worthless [rebirth]

When the water was getting cold, Chen Ling finally had no strength left, and he leaned against Jiang Chi's arms as limp as if his bones had been taken off.Sweat mixed with water slowly slid down his delicate collarbone. Chen Ling panted heavily and didn't want to move anymore.

"Zi Ling..." Jiang Chi's voice was hoarse, he lowered his head and kissed Chen Ling's white to somewhat transparent ears, picked up a handful of warm water and poured it on Chen Ling's back to wash him.

Chen Ling tilted his head, lay on Jiang Chi's shoulder and put his arms around his neck, leaning all his weight on Jiang Chi's body, snorted, and said in a nasal voice: "I'm sleepy... Ah Chi..."

"Go to sleep if you're sleepy." Jiang Chi stroked Chen Ling's back, didn't bother him anymore, took a cloth towel dipped in warm water and wiped it gently, until both of them were washed clean, he carried Chen Ling out of the bath bucket.

Before Jiang Chi put him back on the bed, Chen Ling fell asleep in his arms. He hadn't had a good sleep for several nights because he was worried about Jiang Chi's safety. Now that Jiang Chi came back, he was finally able to let go. Heart to sleep well.

Hearing the steady breathing in his arms, Jiang Chi couldn't help smiling, and gently put Chen Ling back on the bed.Chen Ling was still wrapping his arms around his neck, but Jiang Chi had no choice but to carefully pull away Chen Ling's arm.

Chen Ling frowned, waved his hand uneasily, hit Jiang Chi on the face, and was grabbed.

"What are you waving your little paw about? It almost scratched my face." Jiang Chi scolded, but there was indescribable pampering in his tone.Pressing Chen Ling's hand on the bed, he pulled a thin blanket from the side of the bed and gently placed it on Chen Ling's stomach.

Although the weather is very hot now, Chen Ling was the one who suffered from what he did just now, so it's better to be careful now so as not to catch cold.

"Dangdang." At this time, someone outside knocked on the door softly.

Jiang Chi grabbed his clothes and put them on, walked over and opened the door.

Standing outside the door, Jiang Chao saw that Jiang Chi's body was wet, and his half-open neckline showed ambiguous marks. He raised his eyebrows, smiled ambiguously, and said, "Yo, he recovered so quickly, it seems that there is something wrong with him." It doesn't matter if there is no antidote."

Jiang Chao's voice was not low, Jiang Chi glared at him to tell him to shut up, turned his head and saw that Chen Ling was still sleeping peacefully, and then he was relieved, lowered his voice and said, "Luo Feng is back?"

"Well, the harvest is not small." Jiang Chaodao, "When you meet, there will be a big surprise."

"It's not too late, I'll go to the interrogation when I get dressed." Jiang Chi said, pulling down the neckline.

"Don't be in a hurry, don't you want to spend more time with Xiao Ling?" Jiang Chao smiled.

"Zi Ling is asleep, don't disturb him anymore." Jiang Chi said calmly, going back to put on his outer robe.

"Brother Huang!" Jiang Chao held him back, "It's been five years...you still...can't forget Mo Ziling?"

Jiang Chi paused, "..."

"Because Chen Ling and Mo Ziling are somewhat similar, you gave him the name 'Zi Ling', so that he can't even be himself, but can only be a substitute?" Jiang Chaodao, originally just wanted to ask, but now suddenly He wanted to complain about Chu Ling.Even the name "Zi Ling" is not her own, who can stand such "love".

"..." Jiang Chi was silent for a while, then slowly turned his head, looked at Jiang Chao, gathered his brows together little by little, and asked, "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

"I'm doing it for your own good, Brother Huang." Jiang Chao said seriously: "If you like Chen Ling even a little bit, I mean Chen Ling, you should treat him as an independent person, not as a ..."

"I never regarded Chen Ling as someone else." Jiang Chi interrupted Jiang Chao.

"So, if Mo Ziling came back one day, how would you choose?" Jiang Chao asked, although he knew that Mo Ziling would never come back.

Jiang Chi said indifferently: "I promised him in prison that as long as I am still alive, I will not leave him alone. For the rest of my life, I only want him alone."

"This... I'm relieved." Jiang Chao breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and said, "I heard that your name was Mo Ziling in your dream, I thought... Brother Emperor, you should be more careful in the future, there will inevitably be people in the palace who are in front of Xiao Ling." Speaking of the Mo family, I am worried that he might misunderstand."

"Go and tell Luo Feng to prepare, and I will go to interrogation later." Jiang Chi turned around and closed the door without answering.

Jiang Chao smiled and sighed, and left.

When Jiang Chi went back to the bed to change clothes, Chen Ling was still in a deep sleep. Looking at Chen Ling's peaceful sleeping face, who looked like a little wild cat that had suddenly become docile, his heart seemed to be filled with a deep and indelible tenderness. .I couldn't help but reached out and stroked Chen Ling's brows and eyes lightly. I don't know if it was because of excitement or because he cherished it too much and was cautious, Jiang Chi's fingertips trembled a little.

"Zi Ling... this time, you won't leave me again, right? When I come back, I'll take you back to the palace." Jiang Chi murmured as if talking to himself, leaning close to Chen Ling's pale pink lips Pressed a kiss on the petals, and then got up to leave.

"..." After Jiang Chi left, Chen Ling's slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and a teardrop gradually condensed from the corner of his eye, which slipped quietly and sank into his temples.

"Don't go... Achi..." Chen Ling said in his dream, his lips moved, and he sighed quietly.

***

The prisoners who had been taken out to be buried alive had been put back in the prison again, and the corpses in the prison had also been cleaned up by the officers and soldiers sent by Jiang Chao.The officials carried the rice buckets and distributed bowls of hot porridge to the prisoners who had been hungry for five or six days.After the meal, the originally dispirited prisoners also gradually picked up their spirits.

Wang Anzhi and Xiao Wang were taken into the prison and temporarily detained in a torture room full of various instruments of torture used to interrogate prisoners.

When Jiang Chi arrived, Wang Anzhi was already tied to the rack by Luo Feng.On the ground were boxes of letters, jade calligraphy and paintings found from Wang Anzhi's house.

"Your Majesty, everything is here." Luo Feng walked over to report to Jiang Chi.

Jiang Chi nodded, glanced at the wooden boxes on the ground, and saw that except for a few books, all of them were priceless calligraphy and painting antiques. These things were not affordable for the prefect who only paid 20 taels of silver a month.But Jiang Chi knew that he could ask these questions later. The most important thing now was to find out the whereabouts of the antidote, not to mention that he was poisoned.

"Have you found the antidote?" Jiang Chi asked Luo Feng.

"Subordinates found a secret room in Wang Anzhi's house, and they were all found from inside." Luo Feng said, flirting with the officers and soldiers at the side, who immediately brought a square mahogany box, It is full of bottles and jars of different sizes and colors, "Your Majesty, look."

With so many bottles and cans, who knows which is the antidote and which is the poison?Wang Anzhi obviously knew that Jiang Chi couldn't find an antidote, so he finally let him go and begged him to give him the medicine, so even though he was tied up by five flowers, he looked reassured, and even hummed indifferently.

Jiang Chi's eyes flickered, and without waiting for the others to react, he took off a barbed iron whip from the torture rack, and swished it at Wang An's chest with a strong wind.

"Oh—" Wang Anzhi uttered a strange cry in pain, his voice changed, his eyes turned black, and he almost lost his breath.Ren He never imagined that Jiang Chi would be so cruel and merciless.

"Which one is the antidote?" Jiang Chi shook the iron whip in his hand, and there was a hint of threat in Jiang Chi's tone.

"No... I don't know." Wang Anzhi gritted his teeth, "Kill me if you have the ability, and I'll see who will give you the antidote after I die. Ha... At worst, we will die together."

"Do you think I dare not?" Jiang Chi sneered, said "papa" and swung the iron whip twice, only pulling Wang Anzhi's shoulders so that the deep bones inside were exposed.

"I'll give you time to think about it." Jiang Chi stopped, and lifted Wang Anzhi's chin with the handle of the iron whip, smiling cruelly, and said: "Life or death, it all depends on your thoughts."

"Laugh...joke, if I hand over the antidote, wouldn't I die faster? Do you think I'm stupid?" Wang Anzhi spat out blood and laughed cunningly, "It's you who keep saying that you want to be a benevolent king and don't allow lynching to be abused. Are you doing it yourself now?"

"My 'benevolence' is for innocent people, how could it be your turn?" Jiang Chi sneered: "I have never claimed to be a benevolent king, but there are not a few people who say that I am a tyrant." With a cold snort, Jiang Chi's last bit of patience was exhausted. Throwing away the iron whip, he took out a green jade bottle from the box and said, "It's this?"

"I don't know!" Wang Anzhi said, as long as he didn't tell, Jiang Chi would definitely save his life.

"I don't know?" Jiang Chi laughed evilly, and said, "Very well, I have a way to let you know." He uncorked the bottle and ordered someone to pinch Wang Anzhi's mouth open as if to drain the liquid in the bottle. Pour it into his mouth.

"Brother, no!" Jiang Chao thought that Jiang Chi was in a daze, and hurriedly tried to stop him, saying, "If he dies, it will be really hard to find the cure."

"It's okay, we'll all die together, Lord Wang can't wait for it." Jiang Chi smiled lightly, and poured some liquid into Wang Anzhi's mouth.

"Woooo..." Wang Anzhi struggled, but he couldn't resist the soldier who was bound by Wuhuada, so he could only open his mouth and let the liquid slip into his throat.

Putting the cork back on, Jiang Chi threw the green bottle to Jiang Chao, and said calmly, "Just wait." He signaled for the soldier who was pinching Wang Anzhi to let go.

"Ouch—" Wang Anzhi tried to retch, trying to spit out the liquid he drank, but after several attempts, it didn't work at all, until a hot burning sensation accompanied by severe pain extended from the throat to the stomach, He began to vomit blood.

"We can't let him die like this." Jiang Chao said.

"The black bottle...give me the antidote...give me..." Wang Anzhi said weakly.

With arms folded, Jiang Chi leisurely walked back and forth in front of Wang Anzhi, saying, "Now I can give you the antidote, as long as you tell me which bottle I want."

"..." As soon as the antidote was mentioned, Wang Anzhi fell silent again.

Jiang Chi was not annoyed either, he held the small black porcelain bottle and played with it for a while, until Wang Anzhi passed out before he poured out the pills inside and asked someone to feed him.

After taking the antidote, Wang Anzhi gradually got better, and he was panting with his head bowed.Just now he regained his energy, Jiang Chi gave a signal with his eyes, the soldier opened his mouth again, Jiang Chi picked a white porcelain bottle, took out a small black pill and put it into Wang Anzhi's mouth with a smile.