prison song

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Ancheng is a big place, famous all over the world, the main city of Chu State, and a safe place that people in the world dream of. All the famous officials live here, and all the people who strive to make progress gather here.

The bustling place is peaceful.

All in all, it's a great place.

"No, it's not." Qin Huaizhen said.

"Why?" the boy asked.

"They will definitely surround us from both sides of the wall, we have to go up!" Six-year-old Qin Huaizhen's eyes were full of determination.

The boy looked at the person in front of him, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"

The two burrowed into the alley, climbed to the top of the alley wall with the help of an old wooden box in a blind corner, jumped to the other end, lay down on the stone tiles, and waited for the sound.

"Squeak."

There was only the sound of a branch being trampled, accompanied by the footsteps of two people.

"Officer, I saw that child running this way! There is absolutely no mistake!".

"This voice sounds squeaky and oily, very much like a rat that has grown into an oily ditch." Qin Huaizhen muttered softly.

"Pfft." The boy suddenly laughed.

"You..." Qin Huaizhen looked at the man in front of him, a little surprised.

"How can there be such a stupid person..."

"Who is it! Come out quickly! I heard everything! The little thief stole two baskets of steamed buns and a piece of silver from me. He just wanted to leave like this. There's no way."

After the cook yelled a few words, it became even more silent. Qin Huaizhen signaled the young man to keep quiet, just as he was about to get up to explore the way.

"Meow~aim~meow~." The boy suddenly called out a coherent meow, and looked at Qin Huaizhen with an expression that said he believed in me.

After a few beeps, the person yelling on the other side of the wall silenced, spit secretly, and turned to look around.It was almost time for a cup of tea before the sound of the two people's footsteps gradually drifted away.

"I'll just say it, trust me! How can I not get away with this kind of thing? Let's go, let's lean against this wall and go around!" The young man walked ahead triumphantly.

"and many more."

Qin Huaizhen smiled at the young man in front of him while talking, a layer of cunning flashed on his immature face.

"Do you dare to follow the right path? People are leaving anyway." Qin Huaizhen said as he turned his hair with his fingers and looked up at the young man.

"How about it, are you afraid? A hero?" Qin Huaizhen sneered in a low voice.

"Hmph! Who would dare! Just leave!" The young man nimbly rolled over to the other side of the wall. Qin Huaizhen put away his smile when he saw this, and turned over.

This road is very smooth, without the tense atmosphere just now, the boy also became excited.

"Hey, I said Brother Qin, this way we can't tell the difference, why don't we have a competition who will run out first!"

Qin Huaizhen smiled meaningfully.

"OK".

The young man rushed forward as soon as he heard it, the wind hit his face directly, making it painful, but he didn't care at all, he touched the purse on his waist with one hand, the feeling of being full made people really excited.

The alley was not long at all, and it would end soon. Suddenly, the young man saw a man standing at the end of the wall on the left side of the alley, with his back to him, with a knife tied around his thick round waist, and a broken knife in his hand. Wood.

He froze for a moment.

After regaining his senses, he immediately hid in the corner of the wall, clutched his purse tightly, and looked ahead with wide eyes. Opposite the fat official was a thin cook with an iron spoon in his hand, drawing something blindly.

I don't know how long it took like this, but Qin Huaizhen came in from the alley with a string of candied haws in his hand. He was wearing a water-blue gown with a blue gauze over it, and his hair was tied up again with a blue ribbon, like The appearance of a rich man is completely different from the appearance just covered in mud.

"Master, I want to eat the steamed buns you made today. The waiter said you came here to catch thieves, so I came here to find you." Qin Huaizhen said while biting the candied haws.

The cook took a look at the kid in front of him, dressed in a wealthy family's attire, immediately put away his fierce expression just now, and said with a smile: "Young master, I'm catching thieves, there are a lot of buns in the store, what kind of stuffing do you want to eat?" , ask Xiao Er to sell it to you, I'm busy now." After saying that, the cook turned his head and hurried away.

"Ding."

There was a crisp silver stone rubbing sound, and the cook reflexively turned his head to catch a bag, and opened his hand to see that it was a purse made of blue brocade cloth. You will know that there are at least a dozen ingots of silver.

"Master, I want to eat what you made now, you won't be unwilling?" Qin Huaizhen said casually, licking the brown sugar at the corner of his mouth.

The cook was so excited that he wanted to jump up, how could he not agree to such a good job, he immediately took out half an ingot of silver from his bag to send the official job away, rubbed his hands secretly, and happily followed Qin Huaizhen to the shop , looking at him with nods and bows all the way.

Before leaving, Qin Huaizhen glanced into the corner, bit off the last candied haws, smiled and walked forward.

Wow, brother Qin is so rich?

The young man looked at Qin Huaizhen's leaving figure in disbelief, remembering that he first met him two days ago.

At that time, because the family was poor and his mother was seriously ill, he had no choice but to go out to steal. Coincidentally, he was spotted by Qin Huaizhen who was eating in a restaurant.Unexpectedly, people cannot be judged by their appearance. When he saw him stealing, instead of exposing him, he even took him to various big shops for profit.

He seemed to be very familiar with these places, and he knew exactly which direction the back door was.

Therefore, in these short two days, they became "friends of life and death".

Unexpectedly, ah, God's will, smart people really have money... The young man sighed and walked towards home.

Yue Chen was walking on the way home, thinking of the broken thatched cottage at home, and his beautiful but sick mother, only the mother and son depended on each other. He also asked why he only had a first name but no surname. My father was always vague and never answered. Until recently, he didn't dare to ask more questions when he saw blood on the silk, so he had to run around looking for good medicine.

It was already dusk when we returned home, and the thatched cottage was covered with the brilliance of the dusk, looking like a big piece of gold from a distance.

The three-flowered cat at the door was lying comfortably on the ground and curled up into a ball. When Yue Chen touched its head, it bowed back, squinted its eyes and yawned, then continued to sleep.

"Mom, I'm back, do you eat steamed buns?" Yue Chen yelled, taking things out of his clothes one by one.

The time of dusk is always very short, and it is soon overwhelmed by the menacing night. The cat also woke up, stretched itself, opened its emerald green eyes, and jumped on the thatched roof.

"Mom?" Yue Chen didn't feel any movement, so he put down the bun in his hand and walked to the inner room.

As soon as I walked to the door, I saw a woman lying in the straw pile, trembling constantly, with fine beads of sweat on her pale face, she kept panting, shaking her head from side to side, and clenched her left hand tightly. Stretched, her right hand was placed in the quilt, and the quilt rose high above her lower abdomen.

Yue Chen lifted the quilt all at once, only to see a pair of black scissors inserted straight into the woman's lower abdomen, oozing blood continuously.

Yue Chen panicked all of a sudden, looking at the scene in front of him at a loss, he had a feeling, a very accurate feeling, that his mother was really going to leave him.

He looked at the crack in the grass next to him, it was already dark, and then he looked at the mother who was still trembling and even rolled her eyes upwards, he felt more and more frightened, as if he had fallen into the water, the river water was continuously drilling down his throat, he He felt that he couldn't breathe, and his eyes began to flow salty tears. He didn't know what to do, so he could only hold his mother's tight hand and sob.

Yue Chen didn't know how long he cried, but he felt the hand he was holding loosen, and it was instantly cold.

He looked up at his mother, his teeth were closed tightly, his eyes were still wide open, and there were countless tears in the corners of his eyes.

He kept shaking, sobbing, and even pulled out the scissors stuck in his abdomen, but the person on the bed still didn't respond.

I don't know how long it took, but this hopeful mood finally turned into complete despair.

It was too dark at night, and it became cold in the thatched grass, Yue Chen sat there in a daze.

After a long time, I looked up at the person on the bunk again. The rolled eyes and the coagulated blood were invisible under the cover of the night.

Yue Chen suddenly felt very cold, this place was so cold, he even wanted to go with her regardless, he stood up, took a step forward, then retreated to sit down after thinking of something, turned his head to see the hideous He stood up again and wiped the tears off his face with his hands.

The person in front of her was no longer the virtuous and gentle mother in her memory.

After he figured it out, he hurriedly turned around and ran out the door, running so fast all the way, he was especially afraid that a hand would suddenly pat him on the shoulder and call him Yue Chen gently.

It was indeed much warmer outside the house. Yue Chen panted, leaned his back on the bamboo, looked towards the thatched hut, and found the three-coloured cat on the thatched roof, sitting there, motionless.

Yue Chen turned his gaze to the door again, he was really afraid that some familiar shadow would come out, and he kept calling his name, and at the same time he was thinking about where he should sleep tonight.

"Meow!" the cat on the roof suddenly yelled.

"boom!"

In an instant, the thatched hut in front of him collapsed, like a block of wood without support, and fell together when the wind blew. He only felt that his eyes were dark, and there was a black veil covering his eyes, and he could vaguely see through the veil. The front gradually brightened up, and there was a stream of heat blowing on his face.

Yue Chen's back felt cold, and he wanted to reach out to take off the gauze in front of him, but suddenly his body became heavy and he lost consciousness.

Mother.....I'm afraid of the dark...

【Ancheng General Qin Mansion】

"Hurry up, stand up, and hold the book up." A young woman said while eating melon seeds.

All I saw was a child standing motionless on the spot, holding two disciples' guidebooks in his hands, his eyes were wide open, tears streaming down his face, and he was looking at the woman with his mouth pouted.

"Mom, is it alright? I'm just doing my friend a favor, oops! Take it easy!" Qin Huaizhen yelled.

"Help? Does it cost so much money to help? No wonder the owner of the bun shop smiled at me today, and said that I was so generous. You gave him so much money, which is enough for him to open another bun shop." !” said the woman angrily, holding a bamboo pole in her hand.

"Ouch!"

"I haven't called yet, what's your name?"

"Ouch! It hurts so much!" Qin Huaizhen cried out in pain and winked at Mrs. Qin.

"Madam is physically punishing Huaizhen again?" A magnetic voice came, Madam Qin turned her head hastily when she heard it, the son holding the book opposite her had already dropped the book and ran towards the source of the voice.

"Father, you have to make the decision for me. Mother will punish me every now and then." Qin Huaizhen pushed and pushed Qin Leyuan, pouting.

"Haha, your disobedience made your mother angry again, right? Don't play tricks here, I was teased by you last time, I don't believe it." Qin Leyuan hugged Qin Huaizhen, and told his followers With a wink, the attendant immediately stepped forward and brought up the brocade clothes and satin on the wooden tray.

Mrs. Qin's eyes lit up when she saw it, and said, "Is this for?"

"Two months later, the new emperor ascended the throne. The previous emperor abdicated and became the supreme emperor. Now that the long-lost prince has been found again, it can be said to be a double blessing. It should be a big deal." Qin Leyuan poked Qin Huaizhen with his finger as he spoke. Seeing the tip of the nose, Qin Huaizhen bit it down and made a gesture of baring his teeth and claws.

"You little thing." Qin Leyuan scratched Huaizhen's armpit, and he let go and giggled.

"Okay, let's go out and play, I have something important to discuss with your mother." Qin Leyuan put Huaizhen on the ground.

"Okay, okay, just don't do anything shameful." Qin Huaizhen ran away with a smirk.

"Stinky boy! What do you know! I'll deal with you when I get back!" Mrs. Qin said with a blushing face.

"Okay, ma'am, don't be angry, today I went to the housekeeping to get my monthly salary, and I will accompany you to buy some clothes later?"

"Hmph, it's not too bad, wait a minute, I'll go change some clothes!" Madam Qin hurriedly walked towards the back room.

Qin Le had a vision, picked up a piece of paper, and wrote neatly with a brush.

"The thatched huts outside Ancheng caught fire, and young women with black scissors inserted into their abdomens appeared one after another around Chu State." Qin Leyuan stared deeply at the paper, lost in thought.

【Ancheng Street】

Qin Huaizhen ran very fast, and immediately arrived at the place where they were scattered yesterday, but he looked around but no one was there. He looked around again, but there were no shops or even children in every passing shop.

No one knew where he had gone, Huai Zhen was a little anxious and kept running, searching and asking.

But useless, who will remember a dirty child that no one knows?

It's dusk, Huai Zhen is walking on the street with people coming and going, his face is covered with dust, his hands are full of mud, his clothes are messed up, he has long lost the aqua blue color when he went out, and now it seems that he has nothing to do with those streets. There is no difference between a beggar and a beggar. His eyes are empty, he keeps walking forward, his mouth is slightly open, and he wants to ask when he meets someone, but he knows that the result is similar to what he expected.

He just kept walking, walking.

He thought: "Did you make him angry yesterday? Think I'm an arrogant rich young master? If not, why did you just disappear like this?"

it's over...

At night, Huai Zhen was also wandering in the street, passing by the railing, and heard several women talking.

"Hey, I heard that the emperor's son has been found. After searching for four years, there is no news. Unexpectedly, he is here in Ancheng."

"This man is too bold, dare to hide people under the eyes of the emperor!" A woman held melon seeds in one hand and gnawed in the other.

"Yes, I heard that the child has never had a surname, and I don't know if the person who hid him dared not give it!"

"That is, how dare the emperor's son give another surname..." Another woman said with her eyes wide open, nibbling melon seeds.

"What's that name?"

"Let me take a look. It's written on the cloth railing. What's it called, Yue Chen?"

"Yuechen, why does this name sound like it was chosen on purpose? Is it implying something?" A woman approached and said.

"I feel it too, I feel it too!" said the other, drawing closer, and soon they were all huddled together, hearing nothing.

Huai Zhen was completely dumbfounded.

He suddenly remembered what his father Qin Leyuan said.

"Two months later, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the previous emperor abdicated to become the Supreme Emperor. Now that the long-lost Crown Prince has been found, it can be said to be a double blessing. It should be a big deal."

Thinking of this, Huai Zhen smiled, her eyes were not as dull as before, but she returned to her usual idle look, with a weird smile on the corner of her mouth, and walked slowly towards the house.

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