On November 4, Zhu Youjian again decreed that Wei Zhongxian was arrested and escorted back to Beijing for trial.
The arrest of the prisoner should have been entrusted to the emperor's pro-army Jin Yiwei, but Jin Yiwei's commander Tian Ergeng was Wei Zhongxian's adopted son and one of Wei Zhongxian's cronies. Zhu Youjian couldn't believe it.
Zhu Youjian issued the imperial decree to the Royal First Army, which was being reorganized, and Wang Mujiu arrested Wei Zhongxian.
Li Yongzhen heard that Zhu Youjian was about to arrest Wei Zhongxian, and immediately sent his cronies, Li Chaoqin, the celebrity in front of Wei Zhongxian, and ordered him to ride a fast horse, out of the city overnight, to get ahead of Wang Mujiu, and report Wei Zhongxian secretly.
On the afternoon of the 5th, Li Chaoqin caught up with Wei Zhongxian in Fucheng.
Knowing that Zhu Youjian would send his army to arrest him, Wei Zhongxian sighed: The Donglin Party still refuses to let him go.
The heavy breath pressed on everyone's heart. Except for the sound of horseshoes and the turning of wheels, no one dared to speak, no one dared to touch Wei Zhongxian's mold, and no one knew what to do.
The group slowly entered the city, and there was no longer the glory of leaving the capital.
"Nine thousand years old, where do we live tonight?" The eunuch Liu Yingxuan, who was ordered by Zhu Youjian to escort Wei Zhongxian to Fengyang, was originally Wei Zhongxian's subordinates and confidants, and obeyed Wei Zhongxian's orders along the way.
"You go to make arrangements!" Wei Zhongxian couldn't be interested, Wang Mujiu might come to Fucheng at any time and appear in front of him.
"Yes, nine thousand years old, the minion will make arrangements!" Liu Yingxuan left with a few cronies.
After a while, Liu Yingxuan appeared in front of Wei Zhongxian again: "Nine thousand years old, we found a "You Ji" hotel in the south of the city, and it was still dry, but there were already a dozen guests in it."
"Yes, what did you do?" Wei Zhongxian glared at Liu Yingxuan with blood-red eyes. "What's the matter with you already living? Just drive them away."
"Yes, nine thousand years old." Liu Ying chose to take the lead and went to negotiate with the owner. After that, Wei Zhongxian also came to the "You Ji" hotel.
"Put the wine, come from afar to Qin, I want to have a good drink with him." Wei Zhongxian doesn't like wine at ordinary times, but today he is in a bad mood, so he learned from the ancients, maybe wine can relieve the true sorrow.
"Nine thousand years old, this is going to Zhongdu. Drinking is not allowed on the road according to the rules." Zheng Kangsheng was another eunuch who escorted Wei Zhongxian to Fengyang.
"Don't tell me, I don't tell, who knows?" Wei Zhongxian sighed in his heart. The decree is about to become cold before this imperial decree. Zheng Kangsheng is his own subordinate, and he has taken care of him before.
"This..." Zheng Kangsheng didn't dare to speak, hesitant to withdraw.
"What's this? Zheng Kangsheng, you go and make arrangements for our family." Wei Zhongxian was furious and almost pointed his finger to Zheng Kangsheng's nose.
"Yes, nine thousand years old." Zheng Kangsheng resigned and was busy preparing a banquet for Wei Zhongxian.
A splendid meal, but the two of them are drinking.
Only the eunuch Li Chaoqin accompanied Wei Zhongxian to drink.
Wei Zhongxian didn't say a word, just lowered his head and drank silently, one cup after another.
Wei Zhongxian didn't speak, and Li Chaoqin didn't dare to say it. He had a long time to ask, for example, what is Wei Zhongxian's plan to escape before Wang Mujiu arrives
After half a pot of wine, Wei Zhongxian's drinking speed slowed down, but he still had a cold face, even worse than the cold outside in this cold night.
About three more days later, the alcohol in his belly rose, Wei Zhongxian's complexion gradually became ruddy, and the coldness on his face subsided.
"Nine thousand years old?" Li Chaoqin probed carefully.
"Chaoqin, but what are our plans?" Although Wei Zhongxian drank a lot of wine, his mind was very clear.
"Nine thousand years old, once Wang Mujiu comes after him, things will be irreversible." Li Chaoqin finally couldn't help it.
"Recover it?" Wei Zhongxian turned the lamp again, "Chaoqin has worked hard for our family, but do you think our family can recover it?"
"Nine thousand years old?"
"Once our family is caught back, and it falls into the hands of the Donglin Party's stubborn donkeys, is there still room for recovery? Our family is not at a loss. The stubborn donkeys who died in our hands, there are not one hundred, there are fifty Right?" Wei Zhongxian tilted his head. He may have been sitting for a long time and was uncomfortable. He slowly moved the seat.
"..." Li Chaoqin felt cold in his heart.
"The Donglin Party has been suppressed and attacked by our family. They can't wait to peel off our family's skin, smoke our family's muscles, eat our family's meat, and drank our family's blood." Wei Zhongxian drank half a cup of residual wine. "Chaoqin, you said, if our family falls into their hands, can we still die? Even your majesty can't take care of our family all the time..."
"Nine thousand years old, can you..." Li Chaoqin held the glass, but did not drink the wine in the glass.
"Chaoqin, if you have something to say straight." Wei Zhongxian leaned back in the chair and looked directly at Li Chaoqin.
"Nine thousand years old, since the Donglin Party refuses to let it go, can the nine thousand years old leave the brigade and live alone in seclusion?" Li Chaoqin had already thought of his words and said more implicitly.
"Is Chaoqin saying, want our family to escape?" Wei Zhongxian looked at Li Chaoqin pityingly.
"..." Li Chaoqin did not speak, but nodded slowly.
"Chaoqin, our family is nearly 60 years old. Where can we escape? When can we escape?" Wei Zhongxian filled himself with a glass, and by the way, he also filled Li Chaoqin with a glass. "Our family has this half-life glitz. Even death is worthy of this life."
"..."
"Our family is used to luxury and can't be a starving ghost." Wei Zhongxian began to swallow the dishes. The dishes on the table were already cold and had formed a thin layer of ice.
Li Chaoqin's heart was as cold as the deer meat on Wei Zhongxian's chopsticks, but he was still not reconciled, "Nine thousand years old, is it really irretrievable?"
Wei Zhongxian struggled to swallow the deer breast in his mouth: "Chaoqin's family has counted others for half their lives. Now that they are old, they don't want to count anymore, and they don't want to hide in Tibet anymore-just to escape, where can we escape? After our family's death The court must be controlled by the Donglin Party. Based on their measurement, can we allow our family to live in seclusion among mountains and rivers?"
A ray of heavenly sound came slowly from the horizon. In the night, a young scholar seemed to be singing, and he seemed dissatisfied with his own tune. He was singing alone, ready to revise it at any time.
At the beginning of the update, the drum is beating, and my heart is upset;
Think of how extravagant it was to have a banquet at the beginning;
Into the lambs, pour wine, sang songs and noisy;
Nowadays, in the lonely deserted store, I have to be drunk with the village mash.
I'm afraid that the wine is weak and melancholy.
At the second watch, toss and worries, dreams are hard to come by;
I want to sleep in my gums, with beautiful quilt silk;
Now the reed is the curtain, the soil is the kang, and the cold wind enters the kang;
The wall is cold and the moon is cold, the eaves are shallow and the night is sorrowful;
Poor and sad, he got up and walked around the house again.
In the night, drums, drums, and gongs three times;
Dreams come true, and startled, and sigh infinitely;
Think back then, who was disrespectful when the situation was in full swing
Jiuqing is called a junior, and the prime minister is a private office;
Nowadays, the trend has faded, and it has fallen like grass.
Upstairs, the drum beats four times, and the stars move and fight;
Thinking about it, that day, the mangyu was in the sky;
Now don’t be the Dragon Tower, the Cifeng Pavilion, the Desolate Pavilion;
Jishengmaodian month, moon shadow Caoqiao smoke;
It's really a long distance, and I look back and forth far away.
Hustle and bustle, people urged, and the weather in the morning;
It is cold, windy, and frost is blowing on clothes;
What is more, effective and diligent, warm and cold to each other;
The shadow of the cold moon was accompanied by the hoarse of the horse;
It's as desolate as this, it's better to die...
"It's as desolate as this, it's better to die!"
Wei Zhongxian's heart was throbbing, he silently read this last sentence, it was almost tailor-made for him Wei Zhongxian, who is the owner of this song? Is there a way of heaven in the dark
"Nine thousand years old, it's been four more days, do you want to go back to the room to rest? I have to hurry tomorrow." Li Chaoqin also felt that hearing this song now is unlucky for Wei Zhongxian.
"Hurry? What else do you need?" Wei Zhongxian untied the soft silk belt tied around his waist, tied a slipknot at one end of the soft belt, and threw it over the two beams, then climbed up the chair tremblingly and placed the soft belt on the beam. Tie a dead knot.
"Chaoqin, Ming Dynasty Wang Mujiu is here, and there is nothing to do with our family."
"Nine thousand years old?" Li Chaoqin finally understood what Wei Zhongxian meant. He knelt in front of Wei Zhongxian's chair, tears bursting out of the bank like he had just drunk white wine.
On the contrary, Wei Zhongxian appeared very calm: "Chaoqin, my identity, the Donglin Party will never let go. It's better to sever by yourself so as not to be insulted. But you, you are still young, and our family can no longer protect you, you still Run away, stay away from the capital, choose a place to hide, and after a few years, they will forget you."
Li Chaoqin knelt on the ground and refused to get up: "The minion will not go anywhere. The minion will still follow around nine thousand years old."
Wei Zhongxian laughed loudly: "Chaoqin knows his kindness, a true temperament. Fortunately, with Chaoqin's company, our family is not lonely on Huangquan Road.
"With the kindness of the nine thousand years old, the good days of the slaves are enough, and the slaves should go with the nine thousand years old. In the underworld, they will still serve the nine thousand years old."
Wei Zhongxian put the soft belt around his neck, and finally glanced at Li Chaoqin: "Chaoqin, let's take a step ahead." Then he pushed hard, and the bench turned to one side, hanging like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
Li Chaoqin sat on the ground blankly, watching Wei Zhongxian struggling on the soft belt blankly.
"Pop!" One of Wei Zhongxian's sneakers fell off his feet and hit Li Chaoqin on the head.
"Nine Thousand Years Old I was waiting anxiously." Li Chaoqin respectfully knocked on Wei Zhongxian three times, and then untied the belt around his waist.
The strap was too short to reach the second beam. Li Chaoqin tore a piece of sheet from the bed, knotted it on the strap, and then threw the second beam on to tie a knot.
Li Chaoqin didn't have any nostalgia. He stretched his neck into the belt, and then pushed the chair under his feet vigorously, and his body suddenly became suspended.
After dawn, Liu Ying chose to call Wei Zhongxian to get up. He knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response in the room.
"Could it be that Wei Zhongxian left us and ran away alone?"
Liu Yingxuan hesitated outside for a while, and finally slammed open the door.
There was no wind in the room, and the two corpses hung on the two beams quietly.
Liu Yingxuan was uneasy. He touched Wei Zhongxian's feet, already stiff and cold.
Liu Yingxuan thought for a moment, and his eyes gradually showed a gleam of light. He didn't say anything, but quietly summoned a few cronies, and secretly drove Wei Zhongxian's forty-two cart full of gold, silver and jewelry out of the hotel.
"Wei Zhongxian ran away, you are here waiting for news, I will chase!"
Everyone immediately became rushed, and Liu Yingxuan took advantage of the chaos and left everyone's sight.