Carrying the wrong sedan chair to marry the wrong wife

The righteous servant betrays his master and goes out of the cage, counting out helplessness and looking forward to the return of his soul

The night was deep, dark clouds covered the moon, and there were bursts of thunder in the sky.Cheng En, who was waiting in the concierge, saw the No. [-], Tanhua and many people leaving one after another, feeling angry and uneasy, seeing the housekeeper of Shangshu Mansion hurriedly stepped forward to inquire.

"My lord, it's late at night, why don't you see my young master?"

"Oh, Mr. Zhuangyuan, he has had too much wine and is now resting in the wing room." The butler replied.

When Cheng En heard it, he felt something was wrong: "My son has never been a good drinker. He must stop drinking after three glasses. How could he eat too much?"

"Many Jinshi of the same discipline today must be very happy, so he drank a few more cups."

"Then, please take me to find my young master." Cheng En and Cheng Yi have been together for so long, entering the examination room and going to Xifan, his young master has always known the word of propriety in his heart, and would never get drunk at other people's house.

"My little brother, the number one scholar has fallen asleep, why bother you? I will stay at the concierge for one night, and I will see your son tomorrow morning." How to explain those traumas?The good number one scholar entered the Shangshu's mansion, and was instantly covered in bruises?The death of the maid can't be told to the outside world, even if it is said to the outside world, it should be reported to the officials instead of lynching the fourth-rank ministers privately.

"I want to see my young master now, and I will never give up if I don't see my young master today." Cheng En looked at the housekeeper angrily.

"I'll ask you, and wait." After the steward said, he hurried to the main room. At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials had just taken off his clothes when he heard a knock on the door and came out with his clothes on.

"Master, the life and death of Zhuangyuangong's servant will see Zhuangyuangong."

Upon hearing this, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials glared at the steward: "You can't even handle a servant?"

The butler hurriedly said: "Master, this servant is stubborn at first glance. I see that posture. If we don't see the champion today, our family is afraid that there will be no peace."

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials sneered when he heard the words: "A slave, if he dies, he will be silenced? However, Cheng Yi is now going to become the county matriarch, and Uncle Guo also pointed out that he can become a right-hand man in the future. We don't need to fill in the hatred , That's all, a servant will know if he knows, send a sedan chair and let Cheng Yi go back."

"My lord, what should I do if Cheng Yi goes back and talks nonsense?"

"Nonsense? She is a smart person. If there is no evidence, it is a false accusation. Besides, who can prove that she happened in my house, and it is very likely that she was robbed on the way back." The Minister of the Ministry of Officials said and gathered his clothes. , "Let him go back, if someone visits tomorrow, he is not here, and it will easily arouse suspicion."

"Yes, my lord." After saying that, the housekeeper turned to leave.

"Wait." The Minister of the Ministry of Officials called to stop the housekeeper, "Find someone to follow them and stand guard at the gate of the Zhuangyuan Mansion. If they take action, report it immediately."

"Hey." The butler took the order and hurried to the wing.

Cheng Yi sat on the stool in a daze, his eyes were empty, and the bruises were quietly placed on the table.

"Oh, Mr. Cheng, why didn't you take the medicine?" The butler knocked on the door a few times, but he didn't hear the sound. He hurriedly opened the door and entered the room. Seeing that Cheng Yi was still there, he breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward and smiled flatteringly.

"Master Cheng, your servant is waiting outside. It's late at night, and it's time for you to go home."

As soon as these words came out, Cheng Yi responded: "Go back to the house?"

"Hey, go back to the mansion, let's go, you."

Cheng Yi's eyes moved when he heard the words, he stood up slowly with his hands on the table, and walked out tremblingly.

"My slave will help you." The housekeeper stepped forward to hold Cheng Yi.

"Let go." Cheng Yi stared coldly at the butler's face, the butler let go with a shake of his hand, and swallowed his saliva, just now he saw a strong killing intent in Cheng Yi's eyes.

Cheng Yi took a step forward and walked forward with difficulty.

"Young Master!!!" Cheng En saw Cheng Yi from a distance, and hurried over, "Young Master, what's the matter?"

Cheng Yi put his hand on Cheng En's arm, supported him with a little support, and said in a low voice, "Hurry up, let's go."

"Hey, hey." Cheng En responded, turned his head and glared at the butler on the other side, and strode out with Cheng Yi on his back.

When they reached the door, the housekeeper graciously lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and said, "Please get on the sedan chair."

"Hmph!" Cheng En snorted angrily, and ran with Cheng Yi on his back.

When they got home, Cheng En hurriedly walked to the bedroom with Chen Yi on his back, only to hear his son's weak voice: "Go to the study."

Cheng Yi paused and hurried to the study.

Cheng Yi was put on the stool and exhaled: "Cheng En, Mo Mo."

"Ai."

Cheng Yi raised his sleeve, picked up a pen, wrote a letter with ink on it, folded it and handed it to Cheng En and said, "I have something very important, I don't feel relieved to let someone else go, you take this letter and hurry back to Nantong to look for it Old madam and young madam, tell them, don’t believe the divorce letter sent by Zhang Ziliao’s people, just set it on fire, don’t worry about me, I’ll turn around after a while.”

"My lord, what happened? How dare the Minister of the Ministry of Officials treat you like this?"

"They are all the kings of Hades in the world, what are they afraid to do?" Cheng Yi stood up regardless of his discomfort, and took the silver from the box to Cheng En, "Go to find an inn near the city gate tonight, As soon as the city gates open tomorrow morning, we will hurry back to Nantong."

Cheng Yi said and pulled Cheng En out of the study room, just about to go forward, but stopped: "There must be someone watching in front, if you can't go, go to the backyard."

The two of them went to the wall, Cheng Yi looked at the waterway that led into the rockery from outside: "Tear down the bottom of the wall again, you can go out from here."

Hearing this, Cheng En quickly took tools from the corner of the wall to dig, and Cheng Yi also knelt down by the wall with a hammer in hand to chisel.

"My lord, if Cheng En leaves, if your lord is in danger alone in Beijing, Cheng En's life will not be safe." Cheng En saw that the wall was chiseled and he could pass through, so he turned his head to look at Cheng Yi. At this moment, he was very contradictory.

"They won't do anything to me now. Go away. When you arrive in Nantong, let the old lady take the young lady to live in another place. Don't live in Fu County." After Cheng Yi said, he stood up with his injured hand on his knees. Get up and sigh: "Let's go."

"Cheng En bid farewell, son." Cheng En said, took out the letter, squeezed his lips, and went down the waterway leading to the rockery.

"Boom, boom..." Thunder roared in the sky, and after a while, raindrops the size of pearls fell. Cheng Yi slowly raised his head, looked at the dark sky, and slowly got down on his knees. In the mud.

"Hehehehe, hehehehe." Cheng Yi covered his face with his hands, pressed his forehead in the mud, and after a wry smile, he slowly stood up, stepped on the mud with his boots, and staggered back to the house.

The next day, as the sun rose, Cheng Yi, who hadn't slept all night, changed into his normal clothes, and with a wooden stick in his hand to support his injured leg, he walked out of the Zhuangyuan's mansion through the back door.

"Hurry up and tell your lord that Cheng Yi has left the mansion." The guard behind the Zhuangyuan Mansion whispered to his companions.

Cheng Yi didn't stop all the way to the palace.

"Who is it?" The guards of the palace stopped Cheng Yi who came forward.

"I'm sorry to bother you, Cheng Yi, the number one scholar in this subject, is asking to see His Royal Highness the princess."

"No. [-] Scholar?" The guard looked at Cheng Yi and became respectful, "No. [-] Scholar, please wait a moment." After saying that, the guard turned and ran into the palace. After a while, he came out and led Cheng Yi into the palace.

Cheng Yi struggled to follow behind the guards, and walked into the magnificent reception hall, Cheng Yi saw a figure in a boa robe from the back.

"What is the so-called number one scholar wanting my daughter?" Prince Ming turned around slowly.

Cheng Yi froze in place, why couldn't God give her some life?Cheng Yi sighed slightly, enduring the pain and knelt down.

Prince Ming's eyes flashed in surprise: "Yesterday and today, why was the champion so embarrassed?"

"My lord, why bother to ask the question knowingly? I'm an official from a poor family, and I'm really not worthy of His Highness the princess. I beg the lord to choose another talent for the princess." Cheng Yi kowtowed.

"What, you're going to go back on your word overnight? You asked your classmate and friend to send you birthday horoscopes and marriage proposal poems, and you don't plan to admit it after a night's sleep? What is your daughter for being my king!" Ming Wang was furious. .

"How did the lord know how that poem came about?" Cheng Yi sneered, "The lord ordered the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and that Zhang Ziliao to lynch me, so he should know that there is absolutely no sincerity in that poem."

"You are presumptuous, you are just talking nonsense, when will this king let the Minister of the Ministry of Officials participate in it? What about lynching..." Prince Ming paused after speaking, and looked Cheng Yi up and down, "This, this, this The king has never let anyone lynch you, and this king wants to recruit you as his son-in-law, wouldn't lynching you hurt your father-in-law's affection?"

After finishing speaking, King Ming recalled what Zhang Ziliao said last night, clenched his fists, and paced back and forth.

"This Zhang Ziliao is really brave enough to play tricks on me." Prince Ming finished speaking and looked at Cheng Yi who was kneeling, "Last night, that Zhang Ziliao brought your birthday horoscope and poems to the mansion. Said that he tried to persuade you with a good tongue, and you also wrote a letter of divorce and cut off all contact with country women."

Cheng Yi heard a glimmer of hope in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, that Zhang Ziliao is a sinister villain. He colluded with the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and hosted a banquet for Jinshi last night. The Minister took the officials away on the way, and persuaded me to marry the princess. Zhang Ziliao even killed the servant girl in front of the lower official, and then framed the lower official for doing it, and then lynched the lower official, with the purpose of forcing the lower official to divorce his wife and marry another."

Prince Ming sighed with his hands behind his back: "You were wronged yesterday, and you have the right to be at ease. Although I don't ask much about political affairs, I am a prince after all. It is not a problem to convict one or two courtiers. Your revenge, I will avenge you for you in the future." .”

"Thank you, my lord. My lord is kind, and the princess is kind-hearted. I will definitely be able to find a good son-in-law again."

Lord Ming looked at Cheng Yi and said, "You have to avenge your revenge, and you want to marry this king's daughter. Now, it's up to you. Last night, this king ordered someone to send your poem to the princess's attic, and the princess has also entered the palace. Ask the Queen Mother and Your Majesty for an order, under the imperial edict when you are young, you have to do this county horse if you don’t want to."

"My lord, there is still time before the early court. I beg your lord to stop it on your behalf. The lower officials must be remembered, and they will form a grass ring in the next life." Cheng Yi kowtowed one after another.

"Cheng Yi, this king appreciates your character. Unlike those individuals, who forget the old people when they are proud of their fame, this king was once young, so I can completely understand you. But understanding is understanding. You still have to be a county horse. Don't resent me. Wang, this king has only one daughter, so I have to plan for her. As for the other poor women in the world, this king really can't care about it. This king can't help other women and sees his daughter desolate and lonely. This king admits that this Wang Bang beat the mandarin ducks, this king has committed a crime, and if there is any retribution, this king will admit it." Why did Prince Ming want to recruit a married man as his son-in-law, there is really no other choice, he can't let his daughter be childless in this life Be miserable.

"My lord, the princess is so honorable, why do you insist on marrying me? Today, I am bold, and I only have a wife in my heart. My lord thinks that if you force me to marry the princess, will I treat the princess well?"

As soon as these words came out, Prince Ming was completely enraged.

"You dare? Listen to this king, the princess will shed a tear every day, and this king will ask someone to draw a knife on the face of the singing girl. If you dare to treat the princess badly, the king can even send someone to kill her." That singer."

Cheng Yi's eyes were shocked when he heard the words, isn't it so easy in the eyes of royal nobles to kill people, in the eyes of these people, the lives of ordinary people are probably not worth a penny.

"Of course, if you can treat the princess with respect as a guest, I can let the singing girl and the child in her womb go." The prince Ming added another sentence because he was afraid that Weng and his son-in-law would be hostile in the future.

Hearing this, Cheng Yi felt as if he had exhausted all his strength and fell down on his calf in a daze.

"Go back, the edict was issued when you were young, and there must be no one in the house to accept the order. Don't worry, if you become the king's son-in-law, the king will not treat you harshly. As long as you care and love the princess with all your heart, your ex-wife will not be treated badly by the king." It will move her in the slightest." After saying that, Prince Ming shouted outside, "Come here, send the number one scholar back to the mansion."

"Don't bother me, I'll go back by myself." Cheng Yi said, picked up the wooden stick on the ground, stood up for support, and walked out step by step.

"Follow him. If you go back to Zhuangyuan Mansion, then go. If you don't go back, follow him all the way to see where he goes and what he does." King Ming said to the guards, remembering the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Zhang Ziliao, and said: "Oh, yes, Bring one more person, and make sure to protect the champion along the way, if he suffers any losses, I will ask him to blame."

"Yes, my lord." The guard took the order and followed Cheng Yi with another guard not far behind.

Cheng Yi was in the middle of the street, slowly raised his head, looked at the rising sun, and watched two lines of tears streaming down his face.

"Liniang, Liniang, don't blame me, I'm going to lose my word, I can't take you to go boating on Nantong River." Cheng Yi remembered that when Liniang was first pregnant, she wanted to go boating. She said at the time that she would take her there after giving birth, but Now, it is impossible now, "I used to say that if you have the power, you can protect you. Today, I know how dangerous the officialdom is, and I am unable to protect you. If you feel something, wait for my soul to return to you." , wait for my soul to return."

Cheng Yi couldn't stop crying, and looked at a mountain in the distance, it was the Ridge of the Dead, if one jumped down, there would be no bones left.If she jumped, no one would be able to find the autopsy, no one would know that she was a woman disguised as a man.Once she dies, the prince doesn't have to trouble Liniang anymore, everything will be fine once she dies, everything will be fine once she dies.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yi walked towards Dead Man's Ridge with tears in her eyes. She never thought that today would be the last time she and Liniang walked on the road to bid farewell to the capital.If she had known today, she would not have gone to Beijing to seek fame if she died.In this world, it is better for Jiangong to leave than to stay with his family.

At this time, on the way to Huangquan, how much she wanted to fly back to Nantong with wings, and Liniang was in her arms crying about lovesickness, how much she wanted to hold Liniang's hand and watch Altair Vega from a distance.How much she thought, how much she wanted to live until her daughter was born, how much she wanted to hug her, how much she wanted to hear her daughter babbling, how much she wanted to teach her daughter how to walk.How much she wanted to be filial to her loving mother and never to be separated from her knees, and how much she wanted to share the family relationship with her family, but now, it has become an extravagant wish. She has great regrets, but no one has told them.