A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 988 Execution
Meng Mei suddenly stopped in her tracks, looked back at her, and said, "You will die in two days."

Meng Yan said: "Maybe I will turn into a ghost."

Afterwards Meng Mei turned her head and strode away.

Meng Yan looked at the empty corridor, and the prison became quiet again.The smile on her lips faded little by little, and disappeared.

She took out the wedding invitation again and read it over and over again.

She is most familiar with Yin Heng's handwriting, and also likes his handwriting the most.During the years of being married to him, she has always been confident that she knows him best.

If someone else dared to pretend to be his handwriting, she would be able to recognize it without much effort.

But now, she tried to find traces of counterfeiting in every word, she tried for a day and a night.But in the end, nothing was found.

It was written by him himself.A wedding invitation for his wedding with Queen Jinlin.

Holding the invitation, she turned it over and over without giving up, and murmured weakly: "How could it be..."

King Wu of Yin changed from a war king whom everyone feared in Great Yin to a traitor who everyone scolded.

On the day of the execution, everyone will have a good meal before being sent to the execution ground.

The housekeepers and nuns of the palace had been detained separately from Meng Yan.Now is the last chance to get together.

Meng Yan looked at the sumptuous meal brought into the prison, and suddenly recalled the time when they had New Year's Eve dinner together in the palace.

It's just that there is no joyous gathering and lively atmosphere right now.

The housekeeper and nuns sat around with Meng Yan, and no one spoke first.

Later, it was Meng Yan who smiled and said: "It's good for everyone to get together and leave. After today, there will be no Prince Yin Wu's Mansion in this world, and you will no longer belong to the Prince's Mansion." As she spoke, she poured wine one after another, Handed them to the housekeeper and the nuns one by one, "I respect you for this cup. You have treated me like family all these years. Thank you for your care."

The nuns covered their mouths to keep themselves from crying.

With tears in his eyes, the housekeeper took the wine from Meng Yan with trembling hands, and said, "Where is the princess, the princess is the mistress of the palace, and these are what we should do."

Meng Yan said: "You didn't have to do so much, but you ended up staying with me, and that's how you are today."

The housekeeper sighed and said, "Fortunately, I stayed here, otherwise I wouldn't have the chance to have another reunion dinner today."

The nuns all nodded with tears in their eyes.

Meng Yan smiled and said, "Don't you regret it?"

The housekeeper said: "They are old and have a life. They want to take it away. There is nothing to regret." After a pause, he said calmly, "It's just a pain for the princess."

Meng Yan held up the wine to respect them.

Everyone drank it down.

Later, the butler cried and said, "If in the future... the princess meets the prince again, can this old slave beg the princess to give him a chance to explain, maybe, maybe everything is not true..."

Meng Yan said calmly: "Today will go to the guillotine, there is no future."

The butler was stunned for a moment, with a sad and regretful expression, and said in response: "Yes, it is also... This old slave is also wishful thinking."

Afterwards, no one remembers what they said or did.

***
In the East Palace, after Meng Mei went back, she thought over and over what Meng Yan said, but she was still not at ease.

Meng Yan's words and deeds did not show the slump of a dying person.And isn't Mr. Ming Yan her good friend? Now she is about to be executed, but there is no movement from Mr. Ming Yan.

Meng Mei thought it over and over again, but she couldn't, seeing that it was the last moment, she had to confirm Meng Yan's death with her own eyes.

So Meng Mei went to find Yin Rong, and asked Yin Rong and Dali Siqing to supervise the execution and bring her with him.

Yin Rong frowned and said, "You are a woman, how can you go to such a filthy place? Besides, beheading is not fun, it might scare you."

Meng Mei blinked, then squeezed out a string of tears, and said: "Princess Yin Wu was once the half-sister of my concubine, and now she is executed, and this concubine just wants to send her off for the last time. Don't worry, Your Highness. As long as the concubine pretends to be His Highness's personal entourage and goes together, no one will be able to notice. Once there, the concubine must not do anything beyond the rules, and just watch from a distance."

Yin Rong couldn't help Meng Mei's begging in such a pitiful way, thinking that it was a bit new for Meng Mei to pretend to be his attendant, she said, "Don't cry, I will allow you to see her off for the last time."

So Yin Rong gave her an attendant's attire, Meng Mei quickly finished dressing up, and Yin Rong took her out of the palace.

The execution ground was surrounded by soldiers guarding it. They emptied the streets from Dali Temple to the execution ground, and the common people could only be stopped on both sides of the street to watch.

Then the prisoner was escorted onto the street by the prison cart, and as the prison cart passed by, the common people flocked behind.

As soon as Yan Shouzhen sat down above the execution ground, he saw the imperial guards coming from the other direction.

Seeing this, Yan Shouzhen quickly stood up, shook his official robe, and stepped forward to salute.

Yin Rongdao made it clear that he came to watch the execution temporarily, and Yan Shouzhen couldn't drive him away, so he had to invite him to sit.

As his attendant, Meng Mei followed him to the position of the presiding officer and stood silently behind him.

The prisoner passed through the street and was brought to the scaffold with strict rigor.

They all wore the prison uniforms of Dali Temple, and were escorted to kneel on the execution platform one by one, with the guillotine in front of them.

Meng Mei frowned, seeing that they were all unkempt, and couldn't see their real faces clearly for a while.They all wore the same clothes, and she couldn't tell which one was Meng Yan.

She clearly remembered that when she went to see Meng Yan in the prison two days ago, although Meng Yan was not very glamorous, she was still tidy, not as sloppy as she is now.

Sui Mengmei bent down without any trace and whispered a few words to Yin Rong.

Then Yin Rong asked Yan Shouzhen, "Here are all the prisoner's tools?"

Yan Shouzhen replied: "Exactly."

Yin Rong said: "At first glance, I see that they are all similar. I wonder who is Princess Yin Wu?"

Yan Shouzhen pointed to the one at the top of the row, and said: "That is it. According to the order of the Holy One, after today's beheading, he will be sent to the city of Xuanshi in the north. According to the rules of Dali Temple, all criminals will wear prison clothes and wait for the beheading to be completed. When burying the corpse, wear the original robes of Princess Yin Wu, so as not to be recognized by the soldiers in the northern border."

However, it doesn't matter whether the soldiers recognize it or not, it is mainly recognized by King Yin Wu who has taken refuge in Jinlin.

Yin Rong nodded and said: "Go and lift up everyone's hair and expose their faces so that they can make sure they understand carefully."

Yan Shouzhen followed the good example, looked up at Jingyun beside him, and ordered: "Go, follow His Highness the Crown Prince's order, and lift up their hair one by one, so that His Highness can see clearly."

Jingyun nodded, and walked from the judge's position to the guillotine in front.

He stood beside the prisoner, facing outside the execution platform, opened his arms in a ceremonial manner, raised his hand to pick up the corner of his sleeve, and then bent down to stroke the prisoner's hair.

(End of this chapter)