Chapter 29 Going back on one's word!
"You saw...your mother." Zhu Yuanzhang's angry red face froze slightly, and his eyes that were originally full of crazy bloodthirsty suddenly flashed with clarity.
He turned around and looked at Zhu Biao, who was kneeling in pain, and felt a little at a loss. His eyes, which seemed to penetrate people's hearts, felt confused for the first time.
He was emperor for eighteen years.
The longer you stay in this position, the more things you experience and face, and the clearer you become to the thoughts of these people underneath.
He thinks he can see through everyone's heart!
But this time.
Facing Xia Zhibai, he failed to see through it, which made him feel extremely angry. This feeling of being unable to completely control made him deeply uneasy.
He didn't think that Xia Zhibai didn't have other thoughts, and it was impossible for anyone in the world to really be sincere. Xia Zhibai must have hidden it too deeply, so deep that even he couldn't see it.
This kind of person is too dangerous.
He cannot leave it alone, let alone just use it, it must be removed as soon as possible.
Only now, he was shaken.
Are there really no honest-hearted people in this world? If not, then who is the girl?
Does the girl have other thoughts about herself?
This is absolutely impossible.
He just went to the Ancestral Temple and saw my sister’s spiritual tablet, and then he saw her. Does she think we did something wrong?
Complaining that you have wronged someone again?
But where did we go wrong?
We just want to protect this family and leave a stable family business for our Zhu family.
Are we really wrong?
Zhu Yuanzhang bent down and looked at Zhu Biao like an old farmer looking at his own seedlings. Looking at Zhu Biao's red eyes and aggrieved and sincere face, he felt sour and angry.
His iron heart finally softened.
He stretched out his hands full of wrinkles and calluses and helped Zhu Biao up. He blamed himself a little in his heart. Why did the family have to make trouble like this?
Don’t the boss just want to save someone? Can’t we agree to it? With him here, could Xia Zhibai really destroy the Ming Dynasty?
He is not as soft-hearted and easy to deceive as the boss.
"Boss, we will rely on you this time."
"Let him live."
Zhu Biao raised his head blankly, as if in disbelief. His father really gave in?
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyes, but when he thought of Xia Zhibai's wild and unrestrained behavior in front of him, a murderous intention came into his heart again, and he regretted agreeing like this.
His eyes sank and he glanced at Zhu Biao a few times. He still felt that he couldn't let it go so easily, otherwise, where would the royal family's face be at stake?
He also always believed that Xia Zhibai had ulterior motives.
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flickered, and there was a cruel and cold flash in his eyes, and he suddenly said: "We have decided, let him live for one more month."
"The emperor cannot be insulted!"
"If we let him go like this, and if other scholars follow suit, will we still be emperor? Can we still sit in peace in this world?"
"But we It’s not that unkind. For the sake of your mother and you, we will leave him a way to survive this time.”
"As long as he does what is said on the test paper, he can produce a thousand kilograms of grain per acre, an iron horse that can travel thousands of miles a day, a fire dragon that can slay an enemy thousands of miles away, or drive thunder and lightning, or call for wind and rain, as long as he can do any of it."
< br>"We not only let him live."
"We also named him the number one scholar of the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly, his eyes filled with disbelief. He clearly didn't want to let Xia Xia live. Live in vain.
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes slightly and sneered: "Boss, don't blame me for being cruel."
"If we were not ruthless, the world would not be stable."
"We have already allowed him to live for one more month. This is already a great gift, but since we have promised you, we will not break our promise. "
"We told him this month. During this month, we will not send anyone to keep an eye on him. He can move around as he pleases. We will just let him escape."
"Let's give him a chance to escape!"
"What we want you to know this time is that you can't just look at people based on their appearance."
"Let us show you whether he can continue to be so stubborn if we leave him a way to survive."
"Let me also let you take a good look at it. These people say they are not afraid of death. A scholar who sacrifices his life for righteousness is so hypocritical."
"He will escape faster and farther than anyone else."
Zhu Biao was stunned. Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang, he couldn't believe that these words came from his father. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, with only endless indifference in his eyes. He looked at Zhu Biao and said in a deep voice: "Boss, we will give you a lesson today."
"You remember it."
"In this world, anything anyone promises you doesn't count. Only the things you can make the decision count, and we are no exception."
< br>“We don’t break our promise this time.”
“We gave him one month to escape. If he really escapes to the ends of the earth and escapes to a place where we can’t find him, we will let him live. "
"If he can't escape."
"Then die!"
"But if he can really come up with one of those things, we won't let him suffer. In addition to making him the number one pick, we can also promise him something else that we can do. "
"We will never break our promise."
"Father..." Zhu Biao was a little anxious. How can anyone accomplish this? The father was determined to put Xia Zhibai to death.
Say no more.
Without a road lead, how could Xia Zhibai escape?
My father clearly didn't want to give Xia Zhibai a way out, but he was deliberately teasing Xia Zhibai, in order to prove that my father's guess was correct, and at the same time prove that he had misjudged the person.
"Enough!" Zhu Yuanzhang became angry again, glared at Zhu Biao angrily, and said sternly: "This is our final bottom line."
He had already saved Zhu Biao's face. , if Zhu Biao still doesn't understand and insists on it, he doesn't mind taking it back.
He has the right!
Zhu Biao's face turned pale, knowing that his father had completely made up his mind, his lips twitched slightly, but he still did not dare to continue to persuade.
He knew Zhu Yuanzhang.
If Zhu Yuanzhang is completely angered by further persuasion, he will not be given another month to live.
Zhu Biao said: "Thank you very much, Father, for your kindness."
"My son, I obey."
Zhu Yuanzhang ignored it, went straight back to the high platform, and continued to review the memorials like a mountain.
Zhu Biao did not stay any longer.
Mao Xiang is still waiting for news from him.
Just when he thought that he had only bought one month to survive for Xia Zhibai, he didn't know how to say it later.
One month is too short.
Fengtian Temple.
On the white marble platform.
The executioner has already arrived.
The early Ming Dynasty was different from other dynasties in that the killing of officials was extremely heavy, so a large number of executioners were often waiting outside the palace.
Just in case of emergency.
Xia Zhibai stood on the white marble platform carved with dragons and phoenixes, letting the cold wind blow his hair. All preparations for the execution were ready.
Even the people and water to clean the blood had been prepared long ago, waiting for the head to fall to the ground to clean the red white marble platform in time.
The palace can only see blood, but cannot retain blood.
Xia Zhibai stood for a while, looked at Mao Xiang, shook his head and said: "Why don't you take action? Do you really think Zhu Biao can persuade Emperor Hongwu?"
Mao Xiang did not Open your mouth.
He stood there and waited firmly.
Xia Zhibai sighed softly, looked at the sky and the high-hanging sun with a complicated expression, and said softly: "The only person in the world who can persuade Emperor Hongwu is dead."
< br>"The Ming Dynasty is made of the sun and the moon."
"Now there is only one setting sun that is high and will always hang high in the sky."
(End of this chapter)