Chapter 322 Lingchi
Huo Changjin's eyes were also filled with tears. He had been here for many years, so naturally he had special feelings for the place.

It is heartbreaking to see the people being oppressed by corrupt officials.

After the Xia soldiers entered the pass, the corn and property in the people's homes were robbed. They were not allowed to eat fine grains and had to pay tribute every month. If they could not pay, the men in the family would be drafted and the women would be sent to brothels.

They hate it, but they are powerless to resist.

Zhang Shouchu took the initiative to surrender to the enemy, and the court did not send any reinforcements to rescue them.

For countless nights, they prayed, praying that General Huo would be able to come back and drive those Xia dogs back to their lairs.

However, they waited for a long time, thinking that Chengyang would become a "slave city" like Funing City. Fortunately, God rewards those who work hard, and General Huo really came back, and brought the new emperor of Dayu - the empress who loved her people like her own children.

Legend has it that the empress and her husband were a golden boy and a jade girl who came down from heaven to experience trials and tribulations. They turned the barren northwest into Dayu's granary, and the people of the northwest had endless food and endless money to spend.

She also conquered the grassland and turned the vast grassland into Dayu's territory...

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Long Qi and his companions were riding horses, one step behind Huo Changjin, and were recognized by some people.

"Isn't this the manager of the Taoyuan caravan?" a woman exclaimed.

Long Qi smiled and took the initiative to greet the other party, "Aunt, do you still remember me?"

The simple woman touched her empty wrist and nodded with tears in her eyes.

Of course she remembered.

At first, her family opened a noodle shop and they lived a decent life. When the Taoyuan caravan came, she spent half a penny to buy a glass blind box. It was also because of the valuable glass bracelets that she offered them as an offering that saved her husband and daughter from being captured by the Xia country's dogs.

"Aunt, hurry to Caishikou to watch the execution and throw some stones to vent your anger!" Long Qi said, and then looked at the other people kneeling on the roadside, "Everyone go, bring some more stones, I'll ask the executioner to give you some time."

The people laughed at his words, and the woman said, "Okay! I'll go pick up the stones right away!"

Watching them leave, the woman took out a bleached handkerchief and wiped her face, then turned to call her husband and children, "Come on, let's go to the backyard to pick up stones. If it's too late, it might not be our turn!"

The honest-looking man helped her up and said, "Okay, pick up some more."

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The execution platform at Caishikou was filled with people kneeling. Their gorgeous outer clothes had been stripped off, and the pearls and jade on the women's heads had been taken away. Everyone looked extremely miserable.

Small stones hit them like raindrops, causing them to curse loudly.

Zhang Shouchu looked at the angry crowd in the audience and closed his eyes silently.

Qu Su, who was kneeling behind him, felt numb all over.

I originally thought that I could start a new life by escaping from the capital, but I didn't expect to end up like this.

Bai Lingfei knelt beside him, his face full of resentment.

When he was arrested, he explained that he was just a guest of the Zhang family, but he did not expect the other party to arrest him without any investigation.

He believed that he had never done anything against the law, so everything could only be attributed to the fact that Xiao Ying was a tyrant.

How unfair is God!

Qu had fainted when Long Er said her name so softly, and she hadn't woken up yet. Bai Lingfei suspected that his mother was pretending to faint because she didn't dare to face the impending Ling Chi. After the people vented their anger, the person in charge of the execution walked up to the platform with a knife.

When the first knife was cut, the people in the audience cheered, and Zhang Shouchu was shaking like a sieve, and it was unclear whether he was shaking from the pain or from fear.

He kept begging, "Give me a quick death... please give me a quick death..."

The soldiers carrying out the execution remained unmoved and did not even frown.

What a joke! He had finally managed to snatch the job of Ling Chi, a job that would bring him great fame, and His Majesty was still watching from the opposite building!
Zhang Shouchu was stabbed with knife after knife, and he was dying, but he just couldn't die. He burst into tears, his face was covered with tears and snot, and he murmured, "Kill me... Kill me quickly..."

Qian Zhao felt contempt in her heart, wondering why she married such a loser!

In order to win over Zhang Shouchu, the Qian family forced her to drink drugs, tied her up, put her in a sedan chair and married her off to the Zhang family, despite her protest by going on a hunger strike.

The Zhang family was a small family, and it was only thanks to her dowry that they were able to survive until Zhang Shouchu was promoted to the prefect of Chengyang.

If it weren't for her management and the Qian family's mediation, Zhang Shouchu might still be serving as a county magistrate in some remote corner!

Such a fool, when Zhang family was in trouble, he was of no use at all, and when the time came, he didn't know how to make a good plan, which led to her and her son being arrested.

Whenever Qian Zhao thought of this, he would vomit three liters of blood.

Unfortunately, it’s too late to say anything now, everything has been decided.

The Qian family arranged for Zhang Shouchu to come to Chengyang in order to leave a way out for the Qian family so that the whole family could move to Xia State when chaos broke out in Daewoo.

As a result, before the Qian family took any action, Zhang Shouchu surrendered to the enemy, disrupting all the Qian family's plans.

At that time, the Qian family knew that the Zhang Shouchu line was useless, so they followed other families to Zhongzhou.

But they didn't know that Zhongzhou was a dangerous place. No one from the Qian family ever came out after entering. After their death, they were hung on the city wall and cursed by thousands of people.

When the first cut was made on his body, Qian Zhao looked up to the sky and cursed, "Xiao Ying, I curse you! I curse you to die a miserable death for the rest of your life!"

Pan Yingying, who was sitting in the teahouse opposite, took a sip of milk tea and thought that Qian Zhao was farting.

People born into aristocratic families always feel superior to others and do not take the lives of ordinary people seriously.

But among all living beings, who is not an ordinary person?

Qian Zhao relied on her status to bully the weak, so why couldn't I, a person of higher status, sentence her to death by slicing?
Yu Chaosheng was peeling melon seeds nearby. When he heard Qian Zhao cursing, he immediately stood up and went to kill her, but Pan Yingying pulled him back and said, "Don't go."

Yu Chaosheng was unhappy, "But she scolded you!"

Pan Yingying shrugged disapprovingly, "She wants to die but can't. She's in so much pain. What's wrong with me pampering her a little?"

Yu Chaosheng was speechless and opened his hands to her, "Give it to me."

Pan Yingying asked in confusion, "What do you want to bring? What do you want to bring?"

Do you want pocket money again?

Yu Chaosheng stretched out his hand and said, "What kind of greasy novel have you been secretly reading recently? Hand it over quickly."

Pan Yingying: ...

How could this be discovered? She always waited until he fell asleep before secretly checking his profile!
She reluctantly took out the half-read book "Wrong Love - 99 Days of Doting on My Substitute Wife" from her space and slapped it into Yu Chaosheng's hand, "Take it!"

This guy is just jealous! He is jealous that other authors write better than him!

Yu Chaosheng snorted coldly and stuffed the blue-covered novel into his bag. He wanted to see how powerful this thing was!