Chapter 81 – I miss you, Chichiro.

Shen Qi went out of the South Study Room and did not go far before he met Prince Zhu Helin in the corridor. He stepped aside and curtsied to make a half-kneeling bow.

The crown prince was glowing and walking briskly, when he saw Shen Qi, he was stunned and seemed to remember something old, his face sank slightly and he stopped and said, “Shen ‘righteous’?”

This greeting was secretly mocking, and Shen Qi said expressionlessly, “Your Highness the Crown Prince is a thousand years old.”

The Prince also remembered that he had previously borrowed a torture wound to dominate Su Yan, eating Su Yan soft heart and heavy grace, enjoying night and night bedside care, so that Su Yan did not go to the East Palace for half a month.

–I don’t know if I have been mooching and eating tofu during my readers’ stay at the Shen residence.

Ever since the Prince opened up his Jing Guan, the palace arranged for the Sisters of Guidance to instruct him in human affairs with spring paintings. As a result, he threw people out and scribbled on the paintings, and he had to get angry even after a few more words of advice.

Emperor Jinglong heard, just as he was shy to play children’s temper, laughed and exempted from teaching guide, said that some of the older nature will understand. Privately ordered the Brocade Guards to probe the East Palace, reported: the Prince of the pretty palace girl attitude as usual, without the slightest teenage love attitude, a few small chamberlains close to the only as a playmate. The only thing is to the Prince’s readers Su Yan treated differently, a letter from Shaanxi to ask for peace to turn back and forth to see the crease will be broken, before framing collection.

Prince like Su Yan, almost clearly written on the face, the emperor a look know. But this like too clear, with a young man warm and pure intention, and not mixed with lust components, also let the emperor let a few points of heart, put more defensive eyes to the vegetarian line of bad and stupid Yu Wang.

The emperor knows that Yu Wang hunting sex, by him again and again after knocking, now indeed no longer on the officials in the court, but also willing to do practical things for the country for the people, look like a change of heart, clean up, but never give up on Su Yan’s obsession, really some headaches.

As the saying goes, only a thousand days to be a thief, not a thousand days to prevent thieves, unless the king of Yu really shut into the high walls of Fengyang, otherwise even if sent out the brocade guards stalking, may not be able to keep an eye on the daily twelve hours. But to really put the Yu Wang to imprisonment, not to mention that he is a close brother to endure, the Empress Dowager will certainly be the first to jump out and scold him for killing and maiming his brother and sister, and will even protect the shortcomings of the scolding Su Yan confuse the Lord pandering to the top, under the decree of the death of a direct gift of the matter.

So difficult, simply take advantage of the Wei Joon injury disability this, first Su Yan sent out of the capital for a period of time, away from the center of the vortex, go to the local experience, for the future promotion of the accumulation of qualifications and achievements. Also let King Yu calm down, maybe after a year and a half, his brother of this amorous and thinly veiled new love, the thought of Su Yan also faded.

The emperor is self-restraint and respect, in order to fulfill each other’s ambitions and painfully give up love, in public and private do not want to see their own guardian of the gods of the earth and grain talent was tarnished, for Su Yan plan of the long term. King Yu, however, only as he is a hypocrite, one side of the self-proclaimed righteousness, the other side of the secret mettle, in order to their own reputation, so that Su Yan did not see the light of the underground lover. This is just, Su Yan accident, but he is forced by the pressure of all parties refused to protect, and even put the person depreciation out of the country, really selfish.

–If I am in this position, in any case will first protect the beloved, if the other side must have a name, I can even be named male queen of the world. Who dares to oppose, the emperor’s wrath of a million corpses, is it for nothing? King Yu thought so.

Yu Wang has the intention to take the water salon in the love affair to stimulate the emperor, but unfortunately Su Yan left the capital the next day, empty words have no effect, can only wait for the parties to come back from Shaanxi, designed to let the emperor witness, so as to force him to completely give up Su Yan, and continue to end his bright king’s frame to go.

Brothers a dislike of each other desolate, a despise each other hypocrisy, so that the Prince of that mind in their eyes, just like children playing house, is not worth it.

But Shen Qi squatted over the beams in the small south courtyard, and saw with his own eyes that the Crown Prince was playing with Su Yan on the bed, revealing his inner reverie between words, and his mind was by no means simple. What’s more, on that occasion, the Prince’s eyes were clearly filled with a strong possessive desire for another person, and he stared at him proudly, with a hostile look that only males in competition would have.

No matter how small a tiger was, it would still drink blood and eat meat, Shen Qi would not take it lightly.

The Prince saw him react coldly, as if he did not understand the ridicule, self-conscious and annoyed, could not help but taunt again: “Lone gave you ten children and maidservants, is it good? Bedside service even if a daily change, can be two decades without repetition. In the future, you are injured and sick, no matter how will not be miserable to the point of no one to serve, there is no need to pull Su Yan as a companion.”

These words not only satirized Shen Qi’s selling out, but also intentionally touched his bad luck. But Shen Qi was not angered, not to mention that he would not tell the truth — among those twenty people there are ears and eyes sent by you, the Crown Prince, which can not be used and sold, so I bought twenty acres of good land on the outskirts of the city, and sent them to cultivate with huts, so that when Su Yan comes back from Shaanxi, there will be home-grown fruits and vegetables to eat.

He still had a paralyzed face, dripping with water as he replied, “Thank you for the reward, Your Highness, I’m grateful, and I will spare no effort to do a good job in return for the emperor’s favor.”

The Prince saw that the head of the Brocade Guards could not insert a needle into the water, it was really boring, and thought that he didn’t know why his father loved to beat his subjects so much, and if all of them were half-dead like Shen Qi, what was the fun of beating them up?

But since he bumped into it, he felt unwilling to let it go easily. The prince thought about it, the corner of his mouth slowly curled up and smiled wistfully, “He wrote me a letter.”

Who is this “he”, each other unspoken, Shen Qi heard a sudden sinking of the bottom of his heart.

“Three whole pages, saying what he saw on the road, what he thought of, and what he did when he arrived in Yan’an …… wrote that he could not stop writing.” Prince slowly said, “He said he misses me, asked me if I want him? He also asked me every day schoolwork heavy or not, and asked me to pay attention to the body, do not be too tired, rambling, endless. You say how this person is so annoying, when I sent off I also specially explained, do not need to write to me, but he arrived in Shaanxi, he could not wait to move the ink, but also with four hundred miles to send to the capital. Hey, did he write to you too?”

The tone of feigned anger and fake resentment is full of bragging rights, so childish that it can be. But Shen Qi was stimulated, gritting her teeth, remembering that Su Yan had not sent back a single word so far, and all the news about him, she had learned through Gao Shuo’s secret report.

–Why didn’t Suyen write to him?

Prince from Shen Qi’s somber face in the end, proudly said: “I think it must be written, after all, he said, you are a ‘life brother’.”

Shen Qi’s back teeth were about to be gritted, and he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows, “Naturally, it’s not as good as Lord Su’s care for Your Highness. When I was a child, my uncle wrote to me in the same tone of voice, which was really touching, and I thank Your Highness for reminding me of the loving heart of my elders.”

The prince froze, anger surged, want to scold him full of bullshit, Su Yan to the little master is not a compassionate heart it! But then thought, he said his uncle, insinuating also insinuating not to leave a handle, if he took the initiative to set in, that is here without silver three hundred two.

For a while, there was actually some feeling of a dog biting a hedgehog with no way to get off.

Shen Qi cupped his fists and said, “The errand commanded by the Emperor cannot be neglected, can Your Highness the Crown Prince allow me to leave first?”

The Prince waved his hand impatiently, “Get lost, don’t get in the way in front of Little Master if you have nothing to do.”

Shen Qi simply walked away.

The prince was so angry that he kicked the step corridor railing so hard that it broke the solid wood railing.

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Shen Qi returned to the North Township Division with a gloomy face, and saw that the public hall was still bustling with activity, and Shi Yifushan, the head of the penal household that he had promoted up, was giving the offender the torture.

Squeeze is a row of feet long wooden sticks on a string, booklet-like, both sides of the rope pulled tight, the wooden stick squeezed fingers, ten fingers, pinching people screaming again and again.

The criminal screamed and cursed at the same time, his bones were hard.

“Haven’t you confessed yet?” Shen Qi asked with a frown.

Stone Eaves Frost was ashamed, “I am incompetent.”

Shen Qi listening to the screams, as if silk bamboo pleasant to the ear, agitation gradually calm, ordered to bring a small mouth of oil pot, the following with the fire coals continue to burn, the pot of boiling oil bubbling, scorching hot forced people.

He inserted the lower end of the squeeze into the pot, and the offender’s fingers were then baked by the steam above the surface of the oil, which hurt straight to the bone.

Shen Qi laughed coldly: “If you don’t confess again, I’ll cut your fingers one by one, drop them into the frying pan to deep fry them, and then feed them to you. This is called deep-fried doughnut, do you want to eat it?”

The criminal’s face was white, gritted his teeth and did not say anything, and was really cut off a pinky finger, which fell in the frying pan and sizzled, fried crispy, and rolled and stuffed into his mouth.

The criminal can eat the torture, but can not eat the fear of eating their own flesh, only to confess: the Yellow River breaks, resulting in flooding around Huai’an, the court issued to the state and county of 90,000 taels of silver relief, Shanyang County Governor embezzled 25,000 taels. Hearing that the court sent to inspect the imperial inspector to check the work of disaster relief, they want to take out 10,000 taels to buy each other, who expected this imperial inspector just integrity, but not accept bribes, but also scolded him, said to be sent to the court to determine his crime. Sanyang county magistrate panicked, heavy money to buy the imperial official’s servant, with the sash to strangle him to death, to fake the scene of self-hanging death.

In order to get away with it, the county to take 10,000 taels of silver, to channel the governor of Huai’an as his own, submitted to the South Zhili, leading to the Buzhengzhi, the press commissioner, including the governor have accepted the conclusion of suicide. Until the casket to the home, the wife of the royal historian found her husband’s remaining manuscripts in the “Shanyang county governor risk relief, to profit from the bite me, I dare not accept” and other words, suspect that her husband died of murder, only to the capital to cry foul.

Emperor Jinglong ordered a thorough investigation of the case, Shanyang county magistrate committed suicide. This Huai’an governor see no one against the evidence, insisted on not recognizing the bribe, only said he was under the hoodwinking of the officials, and do not know the inside story.

Shen Qi saw that he still had a hard mouth after three rounds of torture, and finally used this trick to fry the fries, finally told him to be unable to resist, loosened his mouth, and signed and drew a pledge on the statement of confession.

Ordering people to throw the fainted criminal into the Imperial Prison cell, Shen Qi looked at the word “Huai’an” on the confession, and snorted in a low voice: “How come it’s not Shaanxi.”

But even if it is the case of Shaanxi, he now can not spare time, have to take the emperor account of the removal of the demon monk Jiyao one beforehand, only to have the opportunity to leave the capital to go out on business.

The public hall was cleaned up by the lieutenants, and the smell of oil from frying meat was still vaguely floating in the air, Shen Qi did not think it was a good idea to take a seat on the eunuch’s chair, with his legs habitually resting on the edge of the table, and gave orders to the scouts of the Brocade Guards to collect all the information about Jiyao and summarize it over, with the intention of looking for a breakthrough point from it.

It was at this time that a watchman lieutenant hurriedly walked in and reported, “There was a man outside the door who called himself a messenger, saying that there was a letter from Shaanxi to be handed over to Commander Shen of the Northern Zhenfu Division, and that my subordinate had received the letter and had immediately come to report it to His Excellency.”

Shen Qi had instructed the doorman to pay attention to the letter sent, and once he heard it, he could hardly contain his excitement and jumped out of his chair, “Give it to me!”

The lieutenant was about to pull out the letter from his arms when Shen Qi abruptly called, “Wait! The smell here is bad.”

He signaled the other party to follow him, came to the back hall, ordered people to play pots of water, hands with soap carefully washed, he sniffed, felt that there is not the slightest blood gas, not yet rest assured, and stretched out in front of the lieutenant: “Smell, what smell?”

The lieutenant leaned over and lowered his head, came over and lifted his nose like a dog, sniffed his hand hard, and said, “Fragrant.”

Shen Qi touched the envelope from the lieutenant’s arms and waved his hand to send people away. He couldn’t wait to open the letter, but like a starving person facing a table full of delicacies holding up his head in a daze, like a traveler who is timid near his hometown wandering outside his home, he only rubbed the handwriting on the cover of “Commander Shen’s personal message”, and couldn’t open it right away.

Finally taking a deep breath, he carefully removed the sealing fire paint and unfolded the letterhead.

Letter paper snow white, only one, a few lines of ink, clear, healthy and dynamic, own a remote mood, such as smoke waves on the white waves fell on the black crane snipe.

“The sky is far away and the earth is full of fireworks, none of which are you, none of which are not you. Shichiro, I miss you.”

Shen Qi’s fingers trembled, and a hazy mist suddenly surged in front of his eyes, making the black words on the white paper swoon into the ultimate happiness in his life.