Chang'an City!

Overnight, it was a night of killing.

Hundreds of officials were wearing cold clothes and iron armor. That night, dozens of men were escorted to the gate of Yichun Courtyard by these officials, and one head fell to the ground.

That night, blood flowed into a river inside the gate of Yichun Courtyard, and the same was true at the gate of Yichun Courtyard.

Xu Mingshan held Xiao Kui's body and stood in the hall of Yichunyuan overnight. A full-minded Tanhualang and a young official with a bright future for the royal undercover secretary's mansion, apart from the rebellion, turned white in the night.

In Chang'an City, the best musical instrument restorator repaired the pipa overnight, using extremely precious silk.

"Xiao Kui, I'll fix your pipa for you."

Xu Mingshan placed Xiao Kui in a coffin. The coffin was so big that Xiao Kui's body only occupied less than half of the place when it was put in. Then, Xu Mingshan also placed the repaired pipa into the coffin and placed it beside Xiao Kui's body.

At this moment, a large number of official troops suddenly appeared at the gate. The difference between these official troops and the previous ones is that these official troops have more sophisticated armor and have a dark luster.

The Imperial Guard is the exclusive royal guard.

The Imperial Guard surrounded the entire Yichunyuan and confronted the officials brought by Xu Mingshan, while the leading general walked into Yichunyuan with great strides.

"Mingshan, you?"

The general walked in and had a cold face, but when he saw Xu Mingshan's white hair, he looked shocked.

"Are you here?" Xu Mingshan looked at the visitor and said lightly.

"Mingshan, are you worth it just for this woman? You are the young talent that Your Majesty likes and have the merit of fighting rebellion. Do you know how great your future is. If you don't have a title in literature or a martial arts, but Your Majesty once said in front of me that you will definitely have a seat in your place when you enter the cabinet in the future."

"But you know what you have done now. You let your soldiers rush into the streets of Chang'an City overnight and forcibly killed more than 30 non-rebel people in the name of rebellion. Many of them are children of noble families. One of them is the concubine's son of Grand Secretary Liu He. Now Grand Secretary Liu He is directly suing you in the Golden Palace to kill innocent people, and His Majesty cannot protect you."

"Mingshan, just for a woman, you ruined yourself like this. What kind of devil do you have?"

Listening to the questioning of his friends, Xu Mingshan smiled bitterly and replied slowly: "I have never had three goals for my life, one is to avenge my family, one is to live together with Xiaokui, and the other is to establish my life for the country and the people. But now my most important goal is gone, and I can't bear the burden of benefiting the people."

The general was silent.

"What is His Majesty's will?"

Hearing Xu Mingshan's question, the general was silent for a long time, and finally squeezed out a sentence with difficulty: "Xu Mingshan falsely passed the imperial edict, and in the name of clearing the rebels, he committed personal grudges, harmed loyal and kind, and was indifferent to the king's law, and was sent to the heavenly prison, waiting for trial."

After saying that, the general quickly explained: "Mingshan, many ministers in the court now impeach you. Even Your Majesty will find it difficult to protect you. You can go to the Heavenly Prison with me first. When the storm is over, you will find a way slowly. If you don't help Your Majesty, you won't..."

"No."

Xu Mingshan interrupted the general, looked in a direction in Chang'an City, saluted respectfully and said: "Tell me for your Majesty that Xu Mingshan has let down His Majesty's trust and deserves death. If there is a future life, Xu Mingshan will repay His Majesty's kindness for his understanding again."

Bang bang bang bang!

Xu Mingshan kowtowed three times towards the palace, then stood up and looked at the general and said, "Brother Li, I have a request, and I hope Brother Li can agree."

"Mingshan, you..."

The general hesitated, but in the end he knew that Xu Mingshan had decided to die, so he had to nod: "Tell me, as long as I can do it, it will be done for you."

"After I die, please let me bury Xiaokui and I together, and you don't have to erect a monument, because I will know that there are many people in the capital who hate me. Even if I am buried, these people will not let my body go."

"Okay, I can do this."

"Thank you, Brother Li. In addition, Xiaokui left her younger brother and sister. Xiaokui asked me to take care of them, but I obviously had no time, so I would like to ask Brother Li to take care of them for me."

This time, the general was silent and did not agree immediately, because he was full of resentment towards Xiaokui. If it weren't for Xiaokui, how could his good brother have come to this point?

It’s the same with loving the house and hating, so the general naturally doesn’t have any good feelings for Xiao Kui’s younger brother and sister.

"Brother Li, this is my last request. Are you unwilling to agree?"

Xu Mingshan looked at the general's silence and suddenly roared, and the general's expression changed for a moment, and finally nodded silently.

Seeing his friend agreeing, Xu Mingshan smiled on his face. At this time, he could completely let go.

"Brother Li, let Xiaokui and I stay quietly for a while, and you will come again in half an hour."

Xu Mingshan picked up a glass of poisonous wine and placed it on the table. The general looked at the glass of poisonous wine for a long time, but in the end he didn't say anything, turned around and walked out of the yard.

In Yichun courtyard, Xu Mingshan leaned over in the coffin and picked up Xiaokui to tidy up her appearance and clothes. After finishing it, he drank the glass of poisonous wine, walked into the coffin, and lay beside Xiaokui, with a pipa between them.

The expression on Xu Mingshan's face was filled with a smile, and the smile was filled with satisfaction.

...

Outside the door!

The general stood there, looking at the officials brought out by Xu Mingshan, shouting: "What are you still standing here? Why don't you go back to your military camp? Do you think I will do anything to you Lord Xu?"

Hearing the general's words, the officials showed hesitation on their faces. They didn't know that the general was protecting them. Although the order to kill people was issued by Xu Mingshan, they were executed.

It is true that it is a soldier to execute Shangguan's orders, but this time the family members of many high-ranking officials and nobles will not care about these things, and they will definitely take revenge at that time.

If these soldiers want to survive, they must return to the military camp before the high-ranking officials reacted. There were many soldiers in the military camp, and it would be difficult for those high-ranking officials to find someone.

What's more, with the matter of the Minister of War, those high-ranking officials and nobles dare not make taboos at this time to reach out to the military camp.

"Whatever hesitates, get out of here quickly."

The general shouted, and the official troops did not dare to procrastinate anymore. The only one who led the leader clasped his fists and saluted: "The general has a lot to do with us, so we believe in the general."

After saying this, these officials, led by this man, began to walk towards the way out of the city and return to the military camp.

...

"General, Chang'an City Government Office came with officials, and many powerful people also came."

Not long after these officials left, soldiers hurried over and reported in the general's ear.

"What's going on? What do those people do?"

"There was news from the palace that Grand Secretary Liu hit the pillar of the Golden Palace. Many ministers asked His Majesty to punish Lord Xu severely. In the end, His Majesty was forced to issue an imperial edict, asking the Chang'an City Government Office to arrest people and then perform the punishment of stern schi."

Hearing his subordinates' reports, the general's eyes shrank, looked around, and then walked into Yichunyuan again.

At the Yichun Courtyard, there was only one coffin placed there, and the lid of the coffin was not closed. The general could see the bodies of Xu Mingshan and Xiaokui. Because of drinking poisonous wine, Xu Mingshan's face was blue and blood flowed out of the corners of his mouth, but even so, Xu Mingshan still had a smile on his face.

"Come!"

The general shouted at the door, and a dozen soldiers rushed in.

"Dig a tomb on the spot, it's fast!"

The soldiers did not bring that kind of shovel, but fortunately there was shovel in the utility room of Yichunyuan. When these soldiers were digging soil on the spot, the general carefully closed the cover of the coffin.

"Mingshan, don't worry. Since I promised you, I will definitely do it and will not disturb your rest."

He whispered to the coffin, and the general ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Go and find two corpses that have not been beheaded, ask for one man and one woman, and give other instructions to let all soldiers guard the passage here, the focus is on the direction of the government office. Without my order, no one is allowed to be allowed to come in."

"General, what if they were holding the imperial edict?"

"With the imperial edict, you say that I have issued a death order. You need to come and inform me of this general before you can let it go. If you have any guilt, I will naturally go to Your Majesty to apologize."

"yes!"

...

Hundreds of elite soldiers blocked all four intersections to Yichunyuan, and dozens of civil servants and ministers were stopped. Just as these civil servants were angry with Qiu Ba, who was unable to enter the air, someone shouted: "Look, there is a fire in the Yichunyuan."

The Yichun Courtyard caught fire, and the fire instantly obscured the entire pavilion. When the soldiers were released and these nobles arrived, they only saw the Yichun Courtyard wrapped in fire.

"General Li, what's going on?" Some officials questioned.

"Xu Mingshan knew that he was in great sin. Before I sent troops to surround the place, he set fire to ignite Yichunyuan and set himself on fire." General Li replied lightly.

"How could he die so easily? Your Majesty's will is Lingchi."

"Then you go in and catch him. If you want to cut him into pieces, you will have no problem."

General Li glanced at the official coldly, and the official was immediately silent. With such a big fire, what is the difference between rushing in and dying?

The fire was burned for two hours before it was put out. Then the official officer of the government office also found two corpses from the ruins. Unfortunately, it was burned beyond recognition. It was only judging from the bones that this was a man and a woman.
Chapter completed!