Chapter 64: Blood stains can't hide the light
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In the eighth year of Tianbao, on the afternoon of May 29, the sky over Tuozhi City was full of clouds and the atmosphere was gloomy.
Among the ruined castles, only the royal palace of the stone country survived the war, and still maintained a magnificent appearance.
In a certain side hall of the Stone King Palace, Cen Shen, the secretary of Anxi with a sick face, leaned on the bed and sighed. Behind the bed, the two shrunken maids of the Shi Kingdom bowed their heads and remained silent.
Cen Shen's gaze looked out through the palace gate, although the carved railings and jade buildings in the Shiguo Palace were there, the characters in the palace had been turned upside down.
After the Anxi army captured Tuozhi Castle on May 25, it set up the wartime festival hall in the Shiguo Palace.
Gao Xianzhi, Bian Lingcheng, Feng Changqing and other important officials in Anxi all chose one or two satisfactory palaces to live in. Even Cen Shen was placed in the side hall of his residence by Feng Changqing.
On the night of staying in Shiguo's palace, Cen Shen lay in the fragrant palace room, but he smelled a thick smell of blood.
Later, Cen Shen learned that the palace where he and Feng Changqing lived was originally the dormitory of Qu Le, the vice king of Shiguo. And Qu Le had already been killed by the King of Shi Guo Zheng on the night of blood and rain more than ten days ago. It is said that that night, the entire palace was killed and wounded, and rivers of blood flowed.
After learning about this, Cen Shen didn't say anything, but his heart was inevitably a little hairy, and he couldn't sleep well at night.
On the second day, the listless Cen Shen was weak and hot, lying on the bed, not wanting to move.
Feng Changqing learned that Cen Shen was unwell, and while ridiculing and teasing him, he urgently ordered the Beiting Dental Soldiers to invite the military doctor to come for treatment.
The doctor looked at it and asked, and said with a smile: "Judge Feng, Cen Zhangshu's illness is okay. It's just that the long-distance battle caused overwork and lack of sleep, so it was infected with a bit of wind evil. Just take your medication on time and rest for a few days. ”
Knowing that Cen Shen was fine, Feng Changqing breathed a sigh of relief, and personally selected two Shi Guo maids to take care of Cen Shen's daily life.
Cen Shen deliberately refused, but he couldn't refute Feng Changqing's kindness, and when he was sick, he really needed someone to take care of him.
However, in order to avoid being ridiculed by the people of the Anxi Prefecture again, Cen Shen decided to grit his teeth and continue to live in the palace with the smell of blood wafting with his sick body.
For the maid of Shiguo sent by Feng Changqing, Cen Shen regarded her as his own maidservant and treated her with courtesy, without the slightest condescending mentality and torture and humiliating behavior.
Cen Shen, who was recuperating, also heard some rumors, saying that the prison army Bian Lingcheng selected several beautiful Shiguo girls and ordered them to warm their beds and sleep with them every night.
Cen Shen was skeptical of these rumors, and he knew that he had been a temple supervisor since ancient times, although there was no shortage of heroic scribes, but there were also many perverted and distorted people.
It's just that what is the truth of this matter, Cen Shen knows that he is powerless to explore and cannot change it. All he could do was to be kind to the two stone country maids beside him.
To this day, Cen Shen, who stayed in the palace for two days to recuperate, gradually adapted to the faint and long-lasting smell of blood in the palace, and his health gradually recovered, but his body was still a little lazy.
Leaning on the Hu bed for a long time, more than 10,000 miles away from home, Cen Shen, who is mostly Xirong scenery as far as the eye can see, recalls the weeping willows on the side of the Qujiang Pond in Chang'an in summer and the stacked cui in Zhongnan Mountain, and is full of emotion.
"Why don't you go back!" Probably because he has not fully recovered, Cen Shen's past ambitions are huddled in the corner of his heart, and he is suppressed by a strong sense of homesickness and has no power to fight back.
Cen Shen sighed again and took a deep breath to calm the fluctuations in his heart. The air entered his nose, and he smelled a faint smell of blood again.
"Why, after all these days, is the blood left behind from the night Qu Le was beheaded still so strong?" Cen Shen had some doubts in his heart: "Is it my delusion?" ”
Cen Shen thought for a while, turned his head and asked, "Shi Tuo, Shi Zhi, what smell do you smell?" ”
The two sixteen or seventeen-year-old maids of Shiguo carefully selected by Feng Changqing were originally sisters under the knees of a nobleman in Shiguo, who had learned Chinese since they were children, and they also knew a little about poetry, so it was really suitable for them to take care of Cen Shen.
It's just that their original Sogdian name zì is particularly lengthy, and Cen Shen didn't understand the Sogdian language, and didn't understand the meaning of their name zì, so he took the country as his surname, and then separated the word "Tuozhi", and named the two sisters "Shi Tuo" and "Shi Zhi" respectively.
The two sisters, who were frowning and depressed, couldn't help but sobbed low when they saw Cen Shen asking such a question.
"What's wrong? Are you still afraid of the horror of the siege a few days ago? Cen Shen thought that they were frightened by the war, and hurriedly comforted them: "It's okay, it's all over." Na Cha Bishi has fled, and the city of Tuozhi is safe. ”
"The Tang army has been looting and slaughtering in the city for the past few days!" Sister Shi Zhi was a little bolder, and said angrily: "The smell of blood you smell is all the anger and resentment of the people of Shi Guo in the city when they were killed!" ”
"Sister, don't talk nonsense. Ah Lang has been recuperating these days, and this matter has nothing to do with him. Sister Shi Tuo hurriedly covered her sister's mouth with a soft wattle.
"Humph! Even if he didn't raise a sword to kill, how could he not have his share of the wealth when it came time to divide up our wealth in the end! Shi Zhi shook off his sister's hand and continued.
"What!?" Cen Shen didn't have time to care about Shi Zhi's anger at all, he got up from the Hu bed and asked blankly, "When did it happen?" ”
"Ah Lang, on the second day after the Tang army captured Tuozhi City, they began to plunder the city. Our country is rich in precious stones, horses and orchids, and countless families have been ruined as a result. Otherwise, how could we sisters be here? Although Shi Tuo's tone was soft, his words hit Cen Shen's heart.
At this time, Cen Shen suddenly understood why the smell of blood in the palace did not dissipate after such a long time. It turned out that what was wafting in the air was not only the blood marks of Vice Wang Qu Le, who had long since dried up, but also the blood of more residents of Shiguo.
"What about your parents?" Cen Shen asked in a low voice, feeling a little lucky in his heart.
The two sisters hugged their heads and cried, and Cen Shen immediately understood the cruelty of the truth.
"Don't worry, I will take care of you and help you get justice." Cen Shen couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and left in stride, regardless of the fact that his body had not yet healed.
Cen Shen, who was angry, broke into Feng Changqing's temporary official room without waiting for a report.
"Judge Feng, why did the Anxi Army wantonly slaughter the people of Shi Guo!? Haven't we already defeated Nacha Nose Shi and conquered Tuozhi City? Why kill innocents indiscriminately? "After coming to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Cen Shen had never spoken to anyone with such a loud voice.
"Cen Zhangshu, is you well?" Feng Changqing, who was busy with his head down, squinted his eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "When my body is well, I will be able to breathe a sigh of relief." With so many paperwork and checklists, I'm really too busy to do it alone. ”
"Judge Feng, don't worry about him! I'm asking about the slaughter of the city! Cen saw that Feng Changqing turned a deaf ear to his own question, and became even more angry.
"Slaughtering the city?" Feng Changqing was puzzled: "Our Anxi army has never slaughtered the city!" ”
"No slaughter?" Cen Shen was stunned, he didn't expect Feng Changqing's answer to be a no.
"Cen Zhangshu, who told you that our army slaughtered the city?" Feng Changqing asked with a sneer.
"Yes......" When Cen Shen opened his mouth to say the names of Shi Tuo and Shi Zhi, he suddenly realized that Feng Changqing was tricking him.
Cen Shen had an idea, pointed to the void and said, "Judge Feng, you smell it yourself, there is a smell of blood everywhere. You're not going to continue to lie to me! ”
Feng Changqing smiled slightly and said appreciatively: "Cen Zhangshu, you have made progress!" But how could I have lied to you? Think about it for yourself, since you came to Anxi, have I Feng Changqing ever said a lie to you? ”
"This ......" Cen Shen hesitated, he thought about it carefully, Feng Changqing had always favored him, and it seemed that he had really not deceived him.
"Our army really didn't slaughter the city?" Cen Shen was quite pleasantly surprised. Although this meant that Sister Shi Tuo was lying, he still expected Feng Changqing's affirmative answer.
"It is true that the Anxi army never slaughtered the city." Feng Changqing said word by word: "Cen Zhangshu, you don't need me to say it a third time." ”
"It's good that there is no slaughter! If only there was no slaughter of the city! Cen Shen, who was in prostration, leaned on the desk and breathed a sigh of relief.
The desk was full of thick paperwork and lists, and Cen Shen only thought at this time that on the days when he was recuperating, all the paperwork that he should have been responsible for was done by Feng Changqing.
"Judge Feng, please forgive me for being deceived by others, and I just lost my temper." Cen Shen's heart was full of chagrin, and along the way, he kept reminding himself not to believe people's words, but he repeatedly made mistakes, which was really annoying.
"It's okay!" Feng Changqing laughed: "If you want to come to Cen Zhangshu to indulge in the flowers for the past few days, I can't help but be a little confused and can't distinguish things." ”
Cen Shen blushed and bowed his head speechlessly. Although he didn't do anything to Sister Shi Tuo as Feng Changqing teased, being deceived by two young girls was enough to be ashamed.
When he lowered his head, Cen Shen suddenly saw that there was a list in the pile of documents on the case, which read: Eighteen stones, thirteen ruby stones, nine sapphires, seven hundred horses of Dawan Liangju, and eight hundred orchids of the Stunning Stone Country......
"Judge, what is this?" Cen Shen grabbed the list and roared like a wounded beast.
"Gift list." Feng Changqing wrote lightly: "The gift list given to the festival marshal by the Qarlu Ministry. It's just right, I'll give you an explanation, and you can take over......"
"Judge, why are you lying to me! Don't say it, these bloody gem horses and weeping orchids were all offered by the lord of the stone country, Dòng! Cen Shen had never felt so annoyed.
"Cen Zhangshu, Shen Yan, when did so-and-so lie to you?" Feng Changqing's ugly face was unpleasant.
"You said there was no slaughter, so where did all these treasures and orchids come from? I thought it was Sister Shi Tuo who lied to me, but I didn't expect you to be lied. Cen Shen felt like he was going to explode.
"Cen Zhangshu, I made an exception today and said it again, the Anxi army did not slaughter the city!" Feng Changqing also had a slight anger on his face.
"No slaughter??" Cen saw that Feng Changqing said so surely, and fell into doubt again.
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