with his mother and sister, when he had just turned seven. The mother's voice and smile are vivid, and the sister's innocent and lovely smile is like yesterday.

At the end of the long street is a college with a history of nearly 1,000 years, and the state academy. Qin Yang's father used to be the dean here, there used to be hundreds of well-known Confucian sages here, thousands of students from all over the country, but since Yin Tianyang's case was committed, everything has changed, Mr. was killed, the academy was disbanded, and more than ten years have passed, and this place has been dilapidated.

Qin Yang has always suspected that Yin Tianyang has a ghost, and this Yin Tianyang does not know what purpose he deliberately framed Bingzhou Academy. When Qin Yang was seven years old, he had met Yin Tianyang once in the academy, and Qin Yang was deeply impressed by his gloomy face and his attainments in Confucian classics.

Later, he asked around about Yin Tianyang, but he never inquired about his whereabouts. The name of the person is also not listed on the notice of execution issued by the government. In fact, it was not only Qin Yang who had doubts about this Yin Tianyang, but also the entire academic community, after the incident of the Bingzhou anti-poetry case and the Suzhou ** case, speculated that Yin Tianyang and the scholars who stayed in Suzhou were instructed by someone to deliberately frame these two academies.

But what is their purpose, and is it good for them?

Looking at a few weeds trembling in the wind on the top of the mountain gate of Bingzhou Academy, Qin Yang speculated about Yin Tianyang's motive for framing his father back then.

On the list of Qin Yang's enemies, Emperor Zhu Lei ranked first, and this Yin Tianyang definitely ranked second. It's a pity that Yin Tianyang is not as easy to find as the emperor, and Yin Tianyang's account has to be counted on the head of Emperor Zhu Lei, which cannot but be said to be a pity for Qin Yang.

Accompanying Qin Yang gloomily, Xiao Yue's eyes were full of an indescribable tenderness and love, she looked at Qin Yang's broad back, suddenly stepped forward, hugged Qin Yang from behind, leaned her head on Qin Yang's back, and said softly: "Brother Qin Yang, you still have Yue'er, Yue'er is your relative." ”

Qin Yang held Xiao Yue'er's smooth and warm little hand and said to Xiao Yue'er, "Let's go." Let's go to the government office. ”

Qin Yang now wants to find the stubble of the government. Qin Yang originally wanted to come to the trouble of the state government after killing the emperor, but now he can't care so much.

They walked out of the long street and walked in the direction of the official mansion, when they suddenly saw a bunch of people looking around on the street to read a notice from the official mansion.

Qin Yang and Xiao Yue'er stepped forward, and after reading the notice, the two said almost in unison: "Go, go to the cross street." ”

There was some resentment in his tone.

A group of criminals will be executed today, and these criminals are not heinous people, but the families of some scribes, who have been taken to the capital to be questioned, and their families are beheaded in the state.

There were still two or three miles to go from the intersection street, and I could already hear a commotion and crying in the distance.

From a distance, I saw a large number of people gathered around the square on the intersection street, and it was from that place that the market and the cry came from.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers formed a circle to block out the onlookers, and inside the circle was the execution ground.

There were more than 50 prisoners awaiting execution on the execution ground, including men, women and children, the oldest being nearly 80 years old, and the youngest probably only about 5 years old.

They were tied up by five flowers, kneeling on the ground and lined up, all bowing their heads and sobbing. Behind them is an executioner with a ghost-headed broadsword, ** on the upper body, revealing a body of horizontal flesh.

Qin Yang glanced at the prisoners waiting to be executed, and then moved his gaze to the prison beheading platform, there were thirty-six officers and soldiers standing around the prison beheading platform, the prison beheader was wearing an official mansion and sitting on a Taishi chair, and there was also a Taishi chair next to him, which was empty at this time, and obviously there was still one who had not arrived.

Next to the prison platform, there is another garden platform, and nine lamps have been lit around the garden platform. This garden platform and nine lamps attracted Qin Yang's attention, according to the penal system of Yunluo Kingdom, the layout of the execution ground and the time of execution are all precedents, and neither this garden platform nor the lantern should appear on the execution ground.

This garden platform and the nine lamps made Qin Yang feel a little weird.

Xiao Yue'er also noticed the lamp, and asked in a low voice, "What are those lights for?"

Qin Yang said, "I don't know. ”

The man beside him said: "I don't even know this, this is the Nine Lamps Altar of the Immortal Master Cloth invited by the government, which is specially used for the requiem." ”

"Requiem?" Qin Yang said in surprise.

The soul is a feminine thing, very afraid of yang, "nine" is the number of the great yang, with nine lamps to calm the soul, Qin Yang is unheard of. Qin Yang felt that there must be something unspeakable in this. Qin Yang suddenly remembered that the execution ground where Xiao Yue'er's father was beheaded also had such a garden platform and such nine lights. It's just that he was shallow at the time and didn't notice the problem.

Qin Yang was thinking about the purpose of the garden platform and the nine lamps, and a few people around him began to talk in a low voice.

A hoarse voice said, "You say that Mr. Zhang is such a good person, how can he slander the court? ”

Another slightly shrill voice said: "You said that such a big baby, what do you know, how can the government not even let go of an eight-year-old baby." ”

Another deep voice said: "Mr. Zhang's student wrote an article slandering the government and implicated Mr. Zhang, this is a serious crime to exterminate the nine clans, how could the court let his family go." ”

The hoarse voice from before said: "The strange thing is that Mr. Zhang was escorted to the capital to ask for a crime, why is his family executed here?"

When Qin Yang heard this, he also wanted to know in his heart that he agreed, it stands to reason that he was in the same case and in the same place, why his father and Mr. Zhang were sent to the capital to ask for the crime, while his family was beheaded in the state.

The deep voice said: "Who knows, anyway, the text cases in recent years have been like this, and the famous Confucian scholars are all sent to the capital to ask for crimes, and they don't know the results of the questioning, but their families are beheaded locally." Wasn't this the case true of the anti-poetry case of the Bingzhou Academy more than 10 years ago? Mr. Qin was escorted to the capital to be questioned, but his family was beheaded in the Bingzhou. ”

Qin Yang thought about it, when he was in the secular world, he saw and heard about similar cases, and the court really handled them like this. Moreover, those scribes of some fame who were escorted to the capital for questioning were not publicly beheaded.

The hoarse voice said again: "Last time, I heard you say that two people from the Qin family survived, is it true?" ”

When Qin Yang heard this, he was shocked, and he still had to listen to them.

The deep voice whispered to the man's hoarse ear. Although his voice was very small, Qin Yang heard it very clearly, he grabbed the person who made a deep voice, and said in a trembling voice: "You, uncle, what you said is true." ”

Xiao Yue'er also heard the words of the deep voice, and looked at Qin Yang with a happy face.

The man in his deep voice was in his forties, his face was slightly darkened, and he looked like a merchant in a green robe.

When he saw Qin Yang's excited appearance, he trembled with fright, and begged in a low voice: "I didn't say anything just now, I beg the young master to spare me, don't report to the official." ”

Qin Yang's actions frightened the few people who spoke just now, and they took advantage of Qin Yang's opportunity to seize the green-robed merchant, turned around and ran, and disappeared into the crowd.

Qin Yang hurriedly loosened his hand a little, and apologized: "Uncle, I was offended a lot just now, and it is inconvenient to speak here, or we should borrow a step to speak." ”

The green-robed merchant looked at Qin Yang helplessly, so he had to nod, and Qin Yang laid a simple prohibition to isolate him and the green-robed merchant from the outside world, so that outsiders could not hear their voices.