After swallowing my anger and taking the blame, I became the lucky little queen

A quarter of an hour later.

Ten people were taken to the outside of Qin Zehai's study.

"Your Highness! We caught ten people trying to escape from the city through the side door. Please deal with them!" The speaker was the captain of a small team. He happened to catch these ten people while on patrol today.

Liu Luyan was passing by and hurried over when he heard the noise. He glanced at the ten people kneeling on the ground and tied up, his face solemn.

"what happened."

The team leader looked up and saw that the person coming was Liu Luyan. His attitude became respectful and he repeated in a low voice: "Lieutenant General Liu, these ten people tried to escape from the city from the west side and were caught by my subordinates."

The ten men looked stubborn.

"What do you mean by escaping from the city? We don't want to be in league with the traitors! That's why we want to return to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Return to the side of justice!"

"That's right! What qualifications do you have to tie us up? That traitor has even less qualifications!"

"Although I don't have great ambitions, I am also a Liuli warrior with flesh and blood! I will never betray Liuli!"

"I would rather die than surrender!"

The team leader was embarrassed. "Lieutenant General Liu, you heard it too. They are... so stubborn. I really can't let them go back to the camp. What if Prince Ren hears it..."

If Qin Zehai heard it, he would be the one to die.

The team leader was also unwilling to treat his brothers like this. As the saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. The others just need to know the situation. However, these ten people are young, reckless and impulsive, so he couldn't protect them even if he wanted to.

Liu Luyan was about to speak when the study door made a loud "bang", followed by the dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Qin Zehai roared: "Bring them in!"

Liu Luyan thought to himself that it was not good. Qin Zehai had been in a bad mood in recent days. These ten people were in danger and might be used as an example to scare the monkeys.

"Your Highness, please have a good rest. Leave this trivial matter to your subordinates to handle." Liu Luyan said in a clear voice.

He winked, wanting the team leader to take the ten people away, but Qin Zehai spoke again, his voice even deeper than before: "Bring them in."

Liu Luyan closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

"Walk."

He took the lead and pushed open the door of the study. There was a stool lying on the ground behind the door blocking it, and he had to push it open with some effort.

Ten people were escorted into the study. The team leader didn't even dare to raise his head. He took the people away and left with the guards.

Qin Zehai stood in front of the bookshelf with his back to them.

Liu Luyan: "Your Majesty, now that the person has been brought here, what should we do with him?"

As he asked, he prayed in his heart that Qin Zehai still had some humanity and would not harm his own people.

Qin Zehai turned around and the expressions of the people kneeling on the ground immediately became angry. Three of them even cursed loudly. Qin Zehai did not seem to be angered and walked calmly to the front of the ten people.

His eyes swept over them one by one, and he asked with a smile, "You have such a big opinion of me?"

"Humph! You traitor! I won't let you go even if I die and become a ghost!"

"I would rather die than help the evil!"

Qin Zehai laughed loudly, "Great, you have guts! You are worthy of being a soldier of Liuli!"

"But it's a pity." His smile suddenly disappeared. "You were deceived by the words of that evil concubine. Qin Junyu is the one who rebelled. You don't believe me, but instead want to escape and join a traitor..."

"Deputy General Liu, what do you think I should do with them?"

Liu Luyan's back stiffened, he clenched the sword at his waist, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

“Your Highness…” He knelt on one knee and clasped his fists to beg for mercy: “Considering that they are first-time offenders and have been temporarily deceived by the traitor, I beg Your Highness to give them a chance to reform!”

"Humph! I think you are the one who has been deceived by this traitor!"

"Liu Luyan, General Xiao promoted you so much in the past! He is now struggling in Qingshan City, waiting for our support! You actually believe in Qin Zehai instead of General Xiao! Do you still have a conscience?"

Liu Luyan clenched his fists even tighter, he bit his back teeth and tried his best to suppress his emotions, but his facial muscles were trembling.

Qin Zehai stared at him closely.

He nodded: "I believe Prince Ren, he is not plotting a rebellion."

Qin Zehai's face was full of pride, he knew he had made the right choice.

In fact, Liu Luyan’s fist was almost broken.

Qin Zehai turned around and said calmly: "Kill these ten people and hang them at the city gate as a warning to others."

"From now on, anyone who dares to step out of the city gate will be treated as a deserter, and his fate will be the same as these ten people."

Liu Luyan was so shocked that he couldn't breathe for a long time.

He looked at the ten people. There was no fear on their faces. It seemed that they had already prepared to die calmly.

Liu Luyan closed his eyes and hesitated to take any action.

Qin Zehai was getting impatient waiting, "Why? Lieutenant General Liu can't do it?"

Liu Luyan said nothing and silently took the ten people away.

At the city gate, Liu Luyan commanded his soldiers to hang the corpses on the city wall. According to Qin Zehai's instructions, there were five corpses inside the gate and five outside the gate. On the one hand, he wanted to intimidate the people and soldiers in the city, and on the other hand, he wanted to warn Qin Junyu and Nian Susu to stop, otherwise more and more people would die because of them.

The people watching below were so frightened that their faces turned pale. The ten bodies were all killed by slitting their necks. Because they had just died, blood flowed down their bodies to their feet and dripped down, like pork hanging on a stall for sale. After a while, a large area of ​​the city gate was dyed red.

Liu Luyan and several guards who were hanging the corpse were surrounded in the middle, and all they could hear were the whispers of the people.

"What crime did these ten people commit? They can't even rest in peace after death."

"Didn't you read the notice on the city gate? They were fugitives who had escaped from the city and tried to seek refuge with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but were executed by Prince Ren! He also said that anyone who dared to sneak out of the city again would be beheaded!"

"Ah! So terrible? Is there any justice for Prince Ren to kill people like this? I think what the Crown Princess said these two days is not without reason..."

"Hush! Don't let anyone else hear this. If it gets to Prince Ren's ears, you will be hanged tomorrow, right?"

The more Liu Luyan listened, the more uncomfortable he felt. After completing the task, he strode back to the military camp. He found that the atmosphere in the military camp was even more depressing than on the street. Everyone looked at him with fear or anger.

They all felt that he was the one who killed those ten brothers.

Liu Luyan was exhausted. He knew that he was the person Qin Zehai trusted the most. If they had any resentment towards Qin Zehai, he would definitely be implicated. This was inevitable.

The people in the city were in a panic, and the soldiers in the camp were all in danger. Such a situation would sooner or later lead to chaos.

Liu Luyan pinched his brows. If this incident could make them see Qin Zehai's true nature, it would be okay for him to be the bad guy.

outside the city.

When Nian Susu saw five people hanging on the city gate, he thought he was seeing things, but when he looked closely, he saw that they were five corpses.