The emperor ordered that Lian Nanchun be executed three days later. Ling Yun was panicked after hearing the news. He had no choice but to put down his body and beg Princess Huanyu: "Tell me, how can you let her live?..."
Huan Yu's narrow eyes flashed, "Just now you said that as long as I can let her go, you can do anything?"
Ling Yun said dullly: "Not bad."
Huan Yu glanced at him with a hint of provocation, "If I ask you to cut off contact with her forever and never see her again in this life, can you do it?"
Ling Yun's stiff body trembled violently, and he smiled bitterly and said: "It's the same thing again, as long as you let her go, I can do whatever you want!..."
Huan Yu said, "What if you break your promise?"
Ling Yun gritted his teeth and said: "If I make a mistake, let me go through hardships and setbacks and eventually die under the sword!"
Huan Yu said in a somewhat difficult tone: "You don't seem very sincere like this!"
Ling Yun suppressed his anger, "Then what do you want?"
Huan Yu said slowly: "With your attitude and your anger, how can I trust you? Didn't you just say you begged me?"
Ling Yun's heart seemed to be placed on a hot brazier, and he was enduring unimaginable suffering every moment.
His voice was deep and he spoke very slowly. He spoke almost every word through his teeth: "Princess, Ling Yun begs you, as long as you let her go this time, I promise you that we will never have any contact with her again." We will never see each other again in this life!..."
Princess Huanyu suddenly giggled. The laughter was miserable and long, making people shudder. "Ling Yun, Commander Ling, my princess, from the time I met you to now, you have always been cold, arrogant, reserved, Such a arrogant attitude, have I ever seen you look so low as dust? And it’s just for a woman——"
Ling Yun's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You..."
Huan Yu's face gradually darkened, as if covered with a thick layer of frost, cold and ruthless, "Ling Yun, I really didn't expect that you are so devoted to that woman! For her, you can give up your life and your feelings. , you don’t even need the stubbornness and reserve that you have held on to for so many years—you don’t want anything, just her?”
Ling Yun's expression suddenly changed, and his originally peaceful expression suddenly turned ashen.
Huanyu said coldly: "The more you act like this, the more worried I am - not about her, and even less about you... So now, she must die! Only if she dies, you won't have anything left." Fantasy, only then can your body and mind completely belong to me!..."
Ling Yun seemed to have fallen into an ice hole at that moment, and his whole body was cold from head to toe; his eyes were scarlet, and his voice was as cold as ice as he said: "If she dies, it will be completely over between us!..."
"Ling Yun, are you blackmailing me? I advise you to give up on this idea, I won't listen to your tricks!" Huan Yu's expression was sinister and guarded, and there seemed to be something brewing in his dark eyes. A stormy sea is about to come.
She let out a gentle breath and walked out without looking back.
Looking at her cold and decisive back, Ling Yun's face turned pale, and his thin lips seemed to be about to make a sound, but it seemed to be stuck in his throat.
The moment of life and death, the moment of joy and sorrow, from extreme sadness to full of hope, finally made him fall into the abyss again; at that moment, he was almost collapsed...
It was midsummer, and the sun was like fire, scorching everything on the earth; the leaves were curled by the sun, the cicadas were squealing in frustration on the trees, and the old yellow dog's tongue was stretched out. Breathing heavily.
Lian Nanchun was tied to the execution ground. Her dark hair was sinuous, she was covered in white clothes, her jade neck and slender wrists and ankles were all tightly restrained by diamond chains as thick as her thumb. She had fallen into coma several times under the ruthless summer sun.
Her clothes were covered with dripping blood, and they were mottled like fallen flowers that had been crushed into dust. The clusters of them were scarlet, which was shocking.
She half-closed her eyes with a dying breath, her head hung down sadly, her chapped lips had no color at all, and her suet-like skin became paler under the sunlight.
Her face was as pale as frost, as if it were transparent, as if it would turn into smoke in the brilliant sunlight and dissipate in the next second.
A gust of breeze blew by, raising her messy hair without any clues, making her whole person look confused and broken.
Under the pergola not far from her, Lu Wenzheng and He Yuting sat in the middle with majestic expressions; Ying Chuanlin, Yang Zhen and other guards stood on both sides with awe-inspiring aura.
The area around the execution place was crowded with onlookers, whether they were princes, nobles or common people, from all religions and all kinds of people, the execution place was completely surrounded.
People squeezed forward with great curiosity, all wanting to see with their own eyes what the female bandit leader of the Tianxiao organization, who had once made people look like a tiger, and who killed people without batting an eyelid, looked like.
The guards carrying knives and swords were maintaining order at the scene to prevent the onlookers from losing control of their emotions and making any transgressive or impulsive actions.
Ying Chuanlin walked out of the pergola at this time.
With his back straight, he stood in the center of the execution ground, glanced at the people around the execution ground with a stern look, and said loudly: "Everyone, do you recognize this female prisoner? She is the former deputy gang leader and female prisoner of the Tianxiao organization. The bandit leader practices Nanchun!
"She once committed herself to a silk and satin shop in the capital, harboring evil intentions and causing trouble; now the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Justice and the Marquis Mansion of the Ministry of Justice are jointly handling the case, and she has finally been captured!
"The Holy One has decreed that this owl and demon girl will be beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon on the day after tomorrow, so that people can see things right. This is called the sky's net being vast, sparing no omissions, and the evildoers will eventually be rewarded!"
The bored people found new and exciting topics at this time; they were all talking happily and excitedly, and there was a loud noise around the execution place.
One person said: "This is the female bandit leader of the Tianxiao organization! Hey brother, when she was lurking in the Silk Manor, didn't you pursue her?"
Another person changed his face and said: "Keep your voice down, if I had known that she was a murderous female devil, I wouldn't have dared to provoke her even if I had a hundred courages! Oh, now that I think about it, we are really two people. !..."
"Oh, this is called knowing people but not knowing their hearts. People are really unpredictable!..."
Seeing that his words aroused people's high emotions and achieved the desired effect, Ying Chuanlin felt very proud.
He turned his dark eyes to the miserable and broken woman beside him, and said with a smile: "Lian Nanchun, death is imminent, do you have anything else to say?"
Lian Nanchun was slightly conscious at this time. She slowly raised her head and looked at him with blurred eyes for a long time. Her originally bright and discerning eyes now became desolate and hollow.
She laughed coldly, her pale lips stained with a dazzling scarlet red, she opened her mouth and spat out bloody phlegm on his face.
Ying Chuanlin's forehead veins popped out, and he became angry and said: "What a witch, she is still so arrogant when she is about to die! Come here, beat me hard!"
With an order, the guards on both sides, who looked like wolves and tigers, came forward and struck Lian Nanchun with whips and sticks like a violent storm. Lian Nanchun fainted again...
Among the onlookers were a man and a woman, in their fifties and sixties, wearing coarse cloth and civilian attire. They looked like a couple.
This is not the case. These two people were monk Pingming and Lianxuanzhong in disguise.
Monk Pingming specially wore a large-brimmed hat today. The brim of the hat was pulled very low, tightly covering his bald head that revealed his identity and his eyes that were already turbulent with anger.
Lian Xuanzhong looked at Lian Nanchun's miserable and embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help but feel like a knife.
Later, she saw her niece being beaten and abused by officers and soldiers in public. Her originally gloomy face became even more ugly, and she couldn't help but move forward. Thanks to the monk Ping Ming next to her, she grabbed her...
Monk Pingming took Lian Xuanzhong to a secluded place and lowered his voice: "My aunt, are you desperate for your life? Didn't you see that they had already set up a dragnet and were just waiting for us to take the bait! You took the bait so rashly? Aren’t you just throwing yourself into a trap?”
Lian Xuanzhong glanced at him with a frown and said, "But how can I just watch Chun'er suffer this torture?"
Monk Pingming said: "That's why we have to think of a comprehensive strategy to rescue the eldest lady! Otherwise, not only will we not be able to save the eldest lady, but we may even lose our lives."
Lian Xuanzhong took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Then what do you think we should do?"
Monk Pingming's eyebrows were twisted into a tight knot; he lowered his head in frustration, "Oh, my mind is also in a mess now, and there is nothing I can do."
"You...God will kill you!..." Lian Xuanzhong stomped his feet in anger.
Monk Pingming said feebly: "Fortunately, they will not carry out the execution until the day after tomorrow, so the eldest lady is not in danger of her life yet. Why don't we go back first and discuss with Jiang Chun and Lu Qiuyue how to rescue the eldest lady."
Lian Xuanzhong sighed: "That's all."
Monk Pingming tightened his dark and gloomy face, and said thoughtfully: "Oh, by the way, among the people in the government, why am I the only one who hasn't seen that brat Ling Yun?"
Lian Xuanzhong pursed his lips tightly and said angrily: "Humph, he has done something wrong, how dare he come out? If I see him, I will kill him with one sword!"...
The two of them returned to Hermitage Villa distraught, and dejectedly told Jiang Chun and Lu Qiuyue about Lian Nanchun's tragic experience.
When the two heard this, their eyes widened in disbelief.
Lu Qiuyue frowned and said, "Isn't this...impossible? Even though Commander Ling and I didn't have a deep friendship for so many years in the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Justice, after all, we have known each other's hearts for a long time - his character , I still know something about him. He is so righteous and values love and righteousness, how could he do such a treacherous thing? "
