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On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, Songzhou was covered with heavy snow. The clouds were dark and very low, as if they were about to touch people's heads. Everyone suddenly felt a little depressed. (..
At least 30% of the Dashun officials who had originally occupied the three inns fled after the fire. The remaining people, escorted by the bearded general, came out of the inns and gathered at a square in the heart of Songzhou City.
Feng Yuheng and Ban Zou also mixed in the crowd. Feng Yuheng changed into a maid's outfit and was quite far away from Lu Tongpan. There were many people tied up in the square, some were tied to totem poles, and some were kneeling in the snow. There were men, women, and children.
Someone recognized the tied people and cried out, "Isn't that Lord Sun from Danzhou? And his daughter!"
At the same time, more and more people were recognized by the public, and they finally understood that the people tied up in the square were those who tried to escape after the fire in the Dutong Mansion. Unfortunately, they were all caught after a short while.
People started talking and speculating about how these people would be dealt with. At this time, the bearded general waved his hand and shouted, "Silence!" After the surroundings finally quieted down, he pointed at the people in the square and said, "Since you have already defected to Grand Commander Duanmu, you took advantage of the fire in the Commander's Mansion to try to escape. You are so rebellious and unwilling to share the hardships with the Grand Commander. What's the use of such people? Today, I will follow the order of the Grand Commander to show the power of the three provinces in the northern border. All of you defectors will be executed!"
Wow!
The crowd was boiling again.
"With so many people, he said he wanted to execute them?"
"Impossible. At most, we killed one or two just to make it look good. Three at most. Look, there are at least fifty people running away. How could we kill them all?"
"Yes! I heard that there were sixty officials who came to the Northern Border to celebrate Duanmu Anguo's birthday this year. Together with their families, there were nearly two hundred people!"
“People say, if these people are really killed, what will happen to us?”
Such discussions were overwhelming, and the bearded man heard them clearly, but he didn't care. He just continued to speak loudly: "If I say to kill, then kill, no one can be spared! Lord Duanmu said that our colleagues who came to him will not be treated unfairly by our Northern Realm. But if you are undecided and want to run away when there is trouble, don't blame the Northern Realm for being ruthless!"
After he finished speaking, he signaled to the executioners who were already standing on one side of the square, and those vicious men with knives in hand immediately strode towards the center of the square.
The people watching below collectively gasped. The large knife in the butcher's hand, shining with cold light, told them that all this was true.
The ladies had already closed their eyes, some collapsed to the ground in fear, and a man murmured, "This is simply a slaughterhouse."
In one sentence, everyone expressed their thoughts, including Feng Yuheng's.
She and Ban Zou were standing in the crowd. The onlookers included officials and common people, and no one noticed them. Ban Zou lowered his head and whispered to Feng Yuheng, "Duanmu Anguo is serious. Will you save him?"
Feng Yuheng frowned, "How can we rescue them? Two fists cannot defeat four hands, and a hero cannot defeat a large number of people. How can you and I snatch these forty people from the hands of the Northern Territory soldiers? Moreover, even if we snatch them, where can we send them?" She felt irritated, and when she looked at the square again, she saw that the executioner's knife was already on the necks of those officials and their families, and the sound of crying and shouting came pouring in. This feeling was much more terrifying than when she set fire to the Dutong Mansion.
She set fire to houses with no one in them. Even if there were people burned to death, they were guards hired by Duanmu Anguo and servants who helped him commit the abuse. But these officials, even if they were guilty, their families were innocent. She couldn't bear to watch these people being chopped off.
But what else can we do now except watching it happen?
Feng Yuheng's brain was working anxiously. She knew that the best way to stop or delay this beheading incident was to have another riot happen here immediately.
The bearded general seemed to enjoy the fear of those people. He even smiled obscenely at a woman who was about to faint from fear. Feng Yuheng asked Ban Zou: "Tell me, if I kill that bearded general, can this matter be eased?" While she was talking, her right hand had already reached into the pharmacy space, hesitating between a pistol and a tranquilizer gun.
But at this moment, there was a sudden gong sound from behind, which was as loud as the sky, making everyone's hearts tremble. Even Feng Yuheng and Ban Zou were greatly shocked.
She was startled and subconsciously turned around to look, but Ban Zou grabbed her wrist and whispered, "Don't look back. It was obvious that he was using his inner strength to strike the gong just now. Look at the others."
Feng Yuheng then noticed that everyone around him was stunned in place after the gong sounded. Each of them had a painful expression, a confused look in their eyes, and their bodies seemed to be frozen and unable to move.
"If we turn around now, it will seem too abrupt." Ban Zou whispered, "Watch the crowd. When they start to move, we will move with them."
Fortunately, this situation did not last too long. Feng Yuheng calculated that it took only eight seconds for people to slowly return to normal. Then, they all looked back in horror, including the executioner and the bearded man who were executing the man in the square. They all turned to the back and temporarily stopped their actions.
Feng Yuheng then turned around with Ban Zou, and saw a huge carriage slowly approaching them on the street behind them. Perhaps because they were walking on the street, the driver controlled the speed of the horse, almost walking forward, but even if it was walking, the horse's strength was full when it stepped, and the snow made a crackling sound.
This large carriage was pulled by five horses, two more than Xuan Tianming's palace carriage. The carriage was very unique. It was not made of wood and was crystal clear, like crystal. But if you look closely, you will find that it is not crystal at all, but an extremely hard ice.
Two women were standing outside the carriage, both in white robes and cloak hoods, each holding a lotus ice lantern in their hands. The curtain of the carriage occasionally moved slightly in the wind, and one could vaguely see that the person sitting inside was wearing a red robe.
"This horse is so strange." Feng Yuheng squinted her eyes and looked over, but she couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried. Why didn't the horse look like a horse? Instead, when it tilted its head, she could see the eyes of a wolf?
Ban Zou told her: "That is a species unique to Qianzhou. It is said to be the result of the mating of a wild horse and a white wolf from the far north. It is extremely fierce and is very suitable for surviving in icy places. It can even carry people over snowy mountains without falling."
Her view of knowledge was refreshed again. "Can horses and wolves hybridize? And give birth to something like this?" Feng Yuheng was confused.
Ban Zou told her a fact: "It is because of these horses and their icy world that Qianzhou has been able to stand firm for so many years, and Dashun has not wanted to touch it for so many years. I heard that when Zudiye was alive, after conquering the three provinces in the northern border, in fact, according to the military strength, it was no problem to conquer Qianzhou in one fell swoop. But after passing Jiangzhou, it was so cold that the Dashun people could not survive at all. Not to mention the soldiers, even the horses were frozen stiff. Zudiye led his people to advance another county, but unfortunately, they were finally beaten back by the Qianzhou people riding wolf horses."
Feng Yuheng took a deep breath, feeling a little uncertain. She had never been to Qianzhou. Her impression was that, according to the map of her previous life, Qianzhou should be within the Russian border, close to Iceland. But in fact, it might not be that far away. After all, the countries of this era cannot be compared with those of later generations. They are not that big. Even the people of Qianzhou speak the same language as the people of Dashun. Xuan Tianming once said that the four countries on the border of Dashun belong to the same continent as Dashun. On this continent, the human language is interoperable. He had also seen a person who did not belong to this continent many years ago. No one could understand what the person said, and he finally needed to draw a picture to explain where he came from.
If this is the case, then if Qianzhou is also part of China, it shouldn't be that cold. How cold would it be if the war horses were frozen? Where in China is there a place like that?
"What's wrong?" Ban Zou saw that she was a little dazed and couldn't help but ask.
Feng Yuheng shook her head and said, "Nothing, I was just wondering why Qian Zhou was so cold." It seemed that the Dashun Dynasty, which did not belong to the 5,000-year history of China, had a different landform and territory from later generations, and she could no longer use the knowledge of later generations she had mastered to infer it.
At this time, the ice cart pulled by five wolf horses also came in front of the people, and those standing on the edge immediately stepped aside to make way for the ice cart. But the ice cart did not go far and soon stopped. The two girls standing outside the carriage raised their lotus lanterns and one of them raised his voice and said, "What happened ahead?"
This sound was obviously the result of the use of internal force. The bearded man heard it clearly from a long distance away. His heart was immediately startled and he quickly ran forward.
Wolf horses and ice chariot, just by these two things he knew that the person coming must be a member of the Qian Zhou royal family. Only those with noble status like the royal family were qualified to ride in a chariot pulled by wolf horses, not to mention five wolf horses.
When he arrived in front of the ice cart, he immediately bowed respectfully and replied, "I am following the orders of Lord Duanmu to execute those officials who came to the Northern Border to celebrate the birthday of Dashun but escaped by taking advantage of the fire." As he spoke, he glanced at the ice lanterns held by the two maids. When he saw the two lotus flowers, he immediately shuddered. He was originally standing, but now he knelt, kowtowed on the snow, and said loudly, "Your servant kowtows to His Royal Highness the Lotus King! Long live His Royal Highness!" Please visit:
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