Chapter 13 — The Street They Live in Nhan Hoi Quan

She suddenly turned around. "Luc Kien Yeu, don't you have a little bit of pity in your heart?" I stuffed seven envelopes into her arms. "Yes." "So I have to let them know how you chose Nhan Hoi Quan." I ordered the soldiers to set up a wooden ladder and hang the seven copied envelopes outside the city wall. White silk sheets fall one after another. Phoenix seals, flower signs, and dates are all enlarged. The first style is written in Sung Chau. The second room is written by Thanh Ha. The third style is written Phong Duong. Coming to the seventh block, the secret passage southwest of Nhan Hoi Quan, the location of the food warehouse, the number of troops guarding the citadel, not a single word was missing. The Huyen Giap army outside the city began to stir. Tieu Tan quickly ordered to shoot arrows. A rain of arrows flew towards the white silk. The soldiers guarding the city raised their shields. The arrows pierced the silk, but the letters on the letter were still clearly visible. I ordered someone to install a copper tube to amplify the sound on the battlement hole. The literate soldiers took turns reading loudly. "The Sung Chau iron mine refused to return to the capital for many years, Governor Trinh Xuong took advantage of his old age. If I stay temporarily in the Governor's Palace, Your Majesty can personally interrogate." "Thanh Ha waterway is crisscrossed, I will take a boat to the south, perhaps there will be a clandestine helper. The Yen Mon patrol has a grudge against Co Thi, so Your Majesty can conveniently inspect it." "Phong Duong is located in a dangerous position." weak, most of Ninh Vuong's old subordinates are hiding here. I will leave behind a jade pendant with phoenix patterns. Please, Your Majesty, absolutely do not miss the state's affairs because of your personal feelings." The people who were escorted before the battle also heard it. Huyen Giap army soldiers looked at each other. Many of them had participated in previous sieges of the city. Previously, only knowing that the queen was missing made the emperor angry. Now the letters join together, each time the army departs there is a clear destination. Tieu Tan on the high platform finally spoke. "Co Thinh Loan." Three miles away, his voice was transmitted from layer to layer of military orders. "I give you the last chance." "Destroy those letters, kill Luc Kien Yeu yourself." "I still welcome you back to the palace." The first city was silent. Co Thinh Loan looked at me. I took off the short sword at my waist and gave it to her. She didn't admit it. "Aren't you afraid?" "Afraid." I put the hilt of the knife into her hand. "But you've already killed me once." Her fingers suddenly tightened. "What do you mean?" "The night Nhan Hoi Quan was destroyed, you stepped out of the secret passage, Tieu Tan asked how you wanted to deal with me." Co Thinh Loan's eyes flashed with fear. "I have never experienced—" "You said A Yeu was attacked by someone." other than deceit, the crime is not worthy of death." I took a step forward, the tip of the knife touched my chest. "So he gouged out my eyes, leaving me with one life." Her hand holding the knife began to tremble. "I don't know what you are talking about." "I lived for three more days." "The third day, I heard you standing on the castle wall telling Tieu Tan that Snow Nhan Hoi Quan was very clean." "You guys stepped on the blood of thirty thousand people when they returned." "The tip of the knife slashed through the shirt. Co Thinh Loan suddenly let go. The short knife fell to the ground. She took two steps back, touching the pearl hole. "You're crazy." "Perhaps." "If you've died once, you have to remember it clearly." She stared at me, as if recognizing a completely stranger. Tieu Tan's command came again. "If the queen does not attack, first kill ten people." The first row of people before the battle were forced to kneel. The executioner raised his knife. Co Thinh Loan grabbed the pearl hole and shouted loudly: "Stop!" Tieu Tan raised his hand. The blade temporarily stopped. Co Thinh Loan closed her eyes. "Tieu Tan, release them." "Go back." "You release them first." "I'm sorry Luc Kien Yeu." Co Thinh Loan didn't turn to look at me. "Those letters are all real." Outside the city, it sank into deadly silence. Can't see clearly

Tieu Tan's face, but his black cloak was blowing in the wind. Co Thinh Loan continued to say: "The six previous escapes from the palace were all arranged by you." "You took advantage of the job to find me to mobilize troops, purge the locality, and annex military power." "Shut up." "Sung Chau, Thanh Ha, Phong Duong, Lieu Chau..." "I told you to shut up!" Tieu Tan grabbed the bow and arrow next to him and shot an arrow. The distance was too far, the arrow fell under the wall. But Co Thinh Loan still shrank back. She looked at that arrow, the fear on her face slowly turned into anger. "You said that as long as I help you get Nhan Hoi Quan, you will spare the Co family." "Where is my mother?" Tieu Tan did not answer. "Where is my nephew?" "Thin Loan, return to the palace." "Haven't they died a long time ago?" The sound of the wind outside the city was very loud. Tieu Tan raised his hand. A Huyen Giap guard pulled out a boy about ten years old. The child wore a thin prison shirt, his bare feet stepping on the snow. Co Thinh Loan's pupils shrank. "Thua An!" The child heard her voice and raised his head to look up at the city wall. Co Thinh Loan almost wanted to climb through the battlements hole. Tien Tu and I pulled her back at the same time. Tieu Tan stood behind the child, placing his sword on his shoulder. "Cancel the letter." "Open the city gate." "I let him live." Co Thinh Loan trembled all over. The child cried, "Mother, save me!"