Chapter 5 Chess Pieces
In the dark of night, the rain poured down.
The damp depths of the prison filled the cell with a disgusting smell of blood, and the hot and humid air filled the cell with a viscous heat wave. Jiang Mengyun lowered his head and stood silently beside Empress Xue of the Great Liang Kingdom, his apricot eyes revealing horror, like a deer that had accidentally hit a tiger pen.
In front of them was a woman in rags, soaked in blood.
The woman was hanging from chains with her hair scattered, her head hanging languidly to the side, looking half-dead.
She was trembling all over, but she couldn't make any bigger movements, she didn't even have the strength to wail at the moment, she could only gasp with her mouth half-open like a hanged ghost, and her eyes full of anger were rounded with undisguised hatred, and her appearance was quite terrifying.
This look is too vicious, the expression is too hideous, and the appearance is too terrifying, Rao is Queen Xue, who has experienced countless ups and downs, is inevitably a little timid, but this matter is related to the foundation of the country, and as the queen of a country, she has an unshirkable responsibility.
Shaking her body slightly, she secretly helped Jiang Mengyun before she stood up straight again and regained her former composure: "Slut, dare to stare at this palace!" Since you entered my beam, this palace has treated you well, but you don't want to repay your kindness, but you will take revenge! The whole world knows that you are a member of this palace, but you betrayed this palace and did such a rebellious thing! ”
As soon as she started, her emotions were naturally mobilized, and the more Empress Xue spoke, the more angry she became, and her emotions became more and more excited, and her voice couldn't help but rise: "Why! Why the hell are you doing this? Stealing the list of people in the harem, privately befriending the ministers of the court, eavesdropping on the dialogue between the palace and the emperor, and even seducing the prince of the palace, you, you tell the palace, who are you? ”
Jiang Mengyun stood on the side, seeing that the queen was a little out of shape, she had to suppress her fear and persuade softly: "Auntie, you are angry, be careful of your body." If the prince's brother knows, he will also be distressed. ”
"Prince? Yes, it's ......" Hearing this, Empress Xue suddenly came to her senses, stroked Jiang Mengyun's hand, took a deep breath and said silently, "Yes, for such a slut, it's really not worth it to be angry with yourself." Mengyun," she suddenly paused and looked at Jiang Mengyun in surprise, "You, why are your hands so cold and your face so ugly, I didn't even notice just now, you are ......"
She turned her head and glanced at the woman who was hanging there again, the blood sprayed from the torture had soaked the large area of ground around her into dark black, and suddenly realized: "I knew that you were afraid of blood, why did I forget about this!" Come, hurry, hurry up and take Miss Jiang out and wait outside for the palace. ”
As soon as the words fell, two pink-clothed palace maids immediately came in silently.
Jiang Mengyun shook his head and waved his hand to stop them: "It's okay." She paused, and then said to Queen Xue again, "Auntie, this woman has such a hard mouth, I'm afraid that she won't reveal the truth if she fights again, or you can ask someone to clean her up and let Mengyun try it, okay?" ”
The queen was stunned for a moment, suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "Yes, how did I forget!" Although you are afraid of blood, but your father is the protector general of Ning State, if he hadn't died unjustly, he wouldn't have cheapened my Liang Kingdom. I heard that you are very capable, and you are not bloody, but you have persuaded many people to surrender, haven't you? ”
This is naturally true, her Jiang Mengyun's name is indeed resounding throughout the Ning Kingdom, and even Liang and Wu have a legend of her invincible.
Otherwise, with her being a weak girl, and still bleeding half of the blood of Ning Guo, even if she is a distant relative of the queen, she will not be treated so specially, and she will be respected and courteous as soon as she enters the palace, and even those emperor's close ministers will look up to her by three points.
If there are three points today, the three kingdoms of Ning, Liang and Wu stand together, and they will not give in to each other, and you have been fighting for me for many years, and you have already become mortal enemies.
In troubled times, it is even more difficult for a person with impure blood like her to gain a foothold in the world. Jiang Mengyun smiled slightly, although his face was still a little pale, but his tone was neither humble nor arrogant: "Auntie has won the award, Mengyun is just knowing and reasoning, moving with affection, believing that heaven is fair, and always grateful, that's all." ”
"Well said!" As soon as she said a word, the queen immediately exclaimed, "I believe in the fairness of heaven and be grateful...... Damn slut! You listen, you listen! This palace treats you like a relative, but you will take revenge! Hongu, Hongu ......"
This excitement, she trembled her hands and wanted to whip people with the whip next to her, but after thinking about Jiang Mengyun's suggestion just now, she suddenly restrained her surging emotions, clenched her fists and forced herself to calm down: "That's it, that's it, it's a hard bone, it's like this and you don't open your mouth, since it's hard, then it's up to you to try." ”
As soon as she clapped her hands, the two palace maids outside immediately came in again, carried someone out to wash and change clothes, and the queen breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Jiang Mengyun's eyes more and more satisfied: "It's not in vain that the palace deliberately took you with you to raise you, you are an excellent seedling, and the palace will treat you well in public and private." ”
Jiang Mengyun hurriedly lowered his head and thanked him: "Auntie has won the award, and Mengyun has entered the beam, so he should do his best to repay his aunt's kindness." ”
"Kindness?" Empress Xue smiled and shook her head, "This is not a kindness, but you are now trapped in the shallows, and this palace is still in power, so it's just a matter of effort." But Mengyun, there is a sentence that my aunt can tell you clearly, the other people in this palace do not hate, but hate betrayal the most. You...... See, this is a lesson from the past. ”
As he spoke, the woman who had just been beaten out of shape was brought in again, her face was scarred, and she could barely distinguish her beautiful appearance. She changed into a half-worn clean shirt on her body, and there was no blood, thinking that she was afraid of blood, and she deliberately took hemostatic medicine.
But this person has been tortured in every way before, she has seen it in her eyes, countless whips, unremembered fire branding, ten nails have been pulled out one by one, one ear has been cut off by Queen Xue in anger, half of the nose is missing, and I don't know how many knives have been cut on the face.
The overwhelming blood had already devoured her like a fierce beast's mouth. At this moment, the woman's hair was scattered, her face was still hideous, and the bones in her legs were all broken.
Such a tragic situation, put alive in front of her who is afraid of blood, what is it if it is not the queen knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger?
Jiang Mengyun sneered in his heart, but his face was silent, and there was just the right amount of awe in his eyes. She trembled slightly, lowered her head more and more, as if she didn't dare to look at the man's miserable condition, and the broken hair falling from her forehead blocked her true expression.
Her voice was calm and her tone was long: "Auntie, Mengyun will never dare to betray anything!" The person who ruined my family, I, Jiang Mengyun, will remember it in my heart for the rest of my life, and I will never forgive or tolerate him, at the ends of the earth, in life and life, I will not let him go! Auntie, but rest assured. ”