Ten Mile Room

Under the dome of the Prosperity Hall, the Empress sat on the sofa in the small reception court, with a surprised expression on her face.

Since she ascended the throne when she was a girl, it was the first time she encountered rejection, and it was still the kind of rejection that was unceremonious and without hesitation at all.

What would happen if you went back decades and encountered such rejection?

The queen smiled indifferently, and handed over this person to her courtiers in charge of laws and regulations. In the great code of the empire, there are many iron laws to treat such ants.

Then she quickly put it out of her mind, never to think about it again, and it was not worth thinking about.

But today, when her personal officer told her that she was unceremoniously rejected, the queen finally remembered something... It seems that the law has long since failed to protect her dignity.

Oops, how good is this?

Under a slight crack in her mentality, the great empress smiled warmly like spring.

She has countless emotions, and those emotions pass through her heart in a mess, but among all these emotions, there is no anger, let alone gaffes.

Her smile was still majestic, but warm. After listening, she immediately patted her own officer on the head with a smile, and said in a mother's dumbfounding tone: "Oh, it's really distressing. A new girl who can't get past puberty Emperor, bring out a group of eccentric children and courtiers. Poor Beiyan met a ~hm~ terrible monarch? This is really~ a headache. I have wronged you. It is my mother who did not educate her children well. "

The internal officer raised his head, and said with a hint of undisguised anger: "Your Majesty, please order Weiyang Palace anyway. Kyushu has its own royal family, and I have never encountered such a rude courtier!"

When he finished speaking, Empress Yijin smiled brighter. She pointed her finger at her internal officer and laughed and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? What era is this? Do you think my imperial order is still valid?" Is it worth so much? Soon its effect will not even be able to get out of the Golden Palace, courtier? Whose courtier? Why don’t you accept your fate? This is a ~ new era, have you forgotten? Little love is still giving birth to me What about this mother's anger, he regards my mother as an enemy now, have you forgotten? What a group of children!"

Hearing this, the inner officer raised his head and looked at his king in astonishment, and burst into tears involuntarily. He felt wronged for his king.

However, Wang felt that this was just some kind of willful and naive childish behavior of a child occupying the hill in the backyard of the house, dominating the king. She didn't mind it at all, and she even felt a little ridiculous.

The inner officer clenched his fists tightly, trembling with anger.

However, the empress looked frightened by him, she leaned back, with a look of disgust on her face.

She said: "Okay, okay, you are already the father of five children, why do you still act like this? Tsk... Are you five years old? Why are you crying when you are old? Okay , well, don’t act like this, tsk, the snot is coming out, it’s really disgusting.”

After speaking, she took down a prepared silk handkerchief from the table, and threw it on the carpet with a look of disgust on her face.

But her internal officer lowered his head and picked up the handkerchief, wiping his snot and tears.

It seems that the relationship between the monarch and his ministers has become like family.

The empress was helpless, she smiled more relieved, her expression was open-minded and understanding, she sat there, her demeanor and spirit were exactly the same as when the eunuch first came 15 years ago, neither old nor immortal.

"Tsk tsk, what a fool."

When she said it, the inner officer's heart was full of grievances, he raised his face helplessly and said in amazement: "Your Majesty!"

Those sinners who neglected His Majesty should fall into the [-] layers of hell and die without regret.

The empress patted her forehead in distress, then raised her wrist and said to him: "Okay, so overflowing, let's walk, let's go for a walk..."

The internal officer Duoyi raised his hand habitually and supported his king, then their master and servant left the Hall of Glory just like before, and walked towards the transparent corridor outside the hall together.

After walking far, far away, the empress said in the ear of the eunuch: "Are you a fool?"

Duo Yi hesitated when he heard the words, and looked at his king in confusion.

Seeing that he didn't understand, the queen reached out her hand to slap him on the forehead and said, "How many outside eyes and ears in the Hall of Glory are digging up by your son's courtiers, so shameful, next time, can you tell me quietly? You stupid pig!"

Duo Yi instantly realized that he had made a mistake.

He lowered his head, looked at the ground, looked at his queen's little white socks and said, "Your Majesty...you, you have been wronged."

She doesn't like to wear shoes, and always likes to wear a pair of clean white socks to walk around every corner of her Golden Palace, and because of her eccentricity, the number of handymen cleaning the Golden Palace is six times that of other positions.

The elders of the clan asked her to wear shoes several times to reduce the extra waste of finances, but she just refused to listen.

"I'm not wronged, these are small things."

She smiled, and casually tossed her big black braid like crow feathers behind her.

As a mother who had given birth to nine children, she had entered her twilight years, but this kind of aging that belonged to ordinary people could not be seen on Wang's face.

She was destined to inherit the throne since she was born, not to mention education, but just taking care of herself, she has always enjoyed the best resources of the empire.

Because of this, her age is frozen at the wonderful 35 years old, her hair is still healthy and shiny, her skin is beautiful and fair, her complexion has no growth rings at all, it is also full of collagen, her bones are healthy and calcium is not lacking, just like her The lovers retain the abundance of desires possessed by youth.

In Duo Yi's view, the king is immortal, and the most beautiful in the world.

However, this kind of beauty of hers is peculiar. She doesn't see any softness of women, nor the sharpness of men. She is comprehensive and can bear. The beauty of people.

As the last ruling emperor of the empire, she enjoyed things that even her eldest son and eldest daughter could not imagine.

As those people outside say, the strong, some people control money, some people control power, this woman once controlled the fate of the empire, during her reign, there were no big wars, but small wars, the confrontation of the fate of the country, she controlled Countless days have passed.

Because of this, she doesn't have, doesn't have to have, and doesn't need to have those emotions that ordinary people have when people get mixed up to her level.

She is such a strange person, Duo Yi worships her like a god.

All the old people in the Golden Palace worship her like this.

As for her having so many bed partners and doing so many incredible things.

What does it matter?

Normal people have several emotions in their lives, let alone Wang Hu!

Those are just some small pleasures for the king to pass the time. They have nothing to do with morality, just a small game for leisure.

She led him forward and smiled helplessly as she walked, "How can I be angry with him? He is not even from Zhongzhou. Compared with his attitude towards me, I might as well worry about it." this."

She imitated the appearance in the film and television drama, twisting her fingers at her internal officer.

Although she tried her best to look greedy for money, she still couldn't learn the essence of this kind of action.

It even looks a little silly.

They went back to the place where they used to stay, but before entering the palace, they saw the little internal officials who had been waiting at the door of the house, and they were holding tall begging posts in their hands.

The queen stopped walking immediately, slapped her forehead with quite a headache, and said without any distress, "What should I do? The creditor came to the door. If I don't want to jump off the Chongming Building, I can only wear shoes in the Golden Palace." , overflowing!"

Duo Yi opened his mouth in a murmur, and it took him a long time to say in a difficult way: "Then, will His Majesty be wronged for a few days? At any rate, at any rate, I should also pay the energy and heating bills of the outer courtyard. Now 80.00% of the museums in the outer courtyard It's all covered with frost, Your Majesty!"

The queen finally had some troubles now.

She sighed: "It's so overflowing, Qian'er, it's a good thing, don't you think?"

"Yes, Your Majesty..."

The tallest commercial building in Gail, Chongming Building No.90 has nine floors.

Two gray-haired old men, dressed in black clothes, wearing jade hairpins and holding wine glasses, clinked glasses with each other.

After gulping it down, they took out the sharp daggers that they had prepared long ago from the table, and sharply cut each other's neck arteries.

In an instant, blood stains splashed all over the wall.

This is the last January of the year, and there are about five days before the Lunar New Year's Eve.

Jiang Gezi woke up early in the morning and had breakfast accompanied by Mr. Jiude. Then at his dining table, he saw a stack of newspapers with quite horrible news on the headlines.

"Huge investment losses led to the bankruptcy of an established bank, and the two directors of Kyushu Commercial Bank cut their throats to apologize and hang themselves."

Jiang Gezi picked up a stack of newspapers and read them one by one, until the end, he raised his head and called out to the outside: "Xin Weng, are there any other newspapers?"

Mr. Jiude, who was eating breakfast while reading the newspaper, raised his head and said: "You don't need to call him, probably half of the people in this courtyard will not be here today."

It was only then that Jiang Gezi realized that in the restaurant that used to be huge and luxuriously furnished, there were only two or three small shrimps left today.

Mr. Jiude put down the newspaper and said with enough compassion on his face: "Do you know what it means that a bank with a history of more than 600 years has gone bankrupt?"

Jiang Gezi blinked his eyes, and asked with doubts in his tone: "Could it be that Xin Weng and the others are also depositing money at the Commercial Bank?"

Aren't Xin Weng and the others Yu Dongchi's servants?

Mr. Jiude sighed helplessly, probably because he was so sad that he couldn't even eat.

He stood up, shook his head helplessly, and said: "For many rich people, even if they lose most of their money, they still have a certain guard of honor around them to continue to survive. But for small people, if a bank goes bankrupt, the loss may be... …is a lifetime savings.”

He is an artist, he thinks more than ordinary people, and he has a considerable sense of empathy.In this way, he felt even more uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that he couldn't stay in this room any longer.

He stood up and slowly left the restaurant with a heavy expression.

It wasn't until he was far away that Jiang Gezi suddenly remembered something. Only a few people knew about the incident that Yu Dongchi had facilitated in private.

These few include him.

He cleverly led the old Sanxiang people out of those unsafe banks, but he never thought about people like Xin Weng, after losing their bank deposits, would they be sad, would they go to a dead end, would they have A large number of people will change their destiny because of this incident.

Moreover, Kyushu Commercial League Bank was only the first bank to go bankrupt... All of this is just the beginning.

When did I become a piece of ice?

Jiang Gezi pondered for a moment, and was even taken aback by his cold heart.

He sat on the edge of the dining table for a long time, observing himself in his heart in astonishment, he watched his body calmly eat breakfast, ate a lot, and read the newspapers again with a blank expression.

Later, he didn't know how he left the restaurant, and how he walked around the small garden many times on the snow in the yard... He was cold, watching the snow scene, feeding the sparrows, and returned to his temporary residence. After entering the small guest room, he turned on the TV to watch the hot news on countless channels.

On TV, someone was struggling on the roof of a department store. He cried bitterly and wanted to jump off, but the security guards of the building desperately stopped him...

A large number of people surrounded the bank, they held the certificates of deposit in their hands, some were shouting at the top of their lungs, some were crying, and some were blown too hard and their faces were numb.

The police are chasing them away with black rubber rollers, some people are investing in drugs, and some people are smashing the strong glass windows of banks...

Under the bridge, under the building, the corpses were covered with white cloth, and all kinds of emergency vehicles were crowded together.

He looked at it numbly, and asked himself, when did I become a piece of ice?

Jiang Gezi was a little dull, asking repeatedly in his heart.

When did I lose the simple sympathy of ordinary people?

He tried hard to remember, until someone hugged him wholeheartedly behind him.

Jiang Gezi was taken aback, and then realized that the guy seemed to have arranged another jumping point in the yard.

He has already started to hop around the world like a ghost.

He slowly let out a breath of gloom, and said in a mournful tone: "Yu Dongchi?"

The person behind him smiled slightly and said, "I'm here."

"You~ why are you here?"

Yu Dongchi slowly let go of Jiang Gezi, walked around him from behind and sat down slowly, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he put Jiang Gezi's hand in his palm, holding it and patting it.

I don't know when, Jiang Gezi thought he could feel it, and Jiang Gezi could also feel his emotions.

From Jiang Gezi's point of view, this is the price of falling into a deep pit together and being unlucky together.

He said: "I feel that you are not happy, so I came."

Jiang Gezi still stared at the TV and said, "Why waste countless jumping points, did you see that? Someone killed Yu Dongchi."

Yu Dongchi still bowed his head and did his own thing silently. He put the pigeon's hand in his palm and compared the size intimately. After finding that Jiang Gezi's hand was not as big as his own, he laughed and said, "What should I do?" What about pigeons? Compared with the fate of the entire planet, these are out of your control, and these ~ are not things you should control. What to do? As long as they exist for a day, these forces will continue to hinder the development of Beiyan and hinder our plans. We must drive them out, in fact..."

He suddenly sat up straight when he remembered something, which startled Jiang Gezi.

Yu Dongchi held up his palm to Jiang Gezi and said, "Recently, I have found that I am becoming more and more abnormal. What do you think is better?"

Jiang Gezi didn't understand what he meant, so he could only repeat his words in a daze: "Isn't it normal?" He thought he was okay, even if the whole world was starving to death, there was no shortage of food and drink from him.

After all, he is the son of the world.

Yu Dongchi nodded with certainty, pointed to the screen in front of him and said, "Do you know what's going on here?"

Jiang Gezi was even more confused, he was confused, huh?With a sound.

However, Yu Dongchi counted down one by one with his fingers: "The things that are happening here every day are things that human beings are interested in, such as love, law, medical care, campus, society, personal grievances... Gratitude , and growth, as long as it can be moved here, I used to care about it, but one day I found that these are not important anymore, and life suddenly becomes a road, and I can only move forward... Are you saying sad or not sad?"

He looked at Jiang Gezi intently, until now Jiang Gezi realized that the complicated Yu Dongchi in the past had really disappeared.

He suddenly became a simple animal.

In the most primitive, animal tone, he said to himself quite straightforwardly and easily: "You know, this is just the beginning, there will be more, more people will jump from Chongming Building."

Jiang Gezi let out a breath of gloom. It wasn't until then that he realized that Yu Dongchi was wearing work clothes that were only found on the construction site. Even his work clothes were covered with mud spots, and his fingernails were not very clean. They were long. , There is black mud between the fingers.

The emperor of Beiyan seems to be much more unlucky than the emperor of Zhongzhou.

He was not dressed thickly, probably because he hadn't rested for a long time, he was exhausted, his eye sockets were bloodshot, and his chin was still full of thin stubble.

Not at all handsome.

He asked him in astonishment: "Why are you like this?"

Hearing this, Yu Dongchi stretched his waist and said: "There is no way, I, a poor man, has already ascended the throne and become the emperor, and I will still be pulled out of the corner by them, and I will do coolies in the open-pit mine every day. They have lost a lot of money." Heavy, the unlucky ones are going to die, I have to show an attitude! Do you think I am pitiful?"

After speaking, he tilted his head and leaned his head against Jiang Gezi's shoulder.

Jiang Gezi wanted to escape, but he begged, "Please, I haven't slept for three days. I'm really tired."

In the end, Jiang Gezi didn't move.

I only heard the voice next to my ear continue to say: "That has nothing to do with you, all the sins belong to me, all the ugliness belongs to me, all the stench belongs to me, and you just go straight ahead Just like..."

The snoring around him finally sounded slowly. The snoring had a hypnotic rhythm, and it was probably relieved. Jiang Gezi followed Yu Dongchi's rhythm and slowly closed his eyes.

He had a dream, dreaming of his little old lady and the old man.

When he opened his eyes again, Yu Dongchi disappeared again, and he was the only one in the huge house, and he became lonely unexpectedly in his life.

Today is fine, and the snow in Zhongzhou has not continued, but if it is winter, the weather after the heavy snow is the coldest and most difficult.

Jiang Gezi found the padded robe that Lian Yanzi had given him, tidied it up again, and wanted to go out and have a look.

He left Runxiang Hutong and walked recklessly around the small alley. Qi Ren and Tang Ling followed him from a distance, until they reached an unfamiliar street.

No, it cannot be said that this is a street, it is probably a third-class street in Zhongzhou.

This place seems to have nothing to do with the world of TV news.

The street is not wide, and both sides of the road are full of rough pavements that are not set up and are only for the convenience of the people.

The decency and dignity of the capital has nothing to do with such a street. It grows randomly, and illegal buildings have been built on the road.

At the intersection, salesmen with signs on their chests were beating loud drums, and salesmen dressed as New Year's dolls were handing out leaflets everywhere.

Several young girls with crisp smiles ran past Jiang Gezi. They came to the door of a bakery, chattered at the end of the line, and began to talk about interesting things belonging to their school and their circle.

A few middle-aged people had lunch and drank some wine from a small tavern on the street, and with a little bit of shaking, they hugged each other and went out. When passing by Jiang Gezi, Jiang Gezi heard them say: "... ...What should I do? After paying so much money, the annual card of the Polo Association has gone three times. Dude, the time is so fast, a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and we are one step closer to death ..."

They laughed like fools, and a few drunks sang songs and left far away.

It seems that everyone here has nothing to do with Kyushu Commercial Bank.

Jiang Gezi looked left and right, and within a short time, his hands were filled with various promotional flyers.

This kind of list full of life seems to have some kind of comfort. Jiang Gezi flipped through the pages until someone walked by him holding a lot of boxes wrapped in colored paper. The boxes blocked her view, she bumped into Jiang Gezi, and the boxes fell to the ground in an instant.

"ah!"

She yelled, then apologized, squatted down and started picking things up.

Jiang Gezi bent down to help, but after a few moments of help, he heard the person next to him say in an extremely strange tone: "My mother! Mother God, it's you?"

What does this mean?

Jiang Gezi looked up, but saw the girl in front of her under a red woolen hat, with a shocked expression on her plump red face.

She kept talking about my mother, even the Mother Earth Goddess forgot to say it.

When she saw Jiang Gezi's eyes full of confusion, she pointed to her face excitedly and said, "It's me, me! Did you forget?"

Full of excitement, she bent down, made a snow ball in the air and pretended to throw it, and then said: "We met yesterday, have you forgotten? Shi Mei!"

Oh, Jiang Gezi finally remembered who this was.