Chapter 161: Burning at the Stake
The outside of Dali Temple is much more lively than here, and a group of people are now only here to let the emperor severely sentence Li Junyan, who hurt people's lives, and at least exile Li Junyan, so that they can set an example.
Before Mrs. Li didn't speak, maybe for the sake of Qixi and Lu Yunyou not hurting their lives, the emperor would sentence Li Junyan lightly, but after Mrs. Li said this, don't say that the sentence is light, even if you want your life, it will be difficult to eliminate the anger of the people.
There are thousands of people in this world, who are born rich and noble, and who are willing to be inferior, Mrs. Li scolded Qixi for being lowly, but how many people outside are like Qixi Festival, and they were just ordinary people in the past.
If the family really suffers, they may not even be as good as Qixi Festival, and because of this, these people will help Qixi here, and helping Qixi is like helping themselves.
In the end, Li Junyan was sentenced to exile to the border and never allowed to return to Beijing......
The old lady didn't need the emperor to mention it at all, at this moment she knelt on the ground as fast as she could, confessed to the emperor, and then only said that she was old, and it was not good to raise her children, so she voluntarily told the old man to return to her hometown.
Mr. Li saw that the situation was not right, not to mention the side, now Qixi is the daughter of the Qinghe Cui family, and the Qinghe Cui family even wants to marry the daughter of the first assistant of the imperial court, so it depends on whether people are willing to marry.
offended such a clan, his Li family will have no way to live in the future, and he has been an official all his life, and he will more or less have a handle in the hands of others, so he might as well take advantage of this momentum to retreat, so as not to ask people to make trouble for himself, and then there will only be the word embarrassment.
Exile is not a matter of importance, how many exiles recognize, in the future, if you make a little money, you can still come back, and he will no longer be an official.
With this in mind, Mr. Li will kneel on the ground and resign from the emperor after reading the verdict!
Mr. Li's resignation, everyone present couldn't care about it, even the three brothers of the Cui family didn't bother to care, they were officials in the court, if it weren't for someone making things difficult, the Cui family would never make the villain use to deliberately make things difficult for anyone.
The emperor saw the current situation here, and he could only agree with Old Lady Li's words, and then asked Old Lady Xiao and Old Lady Li to be invited to the court together, and someone invited the small staff used for punishment out.
The small cane, one inch in circumference, is only a little bit of flesh and skin suffering from these twenty strokes, but this broad daylight, in front of so many people, even if you suffer these twenty strokes, it is also extremely embarrassing, and because of this, whether it is Mrs. Li or Mrs. Xiao, this face will also change color.
Who would really want to suffer these twenty strokes, twenty strokes is not much, but it is a human ......
The person who used the torture will not care whether you have a face or not, after the two old ladies lay down, they directly held the small cane in their hands and gave twenty strokes, but they were directly finished in the time of the small half pillar of incense.
After the beating, the faces of the two old ladies were pale, not painful, but ashamed, and the face was greater than the pain in the body, although the twenty rods were not light.
After the fight, I can still see that they need someone to help them get up and go to the little guy who came step by step!
Mrs. Xiao and Mrs. Li were both punished, and the beating was over, and the rest were Fang Qingzhi and Li Junyan, Fang Qingzhi and Li Junyan were burned at the stake first, and after they were killed, they were strangled and exiled.
At the beginning, they locked up Qixi Lu Yunyou and even Linglong in the fire together, but Li Junyan had this part, and today Li Junyan and they should also suffer the taste of being burned.
And today they have aroused the anger of the people, if they blindly appease, if they want to go back and forth after the emperor's prestige is discredited, everything will be difficult to manage, and because of this, the emperor will have ordered someone to set up the fire field early.
The place of punishment was at the entrance of the vegetable market, and there was not much firewood under it, and most of them were still wet firewood, and more smoke was rolled out, so as to set an example.
The forbidden army had already blocked the road on both sides, preventing the people from coming forward to deliberately watch, and after that, Li Junyan and Fang Qingzhi were escorted all the way to the high platform of the fire by the messengers.
Someone tied them to the high platform and didn't let them move!
The strip of cloth in Fang Qingzhi's mouth was stuffed on Qixi Festival, and Lu Yunyou stuffed Li Junyan's, after all, the smoke and fire will always make people unbearable, once this person can't stand it, he will naturally shout loudly there, and it is the emperor's person who will be thrown away.
In fact, Lu Yunyou still wanted to hear Fang Qingzhi's shouting, at least shouting, which would make Lu Yunyou feel that he was still a living person.
When the strip of cloth was stuffed into Fang Qingzhi's mouth, Fang Qingzhi fearlessly glanced at Qixi in front of her, hooked her lips and smiled, "If you kill me, you and Xiao Zhan will already be finished, not only is it over, it is completely impossible!" ”
Fang Qingzhi only has one sentence to Qixi, she knows the way of punishing her heart too well, and she knows that Qixi still has feelings for Xiao Zhan in her heart, but in the middle of this love, Qixi has stepped on a chasm, one of her lives, the twenty rods that hit the old lady, even if she is dead, but the twenty rods of the old lady will always remember.
"As early as the day I wanted to kill you, I never thought that I would stay with Xiao Zhan for the rest of my life......" Qixi did make Fang Qingzhi's words seem to be cut out, and it was precisely because of the scratching that at this moment, after stuffing the cloth into Fang Qingzhi's mouth, he replied so indifferently, without caring at all.
If they are not together, they are not together, and they are not suitable to be together from the beginning, because there is always a human life in between......
Fang Qingzhi's life, she is going to decide today!
Looking at the firm determination in Qixi's eyes, Fang Qingzhi wanted to say something, but she could only scream ......there because the cloth was gagged.
When he had finished shouting, he saw that the servants below were holding torches, and had begun to burn the firewood that had been piled up under his feet......
The burning flames burned directly on her legs and the hem of her clothes from the beginning, and the burning and hot feeling made Fang Qingzhi afraid and scared her, but she couldn't shout, she had something stuffed in her mouth, she couldn't shout if she wanted to, watching the flames lick the hem of her clothes, she couldn't move if she wanted to.
In the past, Fang Qingzhi knew that she would not die, as long as she survived, she would always be able to survive and always let herself live!
Living people are not afraid of ghosts and ghosts, but this will, she is really afraid, she knows that she will definitely die like this......
Smoke billowed in, and the smoke from the burning flames licking the soaked matches was particularly choking, and the smoke made the people around them choke on their eyes.
The onlookers all had an unbearable expression of covering their mouths, and some even shed tears because of the smoke, while Fang Qingzhi on the high platform was so choked that it was difficult to exhale.
In the engulfing of the thick smoke, the two people who were tied to the high pillar were difficult to even see their figures, and in the haze, they could also see Fang Qingzhi who was struggling there.
The people present had never seen such a punishment, and now they were all watching in silence, that is, at the moment of watching, the faces of the people were different, that kind of look, there was indifference, some were happy, and some were afraid.
Qixi has indifference on her face, the kind of indifference that comes from her bones, making her like a soul messenger who has come out of hell, specifically looking for people's lives.
Qixi thought about what Fang Qingzhi said, and the corners of her lips hooked up with a touch of sarcasm, after the sarcasm, what she wanted to see more was Fang Qingzhi being hanged.
How did her adoptive mother suffer and leave this world, she also had to watch Fang Qingzhi leave like this, the smoke and fire were nothing, this sin was returned to Lu Yunyou and the child, but that life, she had to return it to her mother.
After the last fire was added, the water in the hand of the messenger extinguished the fires underneath, and after extinguishing it, looking at the people on this high platform, Fang Qingzhi had already fainted, the smoke inhaled into her lungs, choked again, and the feeling of not being able to breathe made Fang Qingzhi unable to bear it at the last moment, and finally fell down.
At that moment, when her breathing was not smooth and her mind felt blank, she would rather die herself, and the feeling of wanting to breathe out but not surviving at all was more uncomfortable than dying directly.
It was also at this moment that Fang Qingzhi understood why Qixi had to torture herself like this, a tooth for a tooth......
Li Junyan looked better than Fang Qingzhi, not as embarrassed as her, he held his breath and spit out a long time when the smoke cleared, but it was also a faint flower.
That feeling is really like climbing before the ghost gate closes, in order not to die, in order to live, to struggle hard, and to survive is a piece of light.
Li Junyan was burned at the stake, and his own servants took him away and went to the place of exile.
After doing it, the emperor's prestige was corrected, and it also gave the Cui family face, and then he, the emperor, had to help Qixi enter the Cui family tree, otherwise, the Cui family was afraid that they would have to deal with themselves, their mother's fault.
In the matter of selling Qixi Festival, the Queen Mother, he himself can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence, and he can be regarded as a participant!
His mentor is right in front of him, and most of the income of the treasury is also in front of him, and as an emperor, he also has to bow his head......
"Order someone to wake up the Fang clan and prepare the gallows, the Fang clan stained three innocent lives with his hands, the crime is unforgivable, today he will take his life by hanging, in order to set an example!"
The emperor gave an order, and a basin of water with ice cubes splashed over Fang Qingzhi's face, from his face to his neck, Fang Qingzhi was awakened by freezing and frightened.
That is, at the moment when she was frightened awake, Fang Qingzhi's neck was already covered with a hemp rope......