After days of interrogation and torture, Tang Jiu has lost a lot of weight. Zhan Ranruoxing's eyes have become very cloudy at this time, and his neck and gloves are in the shackles, unable to move at all. He always remained silent, but Tang Peng, who was kneeling behind him, shouted hoarsely: "We are wronged, all the mistakes are my fault, you want to kill me, don't touch my family! IX Brother, ninth brother, I was wrong! You told me not to hang out with Yan Langqing, I didn't listen, I caused all this! Yan Langqing borrowed the token, and she also gave it to the King of Huns. I didn't expect her to borrow the token for this, I really didn't expect it!"
The executioner heard him casually clinging to the empress in the palace, and hurriedly asked the guards to block his mouth.
Lin Dan stood in the crowd and listened for a moment, and seemed to understand what happened. No wonder that the capital was under martial law several times last month. The reason was to hunt down the Xiongnu king, and the Xiongnu king escaped from the city by virtue of the token of Yongding Houfu. What if Yan Langqing is involved here? What the emperor wanted was not the truth, but an excuse to suppress Yongding Houfu. He transferred Tang Jiu, known as the god of war, back to the capital, put the king of Yunnan and Guizhou under house arrest, wanted to marry the prince of the small county, and recalled the Marquis of Weiyuan in the name of recuperating.
I'm afraid he had the idea of destroying these people a long time ago, but he just suffered from no chance. Now that Yan Langqing handed him a knife, he naturally waved it towards each other.
Lin Dan thought about it for a while and understood the key point, but he didn't have the ability to rescue Tang Jiu and the others. Seeing that the executioner was about to issue the signature, she hurriedly ran up to the execution platform and shouted, "Please forgive me for a few hours, I will send them off." She raised the food box in her hand as she spoke.
Before the beheading, the prisoner must eat a full meal, so as not to become a starving ghost, this is the rule. The executioner has done a lot of dirty work of killing people and beheading heads. He is especially superstitious about these things. He immediately waved his hands and said, "The hour is almost here, you hurry up."
Lin Dan nodded again and again, quickly took out the food from the food box, and laid it out. Since the prisoners were all wearing shackles, it was inconvenient to eat, so she asked Xiaozhu, Shaoyao, and Du Juan to feed them one by one, while she held a bowl and knelt beside Tang Jiu.
The people's abuse and Tang Peng's grievances failed to stir Tang Jiu's heart. Until the moment Lin Dan appeared, he suddenly raised his head, looked at her in disbelief, but his eyes were burning with radiance.
"Everyone else is busy distancing themselves from me, and only you take the initiative to come forward." He said hoarsely, "You shouldn't have come."
"If I don't come, I can't get over it." Lin Dan tore the chicken thighs into strips, closed the rice and pickles, and fed them into Tang Jiu's mouth one by one, and said slowly, "Is it delicious? This is my own chicken, She was killed when she was only two months old, and my mother cried out in distress."
When death was imminent, Tang Jiu laughed softly, "Do you remember what I said?"
"Remember, you said that you like chickens the most, and you won't get tired of eating them every day." Lin Dan wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and whispered, "I killed all the chickens in the house, you can eat as much as you like today. "
Tang Jiu fixedly looked at her, and after a long time, she lowered her head to take a big mouthful of food, and her eyes gradually became wet. The sun crept overhead without knowing it, and noon was approaching. Tang Jiu swallowed the last bite of the meal and said in a low voice: "If you can't get out of the city later, you can go to the restaurant in your hometown and wait. The store has already been bought by me, you can stay there temporarily, someone will come later. Pick you up out of the city. Lin Dan, please take care of yourself in the future."
Lin Dan was shocked in his heart, but his face did not show at all. He put away the food box, and then bent down to bow to the other people in the Hou residence. Only then did he disappear into the crowd, and Tang Peng's shouts could be heard intermittently behind him: "Treasurer Lin, I'm sorry for you, please forgive me!" It's a pity that he understood too late, because of a thought, he ruined himself and ruined the entire family.
After leaving the court, Lin Dan thought about it, and always felt that Tang Jiu had something to say. Why can't you get out of the city? Why can't you get out of town? Unless the whole city is under martial law, and the court will be hunted down, such as the last time the Xiongnu king... Could it be that someone will come to rob the court
Yes, all the female relatives of Yongding Hou's mansion committed suicide, including Tang Guifei in the palace. Without them as hostages, the Marquis of Yongding would have no constraints, and would definitely send someone to rescue his only son-in-law, but only if he was pushed back by the emperor.
Will Yongding Hou rebel? Lin Dan had already figured out the answer to this question from Tang Jiu's mouth, so he immediately turned around and went to Sanchakou Hutong. Going to the city gate at this time, I am afraid it is too late. The Dharma Field has to rescue the prince before the beheading. It must be in chaos by now.
Lin Dan guessed right. As soon as she left, Tang Jiu broke free from the shackles on the back, rescued her family, joined the men in black who came to help, and rushed towards the city gate. They ran all the way, unstoppable, and quickly escaped from the capital. After another half-day, everyone discovered that the king of Yunnan and Guizhou and the small county master were also gone, and the capital suddenly turned into a pot of porridge.
All eight city gates were closed, and the streets were full of guards searching back and forth, creating a terrifying atmosphere. Lin Dan and Tang Jiu are old acquaintances. If she stays in the capital any longer, someone will always come to interrogate her if she knows Tang Jiu's whereabouts. She was about to dismiss the servants and bear the consequences alone, but there was a knock on the door of the store. A tall man took out a letter and asked Lin Dan to accompany him out of the city.
The letter was written by Tang Jiu himself, and he wrote a lot of childhood anecdotes that coexist in their memories. Lin Dan confirmed the authenticity of the letter, and then followed the man away. They boarded a luxury carriage and swaggered out of the capital without going through the inspection. Only when they parted did Lin Dan know that the man was actually the prince of Mongolia, and was entrusted by Tang Jiu to escort him.
"He told me before he was about to be imprisoned that he was in a bad way this time. If you come to see him on the last journey, please ask me to help you leave. If you don't come to see him, then let me hand over this box to me. You." The man took out a heavy box, cupped his hands again, and then rode away.
Lin Dan lifted the lid of the box and found that it was covered with gold and jewelry, and couldn't help feeling warm. Ten years ago, also at Shili Pavilion outside the city, a servant sent by Tang Jiu gave her a small box full of silver coins, but she categorically refused. Ten years later, facing the same scene, she wanted to accept it. In this world, she doesn't come and go alone after all, there are always one or two people who will remember her.
After that day, Lin Dan left the capital and wandered around. The once prosperous and stable state of Chu began to fall into war. First, the King of Yunnan and Guizhou raised the banner of the Qing Dynasty, and then the King of the Huns led an army to attack. forced to rebel.
The war lasted for several months, and suddenly one day, the king of Yunnan and Guizhou died inexplicably in the tent. The king of Yunnan and Guizhou immediately succeeded to the throne and joined forces with the Prince of Yongding to fight against the Huns. Only then did the precarious state of Chu have a chance to breathe. Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, the emperor issued an imperial decree, ordering Wei Yuanhou to lead the army to attack the two men's troops from the rear, and be sure to eradicate the rebels.
This order is undoubtedly absurd. Once the two armies are defeated, the army led by the Huns will be able to drive straight in, threatening the hinterland of the Central Plains. The Great Chu State lost the northwest and southwest armies one after another, and the only remaining army could no longer resist the Huns' cavalry. Once the situation got out of control, the Great Chu State would cease to exist.
However, the emperor seemed to have a plan in his mind, and issued three imperial decrees in a row to order Weiyuanhou to send troops.
At this stall, Lin Dan, who was living in seclusion in the mountains, had a dream. She dreamed that the little Lin Dan lost the game, she felt ashamed and angry, and threw the golden knife, the recipe, and the tablet of her master into the fire and burned it. Tang Jiu and Yan Langqing, who came in a hurry, happened to see this scene and were very disgusted with her. Although the old marquis kept her on bail, they thought she didn't exist, so they took a detour when they saw it. The more Tang Jiu hated her, the more she clinged to her, and came up with all kinds of vicious tactics to frame Yan Langqing. Originally, it was the Yan family who slandered her father, but because of her recklessness, Lin Baotian's accusation of bullying his teacher and destroying his ancestors was convicted.
Gradually, she became more and more extreme, and pushed Tang Jiu farther and farther, and even wore away the last bit of the old man's protection for her. On the contrary, Yan Langqing gradually gained the affirmation of the old marquis, and developed a deep relationship with Tang Jiu in the process of knocking and panpan, and finally got married. The happier they were, the more painful Lin Dan felt.
With the passage of time, Yan Langqing gradually became a qualified Mrs. Hou, and she was praised by others everywhere. Even the emperor developed a different kind of affection for her, and often called her into the palace under the pretext of accompanying Tang Guifei. See. The number of times she was targeted by some people, she became a pawn for them to frame Tang Guifei, poisoning her dishes, causing Tang Guifei to miscarry.
The emperor checked around and found Yan Langqing's head. He was reluctant to touch her, so he let Lin Dan, who always competed with her, take the blame, and he was killed by the cane in public. Lin Dan's short life ended like this, but Yan Langqing's story continued.
The more he couldn't get it, the more worried the emperor was. He tried to transfer Tang Jiu to the battlefield, killed him secretly, and then used the hands of other concubines to dispose of Tang Guifei, and then called Yan Langqing into the palace. A few years later, the Hun King, who was unintentionally rescued by Yan Langqing, began to attack Da Chu, and repeatedly threatened to take Yan Langqing and become the queen. The two countries have been at war for many years, and both are lost, but Tang Jiu "resurrected from the dead" at this time and joined the battle. The king of Yunnan and Guizhou took advantage of the chaos and rebelled and established himself as the emperor. As for the king of Yunnan and Guizhou and the master of the small county, they fled privately in the early years, and after being recovered by Tang Jiu, they took poison and committed suicide.
Everyone's fate is so absurd and so tragic, and all this is just to compete for a woman.
After waking up, Lin Dan had a rather ironic feeling. She believes that if she doesn't come, this is probably the fate of the original owner and the established development track of the world. Because a woman can't have a family, a country can't become a country, and the people can't make a living, is this God's will? It must be too funny!