C225 stowaway column

"I... This is... "What's wrong?" Her voice was hoarse and cracked, and she was shaking with exhaustion.

"You're fine." Xiao Yixiu couldn't bear to tell her the truth. He was an impossibly clean person, so he lightly wiped the sweat off her forehead and lowered his head to kiss her wet eyelashes. Then, he slid down to his lips.

After a long while, he finally let go of her and forced a gentle smile, "Earlier, we almost forced it out, but I don't know what happened to it. As a result, it entered your body again."

"Are we the ones who angered it?" Gu Qingli asked in a low voice.

Then she shook her head again, with a hint of confusion and uncertainty in her eyes: "But I think it was called... It felt the call and became restless. "

Xiao Yi Xiu's heart chilled. He quickly looked around and comforted, "Don't let your imagination run wild, this is the Prince Mo's Mansion. There are countless shadow guards outside the Feng Che Hall, who can get close to them?"

Gu Qingli thought for a moment before slowly nodding. Perhaps it was because they were in too much of a hurry to achieve quick results that they ended up making a fool out of themselves. In the future, they had to slow down a bit and not force this Gu worm any further. Although it didn't have the wisdom of a human, it had a strong reaction to her emotions because it was in her body. This was probably the reason why they were connected to each other.

Three days later, the wrongdoer Cheng Ying Zhi and Hui Qiao were taken to the execution ground to make a final decision.

On the high platform, the two death row prisoners had their heads lowered. Their unkempt black hair covered their faces as they were forcefully pressed onto the platform. They put on the black hood and pressed it onto the opening of the box.

In the crowd below the execution platform, there were cries and shouts of grief. Cheng Manor's people were gathered there, and Cheng Liao's eyes were filled with more anxiety and worry than sadness. From time to time, he would lower his head to comfort a girl who covered her face with his sleeves.

The executioner raised his sharp machete high, and with a poof, the box's opening was instantly splattered with blood. The head covered by the black cloth bag tumbled down, falling into the basket.

Shocked cries rang out from below the stage. Some of the timid ones covered their faces, not daring to look.

Cheng Liao's Madam Ru covered her face with her sleeves and screamed before collapsing to the ground. She seemed to have fainted.

Cheng Liao quickly hugged her, and in his panic, he ordered his family to go and retrieve their heads. A young man in a brocade robe followed a few servants onto the execution platform.

"Wait."

With this cold and melodious reprimand, a path was opened up in the crowd.

Xiao Yi Xiu had a light fur coat and was clad in snow-white robes. He was elegant and graceful. Behind him were Prince Li, Xiao Linbin, and Prince Yi, Xiao Lingfei. A group of guards surrounded and protected them as they slowly stepped onto the execution platform.

Xiao Yi Xiu looked around before glancing at Zhang Rui, the vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, and said with a faint and clear smile, "Vice Minister Zhang, your excellency."

Zhang Rui instinctively felt a little uneasy. He swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly lifted his official's robes to bow, "This official greets Prince Mo, Prince Li, and Prince Yi. What has happened for the three of you … Greeting? In this bloody battlefield of the execution grounds, it was truly … has the ability to humiliate the three of you. "

He had a bad feeling about this — what was it that required the three kings to work for him?

"This King's beloved concubine was beheaded. It is only reasonable that This King should have come to collect her corpse. Why is Vice Minister Zhang looking so surprised?"

Zhang Rui froze, momentarily ignoring the matter.

In terms of status, she was also the wife of King Mo. Since she had married into the family, her death was also the ghost of the Xiao family. If Xiao Yi Xiu didn't come, then it was natural that the Cheng family would take her corpse.

Cheng Liao, who was in the middle of the chaotic crowd, supported Madam Ru and was about to leave, but upon seeing this scene, he turned his head in shock. He couldn't stay, nor could he leave.

Madam Ru, who was in his embrace, seemed to have stopped being unconscious. Trembling, she peeked out two pairs of eyes from under her sleeves. Half her face was covered by her sleeves, making her look like an old Cheng Yingzhi.

Xiao Yi Xiu didn't even look at them and smiled, "What, Vice Minister Zhang, do you not understand the principle of marrying a husband? She is a member of the Mo King's Manor, so he can't possibly let someone else come and collect her corpse, right? "

Zhang Rui swallowed his saliva and nodded with difficulty. He couldn't even speak.

"Yuying, Jinshu, go and help Lady Cheng collect her grave." Even if This King's woman was wrong when she was alive, it's not her turn to let those filthy men touch her. " Xiao Yi Xiu Rui's cold gaze swept over the two servants next to the youth who were trying to collect the corpse; he seemed to have seen through everything.

The youth in embroidered clothes stood there stiffly and his body slightly trembled. He was Cheng Yizhi's younger brother, Cheng Shuo Zhi, but he did not dare to discuss marriage with Xiao Yi Xiu. He could only lower his head in front of Xiao Yi Xiu, clasping his hands and saying in a low voice, "This general greets you, Prince Mo, Prince Li and Prince Yi."

His identity was just a small field officer, how could he dare to say anything? Moreover, Xiao Yi Xiu's words seemed to imply something — if the Cheng family really valued Cheng Ying, why would they let two male servants collect the corpse? No matter if one was alive or dead, the body of a rich family's daughter could not be touched by a lowly man.

Cold sweat flowed down Cheng Shuo's back as he realized that he had neglected this point.

The main reason was that no one had expected Xiao Yi to appear at such an occasion and even ask about Cheng Ying's death.

Yu Ying and Jin Shu went over to help straighten the body of the condemned prisoner, laid him flat on the execution platform, and then connected his head from inside the black cloth.

Cheng Lie and Cheng Shuo watched on helplessly, hoping that the two maidservants would be timid and not reveal the face of the dead, and not take off the black cloth.

However, how could the servants of Xiao Yi Xiu be the same as the maids of an ordinary family?

Yuying calmly took off the black cloth hood, took out a comb and carefully combed out the messy hair on the surface of the prisoner.

Without any warning, Jin Shu exclaimed, suddenly stood up, and said to Xiao Yi Xiu in shock, "My lord, this … This isn't our Lady Cheng! "

Cheng Liao's heart sank. This time, Madam Ru really fainted in his arms.

"This... How could this be … "I can …" Cheng Shuzhi was stuttering.

Yu Ying glanced at him and said: "If field officer Cheng doesn't believe me, then let's see."

With that, she bent down and used the handkerchief to wipe the stains on the condemned prisoner's face. Although her entire face was a little untidy, as the elder brother of Cheng Ying Zhi, how could he not tell that she was his younger sister?

Xiao Yi Xiu, on the other hand, was watching from afar, completely at ease. There was no trace of the "beloved concubine" dying that he had just mentioned, and there was still a sense of respect in his eyes.

The prisoner's face was slightly swollen, with a yellowish complexion. He was still a bit old, so how could he be Cheng Ying who had white, greasy skin and an amorous face?

"Since this is not the beloved concubine of This King, there is no need to collect the corpse. If you have any brotherly feelings for her, you might as well bury her. "But …"

Xiao Yi Xiu turned to look at Zhang Rui with a smile that was not a smile, "I would like to have one from you, Cheng Ying. It's fine if you're alive or dead, right Vice Minister Zhang, you should at least hand it over to This King, right? "

Zhang Rui could not explain why such a strange situation had occurred at the execution grounds. He stuttered, "This official …" This official does not know... How did this happen? Ah … Right, this … Wasn't this prisoner on death row always in the Supreme Court's prison? You must ask the Supreme Court for this matter. "

He finally thought of the way out.

No matter what, this death row was not something he could do on the execution platform. Someone must have done something in the justice court's prison. As long as he could prove that it had nothing to do with him, he could get away with it.