Ming Dynasty, starting from the empty seal case

Chapter 16 Despair!

Su Guiyuan's body kneeling on the ground felt a deep cold!
  All around.

At this moment, countless officials were so frightened that they peed their pants.

The urine filled the air with an unpleasant smell, but at this time, no one noticed it at all.

Just looking at the executioner's dropped knife, the splattered blood, the rolling head, and the "loyal bones of the Ming Dynasty" who were alive and powerful a while ago.

It's so inexplicable.

The third-grade and seventh-grade people are together, the superior and the subordinate are in front of each other.

Under the beheading knife, the previous hierarchy of superiority and inferiority seemed to have become a joke.

Su Guiyuan's pupils tightened.

Although he is far away from the place where he was beheaded, there are still many officials between him.

But now, his whole mind is confused.

"Your Majesty, you are wronged, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"God can tell you that I am loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the Holy One, and I will never deceive you!"

"Zhu Chongba, you will be punished for killing innocent people indiscriminately..."

One after another, voices crying, begging for mercy and even cursing woke Su Guiyuan up.

He clenched his fists, like a fish waiting to die on the shore. He looked left and right, but he didn't know what he was looking at. There was only despair in his eyes.

"If I were beheaded today, what would happen to my wife and children?"

Su Guiyuan asked himself over and over again in his heart, but in the end, he could only look in the direction of the Meridian Gate.

I wanted to scream out some injustice, but I opened my mouth, but no words came out.

No, no!

Did your Majesty see yesterday's memorial?

That was Xian'er's memorial. Xian'er said, is it possible to survive?

For some reason, Su Guiyuan thought of what his son said again.

But he reacted quickly.

The son was afraid that he was just comforting him. He was only six years old, and he had never even walked out of Xinghua Lane alone.

I haven't met many people or experienced many things, so how can I place my trust in that memorial?
  While thinking about it.

He slowly raised his head. He didn't want to hear the voices begging for mercy, nor did he want to see the bloody scene. He could only look at the sky.

It's a sunny day today.

At this moment.

Next to him, his boss Li Xie, whose face was pale and had shouted several times, finally despaired.

He stopped shouting and looked around blankly. He seemed to have seen Su Guiyuan's strange behavior. He suddenly thought of something and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Brother Su, what are you looking at?"

Su Guiyuan did not speak, but continued to watch.

Li Xie seemed to be getting rid of some fears before dying and looking for topics everywhere.

"Brother Su, do you regret it?"

"Being greedy or not is death!"

"I went to the institute three years ago to work as an inspector. Brother Su was the inspector at that time. As a result, I only worked for one year before I came to the institute."

"Brother Su, Brother Su, you are older than me. When I visited some of my bosses, they all praised you for your hard work, haha. Only when you take care of all the accounts can they feel confident about getting promoted."

"If everyone is on a progressive path like me, wouldn't there be no one who can do things in a down-to-earth manner?"

Li Xie turned his head, as if he wanted to ridicule Su Guiyuan before he died.

But the latter remained silent.

"Brother Su is more timid than me. That's right. Brother Su has a family. Having him with me before he died really comforted me."

"Our Holy Lord is so ruthless, he would rather kill someone by mistake than let anyone go."

"Brother Su, I'm not worth it for you. Your Majesty clearly wants to kill the unlucky ones this time."

"Five years. If Brother Su had worked hard early, he would have left the Ministry of Household Affairs long ago. Judging from your reputation as a scholar in the only imperial examination in Hongwu, you can't be a good person, but you can be a good person. .”

"Why didn't he move at all?"

"I am in the capital, with such great conditions, but I have also waded into this muddy water."

"I'm sorry for Brother Su, his wife and children, but they are also in bad luck."

Although Su Guiyuan did not speak, the voice in his ears pierced into his heart like nails.

In the ten years since Hongwu, only one imperial examination was held.

He was in the capital and became a scholar!
  Although it is not as good as those who are promoted or promoted, they can directly get the official status of a high-ranking official sent abroad.

Or directly enter the Qingfang column of Yushitai, and the future prime ministers can look forward to it!
  But how can I say that the starting point for entering the Zhaomo Institute directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs is not bad. According to the advancement speed at the beginning of the founding of the country, if he had worked a little harder, how could he end up where he is today?

prior to.

He has always believed that as long as he works diligently and conscientiously and does everything well in his duties, even if he is not promoted, the superior will see it in his eyes. As long as he can live in peace and provide for his wife and children, he will be satisfied.

But now... Li Xie is not a scholar. He entered the Zhaomo Institute for one year, and he was his tutor at the beginning. Just like now, he calls "Brother Li, Brother Li".

You can flatter your bosses, give gifts, and make them happy no matter what, and you can gain a lot of results from dealing with various places.

As a result, it only took one year to climb up to his head.

He has seen it in his eyes all these years, and he is sometimes envious of it, but he would rather do his duty and always only take care of his own one-third of an acre of land.

He deserves to die for being greedy!

But I'm not greedy!

Why still be beheaded?
  Why did five years of hard work end up hurting my wife and children?
  Why can't I get a fair investigation from the Holy One even if I stay awake day and night regardless of the heat or the frost?

Why is no one giving me justice?
  Why do I have to be accused of corruption and perverting the law when I am about to be executed?
  There were hundreds or thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty?
  Who is protecting me?

What am I doing wrong again?
  "I killed my wife and children!"

Suddenly, Su Guiyuan raised his head and looked at the clear sky, and the sounds in his ears seemed to disappear.

He screamed over and over again, as if he wanted to shout out all the grievances and anger in his heart.

next to.

Li Xie's eyes were sarcastic.

It's really crazy.

As he watched Su Guiyuan roar over and over again, the smile on his lips became brighter and brighter, which gave him a torturous pleasure before dying.

And no one cared about Su Guiyuan's roar.

In fact, now they are already full of people, and everyone has no time to take care of themselves.

No one pays attention to him.

On the contrary, there were a few people who were with Li Xie. They even scolded and begged for mercy when they knew they were going to die. Instead, they looked at everything in front of them with cold eyes and made out charming smiles from time to time.

at last.

Li Xie couldn't laugh anymore either.

Because, as the heads fell one by one, the escorting soldiers quickly came to them.

The moment when the body is grabbed.

Li Xie, who had ridiculed Su Guiyuan just now and thought he was looking away, could no longer hold back and continued to shout.

After Su Guiyuan finished shouting, he was stunned, his eyes were tired and desperate.

As the two were pulled together, they knelt down where there was blood everywhere.

Su Guiyuan remained motionless.

Instead, Li Xie begged for mercy, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty! I was wronged, and we were all wronged!"

However, the executioner beside him had heard countless words like this.

Following the order from the chamberlain who was supervising the execution.

"kill!"

The sword was raised high.

The sun shines on the blood-stained blade, seeming to emit a bloody light.

Su Guiyuan raised his head.

At this moment, all he could think about was scenes from the past.

They say that before you die, images of your entire life will automatically flash through your mind.

But what Su Guiyuan flashed was all about the war in his childhood, when he fled with his grandfather and father. His grandfather died on the road, and his father also died of illness not long after he came to Yingtian Mansion.

Fortunately, when he was young, he studied poetry and books diligently, and through writing and other means in Yingtian Mansion, he did not starve to death.

He married a wife and had children... and had a family.

He is a silent person and is not good at arguing with others. In many cases, his wife even takes the initiative in dealing with neighbors.

Some of the books he read did not have any effect at this time!
  Until the founding of the Ming Dynasty, everything was flourishing and full of vitality!
  In the third year of Hongwu's reign, the first imperial examination began.

Because of what he had learned, his annotations on the Four Books and Five Classics were fundamentally different from those of the Jiangnan Confucians.

The article went in the opposite direction and only lost the reputation of being a scholar.

But a scholar is also a scholar in the capital.

He directly enters the Ministry of Household Affairs, so that he can provide a good life for his wife, and he can allow his son to enter the best social studies, or even the Chinese Academy of Sciences, when he grows up.

He wants to give all the best he can to his son!
  but……

Now, what have you been given?
  Was he exiled because of his father? Or beheaded?
  Su Guiyuan closed his eyes, and the reluctance and regret in his heart almost turned into an angry dragon that wanted to devour him bite by bite!

I hate it so much!
  My life shouldn't be like this!
  If you give me another chance!
  If you give me another chance to come back...

Su Guiyuan opened his eyes angrily, and the blood in his eyes seemed to be about to burst out!

however.

What faced him was another merciless shout!
  "cut!"

(End of this chapter)