Chapter 65 How can you try a knife with a child who is not ready
"It's Xiaotao." Luo Changan heard the voice and hurriedly walked outside the house. Looking back, Di Qianao's figure became blurry in her misty eyes.
This was the last look, she was just a passerby in his life, forgotten in a blink of an eye, but she left his sight with her entire miserable world. From then on, she died with hatred, while he continued to sing and dance in peace.
In the yard, Nighthawk was sharpening the guillotine with a huge whetstone, muttering in his mouth, "The emperor is a wise emperor who has never been seen before. The death penalty has been abandoned for a long time, and the guillotine is rusty. It took me half a night to sharpen it.
It's extremely sharp. Xiao Tao, come here and lie on the blade, let me try the knife."
Xiao Tao burst into tears and her legs became weak, "No, I don't want it... I'm so scared. I'm only twelve years old, how can you try a knife on a child who doesn't have hairpins?"
Nighthawk was stunned. What Xiao Tao said made sense. It is indeed illegal to use a minor to test the knife, but except for Xiao Tao, I don't have the guts to do it to anyone else.
Aunt Mei is fierce and vicious, Luo Changan is gentle, but the emperor behind Luo Changan is simply bloody and cruel. In summary, I can only bully minors.
Aunt Mei hugged Xiao Tao, patted her back and whispered: "Don't cry, Aunt Mei is here."
Xiao Tao even swallowed: "Aunt Mei, I don't want to die. My father and mother raised me so big and expected me to be successful. I didn't expect that my aunt would be quite gentle at the critical moment."
Nighthawk cleared her throat, "If Xiao Tao doesn't come, then Aunt Mei will come and try the knife first?"
Well, look at Aunt Mei's murderous look, no wonder no one dares to marry her in her late thirties.
Aunt Mei pushed Xiaotao behind her and cooperated with Nighthawk, saying in a deep voice: "If you really want to have an operation, let me, the leader of the slaves, do it. They made mistakes because I was not good at teaching them."
Nighthawk breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Mei Guan for giving him face. Wuwu, he sternly ordered the soldiers: "Go and pull Mei Guan over! Cut him to the waist!"
As she was speaking, two soldiers grabbed her arms.
Seeing this, Luo Changan recalled in her mind how helpless she was when her parents and younger brother were killed. This scene of farewell made her cry, and it easily aroused her belief in protection. She
Desperately, he rushed in front of Aunt Mei and Xiao Tao, and spread his arms to block Aunt Mei and Xiao Tao behind him. "Don't touch them. I am responsible for my work. No matter whether I steal or not, it has nothing to do with them."
The two soldiers' hands that were half-stretched paused in the air and looked at each other, thinking that this was the first girl the emperor had brought to the barracks. Last night everyone in the barracks was talking about how their cold-faced emperor actually had a gentle side.
Although this girl has an ordinary face, her eyes are so cute. No wonder the emperor locked her up in the room when she was brought in, and did not bring her out to introduce her to everyone.
Nighthawk akimbo, are you kidding me? Do I have the guts to let Luo Changan lie on the guillotine? The emperor is not allowed to kill me with his own hands. He said seriously: "No, first come, first served, chop Xiaotao or Aunt Mei first. Luo Changan, don't jump in line."
Why don't you two bring me here? I've already opened the guillotine, why are you so stunned?"
Luo Changan said coldly: "Nighthawk, I originally thought you were a person with a sense of justice. It turns out that you are the same from top to bottom! I was wrong about you!"
Nighthawk bit his lip: "!!"
It's over, Luo Changan not only misunderstood the emperor's character, she also misunderstood the people, animals, plants, and even the air around him. It seemed that all creatures within a hundred miles of the emperor were evil forces.
The two soldiers heard the sound, reached out and grabbed Xiao Tao's arms, and pulled Xiao Tao onto the guillotine.
Xiao Tao screamed in fright, hugging Luo Changan's waist and refusing to let go, "Sister Chang'an, save me, sister Chang'an, save me."
Luo Changan also burst into tears. He tightly held onto Xiao Tao's clothes and refused to let go, his palms filled with cold sweat.
I am like a drop in the ocean, my hatred and dreams will end today under this cold guillotine! How unwilling!
At this critical moment, someone at the entrance of the barracks shouted loudly: "According to the Queen Mother's words, save people under the sword!"
Nighthawk breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The Queen Mother's people were too slow. It was only twenty miles from the palace to the barracks. They actually had to run in the middle of the night to get there. If Luo Changan jumped on the guillotine, he wouldn't know how to proceed.
, you can’t say, ‘Chang’an, please wait a moment, the Queen Mother’s people haven’t arrived yet’, right~.
Nighthawk pretended to be frightened, holding a guillotine in his hand, and said loudly: "Eunuch Haiyin, why are Aunt Jixiang, a close confidant of the Queen Mother, here! That was sent by the emperor's mother! I am really panicked, what should we do?
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Haiyin secretly stared at Nighthawk, thinking that this kid's acting skills were exaggerated and he used too much force, "Don't be impatient."
The soldiers stopped pulling Xiao Tao. Luo Changan firmly protected Mei Guan and Xiao Tao behind him, and then he looked towards the direction of the visitor with anxiety in his heart, thinking that his life was no longer in danger for the time being.
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Jixiang rushed forward panting, and after traveling twenty miles along the official road, she was out of breath, covering her heart and said: "Humph, if I hadn't come, would you still have remembered the Queen Mother's existence? If I had come a moment later,
, you just killed the people in the harem without telling the Queen Mother!"
Old God Haiyin was there, clasping his hands and saying: "We are executing these people by beheading them in half on the orders of the Emperor. But I have not forgotten the existence of the Queen Mother in my heart!"
"Order of the emperor? I have only heard of the emperor ordering to send out troops to fight, but I have never heard of the emperor ordering the slaves in the harem to be beheaded. It is so elegant for an emperor to be in charge of both the front dynasty and the harem." Jixiang is a first-class female official beside the Queen Mother.
, speaking with a certain dignity, she raised the Queen Mother's decree in her hand and said: "Please come out and listen to the Queen Mother's decree."
Haiyin quickly said: "Yes."
Just as he was about to enter the house to invite the Emperor, he saw the Emperor stepping out of the house, his clothes fluttering, and his cold eyes gazing at the situation in the courtyard.
"What are your instructions, Queen Mother?"
His eyes fell on Luo Changan.
Luo Changan straightened his back. Although he was extremely weak, he used his own life to protect the two people behind him. He couldn't help but feel a movement in his heart. He was shocked more than once by the powerful power that the weak woman burst out. It was a kind of contagious power.
The power of others makes people believe that there is still light of kindness and purity in the darkness.
Jixiang bowed forward and saluted the emperor: "The Queen Mother asked her slave to bring a message to the emperor. She heard that the emperor's slave in the Long Palace stole something from the Yuliu Palace. The emperor made the decision for the Xi concubine in the Yuliu Palace and left to deal with it privately.
In this way, these slaves were sentenced to be cut in half. The Queen Mother thought that this was inappropriate, as doing so would damage the emperor's reputation, and she wanted to personally try the case."
Di Qianao raised his eyebrows, "I would rather harm my reputation to protect my woman, what's wrong with that?"
Except for Luo Changan, who felt bitterness creeping into his mouth because of these words, Haiyin, Mei Guan, and Ye Ying all knew that it was not Xi Concubine whom the emperor was protecting at the expense of his own reputation.