Has Marquis Anping been beaten today?

"I'll kill your fucking bastard! It's really a big joke!" Xie Ci came back to his senses and cursed viciously at the official who announced the decree. !"

The official who announced the decree was Bao Fahu, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment. He was short and fat, with a face full of flesh and sharp eyes. He opened a narrow "blood path" between the fat and flesh.

Baofahu’s ancestors were poor for three generations, and it’s even more difficult in his generation. In the early years, Baofahu and his sisters lived by begging for food. Get rich slowly.

Baofahu never hides his experience of begging for food, and it is because of this that he is not afraid of powerful officials. He does not take in oil and salt, and does not give anyone face. To cross.

Bao Fahu narrowed his small eyes, looked at Xie Ci faintly, and finally passed him, his eyes fell on Xie Tingyuan, and said: "Please let the prince go with the officials."

"No way!" Xie Ci didn't care about the wild boar staring at him, and without even thinking about it, he sternly reprimanded, "What kind of messed-up decree are you declaring? What do you mean by mutilating the people of Plaice Village? Why don't they just stay in the house?" ? Didn’t you see that my father and I are here to deal with the wild boar? You are not dead yet, so you are so anxious to talk nonsense? Do you want me to give you a ride?”

"Presumptuous!" Baofahu cast a cold glance and thanked him, "Young prince dares to question your majesty's will, you are contemptuous of imperial power!"

"You have the guts to take out the imperial decree, if you do."

Before he finished his words of thanks, he saw a bright yellow scroll appearing in front of his eyes. The content on it made him shudder, and he couldn't help shaking: "Nonsense, it's just nonsense!"

"My father and I are here to drive wild boars, but they are all hiding in the house. How could they die? If you don't believe me, go and see them."

Xie Ci said while pointing to the houses behind him, but he saw the soldiers carrying out corpses one after another, and they exuded a stench. Some of them were already covered with maggots, as if they had been dead for a long time.

Xie Ci looked for the nearest corpse, and recognized that it was Liu Hai from his face that hadn't completely decomposed.

But Liu Hai bragged to them last night about his experience of fighting wild boars, and then his wife grabbed his ears and took him home. How could he die?

"How is this possible?!" Xie Ci's eyes widened in disbelief, his steps were a little staggered, he couldn't help but took a few steps back, and muttered to himself, "He obviously drank with us last night! Then the wild boar came, Did you see that?"

Bao Fahu looked in the direction Xie Ci pointed at, and saw a piece of flat land. The wild boar couldn't see it, but the gold, silver and jewels were scattered all over the ground, shining brightly under the sunlight.

"What the hell is going on?!" Xie Ci was even more confused, his eyes turned black, and Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out.

They were obviously a group of ferocious wild boars, but why did they turn into these yellow and white things in an instant?

A few dark heads protruded from the surrounding field ridges one after another. They were people from the nearby villages who heard the news and came to watch the excitement.

"Everyone has been dead for more than half a month." Baofahu looked at Xie Ci blankly, "Except for one survivor, everyone in this village is dead."

"This morning, a girl went to the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to beat the drums to express her grievances, saying that King Rui took the opportunity to make money in the name of repairing the house, and finally murdered her. I don't believe it, but the girl did not hesitate to die, even though she was saved by Chen Yaoshi. , there is no danger of life. But this matter has already alarmed the king, and it is absolutely impossible to let it go."

"Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidence, what is there for the young prince to argue?"

"Impossible! Who the hell cares about this little money!"

"Let's go."

Two voices came out at the same time.

"Father!" Xie Ci looked at Xie Tingyuan in astonishment.

Xie Tingyuan smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, and said, "Go, see if your mother is still inside, so I can send her home."

"I'll go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice with you!" Xie Ci shook his head, grabbed Xie Tingyuan's arm tightly, and said angrily, "You are clearly wronged, I want to see what kind of blind thing did this trick. "

"What about your mother?" Xie Tingyuan rarely lowered his face, looked at Xie Ci with displeasure, and said coldly, "Be good, go and see if she is still inside."

"But..." Xie Ci hesitated.

"What can I do?" Xie Tingyuan patted Xie Ci's shoulder softly, took out a lavender wreath from his bosom and handed it to him, with a low smile, "Bring this to your mother, she must like it of."

Xie Ci took the wreath tremblingly, and watched as the soldiers behind Baofahu put iron chains on Xie Tingyuan's hands, not only sealing his spiritual power, but also restricting his movements.

Xie Ci's eyes were red, he clenched his hands into fists, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and tried his best to restrain himself from wanting to cut off the iron chain.

"Good boy, go quickly." Xie Tingyuan urged, "Your mother is timid, don't be scared."

There was no way to thank her, so she had to go back three times to find Princess Rui. After searching through several houses, she finally found Princess Rui unconscious beside a dark stove.

Xie Tingyuan was escorted back to Beijing by Bao Fahu and others, but Xie Ci could only take the first step to send Princess Rui back to the Ministry of Punishment.

Unexpectedly, Xie Tingyuan couldn't even step into the gate of the Ministry of Justice, and was surrounded by crowds of people swarming in as soon as he entered the city.

Xie Ci who came after hearing the news was squeezed out several times when he tried to approach, while the officers and soldiers maintaining order had long since disappeared, and Xie Tingyuan was dragged and squeezed into a narrow alley.

Xie Ci was anxious and annoyed, so he could only squeeze into the crowd again.

Everyone pointed at Xie Tingyuan and cursed with indignation, their accents were mixed, many of them were foreigners.

A man with a broken arm leaned on a cane, pointed at Xie Tingyuan, and said angrily: "I am Xu San from Fulu County, Liangcheng. You came to our county to build a reservoir three years ago because you were not given enough money. I just let it go and ignored it, which led to the flood in the end, the reservoir burst its embankment, and dozens of people were drowned. In the end, I pretended to save people and give porridge, which is really disgusting!"

Another woman with disheveled hair rushed out, gritted her teeth and said: "There is also our orange grove in Canglan County, Xuzhou! I hoped to have a good harvest, but the weather was not good. The rain caused the oranges to rot on the trees. It was snatched up. After you learned about it, you happily ran to say that you would help us, but the moment you opened your mouth, you wanted to share with us fifty-fifty. What can we ordinary people do? We can only smash our teeth and swallow it. Come on, everyone Take a look, this is the account book where we collected money at that time, and it recorded everything!"

"So that's it! I've been mistaken on weekdays! It's a pity that I said he is a good person! It's all just pretending!"

"I'll just say it! How can there be such a good person in the world. Using my own money to subsidize others, it turns out that I went to play the autumn wind early!"

"If it wasn't for the girl in Piao Piao Village who escaped death, I don't know when he would be able to take off this mask of hypocrisy. Thinking about what I praised him before, tsk tsk, what a slap in the face."

"A few days ago, he also helped me move the millet. Could it be that he had planned it earlier? It's over, I have to go and see if my millet has been dropped."

……

Xie Tingyuan leaned his back against the wall, quietly listening to everyone's discussion, his face was calm, as if he was an outsider.

"Fart!" Xie Ci, who was halfway through the crowd, trembled with anger when he heard these remarks, and suddenly pushed away the people standing beside him, pointing at Xu San and cursing, "Is it my father who doesn't repair it? You are the ones who cried and said Next to the reservoir is the ancestral grave, you can’t move it, otherwise it will damage Feng Shui! You refused to accept it, and even cut my father with a sickle! He was driven out of the village. In the end, the reservoir burst, and it was you who cried and begged my father to save you !"

"And you!" Xie Ci pointed at the woman, his eyes wide open, "The rain flooded that year, and you just sat aside and cried, doing nothing. It was my father! It was he who brought people to help you harvest oranges." You see that the oranges are rotten, and you cry and want to cut down the orange tree. The specialty of Fulu County is tangerine, and some people even invested their entire wealth in it. If you cut down this orange tree, what hope do you have in the future?"

"My father couldn't bear it, so he used the excuse to sell these oranges to merchants and fruit farmers. In fact, he bought your rotten oranges with his own money! Those oranges were all piled up on the farm in the outskirts of my house, and the smell could be smelled ten miles away. .A month later, he gave you 3 taels of silver, saying he earned it by selling oranges. But who knows that your harvest over the years is less than [-] taels!"

"You kowtowed and said he was a living Bodhisattva! You even gave him a folding fan! I don't need to explain the three characters written on the fan?" As he spoke, Xie Ci felt his throat was blocked. The bottom of my heart is desolate.

The woman dodged her eyes and lowered her head, not daring to look at Xie Ci.

Xie Ci sneered, and continued: "It's a 'good man'! It was written by a respected old gentleman in the county you invited! It is said to thank my father for his kindness. My father never leaves that fan. I want to show off. As for the money, do you have the nerve to say it? It is clear that you each collected it and threw it secretly into my dad’s carriage, but did my dad take it? Did he really take it? He took me and took advantage of it at night. I went to your house after seeing you falling asleep, and returned the money to you intact! I even returned the note you wrote."

"Why! How can you say these ungrateful words? How can you say it! My father is a great hero! He is the best person in the world! Why do you slander him like this!"

Xu San and the woman were blushed and speechless when they were blocked by the thank-you words, but thinking of what the man who found him had promised before, they could only grit their teeth and continue to talk.

First, Xu San said: "The little prince is really sharp-tongued, and you can say what is black can be white. Also, you are the emperor's relatives, and you can say whatever you want. We ordinary people dare not say too much. Since The little prince said that I lied, okay, I lied. It's not that King Rui didn't save us, it's that our lives are cheap and we don't deserve it."

"Yes, yes." The woman also echoed, "My family collected 50 taels of silver and gave it away. It was not given to King Rui, but to ourselves. The account book we keep is just to count when we are bored. money."

"In short, King Rui is a very good person. He is not wrong, he is not wrong at all. He is kind and generous. He is a living Bodhisattva, saving all living beings. He is right in everything he does! We are the ones who are wrong."

……

The two of you talked to each other, with yin and yang, and they incited the people on one side, and they talked about money. Everything that Xie Tingyuan did before was charged with ulterior motives.

"Get out!" Xie Ci watched as a person sneaked around behind Xie Tingyuan, with a cold light reflected in his hands.Xie Ci was startled, shouted angrily, and pushed the man away violently.

The man fell to the ground with a thud, a short knife stuck in his stomach.He clutched the wound in pain, stretched out his finger to thank him, and said in a trembling voice: "Why... why did you... kill... me?"

"I'm not, I didn't!" Xie Ci looked at the man in astonishment, cursing sounded in his ears, a trace of blankness flashed in his eyes, and then he shouted loudly, "I didn't kill him! He wanted to kill my father ! I just pushed him away!"

However, no one believed it, because the man's neck was crooked, and he died completely. Only the blood gushing from his abdomen silently complained about the tragedy he had experienced before.

At this time, a weak female voice sounded: "It is King Rui, who made a lot of money in the name of repairing houses and slaughtered my people."

Xie Ci suddenly raised his head, passed through the crowd, and caught a glimpse of Liu Shanshan's pale face.

Liu Shanshan's eyes were red and swollen, with gauze tied on her forehead, she staggered over, pointed at Xie Tingyuan, spat at him, and choked up, "You are a beast with a human face! There are 180 people in my village!"

"You're fucking sick, aren't you!" Xie Ci's eyes were burning red with anger.

Liu Shanshan turned her head stiffly to look at Xie Ci, and said quietly, "Oh, and you."

"I hate you!" Xie Ci was furious, pulled out the sword from his waist, and put it across Liu Shanshan's neck, "Tell me, who told you to say that? Why did you wrong my father? What is your purpose? "

Liu Shanshan looked at him quietly and kept silent.

"Say it!" Xie Ci shouted at her impatiently, "Do you believe that I killed you?!"

Liu Shanshan's calm eyes finally became turbulent, she raised her eyes and thanked him, the corners of her lips raised indistinctly, and she threw herself forward, her slender neck was immediately cut and blood flowed.

"Ah──! Murder!"

Suddenly, sharp shouts erupted from the crowd.

"It was him, he killed them! He has already killed two people! This is his true face! They are going to kill people to silence them! Both father and son are not good people!"

"It's really a loss of conscience, a loss of conscience! I went to burn incense in the Temple of King Rui in vain, I was really blind!"

"Damn it, I'm going to fight it out today, I'll be a hero and say it for me!"

"Go away!" Xie Ci's mind was blank, and the things in front of him were blurred, as if groups of ferocious beasts were approaching him constantly.He didn't hesitate anymore, swung his sword to kill the people who kept approaching, and unconsciously murmured: "Damn it, you should die, you all should die!"

Afterwards, Xie Ci could no longer hear any sound, and only saw clusters of bright red, which made his blood boil and his heart was full of pleasure.

His jade crown fell off, his black hair poured down, and the silk flowers fell down, trampled wantonly by chaotic footsteps, sticking to dust, mixed with blood, and extremely dirty.

After a while, the bright red in front of his eyes faded, his wrist tightened, and there was severe pain in his knee, which made him kneel straight on the ground.

"Leave."

Xie Ci suddenly felt his shoulders warm, he raised his head subconsciously, blinked, and his blurred eyes gradually recovered.

"Father..." Xie Ci's Adam's apple twitched, and he called out with difficulty.

"Ci'er, stop beating." Xie Tingyuan didn't know when he broke the iron chain in his hand, lovingly brushed Xie Ci's broken hair from his sideburns, and said softly, "Hey, stop beating, go home."

Xie Ci persistently said: "They wronged you."

Xie Tingyuan nodded, his eyebrows and eyes were slightly curved, and he said lightly: "Yes, Dad knows."

Xie Ci couldn't hold back any longer, tears rolled down his face, and wept bitterly: "Why! Why do they say that! They are all white-eyed wolves!"

Xie Tingyuan sighed softly, raised his hand to wipe away the tears on Xie Ci's face, and said softly: "It's okay, don't worry, dad will be fine."

Xie Tingyuan bent down to pick up the silk flowers at his feet, took out a clean handkerchief from his arms and wiped off the blood and dust on it, put it in Xie Ci's hair, looked at it for a moment, and praised: "My Cier is so beautiful .”

"Father..." Xie Ci was terrified by his series of actions, and his uneasiness amplified infinitely.

He held Xie Tingyuan's hand tightly, but refused to let go, and kept calling Xie Tingyuan.

Xie Tingyuan broke free from Xie Ci's hand, rubbed his head lightly, and said: "You go back first, Dad will come right away."

"really?"

"Of course it's true. I asked the kitchen to stew some pears with rock sugar at home. I've been getting angry recently, and my throat feels a little uncomfortable." Xie Tingyuan said with a smile.

"Really?" Xie Ci looked up at him, repeatedly confirming that his expression was a little loose.

"When a gentleman says a word, it's hard to catch a horse." Xie Tingyuan smiled, "When did dad ever lie to you?"

"Your Majesty already knows that the truth is sending people here. You are in such a mess, you should go back as soon as possible."

Xie Ci still wanted to say something, but suddenly his eyes went dark, and his eyes hurriedly swept across the corpses lying on the ground and Xie Tingyuan who was pierced by a sharp weapon. His throat was full of sweetness, and his empty eyes finally settled The folding fan on the ground was trampled to pieces, all the bones of the fan were broken, but the three big characters on the fan were still stubborn and refused to give up.

A familiar voice echoed in his ears.

"Most people in the world have tiger and leopard hearts, but I am the only one who comes from a noble and pure generation."

"Father──!" Xie Ci tried his best, let out a heart-piercing roar, and stretched out his hand to grab Xie Tingyuan, but there was nothing but hot blood splashed on the back of his hand.

When Xie Ci woke up again, he was in his own room. He stared at the beams for a while, then hurriedly stood up, not even putting on his shoes, and ran barefoot to the east courtyard, letting the servants in the courtyard No matter how you ask, you will not speak.

"Ci'er?" Concubine Rui came over at the same time, seeing Xie Ci's appearance at this moment, she couldn't help being surprised, "Why did you run out like this? Go back to the house."

"Auspicious, don't help the young master go back!"

"Aniang, where is my father?" Xie Ci looked at Princess Rui and asked dully, "Has he come back yet?"

"It's not three years old anymore." Princess Rui couldn't help but smile when she heard this, "I'll look for my father as soon as I wake up, so I'm ashamed."

Xie Ci didn't feel ashamed, and continued to ask: "Where's Dad?"

"It's in the palace." Princess Rui said helplessly, "Someone came back and told me that they want to drink rock sugar pears. I just went to the kitchen to have a look."

"It's just been stewed, do you want to taste it?"

Xie Ci shook his head: "Let's drink together when Dad comes back."

"Alright." Princess Rui said, "You go back to the house and rest, and someone will let you know when your father comes back."

"How did I get back?" Xie Ci asked the servant beside him as he walked.

The boy was stunned for a moment, and said, "Aren't you lying in the room all the time?"

"Huh? Master, why do you have a magnolia flower in your hand? Huh? Why do you still have two?"

Xie Ci glanced at the magnolia slowly emerging on the back of his hand, his pupils shrank suddenly, it was the magnolia of the past!

The magnolia of the past life is nicknamed the funeral flower, and when the magnolia of the past life blooms, someone has passed away.

Xie Ci suddenly turned around and ran back. When he arrived at the east courtyard, he saw Princess Rui lying peacefully on the bed in a full dress, holding one of Xie Tingyuan's favorite clothes in his hands.

There are three bowls on the table, filled with pears filled with rock sugar, which are steaming faintly.

There is also a piece of white paper under the porcelain bowl, and on the paper is neatly written a line of small characters: "Wanwang my son, cherish it more."

Xie Ci closed his eyes, put down the paper in his hand, did not go to the bedside to visit Princess Rui, but sat on the stool, drank a bowl of rock sugar pears, and said from time to time.

"Mother, is this candy bad? Why is it so bitter?"

"Aniang, the pear is not peeled clean."

"Aniang, why hasn't Dad come back yet? If he doesn't come back, I'll drink his portion too."

"Forget it, don't drink it, let him keep it."

"Mother, why don't you want me anymore..."

……

Xie Ci was lying on the table, holding three bowls of rock sugar pears, weeping uncontrollably.

The author has something to say:

Hey, I'm late again, sorry~

As for why the fourth uncle died, there is actually a foreshadowing, and the truth will be revealed in the next chapter.And why the fourth uncle didn't resist, there will be an explanation later.But one thing, fourth uncle is not stupid.

There are too many people in the liar's den, so I really have to uncover it slowly, I'll be more diligent!Fight for the end of January!