Yueyue looked up and saw a man and a woman fighting each other not far away. The woman was slim and beautiful, with pear blossoms in the rain. The man was none other than Mr. Pan who had been stabbed a thousand times.
Du Ruotong turned around to leave, but Yueyue grabbed her: "Ruotong! Based on my experience, I should go up and ask for details now. Follow me."
When they got closer, the two people were still pulling and crying selflessly. Yueyue couldn't help but call out loudly: "Young Master!"
Both of them froze. The evil young man broke away from the entangled hand of the woman, glanced at Yueyue and Ruotong, and asked coldly: "Is something wrong?"
Ruotong lowered his head and said nothing.
Yueyue asked straight to the point: "Who is this girl?"
"It has nothing to do with you." The evil young man replied expressionlessly.
Yueyue felt that he looked strange today and asked her: "When will you go to Du Mansion to propose marriage? Didn't you agree to go within a few days?"
"Pretend I never said it." He said something lightly, which made Du Ruotong feel like a thunderbolt hit her head.
"What did you say? I've already told my father!" Ruotong's tears of grievance suddenly welled up in his eyes.
He glanced at the corner of his mouth and sneered: "Du Ruotong, you are so stupid! Do you believe what the bad boy says?"
Ruotong took a deep breath and held back the tears: "In other words, you are really teasing me?"
He tensed his chin, and there were waves in his eyes: "Yes, you really should look in the mirror..."
"Pa—" Before he could finish his sentence, Ruotong's palm struck his face. He remained silent and let the burning palm prints appear on his cheek.
"Asshole." Ruotong gritted his teeth and cursed coldly, then walked away without looking back.
Yueyue witnessed all this and didn't come back to her senses for a long time. In the end, she couldn't help but cursed: "Are you crazy?" After saying that, she chased in the direction of Du Ruotong.
After running all the way to the Luo River, Du Ruotong stopped and looked at the cold Luo River water, with despair in his eyes: "Don't comfort me, I'm used to it. I've been doing this since I was a child. A woman like me is stupid and stupid.
If I'm not cute, how could any man want to marry me? I was too stupid to believe him."
Yueyue felt that any words of comfort were hollow at this moment: "It will be better if you cry. If you don't want me to see you, I will wait for you over there." As soon as she finished speaking, Ruotong's tear-stained face pressed against hers.
shoulders.
"Oh, cry. Although men are unreliable, at least you still have a woman like me by your side." She patted Ruotong's back and comforted her softly.
The winter wind carried the water from the Luo River and hit my face with a biting coldness, like a girl's first love that failed to blossom and bear fruit.
Two nights later, Gu Zhongyi's daughter and future son-in-law came to the prison to see him for the last time.
No matter how much his daughter begged and begged, Gu Zhongyi insisted that he was the Dongdu Xia. His daughter and future son-in-law almost believed it.
The future son-in-law is really a talented young man. Seeing that although his father-in-law is poor, he has a free and easy spirit that is willing to accept death. He can't help but kneel down and swear: "Father-in-law, don't worry, my son will take good care of Xiaoying in the future. No matter what, you will always be the best."
Our pride."
In the eyes of the people, Dongdu Xia is a good person and a hero.
But in the court, this Dongdu Xia was a murderous devil. In just two years, he killed three officials. Although they were all officials below the fourth rank, they all had considerable backgrounds. Otherwise, they would not be able to be greedy.
It was so abominable that Dongdu Xia couldn't help but kill him.
For example, the youngest daughter of Lou Zhixian was married to the then emperor's cousin, General Wei Tingyue, as a concubine.
Now that the Dongdu Xia was in trouble, he was going to be executed the next day. Wei Tingyue personally went to Beijing to meet the emperor to thank the emperor for his great kindness. In fact, he was secretly trying to help the emperor, not to let the thief go regardless of the wishes of the people.
After finally getting rid of the nagging Wei Tingyue, the emperor had some late-night snacks. Seeing that it was already getting late, he decided to drive back to his palace to take a beauty sleep.
Along the way, the emperor did not forget to complain to Tong Guiren: "Eunuch Tong, look at Wei Tingyue, he has been here for a few hours and he has made me upset. I don't know how his wives can survive facing him every day.
"
Tong Guiren couldn't help but laugh. This General Wei was really verbose, and even he couldn't bear it, let alone the emperor: "Hey, the emperor doesn't like the excitement?"
The emperor shook his head and complained: "It's not that I don't like fun, it's just that I can't stand a grown man chattering all day long. Among the boys below, the one I like the most is the son of Zhao Xiong's family. He usually keeps silent.
At critical moments, I am very reliable." When he thought of Zhao Changyuan, his face covered in blood, desperately guarding the door of the dormitory to protect their family, and even when he was about to die, he still begged Guo Chongxi not to hurt the princes, the emperor was so moved that he wanted to kill him.
He took him home and raised him as his son.
As soon as he heard the emperor praising the man in his heart, Eunuch Tong felt very complicated and his voice became a little unnatural: "General Zhao is indeed a top-notch person, but in my opinion, Master Pan's eldest son is also a rare talent.
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The emperor said disapprovingly: "Pan Zhuqing? I also know that he is smart and calm, but sometimes, he is too calm and makes people unpredictable. I like simple people, and that is the case with Zhao Changyuan. Well, the second son of the Yang family, Yang Jinyi
The same is true, I like these two boys very much."
The holy driver walked slowly along the palace wall. It was dark inside and outside the palace, with only the dots of palace lanterns and the lights in the hands of the palace people shining brightly.
The emperor was sitting on the throne, already drowsy and about to fall asleep. He felt that the row of palace lights in front of him was suddenly cut by a black shadow. He thought it was because he was dazzled, but when he looked carefully, he saw a figure coming from top to bottom.
From far to near, they swooped in front of him like a bat, stretched out their palms and headed straight for his face.
He shouted for help. Only then did the boy's father-in-law and the accompanying guards also see the black figure, and they were frightened and hurriedly escorted him.
But the black shadow did not stay too long, and without even making a single move, it quickly stepped on the heads of the guards, rushed straight towards the palace wall, and disappeared into the dark night.
The emperor had experienced the last catastrophe, and he was already in a state of despair. He was so frightened that his whole body went limp and he collapsed on the sedan chair. All the guards were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.
The man in black clearly slapped the emperor, but he did not feel any pain or discomfort. He only felt that something seemed to be stuck on his forehead. The frightened father-in-law helped him remove the foreign object from his forehead, and saw that it was an envelope.
Then he submitted it back.
With the help of the lights in the hands of everyone, the emperor opened the envelope with trembling hands, and a neat line of regular script appeared on the paper: "Gu Zhongyi Luohe was imprisoned unjustly, and the heroes of Dongdu asked the saints for justice!"
The emperor hurriedly ordered Tong Guiren: "Quickly, find me the evidence that Dongdu Xia left behind when he committed the crime before!" Then he slumped down on the cushion again, and after being silent for a long time, he shouted: "Dongdu Xia? It's so big.
courage!"
The Royal Forest Army also heard the sound and came, clamoring to capture the assassin.
But at this moment, the man in black had already successfully got out of the palace, ran for several miles, found a corner and peeled off his black robe.
When he walked into the street again, he was already a handsome man in gorgeous clothes and jade belt.
"Mr. sir, is everything going well?" As soon as he jumped on the carriage, lifted the curtain and went in, Gong Yueyue's face, which was so nervous that it was frozen, instantly regained its warmth.
Zhao Changyuan sat next to her and wrapped her in his arms: "Don't worry, it's going well. Let's go back to Luoyang now."
"Look, is it written by one person?" the emperor spread all the notes in front of them and asked.
Everyone looked left and right, and finally unanimously concluded: "It is indeed the handwriting of the same person."
The emperor was so angry that he couldn't speak. Eunuch Tong was very surprised: "Oh no, isn't this Dongdu Xia locked in the prison of Luoyang City and will be executed today? How could he break into the palace at night and offend the emperor?"
The emperor also held his forehead in thought for a long time, and finally raised his head: "Eunuch Tong, go to Luoyang quickly and order them to save people under the knife!"
The servants of the Zhao Mansion in Luoyang City were very busy today. After waiting on their masters to go out, they asked for leave from Mrs. Liu and rushed to the execution ground to see off the popular Dongdu Xia.
Before leaving the house, Tian Hai was stopped by the confused Sixth Aunt and asked: "Tian Hai, who is Dongdu Xia? Why is he so famous?"
Tian Hai said: "Mrs. Han, this is the result of your not coming to Luoyang for a long time. The most popular person here is this robber."
"Okay, okay, you go and send him off. It's so pitiful that he has to be beheaded at his old age."
"Hey, kids, please leave."
Fortunately, Han Chenglie was transferred back to Kaifeng by the emperor's order to take charge of the security work of the palace. If she stayed at the border again, her sixth aunt would really become a country bumpkin who knew nothing. When her husband packed up his belongings and rushed back, she would go with him
I moved to Kaifeng. In the future, I will have many opportunities to get together with my eldest sister and her family, and I will be able to get along with my good friend Gong Yueyue. Thinking of these, my sixth aunt is very happy.
Gu Zhongyi's prison car set off from the magistrate's Yamen Prison and had a difficult journey. It was blocked by people who came to see him off.
The common people are not fools, and they are half-confident about the identity of the old man in the prison car. These days, everyone has been discussing this matter after tea and dinner. Most people believe that Gu Zhongyi is not a Dongdu knight, but a righteous man who takes the blame for the thieves.
Even so, he is still a respectable person, so I took the time to come and see him off today.
Some of these people were Gu Zhongyi's old acquaintances. They usually despised him for being poor and rarely interacted with him. But now they joined the crowd in silently sending off this man who impressed them all.
The common people did not deliberately block the prison car, but there were too many people, which inevitably led to chaos. Pan Zhuqing had the foresight to ask Master Song to report to the emperor in advance, and seconded a group of forbidden troops under Yang Jinyi to push the common people to both sides of the road and knock them down along the way.
Incidents of stampeding and crying continued one after another, and the prisoner was finally brought to the execution ground in time.
Zhao Changyuan and Gong Yueyue met Du Ruotong in the crowd, and the three of them finally squeezed together.
The execution time was getting closer and closer, and Zhao Changyuan felt more and more uneasy. If the time came and the people in the palace had not arrived yet, the only option would be to dispatch Xiao Jun who was hiding in the dark and waiting for an opportunity. Thinking of this, he
He raised his head and looked at Xiao Jun, who was sitting by the window upstairs and wearing a bamboo hat.
"I don't know if I'm too nervous, but I'm hungry again." Gong Yueyue's stomach growled exaggeratedly.
Du Ruotong touched her flat belly: "Maybe you stood for too long."
Zhao Changyuan on the side put his hand into his cloak and touched it for a long time, and unexpectedly took out a bag of chicken buns.
Gong Yueyue's eyes lit up, she swallowed and was about to reach out to grab it, but he stopped her and handed her a handkerchief: "Wipe your hands first." (To be continued)