685 Looking And Laughing At Heroes Was Not Common 2 (2/2)
Silence Tens of thousands of gazes filled with countless eyun's body finally began to tremble unstoppably He lowered his head firmly His eyes were bloodshot He did not know of the old Director's unazes were not only on the space between the legs of the old man on the execution field but were also on him and all of the Overwatch Council officials It was huhtly clenched his hands The nails pressed deeply into his palms He finally understood why the E the punishment carried out before a crowd It turned out that the torment of the flesh had to be paired with humiliation of the mind
The Emperor wanted to announce to the world that this person, who dared to betray hi The E to crush Chen Pingping's dignity and the Overwatch Council's dignity beneath his feet and the gazes of the people
Thinking through all this, Yan Bingyun's th He aze of the oldand didn't do anything Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the court officials below the execution field were stunned They would probably never have guessed that the Director of the Overwatch Council that they so respected was actually a eunuch that people like the's heartache and secret There were not many who knew of his eunuch identity Most of them had died later, with the Emperor's boundless favor and under the Overwatch Council's powerful suppression, no one knew about this truth
That hy there was such shock on the officials' faces In addition to shock, a glimmer of contee When they set his crimes earlier in the court conference and came out of the Palace to witness the execution, these officials' faces were still severe and li Now, these emotions were nowhere to be seen
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Eunuch Yao accepted the scroll from the eunuch beside him and forced himself to not look at the old an to read the 13 great cri The autumn rain struck the execution field Eunuch Yao's heart was incoan to rise in his heart, but he had to continue his job
”One, on April 12th in the seventh year of the Qing calendar, the traitor secretly brought in depraved medicines into the Palace and caused chaos in the palace…”
”Two, the traitor repeatedly instigated, encouraged, and tereat crime…”
”Three, the traitor ordered the head of the Sixth Bureau to assassinateTedou…”
”Four, the traitor colluded with the rebel Qin Ye and privately removed military crossbows from the palace treasury and attedou…”
”Five, the traitor let assassins into the Palace to assassinate the Third Prince…”
The 13 crimes had been decided by a few major ministries, but these first seven had been personally written by the E the court conference that the officials knew that Director Chen had done such treasonous and evil things Even the scholars Shu and Hu, ere going to use their lives to beg for mercy, paled and did not speak
The later six crimes had been decided by the sixproperty and acting tyrannically Compared to the seven crimes previously, they appeared very common However, any one of the 13 cri Eunuch Yao's reading of the crimes that he had forced hi rang out in the square in front of the Royal Palace It broke the strange silence that had fallen
Perhaps there had been many people who came to watch the execution nervously and with co out of these criazes directed toward Chen Pingping became indifferent Such an insane criive him death by a thousand cuts
”Kill him!” Someone in the crowd took the lead and yelled out loud Irew excited and the cries for death reached the heavens
On the execution field, Chen Pingping's expression re could wake him up but could not rescue his life He see There was only calm in his indifferent and lifeless eyes The autumn wind and rain froze His face was deathly pale His lips were black But, it was as if he could not hear the deafening cries for his death He only turned his head with difficulty It was as if he wanted one look at the person on top of the palace walls as always victorious
Seely to sense his intentions, the wooden scaffold turned slightly, allowing his aze the chance to see the palace walls
On top of the lofty palace walls, the Qing E alone under the eaves in the le person by his side The eunuchs and serving girls had been sent far away The Third Prince, who had been forced to watch by an edict, was standing to the side with a pale face as he looked at this father's expression from a distance
The Eure was very s's murky eyes, he was still very clear
The lonely Emperor looked indifferently at his old friend on the execution field surrounded by a sea of people There was not a sliver of e and hair-raising than any hatred
Most of the pieces of metal had been removed from his body, but the cuts still bled blood and pain The blood stained the black dragon robe and golden belt, but it was not noticeable The En of pain As he looked at the wretched old friend beneath his feet, he had the desire for hiently nodded his head The pale-faced Third Prince unconsciously tightened his hold on the palace wall After a long ti voice, ”Carry out the execution”
With this shout, it alze to tears He knehy his father had made him call it out With the shout froan to read the last edict This was one the Emperor had personally written
”I have known you for decades and entrusted great things to you, but you betrayed me deeply It hurts With all your crimes, the three departments reviewed it jointly and have sentenced you to death by a thousand cuts I do not pity you According to the law, those above 16 in your home are to be beheaded Those below 15 are to be sold as slaves Today, the punishment falls only on you The others are pardoned without question”
The edict traveled clearly over each inch of ground in the Royal Palace, through each raindrop, each breath of wind Indifferent and absolute, the Emperor did not speak of a crime, only that he had been betrayed and was hurt but felt no pity However, he showed mercy outside of the law and did not implicate the eunuch's family and servants The pain in this made one's heart palpitate and di's ears He only shtly and allowed the rainwater to seep into his dry lips He lowered his head, no longer looking at the Ean
The fishnet wrapped tightly around Chen Pingping's thin figure With great difficulty, the gaps in the net pushed up the skin and flesh on the body A speciallydown and cut slowly, separating this piece of flesh from the old man's body
This was the first cut A mountainous roar came from below the execution field
The blade of the knife left the opening of the net A piece of flesh fell to the ground It was immediately thrown by an official of the Ministry of Justice into a basin Strangely, the wound at the opening of the net hite and dry Not much blood flowed out It was as if the blood in this thin traitor's body had already emptied
The executioner who held the knife was an old veteran of the Ministry of Justice Although he had already had two jugs of liquor, he could still not stop his hands shaking He felt that this old and skinny man beneath his knife today was not like any other official he had experienced His body had no blood or flesh It seelimmer of spirit It was so cold that he couldn't stop hi
The second stroke came down Blood and flesh parted A few thin trickles of blood flowed across the net There was another cheer How many hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of cuts were there?
Chen Pingping closed his eyes tightly His face was deathly pale His lips were tightly closed, and his entire body tre a pain that humankind could not endure He suddenly opened his eyes slowly and looked at the executioner in front of hi”
The executioner had never before met such a person This superseded stubbornness There was only indifference to his own life and pain Perhaps there was so in this old an to treain He ale
Another cut, and another cut, and another cut Wave after wave of cheers rose and fell The cheers gradually lessened until they returned to silence at the end All of the officials and co the execution closed their eyes and looked at the oldthe execution with a complicated e, no begging forThe olda thousand cuts in the autumn rain on the execution field was only silent, a death-like silence
Thus, everyone above and below the palace walls was also silent, an involuntary death-like silence
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