Fang Tinglan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he also had a brief confrontation with the little girl outside the theater, and the man couldn't help but nodded in agreement: "Indeed, she is a strong girl."
"But if you have news about her, let me know."
"No problem." Fang Tinglan agreed.
Because of talking about Haiyu, the atmosphere in the room became more relaxed. Hailian changed his sitting position and planned to end the topic: "The next thing should be that the group of people you mentioned earlier attacked the palace and dragged Belen Xu out. Jae..." When he said this, his voice froze, and then he suddenly remembered the most important thing - if Berensu was caught in the palace and pushed to the execution platform, it would mean... he Raising his head suddenly to look at Fang Tinglan, the man stared at him quietly, there was no luck in his dark eyes.
"As I said, from the first day of this year, Jiumeng City is full of bad news."
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Today is the eighteenth day of the new year. … perhaps the nineteenth day? Erica didn't remember very well, and during the day after day of hiding, he didn't even have anything to count.
He failed to find Brother Flo. Because the battle was raging in the Shiratori area a few days ago, and on the fourteenth day, the two planned to sneak up the mountain at night, but because Erika couldn't see her feet clearly in the night road, she fell down hard. He fell and sprained his foot, so Ding Leshui had to drag him back into the nearby bridge hole to recuperate.
Now he has run out of what he can trade for food. Ding Leshui once cautiously suggested whether to take advantage of the chaos and search for the escaped nobles' homes on Yulan Street, but he severely scolded them back. Erica looked at the Dongzhou boy who was crying and apologizing to him—of course he knew that there was nothing wrong with Ding Leshui's proposal. After all, everyone was taking it. After all, they were about to starve to death. After all, if his If there is no ointment on the feet, he may become a cripple from then on, but as long as he thinks that when he takes things from other people's houses, there are also people who don't know their faces laughing and taking away his brother's collection of books and paintings, antiques, and his own toys. Putting it in his pocket, the resentment in his heart was bumping left and right in his body, no matter how difficult it was to calm down.
Am I pissed at the cloves? I'm mad at myself. But the always proud young master didn't know how to lower his head to explain this kind of thing to the other party, so he simply said nothing and fell asleep.
Fortunately, Erika was still a child after all. When he woke up the next day, the depression in his chest was basically gone. He wanted to turn around and wake up Ding Leshui, but when he stretched out his hand, he found that the side was empty. He was so frightened that he jumped up and yelled and made noises, waking up the homeless man who lived on the opposite side of the bridge hole. The homeless man yawned and pointed outside: "Your little beggar friend went out early in the morning." , Today, there are red hat merchants distributing relief, how can I get it if I don’t go there sooner?”
"Red hat businessman?" It was the first time Erika heard the name.
"It's just some savages from the north! Wearing red hats!" shouted the tramp. "They came a long time ago, otherwise you think those bastards in the mud district who can't afford to drink can get them firecrackers!"
Erika curled her lips, not caring about the red hat or the green hat at all. Just now, because of anxiety, she accidentally hurt her foot and twisted it again. The pain came to his little face, and the boy took a breath and sat back. Sure enough, after waiting for another half an hour, Ding Leshui trotted back.
The other party seemed to have completely forgotten the tears yesterday, and now there was a bright smile on his face: "You're awake!"
"Hmm." Erika wrinkled her nose, "Why didn't you tell me when you went out?"
"I thought I would be back right away, but I didn't expect that there are so many people waiting for relief!" Ding Leshui took out several wheat cakes from his clothes, and did not forget to give one to the homeless man beside him, "I don't know what to do today. What’s the matter, there are so many people on the street!”
The wheat cakes were baked with coarse grains, and there was no trace of oil, but Erika was used to it by now. He took a bite, and asked, "Are you going to fight again?"
"Hmm..." Ding Leshui tilted his head and thought for a while, "It doesn't look like we're going to fight, because I heard someone say it's finally over."
"What do you mean it's over?"
Before Ding Leshui could reply, the tramp beside him sneered, "The king is going to die, so of course we won't fight!"
Erika blinked: "The king... is dying...?"
"Just today!" He settled the wheatbread in the homeless man's hand, sucking his dirty fingertips with a smile on his face, "If you start now, maybe you can get a good seat to watch How did the king lose his head! Go!"
Ding Leshui was frightened, and leaned closer to Erica: "We just... won't go to see..."
"Pull me up."
Ding Leshui was taken aback: "Erica...?"
"Stop talking nonsense, pull me up!" the boy screamed. He threw the unfinished wheat cakes on the homeless man who was still laughing, and did not let Ding Leshui help him. He stood up with the cave wall and limped to go out. Shui didn't know why Erica suddenly changed his face again, but he quickly followed beside him: "Aye, Erica, are you going to Amber Square?"
Erica didn't reply, and he couldn't hear Ding Leshui's voice at all. The boy's mind and eyes are now full of but one thought.
If the king is going to die, what will happen to my brother who protects the king
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"At that time, there were only less than a hundred people left in the imperial guards, and your friend survived for another four days with a hundred people, but Belen Xu couldn't hold on anymore." Fang Tinglan said in a low voice, "He didn't get along with Abal The courage of everyone to perish together, even wanted to sneak away from the back mountain, but was caught straight, and even confessed to the weakest guard of Tisu Palace, so all the imperial guards were captured."
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It's not too far from Amber Square. When the two arrived, they could still see the dazzling white light reflected on the blade.
The sun is up, and today is the clearest day of spring.
Erika's face was camouflaged with mud, and his blood- and oil-stained clothes made him indistinguishable from any beggar in the mud zone. Ding Leshui separated from him at some point, but the boy didn't notice it. All he could see was the towering execution platform in front of him.
In the crevices of the turbulent crowd, he saw the executioner with a savage face take out something seriously and began to read, but he couldn't hear clearly, the cheers in the square were too loud. King, tyrant, sixteen, what he deserved... All kinds of words were thrown into his ears intermittently. Then, he saw a person standing on the stage being pushed and shoved.
elder brother.
That was the Flo that Erika had never seen, his flawless brother disheveled, missing an arm, bruised all over his face
kill him! execute him!
The crowd below the stage was noisy, but Flo on the stage stood tall, as if standing on a podium with a military rank. The young man's expression was extremely calm, and there was even a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he raised his voice and said something, But Erika still couldn't hear clearly.
Then, my brother was pressed on the execution platform as they wished, and the executioner had already pulled up the guillotine for decapitation.
Someone pushed Erika in the commotion, and the boy fell to the ground and was trampled on the back of his hand. He was in so much pain that he burst into tears. And when he struggled to get up again, when he looked up, he saw something in the hands of the executioner under the scorching sun.
The sun quickly evaporated Erika's tear stains.
He just had a fall, and then he never had an older brother.
The executioner carried Flo's head around the execution platform as if showing merchandise to the audience, and then he threw it casually, and Flo's head fell in an arc in mid-air, and the people in the audience laughed So happy and excited, Erica shouted like a drop of water in the waves, and was quickly submerged and suppressed.
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"The king's begging for surrender did not make anyone sympathize with him, and he was put on the execution platform three days later." Looking at Hailian's pale face, the man seemed to stop and let out a breath before he could bear it. He continued, "The executioner beheaded seventeen people that day, and among them was your friend, Flo."