Chapter 55: Onlookers at the Execution Ground

General's Palace

"Hasn't the general come back yet?" Everyone knew about Xu Mengmeng's visit to the cemetery, and seeing that it was already night, and no one had come back, everyone was a little worried.

"I just asked the guards at the city gate, and they said that they were already back in the city at dusk!" Ryujin had already gone to the gate of the city when it was dark.

"So where will she go? I haven't seen her have much contact with any adult! Forget it, you two will look for the floating light and the glimpse! Lixing sighed deeply.

Prison

"2002...... Perfect! Xu Mengmeng put the last piece of meat he had pulled from Liu Jiang on his plate and laughed out loud with satisfaction.

The sky was getting brighter, and Zhaohui sprinkled in little by little, but looking at Liu Jiang, who was full of holes all over his body, everyone in the prison still felt cold all over his body.

Xu Mengmeng picked up Liu Jiang's prison clothes from the ground, wiped his hands and dagger clean little by little, stuffed the dagger back into his waist, and then picked up the medicinal soup that had already been cold and poured it unceremoniously into Liu Jiang's mouth.

"Ahem~" Liu Jiang was choked for a while, but this was far less than the bone-eating pain on his body, this pain made him want to die directly like this, but Ning Jun was too ruthless, he let people take off his jaw early in the morning, and he couldn't even bite his tongue to kill himself now, so every extra moment of life was a torture for him now.

Liu Jiang's throat had long been silent, and his consciousness was awake because of the pain, at this moment he could only use his eyes to constantly beg Xu Mengmeng to let him be freed as soon as possible, he was really afraid of the torture on this night, and he had no sense of survival in his eyes for a long time.

"By the way, I remember that day you said that I was very bloody, in fact, you were wrong, I have not only blood, I have more wolf nature in my bones!"

Xu Mengmeng said as he picked up the wine jar and poured it on Liu Jiang from his head.

The blood-red liquor poured down, and suddenly the rich smell of wine and blood in the cell filled the nose, causing a tumbling in the stomach, and everyone's faces turned pale with cold hands and feet, and a deep fear rose for the little masked figure.

As for Liu Jiang, he was originally tossed all night, and his life went to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and his consciousness was not very clear, a bowl of medicinal soup went down, he recovered a little, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the liquor flowed into the bloody flesh hole, and a kind of pain of ten thousand insects gnawing and eating bones swept in, his consciousness was forced to be awake, his eyes were wide open, his facial features were distorted, his body twitched violently, and it didn't take long for him to faint.

"Who annoyed me? Heh~" Xu Mengmeng chuckled and walked out of the prison door.

"My lord, I've recruited all of them, please give me a good time!" A prisoner in the opposite prison who witnessed all this saw her walk out, and quickly knelt down in front of her, kowtowing tremblingly, he didn't know Xu Mengmeng, he only thought she was the prisoner in charge of interrogation.

"I ...... I'm recruiting too! "I...... I'll recruit them all! Seeing this, the other two prisoners also quickly knelt down, this person is really terrible!

Xu Mengmeng didn't expect a few people to be like this, and glanced at the jailers who were also slumped to the ground.

Seeing this, several people quickly got up and pulled the three prisoners and left, but they remembered that General Ning said that he didn't like people who were too noisy, and it was enough to see such a scene once, and there was no need to do it again.

Xu Mengmeng withdrew his gaze from the departing people and walked towards the gate unhurriedly.

"General Ning, please spare my son! He is still young, he is innocent, I beg you to let him go, and in the next life, the concubine is willing to repay you by being a cow and a horse! As soon as she reached another cell, Liu Jiang's wife, Zhang, knelt down in front of her, her eyes were misty and her face was begging.

"Yes, your son is indeed quite innocent!" Xu Mengmeng nodded in agreement, and joy slowly appeared on Zhang's face, but before she could kowtow and thank her, Xu Mengmeng's words completely shattered her illusions.

"He's innocent? Do all the more than 2,000 soldiers under my command deserve to die? Aren't they innocent? Zhang, do you think I look like a fool?

Liu Jiang raised private soldiers, didn't the grain sent to the mining area come from your dowry shop? Or do you want to say that you don't know about Liu Jiang's private soldiers in Qingzhou?

I've lived in your Liu Mansion for so long, and you've had so many opportunities to tell me, so when you decide to hide it all for him, you'll forever lose the right to beg me for mercy!"

I won't save your son, and I don't want to save it, please remember that the reason why he wants to die with you today is all because you gave up on him, not because of my cold-bloodedness! What's more, 'repayment of parents' debts and children' is a matter of course. After Xu Mengmeng finished speaking, she strode away without looking back, never looking at the child beside her from beginning to end.

"The general is back, where are you going this night......" Li Xing saw that the person he hadn't found all night had come back, and was about to ask her where she had gone, but he was shocked by the strong smell of blood on her body, and he could feel that this smell was not different from the blood emitted from his own injuries, it was more like a murderous aura contaminated by murder.

"Fulfill the oath, you will know in a moment, I'll go wash up first!" Xu Mengmeng knew that although his eyes were back to normal at this moment, the aura on his body was so strong that he wanted to gag, and it was not surprising that he would be noticed by Lixing.

After washing it several times in a row, especially her hands, she washed it more than ten times, but Xu Mengmeng still felt that there was always a faint smell of blood lingering on her body, and she simply forced herself not to care.

Seeing that the time for the execution was not far away, she led people towards the execution ground in Xishi, and directly moved a chair to sit down next to the prison officer on the high platform, since Liu Jiang was so affectionate to that illegitimate son, she didn't believe that the illegitimate child would not care about Liu Jiang's life or death at all, and today was an opportunity for her to seize that person.

While Xu Mengmeng was sitting on the high platform and closing his eyes to recuperate, Liu Jiang and the others were also escorted by the jailers under the attention of the crowd and gradually approached the execution platform.

It's not that the people haven't seen someone who is going to be executed, after all, General Bai's entire mansion was beheaded here a few months ago, but like Liu Jiang, who has a few blood holes on his face and his whole body is covered in blood, it is the first time they have seen it, and suddenly there are whispers from the crowd.

Liu Yi was hidden in the crowd of onlookers, his eyes looked directly at the person who was kneeling on the ground with a miserable appearance, his hair was messy, his sideburns were slightly silvery, his whole face was almost covered with blood, only his lips were not bloody, and there was nothing but dullness in his eyes that were mixed with love and guilt.

At this moment, he felt as if his heart had been pricked by a needle, the pain surged upward, and he almost couldn't control the tears that were pouring out, he moved his eyes slightly to the side, and when he saw the dignified woman beside him, the scenes of the past injuries appeared in front of him again, and he calmed down in an instant.

His face returned to its usual indifference, and only the pursed lips and clenched hands showed his inner struggle.