321 The strange stones of Taihu Lake have no life, and their lives hang by a thread
As mentioned last time, Tokyo was bustling with excitement in the New Year, but the Liang Mansion was deserted and lifeless. A few days after the Lantern Festival, news of the destruction of the city came from Beijing, more than half of the people in the city were killed and injured, and the bandits in Liangshan used the banner of acting for the heavens and killed innocents indiscriminately, but in fact they were extremely cruel. The court was furious, although there was no evidence to prove that Liang Wenzhen colluded with the Liangshan bandits, but he wanted to kill him quickly, the crown prince Zhao Huan advised, but the emperor did not listen. Qin Hui invented a trumped-up charge, and the emperor adopted it, and ordered that at noon tomorrow, Liang Wenzhen would be beheaded at noon, so as to comfort the souls of the people who died unjustly. When the news reached the Liang Mansion, everyone was sad and went to the prison to say goodbye to Liang Wenzhen. When Liang Wenzhen heard the holy decree of beheading, his heart was as calm as a mirror, and he imagined that the moment to return to modern times would come. Master Li transported all the antiques, calligraphy and paintings presented by Emperor Daojun to the gate of the palace, and wailed for Liang Wenzhen's life. This news quickly spread in Tokyo, causing a sensation among onlookers, and even Zhang Zeduan, the author of the Qingming Riverside Picture who was selling paintings in Tokyo for a living at that time, was trampled by the crowd and lost. Tokyo's congestion is no less congested than the traffic jams of modern rush hour. Yang Jian received antique calligraphy and paintings under the emperor's command, but did not promise anything, and Master Li fainted at the gate of the palace.
Hu Sanniang was anxious and went to the direction of the palace, and Miss Xu didn't believe that Master Li could work hard for Liang Lang, so she wanted to go and see what was going on, so she also followed. The tide of crowds dispersed from the direction of the palace, the play had ended, there was no excitement to see, and the people naturally dispersed. Hu Sanniang and Xu Miaoyin shuttled through the flow of people, moving forward with difficulty, and when they arrived at the gate of the palace, they saw a plain-clothed woman lying on the ground in front of a flat carriage, and a girl ring on the side was calling for Miss, knowing that it should be Master Li. The two trotted over, and sure enough, it was Master Li who was lying on the ground.
Hu Sanniang didn't say a word, patted the maid Begonia, motioned to get out of the way, picked up Master Li, and walked down the street. "Sanniang, where are you going to carry her?" Xu Miaoyin asked. "If you don't carry her back to the house, where else can you go?" Hu Sanniang answered as she walked. "Doesn't she live in Zhen'anfang?" Xu Miaoyin asked suspiciously.
"Relying on Begonia alone, how can we take care of her, let's go home." Hu Sanniang is a person who practices martial arts, and he is still as light as a swallow after carrying Master Li on his back. Xu Miaoyin could still keep up with her pace, while Begonia was walking and running, so tired that she was panting. The people who were still on the road were surprised when they saw three women, one of whom also carried Master Li, and pointed and pointed. It turned out that Master Li was to save her lover Liang Wenzhen, and he did not hesitate to go to the palace and use many priceless antique calligraphy and paintings given to her by the emperor in the past as an exchange. A Qinglllou woman has such a righteous act, everyone sighs and admires, and the woman of Master Li does not let her eyebrows, she is a person in the dust with affection and righteousness.
Hu Sanniang and Xu Miaoyin took Master Li to the Liang Mansion and placed him in Hu Sanniang's bedroom bed. Bai Yujiao Hua Sumei also came to help, feeding the soup, Master Li gradually came to his senses, and immediately cried loudly. Hu Sanniang hugged and comforted, and also wept. Seeing this, Xu Miaoyin accompanied her side, sad and speechless. Seeing that the lover was about to die innocently, several beauties were in pain and despair. The so-called sympathy, sympathy, at this time, there is no identity difference between each other, the estrangement in the heart is naturally eliminated, and the sympathy is sympathetic.
In an instant, the night passed, and dawn had arrived. Three hours later, Liang Lang will be separated from them forever, and everyone feels that time flies faster than usual, hoping that time will stop, but it seems unrealistic. The reality is cruel, ordinary people don't feel it on weekdays, but once they are there, they can feel it deeply, and they can't help but sigh that life is impermanent and fate is unfair.
Under the guidance of Yang Xun and Jiang Zhao, Xu Fan, Zhao Min and others went out to buy a coffin and came back, put it at the gate of Liang Mansion, and prepared to take it to the Wumen Execution Ground to collect Liang Wenzhen's body. Mrs. Xu knelt in front of the shrine, bowed to God, and prayed to heaven for help. Xu Liang sat on the stone bench outside the gate in a daze, unable to figure out how the ending was so fast, and it was not very real when he came to the front. Isn't his son-in-law the prince and the prince, how to say that it will fall, it is still a capital crime, if he is sent to a bitter cold place, or even to Lingnan outside the country, he can also be a neat family, and accompany his son-in-law to suffer a little, it is nothing.
The maid and the others were making breakfast by themselves, and when they saw that the host's family had no intention of eating, they didn't greet them, so they ate by themselves when they were ready. Pan Tian came to Liang's mansion, saw the coffin at the gate, said to Xu Liang that the time had come, and went in to greet everyone, and went to the execution ground to see Liang Wenzhen for the last time.
The spring cold is steep, the clouds are thick, and under the gloomy sky, a few magpies fly by with joy. In the square outside the noon gate of the palace, there were a large number of onlookers watching the execution, and there were still people coming one after another, which can be described as a sea of people. The Han people, who have always been undisciplined, are surprisingly quiet at this time. A handful of people in the crowd held up a sign with various slogans written on it. For example, "my sow has a difficult birth, but who is she looking for", "miracle doctors are rare, and life is also precious", "what is the crime of not being guilty", and so on.
Among the people who arrived at this time, there were several people holding huge cardboards, on which the image of Liang Wenzhen running was drawn, with a juju at his feet, and a line of big characters underneath: Liang Wenzhen, the unforgettable Keju champion. Obviously, there is a group of young Keju fans. Suddenly, a coffin came into everyone's sight from far and near. The crowd moved out of the way and let the group carrying the coffin into the center of the execution ground. In front of the lift, it is Xu Fan Zhao Min, behind is Jiang Zhaoyang Xun, followed by Xu Liang and his wife, Xu Miaoyin, Bai Yujiaohua, Sumei Fangqin, Hu Sanniang Haitang supported Master Li, and slowly moved forward. At the back of the team, there is a group of workers dressed as employees, who should be employees of Huaxia Company.
On the execution table in the square, Liang Wenzhen, whose backhand was tied, knelt on the ground, with a large circle on the front and back of his jacket, and a prisoner in it. Behind him stood a tall and mighty executioner, with a ghost-headed knife leaning on his shoulder, and four prisoners standing behind, holding broadswords. The warden sat at the square table not far away, comfortable and unhurried. Xu Fan and the others put down the coffin and looked at Liang Wenzhen. Liang Wenzhen had already seen the arrival of Xu Miaoyin and others, with a smile on his face, as if he was nodding goodbye, and as if telling everyone that he would be able to go home in a while, and there was no need to be anxious.
Some people in the crowd looked up at the sun, but they couldn't see it, and they looked left and right, wondering the time. A master was reading aloud about Liang Wenzhen's crimes. "Liang Wenzhen, a native of Nanyanghua, is in Middle-earth. Because of collusion with Liangshan bandits, he intended to rebel and was captured by Youji. After verification by Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, the crime of colluding with bandits may be unwarranted, but its appearance is suspicious, and he will be punished with beheading in accordance with the law. Please verify your identity! When the words "or unnecessary" were pronounced, the crowd suddenly stirred and became noisy. "Unnecessary!" "It's really unnecessary!" "What a strange charge." There was a lot of talk for a while.
"The criminal Liang Wenzhen is indeed correct." One of the servants stepped forward, glanced at it, and returned to report in a loud voice. "Noon has come, behead-" The warden shouted as he saw the leak and threw an arrow in his hand. The eyes of thousands of people in the square looked at the platform together, without blinking, for fear of missing the most critical moment. The executioner grasped the hilt of the knife with both hands, took a step back, swallowed his saliva, and was engrossed. A few breaths seemed to be a century long, the ghost head knife flashed a cold light, the blade trembled slightly, and it seemed to be ready to carry out the final preparations for a major task.
"Woo-" Xu Miaoyin, Li Shishi, Hu Sanniang, and Bai Yujiao, Hua Sumei and others didn't dare to look at it anymore, covered their faces with their sleeves, and cried. Xu Fan, Zhao Min, Cai Yan and others also closed their eyes and swallowed saliva, their throats bitter. Mrs. Xu turned her back and burst into tears.
"Leave people under the knife-" A loud shout came, and the ghost-headed knife froze in mid-air, and the executioner raised his eyes to follow the prestige. If it is not a real command to stop the mission, the knife must still be cut off on the established track to complete the final journey. "Stop the execution!" When the supervisor saw that the person who came was a eunuch from the Yellow Gate, he arrived on a tall horse and hurriedly ordered. The executioner gave the order and put away the ghost head knife.
"The emperor decreed that Concubine Liu Guifei had a difficult birth, and Liang Wenzhen would come back for execution after saving people." The eunuch of the Yellow Gate preached loudly on horseback. The executioner stepped back, and the four prisoners stepped forward and hurriedly untied the ropes on Liang Wenzhen's body. In a daze, Liang Wenzhen was brought into the palace. In the square, the crowd erupted in bursts of cheers at this time, and they didn't stop for a long time.
Xu Miaoyin hugged Master Li and cried with joy. Hu Sanniang, Bai Yujiao, Hua Sumei, Fangqin and others, their faces were full of peach blossoms, they looked at each other, and their mouths were wide open. Xu Fan, Zhao Min and others were frightened by the sudden change, and they were at a loss at first, and then laughed excitedly and shed tears.
The words are divided into two ends. In the palace last night, Concubine Liu Guifei had reached the time to give birth, the three stable women served in an orderly manner, and Emperor Daojun was waiting for news in the imperial study. As time passed, the words from the eunuch became more and more worrying, and Wen Po shouted later, knowing that if Liu Guifei died in childbirth, she would not be able to escape death.
The gold medal imperial doctor of the Taiyi Bureau rushed to point out the night, saying that such a situation is really common, and in the case of dystocia, it is only necessary to take midwifery measures, and it will take more time, and in the end, the mother and child will be safe. The words of the imperial doctor have more meanings to appease everyone, and everyone is still worried. By the second day, Liu Guifei was already weak, and the child in her womb still could not be born smoothly, and the queen mother's concubines in the palace, the maids of the stable mother, the eunuchs and others were even more panicked, and even felt that a catastrophe was coming.
The clever eunuch reported to Emperor Daojun that it was better to ask Liang Wenzhen, the crown prince who was rumored to have given caesarean section to a dystocia cow, to perform midwifery on Concubine Liu. Emperor Daojun was furious and retreated. This kind of medical skill is too incredible, not to mention Liu Guifei, who is extremely favored by her family, even if she is doing experiments, she can't do it. What's more, at noon that day, it was the moment to kill Liang Wenzhen, and if you didn't joke, how could you go back on your word.
Seeing that time passed little by little, there was chaos in the palace. Yang Jian came to the imperial study, vigorously stated the gains and losses, and persuaded Emperor Daojun not to save face and give up the possibility that Liang Wenzhen could save people. "Your Majesty, there is still a moment for Liang Wenzhen's head to the ground, and I am afraid that there will be no one in the world who can save Liu Guifei." Yang Jian said anxiously. "Is there no one in the world but him?" Emperor Daojun said angrily. "Your Majesty, even if someone can be saved, I'm afraid it's too late to find it, and Concubine Liu won't be able to support it for long. Your Majesty, please make up your mind now! Yang Jian said in a trembling voice.
Emperor Daojun turned around and paced to the window, looking out of the window. The Taihu Lake rocks standing on the grass are skinny and lifeless, and the strange trees in the vicinity have not yet grown buds, as if they have died. Heaven is circulating, and the heavens have not yet made a decree, so how can the world be disobedient. Liang Wen is really God, but my favorite concubine wants him to live, a prisoner who is about to die, an arrogant young man, and a mercenary businessman.
"Spread my word, Liang Wenzhen will suspend his death, and then go to the execution after saving Liu Guifei." Emperor Daojun's tone was cold, and he said word by word. Such a will is already very difficult, and it came from the mouth of Emperor Daojun. When Yang Jian heard this, he rushed out as if he was overjoyed, regardless of his age, and ordered the eunuchs of the Yellow Gate to immediately go to the noon gate to convey the emperor's message.
Liang Wenzhen didn't think that he had picked up a life, and when he finally understood that he was going to relieve people from childbirth on the way to Concubine Liu's bedroom, he immediately stopped. Yang Jian begged, saying that Concubine Liu's life was hanging by a thread, and he heard that the prince had been assisted by caesarean section and saved a cow in dystocia, and he hoped that Liang Wenzhen would come to the rescue. Liang Wenzhen only knew the cause and effect at this time, and he still had a prison uniform on his body, how could he save people. "I have to bathe and change my clothes, and you have a sharp knife, strong soju, and needles and threads, and wait for my operation." Liang Wenzhen's thinking finally became clear.
In the square outside the noon gate, the crowd had dispersed, leaving a field of fruit peels and debris, and cardboard with slogans written on them scattered everywhere. The magpie was still screaming in the sky, and Xu Miaoyin and the others sat in a circle, waiting quietly. At this time, silence is better than sound, life is full of accidents and surprises, and hope is born in each heart, and the future days are secretly arranged.
Liang Wenzhen has brought many legends to everyone, all of which have become a thing of the past, and they are re-recalled at this time and read in their memories. It's just that from yesterday to today, everyone has forgotten, perhaps in the bottom of their hearts, the past has always passed, and legends are only suitable for the past, and they are useless in the present. Liang Wenzhen was sent to the guillotine, and it is not a legend of the past that can be changed and redeemed.
Today's unexpected salvation seems to be inseparable from the legends of the past, but before, none of the people realized that there was a trace of connection. Xu Miaoyin leaned her head on the shoulder of Master Li, and Master Li lovingly wrapped her hand around Xu Miaoyin's body, the two of them seemed to be comrades-in-arms who had shared weal and woe, and had experienced a long time of life and death.
A group of employees of Huaxia Company nearby were chatting and laughing at this time, excitedly expressing their joy. The life and death of General Manager Liang is related to the fate of each of them, and they have a good income to serve and live a satisfactory life for themselves and their families. One of them is talking like a river, telling the stories of Mr. Liang who heard about each of them, Liang Wenzhen in everyone's hearts, adding more mystery, it seems that it is really like a rumor, he is a god who can predict the prophet, which is moving and worshipped. When a person has an impact on others, that is where his value lies. What Liang Wenzhen has not achieved in modern times has been realized in this era, and he should be satisfied, perhaps, this is the real reason why Liang Wenzhen was calm in his heart when he faced the punishment of beheading.
Liu Guifei's fate is linked to Liang Wenzhen, whether Liu Guifei is dead or alive, Liang Wenzhen must return to the execution ground or not. Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.