Chapter Eighty-Seven: Torture
Mu Yunqi was arranged to rest at the post station at night, and the gold bars of His Royal Highness King Rui were really useful. The two messengers were guarding the door for fear that she would escape, Mu Yunqi opened the door and looked at the two of them leaning on the door frame and said, "You go to rest, if I want to run, you two can't hold it." ”
The two of them think about it, she is a demon girl and has no ability, if she really wants to escape, they can't catch it if they want to, although this errand has a lot of income, but this responsibility is also very important.
The two of them asked for another room to sleep.
Mu Yun couldn't fall asleep, closed the door and went back to the room to sit for the night, but when he turned around, he saw Yu Chi Zhan sitting at the table and pouring water for himself, and after pouring a big sip, he put down the water cup and asked, "Why don't you run away, can just these two people watch you?" ”
Mu Yun sat up opposite him and lay lazily on the table, and replied angrily: "I'm afraid that if I escape, Lei Ming will be implicated, and now the emperor will try his best to kill him, if I escape, I will give the emperor the truth, and it will be difficult for Situ Jing to protect it when the time comes." ”
Yu Chi Zhan sighed, "How can this woman become less bold after becoming a mother!" ”
Mu Yun glanced at him and turned his head away from him, and after a while, he turned around and said, "I want to take a bath, the cell stinks too much." ”
"Auntie, you are in exile, and there are so many things."
Mu Yunqi pursed his mouth, and Yu Chi Zhan quickly raised his hands when he saw her appearance, "Okay, okay, I'll go." ”
So, this night when he couldn't sleep, Mu Yunqi took a comfortable hot bath.
Yu Chi Zhan asked through the screen, "Can you come back after you go?" ”
Mu Yunqi scooped water and poured it on himself, listened to his question, thought about it and said, "If Situ Jing won't forget me, then I should be able to come back when he ascends the throne." ”
"What if he forgets you, or if he doesn't want to take you back at all?"
"I don't know!" Mu Yunqi's expression dimmed, she didn't think that Situ Jing would forget her, he hadn't forgotten himself for thirteen years, could it be that he would forget him after he promised himself and gave birth to a child for him? Thinking of this, Mu Yunqi felt a pain in his heart, tears couldn't stop flowing, and he muttered in his heart, "Brother Jing, please don't forget me." ”
Situ Jing was looking at Situ Leiming in his sleep at this time, and suddenly there was a cramping pain in his chest, which made him sweat profusely, and it took a while to return to normal. Situ Jing clutched his chest and whispered, "Qi'er, don't be okay, Ming'er and I are still waiting for you to come back." ”
Mu Yunqi cried for a while, and Yu Chizhan could only listen to her cry behind the screen, but he didn't know how to comfort her.
When Mu Yunqi turned out from behind the screen, the person had returned to normal, but Yu Chi Zhan took her into his arms and said, "If he forgets you, I will come to ask for you, okay?" ”
Mu Yunqi pushed him away and said, "No." ”
Yu Chi Zhan lowered his arms in a dejected manner, and Mu Yunqi had already walked to the table and sat down and said, "Senior brother, can you do something for me?" ”
"What's the matter? Say it. Yu Chi Zhan also returned to the table and sat down.
Mu Yunqi wrote the words "Concubine Zhuang" on the table with water, and Yu Chi Zhan nodded knowingly and walked away from the window. Mu Yunqi smeared the two with water again, and after a while, the two messengers knocked on the door and asked her if she could go? Mu Yunqi got dressed and followed them on the road.
Walked to the next county town of Lin'an City, two messengers took Mu Yun to report, and at the same time there were two messengers with a large family to exile to the Northeast, this family has old and young, men and women, one by one, they don't dare to come out with their heads down, and they are led by one messenger, and the other is behind, and they push it when they see the slow one.
In this way, Mu Yunqi followed the family and was escorted to the extremely cold land in the northeast by four errands.
Mu Yunqi walked behind, the two messengers escorting her to her left and right, and she asked, "Are there exiles in every county town?" ”
An envoy laughed and said, "How can there be so many, otherwise the country will not be in chaos." ”
The other continued: "There are three waves of exile reported to the Criminal Department this time, only the princess and you are the only one who comes out of the capital, the family in front of you who comes out of Lin'an City, and then there are two people who arrive in Fuyuan County three days later, that's all." ”
"This is something that happened a while ago?"
"The princess doesn't seem to be familiar with the Criminal Department, this is a year to be exiled, and it will only be sent back once a year, the princess has caught up with the time, or she has to stay on death row for a year before she can be sent away, and some of them who can't survive this year don't need to be sent to the northeast, and are sent directly to the west."
"Death row?"
"Yes, death row, those who can be exiled are not far from capital crimes, even more serious crimes than capital crimes. Most of the exiled people died in the penal colony, and none of them really came back alive. ”
"Is the environment so harsh? How do the locals live? ”
"The princess doesn't know anything, the exiles have to be sent to the mines to do hard labor, they can't eat, wear, sleep well, who won't be tortured to death!"
At this time, the messenger in front of the team turned around and said, "Why, I sent the one last year and said that he died when he got there." Alas, it is not as comfortable as the death penalty, and there have been many sins on such a long journey, which is tortured to death. ”
"Why exile? Isn't it just another chance to live? ”
"Princess, if only you had such a mind from above, this exile is a death penalty in disguise, which is more torturous than the death penalty."
Mu Yunqi didn't ask, he had also been on the throne, and he had also planned to kill many people, but he never thought of torturing people to death, and he used such a cruel way.
When he was resting halfway, Mu Yunqi watched the family share a piece of bread together, and after eating a few bites, it was gone, the child couldn't eat enough, and he was so hungry that he cried. Mu Yun got up and wanted to give her cake to the child to eat, but was held down by the messenger who escorted her, and said: "The princess still don't meddle in her affairs, it's not easy to send someone on a trip, we can't get much, if you don't get it, you have to take your life, don't make people unhappy." ”
"Didn't King Rui give you a lot?"
"Hehe, princess, it's a blessing to meet you in eight hundred lifetimes, and the brothers still want to take it home to honor the old lady."
Mu Yunqi glanced at him, exhaled a deep breath and said, "Go, give them some food, and when I get to the place, I will write a letter to you, and you will be indispensable when you go to the Qin Palace." ”
As soon as the two of them heard that they would go to the Rui Wangfu to give the silver this time, they would still be able to give it to the Qin Wangfu, so they hurriedly took out several pieces of bread and sent them over, and they didn't know what these two people told them, and the family got up and kowtowed to Mu Yunqi after taking the cake.
Mu Yunqi smiled, but laughed out of tears, she found that she had been crying very much recently, and her tears were like fountains, and they would pour out at every turn. Mu Yunqi turned his face to wipe his tears, and then the two messengers came back to look at her and said, "The princess hasn't seen the real human purgatory yet, so why cry in a hurry." ”
Mu Yunqi wiped away his tears, smiled and said, "In my early years, I also traveled south and north by myself, but I really haven't seen anything worse than this. ”
The two of them smiled happily, and seemed to be in a particularly good mood today, "Princess, you don't know, after sending prisoners for so many years, and seeing so many life and death and dying struggles, you can count this trip as happy." ”
"What, because you have money?" Mu Yunqi asked funny, this kind of thing can still be happy.
"Money is a good thing, but it's not because you can get money, but because money can make this journey less tragic, you see, if that family doesn't have so much money from His Royal Highness King Rui, they will all starve to death on the road."
Mu Yunqi looked at the smiling faces of the family who were eating happily, drank a sip of water, and finally felt that there was something more gratifying than curing the disease and saving people.