Vol 2 Chapter 189 (1/2)

Chapter 189: Silent Killings in the Capital

The capital ar could be seen awakening the flowers on tree branches Every night, lights froes and rivers It was a bustling scene; the perfect ti

When the day came, the capital was a bit quiet Civilians and officials alike felt sleepy and didn’t want to move much, so there weren’t too many people on the streets

Past noon, a scholar with a glooate With him was a married woman From their expressions and actions, they didn’t appear to beat an inn, they went straight to an inconspicuous house to the western side of the capital Only a few people knew the real owner of that house was an Iweather, but one could be awoken from it One day in the third an to fall, drenching all the buildings and all the alleyways

Once the Forth Bureau returned with the offending officials and saltcase finally concluded One proctor was exiled 1,500 kilometers ahile the other seventeen offenders received capital punishment That was the Emperor’s order With irrefutable evidence, no one dared to object

Director Guo was to be executed Since the founding of Qing, he was the highest-ranking official to receive the death penalty The news shook both the court and the rest of the capital Even the eentle talking, Director Guo’s execution was changed fro so that his body would reer fell silent and didn’t speak further

Sixteen other officials were to be executed along with Director Guo

Raindrops fell slowly onto the saltthe day The rain could not disperse the crowd of people who had gathered to watch the executions

Those sixteen officials, in their white clothes, were kneeling on a prepared wooden platform Their white unifor at all the torture they had gone through while in prison With their defeated faces and unkelory they once exuded A feith tougher spirits opened their dejected eyes and tried to find their loved ones a the crowd But as they opened their mouths to shout, they couldn’t make a sound No one knehat the Overwatch Council did to thened to oversee the execution As he sat on the observation platfor in front of hi civil officials were obviously disturbed These sixteen officials had been their colleagues Together they had all indulged themselves in pleasure boats and over liquor Today they were about to witness deaths of these sixteen men

There was a restaurant by the entrance to the salt athered into a se, the strea it look like a tiny waterfall There were s in the vicinity, so such ”waterfalls” nuht down into the stone paveons with a splash

A senior official rose to announce so, but the sound of those tiny waterfalls made it hard to hear him; the crowd only saw his lips move However, towards the end, the official’s expression stiffened as he declared loudly: ”Begin!”

The people heard that word clearly and became excited Each one of theet closer to this rarely observed spectacle

The executioner rubbed his hands with spit and wiped the rain froreat blade on his back, he went forward to his first victi the location of the vertebrates with his left hand, he let out a powerful roar as his blade came down in a flash

The sound of the impact became muffled as the sharp blade entered flesh; it was like so sound, blood ca far, far away The head of that official fell onto the platform and rolled, as if still afraid of the blade which just separated it fro until it fell off the platfor a disembodied head, bloodied and with its eyes still open, the crowd took a large step back out of fright

The head left a trail of blood, which was then washed away by the rain

Only now did cheers come fro it at the saanized On the platform, Mu Tie showed a displeased expression