Chapter 74: Life and Death Are Not in One’s Control
"What's wrong with you?"
When Lord Chen saw that his servants had bruised faces and noses, he immediately frowned and ran over.
"Are you all right?"
"fine!"
"Don't worry, sir, we are fine!"
Seeing Chen Yuan pretending to be innocent and confused, asking them what happened, and even chatting with the servants and ignoring them, Captain Sun was immediately furious.
"What do you ask us?"
"hehe!"
"I want to ask you, what is the crime for inciting prisoners to riot with the intention of escaping?"
"Pooh!"
"Don't spit blood!"
Chen Yi was immediately furious and said, "Our master has been resting in the carriage and has hardly left. How could he possibly incite the prisoners..."
"That's right, don't think you can talk nonsense just because you're the captain."
"Right and wrong will be clearly distinguished!" Chen Yuan bowed and looked at the silent general, "General, please uphold justice for us."
"nature!"
The general nodded, obviously very polite, which was completely different from his cold attitude towards Captain Sun.
Captain Sun almost dropped his jaw when he saw this scene.
What's going on?
Am I dreaming?
That general was so polite to Chen Yuan
Why?
Where is your backbone?
Where is your arrogance just now?
Just as Captain Sun was complaining in his heart, the general turned around and left, but he didn't go far. Instead, he came in front of all the prisoners.
The prisoners had gathered together and looked at this group of fully armed soldiers, some of whom even had blood dripping from their weapons. They all lowered their heads and huddled together.
The general looked at his men beside him, who immediately reacted and came out with a few prisoners, who were the ones they had seen jumping the most happily before.
Some people were shot into sieves, while others were just hit by arrows and did not die.
The soldiers pushed the prisoners in front of everyone, kicked them in the legs, and made them kneel on the ground.
"Tell me!" the general came up to one of the prisoners, "Who instructed you to start a riot, or who told you to start a riot today?"
The prisoner gritted his teeth and looked straight ahead, as if he didn't hear the general's question.
The general was not angry. He looked at the prisoners and said, "You are very brave, but it is time to pay the price for your courage."
After saying this, the general looked at the soldier next to him, who immediately said, "Exiles who escape and start a riot must be executed according to the law!"
After saying that, the soldier took out the big knife from his waist and beheaded the prisoner in front of everyone.
“Ah~!”
Many people had never seen such a scene, especially women and children, who were so frightened that they covered their eyes and screamed.
The others were also frightened and their faces turned pale and bloodless.
“Don’t look!”
Lord Chen immediately stood in front of his wife and daughter, wanting to prevent them from seeing the bloody scene, but it was too late.
"Ugh~"
Chen Xue's legs went limp, and she supported herself on the ground with her hands, starting to retch.
In her previous life, she lived in a peaceful world and had never experienced such a bloody and cruel scene. It would take her a while to accept it.
Of course, many people in this world cannot accept this.
"Xiaoxue, are you okay?"
Chen's mother was also pale, but her reaction was much smaller than Chen Xue's. She squatted down and supported Chen Xue.
Chen Xue took a deep breath, kept giving herself psychological hints, and then recalled the classic scenes from comedy movies she had seen in her previous life, which diverted her attention.
"You guys go back to the carriage and rest first!" Lord Chen came over and felt a little distressed when he saw their faces.
"Dad, no, I'm fine."
Chen Xue quickly adjusted her mindset and said firmly, "If I can't even overcome this little difficulty, we'll have to endure even more hardships in Nanman. I don't want to be a drag on our efforts then."
She knew very well that this was the cruel side of the ancient times, or the other world, where the power of life and death was in the hands of the emperor and his subordinates.
Life and death are not in our control!
The scene before her shattered some of her thoughts from her previous life. She knew she had to change her ideas, as this was not the original world.
This world has become more cruel and unfair.
If you want to survive and live a better life, you must make yourself strong and have your own power.
To be honest, she has space and an exchange system. As long as she spends some time in Nanman, she can definitely create a paradise.
If I have a little ambition, I can even establish a country. Then my destiny will truly be in my own hands.
Her idea before was very simple. After arriving in Nanman, she wanted to find a way to live a better and more comfortable life.
But after working with Captain Sun, he immediately turned against her, and after seeing the faces of the yamen runners and the scene of the prisoners being beheaded in front of her, she knew that if she wanted to do what she wanted, she must have strong strength.
This power can be absolute money. If she controls more than 50% of the country's funds, then if the court wants to take action against her, it will have to consider the consequences of economic collapse.
Or maybe she has absolute power, but this is obviously unlikely. In this feudal world, the highest power is imperial power. Her family has been exiled and removed from the center of power.
Or, she established a powerful force, so powerful that the entire court dared not provoke it and could only appease it.
Of course, I can only think about it now, and I still need to discuss the specific future plans with her parents.
While Chen Xue was daydreaming, the general was looking at the other prisoners kneeling on the ground.
The prisoner's face was covered in blood, obviously because he was too close and was splashed by the dead prisoner.
The general's gaze on his face trembled as he immediately started to cry out, "I'm telling you, it was the Liu family, Liu Wei and the others who told me."
Liu Wei was a minor official and not many people knew him. After being exiled, he was unwilling to accept his fate and kept looking for opportunities to escape.
So, in fact, they had been planning this for a long time, and the reason they launched it today was because the team happened to be resting here, and many yamen runners had gone into the city.
They originally wanted to escape during the day, but there was nowhere to run during the day, and there was no place to hide even if they ran away. Their fleeing figures could be seen from hundreds of meters away.
So, after thinking about it, they decided to wait until night. Although Captain Sun and the others would be back at night, they had been having a great day and it was definitely the most relaxing time for them.
The fuse was the Chen family's escape. The yamen runners gathered them together. Liu Wei was worried that the yamen runners would guard them more strictly because of the Chen family's escape, so he instigated others to start a riot.
"So, the mastermind behind this is Liu Wei, and he has already escaped," the general said in an unrecognizable tone.
"Yes!" The prisoner didn't dare look at the general. He lowered his head and admitted honestly, "I have confessed everything. Please let me go..."
puff!
Before he could finish his words, he was beheaded by a soldier next to him.
The general sneered and looked at the prisoners gathered around him, "This is what happens when you run away!"
Everyone shuddered suddenly.
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