The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

"Bai Yan?" Xiao Jiuqin shook his hand in front of Bai Yan, "What are you thinking?"

Bai Yan realized later, "It's nothing."

Xiao Jiuqin looked suspicious, "The rain is getting heavier and heavier, can you bear it sitting here?" He got the news that Huai Chun came to announce the decree in the barracks, but he hurried too late, and he didn't know what the two of them said again. what.

Xiao Jiuqin didn't dare to disturb Bai Yan's thoughts, he held the man's hand, and couldn't help saying, "Hands are frozen like this, quickly follow me back to the house."

"Yes." Bai Yan took the imperial decree.

Fang Yao was about to get up, but suddenly his feet went limp, his knees were in sharp pain as if being nailed like steel nails, and his waist was also throbbing with pain.

"Hiss!" Bai Yan's face turned pale.

Xiao Jiuqin panicked and quickly caught him, "What's wrong?!"

He stayed outside unconsciously for nearly an hour. He heard that they didn't know that Bai Yan's knee was bad, so they didn't remind them. As a result, the cold was so cold that Bai Yan's legs were already stiff, and only now did he feel the pain.

"It's nothing," Bai Yan gritted his teeth, "Let me take it easy." The injury on his knee was an old problem left in the prison, and his waist was locked in the wooden box where his legs and feet couldn't stretch out. months.

When Grand Master Yun took him away from the imperial prison, his legs could not be stretched straight, and his already injured waist was even worse. In the next few months, he was the one who asked someone to take the iron plate and smash the bones. Little by little.

He has had the injury for more than half a year. Although there is no problem on the surface, only Bai Yan knows that his legs have long since failed, and the injury on his waist does not hurt. Once it hurts, he will have to peel off Pain in the bones.

"It's already at this time, and you are still trying to be brave!" Xiao Jiuqin looked sour, and picked him up, and Bai Yan wrapped his arms around the back of his neck in shock, "Why are you crazy?"

"I didn't know you were hurt so badly. Why didn't you tell me last night?" Seeing his pale face, Xiao Jiuqin felt so distressed right now. After five years, Bai Yan was still so stubborn.

He wanted to reprimand him a few words, but he was still angry at his lack of self-control, and he had reunited with him for so long, and he didn't know much about his injuries. Xiao Jiuqin's face was tense, but Bai Yan thought he was angry up.

After hesitating for a while, he said guiltyly, "I haven't had such pain in the past two years, so I didn't think much about it. It probably rains a lot this year, and the house is a bit damp, so I just..."

He tried to make amends bit by bit, fearing that Xiao Jiuqin would become ruthless, but this cautiousness made Xiao Jiuqin feel like a knife was twisting his heart.

"I practice martial arts, so I am more angry. There is no earth dragon in the house. You don't say anything when you are cold. Do you think I will think you are troublesome?"

When he said this, both of them were startled.

When even the two of them will see each other like this.

But Bai Yan knew that Xiao Jiuqin was right.

Judging from the current relationship between the two, it seems that they have already spoken, but in fact, Bai Yan has always felt ashamed of Xiao Jiuqin, so he wants to follow him in everything, and Xiao Jiuqin is also the same, he always She wanted to do everything well, but she was afraid that Bai Yan would feel uncomfortable if she said it out.

The two lacked communication, and they just did their own thing, thinking that it was appropriate to do everything silently, but they didn't know that they both worked hard on their own, but in the end they got twice the result with half the effort.

Speaking of it, both of them are right, they have good intentions, but both of them are wrong, because some things are not just wishful thinking.

"I don't know how to tell you." It took Bai Yan a long time to speak with difficulty. He lowered his head and frowned, as if every sentence was tinged with bitterness.

If he wanted to tell Xiao Jiuqin all his injuries, it meant that he had to confess how he spent those days in prison five years ago.

To put it bluntly, Bai Yan couldn't say it.

He didn't want to recall those days five years ago, and talking about them would only make Xiao Jiuqin feel uncomfortable.

The word "confession" is still difficult, especially this kind of "confession" and "complaint".

"What did you go through in the imperial prison five years ago?" Xiao Jiuqin put Bai Yan on the couch, half kneeling on the ground, looking at Bai Yan in an almost worshiping posture, "Tell me...will you?"

Bai Yan squeezed the hand under the sleeve tightly.

The next moment Xiao Jiuqin went up and wrapped his hands around the back, "How much pain did you suffer before Grand Master Yun took you out?"

Xiao Jiuqin hurriedly put on armor and went to the battlefield, and the white flags of the Hou Mansion hung for a whole month. At that time, there were rumors everywhere in Yingdu, only that the Pingjin Hou Mansion was almost wiped out overnight, but Bai Yan, who was raised by Pingjin Hou as his own son, was nothing. The pleadings falsely accused him of colluding with Beidi.

Compared with the disadvantage of facing the battle, Daliang's army retreated steadily. Collaborating with the enemy is tantamount to setting Pingjinhou's mansion on fire. Pingjinhou and his two sons died in battle.

Bai Yan repays kindness with grievances, and does everything in order to escape from the imperial prison. When Xiao Jiuqin was bathing in blood in northern Xinjiang, he hid in the Grand Master's Mansion.

Such a reality made everyone in Yingdu scold Bai Yan for his ruthlessness, and even Xiao Jiuqin was "consoled" by countless people in the northern border.

At that time, he was still wearing filial piety clothes under his armor, and his forehead was glaringly white. When he learned about this, he vomited a mouthful of blood, so that the filial piety clothes on his body were dotted with bright red.

But even so, he didn't believe that Bai Yan would really frame his father for his life.

But soon, news continued to spread to northern Xinjiang.

Xue Liangfu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, reprimanded Taishi Yun for acting as a minion, imprisoned Pingjin Hou Yizi, and forced him to frame Pingjin Hou's mansion.

The emperor recruited Bai Yan, but heard him say that he was not threatened by Grand Master Yun.

The emperor asked him again whether he had framed the Marquis of Pingjin.

Bai Yan was silent for a long time, and finally knelt down.

Xue Liangfu was so angry that he threw the jade wat in the hall, and severed the teacher-student relationship with Bai Yan.

Bai Yan's forehead was smashed, but he still didn't say a word.

At this time, Xiao Jiuqin still trusted Bai Yan because of his difficulties.

but then...

Once Bai Yan entered the Imperial Academy, it was Master Yun's effort.

Half a year later, he confronted Xue Liangfu in court, Xue Liangfu was so angry that he took off his court clothes, asked the emperor to allow him to become an official, and took his family south to the south of the Yangtze River.

After that, Bai Yan climbed up step by step. During the period, he cheated his colleagues and followed Grand Master Yun to do evil. The whole people in Yingdu hated him so much, but at this time, Xiao Jiuqin, who was far away in the northern Xinjiang, still believed in Bai Yan.

He knew that his Ah Yan was not the heartless and ungrateful person they said.

But the straw that broke the camel's back came quickly.

Mrs. Pingjin Hou died of illness on a winter day.

When Xiao Jiuqin received the news, he also had the letter from Bai Yan sent by his cronies.

At that time, he finally woke up.

Ah Yan is gone!

The Ah Yan in his heart never came out of the imperial prison.

Like fallen leaves rotting in muddy water in autumn, his Ah Yan was gone.

Xiao Jiuqin's trust in Bai Yan was finally broken, and the bitter wind blew in along that hole, making Xiao Jiuqin's whole body shudder.

He didn't open the letter in his hand, but was torn to pieces by him.

"What did you write in that letter?" Xiao Jiuqin suddenly panicked, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something.

Even after five years, Bai Yan still quickly understood what Xiao Jiuqin was talking about.

He gently twirled his fingertips, lowered his eyes and said, "That letter... didn't you read it?"

Xiao Jiuqin froze.

Bai Yan noticed that there was something he didn't understand about his reaction.

"Then...that makes everything match up..." Bai Yan sighed, "Frankly speaking, I feel better if you didn't read that letter."

Up to now, Xiao Jiuqin still didn't understand anything.

The death of his mother back then made him completely lose trust in Bai Yan. At that time, everyone told him that Bai Yan was heartless and ungrateful, and he repaid kindness with grievances.

If he still trusted him before, then after Madam Hou's death, it seemed like the sky had fallen. He had been waiting for Bai Yan's explanation, but he didn't receive anything.

After he calmed down, it wasn't that he didn't doubt it, but the letter he sent fell into the sea, and he didn't receive any reply from Bai Yan.

Thinking about it now, if someone interfered with it at that time, then...

"I sent out a total of 37 letters. At first, it was one letter every three days, then one letter a month, and after that... I didn't write any more." Bai Yan said in a low voice, "I live in the Imperial Academy, Those colleagues who were framed by me are actually Grand Master Yun's people..."

Grand Master Yun covered the sky with one hand, he controlled all of Bai Yan's movements, if he did anything wrong, there would be an extra corpse in front of the door the next day.

"Do you know where all the servants of the Hou Mansion have gone?" Bai Yan suddenly changed the subject.

Xiao Jiuqin frowned.

"They're all dead..."

Bai Yan had a wry smile on his lips, "None of them betrayed their master. At first, Yun Zhong threatened me with his wife, but then they... I couldn't watch them die innocently, so I did what Yun Zhong wanted, and... "

He stopped talking, "Forget it, let's not talk about this."

Xiao Jiuqin didn't miss the hostility in Bai Yan's eyes, but he couldn't ask anymore, so he could only hug Bai Yan closer, "I'm sorry."

He knew that these "three words" were useless to say, but he didn't know what else to say besides these three words.

He didn't completely trust Bai Yan.

"I have failed his heart", Xiao Jiuqin thought this way, when Bai Yan was in the most difficult time, he was in northern Xinjiang, not only failed to protect the people in the Hou Mansion, but also failed to protect Bai Yan.

"Ma'am has a lot of depression in her chest, and Uncle Xiao and the others have left one after another, so..." Bai Yan's eyes turned red, "It's because I was incompetent, I didn't protect her well..."

That year, Bai Yan couldn't take care of himself. Every time he wanted to visit Mrs. Hou, he was disturbed by Grand Master Yun. Later, Bai Yan finally let him relax his vigilance. up.

"A Yan..." Mrs. Hou took his hand, "You are a good boy, these days... have been hard for you..."

Bai Yan finally burst into tears. No matter what, he was only sixteen. Everyone in Yingdu spoke ill of each other. There were countless people who wanted him to die. Xiao Jiuqin was not by his side. Looking back, I can't even see the way forward.

At this time, Mrs. Hou suddenly said to him, "I'm sorry for you."

These four words made him suddenly feel that all the grievances seemed to be unimportant.

"The matter in the Hou Mansion is not your fault," Mrs. Hou patted his hand lightly, "I know you are here to protect the lives of me and Xiaojiu, don't cry...he will understand..."

"Fame and wealth are the most useless things, you and Xiao Jiu must be good... you two must live, live..."