Chapter 10 Water Beads

There was a metal knocking echoing on the street, accompanied by the shouts of peddlers walking around the streets, leisurely.

The sound full of life ripples in the bright light of spring, making people feel lazy and tired.

When Xue Chongxun's men approached, the peddler saw the snare carrying the slave in front of him with words and the exquisite horse war beside him. The peddler hurriedly avoided the road, stopped shouting, and looked at the people swaggering on the street with awe.

Xue Chongxun was walking home. He had a conspiracy at his mother's mansion at night. He planned to stay in the princess's mansion until night, but when he heard the slave report that Yu Wenxiao had something to ask for a meeting, he was waiting at the Duke of Wei's mansion. It seemed that something was wrong, so he said goodbye and returned, preparing to see Yu Wenxiao again.

In fact, he had been thinking about the feasible methods of a coup for a long time and had thought about it countless times, so he didn't need to cram the moment. When the matter was about to come, he just needed to think about how to use it to convince his mother.

When he returned to Anyifang North Street, Xue Chongxun met Yuwen Xiao, but did not invite him to the Duke of Wei's Mansion, but only took him to the small villa courtyard opposite to speak.

While leaving, Xue Chongxun said: During this period, your family tried to contact me as little as possible.

Yuwen Xiao was a little unhappy after hearing this. Moreover, seeing that Xue Lang didn't even let him in the house, he felt even more upset, but he was not good at showing his face, so he had to mention it softly: Yuwen Ji heard that you were back to Chang'an, and she complained in front of me, and you didn't send someone to say in advance, she originally wanted to pick you up.

Oh... Xue Chongxun glanced at the old man, opened his mouth and finally gave up. He didn't want to explain too much, for fear of leaking the news.

He already felt the old man's dissatisfaction, but he thought that Yuwen Ji was not his official wife, and the old man could not talk about his father-in-law, so it was hard to say that he would understand the truth in the future...

Misunderstandings are small matters, and leaking secrets are big matters.

Xue Chongxun thought for a while and said: I returned to Beijing this time to report my work, and I will have to leave in two days.I heard in Luoyang that you have committed a murder?

Yuwen Xiao hurriedly said: I was in a hurry to have an interview with Xue Lang today, for this matter.I was definitely not responsible for murder. After becoming an official, I have always been cautious and strict with myself and never do dirty work.

Xue Chongxun and he walked into an inverted room at the door of the small yard, asked him after taking a seat, and asked: Are you the culprit of the assassination?

Yuwen Xiaodao: I found out...

who?

Who else can be there? It's Gao Lishi!

Yuwen Xiaodao, I found the person who was in contact with Xue Lang's clues, and used some means to force me to find out the rough and other clues. Unexpectedly, before I could continue to follow the clues, the man died... There is no evidence at all now, just relying on the middle person's red and white teeth to speak out.

Xue Chongxun pondered: It’s really him. I thought at that time, who would use such means to me except him?It doesn't matter if there is no evidence...

At this time, he had murderous intent in his heart. It was not because he couldn't hold his anger in his heart, but that Gao Lishi would actually take revenge by assassination. Xue Chongxun couldn't help but feel the hatred in Gao Lishi's heart...

For someone who hates you so much, you can only feel at ease by destroying it with your hands.

As for right or wrong, good or bad, it’s all over the world. Are you not trying to find trouble for yourself by worrying about those things?

The murderous aura on Xue Chongxun's face slowly subsided again, and he said calmly: This is the end of this matter, you don't need to ask anymore...

At this time, he suddenly regretted asking Yuwen Xiao to investigate the matter. If this coup fails, the Taiping Party will naturally be destroyed. I am afraid that the Yuwen family will be bitten by Gao Lishi.

Thinking of Yuwen Ji, Xue Chongxun sighed in her heart. She should be a real good person.

I originally wanted to remind Yu Wenxiao that he would be prepared to run away at any time, but he was afraid that some clues would be leaked, so Xue Chongxun hesitated for a while and finally gave up.

After talking about Gao Lishi, Xue Chongxun sent Yuwen Xiao out. After turning back to the yard, a slave whispered: Do you still remember Xiao Heng?I have been locked up below for several months. I am responsible for delivering food on weekdays, for fear that my husband will forget it...

Xue Chongxun patted his forehead and said, he had forgotten that person almost enough, so he asked: Are you still alive?

The slave said: But it’s a life, and the man didn’t say anything, who dares to do anything randomly?

Take me to have a look.

Xue Chongxun said.

So the slave took him to the woodshed first, which had two basement doors, one leading to the sauna wooden house, where the slaves made fire; the other door was a storage room, but now I have been privately kept, just like a dungeon.

The slave who was in charge of the key opened the door, and Xue Chongxun and two trusted guards walked down the stone stairs.

The upper part of the passage was supported by a whole piece of wooden boards, and walked down for a while, and water dripped down from the head. It seemed that there should be groundwater veins under the yard.

The slave lit the light, and there was finally a light in the basement. There was only a sound of iron chains, and a hoarse and miserable voice shouted: Fried... Eat...

The slave said: It’s tied with iron chains, it can’t run away, it’s not airtight here, and it’s useless no matter how he calls it.

Xue Chongxun took the lamp, followed the sound and looked closer, and was shocked. The person in front of him was still the handsome scholar Xiao Heng?

Her hair was disheveled, her hair was dirty and tangled, and her face was almost covered. Her body was even dirtier after she had not taken a shower for several months...

Xue Chongxun smelled a strange stench and a stinky smell.

Why did it happen like this... Xue Chongxun felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.Did you torture a living person like this?

The slave said: Those who have been in the government prison have been in such a ghost appearance after being imprisoned for a long time. There is no way. Since they are prisoners, who will still serve as Bodhisattvas?It is already good for him to be able to give food every day.

Xue Chongxun fell into silence. In fact, although Xiao Heng was a little tough with his confidante, he did not do anything traitorous.

However, Xue Chongxun himself was a little more vicious when he locked a person in this way.

He doesn't have to make excuses for himself, he is just such a person?

Xiao Heng, a new Jinshi and elegant man, was defeated by Xue Chongxun, and he would be in trouble for eighteen lifetimes.

Xue Chongxun thought for a while: This is what life is. No matter how free and elegant Xiao Heng is, can he be as noble and free as his father Xue Shao?

Didn’t my father still be locked up and starved to death like this?

This person cannot be let go, otherwise it will be very troublesome.Xue Chongxun said coldly.

The slave of the family hurriedly said: How can you die if your husband wants him?

Xue Chongxun remembered his father who was starved to death in prison again, and said lightly: Get a meal for him, you need wine and meat... Then stop serving the meal and let it go.

yes.The slave responded respectfully.

Fried...Eat... Xiao Heng shouted again, and he looked a little confused.

Xue Chongxun felt a pain in his heart. At this time, a drop of water dripped on it to his neck, making him feel cold, making him feel cold all over.

In fact, he was more afraid. If the coup failed, he fell into the hands of Li Sanlang and Gao Lishi, how would he die?It will only be worse than Xiao Heng, right?

Sometimes, if the words of the literati and officials are nonsense, when Empress Wei was in power, a prime minister was at a disadvantage due to political struggles and was exiled to Lingnan. Empress Wei sent a censor to death and sentenced the prime minister to death.

The censor's method was to ask someone to cut the bamboo and weave it into bamboo strips, then take off all the prime minister's clothes, put him on the bamboo strips and pull him back and forth until he scraped all his flesh and only the bones were left...

How did Xue Dalang die in the history in memory?

Xue Chongxun was suddenly very curious, but he really couldn't remember that he was sentenced to death by Li Longji, and only one of the four sons of Princess Taiping and his cousins ​​of Li Longji.

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When the old man Yuwen returned home, Yuwen Ji came up to ask about her well-being with great enthusiasm, and finally said in an inadvertent tone: By the way, has Dad seen Xue Lang?

The old man was so angry that he heard this: I saw him, but he didn't even let him in, and he asked me to avoid contact with him in the future.

The enthusiasm on Yuwen Ji's face suddenly solidified.

Originally, she had carefully made up her makeup, carefully painted her eyebrows and applied rouge, especially her proud red lips, which were even more meticulous, making her already charming face look more beautiful and charming, like a spring flower, beautiful without losing style.

She didn't wear men's clothes normally, and she wore a half-new light-colored skirt. Although she looked ordinary and the colors were not bright, she carefully selected and wanted this kind of restrained beauty.

The color and material are not eye-catching, but the cut is very fine, striving to highlight her graceful figure, the big places appear larger and the small places appear slender.

Why are you so concerned about it?She said in a bit incredible: Did he really say that?

The old man snorted, walked straight in with a stern face, without thinking about saying much.Only Yu Wenji stood blankly by the door, her mind was blank, and I really didn't know what she was thinking.

She pulled her face down and followed the old man silently back to the room.Back in the boudoir and sat in front of the dressing table, she stared at the mirror in a daze for a while.

Could it be that he is already tired of it?

Yuwen Ji looked at her delicate face in the mirror, and was still very confident in her appearance. It is not common for her to walk around the street to be more beautiful than her...

But when she thought of the famous Princess Jincheng in the palace, she became a little unconfident.

I just want to be happy and lose it when I get tired of it. Is such a person worthy of my concern!Yuwen Ji cursed with resentment, just think she was unlucky and made a beast in vain!It’s better to get out as soon as possible!

hate you!Hate you... She felt very unwilling again.

Then, she remembered that the Chenghuang Temple bravely stood in front of her. Her strong body was like a mountain, a mountain that could shelter from wind and rain... tragic and beautiful.

However, if he is really a person who ignores his life for the sake of friendship and still cares about his background, he must marry a princess?

I'm afraid as he said in person: As a nobleman, he cannot bear the shame of a woman dying before him.

So Yuwen Ji was first angry, then nostalgic, and now she became a little more awake: judging from his daily words, deeds, he is not a self-sacrificing person, or he is simply selfish!

The incident in Chenghuang Temple was not for love, but just a belief of his?

Yuwen Ji also felt that she was really mean: that person was despicable and shameless, what does his own bullshit belief have to do with me?

What a great man is? Look at his smugness, isn’t he just a powerful mother?