[Chapter 5, Volume 5]

Chapter 508 Chapter 31

The punishment of the mound originated from ancient times.

It is one of the capital punishments, but in capital punishment, it is also famous - the two monarchs who use it the most are the models of faint kings and tyrants that fools and foolish 'women' know: Xia Wei and Shang Xuan.

The dragon is fong, and the Maeber is the best.

It's all things that anyone who skims history books knows.

Although this punishment was once included in the canon in the Western Han Dynasty, it was because it was too brutal, and even Empress Lu, who made Mrs. Qi a 'becoming' person, issued an edict to abolish this system.

One can imagine the notoriety of this punishment.

Therefore, this punishment was not publicly listed in the imperial court decrees, and even if it was a major crime of the Dangdang clan, it was often only punished by beheading.

Great Wei and the previous dynasty, for hundreds of years, this punishment has never been mentioned - but now the saint not only wants to punish loyal ministers, but even the one who was disposed of by him like this is a child of the scholar clan!

Although Wei Yu is a side branch of Ruiyu Hall, he also has a lot of influence in the clan. As the old saying goes, you can't punish a doctor. Such a treatment is not only brutal, but also humiliating.

The scholars were in an uproar!

They knew that the Holy One was now unreasonable, but they never thought that the Holy One was coming, and they wanted to add another cruelty to their mediocre life - this is a direct pursuit!

However, their pleas were all blocked out of the palace 'gate'!

Gu Xiaode held the holy decree in his hand, and stopped under the palace 'gate' with an expressionless face, and the Xuanjia guard behind him was as silent as a rock, steadily blocking everyone's way.

"The sun is twilight, Commander Gu, do you still want to be 'confused'!" Among the people who are officials in the Wei family now, except for Wei Yu, it is Wei Shengyi - because of Wei Zhenghong's recovery, Wei Shengyi has been very decadent in the past two years, but something like this happened to the Wei family, and it is impossible for him not to come forward if he is still alive.

At this moment, Gu Xiaode blocked the way, so he angrily reprimanded.

Not only him, but also the Taishi, Taifu, Taibao and other people who came with him, hundreds of officials in the court, including the scholars who only received the title of loose official and had no real position, all gathered here - according to the opinion of people at this time, it is said that Wei Yu is for the sake of loyalty to the king, and there is no sin, even if he commits the heinous crime, as his son of the prince, it is already the limit to sentence him to be beheaded in public, and most of them are given death-Su Gong? Before the Holy Decree, it was unimaginable to kill them!

This is clearly a slap in the face to the scholars!

How can they tolerate it?

But the saint made up his mind to slap this in the face!

For this reason, the saint even hinted at Gu Xiaode - let him prove whether he is loyal to the saint or his heart is on the side of the scholar clan!

Therefore, Gu Xiaode allowed everyone to use all means to explain the reason, and always guarded the palace 'door' and did not allow him to enter.

Even Taifu Shen Xuan couldn't hold back his anger and coerced the Hongzhou Gu family, but Gu Xiaode ignored it!

In this case, everyone had no choice but to scold Gu Xiaode for being crazy!

After all, at this moment, the most powerful soldiers and horses in the imperial capital are in the hands of Gu Xiaode. He has to carry out the holy commandment, who has the means?

It's just that many people are 'excited' and angry, but Wei Yu, who was ordered by the saint, regarded death as home, and after knowing that hundreds of officials gathered in front of the palace to ask for mercy, he even sent out words in prison to persuade them to disperse - he had the heart to repay the country and the king with a death, but where could his family stand this?

Wei Yu's old wife, Mrs. Qian, was bedridden after the holy decree came down, and when she learned that the hundred officials failed to ask for her life, the old man would be dragged outside the noon 'gate' in three days to be punished, and she couldn't get up in one breath, so she went one step ahead of him!

And Wei Yuzhi's 'daughter' Queen Run has been worried about her 'daughter' Chengxian County Lord having no children after marriage, and she has been sick for a few days. As a result, the county lord of Chengxian has not solved it here, and his father suffered such a scene, and his mother went first, and his condition suddenly worsened, so heavy that he couldn't even go back to his parents' house to mourn these few steps - so scared that the county lord of Chengxian couldn't care about whether he had children or not, he confessed to his in-laws, and rushed back to Runwang's mansion overnight to 'serve' his mother's soup and 'medicine', lest Queen Run follow in the footsteps of Mrs. Qian.

When Wei Changying learned the news, he was naturally furious!

Although she and Wei Yu are far away in blood, they are also from the same family. What's more, since she married into the imperial capital, Wei Yu's branch has not been bad with her. After hearing the news, he immediately asked Huang to put down everything in his hand first, returned to the backyard to take care of the two children, hurriedly changed his outfit and went out of the 'door', and followed Mrs. Su to Wei Yu's mansion to mourn.

At this time, Wei Yu's mansion was already in chaos.

Originally, Wei Yu's sons were all very mediocre, otherwise Wei Huan and Wei Qi fought to the death, and it was easy to drive Wei Qi away from the position of Situ, but there was no one who could take over this position among Wei Huan's close relatives, and he would not have chosen Wei Yu from the remote clansmen. It's nothing more than planning that even if Wei Yu has ambitions in the future, his own heirs are not very good, and it will be easier to deal with.

Now that there has been a great change, these people are so panicked that they don't know what to do.

It is said that the second lady Deng really couldn't see it, wiped her tears and stood up to call the shots, so she rushed to build the mourning hall before most of the hangers arrived.

In this case, the entire Fuzhong naturally looks particularly bleak and dilapidated.

The people who went to mourn, no matter what they usually thought of Wei Yu's family, were all sad at this time, and Wei Changying herself was very sad, but she still had to support her mother-in-law, Mrs. Su, because Mrs. Su cried and cried and softened her 'legs'.

Among them, among the people who also tried to prevent the achievement of this mad and undignified thing, there were also those who rushed to Gu's house, or intimidated or persuaded Gu Xiaode's wife and children, so that they could persuade Gu Xiaode. And in the imperial capital, especially Princess Linchuan and others, they also received batches of lobbyists.

However, Gu's wife and son's 'daughter' made it clear that they couldn't control Gu Xiaode at all, and could only resign themselves to fate. And Princess Linchuan said with tears in her eyes: "You are all the pillars of the country, the mainstay of my Great Wei, and you can't change your father's will, not to mention that I am a 'daughter' who has been married?" I'm just a little girl, how can I compare with you? If you can't do it, can I do it? ”

The lobbyist persuaded her with the affection of her father and daughter, and she said: "My father has been tired of listening to advice for a long time, and it is not a secret. As a 'daughter', I certainly serve my father based on filial piety, so how can I say to my father what he doesn't like to hear? After all, you know, my father is old, how can I bear to let him listen to unpleasant words again? What's more, after saying it, it just attracted thunder and anger in vain! ”

Anyway...... The princess just doesn't go - Linchuan is not stupid, in the current situation of the saint, is it a person who will still recognize the love of father and daughter? Even Qingxin, the youngest 'daughter' who was the most favored before, was demoted to the county lord. If Linchuan goes, I am afraid that it will be cut into a light person.

As for Princess Lingxian and others, because they were not favored in the past, in the face of some lobbyists who were 'disorderly' to go to the doctor, they understated that "Sister Linchuan is still helpless, I am not as good as I am stupid for a long time, how dare I come close", but he got out.

All in all, three days later, under the suppression of the Xuanjia guard sent by Gu Xiaode, Wei Yu was taken to the noon 'gate' to be executed.

Because this punishment has been known for a long time, and Wei Yu's official reputation is quite prestigious, everyone can't bear to go and watch. There were not many onlookers who didn't say anything, but many people secretly wept and grieved at home.

However, although I did not go to the 'gate' at noon, there was a scene that everyone saw at home—it was snowing.

At this time, it was the beginning of May, although it was not in the dog days, but it was already everywhere, and the order was midsummer. But in the sky, there were large clusters of snow 'flowers', just like the catkins that were fluttering in the twilight of 'spring', and the clouds filled the whole city!

Some people who couldn't believe it reached out and took one, felt the coolness turn into water stains in the palm of their palms, and then pinched themselves hard to confirm that the water stains and coolness were still in the palms...... The sweat 'hairs' of the people in the city are almost standing up!

Snowfall in May! It's certainly not as extreme as June, but—

Taishi and these people are old, although they are 'excited' and their blood is strong, but they can't get up for a while. If Shen Xuan was still in the prime of life, he almost didn't even wear shoes, so he led people out of the 'gate' of the mansion, threw down several 'guards' in front of the 'gate' at noon to stop the execution, and rushed into the palace without looking back!

…… It's just that everyone thought that with such an abnormal celestial phenomenon, the saint should pardon Wei Yu on this step, and no matter how bad it was, he should be sentenced lightly, but Shen Xuan broke his forehead downstairs in Hanyuan, and the saint still had two cold words: "No forgiveness!" ”

Until the end, the Taishi and other ministers arrived, and the preferential treatment they won was only to allow Wei Yu not to be tortured, and allowed him to be executed first, and then his body was destroyed.

After that, the 'meat' was sent back to Wei Yu's mansion - among the descendants of the people, there were people who were frightened and grieved and couldn't restrain themselves, and they all passed out or fell into a sluggish state, and the house was 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', and there were even cases of Diao slaves stealing property and fleeing at night.

After Shen Xuan and the others found out, they sent people to help preside over the overall situation, and on the other hand, they sent people to hunt down fugitive slaves - these fugitive slaves happened to be a place for the scholars to vent, no matter how much property they took, they were all punished!

However, the ** of Wei Yu's unjust murder by the saint is not in these places.

It was at the time of his funeral - because Mrs. Qian died three days before him, the husband and wife were buried together. In addition to the funeral of his children and grandchildren, there are also several disciples of Wei Yu who serve filial piety like his son.

Among them, Huo Shenyuan, the disciple of the closed 'door', was the most silent, but the 'color' of grief between his eyebrows was also the heaviest.

…… Because Wei Yu was originally a disciple of Rui Yutang, according to common sense, after he and Mrs. Qian passed away, they should be supported by their descendants to go south and be buried in Fengzhou. But now Huoxian is occupied by displaced people, the war in Donghu is tight, the Shengshang is unwilling to send troops according to the Imperial Forest Army, the imperial court is unable to collect and review, and the north and south have become cut off.

Even Wei Changfeng, the future lord of Rui Yu Hall, couldn't get his relatives, and it was obviously impossible for Fu Ling to return to his hometown at this time.

Therefore, after the sons of the Wei family discussed, they consulted the opinions of several other parents and decided to bury their parents in the village outside the city first. When he has the opportunity one day, he will be buried in Fengzhou again.

Go out of the city, along the way, but see the green buckwheat green, but far and near the farmhouse, but rarely see the cooking smoke, occasionally there are pedestrians who avoid the roadside, most of the face is yellow, hungry and thin, and the eyes are dull. This is still Gyeonggi, and many Zhuang people are slaves of the Shi clan or have a relationship, and they have the protection of the master's family, so they can have something to eat. It is said that a little farther away, there is a place full of hunger - that's why Huo County gathers so many displaced people.

This scene made the mourners' mood even heavier.

It was easy to get to the selected field, because it was only a temporary burial, and the grave would be moved in the future, and Wei Yu had been deprived of all his official status at this time, and he only had an innate status as a scholar; died so miserably, it is really not suitable for a big '', so the funeral rites here are relatively simple.

It's just that after the coffin of Wei Yufu's 'wife' was buried, the memorial was over, and everyone sighed and was about to disperse, Huo Shenyuan, who had been silent before, suddenly walked out, saluted everyone, and bowed deeply: "The family teacher is unfortunate and suffers from this difficulty, the younger generation has made a eulogy these days, and I hope that the public can listen to it." ”

As soon as everyone's footsteps slowed, many people's faces showed anger' - not that they were in a hurry to leave, but that Huo Shenyuan was also a disciple of the Yunxia Huo clan and a disciple of Wei Yu's 'gate', how could he be so shallow and shameless?

His mentor's bones were not cold, so he actually seized this opportunity...... Want to be famous?!

After all, when he read other people's eulogies before, he didn't say anything!

Standing up at this moment, didn't he want to take advantage of Wei Yucai to enter the ground, and come up with some splendid articles to make a splash and earn a literary name, what is it?

However, now everyone has the idea of grief and indignation and the sorrow of the rabbit and the fox, no matter how good the article is, who can not hate such a character?

The face of the head of the Huo family was embarrassed, and he shouted at the moment: "You step down for me!" ”