Chapter 22 — The Street They Live in Nhan Hoi Quan

Tieu Tan glanced at him. "If an untouchable dies, he will die." The public street immediately became noisy. The chief judge smashed the wood of the capital. But Tieu Tan laughed again. "Today you dare to judge me just because I lost." "If the Huyen Giap army defeated Nhan Hoi Quan, who would dare to stand here and ask questions?" No one objected. He really spoke the right words that helped me survive until today. Co Thinh Loan suddenly opened her mouth: "So you accept it." Tieu Tan turned his head to look at her. "What do you accept?" "You know those people are innocent." "Just because you can win, you can die." "Are you any different from me?" Co Thinh Loan lowered her eyes. "I am accepting." "You accept, can they come back to life?" "Impossible." "So why are you pretending to be a good person?" Co Thinh Loan raised her head. "I don't have the qualifications to be a good person." She turned towards the living people. "Six times I escaped from the palace, I proactively chose the location." "Sung Chau iron mine, Thanh Ha salt road, Phong Duong garrison were all part of my and Tieu Tan's plans." "Tieu Tan used to force me." "I also benefited from that." "Every time someone died, I thought that if I finally stood up and begged, I would be able to do my best." Outside the public palace, there was silence. She continued to say: "I am willing to bear all the blame." The old coal seller asked: "Does the person who pleads guilty want to be sentenced to less years?" Co Thinh Loan paused for a moment. "I want to live." The old man smiled coldly. She did not avoid it. "I am also afraid of death." "But no matter how long I am judged, I will live to remember their names." "Can you remember?" The old man passed his son's wooden sign over. "Read one first." Co Thinh Loan received the wooden sign. "Trieu Binh." "Twenty-three years old." "Trading horses outside the city of Sung Chau, was beheaded by the Huyen Giap army for the crime of serving the queen." After reading, she raised her head to look at the old man. The old man did not forgive her. Just say: “Next one.” People on the street began to put up wooden signs one by one. Co Thinh Loan sat in chains, reading from morning until sunset. His voice was hoarse, he continued reading. Finally the verdict was given. Tieu Tan was deposed from the throne because of the crimes of arbitrarily commanding troops, massacring people, slandering loyal people and other crimes, and was imprisoned for life. Co Thinh Loan participated in planning six times to purge the locality, and assisted Nhan Hoi Quan in defending the city, providing secret evidence, many general charges, and was also imprisoned for life. Ninh Thi and her father participated in destroying Co Thi's sect and burning evidence, and were exiled to Bac Canh to do forced labor. Venerable Chu and other internal members are handled according to their crimes. Tien Thi harbored enemy soldiers, but took the initiative to go to the underground sewers and participate in firefighting. He was sentenced to ten years of labor at a place to care for wounded soldiers in the citadel, and was not allowed to leave Nhan Hoi Quan. The new emperor is selected by the patriarch. The Luc family handed over part of the right to mobilize border troops, Nhan Hoi Quan was still guarded by his father. Tieu Tan and Co Thinh Loan were imprisoned in a palace on the outskirts of the capital. That palace is where Co Thinh Loan first pretended to run away. They live in two houses, east and west. In the middle just one wall away. Every day Tieu Tan can listen to Co Thinh Loan read the names of the deceased. Every day Co Thinh Loan could hear him cursing behind the wall. In the end, they were together forever. There is no one left to spread the news for them. There was no one left to open the door for them. 13Three years later, the wall of Nhan Hoi Quan was rebuilt. Father ordered someone to move all the burned bricks and tiles on West Street out of the city. I stopped. "It's still usable." The craftsman tapped on the bricks that were blackened by the fire. "Miss Luc, these bricks are not beautiful." "Engrave words on them will be beautiful." The first brick was engraved with the name Trieu Binh. The second tablet is engraved with the name of a five-year-old child who died in the West Street fire. The third and fourth tablets are engraved with the army's name

The defender of the citadel died during the siege of Nhan Hoi Quan. After that, survivors in Sung Chau and Thanh Ha also sent lists. Phong Duong sent three hundred and seventeen names. Liuzhou sent six hundred and nine names. The city wall did not have enough room to engrave, so my father immediately ordered someone to build a long street inside the manor. Each green brick is engraved with a name. People with surnames have their names engraved. Those who cannot find their identity will engrave the place of death, age and a sentence left by their family members. The old man selling charcoal inlaid his son's wooden sign into the first wall. He stood for a long time, and finally touched those two words. "This time, it's finally gone." Tien Thi still works at a place that takes care of wounded soldiers. She no longer wears silk, only wears rough clothes all year round. When someone was injured, she changed food, cooked soup, and washed their bloody clothes. Qian Tu did not return to the capital. She opened a small service shop in the city, specializing in accepting people from the previous six citadels to find relatives. The names of Phuong Nghi Palace's maids were also carved on the wall by her own hands. Thanh Hoa. Hong Capacitor. They have done evil things, and people have taken advantage of their relatives' lives. Next to the name there is no comment on the crime. Just write down what they did and the final outcome. Luc Tram Thu took over his father's position and became the general of Nhan Hoi Quan.