Chapter 44: Heaven and Man Separated Forever
On the way to Chang'an, I kept waiting for an opportunity to escape, trying to find the whereabouts of Chen Zong, but the Qin army was heavily guarded, and I had no chance to take advantage of it.
After a long journey of several days, the hostages arrived in the famous Chang'an. But the hostages were forever deprived of their personal freedom, and the vast majority of them were reduced to slavery, toiling in prison for the rest of their lives until they died......
One exception among these people was Murong Chong, as soon as he arrived in the Qin Palace, Fu Jian rewarded him with a palace and personally renamed it Wutong Palace.
Wei Shuli once said: The phoenix is not a sycamore. It means that the phoenix, the king of birds, has the universe, and he does not stop at other trees except the plane tree. Murong Chong's nickname is Phoenix, and he wanted to change the name of the palace to "Wutong Palace" when King Qin came to him, which was intended to echo Murong Chong's name.
The location of the Wutong Hall is located in the south of the Imperial Garden of the Qin Palace, surrounded by a bamboo forest, listening to the sound of cicadas, stepping on fine pebbles through the quiet bamboo forest, an elegant courtyard suddenly broke into view. The main entrance of the courtyard is a circular arch, and the plaque above the arch is the three words "Wutong Palace" written by King Qin himself. Entering the courtyard, first pass through a long corridor, the corridor twists and turns, below is a clear pond, the pond is planted with lotus flowers, and there are faintly fish swimming in the pool. At the end of the winding corridor, it is the main hall of this Wutong Palace, the east house of the main hall is the sleeping hall, the west house is the study, and there are more than ten rooms under the person room alone. Passing through the main hall, there is a small door at the back leading to the outside, but I didn't expect that the outside of the small gate is actually a small garden, the small garden is full of flowers, competing for beauty. The gardenias are the most pleasing, and the snow-white petals are exceptionally pure and clean against the backdrop of green leaves, exuding bursts of fragrance and refreshing people's hearts. There is also a rockery in the middle of the garden, there is a pavilion on the rockery, looking into the distance from the pavilion, you can just see the whole picture of the Qin Palace. This rockery is the finishing touch of this palace, in the depths of the bamboo forest, quiet and elegant, but you can get a glimpse of the whole picture of the Qin Palace, this rockery can be described as the subtlety of the palace design.
As soon as Murong Chong arrived in this Qin Palace, he received many rewards, gold, silver and jewelry, and countless slaves and maids. Qiao'er and I were still serving Murong Chong at his request. It can be said that Murong Chong's life in this Qin Palace is really like a phoenix perched on a plane tree, extremely noble.
I wanted to find out the whereabouts of Su Zong, so I asked the subordinates of Wutong Hall to help me inquire about Murong Xue's whereabouts, and learned that Murong Xue was now reduced to hard labor, and he was cooking rice in the Qin Palace every day.
I asked someone to lead the way and go to find Murong Xue. Although I had been mentally prepared for Murong Xue's tragic situation, I was still shocked when I saw her. The yard was full of ragged slaves, all of whom worked in heavy shackles, and the slightest slackness was whipped down by the superintendent, and the yard was constantly wailing. Murong Xue was treated specially, and the special thing was that she was guarded by a special person, as long as she was slightly disobedient, she would be beaten. Listening to the steward, since Murong Xue came here, she has been crying and shouting, and she has been constantly insulting King Qin, and saying that she is a princess of a country with a noble status, and these subordinates are not worthy of ordering her! Her ignorance of current affairs made these people very dissatisfied, so they took special care of her, had someone to take care of her, and beat her severely if something was wrong. Murong Xue was still scolding, her body was already scarred, and the clothes on her back were torn, revealing fresh scars inside. The original aura of the girl has completely disappeared, and now the light in her eyes has disappeared, leaving only endless sorrow......
I explained my intentions to the steward, and the steward said, "Girl, be careful, this is not a worry-free thing, my rice room almost overturned with my little hooves!" I nodded yes.
Murong Xue was brought to me, she was naturally disobedient, and was pushed to the ground, lying right at my feet. She slowly raised her head, her dirty face with disdain, and she grabbed the hem of my skirt: "I am the princess of a country, what are you guys?" When her gaze moved up and touched my face, she screamed in fright: "Ghost, ghost, ghost!" ”
"Dignified Princess Qinghe, I didn't expect to be afraid of ghosts!"
"You, you, you're not a ghost!" She stammered. "Who are you? Aren't you dead? Her eyes were full of disbelief!
"No, it can't be! No one in the world can live if the crane top red drinks, no matter how capable Murong Chong is, it is impossible to save you! She muttered to herself.
"Princess, I came today with no intention of embarrassing you, I just want to know the whereabouts of Zongzong." I crouched down and came face to face with her, and I looked into her eyes, almost pleadingly.
"Hahaha!" She burst out laughing! "Indulgence! Ha ha! Are you asking the negative man? ”
"Princess, you loved him too, didn't you? Otherwise you wouldn't want to marry him, would you? ”
Murong Xue's eyelids slowly drooped, and she seemed to be caught in some kind of thought......
But then, her emotions exploded like a flood bursting its banks......
"I'm single-minded about him, this negative man, he betrayed me again and again! By the way, I know, he must have changed the Heding Red, and the one you drank was not the Heding Red at all, right? ”
She then said: "That night he was extremely gentle, drinking a glass of wine with me, saying that he couldn't help himself, it turned out that he was just to get me drunk and make the crane top red!" Hahaha! I was stupid, and he was finally touched by my sincerity! She cried out in mourning.
"You said you loved him, but you disregarded his wishes, imprisoned him in Yan Palace, and forced him to smoke happy powder, do you think you really think about him?" I said coldly.
"Now that I've eaten all this, I've already turned into a lonely ghost...... "Two lines of tears flowed down her stubborn face, "It's too late to say anything now!" ”
"What do you say? You repeat! I impulsively pounced on her and shook her body.
"I've said it a thousand times, it's the same sentence, and the indulgence is dead! Not long after the high guards chased and killed him, my people found his body on the official road to the Jin Kingdom, and his death was miserable, and there was no intact skin on his body, presumably after he became addicted to drugs, and he was unconscious. She said.
"It can't be! Say you're lying! "I lost control again and threw myself at her.
She didn't resist, she just let me fiddle with her face blankly and numbly. In the end, even the aunt who was in charge of the rice room couldn't look at it, so she ordered someone to pull Murong Xue away and take her away.
I sat down on the ground and cried out in tears, my indulgence, he really left me. There was no longer him in this plane where I was, and I was alone, and the thought of this made my heart ache violently. No, I don't, it's impossible, he's more important than my life, I don't want him to leave...... No! I cried in despair......
What no one had noticed was that the corners of Murong Xue's mouth at this time hooked up an evil smile......