sjar Chapter 601: The Stinking Wooden Cage Prison Car
Chapter 601: The Stinking Wooden Cage Prison Car
The carriage of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion was about to reach the west city gate.
At this time, Fu Sheng, the chief steward of the Duke's Mansion, was riding on a horse, serving outside the carriage of Duke Anguo Fu Peng.
"what!"
Fu Sheng suddenly stepped on the stirrup, stood up straight, stretched his neck, and looked towards the west gate in front of him...
Then a horse-drawn carriage turned out from the side street, followed by more than a dozen officials and yamen runners.
Fu Sheng recognized at a glance that the logo on the carriage was that of Shuntian Prefecture Yamen.
"My Lord, there is a carriage coming out from the street ahead. The sign on it shows it is from Shuntian Prefecture.
I guess... the person sitting in the car should be the prefect, Mr. Zheng."
Fu Peng, the Duke of Anguo, who was in the carriage, heard Fu Sheng's words, lifted the curtain and looked outside, and said, "Tell our carriage to slow down;
Let Mr. Zheng's carriage go first."
"Yes, Lord Guo!"
After hearing the instructions, Fu Sheng hurriedly pulled the reins, and the horse trotted forward.
Arriving at the front of the Anguo Mansion convoy, Fu Sheng conveyed the instructions of Anguo Duke Fu Peng.
The driver immediately pulled the reins of the horse to control the speed of the carriage.
Zheng Tong, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, also received a report from his followers, saying that the several carriages coming over there were from the Duke of Anguo's Mansion.
According to the level of official position, it should be the Shuntian Prefecture Governor Zheng Tong who stopped the car and gave way to the vehicle of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion.
Zheng Tong lifted up the curtain on one side and was about to order the car to stop and make way when he saw Fu Sheng, the butler of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, riding over on horseback and bowing, "Greetings, Lord Zheng!
My Lord has something to say, Lord Zheng has official business to attend to, please go first!"
After hearing this, Shuntian Prefecture Governor Zheng Tong understood what Duke Anguo meant, and said directly without any pretense: "Please ask the butler to report this to the Duke. I obey your orders!"
After saying this, without stopping for long, he directly ordered his men to drive the carriage out of the west gate and go to the execution ground in the west of the city.
Fu Sheng kept watching the carriage of Shuntian Prefecture Governor Zheng Tong and his entourage leaving the west city gate, and then he signaled the several carriages of the Anguo Mansion to speed up and leave the city.
After leaving the city wall, crossing the moat and arriving outside the west city gate, the view suddenly opened up.
Fu Sheng looked forward...
In the distance, one could see the shadows of several wooden cage prison vans, as well as the crowds following them.
The noisy sounds could still be heard clearly.
The air along the way was still filled with the stench of rotten eggs.
Fu Sheng saw that it was still early, and thought that there was no need for his master's carriages to follow too closely the prisoner carriages and the crowd in front.
So Fu Sheng asked the coachman to slow down the carriage.
As long as we can reach the execution ground five miles west of the city by noon, it will be fine.
The death row prisoners on the prison van were constantly showered with rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, clods of dirt and stones, and they felt the speed and distance of the journey with despair in their hearts.
Walking down the city streets, they could still think...
This is the capital, they haven't left the city yet, they are still alive...
However, when the wooden cage prisoner cart passed through the city gate, the urn city, and the bridge over the moat, the mentality of the death row prisoners completely collapsed...
Some fainted, and some peed themselves out of fear...
After leaving the capital, we were still five miles away from the execution site.
Walking these last five miles...
They have completed their life journey!
There, is where they are buried.
Oh no!
They can no longer enjoy the treatment of being "buried"...
That... is where they died.
If they had known this day would come, they would have cultivated their virtues, improved themselves, lived a peaceful life, and died a natural death.
Instead of... ending up dead without a burial place!
The execution ground five miles west of the city.
Here, two platforms, one large and one small, have already been built.
A smaller platform with a roof and backboard, with two chairs and a table;
There is a wooden ladder on each side of the platform for people to go up and down;
And the other platform...
The other platform is just a platform.
The length and width of the platform are several feet;
On the platform was also placed the guillotine used for beheading.
There is a single wooden ladder on one side of the platform...
This also indicates that once a death row inmate reaches this platform, his life will come to an end.
It means that now that they have arrived here, there is no turning back.
Around the execution ground, people from the Five Cities Army had already planted flags and marked out the boundaries.
People who follow here can watch the execution, but they are not allowed to cross the line.
It's almost noon.
All the wooden cage prison vans had arrived here. They drove into the execution ground one after another and parked side by side on the open space on the side of the platform.
Those who followed all the way from the capital, as well as those who joined along the way later, also came here.
It was very strange. The crowd, who had been so excited along the way, suddenly became quiet once they got here.
The hustle and bustle along the way...suddenly disappeared when we got here.
There was complete silence on the execution ground.
The yamen runners of Shuntian Prefecture stood around the wooden cage prison cart with their hands on the hilts of their swords and expressionless faces.
Such a scene looks solemn.
However, only the bailiffs standing next to the prison van knew what they were enduring while standing there!
There is a disgusting stench in the nose...
There was a stink of rotten eggs;
It was mixed with the stench of the filthy urine of these death row prisoners...
After all this journey, we have now arrived at the execution ground...
Every one of them was almost frightened by the impending death...
I was so scared that I became incontinent!
The wooden cage prison car stinks!