Villain, be good! I'm here to give birth to a baby [Quick Wear]

"Before your plum blossom hairpin was lost, I thought I was doing nothing in this prison, so I tried to make one with a knife. Wood is easy to get, so it's not very valuable, and it doesn't look very good."

Yang Li nervously told the whole story.

This hairpin is really ugly, it hasn't been polished yet and it's prickly to the touch.

So he didn't dare to give it to her, and wanted to take advantage of this last bit of time to polish the hairpin.

Lin Qingyan knew this when she heard Yang Li's later thoughts. What she had asked the coachman to hide from Yang Li before was not hidden from him at all.

At that time, Yang Li was blind and was afraid that the hairpin she bought could not be restored to the original one, so she simply took the carving knife and carved on the wood bit by bit based on her memory, which is why there are so many knife marks on her hands.

【This hairpin is very beautiful. 】

[I will keep it safe.]

Lin Qingyan walked towards him and smiled slightly.

Yang Li hesitated for a while before inserting the plum blossom hairpin into her hair.

Before Yang Li could speak again, Yang Li and the jailer came hurriedly over and said, "Someone else is here to look for my brother, Miss Lin, we must leave quickly now!"

The time was so short that Lin Qingyan didn't even have time to say goodbye before she was pulled out of the cell by Yang Li.

The cell door was locked again. She looked back and saw Yang Li waving at her, silently saying goodbye.

In a trance, it seemed as if they had returned to the first time they met in their previous life.

Yang Li pointed him in a direction and told him to return along the original route.

However, the reality was that she was pulled out by Yang Li, and followed Yang Li out of the prison, hiding in the carriage waiting outside, watching another group of people walk in.

Lin Qingyan recognized the middle-aged man standing at the front of the group. He was her father. She didn't understand why he suddenly came to find Yang Li.

Yang Li beside her had the same idea as her. He asked in confusion: "I don't remember that my brother had any contact with the Lin family. Why did the son-in-law of the Lin family come to my brother now?"

Yang Li didn't understand, so he turned to look at Lin Qingyan, noticed the wooden hairpin on her head, and asked curiously, "Is this what my brother gave you just now? It's so ugly, why did he give you such an ugly hairpin?"

He felt that any hairpin he bought for a few cents outside would be better looking than this one, and he didn't understand why his brother would give someone such an ugly hairpin.

Lin Qingyan: [……]

She chose to ignore his words.

Yang Li didn't get angry when she ignored him again, and continued to ask, "Are you going to go in and see your brother later?"

Lin Qingyan shook her head.

Yang Li was surprised and asked, "Just disappeared? You didn't spend much time together just now, why don't you say goodbye properly? My brother will be executed in a few days, and you will never see him again."

Lin Qingyan still shook her head.

Originally she wanted to say goodbye properly, but after walking out, she didn't really want to go back in.

"Then do you want to go and watch my brother's execution? He will be beheaded in public, with the whole city watching. After that, the head will be hung in the downtown area, and the body will be thrown there and whipped. You'd better not go..."

"Of course, I will try my best to let my brother die with dignity."

Yang Li kindly reminded her, hoping that she wouldn't go over there and be sad.

Lin Qingyan said she understood.

The carriage slowly drove away.

Yang Li sent her to a remote courtyard, and Wang Lian walked out.

Lin Qingyan got out of the car and followed Wang Lian in. This was a temporary place arranged by Wang Lian to stay. In a few days, she would have to take her children away from here.

The child, who had not been named yet, was sleeping in a cradle in the room.

Next to the cradle, there was a guqin and a white jade flute.

Wang Lian explained: "The Ninth Prince said that they cannot take these two things away, so I brought them with me when I took the child out of the palace."

"The guqin was given to you by Jiu Qiansui, so you can take it with you when you leave. But the flute is not yours. Jiu Qiansui asked me to find Lord Li Li and return his things."

It turned out to be the case.

Lin Qingyan nodded. This was indeed what someone of Yang Li's personality would do.

Wang Lian added: "Before you leave here, you'd better not go out too much, and wear a veil when you go out, so as not to be recognized by others."

Lin Qingyan nodded.

Wang Lian wanted to say something but stopped herself, but couldn't help but remind her: "You'd better not go out on the day of Jiu Qiansui's execution."

Lin Qingyan continued to nod.

The most common action she did today was nodding.

Wang Lian didn't know whether she had listened to him or not, but he had said everything he should have said.

……

The twelfth lunar month.

It snowed heavily and the weather was cold that day.

However, an execution ground was surrounded by crowds of people, just because today was the day of execution of the treacherous minister Yang Li.

Even though it was snowing heavily, everyone had a smile on their face. It was lively and festive, and everyone was celebrating the arrival of this day.

"This dog eunuch is finally going to die! What a good death!"

"I heard there will be a corpse whipping later, which is really satisfying. For this reason, I specially brought a lot of rotten tomatoes from home, waiting to smash this damn eunuch to death when the time comes."

"He deserves it! Evil deeds will be punished. God has opened his eyes and let people like him get their retribution. He also caused the previous corrupt officials who I have long disliked to get their retribution as well."

In the crowded crowd, there was a woman wearing a white veil standing there calmly, not saying a word.

This person was Lin Qingyan. In her previous life, she was busy making a living and did not see the execution of Yang Li. She only heard about it from others, but now she wanted to come and see Yang Li.

Ever since she realized that she was powerless, she had become calmer and calmer these days. All she wanted now was to see Yang Li complete the last part of his life with her own eyes.

Following the eunuch's shout, Yang Li came out in prison clothes. He was tied up with thick ropes and followed by two big men.

"The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims: Yang Li, a guilty minister, has committed numerous crimes. His evil deeds are too numerous to list. Heaven cannot tolerate his crimes. He deserves death..."

While the eunuch was reading the imperial edict, Yang Li walked towards the execution platform step by step.

His expression was calm, and when he was kneeling on the ground, someone took a piece of white cloth to cover his eyes, covering his unusual grey eyes.

Perhaps this was the greatest respect Yang Li had ever won for him.

After the eunuch finished reading the imperial edict, the supervising officer drew out the beheading token and threw it out: "The time has come, behead!"

As the voice fell, the knife rose.

The knife fell, the head fell.

Almost in the blink of an eye, it was all over.

After seeing this scene, Lin Qingyan completely gave up the obsession in her heart.

[I can't save you, but I respect your choice. ]

But the only thing she could be thankful for was that Yang Li's death would not be too painful, because the pill she fed Yang Li was called Anle Pill, which meant that it would make people feel peaceful at the moment of death.

She thought she wouldn't need this, but she did.

Just like she had previously thought that Yang Li was a gray crane, but it was not until she saw him die with her own eyes and looked at the prison uniform on the execution platform that she suddenly realized that he was a white crane.

This is a white crane stained with wind and frost. The word "prisoner" on his clothes is the evaluation given to him by the world.

Just like the cheers these people burst into after his death.

They thought they had killed a black crane.

In fact, they killed a white crane.

Before Yang Li's body was sent to the downtown area, many people could not help but throw things at him, dirtying his prison uniform.

The filth of the world was splashed on him, and he looked like a gray crane, a black crane.

Lin Qingyan thought she would cry, but she couldn't. She just followed the crowd calmly and watched those people insult her and throw dirty things at her.

Maybe it’s because she is mute and has no words to defend herself, so she just doesn’t bother to say anything.

There was no grief as imagined, but instead an unexpected calmness, so calm that even she herself could not believe it.

When the corpse was being whipped in the downtown area, the only thing that affected her emotions was a red bracelet that fell out of the tattered prison uniform and was held in Yang Li's arms.

That was the only thing that truly belonged to Yang Li.

The heavy snow covered the scarred body.

……

The first year of Yong'an was both the beginning and the end of Yong'an.

According to historical records, in the twelfth month of that year, snow fell everywhere, the young emperor abdicated, and the eunuch Yang Li was executed. The new emperor officially ascended the throne in the spring of the following year and changed the reign title to Yongning.