Hearing this exclamation, Qi Mo frowned, stood up from the bed, and walked outside the room.【】
Zhong Qingye did not lock the door when he left, but just locked it a little. As soon as Qi Mo walked to the door, the door was opened with force from the outside with a bang. If Qi Mo hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been hit.
Very miserable.
"ah!"
The person who came through the door was a strange-looking boy, less than eighteen years old last year, with a faint ring of down on his lips. Probably because he didn't expect Qi Mo to be standing by the door, he suddenly broke in and saw a mask,
I was startled instinctively, took a few steps back and screamed.
Qi Mo looked at him with an expression on his face and said without any warmth in his voice: "Are you the slave who just entered the house?"
The young boy nodded blankly and blinked his round eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Go to the housekeeper later to receive your punishment." With these cold words, Qi Mo passed him and walked straight out.
The boy's eyes suddenly widened, and his expression slowly dropped, finally turning into a sad look. Suddenly he remembered the purpose of his visit, and jumped up from the ground, seeing that there was no trace of Qi Mo left or right.
, slapped his forehead hard in frustration, turned around and chased him out.
Qi Mo didn't go far, and the boy ran away, so he caught up with him not long after.
"Your Majesty..."
Qi Mo paused and gave him a cold look: "Say!"
The boy was inexplicably frightened and stayed for a while. Seeing that Qi Mo had already shown an impatient expression, he said in a panic: "Go back...go back to the prince, someone from the palace has come...he said...
...The prince and princess will follow them immediately..."
Qi Mu?
Qi Mo squinted his eyes, glanced at the anxious boy, and walked toward the hall without saying a word.
When Qi Mo arrived, Zhong Qingye had been waiting with him for a long time. He said he was sent by the palace, but in fact he was just a father-in-law. When he saw Qi Mo, he immediately saluted respectfully.
Qi Mo glanced at Zhong Qingye, who was expressionless, and said slowly to his father-in-law: "What's the matter?"
The father-in-law said respectfully: "The emperor has issued an order to invite Prince Rui and Princess Rui to go to Fengtian Gate to observe the review process."
Zhong Qingye frowned unconsciously. The eunuch's so-called oral instruction was that Qi Mu ordered her and Qi Mo to go to the scene to observe the interrogation. The person being interrogated should be the "person involved" in the witchcraft incident. Qi Mu wanted to do
What?
"Please, father-in-law, lead the way." Qi Mo said slowly.
Under the guidance of the eunuch, Zhong Qingye and Qi Mo were a little confused. They couldn't figure out what Qi Mu meant, but they couldn't resist the order. They had to take it one step at a time, got on the sedan, and the group went there.
Go to Fengtianmen.
The so-called Fengtian Gate is equivalent to the back gate of the imperial city. It is in line with the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace, commonly known as the Meridian Gate. Chengtian is in front and Fengtian is in the back. There are many large and small palace gates with different names next to it.
It is a palace gate, but it is actually just the only gate that must be passed into the palace. Unlike the modern Forbidden City, in the Northern Qi Dynasty, there was a layer of palace wall outside these palace gates. Unless the emperor ordered it to be opened, ordinary people could not enter.
Under normal circumstances, if a beheading is to be carried out in public, it will be carried out at the main entrance of the palace, that is, Chengtian Gate. At that time, the emperor will order the outermost palace door to be opened to allow civilians to come in and watch, in order to increase his power. As for the interrogation of suspects,
, usually handled in accordance with the law at the Judicial Office. I don’t know what Qi Mu was thinking this time, but he actually placed the location of the interrogation at the back gate of the imperial city.
Zhong Qingye realized more and more that he could no longer figure out the thoughts of these ancients. This was the case for Qi Mu, and the same for Qi Mo.
She can't get involved more deeply, as long as she stays in a position where she is not threatened, Qi Mu or Qi Mo, she can't rush into their affairs anymore, otherwise, she will definitely be in ruins.
Zhong Qingye sat in the cramped sedan chair, lowering his head and thinking silently.
After talking along the way, with the guidance of the eunuch, the group of people successfully passed the outermost palace gate and stepped into the imperial city. The huge wooden door with red bottom and copper nails slowly opened, and a faint cry that seemed to have returned drifted along the wind.
It came out and penetrated into Zhong Qingye's ear.
She raised her head, squinted her eyes and pondered for a moment, then opened the narrow curtain inside the sedan chair and went out. Behind the rolling red walls and gold tiles of the imperial city, she saw a bunch of thick black smoke mixed with an unknown black substance.
After many palace collapses, it soared into the sky.
Zhong Qingye's pupils shrank. Of course she knew that such a thick smoke would require a big fire, but how could there be such a big fire in the palace? This was not a prank on her part!
What a good idea. As the sedan continues to move forward, it gets closer and closer to the place where the smoke rises. The heart-wrenching crying in the ears becomes more and more harsh, mixed with the man's rough voice and the harsh voice.
He was yelling something, but due to the distance, he couldn't hear clearly at the moment.
Zhong Qingye slowly raised his eyebrows. This kind of crying sound was too familiar. Just last night, it was still lingering in her ears. She had already guessed that the place where the smoke rose might be from their line of work.
The destination is the Fengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace, but if it was just an interrogation, how could it make such a big noise?
Qi Mu, what exactly do you want to do?
The sky was dark, as if it had been darkened by the rich black smoke. It was just after noon, and the light was already dim like a winter dusk. The speed of the sedan was neither fast nor slow, and the almost boiling cry seemed extremely leisurely, but even so,
Still getting closer to the place of fire.
As the sedan landed, Zhong Qingye took a deep breath and was ready to accept any situation. Then he bowed down, opened the curtain of the sedan and walked out.
For a moment, she suspected that she had arrived at the crematorium.
Fengtianmen has red walls, gold tiles, and neat bluestone slabs that are thick, steady, and continuous. It is full of luxury and nobility of the imperial palace. In front of the gate, there is an open area about the size of a football field, which is slightly crowded and filled with many people. There is no sound.
There was a roar of people and noisy people.
From the neatly dressed guards holding knives and swords who were blocked in the outermost group, to a number of stout men wearing red cloth coats on the first floor, and the prisoners in white prison uniforms kneeling on the ground in dense groups, surrounded by the most powerful people.
Huge flames rising from the sky.
Zhong Qingye's pupils shrank, and he stared in shock at the large fire, the twenty-eight seventy-eight people tied to the cross lined up, and the soul-shaking screams resounded in the sky above his head.