Chapter 20: Aggrieved to be a Jabberwocky

Su Yan out of the imperial study, was blown by the wind, only to find the back moist. The day is really hot up, the temple is a little stuffy, he cried a big cry, a back sweat.

He was a little annoyed, seemingly because of the weather and seemingly not.

Jinglong emperor deep city, heavy thinking, but also not lack of the vast majority of emperors have the suspicion of the heart, not only the history books recorded in the “emperor nature of leniency” side, this since he eavesdropped on the emperor’s corners know. That’s why he has been serving the emperor with fear and trembling, always taut with a string, and when the string is loosened, only to feel tired.

He believed that the party’s questioning, not the emperor suspected that he and Zhuo priest, with the West Wild Party have any involvement, after all, he is still young, for the official only three months, sent the brocade guards to casually check, the background is so simple that it is still written less than a page of paper, the greater likelihood that it is customary to knock, as the emperor usually do to other officials.

The emperor is trying to tell him, no matter what party, what connections, in front of the loyalty to the emperor, not shit. With the transfer of the Ministry to test him, with the list under the son-in-law to test him, and then with a life-saving question to test him, is just to know, he Su Yan in addition to the talent, the most important political position has not stood crooked.

However, if he is really on the spot to point to the sky, great show of loyalty, the emperor in all likelihood, but do not believe it, the so-called too late.

It is also regarded as his wisdom, used this not a trick trick, looking at the emperor’s spring heart to cuckoo a cry, only to muddle through.

The emperor actually has a few points of trust in him, and a few points of love, Su Yan heart is not counted, can only take a step to see a step.

But in the end, it was still a bit aggravating.

I sleep and eat every day in addition to the time, basically by your father and son to occupy, told to do what do, every day to pick the good words to say, beaten also do not harbor grudges, but also try to do for you to advise – like me such a good subject, not find by lanterns, but also do not fucking know how to cherish! Sooner or later, I’ll make you regret it.

…… Well, telling you to regret something is just a thought. Being in ancient times, the emperor is the absolute existence of the life and death of a word to him, and he is just an inconspicuous one in a dynasty full of civil and military officials to the emperor.

Ten thousand people on the cabinet chief minister, but also because of the emperor a sentence on the jail, thunder and rain are all the grace of heaven, he is not even the qualification of aggrieved.

At the moment he just want to go home and take a bath, see the sun is slanting in the west, they do not want to go to the East Palace to serve, with a small chamberlain to report to the Prince, disgruntled out of the palace.

Back home, soaking in the tub, Su Xiaobei finished boiling the last pot of hot water, came to rub his back, and asked softly, “Your Honor is not happy in your heart?”

Su Yan lazily lay on the rim of the barrel, “What’s so unpleasant about it. In the eyes of outsiders, I, the Crown Prince’s attendant reads right and left, and it hurts a lot.”

“Today, since your lordship returned from the palace, there is no smile in your eyes at all, but are you tired?”

“People are not tired, but the heart is tired. Prince a day can not see me on the temper, the emperor can not wait to make me into a potted plant planted in the imperial study, you did not listen to these days Zhanzhi House gossip how to say, that I straight advice is false, pandering to the top of the real it.”

“They’re just jealous of His Excellency’s favor. If give them the opportunity to be imperial study room potted plant, one by one will not be happy crazy, collapse waist pout buttocks all want to climb into the pot! It is because of the redness of their eyes that they are chewing on the root of their tongues, this kind of person is just like a mosquito fly in a ditch, and is not worthy of letting the lord glance at them and listen to them.”

Su Yan laughed softly, “Of course I know this, but thank you for your comfort.”

Su Xiaobei uncomfortably lowered his eyelids, “How does the lord always thank us underlings, the little one is really not used to it, always feel weak …… hearted.”

Su Yan said: “What is weak, put the waist pole to me up. All parents are born and raised, who is nobler than anyone else, stripped of that layer of power and status of the skin, are not all the same person.”

“Not the same.” Su Xiaobei’s eyes reddened, and she said without crying, “The lower reaches of the Yellow River flooded, destroying the fields and houses, and our family of four had to flee to the capital. Halfway to the capital, my sister starved to death, and my father took a bag of brown rice crackers to trade with others, so that we could endure the barren land without any grass. When we managed to enter Dongchangfu, we were robbed by horse thieves, and my mother was taken away, alive or dead. When I arrived at the capital, my father had only one breath left in his body, so he had no choice but to sell me to a man with no choice but to sell me to a man with no choice. The dentist saw that I was born a little decent, I wanted to sell into the Changchun courtyard, to be the lowest small herdsman, if not the Lord will buy me, now I’m afraid I would have become a pile of rotten bones. You say, like us, all skin, flesh and blood, also can eat, also can sell, how can still call it a person!”

Su Yan listened with compassion and sighed, “These two years of natural and man-made disasters, the days are bad, but it will always get better.”

“Yeah? How much longer do I have to wait?”

“…… soon.”

The national disaster and the river disaster often work together. The Yellow River nurtures civilization, but also the vagaries of change, the disaster brought about by the collapse of the rerouting, will always be time and again by the people to wipe out, the barren land will again sprouting seedlings.

“The past is not traceable, don’t think about it.” Su Yan got up and dressed, “Let’s have dinner, I’m so hungry.”

Su Xiaobei wiped her tears and said with a forced smile, “It’s all prepared, just waiting for your lordship to summon it.”

“Right, shouldn’t we buy some rice dumplings, glutinous rice, peanuts and so on, and make some dumplings for the festival? Oh, and salted eggs and ham, sweet dumplings and salted dumplings are both delicious.”

“Buy is all bought, tomorrow I will ask the cook to wrap it.”

“Eat ready-made, that’s no fun, let’s wrap it ourselves and try it.”

Su Xiaobei worried, “Xiaojing and I are not good with our hands, I’m afraid of wrapping it into a stick.”

Su Yan laughed: “Wrapped into a barrel can not hurt ah, play ah.”

The next morning, the master and servant three people will be in the courtyard fiddling up, stone table wiped clean, put a dry ingredients, while laughing and joking side of the package dumplings, it did not take long to achieve a table of demons and ghosts, the appearance of the only uglier not the ugliest.

Su Yan admired the latest masterpiece in his hand, one end was blunt and convex long, one end was round and center sunken, suddenly felt a bit like **, the surface was even more stained by the knotted and wrapped silk thread. He was full of black lines and wanted to dismantle and rewrap it, when he heard someone outside the courtyard knocking on the door and asking in a loud voice.

Su Xiaojing went to open the door, hooting and hollering in several servants with gift boxes and gift bags, unloading both stone tables full of goods.

“This is a festival gift from His Highness King Yu to Lord Su, please accept it with a smile.” The brocade-clothed steward at the head finished speaking, about feeling that the courtesy had given him enough face, and without waiting for him to reply, he raised his head and walked away.

“Do not want to laugh, ugly refusal line ah?” Su Yan helplessly spit a groove, casually open a gift box, which is twelve beautifully packaged dumplings, the material is extremely sophisticated, with the best tribute rice and preserved fruits, as well as Dianxi Tribute Heqing ham, steaming, fragrant.

“Wow!” Su Xiaojing marveled, “What kind of dumplings are these, so fragrant! Is it something you can only eat in the palace?”

Su Yan smoothly threw two to him, “Yeah, feel free to eat.”

Su Xiaobei look at their own packaged dumplings, more and more feel can not be in the eyes, frustrated: “Previously packaged these I received the kitchen to go, to the next people to eat.”

Su Yan stopped: “Don’t, the first time in two lifetimes to pack rice dumplings, the fruits of hard labor, I have to taste.”

So Su Xiaobei carried out the string of demons and devils plus a ** essence wrapped by Lord Su separately and put it in another pot to cook. As it cooked, it was gone.

“What do you mean it’s gone?” Suyan asked, his eyes widening.

“It is …… small midway to go to the back alley cargo carrier, bought a pot of acacia honey, came back to lift the lid of the pot, it is gone.” Failure to manage the home, even a string of dumplings will be stolen, for which Su Xiaobei is ashamed.

Su Yan waved his hand: “Maybe the back door is not closed, who’s little kid smelled the flavor, slipped in and took it. Children are greedy, all right, anyway, it is not wrapped. Let’s eat the gift box, special food, do not eat for nothing.”

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North Zhenfu Si’s imperial prison, the early summer sunny sunshine does not shine into the slightest, perennial a deep and gloomy, only suitable for hiding from the end of the white snake Xiaoqing cultivation.

Shen Qi leaned back in the circle chair, his straight and powerful legs leisurely set up on the desktop, carrying a bunch of cooked dumplings swinging around in his hand. The dumplings are still vaguely hot, but the shape is so ugly that it practically defiles Qu Zi.

He looked through it for a moment with a wry smile, unwrapped one of them, dipped it in the sheer sugar from the small porcelain dish on the table, and took a bite.

“Ugly as it is, it tastes pretty bad.” Chito commented.

After a few mouthfuls of food, he tilted his head to look at Zhuo Qi, who was hanging on the torture rack with a disheveled face, and lifted the other one and shook it, “Lord Zhuo also ate a rice dumpling, how about responding to the festival?”

Zhuo Qi face color like paper, dry cracked lips full of blood stains, hissed and strained: “Water …… give me water ……”

Shen Qi slowly unwrapped the silk thread and peeled off the Ruo bamboo leaves one by one, revealing the sticky and sweet glutinous rice inside, and got up and walked to Zhuo Qi’s side.

“Zhuo adults, to be honest, you so hard to carry, meaningless. You said you did not embezzle and accept bribes, donate to the supervisor more than the number of places how to count, all donations of rice are paid to the court, there is no withholding part of the filling of the small treasury? If according to Taizu example, together with 60 two silver that is sentenced to peeling grass, not wronged you, right?

If you say that there is no party affiliation, how about the private letters with those Xiongnu party members, which do not contain the resentment that ‘the world’s descendants are in high positions, and the handsome ones are sinking under the bureaucrats’? Have you never berated the eunuchs and the brocade guards?”

Zhuoqi’s breath is like swimming, nearly collapsed sanity, just chanting “water”.

Shen Qi laughed coldly: “I said that you readers have mouths all over your body, scolding whoever you catch, and are also afraid of being soft and hard. If you dare to be like Lord Yu Chezhi, the left minister of the Ministry of War, who was still unchanged after 30 battles and forced the emperor to withdraw his order in public, I would respect you as a man. But do you dare? Just take those of us who work on behalf of the emperor out of anger.

That’s right, we are hawks and dogs, minions and teeth, but don’t you look at whose hawks and dogs and teeth they are? These minions and teeth are pulled out and chipped, who is the one who is in pain? Full of courtiers and scholars, each with the name of the Qingliu, how many are really for the country and the people? Five? Ten? Are not all clutching their own interests and reputation to climb up the ladder, in order to compete for the right to speak, manipulation of national policy, repeatedly moving the ritual system to hold the will of the upper, and even do not care about the face of the Son of Heaven.

”Your Majesty, has the sinful edict been written? Have you not? Then I will write it on your behalf.’

”Your Majesty, I want to resign. But if you grant me permission to resign, my reputation will be even more stigmatized.’

This kind of scene, I have been a Brocade Guard for ten years, I have seen a lot. The claws and teeth are still sharp, but if you are allowed to pull them out again, where is the heavenly authority?”

“So, have you figured out where your sin lies?” Shen Qi sent the peeled dumplings into Zhuo Qi’s mouth and stuffed them in a little bit, “This is hand-wrapped by your favorite disciple. When you’re done eating, draw a pledge on the confession of guilt. Lord Commander promised to spare you from death after making the pledge and will not go back on his word.”

Zhuo Qi throat as if being stuffed into the coals of fire, from the chaotic and unbearable brain, suddenly broke out a trace of clarity.

Many days of torture and torture, almost frustrated his conceptual will, he in the desire to survive and give up their lives to fight for justice swayed back and forth, and several times gave birth to the idea of signing the pledge.

Although that confession of guilt climbed on his mentor, Li Xifeng Li Gao Lao.

Especially after listening to Shen Qi’s “minion theory”, he was as if his heart was dead, and he was only close to his head.

Who would have thought that at the end of the sentence, the ghostly phrase “This was hand-wrapped by your favorite disciple,” as if splitting open his canopy and throwing a pot of ice and snow over his head—

Suyen!

In his days behind bars, everyone afraid of being affected by the fish dare not come to visit the prison, disciples, only this seventeen-year-old boy, with clothing and water into the sunless Imperial Prison.

At that time he was fuzzy, vaguely see Su Yan coat shoulder piece of blood, and then was this ruthless thousand hard dragged out, I do not know what torture, suffered how many crimes.

He is only in Su Yan year six years old, taught three or four years of Montessori only, the other side will be able to repay the teacher’s kindness, this kind of death.

And they are, under the auspices of Li Ge Lao attentive teaching for many years, but also so weak-minded, greedy and afraid of death, even a young man is not as good as the weak crown!

Priest Zhuo was so ashamed that he preferred to die.

He chewed his mouth full of glutinous rice with difficulty and said, “I want to draw a pledge …… in public in the public hall …… not to plead guilty …… in this pickled prison. “

Shen Qi rubbed off the stickiness between his fingers and signaled his men to feed him water.

Half an hour later, the court hearing began.

Shen Qi didn’t go with Feng to the public hall, found a reason to leave, peeling dumplings in the room. After eating the sweet dumplings, she ate the salty dumplings, which were too ugly to be eaten as a meal.

It wasn’t long before one of his men, a small flag of his heart, knocked on the door and whispered a few words into his ear.

Shen Qi’s face clouded over.

Zhuo Qi died. In the courtroom, in full view of the public, he was faced with a confession of guilt, bit off his tongue, and sprayed blood from his mouth on the pleading paper–

If you want to ask what the crime is, look at my blood.

Shen Qi moved his finger, signaling Little Flag to step back, and in his heart, he carefully pondered over the impact of this sudden event:

Climbing and biting Li Xianfeng is not feasible, so do not let Feng An Hou too much as you wish, so as not to be more and more power over people.

People die case closed, Zhuo Qi can no longer involve others, including his teacher, naturally, including his students and disciples.

All in all, a good death.

Shen Qi quickly hooked the corner of his mouth, examining the last remaining dumplings …… the more he looked at them, the more he looked like a subtle **.

This Su Qinghe, looking at the virgin purely impassable, privately are thinking about what!