The warmth in the visitor's arms made Xu Tianze a little dazed, but when he thought of his family's current situation, he suddenly struggled out of the visitor's arms.
"Musi, father, my father, mother, and brother." Xu Tianze looked at Long Musi anxiously. He wanted Long Musi to understand, to understand what he had not said.
From the moment he received the imperial edict, he had been running non-stop, from sunset to moonrise. It was already very late, and Jiang Xue had knocked him unconscious at the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. He had only just woken up, and he had no idea how much time he had wasted.
If it were any later, it would probably be too late. However, he had already asked everyone he could, and the only person left was the one in front of him. With his status, he might be able to make some arrangements, but that person didn't like Long Musi and might not give him this favor.
Long Musi did not respond to Xu Tianze. He just looked at Xu Tianze's tattered clothes and the bruises on his body and fell into silence.
"Don't look." Xu Tianze's voice was filled with shame and annoyance.
Long Musi's gaze deeply hurt Xu Tianze. His only remaining sense of shame made him subconsciously cover up the marks on his body, but the smell coming from his body made him freeze.
Only then did he understand what Jiang Xue meant by "treat you well." How could she dare to do that? How could she do that? Did she really not care about their friendship at all?
Xu Tianze's thoughts raced, and his original shame and anger instantly turned into resentment. At this moment, he really hated Jiang Xue to the core. But Long Musi's next words directly interrupted Xu Tianze's thoughts.
"The time has passed." Long Musi's hoarse voice sounded.
"What did you say?" Xu Tianze heard this and stared at Long Musi's eyes in disbelief. "Say it again?"
"I say." Facing the expectation in Xu Tianze's eyes, he felt a great pressure for a moment. He licked his lips and said cruelly, "The time has come. The Xu family will be executed."
Upon hearing the news, Xu Tianze's body softened and he almost couldn't hold on. It was only when Long Musi reached out and supported him in time that he was able to stabilize himself.
"I want to go back, Mu Si, can you take me back?" Xu Tianze looked at his only support at the moment with pleading eyes.
He didn't believe it. He wanted to go back and see it with his own eyes. He didn't believe that the man was really so cruel. The Xu family had been loyal to him for so many years. They had shown great favor to him yesterday, so why did they end up like this today?
"Aze." Long Musi looked at Xu Tianze with heartache. The current situation of the Xu family could be imagined. He really didn't want his close friend to suffer any more stimulation.
"No! I won't listen!" Xu Tianze interrupted Long Musi directly and raised his head with a sad look, "Musi, can you take me back? I want to go back and take a look."
Even if, even if it is to collect their remains, it would be good. You can't let the remains of your family members just like this...
Thinking of this, Xu Tianze stood up with great difficulty and walked out of the temple. Long Musi looked at Xu Tianze's staggering figure and couldn't help but quickly support him.
"Okay, I'll take you back."
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Even though Xu Tianze had prepared himself mentally on the way back, he still couldn't hold back when he saw the scene in front of him and spat out a mouthful of blood.
But compared with the red plum blossoms in the huge Xu Mansion, this little bit of blood is really insignificant.
Without bothering to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, he stumbled inside.
"Mom! Mom! Mom!" Xu Tianze shouted as he ran, but when he entered his mother's yard, he didn't dare to go any further.
He was afraid to see his mother's miserable state, but he also held on to one last glimmer of hope: what if? What if his mother listened to him and ran away?
But how could a mere woman like my mother escape the imperial family's pursuit? With such a confused and complicated thought in his mind, Xu Tianze hesitantly stepped into the house.
Just as he stood at the door, Xu Tianze fell on the threshold. Because his body was unstable, he leaned backward and half of his body fell out of the door.
"Mom!!!" Xu Tianze screamed miserably, and crawled from the ground using his hands and feet to his mother.
His mother's body was covered in blood, and from the depth of the bloodstains, it could be seen that his mother had died from multiple stab wounds.
My mother is usually very dignified, but now her hair is disheveled, her luxurious clothes are covered in blood and dust, and her favorite armor has been taken off.
"Why? Why don't you listen to me? Why don't you leave?" Xu Tianze hugged his mother and questioned her repeatedly, his tears soaking the clothes of both mother and son.
Unfortunately, his mother could no longer answer his questions, nor would she tease him about wearing red clothes and attracting the attention of young ladies from aristocratic families.
"Aze, please accept my condolences." Long Musi gently stepped forward and hugged Xu Tianze's shoulders, hoping to give him some strength.
Before Xu Tianze could respond, he suddenly heard a sound in the room.
"Who?!" Xu Tianze's eyes suddenly became sharp, filled with overwhelming hatred. He picked up a stool and rushed in.
"Aze!" Long Muse watched Xu Tianze rush in and hurriedly followed him. However, before he entered the inner room, he heard a "bang", which was obviously the sound of the stool in Xu Tianze's hand falling to the ground.
Long Musi rushed in quickly and saw Xu Tianze kneeling in front of the bed in the inner room. The woman on the bed was naked, and the quilt covering her body was obviously put on by someone later.
The occasional flashes of spring light were also green and purple. Having just witnessed Xu Tianze's appearance in the dilapidated temple, he naturally understood what had happened to the woman on the bed. He also understood why the Prime Minister's wife had fallen at the door with several knife wounds.
"This is my eldest sister-in-law." Xu Tianze said in a low voice, with his back to Long Musi, "People say that an eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Ever since my eldest sister-in-law married into the Xu family, she has treated my second brother and me very well."
Looking at his eldest sister-in-law lying on the bed with her eyes open, Xu Tianze was a little dazed. He still remembered the scene of his eldest sister-in-law serving tea on the second day after she married into the Xu family.
At that time, he was still young and ignorant. When the eldest sister-in-law offered tea to his father and mother, he should not have been too outstanding.
He asked his second brother playfully, "Brother, now that you have a sister-in-law, will you love us less? I heard from them in the Imperial College that their sister-in-law is always secretly framing them. Will we be like that in the future?"
He couldn't remember what his second brother said at the time, but he remembered his eldest sister-in-law walking towards him with a smile and pinching his face: "I don't know how others behave like my sister-in-law, but I definitely won't do that."
"I have many sisters in my family, and I have long wanted a younger brother. Now that I am married, I will have two younger brothers. I can't wait to love them enough. How could I frame my own brother?"
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