Chapter 15
The matter of the crown prince and the establishment of a side concubine has not yet reached Shuofang, even Qi Long does not know about it, and the appeasement makes the mansion still immersed in a joyful atmosphere, but a flying pigeon fell in Shixizai's room, like a stone that broke the silence of the deep pool, splashing with water.
Grabbing the pigeon that brushed the feathers at the window, and taking off the note tied to his leg, Shi Xizai covered the door and window, swept the paper roughly, his brows gradually frowned, and he read it carefully, his fingertips tapped on the table, anxious and chaotic, and read it for the fifth time, "Shun Junyi, hope to fulfill the promise." , crumpled into a ball.
The fifteen-year-old's body trembled slightly, and he struggled to hold back the choking in his throat.
Six words, like Chen Zhong striking his soul and torturing his conscience.
In this deal with the Jiang family, he agreed to form an alliance with Jiang Taifu to be the Jiang family's support in Shuofang, and the premise was that the prince must marry a side concubine on the same day as the wedding. He wanted Qi Caicai to be unsentimental to the prince, because he knew that the woman who valued love and righteousness, he knew that Caicai would definitely not have any more entanglements with him, but as long as she was not emotionally attached to the prince or had a dislike for the prince because of the side concubine, he still had a chance to regain this woman, which should have belonged to him.
There is also an elm plum tree in his yard, which he secretly planted after Cai Cai got married, and this tree has now grown in his yard, as if Cai Cai has long taken root in his heart.
Originally, he wanted to work hard step by step in the Shuofang military camp and make contributions to rehabilitate his biological father in the future, but after losing Qi Caicai, he was shocked to realize that he could no longer do it step by step, what he wanted was that the Xiao family would not die well, Qi Caicai would return to his side, in order to achieve his goal faster, he could only form an alliance with Jiang Taifu.
Shi Xizai, no, maybe he should be called Wen Yan, the second son of Shaoqing Yan He of Dali Temple, tightly held the Xin Yiyu he was wearing at the mouth of his heart, in order to calm the turmoil in his heart, and told the confused self over and over again that he had to do this for revenge, and shouted again and again at the voices of doubts in his heart, he also had no way out!
This jade pendant was the only thought left to him by the Qi family, and the others had already turned into ashes in that field.
If it weren't for the deep hatred, how could he be willing to betray Qi Long's trust.
In the twenty-seventh year of Taihe, dozens of people jointly sued the scientific examination for injustice, after Dali Temple received this "imperial examination fraud case", only punished some of the national eunuchs, several major examiners were not convicted, some of them were not convinced, and many times to Jingzhao Yin Mansion to beat the drum and voice the grievances, so that the county capital people all know.
When the saint heard about this, he immediately issued an edict to investigate thoroughly, and the two young secretaries of Dali Temple were among them, and Dali Temple Qing escaped the catastrophe because he was on vacation due to illness and did not participate in the trial.
It lasted for half a month, all kinds of spearheads were pointed at Shaoqing Yanhe, and the people in Dali Temple claimed that they did not know about the details of the matter, and acted according to the orders of Yanhe, only because of the trust of colleagues to have negligence, and some officials reported that they had seen Qihe contact with the examiner, and they found a hundred taels of gold bricks in Qihe's home.
For a while, the resentment boiled, and the saint wanted to sentence the family to exile for the crime of 'being imprisoned', but Qingliu led by Xiao Taishi insisted that the crime committed by Yan He was 'perverting the law for accepting money', and that he was taking bribes and violating the law for personal gain, and if he was only convicted of 'being imprisoned', in the future, if there were officials who only accepted bribes and did not violate the law, it would be difficult to punish the crime of taking bribes in prison, and the punishment could only be lighter, and the imperial examination was the foundation of the country. After thinking about it several times, the saint was finally convicted of 'perverting the law for receiving money', and according to the Qihe, he accepted a hundred taels of gold bricks and shielded the corrupt officials in the imperial examination, and his behavior was bad, and he was sentenced to five clans.
The evidence is conclusive, Shaoqing Yanhe no longer defended, and only met the second son of the Qi family in prison the night before the execution, Dalang Wenyang was only thirteen years old, and Erlang Wenyan was seven years old.
Yan Wenyan looked at his father and explained something to the eldest brother with a solemn expression, and hugged the eldest brother and him heavily after speaking.
Looking at his father's old face for a moment, and watching his eldest brother's eyes gradually fill with tears, he knew that his father, mother, brother, sister, and uncle ...... And he, tomorrow tomorrow will be the corpse of the wilderness. The precocious Yan Wenyan saw the pain of death clearly, but because he was young, he didn't see that there was hope in his father's eyes that night.
I slept for a long time that night, and the wailing of the family in the prison was like a very long nightmare, and when I woke up again, I didn't see the big brother who always came to play pranks when he was asleep in the morning, and I didn't see the maids who always smiled and watched the two little Langjun playing, and what caught my eyes was the bumpy roof of the car and a strange man.
"Wake up? This fake death pill really lasts, you actually slept from the county capital to Shuofang County. The man wiped the big knife in his hand with a cloth and gave him a warm look.
Even if I think of that face now, I still break out in a cold sweat, what kind of face is that? Stroking his aching head, he endured his fear and asked sharply:
"Who are you, why am I here? What about my father? What about my brother?"
The man smiled, "I'm bold at a young age, and when I see that I don't change color, then I'll tell you kindly, you, the whole family is dead, your father used the last bit of capital of the Yan family to redeem your life, but it's really ruthless, your brothers and sisters died miserably." Stretching out a finger, he was quieter than Wen Yan, who signaled to ask questions on his mouth, and continued: "As for me, I will send you to the outside of Shuofang Jinchuan City, you have to be smart, remember that Wen Yan is already a dead man, change your name and surname and mix into the Shuofang military camp, and make a appearance to avenge your whole family, Ji Ji." ”
"Enemy?" said Wen Yan, tearful at the tragic death of the whole clan, with confusion on his face.
"It's really pitiful, the five clans of Zhulian don't know who the enemy is, it's just that, I'm in a good mood today, I might as well tell you a fool, your enemy is Taishi Xiao, who made your father's crime aggravated and even Zhulian~ ”
The eerie laughter and deep malice planted the seeds of hatred in the young Yan Wenyan's heart.
In the days when Shuofang Jinchuan was wandering and begging, this seed sprouted and grew more and more rapidly, and Wen Yan hated Xiao Taishi, hated the culprit who caused his family to be ruined, and this deep hatred even surpassed the longing for his dead family, until he met a girl like an elf, Qi Caicai.
But from now on, Shi Erlang, who was born at the border pass, was born in Shangjia, died in the smoke and dust where the sedan chair left, and was buried in the memories of Shuofang and Caicai, and the only thing left was to fight for revenge and revenge for the revenge of the family.