Chapter Eighty-Five: The Scapegoat
It's just that they haven't finalized the plan yet, but the emperor over there can't hold it back.
He was able to be assassinated by someone himself, under this heavy guard! Such an act is tantamount to provoking his majesty, how can he bear it?
"Check, give me a strict investigation," Emperor Changming roared in the imperial study, "I want to see what this person is from, he is so bold!" ”
The culprit has long been missing at this moment, and the assassination failed but he also walked neatly, Emperor Changming waited for several days, but there was still no news.
"Is my treasury all used to feed you waste, and I can't even find out a single person? What kind of face do you have to stay here and serve as officials? Emperor Changming, who heard the news again, stroked his sleeves and couldn't help but laugh angrily, and before he could tell these people to get out, one of them suddenly knelt down.
"Your Majesty, it's not that the minister can't find clues, but it's just that he hasn't been sure, so he really doesn't dare to lie about it."
Emperor Changming raised his eyes and looked at him: "You say first, I have my own decision whether it is right or not."
The man saluted: "The minister is brave, and the person who has done evil is probably related to the Zhu family."
"Zhujia?" Emperor Changming chewed on this word repeatedly, and smiled suddenly, "What a good Zhu family, but what did Zhu Bijin do?" ”
"The minister didn't dare to confirm it." The man lowered his head.
These words were really a last resort, and everyone present at the scene involved in the investigation knew that if the murderer could not be found, they would lose the black gauze hat on their heads, or they would have to offset their own heads.
All of you here have wives and children at home, and you can't afford to take the risk.
After a while, Emperor Changming's heart had already made a decision, and he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of this little Zhu family. The next day, he issued an edict that the guards had beheaded the whole house.
And before the edict arrived, the Zhu family did not receive any news.
The sudden arrival of the forbidden army made everyone up and down the Zhu family panic, and they were beheaded by the bright blade without even having a chance to clean up the soft - Emperor Changming couldn't even wait for the time to behead them at noon.
"I never thought that this Zhu family would have such a different heart," Emperor Changming sat upright, thinking to himself, "If they can find out by them, they can't be wrong." ”
However, he was indeed wrong, the Zhu family was just inexplicably implicated, and he didn't even know what mistakes he made.
However, the Marquis of Anping heard some rumors half an hour before the edict arrived, and when he thought about the recent assassination attempt by an assassin to assassinate Emperor Changming, he knew that he was just a scapegoat.
"What a damn thing." The Marquis of Anping sighed, and he didn't know who he was talking about. "If you catch that thief, it's fine, but you can't catch him, there is no trial at all, and I have suffered a lot for my Zhu family."
He shook his head, knowing that his life was counted, so he put on his official uniform in the hall and waited for death.
The moment the long knife was on his neck, Marquis Anping smiled, but fortunately, the moment he heard the wind, regardless of whether the news was true or not, he first asked Zhu Bijin and Zhu Manyun to pack up and leave through the back door.
He closed his eyes, and the man wielding the knife showed no mercy, and after the blade slashed, blood spurted out of half of the wall behind him.
Zhu Manyun, who escaped, obediently listened to Hou Ye's words, packed up her soft and left quickly, but the latter secretly stayed on the pretext of meeting her after a while, hiding in the dark and quietly observing all this.
Zhu Rujin hid in the dark, the two of them left at just the right time, as soon as the front foot left, the next moment the forbidden army broke in, and in the sword light and blood shadow, the leader read out the edict in a calm and cold tone.
He couldn't take his eyes off how the family died one by one in front of his eyes, but he couldn't do anything, and he rushed out now but also died.
"Damn ......" Zhu Bijin secretly clenched his fists, powerlessly sweeping through his whole body.
Those forbidden soldiers are killing people in the front yard, and few people come to this backyard to search, but he played here when he was young, and knew a lot of hiding places with excellent vision, and the place where he is hiding now can just see the figure of the Marquis of Anping in the hall from here.
"Don't ask why, just leave here with these." He still remembered that not long ago, the Marquis of the Zhu family hurriedly came to the two of them to explain the future.
"Why?" Zhu Bijin said softly, his voice was so low that he couldn't even hear it, "You heard this wind one step ahead of us, why, why don't you come with us, but you want to stay and die here?" ”
The forbidden army just pressed the head to kill people, and didn't know what the people of the Zhu family looked like, Zhu Bijin understood that if the Hou Ye could let the two of them leave with peace of mind, they must have made sufficient preparations, maybe even their stand-ins had already been found.
Zhu Rujin looked at the back of the Marquis of the Zhu family in the hall, and felt that his eyes were very hot.
"If you had come with us ......"
Those forbidden troops quickly rushed in, these people are here to carry out the king's order, no one will listen to them cry out for grievances, even if it is the Marquis of Anping, in their eyes, he is just a mortal who is about to die.
No matter what position or rank, if you go down with a knife, it is just a corpse that still has residual warmth.
The blood of Marquis Anping stained most of the walls behind him, and also stained the eyes of the young man hiding in the shadows.
The last string in Zhu Rujin's mind suddenly broke.
"Wishing the Family ......" will cease to exist after this day. Zhu Bijin choked his throat and couldn't speak anymore.
Seeing his family members die in front of him, he was about to collapse.
"Have you ever heard of the Zhu family who was beheaded all over the house today? It was really miserable, no one in the family escaped, and they were all hacked to death by the forbidden army. Bai Feng frowned, and truthfully reported the news that he had just gone out to inquire to the person in front of him.
He had heard rumors that the people had died miserably, that the ghosts had not been dispersed for days, and that the sealed mansion had been haunted.
Wei Ruhua frowned: "This thing doesn't seem to be simple?" I remember that the Zhu family has not seen much movement recently? ”
"People sit at home, disaster falls from the sky, fate," Bai Feng blinked, and woke her up with a word, "Don't forget, who is the person who destroyed the Zhu family." ”
Wei Ruhua was stunned, and after a while, he looked at Bai Feng with a complicated expression: "You said that Emperor Changming wouldn't think that the Zhu family wanted to harm him, right?"
"Maybe? Now that person is nowhere to be found, who knows? Bai Feng sighed, "I think it's not far from ten." ”
In other words, the Zhu family is just an unlucky scapegoat.
Thinking of this, Wei Ruhua clenched the porcelain cup in her hand, bit her lower lip and thought, implicating the Zhu family was something she never expected, and for a while, her heart was in chaos.