The blood gradually dissipated, and during the execution, it was difficult to hear him shouting loudly and reciting the Zhou Law in the cell, but Yang Xiushen's breath was still there. Gossamer, his bones are still hard, although more than a dozen of his ribs have been broken long ago.
Yang Xiushen did not take part in the imperial examination, but passed the ordinary imperial examination to become an official in the imperial court. After years of hard work in government affairs, he was appreciated by the Holy Empress, who directly made him a civil servant in the palace. In everyone's opinion, he should be Thanks to the Holy Empress for her kindness, but he was still doing his job quietly as before, recording everything that happened in the palace.
It wasn't until the autumn of the fourth year after the massacre at the Orthodox Academy that he suddenly gave a memorial.
This memorial was played by Zhou Tong, and finally criticized the Holy Empress.
The Holy Empress was very upset and sent him to the Zhou Prison. He suffered countless tortures in the prison, but after all he survived, came back to life, was finally pardoned, released, and transferred to the Ministry of Rites.
That was over ten years ago.
Ten years later, he was imprisoned in Zhou Prison again. This time, no one in the court shouted for him, and the Holy Empress seemed to have forgotten his existence.
Zhou Tong looked at the bloody body lying on the grass through the fence, squinted his eyes for a long time, and finally confirmed that it was his biggest enemy back then.
"Master Yang is indeed a loyal man. After suffering so many punishments, he still refuses to say a single word."
Zhou Tong said: "But you are not the only one who knows what happened back then."
Hearing his voice, Yang Xiushen moved with difficulty on the dry grass.
"Doctor Sun is opening his mouth." Zhou Tong stood up and walked out of the prison with his hands behind his back: "I came today to say goodbye to you."
Hearing these words, Yang Xiushen's body tensed up, and then suddenly relaxed.
He has persisted until now, and finally has a reason not to persist. Of course, this does not mean that he will open his mouth to say something, it just means that he can rest.
In the gloomy and dark cell, there was the sound of moving heavy objects. More than a dozen sacks filled with sand were moved in by the officials of the Clearance Department, and then pressed on Yang Xiushen's body.
At the very beginning, Yang Xiushen's body would move a few times, making an indistinct sound, and finally, his voice became lower and lower until it stopped.
Dirty, almost coagulated blood overflowed from his eyes and nostrils, he could no longer breathe, but his eyes were still open.
Even if he died, he would still keep his eyes open, as if he wanted to see if there was any way of heaven and justice in this world.
The autumn sun is setting in the courtyard, and the crabapple tree has no flowers, but it is still beautiful.
Zhou Tong stood under the crabapple tree, his face was slightly pale, probably because he hadn't seen much sunlight for many years.
An official of the Cleansing Department stood behind him, feeling cold physically and mentally, even the sun could not warm him up.
A court official died in Zhou prison in this way.
Logically speaking, this is a very normal thing, and similar things have happened many times, but this official of the Cleansing Department is Zhou Tong's most trusted subordinate, and he has followed him for decades, knowing that this time is different from the previous It's different. In the past, the court officials who died in Zhou Prison were not tried normally. It is reasonable to say that they seriously violated the laws of Zhou, but they did not violate the will of the Holy Queen.
The Holy Empress didn't want to see those officials again, so those officials would die quietly.
But this time was different, he knew very well that Master Zhou Tong was investigating something in private, and the Holy Empress didn't know about it, nor did she know about Yang Xiushen's death.
He looked at Zhou Tong, and his eyes fell on the bright red official robe. He did not see the endless sea of blood and monstrous evil as usual, but he vaguely felt a sense of uneasiness and even fear.
Why did Master Zhou Tong do this? Risking his empress' wrath, he secretly tortured so many people, what exactly did he want to know? What is he afraid of
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If the black robe is the person with the most secrets in the world, then Zhou Tong can be said to be the person with the most secrets in the world.
To him, secrets seem to be like gold and silver treasures, and like power and status, the more the better, the more he can feel, the safer he will feel.
From a year ago, he began to try to discover the secrets of Chen Changsheng, but unfortunately he did not make much progress. The only progress was because he was involved in the palace, and it was very possible to discover the secrets of the Holy Empress. He was forced to stop, but no one knew that he had been secretly continuing the investigation.
He was the one who initially suspected that Chen Changsheng was Prince Zhaoming. He was the one who deliberately released the rumor that suddenly became popular in the capital last year.
That was the secret he most wanted to know.
At the beginning, he only had this kind of conjecture, but he couldn't be sure, because there were many incomprehensible things.
If Chen Changsheng was really Prince Zhaoming, why did Shang Xingzhou send him to the capital, before the eyes of his empress
The most dangerous place is the safest place
Moreover, the ages of Chen Changsheng and Prince Zhaoming were not matched, on the contrary, the little guy named Yu Ren was able to match.
Is it true or false when it is fake
Everyone who met Chen Changsheng said that he was precocious, calm and calm, not like a teenager.
Before Mei Lisha died, she was still reading the time scroll.
Many clues were gathered in this courtyard where the crabapple blossoms bloomed, and countless details were gradually intertwined and formed in his mind.
In the end, these all point to an unbelievable inference—Chen Changsheng is Prince Zhaoming, and his age was forcibly changed by the scroll of time.
This conjecture was too wild and unbelievable, and he still couldn't believe it, so he continued to investigate secretly.
But he searched all the secret files in the palace but found nothing. He secretly imprisoned many people who were involved in this matter, including the midwife Wen Po, and those old people from the Imperial Medical Office who had already retired and returned to their hometowns. It was finally confirmed that when Prince Zhaoming was born, the sun disc in his body had already broken.
If it was just this discovery, he would not be moved, because he knew that the Holy Empress had sworn an extremely vicious oath when she changed her life against the sky and sacrificed to the starry sky. She was destined to die alone, so naturally she couldn't Leaving any sons behind, Prince Zhaoming will of course die before the indistinct but irreversible Dao of Heaven.
But a few days ago, he saw the secret transmission between Tianji Pavilion and the palace, and knew another secret.
Chen Changsheng is a member of the royal family, and he is sick. His illness originated from the fact that the sun disc in his body had already collapsed when he was still in his mother's womb.
—Same as Prince Zhaoming.
Zhou Tong began to feel uneasy, even fearful.
If Chen Changsheng is really Prince Zhaoming and he is still alive, what does that mean
It shows that the Holy Empress' change of fate against the sky was not completely successful!
As long as Chen Chang lives, the Holy Empress may be backlashed by Heaven!
If this matter is exploited by those hidden opponents, can the Holy Empress continue to sit on the throne
Zhou Tong knew very well what kind of tragic ending he would face if the empress lost power.
He is also loyal to the empress, but he is different from Xue Xingchuan and other generals. Those generals have soldiers and horses under their command. If the Chen royal family regains the throne, in order to stabilize the situation, as long as those generals are willing to change their families, they will never be attacked. , at least for a few years, without any problems.
But no one will allow him to live.
Everyone knew that he was the most loyal and craziest dog of the Holy Empress.
He killed too many people for his mother, and carried too many blood debts.
He doesn't want to die.
Even a dog has the desire to live.
How to solve this matter? It seemed very simple, as many people thought, the Holy Empress only needed to kill Chen Changsheng.
In the eyes of everyone in the world, the Holy Empress is extremely cold and doesn't care about these things at all.
But Zhou Tong has followed the empress for many years, and knows that those folk legends are not completely true.
The empress does not have a blood lineage, Princess Pingguo was adopted, but where has she ever killed her own son with her own hands
The empress is a woman after all, what if she really finds out that Chen Changsheng is her own son, and her heart softens
You can't be soft-hearted, you can't ignore the way of heaven, and you can't take risks!
Zhou Tong's face became paler and paler, and his red official robe trembled slightly, creating waves like blood in the early autumn sunshine.
"Let me share your worries for my mother."
He thought silently in his heart.