Chapter 289: The mountains are far away, the sky is high, the smoke and water are cold
The two of them stumbled out, and the palace behind them collapsed almost immediately, and the fire did not abate, but jumped into the air, reflecting the hideous color of the night overhead.
Jin Youzi lay on the ground, barely supporting his body, looking at the raging fire in front of him, and muttered endlessly, "In the third year of Chengsheng, Emperor Liang Yuan entered the East Pavilion Bamboo Palace, and ordered Gao Shanbao to set fire to 140,000 volumes...... It is said that the way of civil and military affairs is exhausted tonight...... Reading thousands of books, there are still today, so burn them......
The toothpick is wrapped in red silk, and Wang Cangshu is burned with fire. The latter lord once sighed that Emperor Liang Yuan burned books, but when he turned around, he also burned more than 100,000 volumes...... I can't stop ......"
"He didn't." Kiritsu stood up.
Jin Youzi shook his head, "What did you say?" What doesn't? ”
"What is burning here is just some empty volumes of old paper and discarded books." She wiped the sweat from her forehead and added a few more gray stains.
He stumbled to his feet, "Really? How could it be ......"
"It's all changed. Huang Baoyi transported the original booklet away, and the red brocade was only wrapped in an empty volume. She had just escaped all the way, and she remembered some bits and pieces. Recently, late at night, she would hear unusual sounds in the study, and she had climbed up the trellis to see the books moving up and down, and the huge wooden boxes moving in and out...... Now that I think about it, it's time to steal beams and change columns......
He looked in a trance, shocked and shocked, but he couldn't hide his joy.
"How can I go back?" She asked suddenly.
Jin Youzi approached him, "Xiaofu, I'm actually here ......"
"I have to go back quickly, my father is in prison."
He was stunned, "How is that possible?" There must be a mistake. ”
"What the envoy of the Tai Hospital said should not be wrong. Whether it's true or not, I'll have to go back and see right away. ”
"Go see? The edict is also something you can enter casually? Or should I inquire......"
"Don't bother," she took a step back, "your own business matters. ”
"I'm here to ......"
"It doesn't matter if it's for the book or for Huang Baoyi," she gradually lost her patience, "Now is not the time to say this, I must go back immediately." ”
Jin Youzi stopped talking and stared at her, "Okay, but you need to listen to me, don't mess around when you go back, I will inquire about Lord Tong." ”
How he promised him, Tong Fu can't remember clearly, only vaguely remembers that the snow rose between the raging flames, at first it was like broken salt, and then it came like goose feathers...... In a trance, I saw Baiqi Di, Qinghui Palace, Qixia Pavilion, and Hongluo Pavilion...... Condensed into a picture scroll, swaying away......
When the foreground was gathering again, she felt that something was not quite right.
The dark room was not spacious, and the iron cables were hideous on the huge bluestone walls. The four doors of the house led to four dark alleys with no end in sight, and although torches hung all the way, it was impossible to see what was going on in all directions in the light of the fire.
And she sat in front of a desk by herself, with a wine jar and a few side dishes on the table, and put down the chopsticks after watching a few moves, but the person didn't know where to go.
Listening to the sound of footsteps and cursing behind her, in a short time, three jailers stepped into the room, passed past her, and sat down beside the desk.
Only then did Tong Fu react, this seemed to be an edict...... And should I avoid it......
sat down again, watching the three people in front of him eat and drink again, they should not be able to see themselves, and then gradually relaxed.
"Phew! Nowadays, there are really a lot of these hard bones! One of them poured a bowl of wine and slammed it down, and his wrist clucked a few times, "These whips just now, my hands are almost useless, that guy looks thin, and he didn't say a word!" He slapped the whip around his waist on the table with a clatter.
Tong Fu felt a pang in his heart, and then looked at the whip, which was made of raw cowhide and strands, and the pattern was coiled, and it was fierce and abnormal when it looked at it.
And the man said, "This whip of mine is sewn from leather, and it is very particular here......
"Just now I heard this whip on people, the sound is not very different, what is so special in it? Let's hear it. The other poured him full of wine.
The man said proudly, "It's filled with tung oil......
The other two listened to the uniform color change, and the whip was filled with tung oil, which meant to destroy the menstrual and broken bones...... The two of them glanced at each other and said, "It's still a thousand households, no wonder those prisoners who are the most difficult to bow their heads have confessed their crimes under the hands of adults......"
"Look at that powerless man, what can he do?" One asked cautiously.
The thousand households turned pale, "Naturally, they are worried about things that should not be remembered, and they help people who should not be helped......"
Tong Fu couldn't listen anymore, got up and quietly retreated into the alley where they had just come.
The alleyway is dark and damp, sometimes there is a choking smell blowing in the face, there is no light in the endless iron cages, and occasionally I can hear people sighing, sobbing, whispering and muttering...... She only felt that her scalp was numb, and she didn't dare to look closely, but she had to look for them one by one.
At the end of the walk, there was no figure to be found, and I saw the alleyway turning around, leading to a deeper place. She touched the bluestone wall with her hand and walked in the dark.
I felt the wall turn around a few times along the way, and finally at the end of the short distance I saw the light of an oil lamp going on and off, and behind the arm-thick iron railing, there seemed to be a figure.
She tugged at her heart and walked up to her. The man was not chained, but sat against the iron railing, his head hanging and not moving.
Tong Fu approached, trying to see his appearance clearly, and the firelight behind him suddenly jumped, reflecting the green-robed heron on his body. She breathed a sigh of relief, her father didn't have such an official uniform.
Somehow, the man suddenly turned half of his face sideways, but half of his face was covered by loose hair, and she couldn't see clearly.
She was about to turn away, but she heard a sentence, "Why are you so stubborn...... Why bother...... Guarding him, knowing that there is no hope......"
Tong Fu's heart moved inexplicably, and he stopped, "Can you see me?" She asked tentatively.
"That's what I watched from the beginning...... Across the begonia, the palace willow ...... How can I be invisible......"
"Who are you?" Her voice trembled.
He reached out and brushed away the messy hair in front of his face, the sleeves of his arms stained with blood. When he saw it clearly, Tong Fu almost exclaimed, "Liao Qing?!" ”
He was stunned, "You're not her......"
"It's me, Kirifu. How did you end up here? She leaned in to examine his injuries.
Liao Qing also looked at her carefully, "I saw it wrong...... It's good or good...... She can't come here. ”
"Didn't you follow the Great Treasure Ship to the Western Ocean? This time I came back and shouldn't have been rewarded by officials, why was I locked up here? She slightly bandaged the wound on his shoulder and arm through the railing.
"When the treasure ship stopped in Changle County, I went ashore without permission......"
"You ran halfway through?!" She was shocked, "You're not in charge of the star pulling technique on the big treasure ship, how can you run away?" ”