[Caiyun Kingdom] The beginning of people

"Miss, your face is very pale, do you want to add some powder before going out?" Qingzao said hauntingly.

I covered my forehead.I swear, my complexion is very good today. After recuperating for a season, I am healthier than I was always with dark circles before.When I walked to the door, I saw Kui Huangyi standing with his hands behind his back.He was looking at a picture scroll I hung in the hall.

"This is Master Lin Mu's painting." I walked in.It was a majestic long splash-ink landscape painting.

He turned around, "You have always disliked displaying antiques."

I laughed, "I like to watch it, but I don't like to display it at home. The habits of small businessmen are not worth mentioning."

"It's better to know how to read than to have a room full of antiques without knowing how to read."

I looked at his expression, "Are you angry?" Judging by the way he said it, it seemed like he was complaining about someone.Well, I guess he must have been pissed off by some upstart superior.After getting along for a long time, you will find that Kui Huangyi's temperament is to some extent a standard noble son~

He glanced at me, didn't answer, and said instead: "Go and change clothes, I'll take you out."

I raised the corners of my mouth, and turned to Qingzao who was staring at me behind me like a triumph.I know that Qingzao didn't want me to go to the execution ground to watch the beheading, so he deliberately picked on my thorns, trying to prevent me from going out.

This girl loves me, I know it.

"Miss!" Qing Zao's face, which had been so raised for the past few days, collapsed, pouted and stamped her feet.

I walked over and patted her hand, "I just went out on business, it's okay."

"But..." Qingzao's eyes turned red, "Miss, why...you are a rich man, how can you go to see that stuff!"

I laughed, and wiped the tip of her nose, "What is a thousand dollars? The orange red rouge in Hongzhou is worth a thousand dollars. You mean I am no different from a box of rouge?"

Qingzao blushed from being choked, and I laughed wickedly.

"Miss!"

"What?" I looked at Qingzao with a smile.

"Okay," Kui Huangyi walked over, "Go and get a cape for your lady." He looked at me, "Forget about the clothes, don't change."

Seeing that Qingzao was still persuading me, she snorted heavily at me, stomped her feet and ran away.

Hey, it's too much trouble. When I come back later, I have to make a good apology to her.She was just worried about me.

"Nonsense." Kui Huangyi said to me.

"Master Aoi, you don't need to bring a cloak in August..." Ancient costumes are very hot, please believe me.

"Take it first."

"……"cut.

"You're so sure I'm here to take you somewhere?"

I sighed and smiled helplessly, "How else would you choose to come to my house today?"

"Hmph, I might take you to sell it."

"It's your ability to sell me."

"Well, it's really difficult to find someone to buy you. It seems that you are self-aware."

"...No, that's not what I meant..." Is this person here to quarrel?I looked at him, and he also looked at me sideways with a straight face. After a while, I laughed out loud.never mind.

"Miss." Qingzao came out holding the cloak.

I took the cloak, sighed and patted her hand, "Qingzao, look at me." She raised her eyes aggrievedly, "This is my decision, do you hear me? It's okay."

"...Hey. Then...then I'll go too!"

"no."

I took the cloak and went out with Kui Huangyi, without taking anyone else with me.His horse was parked in front of the door, and because I was wearing a skirt, he first helped me onto the horse and sat on its side before he also sat up.He pulled the reins, took a few steps and started jogging.

"Have you had breakfast yet?"

I shook my head, "No."

"Let's eat first."

"I'm afraid I'm going to spit it out later."

"I know I'm afraid, but I still want to see it?"

"If I don't go, I'm afraid Mr. Wen Xian will reprimand me to the bone." I smiled wryly, "You don't know, he just scolded me yesterday, calling me an idiot for what I did before, I can't let him down again."

"Don't you want to see it yourself?"

"I don't want to, it's not that I like to watch perverts who kill their heads." I paused, "But I will go. I have to see clearly what I did next."

"I never look."

"So," I turned to look at Kui Huangyi who was sitting behind me, but only his chin could be seen, "Do you really know what you have done?"

He avoided my question and asserted instead: "Li Wenxian is your teacher."

I smiled and didn't answer.

After a while, he said, "What do you want to eat?"

"Seabread."

"..."

"...What do you mean by silence?"

"Are you addicted to eating me? You haven't tasted the authentic food in Guiyang. Don't kill me and ask for pancakes, idiot."

"...You decided long ago so don't ask me, and I didn't say I wouldn't listen to you." Kui Huangyi's inquiry was basically a notice.

"...Do you really want pancakes?"

I laughed out loud, "No, I said it casually." Really.

Kui Huangyi took me to a restaurant in Dongshi for breakfast, and was about to take me to the execution ground, when I stopped him, "Wait a minute, sorry." I turned around and went back to the restaurant, and ordered some food and drinks. Walk.Because I came out in a hurry and didn't bring any money with me, I pushed the silver hairpin on my head and the jade pendant around my waist.

Kui Huangyi frowned and stopped me, "Do you have the habit of throwing things around?"

aha? "It's just barter."

He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, "You shouldn't ask Li Wenxian to be your teacher." He exchanged my things with his money, "Don't use it here for me, idiot!"

"If I were a man, you wouldn't say that, would you?" It's not appropriate for a woman to hand over her personal belongings in a wealthy family.

"I was kind enough to fear that you would lose face." He shook off the jade pendant he was holding in his hand, "You can wear everything on your body. It is a miracle that you are in business like this."

"Do you have to wear a jade pendant of several thousand taels of silver?"

He paused for a moment, then glanced at the jade pendant, "The knife skill is extremely poor, did you carve it yourself?"

"..." When he said this, do I agree or not?That was what Lin Mu took me to play with when I was young.

"Miss!" The waiter came over with a big basket, "Everything you want is ready!"

"Thank you." I struggled to carry the basket with both hands, and Kui Huangyi turned around and left.I quickly took two steps to catch up, "Are you angry?"

"No. Don't let me run with something, kid." He took the things in my hand and threw the silver hairpin back to me, "Tie up your hair, and when the horse starts to run later Don't get in the way."

I laughed.It's obviously a good intention, so I insist on speaking in this way.I tied my hair up with hairpins as I said, and he helped me mount the horse, handed the basket to me to hold, and then mounted the horse and led me to the execution ground at Caishikou.

The sun was gradually rising, and it was almost noon.We dismounted when we got nearby, and the vicinity of the execution ground was crowded.

...Why are there more people watching the beheading than the yellow list?

"Cousin." I waved to Zhang Zechi who was patrolling with the yamen.

"You can join in this kind of thing." He patted my head, turned around and asked his subordinates to help me out of the seat, so that I could squeeze into the front row smoothly.

"You are really familiar with the way of entrusting relationships to do things." Kui Huangyi said coldly.

here we go again.I glared at him angrily.

Today's execution ground is quite lively. There are so many people waiting in line to be beheaded that they cannot be counted.After waiting for a while, the supervisor finally arrived.He first asked people to recite the crimes of the prisoners, and the list was so long that it made people feel weak.After reading it, let the family members go to visit the prisoner, ask about the will, and feed the last bite of food.Some of the prisoners were alone, some of their family members had already been exiled to other places or were not slaves of officials, some of them had their whole family there at all, and some of them had no one dared to come to see them, so as not to be implicated.

The supervisor asked again, asking if there was anyone who wanted to come forward to visit.

Prisoners were tied up in rows, truly miserable.

When the supervisor asked the third question, I pursed my lips, took the big basket from Kui Huangyi, and became the only one who went out.I went to the row of assassins, and first fed the leader of the assassins that I cheated.

"Yo~" Facing death, he still smiled, "It's a crazy girl. Why, don't you want to part with me?"

I half-kneeled on the ground and took the things out of the basket, "No."

"Is that pity on me?"

"Yes. You can refuse."

"So," he flashed a dazzling smile, "are you going to forgive us?"

"No," I looked up, looking straight at him, "I won't forgive you."

After he laughed, he stopped talking, ate the food I fed, and drank the wine I gave.Some of the other assassins didn't accept it, but most of them took a sip of wine.When I came to the assassin who killed Zhong Jietong, I fed him food and wine without saying a word.He said, said what a tragic past he had.

I listened quietly, and then I said, I will not forgive him.

There is no way to forgive.

Although, I am not necessarily in favor of the death penalty.

Some prisoners next to me also asked me for wine, and I responded one by one.I also don't know why I did such a hypocritical thing.I also saw the second leader of the Guiyang gang who came to my house to negotiate with Feixiang. He stared at me fiercely with one intact eye. I looked back for a while, then turned away and walked straight past.

"It's time!" an official said loudly.

I walked out of the execution ground with the empty basket, and Kui Huangyi was beside me, waiting for me expressionlessly.I stood next to him, waiting with bated breath for that moment.The supervisor listened to the attendant's announcement of the time, looked at the direction of the sun, and took a token from the wooden stick bucket on the case.

"cut!"

The token fell on the execution ground.

"Spray!" The executioner held the wine in his mouth and sprayed it on the broadsword.

The first one to be beheaded was the assassin leader.He suddenly turned around, smiled at me, and turned back.The executioner slowly raised the big knife, and was about to swing it down──

Suddenly my eyes went dark, and a hand covered my eyes.

──Click!

I heard the sound of beheading, and heard the exclamation of the people next to me.

I was stunned, and the basket in my hand fell to the ground, and I raised my hand to remove the hand that covered my eyes.

"Don't move!" Kui Huangyi shouted in a low voice.

"Let me go!" I also sipped back.

He didn't answer, he just stood behind me and pushed me back in his direction, against my back, covering my eyes with his hands more forcefully.

──Click!

Another slap of the knife.

I struggled hard.Kui Huangyi didn't speak anymore, and grabbed my struggling hands with the other hand, and then clasped my arms from waist to waist, and pressed back hard to suppress my movements.My upper body was hugged by him, I couldn't move, and my feet stepped on it hard.Kui Huangyi let out a muffled snort, but the strength in his hand still did not relax.After all, I was just recovering from a serious illness, and after struggling for a long time, I lost my strength.

──Click! ──Click! ──Click!Click! ──Click!Click!Click!

One after another, countless heads were chopped off.

Kui Huangyi held my hand and never let go.

I don't know how long it took, the sound of beheading finally stopped, and the crowd gradually dispersed, but Kui Huangyi still held me tightly.

"Okay?" I asked softly.

"I'll take you away."

I naturally know what the current execution ground will be like.

"no."

"No." He also replied in a deep voice.

"I must see it."

"I said no."

"Kui Huang Yi!"

"Zhang Zelan, I said no!"

In the end, I was almost dragged out of Caishikou by Kui Huangyi.After going out, he finally let go of his hand covering my eyes.I pursed my lips and stared at him, then I was about to turn my head and walk back, but he dragged me back.I raised my hand, and he also stared at me intently.After all, I couldn't wave this slap.

I drooped my shoulders, but Kui Huangyi refused to let go of my hand.After a while, he pulled me in front of him, lowered his head slightly and looked at me, "Zhang Zelan, you don't even know what you're doing."

I looked up at him, "How do you know if you don't look at me?" Some of the people I had a part to send to the execution ground were innocent children who were beheaded just because they ransacked their homes.

"Didn't you do it knowing the consequences?"

"I know, so it is my responsibility to remember with my eyes."

"Responsibility for what? Responsibility for driving yourself crazy?"

"I won't be crazy. I won't do such kind things. Those people are sent up by me. If I can't even face myself, then what am I? What are those people?"

"No one cares what you are and what they are!"

"I care!"

We looked at each other, and then he let go of my hand, stretched out his arm with a livid face, pointed to the vegetable market entrance, and said, "Okay, then you go."

I looked at him for a while, then turned around and ran towards the execution ground at Caishikou with my skirt in hand.When I ran there, I saw the bloody ground that hadn't been cleaned in the future, and the corpses were piled aside and covered with sackcloth casually.The linen that should have been beige had also been dyed blood red.

There was blood all over the place, and there was a smell of blood all over the place.

I took a deep breath, then held my breath, and stared at the execution ground with wide eyes.

"Satisfied?" Kui Huangyi walked over.

"I did it." I turned my head and looked up at him.

"Well, what you did was also what I did." Kui Huangyi said coldly.

Under one big case after another, there are case files piled up from corpses.

I let out a breath, turned back again, and watched the execution ground being cleaned up bit by bit by the prisoners. In the end, only the ground stained dark red by old blood stains and the stench in the air remained.The sun has also moved westward from noon.

Kui Huangyi sighed heavily, frowning between his brows, as if impatient, then covered me with the cloak I brought out from home this morning, turned it to me, and helped me fasten it, even the hat Put them on for me, and took me out.

"Why do you say I am Li Wenxian's student?" Even my father couldn't guess who I was.

"Back then, Li Wenxian kept a low profile in the capital, and his only quirk was that he ran straight to Caishikou when he had nothing to do during the Autumn Judgment."

"...No... I don't think this can be described as a quirk..." Kui Huangyi, please be more polite...

"Students are as stupid as teachers."

"...Kui Huangyi, don't think I don't know how to be angry..."

"Hmph, anyone who thinks you're not angry is an idiot. You have a bad temper like a firecracker. Well, it's the same as Li Wenxian."

I pursed my lips, stopped, and grabbed Kui Huangyi's sleeve.

"What? Not convinced?" He raised his eyebrows.

I squinted my eyes, then stretched out my hands, and pulled Kui Huangyi's cheeks apart with both hands.

"..." The veins on Kui Huangyi's forehead twitched violently.

"Pfft!" I laughed out loud.

"Zhang Zelan, hold back if you don't want to die. There are no rules!"

I smiled and withdrew my hand, and continued to walk forward, "Then you must remember not to speak ill of Mr. Wen Xian again."

"Idiot!" He also followed with his hands behind his back.

I laughed for a while, then whispered, "Thank you."

He glanced at me, "Do you regret it?"

"I have no regrets."

As soon as I walked out of the vegetable market, I saw Qingzao running towards me, "Miss, Miss, Miss!"

"What's wrong?"

"This!" Qingzao handed me a letter.

I took it apart to have a look, and then raised a big smile, "Go back and tell me, add food tonight, everyone will be happy together."

"Hey!" Qingzao also responded with a smile.

Seeing that Emperor Kui looked at me resolutely, I said, "Do you still remember Yan Tian? She was my personal maid when I was in Heizhou."

"It's hard to forget her sharp mouth. Master and servant are the same."

I ignored his taunt, "She just gave birth to a healthy son not long ago. That's it, don't worry about her anymore."

Kui Huangyi sized me up a few times, but said nothing.

"Third Sister!" Guan Feixiang, who was spinning around in front of the intersection, waved to me.

I paused and suppressed my smile.Standing next to him was a person I had a close relationship with—the ghost of the dormitory, who claimed to be the No. 2 candidate of the Zizhou State Examination, Liu Zimei, who was also an assassin.

Wasn't he caught?

"Because he didn't really kill anyone in this case, the king pardoned him." Kui Huangyi said.

I looked at Kui Huangyi, and then at Fei Xiang who was walking towards me.

"Third Sister." Fei Xiang looked at me with a little anxiety.

I turned my head and saw Huang Fengzhu and Hong Lishen standing beside Liu Zimei.I thought for a while, crossed Feixiang, and walked towards Liu Zimei.I looked up at him, "Did you come here specially to see me?" Liu Zimei was no longer feminine, and her spirits improved a lot.

"Yes, before I go, I want to see you." He nodded to me, "Miss Zhang, I will go to other states, then go to school again, use my own identity to take the national exam, and one day become the leader of this country. officials."

I bowed my head to him and bowed, "I wish you a smooth journey." I pursed my lips, "Jietong and Feixiang are under your care." I think I can believe that he has nothing to do with Jietong's death.

"Please don't say that," he replied a little hurriedly, "I was taken care of by Jie Tong."

I looked up at him.

He smiled and said, "Don't you know his character? Such a good person."

I also smiled.

"Miss Zhang, my real name is Liu Zhimei."

"Hello there."

Feixiang came over and put his arms around my shoulders, "Let's go! Let's go eat something good!"

"Eat or drink all day long! Are you a pig?" Hong Lishen said disdainfully, but walked with us.

"It's you who is the pig," Huang Fengzhu said indistinctly from under the mask, "Hongli Pig."

...Why can these people still eat after watching Beheading?

When I looked back, Kui Huangyi was no longer there, Qingzao pointed to me to the left, I looked there, and only had time to see a corner of Kui Huangyi's clothes.

"This time, Aoi Yushi also contributed a lot." Fei Xiang said.

Hong Li snorted deeply, "That bastard is just trying to get promoted and get rich."

"It doesn't matter how you say it," Fei Xiang patted me and Hong Lishen on the head vigorously, "this matter is finally over."

I replied: "Well, yes." Then I went to eat with them.

I know it's not over yet.

This is not a chess game that is over, but just a piece of my life.

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