The snow was flying, overwhelming, and the wind, sweeping the large snowflakes, tumbling and screaming fiercely, like an enemy, and swept into the air and then to the ground.

Looking out of the window, I saw a white expanse, the reckless wind and snow covered everything, anger, sadness, helplessness, longing, and countless confusion and helplessness.

The room was small, with a pile of hay in the corner and a wooden toilet next to the wooden fence that someone would clean up every morning. Even so, the room was filled with a sour smell, and apart from the smell and the insects crawling on the ground, the place was refreshing and clean......! Cell!

I was imprisoned 2,000 years ago, and I was the first person in history, and I must apply for the Guinness Book of World Records when I go back. (three wry laughs)

After standing by the window for a moment, I felt my head swollen, my limbs numb, and a feeling of collapse coming at me, and I turned around, and by the light of the oil lamp, like a bean, I saw a worm crawling on the ground with many legs, slowly crawling towards my bed, the pile of hay.

Maybe it's cold, poor bug, too, but it shouldn't covet my bed.

On the side of the couch, how can it be tolerated...... I happily tampered with the idioms refined by my ancestors, and trampled the reptile to death.

Sitting weakly on the hay, smelling the rancid smell on his body, he felt a wave of nausea. For three whole days, Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty threw me to this ghost place and ignored me, so that I didn't have to take a bath, I didn't have to wash my hair, hmph, maybe one day I won't even have my head.

Privately release the assassins, and ten heads are not enough to cut off.

I lay on my back on the "bed" and stared at the roof in a daze, thinking for the hundredth time about death...... Will you die? will you be beheaded and abandon the city, or will you be poisoned by white silk, or will you die of starvation?

I don't want to die, even if I die, I can't die in this hellish place, I will die without turning a blind eye.

There was a "bang" of chains, and the jailer opened the door and walked in, shouting angrily, "It's time to eat." After that, he threw the rice bowl in front of me, stared at me with disdain, and muttered: "I look like a human being, and I have the audacity to assassinate His Majesty the Emperor, and I am impatient." ”

I told him slowly and seriously: "It's not an assassination of His Majesty, it's a private assassin." ”

"Aren't they all capital crimes?" the jailer prick up his eyes at me. opened the door and went out, and then "slammed" the lock, and added a sentence very firmly before leaving: "It's dead." ”

I stared at the bowl of "rice" in a daze, it was a mass of colorful things, I couldn't tell which was rice and which was vegetables, because it was cold, and I couldn't smell it, but according to the jailer, it was the best "food" in the prison, and in my opinion, it was not much different from pig food.

I would never eat pig food, so I only drank a little water for three days, and my whole body was so hungry that my heart was close to my back, my strength was gradually exhausted, and my hands and feet were gradually weakened, and if I continued like this, I would die of hunger if I could not wait for the judgment.

But I have a lot of backbone, and I'd rather die than eat pig food.

Because I believe that the emperor will not let me die, there are so many mysteries in me, if he does not make it clear, how can he be willing to let me die? After I die, all the secrets will become a dead knot, knotted in his heart, let him guess, let him think, because he can't get an answer and have trouble sleeping, according to Liu Che's character, he will never allow this kind of thing to happen, therefore, no matter what kind of decision he makes, he will come to see me, and that side is my life.

I didn't want to eat, I just wanted that life to come sooner.

However, the taste of hunger is really painful, and if it weren't for this kind of leftovers in front of me, I guess I wouldn't be able to hold it back.

Half an hour later, the jailer came to collect the bowl, saw the slightest bit of untouched food, and scolded with a nose and a face: "Do you still think that you are a servant of the Son of Heaven? Why, the food is not delicious? Lao Tzu told you that the thief who plotted to assassinate you is a waste of this rice." After speaking, he snorted coldly, put away the bowl and left scolding.

I didn't have the strength to be angry with him, I just felt that even the word "weak" was in my fingernails.

Liu Che, aren't you coming yet? Do you really want me to die?

Dizzy, I didn't fall asleep, I slept until midnight, and suddenly I was awakened by the sound of chains, and I opened my heavy eyelids and looked, Hey, someone really came, but it wasn't the emperor but Wei Qing.

"Zhongqing!" I struggled to remember, Wei Qing's face was a little haggard, put down the food box in his hand, took two steps to help me up, there was worry and helplessness in his eyes, and said, "I heard the jailer say, you refuse to eat, why are you so bad of yourself?"

My hair was heavy, my eyes were glazed, my limbs were weak, and I said, "If you were given pig food, would you eat it?"

A trace of anger flew up his eyebrows, and Wei Qing said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, they treat you like this." ”

He got up and shouted angrily, "Someone." ”

"Forget it. I whispered to stop him. "It has nothing to do with them, this kind of place, do you want to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas?"

Wei Qing's face turned pale, his eyes were red, he squatted in front of me and said, "Don't worry, I will order someone to prepare a meal for you alone in the future." As he spoke, he brought the food box to me. "This is prepared by the dining room in my house, you can eat some. ”

"Fool, do you think I really want to starve myself?" I said, leaning against the wall, breathlessly. "I just want to force the emperor to come to see me. ”

Wei Qing lowered his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that I won't come to see you for a while." ”

Hearing this, I sneered in my heart, I still exalted Liu Che too much, the emperor is the emperor, and the people who expect to impress him with the "love" in human nature are all fools, in the emperor's heart, except for himself, he is the world............ More precisely, for the emperor, the world is him, he is the world, the two are inseparable, and with supreme and unquestionable authority, no one can offend or blaspheme in the slightest. As for other people, whether it is a relative, a courtier, or a woman you like, they are just accessories, one more, the icing on the cake, one less, without harming the elegance, anyway, there are many accessories, one grabs a handful, one disappears, and soon there will be fills in the gaps.

Thinking of me Liu Dan, in the end, I am just an ordinary woman, ask myself, haven't you also secretly hoped, or in the emperor's heart, after all, is there something different? Because of this difference, maybe he will look at this matter in a different way, look at me, at least have the patience to explore the reason why I do this.

However, reality mocked me mercilessly, completely shattered my illusion of trying to be equal to the emperor from the perspective of personality, and even more shattered my illusion about the "sensibility" of the emperor.

In that case, why should I abuse myself, and if there is really no way out, I still need strength to escape from prison!

The aroma hit the food box, I swallowed my saliva, unceremoniously picked up a piece of chicken leg and ate it, Wei Qing looked at me, and said with pity in his eyes: "Liu Dan, you really got into trouble this time." ”

I gobbled up the chicken leg and said nonchalantly, "I don't think so." ”

Wei Qing said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty is wise and wise, eloquent and broad-minded, and he is a rare Ming Jun throughout the ages, but there is only one thing, he absolutely can't tolerate it." ”

"I know. I interrupted him coldly, I didn't think Emperor Wu of Han was as perfect as he said.

"Doesn't he just can't tolerate those who oppose him?" I sneered. "But what I'm curious about is that when I let Zhao Min go, he was obviously beside him, why didn't he take her down immediately at that time, but let me let him go?"

Wei Qing was speechless and looked at me silently.

An uncontrollable anger surged from the bottom of my heart, and I said excitedly: "He has long intended to let Zhao Min go, in order to find the master behind the scenes, so he didn't show up knowing my relationship with Zhao Min, and used me to let go of the assassin, and then blamed me, you emperor is really calculating, I don't know if he is wise and wise, but I can see clearly that he is insidious and treacherous!"

It was reasonable for me to let the assassin go to prison privately, but what made me really angry was that he showed favor to me while turning his face, and when he turned his face, he "yinned" me like this, how could I swallow this breath?

Seeing that I criticized the emperor so boldly, Wei Qing's face couldn't help but change slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Don't you want to live? ”

I took a big bite of the chicken and said viciously, "I don't have to kill him, he wants to kill me, he is still tender." ”

was already weak, and this anger came up with blood, and he suddenly coughed non-stop, and then he was dizzy.

Wei Qing hurriedly reached behind my back to smooth out this breath and said, "Speak quietly, don't be angry." ”

I gasped so hard that I couldn't speak anymore. I only heard Wei Qing say: "He is the emperor, and he is already extremely angry when he is assassinated, but you, as his favored courtier, ignore the law and discipline, and openly rebel against the party, Your Majesty did not behead you on the spot, it is already a great grace, do you not know how to be grateful?"

"I ......" I followed this tone, and was about to talk back, when suddenly I said with a flash of wit: "Why should I be grateful? I naturally have my purpose in letting Zhao Min go, and he doesn't ask for any reason, so he stuffs me into this ghost place and wants me to be grateful? Am I crazy?"

Wei Qing asked in surprise: "You, let go of Zhao Min, could it be that it is also for the people behind her?"

"Of course!" I was in awe. "Otherwise, why would I let go of a person who deceived me so badly?"

Wei Qing patted his thigh when he heard this, and his face was full of frustration: "Why didn't you say this earlier?"

I was even more angry: "Did he give me a chance to speak? Without asking, he decided that I was acting for personal gain, and maybe he thought I was an assassin, wasting my loyalty, because he didn't even trust me!"

My posture is higher, and I have to act realistically, otherwise how can I get by.

Wei Qing sighed again and again, and said to me angrily and annoyedly: "Your Majesty didn't ask, you can say it first, why do you want to be angry with Your Majesty? Since you went to prison, we have tried our best to exonerate you, and Your Majesty has ignored everything, if it weren't for the illness and kneeling outside Your Majesty's bedroom for three days and three nights, you wouldn't even see my face today." ”

"What did you say?" I asked, shocked, the chicken leg in my mouth falling off. "What did you just say about Xiao Huo?"

Wei Qing glared at me angrily and said hatefully: "In order to intercede for you, he knelt outside His Majesty's bedroom for three days and three nights!"

I choked in my throat in one breath, and the heat wave instantly rushed straight to my eyes, I was heartbroken and angry, I didn't know where the strength came from, I stood up and jumped on my feet and screamed: "Three days and three nights? It's wind and snow outside, Xiao Huo is still so young, he can't bear to let him kneel like this?"

Wei Qing glared angrily and said, "Aren't they all thanks to you?"

I yelled, "Then what are you doing, why don't you stop him?"

Wei Qing was even more angry, and shouted without hesitation: "Even his parents can't stop him, can I stop him?" He is your good apprentice, except for you, the unlucky master, how can there be anyone else in his heart?"

I was so angry that tears flowed down my eyes.

When I was a child, I had only been at the orphanage for a month, and because I couldn't bear the fear of losing my loved ones and being in an unfamiliar environment, I secretly fled one night. It was also a snowy night, so I ran to the bus stop in thin clothes, hiding behind my chair and shivering. In the middle of the night, there was no one on the street, let alone a car, when I was almost frozen, Xiao Jian appeared, his face was purple from the cold, and he was cold, the little Xiao Jian took off his down jacket and put it on me, and covered my ears with my little hands that were purple and red from the cold, at that time, I was also crying like this, wrapping him in that down jacket.

A down jacket, wrapped around two small bodies, warmed each other and supported each other in the wind and snow.

Later, I learned that Xiao Jian had traveled almost the entire neighborhood where we were in order to find me, and God knows how vast that neighborhood was for a six-year-old child.

In the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago, the sky was still full of snow, and it was still that little face, also for me, experiencing the torture and pain that I should not have experienced at this age.

I closed my eyes, my heart burning like a fire, and no matter how much tears flowed, I couldn't seem to breathe.

Xiao Huo ...... Xiao Jian!

Liu Che !!

I shouted his name angrily, and there was fire burning in every pore on my hands, feet, hair, and body, and I grabbed Wei Qing's collar and roared: "I want to see him, take me to see him immediately, I want to ask him, how can he bear to treat an eight-year-old child like this? Does he still have any humanity? Take me to see him! Immediately! Immediately!"

This last rage used up all my strength, and I only felt that the world was spinning and my eyes were dark, and I fainted.

When I woke up, I was in Wei Qing's arms, and he was sitting on the hay with me in his arms, and he was holding a bowl of hot water in his hand trying to feed me.

"The official doctor came and said that you were only weak from hunger, which caused you to fall into a coma. Eat something and it will be fine. Wei Qing said with concern.

I drank water from his hand and asked, "Xiao Huo...... How is he?"

Wei Qing comforted me and said: "Blame me for not making it clear, although I knelt for three days and three nights, I didn't kneel in the wind and snow, but in the corridor outside His Majesty's bedroom, and ......"

Struggling to sit up from Wei Qing's arms, I said unevenly: "Aren't they all the same......?

Wei Qing said: "Your Majesty is not as ruthless as you think, although he refuses to ignore the illness, but he tells the palace maid to take good care of him, it is a futon and a warm basin, but he is just a child after all......"

I was anxious and urged, "What the hell is going on with him?"

Wei Qing smiled bitterly: "It's just sick, it's very serious, the imperial doctor said that the wind and cold have entered the body, and you need to recuperate well." ”

Wind chill into the body!

Thinking that Huo Qu's illness only lived for a short time of twenty-four years before he suddenly contracted the disease and died, I don't know if it was related to the illness when I was a child, when I thought of it, my heart was even more sad, guilt, self-blame, anger, helplessness, all kinds of emotions came to my heart.

Suddenly he wanted to leave and said, "Where is Fuyong?

Wei Qing patted his head: "Yes, why did you forget him? He is a miracle doctor in Bigu, and he will definitely be able to cure the disease." I'll go find him tomorrow!"

Fu Yong's medical skills are not only "magical" can be described as "magical"? I was also slightly relieved to ask him to treat Xiao Huo.

I asked, "What is the emperor going to do with me?" I want to go out, I must go out as soon as possible, I want to see Xiao Huo!

Wei Qing handed the food to me, his eyes flickered, and said, "Now it's not just Your Majesty's problem, there are other people who want to kill you. ”

I felt a chill in my heart: "The Queen Mother?"

Wei Qing was surprised: "You guessed?"

"The two most powerful women in the Han Dynasty, apart from the Queen Mother and the Empress, which one else. "I eat with my head down, I need physical strength, if I really can't get out, I have to use the next strategy - escape from prison.

Wei Qing asked: "It is reasonable for the queen to want to kill me, she has done the same thing more than once, do you know why the queen mother wants to kill you?"

I looked up at him steadily, "Do you know why?"

Wei Qing nodded and said, "The Queen Mother suspects that you have a ...... with Your Majesty Dye. Saying the word "infected", Wei Qing's face flushed.

I was shocked: "The Queen Mother knows that I am a woman?"

"It's not. Wei Qing looked at me awkwardly. "If I had known that you were a woman, I would not have done this to you. She is worried that Her Majesty will suffer from Longyang's fetish because of you and lose the virtue of the emperor, so she wants to kill you. ”

I see!

I couldn't help but laugh and said, "Which eye does her old man see that I have that kind of relationship with His Majesty?" I have been cautious and careful since I became an official, and I have tried my best to avoid being alone with the emperor, and there should be no such rumors under any circumstances.

However, could it be that Liu Che was not a homosexual as many people speculated, otherwise why would the Empress Dowager be so nervous about this? It should be commonplace for the emperors of the Han Dynasty to keep male pets, such as Deng Tong and Zhao Tan of Emperor Wen, aren't they also recorded by historians, and the words are conclusive and convincing?

Isn't that the case?

Wei Qing furrowed his eyebrows and looked very depressed, and said, "It's all your Majesty's fault for being too attentive to you." ”

I said impatiently, "What happened to me that I don't know." ”

Wei Qing said: "Things have to start with our envoy to Minyueguo, after we left Chang'an, Your Majesty was in suspense day and night, difficult to sleep and eat, and difficult to understand, it is said that those days, the days in the palace were very difficult, Your Majesty's emotions became particularly sensitive and irritable, and you were angry at every turn, and then someone reported Your Majesty's situation to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother paid attention to it, and all kinds of signs showed that Your Majesty was so abnormal because of your Liu Dan, so on the day of return, the Queen Mother sent someone to kill you, but you died a great death. And after you were injured, His Majesty's performance made the Queen Mother even more convinced of this matter, and her hatred for you was like making it worse, this time you caused such a big disaster, she didn't take this opportunity to get rid of you? You said that you let go of Zhao Min just to track down other comrades, even if this is true, the Queen Mother will not let you go because of this. ”

It turns out that the culprit is actually the emperor! There are empresses and ladies in his palace, and a lot of women are still not satisfied, so why do they always worry about me? Typical womanizer!

My dislike for Liu Che has increased dramatically.

Wei Qing said again: "If you let Zhao Min go, Your Majesty will be furious, but he will never kill you because of this." But now because of the Queen Mother, this matter has become tricky and difficult to handle, so there is only one way to save your life at the moment. ”

When he said this, Wei Qing's expression was sad and angry, and he was depressed and helpless, and I guessed what the so-called solution was.

Wei Qing lowered his eyelids and said slowly: "Your Majesty said that you can only show your identity to the Queen Mother, and then ......"

I was furious: "Then the emperor's woman fills his harem, right." ”

Wei Qing smiled bitterly: "This is indeed a good way, otherwise you will be deceived by pretending to be a man, if you are held accountable, it will still be a dead end, and if you enter the palace, the Queen Mother will naturally embarrass you in the face of His Majesty." ”

I glared at him and smiled mockingly, and said mercilessly: "The emperor is really good, he even let his brother-in-law find a woman for him." Wei Qing, Wei Qing, even if it is for your sister, you shouldn't go on this troubled water, are you really so desperate for the emperor?"

Wei Qing's face flushed, and he was embarrassed to turn his face away and not squeak.

I gritted my teeth and said stubbornly: "Tell you, I won't enter the palace if I die!"

Wei Qing whispered, "This is the only way to save your life." ”

I sneered and replied to him with a righteous and awe-inspiring sentence: "If you are not free, you would rather die." ”

Wei Qing stared at me for a long time, and then said with a sad face: "I'm afraid I can't help you in this matter." He stood up and paced around the cell.

I was distraught and ate a few more bites of food, saying, "No matter what, I will never enter the palace......"

Settle your mind and think of another important thing.

"Zhongqing...... "I called his name, thinking about how to tell him about it. "You tell me the truth, don't you want me to enter the palace?"

Wei Qing was stunned for a moment, his face changed slightly, and finally nodded honestly, and said, "One of you is my friend and the other is my sister, I don't want to see any of you sad because of each other, do you understand?"

I took out a cool expression and said, "I don't want to enter the palace, it's just that I don't want to be one of the emperor's many women." But if I am forced to enter the palace, I will do everything I can to please the emperor and make him spoil me alone, so the sad one must be your sister. ”

Wei Qing's face changed greatly, although I am his friend, I am just a foreign surname after all, but Wei Zifu is the honor and disgrace of the Wei family, and it is reasonable for him to be more concerned about his sister.

I continued to force him: "As long as your sister falls out of favor, your ambitions, your ambitions will never be realized, although you don't have to be a slave rider anymore, but you can only do nothing and spend your life in vain, Zhongqing, are you willing?"

Wei Qing's young face was cloudy, and he said angrily: "You just want me to help you get out, why don't you say it and use this to provoke me? Could it be that Wei Qing is just a person who cares about the honor and disgrace of the family and personal gains and losses, and does not care about the righteousness of his friends?"

"Of course not. "I say for sure. "But I know the weight of the emperor in your heart, you respect him and even worship him, take today's incident as an example, he wants me to enter the palace, no matter how unhappy you are, how angry you are, you still came according to his orders, right?"

Wei Qing took a deep breath, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes were full of anger, I knew that he was not angry with me, but with himself.

I slowed down and said, "For me and your sister, for your own sake, you must help me with this favor." ”

"I said earlier, if you want, I will definitely help you, now you say, how can you help?" Wei Qing had determination in his eyes.

I was overjoyed and whispered: "Zhao Min told me before leaving, I am afraid that the whereabouts of Hetian Yu will fall on the emperor. ”

Wei Qing said disappointedly: "Why is it Hetian jade again? Now that your life is at stake, you are still thinking about finding that broken jade, this Hetian jade is really so important to you?"

Naturally, I couldn't tell him the truth, in case this kid would sell me again in a hurry to show his loyalty.

I said, "Hetian jade is not valuable in itself, but it is very important to me. ”

Wei Qing interrupted me and said, "I know, you said that it is proof of your identity and the key to your home. But as long as Your Majesty makes a holy decree, your relatives will rush to recognize each other, I don't understand, why can't you go home without it? Also, since the day you entered Chang'an, you have come to find Hetian jade, open a museum, be an official, everything is for it, you have spared no effort for this piece of jade to be so sad, it is impossible not to suspect that there is some secret mystery in it. ”

Tonight's Wei Qing changed his previous calm and quiet, and he was a little impetuous.

I said calmly: "That's right, Hetian Yu does have a big secret. ”

"Huh?" Wei Qing was slightly stunned. "Is there really a secret? Or did you make it up?"

"You don't have to ask about this, you just need to help me do one thing......" It doesn't matter whether Wei Qing believes it or not, the important thing is that he is willing to help me.

"Say, what do you want me to do. ”

"When you go back, tell the emperor that I will consider it carefully and give him an answer in seven days. I stared at Wei Qing with sparkling eyes. "You are familiar with every corner of Weiyang Palace, so use these seven days to help me find the whereabouts of Hetian Yu in the palace. ”

Wei Qing said in surprise: "Do you really believe Zhao Min's words? She is His Majesty's opponent, how can you believe her words?"

At this time, it is better to believe that it is there than to believe that it is not. I said sternly. "You can go to your sister and ask her to question the emperor's tone, and maybe there will be an unexpected gain. If Hetian Yu is really in the hands of the emperor, he should be able to find it, as long as he finds the jade, I will pretend to agree to the emperor's request, and after being released from prison, I will immediately take Hetian Yu away and fly away, and there will be no Liu Dan in the Han Dynasty from then on. ”

I will hide incognito until the Mid-Autumn Festival in August next year, and travel back home.

Wei Qing listened to my plan, pondered for a long time, and asked, "What if I can't find it within seven days, or I can't get it if I find it, or if I can't find it, or if Hetian Yu is not with His Majesty at all?"

"I'll find another way to get out, in short, it's still the same sentence, you can't go to the palace in life, and you can't go to hell in death. I said firmly.

Wei Qing asked reluctantly, "Can you tell me, what is the secret of Hetian Yu?"

I thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, Hetian Yu's secret is only related to my life experience, so when we part, I will tell you everything." ”

Wei Qing asked someone to bring a pen and a book, and I drew the shape of Hetian jade to him, so that he could follow the map. Some possible situations and how to deal with them were discussed, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that Wei Qing left.

Before leaving, I told him: "Don't forget to go to Fuyong and ask him to help Xiaohuo heal." ”