When the woman kneeling in front of Qiu Yizhi heard this, she slowly raised her head—it was Miaozhen Layman—and smiled, and said, "Poor Dao Miaozhen, Lord Tongqiu is also an old man, did the Lord forget me?" ”

She spoke in a very calm tone, as if she didn't know that she was going to correct the Fa on the spot in the blink of an eye.

Qiu Yizhi looked at it intently, and saw that Miao Zhen's complexion was still good, and her face seemed to be wearing light makeup, so she didn't look like a dying person - but the rope tied to her body and the sign inserted in the back of her head made it very clear that this person was about to be beheaded.

Therefore, Qiu Yizhi didn't want to entangle with her anymore, so she turned to the book office and said, "This person is Miaozhen." Without waiting for Miao Zhen to reply, he turned around and stepped down.

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly walked to the pergola, arched his hand towards Zheng Xin, and said, "Big ...... Your Royal Highness, the lower officials have verified their identity, and they are indeed Miaozhen, Li Shenshi, and Cai Min. He looked up and saw Zheng Xin nodding slightly with a serious face, then returned to his seat, and was already out of breath.

Zheng Xin looked up and saw that the shadow of the bamboo pole on the ground had shrunk to the size of a fist, and he knew that it was noon, and when he left the noon three o'clock to start the knife and ask for a cut, but there was still a blink of an eye.

So he said loudly: "The three people on the stage are guilty, and you will be punished immediately, do you have any last words to say?" ”

Before Zheng Xin's words fell, Li Shenshi and Cai Min shouted at the same time - but the two of them shouted at the same time, but neither of them could hear clearly.

Zheng Xin was annoyed when he heard this, slapped the wood in shock, and said, "When death comes, don't you know decency?" This is not about decency, is there still the demeanor of a scholar? If you have words, you will say them one by one. ”

As soon as Zheng Xin's words fell, Li Shenshi and Cai Min were both silent for a long time, waiting for each other to speak, but seeing that the other party was silent, they shouted at the same time - it was the same as Fang Cai.

Zheng Xin saw them in such a chaotic manner, and suddenly became angry, and hit the shocked wood in a row, and said: "Shut up for me, shut up!" ”

Li Shenshi and Cai Min were so frightened that they were silent.

Zheng Xin's face was already extremely ugly, and he said stiffly: "Li Shenshi, you say it first!" ”

Li Shenshi, who was kneeling, was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The crimes of the criminals are heinous, the crimes of the criminals deserve death, and the criminals are ......innocent of death," and began to state his crimes without stopping.

Zheng Xin was bored and tried to interrupt him several times, but Li Shenshi didn't seem to hear Zheng Xin's angry reprimand, and was still talking.

Li Shenshi said this for more than a quarter of an hour, and finally fainted under the merciless scorching of the sun, and the whole person was lying on the earthen platform with all kinds of flowers, foaming at the mouth.

Seeing this, the two executioners beside him immediately panicked, hurriedly threw away the butcher knife in their hands, poured cold water, and pinched people, and finally woke Li Shenshi up. Although Li Shenshi regained his senses, his mouth was dry and he could no longer speak.

Seeing this, Zheng Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Cai Min, what do you have to say?" ”

Cai Min was much calmer than Li Shenshi, and said: "Please also ask Your Highness to loosen the ties, the prisoner has a desperate poem to write." ”

Zheng Xin nodded, ordered the executioner to let go of one of Cai Min's arms, and ordered someone to send pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. Cai Min took the pen and wrote a few lines of poetry on rice paper with one hand, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had vomited all the depression in his chest.

The executioner held Cai Min's desperate poem and sent it to Zheng Xin.

Zheng Xin looked intently, but saw that a five-character poem was written crookedly on it: Fifty years of dreams are true, and now I will give up Xie Hongchen; He is full of water and dragons, and he recognizes cigarettes as the back.

(Taken from Heshen's fateful poem.) ）

Zheng Xin only read it once, and said loudly to Cai Min: "Is this your fateful poem?" Do such shameless and spineless officials like you still think that there will be a day when they will turn over in the next life? What bullshit! After that, he threw the rice paper ball with Cai Min's dying thoughts into a ball and threw it away.

But I heard Zheng Xin say again: "Miaozhen, do you have anything else to say?" It's almost three o'clock in the afternoon, you have to speak quickly! ”

Miao Zhen listened, slowly raised her head, and said, "Yes." However, Poor Dao only wants to tell Lord Qiu alone. ”

"Ridiculous!" Zheng Xin scolded, "If you don't want to talk about it, just hold it in your stomach and talk to the king of Hades." What kind of score do you put on when you die? ”

Qiu Yizhi said: "Why should Your Highness be angry? Xia Guan was curious about what else this demon Dao had to say, so I went over to listen to it, afraid that she wouldn't be able to make any tricks. ”

Zheng Xinmu nodded with a grimace and said, "Then Lord Qiu will go and listen to it, but you have to be careful about her tricks." ”

Qiu Yizhi arched his hand, then quickly got up and trotted to the side of Miaozhen, and asked, "Miaozhen, I am in front of you, if you have any last words, just say something to me." ”

Hearing this, Miao Zhen slowly raised her head, a smile actually rose at the corner of her mouth, and said, "Lord Qiu, please come over with your ears, I don't want to tell others what I said." ”

Qiu Yizhi was helpless, so she had to put her ear to Miaozhen's mouth and wait for her to speak.

But he heard Miaozhen sigh like Lan Dao: "Poor Dao's words are written on a small note, and the note is stuffed in Poor Dao's right ear, and I ask Lord Qiu to take it out and take a look." ”

Qiu Yizhi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and he didn't know what this unpredictable Miaozhen monk was pretending to be a ghost. He turned his head and looked carefully at Miaozhen's right ear, and sure enough, he saw a ball of white rice paper stuffed in her ear hole.

Qiu Yizhi was afraid that this Miaozhen had simmered poison on this paper, so he didn't dare to take it with his hands, so he picked up a straw on the ground at random, carefully put the straw into Miaozhen's ear, and sure enough, he took out a small ball of note.

The executioner on the high platform, the sergeants guarding the surroundings, Zheng Xin and other officials sitting in the pergola, and the spectators in the high-rise buildings on the surrounding streets were all shocked by Qiu Yizhi's strange behavior, and they all watched with bated breath - the originally lively Sanshan Street Intersection became silent for a short time.

Qiu Yizhi saw that there was nothing abnormal about this mass of rice paper, and smelled it carefully, but there was no smell, so he had the courage to flatten it and take a look - only to see that there were three words written on it upright, "Tianzun Sect"!

When Qiu Yizhi saw these three words, his brain suddenly "boomed", and he was silent for a while, just about to ask Miaozhen why he mentioned the name of the cult here.

But I heard an earth-shattering thunderclap in the middle of the air, and when I looked up, the clear sky, which was still as clear as a wash, had been shrouded in boundless dark clouds, and the sound of rolling thunder in the clouds was constantly rumbling.

This sudden explosion of thunder suddenly woke Qiu Yizhi up, and he hurriedly shouted to Zheng Xin: "Your Highness, Miao Zhen can't be killed!" ”

As soon as he spoke, another thunderbolt made a deafening sound, so that Qiu Yizhi couldn't even hear what he said clearly, let alone Zheng Xin, who was more than ten steps away.

So Qiu Yizhi took a deep breath, and was about to shout "Keep people under the knife", but he heard the roar of the artillery that had been prepared behind the pergola, and then heard Zheng Xin's loud voice: "Three o'clock in the afternoon has arrived, execution!" ”

The three executioners standing on the stage heard it clearly, raised their butcher knives, and slashed at the back of Miaozhen, Li Shenshi, and Cai Min's heads in the air. I saw three flashes of red light, and the three bloody human heads had broken away from the necks they had originally relied on to support, and rolled on the earthen platform.

At the same time, a dull thunder resounded in the sky, and then raindrops the size of quail eggs fell, smashing Qiu Yizhi's face with a burst of pain.

He hurriedly looked down at the note in his hand that had been taken out of Miaozhen's ear holes, but saw that it had been wet from the rain, and the three shocking handwriting of "Tianzun Sect" had gradually blurred. He hurriedly reached out to wipe it, but the already blurry handwriting became more and more illegible.

Qiu Yizhi was afraid that the only remaining evidence would be destroyed in his own hands, and he was just about to hide the note in his arms, but unexpectedly, another torrential rain poured down, and countless raindrops hit the note, and finally the three words "Tianzun Sect" turned into a cloud of ink stains, and it was no longer possible to identify them.

Qiu Yizhi was suddenly at a loss, standing on the unsheltered earthen platform, the rain under his feet and the blood flowing from the three corpses had mixed together, flowing in all directions.

But I heard Zheng Xin shouting at his side: "What is Lord Qiu doing?" Why don't you come back to shelter from the rain! ”

Qiu Yizhi slowly raised his head like an idiot, and said to Zheng Xin almost to himself: "It's a bad thing......" I don't know if his eldest brother can hear clearly.

Zheng Xin saw that Qiu Yizhi was still standing in the rain, and he was not afraid that he would get sick in the rain, so he personally held up a large umbrella that was originally prepared for shading, walked out of the pergola, walked quickly to Qiu Yizhi's side, and said, "Brother Xian, what's wrong?" How many living people have you killed and how many dead people have you seen? Why were you scared by these three innocent criminals? ”

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly turned his head to look at Zheng Xin, saw him looking at him with a smile, and was about to speak, but saw that more than a dozen attendant officials were also holding umbrellas and braving the rain to climb the earth platform, so he hurriedly lowered his voice and said to Zheng Xin: "Big brother, there may be something else hidden in this matter." There are many people here, it is inconvenient to talk in detail, and the younger brother dares to ask the eldest brother to speak in the Qixia Temple. ”

Zheng Xin saw the serious expression on Qiu Yi's face and said, "Okay, without further ado, let's go back to Qixia Temple to talk in detail." ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a gust of wind, which blew away the dark clouds in the sky, and in an instant the wind stopped raining, and the sun radiated a vicious light, and the entire Jinling City seemed to turn into a huge steamer, and the water vapor rose up, so that the bustling city was shrouded in a strange atmosphere.

Zheng Xin saw that it had rained and the sky was clear, so he threw down the paper umbrella in his hand and rode to Qixia Temple with Qiuyi.

After passing the mountain gate outside the temple, the two did not stop, and went straight into the meditation room where Zheng Xin stayed.

Qiu Yizhi saw that there was no one around the meditation room, and when he was talking, he wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeve, and didn't talk nonsense, and said straightly: "Big brother, do you know what Miaozhen did before he died?" ”

Zheng Xin said nonchalantly: "Brother Xian hurriedly called me over, is it just to talk about this?" I guess this Miao Zhen is so stubborn that he can't say anything good......"

"Tianzun Sect!" Qiu Yizhi didn't care about the etiquette, and directly interrupted Zheng Xin's words and said.

"What!" Zheng Xin was so surprised that he cried out, then regained his composure and said, "This Miaozhen, why is it involved in the Tianzun Sect again?" Why didn't you say it before? Did my brother mishear? ”

Qiu Yizhi shook his head and said, "The three words 'Tianzun Sect' were not heard by the junior brother, but written in black and white. With that, he handed the note that he had just taken out of Miaozhen's ears and eyes to Zheng Xin.

Zheng Xin took the note, and finally flattened the confetti that had been crumpled together, but he only saw that the note was blurry, and he couldn't see what was written at all. So Zheng Xin handed the note back to Qiu Yizhi and said, "Brother Xian, are you joking with the foolish brother?" On this piece of paper, there is clearly not a word. ”