Three thousand miles in exile

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The cell was dark and smelly, and a dozen ragged prisoners surrounded a boy weeping.

"Baby, baby, open your eyes and look at mother, baby, my baby."

The boy's mouth and eyes were tightly shut, his body was stiff and convulsed, and he was about to die.

A month ago, the new emperor ransacked the home of Liu Tonghe, Minister of the Ministry of War, with lightning speed. A dozen members of the family, young and old, were thrown into prison. They still don't know what crime they committed.

Liu Tonghe and his three sons were imprisoned together, and it would be the same if they were guilty.

Liu Tonghe had a straightforward personality, so he asked the late emperor to think twice on the grounds that the late emperor had no heirs in his upright age. How could he think that the late emperor would be terminally ill after only one year, and died after hastily establishing the emperor's younger brother.

The new emperor's ascension to the throne is one to amnesty the world, and the other is to clean up the court.

So Liu Tonghe and his family were charged with forming cliques and imprisoned. Suddenly, the Liu family was arrested and imprisoned by the Forbidden Army before they could save themselves.

"My father is only following the loyal words of my subjects, and His Majesty wants to kill my family. How can Your Majesty be so stubborn!"

Liu Tonghe hurriedly stopped his son. "Yuan'er, stop talking nonsense!"

Liu Xueyuan hugged his son's increasingly cold body and felt sad. "Father, our family is done. His Majesty intends to kill the chicken to make an example to the monkey, and our family is that chicken. How can we survive?"

Liu Tonghe, who was only 50 years old, used to be so energetic, but now he looked ashamed like a dying old man.

He was unable to refute his son's words, because his character was too upright, and he blurted out without thinking of a deeper level.

You must know that the royal heir does not allow outsiders to talk too much?The benevolence of the first emperor to let him go does not mean that the new emperor will not settle accounts later.

In the final analysis, it is not wrong for him to end up like this, it just hurts his family, and he is also sorry for the name of the four generations and three fathers of the Liu family!

That night, because the boy was critically ill, everyone's attention was on the boy, and no one noticed that Liu Tonghe took off his cloth belt and quietly hung himself in the dark corner of the cell.

Before he committed suicide, he left blood on his coat, stated his crimes, and swore a poisonous oath to order that the descendants of the Liu clan would not be admitted to the imperial examination for a hundred years from now on.

The ancestors of the Liu family are four generations and three princes, and seven out of ten of the descendants of the clan are officials. Although there have been no three princes in three generations, their influence in the officialdom should not be underestimated.

Being an official through the imperial examination is the living foundation of the Liu family.

Liu Tonghe seemed crazy to make this poisonous oath regardless of the family's future, but in fact it was a strong man who cut his wrists. The family despised by the emperor still wants to deal with the emperor?

As a result, there is only one dead end!The new emperor is headstrong, and only by bowing his head and begging for mercy can he have a chance of life. As long as the family's foundation remains intact, there will always be a day of revival.

Three days later, the imperial decree came down to Tianlao, and Liu Tonghe's family was reduced to military status and exiled for three thousand miles to the northern Xinjiang to reclaim military fields and never return to the Central Plains.

As for the other members of the Liu clan, the new emperor did not say anything, so they will maintain the status quo. As long as they serve as officials with their tails between their legs in the future, they should not be implicated again.

As for Liu Tonghe's family in the Sky Prison, they were escorted to the prison van and headed to the place of exile that day.

On the day of departure, several servants put shackles on each of them.

On the first day Liu Zhan just woke up, he was put in shackles and looked dazed.

He was clearly pushing glasses on the wine table a moment ago, and when he closed his eyes, he felt a sudden short circuit in his brain, and when he opened his eyes again, he was lying in the cell, and was dragged up and put on shackles amidst bursts of crying.

Liu Zhan followed the large army out of the cell in a daze.

The eyes of this body have not seen the sun for too long, the glare of the sun made him unable to open his eyes for a while, and he finally opened them with half-closed eyes.

Liu Zhan raised his head, and what he saw was the sky as blue as a jewel.

Before Liu Zhan came back to his senses, he was carried by the guards into the prison van, and the Liu family stuffed the two prison vans like cattle.

"Zhan'er, does your head still hurt? Are you still uncomfortable?"

Liu Zhan was wrapped in a woman's arms to drive away the cold and warm, he had no time to care about the woman, he just looked around in disbelief.

The prison van drove out of the prison and came to the bustling street. The guards kept shouting back the curious crowd, and occasionally passed by some gorgeous carriages. Without exception, they would avoid each other and speed up to leave. .

People who travel through time travel are all very popular, but he became a prisoner as soon as he crossed over. Could it be that the retribution of eating black and white and doing bad things in his previous life has been repaid in this life?

Liu Zhan sighed extremely sad.

On the first day, the prison car drove to the outskirts of Beijing, and stayed at the post station at night. The prison car seldom stopped during the whole day.

The Liu family was already thirsty and hungry, and the sun was shining on the road. Two people fell ill that day, one was Liu Zhan's third aunt, and the other was Liu Zhan's cousin Tao'er.

The guards didn't intend to let them get out of the prison van, so they locked the prison van in the backyard and went into the house to eat and drink. After a long time, the guards still didn't come out.

Liu Zhanzheng was wondering that the surveillance was too loose, and then he figured it out for himself. What kind of robbery and escape are just jokes in martial arts movies. How can they escape when they are all wearing shackles and the prison car is locked?

As for robbing prisoners, it is even more impossible. Who would risk beheading to save them?

On the way, Liu Zhan had carefully checked his body. The boy should be about eleven or twelve years old.

Perhaps it was because of the poor conditions in the prison, the original body was very thin, but the skeleton was slender and the skin was smooth and tender, it could be seen that he was raised well before.

Liu Zhan moved his hands. The heavy shackles made it difficult for him to lift his hands. He was very thirsty and hungry. He couldn't starve to death in a day or two, but the lack of water would definitely make it impossible for the whole family to live in Beijiang. .

Both the prison car and the shackles are custom-made for adults, and children wear them very loosely. Liu Zhan easily broke free from the shackles and got out of the prison car at the widest part of the fence.

"Zhan'er, why did you get out!" Liu Zhan's mother, Mrs. Zhao, exclaimed, and everyone realized that Liu Zhan had stood outside the prison car at some point.

"Hush!" Liu Zhan quickly silenced everyone. "I'm thin, and the handcuffs can't hold me. You wait, I'll find water for you."

Liu Xueyuan said hurriedly. "Zhan'er, be careful!"

Liu Zhan didn't want to waste time listening to the elders' instructions, so he groped towards the back kitchen.

At this time, the station had already turned off the lights. In order not to wake up the servants of the station, Liu Zhan also deliberately checked the servants and the place where they stayed, and began to sneak in after making sure that there was no one around the back kitchen.

The back kitchen of the post station is an independent mud room. Fortunately, the kitchen door was unlocked, so Liu Zhan sneaked in and quietly closed the door.

There are only two large pots and a large water tank and some sundries in the kitchen, and the food is locked in the warehouse.

Liu Zhan immediately took a ladle of water and opened it to drink. He was really thirsty, and he felt that the water was extremely sweet.

After drinking water and being half full, Liu Zhan hurriedly opened the cauldron to find something to eat, but it was empty.

Liu Zhan did not give up and rummaged through boxes and cabinets. In the end, he only found a few pancakes in the kitchen cabinet, which still smelled musty.

It must be known that he had just eaten a table of tens of thousands of banquets, lobster, big abalone, game, and river seafood just a day ago.

Liu Zhan's stomach was already suffering from hunger, and he had no doubt that if he starved for another day, his stomach would be starved, but it was really retribution.

In his previous life, he had all the tools to eat, drink, play, whore and gamble, and he enjoyed enough after playing hard. In this life, he fell to the hard mode and started again, so he would not be killed by a head crash. This is not his character.

Liu Zhan ate a pancake and his stomach felt better. He wrapped the rest of the food with the hem of his prison clothes. When he was touching the row just now, he saw a vegetable field not far from the back kitchen, which seemed to be growing cucumbers.

Liu Zhan ate one, picked seven or eight cucumbers, and picked two or three leaves from each vegetable in the field. He wrapped the food in his clothes and immediately returned to the prison car.

The Liu family was very pleasantly surprised. They ate and drank less in the sky prison, and today they had another day in the sun. Everyone was so hungry that their chests were on their backs. Liu Zhan said that the family took them from the kitchen, and they were not suspicious.

"Zhan'er, eat some quickly, this cucumber is so fresh." Mother Zhao hurriedly handed it to Liu Zhan.

Liu Zhan stuffed it back into her hand and said. "You eat, I ate it when I took it, otherwise how would I have the strength to come back?"

Mrs. Zhao was dubious, so Liu Zhan had no choice but to take a bite and hand it to her mouth to ask her to eat.

"Everyone, keep your voice down, eat slowly, I'll go get it if there's not enough." Liu Zhan said while sharing the food for everyone.

"Don't try to keep it for tomorrow. It will be bad if you are found out. I've finished eating. I'll fetch water for everyone."

Liu Xueyuan wanted to tell his son to be careful, but the next moment Liu Zhan had jumped off the prison car neatly and plunged into the night, he couldn't help sighing. "This kid has grown up..."

Second uncle Liu Xueyi also sighed. "It's really embarrassing for Zhan'er."

In the next few days, the guards drove the prison car on the road every day before dawn, and then looked for a post station to rest after dark.

For the first two days, the guards did not give Liu's family a bite to eat or drink. On the third day, each person had a coarse-grain pancake and drank water once a day. For the first two days, they all ate and drank in the prison car.

Afterwards, it will be released for a while during the lunch break every day, otherwise the prison car is so smelly that it is impossible to get close.

It was only later that Liu Zhan heard from the guards that this was the rule of escorting the car, just like getting off the horse to convince the prisoners to be more obedient on the road.

During the day, each person can share a coarse grain pancake, and at night Liu Zhan uses the old method to give everyone extra meals. Therefore, although they eat and sleep in the open, the Liu family is not particularly thin.

Only half a month later, some people still couldn't stand it anymore. Liu Zhan's cousin Tao'er didn't wake up the next day after going to bed at night.

The second uncle and the second aunt are heartbroken.

Tao'er is the grandson of Liu's parents, half a year older than Liu Zhan. It is said that he was admitted to Tongsheng at the age of 11. If there were no sudden changes, Liu Tonghe would have wanted Tao'er to take the exam next year.

The leader of the guard took Tao'er's body from his parents, and amidst the cries of Liu's family, he instructed the other two guards to dig a hole, bury it shallowly, and continue on their way.

The second aunt was about to collapse, and she was in a daze all day long.

A few days later, the weather on the road became colder and colder, and a peak could be seen piercing into the clouds in the distance.

Liu Xueyuan looked at the mountains in the distance and said. "Entering the boundary of that mountain, we will leave the Central Plains and step into the northern border."

Liu Zhan asked curiously because he knew nothing about the geography of the world. "Where is Northern Xinjiang?"

Liu Xueyuan said: "Our Great Chu occupies the Central Plains and is the overlord of the world. Our country is vast, stretching to the East China Sea in the east, Jishui in the south, the ancient land of Hanzhong in the west, and the Qiyun Mountains in the north. Zhaner, the one you saw The mountain peak is Qiyun Mountain."