Dream Hua Embers Records

Under the city wall, the inner three floors and the outer three floors were surrounded by people.

A line separates the two groups of people. On the side outside the city is the well-dressed Yuan army, and on the side inside the city are the people of Liang with five elements and eight patterns.The dividing line is obvious, but it is not so clear-cut. It seems that there is a bit of harmony.

There were too many people, and Puhan and Yanyin couldn't squeeze in.Rao Yanyin was sitting on Puhan's shoulders, but she couldn't find the position of her father.

The emperor's list next to the city gate was pasted up again, and the dripping ink was still wet, and the wet marks of the paste faded away, making it even more mottled: "The riches from the rich and powerful families in Qili were arrested to help reward people." Army, after many days today, I haven't seen all the households paying all the money. They are so guilty that they store the gold and silver in the cellar. The households on the right list use up their family's gold and silver watches, and go to the government to give them away. If you dare For hiding and burial, people of all colors are allowed to sue, with ten percent as the rate, and three percent of the full reward. First, official money is used to pay for it. Same crime." It still expresses the intention to ask the people of Daliang to pay all the gold and silver, but the wording is much stricter than the previous one, and the reward for reporting has been increased.

"What's the matter?" Puhan asked a soldier beside him.

"These barbarians are very cunning. They said they had handed over all the gold and silver in the city. As a result, the family members of Hebei and Hedong shouchen went out of the city yesterday. They found a lot of gold and silver in their luggage. It can be seen that there is something hidden. Chong The king was furious, and ordered today that Sibi should be lifted up and killed with sticks, and the vice envoys should be raised with fifty lashes on their backs, if they don't kill their arrogance, they don't know our interests!"

Puhan frowned, and said to Yan Yin: "There is nothing exciting here, the wind is blowing, let's go back." Before the words finished, the sound of sticks, whips, and screams rang out.

Yan Yin stretched her neck to look, but couldn't see anything.Pulling Puhan's earlobe hurriedly, he said, "Let's go to the city to have a look, shall we?"

"It's just beating people, it's nothing to look at." Puhan continued to persuade.

"I want to go to the city to see my father." Yan Yin insisted.

Puhan shook his head helplessly.

The city was already crowded with Yuan soldiers watching the excitement, Puhan managed to squeeze to the side of the parapet.

Yan Yin was about to look for the handsome father, but her eyes were deeply attracted by the four torture beds.

The four people on the torture bed had already been beaten with dozens of sticks, and their breath was already very weak, with slight cockroaches floating in the wind, intermittently.

On the pitch-black torture bed, the large pool of blood was like a big flower, blooming coquettishly.Drops of blood splashed from the boards that fell one after another, sprinkled dripping red around the torture bed.The flesh and blood that fell on the board has become a fuzzy mass of minced meat.

Yan Yin was stunned and didn't even blink.

Pu Han hastily stretched out his big hand to cover Yan Yin's eyes: "There's nothing to see, just watch out for nightmares at night."

Yan Yin brushed Puhan's hand away: "If my father can see it, I can see it. There is nothing to be afraid of."

The person on the first right hand may have passed out, and a bucket of water was poured on the side, and the fuzzy mass of flesh and blood instantly turned into bones. The person on the torture bed suddenly straightened up, screamed, rushed It came out of the mouth, stirring people's eardrums.This made Yan Yin unreasonably think of the fish that was thrown to death by Puhan on the ice that day, twisting its body like this, making the last struggle. "Man is a sword, I am a fish." For the first time, Yan Yin understood the tragedy implied in these eight words.

The blood was washed down and merged into a small red stream, which flowed down the slope to the side of the Daliang people who were watching.The crowd became commotion in an instant, the people in the front row retreated, crowding the people in the back row, like waves of water ripples.It seemed that the blood flowed with a curse, and it couldn't let it stick to the body.

On the faces of those spectators, there seemed to be a little gloating in their numbness.Just yesterday, these four people led the wolf-like yamen servants and kicked open the doors of every house to pick up the missing gold and silver, but at this moment they were tossing and turning under the stick, unable to survive or die.

Yan Yin couldn't bear to look any longer, and in a blink of an eye, she found the face of her father under the banner of Shuai. It was so far away that she couldn't see his expression clearly, but he seemed to be talking to King Chong, with a smile on his face. I don't care about the tragedy.

On the other side of the stake, the other four people had finished their fifty lashes, and they were showing their naked bodies to the public, with their disheveled hair hanging down, covering their faces, but they couldn't cover the dripping marks and humiliation on their bodies.

Yan Yin's whole body trembled, and a severe chill instantly swept over her whole body.

Puhan hurriedly said, "If it's cold, go back."

Yan Yin nodded and said "OK."

Puhan turned around, and Yan Yin, who was riding on his neck, could no longer see the dripping blood, but the dull sound of the staff still echoed in his ears.

"Why don't you kill them with one knife and give them a good time?" Yan Yin murmured.

"Because to make these Zhao people obedient and do things for us, they have to be afraid, and that's the only way." Puhan explained, "There are always many things in the world that are more terrible than death."

"Does your injury still hurt?" Yan Yin asked again.

Puhan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's been done a long time ago."

"I will definitely not cause you to be beaten again..." Yan Yin said softly, but her tone was very firm.Two small hands stretched out to protect Puhan's cheeks.

Puhan grinned, feeling warm in his heart.Suddenly, I regret that I haven't married a wife all these years, and it would be very sweet to have such a child.

The wind is getting stronger again, and the flying sand is blowing so that people can't open their eyes.

Chong Wang Yan Luhu raised his head, looked up at the four heads that had been raised on the high pole of the city tower, waved his hands: "Let's all be scattered! Put the corpses under Nanxun's gate!" He was about to leave.

Suddenly someone came to report: "Shangshu Province is on fire, and the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishment have all been affected!"

When everyone heard the words, they looked up, and through the dust and sand in the sky, the billowing smoke in the southwest of the city was very clear.

"Hmph..." Chongwang Yan Luhu sneered, "I'm afraid they set the fire on their own?"

Yan Qihao nodded: "We approached them the day before yesterday to ask for various documents, but they pushed back and forth, and now they want to destroy it."

"Hehe, it's a pity that thousands of calculations have been made, and today's gale has not been counted. I'm afraid I just wanted to burn the official department, but I didn't expect to set fire to the company, and even the ritual department and the punishment department were also affected." Yan Luhu said with a serious look on his face. gloat.

"Uncle, then we..."

"Don't care about him, they set the fire on their own and saved it by themselves! Even if we go to save it, it's already too late."

Yan Qihao looked up at the billowing smoke and raging fire, just shook his head and sighed.

"What are you worried about? The books are gone, and there are still people alive? I don't believe that if you can't pry their mouths open, give them a hard time and make sure they come out obediently. If one or two refuse to write, I don't believe that everyone will If you refuse to write, find a few more people to write and compare them a few times, and you won’t be fooled by them!” After Yan Luhu finished speaking, he laughed.

Those Daliang people who had gradually dispersed, heard the laughter, turned their heads in horror, but only took a look, then quickened their pace and scattered in all directions.

Because of the strong wind, Yan Yin suffered from a bit of cold, wrapped around the quilt, warmed up by the fire, and kept sniffling.

Puhan brought over a bowl of medicinal soup made from "Buyunmu", "Drink it, cover yourself with a quilt and sleep, and you will be cured."

Yan Yin took a sip from Puhan's hand, frowned and said, "Bitter..."

"Good medicine is naturally bitter, just bear with it and drink it in a big gulp." Puhan persuaded.

"Don't...too bitter! Drink it when it's cold." Yan Yin pushed the bowl with her hand.

"Drink it!" Yan Qihao's voice came from outside the door.

"Father!" Yan Yin jumped up happily, and lifted the quilt and was about to get off the ground.

Yan Qihao walked over quickly, held down Yan Yin, "Hurry up! Otherwise, the father will beat you."

Yan Yin pursed her lips, glanced at Yan Qihao timidly, took the bowl of medicine, and drank it in small sips.

As soon as he put down the bowl, Yan Qihao stuffed the sugar into Yan Yin's mouth.

"Huh? What kind of candy is this?" Yan Yin's voice was a bit slurred with candy in his mouth.

"Jiaoya 饧, the food that Zhao people eat when they worship the Stove King on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month."

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