Su Ruan took off the Sujin cloak on his body, changed into filial piety clothes, and walked in the front with the tablet, while Chen also took Xiaopa, and followed behind Su Ruan with others.

Everyone was solemn, and the white piece instantly alarmed everyone in front of the palace gate.

The guards in front of the palace gate couldn't help but feel weak when they saw the people walking towards this side not far away, as well as the black and somewhat weird tablets that those people were holding in their hands.

Seeing these people approaching, the guard guarding the palace suddenly drew his sword and said sharply: "Stop, who is coming?!" ”

Su Ruan held the tablet and said loudly:

"Su Ruan, the daughter of Su Xuanmin, the former Jingnan Taishou, brought one hundred and eighty-three old people from Jingnan to the drum and asked to see His Majesty the Emperor."

"When Bo Chong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, sued the Ministry of War for embezzling disaster relief funds for personal gain during the natural disaster in Jingnan two years ago, causing Jingnan to starve all over the wilderness, and countless people died in vain, and later killed my father and 800 soldiers defending the city!"

"Suing the Bo family for arson, spreading rumors first, slandering my father and the reputation of the soldiers who died in vain during the war, forcing loyal and good generals to death, making it difficult for countless unjust souls to be at peace!"

Hearing Su Ruan's words, the guard's face changed slightly, and at a glance he saw Qi Wenfu standing beside Su Ruan.

"Lord Qi, you are ......"

"I'm with them."

The guard suddenly changed color.

Su Ruan directly avoided the guard, and walked towards the Dengwen drum on the high platform in front of the palace gate, and when she stood there, someone immediately came to stop her.

"Do you know what it costs to beat the drum?"

Su Ruan held the head of the tablet: "I know, the people sue the official, the rod is thirty, and the prince is sued, the rod is eighty." ”

The Bo family has both of them.

Chen's face turned pale in an instant, she looked at Su Ruan with panicked eyes, but saw that her face was cold and did not retreat, and the Qi Wen Mansion next to her had no intention of blocking it, she gritted her teeth and stepped forward and said in a trembling voice:

"I am Su Xuanmin's widow Chen, and today I brought my daughter to sue the Bo family for murdering my husband and harming the people in vain......"

As she spoke, she reached out and took the mallet hanging from the drum and raised it to strike.

was snatched away by the old man who led before.

Without waiting for Su Ruan and Chen to speak, the old man rushed directly to the Dengwen drum, raised the gavel and slammed it: "My son Song Dechang, the former governor of Jingnan, died in Jingnan two years ago, at the age of twenty-two!" ”

"Bang!"

"My son is not a criminal minister, he guarded Jingzhou City with Master Su, and did not retreat until death, Lord Su never surrendered to the enemy and treason, it was he who saved tens of thousands of people in Jingzhou City, and Lord Su was murdered and killed in vain......"

"Bang!"

"Today, I will sue the Bo family for my son, for Lord Su, and for all the soldiers in Jingnan who died in vain, and ask to see the emperor."

"I want them to pay for my son, for all the people who died in vain in Jingnan!!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!!"

Hearing the sound of drums, the entire palace gate was clearly heard, and a moment later, the thunderous drum sound spread throughout the entire palace and most of the capital.

The old man looked thin, and even had only a thin layer of skin on his hands, but when he beat the drum, he wished to break the drum surface, and his face was full of red, and even the originally cloudy eyes were full of scarlet.

Su Ruan wanted to step forward, but was grabbed by Qi Wenfu's wrist, and the old man beat the Dengwen drum for a full thirty times before stopping.

He turned around and knelt on the ground and said to Su Ruan:

"Miss Su, I know that no matter how much I say sorry for some things, it can't erase our ignorance and cowardice, as well as the harm to you and Mrs.

"Thank you for your willingness to redress their grievances, and thank you for coming here so that my son has a chance to show his snow."

After the old man finished speaking, when Su Ruan's eyes widened in horror, he turned his head and hit his head on the stone pier next to the Dengwen Drum.

"Bang".

Blood splattered everywhere, staining the snow red, and also staining Su Ruan's eyes.

"Miss Su...... Sorry ......"

When he looked at Qi Wenfu, he was full of longing and anticipation.

Qi Wenfu nodded, he showed a relieved smile, his lips opened and closed, and he said "thank you" silently, and then slowly slipped to the ground and lost his breath.

"Don't!!"

Su Ruan broke free of Qi Wenfu's hand with red eyes, and pounced directly, she reached out and wanted to press the old man's bleeding forehead, but her palm was scarlet, and the old man had already closed his eyes.

"Why..."

Su Ruan looked at the blood in her palm, the scarlet color made her eyes red, and she looked up at Qi Wenfu fiercely: "Why?!" ”

Originally, I didn't have to die.

He doesn't have to die......

Obviously there is another way, why gamble with your life?!

Qi Wenfu's pupils shrank by the anger in her eyes, but he didn't explain, just said to the guards next to him who were also shocked by this scene: "The person who beats the drum is dead, the rod can be exempted, and the Son of Heaven cannot refuse to sue the emperor with his life." ”

Qi Wenfu took out the people's petition from his arms, as well as the "letter of paper" he had already written for Su Ruan, and handed them to the guard:

"Please pass it on to the emperor."

The man had already been a little stupid, he took the things handed over by Qi Wenfu with trembling hands, glanced at the old man who was killed on the ground, and then turned around and ran towards the palace gate, while the other guards who were originally surrounding looked at the rest of the people with wary faces, for fear that these people would also die at the palace gate.

Qi Wenfu stretched out his hand and grabbed Su Ruan's arm, pulled her up from the ground, and said to the people behind him: "Take Song Lao's corpse and go to the palace gate to kneel and wait for the emperor to summon you." ”

Those people got up one after another, as if they had expected the old man's death.

There was grief in their eyes, but there was no regret.

Several young men stepped forward, lifted the old man's body, and then moved it to the side, kneeling in the snow with the tablet in their hands.

And Qi Wenfu said to Su Ruan: "Su Ruan, this is an opportunity for them to exchange their lives, blood stains the drum, the Son of Heaven cannot refuse, this is an iron law." ”

"Don't forget what you said at the beginning, and don't tell me that you want to regret it until the end, otherwise you will be sorry for the people who died beating the drum for you, sorry for your father, and even more sorry for the thousands of Jingnan people and soldiers who died in vain."

"Wait a minute, there is still a tough battle waiting for you, if you regret it, everyone here will die with you!"

Su Ruan looked at Qi Wenfu fiercely, and his heart that was difficult to vent kept surging.

She looked down at the scarlet on the snow, looked at everyone kneeling in front of the palace gate over there, and then shook off Qi Wenfu's hand with force, gritted her teeth and said:

"I don't regret it, but Qi Wenfu, I want justice, and I never take human lives to fill it!"

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