Facing Zhou Yaqian's cry and begging, Zhou Shu didn't have any special feelings. He just felt that people are indeed fickle animals.

She didn't want to embarrass this second sister. The latter did ridicule her before, but it was nothing. She didn't care much about this kind of thing, and she didn't have any feelings for her half-sister, which was no more than a stranger.

Better. Even not as good as some friendly strangers she met in Taiyuan.

Among the royal family, love is a luxury item. Even if the royal family is the richest person in the world, it is almost impossible to buy it.

Zhou Shu said: "You don't have to be afraid. If everything is fine after the investigation, you can leave."

"Leave..." a noble concubine asked cautiously, "Seventh Princess, leave... where are you going?"

"After a period of time, you can apply to the Yamen for farmland...or apply for a job in the Guarantee Yamen."

"Guarantee Yamen?"

Everyone did not understand the meaning of this word. It was only after Zhou Shu stayed in Taiyuan for a while that he learned that there were many new yamen established under Su Yuan's rule.

One of them is the Guo Yamen, whose responsibility is to help some special groups find jobs, such as the disabled, the elderly, or those who are too weak to work in the fields.

When Zhou Shu first learned about this yamen, he was very surprised and didn't know how it worked. After asking carefully, he found out that this yamen has cooperative relationships with many merchants. If the merchants help provide some work, then the yamen can give the merchants a certain amount of work.

tax discount.

In essence, it was Su Yuan, the King of Bei'an, who still provided the money to carry out some subsidy work.

After understanding it clearly, Zhou Shu also respected Su Yuan even more. A person who can do such a thing is at least a kind-hearted and dedicated person. This has nothing to do with status, but with moral character.

He was as petty as his father. Even though he was the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had a lot of gold and silver, he would never use it to subsidize some private projects.

In the past, when there was a flood in Xuzhou, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs could not allocate money to build river embankments, so it was clear that some money would be allocated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, Emperor Qingxiang did not mention it at all.

In the end, only half of the river embankments were built, and when floods came, several villages were washed away, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries.

Zhou Shu had heard all this, and it was precisely because of this comparison that the more she got to know Su Yuan, the more she felt a clear liking for him.

After Zhou Shu finished speaking, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It sounds like they are required to work like ordinary people to make a living. This is indeed a bit embarrassing for them, but it is better than being sent to some brothels. Once they get there, they will be miserable.

If Zhou Shu knew what they were thinking, she would definitely say something to worry about. According to her experience of living in Taiyuan, Su Yuan did not allow that kind of brothels to exist. All brothels in Taiyuan were closed and replaced by "Qing brothels".

building".

There may be prostitutes and performers in brothels, but in brothels there are only performers. Even if there are employees and customers who have a crush on each other, they must go out to chat at other times, and hooking up in the workplace is not allowed.

Zhou Shu believes that the capital will soon be like Taiyuan, and the places where filth and evil are hidden will be cleaned up. If others want to do this, she will not believe it. But if Su Yuan wants to do this, it will definitely succeed.

Who told him to have an army with extremely strong combat power and only obeyed him?

On this kind of matter, if he wants to speak out, there is really no way for others to stop him.

At this time, most people understood what Zhou Shu meant, but some people couldn't accept it.

A noble concubine said dissatisfied: "Are we going to do those dirty jobs? Then King Bei'an will definitely rebuild the palace. Can't we go back then?"

When Zhou Shu heard this, a flash of disgust flashed in her eyes, and she said calmly: "Su Yuan said that he would not rebuild the palace. Besides, the emperor is dead, who will you be a concubine for?"

"..."

The imperial concubine dared not express her anger, but she only dared to keep her anger in her heart. She really wanted to say, "The emperor is your father! It's so rebellious for you to say that!", but she could only think about it, and she would never say it out loud.

Dare.

The others were silent as well, and Zhou Shu's eyes fell on one of them.

"Concubine Yu, please come with me."

"Me?" Concubine Yu's face turned pale when her name was called.

There was only panic on her pretty face, and until now, she still couldn't believe that everything she and Fu Chengyang had planned had come to nothing.

Their son Zhou Chong is now missing, and the title of Prince Qingxiang was also passed to Zhou Cheng before his death. And Fu Chengyang... his life and death are still unknown. Before he left, he said that he faked his death, but now it turns out that he faked his death.

Is there any meaning in death? The capital city has fallen...

She was still thinking about when Fu Chengyang would come to rescue her and leave, but now she was called out by Zhou Shu. She felt extremely uneasy and didn't know why. She was not familiar with Zhou Shu. She only knew that her son Zhou Chong was similar in age to Zhou Shu.

I was a playmate for a few days when I was a kid, but I don’t know the rest.

Concubine Yu followed Zhou Shu to the outside of Courtyard No. 1. Zhou Shu looked at her and said, "I want to ask you something. You'd better tell the truth. Because someone will definitely come looking for you in the future."

"What, what are you talking about?"

"Did you know that Fu Chengyang joined forces with your brother Gongsun Kuo and Prince Beirong to kill Su Tufeng and his wife?"

When Zhou Shu saw Concubine Jade just now, he knew that Su Yuan would definitely ask someone to arrest her. Because Su Yuan had already told her about the past events about her parents. If Concubine Yu had something to do with this matter, then Su Yuan

Naturally, he will not give up.

After Concubine Yu heard about this, she shook her head: "I don't know." She said in a panic, "I know about this... but it was not my idea and has nothing to do with me..."

"……you are lying."

"What? I didn't!"

Concubine Yu hurriedly defended herself, but she was obviously not good at pretending. Her wandering eyes and panicked tone revealed that what she said was a lie.

Zhou Shu knew at this moment that others might be able to escape, but Concubine Yu had no chance of surviving. Not only herself, but the entire Gongsun family would also have no hope of existing if they had not escaped with that boat.

…

In the evening, the Bei'an Army pressed some court officials to the Central Street.

They all had pale faces, as if they had foreseen that they would not be able to survive this test. But compared to Lu Guang, they were lucky.

The dignified Minister of the Ministry of War was actually subjected to such inhumane torture. They all felt extremely painful just watching, not to mention Lu Guang, who was the bearer. Therefore, when the torture was over, Lu Guang, who was thrown back to the cell, directly chose to hit him.

Dead on the wall.

Others also wanted to die, but after all they couldn't find the courage, and deep down in their hearts, they still had unrealistic fantasies. They fantasized that there might be a way to survive, and even fantasized that when they were executed, there would be something like in a novel.

The situation of "tribulation of the law" occurs.

But all that was impossible. After the group of people were escorted to the long street, they saw that they were surrounded by ordinary people. Most of these ordinary people were working. When they found out that a group of imperial officials were tied up and led over, they all

Stop what you are doing and stare at them.

The fire in the inner city of the capital was related to many of them. Even if they were not the ones who set the fire themselves, they were the ones who ordered their soldiers to set the fire.

Because of them, thousands of people were burned alive. This hatred made the people working at the moment want to rush forward and beat these wolf-hearted things to death.

Su Yuan was also at the scene at this time. He ordered the soldiers: "Evacuate the people."

The soldiers immediately separated the surrounding people and made way for them. The bound court officials stood alone in the middle of the long street, wondering what they were doing. Beheading? This is not an execution ground...

Some of them shouted: "We still have something to say!"

Unfortunately, no one paid attention, and the only sound in response was the sound of horse hooves approaching from a distance.

The sound of horse hooves...?

Winter rumbling…

At the end of the long street, hundreds of Bei'an Army cavalry were galloping on horseback. The street had been cleared of irrelevant people, and ordinary people stood on both sides, witnessing this scene.

This was Su Yuan's order. He told the people in the afternoon so that they could all see with their own eyes how he was going to deal with those imperial officials who had committed such heinous crimes.

Now is the time to reveal it.

Hundreds of cavalry rumbled forward, and the faces of the court officials who were tied up in the middle of the long street showed a look of horror, some of which were distorted. They realized what was about to happen, that the traitor Su Yuan actually wanted them to

In front of the common people of the capital, he was trampled to death by a racing horse!

"No, stop it!"

"You can't do this!

"

The sounds of begging for mercy and curses were heard endlessly, but no one paid attention to it, and Su Yuan just watched indifferently in the crowd.

The cavalry approached, and under the powerful momentum, a mass of blood energy burst out in the middle of the long street with a "peng" sound. This was followed by the sound of "kakakaka", which was the sound of bones breaking and shattering.

The common people stared wide-eyed, looking at the tragic situation of those once arrogant guys under the hoofs of horses, and they felt extremely happy in their hearts! They waved and applauded.

Tianjie trampled all the bones of the minister, but Su Yuan felt that it was not enough. This was only part of it, and some others who should have suffered this fate escaped by boat. This made him very dissatisfied, and he was determined to make them all suffer sooner or later.

Taste the feeling of having your bones broken under a horse's hoof.

The imperial officials in the center of the long street have already stopped moving. Just one round trip for a few hundred cavalrymen is enough to kill all of them. What's more, the cavalrymen have to race back and forth for three rounds in total. No matter how hard the bones are, they will be trampled on.

No way.

After the cavalry left, many people looked at the mess with tears in their eyes.

Naturally, they were not crying for these dead court officials, but for the relatives and friends who died in the fire. On the one hand, they were mourning them, and on the other hand, they were crying for the hatred that they thought could not be repaid. At this moment

Being released to their heart's content makes them feel happy and relaxed.
Chapter completed!