Chapter 19: The Embrace

"Hao Zhutou?"

"Shhhh I don't know who you've offended, but it's clear that someone is trying to fix you right now. I'm soft-spoken, and I'm used to seeing these routines, and they'll starve you for three days. I left this steamed bun for you in the evening, you eat it quickly, and I'll find a chance to bring you some more food tomorrow. ”

Jiang Cailing took the steamed bun gratefully, and the steamed bun with the temperature in Hao Zheng's hand fell on her cold fingertips, only feeling extremely warm, "Thank you Hao Zhutou." ”

Hao Zhutou shook his head with a sigh, then turned to leave. He wanted to do chivalrous righteousness and bring those treacherous people to justice, but he didn't expect to fall into the quagmire instead. If it weren't for the fact that his parents were still alive, he would have had a family to raise, and he would have left here.

Not long after Hao Zhutou left, a man came over, Jiang Cailing fell on the haystack with her back to the iron fence, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, hiding the remaining half of the steamed buns in her hands.

The man saw that Jiang Cailing did not move, so he left.

After eating all the steamed buns in his stomach, his body was not so cold, and he slept until dawn in a daze accompanied by the loud snoring sound in the next room.

As Hao Zhutou said, in the next two days, they also denied her food for various reasons. Fortunately, Hao Zhutou would give her a little food every night, so she could barely survive three days.

On the fourth day of her cell, Jiang Cailing was woken up by a bucket of cold water.

Jiang Cailing opened her eyes and saw the head catcher who was as thin as a monkey.

"Brother Da, if we really kill her, will Old Man He really let us go?"

"What are you worried about, and when did I say I'm going to kill this girl?"

When the two of them saw Jiang Cailing wake up, a smile appeared on their faces, looking extremely uncomfortable, "As long as the girl draws a charge on this piece of paper and says that you kill He Xiangxiang, you will be able to eat." As he spoke, he shook a bowl of chicken thigh rice in front of Jiang Cailing, the red braised chicken thigh was shining with an attractive luster, decorated with green onions, and served with refined white rice.

Jiang Cailing relied on steamed buns to survive these days, her stomach was already a little numb with hunger, and when she suddenly smelled the aroma of food, she only felt even more hungry.

Seeing that Jiang Cailing's expression was relaxed, the head catcher named Da Ge handed a piece of paper to her, which read: "The criminal girl He Ling'er deliberately committed murder and injured people because she was jealous of her sister He Xiangxiang of the same clan, and now she confesses to the crime she has committed." ”

Jiang Cailing's pale lips raised a trace of indifference after seeing it, and she raised her head and said to Da Ge, "If I press the handprint, I won't be able to get out again." The law of the Great Zhou, killing people pays for life, is this chicken leg rice a severed head rice? ”

"You are a smart person, today you will be freed by drawing a charge, I have many ways to torture people, I think you are a young lady Jiao, I am afraid that you will not even be beaten by the first layer of leather whip. If you obediently confess your sins and don't trouble me, then three days later will be the day of beheading. ”

"Dignified Luoyang City, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in Jing Zhaoyin's mansion, people actually brutally extorted confessions, and I am afraid that your uncle Lord Cao will soon be drowned by the saliva of the officials of the Imperial History Tower, and the black gauze hat on his head will not be saved."

"Little girl, dare to threaten Lao Tzu!" Da Ge's face turned pale, he took a whip with barbs from the torture table, soaked it in cold water, and waved it fiercely on Jiang Cailing's chest, and in an instant, the gray prison uniform bloomed, and the blood turned the prison uniform into a deeper gray, and the room was full of blood in an instant, and every barb on the whip was full of blood, and there was no shortage of tender meat.

The blood on his face faded in an instant, and he was as pale as white paper.

Jiang bit his lower lip tightly, his brows were furrowed, his nails were sunk deep in the palms of his hands, and he didn't let himself cry out in pain, beads of sweat ran down his forehead and crossed his pale face, and the broken hair on his forehead became a wet ball.

A pair of apricot eyes were round, and the angry aura that emanated made Da Ge feel afraid for a moment.

After thinking about it, there was something terrible about a little girl, so she suppressed the fear just now.

"These eyes are very big, if you don't draw Lao Tzu and detain your eyes, do you know what it looks like for a person to have no eyeballs!" Da Ge smiled maniacally, and leaned in front of Jiang Cailing, "That black hole is still full of blood, and it won't be long before there will rot and grow maggots...... Have you heard of Empress Dowager Jiang, this is how the palace maids and eunuchs are punished in the palace, and I have other tortures from her, do you want to try it? ”

Jiang Cailing smiled coldly, she was indeed vicious, but she had never tortured others with such torture.

Seeing Jiang Cailing's mocking sneer, the anger in Da Ge's heart instantly rushed up, and he waved his hand and whipped again.

The whip hit the back, the wound was deep, and the already thin body was put into the white bones that could be seen inside.

The silver teeth were tight, the cheeks were already trembling slightly, the reason why Jiang Cailing didn't blow the horn for a long time was to get the mastermind behind the scenes from his mouth, and the pale lips without a little bit of water endured the severe pain and barely spoke weakly, "You tried your best to make me confess, I'm afraid it's not just to close the case." ”

Da Ge's small eyes narrowed, "Since you can't live today, Lao Tzu doesn't mind telling you that there is a man who buys your life for a hundred taels." ”

"A hundred taels? Do you know what that man looks like, and if I die, I will have to ask for your life, so that I can go to him? ”

"The man can't see his face clearly, but he is tall and not very old, and he looks like a rich and noble person, and I don't know how you, this little girl, provoked him." Da Ge thought that she would definitely die today, and he didn't want her to ask for her life after she died, so he said it in detail.

Jiang Cailing came up with the people she knew in her mind, and there was probably a range. The person who wanted to harm her was most likely the real murderer of this matter.

Seeing that Jiang Cailing still didn't want to draw a charge, Da Ge seemed a little impatient, and instructed the people next to him, "This girl is really enough, go get salt foam!" ”

The pain of sprinkling salt on the wound was more than twice as painful as the pain when he drew the whip just now, and Jiang Cailing sounded the horn when he ordered to sprinkle salt when he caught his head.

In the next moment, the iron door was kicked open from the outside, and a beam of light came in, with a little warmth, and before falling into darkness, Jiang Cailing seemed to see a familiar figure in the backlight.

Zhilan Yushu, the jade mountain is dumped.

In the dark, bumpy, warm.

Jiang Cailing had a long dream.

It was the ninth winter, and the temperature at night was even colder. Just after the snow, the whole Luoyang City is shrouded in snow, a row of red lanterns ripples with warm light, if you sit around the stove with your family at this time to drink warm tea, drink wine under the dim light until slightly drunk, talk about the interesting things you see today, look up from time to time to look at the scenery of Ruixue must be very warm.

Ruixue is auspicious, it is the year when Jiang Cailing entered the palace.

When others were drinking and talking and family were reunited, she washed her clothes in the Huanyi Bureau. At night, the wind was bitterly cold, and the water in the basin was frozen with ice ballast. Jiang Cailing's fingers were already red from the cold, and when she distributed the task in the morning, the female officer in charge gave her an extra bucket of clothes to be cleaned.

"Cai Ling, I'm not feeling well today, you can help me wash it."

"I feel a little sore in my waist, you can help me wash it too!"

So saying, the two of them threw the clothes of the inferior eunuchs and palace ladies into a mountain and threw them at her to wash, this kind of clothes is the most difficult to clean, there are often stains and dust on the body, and there is a terrible smell. Apparently deliberately left this dress on purpose, waiting to be written for her.

Jiang Cailing is very beautiful, such a skin will always bring the jealousy of most of the women around her, especially at the bottom, the kind of people who should be sympathetic to each other and hug each other for warmth, but in order to get in touch with more air, they are excluded and fighting, especially in the inner courtyard of the palace, this kind of struggle and exclusion is more obvious.

This kind of thing is commonplace, at first it was just deliberately excluding her, but recently it has become more serious. She originally wanted to endure it for five years, and after five years she would be able to leave the palace, but after only half a year in the palace, she felt that there was no hope for the future.

There will always be some courage born in despair, and I don't know if it is the liberation of the nature that has been bound for half a year, or the resistance because of oppression.

Only a "poof" sound was heard, followed by angry screams of two women.

Jiang Cailing held the empty bucket in her hand, pasted all the clothes with the smell of sweat on the faces of the two, and lifted the bucket and smashed it on the top of the two people's heads.

"Help!" The two of them were originally bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, but now they saw that Jiang Cailing was going crazy as if she was dying, and hurriedly shouted for help.

A bright yellow figure walked in, saw Jiang Cailing's face, and couldn't help but be stunned.

That person was Emperor Zhaohong.

Emperor Zhaohong said that at first glance, he felt like a woman who grew up with his childhood sweetheart, but at the second glance, the stubbornness in her eyes was completely different from her. Like a beast trapped in a cage, with a strong heart and a desire to break out of the cage, he was missing such a woman by his side.

"I'll give you a chance to get out of here, and I'll give you unlimited glory and supreme power, but what you'll have to face next is harder and more tiring than washing the clothes of the inferior palace people. Would you like to? ”

"Yes."

She didn't hesitate at all, even if she died, it was better than dying in this kind of place.

If she were given another chance, she would still choose to do so.

Every time she completes a task, Emperor Zhaohong will promote her by one level.

In seven years, from a little beauty, she became the queen of Fengyi world.

The task she completed also changed from eradicating the harem concubines to assassinating the people who had made great achievements in the previous dynasty.

Suddenly, the sky became very gray.

All the people she had killed directly or indirectly gathered around her, "Give me back my life!" Give me my life! ”

Among them, there is also a young son, the son of Emperor Zhaohong and the former empress, because he was afraid of the dictatorship of his relatives after a hundred years, so he let Jiang Cailing never suffer in the future, even if it was a parent and child, he could not stay.

The child was very good-looking, with a pair of big grape-like eyes that were clear and clean, which was a task that Jiang Cailing couldn't bear to do.

"Mother, you look so good! It smells like the scent of orchids in my mother's yard. Sitting on the swing, the sound of the child's milky voice made her heart tremble, and made her want to pull the swing that flew into the blue sky.

However, it was too late.

As the swing rope that had been touched was broken, the child who was so cute that people wanted to kiss and hug disappeared from this world forever.

Now the child stood in front of her, his grape-like eyes still clear, and when everyone wanted to kill her, the child smiled and called her mother, with a milky voice and a sweet voice.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry ......"

Jiang Cailing opened her eyes suddenly, only to feel that her face was cool, and the back of her hand was full of tears.

"You're awake."

A beautiful and familiar voice came, and Jiang Cailing saw a pair of warm black eyes in her tears......