Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 3 Despair
Little beggar, dare to stare at them and accuse them of talking nonsense!
Being accused loudly by Gu Sixiao, the two men dressed as scholars were shocked and angry.

One of them snorted coldly, with his nostrils upturned, and ignored Gu Sixiao at all.

The other, however, pointed at Gu Sixiao and yelled loudly: "Where did you come from, you little beggar? How dare you! How dare you come here to speak nonsense!?"

"Brother Hu, how does a little beggar know what it means to talk nonsense?" The one with the upturned nostrils snorted and rolled his eyelids, "Little beggar, if you keep barking like a puppy, the police will arrest you." — Just like the ones there, cut off your head!"

"You're talking nonsense! You're barking like a dog!" Gu Sixiao clasped his hands together, staring at the two of them, his eyes were red, "Which one of your eyes saw that I was big—Gu Daguan killed someone? Which eye saw that the child of the Gu family was about to die? Which eye saw that little lady and people..."

Biting her lip, she hissed, "Don't speak ill of etiquette! Talking nonsense like you, how can you be worthy of Confucius? Do you think you're wearing a shirt? You're a literati and Confucian scholar!? Bah, you're just a dog who doesn't speak human language ..."

Angry to the extreme, Gu Sixiao scolded so vitriolicly that the two scholars blushed, and one of them raised his hand to hit him after a loud shout.

Gu Sixiao was already weak, and after a few curses, she was already out of breath. At this moment, she staggered back, her footsteps were unsteady, but there were people in front of her and behind her, and she couldn't avoid it.

Seeing the scholar's slap in front of her eyes, she hurriedly raised her hand to block it, but suddenly heard the scholar's "Ouch", but a young boy of not tall stature rushed forward and bumped his head on the scholar's waist.

The scholar staggered, and then he stood upright, but felt his waist loosen and his buttocks felt cold. After touching it, he didn't know when the pants loosened, and they fell down to the hollow of his legs, revealing half of the crotch pants inside, two parts The stalk-like hairy legs were blown by the wind, and they couldn't help shaking.

The people around laughed loudly, the scholar blushed with embarrassment, how could he bother to trouble Gu Sixiao again, he turned around and ran away with his trousers in his hands.

Gu Sixiao stared in a daze, before she recovered, the beggar who bumped into her had already dragged her into the crowd.

"That bastard deserves to be laughed at..."

The beggar raised his hand, and weighed a blue money bag in his palm. Hearing the jingling sound, there were quite a lot of copper coins in the money bag.

The beggar turned his head, with a look of color on his face, "Girl, brother will cook meat for you tonight."

Blinking, Gu Sixiao hesitated and asked, "You stole..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a burst of cheers from the people around him.

Without asking any more questions, Gu Sixiao squeezed forward desperately.

I could only hear people shouting: "Ah, that's Gu Liubai! It doesn't look very fierce, why did he kill someone!"

"Fierce? Are you from the countryside? Who doesn't know that Gu Liubai is a well-known talent in this city—does the fan king, the Gu family, know? This Gu Liubai is a senior official of the Gu family, and he made royal fans for the emperor. Do you understand?!"

"What big official? Isn't he locked up! Ah, I heard that this guy raped the wife of a rich family?"

The voice was full of excitement, but was booed by the people around: "Don't talk nonsense, it was an attempted rape and murdered in anger—that lady is a strong woman, she died innocently..."

Amidst the booing, someone whispered: "What an idiot from the countryside. I have never heard of the dead lady. She was the widowed daughter-in-law of the former grand master. How many of these court officials are disciples of the grand master? Said he was raped and murdered, Grand Master Chen might jump out of the coffin in anger..."

Those who want to jump out are not the dead, but the living.

The mentor and widow's daughter-in-law were raped and murdered, not only the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty lost face, but even the emperor was furious.

Because of the background of the dead Mrs. Zhang, the case went through to the sky, so that Songjiang Hezhi County didn't think about how to catch the real culprit, and hastily fixed her with a seven-treasure fan left at the scene of the crime. Big brother's sin.

Gu Sixiao clenched her teeth, her little body squeezed into the front row without knowing where the strength came from.

Seeing Gu Liubai on the execution platform, kneeling on the platform with shackles on his back and neck shackles, Gu Sixiao burst into tears.

However, the prisoner for more than a month, her elegant and gentle elder brother, has been tortured beyond recognition.

Dirty prison clothes, unwashed hair, and messy beard, she looks extremely embarrassed, but what hurts Gu Sixiao the most is her pair of gloomy, lifeless eyes.

An old servant was kneeling by Gu Liubai, holding a porcelain bowl in his hand, and with trembling hands, took a mouthful of rice and brought it to Gu Liubai's mouth, "Da Lang, take another bite! You can go on the road when you are full... "

Gu Liubai shook his head, his mouth moved slightly, but he only asked, "Did you find the little girl?"

Seeing the old servant shaking his head, he couldn't help sighing in a low voice: "Uncle Chang, after I'm gone, tell your wife to do what I tell you, and don't act arrogantly. Also, my little sister..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly raised his head, knelt forward a few steps eagerly, and the executioner behind him immediately stepped forward, pressing heavily on Gu Liubai's shoulder like a cattail fan, making him unable to move.

"Changbo, can you hear that? It seems like my little sister is calling me..." Gu Liubai looked around in a panic, but he didn't see the person he was thinking about.

The light in his eyes dimmed, he lowered his head and smiled wryly, "Did I hear wrong?"

"It's almost three o'clock in the afternoon, that old man, step back quickly - listen to orders from left and right, and prepare to execute..."

Hearing that the execution was about to be executed, the old servant burst into tears. Although some guards stepped forward to pull him, he still knelt down on the stage and only said, "Let me see my Dalang for a ride, let me see him off..."

No matter how loudly he cried, he was finally dragged under the execution platform, and he broke away from the guard's hand. The old servant knelt on the ground, crying unceasingly.

Sorrows and screams were heard in the ears of others, but they did not arouse half a sympathy. The crowd around the audience just hissed: "Behead—behead..."

Trembling astringently, amidst the huge sound waves, Gu Sixiao only felt heartache as if stabbed by a knife.

"Big Brother, Big Brother..." she hissed and roared, "I'm wronged—I'm wronged! My lord..."

In the arena, He Zhixian, who was in prison, was turning sideways to talk to Lu Xiancheng, and he didn't even look this way, as if he didn't hear anything.

Only Gu Liubai, who was pressed down by the executioner on the execution platform, suddenly raised his head and looked straight over, with surprise in his eyes.

However, before the surprise was fully revealed, his gaze had already dimmed——

The bare-chested and backless executioner raised his knife and slashed it down neatly. Before Gu Liubai could utter a cry of pain, a big head rolled to the ground.

There was a loud "boom", on a fine sunny day, a thunderbolt actually knocked down an old tree by the roadside, but in an instant, dark clouds covered the sun, and the whole world was darkened.

There was a commotion of people, and the crowd of spectators was in a mess. Even the magistrate who was executed was shocked and called for the guards.

The surroundings were in chaos, but Gu Sixiao seemed to have never heard of it.

There was only a mist of blood in front of her eyes, and her heart ached like it was about to burst open. With a cry of pain, she fell limply...

"Big brother, big brother—"

In the deep darkness, she only felt pain.

Not only the heart aches, but the whole body hurts. For a while, it feels like being roasted on a fire, and for a while, it's like being thrown in an ice cellar to freeze, hot and cold, shaking non-stop.

is she dead?This is the legendary Hell Glacier?

But, didn't it mean that only wicked people would be tortured like this?Ah, yes, the underworld is now the same as the world, there is no clear place.

Even people like Eldest Brother died so badly—I really don’t want to, since she and Eldest Brother are both good people, why should they be wronged to suffer such pain? !
Could it be that the Buddha said that kindness will be rewarded with goodness, just to coax good people like them? !
Not reconciled, she is really not reconciled, even if she is in the underworld, she still has to ask why her Gu family has to suffer such injustice...

Gu Sixiao let out a breath of gloominess, "I'm not reconciled..."

She thought she was yelling, but she didn't know that it was just a muffled moan.

Vaguely, she heard someone talking, and the voice sounded so familiar:
"It's okay, as long as you have a good rest, you'll be fine—and also, you have to relieve your little sister, don't worry too much..."

It seems that there is light, coming out from behind the heavy black mist.

Gu Sixiao frowned, her closed eyes trembling unconsciously.

Struggling, she wanted to break free from the black mist, she was not reconciled, she was not reconciled to being unable to do anything like this...

His eyes trembled slightly, and Gu Sixiao's eyes suddenly opened.

Although her vision was still hazy and she couldn't even see the face bent down in front of her clearly, the familiar feeling made her subconsciously murmur: "Brother Meng Sheng, you are back..."

Her voice was so low that the half-bent man in the blue shirt couldn't hear clearly. Did the little girl call him just now?

It's called...

"Doctor, my sister is awake?!" Surprised voices around him interrupted the man's train of thought. He sat up, smiled and nodded to the young man with a shabby way of making money.

"Your sister is awake, um, you will feed her the boiled medicine in a while - take three doses in a row according to my prescription, and don't let her run around, take a good rest..."

After giving instructions, the man stood up and wanted to turn around, but he felt his hem tighten, but it was the girl lying on the broken door that suddenly grabbed his hem.

"Don't go, Brother Meng Sheng..."

This time, I can hear you clearly.She was really calling "Brother Meng Sheng".The man in the blue shirt was in a trance, staring at the thin and small strange girl, he was a little dazed for a while.

Before he could react, the boy had already squeezed over, lying on the door panel in surprise and joy, and carefully touched the girl's forehead with his hand, "Girl, you're awake! I scared brother to death..."

Maybe it wasn't "Brother Meng Sheng" at all, but he thought too much and misheard...

The man in the blue shirt shook his head, smiled self-deprecatingly, and took another look, but he could only see a head of dry, yellow, messy hair on the young man's shoulder.

With a low sigh in his heart, he turned and left.

"Don't go, don't go..." Gu Sixiao hissed, but the voice was so weak that people couldn't hear what she was saying.

On the other hand, the beggar ran away happily and came over with a bowl of soup and medicine, "Girl, drink the medicine quickly! You need to get well soon, otherwise, you can just lie here and can't do anything——" Watching Brother Beggar running around, how boring..."

Yes, she needs to get better soon...

Gu Sixiao panted, propped her head up, and eagerly approached the bowl, not caring that the soup was still hot, and hurriedly gulped it down.

Bitterness filled the mouth, but it was not as good as the bitterness in her heart...

(End of this chapter)