Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that he was a bit cruel.

But he still couldn't hold back, turned his head to look at the curtain in front of the anteroom door, and said, "General Ruan, come out."

When Chen Xianzhen heard these words, his expression suddenly changed, and his expression seemed to freeze on his face.All kinds of emotions, such as shock, worry, luck, etc., seem to be intertwined and changing subtly in an extremely subtle range.

There was a dead silence in the room, and the curtain hung there quietly, without any movement.Chen Xianzhen followed Zhu Gaoxu's gaze, and also looked towards the side room, she seemed to have held her breath.

After a while, Ruan Jingyi opened the curtain and walked out from the side room silently.Chen Xianzhen saw that "General Ruan" was indeed Ruan Jingyi, and her cheeks twitched slightly.

Neither the eunuch Cao Fu nor Zhu Gaoxu said anything.

Zhu Gaoxu just observed silently, as if in the Sui Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago, the Taoist priest mixed various things together and turned them into the first gun|powder, then ignited them, observed and waited for the unknown result .

Four people stood in this quiet house, silence filled the space.Ruan Jingyi spoke first to break the silence, but he spoke Annan dialect, which Zhu Gaoxu could not understand.

At this time, the eunuch Cao Fu reminded: "Do you all speak Chinese?"

Ruan Jingyi looked at Chen Xianzhen and said in Chinese, "Why did you frame me?"

Chen Xianzhen sneered, her expression was like crying or laughing: "How could it be framed? When you were in Tsinghua, you didn't have much contact with Li Li?"

Ruan Jingyi said: "Aren't you the same? What's more, at the beginning, Li Li also took refuge in Emperor Chongguang (Chen Jikuo)'s general." He was stunned for a moment, and asked again: "Why do you want to harm me? What am I doing to you? "

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he also wanted to know the answer, so he carefully observed Chen Xianzhen's expression.

Chen Xianzhen's face was bloodless, filled with extreme resentment that everyone didn't understand at all: "You are in the way of me if you are alive! We should all go | die!"

Ruan Jingyi sighed: "Chen Xianzhen, you still don't understand my heart. Although I surrendered to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, I never said a word against you. In order to save you, I even implicated my late father. Don't trust me?"

Cao Fu gloated and said, "Yo, you two still have an affair! Ruan Jingyi, the emperor treats you generously and generously, you can't hide it. Why don't you explain it in detail?"

Ruan Jingyi smiled wryly at himself, then kept shaking his head and said, "It's not really an affair, it's just wishful thinking."

He then recounted the past, how he met Chen Xianzhen when he was a teenager and how he fell in love with her.How to save Chen Xianzhen during the period of Emperor Jian Ding (the person who proclaimed himself emperor before Chen Jizuo); the queen mother of Emperor Jian Ding wanted to kill Chen Xianzhen. Also died in it.

Zhu Gaoxu just listened carefully and didn't say much.

Cao Fu took a careful look at Zhu Gaoxu, then looked up and down the dark and thin Ruan Jingyi, who was often listless, "I can't see that General Ruan is still an infatuated person."

However, Chen Xianzhen's face was flushed, bloodshot eyes faintly appeared in her eyes, tears glistened, her voice was loud, as if she was crazy: "Who told you to save me? You think you can control me by doing this, I have to be willing to spend my life Do you want to repay you! Do you just want to make me feel like a sinner, and three lives and three generations still don’t know you? Do you just want to see me living in guilt and self-blame instead of dying? Let me tell you, it’s a good idea! I only regret, I regret that I should not accept your favor, you just kill me and take back the debt!"

While scolding, she cried with tears all over her face, pointing to Ruan Jingyi and said, "Everyone in the Chen family feels that I owe you and that I am not human. Are you satisfied? Ruan Jingyi! But you know You know, how much I hate you? It’s not because you are ugly, but because of your disposition. I feel oppressed and out of breath by your side, without the slightest smile, just like a boundless abyss. I hate you..."

Ruan Jingyi froze, stood there, and murmured, "It's fine if you are ungrateful, but I really didn't know it would become like this."

Chen Xianzhen turned a deaf ear to it, squatted on the ground, and just cried "woo woo", it was heartbreaking to hear.

Zhu Gaoxu finally said: "General Ruan, please be careful, there are some things that cannot be forced."

Ruan Jingyi said: "At that time I was young...young."

He said "young and ignorant" twice again in a daze.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, acknowledging his reason.

Ruan Jingyi glanced at Chen Xianzhen who was on the ground, and he also sneered, his face as if he was drunk: "It's just that I was too impulsive when I was young, but I later felt that it wasn't worth it. It's just that I have paid such a big price. I have entrusted too much to her for many years, and I just don't want to destroy it.

In order to serve Chen Jikuo before, she had to go to Beijing to lure the Holy Majesty; I was disheartened at that time, I thought she was like a 'Mrs.Then I still helped her many times, but it was just a habit, and I couldn’t go back..."

"Hahaha..." When Ruan Jingyi said this, he suddenly raised his head and laughed, "It's good, it's so good." After he finished speaking, he couldn't stop laughing.

Cao Fu asked kindly, "General Ruan, are you alright?"

Ruan Jingyi panted, and his laughter finally stopped. He shook his head and said, "It's okay, I really feel very... just very comfortable. I won't lie to you."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly thought of Duan Xuehen, and thought: Is it true that self-abuse really feels pleasure?

However, Ruan Jingyi continued: "Really, if you are abandoned by everyone, you can feel that the world is open, and there is a kind of joy without taboos. In the past, I was always bound by the righteousness of the country and moral grievances, and I lived in fear. Chongguang The Emperor, Ruan Shuai and many other people who joined the army died, and only I surrendered and survived. But now, what is so terrible about it? The world is sorry for me, why should I be sorry for anyone!"

The room was cold again, Ruan Jingyi stopped laughing, and Chen Xianzhen stopped crying.

After a long time, Cao Fu pointed at Chen Xianzhen and asked: "Chen Xianzhen, what is your intention of going to Beijing this time? You..."

"Cao Fu!" Zhu Gaoxu interrupted him suddenly.

Cao Fu hurriedly shut up, bowed to please him and said, "Your maidservant is here."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Don't pursue it any more."

Cao Fu hurriedly persuaded: "But my lord, Chen Xianzhen is really suspicious, why don't you send her to jail and torture her?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "No need. Zhang Fu is a good general."

Cao Fu looked bewildered.

Zhu Gaoxu also felt that he hadn't made it clear, so he said again: "I believe that Zhang Fu just made a mistake unintentionally. But because Zhang Fu has made many enemies in the court, some people don't care what his intentions are, they just think it's a bad idea. Zhang's great opportunity.

If the matter of Chen Xianzhen's plot to assassinate gets out, there must be some people who want to take the opportunity to deal with Zhang Fu;Put it on the table, state-owned state law, at least Zhang Fu's crime of negligence, even I can't excuse him. "

After hearing this, Cao Fu suddenly said, "Your Highness is wise!"

Chen Xianzhen looked at Zhu Gaoxu in astonishment: "Why would the Holy Majesty be suspicious that this concubine is an assassin?"

"Otherwise?" Zhu Gaoxu said innocently.

Chen Xianzhen finally calmed down a lot, she calmly asked: "Is there any evidence in the Holy Spirit, at least there must be a reasonable inference?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "This place is not a judicial office, why should we talk about evidence and reason?"

But Zhu Gaoxu immediately felt that Chen Xianzhen seemed to have some truth in what he said.As soon as Chen Xianzhen came to Beijing, he didn't do anything; he didn't have any real evidence, not even a set of logical reasoning.Zhu Gaoxu convicted her, which seemed a bit excessive.

But Zhu Gaoxu really didn't want to wrong her intentionally, but an intuition generated through various signs.There must be reasons for drawing such a conclusion, but at present he cannot prove it rigorously.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't intend to change his mind, so he said to Cao Fu, "Let the Jin Yiwei send Chen Xianzhen to Fengyang first."

Chen Xianzhen stared at Zhu Gaoxu angrily: "You...why do you despise others so much? You are noble, so you should treat Annan people so lowly?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to quarrel with her, but she mentioned "Annan people", which immediately escalated the matter to a political height.Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to say: "Nobility and inferiority are really an eternal proposition. You can say that I despise you, but you cannot say that I discriminate against Annan people."

He glanced at Ruan Jingyi, and said: "Annan people, including the Yao, Yi, Miao, etc. in Annan, are similar to us in race, and they can't reach the level of discrimination. Between countries, it's a small matter. ', 'Survive in the cracks', that is a kind of order and strategy, if you are not in that position, don't worry about those things. "

Chen Xianzhen said coldly: "Aggression and snatching are actually so understatement in the words of the Holy Master."

Cao Fu scolded: "Chen Xianzhen, how dare you speak to the emperor like this?"

Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand, signaling Cao Fu not to worry about it, and then said: "Cao Fu, take Ruan Jingyi back and rest."

The two thanked each other and resigned.