Duan Chu bandaged Ma Qingshuang's wounds, and was afraid that she would jump out of the car again, so he handed Duan Bao to Zhao Ruyi to take with him, and then he and Ma Qingshuang rode in the same carriage, so that it was easy to look at her.

The carriage swayed, the horse was refreshing and dizzy, she couldn't sit steadily, Duan Chu had to hold her into his arms.

Ma Qingshuang really wanted to seek death, but as soon as his head entered Duan Chu's arms, he felt that the whole world was ethereal, and the idea of seeking death disappeared, replaced by sweet sleep.

Pillowed Duan Chu's arm, this sleep was the most restful sleep she had since entering the Duan family.

……

After Duan Chu arrived in the capital, the people of the Criminal Department allocated the small courtyard of the former top executioner of the Criminal Department to him.

The executioner has only been back in his hometown in Huai'an Mansion for half a year, so this small courtyard has not been vacant for too long, and it is not particularly dark and damp.

Without waiting for the adults to clean up, Duan Bao was in the yard, playing with the two big tigers, running and chasing.

This family of five men and women, large and small, plus a restless cat moved in, and the small courtyard suddenly became angry.

……

Every inch of land in the capital is expensive, so the house in this small courtyard is not as spacious as Yingtianfu.

Zhu Zimo, Zhao Ruyi, Ma Qingshuang and Duan Bao occupy three houses, and there are no bedrooms left.

So Duan Chu could only sleep in one room after another, and he would settle for a while.

But it's not a big deal for him.

He doesn't want to sleep alone now, either.

……

The Criminal Department needs to be ordered here, so Duan Chu has to go early every day.

Moreover, the top executioner of the Criminal Department is a gold-lettered signboard, which is the world's red yang class, and a banner to suppress evil spirits, so there is no need to meddle in ordinary work.

According to custom, most of the work of the top executioners was appointed by the emperor himself.

For example, if the emperor wants to kill someone, whether he wants this person to die happily or the pain point of wanting this person to die, the top executioner must come forward to solve it.

After the order, as long as he is okay that day, Duan Chu can move freely.

Since the emperor personally instructed that there were very few people to kill, Duan Chu was very idle.

After entering Beijing, he met with the emperor.

The emperor didn't ask for anything else, he hoped that Duan Chu was nearby, and he had something to rely on in his heart, so that he had the courage to ascend to that inner demon, and he never entered his dream again.

Moreover, the emperor thought of Duan Chu's goodness, and from time to time, he rewarded him with a little gadget and asked the little eunuch to send it to the Criminal Department to hand it over to Duan Chu.

Of course, it's not something too valuable, it's nothing more than fruits where to pay tribute, where to enter the palace and other things, things that can't be stored for a long time if you don't eat them.

Duan Chu brought it back every time and gave it to the women and children at home to eat.

Zhao Ru has a lot of opinions, and Zhu Zimo has eaten these before, so only Ma Qingshuang, every time he sees these things, he feels eye-opening.

And Duan Bao, a snack product, can be regarded as satisfying a lot of appetites.

Anyway, everyone's small days can be regarded as happy.

For Ma Qingshuang, the only regret is that he doesn't know when he can still rely on Duan Chu to sleep again.

……

Although there was no cattle inspection, Duan Chu was not alone, because he had a new friend.

That is Jinyi Weibei Town, Fu Si, Zhen Fu Envoy Shen Qingchun.

Duan Chu and Shen Qingchun were able to come together entirely because Shen Qingchun sympathized with the plight of the reformers, and came to Duan Chu to inquire about Wen Chaotian's situation.

Duan Chu told Shen Qingchun that Master Wen walked in a chic manner without the slightest grievance.

Shen Qingchun sighed and said: "That's good, but Master Zhang Gongmao, the situation is not good, because of the termination of the new policy, he vomited blood in anger on the road, and now he is still lying on the sickbed in his hometown, and he is in a gloomy mood every day, and he will not get better for a while." ”

The two chatted and chatted, feeling very speculative, so they found a restaurant and drank together.

Drink and drink, and drink and become good friends.

……

In order to improve the elixir of life, Duan Chaoyong thought of a way to cut off his children and grandchildren.

It is to add a peculiar medicine to the elixir: the peach blossom decanate water of a young woman.

It's not enough to be young, you still need to be a virgin.

"The elixir of life last time, the yang fire is too heavy, so the step is high and the corpse will change, if you want to reduce the yang fire, you must harmonize yin and yang, and you need the peach blossom decay water when the woman is in the red tide."

The emperor was obsessed with it for the sake of the elixir, and felt that what Duan Chaoyong said was very reasonable, so he immediately made a decision.

He didn't like the elixir of life refined like this.

So in the palace, a large number of new palace maids were recruited.

These palace maids originally thought that when they entered the palace, even if they were lonely and had no men to pity, they would at least be able to follow the royal family to eat and drink spicy food, and the days of hunger would be gone forever.

The result was good, and in order to ensure the cleanliness of the peach blossom sunflower water, Duan Chaoyong required these palace maids to keep their food completely clean.

If you want to say that the food is clean, according to the fairy family, it is the food style and drink dew.

So these palace maids have been bad luck for eight lifetimes, not to mention big fish and meat, steamed buns and pickles are rare, and they are so hungry that they are dizzy, not to mention, when they get to menstruation, they have to drink the medicine prepared by the next Duan Dynasty.

It is a medicinal soup that can promote more peach blossom sunflower water.

If it weren't for the fear that they would starve to death, they wouldn't have eaten steamed buns and pickles.

I don't eat much, I'm already malnourished, and I have to bleed a lot every month, not to mention these weak women, even Vajra Lux can't stand it.

Under extreme oppression, there will naturally be resistance.

Over time, a group of palace maids will be combined, if the emperor doesn't die, we will die!

What to do?

Then you can only kill him!

……

So one night, a dozen palace maids took advantage of the emperor's sleep, quietly slipped into the palace, put the rope around the emperor's neck, and then divided into two teams and pulled the two ends of the rope hard.

It's just a pity that they have no experience in killing.

They tied the rope around the emperor's neck into a dead knot, and the more they pulled the dead knot, the tighter it became, although the emperor fainted, but they did not strangle the emperor in the end.

In the end, there was a palace maid, seeing that the emperor was always immortal, and thought that he was really a dragon descending from heaven and an immortal body, and killing him was a violation of the rules of heaven, so she was scared at that time.

She temporarily turned back and ran to tell the queen what had happened.

By the time the empress arrived with the eunuchs and the Praetorian Guard, the emperor was already dying.

All the palace maids who participated were all taken down.

When the emperor was relieved, he was ashamed and angry.

He originally thought that this was an attempted coup d'état, and there must be someone else behind the palace maid.

As a result, Jin Yiwei was interrogated and interrogated, and all kinds of torture were exhausted, and finally Lu Bing determined that there was no other mastermind behind the palace maid.

Lu Bing told the emperor truthfully, but the emperor became even more angry.

If you want to kill me in order to seize the throne, that's it, it's just because of such a little.

There are only a dozen palace maids, and they dare to kill the king, all of them are Ling Chi!

The emperor asked the head of the criminal department to handle this matter with Duan Chu.

It is necessary to ask for a knife to be cut alive, and these bold thieves must be in great pain before they die, and in the terrible screams, they can't survive and die!

……

The emperor wanted to kill the palace maids, and he wanted to kill more than a dozen at a time, Duan Chu didn't understand it.

It was Shen Qingchun who told him what those palace maids had done.

After Shen Qingchun finished speaking, he also felt helpless, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

Duan Chu was more sympathetic to the plight of these palace maids.

I think of Duan Yuanqi, a dignified hero, and he has such an old man!

It's so brutal!

Shen Qingchun saw that Duan Chu's expression was wrong, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Brother, he is the emperor, we are courtiers, and the king is the minister, you can't have other ideas." ”

Shen Qingchun's words are not about aiding and abetting, and they have nothing to do with foolishness.

There is no way, the education that everyone has received since childhood is that the king is the king, the minister is the minister, the courtier should abide by his duty, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, which is for loyalty.

……

So Duan Chu could only accept this task.

After drinking with Shen Qingchun, after he returned home, he called Zhu Zimo.

"I know what your father has done recently!"

As soon as Duan Chu said the matter, Zhu Zimo also gritted his teeth.

"I will enter the palace tomorrow and reprimand him in person, I am his daughter, and his life is given by him, so it's okay to harm me, but it's better to kill those women!"

Duan Chu asked Zhu Zimo not to get excited.

"Fortunately, the emperor didn't implicate the family members of those palace maids this time, if we are willful and don't talk about ourselves, but also involve the relatives and friends of those palace maids, you don't care about this matter......"

When Duan Chu said this, he regretted coming to the capital very much:

"If it weren't for the emperor's insistence on me coming, I would rather go to the border with Master Wen and be a frosty iron-clad border soldier...... The capital is not a place to stay for a long time, so when the time is right, let's leave. ”

……

The next day was the day of the execution.

The place of execution was not chosen at the entrance of the vegetable market, but in the palace, in a remote idle compound.

If you go to the vegetable market to be executed publicly, you must read out the guilt, so that the common people will know that the emperor collected the privacy of the palace maid's peach blossom sunflower water.

It is very detrimental to the dignity of the royal family.

Therefore, the place of execution was chosen in the palace.

Moreover, the execution in the palace, let those palace maids and eunuchs watch, and make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, can also deter them, so that they can see the tragic situation of these palace maids of 4,000, and they will never dare to kill the king in the future.

……

This is a task directly assigned by the emperor, and the criminal department must be handled as a major matter.

Several officials of the Criminal Department took Duan Chu in the morning, as well as more than 20 executioners who gave Duan Chu a hand, with a strong lineup, a vast group of people, prepared all the tools used by Ling Chi, entered the palace without saying a word, and came to the compound.

One of the twelve palace maids who committed the crime was tortured and killed during the previous interrogation.

One of them, knowing that he would not escape death, committed suicide while he was unprepared in prison.

So now there are ten left.

Ten wooden stakes, which had been dug and buried deeply, stood in this compound.

Jin Yiwei quickly escorted all the ten guilty palace maids over.

The Praetorian Guards also drove many palace maids and eunuchs over, and made them kneel around and watch these palace maids be tortured.

Jin Yiwei left after putting down the palace maid.

Because the person who is about to be Ling Chi is particular about how to tie it to a stake.

The executioner of the Criminal Department is more professional at this point, and there is no need for Jin Yiwei to get involved.

As soon as Jinyiwei left, there were twenty executioners in the criminal department, who swarmed up, in groups of two, and quickly tied up the ten palace maids on wooden stakes.

When the twenty executioners were busy tying up people, two executioners moved a bloodstained long wooden case to Duan Chu.

The other two executioners put the baggage on the table, and after opening it, they were all Ling Chi's tools.

Scrapers, meat cutters, boning knives......

As soon as these gloomy knives appeared, they made the eunuchs and palace maids who were kneeling on the spot gasp.

The timid ones covered their chests, and there were those who covered their mouths to keep themselves from screaming.

The ten palace maids tied to the pillar had gone through all kinds of torture, and it didn't matter anymore.

But when he saw this, the knives with broken limbs were about to greet him, and he was terrified.

More than half of the ten fainted on the spot.

Originally, under severe torture, he had already lost all his face, and now he is facing the most cruel torture, how can he be a "miserable" word!

Seeing this scene, Duan Chu let out a long sigh.

The conversation between Li Cook and him rang in his ears again.

If you don't want to kill, and the emperor doesn't want you to kill it, do you kill or not?

In the past, Duan Chu felt that this problem was really far away from him.

Unexpectedly, it was just over two years ago, and this question was coldly placed in front of him.

Now, he had the answer in his heart.

Duan Chu didn't want to do this job from the bottom of his heart!

"My lord, usually Ling Chi is alone, and he still needs the cooperation of two executioners, let me Ling Chi ten people by one today, I can't do this."

When Duan Chu said this, he just wanted to pick a pick.

The prison director smiled and handed Duan Chu a bright gilt medal.

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