The same thing happened everywhere in Chang'an, and I don't know how many high-ranking officials and noblewomen woke up in the middle of the night and were relatively panicked.

……

Just when the entire Chang'an was under martial law, the Feng family welcomed an unexpected guest.

Cao Yang.

At that time, Feng Mingda had not yet stopped, and when he heard that there was a movement outside the mansion, he was first startled, and then relieved.

He got up and put on his regular clothes, and went out of the door, and saw his three-year-old grandson being mischievous, and refused to rest at night, so he asked his nanny to chase after him, and ran all the way here.

Feng Mingda stretched out his hand to help him, and said kindly: "Slow down, be careful of falling." ”

The child stopped, called "grandfather" in a milky voice, and heard the faint sound of soldiers outside the house, and couldn't help but wonder: "Grandfather, what is that voice outside?" ”

Feng Mingda looked at the childish child in front of him with innocent doubts, but he felt sadness coming from it, and his heart was like a knife.

He closed his eyes, tears streaming down his face: "This is ...... The sound of the death knell ringing! ”

The child was stunned.

Seeing this, the nanny hurriedly approached to pick him up, bowed to Feng Mingda, and took him away.

The child was especially puzzled, frowning: "Why is my grandfather crying?" ”

The nanny could not answer his question, so she could only move forward with her head bored, and after a few more steps, a shadow suddenly fell in front of her.

She looked up in amazement, and saw a young man appear on the path in front of her at some point, with red eyes, a high nose bridge, and lips as red as blood.

The nanny was so frightened that she thought she had bumped into something unusual, and she stumbled back a few steps in a panic, unsteady on her feet, and was about to throw the child in her arms to the ground.

At that moment, the young man reached out and grabbed the boy by the collar.

The nanny was frightened and frightened, and was about to say something, when she suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind her, looked back, and called out with her lips pursed: "Master." ”

Feng Mingda looked at the young man in front of him and suddenly recalled the scene when he first met him.

At that time, Cao Yangzhi was just a small person from a humble background who relied on his tongue to gain power, and he was only a little surprised by this young man's drilling camp and changes, and he was slightly uneasy because of this.

At that time, he never imagined that it would be this young man who would send him and the Feng family to the end.

Feng Mingda sighed and said to the nanny on the side: "This is my guest." Stand down. ”

The nanny replied respectfully, and carefully approached to pick up the child, never thinking that the little Langjun newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and looked at the person who had just grabbed him with bright eyes, and shouted: "I won't go!" ”

The nanny called several more times, but he refused to pay attention, and she could not forcibly drag him away in front of the host and the guests, and she was in a moment's trouble.

Seeing this, Feng Mingda waved his hand and sent her away: "If he doesn't want to leave, just stay, I'll just watch here." ”

The nanny bowed with some hesitation and withdrew.

Feng Mingda treated Cao Yang with the courtesy of hospitality: "Go to the study and talk." ”

He also commanded the steward, who was hidden in the shadows: "Serve tea." ”

Cao Yang smiled leisurely: "I'm bothered." ”

Feng Mingda walked in front, Cao Yang walked behind, and the young Xiao Langjun followed Cao Yang step by step.

When Cao Yang heard the movement, he looked down at him, and the childish boy also raised his face and looked at him innocently.

Feng Mingda noticed this scene, felt something, and said softly: "This child is destined for you." ”

Cao Yang bent down and picked him up, and said with a calm expression: "I just don't know if it's a good fate or a bad fate." ”

Feng Mingda let out a long sigh.

The Son of Heaven has always been strong and decisive, and Cao Yang is not a procrastinator, after entering the study, he put the child down, took out a document from his sleeve, and pushed it in front of Feng Mingda: "There is Lao Lingjun." ”

Feng Mingda took a look at it and laughed out loud: "Ah! I don't know when I had so many henchmen! Hahahaha! ”

Cao Yang waited for him to finish laughing with a calm expression: "Then Lingjun has it now." ”

Feng Mingda's face was smiling, and he sneered coldly: "Now that the matter has come, I am already a mortal person, why should I rush to drive for him and bite the courtiers?" It's not self-willing! ”

"There are only two people here, and one child, why should Ling Jun be like this?"

Cao Yang just smiled at this: "Let's open the skylight and say something, let's talk about the conditions directly." ”

Feng Mingda especially sneered: "Anyway, I'm dead, what else is there to talk about?!" ”

Cao Yang sighed faintly: "In this case, Ling Jun can commit suicide after the funeral for Mrs. Feng, so that one can die easily, without having to suffer from the sword and axe, and the other does not have to be humiliated by the hands of the knife and pen officer, and was tortured by the villain before he died, why didn't Ling Jun do this?" ”

Feng Mingda's face changed suddenly, his lips moved a few times, and he didn't say anything.

Cao Yang took it lightly: "Because death is very simple, but you can't ignore the living. ”

Feng Mingda closed his eyes in pain.

Cao Yang's tone was still indifferent: "You have a wife, children, brothers, grandchildren, mothers and in-laws, and a teacher. The pain you have escaped will be inflicted on them. ”

Feng Mingda smiled self-deprecatingly, leaned back on the official hat chair, and held his demeanor, as if he was the prime minister of a province who was elegant and upright again.

"Tell me about Your Majesty's conditions." He said.

Cao Yang said slowly: "It's almost the same as Ling Jun himself imagined, the three clans of the Yi Feng family, only four rooms were spared; The descendants of Wenxiang Gong were unscrupulous, plotted rebellion, and moved out of the temple of Emperor Taizu; The Empress Dowager of Xingqing Palace has already become a monk, and outsiders do not need to be embarrassed; However, Ling Jun is the first evil, and I am afraid that he will be stabbed with 3,600 knives......"

Speaking of this, he smiled: "But Your Majesty also said, how can a man predict the future generations without predicting the future? There is really no need to criticize Wen Xianggong for this. Since his accession to the throne, Ling Jun has been quite effective in handling affairs, and this time he will have to do one last errand for him, and Ling Chi's execution will be spared, and he can be beheaded. ”

Feng Mingda has thought about this result thousands of times over the past few days.

What will the Son of Heaven of Taiji Palace do with him, it is more like a sharp sword hanging above his head, which will fall at any time.

He knew he was going to die, but nothing else......

Feng Mingda lowered his body and pleaded in a low voice: "I know that my sins are heavy, affecting my ancestors, and I will cover my face with hair after death." I don't dare to ask the Son of Heaven for forgiveness, but the child is innocent, the adult man is beheaded, and the younger than ten years old is exiled to Lingnan, how about it? ”

Cao Yang looked at him and said coldly: "Feng Lingjun, even if I dare to agree now, will you dare to believe it?" You're guilty of treason! The Son of Heaven was extrajudicial and forgave the Feng family's four rooms, which has already given enough affection to the Feng family, if not, no one should be left, and then the Feng family cemetery should be opened, and the dead Feng family members will be dug up one by one to expose the corpses to vent their anger! ”

Feng Mingda's face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he was speechless for a long time.

Cao Yang just watched silently.

After a long time, Feng Mingda finally had a reaction, grabbed the childish child who was bored because he couldn't understand what the adults were saying, and pushed it hard in front of Cao Yang: "Just this one-I am willing to be loyal to Your Majesty one last time, just to protect this one!" ”

The young boy did not understand what kind of struggle was going on, but felt that his grandfather's hand on his shoulder was so hard.

His small body was restrained, and he only felt uncomfortable, and couldn't help but cry out aggrievedly: "Grandfather, it hurts!" ”

Grandfather didn't answer him, just stared at the person in front of him.

There was a hot and hot liquid dripping onto the back of his hand.

He screamed twice, and when his grandfather ignored him, he pursed his lips angrily, and when his eyes touched the back of his wet hand, he was driven by curiosity and lowered his head to lick the liquid on it.

It's salty.

……

When Cao Yang left the Feng family again, there was an extra child at hand.

The little child's face was dazed, and he reluctantly looked back: "Grandfather, can't I see A-Niang and go to my father-in-law's house again?" She also said today that she would sew me a shuttlecock, the kind with peacock feathers, and I would go to my father-in-law's house for a few days, and she forgot what to do? ”

Feng Mingda's tears welled up instantly, turned his back, and scolded him sharply: "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”

Cao Yang patted him on the back: "Go to your grandfather, and kowtow at the end." ”

The boy did so in a daze.

After leaving Feng's house, away from the familiar environment, he finally began to be afraid.

So he grabbed the hand of the only acquaintance even harder, which had actually just become acquainted.

"Father-in-law, are you going to take me to your house?"

"No," Cao Yang said, "let's go to another place first." ”

The child asked, "What is it?" ”

Cao Yang said: "Decide whether you can call me my father-in-law in the future, or go to the place where you die." ”

The child froze.

"What?" He instantly became vigilant: "Are you a bad person?!" ”

Cao Yang glanced at him and said in a brisk tone: "Yes, yes, you finally found out!" ”

Xiao'er looked at him stupidly, and no one in front of him began to coax him with a gentle smile like the nannies around him, saying that they were all lying to him.

He finally whimpered and cried: "How do you bully children, woo woo woo......"

Chapter 33

On this night, many people could not sleep until dawn.

When it was dark, they all comforted themselves in their hearts that it would be good to wait for dawn, but when it really came, the situation still did not turn around in the slightest.

When it was time to go to court, the officials who had not slept all night and had long been dressed up tried to go out, but they were stopped before they could go a few steps.

The forbidden troops guarding the gates of the cities and the key places in the streets were polite and resolute: "The Son of Heaven has an order, you will be exempted from the court today, you should go back to your home, and if you have nothing to do, don't go out again." ”

This is true for officials, honorable people, and clan relatives.

……

As soon as Princess Ji sent her husband out, she saw him come back in a blink of an eye, and couldn't help but step forward: "Why did you come back again?" ”

King Ji took off his long-winged hat on his head, handed it to the handmaiden, and said to his wife, "The Son of Heaven has decreed that there is no need to go to court today. ”

Princess Ji sighed: "What's the matter?" ”

I couldn't help but worry: "I went out yesterday, and I happened to be blocked outside, and I don't know what the situation is now." ”

King Ji caressed his wife: "That's on the door of his father-in-law's house, can you still treat him lightly?" Yu Daru's mansion, no one dares to be presumptuous when waiting for leisure. ”

Princess Ji sighed again.

Outside, however, someone replied: "The princess is worried about the princess, so she sent someone to inquire about the news." ”

When Princess Ji heard that her daughter-in-law had a close relationship with her, she couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This child looks indifferent on weekdays, and he doesn't like to talk, but he really treats Dalang wholeheartedly." ”

gave the explanation that King Fang Cai Ji told her to the person who came, and added: "Let the princess be relieved, it's okay." ”