Chapter 204: Execution
The next day, Tang Anxia slept until three o'clock in the morning before waking up.
Fang Yan had already prepared the toiletries and brought them to Tang Anxia's eyes, there were dotted rose petals floating on the warm water, Tang Anxia freshened up, changed into a white chiffon thin shirt dress, and inserted a honeysuckle hairpin obliquely between the buns, her skin was like snow, her eyes were like stars, her lips were like red fire, and her cheeks were crimson.
Sitting at the dinner table, Tang Anxia subconsciously asked, "Has the tourmaline girl found it?" ”
Aunt Li stood aside with her hands down, nodded and replied, "I heard from the minions in the north hall that I found that the tourmaline girl was sleeping soundly in the room early in the morning, so I guess I have already gotten up at this hour." ”
Tang Anxia's chopsticks paused in the air for a moment, and then continued to pick up the vegetables, put them in his mouth and swallowed them gently, and said indifferently: "So, did she secretly return to the north hall late last night?" Aren't Ziyu and His Highness both guarding the hall? Didn't notice when tourmaline returned? ”
Aunt Li had already inquired clearly, and replied: "Ziyu left the Zhengbei Hall early in the morning, and I heard that she fell asleep in the cabinet, and this morning she found that the tourmaline girl was safe and sound, so she didn't continue to guard." As for His Highness...... He didn't know when he returned to the study, just woke up and ordered Ziyu to prepare a sedan chair, and had already left the palace. ”
Tang Anxia thought for a moment and snorted sneeringly: "Ziyu is afraid that he didn't notice that the tourmaline came back, His Royal Highness should be restless and guarded, and only after making sure that the tourmaline is safe and sound, he returned to the study." From this point of view, Boss Yu is right, tourmaline is really a woman who is proficient in secret arts, and she can enter and leave the palace freely without being noticed, which is not something that ordinary people are afraid can do. ”
Aunt Li poured a cup of hot water for Tang Anxia and said in a low voice, "Do you want to send someone to keep an eye on her?" ”
Tang Anxia rinsed her mouth, spit in the spittoon next to her, took a handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her mouth, plain as water: "No, if the person who is staring has gone and has no return, won't we startle the snake?" Moreover, tourmaline is now the meat of His Highness's heart, and there is no need for us to be jealous and go against His Highness.
A mysterious woman in the country of the Western Regions will not snatch my position as the princess after all, I just need to sit firmly in the position of Prince Wen's mansion as a family member, let her toss it, His Royal Highness is used to pampering, what can others do? ”
Aunt Li sighed helplessly, and said a little distressed: "Hey, when you married Your Highness, the old slave was happy for you in my heart, and I thought that you could be regarded as having found a home and a home, but I never thought that Your Highness would no longer be your dependent." ”
Tang Anxia smiled and pursed her lips, her hair swaying on the sides of her jade-like face, adding a bit of charm in an instant. She pretended not to care, as if she was saying to Aunt Li, and as if she was saying to herself: "Who can say the things in this world!" Who can rely on whom? When you like it, how sincere and how fake are you?
Sometimes it's just that people are lonely and lonely, and they just find someone to accompany them, not real love. Sometimes I can't resist the words of my parents, I can only obey the arrangement of the family, there are really too few perfect things in this world, everyone has grievances and helplessness.
In fact, I can also see that His Royal Highness can like tourmaline today, and he will like the bright moon in the future, how many infatuated men can there be in the world? It may not be for me to meet. Having the privilege of having a love is certainly beautiful and sweet, and I have experienced it.
If I don't have the luck to be able to stay together for a long time, and I can't help each other until I am old, I will guard my glory and wealth, and I can still have no worries about food and clothing, happiness and well-being all my life, why put all my energy on a man? Isn't that self-inflicted? ”
Aunt Li's eyes were slightly admiring, and while beckoning the slave maid to come over and clean up the table, she helped Tang Anxia to stand up and walk out, muttering: "Princess Zheng can think of it, naturally it is excellent." It is a blessing to be affectionate and righteous, but unfortunately there are very few real affections in the world, and gold, silver and jewelry are the things that are really held in your hands! ”
"Yes, His Highness's favor may not last long." Tang Anxia walked to the entrance of the long alley in the courtyard, raised his head to look at the green branches and leaves on the trees, and blinked, "It's really warm, Aunt Li, let's find a day to go back to the General's Mansion." ”
Aunt Li has never been back since she left the Tang family last time, and asked with a smile: "Princess Zheng, you are homesick!" ”
Tang Anxia's thoughts hesitated, and a trace of sadness flashed in his clear eyes, home? Her home, is it the General's Mansion? Or Prince Wen's Mansion?
If a woman marries, it is home, and she can't feel the warmth in Prince Wen's mansion. If you talk about her mother's family, she has nothing to show off in the General's Mansion, and since she left, she hasn't even had a heart-warming letter to her family.
If she could, she really hoped to have a warm haven, when she was tired and tired, she could rely on a moment of rest, but unfortunately this seemingly small request is actually a luxury!
Tang Anxia raised his hand, pinched a green leaf, broke it and put it in the palm of his hand, and the breeze blew it, blowing the leaves away and falling into the lake.
Tang Anxia smiled lightly: "I don't know how my mother is?" There is also a younger brother who has not been a member since he was a child, and a younger sister who has been stupid and stupid, Tang Wanning married into the Northwest Fiefdom, and happened to call Hua Yao's mind, so she must not be embarrassed by the children. ”
Aunt Li replied: "Tang Wanning should be doing well, she has Aunt Wang and Chunzhi by her side, two ruthless maidservants, and ordinary women can't win against her." ”
"Yes, Hua Yao really thinks about Zhou Xiang for her, why doesn't my mother have such foresight? Every day, in addition to protecting my younger brother who is not talented, I just let me fight for him, as if I am not her biological daughter. No wonder Tang Dairou is envious and jealous of Tang Wanning, even I think Tang Wanning is too flat in this life, smooth sailing, steady progress, it is really eye-catching. ”
Aunt Li also sighed: "Princess Zheng, the level of status is determined by birth, this is a fact that none of us can change!" She is a concubine, it is inevitable that she will be more noble, like us slaves, naturally fate is like mustard, sometimes people really have to accept fate, life and death have fate, wealth is in the sky, sometimes people can't fight for the will of heaven! ”
Tang Anxia bowed slightly, and didn't say anything more. As far as she is concerned, she is just unhappy in Prince Wen, and even a little disappointed and lonely, and wants to find a place to heal.
But in the huge imperial city, she had nowhere to go except the General's Mansion, so she could only return to her parents' house to find a trace of comfort in her heart.
"Aunt Li, you go and send someone to inform the Tang family, I will visit tomorrow, no need to prepare lunch, I will go and sit and walk casually, and I will go back to Prince Wen's mansion."
Aunt Li beckoned Yuhua over and sent her to deliver the letter.
Tang Anxia walked casually in the courtyard, saw the servants weaving bamboo baskets, and the maidservants embroidering female red, and asked, "How is the business in the market recently?" ”
Aunt Li replied: "Business has been excellent in recent days, and I can earn a few taels of silver every time, and give a little to Prince Wen, and last time I gave some to the minions, we can also have a lot of surplus." ”
"Very good, you must keep the accounts clear, now you can't count on Your Highness to be reliable, you have to find a way to rely on ourselves, gold, silver and jewelry are the most reliable and useful things, holding in your hands is a guarantee and a way forward in the future!"
Aunt Li agreed: "Yes, the old slave will go and supervise." ”
Tang Anxia looked at the busy backs of everyone, and suddenly realized that she herself had changed.
Unconsciously, she was baptized by the years again and again, and after being washed by various things, she also became another person, another disdainful appearance in the past.
That's a good thing! At least you can live a chic and comfortable life, live a wonderful life, don't have to worry about food and clothing, and don't have to be afraid that one day if you lose the favor of Prince Wen, you will become nothing.
Thinking about it like this, Tang Anxia's heart is even more determined, and she knows very well which path she should take.
……
A mass grave on the west side of the Imperial City.
In a lush wood, there is a clearing.
Lund and Imperial Physician were taken by the arms of the guards and taken to the clearing.
Gao Li raised the holy decree in his hand and called in a long voice: "The holy decree has arrived!" ”
The guard kicked Lund in the knee hard, and the other squire struck the Imperial Physician on the shin with the hilt of his sword, and the two of them were forced to kneel under the pressure of pain.
Gao Li pulled the male duck's throat and recited: "Fengtian carrier!" The emperor said! The former Prime Minister Lund, the former Tai Hospital Wang, the two formed a party for personal gain, acted in embarrassment, and murdered the Son of Heaven, the crime is unforgivable!
Now give death, five horses divide the corpse! Raid the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Imperial Doctor's Mansion! The old, young, women and children in the family were all sent to the fiefdom and served as slaves and maids. The men in the family are all sent to the battlefield to serve as soldiers.
Regardless of whether it is a woman or a man, a woman who is not left in exile, a slave or a maid will never be able to turn over, and a soldier who is in the army will never be promoted. Get ready today and leave tomorrow morning.
In addition, all the gold, silver and jewelry, household belongings and tributes of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Imperial Doctor's Mansion were confiscated from the palace, and none of them were left behind, which was used for the daily expenses of the former harem and the relief of the suffering people.
I am benevolent and virtuous, and if I don't come to supervise it personally, I hereby order Prince Wen Li Junqi to monitor you on my behalf, the minister of sin, it is not a pity to die, thank you! ”
Gao Li looked at the two people kneeling on the ground motionless, as if he was quite dissatisfied with the emperor's will, so he asked curiously: "What?" Don't you take the order to thank you? ”
Lund raised his head, looked at Gao Li, with an open posture, and roared: "I don't accept it!" The emperor's decree, I am not convinced! I ask to see the emperor! ”
Gao Li rolled the holy decree into a ball, gently knocked on Lund's head, and reprimanded: "I said Lund, you still think that you are a general above ten thousand people under one person!"
Now you are a criminal minister, and you are not qualified to meet the emperor. He acquiesced in killing you today, just as he decided to assassinate the regent in the first place. ”
How could Lund give up easily, he shouted noisily: "No, my life's wish is that the descendants of the Prime Minister's Mansion can be prosperous and wealthy, without worrying about food and clothing, and now the emperor has sent them all away, as slaves and maids, as soldiers and soldiers, and they will never be able to turn over!"
Isn't this equivalent to pushing their lives high above into the bottom all of a sudden, and below them is an abyss, forcing them to not survive?! I don't accept it, I want to see the emperor, it doesn't matter if I die, my family can't be implicated. ”
Gao Li continued to tap Lund's head in a rhythm like slapping the table, explaining, "I said Lund! You're dying now, so don't worry about your family!
The emperor was forced to forgive the death penalty of your whole family under the pressure of yesterday's birthday banquet! Otherwise, according to the law, you should be the nine tribes, and there is absolutely no possibility of easing. ”
Imperial Physician Wang saw it openly, with a posture that had already seen through the red dust, and took a long breath: "Alas! Prime Minister! Just accept your fate! It's good that our family can live, although they have lost the support of the mansion and become slaves, but they are all alive and well, this is a blessing!
We are not framing others, but the Son of Heaven, if he can forgive our family, then be content! If he really wants to kill them all, and there is not a single grass left, you and I will still be powerless. ”
Lund looked up to the sky and roared, listening to these words, the old tears said: "I, Lund I, am famous, both civil and military, I didn't expect that one day, I would fall into such a pitiful end, it's really sad!" I can't even protect my family, it's really pitiful! ”
Gao Li no longer listened to their nonsense, looked up at the sky, and said sharply: "The auspicious time has come, execution!" ”
Several of the guards immediately took a thick bundle of rope and wrapped it around the hands, feet, and necks of Lund and the Imperial Physician.
Immediately after that, five horses were brought in. Wrap the other side of the rope that binds them around the saddle and fix it firmly.
Then, the five horses were moved in different directions, corresponding to the south, east, west, and north, and then the guards turned over and straddled the horses, and as the whip beat the horses' backs, the five horses ran desperately as they could in front of them.
Lund's body rose into the air with the power of five horses, and was torn apart by force, and blood was sprinkled all over the forest like a gushing spring.
When Imperial Physician Wang saw it with his own eyes, the whole person was about to be frightened stupid, and he actually cried sadly, to be precise, he cried loudly with his throat in his throat.
"I'm just here to repay the favor! I'm just grateful for the Prime Minister's kindness, the grace of knowing the situation, doing things for the Prime Minister, I have cured and saved people in this life, and the doctor is benevolent, but I only obey the Prime Minister's orders this time, how could I cause a catastrophe!
O God! Is it really going to be so unfair to me! I didn't mean to kill the emperor! My family is innocent! They are all burdened by me and by Chenglian! I don't want to die yet! ”
After crying and grabbing the ground, Imperial Physician Wang kowtowed to Gao Li over and over again, begging for mercy: "Grandpa Gao! Gao Gonggong! You're good, give me a happy death! I really don't want to die like Lund! It's really horrible! Please, give me a sword!
I was implicated, you are the high father-in-law who knows! I have never hurt anyone on weekdays, I don't ask for the emperor's forgiveness, I just want to die happily, kill with a knife, please Gonggong Gao. ”
Gao Li's appearance at him was really pitiful, and the imperial physician Wang was really calculated by Lund, which led to today's catastrophe.
So, he said softly: "That's it, come on, this official has decided that Imperial Doctor Wang is an accomplice and cannot be punished like Longde, so he will be punished with a knife and killed." You can just kill it.
And then throw their bodies all at the mass grave! ”
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