Chapter 1396 [Updated on August 25] If Ruoyin Said a Word, the Fourth Master Issued an Imperial Edict

After finishing speaking, the subordinates beside him actually took out an imperial decree.

Seeing the imperial decree is like seeing the emperor.

All of a sudden, including the magistrate, everyone present knelt down.

After Ruoyin knelt down, she found that fourth master was still standing beside her.

Then she pulled his sleeve and let him kneel down with her.

Otherwise, if everyone knelt down and he didn't kneel, what's the matter?

Anyway, it's me who is kneeling, so it's okay.

Immediately afterwards, the person holding the imperial decree was heard loudly saying: "Following the emperor's decree, the imperial court secretly reviewed the matter of stealing and selling the titles in Suzhou. The whole process was caused by the collusion of Yu Hongtu's wives and concubines. It has nothing to do with Yu Hongtu. This incident has a great impact. , Mrs. Yu Hongtu and Mrs. Lin need to be cut in half, and be executed!"

"Cheating examinees, as well as their subordinates, will be exiled to Ningguta, and their reference qualifications will be deprived forever."

"Yu Hongtu is not strict in running his family. After this rural exam is over, he will be assigned to the capital to proctor the exam and make amends!"

"In addition, the local academic officials in Suzhou must reset the imperial examination questions as quickly as possible and re-examination."

Hearing this, Ruoyin's eyes rolled slightly.

It seems that the fourth master had already ordered the court to prepare the imperial edict when he was investigating Yu Hongtu.

Otherwise, the magistrate wouldn't be able to come by such a coincidence.

Compared with what Ruoyin cared about, the candidates cared more about continuing the scientific examination.

As for Yu Hongtu, it sounded like a punishment, but it was actually a reward.

Fourth master has always been a person who distinguishes between rewards and punishments.

If Yu Hongtu is not a good person, he will definitely end up miserable.

But since Yu Hongtu is a clean and honest official, naturally he will not chill the hearts of his loyal subjects.

Otherwise, whoever is willing to serve the imperial court will just be that white-eyed wolf.

At this moment, Yu Hongtu knocked his head on the ground and did not lift it up for a long time.

When he raised his head, his piercing eyes were red.

His voice was thick and trembling: "My humble minister, thank you Lord Long En!"

After speaking, he kowtowed three times.

Because of this decree, he saved his life and made him feel that everything he had done over the years was worthwhile.

Since the imperial decree said that Yu Hongtu was wronged, everyone naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

On the contrary, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lin were wronged, crying and begging for forgiveness.

Originally, what the magistrate was talking about was Qiuhou Wenzhan.

Now the imperial decree is executed, and the execution is decisive.

So, the prefect's subordinates took the two of them outside the tribute courtyard.

As early as when he received the imperial decree, the magistrate brought the executioner with him.

At this moment, someone carried Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lin to lie on the bed.

The two women who were still living a better life suddenly became fish in the knife.

"Execution!" Following the command of the magistrate, the executioner slammed down the guillotine.

Madam Yu's and Lin's bodies were instantly divided into two halves.

The bright red blood stained their separated parts red.

A large pool of blood was also sprayed on the waist.

Some viscera in the body are just presented in front of everyone.

It is simply horrible and shocking!

It was as if there was a blood-red thread separating their bodies alive.

But even so, the limbs of the two of them were still moving.

It's just that the movement is slow because of the pain.

Seeing this, Ruoyin couldn't help but frowned.

Cutting in half in the Qing Dynasty was originally one of the crueler methods of death penalty.

Cut from the waist of the prisoner into two or more sections.

The purpose is to prolong the death time of criminals and increase their suffering.

Usually in the end, it is hemorrhagic shock.

Because the main organs of a person are in the upper body.

After being cut in two from the waist, he will still be conscious, and it will take a long time to die.

In this case, in order to prevent the criminal from suffering too much, many family members will give some money to the executioner, which is regarded as "fee".

Let the executioner move the knife from the upper part during execution, so that the prisoner can leave more quickly.

If there is no fee, or if someone wants the prisoner to suffer more, the executioner will cut the knife from the lower part.

In this way, the prisoner will die very slowly. After the knife is cut down, the upper half of the prisoner is still alive, and it will take a long time to completely end his life.

What's more, transferring the upper half of the beheaded person to a tung oil board, so that the blood can't come out, can keep the prisoner alive for two or three hours, which is extremely cruel.

Obviously, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lin did not have time to pay the fee because the execution was too sudden.

Besides, their family members are Yu Hongtu.

Then Yu Hongtu was originally a clean and honest person, and he disdained to do such a thing of bribing executioners.

In addition, one of them did Yu Hongtu a lot of harm, and the other gave Yu Hongtu a cuckold, so it's strange that Yu Hongtu would think of them.

This caused the two of them to die of pain and kept rolling on the guillotine.

Seeing Mrs. Yu's pained look, Ms. Yu had been crying for a long time, and she couldn't stand or sit still.

Instead, she leaned against the maid's arms, crying as if she was about to die.

I don't know how long Mrs. Yu struggled, but Mrs. Lin next to her was already out of breath, while Mrs. Yu's body was still moving.

It must have been in extreme pain, but Mrs. Yu's fingers dipped in blood from her waist and wrote several identical words on the ground.

The further you write, the slower the speed.

Ruoyin was standing in the first row. She looked carefully, only to find that Mrs. Yu had written seven "miserable" characters.

It is estimated that Mrs. Yu's last energy has been exhausted when writing.

A few seconds after finishing writing, this guy's eyes widened and he didn't move.

Seeing this scene, Ruoyin couldn't help saying, "What a miserable woman."

Although Mrs. Yu accepted bribes of more than ten thousand taels of silver behind Yu Hongtu's back.

But this cut in half was too cruel.

Mrs. Yu was executed with Mrs. Lin again.

Lin's breath died early.

But Mrs. Yu's body was broken in two, but she was tormented for more than half an hour, so it can't be miserable.

The fourth master on the side looked at all this calmly, without blinking his eyes.

Because this cut in half has been used for more than two thousand years.

When he was in the Forbidden City before, he had seen such scenes a lot, so it was nothing unusual.

Now that he heard the unconscious emotion from the woman beside him, he put his arms around her waist belatedly.

He clung to her ear, and with a voice that two people could hear, he said in a low voice: "Don't look at it, if you think it's cruel, at worst, I will decree to abolish the beheading."

"..." Hearing these words, Ruoyin always felt that history was surprisingly similar but different.

In that history, it was Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Lin who ruined Yu Hongtu's reputation.

But in the end, it was Yu Hongtu who was cut in half.

And it was Yu Hongtu who wrote the seven miserable words.

But in this life, Yu Hongtu is rewarded for being a good man.

Who doesn't know that the imperial decree said that he should make atonement for his sins.

It can be transferred to Beijing to work in Beijing, which is actually a promotion.

After Mrs. Yu's execution, Ruoyin and fourth master took the carriage back to the inn.

Fourth Master kept his promise, returned to the inn, and wrote a letter to the capital seriously.

The letter said a lot of political affairs.

Of course, it is indispensable to order the knife to be sealed and the cut in half to be abolished.

So, the torture that lasted more than two thousand years, because of Ruoyin's casual words, fourth master listened to it and was abolished.

Su Peisheng couldn't believe his ears when he knew that Fourth Master was going to abolish the cut in half.

You know, when meeting such a heinous sinner, the emperor even felt that Ling Chi's torture by cutting him into pieces was light.

Now, because of the queen's casual words, the half-cut was abolished.

Why does he feel a little weird?

The truth about Suzhou stealing and selling questions came to light, and Ruoyin and Fourth Master were about to leave for Hangzhou.

The next day, a group of people were riding in a carriage on the way from Suzhou to Hangzhou.

Ruoyin still showed herself as fourth master's personal servant girl.

However, the group hadn't left Suzhou when the carriage that was driving stopped suddenly.

Fourth master opened the curtain and asked, "What's going on?"

"Master, it's not good, the road ahead is blocked by people." Su Peisheng replied anxiously.