Preface
·Preface·
In the 25th year of Qianlong's reign, in autumn.
On this day, the entire Beijing city was in chaos, and a shocking news shocked all the people. Everyone ran around and told each other, and the crowd was in great enthusiasm. Heard that something happened in the palace, and the Princess Huan Princess and Princess Ming had caused a huge disaster. The emperor was furious and wanted to behead the two princesses! Today is the day for beheading! Everyone couldn't believe this is the fact. Princess Huan Princess and Princess Ming Princess were two folk princes! How could it be that such a legendary and bizarre story-filled? Everyone was excited and noisy, rushing to the street in front of Zhengyang Gate, stretching their heads and looking forward.
Sure enough, the execution team appeared!
The gongs were sounding on the ground. The army appeared neatly with weapons. The prison officer rode his horse seriously in front of the road. The big flag fluttered in the wind with the word "南" written on it. Behind him, the imperial guards in yellow, holding wooden sticks, blocking the crowds that flocked to both sides of the street, and preventing the common people from approaching the prison van.
The prison car appeared immediately. The two princesses were indeed standing in the prison car, and the crowd couldn't help but be upset.
Ziwei wore a bright red plaid outfit, plus a moon-white vest, embroidered with butterflies. The little swallow wore a crimson plaid outfit, a vest of the same color, and was covered with gold embroidered phoenixes. Both of them were surrounded by pearls and green, with high flag heads, and a hat-like flag head, with big peony flowers on them. Although they were wearing shackles and handcuffs and handcuffed to the railings of the prison car, they were neatly decorated with hairpins and rings and jewelry, and they seemed to be completely different from two criminals who were going to "execute" them, but they seemed to be going to have a feast. Both of them held their heads with their heads raised, standing in the wind, with fluttering clothes, as beautiful as people walking out of the picture. There was no fear or sadness in their eyes, but only a heroic spirit of looking at death.
When the masses saw these two princesses, they shouted:
"Look! Look! They are really two princesses! The Princess and the Princess of the Pearl!" "It's our 'Folk Princess'! What a beautiful two princesses! The Emperor wants to behead them!"
"Why should such a beautiful princess beheaded?"
"The princess of the people have no status. When the emperor gets angry, he loses his head!"
"But, the Condor Heroes paraded with the emperor last year and went to the Temple of Heaven to worship the sky. We have only seen it. It's only a year ago, why are you going to behead your head?"
"Yes! How mighty that time! With the blink of an eye, the princess became a prisoner. It's really strange..."
"So, this 'folk princess' is a bad luck. If you do something wrong, you will be beheaded if you behead them! When have you heard of the real princess? Being with the king is like being with a tiger!"
The crowd yelled, shouted, and discussed. The more everyone talked, the more they became more angry, crowded and excited.
Xiaoyanzi looked at the crowded crowds all over the street, and was so surprised. What? Everyone knows that the Condor Heroes is going to die today? She turned around and looked at Ziwei beside her. She really admired Ziwei's calmness. At this moment, she was still so quiet, as if she really didn't care about "death". Xiaoyanzi couldn't do it. Thinking that her head was about to separate from her body, she was still very scared, reluctant, and dissatisfied. She stretched out her neck and swallowed her saliva. She said to Ziwei:
"I didn't expect that so many people came to see us die! We died so lively! I feel very 'unique' like this, and I'm simply 'momental'! The headache is not painful, and I don't care anymore!"
"Let's be braver and never cry, do you know? So many people are watching, let's make our performance more exciting!" Ziwei cheered Xiaoyanzi up and said with her head raised and her chest out.
"Yes! Let's sing!" Xiao Yanzi looked at so many people and became more energetic. What if he doesn't matter, he wants the first one, but he's deadly!
"Okay! We sing 'The weather is so sunny today'!"
The two of them started singing:
"The weather is so clear today, and the scenery is good everywhere! Butterflies are busy, bees are busy, and birds are busy with the white clouds! Horse hooves are swaying to the fallen flowers, and horse hooves are swaying to the fallen flowers! Camels are swarming in front of you, and camel bells are jingling! This is also singing, that is also singing, the wind is singing, and water is singing! The green field is vast, the green field is vast..."
When the two sang like this, the onlookers were even more crazy and excited, and shouted in a singular manner:
Look! They are still singing! They are not afraid at all, they are so brave! So great! They are better than men!
"I heard that these two princes are both female heroes and love to stand up for justice! They have done many good things in the palace! It's so unreasonable for such princes to behead her head!"
At this time, among the crowd, there were four outstanding young people following the team, stepping forward. The four people's eyes were all following the two princesses, staring blankly. They dressed up as ordinary people, but their heroic looks could not be concealed by their clothes. These four people were no one else, Ekang, Yongqi, Liu Qing and Liu Hong. They followed the team with all their concentration, ready to go.
Suddenly, a woman came out in front of the prison car and shouted:
"Return of the Condor Heroes! We are the victims of Hanxuan Chess Club. Thank you for eliminating us!"
A group of people shouted:
"Returning the Condor Heroes, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, "As the shouts of the Contagious People, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, Thousand Years, "As the shouts of the people, these people actually crawled on the ground and kowtowed to Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei. The calls of the people were contagious, and more people responded loudly:
"Grandpa Rao is not dead! Grandpa Rao is not dead! Grandpa Rao is not dead..."
Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei looked at each other in surprise, and they could not imagine such a scene. Xiaoyanzi shouted:
"Ziwei, listen, listen, everyone knows us, and everyone doesn't want us to die!" Ziwei was shocked.
"Yes! I'm so moved! Perhaps our story has spread!"
At this time, an old woman in the crowd ran out tremblingly and shouted shrillly: "The folk princess is our 'pride', you can't behead you!"
Ziwei looked at Xiaoyanzi and shook her.
"That's Grandma Sun from the slum!"
The little swallow looked around and became more and more surprised.
"Many people from the slums... Grandma Bai, Grandpa Qi, Eunuch Wei and others are all here!"
An old man rushed to the front of the prison officer and shouted:
"We plead for the princess! The two of them are 'citizens', representing our folk! Please follow the public opinion and let the princess die!"
The crowd responded and shouted loudly:
"The folk princess cannot be killed! The princess who are not dead! The princess who are not dead! The princess who are not dead..."
The entire team was stopped by the out-of-control masses. The masses crawled on the road in groups, raised their hands, and knelt down. The momentum was amazing. The prison officer looked at all this in shock, shocking. Looking back at Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei, the two princes were standing there like flowers and jade, floating like immortals! After all, they are two princes! Is the emperor really going to kill them, or are they angry for a moment? This situation must be made known to the emperor! Maybe they can save the two princes! The prison officer thought about it, and hurriedly said to a guard beside him:
"Go back and report to the emperor quickly and see if you can 'keep someone under the knife'?"
"As for order!" The guards flew away.
In the crowd, Ekang, Yongqi, Liu Qing and Liu Hong were all excited and looked surprised.
"Everyone wait a moment, maybe there will be a turnaround!" Erkang whispered.
"The prison officer has sent someone back!" Yongqi nodded desperately.
"The team stopped too!" Liu Hong's eyes glowed.
There is hope! There is hope!" Liu Qing murmured to himself.
The crowd was still yelling and shouting:
"Grandpa Rao is not dead! Grandpa Rao is not dead! Grandpa Rao is not dead"
Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi were so moved, so they waved to everyone:
"Thank you everyone!"
"Thank you! Thank you! Grandma Sun, Grandma Bai, Grandma Qi... Thank you!" Xiaoyanzi also shouted.
The masses also waved their hands to respond:
"Girl is lucky! Gege is thousands of years old and thousands of years old!"
Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi were so moved that they burst into tears. The two waved their handkerchiefs frantically, and their shackles followed the jingle and bells. Their eyes were filled with tears and their mouths were smiling.
Ziwei suddenly saw Ekang, Yongqi, Liu Qing and Liu Hong in the crowd. She was so shocked that she trembled all over, and her eyes were entangled with Ekang's eyes. Ekang immediately passed the message with her eyes. In an instant, all things in the world turned into nothingness. When the world turned into chaos, no one existed, only you and me. At that moment, the eyes of the two had exchanged thousands of words.
The masses were still shouting excitedly:
"The princess is immortal! Thousands of years and thousands of years! The princess is immortal! Thousands of years and thousands of years and thousands of years..."
The prison officer was waiting, the masses were waiting, Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi were waiting, Erkang, Yongqi, Liu Qing, Liu Hong...waited. Finally, the horseshoe tower, the guard who ran to ask for his order, held a yellow flag high and ran back quickly.
All the masses were quiet, and everyone stared at the yellow flag intently.
"The emperor has an order, and execute two criminals immediately! Kill without mercy!" The guard shouted. Erkang was stunned, Yongqi was stunned, Liu Qing and Liu Hong were stunned. The prison officer was stunned, and the masses were stunned.
Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi were also shocked.
Chapter completed!