Chapter 161: Life and Death (Part II)
The neck is pressed against the cold blade, and with a slight stroke, the blood can be cut neatly.
It's all over, let me pay for the wrong things I have done, let me pay it with my life, I owe so many lives, life and life, how can I pay it off? Scold...... The biggest mistake in my life, Liu Sujin, is not to believe in him, not to fall in love with him, but to drag this life that should have ended for so many years, if, if I had died at the gate of Liufu that year, there would not have been so many people who lost their lives for me, how innocent they were, and how evil I was.
Close your eyes and the past flashes back one by one.
Finally, the picture of snuggling up to his mother when he was a child.
Gripping the handle of the knife tightly, he tried his best to do it, but before he felt the pain, his wrist was hit by a heavy object, forcing the knife to the ground.
A stone fell, and that was the culprit that interrupted me.
looked up blankly, it was actually an old man.
Cold, with a large team of men and horses, all of them are heavy soldiers of the imperial court.
"Repeat offenders in the previous dynasty, arrest and bring them to justice." As soon as the eight words came out, my hands were already tied behind my back. There is no strength to break free, and there is no forgetting to resist in the slightest.
I'm the one who is being kept in the dark, and they all know who I am, and they are waiting for us to jump into this fire pit.
The game within the game, the mystery within the mystery, failed to get out after all.
Deep cell, dirty and draining.
It is said that this is where the death row inmates are kept, and each cell is made of stainless steel. Two meters high there was a window, also nailed with steel plates, and a faint light peeked through the cracks, casting a long shadow in the hay on the ground.
The ankle is cuffed, and the other end is buckled to the iron post in the far corner.
I don't know who this pair of leg cuffs was in control of last time, and there are still undried blood stains on it, and reddish-brown stars are stained around.
I reached out and wiped away a drop of blood, and the mark was on my finger.
Far away, I don't know where the water is leaking, ticking and ticking, running through the empty and cold dungeon.
"After seven days, the Ministry of Punishment will escort you for interrogation." Standing outside the prison, against the light, looking down on your face.
"Who lived here last time? Is he dead? Is it poisonous wine or white silk, or is it cut in half? ”
He didn't expect me to divert the topic and ask this sentence, and fell silent for a while.
"I've said everything I need to say, the Night Pavilion was created by me, and it was my idea to rebel, you killed my family, and I naturally want to pay for my life. So, there's no need for interrogation, if you can still remember that we once knew each other, please give me a good time. ”
"The emperor doesn't know that the princess of the previous dynasty is you, and he doesn't know that the person he wants to get rid of is you. I can't let him know that the love of children should not be a stumbling block to the country. After a pause, he said, "I will try to save your life." Send you to the land of southern Xinjiang, and never come back for the rest of your life. ”
He turned to leave, and I leaned my head against the cold door. "I beg you, kill me. Otherwise, as long as I, Dexin, still have a breath, one day, I will kill all of you in Beiyan. The elderly, the children, the women, not a single one is spared. ”
He hesitated for a moment, then left without looking back.
There was a sudden cramping in the abdomen, connected to the heart, as if an arrow was stirring and churning inside, piercing the heart and lungs, and smashing all the internal organs to pieces.
I had to bite the placket of my clothes to keep myself from screaming.
I felt like my life was really at the end of my life, and the pain seemed to drain all my strength.
But he didn't dare to die, and he didn't even dare to close his eyes.
As soon as I closed my eyes, those who died for me cried out for my life.
What should I do, I can't think of any other way to atone for my sins than to die.
The pain filled the tears, and the desire did not drop.
Confused, lying on the cold ground and falling asleep, chaotic dreams intertwined with unclear thoughts.
Wake up and sleep several times, unable to distinguish between the dark and the bright, like a dead man, depressed in this rotten and filthy place.
Someone brought white porridge on the way, and placed it an inch outside the cell, within reach. But the porridge was cold and hot, and hot and cold, until the hours passed, and it became rancid and discolored, and emitted the same foul smell as the dungeon.
When I woke up for the last time, there was no light in the window over there. My throat felt like it was on fire, and blood would come out of my cough, so I shifted my position and sat down next to the hay.
I haven't eaten for a long time, and even my fingers are trembling, trembling and not listening to the call. The wound on the palm of his left hand had scabbed, and the centrifugal buckle was crushed by this hand, and he thought that there was nothing left, but he still left a scar.
The cell door suddenly opened, and I subconsciously retracted my hand into my sleeve.
The jailer brought in a low table, and in a few moments the delicate meal was neatly laid out there.
I said, "What? The last meal, can the day of the execution be set? ”
"It's that I want to talk to Miss Jin."
Before anyone heard his voice, Su Rong walked in slowly, and she had already changed into the dress that a princess should have, with a long skirt dragging to the ground, light yarn overlapping, and complex patterns entangled in the cuffs.
I should have been full of hatred, but I didn't want to pay attention to it.
She didn't care about the dust on the ground, she sat on the floor, lit a white wax, and the candlelight swayed from side to side in the dimness.
The clear liquid of the white porcelain flask flows into the glass, and the cold fragrance is bursting.
Su Rong pushed the wine glass in front of me and added another cup of tea to herself.
"The princess originally wanted to kill them all, why bother, my people are dead, you Beiyan is peaceful and prosperous, what are you afraid of? Could it be that you are afraid that you will not be able to keep someone's heart? ”
She smiled, her light makeup still looking forward to it in the shadows. "Isn't that what you want most right now?"
I was silent, and lowered my eyes to stare at the glass of poisoned wine.
"Born as a woman, in the end you will be defeated in love, if there is an afterlife, I hope ......"
"I hope never to be a man." I took her words and drank the wine down. The spicy taste stirred up the bitterness of the lips and tongue, suppressing the previous bout of colic.
"You were born in an official family, you have fine clothes and food, a pearl in your palm, and you can do whatever you want when you become an adult, and the stars hold the moon. Cherish it, don't waste extra time on calculations, you will always be smart and mistaken in the end. ”
She lowered her head and rubbed her eyebrows, breaking the hibiscus on her forehead.
"If it weren't for the calculations, I would never have gotten what I wanted." Her voice grew colder.
"Princess, please go back."
She stopped talking for a long time, and then turned to leave.
When she was gone, I spread my hair out, braided it, and wiped my face clean with my cuffs. Even if you step into the Yellow Spring, you must be clean and innocent.
Little by little, my thoughts were disorganized, and drowsiness came unexpectedly.
Gently humming the ballad that my mother used to hum, Jiangnan soft language, ethereal in the dark night.
Suddenly, the song was interrupted by the sound of a fierce fight, and I heard the sound of swords clashing.
I scrambled to the door, but my vision was so blurred that I couldn't see anything.
"Sister! Sister! ”
A stirring spirit instantly made people sober up, unbelievable, and actually heard Xin Li's voice.
I put my hand close to the cell door and tried to crawl forward a little further, but someone grabbed my wrist suddenly.
"Sister! Mr. Su and I are here to save you! ”
The consciousness in his mind collapsed in an instant, and the sleepiness deepened, and there was no time to respond, and there was no longer the strength to reply, and no sound could be heard again, only endless darkness and silence.