Lin Hai waved his hand: "Come here!"
Hearing Lin Hai's words, two imperial guards rushed over to obey orders.
"Tie up these two treacherous ministers and take them to the archway in front."
"Decree!"
The Yulin Army stretched out their ape arms, and pressed Zhang An and Geng Di to the ground. They howled like killing pigs.
"Rong Chang'an, you must die!"
"Rong Changan, that person will avenge us!"
Lin Hai hated them for swearing non-stop: "Damn it, you'll die if you die, and you're still cursing like this, you don't look like a man! Shut their mouths!"
So the two Yulin soldiers found two pieces of stinky and hard rags and stuffed them into the mouths of Zhang An and Geng Di. They couldn't scold anymore, they just whimpered.
Lin Hai came over again and told: "Queen, you have been tied up."
Rong Changan looked at Zhang An and Zhang An, who were tied up into zongzi, and couldn't say anything, but stared wide-eyed, with fear, anger, and pleading in them. These two people are no different from dying pigs.
The strange thing is, when thinking of pigs, Rong Changan felt a tinge of tenderness in his heart, and couldn't help shaking his head: If he knew that evil would prevail over good, why would he create such evil results! Haven't they heard such a sentence, "Heaven reincarnation, retribution is not good!"
Rong Changan waved his hand, Lin Hai understood, and ordered the soldiers to take the two of them to the archway in the dark.
Killing people is nothing more than a matter of raising a knife, and after a while, Lin Hai threw two bloody heads with their hair tied together in front of Rong Changan.
"Queen, the person has been killed!"
The splashed blood stained his face red, and his hair was very disheveled. At first glance, he couldn't tell that they were the arrogant Zhang An and Geng Di. Just now, they were still shouting, kicking their feet, waving their hands, and rolling their eyes, but now they are no different from a pile of wood.
I don't know if it's the desolation in his heart, or the cold wind in this autumn night, Rong Changan shivered all over his body.
"Queen, what should we do now?" Lin Hai's sonorous words awakened Rong Chang'an who was in deep thought.
Rong Chang'an raised his eyes and looked around. Beyond the flames of the Imperial Forest Army, there was a quiet night, and in Zhang's mansion, he could faintly hear the crying of the Zhang family.
"You hand over the corpses of Zhang An and Geng Di to their families, wash away the blood on the other side of the archway, and then retreat!"
Rong Changan didn't want to hear the Zhang family's cries anymore, she hurriedly jumped on the horse's back, lightly clamped her feet, the horse jumped up, screamed, and then had to take a step and headed for the palace.
According to Rong Chang'an's instructions, Lin Hai returned the corpses to Zhang's and Geng's families, washed away the blood, and returned to the camp.
The members of the Zhang family still don't understand why Zhang An died. In their view, Rong Changan led troops to surround the house for no reason, searched a lot of weapons in the house for no reason, arrested Zhang An and killed him for no reason, and returned the body mercifully.
Because Rong Chang'an was charged with "conspiring to rebel", neither the Zhang family nor the Geng family dared to open their doors to offer condolences. They didn't even hang up the white flags. They just sewed up the heads and torsos of Zhang An and Geng Di and put them in coffins. Here, the whole family gathered around and wept in a low voice.
Before dawn the next day, the neighbors in the neighborhood heard the crying of the Zhang family and the Geng family, so they made various guesses. Some said that they were murdered by their enemies, and some said that they were robbed by bandits. All kinds of speculations were endless, and the noise spread throughout the capital.
Since Zi Yan asked Zhang An to bring out the letter, she went to the city tower to look north every day, hoping to see the dust rising up and the capital in chaos. After waiting for a few days, there was no movement, thinking that they could not see it on the city wall, so they walked out of the palace and walked among the people. I want to inquire among the people about the news from the north, whether there is a large army coming.
He took a fragrant car, and a coachman took care of it. Liu'er carried a basket and a scorpion, and followed beside him, wandering among the three streets and six lanes of the capital. If you want to inquire about news, you can't just go there, you have to play a tip, sit in a teahouse or restaurant for a while, chat with businessmen and sellers from all over the world, and only then can you inquire about news from everywhere.
"Liu'er, I saw Zhang Wu'er's noodle restaurant in front of me, tell the coachman to stop there, and we'll eat bowls across the water." Zi Yan lifted the curtains of the car, raised her delicate orchid fingers, her posture was really pretty.
Liu'er replied respectfully: "I'll ask the coachman to stop."
Liu'er explained what Zi Yan meant, and the coachman shouted happily: "Okay! I'll stop here for you!" After walking a few steps, there was a long "wow" in his mouth, and the horse yelled in "Zhang Zhang!" Wuer Noodle House" stopped.
Liu'er put the scorpion under the shaft of the incense chariot, holding Ziyan with one hand, Ziyan stepped out with her left foot, stepped on the scorpion, and stepped off the cart with her right foot. One master and one servant walked into the noodle shop, found a seat by the window and sat down. The waiter of the noodle shop hung the tablecloth on his shoulder, walked over with a smile on his face, and said nicely:
"Madam and Miss, what do you want to eat?"
Seeing the dirty rag on the waiter's shoulder, Zi Yan frowned two thin eyebrows, and turned her pink face away.
Liu'er also covered her nose and said to the waiter: "Take your rag away quickly, our master looks disgusting, do you know?"
The waiter saw that Ziyan was from a wealthy family, and he didn't dare to offend him, so he smiled complimentingly and hid the rag behind his back.
"That's it! What do you two want to eat?"
Liu Er asked Zi Yan: "Master, what do you want to eat?"
Thinking of the rags in the waiter, Zi Yan lost interest in eating noodles, and waved her hand: "Come over the water with a bowl."
Liu'er passed on a message: "My master wants a bowl to cross the water." Then he asked Zi Yan, "What do you add to the water?"
Zi Yan waved her hand again: "Whatever."
Liu Er said to the waiter again: "Add whatever you want..."
The waiter smiled and said: "You rich and noble people have many rules! I am by the side, I am not deaf, and I can hear what your master said. What about you, young lady, what do you want to eat?"
Liu Er hurriedly said: "I don't need it!"
After all, Liu Er is a maidservant, and Zi Yan is a noble concubine, sitting together is already presumptuous, if they eat noodles together, it will break the rules of the palace.
The waiter shouted in a loud voice: "One bowl over the water!" Then he walked to the back.
While waiting for the noodles, Zi Yan tilted his ears to pay attention to what the guests beside him were talking about. Traveling from south to north, from east to west, some talk about business, some talk about the different climates in different places, and some talk about the customs of the four places, these are not what Zi Yan wants to hear.
Not only was Zi Yan puzzled, she said to herself: "That person should have received my letter, why didn't he act? If he hesitates for a few more days, Rong Chang'an will become ruthless, and even I will die."
While thinking this way, two guests came in and sat next to Ziyan, one of them gestured with chopsticks and said: "A big thing happened last night, do you know?"
Another guest drank tea: "What's the matter?"
The guest holding the chopsticks lowered his voice and said, "There was a big murder last night!"
The tea drinkers curled their lips in disdain: "In the capital, if there is no murder case, it's worth your fuss!"
The one holding the chopsticks said, "If you knew the identity of the victim, you wouldn't be surprised."
"Oh?" The tea guests leaned over to listen, "Who was killed? Could it be the current emperor?"
The person holding the chopsticks looked stunned: "You can't talk nonsense, you will be beheaded. Let me tell you, the people who were killed were the officials of the Ministry of Rites Wai Lang and the Minister of Industry, Zhang An and Geng Di. "