"You don't need to be too polite." I sat on the cart and returned the courtesy.
Zhao Jun sits in danger, his eyes are still surprised, and he falls on my injured foot.
I continued: "My concubine sprained her ankle, so I can't fully salute, please forgive me."
Zhao Jun hurriedly said: "How dare Jun accept the gift from Madam."
Seeing that his demeanor is not cold and hard, I calmed down a little and looked at him, "I haven't seen you for many years, but you are still in good spirits. I remember the last time I saw you, it was still in Chang'an."
"Exactly." Zhao Jun said.
I sighed softly: "At that time, the Duke and my late father were playing chess in the back garden, and the third son won the game, but the late father refused to let the Duke go."
Zhao Jun was silent for a moment, did not answer, but said, "The last time Jun saw that Madam was not at the residence, Madam got married and left Beijing, and Jun once went upstairs to see him off from afar. Jun also remembered that Madam married at that time Laiyang Han family."
I didn't expect Zhao Jun to mention my marriage to Laiyang.
"Really?" I said, "very good memory."
"Madam, I'm honored." Zhao Jun said, "Jun later heard rumors that the Wei family married his wife again, and he never believed it. Juan is not talented, but he still remembers that when Fu Gong was alive, he paid special attention to family style. Under his upbringing, he would never allow a second marriage If he hadn't seen Madam today, Juan would have thought it was Wei's fraud."
These words are sharp and harsh, this is the first time since I married Wei Tan, someone satirized my second marriage in front of my face. I was very surprised, I imagined Zhao Jun's various excuses for rejection, but I didn't expect him to use this as an excuse.
"Oh?" My face remained unchanged, but I had no doubt in my heart that I would let the jailer open the cell door and kick him, and slap him a few more times.
I sneered: "In the words of the Duke, it is shameless for me, a second-married woman, to persuade the Duke to be a second minister."
Zhao Jun didn't answer, but bowed to me calmly: "Madam, please go back."
He squeezed his palm hard.
I stared at him, suppressing my anger, and let the restless mood sink down slowly.
"I've been detained here, how long has it been?" I said suddenly.
"It's been half a month."
I nodded: "Why did the Prime Minister detain you here?"
Zhao Jun looked at me and said in a flat voice, "It's to persuade me to surrender."
I said: "If you don't obey, what should the prime minister do? No matter whether you are imprisoned or knifed, you will never be able to serve Tan Gong again."
Zhao Jun's face did not change: "Jun has been taught by himself, and never forgets the teacher's teachings. He will show righteousness by death, and he will never hesitate."
"That's it," I said, "if the prime minister releases you to Tan Ying, won't Mr. Tan believe it?"
Zhao Jun smiled lightly: "At worst, it's a life."
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I was not afraid, and said, "Your Majesty keeps saying that you are righteous. Dare I ask you why you defected to Tan Gong in the first place?"
Zhao Jun was surprised for a moment, and then replied. "The society is in trouble. As officials, how can we abandon the world and ignore it. Mr. Tan's rebellion is the most powerful, and Jun resolutely goes to defect."
"Since this is the case, is Mr. Tan still fighting for the country?"
Zhao Jun replied, "Of course it is."
I sneered: "The public school has a lot of knowledge. I don't know if the teacher taught you, did you ever talk about eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor? The public family has been the minister of the emperor for generations. Although the public resigns from office, he still has the name of filial piety. But now the prime minister regards the emperor as the son of heaven. When the teacher seeks rebellion, you not only help the enemy to resist, but also say that you are not a second minister." I smiled, "I don't know whose family's filial piety the gentleman said."
After saying this, Zhao Jun's ice-like expression softened a little, although it was gone in a flash, my eyes didn't miss it.
"The prime minister is a prime minister in name, but in fact he is stealing the country." There was anger in his voice, "Using the emperor to order the princes, he has ulterior motives!"
"Oh?" I said unhurriedly, "I don't know if Zhao Gong is wise, if Tan Gong coerces the emperor, will he respect the emperor and return the government?"
Zhao Jun's expression was uncertain.
But I changed the subject and softened up a little, "I remember that the father has a son and a daughter, and I remember that the son and the concubine are the same age, and the female monarch and the concubine are ten years apart, I don't know if it is true?"
After a moment of silence, Zhao Jun replied, "Exactly."
"My concubine got married back then, and my husband also gave it to me. Do you know what my concubine was thinking at that time?" I said slowly, "I have no virtue, and I don't understand the righteousness of life and death. At that time, I only thought that if I could do it again, my concubine would be willing." Born in the countryside, I only want my parents to be alive and my elder brother to be in good health. Even if I don’t have wealth or honor, and I am illiterate, but I have a harmonious family, and when I get married, my parents will send me off, all of which are precious.”
"Mr. Zhao might as well think about it. If you die, who will be the most sad person, and if you survive, who will be the happiest?"
Zhao Jun was silent, looking straight at me.
But I ignored him. What I just said made me feel a little uncomfortable. I just wanted to leave here, and turned my head and called: "Come here."
A jailer came in and saluted respectfully: "Ma'am."
"Take me out."
The jailer responded and came over to push the cart.
"Ma'am." Zhao Jun said suddenly when he was about to go out.
I turn back.
He sat on the table and bowed to me: "Thank Madam for visiting." After a pause, he said in a low voice, "If there was any offense just now, please don't blame Madam, Juan didn't mean to belittle Madam."
I looked at him, turned away without answering.
Just outside the cell, I saw Wei Tan unexpectedly. He stood in front of the door, the light was cut into long strips by the cracks in the planks and cast on his side face, his expression was calm and unclear.
Seeing me coming out, he didn't ask, just looked at me and said, "Go back." After saying that, he took the cart from the jailer.
I thought that even if Zhao Jun was moved by my words, it would take another two or three days before he heard back. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, the sergeant came to inform that Zhao Jun had surrendered. But he claims that he descended to the Son of Heaven, not Wei Ye
Is there a difference? I was happy on the face, but disapproving in my heart.
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Wei Tan stayed in the big tent all the time, and it is said that he accompanied Wei Zin to increase the material and catch the oranges.
I was bored, so I went to Wei An, wanting to thank him for sending me to make a cart. Unexpectedly, when they went to his camp, the sergeant said that he and Wei Ci had gone out.
"The fourth son said that he wanted to try a trebuchet." The sergeant said.
I don't know what a trebuchet is, but I heard that Wei Ci is with me, so I don't have to worry if I think about it. It was inconvenient for me to walk around with a cart, so I had to go back to the tent.
At night, Wei Tan came back.
"Did you eat?" he asked me.
"Used." I said.
Wei Tan nodded, and asked the sergeant to bring the boiled water to soak my feet. He has been serving my feet for half a month, and I am never shy when facing him, and I often talk to him.
Today, though, I'm in no mood for small talk, just watching him switch my feet from one bucket to the other.
"Why don't you speak?" Wei Tan broke the silence.
I looked at him: "Say what?"
Wei Tan rubbed my injured foot, and said calmly: "Madam has survived such things as extermination of the clan, and others say that the second marriage is unbearable?"
These words were not concealed, and I looked at him suspiciously: "Have you heard my husband?"
"There are no walls in the cell, so I don't think it's hard not to hear it." Wei Tan said, and glanced at me, "Do you regret marrying me?"
I froze for a moment.
Wei Tan's eyes were deep, seemingly inadvertent, but there was no sense of joking at all. This person is so cunning, throwing out a question from time to time can always catch people off guard.
While I was slandering in my heart, I was not embarrassed. It is true that after marrying Wei Tan, I have experienced more sorrows and joys than I have encountered in the past five years. But do you regret it? I can't think of anything to regret.
"No." I answered honestly.
Wei Tan put down my injured foot and looked at me, "Then what doesn't Madam like?"
What don't you like? What Zhao Jun said about the second marriage and family style was to scare me away, so I ignored it a long time ago. I was really angry, firstly because it was the first time for me to be stabbed in the face like this, and secondly because this anger was for Wei Shi, the feeling of being used as a broom was indeed very depressing.
I slandered, and turned my face away: "I have been taught by classics since I was a child, but I have no ambition to be righteous but can't abide by the admonition, I should feel ashamed."
"Oh?" Wei Tan raised his eyebrows, with a half-smile, "So, Madam used to study?"
"Exactly."
"Read what?"
"Confucian classics and history," I replied, and after a while, I added, "Oh, and the commandments for women."
"Oh?" Wei Tan asked while drying his feet with a towel, "What's the first sentence of the female commandment?"
I:"… "
I glared at him.
"It's been too long, I forgot." I said bluntly.
Wei Tan smiled, ignored it, only applied the medicine, and wrapped my injured foot with cloth strips.
"I still have to go out, you rest first." He got up and said.
"Where are you going?" I blurted out, but as soon as I said it, I regretted it.
Wei Tan looked down at me, his lips curled up, the meaning was unclear.
"Go to take a bath, Ma'am?" He whispered, reaching out to lift my chin.
I turned my head, put my left foot against his leg to push him away, and smiled: "Husband, go slowly."
What I didn't expect was that Wei Tan didn't come back until late at night.
I didn't see him when I woke up the next morning, but at noon, there was a sudden noise outside.
"Ma'am!" A Yuan rushed in in panic, and said to me, "Ma'am, Mr. Tan attacked the front battalion, and the soldiers said that they might not be able to hold it!"