Mo Yingyan lazily raised her eyelashes, and asked instead of answering, "You love your son very much?" Do you really want him to live? ”

Xiao Haitang saves people so that he can live.

Effective saving people is that the other party really hopes that Xiao Haitang will save people.

Otherwise, it is ineffective to save people.

Cheng Zhou did not hesitate: "Naturally." ”

Mo Yingyan's tone was nonchalant: "Then wait." ”

"However, Cheng City Lord colluded with the river god and killed countless girls in ten years, this account has to be calculated."

The hand in Cheng Zhou's sleeve tightened slightly.

He stared at Mo Yingyan tightly, and suddenly smiled, "Jingzhou, a land of poor mountains and bad waters, can actually let the noble third prince come here, it is really brilliant." ”

Mo Yingyan's cold white slender fingers were not surprised that Cheng Zhou guessed his identity.

His voice was clear, as if the mutton fat and white jade were soaked in 10,000-year-old Xuanxi, and his coldness was bone-chilling, "The people of Jingzhou have praised you, why do you still do this?" ”

"Why?" Cheng Zhou's smile became thicker, gentle and elegant.

He gradually smiled, looked up at the sky, "Heaven is unfair, and all things are used as dogs,"

"Since they are all dogs, there is no need for the weak to live."

The palace doctor and the servants seemed to have known about the deal between the river god and Cheng Zhou for a long time.

They knelt down with pale faces, but they couldn't find a reason to refute Cheng Zhou's words.

Everywhere, the strong are respected.

The weak do not even have the right to live.

Mo Yingyan narrowed his eyes: "Cheng Zhou, who is the person behind the river god?" ”

"I don't know." Cheng Zhou raised his hand, and the sunlight sprinkled from between his fingers, lining his facial features and disappearing, and his expression was dark and uncertain.

After a while, he slowly spoke, "Shu'er has been weak since she was a child, and she almost fell ill ten years ago...... Fortunately, an old man rescued him and continued Shu'er's life with Gu worms. ”

Mo Yingyan took his words lightly: "These Gu insects need to be raised by living people?" ”

Cheng Zhou nodded: "Yes, each Gu worm can help Shu'er extend her life for a year, but this Gu worm needs to be warmed in the girl's body for three months." ”

"What will happen to the girl who warms the Gu worms?"

"Lingering sickness for life."

Mo Yingyan's eyes flashed with surprise: "You didn't kill them?" ”

The house doctor sighed: "Don't hide it from Your Highness, your lord has never thought of harming people's lives, and your lord has always only wanted his son's well-being." ”

"After the old man saved the son, the river god found the adult, and the adult first hired a girl who was willing to raise Gu with a lot of money."

"But the person who raises the Gu, during the period when the Gu worm is in the body, life is better than death, and after two years, no one will volunteer anymore."

"Some of the people, for the sake of their sons, sold their daughters to the lord of the city."

He pointed to the maid in the courtyard: "These women were sold by their own parents. ”

The maid who knelt on the ground was pale and her eyes were full of sadness.

"The adults agree that they don't feed Gu with their bodies, but the premise is that the son lives and everyone lives."

"When the son dies, everyone dies."

The butler knelt down with a plop: "Your Highness, if you want to punish us, punish us, the lord did not mutilate those girls!" ”

He explained with a wry smile: "The river god married a wife, and it was the adults who used the illusion Gu to confuse the people in order to prevent them from panicking. ”

"There is always a fear of God."

"Those girls who were taken away by the river god, after raising the Gu worms that the prince needed, the adults would place them in the mountains and let people take care of them and their families."

Mo Yingyan's voice was faint: "Why don't you let them go home?" ”

The housekeeper smiled bitterly: "It's not that they won't let it back, but I'm afraid that their families won't be able to accept it......"

Cheng Zhou raised his hand to interrupt the butler's words: "Your Highness, if you want to know the answer, follow the subordinate to the backyard." ”

Backyard.

Mo Yingyan looked at the busy women in the courtyard, Rao was also stunned for a moment when he had seen the tragedy of the battlefield.

Cheng Zhou's face was still calm, and when he looked closely, he could see the self-blame and guilt in his eyes, "They are the women that the river god has married over the years." ”

The woman in the courtyard looked as if her face had been peeled off, which was extremely terrifying.

But there is an indifferent temperament in them.

A kind of peace that has gone through hardships and still does not complain about life.

"They used to be extremely beautiful women, and they were extremely determined to accept their crippled selves now."

"Most people have chosen to give up their lives."

Mo Yingyan's eyes were cold: "Cheng Zhou, you killed innocent people for your own selfish desires, can you be guilty?" ”

Cheng Zhou lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down: "The criminal is guilty." ”

His face was full of bitterness: "The guilty have also been punished. ”

"The son of the guilty minister does not know all these things that the sinner has done, so I beg your highness not to be angry with him."

Mo Yingyan lowered her eyes and looked at him fixedly.

Cheng Zhou clasped his fingertips on the ground, unconsciously exerting force.

The rough ground rubbed his fingertips with blood.

He didn't seem to feel the pain, and his strength gradually increased.

After a long while, Mo Yingyan said lightly, "Cheng Zhou, according to what you did, it was enough to sentence you to death." ”

Cheng Zhou closed his eyes, the tails of his eyes were slightly wet, "The criminal minister does not ask His Highness for forgiveness, only asks His Highness not to anger the son of the criminal minister." ”

"He didn't know all this, he was kind-hearted and had been helping the people."

"The offender is willing to accept any punishment."

Mo Yingyan's voice was cold and indifferent: "Who taught you Gu techniques?" ”

"The criminal minister didn't know his identity, he suddenly came to the City Lord's Mansion and never showed his true face for three months."

Cheng Zhou paused and continued: "The criminal suspects that he is a person of the stars. ”

Mo Yingyan pinched the little jade cat's fingers and squeezed it hard.

His eyes flashed: "Jingzhou City is not far from Xingying, have you ever contacted them?" ”

Cheng Zhou hesitated for a moment: "Before the old man left, the criminal accidentally heard his words, the old emperor of the star was once assassinated when he was out on patrol and was rescued by a fisherwoman. ”

"He had a daughter with the fisherwoman."

"That baby girl, calculated age, is similar to the concubine Niangniang."

Mo Yingyan's eyes shrank almost imperceptibly.

His mother is not Liu Hao's sister.