A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

When Meng Jinling woke up, he found himself lying in a dark room.At a glance, he knew that this was a prison, because the door was made of iron bars, but it was different from ordinary prison cells, because the room was cleaned very cleanly, and the couch was not covered with straw, but clean mattresses.Furthermore, a brazier was burning in the room, which made the place not so cold and humid.

Meng Jinling moved and heard the sound of iron chains rattling. He looked down and saw that his hands were in shackles, and his right foot was also shackled by the iron chain attached to the corner of the wall.

Meng Jinling smiled wryly, then closed his eyes and lay back down again, his mind was in a mess and he couldn't decide what to do.

After a while, the door of the cell was opened, and a man walked to his couch and sat down.Just by the sound of footsteps, Meng Jinling knew it was Zhao Pingzhen.

Zhao Pingzhen said: "Are you hungry?"

Meng Jinling didn't open his eyes either: "You go, I don't want to see you."

Zhao Pingzhen sighed: "I can't do anything about it..." After a pause, he said in a low voice: "The spies have reported back just now about the news that Marquis Dingyuan has surrendered."

Meng Jinling said: "Your Highness Fifth, I don't blame you. I just didn't expect that you would lie to me."

Zhao Pingzhen touched his face: "Didn't you also lie to me? You came to me only after knowing the news of your father's surrender, but you kept saying that your father was loyal to the country and would never surrender."

Meng Jinling suddenly opened his eyes, and stared at him sharply. Zhao Pingzhen met his gaze without fear. After a while, Meng Jinling's momentum weakened, and a layer of bitterness gradually appeared in his eyes: "Fifth Highness, you Ever fought?"

Zhao Pingzhen said: "No."

Meng Jinling said: "Defending an isolated city is a torment every day. There are no reinforcements, no supplies, and the daily food has to be picked out bit by bit with fingernails. The people in the city are counting on the commander... My father has been guarding for several days. What did you wait for? It wasn’t reinforcements, but the news that his son was threatened by the emperor as a hostage…”

Zhao Pingzhen said: "Shaowei, you are still innocent, but your father is not. Since ancient times, which vassal king did not send a hostage to Beijing? But he only cared about his own life, but disregarded the safety of his family. He is the one who brought you to this point."

Meng Jinling suddenly became agitated: "No! The letter he wrote to me is in my bedroom. Have you read it? The commander of Jin Bing promised him that as long as he surrendered, the city would not be massacred! Seven thousand people and soldiers in Yangcheng lives..."

Seeing his blushing face, Zhao Pingzhen suddenly felt disappointed in his heart, and his good impression of Meng Jinling in the past also faded a lot.It turned out that the little marquis he was thinking of was just a person who blindly worshiped his father, and even at such a juncture he had to argue for his treasonous father, he was really not an extraordinary person.He said coldly: "So what? Seven thousand soldiers and civilians, as long as they stick to it for another month, they will be able to wait for reinforcements. How many people do I have in Damu? If everyone only cares about their own lives and the people in a city like him, in the end Everyone in my Great Mu Dynasty is a prisoner of the Jin people!"

Meng Jinling sneered: "Your Highness the Fifth Standing and talking really hurts your back. Have you ever guarded an isolated city? It takes a month to eat a day's food, and I don't know when I will be able to wait for reinforcements. Outside the city is the enemy's shouts and ridicules every day. You can’t send troops. The city is full of starvation and death, and there are even situations of cannibalism. Guard, guard, guard! For whom to defend the city! For the emperor who put a knife on his relative’s neck and forced him!”

Zhao Pingzhen stood up abruptly, and said in a cold tone, "I think you've been confused! Calm down, I'll come see you some other day!"

Zhao Pingzhen left the prison, did not go back to the Prince's Mansion, and went directly to the Qin Mansion.

When he broke in, Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue brothers were sitting side by side in the yard admiring the flowers. Qin Chengxue stood up like a frightened rabbit when he saw Zhao Pingzhen for the first time, and walked into the room with his head down: " I'll go back first." - He was really afraid of this Fifth Highness who obeyed me and prospered and opposed me.

Zhao Pingzhen was in a bad mood, and he didn't bother to argue with Qin Chengxue, so he directly pulled Qin Xiaolou into the room, pushed him on the bed, pushed him on the bed, and began to have sex roughly.Although Zhao Pingzhen is not a person who cares about fragrances and cherishes jade, and was not meticulous in his actions in the past, he always took Qin Xiaolou's feelings into consideration.This time, he didn't even apply the usual lubricating plaster, and bumped around, turning Qin Xiaolou's face pale from pain, and beads of sweat dripped on the bed sheet.

Not long after Zhao Pingzhen acted fiercely, the joint between his lower body and Qin Xiaolou was wrapped in warm liquid, and when he looked down, it was Qin Xiaolou's blood.He paused for a while, then sighed suddenly, and withdrew his avatar from Qin Xiaolou's body: "That's all."

Zhao Pingzhen ordered his servants to bring hot water and wound medicine, and personally helped Qin Xiaolou treat the wound, and then he hugged him and lay down on the bed.

"Why don't you make a sound when it hurts?"

Qin Xiaolou said: "Your Highness is in a bad mood, I don't want to make a noise to upset His Highness."

Zhao Pingzhen frowned in disgust: "I don't like you like this. I never bullied you. If you feel uncomfortable, don't bear it."

Qin Xiaolou said: "Yes."

Zhao Pingzhen squeezed his arm tightly, and said coldly: "Since you know I'm unhappy, don't make me even more unhappy."

Qin Xiaolou smiled and said, "Zhenqing."

Zhao Pingzhen let go.

After a while, Zhao Pingzhen asked: "If you... If you were a general, defending an isolated city, and you don't know when the reinforcements will come, the food in the city is exhausted, and it seems that you will not be able to hold on, will you continue to hold on or surrender to the enemy? ?”

Qin Xiaolou said: "Naturally it is to defend. If you want to surrender, you should surrender from the beginning. I have strong troops and horses in my hands, and sufficient food. The enemy dare not despise me. They will regard my surrender as a gift, and the conditions for me to surrender are also More; even if you have already defended to the point of exhaustion, then you can live and die with the city, and at least you can leave a good name behind you. If you fall at this moment, you will not only betray the old master, but the new master will also despise me , treat me as a fool who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the days when life is worse than death are better than death."

Zhao Pingzhen wondered: "I've never heard such a saying before. Think about it carefully, it makes sense. If you are the Marquis of Dingyuan, and the gold thief promises you to surrender and not slaughter the city, there are still [-] people alive in the city, would you be moved?" "

Qin Xiaolou said: "Of course not. The people in the north have been harassed and plundered by the gold thieves for a long time, and they have hated the gold thieves for a long time. I am afraid that many people would rather die than be ruled by the gold thieves. Besides, being ruled by a foreign race, then How can life be easier? So the people in the north who were disturbed by the war all fled to the south, not only to save their lives, but also unwilling to succumb to the gold thieves. Besides, the soldiers, their family members stay in the country, once they If they become surrendered soldiers, not only their names will be deleted from the military register, but even their names will not be left behind after death, and their family members may be implicated. I think most soldiers would rather die than surrender.”

Zhao Pingzhen nodded: "Are there really so many people with integrity who would rather die than obey?"

Qin Xiaolou said with a smile: "If you are not of my race, you will be punished if you are different. Our people understand this truth, and so do the gold thieves. If the county king in the country rebels and seizes the throne, the people probably don't care what the emperor's surname is." Yes, I just want to save my own life. But the intruders are gold thieves, and they always have this bit of national integrity."

Some words are rebellious, but even though Zhao Pingzhen is the fifth prince, he is not pedantic, so Qin Xiaolou dares to say such things to him.After Zhao Pingzhen listened to it, he actually felt very useful, because Qin Xiaolou's reasoning was in line with his beliefs, and Meng Jinling's reasoning became unreasonable to him because it didn't agree with his own ideas-he felt that if the coach of the city guard It was me, I would rather die than bow to the golden man.Not to mention 7000 people, even 7 people, 70 people, that's absolutely impossible!No matter how many reasons there are, they are all excuses!

For this reason, his affection for Qin Xiaolou has increased a lot in his heart, but his nostalgia for Meng Jinling has faded so much that he can't even notice it.

Because it was the critical autumn of the war, Marquis Dingyuan's surrender was very sensitive, and the emperor decided to exterminate the other three clans to make an example of others.There was an old man who was close friends with Marquis Dingyuan in the court to intercede for him, and the emperor removed his official position and sent him off—because this dynasty emphasized civility over military affairs, and never killed civil officials, and dispatching is the most severe punishment for officials.From then on, no one dared to speak for Marquis Dingyuan.

Meng Jinling spent a few days in prison like a walking corpse, and Zhao Pingzhen came again.Meng Jinling turned a blind eye to him and lay down on his own, taking the silence as anger.

Zhao Pingzhen sat down beside him and said, "My father wants to kill your family."

Meng Jinling was shocked and finally sat up.

Zhao Pingzhen said: "Du Jun pleaded for you, he has been demoted by his father and dispatched to Hainan."

Meng Jinling's chapped lips trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Zhao Pingzhen sighed, looking at his embarrassment, he felt a little uncomfortable after all, leaned forward and kissed the corner of his lips, Meng Jinling just let him kiss like a log.Zhao Pingzhen said: "I can save you, but I can only save you alone."

Meng Jinling's eyes were empty, and it took a long time before he smiled bitterly and said, "Can I still go to the battlefield to make contributions in this life?"

Zhao Pingzhen said: "Why do you bother to ask again?"

Meng Jinling said: "Then what are you going to do to save me? To be your Highness's child molester?"

Zhao Pingzhen frowned and remained silent.

Meng Jinling shook his head and laughed: "If Your Highness still remembers the old friendship...give Shaowei a whole body."

Zhao Pingzhen sighed heavily, thinking that this is good, it will make him proud.He stopped talking, got up and walked out.

Just as Zhao Pingzhen was about to step out of the prison door, he suddenly heard the iron chain behind him rattling, Meng Jinling rushed forward and hugged his thigh, his face was full of tears, and he begged choked with tears: "Your Highness, Fifth Highness, please let me go to the front line, when Just a pawn, just let me fight the enemy, let me die on the battlefield, please let me die on the battlefield..."

Zhao Pingzhen recalled in a trance the high-spirited Meng Jinling holding his sword in the air, and said majesticly: "It is my lifelong ambition to kill the enemy and defend the country in the frontier, and the horse leather shroud is the only way I can accept death!" The emaciated Meng Jinling was even worse than the Qin Xiaolou who stopped him on the street back then—his little lord had long since died in his heart.

Zhao Pingzhen said indifferently: "The Marquis of Dingyuan has served the country all his life, I will beg my father to leave your whole family dead."

When he walked out of the prison, he heard Meng Jinling laughing behind him. The laughter became more and more desolate. He grabbed Zhao Pingzhen's internal organs one after another, making his steps tremble when he walked, but he didn't turn his head in the end.

His little master is really dead.