Chapter 118: Punishment
The wedding was going on, and the tent not far away was singing and dancing, as if it was going to dance until dawn. Lin Yufu felt a little sleepy, she yawned, turned her head and asked Su Meng, "How long are we going to stay?" ”
"It's coming!" Su Meng smiled and said to Ramadan, "Father, allow me now to offer a gift to the bride!" ”
Hearing this, Ramadan nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, you can now take your bride to the grassland to spend your wedding night!" ”
Su Meng listened, turned his head and asked people to bring a beautiful jujube red foal, and then stretched out his hand to Lin Yufu.
"Come on, come with me!"
Lin Yufu subconsciously looked at Yan Linjun, but he was just talking to the people around him, and his eyes didn't fall on her.
What exactly was she expecting?
"Good!" She took Su Meng's hand and stood up, and just as the two were about to walk out of the tent, they saw a northern barbarian maid stumbling in. She knelt down in front of Ramadan and said a bunch of words that Lin Yufu couldn't understand, which was the language of the Northern Barbarians. Although she didn't know what the girl was talking about, she could feel the fear and panic of this woman.
When she finished speaking, everyone stood up with an incredible expression, including Yan Linjun.
It was rare to see Yan Linjun in such a gaffe, and Lin Yufu became more and more curious.
"What did she say?" She hurriedly turned her head and asked Su Meng, only to see that Su Meng's face was also frozen there!
"What the hell is going on?"
"Zhao Yuru, kill my second brother!" Su Meng pursed his lips and said this sentence slowly!
The maid was attracted by the mournful cry of Xincha, and when she quietly opened the corner of the tent, she saw such a bloody and incredible scene that she was so frightened that she crawled to tell Ramadan.
And the three people in the tent didn't know it at all, Song Moqing shook Zhao Yuru's arm vigorously, trying to wake her up. But I don't want her to be so drunk that she can't wake up no matter how she shakes.
"What should I do? How could our young lady kill this Northern Barbarian? Doroku said with tears in her voice, "How is this good? ”
Song Moqing saw that shaking could not wake her up, so she turned around and came to the outside of the tent, looked at a bucket of water next to the haystack, and brought it in without thinking about it, and poured Zhao Yuru on her head and face without waiting for Taole to stop it!
On this cold day, the sudden ice water finally woke Zhao Yuru up, she opened her most hazy eyes and looked at everything in front of her, and said a little confused: "Song Moqing? Is it raining? ”
Song Moqing was obviously angry and anxious, he stepped forward and pulled Zhao Yuru up and said, "Zhao Yuru, let me ask you, what's going on?" ”
Zhao Yuru sat up puzzled, only to feel that his head was in sharp pain! She looked at the place Song Moqing was pointing and saw Aqi Gui's body!
"Ahh The remaining drunken intent was instantly frightened, and she turned Azigui's face around and carefully recognized it for a while.
"It's not ······ That fat prince in the morning? ”
"yes, how did you kill him?"
"What? I killed him? Zhao Yuru said incredulously: "How could I kill him?" I only remember that I drank with the prince of the Northern Barbarians, and after drinking, I was helped back by you, and I can't remember what happened after that! Zhao Yuru cried and said, "What's the matter? Xianggong, what's going on? ”
Song Moqing and Taole Xincha all looked at Zhao Yuru with solemn faces, and the words "catastrophe is coming" were clearly written on their faces!
"Let's leave here and stay in another camp as if we don't know about it?" Zhao Yuru said eagerly: "No one sees it anyway, does it?" ”
"But Azigui died under your copper hammer, which cannot be relied upon!"
Zhao Yuru looked at the copper hammer pressed on Ah Qi Gui's chest, she couldn't argue, she didn't remember what happened during this time after she was drunk, what, it was just a sleep, why did she kill someone by herself?
She didn't even know why she wanted to kill Azigui!
She's finished!
Before she could get out of bed, the curtain of the tent was lifted. Zhao Yuru looked over and found the angry Ramadan!
When everyone saw this scene, they were immediately startled, and Song Moqing hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, there must be something inside in this matter!" Mr. Zhao was already drunk and didn't remember what happened at all! His Royal Highness Aqigui was not here when I left, and we didn't hear the cries for help, I suspect that His Highness Aqigui was killed by someone else, and then blamed the head of Sect Zhao! ”
When Zhao Yuru heard this, he nodded busily and said, "Yes, yes, I'm drunk and can't think of anything." I just felt like I had slept and woke up like that! ”
Ramadan blushed, stepped forward, and pulled up the copper hammer on Azigui's chest, which was covered with flesh and blood, and it was disgusting to look at!
"Then Sect Chief Zhao explains, who else can use the copper hammer that I have a hard time to hold?"
Zhao Yuru looked at this copper hammer, and he was indeed speechless!
"I ······ It's really not me! She looked at Song Moqing and Yan Linjun for help, hoping that they could stand up and speak.
Lin Yufu was also stunned, she looked at everything in front of her, but she was a little puzzled in her heart. Although Aqi Gui died under the blow of the copper hammer, the way of death is completely different from the person who died in his own hands before!
"I remember that the people who died under the copper hammer of President Zhao's head were all hit in the head, and the blow was fatal!" Lin Yufu stepped forward, looked at Aqi Gui's corpse and said, "But the second prince was hit in the chest and beaten many times. Wouldn't it be better to beat people in the face the way they used to? Why do you want to show a face, for fear that others will not know that it is His Royal Highness Azigui who died! ”
Zhao Yuru heard Lin Yufu say this, and immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes!" If I had killed someone, I wouldn't have done this! This is clearly deliberate! ”
"You've drunk too much, can you kill people as you normally would? People die in front of your bed, and the weapon is yours, and you still want to deny it! ”
"It's not me! It's really not me! ”
"I'm going to kill you and avenge my second brother!" It was also one of Ramadan's sons who spoke, and he rushed forward with the knife in his hand, but was immediately stopped by Yan Linjun.
"There are still doubts about this matter, and we can't jump to conclusions!" Yan Linjun said with a cold face: "Besides, Sect Chief Zhao is an important minister of our Great Yan, how can you send it down at will?" ”
"Really? Didn't our Great Commander Hu Ertu also die in your Dayan, you can just give an explanation to a murderer! Ramadan said sharply: "She is your important minister of Dayan, and the one who died is still my own son!" Come on, press Zhao Yuru down for me and take strict care of it! I want to use her head to comfort Azigui's spirit in the sky! ”
"Yes!" Immediately, two soldiers stepped forward to arrest Zhao Yuru!
"No! I'm not going with you! I didn't kill people! I didn't kill it! ”
Zhao Yuru took a step back, picked up his other copper hammer, pointed at everyone and said, "None of you want to take me away!" ”
The current situation is really difficult to do!
"Lady, calm down first!" Song Moqing was afraid that the two sides would fight, so he hurriedly said to Zhao Yuru: "Something is wrong, don't do stupid things at this time!" ”
"Xianggong, do you believe me?" Zhao Yuru looked at Song Moqing and said angrily.
"Of course I believe you! You must be innocent! I will definitely find out the truth and give you a clean slate! He stepped forward, gently shook Zhao Yuru's hand and said, "Now if you have a conflict with them, it will be even more unclear!" ”
"But I ······" Before Zhao Yuru could finish speaking, Ramadan stepped forward and kicked her waist, Zhao Yuru was caught off guard and leaned forward, Song Moqing saw this and hurriedly stopped in front of her to stop those Northern Barbarian soldiers from arresting him, but who could he do as a weak scholar? Yan Linjun and Lin Yufu didn't have time to step forward to help, the two Northern Barbarians held down Zhao Yuru to death, and Ramadan stepped forward and couldn't help but give her two slaps!
"Your Majesty!" Lin Yufu didn't care so much, and directly stepped forward to push Ramadan away and said: "Before the matter is clarified, please pay attention to your words and deeds, our Northern Border Guards of Dayan deserve to be courteous!" ”
"The murderer of my son, what kind of courtesy do you talk about? You're going to tell me that there are still people here who can wield this brass hammer? Even if your Emperor Dayan comes today, I want her to pay for her life! ”
Zhao Yuru was blinded by these two slaps, and only felt that his ears were buzzing, thinking that he would not be deaf, right?
She raised her head in a trance and saw Lin Yufu arguing with Ramadan. It seems that Ramadan has to be his own!
No, she can't die here!
Thinking of this, she shook off another Northern Barbarian soldier who held her down and tried to escape from the door, but Ramadan was one step faster than her and grabbed her arm, and the two instantly became entangled!
"Stop!" Yan Linjun scolded loudly and pulled out his sword to stop the two, but Zhao Yuru was determined to leave, and refused to stop even if he was scratched by the sword.
"Lady!" At this time, Song Moqing stepped forward together, hugged Zhao Yuru's waist and said: "You can't run like this, if you run like this, even if you run away in fear of crime!" ”
"You let go! I can't die here, this old man has decided that I am a murderer, no matter how you check him, he will kill me! Let it go! ”
"No, it won't! No, it won't! Song Moqing hurriedly shook his head and said, "I will definitely save you out······"
Before Song Moqing finished speaking, Zhao Yuru felt a pain in the back of her neck and fainted.
When she woke up again, she was also woken up by a basin of cold water! She frowned and slowly opened her eyes. Instead of a warm tent, you can see an endless grassland and an endless night sky.
She was tied to a wooden shelf with five flowers, wearing only a single coat, and the basin of water just now made her feel cold deep into her bone marrow at the moment.
Two soldiers were sitting there watching her, still holding torture instruments in their hands.
Seeing that Zhao Yuru woke up, they had a conversation in Beiban dialect, she couldn't understand what they were saying, but she was even more frightened.
After a while, a person came over and asked in a broken Central Plains dialect, "Why did you kill His Highness Azigui?" ”
"I didn't kill me!"
As soon as the words fell, a leather whip fell fiercely, and the whip dipped in salt water was whipped on her, and Zhao Yuru, who was already afraid of pain, suddenly exhaled in pain.
"You dare to hit me!" She glared at the person in front of her and said, "The Zhao family army is outside the royal city, if I have three long and two short, they will definitely not let you go!" ”
"Humph!" The soldier showed a look of disdain, looked at Zhao Yuru and said, "If you kill our second prince, our majesty will not let you go!" ”
After saying that, another hot whip slapped her on the body!
In the tent, Lin Yufu had already heard Zhao Yuru's shout, she stood up and wanted to walk out of the tent, but was stopped by Ramadan.
"Crown Princess, where are you going?"
"Your Majesty, you promised me that you wouldn't care about me!" Lin Yufu turned her head and said coldly.
"Tonight is the wedding night of you and Su Meng, according to the rules of our Northern Barbarians, you should ride your horse to the grassland now. You are the crown princess of the Northern Barbarians, as long as you complete this task. You don't need to worry about anything else! ”
Lin Yufu looked at Ramadan and then at Su Meng. Su Meng frowned a little embarrassed, but still stood up and said: "Father, it is indeed impossible to torture Zhao Yuru, after all, she is Dayan's courtier, and she is considered an envoy to send her relatives, before the matter is clarified, please don't torture Zhao Yuru in vain!" ”
"Didn't find out? How else to check? Ramadan said coldly: "Aren't all the facts in front of you?" ”
"Can I see the corpse of His Highness Azigui?" Lin Yufu suddenly spoke: "Maybe I can find the real murderer!" ”
"No need!" Ramadan unusually refused!
"I have already sent someone to explain this matter to Emperor Dayan, if you don't take Zhao Yuru's life to repay my son's life, then just wait for our iron cavalry to level your Dayan land!"
"Your Majesty, you are deliberately making excuses to go to war!" Lin Yufu said with a cold face.
"You are now the crown princess of the Northern Barbarians, you must pay attention to proportions when you speak!"
Su Meng hurriedly pulled Lin Yufu's dress, for fear that she would say the wrong thing.
But listening to Zhao Yuru's shouts outside, how could she sit still?
"The Zhao family's army is stationed outside the royal city, if they know, how you deal with their boss, I'm afraid they won't give up!"
"Threaten me?" Ramadan glared and said, "How dare you threaten me? ”
"It's not a threat, it's just that I don't want to see the people of the Northern Barbarians suffer!"
"If we dare to come, we eight-year-olds can cut off their heads! Give it a try! Ramadan was not afraid.
Lin Yufu saw that the persuasion was hopeless, and she couldn't leave the tent, so she was so angry that she sat aside and didn't know what to do.
On the other side, Taole cried and knelt in front of Song Moqing and said, "Uncle, save Miss quickly!" She's innocent! ”
"I know she's innocent, but now the problem is that there's no evidence, and no one else believes us!"
"But Miss is the coach of Zhao Jiajun, how can she suffer such a big humiliation?" Doroku wiped her tears and said, "Don't you just want a murderer, just say it's me!" I'll also make a brass hammer and let Miss go! ”
"Don't mess around!" Song Moqing said solemnly: "I'll go find the prince!" See what he does! ”
Yan Linjun listened to Zhao Yuru's screams, poured himself a bowl of tea, and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Lord Wang!" Song Moqing walked in, knelt at his feet and said, "Please save my lady!" ”
"Lord Song, get up!" Yan Linjun helped her and said, "In this situation, Ramadan has to kill her." Or rather, he just lacks an excuse to provoke a war! ”
"No!" Song Moqing shook his head and said, "Beiban and Dayan have been stable for many years, they can't be destroyed like this!" ”
"Then there is only Zhao Yuru dead!"
Song Moqing was stunned, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "That's even worse!" ”
"So what do you want? Could it be that you really want to find out the murderer? Maybe Ramadan did it himself, killing a son who was not favored, in exchange for an opportunity to embezzle Dayan, not a loss! ”
"This ······" Song Moqing lowered his head and made a difficulty.
"So, unless Zhao Yuru dies, otherwise, we won't be able to calm the anger of the Northern Barbarians."
There was an awkward silence in the tent, and Song Moqing was obviously hesitating.
Yan Linjun looked at him, slowly poured a cup of tea, and then suddenly stretched out his hand and poured his head and face on him.
"Lord Wang?" Song Moqing exclaimed.
"Then you're still hesitating?" Yan Linjun sneered and said, "If I were you, I would have rescued her and brought her back to the Zhao family's army, and then returned to the north!" Song Moqing, are you a man? Do you hear your wife's voice? Not only are you not worried, but you're even really trying to settle the matter with her life. You are the champion, how can you not know that even if Zhao Yuru dies, the Beiban will use this excuse to start a war with us! This incident was a fuse, and it just brought the war forward! ”
Song Moqing stood there in a daze, as if he didn't know what to say.
Yan Linjun walked over, looked at Song Moqing carefully, and then said softly: "From helping Zhao Yuru away to discovering Aqi Gui's body, during this period, you are the only one who has come into contact with her, right?" ”
"What do you mean, lord? Do you think I killed Azigui? Then you're overestimating me, aren't you? ”
Yan Linjun just smiled coldly, and then said, "Since you don't really want to rescue Sect Chief Zhao, then please go back!" ”
"You ······" Song Moqing looked at Yan Linjun angrily, turned around and left his tent.
As soon as he walked with his front foot, Lin Yufu's maidservant Dill walked in.
"Lord Wang!" She saluted Yan Linjun.
"How?" Yan Linjun played with the teacup in his hand. That's right, Dill is his person, and like Yin Dong, he was specially selected to protect Lin Yufu this time!
"I've seen Azigui's body, and it's true that he was killed with a heavy hammer, but ······"
"But what?"
"Judging by the situation of that wound, he was not fatally beaten by a single blow, but repeatedly beaten to death. So there is hardly a good place on the chest. ”
Yan Linjun frowned, as if he knew something.
"If the murder weapon is the copper hammer of the head of Zhao, then this situation is impossible. Either one blow is fatal, or multiple beatings, Azigui is afraid that it will be split into two! ”
"Tell your master about it, and let her go and talk to Ramadan. If Ramadan's attitude does not change······"
"So what?" Dill asked nervously.
"If his attitude remains unchanged, then we will rescue Zhao Yuru and prepare for war!"