He was forty-seven years old.

As recorded in the history books, he looked thin and withered, and he didn't even know if he was born or because of half a year in prison. But a pair of eyes are still bright.

"Supervisor ......"

Su Hong blurted out a word, but the rest of it couldn't be said anymore.

Less than a little surprised: "...... Overseer, you didn't run away? ”

"Run? Where to flee? Yuan Chonghuan flicked his sleeves indifferently, "It's all the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the prison is the same as the outside." ”

Su Hong finally came back to her senses, and she secretly pinched her fists: "Supervisor, just now, just now...... Has anyone ever come to you? ”

Yuan Chonghuan nodded: "A famous strong man has just come." He claimed to have come to deliver him, and he would go out of the prison with him and go to a foreign land. ”

"That'...... Why is the Overseer still here? Su Hong asked in a trembling voice.

"If you go to a foreign country, isn't Yuan Chonghuan Yuan Chonghuan?" He smiled, "Without the prison, wouldn't the Ming military law no longer exist?" ”

"Overseer, you have been wronged! Everyone in the world knows ......" Su Hong said this, and suddenly paused.

People all over the world knew that Yuan Chonghuan was wronged, but that was later generations, and the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time were deceived by the Manchus outside the Guanwai, and they all regarded him as a chaotic minister and thief, and even hated him for eating his flesh and sleeping on his skin.

At this time, I only heard Yuan Chonghuan say lightly: "I am Daming, there is no supervisor who escaped from prison." ”

Su Hong was speechless. They originally came to check the prison to prevent modern people from robbing the prison, but if the prison was wide open today, Yuan Chonghuan didn't want to leave at all, which seemed that their behavior was redundant......

"Sister Su, what should we do now?" Less than asking.

Su Hong was silent for a moment and said, "Stay here to prevent Xu Yanzhou from returning to rob people." Wait for the message during this time. Once that side is successful, assemble and close the team. ”

"Yes!"

"Besides......" Su Hong turned around and looked at the wide open prison door, she wanted to speak and stopped.

Yuan Chonghuan saw what she meant, he walked over, stretched out his hand and grabbed the iron door, and closed the door with a "creak".

"Please, lock the cell door." He looked at Su Hong and Xiao Xiao from the iron bar, "The key is still in the lockhole, please return it to the jailer." If they lose their keys, they will also be killed. ”

Su Hong looked at Xiao Xiao, who gritted his teeth, stepped forward and locked the cell door, pulled out the key again, and threw it on the unconscious jailer.

Su Hong walked to the cell door, her fingers holding the iron bar: "...... Overseer, you really ...... Really don't want to run away? ”

"Why run away? Where did they flee? ”

Su Hong endured and endured, but finally couldn't hold back: "Supervisor!" There's no room for maneuver right now, I ...... I'll figure it out for you! Let's get out of here! As long as you agree, we ......"

Hearing what she said, he was shocked: "Sister Su?!" What do you want to do?! ”

Before Su Hong could answer, Yuan Chonghuan shook his head lightly: "The old man doesn't agree." ”

Su Hong was speechless.

Yuan Chonghuan looked at her carefully, but he was puzzled: "Your father-in-law, is it from the East Factory or the West Factory?" The old man had never met before......"

Su Hong was stunned, she lowered her head and took out a tissue from her arms, gently wiped off the makeup powder on her face, then raised her face and smiled again: "Supervisor, I'm not a eunuch." ”

Yuan Chonghuan stared at her, and under the light of the torch, Su Hong's daughter's appearance with facial features and eyebrows was gradually revealed. Coupled with the soft voice she deliberately concealed, it was finally exposed, and if you looked closely, it was clearly a woman.

“…… It turned out to be a girl. Yuan Chonghuan's voice sounded surprised, "Forgive the old man's clumsiness." ”

"I didn't recognize the Overseer at first." Su Hong smiled, "It's different from the painting." ”

"Where can I see my portrait?"

"Uh, this ......"

Su Hong wanted to speak and stopped, but Yuan Chonghuan smiled: "What did the old man look like in later generations?" Could it be the appearance of a weak scholar? ”

Less than they were shocked!

"Inspector, what about Inspector...... How do you know what is to come? ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed at Su Hong and them: "Aren't you from the next generation?" That's what the strong man just said. ”

"Holy!" Xiao Xiao scolded in a low voice, "Why did Xu Yanzhou expose his identity so easily?" ”

"He probably can't help it." Su Hong said, "If you don't tell the truth to the Inspector, the Inspector won't believe him." ”

After she finished speaking, she looked at Yuan Chonghuan in the prison again: "Supervisor, did you believe his words?" ”

"Originally, I didn't believe it, but I saw him raise his hand three feet away to take people's lives, as fast as lightning, like a ghost......" Yuan Chonghuan thought for a while and shook his head, "The old man has been in the army for many years, and he has never seen such a skill, but he said that he didn't take people's lives, but just made them faint - isn't this even more incredible?" ”

"He didn't hurt the jailer." Su Hong said, "I just checked, and they are all still alive." ”

"You are...... All the way? ”

"It's from the same place, but it's not an accomplice." Su Hong thought for a while, "Reluctantly, we are officials, and he is a thief." It's not quite right, but that's pretty much. ”

Yuan Chonghuan nodded: "Presumably you are looking for his traces here?" ”

"Yes. So at first we were worried about him...... Well, he'll take the Overseer captive. ”

Yuan Chonghuan laughed: "Take away the old man? ”

"Overseer, why don't you go with him?"

"As soon as he leaves, won't Chonghuan be guilty of collaborating with the enemy?" Yuan Chonghuan said lightly, "I was born in a foreign land, which is not what I thought." ”

"That'...... What are your plans? ”

"The old man doesn't have any plans, and he doesn't think there should be any superfluous plans." He looked at Su Hong, but sighed, "I originally figured it out, but as soon as you came, the old man was full of doubts." Now it is dead and unknown. The strong man said that he was not a man of the Ming Dynasty, and said something incomprehensible, and showed the old man some strange things—but how could you...... How can it come from hereafter? ”

Su Hong took a deep breath, she sat down in the mud next to the cell door, and crossed her legs: "Supervisor, since you refuse to escape, and you have nothing to do for the time being, if you have any questions, just ask me." That's the only thing I can do for you. ”

Xiao Xiao was shocked on the side: "Sister Su! This will not work! ……”

"What's not going to work?" Su Hong turned around and glared angrily, "He'll die tomorrow!" To know or not to know, how much can history change? ”

"But according to the regulations......"

Su Hong calmed down and breathed, and said lightly: "Less, Xu Yanzhou has destroyed a lot of things, and the information he gave has disrupted Yuan Chonghuan's original psychological state, if he is allowed to die in such a daze, God knows what will happen to tomorrow's execution, we have to do something to remedy." ”

When I heard her say this, I stopped stopping it.

"Really?" Yuan Chonghuan looked at Su Hong.

Su Hong smiled bitterly: "I'll pick up what I can answer and give you an answer." ”

Yuan Chonghuan pondered for a moment and said, "Well, just now the strong man said that there was no loyal one in the Manchu Dynasty, but I don't believe it." Girl, do you know who will fall into the hands of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry after the old man dies? ”

"In Zu Dashou's hands." Su Hong said, "The latest news, he has recovered the lost Yongping and Zunhua. ”

"Really?!" Yuan Chonghuan's face was overjoyed, "What about later?" ”

"Later......" Su Hong looked bitter, "he ...... It didn't end well. ”

"What? Killed in battle? ”

“…… Cleared. Su Hong said in a low voice, "Supervisor, Zu Dashou...... Cleared. ”

After a long silence, Yuan Chonghuan's fingers gripped the iron bar.

"I see." He exhaled softly, full of bitterness, "I went to an ancestral birthday, and there are others - how about Hong Chengchou?" ”

“…… It was also cleared. ”

Yuan Chonghuan's face changed greatly! The bars gurgled softly!

"How did it all come down?! Huang Taiji he ......"

"Huang Taiji exhausted all means, of course, on the other hand, it was also because...... People's hearts are not strong. ”

There was another dead silence, and Xiao on the side felt that he couldn't breathe well.

After a while, Yuan Chonghuan sighed slightly: "I heard that Zu Dashou has a nephew, who is eighteen this year. It is said that he is brave and good at fighting, and when he was a teenager, he bravely saved his father and was commendable. Although his uncle was cleared, this child ......"

"Inspector, are you talking about Wu Sangui?"

"Exactly. And what about him? ”

Su Hong's expression seemed to cry and laugh: "...... More than ten years later, it was this person who opened the mountain customs and attracted the Qing soldiers to enter the customs - Supervisor, please ask something else. ”

Yuan Chonghuan closed his eyes, and after a while, he opened them again.

"Who else?"

"Overseer, this ......"

"Who else is clear?!"

“……”

"Say!"

Su Hong had to bow her head and say, "...... Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, Shi Lang, Kong Youde, Li Yongfang, Ma Guangyuan. She shook her head when she said this, "Inspector, I can't count them all." ”

Xiao looked at Yuan Chonghuan worriedly, and he felt that the other party's face was almost dead.

“…… Is there anything that does not fall? His voice trembled.

"Yes! Definitely! Su Hong stood up suddenly, she grabbed the iron fence in her hand, "Shi Kefa!" Xia Wanchun! Sun Chengzong! And your subordinate He Kegang, right...... Zuo Liangyu didn't descend. ”

"The old man knows Zuo Liangyu and them, but the two in front ......"

"Now they're young, they're not coming, they're unknown." Su Hong said, "Inspector, even if the last ones are cleared, they are now ...... They are still loyal, and they have never had the slightest idea of surrendering. ”

A sentence woke up the dreamer, Yuan Chonghuan nodded slowly: "Now, they are still the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Overseer, you can't turn things around on your own. What do you still think about today? Su Hong comforted, "The Ming Dynasty has become so rotten, even if there are ten more overseers, they can't save it." ”

"Girl, I ask you a ......"

"What?"

"The Ming Dynasty...... How many more years? Yuan Chonghuan's expression was a little worried, "That strong man just now actually ...... He actually said that there were only a few years left, and he said that behind him was the world of Tartars. ”

"This rotten tongue Xu Yanzhou!" Su Hong gritted her teeth secretly, and she sighed deeply: "Supervisor, are you asking, how many years does this son of heaven have to live now?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan asked in a trembling voice, "Could it be...... He's the Last King?! ”

"Exactly."

Next, there was a silence that was so stuffy that people almost suffocated, and after a little longer, the silence gave birth to a long and thin pain, just like a bean sprout quietly probing in the dark.

Then, Su Hong heard Yuan Chonghuan's dry voice: "...... How many years are left? ”

"Fourteen years." Su Hong replied.

"Yes...... Tartar? ”

"It's Li Zicheng." Su Hong explained, "It's 'rebellion'. Li Zicheng's army has invaded the capital, our holy ...... It was this Emperor Chongzhen, who stabbed the princess and concubine, and then hanged himself in the coal mountain. After that, Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, ascended the throne in Nanjing, known as Nanming in history, and only lasted for more than ten years. ”

"It's not Manchurian, Your Majesty ......"

"Inspector," Su Hong saw Yuan Chonghuan's sadness, and hurriedly said, "Today he unjustly killed the Inspector, and tomorrow he hanged himself, do you know if it is not the turn of return?" ”

"So, I wrongfully killed Mao Wenlong that day, and it should be today?"

Su Hong and Xiao were relatively speechless.

In the cell, there was silence, only the sound of the torches "beeping and peeling".

Then, they heard Yuan Chonghuan recite two lines of poetry in a heavy tone:

"The battle and defense are not free, but the victory is heavy and sorrowful......"

Su Hong read out the next two sentences: "Ronghua, I know Zhuang Meng, and loyal and indignant people will be worried." ”

She read here and looked at Yuan Chonghuan, "Supervisor, you yourself said that the glory is like a Zhuang dream, and the Ming Dynasty should also have a catastrophe in the last days, full of soldiers and good generals, and Huang Taiji has a ...... to do."

"Isn't the girl here to speak for the Manchurians?" Yuan Chonghuan asked in a cool voice.

Su Hong was stunned for a moment and smiled bitterly: "What do I say for the Manchurians?" Even if the first few monarchs do something, they can't save it from the end of the Qing Dynasty - the Governor, which is the last emperor. ”

"What's the last stubble?" Yuan Chonghuan didn't hear it clearly for a while.

"Li was kicked out within a few months of entering the capital, and the throne didn't sit firmly, so you don't have to worry too much about him." Su Hong shrugged, "The next Qing Dynasty will last for three hundred years, and it won't be extinguished in the end?" ”

"Extinguished?" When Yuan Chonghuan heard the bad news from the enemy, he seemed to come to the spirit, "Who is it for me to restore the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"No one is recovering the country for the Ming Dynasty, Inspector."

The atmosphere became strange, and Xiao tugged on Su Hong's sleeve and signaled her to speak carefully.

"No, it's all gone." Su Hong said in a gentle and light, hypnotic-like tone, "In a few hundred years, there will be no emperor in this world." Without the Ming Dynasty, there is no Qing Dynasty, and there is nothing. That's what we waited for in the afterlife. ”

"There is no emperor?!"

"There is no emperor, no concubines and courtiers, no one has to be loyal to anyone, and no one has to kneel and bow to anyone. People read the history of the Ming Dynasty, such as the history of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. The way of the world eventually became like that, Overseer. ”

“…… Sister Su! What are you talking to him for? He's going to be confused! "Less than whispering complaints.

"He's not going to be confused, it's a life-or-death moment, he must be more awake than ever. I really can't stand this, he's not Yuan Chonghuan! Su Hong said resolutely, and then turned his head to look at Yuan Chonghuan, "Grand Inspector Yuan, the world is unpredictable, you can't imagine what the world will become, but even if you can't think of it, it still happens." You can't control it, no one can control it, the changes in the world are not under the control of people, we are all just small people, not gods - you ...... Got it? ”

Her words, for Yuan Chonghuan, are tantamount to a slap in the face!

After a long time, as long as a century, Yuan Chonghuan finally nodded slowly.

“…… The Buddhist scriptures have clouds: If I used to cut off my body for King Gori, then I had no self, no one, no sentient beings, and no longevity. The old man always couldn't understand how to be cut off from his body before, and he could still be selfless, and at that time, he only said that Buddhism was boundless, which was very ...... people thought. ”

Su Hong knew that Yuan Chonghuan was talking about the story in the "Diamond Sutra".

In his previous life, when the Buddha was a forbearance and humiliation immortal, he was imprisoned by the tyrant King Golly with a stigma on the way of cultivation, and his body was cut open by joints and sections. But because he was wronged, his body eventually came back to life.

Su Hong's heart moved! Circumcision...... Isn't this similar to the torture that Yuan Chonghuan will suffer tomorrow?

"But now that I heard the girl say this, the old man understood." His face showed an indescribable look, he looked, confused, and serene, "should not live in the heart of color, should not live in the sound and fragrance of the law, should not live in the heart, should not live in the heart." What the old man thinks about every day is just a catastrophe tomorrow. The reason why I 'think' is because my heart has a dwelling. ”

Su Hong and Xiao were all surprised!

"Inspector, how can you have no heart?" Su Hong asked cautiously.

"The heart is empty, where can I live?" Yuan Chonghuan replied that the confusion on his face just a second ago had completely disappeared.

It's almost a zen machine.

However, everyone can see that somehow, Yuan Chonghuan's psychological condition has suddenly undergone amazing changes in a short period of time!

But Su Hong was still puzzled, she lowered her head and thought about it, and said: "Actually, you don't know, Supervisor, although Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou and the like, although they have lived a long life, they are despised by future generations and have entered the annals of the Second Minister; On the contrary, for hundreds of years, there have been people who have guarded your tomb, and the world knows that you are a great hero and a true national soldier. Even the little boy remembers your exploits. ”

"Remember my exploits? Obviously persuaded me to let it go, but you can't let it go, girl? Yuan Chonghuan suddenly smiled, "Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou, they are all phantoms here, and there is nothing in their bodies, let alone their names?" ”

Su Hong was surprised!

She looked at Yuan Chonghuan in a daze, and after a long time, she said with difficulty: "Yes." The law is like this, not to mention the name and appearance? Congratulations to the Inspector for attaining the Great Way. ”

Her smile was sad and relieved.