Dongyin

On the morning of the second day, Zhou Ye disarmed and entered Liangcheng to face the saint at the Hall of Qinzheng.

The courtiers in the palace avoided it, and pointed sideways.Zhou Ye stood alone in the middle of the hall, feeling uncomfortable.

It was past morning, but Duan Hong didn't go to the hall for a long time.Zhou Ye was displeased, and asked the deacon in a rough voice, "Why hasn't the emperor come yet?"

The deacon was frightened, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty worked hard last night, I'm afraid he got up late today. Why don't you go check it out?"

"Then go quickly!"

"Yes... yes" the deacon quickly lowered his head and hurried inside.

Zhou Ye snorted coldly, glanced at the ministers cowering aside from the corner of his eye, closed his eyes and waited.

After only half a moment, the imperial eunuch came out and said, "My lords, let's go and take a rest today."

Although everyone was talking, their voices were small.Unexpectedly, Zhou Ye yelled, "Xiu Mu? According to the rules of the ancestors, when is it the turn of Huu Mu today?"

"General Zhou?" The eunuch looked down and said with a slight sneer, "This is what the emperor said, we are only responsible for spreading the word, general, don't bring those bad habits in the army to the palace."

Zhou Ye was disdainful, and said, "Then trouble your father-in-law and inform Zhou Ye that I want to face the saint."

"The emperor said, no one will be seen today."

"You..." Zhou Ye was still arguing, but suddenly his hand was held down, and a father-in-law standing in front of the house took him and said in a low voice, "General, you should be careful, roaring in the hall is disrespectful. The servant heard that , Princess Mingyan was seriously injured in the dungeon last night, Long Yan was furious, the general himself has a pending crime, so don't make any mistakes at this time."

Princess Mingyan, in the dungeon, was seriously injured.Zhou Ye pressed his thoughts and asked, "What did she do in the dungeon, and how could she be seriously injured?"

"It's... hard to explain," the eunuch said roughly, with lingering fears in his heart, "Anyway, it's better for the general not to cause trouble at this time. His Majesty was furious last night, and punished Princess Xianyun five times, and chopped her up."

What? !Zhou Ye was taken aback. He never expected that Duan Hong would put so many lives at risk for a woman.She is still like this to the guards that accompany her, how can she expect her to be lenient to the world?Such a master, it doesn't matter if you don't follow him!He took a deep breath, and said to the royal father-in-law, "Quickly ask the emperor to come out, otherwise, just wait to collect the corpses for these timid and fearful ministers!"

But Duan Hong was taking off his clothes and preparing to go to bed at that time. After hearing this, he put on a set of court clothes and came to the hall.

Five hundred elite soldiers surrounded the Palace of Qinzheng tightly.

Duan Hong sat in the hall, looked at him coldly, and said to Xing Yuguan, "Beheading the court officials first is a crime of destroying the family, and you dare to speak wildly in the hall. Take off his official uniform."

Zhou Ye laughed, took off his clothes, threw his official hat on the ground, and said, "I have long since refused to do it. Duan Hong, what do you think you are, if it weren't for your father and the prime minister Come on, there are a few who are willing to follow you, if you are not successful, you will not be successful!"

"Say it again." Duan Hong gritted his teeth and said slowly.

"Extending your head and shrinking your head is just a knife." Zhou Ye sneered.

Duan Hong stared at him coldly for a while, and then shouted outside the hall, "Come here!"

The guards outside the hall came in with a knife.

"Put Zhou Ye into the dungeon and be executed at noon three days later!"

Zhou Ye opened his arms wide and did not resist.

Seeing him being escorted out, the officials heaved a sigh of relief, hurriedly squeezed into the middle of the hall, and said, "Your Majesty makes a clear decision."

"Zhou Ye committed the crime of exterminating his family, and his wife and children are still in Haozhou..."

"Forgive others and forgive others." Duan Hong glanced at them sternly, "Let's discuss!" Don't think she doesn't know what these people are thinking!

In the blink of an eye, it was three days later, and that morning, Bai Yan was surprisingly in good spirits.

Ruyi took her for a walk in the garden. It was near the winter solstice, and most of the leaves in the garden were withered, leaving only bare branches trembling in the cold wind.

Bai Yan took a few steps, and suddenly remembered something, and asked a little happily, "Ruyi, where do you think Xianyun is now?"

"I don't know this servant girl, maybe I've already arrived in Wu Xi."

"Wu Xi?" Bai Yan wondered, "Didn't Hong Er say to send her to Linzi?"

"Yes... the servant girl made a mistake. She always thought that Princess Xianyun should go back to the Kingdom of Jin."

"Ruyi!" Bai Yan looked at her, feeling extremely uneasy in her heart, "Are you hiding something from me?"

"It's really the servant who remembered it wrong."

"You looked up at me." Bai Yan's voice became strange, "Is it her, she already..." A strong sense of fear hit her heart, making her breathless.

"Princess" Ruyi knelt down on the ground with a plop, crying "Princess Xianyun has been sentenced to five punishments, and the body is nowhere to be found." She still feels horrified when she thinks of that scene. Too cruel.

All five punishments... Bai Yan stood in the same place with a heartbroken heart, and really couldn't say a word.

At that time, Hong had just come out of the study, and just went down the stone steps, when he saw Bai Yan standing not far away, Ruyi knelt on the ground and didn't know what to say.

She was suspicious and was about to go there, but Ruyi seemed to catch a glimpse of her and stood up hastily.Duan Hong was very suspicious, he paused, and looked over with cold eyes.

Ruyi trembled in shock and hurriedly lowered her head.

Duan Hong stepped over, looked at her calmly, and was about to ask a question, but his hands tightened.Duan Hong looked down and held Bai Yan back, "Why is it so cold, don't you know how to wear more?"

Bai Yan just stood there without speaking.

"Have you changed your medicine?"

Ruyi panicked, and quickly replied, "Change...changed."

"It's cold here..." Duan Hong's heart sank, he gave Ruyi a hard look, and led Bai Yan inside, "Go back to the room."

But Bai Yan suddenly exerted force and grabbed Duan Hong, refusing to leave.Duan Hong was slightly surprised and looked back at her.

"I don't want to go back, Hong'er, you can walk around with me."

"Okay." It was rare that Bai Yan was interested, and Duan Hong was quite pleasantly surprised.

The two walked around the gravel road for more than ten steps, Duan Hong said, "This palace is too small, there are only a few places to go around."

"That's not bad." Bai Yan looked straight ahead, and said to herself, "This place is very similar to the Pingnan Palace, and it always makes people think of the days in Qingdu Palace."

When Duan Hong heard the words, he suddenly realized and smiled, "It's true when you think about it, the same palace, and the same courtyard, but it was much more interesting at that time than now, and there is also the father." At this point, her expression darkened, "I I haven't had sex with him for a long time."

Hearing this, Bai Yan stopped in her tracks and asked, "Hong'er, I remember the few days after King Wu passed away, you hugged the quilt and refused to go back to sleep, why on earth?"

Duan Hong looked embarrassed, and said hesitantly, "I'm afraid, afraid that he will come to me."

"Then you have executed so many people back and forth, aren't you afraid that they will come looking for you?"

Duan Hong was silent.

Bai Yan sighed softly and fell silent.Sure enough, in Duan Hong's eyes, only those close to her are human beings, and the others are animals.

Duan Hong didn't know why she sighed, he just held her hand tightly and approached "Yan'er..."

Bai Yan stared at her, hesitated to speak.

At this moment, a servant held a booklet, knelt three feet away, and said, "Your Majesty is overjoyed that Zhao has surrendered. King Zhao sent tribute money from Handan the day before yesterday. This is the tribute post. Please have a look at it."

Duan Hong took the booklet over for a look, couldn't help smiling happily, and handed it over to Bai Yan to watch.

Bai Yan recited the booklet silently, held it in her hand and meditated.

"Yan'er, those who know practical things are brilliant, tell your elder brother to learn more from Zheng Yu." Duan Hong paused, and said, "Now that the Kingdom of Zhao has surrendered, we are not afraid that Liu Cun will not surrender."

Bai Yan turned her head away, unable to do what she wanted.

"Decorate the county mansion well and welcome King Zhao to live there."

"Yes." The waiter waited, but did not back down.

Duan Hong looked at him, "What else?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the three-day deadline has come. Your Majesty has set the execution ground in a noisy city. Your Majesty, please watch the execution to set the course of the court. It is a matter of the emperor's prestige. I don't know the severity. I don't know what kind of ceremony Your Majesty wants to arrange?"

Duan Hong lowered his face and said, "No matter what, Zhou Ye is a famous general of the generation, and he is quite popular. This Li Shu actually wants to kill him at the entrance of the downtown area. Doesn't this make those people who don't know the facts think that I am fatuous and incompetent?!"

Zhou Ye?Bai Yan was startled, and saw the servant kneeling on the ground in panic.

Duan Hong glanced at him, and said, "Dismiss Mr. Li and investigate. You don't have to go out of the house for today's execution, just take a stage in front of the opera stage."

"The slave will do it now."

Seeing the eunuch back away, Bai Yan felt mixed feelings.

"Yan'er, what's wrong with you, you look so bad?"

Only then did Bai Yan look at Duan Hong with concern, and she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.I don't know when, she started to be afraid of looking at Duan Hong, she was afraid of seeing the shadow of another person in it, afraid that the person she loved would gradually disappear until there was no trace.