The sunset was as red as blood.

The city was noisy and noisy, Guan Yu rode on horseback, stroked his beard and sighed, and then led the generals to urge the horse into the nearby long street.

On the streets at this moment, the galloping horses of the announcement are still repeated in the streets, but there are already many people with their farm tools, kitchen utensils, burdens, and sticks pouring into the streets.

The crowd was furious, and they took Zhou Yu's army and the Bingzhou soldiers to the nearby clans.

Even an old woman with impaired mobility heard this, and silently returned home to pick up a sickle and walked out tremblingly.

Some of the people who were oppressed in the city were even more crazy to find the homes of the gentry who had bullied them and smashed them, and in less than a moment, the scale became huge, and the streets and alleys were full of these people.

At the moment, the four gates were closed, and unless they put on their wings and flew over the walls, they waited in fear at home for the soldiers and angry people to come to the door.

All of a sudden, many of the gentry who wanted to escape from the mansion were caught in the street by the soldiers and civilians who rushed in the darkness, and some were found in the cellar of their homes, checked the names on the list, and then let the soldiers take them and send them to the barracks outside the city.

After this pass, it was in the evening, and more than 400 officials and 5,726 family members were arrested.

In the search for almost half of the city, these children of the once arrogant and prosperous families were embarrassed, and their hair buns were scattered and difficult to see the high-spirited appearance of the past.

sighed one by one, and the woman cried and cried, not knowing what fate she would have in the future.

Among them, the most miserable is Fan Li and Xiao Zhiyi's collateral, because the immediate family members have been transferred, and the people and soldiers of Wu State are angry with them.

They were bound and walked down the streets, occasionally hit by flying branches and stones, after which they were all imprisoned in the barracks.

On the other side, Zhou Cang, led by the general of the imperial city, led 2,000 soldiers and horses to Fengzhou below Shengzhou, and in a large county called Qingsong, he captured all the families of Gu Chongwen, Fan Li, and Xiao Zhiyi, and escorted them to Shengkang on the seventh day of October.

On the city tower, looking at the mighty convoy in the distance, Guan Yu turned around, left the city wall with a group of generals, and waved his hand when he went down: "Rectify the soldiers and horses, and recover the entire territory of Wu as soon as possible." ”

In the third year of Kaiyuan, in October, Shengkang was pacified, and while the armies rested for two days and continued to subdue the counties in the southwest, Fengzhou was in the southeast, and Gu Chongwen, who was dressed in ordinary people's clothes, and a few henchmen hid in a small fishing village near the sea.

He hid for these days, and he was not well-informed, and he did not dare to send his henchmen out to find out the news, for fear of revealing his identity and attracting the search and arrest of the messengers and soldiers and horses of the Xia State.

Originally, it was agreed that yesterday, he and his family would meet here and go to the sea together to go to the eastern islands, but Gu Chongwen waited left and right here, but what he was waiting for was the whole family, and the side branches of the Gu family were all taken away.

For a time, the old man in his early fifties spent a full day on the bridge, and it was only this morning that he had a few of his henchmen carry the gold and silver he had brought out onto the ship.

"I'll definitely call back."

After starting the boat, Gu Chongwen stood on the side of the boat, looking at the small fishing village that was gradually moving away, and the land of Jiangdong, where his ancestors had lived for hundreds of years, tears flowed.

He pinched the guardrail on the side of the ship and gritted his teeth, "After you go to sea, I will not let you Xia Guo's life be safe, and I will avenge my wife and children for the rest of my life!" ”

He clenched his fist and slammed it on the guardrail.

……

In mid-October, cicadas chirp hysterically in the bustling streets.

Accompanied by the sound of cicadas, there is the noisy and lively words of people.

At the entrance of the market at the east gate of Luyang, men, women and children who have long known the language of China, their robes are neat and tidy, their faces are clean, they gather around the market entrance, occupy the street, the nearby tea shops, and restaurants, and the three layers inside and three layers outside the execution platform that was erected yesterday in front of them.

In the words around him, he was probably saying this.

"The three tribes of Yi...... I'm afraid I'm going to cut off the heads of many people. ”

"The last time I heard that the old man was young, I never imagined that I would be sitting in a coffin with half of my body in the coffin, and I could see such a terrible strain."

"That's the brother-in-law of the man they deserve, listen to my eldest brother-in-law's sister-in-law, these people have a dark heart, colluding with the group of monkey-like dwarves overseas to block my Xia country's sea ships, and also give the land in Minggang to others."

"Don't say it, it's coming!"

Everyone turned their heads in unison, and then quickly moved out of the way, and a team of officials with water and fire sticks drove the crowd away and made a way.

After a while, the sound of iron chains sounded, which is the treatment only for death row prisoners.

The clanging of chains continued to sway.

The people in the tea shops and restaurants, or the literati and elegant guests, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes, shook their heads and sighed when they saw this scene, and some people spat at the walking team.

In the myriad intertwined visions, it was a group of figures in filthy prison uniforms and capes, dragging their anklets and staggering through the streets.

From time to time, there were the cries of children, the sighs of old men wearing anklets, and the cries of women tugging at men's sleeves. Xiao Zhiyi is also among them, he looks much thinner than when he was in Wu Guo, and his whole person is listless, like dry bones.

In front of him, his fourteen-year-old grandson, weeping and following along.

"Grandpa, are we going to die?"

When the fourteen-year-old boy asked this, the cry in the team became louder, Xiao Zhiyi walked silently, stretched out his hand and stroked his grandson's head, which was his greatest comfort.

Walking through the streets, there are people everywhere in the Xia Kingdom, some people spit on them, some people feel sorry for them, the old man wants to cry, wants to ask for mercy, but what should be said and what should be cried has already been finished and cried.

In recent times, he has figured it out in his heart.

…… The Xiao family has enjoyed the people's fat and people's ointment for two hundred years, and there should be this report.

In a moment, they were taken into custody and lined up in an open space nearby, and then he and his sons took the execution table first, and were struck by the hilt of a knife, and their bodies staggered to their knees.

The eight fathers and sons of the Xiao family knelt on the stage, the executioner stepped forward with a ghost-headed knife in his hand, and a prison official stepped forward to announce the guilt, and then returned to the desk and waved his hand away.

The eight executioners stepped forward, and in a mournful cry, the knives fell from their hands, and the eight human heads fell to the ground with blood lines, and Xiao Zhiyi's head rolled off the stage, provoking several men who were close to the onlookers below to jump up in fright, for fear that they would be contaminated with bad luck.

The corpses on the stage were dragged aside, and then the pale-faced officials lifted up the Xiao family's family, and these were the women and children of the side branches crying miserably and begging constantly.

He was then brought to the stage, knelt down, raised his knife, and then beheaded.

I don't know how many batches I arrived, and it was finally the turn of the Xiao family's direct family, a heart-rending cry sounded, and when a bound woman was lifted, she was already incontinent, tears and snot were on her face, she and a group of female dependents were brought to the stage, looking at the headless corpses piled up on it, and opened her mouth silently in fear.

Then the executioner came over and slashed directly at her neck, the cold edge chopped open the flesh and bones, and the head bounced out with a bloody arrow.

Soon after, after the Xiao family was killed, the bodies of the Gu family's men, women and children were all loaded into cars and taken away, and they were taken to mass graves outside the city for burial.

At this time, the Fan family, who was finally executed, had already been so frightened that they had no master, and by the time Fan Li was dragged to the stage, he was already crazy, roaring and laughing.

"I'm a captain, and I won't kneel down when you see me! Do you want to die? ”

The executioner stepped forward and slashed down with his blade.

The unkempt head slammed to the ground.

Rumble!

The sky sounded with autumn thunder, and after a while, the autumn rain fell, washing away the bloodstains on and off the stage, and the people in the city inside and outside the city after seeing the execution scene, they all ripped off their wide sleeves to cover their heads and dispersed in twos and threes.

Also on this day, in the Luyang Palace.

The autumn rain hit the palace tiles, and in the Chengyun Palace, Su Chen, who was dressed in an imperial robe, sat on the dragon chair and met Kang Chengqian and Kang Zun, who were in the audience below.

Soon, Kang Zun announced his abdication and was no longer the emperor of Wu.

Of the six countries in the world, five have been removed, and only the Yue Kingdom remains.

(End of chapter)