"When your minister comes back, tell him that I have lived a good life these years and never lacked for anything. I just miss him."
Zhao Lan nodded with tears in her eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "I've written it all down, I've written it all down..."
"Where is he now..." The sigh stopped abruptly.
She hugged her cold body, but couldn't cover her up. From night to dawn, she hugged her all night long, until the next day the school servant of the female prison forcibly pulled her away and told her that her mother was dead.
Sun Qingchen became a wound that she could never talk about in her life.
Two years later, she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, with the rank of fourth rank in the imperial court.
They are not slaves in the palace, and have the same salary as court officials. They only serve the queen in the harem on a daily basis. His Majesty appreciates female officials, and sometimes summons female officials in the academy to allow them to interfere in political affairs. They are not concubines, and the fact that the harem must not disrupt the government is not the same. Do not conflict.
Even if they leave the palace and meet the ministers or those with low official status, they must salute her and call her Lord Zhao.
It was the coldest time in winter, and there was heavy snow falling on the streets.
She walked through Liangzhu Guifang and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in a tavern rolling up his sleeves and selling drinks to the guests in the tavern.
Zhao Lanyin stood at the door and stared blankly. She suddenly remembered the small tavern in Lier Changzhou ten years ago.
He also bent down to sell wine for others, and his pride was lost in the smell of alcohol. The young man's face was full of unyielding and stubbornness.
A customer came into the tavern, bumped her hard, and shouted, "A good dog stays out of the way!"
She shook her head and smiled helplessly, then turned around and did not enter the tavern.
She came to the street in despair, and all the passers-by became shadows in her eyes.
Some things, once hidden deep in the heart, will turn into heart problems.
She was walking on the street, not caring about anything for a moment but thinking about the young man selling drinks in the tavern.
It's really strange, ten years have passed, and the memory should be as faded as water, but his face seems to be engraved in her heart with an invisible knife, so that she can never forget it.
In an instant, a horse came through the wind and ran straight in this direction. Pedestrians avoided it. She walked forward stupidly, not even hearing the horse's neighing. The sky was overcast, as if it was going to snow again.
The horse was almost behind her. She turned around suddenly and almost hit the horse. She tightened behind her and picked up her collar with one hand, pulling her to the side.
In shock, Zhao Lanyin turned pale with fear.
When she went to see the person who saved her, her eyes suddenly became clear, and she couldn't hear or see anything around her.
She was stunned for a while, then saw that the man was about to leave, so she stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve.
"etc."
"Sun... Sun Qingchen..." She didn't recognize him.
Wearing a plain white satin embroidered robe with sea patterns, lapis lazuli jewelry hanging on the belt around her waist, a landscape folding fan in her hand, and a body of honor, she was still the same Sun Qingchen as before, but she had been looking at it for a long time. , the more certain it is him.
A young man came forward and said, "Why is the girl walking without looking at the road? If it were not for my master, the girl would be dead right now."
She said, "Thank you." But she refused to let go of his sleeves and insisted on holding him. She was afraid that this was a dream, and when she woke up from the dream, he would disappear. She wanted to talk to him a lot, she wanted to tell him about his mother these years, and she also wanted to ask him how he escaped death.
The servant pushed her hand away and said, "Young lady is too abrupt. If you pester my master like this, I'm afraid it will delay the time for us to enter the palace."
What she wanted to say was interrupted by the servant, "How presumptuous! This is the second son of General Yitong. Now he has been granted the title of General of Jiuqu Town by His Majesty. Is it possible that you can touch my master?"
She asked again, "Are you Sun Qingchen?"
The man shook his head, "I don't know the person you are talking about."
Zhao Lanyin smiled bitterly and let him go, "I'm the one who disturbed you by talking nonsense, I'm sorry."
Soon I heard about him from my colleagues. The second son of General Yitong had been fighting abroad for many years. He had just returned to Liangzhu these days. Your Majesty learned that he led the army alone to capture the traitor Fei Ling and others in Yuang. He recorded his military merits, and based on his military merits, he was granted the title of Jiuqu Zhenjiang, a second-grade military general.
"Liang Shili, his character is rhinoceros." A colleague inquired for her.
"Thank you. Is he really the second son of General Yitong?"
Zhao Lanyin confirmed it many times, hoping to hear a different answer.
"It's natural. The general's son, could he be lying?"
She said, "Yes, but I think too much."
After leaving the Self-Study Palace, she had to go to Da'an Palace to meet the new husbands entering the palace and teach them the palace rules.
Halfway through, her heart skipped a beat. Seeing her expression change, her colleague asked, "Mr. Zhao, what's wrong with you?"
She said it was okay, "You go first, I will come later."
She followed him almost tiptoe, not demanding a certain result. They walked all the way and followed him to a hidden palace passage. When she realized what she was doing, she began to wonder why Liang Shili came here.
His voice sounded not far away, "Why are you coming with me?"
She panicked and hurried back the way she came, without even a single explanation.
His gorgeous clothes looked like a banished immortal, but she seemed to have seen a ghost.
With a flash of surprise, he stood in front of her, "Girl, won't you tell me the reason?"
Zhao Lanyin timidly raised her eyes and saw his careless ridicule, lazily and mischievously. He held her wrist and said, "Don't say anything, this is boring."
He pressed her against the wall of the palace road. It was quiet everywhere, only he and her. He pinched her chin, "Didn't you follow me smartly just now? Now, you can't escape?"
She wanted to break away, but she couldn't push him away. She forgot that he was a military commander and could easily crush her chin. She was forced to stare directly into his eyes, those bright eyes that could easily cut off the beauty of others.
What she did was wrong. She followed him so far without even saying hello or saluting, but she panicked and wanted to scare him away, so she said, "I am the envoy of the palace, so I won't let you go! "
He smiled and said, "I know, Mr. Zhao..." He smiled and leaned close to her neck.
Like a wild beast, he sniffed his prey carefully, from earlobe to neck. He put his hand behind her head and pressed her against the wall. Her wrists were tied above her head and she couldn't move left or right. Zhao Lanyin was startled. I wanted to shout for help, but I heard him say.
"You asked me to take your life. Does that agreement still count?"
As if she were frozen, this time she confirmed her suspicion that he was Sun Qingchen.
He is back.
Sun Qingchen was very satisfied when he saw her reaction, "I haven't done anything yet, and your eyes are full of fear. It's too early. Your eyes like this can't withstand my methods."
He went up her spine, brought her heavily into his arms, and pressed her lips brutishly, almost taking away her ability to breathe. It was a kiss full of hatred, stained with blood, to make her aware of the pain, to make her remember that he had been in much more pain than this.
The beast wanted to devour the prey in front of him, but also wanted to play with her before she died.
She was so scared that her whole body was trembling, and she had even forgotten her shame. Her eyes, which had read thousands of books, were filled with tears. She wanted to apologize to him, saying that it was the Zhao family who could not live with him ten years ago, which caused him to suffer. His family was ruined and he lost everything overnight, but she couldn't say anything. He controlled her and made her unable to utter a word.
She could only let him be wanton. He pushed aside her clothes and bit her along her collarbone until his lips touched the tooth marks from ten years ago. He was slightly startled.
The bite was so severe that it has not disappeared even after ten years.
This is what he wants to leave behind.
He wanted her to be reminded of the sins she and her family had committed every time she saw the wound.
This was the punishment he left her.
He pressed against the wound on her shoulder, which was still in its original position, and bit her again. The two wounds overlapped, and I am afraid that this wound will never be healed in this life.
Finally, he let go of Zhao Lanyin and whispered in her ear, "It is a gift from God that I can come back alive, but this will become a nightmare for the Zhao family and you."
She was left alone in embarrassment and walked away.
(End of chapter)