worthless [rebirth]

Chen Ling didn't expect to see Jiang Chi again in such a way.

On the day the two armies fought, Chen Ling had a heart attack and did not fight.When he woke up, he got the news that Jiang Chi, the former lord of the Jiang Kingdom, shot and killed the defected Huainan King Jiang Sheng with an arrow, but fell off his horse for no reason and was captured when he confronted Qin Shan.

Li Guo's soldiers made a dangerous move, Qin Shan led his troops into the enemy's rear in one go, occupied the three mountains and four cities where Jiang Guo and Li Guo intersected, and won a complete victory.

Jiang Guo was forced to retreat a hundred miles away, and the commander was captured and reduced to a prisoner.

This is an underground dungeon, with a sturdy cell made of cast iron. There is only a small skylight on the top that can let in one or two beams of sunlight, but it can't illuminate the dark corners of the dungeon.

The skylight is a small prison door, so heavily guarded that not even a single-eyed fly can enter or exit freely.At the bottom was a steep, narrow wooden staircase that led down to the deep cell.

The so-called water prison is nothing more than an artificial pool several feet square, which gathers the sewage poured out from the six courtyards of the three palaces and the accumulated rainwater.

Because there is nowhere to discharge the sewage in the palace, the craftsmen came up with a way to dig a sewage treatment pool, collect the sewage first, and then lay underground pipes to divert the water into the river for discharge.

It was only when a certain monarch, who was cruel and fond of torture, transformed the underground sewage pool into a water prison.

At this time, a cross-shaped torture frame stood in the middle of the dirty and foul-smelling sewage pool, on which a man was tied, pierced through the lute bone and hung in the water by chains.

The man was covered in blood, forming red and black mottled marks on the tattered off-white jacket.He hung his head, his messy hair hung over his face, covering most of his face, and he was motionless, making it hard for people to see whether he was dead or asleep.

From time to time, dark and dirty creatures like water snakes and rats approached him smelling the smell of blood. The lower creatures who were used to eating carrion first saw the fresh flesh in the water, and crawled around on the man like crazy, greedy and greedy. Hungry to taste the delicacy of fresh blood.

A dark gray mouse crawled along the iron chain to the man's shoulder, piercing his open flesh with its sharp front claws, the man finally trembled and let out a hoarse and heavy moan.The mouse slipped and fell into the water, making a splash with a "plop".

After the water rippled, the surface of the water returned to calm again, and at the same time, the prison fell silent again.

There was a sound of metal clashing, and the iron lock on the skylight of the water prison was opened, and someone walked down slowly on the wooden steps.

Asking, the man barely opened his eyelids and took a look. The first thing that appeared in his sight was a pair of white satin short boots, the boots were embroidered with patterns with gold thread, and they stepped on the steps, making a "creak" and "creak" sound. The sound of planks.

Further up, there is a moon-white robe and a golden belt, which makes the figure of the person more and more shapely and slender.

In the end, there was a golden mask that reflected the pale skin of the young man.With his hair tied up in a jade crown, he was cold and aloof, and the flirtatious golden mask added a bit of evil to him.

The man only raised his eyes for a glance, then lowered his head again as if exhausted, and closed his eyes.

On the contrary, the young man in plain clothes by the water bank looked at the tortured body in the water, and a crack appeared in his cold expression behind the mask.

He could see clearly that even though the man only glanced at him lightly, there was strangeness and even indifference in his eyes.

Standing quietly by the water, the young man spoke slowly, his cold voice was like a clear spring in a mountain, and it was especially clear in this filthy water prison.

He asked: "Jiang Chi, I haven't seen you for half a year, now...you don't recognize me anymore?"

"Cough!" Jiang Chi coughed lowly, with a trace of blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice, "Why... you colluded with Jiang Sheng..."

Chen Ling took a step back abruptly, and looked at Jiang Chi in amazement, "In your heart, am I actually such a person?"

"Heh—" Jiang Chi laughed lowly, spitting out a mouthful of blood, "Then what about the poison of spring sleep...is it you?"

"What Chunmian, I don't understand what you're talking about." Chen Ling said, "Jiang Chi, you can lie to me, hurt me, and even use me as a substitute...but you can't frame me like this, what do you think of me? ? In your heart, what am I? "

"Framed?" Jiang Chi raised his eyelids, although his eyes were full of exhaustion, but still cold, "Jiang Sheng did walk with you and appeared in front of the battle, didn't he?"

"Yes." Chen Ling nodded, smiling sadly.

Jiang Chi said again: "Jiang Sheng said... when you first entered the palace, you mutilated yourself with a dagger and I stopped you. At that time, there were only you and me in the room... Cough, I didn't even tell Ah Chao how I got hurt, Jiang Sheng How do I get the details?"

"So..." Chen Ling's voice trembled, "You doubt me?"

Jiang Chi asked without answering: "On the dagger, you put him in spring sleep, right?"

"Yes... you said everything." Chen Ling laughed back in anger, stepped into the water, and slowly walked towards Jiang Chi, "Anyway, in your heart, I am nothing, at most a substitute, It's worth nothing. I don't argue, everything goes...I'm just that bad...haha..."

"Chen Ling..." Watching Chen Ling walk in, Jiang Chi's eyes were full of pain.

"Don't call me!" Chen Ling walked to Jiang Chi's side, looked at the lower animals crawling all over him, stretched out his hand to pinch a mouse's tail, and dangled it in front of Jiang Chi, "Since I'm here You are so unbearable in your heart, calling my name, aren't you afraid of dirtying your mouth?"

"Why..." Jiang Chi stared at the golden mask. With it, he couldn't see through Chen Ling's emotions, "Why didn't you deny it? The moment before you came to Liguo, even the moment before you saw Jiang Sheng , I still believe in you..."

"Denied?" Throwing the mouse into the water, Chen Ling sneered, and said, "If you deny it, you will believe it? Jiang Chi, do you still remember my face?"

"..." Jiang Chi was silent, he didn't understand why Chen Ling would ask such a question.

Chen Ling poked the mask on his face with his fingertips, and smiled distortedly, "Naturally, you don't remember, Mo Ziling. But what about me?" His voice slowly dropped, his eyes darkened: " I haven't taken off this mask for half a year... half a year, so long that I almost forget what this face should look like..."

"!" Jiang Chi's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that one of his lies would hurt Chen Ling so much. At that time, he just wanted Chen Ling to leave.Everything that happened today was something he could not have predicted in advance.

Before Jiang Chi could speak, a water snake swam over, coiled around Jiang Chi's waist, and bit the carrion from his wound.

"Uh...ah——" Jiang Chi let out a groan, and struggled a bit, tightening his five fingers so painfully that the veins on his forehead popped out.

"Now... are you in pain?" Chen Ling stretched out his hand slowly, pinched the snake's seven inches with his slender fingertips, pulled the snake off Jiang Chi's body, and looked at the bright red snake Xinzi with interest, He said lightly, "Actually, the moment I saw you hugging Mo Ziling's corpse, I was in [-] times more pain than you are now, but now... um... I don't feel anything."

"..." Panting for a while, Jiang Chi looked into Chen Ling's eyes and said, "You hate me? Because I forced you to be a proton, so...the whole year you've been by my side, have you always hated me?"

"So what?" Chen Ling smiled lowly, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pinch Jiang Chi's chin and approached him sharply, nose to nose, "Shan; and. 彡; Xi, do you still want to ask, during this year?" , Have I ever loved you? Haha, Jiang Chi, do you think you have the right to ask? You don’t love me, why should I give my heart?”

"..." With Chen Ling's eyes facing each other, Jiang Chi wanted to look into the other's heart through those dark and bright eyes as before, but for the first time found that he couldn't see through Chen Ling.Without flinching in the slightest, Jiang Chi asked slowly: "So... in Chaozhou prison, you said..."

"Fake! It's all fake!" Chu Ling interrupted Jiang Chi sharply, let go of his chin, stepped back a few steps, and hit the water surface with his waving hand, causing a big splash.

"It's all fake, you're satisfied! I released the people! I injected the poison! I locked you here! I made people torture you! It's all me..." Chen Ling yelled out of control, He didn't calm down until exhausted, and asked Jiang Chi in a daze, "I'm saying this... Are you satisfied?"

"Heh, cough cough!" Jiang Chi laughed suddenly, with endless bitterness, staring at Chen Ling's eyes full of sadness, he called out: "Ling'er..."

"..." Chen Ling was stunned, "What did you call me...?"

"The words you just said are deceiving me, aren't you..." Jiang Chi said with difficulty, with a faint smile on the corner of his blood-stained mouth, "Your eyes can't deceive me. I'm sorry, I shouldn't... Only then did I see clearly..."

"You..." Chen Ling heard the sound of his heart beating.

"What Jiang Sheng said is unbelievable. I...was careless..." Jiang Chi said, his voice became softer and softer, and suddenly broke, his head tilted to one side.

The surroundings suddenly fell into silence.

Before Chen Ling could comprehend the deep meaning from Jiang Chi's words, he saw that the other party lowered his head powerlessly and remained motionless, and his heart tightened suddenly.

Holding up Jiang Chi's head, he quickly probed under the person's nose, and was unconsciously relieved when he found that he was still breathing.

The series of actions were so fast that it took almost an instant. Chen Ling didn't think too much about it. When he realized what he had done, his eyes sank little by little.

Withdrew his hands behind his back, he turned and went ashore, and slowly walked up the stone steps.

"His Royal Highness!" The guarding guard saluted him, seeing that he was covered in water and didn't ask any more questions.

Chen Ling didn't look sideways, and said calmly: "The prisoner inside, I will interrogate myself. You find some people to send him to the East Palace. In order to avoid dirtying the floor of my East Palace, change him into clean clothes."

"Yes, Your Highness." The guard took the order, and ordered a few people to climb down into the dungeon to carry Jiang Chi.

Qin Shan, who had been standing opposite Chen Ling, came up, his eyes dodged, and he looked very guilty. He stopped when he was a step away from Chen Ling, and said, "Little..."

Chen Ling glanced at him, and said expressionlessly: "Is it what you mean, or what my father means?"

"..." Qin Shan moved his mouth, but did not speak.

Chen Ling suddenly pulled out Qin Shan's saber, and aimed an arrow at his heart: "Since it wasn't my father's order, who allowed you to touch him? Huh?!" The accentuated ending sounded a bit chilly.

Qin Shan looked at the sword against his heart in disbelief, and said, "I...I just want to avenge you..."

"This is between me and Jiang Chi, you don't need to intervene!" Chen Ling said, and withdrew his sword.

"You just can't forget him!" Qin Shan said: "You keep saying that you hate him, but that day I heard you calling his name in a dream, Xiao Ling, he is not worthy of you... um!" Cold, with blood slipping down.

"Of course I know it's not worth it, but it's not your turn to intervene in my affairs!" Chen Ling put his sword on the ground, and said coldly: "General Qin, pay attention to your identity. If you don't obey military orders and abuse lynching, today I will This flesh and blood injury is a lesson I have taught you!"