Zhuge Rui was lying on the dry grass in the cell, his tightly biting lips had broken skin, leaving red blood stains, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and his face stained by dirt and debris still could not hide his paleness.

He trembled his palms and leaned down—

It's gone, it's gone.

Whether it was the pain in that place or the touch in his hands, they all told him that his children and grandchildren were gone, and they were cut off.

"Ahh

Zhuge Rui held his head, and a hoarse howl came out of his thirsty throat, which had not drunk water for several days, "Ah......"

He clenched his hands into fists, and kept smashing the uneven brick ground under him, and within two clicks, his hands were already drenched in blood, and the blood flowing from the wound stained the soil on the brick surface, and a few sticks of dead grass were sticked, but he didn't know that his hands were still smashing the ground frantically, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were almost bursting out of the skin.

"Ahh

Zhuge Rui still didn't feel pain, he stopped smashing his fist on the brick surface, picked up his head, and slammed it on the ground.

Finally, tears flew out of the corners of his eyes, fell on the stems of unknown dead grass, fell on the dusty bricks, or fell on Zhuge Rui's body covered with mud and debris.

Zhuge Rui smashed, cried, howled, roared, his red neck was tightly tightened, like a tensed bowstring, a little force, the arrow was broken.

The frenzied expansion of despair almost squeezed his heart, popping out blood bubbles that spread to his throat, to the back of his head, and to his eyes.

Bloody tears.

"Ahh

Zhuge Rui tugged at the clothes on his body, tore at the withered grass he caught, and even used ten nails to pick at the bricks under him, as if he wanted to break this hard brick into pieces as a clod of soil and pinch it into powder!

I want to destroy Miè, I want to ruin everything in front of Miè like crazy!

Suddenly, the crazy hands accidentally hit the lower body, hitting the part that had just been cut, and a piercing pain instantly spread to every cell in the body, and the two rampant and crazy hands full of green tendons hung down weakly because of this sharp pain.

The sharp pain made him want to wail uncontrollably, but his throat was unable to make a sound because of the bone-chilling pain, and Zhuge Rui could only let out a muffled snort.

His whole body was weak, and Zhuge Rui could only collapse to the ground like a dead snake, but his lower body was still trembling violently from the residual severe pain.

Helpless, tears flowed.

In the next few days, Zhuge Rui was like a eunuch who had just been purified.

There was a wheat straw tube inserted in the wound of the lower body, and the urine was discharged from here, flowing all over the ground, and Zhuge Rui's body was already a mess, and the feces and urine were discharged directly to the dry grass and debris, on his thighs, and on his wounds.

Three days later, the straw tube inserted in the wound was rudely pulled out, and there was another piercing pain.

Zhuge Rui's life ability is really tenacious, no one cleaned him after castration, no one cared about his injuries, he survived day by day and became a real eunuch.

On this day, the door of the gloomy cell opened, and the bright light that suddenly came in almost blinded Zhuge Rui's eyes, and a few rare footsteps were heard in the distance.

"Your Majesty, Young Master Cheng, this person is Zhuge Rui."

At that time, Zhuge Rui was squatting in a corner to eat, and in the center of the cell was a large piece of filth that he discharged, and when his lower body could not move, he could only lie on top of the filth, and after he could move on his own, he immediately moved to a relatively clean corner.

When Zhuge Rui raised his head suspiciously, he was still chewing on a dry black steamed bun in his mouth, and a wisp of oily hair stained with mud stuck to his face, which he accidentally ate into his mouth.

When he saw the thinner boy, his pupils immediately shrank by two inches.

That's Cheng Zishi! Cheng Zishi, who was deceived into the palace by him and his father's loyal servant to make a scapegoat for him!

"Bold Zhuge Rui! When you see the emperor and Young Master Cheng, you still don't kowtow? ”

The cell leader threw a whip on Zhuge Rui's body, and the rags on his body were torn in half in response, and Zhuge Rui's side face, neck, and chest were suddenly marked with a bloody mark.

Zhuge Rui screamed, and suddenly knelt on his legs, his upper body prostrate on the ground, and his whole body curled up into a ball, "Forgive the cell head, forgive the emperor!" ”

The steamed bun in his hand also fell to the ground and rolled to Xu Jinyi's feet in a circle.

As soon as Zhuge Rui raised his head, he chased after the steamed bun and looked over, looking very hungry and thirsty, and when the steamed bun finally stopped, he grinned his chapped lips, and his right hand unconsciously stretched over, wanting to pick up the steamed bun covered with mud and grass clippings.

A little closer, a little closer......

Zhuge Rui's right hand stretched out the railing and finally touched the steamed bun, he laughed twice and clenched the steamed bun hard.

But inadvertently, next to the black fist, there was a pair of beautifully made cyan steps embroidered with realistic bamboo patterns.

Zhuge Rui looked up along the pair of shoes, dressed in brocade clothes, Cheng Zishi.

The embarrassment that he had not had time to notice because of hunger and fear before was all piled up in his chest at this time, and his face was red and he couldn't breathe.

"Bao'er, it stinks here, shall we go back?"

"Hmm." Xu Jinyi glanced at Zhuge Rui, there was no sadness or joy in his eyes, he raised his hand and put his hand on Jing Yao's outstretched palm, and left side by side with him.

On the carriage, Jing Yao hugged Xu Jinyi to his lap, rubbed his little nose, and complained, "It's really dirty and smelly, I don't know why you have to come here." ”

"Just look at what happens to him." Xu Jinyi leaned on the broad chest behind his back and closed his eyes comfortably.

In order to see what happened to Zhuge Rui for the poor little eunuch.

Jing Yao patted Xu Jinyi's body gently, as if coaxing a child to sleep, "Sooner or later, that person will be a five-horse corpse, and when Jingchen's punishment is decided, he will be punished with his master." ”

"Jingchen's punishment has not yet been decided?" Xu Jinyi raised his chin and looked up at Jing Yao above his head.

Because of the angle, Xu Jinyi's eyes were round, and the two dense and long eyelashes were more eye-catching.

Jiang Bao'er was still staring at himself without blinking, Jing Yao was afraid that Xu Jinyi would open his eyes sourly, and stretched out his big palm to cover those eyes, but his mouth snorted coldly, "Those old pedants, they are really old and forgetful, and they have forgotten how they were afraid of the plague in the past, and they even want to intercede for Jingchen, saying that I shouldn't give him Ling Chi!" It's unbelievable! ”

Xu Jinyi grabbed the big palm covering his eyes and hugged it to his chest, "Why bother to be angry for those people, even if you only confine Jingchen in the Zongren Mansion, how to deal with it in private is not a matter of your words?" Isn't it enough to finally condemn the name of suicide for fear of sin? ”

Jing Yao's anger dissipated instantly due to Xu Jinyi's intimate movements, he pointed his chin on Xu Jinyi's shoulder, and rubbed his rough face against Xu Jinyi's porcelain white smooth face, "What Bao'er said is extremely true. I want King Chen to die, King Chen will not be able to live for a quarter of an hour, I want to give King Chen Ling Chi punishment, King Chen will be cut off with 3,600 knives. ”

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Two years later.

Just after the end of the year, Cheng's mansion was already bustling with guests.

Old man Cheng sat in a high position, smiling with a wrinkled face, Cheng's father entertained the guests, and kept saying "happy and happy" in his mouth, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

"The emperor has arrived, Lord Cheng has arrived."

When the guests sitting in the seats heard this, they immediately stood up in shock, hurriedly walked out of their seats, and saluted the emperor in civilian clothes.

Master Cheng Xu Jinyi hurriedly turned sideways to avoid it.

Cheng's house is Xu Jinyi's own home, and the palace people who originally reported the door should not add this sentence "Lord Cheng arrives", but Xu Jinyi is followed by the Ninety-Five Honor.

"I come with my nature, and don't lose my interest because of me." Jing Yao shouted with a smile on his face, walked to the first table with Xu Jinyi, stretched out his hands to help Old Man Cheng sit down, "Old Man Cheng, how are you doing?" ”

"Haha, the old minister is in good health, long live and sit down."

"Why hasn't Xi'er come out yet?" Jing Yao's face was soft, as if he was chatting with Old Man Cheng, and everyone was no longer restrained, they all found a seat and sat down again, chatting with their neighbors.

"Cheng Mansion is really a holy favor!" At a table far away from the first seat, several officials with lower status gathered together, and a middle-aged man looked at the first table, and the envy in his eyes could not be stopped.

"Of course, with Master Cheng here, the Cheng Mansion can prosper for ten years!"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other a few times, and they all had expressions that could only be understood but could not be expressed.

In the fifth year of Guangyao, the emperor opened the imperial examination, Xu Jinyi passed the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination, and got a small three yuan, and then passed the township examination and the meeting examination.

The first class in the imperial examination was supposed to enter the Hanlin Academy, but the emperor overpromoted Xu Jinyi to be a household squire on the spot, and a year later, he was promoted again to a cabinet scholar.

Although Xu Jinyi has a life-saving grace for hundreds of civil and military officials, his promotion path is too smooth, how can no one be envious and jealous?

I don't know how many people are secretly staring at Xu Jinyi, trying to find a slight mistake from him, and take off the black gauze hat on his head.

But Xu Jinyi has been an official for two years, and his political achievements are too outstanding. When he was a head of the household, the treasury increased by three or four tenths compared to previous years, and when he was a cabinet scholar, the opinions he put forward were said to be wonderful.

In this way, over time, everyone not only did not find the slightest fault of Xu Jinyi, but were deeply impressed by his talent.

Those who are really small in energy do not dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction with Cheng Zishi.

Without him, the relationship between the current saint and Master Cheng can no longer be understood.

For example, Lord Cheng stayed in the palace for several days due to government affairs, for example, the emperor came to Xingcheng's mansion in casual clothes......

Everyone wanted to refute this at first, but as soon as the emperor heard this kind of remarks, he waved his sleeves and left the court, and successively dismissed several old scholars who pointed at Lord Cheng's nose and scolded him. Over time, everyone tacitly stopped mentioning it.

Now that two years have passed, Lord Cheng's holy favor has not diminished at all, isn't it? Lord Cheng's brother's Zhou banquet, the emperor attended in casual clothes.

It's just a yellow-mouthed kid!

Everyone was full of disdain in their hearts, but when they looked at the ministers of civil and military affairs who were present, and then at themselves who also did not dare to be absent, this disdain turned into a smile on their faces.

"Crabs are cold, don't eat more." Seeing that Xu Jinyi had eaten one and wanted to take it again, Jing Yao hurriedly pressed his palm, poured a shallow half a glass of wine and handed it to him.

Old Man Cheng glanced at his eldest grandson, who was being taken care of by Jing Yao, and the wrinkles on his face deepened.

It's good now.

The eldest grandson was favored by the emperor, and although he could no longer marry and have children, he was happy with himself. And the emperor's affection for his eldest grandson makes them impeccable.

The daughter-in-law was raised by the eldest grandson for a period of time, and added a little grandson to the Cheng family. The little grandson is healthy and healthy, and now that he has just turned one year old, he can see that he will be smart in the future.

He and his wife were satisfied.