"Then give a heavy beating, throw it to the far north, lock it up for a few years, and when the situation improves, I will regain the lost territory for Your Majesty and gag those people."

"Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and it is inevitable to be controlled by others, so you have to endure it." Shen Mu felt that he had caused such an unwarranted disaster to him, and it was unheard of for him to drag down the master's throne with a small guard.

Listening to his words, Helian Yan was silent, and suddenly smiled for a long time, "Amu, it turns out that this high position is not fun, and it still can't protect the most important person." ”

Shen Mu didn't know what he meant, so he just bowed his head and didn't say anything.

A few days later, Shen Mu was stripped of his official title, and he was punished and exiled.

It's just that it's not the far north, but the junction of Xiliang and the north.

Above the city tower, looking at the back of the escorted man, the young emperor muttered, "The land of the extreme north is too bitter, I am afraid that he will not be able to endure it, it is better to have the border place, there is an army stationed there, and there are always three meals a day." ”

"Go, take all the excerpts of Shen Mu in the past few days, and I want to write them down one by one."

The mountains are high and the rivers are long, Helian Yan only saw the misery of the sparsely populated land in the far north, but he forgot that the land is also a place where people eat people and don't spit out bones, and sometimes some people are more terrible than no one.

Shen Mu was injured, and he slept all the way, and he fell down as soon as he arrived at the border, but fortunately, the general who fought on the ground was Helian Yan's former henchman, and he was instructed by the man, so he didn't dare to treat Shen Mu, but secretly sent medicine over, barely saving his life.

"I said new, you're really fatal, you're not dead after this, this is going to be replaced by ordinary people, it's already over." An old man in the coolie camp saw that he was awake, and brought him a bowl of porridge soup, the mouth of the bowl was broken, and the soup was muddy, Shen Mu took a sip, the taste was strange, saying that it was salty or not, and there was a rancid taste, and it was not a few centimeters after drinking it all night.

"Thank you." He wiped his mouth and returned the bowl to the other party.

Looking at his appearance, the old man was a little strange, "You are a big official, you have fine clothes and fine food on weekdays, I think of such a thing, I am afraid that you will be sick to your stomach even if you look at it, how can you drink it." ”

"What happens if I refuse?" Shen Mu struggled to get up, leaned against the wall and gasped, only to feel that there was no pain on his body.

"Ha, then you don't want to see food in the future, if you have the ability to grab it yourself, if you don't have the strength to grab it, then endure it, and you won't be able to live in a few days." The old man leaned back, too, for this place was for exiled prisoners, and there was an endless amount of work to be done every day, and there was not much time to breathe like this.

He is because he has been here for a long time, he is old, he has no grudges with others, and he has no days to live, so no one cares whether he works or not, and when the time comes, he will not be disliked by the soldiers for eating too much.

And Shen Mu didn't have to go out because he hadn't woken up.

"I am an orphan, I was sold to Shu since I was a child, trained to be a killer, and finally won His Majesty's appreciation, and gained a firm foothold in Xiliang, and the previous things were turned over, so I fell down again." There was nothing to hide, Shen Mu told his story as it was, and sure enough, a trace of sympathy flashed in the old man's eyes.

was a little helpless for a while, and he was actually reduced to relying on people to live by being pitiful.

"Hey, in this world, many things are like this, if you were born with a golden spoon in your mouth since you were a child, one day you will fall into trouble, and there will naturally be many people who fall into the well, but if you climb up from a low place, it is almost everyone who is looking forward to you falling all the time, because the most unacceptable thing for people is people like themselves, or even people who are not as good as themselves turn over."

"Young man, it's just the two of us in this prison right now, you're better, and when those people come back later and find that you're awake, it's indispensable to be bullied again, and then cynicism will be light."

Before the words fell, he heard a sound at the door, and the old man immediately shut up and hid aside as if nothing had happened.

But the people who came back found that Shen Mu had woken up, and the day's work seemed to be undone, and he immediately came to his senses, interrogating and interrogating, playing and playing, and someone instructed him to do all kinds of dirty and pickled work.

couldn't bear it anymore, Shen Mu scuffled with one of them, and at first he had the upper hand, but he was injured, after all, two fists were invincible to four hands, and he was defeated after a while.

It wasn't until the soldiers arrived that they let him go.

The crowd scolded and dispersed, and the old man came over to him again, "Young man, endure the calm for a while, this kind of thing, no newcomer has to suffer again, you can just endure it for a few more days, and when the next newcomer is on top, you can also bully him." ”

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Shen Mu wiped the corners of his mouth, "I don't bully others, and I don't allow others to bully me." ”

As the days go by, the injuries on the man's body will never heal, either today with this fight, or tomorrow with that fight, the person in charge turns a blind eye to this, anyway, this coolie camp has always been like this, or the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind, whoever has a hard fist has the final say.

Helian Yan can occasionally receive news from Shen Mu, each time it is only a few words, all of which are "All is fine with the criminal minister, Your Majesty should not read it", which is diametrically opposed to the truthful report of Kuang Zhi, the general of the military territory.

"Kuang Zhi eats white rice, since he knows this, he can't be told to heal his injuries and then enter the coolie camp, and if he is afraid of those shitty things once, he won't have to suffer these sins."

The people around him saw that his hands were red when they slapped the table, and they couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, you have eyeliner, and others also have it, if General Shen is powerful over there, how can the old ministers in the court tolerate it, and when they use some means, you will never see the general again." ”

"When I have cooked them one by one, I will also send them to the land to taste the taste."

In the blink of an eye, it was March, but Xiliang was still extremely cold, Han Zhao had been infected with the wind cold for the past few days, and he couldn't eat anything, and he always missed eating a bowl of Yangchun noodles every time he was hungry.

This thing was still used in the palace, and in the Vermilion Bird Palace, where the southern princess first lived, Kang Qingyu, who was pregnant, wanted to eat noodles, and the people in the palace prepared it, so he tasted it.

The taste was extremely light, and he was not used to eating it at that time, so he thought about it now.

I think of the flour on her face when she made the noodles, the thin noodles after cooking, and the small handful of greens that spilled on the soup at the end.

I also thought of her white arms behind rolling up her sleeves, her cold face when she quarreled with him, and the warm embrace when she first met.

simply got up, lifted the curtain and walked outside, and put everything aside as soon as he was cold, "What, is there another fight?" ”

Asking the guards next to him, Han Zhao looked condescendingly at everything in the foreign coolie camp in the distance, and said in a deep voice, "Let the wind out, wait for the net to be closed." ”