lotus carp

I am a girl.

A girl who bullied the emperor and was exiled to the frontier.

Sickness comes like a mountain, and goes away like silk.From that day on, I had a high fever that never went away, and I stayed in bed for more than half a month.When I finally regained my composure, the waning moon came to report: Madam has been missing for some time.

I was too lazy to correct Can Yue's name for Cui Xiu, and I didn't send anyone to track down Cui Xiu's whereabouts.I thought, I ruined Zhuo Lian's future, and now I can only repay her by letting her personal servant girl be free.

But I don't know what kind of disaster this sympathy brought me.

There are people from the palace.I was half-supported and half-pulled into the carriage in the eunuch's eccentric tone, and then walked into a place similar to a palace surrounded by a group of extremely strange servants. Someone kicked my knee, and I knelt down unexpectedly Pour onto the smooth, cool floor.

"Jiang Aiqing." The emperor's voice echoed in the empty hall, with the majesty of a superior, like a strange reminder: "I heard...you have kept some things from me?"

Many fragments suddenly flashed in my mind.I think of Cui Xiu's exclamation when she appeared in my room that night, her sarcasm of "quiet carp" after waking up, and her mysterious disappearance in Zhuangyuan's mansion after I fell ill...

A drop of cold sweat slid down my temples, and I knew I was doomed this time.

"Weichen, you deserve death." Anyway, it doesn't make much difference to me whether I am dead or alive.

"Ai Qing is a smart person, so I won't say much." As soon as the emperor's words fell, a group of skilled guards took me down and locked me in a place full of damp straw and the sound of rats.

Bullying the emperor is a capital crime, I have no other ideas, just waiting for the day of execution.

The dampness and dead silence of the cell made the time pass extraordinarily long and unbearable. I don't know how long it took before I finally heard the sound of the iron lock being opened.I was put on a heavy wooden shackle and taken out of the cell.

I know that every step is approaching death, but I walk extra calmly.The two people who looked like jailers who were guarding me started talking in a low voice: "This kid is lucky, the bully can escape to death."

I was surprised and said, "What's the meaning of this brother? Isn't this on the way to execution?"

"It's also your life that shouldn't die. It was supposed to be executed today, but yesterday the empress gave birth to a pair of princes. His majesty was so happy that he gave birth to a pair of sons. He pardoned the world. No, you will be exiled when you go out. Although it is still bitter, After all, my life was saved, right?" The elder brother jailer had a rare gentle attitude and said a lot, presumably it was because of the happy events in the palace that scattered a lot of rewards.

"Thank you, Brother Jailer." I replied obediently, but there was no fluctuation in my heart. In fact, for a lonely person like me, the exile prolongs the cycle of death, which is really not something to be happy about.

My place of exile is Toyosu, all the way to the south, getting closer to Gusu, and further away from Gusu.Of course, it is impossible for the exile team to pass through a prosperous city like Gusu.

Most of the exile journeys were in desolate villages or forests, the conditions were harsh, my eyesight was bad, and my physical condition was getting worse every day. Finally, three hundred miles away from Toyosu, I fell ill.

I was very ill, and my daily steps were dragged by the prison guards. I was only awake for a few moments every day, but I wished I could faint again to avoid the pain all over my body.My eyes started to leak pus, and I had a high fever all day long. I couldn't eat or drink for two or three days.

Finally, on a rainy night, the jailer threw me to a certain wilderness.They probably wanted me to die right away, so it wouldn't be a dereliction of duty to lose one burden.

It is understandable, after all, they are here to escort people, not to serve them.Drenched in the rain, I was rarely sober.Maybe it's a flashback, I thought.

It's quite simple to die like this.