Chapter 73 : The Penal Colony

Miles of dark clouds covered the sky, the golden yellow sunlight that was originally scattered all over the ground quietly disappeared, the sky was gloomy with an indescribably weird feeling, as if the darkness of the night had descended in advance.

Cold wind, rolling up the yellow leaves, adding a little bit of depression.

Despite the cold weather, but both sides of the Imperial capital streets crowded with people, officials and soldiers holding lances struggling to maintain order, but from time to time there are still people or break through the barrier or be pushed and shoved, squeezed through the lances of the officials and soldiers, standing abruptly in the middle of the open street, immediately dressed in the uniform of the royal guards of the people came forward to capture it, without saying into the street side of a house.

With all the noise and excitement in the street, no one noticed the low screams coming from the house.

The sound of wheels rolling and horses' hooves rang out in the distance, and the people immediately stood on tiptoe to look in the direction of the source of the sound.

A beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes rode this tall horse to lead the way, she looked towards the surrounding people, a smug smile on the corner of her lips, just like a general returning triumphantly after winning a battle. More than twenty guards in neat formation followed behind her, each holding their swords tightly, vigilant attention to the surrounding movements.

Walking in the centre of the team was an oxcart dragging a prison cage, the prisoner was sitting on her knees, a heavy shackle was put on the prisoner's body, making her have to hunch her back and lower her head, her long black hair was spread out, blocking half of her face, so that she couldn't see the prisoner's expression. Prisoner's clothes were white and clean, hiding the gruesome scars left after the severe torture, the only thing was the wrists and ankles where the rough chains had worn out wounds deep enough to be seen on the bones, originally the blood had already dried up, but then new wounds were worn out, and over and over again they had never healed.

Behind the prison wagon were four or five executioners, carrying baskets wrapped tightly in cloth in their hands, glaring at the people around them with bravado, some of them were frightened by their eyes and backed away, not wanting to knock over several people behind them in a row.

Nearly a hundred officers and soldiers holding sabres at the back, the same as the guards in front of them, not sparing any unusual movements around them.

Once see the woman inside the prison car, the people's emotions more excited, screaming loudly, the surrounding suddenly noisy, the voice of the speech has become blurred, can not tell what people are shouting in the end, but at least can be seen from their expressions of anger and similar to the vengeance after the release of the pleasure of relief.

As the prison car continues to move forward, the streets into a more chaotic state, the people have to throw to the prison car already prepared stones, the mood to the point of uncontrollable, the officers and soldiers regardless of the danger of being hit by stones, put their best ability to block the people out of the limited range, they know that if someone is robbing criminals, waiting for their own is not a small stone hit such a small pain.

Prisoner car soon covered with stones, clean prison clothes also become dirty, Pei Si Yan tightly biting lips, do not let out a single sound, but the stone smashed on the body, the nerve seems to be more sharp than before, the pain instantly spread to the bone marrow.

"Cough-", a mouthful of blood clogged in her throat, Pei Si Yan couldn't hold it back for a moment, bright red blood slid down the corner of this mouth, leaving shocking traces on her pale skin.

Her attention was all on the blood spots dripping on the shackles, not caring how the people scolded her.

How the body is in front of her has no meaning for the dead her anymore.

Last night's words from Li Qingyan were enough to let her die in peace.

Tantai Si slightly turned her head back and looked at the prisoner who was being stoned and abused by the people, her smile became even more intense, what she wanted was for this sister who had taken away everything from her to suffer the most pain and shame.

The emperor ordered her to be paraded through the streets, she would have to take her time, making Tantai Yan's life worse than death!

Thinking this in her heart, Tantai Si once again slowed down her speed.

The procession circled around the imperial capital, letting the people vent their hearts out, and finally reached the execution ground, only a quarter of an hour left from the noon hour, to be the superintendent of the beheading as well as all the onlookers of the officials in the shed to sit down, the guards and officers and soldiers dispersed in the corners of the execution ground to stand by, only then did the executioner savagely drag the prisoner out of the cage.

Pei Si Yan's legs were already completely unable to walk, she was dragged onto the execution platform by the executioners, and her legs rubbed against the sharp uneven ground, oozing spots of bright red, leaving piercing red marks on the dark coloured ground. The executioners took off her shackles and used thumb-thick ropes and thin chains to securely tie her to the torture rack, making her body not collapse because she couldn't stand.

At this time, Pei Si Yan just saw the people's faces full of angry colours, the black, boundless crowd was like a vast ocean, the abusive voices were like shocking huge waves coming towards her. She still ignored what others were saying, searching hard in the crowd, silently reciting "did not come, did not come".

She was still aware of how many of her close friends were willing to follow her with their hearts and souls, despite the lure of money and power. Even if Lanxuan and Tantai Si tried their best to buy those people, the most they could get was superficial loyalty, but their hearts were tied to her, Pei Si Yan.

Now that her death is imminent, there is no guarantee that these people will defiantly come to rob the court.

I hope that Li Qingdian will be her yesterday's words reached, so tightly guarded, come to rob the court of the end of the road is only dead, do not have meaningless deaths and injuries, she is a person down to the Yellow Springs has been enough.

However, there are too many people, Pei Si Yan felt her eyes aching and her vision blurred, but she still doesn't give up and continues to search.

On the other side, Tantai Si respectfully took out the holy decree from the brocade box, walked to the torture platform, smiled smugly and mockingly at Pei Si Yan, and then read the holy decree aloud.

"One of the original four great auxiliary ministers, Wu Pan Tantai Yan, shows Shu Jing Xian Ming, deceived the late emperor and today's saint trust, but the use of power to net party members, use power for personal gain, by the Da Lisi investigation, accepting bribes, embezzlement of the state treasury silver a total of two million taels, one of the great sins; make up false accusations, the private creation of the dragon robe to falsely murder the original imperial master, lord Feng Ding Yuan, resulting in tens of the Feng family's innocent loss of life. The second great crime; after the death of the Imperial Master Feng, he took control of the court, without a king in sight, ruling on political affairs without authorisation, removing and promoting officials, the third great crime; the abuse of the power of the clan leader, arbitrarily mutilating the Tantai people, the fourth great crime; after the crime was exposed, he wanted to assassinate the current Emperor, the fifth great crime! The crimes committed by Tantai Yan were too numerous to mention, heinous and outrageous! In accordance with the laws of the Blue Country, she will be sentenced to the death penalty of lynching, and her body will be hung in public for three days, so that she can serve as a warning to future generations!"

After Tantai Si read out the imperial decree, the people shouted in unison, she looked at the surrounding crowd with satisfaction and looked back at Pei Si Yan: "You lowly loser, goodbye forever!"

Pei Si Yan's gaze fell on her, smiling indifferently, "Remember, to guard the Tantai family well, this is my only last wish."

"Don't need you to point it out!" Tantai Si rolled her eyes unhappily and returned to the book case, seeing that the hour was almost up, she immediately threw down the token and bellowed, "Execution!"

The token landed on the ground with a very soft sound, but Pei Si Yan heard it clearly.

She still smiled, can be sure that no one will come to save themselves, very good ...

Pei Si Yan smiled and closed her eyes, an executioner came forward to undo her clothes, several others uncovered the cloth on the bamboo basket, revealing a small, incredibly sharp knife neatly placed in it, under the gloomy sky these knives still refracted a sharp light.

The executioner picks through the basket and selects a handy knife, his lewd gaze lingers on Pei Si Yan's body for a moment, and then mercilessly stabs her in the shoulder.

Just then, a cry of alarm rang out from the crowd, then Pei Si Yan heard the executioner in front of her scream miserably, and the cold sensation on her shoulder disappeared with it.

Her heart seized up and she opened her eyes to see the most unwanted thing being played out in front of her.

Li Qingyan was standing under the execution platform, red ** was sliding down the long sword in his hand, several corpses of officials and soldiers were under his feet, warm blood was slowly flowing, the executioner who was holding the sword was noiselessly paralysed on the ground, a flying knife was stuck in his back, the other executioners were scared to the side when they saw this scene.

"No, don't! Quickly go ..." Pei Si Yan looked at Li Qing Dye in pain, shaking his head repeatedly, hoping that he would hurry to leave.

The guards and officials swarmed up and attacked the person who robbed the court, more and more people surrounded the road leading to the torture platform, as if it was a rushing flood, drowning the people.

A cold light flashed in Li Qingye's eyes, not hearing Pei Si Yan's desperate cries, he swung his long sword and beheaded the guards who rushed to the forefront, blood splattered and stained his cheeks and robes, as if he was a life-threatening messenger from hell.

The people did not expect that there would be people who would come to save such a great traitor, the sound of insults resurfaced, a greater ** occurred, the entire execution ground became even more chaotic and noisy.

Tantai Si slapped the table and got up, shouting at the terrified executioners: ''What are you doing there? Why don't you hurry up and carry out the execution! I'll reward whoever cuts the first ten slashes with a thousand taels of silver!"

The executioners looked at each other, and saw that the person who was blocked by the guards would not be able to reach the execution platform for a while, in the face of the temptation of one thousand taels of silver, they couldn't help it, and all of them picked up the small knives inside the bamboo basket, and rushed towards Pei Si Yan.

In the nick of time, a few silver lights broke through the air, the executioner grunted a few times and was killed on the spot.

From the three-storey building opposite the execution ground, a man in black flew in, the black veil fluttering on the bucket hat obscured his appearance. The man in black lightly stepped on top of the heads of the onlookers and landed on the execution platform as if he were an immortal descending from the sky.

The crowd was dumbfounded, pointing at the man in black with their mouths wide open, unable to speak.

In addition to Li Qingyan, there were actually other people with strong martial arts skills beside the former Wu Pan!

Without saying a word, the man in black swung his sword at the ropes and chains that bound Pei Si Yan, with dazzling sparks leaping up and a crisp "ping" sound, the chains snapped, and the man in black immediately wrapped a black cloak around her body with only her bust and bottoms remaining.

Pei Si Yan gazed at the unrecognisable face through the black veil and was just about to open her mouth to speak when the man in black covered his mouth.

Seeing another person robbing the court, Tantai Si became infuriated and shouted at the surrounding guards, ''Why don't you hurry up and go up to catch all three of these people? Whoever captures Tantai Yan, I'll reward him with three thousand taels of silver!"

More guards surged up, the man in black hugged Pei Si Yan and leapt off the torture platform, the three-foot blue blade in his hand flashed with a cold light, the crowd could not see what he was doing, the guards who blocked the way had already been killed!

The man in black killed a bloody road and joined Li Qingdian.

Li Qingdian narrowed his eyes, guessing who this sudden helper was.

The man in black pushed Pei Siyan into Li Qingdian's arms and spoke quickly, ''Take her and leave quickly, I'll break the back! Remember, never set foot in the Imperial Capital again!"

"Who the hell are you?!" Pei Si Yan asked eagerly, listening to the man in black's voice was very unfamiliar.

"Don't worry about who I am, go!"

"Thanks a lot!" Li Qingdian dropped two words, picked up Pei Si Yan and ran towards the outside of the execution ground, all the way to kill the besieging officials and soldiers, although the people hated the traitor to the extreme, but in the face of killing the red-eyed Li Qingdian only gave way.

Outside the corner of the execution ground, a horse waiting there. Things are urgent, away from the light dye hand is not a light weight, will Pei Si Yan to the saddle a throw, also do not listen to what she is saying, sitting behind her, steering the horse galloped away.

In the penal colony, the men in black are still fighting to the death, stopping all the people who want to chase Pei Si Yan and away from light dye ...