"Lord Pei wants to go his own way, so our family can't force it. Come on!" The presiding eunuch's white eyes slanted from side to side, and said neither yin nor yang: "What are you doing? Why don't you send Lord Pei to prison? Listen to the Queen Mother's fate!"
"Yes!" The four mighty tiger generals behind the spectators in the hall clasped their fists out of the queue, and came up directly with their sabers around their waists and surrounded Pei Yanzhen with a porcelain solid. It was only then that I discovered that this palace man actually brought a guard to the wedding.
"Master Pei, please."
Pei Yanzhen took off the pheasant bridegroom hat on his head and put it on the table, closed his sleeves, and went out with the guard without a word. When he was about to go out the door, he turned back suddenly, holding the corridor column in his hand, his eyes He looked at me from afar across the red curtain, stretched out a charming smile, turned around, and disappeared into the peony night.
For a long time, I do not know which Xi Niang accidentally knocked the dowry box in her hand to the ground. Immediately, thousands of dendrobium pearls rushed out of the painted incense box, and thousands of them were scattered all over the place. The loud noise of the pearl falling to the ground finally broke the curse and nightmare of the whole house, and everyone in the hall suddenly recovered, as if they had just realized what happened.
"Refused to marry..."
"Anti-purpose..."
"Master Pei is resisting the decree and rejecting marriage!"
Only Daddy clapped his big hands together and said to me, "Okay! This kid has courage! He usually looks like a bean sprout, but I don't want to see it today, but it's actually a bean sprout with bones!" Zhe frowned and said, "You little girl, why are you crying! Let's go, go home and ask your Er Yiniang to fry bean sprouts for you to eat!"
When I got up and turned my head, I faced the white silk handkerchief above, but when I saw Song Xiyuan holding the handkerchief and handing it in front of me, his face turned to one side, my eyes were a bit swirling, and I couldn't see the expression on his face, and the voices around him were noisy Dingbo was full of excitement, only to hear him say in a low voice, "Wipe it off, I didn't see anything in my lunch box."
Daddy slapped Song Xiyuan's shoulder with a big palm, "If you see something you haven't seen, be careful not to step on the beads on the ground and get tripped. It's true. Let's go, let's go."
Song Xiyuan stubbornly pursed the corners of his lips, shoved the silk handkerchief into my hand, said goodbye to Daddy, turned around and lifted the hem of his clothes, and walked out of the hall with a few steps on the ground covered in frosty silver beads.
The bride covered with the hipa was supported by the dowry maids from left to right, and there was only one voice left...
After tossing and turning all night, what I dreamed of was not the shackles, but the whip candle oil. When I woke up, the eastern sky was not yet white. I wiped the cold sweat on my forehead and got up. I called the green warbler to hold the box by my bed. They warmed up some food from the kitchen and packed them in a food box. Taking advantage of the bright sky, the two went straight to the prison for felons at the corner of the city.
Standing at the entrance of the green brick prison, I tightened my cloak, covered my face with the veil, and stepped into the prison door. Inside the prison door, there is a screen wall with a jail cell. Turning around the screen wall is a corridor with four corners and five gates about the width of one person. Every corner is guarded by a prison guard. Grinding the truth of ghosts, Rao is that these prison guards are all full of vicious faces, but they are not worth a thin bank note. Green warbler holds my box, like a girl who scattered money, like a goddess and scattered flowers, and it really goes all the way. mouth.
He didn't think that the person in charge of this last pass was an iron-faced judge who was not soaked in oil and salt, and said as soon as he came up: "The Lord Pei detained inside is a serious crime against the order, not an ordinary prisoner, and without the imperial court's hand order, he will not be released to visit the prison. Please come back, this lady."
I sneered and said, "This official is not going to talk to me. If he really needs a manual, how can he let me go all the way to this place?" With a wink at Lu Ying, Lu Ying immediately added. Two silver bills.
Seeing that the prison head stared at the number of words on the ticket, his eyes lit up, but he still shook his head when he raised his eyes, and said staunchly: "The court has rules, and officials big and small are not allowed to accept bribes. I can't control other prison guards, but I do. No discipline."
I sneered again in my heart. Even His Majesty the Emperor took the lead in accepting a bribe of five million taels of snowflake silver from Song Xiyuan.
I simply hugged the box in Lu Ying's hand, opened it in front of him, and let him take it. The jailer's eyes were straight, and he just sighed: "Miss, Ming people don't speak secretly, I Let me tell you the truth, someone said something to the young lady, no matter how much silver taels the young lady gives, as long as the young lady is not allowed to visit the prison, the amount will be doubled. Therefore..." The man muttered in embarrassment.
"Who said this?" I asked him in a hurry.
The head of the cell hesitated for a while, and when he saw that I had grabbed the ingots and stuffed them into his hands, he hesitated and said, "The third son of the Song family."
Song Xiyuan
I was stunned, and I immediately grinded my back molars. I was about to go in. I didn't expect to encounter this God of Wealth... I just felt smoke on the top of my head, and I wanted to stomp my feet in hatred. Yingyuan returned out of the prison.
Seeing that I was lingering back and forth outside the Ruolu Prison, Lu Ying said, "Miss, why don't you go and talk to the third son." Before I could finish my sentence, I immediately rejected it. I know Song Xiyuan's temperament best. Don't look at him as a free-spirited son, he is more stubborn than a bull, even ten horses can't pull back, and he is not willing to be accommodating at all. Now he has swallowed the weight. If you are determined to oppose me, what's the point of talking to him
When I was at a loss, unexpectedly, a person appeared out of the sky, clasped his fists at me and said, "Miss Shen, please accompany Zhan to enter." It was really raining, and it was raining in a timely manner.
I instructed the green warbler to wait outside, and Zhanyue immediately led me around the back of Ruolu Prison, dodged into the firewood room next to the prison's stove, took out a pile of firewood and wiped away the cobwebs, revealing a half-human figure The high secret door, I followed Zhan Zhan Mao's waist and entered this door. I walked around for a long time in the passage where I could not see the sun. Just when I felt that my waist was about to break, the musty smell finally came out. The cat hole, which is extremely humid, and the gloomy cast-iron fence prison in front of me actually makes me feel a little enlightened.
I slapped my back and inadvertently asked what the passage was for. Zhan Yue didn't frown, and said bluntly, "The one who dug up the hidden corpse."
Immediately, the cold hairs on my back stood up.
Hearing Zhan Yue's face, he didn't change his heart and added: "I guess."
Uh... This Zhan Zhan is really different, even telling a joke is so memorable, I had to cooperate with it and laughed twice.
"Who?" At this moment, one of the prison guards who was patrolling back and forth in the inner room had already seen us, his face changed, and he was about to come up with the big sword in his hand. At the same time, Zhan Yue also drew his sword and pointed at him. The first one on the bank note precisely pokes the tip of the knife on the head of the cell, "We are here to visit the prison."
The so-called soldiers come to block, officials come to make money. But seeing that the jailer retracted his knife, took off the bank note, and looked at it, he immediately turned to the rain and said, "How many?"
I said, "One, the one that was delivered last night." Fortunately, Song Xiyuan only bought the gatekeeper, not the prisoner. But seeing the jailer cheerfully said: "It's easy to talk! This lady is coming with me." Without saying a word, he led me to a stone prison and opened the door to let me in. Both Zhan Yue and the jailer stayed outside the door.
The four stone walls in the prison are cramped, and even though the sky outside is wide open, there is no light leaking here. Only a brazier in the corner of the wall is burning and beeping. The ground is covered with hay, and a person in a silk robe and auspicious clothes is sitting on the hay with his back against the stone wall, closing his eyes and falling into a dream. Not only does it not have the desolation of being imprisoned under the stairs, but it also has the comfort of being out of the world and sleeping in the bamboo shade.
I lifted the lid of the food box and took out the same food inside and placed it on the side table. Then, I squatted down and looked at him face to face for a long time, but seeing the light and shadow of the flames rising and falling on his face, and a pair of distant mountain-like eyebrows reflecting the rise and fall of the moon, I stretched out my hand and slid across it with my fingertips. The brow bone slowly traced down the bridge of the jade column's nose, and said slowly in a voice that only I could hear: "Now you have been robbed of your kiss, and your marriage has been rejected, but you are consummated?"
Suddenly, my hand was grabbed, and the eyes of the person on the other side opened, it was very clear, without the slightest haze of waking up.
Hearing him say: "It's not complete. There is still a matter of 'robbing the bride' that I haven't done three years ago. It makes me feel regretful and heartbroken to this day."
I struggled twice, but not only couldn't get my hands out, but he was gripping tighter and tighter like algae, so I had to turn my head to the side and stop looking at him.
"Miao'er, I know you blame me. You have blamed me since the moment you left Pei's house." Pei Yanzhen took me by the back and held me in his arms. His movements were gentle, but there was something that people could not refuse. Deterrent force.
"I don't blame you, I don't blame anyone." I buried my head in his chest and muttered.
"But I blame myself, all the time, why I couldn't resolutely resist the decree and resign from the office, incest and incest, and what if I was criticized by the world? As long as you and I have a deep relationship with your husband and wife, why should you be afraid of people's words? As expected, one step is wrong, and every step is wrong. When I heard that you agreed to Song Xiyuan's marriage proposal three years ago, I wish I could..." I was hugged by him, I couldn't see the expression on his face, only heard his voice It was as gentle as water and passed by slowly. On the contrary, the force around my back was getting stronger and stronger, making people suffocate. I made a murmur before letting him relax a little.
I raised my head from his heart, and faced the ferocious torture instruments hanging on the opposite wall, axe, iron saw, scepter, finger, leather whip... and many other weapons that I have never even seen before. I don't know if they are rust It was blood stains, flashing the coldness of the Hades in the red firelight. I bowed my head again, but saw a red and swollen scratch on the back of Pei Yanzhen's neck, which stretched to no end.
"He... they executed you?"
I pushed him away in a panic, stretched out my hand to unbutton his chest, but my hand trembled uncontrollably. It was a simple button, but I couldn’t untie it, and I didn’t know where it came from. With a brute force pull, the buckle was snapped to the ground, and he ripped open his shirt.
Under the firelight, a piece of white jade's chest rose and fell slightly, and there was no flaw. I took off his clothes in a panic, turned over his back and looked again, except for the redness and swelling, there were no other scars.
Pei Yanzhen turned around, and his voice seemed to be a bit dumbfounded, "Miao'er, those are the scratches I got bitten by mosquitoes."
I stared at him dumbfounded, took a breath, and two strings of water droplets burst out of my eyes uncontrollably, silently, but couldn't stop, I stretched out my hand to cover my mouth, suppressing those who were about to burst out of my throat Sobbing and choking.
Pei Yanzhen was stunned for a moment, then he stretched out his hands and forcibly broke my hands that were covering my mouth one by one, clasped his fingers into his palms, and repeatedly called out, "Miao'er, Miao'er, what's wrong with you?"
I angrily threw off his hand and said in a broken voice, "What kind of hero do you refuse to marry? You... you want to resist the decree... why didn't you resist earlier? Since... Since you didn't resist the decree three years ago, now Why are you resisting again?… You just need to be a well-behaved subject and obey the above arrangements. What’s wrong with marrying that Miss Qin family and living a life of your own accord?… Did you know that resisting the decree is a death penalty!… A death sentence ... when you die, there is nothing left..."
Upside down, I couldn't make a sentence, and I didn't know what I was going to say.
At this time, he heard a sigh of smoke escape from Pei Yanzhen's mouth, and he seemed to be happy and contented like never before.
Being sighed by him like this, I only felt that my true energy was dissipated, and the thread of the hair was sobbing lowly in his chest: "I don't want you to die..."
Pei Yanzhen hugged me and shook it gently, stroked my back with his hands, and whispered like a child: "It's me, it's me. Don't be afraid, Miaoer. I want to grow old with you. How dare you go to die at such a young age when your teeth are shaken and slept in the coffin? Do you still remember the jade plaque that my ancestors handed down from the Pei family