Dream Hua Embers Records

In the imperial study room, Yan Qicheng was sitting behind the desk, there was no one else.

The door slowly closed behind him, and An Shuyu's heart skipped a beat. Seeing this, the emperor was about to punish Yan Yin.

Yan Yin and An Shuyu saluted, but Yan Qicheng didn't shout, but asked Yan Yin lightly, "Are you feeling better?"

Yan Yin heard that Yan Qicheng didn't address Yin'er, and felt a little apprehensive, so she replied respectfully, "It's all over."

Because Yan Qicheng didn't call him "Yin'er", Yan Yin didn't dare to call her father Huang anymore.

"The reason why you knelt and waited for the crime before?" Yan Qihao asked knowingly.

"I... I shot the prince's elder brother with an arrow..." Yan Yin's heart ached, and it was extremely difficult to say these words.

"Where did you shoot?"

"Heart..."

"Don't you know the rules of shooting willows?"

"know."

"Then which rule did you break?"

"Only when everyone has shot, the coach can shoot the vitals... Others can't shoot the vitals..." Yan Yin couldn't continue, tears rolled in her eyes.

"Did you accidentally shoot him in the heart?"

"No..." Yan Yin shook her head, and two streams of tears fell in response.

"Why do this?"

"Because... I can't save the prince's brother's life, at least I can save him from suffering!" Yan Yin hissed.

"It's only a cup of tea, how much pain is so important?" Yan Qicheng frowned, this sentence didn't seem like an interrogation, but more of a puzzlement.

"Of course it's important! If it's better to live than to die, it's better to be dead." Yan Yin raised her head and looked directly at Yan Qicheng, blinking her eyes, as if she didn't understand why Yan Qihao didn't understand this truth.

Yan Qicheng pondered for a moment, not knowing how to proceed, he cleared his throat and asked, "Do you know your mistake?"

Yan Yin nodded, "I know I'm wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"I didn't obey the rules, and I caused trouble for the emperor..."

"Why do you still do it when you know it's wrong?" Yan Qicheng raised his voice slightly.

"Because...because I always have to do something for the prince's elder brother to feel at ease. I can't just watch him suffer and do nothing...it's like...it's like...you can feel at ease when you are punished for doing something wrong. Same..." Yan Yin choked, speaking intermittently.

Yan Qihao heaved a sigh of relief, nodded, and turned to An Shuyu, "An Shuyu, do you know your mistake?"

An Shuyu nodded heavily.

"You taught Yin'er's archery?"

An Shuyu nodded again.

"Do you know what he was going to do to learn archery?"

An Shuyu bent down and kowtowed.

"You clearly knew that he made a mistake, but neither stopped nor reported it, but encouraged and indulged him. You asked for leave for him in Zongxue and falsely claimed to be sick. Are you guilty?"

An Shuyu kowtowed repeatedly.

"Twenty sticks, are you convinced?" Yan Qicheng said solemnly.

An Shuyu knelt down, nodded abruptly, and then bowed his head again.

"No!" Yan Yin was anxious, "It's my fault, Father should punish me."

"Your fault, I will punish you, you don't have to be so impatient." Yan Qisheng responded lightly.

"He is a slave, and I am the master. There is nothing wrong with him obeying my orders!" Yan Yin distinguished with a blushing face.

"You're still young, he has the responsibility to teach you, even if he can't dissuade you, he should report to me." Yan Qisheng was not in a hurry or annoyed, he followed the temptation carefully.

"If he secretly told my father my secret, wouldn't he be a dishonest villain?" Yan Yin did not give up, and still defended herself.

"Benevolence originating in heaven cannot be without father and son; righteousness originating in heaven cannot be without monarch and minister. The righteousness of ruler and minister lies in the great righteousness. There is righteousness between ruler and minister, father and son have relatives, husband and wife have affection, brothers have order, and friends have trust. Among the five ethics, the righteousness of the monarch and ministers is at the top, and the trust of friends is at the bottom, even the kinship between father and son is not greater than the righteousness of the monarch and ministers."

Yan Qicheng's words were quoted from scriptures, which Yan Yin had never heard before.Yan Yin blinked her eyes, lost in thought.

"Come here!" Yan Qihao shouted in a deep voice, "Pass the stick!"

Several servants filed in and pushed An Shuyu to the ground. Two staffs, one on the left and one on the right, rested on his body.

The custom of the source country is to punish with sticks, from the highest level to the ministers, ministers, officials, and common people. If there is a crime, it is often directly punished by the monarch without going through the judiciary. Even in the previous dynasty, the monarch made a mistake and was punished by the officials. Because of the old customs, everyone does not take it as an insult.Yan Yin is well aware of this, and twenty shovels is already the lightest punishment.However, this situation reminded Yan Yin of that time when he was reprimanded in the army, the pain was still secondary, but the deep sense of shame would never go away... Yan Yin blushed, Shaking his head lightly, he repeated in a low voice, "Don't...don't..."

On the other side, the sound of the heavy staff had already sounded, Yan Yin didn't dare to look, but just stared at Yan Qicheng, weeping silently.

Seeing this scene, Yan Qicheng's heart softened, and he called softly, "Yin'er, come here, come to Emperor Father."

Yan Yin walked over slowly and numbly.

Yan Qicheng held Yan Yin in his arms, and whispered in Yan Yin's ear, "Today's incident is a lesson, and you must remember not to act recklessly in the future. As a superior, you must be cautious in your words and deeds. Every word and action of yours may matter to you." When it comes to the wealth and life of your servants, if your father and king acted as recklessly and willfully as you on the battlefield, a hundred lives would not be enough to pay for it, and it would also cause countless deaths in the army. You grow up day by day, You can't always get into trouble and let your parents help you clean up the mess.

After hearing this, Yan Yin nodded repeatedly, seeing Yan Qicheng's amiability, she hurriedly said, "Father, can you spare Eunuch An?"

Yan Qicheng shook his head, "You couldn't save Kang Ying that day, and you can't save Shu Yu today, because you are too young, have no strength, and no power, if you sit here..." Yan Qicheng patted the dragon chair lightly, "You can be like me Follow your heart." After Yan Qicheng finished speaking, he stared at Yan Yin with a searching look on his face.

Yan Yin pouted for a moment, then shook her head lightly, "I don't want power and status..."

"why?"

"Father is considered powerful and has status, right? But he seldom smiles, and he is not happy at all. And father also said that even the emperor can't do whatever he wants, and there are things he wants but can't get."

After hearing this, Yan Qicheng sighed, "Then who do you think is happy?"

"Master, it's Dai Tiju. He is cheerful all day long, and if he cures some intractable disease, he will dance and dance like a child." Yan Yin said, unconsciously showing a big smile.

Infected by his expression, Yan Qicheng couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

"Father, how are you going to punish me?" Yan Yin kept thinking about this matter, the more Yan Qihao procrastinated, the more disturbed he felt, and his voice trembled a little.

Yan Qicheng tapped Yan Yin's eyebrows lightly, "From tomorrow onwards, I will punish you to come here every night to serve Emperor Father to review memorials, serve pen and ink, and do the errands that the little yellow family should do."

"Is there any more?" Yan Yin seemed a little puzzled, and asked with blinking eyes.

"No more." Yan Qicheng shook his head.

Yan Yin's eyes shone with joy, and she said cheerfully, "Thank you, Father!"

Yan Qicheng frowned, "Don't you think it's humiliating to be such a lowly slave?"

"How could it be? No! Isn't this what a nephew should do? Before I came to Zhongdu, my father said that I should honor my father as much as I honor my father."

Yan Qicheng looked at Yan Yin playfully, "I will read the memorial very late at night, you don't have to get up early the next day, and you don't have to go to Zongxue, literature and martial arts, let your brother Sanhuang teach you."

"Really!?" Yan Yin was both surprised and delighted, "Thank you, Father!"

"Hmph, you are by my side every day, I don't think anyone else would dare to embarrass you!" Yan Qicheng snorted coldly in a low voice.

The author has something to say: The facts of the court in the Song Dynasty are recorded in Weiwei Jian:

Among the captives, from the Zaizhi, the public secretary, down to the judge and the book lieutenant, there are criminals, and they are not immune. The stick is like a minister of the heaven.Anyone who disobeyed his ideas would go to the clothes and lie down on the ground, and order the guards to use sticks to slap them, and stop when they were enough, which was called "Yu Duan".If the magistrate of the county is guilty, he will send an angel to his home to measure the severity and stick it, which is called "judgment".There were those who died as a result.Although the upper and lower internal and external officials have been punished, they do not regard each other as humiliating.And those who know the ancients will not be severely punished.

The Northern League of the Three Dynasties, Volume [-], Shaoxing Fourth Year, December [-]th, quoted Zhao Zidi and Yan Yunlu as saying: "The Kingdom of Jin set up a treasury to collect wealth and goods, and vowed to send troops to use it. So, the lord of the country, Wu Excessive begging and buying for private use, knowing the version of Nianhan, asking the lord to break the oath. So the ministers helped him down to the hall, and the court staff was [-], and the ministers returned to the hall. cup.