Chapter 252: Choosing the Thorny Path
For the first time, Cheng Yuanzhen's heart rose with despair. Although he had been tortured before, he had gritted his teeth and persevered, until this mysterious man appeared tonight, and he realized as if he had been hit hard that he had become the target of public criticism, and I am afraid that there is no one in the government and the opposition who does not want him to die as soon as possible, and even take the initiative to end his life.
However, losing his life is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that these "enemies" who have inadvertently formed in the past line up to humiliate him, which is the most difficult to accept.
In fact, Cheng Yuanzhen's rise was very short, only about half a year, and it was in this small half a year that he personally concocted the big case of "tired of winning and shooting couples" that shocked the government and the opposition.
Cheng Yuanzhen suddenly let out a miserable laugh.
"Come on, kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me, save yourself from this living sin!"
Unexpectedly, the voice responded with a sneer. It seems that Cheng Yuanzhen's clamor has no effect on him.
"Don't worry, that day will come soon, and every day will make you worse than dead!"
Cheng Yuanzhen's miserable laughter came to an abrupt end, and there was both anger and despair in his voice.
"Aren't you afraid that Cheng will commit suicide and let your expectations be disappointed?"
"If you're going to kill yourself, why are you going to survive so far?"
This sentence is like a poisonous arrow that hit Cheng Yuanzhen's heart, this mysterious person is right, he did have suicidal thoughts more than once, but every time he couldn't make up his mind no matter what, the so-called only death since ancient times, his hands don't know how many people were killed, but now it's his turn to ......
However, Cheng Yuanzhen felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart when he thought that he had been involved with Yang Guozhong, and even that the matter of involving Yang Guozhong itself would bring trouble to Qin Jin, who was ordered to try the case. With his understanding of the Son of Heaven, if he wants to easily defeat Yang Guozhong, he can't even think about it, even if he lets Qin Jin's vertical son get what he wants, he has to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 of himself, and take off a whole layer of skin.
And judging from the mysterious behavior of the person in front of him tonight, this person obviously came behind Qin Jin's back, if he really killed himself, it would be tantamount to betraying Qin Jin, and when he thought that Qin Jin would also be stabbed in the back, Cheng Yuanzhen's heart actually gave birth to a burst of pleasure.
It's a pity that Cheng Yuanzhen's ability didn't last long. Soon, he heard the footsteps of more than one person in the cell, followed by an irresistible force pressing them against the cold, filthy floor of the cell.
The soft weight on the surface pressed against his body in turn, making his breathing gradually difficult.
This moment finally came, but Cheng Yuanzhen did not feel relieved in his expectations, but felt the chill of fear to the bone.
It was the usual method of the jailer to press down on the body with a burlap bag to cause death, and in doing so, there was not the slightest external injury on the body of the deceased, and when the time came, it would be reported to the victim of a sudden illness and death in prison.
Do you want to die in this low and simple prison cell like this?
What an unwillingness!
It was really time to say goodbye to the world, and Cheng Yuanzhen found that he was so attached and reluctant to live.
As the weight of his body gradually increased, this unspeakable fear also wrapped his body and mind like this darkness.
"No, I don't want to die ......"
Cheng Yuanzhen began to forgive with a faint breath, he could bear the pain of his body, he could bear the insult by any means, but he was still afraid of death.
When all psychological defenses completely collapsed, Cheng Yuanzhen gave up all his dignity and pretense of reserve, he desperately begged for mercy and screamed, but due to the weight of the body, the smaller the breath, the weaker the sound was like a gossamer.
The tide of fear had nowhere to vent, and it was drumming up and down in Cheng Yuanzhen's body. Finally, this evil tide of fear seemed to find an outlet, and with the stench, he became incontinent.
I only heard the disgusted sneer of the mysterious man in the darkness: "How hard do you think it is, in the end it is not the same as those lowly and shameful prisoners?"
Somehow, Cheng Yuanzhen suddenly felt that the pressure on his body was suddenly reduced, and he hurriedly breathed greedily into the filthy air in the cell, but he was willing to eat it.
It wasn't until he completely reacted that Cheng Yuanzhen realized that he was the only one left in the cell, as if the mysterious person had never appeared.
However, the dampness and heat in the crotch of his pants reminded him from time to time that everything just now was not a nightmare, but something that had happened.
After realizing that he was alive from death, tears welled up in Cheng Yuanzhen's triangular eyes, and then he cried again, which lasted for a long time.
The noise of the wails finally angered the inmates in the nearby cells, who banged on the walls and doors to express their displeasure. is so disturbing to people's dreams, if it weren't for the splitting and detaining, I was afraid that these people would rush up and devour Cheng Yuanzhen alive.
Cheng Yuanzhen doesn't care about the feelings of those lowly prisoners, he wants to cry happily, he wants to live hard, he also has to watch Yang Guozhong unlucky, Qin Jin unlucky, watch, look at today's unlucky day.
At this moment, in Cheng Yuanzhen's heart, everyone is his enemy!
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At the same time that Qin Jin was in full swing to rehabilitate, another trend quickly broke the temporary calm of the court.
In fact, this is also expected by everyone, that is, someone finally pointed the finger at the prince Li Heng who is under house arrest.
The first to propose the abolition of the prince was a little-known squire in Menxia Province. This was also promoted after Li Longji returned to the forbidden middle school.
This is almost a message to the government and the opposition, and the Son of Heaven is ready to investigate the main person responsible for this mutiny, which is to depose the crown prince Li Heng.
Just the idea of abolishing the prince walking aside in people's hearts will make people feel irrepressible excitement and apprehension.
I am excited that the stable pattern that has been maintained in the court for more than ten years is finally going to be broken in one fell swoop, and the old pattern is broken, which means that there are many people who will get the opportunity to be promoted. However, there is often bad luck with chance, and God knows which unlucky ones will be implicated for no reason.
In order to ensure that they were not implicated by the "innocent", the officials were not far behind after the subordinate servant wrote to him, asking for the deposition of the prince and the selection of another meritorious.
In this huge wave of abolition of the crown prince, the prime minister Yang Guozhong, who has always been the leader of the wind, is extremely unusual, although he also followed the book to participate in the abolition of the prince, but compared with the previous gangs, it is rare to be very low-key.
Not all the officials in Beijing were in a hurry to write a letter demanding the deposition of the crown prince, such as Gao Xianzhi, who was recuperating at home, which was quite intriguingly silenced.
After all, Gao Xianzhi was conscious, he only needed to dictate to someone else's writing, and he would write on his behalf. But he just didn't write for a long time, and the officials stared strangely at the head of the prime minister who was appointed by the Son of Heaven, how to express his position.
Suddenly, the eyes of the hundred officials fell on another person, this person also attracted a lot of attention, he was the Shenwu General Qin Jin.
In fact, this is undoubtedly a difficult test for Qin Jin. If he followed the others to the book, his reputation would be greatly affected, and the relationship between Shenwu Jun and the crown prince was almost unknown to everyone, and doing so would be regarded as a complete ruin. Although the prince's confidant Li Mi was in trouble, the world will not lack the root cause, and will only think that Qin Jin is an ungrateful villain who pursues fame and fortune.
But if Qin Jin doesn't write the book, then it will be the Tang Dynasty who will be offended. How could the Son of Heaven tolerate a person who was still ambiguous about the prince of the team to continue to hold military power?
In the Shenwu Army, Zheng Xianli finally suggested that Qin Jin should immediately write a book to dispel the suspicions that the Son of Heaven might have. After all, everything must be done with the preservation of oneself first, and if even one's life is gone, the ideals and revenge that have been mentioned in the past will not be mentioned again.
However, Qin Jin didn't seem to care, still dealing with tedious paperwork.
The case of redress has come to an end, and the public trial and punishment of Cheng Yuanzhen are about to begin. This is a key part of the plan.
Recently, Cheng Yuanzhen's attitude seems to have changed 180 degrees, in the past interrogations, this old miscellaneous hair always made the interrogation officials work hard before they spit out a little dry goods, and I don't know from which day, Cheng Yuanzhen began to become extremely cooperative, not only responding to the interrogation of the interrogation officials, but also taking the initiative to confess many unknown secret things.
As for whether the secret thing that Cheng Yuanzhen confessed was true or not, it was another matter, the important thing was that Qin Jin was going to make a deal with the Son of Heaven with this.
Qin Jin proposed to the Son of Heaven that Cheng Yuanzhen should be tried to calm the hearts of the officials and people in Chang'an, and the Son of Heaven was quite surprised and displeased at first, but after reading the confession, he quickly agreed to it.
This also means that Li Longji responded to Qin Jin's compromise.
Originally, as long as there were a few more days, after the public trial was completed, Qin Jin's plan was achieved, and even if the tide of abolishing the crown prince was set off, he could deal with it calmly.
And now it's all about it.
Under Zheng Xianli's repeated urging, Qin Jin did not express his position.
So far, in the entire army, only Zheng Xianli has the closest relationship with Qin Jin, and after Chen Qianli completely betrayed Qin Jin, Zheng Xianli became the only one.
Qin Jin's attitude made Zheng Xianli's heart sink suddenly, and he suddenly realized that Qin Jin might have to choose an extremely difficult and thorny path.
And this road is not only full of thorns, but in the end, it may even make Qin Jin fall into the abyss quagmire again.
The next moment, Zheng Xianli suddenly woke up, this path was not chosen by Qin Jin at all, someone had already chosen it for him, no matter how he chose