Chapter VII Transactions
I was awakened from a sweet dream, and I had to face this harsh reality. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info By the dim light, I saw the handsome guy with a serious expression during the day, and broke in with the government soldiers. Before I could say my doubt, they tied my arms without mercy and gagged me with a cloth. It was only when I was pushed and shoved deeper and deeper in the darkness by the soldiers that I woke up from the chaos and realized how foolish it was to dream of the warmth of home in such a place. I used to think that I was not afraid of anything, but at this moment, I was afraid, afraid that I would be swallowed by the boundless darkness, afraid that I would die here. I'm not reconciled, I want to struggle, but the rope is tied too tightly, the more I struggle, the more I can feel the pain of the flesh, I want to defend, I want to ask him why he gave me such treatment, but what came out was a "woo woo" sound, I couldn't do anything.
It turned out that there was a dungeon hidden in the palace, and as soon as I entered the dungeon, I was greeted by the smell of damp and moldy, fishy smell, the smell of death, which reminded me of the lake water I drank today, and made me nauseous. The damp clothes, the cold cell, made me shiver. In addition to me, there was a woman tied to the torture rack outside the cell, presumably freshly whipped, her whole body covered with whip marks and oozing blood, her head drooping, her long hair covering her face, and it was impossible to see what she looked like. But looking at her figure, it makes me think that it should be someone I know, I really can't think of how serious a sin the person I know can be treated like this, just like I can't figure out why I am being treated like this now, the only thing that is certain is that it is too cruel to treat a woman like this.
"Miss!" After the jailer had put me in the cell and left, I heard the woman on the torture rack crying out weakly, because of the angle, I could only hear her, but not her.
"Cui Ping!" I woke up from a dream. "Why? What did you do? Why did they torture you so much. "She has always taken care of me, I treat her as my own sister, I know that she is beaten to the flesh, the flesh is blurred, my heart is dripping blood.
"Miss, have you really forgotten, don't you know why we came to the palace?" When I heard her say this, I felt that everything was beginning to clear. Even if his mother came from a humble background, Sun Ruhai should not send his daughter to the Beiwang Mansion as a concubine, he had a purpose; the Beiwang turned a blind eye to the beautiful Sun Xuan because he suspected the true purpose of his father in sending her to the palace as a concubine; lying to me that his name was Ye Su was actually a temptation to suspect that Sun Xuan had not lost his memory. I suddenly realized that the right prime minister and the king of the north must be in a battle to the death, and Sun Xuan's coming to the palace as a concubine is just a political conspiracy.
"Ha~ha~ha~" I heard Cui Ping's crazy laughter.
"Why do you want to drown, why do you have to forget everything before after drowning. Why are you so nice to me after forgetting everything before. โ
"Why don't you beat me and scold me like you used to, why?
"Why can you shamelessly become another person, let everyone love you, and let me suffer such pain alone!" she began to cry frantically.
"It's you! It's all you! It's you who hurt me and my brother!"
I didn't know that Sun Xuan was such a person, and I had never seen such a Cui Ping, her words were like knives, cutting my heart one by one, my heart hurt. Tears rolled in my eyes, I held my head high to prevent tears from falling, telling myself that I couldn't cry, I had to save Cui Ping and myself.
I heard the jailers return, and they scolded Cui Ping, and I heard the sound of leather whips whipping against flesh. "Cuiping, I will save you, I will definitely save you. I'm not Sun Xuan, you believe me, you must live. I yelled at Cui Ping.
"Come on, come on, I want to see the prince, I want to see the prince!" I slammed my hand on the iron railing, even forgetting the pain, and shouted desperately.
"What are you shouting, all the sinners who come in, and the prince is gone!" a fierce jailer came, and said with a wicked smile: "Don't worry, it will be your turn soon." โ
If I am really tortured, I am afraid that I will die. For the sake of me and Cui Ping, I have to take a gamble. "If I can't see the prince, I'll die here, and you don't want to get anything. With that, I rushed to the wall, and then my eyes were blood-red. I vaguely heard Cui Ping say, "If only you were as good as before, so that I don't have to feel so guilty and sad because I have been burdened by you." "The noisy world is getting farther and farther away from me,
Cui Ping floated in front of me like a ghost, she had been tortured beyond recognition, the corners of her mouth twitched, but I couldn't hear what she was saying. I tried to hold him, but my hands and feet seemed to be tied, and I didn't move a single bit, no matter how hard I tried. I saw her get farther and farther away from me. I was anxious and shouted, "Cuiping, wait for me!" and sat up from the couch. Looking around, I returned to Magnolia Garden, my clothes had been changed and my head had been bandaged. It's too late, I have to go to the North King. When I ran to the door, I bumped into the beads who were about to enter the door with the medicine bowl, and the medicine juice was all spilled on the white skirt I was wearing, and the beads wanted to clean up for me, I grabbed her hand and asked him like crazy: "Where is the prince?", she told me in horror that the king of the north was in Qingxinzhai, and I rushed to Qingxinzhai.
The night was very deep, and it was raining heavily, and I couldn't open my eyes when the rain hit, the road was wet and slippery, and I didn't have shoes on, and I didn't know how many falls, and I was covered in mud and water, and my skirt was black. The gauze wrapped around his head was also opened, and he had a splitting headache. But I can't do anything anymore, I only have one belief, which is to keep Cuiping alive. Finally, I arrived at Qingxinzhai, and I was still far from the door, but I was stopped: "Who trespassed on Qingxinzhai?" Two guards wearing hats and robes had put knives on my neck.
"Yulan Yuan Sun Xuan begged to see the prince. "I slowly knelt on the ground, and one of the guards put away his knife and went to report, but he didn't go in, and after knocking on the door, he reported it outside the door. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and I couldn't hear what they were saying, except that there were two figures shaking inside Qingxinzhai.
"Madam, please go back, the prince still has important matters, and it is inconvenient to see you at this time. "The guard who reported is back.
I must not go back, if I do, Cuiping will die. "If I don't go, if the prince doesn't see me, I'll kneel and die here. โ
The guard went to report again, and when he came back he told me, "In this case, ma'am, please take care of yourself!" and still stood at his post.
After kneeling for a while, my legs began to tingle, and the coolness of the marble slabs and the rain conveyed from my knees to my body. I began to feel cold and felt my consciousness slowly withdrawing from my body. Cui Ping's life is not left until tomorrow, I must see the king of the north before dawn, and I must not fall down at this time. I remembered "head hanging beam, cone piercing strands", yes! Only pain kept me awake, and I pulled out the hairpin that was pinning my bun and let my hair hang down like a madman. He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and stabbed his thigh fiercely, and the red blood bloomed a gorgeous flower on the white dress.
I don't know how long I knelt down, my knees were completely numb, and the rain was still so heavy that there was no intention of getting smaller or stopping. My legs and arms are already full of flowers. But my hard work was not in vain, the door of Qingxinzhai opened, and the handsome guy with a serious expression came out with an umbrella. He walked up to me and stretched out his hand to help me up: "The prince wants to see you!"
I pushed his hand away and tried to get up on my own, but I knelt for too long, and my legs didn't obey me, and I fell to the ground instead. He still wanted to help me, I just glared at him coldly and said, "No!", I had to stand up on my own and not let them see my weakness, so as to increase my stakes for victory. After I refused, he flicked his sleeves in disdain, and then returned to Qingxinzhai.
The paralysis slowly faded, and I got up and limped into Qingxinzhai. "Sun Xuan, meet the prince!" knelt down again. Dongfang Xun sat in front of the bookcase and looked at me coldly. When I saw him at this moment, I secretly laughed at myself for being a fool, and I thought he was a big brother, he was just a political liar who was obsessed with power.
"Do you know that you are Sun Xuan? Don't you have amnesia and forget who you are?" he said coldly, sarcastically.
"Didn't you tell me that your name is Ye Su!" I replied meanly, I was indeed angry that he deliberately deceived, but at this time I didn't want to take advantage of my tongue, I wanted to behave neither humbly nor arrogantly in front of him, so that he would not despise me.
"I want this king to spare your life, and you are still so bitter! You are really the daughter of the right prime minister's family!" Dongfang Xun sneered.
"The prince is wrong, I didn't come to ask the prince to spare my life, but to make a deal with the prince!" I retorted.
"What qualifications do you have to make a deal with this king, and what capital do you have to trade with this king?" he said angrily, and then he realized that I was so lowly in his heart.
"Sun Xuan is humble, and the dignity of the prince is out of reach. But my lord, dignity can't be eaten, and dignity can't keep your throne. I sneered.
"Youโ" he slapped the table in anger.
"Lord Wang! Sun Xuan is not here to quarrel with you, please listen to Sun Xuan's words. I interrupted him, because I thought that if I continued to talk like this, he would be so angry that he would kill me, and my efforts would be in vain.
"Okay, you say!" he suppressed his anger and sat down again.
"The prince and the right prime minister have been secretly fighting so far, seeing that the opponent is pressing step by step, but he can't catch the opponent's handle, can't he bring down the opponent?" I said calmly.
"Are you threatening the king with your father?" he said anxiously.
"No, on the contrary, Sun Xuan is willing to help the prince. I replied.
"Oh, do you want to help outsiders harm your father? I really feel cold for the right prime minister!" He sarcastically mocked me, if I were really Sun Xuan, maybe I wouldn't be so ruthless, but fortunately, I wasn't her.
"If the prince has mercy on the right prime minister, please leave him a whole corpse. I responded cold-blooded to his sarcasm.
"Helloโ" he looked at with disbelief in his eyes.
"Is it vicious? The prince is so noble and so high, how can I understand how difficult it is for a lowly person like Sun Xuan to survive in your political conspiracy. When the right prime minister sent me to the palace, I was already an outcast. If I hadn't fought with my life to see the prince today, I was afraid that I would have been dead at this moment. If others don't pity me, why should I pity him? I cut him off and said coldly. This sentence directly hit Dongfang Xun's vital point, and I could see the shock in his eyes.
"How can you convince this king of what you say!" he said, with a fixed mind.
"Life is sometimes like a gamble, if the prince doesn't believe me, he can kill me now!" I said as I looked at him firmly.
"Yes, the king believes you! tell me how you can help the king. He asked solemnly, no longer sarcastic at me.
The right prime minister must want to get rid of the prince, but there are masters around the prince at all times, and he will definitely not find a chance to start. I will pass on the wrong information to the right prime minister, let him think that there is an opportunity, and lure him to attack, and the prince can catch the turtle in the urn. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I am willing to testify against Sun Ruhai as a witness. "I said what I wanted, but I was exhausted, and suddenly I felt so tired that I wanted to sleep. No, the deal hasn't been made yet, and I can't sleep yet. I bit the back of my hand so hard that blood flowed out, and the pain made me focus my wandering consciousness once more. The corners of Dongfang Xun's mouth moved, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, just watched my every move.
"If the prince wants to get my help, he must promise me three conditions, first, if he wants to succeed, he still needs Cuiping's assistance, please let Cuiping go immediately; second, after the fall of the right prime minister, please protect my mother and Cuiping's younger brother from being implicated, and give them a worry-free life. Third, after the matter is completed, please have mercy on the prince and let me and Cuiping out of the palace. If the prince does not agree to my conditions, even if the deal between you and me is not reached, I only want to die quickly. I tried my best to state my purpose in this transaction, and then I slammed my head on the ground, waiting for his answer.
"Yes, the king has promised you!" I was relieved to hear his answer, and I knew nothing.