Chronicle of Emperor Jing

Exile, also known as exile, is a severe punishment of death.The place of exile of the Jing Dynasty is usually the barren mountain mine in the bitter cold place of Youzhou.

In Wei Yan's understanding, the so-called exile is a group of prisoners who are driven by vicious guards with whips, and trek thousands of miles to the place of exile in shackles and chains.

Generally, the season of exile is selected in winter, when the north wind blows, the snowflakes float, and when you walk slowly, there will be whips flying behind you. In addition, there is a lack of food and clothing along the way, and the weather gets colder as you go north. The weak, sick and disabled fell down one by one. Even young and middle-aged people, if they have a headache and fever on the road, and there is no doctor or medicine, they may not be able to survive.

As for the place of exile, let alone, in the place of hard labor, all kinds of hardships are commonplace, although he swore in front of the emperor at that time that he would definitely come back, and he had no idea whether he could survive in the end. unconfirmed.

But when it was the day when he was escorted out of Beijing, he realized that the facts were somewhat different from what he had imagined.The standard equipment for this northbound exile is two guards, one in front and one behind, one leading the way, one breaking behind, and one prisoner, that is, him, without shackles or shackles, walking between the two.There was no whip, no scolding, and of course no conversation. They walked in silence for more than an hour. The guard who led the way led the two people behind and turned into a tea shed by the side of the road.

Wei Yan saw the looming figure inside the tea shed from a distance, his eyes became moist, he hurriedly passed the guard leading the way a few steps, entered the tea shed, and knelt in front of the middle-aged beautiful woman inside.

"Mother..." Thousands of words came to his heart, but he didn't know how to say them, and in the end he was choked up.

People in the world say that parents are here, so they don't travel far.Not only did he travel far this time, but he was also exiled because of his crimes, causing harm to his family and making his parents sad and unfilial.

"Yan'er..." Seeing that her husband had already welcomed the two servants aside to talk, Liu Shi felt sad, but she also knew that there was not much time. I'm afraid that another censor will join Wei's family, which will cause a lot of trouble.

At this moment, she could only hold back her grief, touched her son's head, pulled him up from the ground, and took him to the other side to give instructions carefully.

There was a package on the table over there. Mrs. Liu opened the package and explained to her son one by one.In addition to the clothes, shoes and socks, there were some dry food and silver in the package, and the banknotes were sewn into the underwear.The clothes, shoes and socks were all made by Wei Yan after Wei Yan was sentenced to exile, and she took the maids to sew them stitch by stitch.In addition to the middle coat and trousers, there are jackets and cotton robes and several pairs of shoes with thousand layers of soles.

All the clothes are densely stitched and the workmanship is exquisite. It is obvious that countless painstaking efforts have been spent on the stitchers, but the material is the coarse cloth that ordinary people are used to.Although silk and satin are good, they are suitable for wealthy and idle people to wear when they have nothing to do. They can't withstand a little rough work, and they will open a hole if they are touched casually. They may not be used after a few days of wearing.The coarse cloth of ordinary people's homes is different, no matter how much you toss it, you can wear it for a long time.

It's just that Liu's heart felt sad for a while when she thought that her son had never suffered such grievances since he was born.But she was afraid that she would be sad at this time and make her son even more sad, so she could only look up at the sky outside and suppress the moisture in her eyes.After she settled her emotions, she turned her head and saw that her son's hair seemed to be a little messy, so she asked him to sit down, took out a comb to comb his hair, and told him how to take care of himself in the future.

When the hair is tied up here, the two guards indicate that the time is almost up, and they are about to leave.Wei Yan kowtowed a few more times in front of his parents, and then reluctantly bid farewell to them.

"Huiniang, don't be sad, it's okay. I've taken care of everything along the way. Even if I get to Youzhou, someone will take care of Yan'er, so don't worry." Old Master Wei saw Liu Shi looking at her. The son's back was very sad, and he comforted her with words.

The old Marquis of Wei had already retired at home, and the emperor thought of his hard work, so he was not demoted, but the rest of the Wei family was tired because of this incident. I wrote a letter to ask myself to leave Beijing, and the emperor agreed one by one.

After this incident, the power of the Wei family in the court was hit hard, and it will probably be in a slump for many years to come.But the centipede is dead but not stiff.The Wei family has been in business for several generations, and all kinds of relationships are intertwined, and they cannot be easily destroyed. Although Wei Yan cannot be exonerated this time, he still has the ability to manage things up and down.

"I'm afraid that he won't be able to take care of me well." Liu said while wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes with a brocade handkerchief.

"It will be fine, he is no longer a child, he will take care of himself." Old Master Wei persuaded helplessly.That's what he said to Liu Shi. In fact, in his heart, he also has no idea whether this youngest son, who has grown up for many years, can take good care of himself.

The two of them stood next to their own carriage on the side of the road, watching their son's back getting further and further away, talking, but a bullock cart came slowly, letting their carriage out of the way, and when their own coachman drove the carriage far away, The man driving the ox cart pushed up the brim of his hat and said "thank you" before heading in that direction.

"That person is..." The moment Liu lifted up the brim of the hat, she saw his face, and the moment she blurted out, she thought of something again, and hurriedly stopped the conversation, turned her head to ask her husband for confirmation.

Old Master Wei secretly clenched her hand, signaling her not to talk too much.At the moment of staggering just now, he also recognized the man on the bullock cart as the Zhao guard who had been following Wei Yan all these years.After being shocked, he quickly figured it out. It turned out that the emperor was also worried, and sent people to follow him all the way north.In this case, they should be able to feel a little more at ease.

After Wei Yan parted from his parents, he was immersed in the sadness of parting, numbly following the guards in front of him and walking forward.

Soon it was noon, and there happened to be a place to rest and sell food on the side of the road, so they stopped for lunch.Lunch is not rough, it is the same for three people, five meat buns, plus a bowl of clear soup.Probably his old man has taken care of it, and these two servants are very polite to him.Wei Yan was hungry after leaving, and he didn't pick or choose, and finished eating in a few mouthfuls, feeling a little unsatisfied.

After eating lunch, filling up the water bladder, and resting for a while, the three of them continued on the road.

Wei Yan was immersed in the sadness of parting at first, and didn't notice it. Later, after lunch, the sadness passed and he started walking again. Only then did he realize that the soles of his feet began to hurt when he walked like this.The guard who led the way was walking like flying, and the guards behind followed closely, without disturbed breathing. Obviously, he didn't feel any difficulty at such a speed. Wei Yan naturally didn't have the nerve to tell them to walk slowly, so he could only let himself try to forget. After suffering the pain in the soles of the feet, he kept up with their speed.

Then walk and walk, walk and walk, until it was dark, and then rushed to a post station for dinner and overnight.While washing his feet, Wei Yan discovered that there were blisters around his heels and little toes.

"It's like this at the beginning of walking so many roads. After walking for a few more days, I will get used to it and it will be fine. Lord Hou endure it for a few more days, and when we leave the Gyeonggi area, we won't have to travel so hard." Always love to follow when we are on the road Behind Wei Yan, the slightly fatter guard came over to fetch water for him. When he saw his feet dipped in the water, he gritted his teeth there, picked out the blisters for him with a needle, took out a small bottle, and wiped the water for him. I took some medicine.

After everything was tidied up, the outside was locked, and people walked away, Wei Yan got into bed.

In fact, he wouldn't escape if he didn't lock it. If he escaped, the emperor might not do anything to him, but the queen mother would definitely not let his family go. How dare he escape?

The quilt of the post station is coarse, not soft, but still warm.He buried his head in the quilt, silently grasping the warm jade hanging close to his heart with the palm of his hand. It was specially taken off by the emperor before leaving and hung around his head and neck.

When the fat servant gave him medicine just now, the celadon vial he took out was obviously also the palace standard.

"Your Majesty." He murmured silently in his heart, not knowing whether he should blame the emperor or thank him at this point.But he didn't figure out why, because after walking for a whole day, he was soon overwhelmed by fatigue and went to see Duke Zhou.

"We are servants of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, not servants of his Wei family. Although we have collected money from his family, it would be nice to take care of him along the way. Why do you serve him so hard?" The fat servant went out with a footbath. After pouring the footwashing water and returning to the room, I heard the skinny guard complaining about him.

"Marquis Wei is not a bad person. He must have offended the traitor because of the case of the champion Sun, so he ended up like this. Let's take care of him if we can." This is the fat guard's understanding of Wei Yan's miscarriage. "He was used to being taken care of by others, but now he has to do everything by himself. How can he learn it all at once? You have to give him some time to adapt. Besides, if we really don't take care of him well, the Wei family won't do anything to us, then Will the master let us go?"

After hearing the fat guard's last words, the skinny guard fell silent.They gained a lot from this errand, and Old Master Wei rewarded each of them with 200 taels, letting them take care of Wei Yan all the way.In fact, before this, someone had rewarded them long ago, but that master had silver in one hand and a knife in the other, he really didn't dare to offend, so he pretended not to see the fat servant's almost servant-like service behavior.

The next day he continued on his way, but Wei Yan's feet still hurt.

On the third day, Wei Yan continued to drive, but Wei Yan's feet still hurt.

The first few days passed, and when the blisters on Wei Yan's feet were covered with calluses, he finally stopped the pain.At that time, they had already left the Gyeonggi area.Once out of the emperor's feet, there is no need to worry about encountering officials of the censor, and the two guards relaxed, and they were not in a hurry. They both went to the back and chatted, and let Wei Yan lead the way. , and often asked him to walk slowly.

If you can't arrive at the place of exile on time, although you can use various reasons on the way to explain it, it may be a little troublesome.

Wei Yan thought of them very well, but was laughed at by them, and started to stop and go in a fit of anger.

Wei Yan used to go out, either riding a horse or taking a car, with many people around him, even if he was interested in things on the roadside, he would be persuaded to leave soon.A while ago, his feet hurt from walking, and he was busy on the road, so he couldn't look around and ask questions.Now that he is used to walking, and his walking speed has slowed down significantly, he has begun to feel curious about various things.

What the two guards knew about these things usually explained to him.If you don't know, Wei Yan can also ask the pedestrians on the side of the road, or the old farmers in the field, and so on. They often stop and go. The speed of dawdling, I don't know when I will be able to get out of Jizhou.