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37, cook 36

After many days of interrogation and torture, Tang Jiu had lost a lot of weight. The eyes of Zhan Ranruoxing had become very turbid at this time, and his neck and gloves were in the shackles, unable to move at all. He remained silent, but Tang Peng, who was kneeling behind him, shouted at the top of his lungs: "We are wronged. It's my fault for all mistakes. You must kill me and don't touch my family! Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu, I was wrong! You told me not to hang out with Yan Langqing, but I didn't listen. All this was caused by me! The token was borrowed by Yan Langqing, and the King of Huns was also released by her. I didn't expect that she borrowed the token for this. I really didn't expect it!"

When the executioner heard him clinging to the empress in the palace, he quickly asked the guards to block his mouth.

Lin Dan stood in the crowd and listened for a moment, as if he understood what was going on. No wonder the martial law in the capital last month was to hunt down the Xiongnu King, and the Xiongnu King escaped from the city with the token of the Yongding Marquis Mansion. So what about Yan Langqing involved? What the emperor wanted was not the truth, but the excuse to suppress the Yongding Marquis Mansion. He transferred Tang Jiu, known as the God of War, back to the capital, put the prince of Yunnan and Guizhou, and wanted to marry the little princess, and recalled the Weiyuan Marquis in the name of recuperation. All measures were to consolidate the imperial power and eliminate dissidents.

He probably had the idea of ​​destroying these people a long time ago, but he was suffering from the opportunity. Now Yan Langqing handed him a knife, and he naturally waved the knife toward him.

Lin Dan understood the key points after thinking for a moment, but she did not have the ability to rescue Tang Jiu and others. Seeing that the executioner was about to issue the signature, she hurried to the execution platform and shouted: "Please give me some grace, I'll see them off." While saying that, she raised the food box in her hand.

Before beheading, the prisoners had to have a full meal to avoid becoming a starving ghost. This is the rule. The executioner did too many dirty work of killing and beheading people, and was particularly superstitious about these things. He immediately waved his hand and said, "The time is coming soon, you move quickly."

Lin Dan nodded repeatedly, quickly took out the food in the food box and placed it in a word. Since the prisoners were wearing shackles and it was inconvenient to eat, she asked Xiaozhu, Shaoyao, Dujuan to feed them one by one, and she held a bowl and knelt beside Tang Jiu.

The insults of the people and Tang Peng's injustice did not arouse any ripple in Tang Jiu's heart. He always half-closed his eyes and knelt in place without any sorrow or joy. Until the moment Lin Dan appeared, he suddenly raised his head, looked at her in disbelief, and his eyes were bright in his dark pupils.

"Others are busy clearing their relationship with me, so you are the only one who comes up on your own initiative." He said hoarsely: "You shouldn't have come."

"If I don't come, I can't get over it." Lin Dan tore the chicken legs into strips, closed the rice and pickled vegetables, fed them into Tang Jiu's mouth bit by bit, and said slowly: "Is this delicious? This is the chicken I raised myself. I was killed when I was only two months old. My mother screamed in pain."

When death was about to begin, Tang Jiu actually chuckled, "Do you still remember what I said?"

"Remember, you said you like to eat chicken the most and you won't get tired of eating it every day." Lin Dan used a veil to wipe his mouth and whispered: "I killed all the chickens in my family. How much do you like to eat today?"

Tang Jiu looked at her, and after a long time, he lowered his head and went to have a big meal. A tide gradually floated on his eyes. The sun climbed to the top of his head without realizing it. Noon was coming. Tang Jiu swallowed his last bite of rice and said in a low voice: "If you can't leave the city later, you can wait in your hometown restaurant. The store has been bought by me. You can stay there temporarily. Someone will come to pick you out of the city later. Lin Dan, please take care of yourself in the future."

Lin Dan was shocked, but he didn't show any of it. He put away the food box and bent down to bow to the other people in the Marquis' Mansion. Then he disappeared from the crowd. Tang Peng's shout came intermittently behind him: "Shopkeeper Lin, I'm sorry, please forgive me!" It's a pity that he understood too late. Because of a fancy thought, he ruined himself and the entire family.

After leaving the court, Lin Dan thought about it for a while and always felt that Tang Jiu had something to say. What does it mean to be unable to leave the city? Why can't he leave the city? Unless the whole city is martial law and the court is searched for important criminals, such as the last time the Hun King...will someone come to rob the court?

Yes, all the female relatives in the Yongding Marquis' Mansion committed suicide, including Concubine Tang in the palace. Without them as hostages, the Yongding Marquis would be out of restraint and would definitely send someone to rescue his only legitimate son, but the premise was that he was forced to rebel by the emperor.

Will the Yongding Hou rebell? Lin Dan had already obtained the answer to this question from Tang Jiu's mouth, so he immediately turned the front of the car and went to Sanchakou Hutong. At this time, it was probably too late to go to the city gate. The court had to rescue the prince before beheading. I guess it was already in chaos at this time.

Lin Dan guessed right. As soon as she left, Tang Jiu broke away the shackles and rescued his monks. He met with the men in black who came to help and rushed to the city gate. They rushed all the way, but they were too sharp to escape from the capital. Half a day later, everyone discovered that the prince of Yunnan and Guizhou County were gone, and the capital was suddenly in chaos.

All eight city gates were closed, and the streets were full of guards searching for them, and the atmosphere was a bit terrifying. Lin Dan and Tang Jiu were old acquaintances. If they stayed in the capital, there would always be someone to interrogate her if she knew Tang Jiu's whereabouts. She was about to dismiss the servants and bear the consequences alone, but the door of the store was knocked. A tall man took out a letter and asked Lin Dan to leave the city with him.

The letter was written by Tang Jiu himself, writing many interesting childhood stories that shared in their memories. Lin Dan determined the authenticity of the letter, and then followed the man away. They boarded a luxury carriage and left the capital without checking it. Before leaving, Lin Dan realized that the man was actually the prince of Mongolia. He was entrusted by Tang Jiu to escort him.

"Before he was about to go to prison, he told me that he was in danger this time. If you come to see him off for the last journey, please ask me to protect you and leave. If you don't come to see him off, let me hand you this box." The man took out a heavy box, bowed his hand, and then left.

Lin Dan lifted the lid of the box and found that it was covered with gold and jewelry. He couldn't help but feel warm. Ten years ago, at the Shili Pavilion outside the city, the servant sent by Tang Jiu gave her a small box full of money, but she flatly refused. Ten years later, facing the same scene, she wanted to accept it. In this world, she did not come alone or leave alone, and there were always one or two people who would remember her.

After that day, Lin Dan left the capital and wandered around. The originally prosperous and stable State of Chu began to fall into war. First, the King of Yunnan and Guizhou raised the banner of Qing dynasty, and then the King of Xiongnu led his army to invade. The food and military pay of Yongding Marquis were cut off by the court. He wanted to fight against the Huns but had no choice but to be forced to rebel.

The war lasted for several months. 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. The precarious State of Great Chu had a chance to breathe. However, at this critical moment, the emperor issued an imperial edict, ordering the Marquis of Weiyuan to lead the army to attack the two men from the rear, and to eliminate the rebels.

This order is undoubtedly ridiculous. Once the two armies are defeated, the army led by the King of Huns can march straight into and threaten the heartland of the Central Plains. The Great Chu State has successively lost its northwest and southwest armies, and the remaining army can no longer resist the cavalry of the Huns. Once the situation is out of control, the Great Chu State will no longer exist.

However, the emperor seemed confident and issued three imperial edicts in a row to order Weiyuan to send troops. The battle was about to break out, and the consequences were unimaginable.

At this stall, Lin Dan, who lived in seclusion in the deep mountains, had a dream. She dreamed that the little Lin Dan lost the game, and she was ashamed and angry. She threw the golden knife, recipe, and the master's tablets into the fire. Tang Jiu and Yan Langqing, who rushed over, happened to see this scene and were very disgusted with her. Although the old marquis was as a guarantee and kept her, they also took a detour when they saw it. The more Tang Jiu disliked her, the more she stuck, and came up with all kinds of vicious strategies to frame Yan Langqing. Originally, the Yan family slandered her father, but because of her recklessness, they confirmed Lin Baotian's charge of bullying his master and destroying his ancestors, and ended up being disgraced by a hundred undisputed persons.

Gradually, she became more and more extreme, pushing Tang Jiu farther and more, and eroding the last bit of protection from the old marquis. On the contrary, Yan Langqing gradually gained the recognition of the old marquis, and developed a deep relationship with Tang Jiu during the bumps and bumps, and finally got married. The happier they lived, the more painful Lin Dan felt.

As time went by, Yan Langqing gradually became a qualified wife and was praised by others everywhere. Even the emperor developed a different feeling for her. He often summoned her to the palace to meet with Guifei Tang. As time went by, she was targeted by some people and became a pawn for them to frame Guifei Tang, poisoning the dishes she made, causing Guifei Tang to have an abortion.

After searching, the emperor found Yan Langqing's head. He couldn't bear to move her, so he let Lin Dan, who was always competing with her, take the blame and kill him in public. Lin Dan's short life ended like this, but Yan Langqing's story continues.

The more he could not get it, the more he was concerned about it. He tried to transfer Tang Jiu to the battlefield and killed him secretly. Then he used other concubines to deal with Concubine Tang, and then summoned Yan Langqing into the palace to remain favored. A few years later, the King of Huns, who was unintentionally rescued by Yan Langqing, began to attack Da Chu and repeatedly threatened to steal Yan Langqing away as the queen. The two countries had been fighting for many years, and both suffered losses, but Tang Jiu was "resurrected from the dead" at this time and joined the battle. The King of Yunnan and Guizhou took advantage of the chaos to rebel, proclaimed himself the emperor, and became a peaceful and prosperous era, and finally turned into a purgatory on earth. As for the Prince of Yunnan and Guizhou County, they fled privately in their early years, and after being recovered by Tang Jiu, they committed suicide by taking poison.

Everyone's fate is so absurd and so miserable, and all this is just for a fight for a woman.
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