Gu Qingci

"The flowers in the spring forest are so charming, and the birds in spring are so sad. The spring breeze is full of love, blowing my clothes into bloom."

The hem of the spring shirt was blown freely by the wind, and the hair was scattered. The flowers that had only bloomed a few days ago were also blown red and flying by the wind, and a cloud of dark clouds was blown to cover the sun.The warm and cold weather makes me feel uneasy.

I was escorted back to the mansion by the Imperial Forest Army.She did this to me for the first time.

Holding the jade hairpin on her head, she sat in the small garden in a daze.

Thinking of that strange map, Lord Zhang Yi's inexplicable disappearance, and the emperor's sudden cold attitude, the uneasiness in his heart was gradually magnified.

On the highest terrain in the northeast corner, a gourd-shaped water storage port was dug out.It's fine to use it properly, but once it is used by people with ulterior motives, it will flood Jinshan, and the four towns in the north will be submerged.

I panicked a lot, this is the most dangerous place in this gourd mouth.I checked the map three or four times before handing it in. How could there be an extra piece of this kind of thing?

Moreover, judging by the current situation, the Hulukou may have already been built.

An ominous foreboding came to mind.

Liu Yuehua and Zhang Yi went to the north to supervise the work together, and now Zhang Yi is gone, which is even more strange.I don't know how the emperor will ask the eldest princess about this.

Worrying about what Liu Yuehua will do is better than worrying about herself.I'm afraid that someone secretly manipulated Zhang Yi and me.

However, the emperor didn't ask me a single word other than asking me where Zhang Yi was, so I couldn't figure out her attitude.If you have doubts, why don't you just ask me?

Could it be that you don't trust me enough?

Suddenly, I felt uncomfortable, and the birds in the garden made people even more disturbed.The jade hairpin in my hand was thrown into the grass by me, and I didn't want to take another look.

"My lord," the butler hurried over across the courtyard, "it's bad, the Imperial Forest Army has surrounded the entire Yang Mansion. Miss Zhi wanted to go back to the mansion just now, but those soldiers wouldn't let her in."

"What?" I stood up from the bench, and my guess seemed to be confirmed.

When I arrived at the gate of Yangfu, as soon as I opened the door, I saw two soldiers on the left and right drew their swords and blocked me.

Yang Zhi stood beside the stone lion at the door with an anxious expression on his face.

"Sister, what's going on here?" She saw me showing my head, and ran over quickly—but she couldn't enter the door.

I smiled apologetically at the two soldiers and said, "You two, this is my sister, she must go home, can I let her in?"

No one of the two soldiers spoke, and an officer standing in the distance came and said to me with a serious face: "Master Yang has offended, the emperor has ordered that no one except you and your servants be allowed to enter the Yang mansion." You can't come out either, please stay in the mansion well."

Hearing this, Yang Zhi frowned and looked at me.

I don't know everything, but those words are not suitable for Yang Zhi.This year, because Yan Xi was going to take office, they didn't stay in Dongshan for a long time, and rushed back to the capital after the new year.After thinking about it, she made up her mind, raised her head and said to her, "Xiao Zhi, why don't you go to Mrs. Yan's house for a few days, okay?"

When Yang Zhi heard me say Yan Xi, she lowered her head a little bit embarrassed.

"Yes, yes, but sister, did you cause trouble? Seriously? Is the emperor very angry, will you be beheaded?"

She asked so many questions like a cannonball, I couldn't answer any of them.I can only comfort her first, and coax her back: "It's okay, it's not that serious, don't worry, go to Yan Xi's place for a few days first, and after a few days, the emperor will find out and I will be released."

"Can……"

"Look, I'm just being grounded now, not in jail, so I'm standing right in front of you, right? Don't worry."

Yangzhi finally nodded: "Okay, then I'll go first...you take care of yourself."

Watching Yang Zhi go away, the officer urged me to enter the mansion again.

The two mahogany doors were creaked shut, with shock and fear.

==

There was a sudden gust of wind, and the dust flew in the sky, which was both arrogant and confusing.

I'm in jail.The charge is collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country.

The officers and soldiers escorted me roughly to the Ministry of Punishment, and threw me heavily on the prison floor, forcing tears of pain out of me.

The prison window is so narrow that the daily sunlight is only the size of a square.

The straw piles on the ground were hard, and the bottom of the walls were covered with mildew.

I didn't wear much clothes, and a cold air rushed up from the soles of my feet, making me shiver from the cold.

I don't know what will happen this time, and I don't know what to do.There is no mention of this in the history books.

But this is not the most deadly.

Emotions of incomparable grievance and sadness poured out.I'm not a very strong person, even weak and a little pathological.Will be inferior, will despair, will belittle oneself.

In the previous life, he went mad in pain because he couldn't ask for it.I thought that when I came here, the wound would be healed, healed, and disappeared without a trace.

It turned out not to be so.

In such a cold and terrifying environment, I thought of the days when I hid in the study day after day and washed my face with tears.The emperor became an illusory image again.The scabbed scar suddenly had a bloodstain, and every drop fell on the heart.

I was too cowardly to face such a fragile self.There is no way to prove his innocence.

I thought that after doing these good things for her, and she condoned my many unruly behaviors, she could trust me unconditionally.

No, who is she?

Emperor Lingkong, who has never been seen before, who will never come again, is the holy ancestor of Daxing, and is praised and sought after by celebrities who have a long history.

Really dizzy.Thinking that he was getting closer to her, he cocked his tail to the sky and started to be complacent. He was so confident in himself.

Just now they slammed the jade pendant on the ground, and the jade pendant that had been tied to the belt also rolled to the ground at some point.

He picked it up slowly, and looked at it carefully again.

"The moon is the first to get near the water", and it may be the moon in the water or the flower in the mirror.The corners of his eyes were wet, and he finally cried out.

The body curled up together, and put the jade pendant into the closest inner lapel.The cold jade pendant suddenly fell into my arms, which made me shiver.This feeling is really like her.

==

The chief of the Punishment Department sat on a chair, with a table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone in front of him.He came to interrogate me.

"Yang Li, you've become a prisoner now, why don't you tell me the truth!"

Tell me, I didn't do anything.

"Don't talk? That's okay. I will tell you about your collaborating with the enemy and traitor!"

Just talking for myself.

"You, Yang Li, colluded with Zhang Yi to build a reservoir secretly in an attempt to flood the four towns."

It's ridiculous, a real slander.The emperor didn't believe me, so I was naturally aggrieved and speechless.But when will anyone be able to ride on my head and do my best?I don't pay much attention to the eldest princess.

Lifting his numb face, he smiled disdainfully: "Where's the evidence?"

A document fell hard in front of me.

"The ironclad evidence is like a mountain, what else do you have to say!"

On the document is a big map, which is the same as the one I drew myself, the only difference is that there is a big gourd mouth in the northeast corner.Next to it was written with a brush: "Remember to be careful".

The words "remember to be careful" are in my handwriting.Who imitated it, who can see what I wrote?

"This document was found on Zhang Yi's desk in Beizhen. If you tell me honestly, you will suffer less." Oh, it seems that you are thinking of me.What a clumsy cutting and framing.

"When Beitonghe finished work, the eldest princess and Master Zhang went to supervise the work together. Why didn't the eldest princess know about it at all? Isn't the eldest princess not responsible?" Could it be that Liu Yuehua wanted to mess with me?No, that would not allow such a project to exist secretly.What's more, she has no such scheming.

"Presumptuous! Of course, you and Zhang Yi were in collusion to do this without the knowledge of the princess. You even tried to pour dirty water on the princess. It's an even worse crime!"

Oh, it turned out that Liu Yuehua justified himself in this way.It is estimated that this is the excuse she made for her incompetence in front of the emperor.

"Yang Li, you and Zhang Yi have secretly sent a private message. When building the Beitong River, you lied to build this large reservoir. It is to unite the Northern Qiang. When the four towns are flooded, the Northern Qiang can take advantage of the chaos and go south to occupy our land in Daxing. You not only betrayed the country but also deceived the emperor, and you still don’t admit it!”

Judging from the conclusive evidence given by the Department of Punishment, my charges are already confirmed.But the emperor...doesn't she believe me?A dull pain in my heart.

Master Zhang Yi was missing, and they spread rumors that he had already secretly defected to Northern Qiang.However, I never sent this document to Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi must have been tied up by the thief who framed me.If Zhang Yi can be found, there may be a turning point for this matter.

The question is, where is he, or is he still alive?

No wonder the emperor was so angry.Such an arrogant move is a provocation to the imperial power.But if the emperor believed that Zhang Yi had defected to Northern Qiang, things would be difficult.

My mind was in a mess, many thoughts kept flashing through, and I couldn't figure it out.There is still something absurd about this.

Zhang Yi and I, one of the third rank and the other of the second rank, are like fish in water in the Daxing Dynasty Hall, why can't we figure out that we want to betray our country and go to Qiang?No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like something a normal person can do.

Emperor, emperor!What do you think? If you doubt me, just ask yourself. Why do you torture me like this... It's too painful.

The chief of the Punishment Department saw that I kept my mouth shut and ordered someone to tie me up to a big log.

Horrible instruments of torture appeared in front of him one by one, and they were even more blood-red by the flames on both sides.

It's really useless to me, seeing this blood red at this moment, I can still think of her face, indifferent, narrow, contemptuous, angry, and...the one I saw when I woke up that day.

If you don't believe me, you're dead.This whole life was meant for you.

==

"You did a good job this time." A gloomy voice echoed in the small room.

"Thank you for your praise, my lord." Another man in a robe stood respectfully in front of the man. "It's just that I don't understand why you didn't let me send people to the Yang Mansion. Now that she is in the prison, our people can't do anything."

"Can your people successfully escape so many imperial guards?" the man asked back.

"This, the little one thinks there are nine out of ten."

"As long as you are not [-]% sure, you can't act rashly." An extremely proud and sinister smile floated on his face: "Besides, will she have a better life in the prison?"

"By the way, my lord, what did Zhang Yi say?"

"Him? It's bad luck for him." The man turned around, and slowly issued the verdict: "Don't do it yourself, find a philistine to finish him off."

"Yes."