Chang'an [Rebirth]

The prisons in the capital are also in disrepair for a long time. During the rainy season, the tide seeps in all directions. The small windows two meters above the ground are not even papered, but the lighting is very good. This is the only place that is bright all year round.

Chai Zheng was tied up like a rice dumpling, and the chains jingled with every finger she moved, and she was the noisiest in the whole cell.

In addition, she caught two mice to teach them to speak. The person who lives in the cell next to her is said to be the governor of Liangjiang in the late emperor's time. Be careful to hear a word, and you will be decapitated.

Although all the prisoners in the sky prison are serious offenders, Chai Zheng is the only one who is rebellious and calls himself, "I am Zhao Qian's old lady."

And Zhao Qian is the current Holy Master.

Chai Zheng's voice is not too loud, it's not as lively as the shackles on her body, but no one dares to listen seriously except for two mice inside and outside, even the jailer on duty tonight drank too much to drink. Walked over staggeringly.

"Little General Chai, why are you doing this?" The jailer is already old, at least fifty years old, going straight to sixty, with gray temples and a little baldness on the top of his head. Due to years of drinking, his eyes are cloudy and his spirit is not good. .

He continued, "Your house has been ransacked, and the three clans have been punished. You are the only one left. The execution date is coming soon. Scolding the Holy Majesty...how can the Holy Majesty hear you?"

Chai Zheng grabbed the mouse's tail and moved to the side of the jailer, "I'm about to die, and the whole family will go to see the ancestors before me. If you don't take advantage of this time to scold Zhao Qian more, maybe you will wait for me." Fraud after death?"

She sighed, "Although my life is not long, I have worked hard enough. In the first ten years, I strived to be the best in everything, and I wanted to be a champion in martial arts. In the next ten years, I was busy. I had to face the coveted Fanbang in the first ten years. In the future, I will drag Zhao Qian, a prodigal bastard. I like someone and I am cowardly, and I dare not speak up now, for fear that she will be tied to me, and I will be wandering."

Chai Zheng clasped his hands together and looked up at the sky, "The Buddha in the west and the Jade Emperor in the east, let me be reincarnated as a mosquito after death, Zhao Qian is so annoying to me."

"..." The jailer didn't understand the joke, he suspected that Little General Chai was serious, "Oh, no matter how strong you are, you will still be a girl, you must have been stimulated to go crazy..."

A flash of lightning suddenly fell in the violent wind and rain, and the pale light flashed across Chai Zheng's face. The jailer's hands trembled, and the jug fell in front of the cell. .

Just for a moment, the jailer saw Chai Zheng's eyes clearly. In such a dirty and dark corner, those eyes were like sharp knives soaked in water, restraining the elegance of the world, it was shocking to see.

It is said that the daughter of Chai Guogong's mansion is the lonely moon hanging high in Chang'an City, with a kind of cold arrogance, as long as this full moon is still in the sky, the peace of the world and the safe residence of the people can be guaranteed.

However, this round of the moon is about to fall, just three hours later, outside the Meridian Gate.

The jailer and Chai Zheng also dealt with each other for nearly half a month, but there was very little communication with each other, and there were only a handful of conversations in a day.

At first, Chai Zheng would ask him for three glasses of wine every day, drink one for himself, and spill two on the ground.

I am honored that the sixteen prefectures in Mobei fell, and one hundred thousand soldiers were exhausted, but the imperial court decided to retreat to Pian'an, and the coach was imprisoned, resulting in no food and no help in front.

Later, Chai Zheng asked for five glasses of wine, drank one himself, and spilled the remaining four glasses on the ground.

Respect is the kindness of parents' upbringing, the love of brother and sister-in-law for teaching, respect is the admonisher who is still passionate in the court, and respect is the lives of more than [-] members of the Chai family. She Chai Zheng is ashamed to be right in this life.

A few days later, Chai Zheng didn't want to drink anymore, so he caught these two little mice and raised them for play.

"Little general, do you have any last wishes?" the jailer asked, "I can't do great things for a small person like me, but if you have anything you want to eat or use... I will get it for you even at night."

Chai Zheng thought to himself, "I'm a dying person anyway, so I should eat less, so as not to make my death look too ugly, and Linshuang will dislike me when he collects my body."

Chai Zheng followed to clean the battlefield when he was less than ten years old. He has seen more dead people than the heads chopped off outside the Meridian Gate, so he would want to make his own death look better. The thoughts of strangers are at least clean.

Thinking about this, Chai Zheng said, "I would like to ask you to inquire about someone—her name is Ruan Linshuang, Ruan Xiang's only daughter, and the hand-picked champion of Qizhao's 15th palace examination."

In the palace examination in the 15th year of Qizhao, three of them were selected from the first class, and there were two women.

Ruan Linshuang's reputation in Chang'an City is no less than that of Chai Zheng. Even though the Prime Minister's Mansion later declined, Ruan Linshuang lost the shackles of Miss Qianjin, but gained a lot of fame in the troubled times.

Now she is the youngest bachelor in the Hongwen Museum. From the official position of the fourth rank, the jailer has of course heard of it.

It's just that Chai Zheng's status is special, and she was imprisoned for the crime of "colluding with foreign countries, forging imperial edicts, and committing trouble." It's okay to bring her some food and drink, but if you really want to get involved with her, you may be implicated.

Seeing the jailer's hesitation, Chai Zheng said again, "You are just going to help me find out what she has done recently, where she has been, whether she has lost weight or gained weight, is she sad because of my affairs... don't need to speak for me, You don't even have to meet her in person."

Chai Zheng's request is very strange, but the jailer is also a person who keeps promises, he nodded, "Okay, I will help you."

"Instead of asking others for these details, wouldn't it be more convenient for me to come to see you in person?" A gentle and calm voice suddenly sounded, the jailer was just startled, but Chai Zheng suddenly opened his eyes wide, and even the mouse in his hand ran away. Did not respond.

The voice said again, "I went to the Hongwen Museum recently, read a book, wrote two poems, neither fat nor thin, never sad about you."

As expected, the jailer has a family, a room and experience in life. He heard something wrong in just a few words, so he quietly withdrew and went back outside——

The young general of the Chai family has been in prison to this day, and he is still the first person to come to see him.

"Why are you here?" Chai Zheng was barely able to stand up after being tortured, so she moved between the two pillars, trying to stick her head out.

"Zhao Qian is catching people tightly now, I'm afraid you will suffer too."

"I don't have a good relationship with you. I have been an official in the same dynasty so far, and I seldom talk. At most, it can only be regarded as a classmate friendship."

Ruan Linshuang finally came out from the darkness, and the most beautiful girl in Chang'an City slowly squatted in front of Chai Zheng holding a candle.

"What's more, I'm just a mere civil servant, a frail woman with no power in my hands, and no family support behind me. This time, the emperor sent me here."

As she spoke, she put the candles beside her, and there was another vermilion food box divided into three layers, containing delicacies from mountains and seas that could only be found in the palace.

"The emperor said, although I am not close to you, my father and I are friends after all. Now that you are going to the guillotine, you have to eat enough."

Chai Zheng felt like her ears were ringing, she couldn't hear what Ruan Linshuang was saying at all, her eyes fell on Ruan Linshuang's face, she stretched out her hand to touch it but quickly retracted it.

Ruan Linshuang loves cleanliness, unlike a woman from the army like herself, Chai Zheng has been thinking about her for many years, and these likes and dislikes have long been embedded in her mind, preventing Chai Zheng from going too far.

All the officials in the capital knew that Little General Chai had an unruly personality, and she took away whatever paper, pen and tea set she liked in the imperial study. The current emperor never scolded her, and even condoned her sneaky behavior.

If there are many criticisms from the DPRK and China, Chai Zheng will be safer.

Only for Ruan Linshuang, Chai Zheng's dodging and evasion became a manifestation of "unfamiliarity". It was even rumored that Chai Zheng was victorious, and he was crushed in the palace examination and hated to this day.

Regarding this, Chai Zheng once scolded secretly, "Fart! Little Ruan wins and I win fair and square. I respect and admire, do you understand respect and admiration!"

There are still two hours left in her life, so what should be wished for is still wished for.

Ruan Linshuang noticed Chai Zheng's movements, but still indifferently took out a pair of chopsticks and handed them to her, and poured two more glasses of wine.

"Your Majesty is afraid of long nights and dreams, so I will send you on your way after this meal."

Chai Zheng took the wine glass, and the 30-year-old Daughter Red was full-bodied and full-bodied, a hundred times better than the low-quality wine that fell on the ground, not to mention that it was Ruan Linshuang who poured it.

She gulped it down happily, thinking, "It's good that Xiao Ruan doesn't feel sad after this time."

"I was counting the drums in this prison before, thinking that this is someone in my family who fell to the ground again, and there is nothing more heartbreaking than this. Fortunately, I just wishful thinking for Xiao Ruan, and she doesn't have to suffer such heart-wrenching pain because of me. "

After drinking the wine, Ruan Linshuang pulled Chai Zheng's hand holding the cup, and the orange light reflected a few vague words on the bottom of the cup—"I want to rebel."

"..." Chai Zheng thought his eyes were lame, holding the cup and looking over and over again, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"You want..." Chai Zheng said in a very low voice, "You are crazy! This is a top priority. It is extraordinary. Do you have an army? Do you have money and food? It is the Hongwen Museum that repairs those messy history books. I fixed something wrong for you?"

Ruan Linshuang did not cooperate with Chai Zheng's excitement, she just put the cup in her hand under the candlelight.

There are reliefs on the inside and outside of this cup, and the mystery can only be seen when it is placed under candlelight.

Cup wrote, "Today's holy majesty is incompetent, tyrannical, tax-expropriating, ceding land for years to avoid military disasters, and the treasury is empty but profligate. I have love for the people and no loyalty to the king. This heart was not formed in a day. I have far-sighted plans."

Ruan Linshuang has been so gentle and calm since she was a child. Her thoughts are hidden under the surface, and she has always been unfathomable. Others only say "pure and kind", but Chai Zheng values ​​her because she values ​​this hidden "big treason".

"Ten years, you need ten years." Chai Zheng shook his hand, and the cup fell to the ground and shattered into slag. "After I die, take my head and go to Mobei to recruit the old people. If they are not dead, It will be your help. But Xiao Ruan...you have to think clearly."

"I think clearly." Ruan Linshuang pushed the lunch box inward, "Chai Zheng, you don't deserve to die, but I can't save you. Ten years later, I will bring your skull back and bury it with your body. , you will know that the great revenge will be avenged."

Chai Zheng smiled, "Okay, then I won't be reincarnated as a mosquito, I'll wait for you."

The sixth watch drum sounded, and it was still raining outside, and the food in the lunch box was completely cold, Chai Zheng didn't eat a bite, she just drank the wine.

The palace came with a decree to mention the prisoner, even the procedure was omitted, and Chai Zheng was directly loaded in the prison car and taken to the execution ground.

Too many people have been killed in the past half month at Wumen Gate, and there is still a faint smell of blood in the heavy rain. The cracks in the bricks are permeated with dark black that cannot be melted away, and the rain has diluted it into a deep red.

Kneeling on the execution platform, Chai Zheng saw Ruan Linshuang holding a red oil-paper umbrella from a distance. She was all alone at the end of the sky, as if she didn't care about anyone or rely on anyone.

Chai Zheng's heart ached, if Ruan Linshuang really planned to rebel, then he would be worried and trembling for the next ten years.

She is alone, with no parents, no close friends, and this matter cannot be said. No matter how smart and resolute a person is, there will be a day when all his efforts will be exhausted... and he is about to die again, so he can't protect her.

What is little Ruan Tu?

The common people in the world, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, or... revenge for me?

The sharpened knife was sprayed with wine, and cut down from the neck with enough strength, the blade was not caught by Chai Zheng's spine, and the person died almost as soon as he felt the pain.

The father-in-law who delivered the decree was not responsible for collecting the corpses. Usually, this kind of work was handled by family members or yamen officials. Chai Zheng had already been implicated by the three clans. Even if there were relatives outside the three clans, they would not take the initiative to show up at this time.

Ruan Linshuang walked under the execution platform with an umbrella, and covered Chai Zheng's head with a white cloth. The blood soaked the hem of her clothes and fingertips, but Ruan Linshuang still had that clear and shallow appearance, seeing neither sadness nor joy. .

Although Chai Zheng has been in the army since she was a child, and she wears whatever she has, she never considers herself a man. Occasionally, when she loves beauty, she can't move when she sees an emerald bracelet. On Chang'an Avenue.

Ruan Linshuang said, "Please go back and tell Your Majesty, father-in-law, I will choose a place to bury her properly in consideration of the friendship of my classmates."

The father-in-law is getting older, and his heart has softened, "Then I will thank Mr. Ruan."

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Chai Zheng woke up from a nightmare, the back of her neck felt cold, and her hair was standing on end. She strongly suspected that she had cheated on the corpse, but she didn't dare to say anything immediately. Take it back and cut it once.

All sides are open, not a coffin, sitting on a woman's lap, her body is weak and her hands and feet are still a little small, her eyes fell on a middle-aged man in front of her, and she started hiccupping in fright.

Chai Zheng was full of thoughts, "Father, mother! You have also cheated!" When he said it, he became a pitiful "father and mother... ji li gurg ji li gurg", even the word "father and mother" sounded childish and vague unclear.

"!" Chai Zheng suddenly realized that this might not be a fake corpse, it was remade!

"What's the matter, I think it wasn't bad enough before I died, I have to do it again!" Chai Zheng was filled with righteous indignation one second, and leaned back the next second, and the woman adjusted her posture and hugged her frontally in her arms.

Chai Zheng stared stupidly at the face of her own mother who was so beautiful when she was young, and smelled the faint fragrance of water on her body, and rubbed her face involuntarily, "It's nice to have a mother."