Si Tian Guan - Chapter 221

    The sun shines in through the long and narrow windows outside, and the dazzling sun at noon has turned into a soft orange, and it is almost evening.

    Although the people in the prison could not see it, the light could just reflect the shadow of a copper bell under the eaves.

    The clear-cut shadow will gradually rise as the sun sets, reaching the position of the sixteenth brick counting down from the roof, and it will be completely engulfed by darkness.

    This may be the only thing in the cell worth staring at.

    When the shadow was about to disappear at the sixteenth brick, a hand finally couldn’t help but try to touch it up, as if it could hold a little hope.

    You can start with nothing, and the shadow of the copper bell still disappears into the gray.

    The man suddenly curled up in the corner, sobbing like a child who had lost his beloved toy.

    The sound of iron chains colliding gently came from the cell separated by a wall, and the people next to him hated his growing sadness, and every time they heard him cry, they would turn over and cover their ears.

    “Qu Shenzhou!” He threw himself on the wooden railing and roared like crazy: “You hurt me! Why did you hurt me! What Liu Chongming can give you, so can I! Why do you want to? Help him!”

    The smile that used to appear on his face is gone, and anyone who sees it can’t believe that this grim-faced, lost soul will be the former King of Huai, Mu Jingyan .

    “Why did you kill me!”

    Has lived in for more than half a month, but every time he heard the voice next to him, he couldn’t hold back his hysteria.

    Everything should have gone according to his plan! Everything should not be like this!

    Shortly after the fast horse broke into the city gate, they met a team of Beiya patrolling the city.

    When he was about to reach Guangen Temple, Baishiyan finally led his troops to chase after him to ask him, but there were only a few dozen people, but it was exactly what he wanted.

    —King Huai was ordered to leave the capital to worship his ancestors, but he was killed by the dragoon army halfway. Fortunately, five hundred reinforcements from Shili Pavilion arrived in time to **** King Huai back to Beijing.

    —I didn’t expect that Baishiyan would have to give up, and even in Beijing he was bold enough to try to attack him.

    As swords were drawn on both sides, someone secretly made a move, and since then, both sides have been out of control.

    Everything is going according to his plan, as long as he gets out of the palace in time for the rest, file a complaint…

    But when they arrived at Guangen Temple, the rest of the direction deviates from the track they should have.

    At first, the leading guards and the left and right guards came one after another, and then the reinforcements from Beiya overlapped, as if they had already calculated the location and prepared to be around.

    Even if he was protected in the battle circle, he could clearly feel a huge sense of oppression.

    It was not just a sense of oppression, but a suffocating fear. For the first time, he truly knew what a battlefield was—no matter how noble or how lowly it was, under a knife, it was just a A dead flesh that never moves.

    He was in a war of two, and he couldn’t even say the phrase “retreat”, but Rao was so, and he quickly discovered the strangeness.

    It was not until the palace wall in front of him got closer and closer, and until he saw Liu Chongming with the troops of the Jinxiu Battalion rushing from the dismounting stone, he finally understood what the other party wanted to do.

    “No!”

    “Can’t go!”

    Not even a single cry of grievance could reach that person’s ears.

    It wasn’t until he saw Qu Chenzhou in the Dali Temple Heavenly Prison that he finally understood who was playing a huge game of chess behind him, even putting himself on the chessboard to become a fatal move.

    If it weren’t for a wall, I would like to dig out and swallow the lives of the people next door.

    “What did you say to the emperor! Why did you do this! Aren’t you afraid of death yourself!”

    The neighbor finally reacted, but he was so calm as if he didn’t know he was behind bars.

    “Afraid of death?” Qu Chenzhou sat up against the wall and smiled softly: “Mu Jingyan, I can drag you to **** with you, you don’t know how happy I am.”

    Finally got a response these days, Mu Jingyan squeezed to the nearest railing, trying to calm himself down.

    “What do you want? I, Mu Jingyan, have always kept my word. As long as you say it, I can give it to you!”

    “Mu?” Qu Chenzhou sneered: “Aren’t you surnamed Zhou?”

    Finally being able to talk to people, Mu Jingyan calmed down: “It doesn’t matter what your surname is, as long as you are willing to help me get out of trouble, when I ascend to the throne another day, even if you say that the throne is divided into half of you, I’m by no means ambiguous.”

    “I am the king and you are the queen?” Qu Chenzhou also moved to the side of the railing, but he still had the heart to joke with him: “It’s a pity that I don’t look down on you, if I am the king, marry me The prince is more or less the same.”

    Mu Jingyan had no intention of making jokes with him: “I don’t believe you don’t have what you want! If I don’t believe you, you are really not afraid of death!”

    The neighbor was silent for a moment and sighed.

    “I’m afraid of death, but I want to clean up the court and clear the world, and I want the world’s sea and river feast. Can you give it?”

    “I want you to delegate power, know people to make good use of them, put people on their merits, kill and banish Ren Rui, Dong Chengyu and other villains, are you willing?”

    “I want you to abolish your slave status and do your best to suppress the pressure from inside and outside the court, do you dare?”

    “I…” As soon as Mu Jingyan spoke, he was interrupted.

    “It’s useless for you to promise, because you can’t give it, you can’t give it up, and you don’t dare. You’re just a piece of carrion, and you can only attract stinky flies.”

    “So I can only choose another bright master, you should die.”

    Hearing the gasp that was separated by a wall with an uncontrollable choking, Qu Chenzhou suddenly laughed softly.

    “The lord is so smart, seeing me here, you should also understand the lord’s current situation. The emperor has not asked the lord to hand over a handwritten letter for the past ten days, let alone seeing the lord. The lord actually expects to escape from death?”

    Mu Jingyan’s face turned pale.

    Of course he understood, leading troops through Chengtianmen was enough to be charged with rebellion, but he believed that those people would run for him, as long as he was willing to let the emperor see him, he would have The hope of turning over.

    But there is still a song Shenzhou…

    In the eyes of the emperor, he attracted this close minister who was trusted and favored by the emperor, cooperated with him inside and outside, and planned this rebellion together. He who kills Chengtianmen is victorious.

    He once laughed at Mu Jingzhao as an idiot, but unknowingly, he followed in the footsteps of King Ning.

    Mu Jingyan slid along the railing and knelt on the ground, buried his face in his hands, and whimpered silently.

    It wasn’t until the chills hit his bones that he gradually woke up. It was so dark that he couldn’t see any shadows, and he actually fell asleep like this.

    It was not only the cold that woke him up, but the sound of footsteps walking on the upper floor.

    The footsteps of several people, and coming here at this hour, must not be the jailer delivering meals.

    Mu Jingyan crawled up and shouted loudly before the iron gate on the steps opened: “Who! Did you come to pick me up! I want to see the emperor! Let me see the emperor !”

    “Liu…” Mu Jingyan’s breathing became rapid: “Liu Chongming…”

      So chilling.

    Standing slightly behind is Ling He.

    Mu Jingyan seemed to see a little light, and suddenly shouted loudly: “Linghe! This king knows that you are upright, honest and fair! This king is wronged! I did not rebel, it is Baishi The Yanpai people killed me! I had to flee back to Beijing! You let me see the emperor! You asked me to avenge the emperor’s letter!”

    Ling He nodded to him as if in a routine, watching the jailer go to the cell next to him and help Qu Chenzhou out.

    The three of them stood in front of the closed prison door, and only Mu Jingyan was left on trial.

    “Linghe! How dare you help Liu Chongming…”

    He was confused and panicked. He didn’t know how many people were standing behind Liu Chongming.

    “According to the emperor’s will,” Liu Chongming said, interrupting his scolding: “Send the prince a ride!”

    Someone came forward with a tray and half-squatted outside the prison door, with a glass of wine on the wooden tray.

    As soon as Mu Jingyan’s eyes touched the glass of wine, he stepped back as if bitten by a poisonous snake.

    “Impossible! The emperor can’t even see his face! It’s you! It’s you who spread the imperial decree!

    Several guards seemed to have no ears, as if they had not heard his screams, they opened the prison door and held down his hands and feet.

    “Liu Chongming!” Mu Jingyan was like a beast trapped in a cage, struggling to the extreme and burst into laughter: “I am dead, and Qu Chenzhou will not survive!”

      .

    The cell suddenly became quiet, and only the quietness of the struggle was seen, which was eerie and creepy.

    “Want to die?”

    Liu Chongming said slowly, “It’s so cheap to let you die casually?”

    “Ling Shaoqing can testify that I did not falsely pass on the imperial edict. The prince brought troops back to Beijing on the way to worship the ancestors, intending to rebel. The emperor was so angry that he vomited blood. How could he summon the prince?”

    “Your Highness, give up.”

    “The emperor ordered me to come and give you a glass of poisoned wine. I just replaced the poisoned wine with the dumb medicine of my Splendid Camp.”

    “I saved your life, should I be grateful?”

     “After tonight, there will be no Mu Jingyan in this world.”

    “It just so happens that in my Huanyi Building, there are always some strange guests.

    Mu Jingyan paused for a moment before trying to understand the meaning of the words, and suddenly opened his mouth to bite, but the jailer quickly stuffed the sackcloth in his mouth, took a hard blow on the back of the neck, and suddenly fluttered fell to the ground.

    Since he fainted this time, there will be no Mu Jingyan in the world.

    No one will know that the mute who will be happy every day in Huanyi Lou will be the former Prince Huai.

    The one who broke the silence was Ling He, who called him the name he wanted to hear the most and feared the most.

    “Sinking the boat.”

    Qu Chenzhou’s eyes skipped over Liu Chongming and landed on Ling He, only to see Ling He take a half step back, knelt down on one knee in awe, and gave him a salute.

    “Linghe…”

    On the way to Qingxinju, he could be calm and magnanimous in his heart, but now he can’t see Linghe bowing to him in front of Liu Chongming.

    Even if he can afford it.

    He could have saved himself.

    Before entering the palace gate, Baishiyan and Liu Chongming were enough to annihilate hundreds of people, including King Huai, and the crown prince would fall to Lan’er.

    Even if Liu Chongming has the means of thunder to eradicate one by one, it will be the name of the relative Liu family eradicating dissidents and killing innocents for the little prince, not to mention the blood of King Huai before. Dry.

    At that time, even if Lan’er ascends the throne, her name will be out of line, and there will be waves in the DPRK.

    On the emperor’s side, whether it is death at his hands, or Zen is located in Lan’er under his persecution, it is even more fueling the fire.

    Lan’er’s emperorship was not only accompanied by eternal condemnation, but also a fatal blow to the peace of this foreign power.

    Such a catastrophe and turmoil is likely to last for decades, and no one can become a complete egg.

    Ling He got up, looked at Liu Chongming who was standing beside him, left only one sentence and turned away.

    “The emperor is still ill and waiting for your confession. I heard from Jiu’an that you will be executed. It’s been a few days. If you have anything to say, please do so as soon as possible.”

    There was only a rare silence left in the cell.

    Qu Chenzhou looked at the familiar back muscles tense, but his shoulders trembled uncontrollably. He wanted to speak several times, but he didn’t know what to say.

    If Liu Chongming hated him and resented him as before, maybe it would make him feel better.

    “Chongming, after I leave…”

    His courageous efforts were interrupted by the sound of paper shaking. Charcoal, white paper, and the booklet full of names were all thrown on the wooden table not far away.

    “Write it.” Liu Chongming’s voice was much calmer than he imagined: “Get the business done first.”

    In order to distinguish him from Liu Chongming, he deliberately changed his handwriting in front of the emperor in the past two years, which Liu Chongming could not imitate.

    Qu Chenzhou pulls the chain on the shackles, and the charcoal pen falls on the paper – the sinner Qu Shenzhou cannot be punished, and I wish to inform the accomplices and beg for mercy…

    As if in the study before, Liu Chongming patiently stood aside, watching him write, while turning over the booklet for him, until the last name.

    Liu Chongming watched as he bit his finger and pressed the **** fingerprint on it, then carefully folded the paper a few times and put it in his arms.

    “Chongming…” Qu Chenzhou didn’t know if he should raise his eyes, so he could only let out a soft cry.

    No voice answered him, he bit his lower lip lightly, as if talking to himself.

    “King Huai is gone, many people will stare at the impeachment of the Liu family’s relatives in power sooner or later. But this matter can’t be rushed, Lan’er and her sister want to sit firmly in that position, and they have to rely a lot on the Liu family and the Bai family. .”

    “Teach Lan Er well after Chongming…”

    The firm, warm embrace contained him as always, warm breaths and kisses on the back of his neck.

     Do you remember something you said once?”

    Qu Chenzhou restrained the choked sobbing in his throat, and asked softly, “What?”

    “You said, even if you die on the way one day, it will be nothing more than firewood burning in the fire and making the best use of it.”

    Of course he remembered that they were like two hedgehogs, wishing they could stab each other all over.

    But looking back now, that day was a little sweet.

    “I also said that I will not stop you from doing anything in the future, but I will…”

    “I’ll catch you.”

    Liu Chongming hugged him against the railing and felt his breath with his lips.

    “You did what you were supposed to do, leave the rest to me…”

    “Wait for me.”

    The author has something to say:    Shen Zhou’s purpose is for Lan’er to ascend to the throne of God safely and without controversy, and the goal is not only King Huai, but also the people behind King Huai One accomplice, using the method of confession, dug up everyone together