The next day, at noon—

In front of the gate of the imperial city, many people gathered.

Two torture rods three feet five inches long, with a large head of two and seven centimeters and a small head of one and a half of seven centimeters, were placed on the execution table.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the golden wheel was empty.

Twenty guards dressed in armor and armed with weapons appeared in the street carrying a large iron cage shaped like a birdcage.

The noisy people were instantly attracted to attention.

Fu Xuanlin and Zhan Xinglan were locked in the birdcage, like two lambs about to enter the slaughterhouse.

The people looked at each other, and the cynicism was even louder.

"Hey, the prince and princess who were still high up a few days ago have become prisoners today. It turns out that they don't have fancy clothes and beautiful clothes, and they are no different from us ordinary people."

"I heard that the punishment of the spine rod can make the demon show its original form, I'm afraid there is a good show to watch today."

"I knew that Princess Ling was beautiful and matchless, but it turned out to be a demon girl, no wonder she looked like a fox."

"Be quiet, don't let people hear it, and then use the technique of disgust to secretly harm you."

"A demon girl like this should be beaten to death, so that she doesn't have to come out to harm people!"

"Yes! Kill her!"

"Kill her! Kill her!"

King Ling and Princess Ling of the former scenery actually fell into such a field, it is really a turn of feng shui.

Fu Luoxiang stood in front of the execution table and looked at the two people in the birdcage who were calm and calm, and said angrily:

"How can my father treat my eleventh brother and Lan'er like this, escorting them in a birdcage, don't you compare them to livestock!"

Fu Yuexin shook her head and said:

"It's not my father's idea, it's the queen. When she learned that her father had ordered the eleventh brother and Lan'er to beg her father, she said that she would use the birdcage of the giant birds and beasts that had been paid tribute to foreign countries the year before last to imprison them. Otherwise, if Lan Er casts a demon spell and escapes before the execution, it will be the second Qing Zhaoyi."

Yesterday, Fu Yuexin entered the palace to plead, and happened to bump into the queen to find Emperor Jing to come up with a bad idea.

"The emperor is really vicious, even if the eleventh brother and Lan'er have fallen into such a land, she will not miss any opportunity to humiliate them."

Fu Luoxiang looked at Fu Xuanlin and Zhan Xinglan, who were getting closer and closer to the execution ground, but inadvertently caught a familiar figure in the crowd.

[The Holy King? 】

[He really came......]

The huge birdcage stopped in front of the execution table, and only a "bang" was heard, and a small door opened in the birdcage.

Fu Xuanlin and Zhan Xinglan walked out of the cage holding hands and headed towards the execution platform.

Fang Cai also fell into the ground, and the people who threatened to kill Zhan Xinglan immediately dispersed, avoiding her as if they were avoiding the plague.

"Oh, hurry up and stay away, if you are targeted by this demon girl, won't it be a catastrophe."

An old woman standing in front of her moved her steps quickly and muttered quietly.

Who knew that the childish voice of a little girl she was holding asked innocently, "Grandma, did these two brothers and sisters make any mistakes, why did they beat them?"

Zhan Xinglan heard the little girl's words, and smiled sweetly at her.

But the old woman hurriedly covered the little girl's mouth and pulled her into her arms.

Zhan Xinglan glanced at the old woman, and from her eyes, Zhan Xinglan saw disgust and vigilance.

Fu Xuanlin and Zhan Xinglan got out of the cage, and the guards became more vigilant.

After the two of them walked to the torture device, the guards immediately tied them up.

The cold wood was clinging to the thin clothes, and Zhan Xinglan couldn't help but shiver.

She turned her head to look at Fu Xuanlin, who also stared at her.

The torture instrument slowly sank, and the bodies of the two also leaned forward.

"Your Majesty has a decree, Princess Ling is suspected of murdering the queen of the dynasty with the technique of winning by overwhelming, and it is rumored that she is a demon girl. In order to verify whether she is a demon girl who has brought disaster to the country and the people, His Majesty has specially given twenty canes in public."

Xie Shilin stood behind the two of them and said unbearably

Road:

"Your Majesty has made a will, and Wechen has no choice but to offend. If Your Highness and the princess are in pain, bear with it, and don't bite your tongue."

"Xie Zongzhengqing doesn't need to worry, since Your Majesty wants to fight, as a courtier, you can only do it. The king and princess will not blame you."

Of course, Xie Shilin knew that these two people would not blame him, he was afraid of Zhan Bofeng.

He cowardly looked at Zhan Bofeng in the crowd, and met Zhan Bofeng's eyes as if he was about to eat people.

"Ahem," Xie Shilin withdrew his eyes and whispered to the two soldiers with torture rods, "Hit lightly."

"Execution!"

"One!"

As soon as Xie Shilin gave the order, the torture rod fell on the backs of the two of them.

"Ahh

Zhan Xinglan really couldn't hold back, when this staff came down, Zhan Xinglan's soul was almost gone.

"Lan'er!"

Fu Xuanlin just snorted, and then looked at Zhan Xinglan anxiously.

Before the two of them could recover from their recovery, Xie Shilin shouted:

"Two!"

"Stop!"

Suddenly, a loud voice frightened everyone.

Zhan Nanjing and Zhan Mobei suddenly rushed to the execution platform and blocked Zhan Xinglan.

"My two brothers are willing to suffer double the punishment of the spine rod on behalf of Princess Ling!"

Seeing this, Xie Shilin hurriedly said, "Zhan Zuocheng, Zhan Duwei, both of you are officials of the imperial court, do you know that your move is regarded as a protest? Don't go down yet!"

"Big brother and second brother, don't make trouble, you guys go down quickly!"

Zhan Xinglan muttered quietly.

But Zhan Nanjing and Zhan Mobei seemed to be unable to hear, and they blocked behind Zhan Xinglan and prevented the torture rod from falling.

Xie Shilin also encountered this situation for the first time, so he could only ask Zhan Bofeng for help with his eyes.

Zhan Bofeng gave him a blank look, but he still crossed his waist and shouted:

"You two come down for Lao Tzu! Our Zhan family is full of loyalty, even if we are wronged and beaten undeservedly, we must have backbone! Lan'er, don't worry, if you are disabled, you will be raised for your father for the rest of your life! Well, we're not afraid!"

Zhan Bofeng is worthy of being a military general, and in just a few words, he has the momentum of thousands of troops and horses.

Zhan Xinglan smiled heartily and said:

"My daughter is not afraid! The daughter is not a demon girl, and she has never been disgusted with the art of victory, so what is she afraid of? It should be the rumor-mongers who should be afraid!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all people who have been in the cold, and today this princess will swear in front of you! If these twenty canes can't kill me today, in the future, I Zhan Xinglan will definitely pay back the rumor-mongers dozens of times!"

"Please also polish your eyes to see if I, Zhan Xinglan, am the demon girl who kills people in your mouth without blinking, or a person of flesh and blood alive!"

She glanced at a circle of people who lowered their heads weakly, and her eyes happened to meet the little girl just now.

"The world is ignorant, and even though they have two eyes, they can only see the side that they think is right, and they have two ears, but they can only hear one side."

She smiled softly at the little girl, then turned her head to look at Fu Xuanlin.

"Husband, I'm bothering you."

Fu Xuanlin's thin lips were lightly hooked, and his eyes were full of love, "Silly girl."

Xie Shilin held his mouth and couldn't bear to shout:

"Two!"

The huge torture rod struck the two of them the backbone, and each blow was a groan of pain.

"Three!"

"Ten!"

With only ten rods, blood was already oozing from Zhan Xinglan's back, and a trace of blood was faintly visible on Fu Xuanlin's back.

One of these two people has fine skin and tender flesh, and the body is petite, and the other has not healed and lacks qi and blood.

After being beaten ten times, the cane was already bloodless on both sides.

The people came to see the play, but now they didn't see the demon girl casting a spell and flying away, but they saw the blood-drenched picture, and they were silent for a while, and some people were even lowered

The head no longer looks.

"Eleven!"

"Stop fighting! Stop fighting!"

A group of immature, crying voices came from not far away.

Everyone's eyes followed the prestige, it was a group of eleven or twelve-year-old girls.

The leader is none other than Tian'er.

She came galloping with twenty-five little girls.

The crowd also consciously spread out a pathway.

Xie Shilin wiped the sweat from his forehead, he was already under a lot of pressure, and people kept coming to shout to stop.

It's a big head!

"Stop, who are you!"

Tian'er knelt down in front of the execution table, and the twenty-five little girls behind her also knelt down.

"We are the twenty-six girls who were abducted by the King of Qi and were going to be sold to Yanyun Tower."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked.

The evil deeds of Fu Hongyao, the king of Qi, are well known to everyone, but I didn't expect it to be mentioned after so long.

Tian'er cried with red eyes, and said silently:

"Originally, there were four girls besides the twenty-six of us. One of them, because he couldn't stand the beating, hanged himself from a beam and hanged himself alive in front of us."

"There is another one who was beaten to death with a stick because he was not pretty. The other two, they fled together, but they were caught by the villains on the way."

"In order to tame them, they put them in water prisons. Who knows, they drowned like this."

"Uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters here, have you ever seen a corpse hanging in front of your eyes, beaten beyond recognition, and what it looks like to be soaked in water?"

Tian'er and these little girls couldn't help but burst into tears when they thought of what they had been through.

"At that time, we were scared every day, locked up in dark places, without food and clothing, starved and beaten in turns. We dare not resist, we dare not seek death, otherwise we will be beaten and punished more violently."

"It was Princess Ling who sent someone to save us, if it weren't for her, I don't know how many of us would have died."

"She took me in, taught me to read and write, and taught me how to protect myself. The nunnery, which housed the other twenty-five sisters, was renovated and re-molded, and a school was built in it for us girls to read and learn."

"She told us to call her sister and say she was our relative. He also tells us that there are good people in the world after all."

"But now she obviously didn't hurt anyone, but she was beaten for no reason, there are so many people around, all of them just come to see if my sister is a demon girl, and no one cares if she is dead or alive."

Tian'er cried with red eyes, looked around and shouted loudly:

"Sister, you're not right!"

Maybe these girls cry too sadly and make people moved, or maybe their young but terrifying experience makes people chill, or maybe Tian'er's accusations make them embarrassed, and the people are silent.

Zhan Xinglan looked at this group of little girls who were crying pitifully, and tears flowed out unconsciously.

Unexpectedly, these little girls were weak at the beginning, and now they can protect her.

She coughed lightly, and a piercing pain came from her back, and even her breathing was much lighter.

"Ahem...... Tian'er, sisters, sisters believe that there are many good people in this world after all. Go quickly, for the twenty rods will soon be over."

"We're not leaving!"

"Yes, why should my sister and His Royal Highness King Ling be beaten? We're not leaving!"

"Your Majesty! Officials, uncles and aunts, don't beat Your Highness and sister anymore."

"Please......

"We're kowtowing to you......

A group of little girls cried so much that they kowtowed again and again.

Zhan Xinglan's hidden tears finally moistened his eyes in an instant.

She tore at her throat and shouted at them

：

"Get up! Sweet! Xiang'er! Little Blue! Don't be obedient, sister, please go!"

"If you don't leave, my sister will be angry! Sweetheart, I command you to get up quickly!"

Tian'er stopped kowtowing with teary eyes, and her forehead was already bright red.

"Sister......

"I have rescued you and taught you to be self-reliant, not to watch you kneel here and beg for help! My sister just wants the people of the world to see if the demon girl they say is a human being or a demon!"

"If I, Zhan Xinglan, am beaten to death today, the people of the world must also remember that it was their ignorance that killed me!"

Zhan Xinglan looked at the few people who took the lead and said that they would kill her.

Those people shuddered instantly.

"Xie Zongzhengqing, continue!"

"The Princess's Mother......

"Go on!"

Xie Shilin was already completely moved by these little girls, and he really couldn't do it.

Standing still and refusing to give orders.

At this time, on the gate of the imperial city, a pair of bright yellow and a plump figure slowly appeared.

"Since Xie Zongzhengqing can't do it, then the queen will give the order!"

Everyone's eyes moved up, it was the emperor and the concubine!