The guard was speaking in a relatively loud tone, intending to tell the executor, and the ministers who were awaiting to be beheaded. They were easily startled. The small voice passed through them and their lives were at the hands of others!
Hearing that the execution was soon to be done, they took steps backwards, fearing to be beheaded like this.
Soon, chaos arose at the gate, but they were all scholars who could not fight back, so soon they were pressed down, unable to move.
However… those in front panicked completely. When the time of beheading came, they would be the first ones to suffer. They did not even have time to appeal! They would die after being wrongly convicted.
People started to shout. "Help us, help us!"
"…"
"I have nothing to do with the Jiang Family! I just paid a few visits to General Jiang when he was alive, but that was totally normal socializing! Why does it matter when they commit sins!?"
Many people echoed him.
