has been a jailer for most of his life, and has broken hundreds of cases, Xi never imagined that one day, the shackles would be worn on him.

Qin Law has a saying, all prisoners, on the sin shackles (gǒng) and shackles, in the sin shackles, under the sin shackles. The crime of slandering the emperor is naturally the heaviest sin, so there are shackles on his feet, hands are tied, and there is a heavy wooden shackle around his neck, and it is extremely difficult to get out of prison.

When he left the prison and saw the light of day, he heard a voice.

"Isn't this Xijun? Why, it's also on the road today? ”

However, Cao Yao, who was convicted of corruption and injustice last month, and was going to serve in Lingnan was guilty of lighter crimes, so he was only shackled, but it was easier than Xi.

I didn't want to pay attention to Cao Ji, but Cao Ji was very happy to come over and ask questions.

"Where is Xijun going, is he going with me?"

Sorry to say goodbye, the jailer who escorted him replied on his behalf.

"It's going to Zhangye County and Yumen Pass."

"Yumen Pass?"

Cao Ji made a surprised look: "I heard that the place is a thousand miles of quicksand, and there is only one pavilion barrier for hundreds of miles, Xijun's age, a person who grew up in a southern water town went to that barren land, can you stand it?" ”

If Fang Cai Cao was still a little cautious, when he heard that Xi was going to the Western Regions instead of Lingnan, he had no worries.

"I admire people like Xijun."

Cao Ji raised the wooden string in his hand and gritted his teeth at the joy who sent him to prison.

"Pure and upright, prudent and firm, selfless, subtle, quiet and undemanding, judging rewards and punishments, then "The Way of Officials" is written by you, it is simply you, and what is even more rare is that you dare to accuse Your Majesty of the country wholeheartedly!"

"But so what?"

Xi looked at Cao Ji coldly, but Cao Ji smiled and said: "Xijun, don't look at Cao with this kind of eyes, that's right, I am corrupt, I am good at taking officials, settling down and forgetting the official house, I committed the five mistakes of being an official, and I deserve it." But Xijun is dedicated to the country and is honest and fair as an official, and in the end, won't he end up with me? ”

"No, no, no." He then shook his head: "Xijun is better than Cao, he wears an extra wooden canopy!" Do you know what that means? ”

Cao Ji was overjoyed, and his chubby face was full of sarcasm: "This means that the current Great Qin is not ten or twenty years ago!" ”

"The sin of telling the truth is much heavier than being corrupt and corrupting!"

He said these words, hoping to make joy and grief angry, let joy and despair, and let the justice in his eyes waver, fall, and finally shatter.

"Finished?"

But after listening to it, he was unmoved, just turned his head and blew his shoulder, as if Cao's approach made the air dirty.

He is a native of Nanjun, and he has heard more or less about Qu Yuan's deeds, and when he went to Dongting Jun a few years ago to take up his post and went up the Yuanshui River, he also heard those famous words.

The new bather will play the crown, the new bather will shake the clothes, An can observe with the body, and the person who receives the Wenwen will care?

He said, "The law is right, and I am not wrong, but it is you who are wrong." I believe that in the forty counties of Daqin, hundreds of counties, there must still be people who abide by the way of officials, solemn and frugal, and respectful. Even if the world is temporarily turbid, as long as these real Qin officials are still there, it will eventually return, and there will be the day when it will become white in the bright sky! I only hope that you, I, will live to see that day! ”

After that, at the urging of the jailer, he walked out with great difficulty.

"Hey!"

Cao Gui blushed and said loudly: "I am filthy, but I go abroad, my relatives and friends come to see each other, and I have no worries about food and clothing along the way." But you, Xijun, have committed the crime of slandering the king, does anyone dare to send it!? ”

Xi didn't answer, the figure walked through the crowd, and the people on the side of the road avoided it, after all, he was a prisoner who offended the emperor.

Cao Ji looked at this scene proudly, he went to the south, it was the territory of Changnanhou, and his family had passed the qi, so he would naturally be taken care of......

Xi traveled all the way west, passing by the Imperial History Mansion, his former colleagues looked at him from afar and whispered, and the Imperial History Doctor Mao Jiao did not show up, Xi was condemned by Qin Shi Huang as a criminal official for "slander", and the people of the government openly came to send it, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor?

Passing by Weishui, he looked south at the Afang Palace that was being built, and he liked to salute from afar, because he heard that it was the son who helped Su to advise and saved himself. But His Majesty was angry, and Fusu was busy taking over the supervision of Afang Palace, and he did not dare to send him off at this sensitive moment.

was alone like this, and when they walked to Du Ting, the group stopped to rest.

"This is the Du Ting that Wu Anjun killed himself back then?"

Xi looked at the inconspicuous pavilion in front of him, and couldn't imagine that Wu Anjun, who was famous and swept the world, would die here in a suffocated manner. When he was serving in the military to fight Zhao, even after a few generations, he could still stop Zhao Er's night crying in vain.

When Bai Qi offended King Qin and went on the road alone, was he also full of sadness? Is there no one to send them to?

The jailer was busy drinking water and eating, and untied the shackles on his hands and feet, but he was tied to the horse tie stone with the oxen and horses. Xi held a bowl of rough bean rice in his hand, and looked at the mottled stone pillar that was rumored to be a suicide in white, and the blood splashed and could no longer be washed away, and he was stunned.

At this time, a carriage arrived, with few attachés, but a careful person took a closer look and knew that the specifications of the carriage were of the rank of a prince.

A beautiful woman dressed in plain linen clothes, about thirty years old, got out of the car, accompanied by attendants and concubines, walked towards this side, and when she reached five steps away, Shi Shiran saluted to Xi.

"The wife of the Wei family, come to send Xijun!"

……

"It turned out to be Mrs. Changnanhou!"

Xi didn't expect such a show, and hurriedly got up to return the salute, he heard that Heifu married Ye Teng's only daughter, but the two had no personal relationship, and there were few visits, so he had never seen it.

After coming to Xianyang, the Ye family sent a servant to visit, saying that they were happy with the family, and asked her to bring a little Anlu product - Xi has always been poor, and what the family sent was nothing more than a few clothes and a little rice that was not easy to buy in the north.

At this time, Xi Cai heard that Ye Zijin was also in Xianyang, but he was still in the filial piety period, and he stayed at home for several months.

This was the first time she walked out of the house two months after she came to Xianyang, and it was to send joy to her......

Xi was a little moved: "Xianyang City, everyone saw me shackled, and they all avoided it, and Mrs. was not afraid to come and send me a criminal official, even the Marquis of Changnan?" ”

Ye said with a smile: "The relationship between Xijun and his lover, who doesn't know, whether he is a colleague or a township party, he even regards Xijun as a teacher and a model. Besides, it was the lover who lost his words for a while, so that the name of Xijun was known to His Majesty, and this was the trip to Xianyang, in the final analysis, it was also my beloved who affected Xijun. ”

Xi shook his head and said: "It's the old man who caused the trouble himself, what does it have to do with Changnanhou?" ”

Ye Zijin said: "Lover often says that the most respected person in his life is only three people, Xijun is one of them, if he knows that Xijun is far away from the capital, and the concubine does not send each other, he will definitely scold me for being an ignorant stupid woman......"

Xi said: "But if Your Majesty really blames it......"

Ye Zijin didn't care at all, and smiled wittily: "Then blame me, a stupid woman, for making her own opinions, Your Majesty will not be as knowledgeable as a woman, right?"

The Ye family did a lot of favors, she didn't come empty-handed, and she also sent two servants.

"A housekeeper for Xijun to call, and a maid for Xijun to wash and cook along the way."

Xi felt that it was inappropriate, but Ye Zijin said: "The two of them are a husband and wife, and they are also from Anlu, they are free bodies, not subordinate concubines, not given to Xijun, but just on the same road." Yumen is far away, and you can also accompany Xijun to talk about your hometown along the way. When you arrive at the place, if you want to communicate with your family, you can have the two of them pass it on from generation to generation. “

She looked at the jailer on the side and said with a smile: "The two of them have their own legends, and they take care of their own food and lodging, isn't this illegal?" ”

Where did the jailer dare to offend Mrs. Changnanhou? Even if he lowered his head and promised, he didn't dare to wait for joy anymore.

In this way, it is not easy to shirk Xi, so I can only thank you.

Ye Zijin also made people pour a glass of wine.

"The concubine is happy with you, I wish you an early return!"

Say, raise your head, and drink it all! Under the mournful appearance of plain linen, there is a trace of arrogance that is rare for women!

After drinking the farewell wine, Xi only felt that the block in his chest had disappeared, and there was no more sadness. He looked at the carriage heading towards Xianyang, and said:

"Changnanhou has a good lady! If it's a man, it can also be 2,000 stones! ”

……

Ye Zijin's letter to Yuzhang County was more than a month later in mid-August, and the letter told Heifu about the turmoil in Xianyang during this time.

She told Sima Xin's wife Cao Shi to intercede for her brother, but she thought that "Cao was greedy and contemptible, unusable, and thought that he was protected by a good person, acted arrogantly, and did not regard himself as a criminal official."

So Heifu decided that when this man came, let him have a good experience of life in the south and understand the dangers of the world.

What surprised Heifu even more was that Ye Zijin actually had a good heart and went to send a happy ride on his behalf.

"What a good wife! Got me! ”

Heifu was full of praise and admired his wife's IQ and EQ. Five-body casting.

This also dispelled Heifu's idea of being in the south for a long time, physically empty, and wanting to find a local girl to have fun......

The black cowards decided to do it themselves and have enough food and clothing.

Ye Zijin also brought him happy words, just one sentence.

"What is the law? What is a Officer? I have never forgotten it, and I hope that the Marquis of Changnan will not forget it! ”

"For this belief, for this sentence, I did not hesitate to offend the emperor."

Heifu smiled bitterly, this is not only unexpected, but also reasonable, put such a person, in such an environment, if you can still be harmonious and turn a blind eye, happy or happy?

Thinking of his career as a Qin official for more than ten years, and thinking that he would go to the Western Regions and may never see him again, Heifu had mixed feelings, and he also had something to say to this "division commander"!

Heifu immediately asked people to find pen and paper, and now they were on the outskirts of Nanchang City, and the army from all over the country was gathered, and they were preparing to march and attack Minyue. The military situation is like fire, the time is pressing, there is no room for a long speech, just enough to write a sentence in a hurry!

What to say? Heifu looked at the white paper, a little hesitant.

"Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no one in Yangguan in the west?"

But when he wrote it, he shook his head violently!

No, no! It shouldn't be this sentence, the joy is gone, not a desolate farewell, nor a lament for the reversal of black and white in the world.

Hefu crumpled the paper and threw it into the fire. With the drums of war in his hand, he wrote another sentence with seriousness and strength, which he thought was worthy of a joyful gift:

"Don't worry about the road ahead, no one in the world knows you!"

Your name may not be sealed in Yunmeng's coffin, and it will be contained on several Qin Jian.

"But Xijun, your name, at this moment, is known to the whole world!"