Chapter Twenty-Three: Saving People Under the Knife
After stepping on the high platform, Zhao Yi was held down by the two people behind him. One of them shouted: "Kneel!
Hearing this, Zhao Yi was unmoved, still holding his chest tall and standing proudly on the high platform.
He has his own backbone and principles. There are three non-kneeling in this life! Those who are not heaven and earth do not kneel, those who are not monarchs do not kneel, and those who are not teachers do not kneel!
Let him kneel down for a false crime, that is absolutely impossible!
Seeing this, the other shouted, "Kneel down for me!", and then swept a whip leg to the crook of Zhao Yi's knee.
His knees bent, but he didn't kneel down immediately, his legs were full of strength, and he straightened again, and the whole person was as straight as a pine. After that, no matter how the two of them attacked the knee of their legs, they just couldn't let Zhao Yisheng kneel.
The two of them were furious and picked up the knife in their hands and struck Zhao Yi on the back with the hilt.
After a few muffled sounds, he endured the great pain, gritted his teeth and shouted at the sky: "I, Zhao Yi, have acted above board in my life, but I was framed by the villain of Lichuan and named me treason, even if I die, I will not die on my knees!"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd below exploded and began to discuss.
"I just said that General Zhao would not have done such an act, and it must have been framed by others, but I didn't expect it to be Li Chuan!", someone said.
Some people also retorted, "The Son of Heaven of our country announced the people of the world with the emperor's list, how can there be a fake? He is just exculpating himself." ”
"What reason does a dying man have to deceive us? Don't forget, who has been fighting the enemy and the kingdom for the past four years, and who has given us four years of stability?"
"This brother is right, if Zhao Yi had a rebellious heart, he would have rebelled a long time ago, why does it have to be four years later?"
A thin man stood up and said, "I am from your city, and I have a daughter in my family. When he went out once, he was taken by the son of the city lord. Then I bullied the little girl in broad daylight, and my subordinates even beat me to serious injury, if it wasn't for General Zhao's timely rescue, the consequences would be unimaginable!"
The man continued to tremble: "After that, he even forced the city lord's mansion to give the son of the city lord a lesson and warn, so that the evil young man no longer dared to disturb the people of your city. But if that evil young man hears the news of General Zhao's death, he will definitely make trouble again!"
"I firmly believe that General Zhao is a hero!
After everyone listened to his words, some people stood up again, "I also firmly believe that General Zhao is not treasonous! I am from Yuncheng, a local parent official, who was bribed by others to occupy my family's ancestral land, and he helped me get that land back!"
"I firmly believe it!"
"I'm convinced of it too!"
More people stood up and told their experiences of being helped by Zhao Yi, including the three members of Ah Lan's family.
Immediately, one person after another bowed down to Zhao Yi on the high platform, and at a glance, the people in the square knelt down by a third!
They shouted in unison for Zhao Yi, "The hero of Zhao Guo has been framed in vain! I hope the emperor will withdraw the holy decree! Retrial!"
"The hero of Zhao State has been framed in vain! I hope that the emperor will withdraw the holy decree! Retrial!"
The sound is loud and grand, resounding in the sky, sentence after sentence, and the cycle repeats. They opened their voices and shouted, hoping that the emperor would hear their voices, understand what they were thinking, and want to regain their understanding of the matter.
Zhao Yi on the high platform looked at the scene under his feet, and his voice trembled: "Thank you!
"You believe in me! I, Zhao Yi, die without regrets!"
In a dark corner around the square, Li Chuan's figure appeared, and at this time, his face was gloomy, and he roared in a low voice, "Damn! ”
Then he looked at the prison officer behind Zhao Yi and said angrily: "What are you doing with this waste!
Behind Zhao Yi, a person put his hand to the ear of the prison officer and said, "The people are acting like this, should we ask the emperor for instructions?"
As soon as the supervisor thought of the box of gold and jewelry given by Li Chuan at home, he stammered: "What else do you ask for this kind of thing? The emperor himself has made a holy decree, and there can be a mistake?"
He threw the beheading order to the ground and said hurriedly: "It doesn't matter if he dies standing or on his knees! Quickly cut off his head, lest he bewitch the people with any more lies and trap Marshal Li for injustice!"
Hearing this, the executioner raised his broadsword, squirted a mouthful of wine, hovered it behind Zhao Yi's neck, and swung it over the next moment.
Time slowed down, and Zhao Yi looked back on his life.
Colorful and full of sadness.
He sighed, his short life full of regret and remorse.
That's it...
It's over.
The sharp blade cut through the skin, and a bead of blood spilled out, just as the broadsword continued to swing.
Thunder sounded, a dazzling thunder light fell on the high platform, and the flickering white light made everyone unable to open their eyes, and they didn't know what happened on the stage.
When the white light faded and everything returned to its original state, Zhao Yi on the high platform disappeared!
The executioner scratched his head and stared blankly at the streak of blood stained on the blade. He clearly remembered that he didn't feel the physical feeling, but Zhao Yiren evaporated in front of his eyes!!
"What's going on, where is Zhao Yiren?", everyone asked secretly.
"What the hell!", the prison officer stood up suddenly, supported the case with both hands, his eyes were as big as bull's eyes, glared at the place where Zhao Yi disappeared, and said in surprise: "Executioner, where is the prisoner?"
When the executioner heard the other man's words, he turned his fleshy body around, and said with a blank expression: "My lord! I don't know!
Li Chuan in the shadows also looked completely unaware of what was going on.
In the crowd below the high platform, a string of laughter suddenly sounded, "Haha! Zhao Yi has done all the bad things, even God can't stand it anymore, and he used a heavenly thunder to chop him so that there is no bone residue left!"
Another person said: "Heaven's curse will not split him for no reason, and if he ends up like this, he can only say that he deserves it!"
When the others heard this, they were immediately reprimanded, "What did you say? How many things General Zhao has done for us, don't you have a little conscience, no trace of gratitude, to let you say such shameless words?"
The old man who was scolded immediately responded with a radical word, "How can the old man have no conscience, what has he done to make me grateful to him." My eldest son and youngest were all forcibly recruited into the army by them, and they all died on the battlefield. The name of defending the family and the country has fallen to him, and who will remember my two sons?"
"My family too, now only I am a woman and my unweaned toddler in my arms, lonely and miserable in the world, who has really cared about us!"
"You guys are crooked! The enemy country invades, this battle is inevitable, if General Zhao does not come forward, you will not even have a stable place to live!"
The people in the square were divided into two groups, one group defended Zhao Yi, the other group slandered Zhao Yi, and there were a few people who did not touch either side and watched the excitement on the side.
The two sides faced each other, fighting each other, and some even fought with red eyes, and the scene was chaotic for a while.
In a cloud far away from them, two figures were revealed, it was the dumb servant and Zhao Yi who was saved by him!
"It turns out that I am such a person in their hearts!", Zhao Yi sighed slowly.
"It's no wonder you. ”
The dumb servant's eyes always looked in the direction of Gao Yandian, and he continued to transmit: "If you want to blame, blame this rain!"
Zhao Yi was surprised, the person next to him had not spoken, why did an unfamiliar voice appear in his heart, and there was no one else around, so he asked: "Why is there a voice in my heart? Are you talking to me?"
"That's right, it's called Divine Reading, because I was born with a disability and can't speak. ”
The dumb servant retracted his gaze, turned his head and looked at Zhao Yi with a smile: "Yi Xiaoshao, don't you remember me?"
The name 'Yi Xiaoshao' has not been called for many years, and there is only one person who called him by this at the beginning! It is the father-in-law who has taken care of Zhao Qian's life since he was a child, no wonder this person has a sense of femininity.
Zhao Yi said excitedly: "You! You are a dumb father-in-law! Brother Zhao Qian's personal father-in-law!"
The man nodded, "It's okay if you don't recognize me the first time we meet, even the second time." ”
"Don't blame me, dumb father-in-law, it's just that your appearance has changed a lot! Compared with before, you are more than a minute and a half younger! ”
"This is the change that the path of cultivation has brought to me!"
"The path of cultivation?", Zhao Yi muttered these four words repeatedly.
"The so-called 'path of cultivation' is to cultivate the rules of heaven and earth, practice the energy of heaven and earth, be the beginning of heaven and earth, and coexist with heaven and earth, so far smile and look at the wind and clouds!"
The dumb servant gave Zhao Yi a brief explanation, and the divine thought said: "This is also a new road that the master wants to open for you!"
"Brother Zhao Qian?", it turned out that the other party had always cared about himself and valued himself, but he ruthlessly scolded the other party at the beginning, and couldn't help but secretly regret his original behavior.
"What does it mean to say, 'If you want to blame this rain?'", Zhao Yi raised a question from the previous conversation.
"This rain is not an ordinary rain, but it is the transformation of the formation supernatural powers. ”
"Formation supernatural powers?"
"That's right, it's the formation supernatural power. The high platform on which you were executed before was engraved with the diagram of the Shangkui Formation!"
"Those ghostly and mysterious carvings are the formation diagrams?"
"Well, this array was created by the Rain God, the Divine Realm of the Way of Rain Control. Whenever you fight against him, you will fall into a rain curtain space, and the magic powers in the rain are endless, making it difficult for the opponent to guard against. And as soon as this array opens, the rain god will participate in the rain, and the people in the array will be exposed to his eyes no matter what means they use, and all vanity will not be hidden!"
The dumb servant continued: "And Wan Qing, that is, the national teacher you call in your mouth. He is a formation mage, and the purpose of using this Shangkui Shower to perform the rain is not to pray for your blessings, but to mix his divine consciousness with the rain, and spread all over the space to find a relict imperial weapon of the Upper Realm Emperor!"
"This doesn't affect you, but the bad thing is that he used a forbidden object, the blood of the Demon Emperor in ancient times! This evil blood not only polluted the essence of this space, but also gradually polluted the mortal bodies of all of you as the clouds and rain fell. ”
Zhao Yi asked again, "What will be the consequences if it is polluted?"
"It will bring out the dark side of the human heart, and it will continue to rage, and it will become extremely bloodthirsty, no matter who it is!
"In the end, only blind killing remains!", Zhao Yi continued the dumb servant's unfinished words.
He felt it in a fight against twenty assassins. Both the assassin and he himself experienced it himself. Later, he fell into a lost state, and his mind was full of voices, kill, kill, kill!
He had already seen the people in the square below fighting, and some of them had even been seriously injured, and he seemed to be the one*, detonating the dark side of their hearts in advance, and everything would be doomed if it went on like this!
He couldn't help but say urgently: "Is there no way to stop it?"
"There's nothing I can do to stop this tragedy. ”
The dumb servant shook his head, and said, "Maybe the master has a way!"
"Brother Zhao Qian, what about him now?"
"I went to the underworld with the five of Wanqing. The dumb servant replied.
"Then let's go quickly! Take me to see Brother Zhao Qian, he must save these people! These are his former people!"
Zhao Yi glanced at the Guanwai in the distance, and vaguely felt that there was an army of the Wei State hidden in it, and it was possible to attack Yancheng at any time.
At that time, the army will be overwhelmed, Yancheng will become precarious, invincible, and all the people will be turned into ashes in the sea of fire. No matter which outcome it is, it is not what Zhao Yi wants to see.
"Can't I take you with me?", the dumb servant's voice sounded in Zhao Yi's heart.
"Why?", he couldn't help but ask.
"There will be a battle between the master and the five of them, I want to help the master, I can't take care of you!"
"I don't need you to take care of it, I'll be careful!
Seeing Zhao Yi's hopeful eyes, the dumb servant sighed lightly, "That's it, that's it, anyway, sooner or later you will have to embark on the same path of cultivation as us, and it doesn't hurt to see it early." But..."
"But what?"
"But everything must be at my disposal!"
"Good!"
"Eat this healing elixir in addition! I'll help you resolve the power of the medicine. The dumb servant held a round object between his fingers and handed it to him.
Zhao Yi looked at the crystal snow pill, then looked at his body, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, he had always cared about other things, but he didn't put his mind on himself.
Looking at his body again, he was covered with bruises, and it couldn't be more appropriate to describe him at this time with his incomplete skin. The pain had long been numb, and the whole body was extremely fragile, and it suddenly crumbled when a gust of wind blew.