In a panic, I took out the jade slip and contacted Cihang. "Uncle Shi, where are you now?"

"I'm Tushan." She replied, "There's a war going on here." What's wrong? ”

I said, "Yi Congshan is bleeding heavily after giving birth, and she is dying." Can you come over for a moment? ”

She muttered for a moment, "It's useless. It was also useless for me to be there. This is the destiny of heaven, and it cannot be changed by human beings. ”

"Is this destiny? What do you mean? I asked.

"Nezha," she said, "I can't talk to you about this. But you'll always get the idea. ”

By the time I returned to the room, Yi Congshan had already lost her breath. Her face was like a blank sheet of paper. Half of her body was already soaked in a pool of blood, as if all the blood in her body had been drained.

At only twenty-two years old, she never had the chance to return to the banks of the Yishui River to watch her son become the king of Xianyu.

Seven days later, I accompanied Ji Gao's family to return Yi Congshan's coffin to Biyi. Yi Congshan's pair of leg bones were buried with her body and buried in Ji Gao's fiefdom, and she was buried with Ji Gao's ex-wife.

On the day of Yi Congshan's death, two Xianyu maids who served Yi Congshan day and night committed suicide outside the house on the spot. The maid was buried next to the grave as a martyr. At that time, several other Xianyu maids and warriors were also about to commit suicide, but Ji Gao sent people to stop them and arrange for them to guard the tomb.

Not far from here is the mausoleum of King Wen. Eight months ago, it was there that in the Imperial Palace, there was a strange assassination.

I didn't go back to Nakup, but stayed in Hokyung in order to fulfill my promise to accompany Mei Lin on her last journey.

A few days later, King Wu issued an edict. In the assassination case, all 22 main culprits were executed and their heads were displayed to the public.

Among them, Li Hougong father and son, Princess Chongxi, Xu Gai and other nine people were beheaded. Although the Lord of Merlin was the first offender, he was given special mercy to be beheaded in prison because of his severe disability.

The remaining eighty-seven accomplices were stripped of their duties and assigned to Yunmeng Zhinan. The remaining hundreds of suspects involved in the case will not be pursued and will be released on the same day.

I know that in Ji Xian's table, there is much more than that. It was King Wu who ticked off a lot of them from the list. But there's no Merlin here. Does King Wu really believe what Ji Xian said in the above table? Or did he just want to borrow Ji Xian's hand to carry out a big purge?

On the day of his execution, it snowed heavily in a rare day. I asked the chef who served Mei Lin in the princess's mansion to cook a few of her favorite dishes and bring them to prison.

When Merlin saw me, she immediately understood everything. But she didn't say anything, and calmly finished the meal I had brought.

Subsequently, the supervisor sent by Ji Xian read out the edict of King Wu. After listening to this, Merlin unfastened the floating belt from her waist with her prosthetic hand and handed it to me. "I don't need this anymore, I'll give it back to you! Also, take off my prosthetic hand! ”

I removed her prosthetic hand, "Cousin, do you have anything else to confess?" ”

She looked out the window at the snow, as if she was staring.

"Can you send me back to Meicheng and bury me with my father?"

I nodded, "I'll do it." ”

"And," she said, "tell Madame Yi that I always feel sorry for her. But I didn't do the assassination of her. ”

"Tell her these words yourself!" I said, "Ten days ago, Yi Congshan had already gone before you because of dystocia and hemorrhage!" ”

"Huh?" Merlin froze.

I continued, "I think she'll forgive you." I leaned close to Merlin's ear, "When you get over there, if anyone asks you for trouble, remember to give me a dream." I'm going to put them in order. I've been there, and Yan Jun over there is afraid of me. ”

She smiled, "Really? "Apparently skeptical.

"Of course it's true." I said, "No lie." ”

The hour was up, and the officer lifted Merlin up and left the cell. The execution ground was arranged in the courtyard of the Imperial Prison. When the cell door was wide open, the snow on the torture platform reflected the blinding light, and the biting cold wind blew in the goose feather snow. Merlin's body immediately began to tremble.

I hurriedly took off my coat and tried to drape it over Merlin's body. She shook her head, "Don't." Finally, the warden took a piece of felt and wrapped it around her.

"Lord Meijun," said the warden, "if it weren't for the king's kindness, putting you in a wooden cage, first traveling all over the city, and then beheading the ground in public, you would have suffered even more." ”

Merlin listened and didn't say anything.

There was already an errand over there cleaning the torture table. An errand blindfolds Merlin. She didn't need to be bound, and she didn't have hands or feet to tie. Two officers pressed her body to the execution table. The executioner slashed at her neck with a sharp axe.

The beautiful skull rolled down, and a cavity of blood spurted onto the snow. Merlin's mutilated body collapsed limply beside the torture table.

The officers loaded Merlin's body and head into a wooden cage cart. Although she had been executed first, she still had to be dragged to the execution ground with other death row inmates to be publicly executed and publicly executed.

I got into a carriage with the prison officer and escorted 21 death row inmates to the execution ground. This is also the condition on which I can accompany Mei Lin: to supervise the execution of the sentence as an envoy of the King of Warriors.

I saw the father and son of the Marquis of Li, the princess Chongxi, and several former ministers of the Li and Chongguo, Xu Gai, and some other princes who had been conquered by the Zhou state.

Xu Gai stared at me, "Nezha! Did you betray Miss Mei! ”

Of course not me, but I can't argue with it.

The convoy made a stop in the capital city for nearly an hour. Except for Merlin, who was already in a different place, the other prisoners were frozen into popsicles in the snow. For me, it was extremely tormenting.

And the initiators Ji Xian, Ji Du and Ji Chu brothers, none of them showed up. Do you want the people to think that I caused the deaths of these people?

Despite the heavy snowfall, many people from Hokyo took to the streets. After all, the execution of such an important prisoner at one time is rare since the founding of the city.

I heard a steady stream of spitting and cursing from the crowd, as well as people throwing rotten fruit and debris at the prisoner carts in front of me.

Sitting in the cold carriage and driving in the cold wind, I felt that my heart had been eaten by something, turning from red to gray.

Finally arrived at the Dharma field. First, the twelve main criminals were escorted to the execution platform, and the executioner raised the axe in his hand, and the twelve heads rolled to the ground one after another.

Then the officer lifted the sluice knife. Lihou father and son, Princess Chongxi, Xu Gai and other nine people were escorted out, pressed by the servants in the gate, only listening to the sound of "click", and the nine were stopped and cut off.

Later, they were decapitated and hung from a high pole along with thirteen other heads.

After the execution, the prison officer returned to Ji Xian's place to resume his life. I went straight into the palace.

When Yi Jiang saw me, he stared at me intently. "Sister, where are you from?"

I burst into tears.