The cell was turned into a bedroom.

The curtains were pulled up on all sides, the hay was taken away, replaced with a soft couch, the floor was cleaned, and the rush mats were spread, there were a few cases, pillows and quilts. Three meals a day, good meals and good food come to greet me, in Shanglin Imperial Prison, except for the lack of freedom, everything else is the same as outside.

The jailer who was sneering at me also changed his attitude, not laughing, not talking, not bowing and not leaving.

The days were very difficult, I was worried about Xiao Huo's body all day long, and my heart was like frying in a boiling oil pot, burning and painful. Although Wei Qing said that it was almost good every time he came, it couldn't make my heart feel comfortable for a moment.

In such anxiety, there is a feeling that gradually strengthens, Xiao Huo and Xiao Jian, Xiao Jian and Xiao Huo, I often overlap the two of them together, when I think of Xiao Huo, I will think of Xiao Jian, I will think of Xiao Jian, I will also think of Xiao Huo, and even sometimes, I can't tell whether I think of Xiao Jian or Xiao Huo.

Is there really any past and present life, Xiao Huo and Xiao Jian, they are the same person?

Three days have passed since the seven-day covenant, and these three days are like three autumns, long and difficult.

Wei Qing has not yet found Hetian Yu, and Wei Zifu has tested the emperor at the request of his younger brother, but there is no result.

I was so anxious! I begged Wei Qing several times to secretly let me out, even if I glanced at Xiao Huo, but under the warning of Wei Qing that "if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan", I had to reluctantly endure it.

On the third night, I sat on the couch and looked at Xiao Jian's portrait, when an unexpected person came to see me.

Dressed in a black cape with a hat and tightly wrapped from head to toe, the man was led into the cell by the jailer.

After the jailer left, the man pulled open his coat, revealing a familiar face that he had never expected.

It's Zhao Min?!

I was taken aback and whispered, "How are you?"

Zhao Min showed a touching smile, blinked his eyes slyly, and said, "Do you think that you are the only one in the world who is righteous and angry? ”

I can't help but be moved, this beautiful woman has such pride? A warmth breeds in the bottom of my heart, this is my friend Liu Dan.

"How did you get in?" I asked nervously. "Do you know how dangerous this is?"

Zhao Min smiled but did not answer, there was a hint of smugness in his smile.

I suddenly understood that there were their people in Shanglin Zhao Prison.

Zhao Min said: "After hearing the news of your arrest, our people did everything possible to inquire about the place where you were being held, and yesterday I only learned that the Dog Emperor actually locked you up in Shanglin Yuan, and I will come immediately tonight, Liu Dan, come with me." ”

Suddenly, my heart pounded, if I escaped from prison, like a fish into the sea, like a bird into the forest, after that, the sky is wide, no longer suffer from coercion, no longer have to worry about life, no need to think about how to please the emperor, no need to be in ugly politics, wandering between the mountains and rivers, free from the world, sitting and watching the clouds rise, chanting and appreciating the smoke, how free and easy?

It was as if a picture had unfolded in front of me, and I was fascinated by it......

However, unless I decide to become a permanent resident of the Han Dynasty, all this is just a meaningless fantasy.

I knocked my head to sober myself up, and sighed, "I'm sorry, no." ”

Zhao Min frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly: "I persuaded you to go with me that day, and it is reasonable for you to refuse, but now that you are in prison and life and death are unpredictable, and you have the opportunity to leave, why do you have to sit and wait for death? Do you really want to be Liu Che's loyal minister?"

"I don't have my own reasons. I said slowly. "Besides, I don't want to owe you a favor from your master, I can't afford to pay it back. ”

Zhao Min pursed his lips in disgust and said, "It's my own business that I came to save my friend, and it has nothing to do with my master." ”

"How can it be irrelevant? In order to save me, you actually used it in the internal response of the edict, and said that it was your own business?" "How can her master not know about such a big thing as robbing the prison, and she doesn't know whether this girl is lying to me or herself.

Zhao Min looked at me thoughtfully and asked, "Are you not leaving, is it because you have already decided to agree to the emperor's request?"

It seemed that a basin of cold water was poured on my head, I was stunned, anger rose from the bottom of my heart, and my tone became sharp: "Are you looking for someone to spy on me?"

Zhao Min consciously lost his words, and said with a smile: "It's not surveillance, it's just a coincidence that I learned about it, Brother Dan doesn't have to mind." ”

At that time, in my eyes, she was just a little girl in a mountain village, with a rustic name called Zhao Xiujiao, and then Zhao Xiujiao became Zhao Min, and then Zhao Min became the one in front of me who seemed familiar and seemed unfamiliar...... I don't know what to call her.

History is destined to move forward, and people like me who live more and more will probably only have one in 2,000 years. So Zhao Min became like this, (it should be said that she was originally like this, and now she is showing it.) Not surprising at all. It's just, it's a bit of a pity.

"Forget it. I said lightly. "Anyway, I'm not interested in your master, and even less in what you're going to do, go back, I don't want us to be friends with each other. ”

In the end, it was a sixteen-year-old child, who was snubbed by me like this, Zhao Min couldn't stand it, blushed, stomped his feet and said, "You really refuse to go with me?"

I was silent.

Zhao Min bit her lower lip, said with red circles in her eyes: "One day I will let you know that I really treat you as a friend." Then he turned and left.

I naturally believe in her sincerity, but I don't trust her master, and I can't convince myself to believe in a woman who is blind by love, and such a woman has too many variables for the sake of the person she loves, and I don't think that our friendship is strong enough to rival her love, at least not yet.

Standing in front of the cell door for a while, he found that his mood was even worse, he sighed heavily, and was about to turn around, when he heard a dull sound in his ears, and looked at it intently, and was surprised. I saw that the wall on the opposite side of the cell slowly moved and opened, and it turned out to be a secret door! Behind the secret door, a man walked out with his hands on his back.

My heart was so shocked that it almost stopped beating, that person was actually Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!

I have imagined more than once that the Emperor would come, but never in this way, and in this situation.

"See Your Majesty. Although he was a little in a hurry, he didn't forget to salute the emperor.

The Emperor stretched out his hand and said gently, "Get up." ”

When I stood up, he didn't let go of his hand holding me, but still held my arms and looked at me with burning eyes. I was embarrassed to take a step back, but he grabbed my arm with both hands, and whispered in my ear, "I am very happy that you refuse to go with her." ”

And sure enough, he saw them all.

I managed to break free from his grip, quickly retreated to a safe distance, bowed my head, and said, "The minister just knows that His Majesty will definitely have an arrangement. ”

The Emperor was not impressed by my resistance, but still smiled and said, "Yes, since that day, the whereabouts of this female assassin have been completely in my hands. I heard that she would come to rob the prison tonight, and I was very curious to know if she could succeed, so I came to take a look. ”

There were words in his words, and I felt a chill in my heart, feeling that the hairs on my body stood on end, and I was afraid that if I really agreed to go with Zhao Min at that time, what would be the result?

The emperor seemed to be in a good mood, and sat down on the couch with a smile, his eyes kept rolling over me, and his expression was extremely ambiguous.

The chill faded, but my heart was like fifteen buckets, seven up and eight down, and I was uneasy. There are still four days left before the appointment date, and I don't want to face the emperor at this time, I'm afraid that one of them will not be able to bear it and cause extraneous branches.

But the emperor obviously didn't intend to let me go, so he actually beckoned to me and said, "Come and sit with me." ”

I have a strange illusion in my heart, this dilapidated cell is Weiyang Palace, and I am the concubine who comes and goes at his beckon.

A certain Jia stiffened his scalp and squeezed out a smile and said: "Your Majesty, this place is damp and cold, and it is inconvenient for Your Majesty's golden body to stay for a long time, so let's go back to the palace." ”

The emperor didn't mind my eviction order, and said with a smile: "Before leaving the palace, I gave myself an expectation in my heart......" He smiled and stared into my eyes, which were as deep as the sea in the moonlight. "Expect one person to come out and two people to go back. ”

This is not like the emperor will say, and this expression is not like the emperor will have, removing the dignity and majesty of the emperor, covering up the condescending Son of Heaven Tianwei, like the most ordinary but sincere man, the "sensibility" revealed is heartwarming.

If I weren't Liu Dan, if I were another woman, a Han Dynasty woman who didn't have another man in her heart, I would definitely be moved, and I would be moved as a matter of course.

He is a young and handsome, wise and wise emperor of the ages, "outstanding and outstanding" is not enough to describe his person, "ancient and modern" is not enough to describe his merits, although later he was a little more affectionate, vicious, superstitious, but the twenty-three-year-old Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is undeniably a charismatic man, can be favored by such a man, who is not a normal woman who is not dreaming?

However, there may be some people who have experienced love many times in their lives, and there may be people who have never had it once, and I, in the future, I don't know how, in the past twenty-five years, have only been moved and loved by a man, and it has not faded to this day.

My heart, beating in my chest, has its own emotions, its own will and choices, and as the owner of this heart, I can't do anything about it.

So what should I do? Grateful and pretending to respond to him? Pretending not to know how to be confused? Or rejecting him in a roundabout and tactful way? If he was just an ordinary man, I would have a hundred ways to deal with it, but he was a man with the power of life and death named Liu Che, and neither method was suitable for him. So I stood still, unable to speak or move.

The Emperor waited quietly for my answer, as if to be more patient with me, and stared at me with only a pair of eyes that could not be hidden, and as if there were a thousand ants crawling on him, and he was so sad that he died. In the end, I was really defeated and spoke first, because my heart was weak and I lacked confidence: "That, Your Majesty, it seems that there is still ...... Four days. ”

I cautiously raised my eyes and quickly glanced at the emperor, and sure enough, the emperor's face changed slightly, and he was silent for a moment and laughed softly: "Seven days, there has never been a woman who can make me wait for seven days." No, no one has ever dared to let me wait. ”

He stood up and walked up to me, looked down at me, with indescribable complex emotions in his eyes, and said in a deep voice with questioning, "Who are you?

He was so close to me that I immediately tensed up and felt my hair stand on end. His face slowly approached me, gradually expanding, and I subconsciously quickly turned my face, his lips brushing over my cheek.

I hurriedly stepped back, bowing my head, but he pressed forward and forced me into a corner. It's easy to get out of this situation, one punch is enough, but at this time, do I dare to hit the emperor?

With the cold wall on my back, and there was no way back, he stretched out his hands and propped them up on the walls on either side of me, and wrapped me in his arms, and he leaned down and met me eye to nose and nose and mouth to mouth. The breath is clear and audible.

......He stared into my eyes, his face flushed, and his voice became hoarse and soft. "What is the reason for me to wait for seven days?"

My heart was beating like a drum, panic was like a rabbit, and if this dark atmosphere was not cleared up as soon as possible, I was afraid that the cell would become a cave tonight.

Struggling with what was left of my sanity, I spotted a gap and peeked out from under his arm, and the Emperor, stunned by my sudden action, turned to stare at me with a faint disappointment and anger in his eyes.

I tried my best to calm down and quickly construct a clear response in my blank mind: "Maybe it's expected, maybe it's unexpected, whatever the outcome, isn't the waiting process itself a pleasure?

Hearing my words, the emperor was stunned for a moment, then thoughtful, and then said with a pun: "So, Liu Qing wants to add some fun to me?

Immediately, I blushed.

Who captured whom, who indulged whom? If you hadn't pushed people too far, I would have made such a decision? Wasn't it because of "who has the power and who is the boss"?

Seeing my embarrassed appearance, the emperor was very happy, and walked to my side with ease, looking at me with a smile at the corners of his eyebrows and eyes, and I had to laugh with him, and I really pinched a cold sweat in my heart.

"Do you remember the first time we met?" the Emperor asked suddenly, and without waiting for me to answer, he continued to speak to himself. "I was chased by the Assassins, and you suddenly descended from the sky like a divine soldier, and in a few clicks you saved me from the siege. ”

I smiled bitterly: What is like a divine soldier falling from the sky, it is clearly a free fall in all directions, which is also too beautified.

I only heard the emperor continue: "Your words and deeds made me mistakenly think that you were a man, until you passed out and I hugged you, and I knew that you were a woman." I've been very fond of you ever since. ”

These words are straightforward and undisguised, he is the emperor, naturally he wants what he wants, he can say whatever he wants, maybe in his concept, there has never been the word "refuse", even if my attitude is so clear the first few times, it can't let his confidence be frustrated in the slightest.

His gaze wandered over my face, waiting for my reaction.

Growing up so big, words like "I like you" and "I love you" have never been said to me, not Xiao Jian. For the first time in my life, I was confessed by a man, and there was no excitement and joy in my heart at all, only fear and worry.

I can't give him a satisfactory response, of course, because of Xiao Jian, but even without Xiao Jian, I wouldn't fall in love with this person, but it is purely because of the different concepts caused by different time and space.

He is the emperor, and there are countless women in the harem who crave his favor, can you imagine the absurdity of being one of them?

He is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and I have a fatal flaw in my character, which is preconceived. In the history books, legends, and stories, there are too many records about Liu Che that I have heard and seen, his exploits and his great deeds are not in my eyes at all, and most of his humanity and his feelings are negative, so from the very beginning, I had a respectful attitude towards him, and I couldn't be moved by his repeated overtures, and I felt burdened, all because of this reason.

I can be his courtier, respect him and even be loyal to him, but I just can't like him like him as a woman. Women in ancient times could accept loveless marriage and take it for granted, but I am a modern person, and I can't.

I sighed secretly, carefully worded: "Your Majesty is wrong to love, and the minister is grateful." When he was in Shanglin Yuan, the minister once talked about the marriage customs of men and women in the Western Regions, I wonder if Your Majesty still remembers?"

The emperor's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "The memory is still fresh. ”

I met his gaze and said, "The education that the minister has received since his childhood is very different from the tradition of the Han Dynasty, and it cannot be reversed for a while. In particular, the concept of polygamous marriage, the minister still can't agree with it, although the minister admires His Majesty, but if this mentality does not change, I am afraid that in the future, His Majesty's previous dynasty will have fewer famous ministers, and the harem will have more jealous women. ”

The suffering of jealous women, with Chen Ajiao's experience, Liu Che must have a deep experience.

The emperor's expression really froze, but he smiled with relief: "With my favor, why should Liu Qing be jealous of her?"

I also laughed and sneered, and the words were a little harsh: "The prince of Israel, the decline of love, there was Empress Chen in the past, and the current Mrs. Wei, how long can Your Majesty favor the ministers?"

The emperor's expression changed drastically, and he was speechless for a long time.

I continued: "It's good to say that if he falls out of favor in the court, even a weak woman like the queen will be unwilling, and with the heart and ability of the minister, what will he do at that time, the minister himself can't predict, is Your Majesty sure you really want a woman like me to enrich your harem?"

What crazy things the queen did after falling out of favor, Liu Che will definitely not forget!

The Emperor remained silent, and looked at me steadily, as if frightened by my words.

I continued to persuade and persuade at the right time: "The minister may not be a good woman, but he will definitely be a good courtier." Rather than falling into a situation of entanglement of love and hatred and endless grievances, why shouldn't Your Majesty make good use of your minister's talents and help Your Majesty achieve great achievements? Your Majesty should weigh carefully, do you want a loyal and capable minister who can help Your Majesty, or a vase that can be placed in the Weiyang Palace for a momentary appreciation?"

Silence, the silence of reluctance......

Cold sweat seeped through my hairline, and I didn't dare to look at him anymore, worried that it would backfire. I prayed to myself: Oh my God, you are the only one who can save me now.

Finally waited for the emperor to speak, "Seven days, just to weigh the pros and cons of entering the palace?"

God bless me!

I lowered my head and said, "Such an important choice, the minister has to be very cautious. ”

"Choice?" the Emperor's voice tensed, a precursor to anger, and my heart sank, ready for the coming storm.

Unexpectedly, the emperor smiled faintly, defused the tense atmosphere, and said: "Yes, it is your style to make a decision after weighing everything." But what if I only want a vase?"

My heart immediately began to move irregularly in my chest, and I settled down, and decided to take a risk, and said with pretense of calmness: "If Your Majesty weighs such a conclusion, the minister will be happy to be a ...... who does not have to produce, work, or plan Vase. ”

The Emperor reached out to hold my chin, and I was startled, and just as I tried to avoid it, his other hand grasped my shoulder tightly, and with an aggressive smile on the corner of his mouth, he said word by word: "I will make you a vase as you wish." ”

The head exploded with a "buzz", God, it still doesn't bless me!