Zhuge Rui was lying on the withered grass in the prison cell, his tightly biting lips were torn, leaving bright red blood stains, his forehead was covered with bead-sized beads of sweat, and his face stained by dirt debris still could not be concealed. Stay pale.
He trembled this palm, leaned down—
Gone, gone.
Whether it's the pain there or the touch on the hand, it tells him that the roots of his descendants are gone and cut off.
"what!"
Zhuge Rui held his head, and howled hoarsely from his thirsty throat that hadn't drank water for several days, "Ah..."
He clenched his hands into fists and kept hitting the uneven brick floor below him with force. Within two strokes, his hands were already dripping with blood. The blood from the wound stained the dirt on the brick surface and a few withered grasses. But he didn't know it, his hands were still pounding the ground crazily, and the veins on the back of his hands were almost bursting out of his skin.
"what!"
Zhuge Rui still didn't feel the pain, he stopped pounding his fist on the brick surface, hugged his head instead, and knocked on the ground with a "dongdongdong".
Finally, tears flew out from the corners of his eyes, and fell on unknown withered grass stalks, dusty bricks, or Zhuge Rui's body covered in plaster and debris.
Zhuge Rui smashed, cried, howled, and roared, his neck, which was flushed with suffocation, was tense, like a stretched bowstring, with a little force, the arrow would snap.
Desperation swelled crazily, almost squeezing his heart, bursting out blood bubbles, which spread to the throat, to the back of the head, and to the eyes.
Shed blood and tears.
"what!"
Zhuge Rui pulled the clothes on his body, tore the withered grass that he caught casually, and even used his ten fingernails to dig hard at the brick under his body, as if he wanted to treat this hard brick as a clod of soil, break it into pieces, and knead it into powder!
Want to destroy, crazy want to destroy everything in front of you!
Suddenly, the crazy hands accidentally hit the lower body, hitting the part that had just been cut, a piercing pain instantly spread to every cell in the body, and the two rampant and crazy hands full of veins were affected by the severe pain. Hanging down helplessly.
The severe pain made him want to howl uncontrollably, but his throat was unable to make a sound due to the piercing pain, and Zhuge Rui could only groan.
His whole body was weak, Zhuge Rui could only lie limp on the ground like a dead snake, but his lower body was still trembling violently from the residual severe pain.
Helpless, burst into tears.
In the next few days, Zhuge Rui was like a eunuch who had just been purified.
A wheat straw pipe was inserted into the wound of the lower body, and the urine was discharged from here, and it flowed all over the floor. Zhuge Rui's body was already in a mess, and the feces and urine were directly discharged on the withered grass and onto his thighs. onto his wound.
Three days later, the straw tube inserted in the wound was roughly pulled out, and there was another piercing pain.
Zhuge Rui's vitality was really tenacious, after castration, no one washed him, no one cared about his injuries, he survived day by day and became a real eunuch.
On this day, the door of the dark cell was opened, and the bright light that came in suddenly almost blinded Zhuge Rui's eyes, and a few footsteps were rarely heard in the distance.
"Your Majesty, Young Master Cheng, this man is Zhuge Rui."
At that time, Zhuge Rui was squatting in a corner to eat, and in the center of the cell was a large piece of filth that he discharged. When his lower body was unable to move, he could only lie on the piece of filth. After he could move by himself, he immediately moved to another It's a clean corner.
When Zhuge Rui raised his head in doubt, he was still chewing dry black steamed buns, and a strand of greasy, mud-stained hair stuck to his face, and he accidentally ate it into his mouth .
When he saw the thin boy, his pupils immediately shrank by two inches.
That's Cheng Zishi! Cheng Zishi, who was tricked by him and his father's loyal servant into the palace to take the place of his crime!
"Bold Zhuge Rui! Why don't you kowtow to salute the Emperor and Young Master Cheng?"
The prison head whipped Zhuge Rui's body, and the rags on his body were torn in two, Zhuge Rui's side face, neck, and chest were immediately covered with bloodstains.
Zhuge Rui wailed, and immediately knelt on his knees, his upper body prostrated on the ground, and his whole body curled up into a ball, "Forgive the prisoner, forgive the emperor!"
The steamed bun in his hand also fell to the ground and rolled to Xu Jinyi's feet in a circle.
As soon as Zhuge Rui raised his head, he chased after the steamed bun and looked at it with a very hungry expression. When the steamed bun finally stopped, he grinned at his chapped lips, and stretched out his right hand unconsciously, trying to wipe the cake covered with mud and grass. Pick up the crumbs of steamed buns.
a little closer, a little closer...
Zhuge Rui's right hand that stretched out the railing finally touched the steamed bun, he laughed twice, and squeezed the steamed bun tightly.
But inadvertently glanced from the corner of the eye, beside the black fists, there was a pair of exquisitely crafted cyan walking feet embroidered with realistic bamboo patterns.
Zhuge Rui looked up along the pair of shoes, Cheng Zishi was dressed in brocade clothes.
The embarrassment that he hadn't noticed because of hunger and fear before, now all piled up in his chest, his face was flushed and he couldn't breathe smoothly.
"Bao'er, it stinks here, shall we go back?"
"En." Xu Jinyi glanced at Zhuge Rui, neither sad nor happy, raised his hand to catch Jing Yao's extended palm, and left side by side with him.
On the carriage, Jing Yao hugged Xu Jinyi on his lap, rubbed his little nose, and said accusingly, "It's really dirty and smelly, and I don't know why you insist on coming here."
"Just see what happens to him." Xu Jinyi leaned on the broad chest behind him, and closed his eyes comfortably.
In order to see Zhuge Rui's end for that poor little eunuch.
Jing Yao patted Xu Jinyi's body lightly, as if coaxing the child to sleep, "That man will be cut into pieces sooner or later. When Jing Chen's punishment is finalized, he will be tortured with his master."
"Jing Chen's punishment hasn't been decided yet?" Xu Jinyi raised his chin and looked up at Jing Yao above his head.
Because of the angle, Xu Jinyi's eyes were wide open, and the two thick and long eyelashes were more eye-catching. Jing Yao was so in love with him that he gently touched this small and cute fan with his fingers in pity.
Jiang Bao'er was still staring at him without blinking, Jing Yao feared that Xu Jinyi would open his eyes sorely, and stretched out his big palm to cover those eyes, but snorted coldly, "Those old scholars, when It's really getting older and forgetful, and I have forgotten how much I feared the plague in the past, but I still want to plead for Jing Chen, saying that I shouldn't give him Ling Chi! It's really unreasonable!"
Xu Jinyi took the big palm covering his eyes and hugged it to his chest, "Why do you need to get angry for those people, even if you only imprison Jing Chen in the clan mansion, how you deal with it in private is not up to you to say ? Wouldn’t it be enough to end up with the name of committing suicide in fear of crime?”
Jing Yao's anger dissipated in an instant because of Xu Jinyi's intimate actions. He put his chin on Xu Jinyi's shoulder, rubbing his rough face against Xu Jinyi's smooth white face, "Bao'er is right. I want King Chen to die, Chen The king can't live for another quarter of an hour, and if I want to punish King Chen Ling Chi, King Chen will be cut off three thousand six hundred knives."
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two years later.
Just after Si time, Cheng Mansion was already bustling with guests.
Old Master Cheng was sitting in a high position, smiling all over his face, while Cheng's father entertained the guests, he kept saying "We are happy together, we are happy together", and he was smiling from ear to ear.
"The emperor is here, Lord Cheng is here."
When the guests sitting in the seats heard this, they stood up in shock, hurried out of their seats, and saluted the emperor in casual clothes.
Mr. Cheng, Xu Jinyi hurriedly avoided it.
Cheng's mansion is Xu Jinyi's own home, and the palace people who originally reported to the door should not add the phrase "Master Cheng is here", but Xu Jinyi is followed by the Ninth Five-Year Lord.
"I came here at will, dear friends, don't lose interest because of me." Jing Yao called out with a smile on his face, walked to the head table with Xu Jinyi, stretched out his hands to help Mr. Cheng sit down, "Master Cheng, how are you?"
"Haha, the old minister is in good health, long live and sit down."
"Why hasn't Xi'er come out yet?" Jing Yao's face was gentle, as if he was chatting with Mr. Cheng, everyone was no longer restrained, they found seats and sat down again, chatting with their neighbors.
"The Cheng Mansion is truly blessed!" On a table far from the first seat, several officials with lower status gathered together, and a middle-aged man looked at the first table, the envy in his eyes couldn't stop.
"Of course, with Mr. Cheng around, Cheng's mansion can still be prosperous for ten years!"
When everyone heard it, they looked at each other with expressions that could only be understood but could not be expressed in words.
In the fifth year of Guangyao, the emperor opened the imperial examination. Xu Jinyi passed the county examination, the government examination, and the courtyard examination all the way, and won the junior three yuan. Afterwards, he passed the county examination and the general examination.
The first-class imperial examination should have been admitted to the Imperial Academy, but the emperor promoted Xu Jinyi to be the minister of the household department on the spot, and a year later, he was promoted again to be a cabinet scholar.
Although Xu Jinyi has saved lives for civil and military officials, but his promotion path is so smooth, how can no one envy him
I don't know how many people were secretly staring at Xu Jinyi, trying to find out the slightest mistake from him, and took off the black hat on his head.
But Xu Jinyi has been an official for two years, and his political achievements are too outstanding. When he was the servant of the household department, the national treasury increased by three to four times compared with previous years. When he was a cabinet scholar, all the opinions he put forward were praised by the prime minister as excellent.
In this way, over time, not only did everyone not find the slightest fault of Xu Jinyi, but they were deeply impressed by his talent.
Those who were really narrow-minded did not dare to show any dissatisfaction with Cheng Zishi.
Without him, the relationship between the Holy Majesty and Lord Cheng is already clear and can no longer be understood.
For example, Mr. Cheng stayed in the palace for several days because of government affairs, for example, the emperor pretended to visit Cheng's mansion...
Everyone wanted to refute this at first, but the emperor waved his sleeves and left the court when he heard such remarks, and successively dismissed several old scholars who pointed at Mr. Cheng's nose and scolded him. Over time, everyone tacitly stopped mentioning it.
Now that two years have passed, Mr. Cheng's favor has not diminished at all, isn't it? The emperor pretended to attend the Zhou Zhou banquet held by Mr. Cheng's younger brother.
It's just a yellow-mouthed child!
Everyone was full of disdain, but looking at the civil and military ministers who were present, and then at themselves who also did not dare to be absent, this disdain turned into a smile all over their faces.
"Crabs are cold in nature, so don't eat too much." Seeing that Xu Jinyi wanted to take another after eating one, Jing Yao hurriedly held his palm, poured half a glass of fine wine with his own hands and handed it to him.
Old Master Cheng glanced at his eldest grandson who was being taken care of by Jing Yao, and the wrinkles on his face deepened.
As it is now, it's pretty good.
The eldest grandson was favored by the emperor. Although he could no longer marry a wife and have children, he enjoyed himself. Moreover, the emperor's affection for the eldest grandson made them, the elders, impeccable.
The daughter-in-law was nursed by the eldest grandson for a period of time, and added a younger grandson to the Cheng family. The little grandson is healthy and healthy. Now that he has just turned one year old, he can see that he will be smart in the future.
Both he and his wife are satisfied.