Chapter Eighty-Three: Return the Hands and Feet
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A handsome man in white strode into the side hall and said loudly: "Fengyi Palace has received orders. ”
Although everyone saw that it was the empress's personal guard Scarlet Feather, except for a few palace people who wiped their tears and knew that they immediately knelt down to prepare to receive the order, the others were either on the verge of death or in grief, and they didn't care about it at all.
Queen Li was even more indignant in her heart: Okay, you vicious He Lanying, you will force the innocent subordinates of this palace to death, even if you allow this palace to return home immediately, Xu Bengong will not enjoy endless glory and wealth for a lifetime, and this palace will not accept your love! It's really not worth it for my brother to sacrifice his life in vain to allow an unvirtuous villain like you to ascend the throne! If this palace can see his father again, even if he admonishes him to death, he will raise troops, and it will be against your Helan clan!
"By Your Majesty's command," Scarlet Feather's loud voice interrupted Empress Li's thoughts, "Because of the meritorious service of the Li family's protection, I hereby pardon the sins committed by all the sinners of Fengyi Palace, and give them back their hands and feet." Chin this. ”
When Empress Li heard this, not only did she not become happy, but she was several times more excited than before Scarlet Feather appeared!
She stumbled in front of Scarlet Feather, and said, "What does this mean?" What does that mean?! After receiving the news and knowing that the people in the palace had been forced to death, Helan Ying pretended to be generous and a good person? ! A group of palace people hurriedly went up to grab her, but they couldn't stop her from saying disrespectful words impulsively.
Scarlet Feather looked at Empress Li calmly, then glanced around at the palace people around her, and said with a slight bow: "Niangniang, please don't be excited." Aunt Liu's internal servants in the hospital stole the poison, His Majesty has long been aware of it, and has made people secretly change it. If you have already drunk the 'wine', there is no harm to your body. ”
"What did you say?" Empress Li stared at her eyes in disbelief, looking back at Aunt Liu and the attendants who had drunk the "wine". The extreme surprise on their faces was also comparable to that of Empress Li.
Aunt Liu and the others stood up one after another, looked at each other, and the stunned on their faces quickly turned into overjoyed surprises, and some people cried with joy, hugging their heads and crying. They all suddenly realized: no wonder after drinking the wine, there was no poison for so long, it seems that the poison is indeed fake!
Empress Li, who felt the impact of great sorrow and joy in a short period of time, woke up like a dream and knelt on the ground after a while, kowtowed tremblingly: "Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace!" ”
Everyone also walked up to Scarlet Feather, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said with tears in their eyes: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing you!" ”
The corners of Scarlet Feather's mouth showed a gentle smile. Zuo Ying's decision to severely punish the people of Fengyi Palace was a matter of contradictions in his heart. He was both happy that Zuo Ying had shown him favoritism, and he was also upset that someone was about to be punished so cruelly because of him. In front of him, this matter could be solved so skillfully and satisfactorily, he naturally felt relieved and full of joy, and his respect for Zuo Ying in his heart was a little more.
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At the same time, Zuo Ying was sitting upright in the imperial study, and Wei Chi Nan, who was standing beside him, bowed his waist and said, "Your Majesty, Feng Hu is already waiting outside the palace." ”
Zuo Ying nodded and said, "Pass." ”
Wei Chi Nan received the order, took two steps forward, and said loudly outside the hall: "Pass Feng Hu-"
The chamberlain outside the door then spread the word, and after a while, someone came in from outside the temple gate.
Zuo Ying saw that it was not one person who walked in, but three people. The three of them walked side by side, one of the attendants on the left and right, and they all worked together to support the man in the middle.
The man in the middle appeared to be about thirty years old, of medium stature, and dressed in a brocade garment of fine workmanship. He has a long and narrow face, copper skin, vermilion lips, a nose as high and straight as the barrel of a pen, black and white eyes, and a slight smile on his face, which makes people feel close.
He looked refreshed and not sickly, but when you looked down the hem of his robe, you could see that his feet hung limply, and he could only let the vamps of his shoes rub against the floor, and the weight of his whole body was supported by the two men who were holding his armpits together.
Seeing this person, Zuo Ying felt a burst of familiarity. The "imperial brother" had special trust in two people before his death, one was Li Xin, who served in the middle, and the other was Feng Hu, the general of the Chinese army in front of him. But in Zuo Ying's impression, this person was born in martial arts, with a strong physique and skilled archers and horses, and he was not what he is now.
At this time, Feng Hu had already come to Zuo Ying with difficulty, bowed his head and said: "Grass people Feng Hu see Your Majesty, may Your Majesty be blessed!" The two attendants carefully put him down, and he could only barely support his body with his hands, almost lying on the ground and saying, "Your Majesty, the grass people's legs are crippled, please forgive the grass people for being rude." ”
Although he had heard Wei Chi Nan report that Feng Hu was now disabled in both legs, when Zuo Ying saw with his own eyes that this good young man who used to be flying like a fly, now he was almost half-paralyzed, it was still a bit beyond psychological estimates.
"Give a seat." Zuo Ying raised his hand.
The palace attendant at the door said yes and brought in a wooden chair from the outside. The wooden chair was made of sandalwood, with a delicate and simple workmanship, and was covered with a splendid cushion. Its biggest special feature is that the chair legs under the seat are crossed by two round axes, one in front and one behind, one high and one low, and each end of the round axis has a wooden wheel, which is small in front and large in the back, just like a wooden wheelchair.
The palace man pushed the wheelchair to Feng Hu's side, helped him sit down, and then pushed him to the side.
"Feng Hu, why are your feet like this?" Zuo Ying asked.
A hint of pathos appeared on Feng Hu's smiling face, "Back to Your Majesty, the disability of the grass people's legs is caused by torture in the prison. ”
Hearing this, Wei Chinan couldn't help but think that he was also a close friend who had been beaten to death, and he couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation.
In contrast, Zuo Ying is very calm - Feng Hu's experience is compared to "hiding and dying", "drinking water", "taking a shower", and "sleeping in an improper position"...... Something like that, it's just weak. Therefore, don't always miss the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties and look up to the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, there are still some places in the future generations. What these ancients need to learn from us is also the harmony within the imperial court. Like in front of him, there are several parties that have come to him, and he does not have the artifact of "multi-crotch cooperation system" in his hands, so it is a pity that the second generation of good officials who could have gone home for the New Year with a hello was abandoned in prison.
Feng Hu continued: "Taishi falsely accused the grass people of putting the grass people in prison in the name of disrupting the party, and also tortured them to extract confessions, and demanded that the grass people admit their crimes. The tendons and veins of the grass people's legs were broken at that time. Speaking of this, Feng Hu's face showed a look of pain, "After the Taishi knew that the grass people would rather die than give in, he used the lives of the grass people to coerce Feng Yi, the general of the Pillar State, to join him in the same stream...... Feng Zhuguo was confused for a while......"
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