"Oh?" A pair of eyebrows went up and down. Li Mu looked at Pang Juan who was sweating profusely and asked word by word: "Pang Juan, I'm inviting Mr. Jia into the palace. Why are you nervous?"
"Ah? My... I'm not... not nervous!" Seeing Li Mu's gloomy eyes, Pang Juan replied tremblingly while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Isn't this called being nervous?"
An intriguing smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were darker than before. Li Mu stared at Pang Juan for a long time with this face.
After a long time, Li Mu suddenly put away the gloom in his eyes, smiled broadly and said: "I was just joking with you. How can I, a person whose legs have not been buried in loess, bother a person who has already buried his nose in loess?
people."
Before Pang Juan could recover from these words, Li Mu spoke to him again: "This man, the older he gets, the less he can work, otherwise it will be a labor of life instead of a mind. So he asked Jia Shangfu to take care of himself in his house.
Year."
A few drops of cold sweat trickled down his forehead. Just when Pang Juan was about to raise his sleeves to wipe the sweat from his forehead, Li Mu suddenly raised his hand to press his shoulders.
The smile that aroused at the corner of his mouth got even worse, and in the midst of it, Li Mu suddenly said to Pang Juan: "Pang Juan, you think so."
"Yes...yes...that's what your majesty said." Feeling the strength from his shoulders, Pang Juan's body began to tremble uncontrollably as he avoided Li Mu's sharp eyes, which were as sharp as cold knives.
"It is said that good birds choose trees to rest in, and good ministers choose their masters to serve. I am also a big tree, and I can be considered luxuriant in my growth, but why do those people prefer to live under the big tree Wang Mang rather than choose me? Seriously.
don't know."
Shaking his head and patting Pang Juan heavily on the shoulder, Li Mu walked towards Shen Xindian with a look of helplessness.
Others had already entered the palace, but Pang Juan stood there as if he had been immobilized.
At this moment, Pang Juan's mind was constantly flooded with what Li Mu had just said to him. The more these words surged in his mind, the more frightened Pang Juan became.
People stand inside the temple, but their hearts wander outside the temple.
"is it him?"
It was not so much a test of Pang Juan as it was Li Mu giving him a chance to make a new choice.
If Pang Juan really has no problem, then what he just said to Pang Juan These words are just idle words from his heart.
And the fundamental reason why Li Mu really doesn’t doubt Pang Juan is Deng Ai!
Because, at the moment when those black-armored troops swung their cold knives at him, he really saw from the corner of his eye that Deng Ai was already fighting for him.
What does it mean for Deng Ai to fight for him? It means that he will inevitably attract Wang Mang's anger.
When Wang Mang becomes angry, Deng Ai will undoubtedly die.
If Pang Juan really had a problem, why would he recommend Deng Ai to him?
Isn't this contradictory?
However, judging from Pang Juan's expression just now, he seems to have some problems.
Rubbing his somewhat heavy eyelids, Li Mu suddenly shouted to Pang Juan, who was standing motionless outside the hall, "What are you still doing there? Go and boil a bucket of hot water for me."
The first thing Wang Mang did when he returned home was to have the bodies of the ten "black-armored guards" hung on the most conspicuous place in the city.
He did this in order to use these ten corpses to deter those young people who were hiding in the city and harboring evil intentions.
As for the "survivor" whose hands and feet were chopped off, Wang Mang also ordered Ning Cheng to be interrogated publicly in the street tomorrow.
What does this public interrogation mean?
Ning Cheng is a smart man, he knows everything right.
At the end of the night, when the anxious officials and people welcomed the first ray of dawn from the horizon, the black-armored guards who had been guarding the whole night also left one after another.
Without the black-armored guards guarding the door, the three loyal sages, Shang Yang, Chao Cuo, and Xiao He, rushed out of their respective homes as soon as possible.
After rushing out of the house, they rushed towards the palace in unison.
Today, the palace gate is closed. Deng Ai, Wang Jian, and Ran Min stand in front of the palace gate with one man in charge.
Looking up are the feathered eagle guards who are holding their bows and strings, and looking down are the five men in armor.
There is no need to look for anyone to ask, this formation alone explains everything.
"
Your Majesty! I want to see Your Majesty! Get out of my way!"
Shang Yang had clearly seen the battles at the palace gate, but he still rushed into the arms of Deng Ai and the others at the risk of his life.
Shang Yang was still like this, not to mention Chao Cuo, Xiao He and those loyal and wise people who came after him.
"Get out of my way, I'll see you as you wish."
Ran Min's tiger body trembled, he lifted Shang Yang up like a chicken and threw him back into the crowd.
Shang Yang fell into the crowd, Chao Cuo, Xiao He shouted "Your Majesty, Your Majesty" with anger and rushed into the arms of Deng Ai and the other five people.
But seeing how stubborn these sour scholars were, Huang Shi simply took off a pair of meteor hammers from his neck, and then smashed them on the ground.
Two big holes were made in the ground, and with the power of the aftermath, Chao Cuo and Xiao He staggered under their feet.
"I will say it again, Your Majesty is ill today and will not go to court or see his ministers. If you have anything to report to Your Majesty, please go to the General's Mansion to report to the General."
"If we don't invite you, we have to see His Majesty! If we don't see Your Majesty today, we won't leave."
Although he was afraid of Huang Shi's magical power, Chao Cuo still shouted to Huang Shi.
"You won't leave until you see His Majesty?"
With a glare, Bai Qi put a pair of meteor hammers on his shoulders and said: "If you don't leave, you won't leave. Who are you trying to scare? But Your Majesty, it's up to you whether you leave or not. This breakfast and lunch Your Majesty has designated that you don’t care.”
"Yeah?" But after hearing Bai Qi's weird words, Xiao He suddenly grabbed Chao Cuo and lowered his voice and said to him: "Brother Chao, please don't be impulsive again."
After saying this to Chao Cuo, Xiao He also stopped and raised his eyes to Deng Ai and asked: "Dare you ask this general, the queen..."
"The queen is fine and is still in the palace. If Xiao Jianshu wants to know the whole story of last night, he can go to the valley in the south of the city. Today, Tingwei Ningcheng will interrogate an important criminal there on the street under the order of the general."
"You want to commit a crime? Why do you want to commit a crime?" But after hearing what Deng Ai said, Shang Yang also got up and asked Deng Ai loudly.
"Are you blind? Didn't you see it when you ran over? Now turn around, raise your eyes, stand on tiptoes, and look to the highest place to the west."< br>
But after hearing what Ran Min said, Shang Yang and other loyal and wise men all turned around and looked towards the west of the city.
The sun has illuminated the sky and the earth.
Against the somewhat dazzling sunlight, they saw several blurry figures on the rooftop in the west of the city.
These vague figures swayed back and forth under the top of the stage like slightly thicker willow branches in spring.
"It's... it's a person..."
There were a few people with good eyesight in the crowd who had already seen clearly what was hanging on the rooftop.
It was precisely because they saw it clearly that they were frightened and trembled inside.
In broad daylight, ten corpses were swaying in the high wind on the rooftop, exposed to the sun.
"You have seen it all! That is the fate of assassinating His Majesty and the Queen. It was also the general's kindness that he left their whole bodies intact. If it were me, I would chop them all into pieces and feed them to the dogs."
"Okay... assassinate His Majesty?"
His Adam's apple was squirming desperately. During the squirming, Xiao He suddenly turned around and looked at Ran Min and asked: "Just now you said that Ning Cheng was going to interrogate a key criminal in the grain farm in the south of the city? This key criminal is..."
"Hey, I can't tell you are quite smart." Interrupting Xiao He's question, Ran Min puffed up his chest and said, "You guessed it right, this important criminal is their accomplice hanging above."
But after hearing what Ran Min said, Xiao He suddenly turned towards Shang Yang, and Chao Cuo shouted: "Hurry, follow me to the grain farm in the south of the city!"
Following Xiao He's shout, the noise at the palace gate immediately ceased.
Watching Xiao He take Shang Yang, Chao Cuo and others to leave, Deng Ai, who was standing under the palace gate, no longer looked solemn as before, but had a sad look on his face.
He had never underestimated Wang Mang, but Wang Mang's thunderous behavior after returning home still deeply shocked him.
Everything done under the city gate today was also Wang Mang's order.
It was Wang Mang who asked Chao Cuo, Shang Yang and other loyal sages to go to the grain farm in the south of the city to watch the trial. It was said to be a trial, but in fact it was to watch the execution.
And this is Wang Mang’s real intention!
He wants to use this torture viewing to destroy some people's hearts.