69. Get out of the cage
Later, Su Tong, in the eyes of the old queen mother, finally woke up from his infatuation with a poor woman. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he is diligent in government affairs, and he can also balance the harem well, so that the rain and dew are evenly wet. The old queen mother was satisfied, and returned to her palace to recuperate.
Su Tong no longer goes to Cheng Linghui frequently, and Cheng Linghui is completely isolated from the world.
There was only one palace maid and two small yellow doors accompanying her in the palace. Those palace people who sprinkled and swept would not come in front of her. In the silence, Cheng Linghui finally calmed down from the confusion.
She practiced frantically every day to pass the long time. She didn't dare to let herself have the slightest idleness, because the longing for her hometown and relatives would be entangled with stitches, which made her uncomfortably breathless.
"Mozhi, Mozhi......" The familiar voice echoed in her ears, and Chang Jiwen walked towards her as a teenager. smiled and said, "Where have you been, let me find it?" ”
Cheng Linghui's tears couldn't help but flow out, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and she couldn't make a sound.
"Why are you crying?" The young man Chang Jiwen looked at her from afar but didn't come over: "As soon as you cry, I feel uncomfortable, and I'm going to shed tears......" He really cried. The tears were red, and they were running down his fair face like blood......
Cheng Linghui sat up in shock, only to realize that it was a dream. His chest was suffocating, and the tears on his face had not yet dried. A cold sweat broke out on his body. A sense of foreboding rose to her heart, and she got out of bed and went out with her shoes on.
The waiting maid woke up when she heard the movement and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
"I want to see the prince." Cheng Linghui went straight out of the palace. When he reached the gate of the courtyard, he was stopped by the guards who flashed out of the shadows: "You can't go out without the prince's order." Thank you for your understanding. ”
Cheng Linghui didn't know that there were so many guards around the palace, but she couldn't care about anything, and shouted: "Get out of the way, I want to see the prince." ”
The leading guard said, "The prince has already rested, so let's talk about it tomorrow if you have anything." ”
Cheng Linghui took advantage of the guard's unpreparedness, suddenly snatched his saber, forced several guards away with a knife, and ran out as soon as he stepped out. Where would the guards let her go, they quickly outflanked her.
The East Palace is actually not big, and the palace where Cheng Linghui lives is very close to Su Tong's bedroom. As soon as there was a fight here, it immediately alarmed the people in the prince's bedroom. In less than a quarter of an hour, Su Tong arrived with people.
Cheng Linghui saw him, dropped the steel knife in his hand, rushed over and knelt at his feet: "Chang Jiwen has an accident, I have to leave the palace, it's too late." ”
Su Tong looked at her and said for a long time: "It's too late for you to leave the palace now." ”
Cheng Linghui suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Su Tongdao: "I didn't want to tell you. The Luo River flooded with peach blossoms, broke the embankment, and diverted its course. There were a lot of floods along the way. The news came from the court this morning that Chang Jiwen accidentally fell into the water when he was surveying the waterway, and the bones were gone. ”
Cheng Linghui heard the words 'no bones remained', and his mind went blank for a moment. She saw Su Tong's mouth open and close, and she couldn't hear his voice for a while.
"No, he's not dead." Cheng Linghui was unswerving: "I want to go to him." ”
Su Tong's face turned blue, stared at her for a long time and said, "Okay." I'll let you go. But in what capacity did you go to him? ”
Cheng Linghui looked back at Su Tong: "No matter what you say, he is still my brother-in-law." ”
Su Tongdao: "You go and clean up and leave at dawn." ”
Cheng Linghui didn't say a word, turned around and went back to the attic. While packing up a few clothes, she secretly warned herself that she must be calm and not panic. Chang Jiwen was still waiting to find him. If he panicked first, Chang Jiwen would be finished.
The night seemed extraordinarily long. Cheng Linghui stood outside the palace, feeling that he had almost waited for tens of millions of years before the sun could show his head. She couldn't wait to find Su Tong. was told that it was not dawn, so Su Tong went to the court.
Cheng Linghui could only wait at the intersection that Su Tongsan Dynasty would inevitably pass through.
Seeing that the sun was rising, a small yellow door hurriedly came: "Dare to ask, but Cheng Mozhi, Miss Cheng?" ”
Cheng Linghui grabbed the little yellow door: "But the prince is looking for me?" ”
Xiao Huangmen nodded: "Exactly." The crown prince invited himself to Henan for disaster relief this morning. At this moment, I am afraid that I have already gone out of the city gate, so I specially asked the slave to come and ask Miss Cheng to go to the meeting quickly. ”
Cheng Linghui said: "Then what are you waiting for? Come on. "Pull the little yellow door and leave.
Xiao Huangmen shouted: "Wrong, wrong......" Cheng Linghui pulled his body forward involuntarily.
Cheng Linghui said: "What's wrong, don't let the prince wait for a long time." ”
"The wrong way out of the palace." Xiao Huangmen shouted in a hurry.
"Not sooner." Cheng Linghui turned over and walked in the other direction. I was extremely troubled, why did this palace build so big, it almost made her get lost. Traveling all the way like this, it was easy to get out of the palace gate, let go of the panting little yellow gate that was dragged all the way, and walked towards the south gate.
She is not a boudoir woman who does not go out of the door and does not step out of the second door. I'm not worried about what to do if I go a fork in the road with Su Tong. She knew that Henan was just south of the capital, and getting out of the south gate was the only shortcut. She even forgot that this road was also the way home.
The benefits of practicing kung fu these days are evident at this time. In the densely populated part of the city, she didn't dare to let go of her run. As soon as she got out of the city gate, she chose a sparsely populated path and let go of her steps.
The fifth master once said that he was good at walking. As a personal disciple of the fifth master, Cheng Linghui has no reason not to know this ability of the fifth master. Being able to walk is not the same as light work. Cheng Linghui, who flew the eaves and walked on the wall, climbed the Ping and crossed the water, had only heard of it, but had never seen it. Presumably, it's just a legendary skill. Cheng Linghui's current leg and foot kung fu is completely practiced by tying sandbags and crossing mountains and mountains.
She chose the path, and naturally missed it with Su Tong, who was waiting for her in the long pavilion.
Su Tong couldn't wait for Cheng Linghui for a long time, until the little yellow gate who went to pass the word rode a horse and chased all the way, he knew that Cheng Linghui had already left the palace, and he didn't know where to go at this time.
Su Tong was secretly angry in his heart, but the disaster relief event could not be delayed. Then set off, and the group headed towards Henan.
As soon as Cheng Linghui left the palace gate, it was like a dragon entering the sea, and birds flew into the forest. It's gone a long way. Rao is that she can walk, and she traveled day and night for four days and three nights to reach the border of Henan.
No matter how good her kung fu is, she is just a mortal fetus. Along the way, my heart has calmed down a lot. The body is also really tired, knowing that if something happens to him, Chang Jiwen will be even more helpless. In the evening of this day, find a broken temple early to rest.
When I first entered the border of Henan, the flood was not obvious, and the people's lives were quite passable. It's just that in every year of disaster and famine, there are bandits. In an ordinary village, strangers can't get in. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Cheng Linghui could only choose to live in a broken temple.
You must say that the ruined temple is so ready-made, knowing that you are tired and need to rest, it will definitely appear?
Not really.
How can a broken temple appear automatically because people need it? Cheng Linghui was able to find this ruined temple entirely because she had walked through here before and knew that there was a ruined temple nearby.
It was a dilapidated land temple, and for some unknown reason it was deserted. Occasionally, a traveling caravan passing by rests here.
Cheng Linghui's grandmother believes in immortals from all walks of life, and Cheng Linghui has developed a habit since childhood, and she must kowtow when she enters the temple.
The statue of the Lord of the Land in this temple has long since disappeared, and Cheng Linghui kowtowed to the shrine of the Lord of the Land a few times. Stand up and gather some hay. With the cold water in the water bladder he carried, he nibbled on a few mouthfuls of dry food. As soon as his body fell, he shoved the burden under his head and closed his eyes.
She was also so tired that she closed her eyes and fell asleep. was asleep, and suddenly saw an old man standing beside him, shouting, "Cheng Linghui, wake up." Chang Jiwen called you outside. ”
Cheng Linghui woke up with a spirit, turned over and sat up from the hay bunk. Just listen to what is strange outside the temple.
At this time, it is already the middle of the moon. The moonlight shone in through the broken window lattice, but it was not very dark. Cheng Linghui got up and looked out through the window lattice. Then he saw a figure walking towards him.
Recently, it turned out to be a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. Ragged clothes, as if holding something in his arms.
But most of the people who practice martial arts have excellent eyesight. Cheng Linghui recognized the young man at a glance as Chang Jiwen's servant Quansheng. He opened the temple door and walked out.
The young man probably didn't expect that there were still people in this barren mountain and broken temple, so he was so frightened that he turned around and was about to run.
Cheng Linghui shouted: "Whole life." ”
The young man's body stiffened, and he slowly turned around. Cheng Linghui looked at it again and again, and suddenly cried 'wow': "Third grandmother, you want to avenge the third master." The third master made people hurt ......"
Cheng Linghui was also sad in her heart, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red: "Don't cry first, tell me carefully what's going on?" ”
The young man cried: "What's the matter, it's the third master who was harmed by those people." tricked him into surveying the river, and while the third master was unprepared, he pushed the third master into the Luo River. ”
Cheng Linghui said angrily: "Who is so bold as to dare to murder Qincha? ”
The young man said: "Who else can it be, it is those squires and evil eunuchs at the mouth of the Luohe River." Third grandma, you don't know what it looks like to be flooded for thousands of miles further on. The eighteenth layer of hell of Lord Yama is like that. The money and grain allocated by the imperial court were withheld from above, and the third master was soft-eyed, and he couldn't bear to see those ordinary people starving to death instead of drowning. So he went to the squires to borrow food. They promised well, and they turned their faces and killed the third master. The third grandmother ...... "I cried miserably all my life, and Cheng Linghui was already in tears.
Chang Jiwen is pure-hearted and kind-hearted, and is not a person who is very familiar with human feelings. I'm afraid that it will be too upright and hinder others, which will lead to death.
Cheng Linghui brought Quansheng into the ruined temple and gave him some water.
The boy suffered a lot when he saw it, and he devoured it so much that he forgot to cry.
Although Cheng Linghui's heart was like frying, he still waited patiently for him to finish eating. asked him carefully about what happened to the two after they arrived in Henan. Although he was only fifteen years old, he was very clever. Tell me the ins and outs. He told him how he got out of Beijing, how he got to the disaster area, how he begged Shangguan for money and food and was bombed out, and how he borrowed food from the squire and was killed.
said that when Chang Jiwen was pushed into the river, the master and servant cried again. It's a pity that no matter how clever he is, he is only fifteen years old, and he didn't even see how Chang Jiwen was pushed into the water.
Cheng Linghui asked, "What about those entourages who followed you out of Beijing?" ”
Quan Sheng said: "Something happened to the third master, and those people teamed up with those villains to bluff along the river. I was in a hurry, so I followed suit. Who knew that those people had colluded with those bad guys, and they wanted to drown me too. Luckily, I was able to escape. Quan Sheng said, and couldn't help crying again.
Cheng Linghui said: "If you cry again, your third master won't be able to come back, so tell me about the future." ”
Quan Shengqiang held back his tears: "I escaped, and I didn't dare to let them know." Thinking that he couldn't let the third master's wrongs sink to the bottom of the river like this. I want to go to the drum, sue the emperor, and redress the grievances of the third master. ”
Cheng Linghui praised: "Good boy, it's not in vain for your third master and your master and servant." From now on, you will be my own brother. Let's go find the third master together. Even if you can't find it, you have to avenge your third master. ”
"Hmm." Quansheng nodded, and handed Cheng Linghui the burden that had been held tightly in his arms all the time: "Third grandmother, this is the third master's thing." I stole it from the inn, and I was afraid of being robbed, so I didn't dare to take the road these days. ”
Cheng Linghui took the burden and opened it tremblingly. By the moonlight, I saw two books and a few clothes. She flipped through the clothes casually, and was surprised to find that there were still official uniforms. She suddenly had an idea, and went to fumble in the clothes, and as expected, she did touch something hard. When I took it out, it was the Great Seal of the Qincha. Cheng Linghui is no stranger to this kind of thing. When she exterminated Niu Qi's gang of bandits, she took Chang Jiwen's seal letter and pretended to be Chang Jiwen.
Cheng Linghui looked at the seal letter over and over again by the moonlight, and a bold idea came naturally.