Liu Huafei

Nianhua drove Yunzhi and Xiao Lizi out, and didn't want to see anyone alone in the room.From afternoon to night, the sky gradually darkened, and Xiao Lizi was thrown out by Nianhua when he wanted to light a lamp.

Ling Qing came directly to see Nianhua after returning from the outside, but only saw Yunzhi and Xiao Lizi who were locked outside the door and waited with bitter faces.

He had already heard about the fact that the emperor came to see Nianhua at noon but left in a rage. Ling Qing didn't know what happened and was a little worried.He went to the door, raised his hand and knocked, and said, "Nianhua, open the door, it's me."

After waiting for a while but there was no sound from inside, Yunzhi worried on the sidelines: "Master, Nianhua has locked himself up all afternoon, and he doesn't want to see anyone, and he doesn't eat. He is still injured..."

Ling Qing raised his hand to interrupt him, opened the door with his palm, pushed it open and walked in.

"Nianhua, don't be so self-willed. No matter how the emperor makes you angry, you have to heal your wounds first... What are you doing?!" Ling Qing took the lead to go in, and Xiao Lizi hurried in to light the lamp. The room lit up immediately, Ling Qing and the others could clearly see the scene in the room.

Nian Hua had already got up from the bed and was bending over to pack her luggage beside the bed.

Yunzhi ran forward anxiously and said: "Nianhua, you have been injured so badly, this is not the time to be angry, why bother with your own body!"

Nianhua looked up at Ling Qing, who was frowning tightly, and Xiaoli Yunzhi, who looked worried, and shook his head, "I'm not angry, and my injury is almost healed. I don't want to stay in this place anymore, I want to leave here Lin Li must have come to look for me, I'm going to look for him."

Ling Qing stepped forward and grabbed Nianhua's arm and said angrily: "What a nonsense! You were injured so badly yesterday, how could you be better now?! Besides, you are not the same now, you are now the second rank deputy general of the guard , with such an identity, you can leave as soon as you say?!"

Nianhua pulled back his arm, and also got angry: "What if I just want to mess around?! I just don't want to see Yuan Mutian again! I want to go home, I want to go back to my own era! What emperor general, this game I've had enough! I'm not from your era at all, I don't fit in with you! I want to go home!"

Ling Qing couldn't understand Nianhua's words, only knew that he was determined to leave here, and suddenly became angry and hated iron and steel in a loud voice: "You used to call every day that you want to be a general, and you want to be admired by others. , How much trouble did you bring us because of this?! Why are you giving up just now?! Have you ever taken yourself and us seriously?!"

Yun Zhi and Xiao Lizi were frightened by the loud noise, and stood at a loss, looking at Ling Qing with livid complexion and Nian Hua who also refused to take a step back, they didn't know what to do.

"Master..." Xiao Lizi called out weakly.

"Don't call me son, I'm not a son!" Nian Hua gritted his teeth, "I can't be Xiao's general either. Ling Qing, I really don't want to mess around or threaten anyone. I've thought it through very clearly, we The gap between the two is too deep, I shouldn't have stayed in this world. Before I couldn't find a way to go back. Now my good friend found me and he can take me home. I have no hesitation , I shouldn't have stayed."

At this point in the conversation, Ling Qing didn't talk to him any more, turned around and left without saying a word.

Xiao Lizi and Yun Zhi looked at Nian Hua sadly.Nianhua turned away cruelly, not looking at their expressions.

"Nianhua, if you really want to leave, take us with you." Yunzhi suddenly hugged Nianhua's arm and begged, "Whether you are a general or a commoner, let me follow you. I can do things to support myself , I don’t need you to spend anything for me, just let me stay by your side. It’s not easy for me to have friends like you and Xiao Lizi, and I don’t want to lose you again.”

Xiao Lizi also knelt down, holding back tears and said: "Young Master, take Xiao Lizi with you too, no matter where you are going, Xiao Lizi will follow you and serve you!"

With a sore nose, Nianhua pulled Xiao Lizi up, put his arm around Yunzhi again, and said sadly: "But you will not be able to adapt to the place I'm going to. You can't move even if you don't have an ID number there. Legal existence. The feeling of the whole world being completely unfamiliar is too terrifying, so terrifying that it makes people want to go crazy. It is possible to walk to the ends of the earth and the corners of the earth on two legs, but the two time-spaces that are so far apart are simply irreversible. Journey. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand now, Yunzhi, Lizi, I’m also reluctant to leave you, but I can’t take you to my world irresponsibly.”

As soon as Nianhua finished speaking, they suddenly heard the sound of chains rattling outside the door and window.Nian Hua let go of Xiao Lizi and Yun Zhi, walked over and saw that it was people from the guard camp who had sealed off the entire room from the outside and sent people to guard it outside.

"Ling Qing, do you want to be so hateful?" Nianhua suddenly thought of whose masterpiece this was, and slapped the window panel angrily.There was no one else who did this kind of thing except Commander Ling who was loyal to the emperor.

Ling Qing ran all the way, and when he arrived at the Dragon Palace, he heard that Yuan Mutian had gone to the harem.He frowned and sighed, and went all the way to the harem with the token of the commander of the guards.

Yuan Mutian was in Yueyou Pavilion at this time, and there lived several beauties from different races donated by Yueyou two countries.

Several beauties were dancing lightly under His Highness, Yuan Mutian was leaning on the cushion, holding a wine bowl, frowning slightly, looking displeased, but he didn't pay attention to the singing and dancing beauties in front of him.

A palace concubine boldly leaned against Yuan Mutian and poured wine for him.Yuan Mutian pushed her away coldly, and didn't drink, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Ling Qing hurried in from the outside, disturbing the dancing girls.They scattered and hid in all directions, pulling up their veils to hide their faces so that other men could not see them.

Ling Qing walked to Yuan Mutian's side, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Nian Hua was seriously injured, and now she's making a fuss about leaving, why don't you go and have a look."

The wrinkles between Yuan Mutian's brows deepened, he snorted and said, "I don't know when the commander of my guards will care about me and Nianhua."

"Your Majesty is clearly aware that the loyalty of his subordinates is only for His Majesty's sake." Ling Qing continued expressionlessly.

Yuan Mutian put the Qianyan wine bowl carved with dragons and phoenixes on the table with a bang: "You are loyal to me?! You are loyal to me and will help Nianhua lie about his injuries and frame the queen mother?! He will have The strength is arguing with me, and now they are going to leave, where is he seriously injured?!"

Ling Qing raised his head and frowned and said, "Your Majesty, it's fine if you doubt your subordinates, but you also doubt Nian Hua?" It was hard for him to accept the fact that Nian Hua, as one of his colleagues, served the Emperor like a harem favorite , After watching a lot, I also feel that this kind of relationship seems to be very good.Now that Emperor Huawei is still being questioned by him after being injured, it's no wonder that he feels chilled.

Yuan Mutian snorted coldly, without any excuse.

Ling Qing paused and said again: "Last night, I treated Nianhua's injury. I know better than anyone how serious his injury is. Nianhua's internal strength is indeed superior, so the injury healed quickly. He even told me that he used to be in northern Xinjiang. When he wanted to save Mr. Su from the barbarians, he had already been hit by a poisoned arrow and should have died, but he woke up after a night of sleep. The internal force he got from the old man Tianling seemed to be able to keep him alive, and even bring him back to life , but wouldn’t he be in pain?! His bruised wounds last night were all beaten to death. If it weren’t for Nianhua’s inner strength to protect him, he would have died long ago. I believe that the Queen Mother is kind and would not do this Assassin, it's hard to guarantee that the servants who execute the execution will be favored to do this."

Yuan Mutian clenched his fists slightly on the table: "Has he ever been injured so badly? He never told me—" Yuan Mutian remembered that time, it was because he was afraid that old man Tianling would lose his age. He threatened Xiao Guo, so he was tricked into sending him to his death with an excuse—no wonder he didn't want to tell him about it.

Yuan Mutian was silent for a while with an uncertain expression, then stood up abruptly and strode out.

Several dancing women knelt on the ground, and did not dare to get up slowly until the figures of Yuan Mutian and Ling Qing disappeared into the night.

Empress Dowager's Palace──

The Empress Dowager who had just been informed by the palace people sat up from the couch and saw Yuan Mutian walking in with a gloomy expression.

The queen mother was taken aback, coughed a few times and said, "The emperor is---"

Before the Queen Mother finished speaking, Yuan Mutian sat on the side and said to Fuqing: "Go and bring the two eunuchs who executed Nianhua to death last night, together with the instruments of torture!"

Fuqing was taken aback, and looked at the queen mother.Yuan Mutian slammed the table and said angrily: "Slave dog, how dare you hesitate when I ask you to do something?! Do you think I dare not kill you because you are the person next to the Queen Mother?!"

When Fuqing heard this, he didn't dare to look at the Empress Dowager's face any more, he hurriedly bowed his head and retreated, and quickly ran to carry out the imperial edict.

There was a trace of worry floating on the back of the queen mother.She covered her mouth and coughed a few more times, coughing until she couldn't breathe properly, but she wasn't exactly pretending.

After all, this is his own mother, Yuan Mutian would not be so heartless, he still comforted him: "Mother don't need to worry too much, just take care of her illness, I just want to cure a few dog slaves who bully others."

The queen mother lay down under the support of Yuan Mutian, but sighed sadly, and said with some weeping voice: "The emperor looks like asking the teacher about the crime, how can the Ai family recover well, dragging this sick body Just lingering."

Yuan Mutian said a few more words of relief, and Fuqing brought the two eunuchs into the room, and the execution wooden sticks carried by the two eunuchs behind.

Yuan Mutian looked at the long and thick wooden pole.The two little eunuchs seemed too heavy to hold in their arms, but even though it had been washed, the veins imprinted with blood still showed a somewhat ferocious appearance.Yuan Mutian only felt his eyelids twitch, and his heart sank.

He has always understood his mother, she never even competed for favor in front of the first emperor, and the queen mother never even asked the harem these years.He has always done whatever he wants with the harem, even if there is a power struggle among his relatives, it is not a big deal, and it is even more impossible for the queen mother to lynch anyone.

Therefore, Yuan Mutian knew at a glance who the bright red blood dripping on it belonged to.

"I ask you, how many sticks did you beat the tortured person last night?" Yuan Mutian said in a deep voice.

The two execution eunuchs glanced at each other, still bowed their heads and said, "Report to the emperor, five or fifty sticks were beaten."

The queen mother looked at her son's stiff back and clenched her hands under the quilt.She couldn't understand what the emperor was thinking at this moment, and why he suddenly thought of coming to her to ask questions.She just has the intuition of a harem woman—she is wasting the emperor's trust in her.Every time the emperor asked a question, more trust was consumed.

"You are all experienced executioners, let me ask you, what kind of punishment is this time?" Yuan Mutian continued to ask expressionlessly.

The two of them were shocked again, they raised their heads to look at the Queen Mother, and then at Fuqing.Neither of them dared to give them any instructions in front of the emperor.

One of them swallowed his saliva, and could only continue to bite the bullet: "Qi Emperor, according to the instructions of the chief manager of Fuqing, the slaves need one stick to see the blood, two sticks to the flesh, and three sticks to scrape the bones. Fifty When the stick comes down, you will either die or be disabled."

As soon as he finished speaking, Fuqing, who was standing aside, was already sweating coldly.

Yuan Mutian glanced at him, Fuqing knelt down on the ground with a thump, and shook his head loudly: "Your Majesty, this old slave is stupid, this old slave is stupid. This old slave secretly increased the punishment without telling the Queen Mother, this old slave deserves ten thousand crimes." If you die, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Yuan Mutian turned his head to look at the queen mother, but ignored Fuqing who had his forehead broken on the ground.