I don't want to return

This celebration banquet invited all the well-known gentry and nobles in Xuzhou, and the banquet was held in the back garden of Xuzhou Mu's house.

There are pavilions, terraces and pavilions, cornices and corners, and those who come and go are all dressed in colorful clothes and ribbons, which is overwhelming.

In the era of war and chaos, it can still be so luxurious and rich. It can be seen that the Xuzhou area is indeed rich in financial resources and rich gentry gather.

At the beginning of Xiaochu, hanging on the treetops, everyone sits down as guests and hosts.As soon as the banquet was held, the atmosphere immediately became lively and reckless.

In particular, many people looked at Mu Chongyu, who was sitting next to Xuzhou Mu and appeared for the first time. Some of them had searching eyes, and some had bolder eyes. They had already looked at Mu Chongyu from head to toe with scorching eyes. Over and over, eager to try with a wine glass.

Mu Chongyu just pretended not to realize it.He lightly flicked the celadon cup with thin feet on the table, lifted his eyes from the clear wine, and fell on the person opposite as if unintentionally.

The opposite table was placed behind the first banquet, and it was the person he was looking for this time, Xue Yuantai.

His ancestors made military achievements and were rewarded with a third-class marquis, and were given the surname Xue of the Beiyu country. Unfortunately, it has been hereditary to this day, and the marquis' mansion is not as good as before.Xue Yuantai is a dude who only knows how to enjoy himself, but doesn't know anything about business.

Xue Yuantai didn't know that Mu Chongyu was looking at him. He sat at the banquet, but he seemed to be absent-minded, restless, and only sat for a while before he had to excuse himself to leave the banquet.

Mu Chongyu's eyes flickered slightly, and a just-right smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He raised the celadon cup and said, "Master Xue."

Xue Yuantai was stunned, his sharp and dirty eyes dodged slightly, hesitated for a long time, then turned his eyes unwillingly, and looked at Mu Chongyu, suddenly brightened, but was overwhelmed by the muddy and gloomy look go down.

Mu Chongyu smiled and said, "Why is Master Xue so restless? But what happened in the mansion?"

A smoldering look flashed across Xue Yuantai's face, he concealed it abruptly for a while, waved his hands, and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing." But a murmur arose in his heart.

He didn't want to come to the banquet, but he couldn't resist Xuzhou Mu's kind invitation.Although he is a hereditary marquis, he also knows in his heart that his family fortune is gradually declining, so he should give this magistrate some face, otherwise he will not be able to justify it.

But here...

Thinking of the two hundred meat servants at home, Xue Yuantai's eyes revealed a fanatic and dirty look.

When Mu Chongyu saw it, his heart sank, but his face remained calm: "There is nothing urgent, so why is it so hasty? The beautiful scenery is beautiful, and there is good wine in front of you. Don't let Master Xue down."

Xuzhou Mu happened to see the two of them talking, he laughed and came over and said, "Yes, Lord Xuehou is fine, so he must not leave the table today, you and I must be drunk or return home."

Xue Yuantai frowned and thought for a while, and finally had to sit down awkwardly, thinking to himself, the mansion is quite guarded, so there shouldn't be any mistakes.

In this way, under Mu Chongyu's prior arrangements, people frequently came to chat with Xue Yuantai to toast, and this time they sat on the top of the tree on the moon, at three o'clock in the middle of the day.

Finally, no one came to toast, Xue Yuantai's eyes were dizzy, his legs trembled and he stood up, and he bowed lazily to Yuzhou Mulan: "This banquet should be over, and this Marquis is about to say goodbye."

Xuzhou Mu did not speak, but Mu Chongyu smiled slightly.He looked up at the moonlight in the sky, counted the time, stood up, and said in a calm voice: "Although the banquet is over, Lord Hou, your special session has just begun."

Before the words were finished, the guards on both sides of the garden who had just been standing quietly moved suddenly. The movements were so fast that before everyone present could react, they saw that Xue Yuantai had been tied up by five flowers and fell to the ground.

Xuzhou Mu was stunned: "Master Zong, Master Zong, this is..."

The smile on the corner of Mu Chongyu's mouth did not change, but the warmth in his voice disappeared: "Your Excellency, just pretend that nothing happened and nothing happened. Just leave Xue Yuantai to this officer."

After saying this, Mu Chongyu led the guards around him to take Xue Yuantai away easily, and then walked away, leaving Xuzhou Mu sitting there in a daze.

Xue Yuantai was still struggling, pointing at Mu Chongyu and yelling at him, scolding him for being lawless and audacious.

Hearing this, Mu Chongyu only asked one sentence: "Did Hou Ye ever think of any royal law when he whipped and tortured those women, children and children?" He immediately asked Xue Yuantai to silence.

The Xue Mansion at that time.

Shen Qing led the [-] soldiers and ransacked Xue's mansion upside down.No matter how tightly guarded a mansion is, it can't match a formally trained army.As long as Xue Yuantai is not around, it is easy for Shen Qing to search Xue's mansion.

It's just that when the two hundred women, children and children were found, they were completely shocked.

It was a dark cellar, cold and damp, filled with a disgusting smell of blood.Shen Qing broke through the door, and when he saw the tragic situation inside, he felt all the blood in his body rushing to his mind, which made him burn with anger.

Everyone was tortured to be out of human form, women were not like women, children were not like children, Shen Qing was not even sure if there were any living people.

In such a situation, it is better to die than to live.However, Xue Yuantai only takes pleasure in torturing people, and tortures people so that life is worse than death, but he can't ask for death.

When Mu Chongyu saw the 200 rescued people, he wanted to kill Xue Yuantai for a moment, but he held back in the end.He asked someone to pick off the tendons of Xue Yuantai's hands and feet, and scraped off half of his body with a knife, only then did he feel deeply angry.

Immediately afterwards, the bloody Xue Yuantai was tied up at the gate of the city and warned for three days, and his crimes were written in blood as a warning to everyone else.

When this incident was reported to the Beiyu court, it caused a huge sensation.

No one has ever dared to challenge the authority of the Beiyu nobles like this!

Someone had already investigated the whole story of this incident, and learned that it was only a small magistrate who dared to do such a thing, and the snowflake-like memorials flew over, impeaching Mu Chongyu to nothing, and he committed a heinous crime.

But Xue Jinghong was waiting for such a memorial.

In Beiyu Imperial Palace, even though it was only November, it was already the beginning of winter, which was cold and windy.

Dark clouds like snow flakes spread from the distant sky, forming the same color with the pale palace walls. Xue Jinghong stepped on the cold and hard bluestone steps with the palace lantern, his thoughts drifted far away.

The trance of memory is as long as several lifetimes, and it slowly and silently seeped into his two lifetimes like fine water, which is unforgettable.

He remembered that Chongyu was always afraid of the cold. Standing in this cold palace wall in the past, he always had a pale face, like a bird trapped in a cage, with trembling that he didn't understand.

Afterwards, the relationship between the two of them finally eased a little, and then there was a severe drought in the east of the Yangtze River, and the people were in chaos. He corrected the memorials every day, but he was still overwhelmed by the increasingly numerous and heavy affairs.

It also happened to be at that time that Chongyu's attitude towards him changed quietly.

What he couldn't understand at the beginning, today, he can recall the clues.

Xue Jinghong smiled self-deprecatingly, the palace servants were dismissed by him, and he walked slowly up the railing in front of the imperial study by himself.

Although Chongyu's attitude was indifferent at that time, but later, the two gradually became able to discuss government affairs in the imperial study, discussing ancient and modern times.

Like, like they did in Yuzhou before.

A look of nostalgia appeared on Xue Jinghong's face. He lit the lamp on the lamp stand and sat behind the desk.

I don't know how Chongyu is doing recently?Did the fox fur I sent come in handy?

He sighed as he opened the letter that had just been delivered today.The handwriting on it is thin, strong and elegant, and the strokes are concise, with only a few strokes, barely expressing the meaning.

This is the first and only letter that Chongyu has replied to him this year.

There is only one sentence on it: "I wish to obey the emperor's orders and eliminate the evil thieves together."

There were only eight words, but Xue Jinghong was overjoyed.

This time, as long as Chongyu understands him, no matter how many hardships there are, there is nothing to be afraid of.

It was the first snow day, and the imperial capital of Beiyu had already turned into ice, and the cold wind blew past, making people's hearts tremble.

Above the court hall, the door is open, and the cold wind outside the door seems to be frightened by the dignified atmosphere inside, lingering.

Everyone has a gloomy look on their faces.It's just that some of them turned into fear because of timidity, while others turned into resentment because of dissatisfaction.

Xue Jinghong sat on the throne, his eyes slowly swept over everyone standing below, and said slowly: "Whoever wants to cut Lord Zong Yuzong into pieces, you can stand up and say it."

His voice was neither fast nor slow, and there was no emotion, and there was only a creepy chill in the place where his voice fell, especially worse than that of the north wind.

Everyone in the hall trembled in their hearts and froze there for a while, no one said anything.

Anyone can see that His Majesty is suppressing his anger.But even if the Emperor Nilin was touched, this kind of thing is intolerable to all Beiyu people!

It's just a fourth-rank local official with no background, who dared to do something to their powerful family in Beiyu, and even hung them up and tied them at the gate of the city to show the public. What? !

Not to mention what foolish things that nobleman did, no matter what, he couldn't be so bold and blatantly humiliating the Beiyu family.

Someone took a deep breath and clenched his fists. Just then, an old man in luxurious clothes suddenly broke through the guards at the door and broke into the hall!

The old man seemed to lose control of his emotions, crying and howling all the way to the front of the hall, and then knelt down in front of Xue Jinghong with a plop.

"The old minister wants to avenge my son by cutting that Zong into pieces!" The old man's throat seemed to be broken, and he made a hoarse voice.

When everyone in the hall saw this scene, some people let out a long sigh, and more people smiled sullenly, watching from the sidelines.

This old man is exactly the old father of Xue Yuantai who committed the crime, and he was also a respectable second-rank Marquis when Beiyu was not in charge of the Central Plains.Hearing Yuzhou Mu insult his son like that this time, he has been wailing outside the palace for a few days.Today, I am afraid that someone deliberately let him in, asking him to be the first bird.

After all, it is only natural for a father to avenge his son.

Xue Jinghong's face suddenly darkened, he resisted the urge to ask the guards to fork this person out, and said in a deep voice: "How can you make noise in the hall?"

"You want to cut others into pieces, do you know how many lives your son has harmed?"

When Xue Jinghong saw him, he thought of Xue Yuantai's many evil deeds written in Chongyu's letter. He couldn't bear it, so he threw the blood book copied from the Yuzhou city wall to the attendants beside him.

"Read it out. Let them, the pampered and wealthy nobles, hear how much crime Xue Yuantai has committed!"

The attendant took it cautiously, word by word, at first he read it cautiously, but later, he was also shocked by the black and white words, and when he read it, every word became more and more sonorous.

"The meat of swallow eaters, the bones of swallow eaters, the spinal cord pulled out, the tendons gouged out, the piles of bones are as high as a mountain, especially those who can play among them, the face does not change, the joy is crazy, how different from animals!"

At the end of the reading, the hall was completely silent, and the old man was lying on the ground, trembling.

Xue Jinghong got up slowly, walked around Yujie, and walked up to the old man: "Should I let him go for such a beast?"

He squinted his eyes and looked at everyone: "From now on, I just want you to know that not only the people of Beiyu are human beings, but also the people of Nanyan. Who dares to abuse the people of Nanyan and bully good people again? It is your lesson from the past!"

The author has something to say: sneaked here to update it~ I will try to update it at least every half a month in the future! ! !