The happy life of the devil and the devil

"...I'm not reconciled." The first ray of dawn tore through the window screen, Ling Yucheng was slightly shocked as if awakened, and looked up at the gray-blue sky outside the window.Even though there was already light in the room, he still felt that there was darkness in front of him, as if the whole person was covered under a tight iron curtain, and he was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.The voice between the lips and teeth was suppressed low, but it was like a crying cry, more like a heart-piercing struggle:

"I can not be reconciled!"

There was no trace of Yuan Shao in the room, only the words he said the night before, suddenly far and near, so ethereal that it was unreal, but it was like thunder and lightning, every word rumbled in my ears echo:

"You are the only son of the former Marquis of Yunyang. You became a nobleman at the age of seven. Even if you don't do anything, keeping this title will be enough for you to have a good life. But you started from entering the palace as a companion until you were 14 years old. At the age of [-], you get excellent grades every year in the Dongge General Examination of the Taiyuan Academy, even riding and shooting martial arts. After so many years of studying hard, others don't know what you are trying to figure out, so don't you yourself understand?"

"A noble son like you, who is also a relative of the emperor, has always been in the palace as a guard for a few years, and then sent out a general or commander. He is beautiful and decent, and his life is comfortable, but you don't like it. Ken, you have to rely on your own ability to take part in the scientific examination. You chose this path that is much more difficult than others, isn’t it because you have no connections and can’t even get a job as a guard?”

"Even if you think that civil servants are promoted quickly and respected by others, it is better than fighting for your life on the battlefield. Stay in the Imperial Academy for a few years, and then no matter how many examiners you appoint, or go to a local government to be a scholar, you are still in the same place. You are honorable. The result? You don’t go to the Imperial Academy, you don’t stay in the Sixth Department, you go to a place like Wucheng where there will be a war at any time as a small garrison, and after a big battle, you enter the northern camp. This In ten years, which of your military achievements and which promotion did you not risk your life for, is it just for the glory and wealth, the high position and the high salary?"

The 20 years of time are swirling in front of his eyes. In normal times, Ling Yucheng might still be annoyed at the ineffectiveness of the detective department and let Beiliang spy so much information in the past, but now there is only resentment and sadness in his heart.Not to mention how much exclusion and oppression he has endured overtly and secretly since he entered the palace as a student with the prince when he was a child, not to mention the seven years of painstaking study that almost risked his life in the Taixue, not to mention the battle in Wucheng that was like walking on thin ice. Years of hard work, which day is not working hard?

What is he drawing? …When I was a teenager, maybe it was just for the day that I would never be bullied wantonly again, for those who looked down on him to tremble and dare not look up in front of him——but other than that, couldn’t there be anything else? thought?

But so that the Dragon City Feijiang will be there, he will not teach Huma Du Yinshan.

Watching the northern Xinjiang camp under his rule day after day, the army is strong and the horses are strong, repelling the attacks of Beiliang time and time again, so that the Huma dare not look around, so that the people of northern Xinjiang can live and work in peace and contentment, and one day they may even send troops to the north to restore their homeland and seal the land. Wolf Juxu...

Young people should take cloud in their minds!

Unexpectedly, with one miscalculation, the whole game was lost, and 20 years of ambition were in vain.Since ancient times, a gentleman would rather die than be humiliated, but in his current situation, there is only one dead end.

For a moment, I couldn't help but feel ashamed, the ambitions and ambitions of the year, and today I can count them one by one from his mouth, just like looking back at my hometown on the stage.Although it was thrilling and passionate, but now, it has nothing to do with him.

It's just that for some reason, the anger in his heart gradually faded away with such a statement.

"...Your Majesty's proposed marriage is really just to put me to death?"

"No—it's to make the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty renounced, so that there will be no more loyal servants in the Yu Kingdom. Then, it is good to be able to recruit you to your command, but if you can't, at least you will be put to death. In a few years, you will send troops to the south At that time, there was one less famous general standing in front of me."

"Marriage is nothing but a means to recruit you. What I want is just a courtier who can serve me!"

He clenched his fist subconsciously, but was brought back to his senses by the hard object pinching his palm.Ling Yucheng looked down, and there was a small box lying quietly in his hand. The surface of the copper box seemed to be smooth, but there were many mottled bumps when he touched it carefully. It can be imagined how many stormy waves it has spent with its owner.Ling Yucheng stared at the exquisite lines of Sirius Xiaoyue on the surface of the box for a while, then slowly tightened his fingers, and put this small box with the style of the North into his palm again.

In the cold room, it seems that only this small copper box still retains the faint heat from the human body.

"This is the medicine box that I used when I was a teenager." Before leaving, Yuan Shao forcefully stuffed the box into his palm, lifted the lid of the box, and showed him all the pills of different colors inside, "Red The one in the wax coat is Tianxin Pill, as long as there is still a breath, any serious injury can hang a life; the blue Qingxue Pill is detoxifying, the yellow Zhuifeng Pill is an antidote, and the green one is Qingling Pill, which is similar to Ruanjinsan One type of medicine can be unlocked. The white ones are food pills, there are three in total, and one can last a whole day. As for the black one—"

The voice suddenly became low: "It's highly poisonous."

The medicinal properties of the Qingling Pill had already dissipated, and for the first time in these days, the warm internal energy was rushing back and forth across the limbs.The small copper box, the eight pills neatly arranged, the power to choose whether to protect oneself or take it easy, was handed over to him for the first time in so many days. ——However, it was handed over by the monarch of the enemy country who planned to recruit him.

There was a sudden noise in the distance, Ling Yucheng was startled, turned his palm over, and the small box disappeared instantly.After a while, the voices gradually approached, and the door opened, but it was the second time that Prince Duan Ningxiu, who had been here yesterday, stepped into this place——

When he came this time, he asked his followers to guard him far away from the room. When he entered the door, he first unshackled Ling Yucheng, and then he held his hand and sighed heavily, but he refused to speak for a long time, with a serious expression on his face. Want to say but can't say it anyway.Ling Yucheng looked at him quietly, the young prince in front of him lowered his head and pursed his lips, his brows were slightly furrowed, his expression of distress was still the same as that of ten years ago when he wanted to copy homework with him in school, but he was too embarrassed to say it The appearance is generally the same.

"What's the emperor's order again?" After waiting and waiting, Ning Xiu couldn't speak, so Ling Yucheng had to ask by himself.Hearing his words, Ning Xiu seemed relieved, and stammered out a few words:

"The emperor of the Northern Dynasty—the emperor of the Northern Dynasty sent someone."

"Oh?"

"He sent envoys to greet you, and even sent someone to take care of your daily life..." He blinked and blinked at Ling Yucheng with a look of "Reject it, reject it now", just barely turned into a roundworm and jumped to the ground. In his stomach, send the visitor back instead of him.

Why should he—before he finished his first thought, Ling Yucheng's heart suddenly moved, and he listened attentively. There were a few familiar voices in the louder and louder noise, and he couldn't help being surprised and delighted.His face remained calm, he thought for a while, and asked lightly:

"Who did he send?"

"Yes—" Before he could figure out whether he would be exposed if he made up a lie, Ling Yucheng's sharp eyes swept over him, and Ning Xiu secretly cried out, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell the truth:

"It's your former subordinates, the ones who were arrested under the ring."

"Call them in!"

The wooden soles of military boots rattled in the green brick corridor, and the hurried footsteps almost rushed all the way, but stopped abruptly when they reached the door.Immediately after the door was knocked three times, a voice that was too familiar to him raised his voice and said, "My lord, my subordinate He Liu asks to see you."

"Come in!"

The man who stepped into the door first was tall and well-proportioned, but there was a scar on his forehead extending straight to the base of his ear, which made him look very fierce. He Liu was the captain of Ling Yucheng's personal guard.The ones who followed him were also his personal guards, and more than [-] people swarmed in, and immediately packed the room to the brim.

Ling Yucheng stood up from the edge of the bed a long time ago, seeing these guards who had been with him for seven or eight years, at least three or four years, fell to the ground. Taking two steps forward, he pulled the two people closest to him up one by one.Before he could speak, someone grabbed his arm with a backhand:

"My lord, you are all right--that is very kind!"

Only He Liu and Ding Bai, a deputy captain of the personal guards, jumped in front of them. The rest of the guards got up on their own and immediately stood neatly in two rows.Although everyone was short of breath and more than one eye had tears in their eyes, no one dared to mess up the formation, let alone crowded into a group. Seeing Ling Yucheng's eyes sweeping over, they just doubled their chests. Straight up.

Ling Yucheng was imprisoned for almost a month, but he saw these personal guards on the ring two days ago, so he couldn't help but look at them carefully.Apparently, they had cleaned up before they came here, and the descriptions of the guards were fairly clean, no longer the disheveled look they had when they were dragged off the edge of the ring, but eight out of ten had bruises and swollen faces. The bloody bandage, at a glance, he knew that he had suffered a lot before.

At this moment when they meet again after the catastrophe, holding hands and looking at each other, even Ling Yucheng has countless words choked in his throat, but he can't utter a single word.Not to mention his personal guards, the soldiers did not dare to speak because of the strict military discipline, He Liu and Ding Bai's chests heaved violently, and several times when they wanted to speak, they were blocked by sobs rising up.After a long time, Ling Yucheng took a deep breath, broke away from the palms of the two subordinates, took a step back and turned sideways:

"Why are you so unruly? - I haven't seen His Royal Highness Duan Wang yet!"

"I have seen His Highness Duan Wang!" After He Liu, a group of soldiers bowed down in response. Ning Xiu sat beside him for a long time, and finally waited for someone to come to talk to him.However, those black-clothed guards knelt on the ground like nails, and couldn't pull it up, even if they accidentally grabbed the bandage on their arm, they didn't move.Ning Xiu didn't want to really pull hard, so she froze there for a while.It wasn't until Ling Yucheng said softly, "His Royal Highness Duan Wang is not an outsider, get up", everyone thanked for their gratitude and got up, and then the scene was rounded.

The two sat down side by side again, and He Liu led the guards to stand on both sides. Ning Xiu sighed and showed a sincere smile: "I am relieved to see that you have returned safely. Wen Ze, you don't know yet, do you? The emperor just said yesterday that he intends to pardon your subordinates, and the decree is about to come down. At that time, I might have to go to Dali Temple to fetch everyone out for you, so that you can rest assured! "

Seeing that Ling Yucheng was slightly moved when he heard the words, he waved his hand and went on straight: "I heard that two people have suffered a lot, and you are in a state of chaos here, so you don't have anything. I will ask someone to deliver some medicinal materials later. and applications, if you need something, just send someone to get it, don’t be polite to me.”

"Thank you!" Ling Yucheng didn't say much, nodded heavily, and got up to see off the guests.Ning Xiu walked side by side with him for a while, and saw that the nearest guard was also five or six steps away, suddenly stopped, and said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Sun Lin, the censor of the right capital, made a full moon wine for her grandson... I heard that Xiangcheng Bo's family gave a generous gift."

The niece of Sun Lin, the censor of the right capital, was selected as the prince Liangyuan, and gave birth to a daughter half a year ago.That is to say, Uncle Xiangcheng, who once stood on the side of King Duan because of the second son, has already gone to find another way with the prince.Ling Yucheng's footsteps paused slightly, but his expression remained unchanged, and he also replied in a low voice: "I understand." After sending Prince Duan out of the second door, the two said goodbye without saying a word to each other.

The author has something to say: The small theater of classmates leaning on the railing:

Ling: How do you know I can't eat?

Yuan: I don’t know, anyway, rice noodles + sugar can’t kill people

Ling: You are not afraid of me tasting it!

Yuan: Do you know the smell of red crane top?