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"But, I don't want you to die dignifiedly, I want you to live dignifiedly." Li Mingbei looked at Yan Ying's red eyes, and said every word.

Yan Ying's pupils shrank, and two lines of tears rolled down his childish cheeks, and he said, "Why is your lord being so kind to me?"

Li Mingbei didn't know what to think of, and there seemed to be a stream of light in his eyes, he said: "Because, we have some fate." After that, he rubbed Yanying's hair fiercely, and said: "Go and clean yourself, and then you can get married again." Go to sleep. The sky is falling, and I will support it."

Yan Ying stared straight at Li Mingbei without speaking with his red eyes open, the emotion in his eyes was so intense that he couldn't get rid of it, so Li Mingbei pushed him hard: "Go."

Looking at Yan Ying's thin and immature back, Li Mingbei's eyes rarely revealed a little real softness.

14 years ago, when Yangzhou was separated, things changed and people changed.After that farewell, he went to Changsha to help the young Xie Zheng who had just lost his mother, and the child returned to Yanzhou. At that time, Yanzhou would be hell in a year.

Back then, Yanzhou suffered from a severe drought that occurred once in a century, and the imperial court allocated relief food funds, but tens of thousands of people died of starvation.Yanzhou is not only black-hearted officials who abandon the people, most of them just lack courage and only want to protect themselves.

But Yan Yuanzhou is a good official who is noble and tough.As a magistrate of a county, he witnessed the suffering of the people, and most of the food money issued by the court was swallowed up after staying in Yanzhou for a few days.What's more, he discovered the carriages that secretly went to Bingzhou in those days.What was loaded on the carriage was life-saving food for the people.

As the prefect of Yanzhou, Su Que ignored the people of the whole state. Half of the court's money and food was embezzled by him and the officials of Yanzhou, and the other half was transported to the fiefdom of King An of Bingzhou.Ning County under Yan Yuanzhou's rule was the only place Yanzhou had to pass through on the way to Bingzhou, and it was only then that he found out about it.

He wrote the note that ruined his family.I wanted to hand it to Jinling, but was intercepted by Su Que.Su Que, together with those officials, wrote a letter to criticize Yuanzhou for embezzling money and food and killing tens of thousands of people.

This method not only put Yan Yuanzhou to death, but also got rid of the crime of dereliction of duty, it can be said that it is not vicious.This statement shows that there are many loopholes. The late emperor was so stupid at that time, but he just believed it.He ordered Yan Yuanzhou to be beheaded, Yan Yuanzhou's wife hanged herself, and her children were sold into slavery.Yan Ying and his younger sister Yan Lang were tossed and turned for several years, and were sold into Su's residence by accident.Yan Lang died, and Yan Ying stayed in the Su residence for ten years.

Li Mingbei closed his eyes.Such a detailed process, he naturally listened to Yanying tell him personally.In order to get to the bottom of this case, he had to personally dig out the bloody wound in Yan Ying's heart.But when the young man said these things, he was very organized, his face was extremely calm, and he didn't shed a single tear, as if he was telling a story about someone else's family being destroyed.

He was amazed at the boy's tenacity, until late that night, when he accidentally walked to his door, he heard suppressed, low-pitched, bitter hatred and mournful cries from the room.The cry was like the weeping of a small animal that was driven to a desperate situation in the mountains, and it hurt his heart for no reason.

This young man is kind to him.A broken stone can't repay the delicious meal when I was hungry.He must let this young man live in this world dignifiedly, so that he can barely repay him.

He screamed with compassion and ruthlessness, but he always repaid his kindness.

……

Su Que knew the news of her daughter's death that day, so she approached the door that night.

He looked at Su Lanyi's body, then at Li Mingbei, his eyes finally became real and cruel: "Master Li, the little girl died in your house, you should give an explanation to the next official, right?"

Li Ming smiled sadly: "I have told all the officials at the banquet that day that Miss Su accidentally stabbed herself with a knife and fell into the water and died. If you don't believe me, you can ask the maid beside Miss Su."

Su gritted his teeth and said each word: "Don't you know, that maid and her family have disappeared long ago?"

Li Mingbei spit out a sentence: "I don't know."

"You!" Su Que's face was flushed red, the flesh on his face trembled slightly, and even his forehead had blue veins popping out, and he said again: "You can always take away that lower official Ah Ying who belittled my daughter—Master Li , that maid said that in front of everyone that day."

Li Mingbei raised his eyebrows, and said: "Master Su is wrong. This is probably a misunderstanding. Ah Ying is someone close to me, and I never let him out of that yard. He spent the whole day with Yi Huan is together, how can you belittle Miss Su——If Mr. Su doesn't believe it, you can send Yi Huan to ask."

The hatred in Su Que's eyes could no longer be suppressed, he gritted his teeth and said each word: "My lord, your kindness, I will remember it." After saying that, he carried Su Lanyi up walk away.

Li Mingpei looked at his back, with secrets in his eyes: These people are always like this. They only know how painful it is when they lose their loved ones, but they never thought that other people's hearts are also fleshy, and other people's hearts will also hurt.

How boring it would be if the world were full of people like this.

Li Mingbei looked out of the house with his hands behind his back: In a few days, it will be the New Year, and I don't know how their little prince's place is going.

……

Yanzhou.Ning county.Inn.

At this time, it was approaching the New Year, and the business of the restaurant opposite was bustling, but the business of the inn was deserted.

An old man was sitting at a table. He had a stooped body, white hair, and wrinkles on his face. He was narrating the events of the year in a hoarse and low voice.Xie Qiao asked a few questions from time to time, while Gu Wang took a pen to write down the old man's words verbatim.

"Lord Yan is a good official," said the old man after talking about the situation back then, "At that time, the surrounding counties were all starved to death. Only in our Ning County, Lord Yan opened the government's granary, and suppressed those who took the opportunity to raise money. The people who pay for the food have tried every means to raise food for us, and our Ning County has never starved so many people to death like other counties..." After speaking, the old man sighed: "Unfortunately, good people don't live long..."

Xie Qiao and Gu Wang looked at each other, and Gu Wang wrote down every word the old man said.Trembling, the old man solemnly pressed his fingerprints on the paper.

At the end, the old man said: "If I need to go there at that time, I will never refuse."

Xie Qiao and Gu Wang made a serious salute to the old man and said, "Thank you very much."

It was evening when the old man was sent away, and Xie Qiao looked at the dark sky outside the window with his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with secrets.Gu Wang said: "My lord, I think the net can be collected."

Xie Qiao smiled: "This king thinks so too."

They have traveled a lot these days, and naturally found many testimonies.These testimonies, together with what Yan Yingmo came up with, can completely clear up this case, and pay homage to those innocent souls 13 years ago.

……

Yanzhou City.

It was New Year's Day when Xie Qiao and Gu Wang returned to Yanzhou. Xie Qiao looked at the red lanterns hanging in front of those people's houses and heard the firecrackers all the way, and sighed: After all, I couldn't go to Jizhou to celebrate the New Year with that person , I don't know if that person missed him.

He thought about that man until his bones ached.

He has been on the road these days and has been unable to communicate with him. Li Mingbei should have sent a letter to tell the man about his situation.

Seeing that he rarely sighed, Gu Wang asked, "What's the matter, little prince?"

Xie Qiao glanced at him and said, "I miss my heart."

Gu Wang said, "The one in Jizhou?"

Xie Qiao nodded.Gu Wang frowned slightly, with some disapproval on his face, he said: "Little prince, since you are called the heart of others, you shouldn't be the one who starts to mess up and ends up abandoning."

Xie Qiao: "..."

His brows twitched: "How did this king abandon me? My heart has always abandoned me, and I can't even abandon my heart!"

Gu Wang said again: "Did the little prince make an appointment with him to pick him up when he returns to Jinling?"

Xie Qiao felt that the words became more and more chaotic, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he waved his hands directly and said, "Don't talk about Jinling, this king can't wait to hide him in the mansion immediately so that no one can see him."

After finishing speaking, he walked into the inn, Gu Wang's eyes were full of disapproval: girls are only happy when they go out, for example, his sister loves to go out and play, if she stays at home all the time, she will inevitably be suffocated.It's better to find time to talk to the little prince, after getting along these days, the little prince can be regarded as a reasonable person, and he can always make sense...

Now is the New Year, and the inn is even more deserted.There were almost no guests in the hotel lobby, only Xiaoer yawned in front of the stage.Seeing Xie Qiao, the little boy's eyes lit up all of a sudden, he stepped forward with a clever smile, and said, "My lord, you're back!"

Xie Qiao raised his eyebrows and smiled: "How about I come back?"

The waiter said, "Didn't you check out the room? We have your letter here—it was delivered two days ago."

Xie Qiao's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly said, "Where is it?"

Xiao Er hurriedly rummaged through the front desk, found a letter, and handed it to Xie Qiao.Seeing the familiar handwriting on the letter, Xie Qiao couldn't help but smile.He turned to Gu Wang and said, "Master Gu, you can do whatever you want, I'll go back to my room first."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Gu Wang's answer, he went upstairs.

inside the room.

Xie Qiao pushed open the window, and a fresh and cold wind entered the house. He stood by the window and couldn't wait to open the letter.

The letter was still written in extremely familiar handwriting.

I saw that the letter said:

"Joe:

Are you okay?

Everything is fine in Jizhou.

The new year has come, reunion everywhere.I wish I could live together with the king.

Lu Jue"

After Xie Qiao finished reading, he slumped on the chair. He looked straight at the roof, covered his eyes with one arm, and hung down the other hand, holding the thin letter paper in his hand.

After a while, a few muffled low laughs escaped from his throat.The New Year's wind blows in from the window, messing up his hair.In my heart, it was scorching hot.

I wish I could live together with the king.This is also my wish.

……

Jizhou.

Lu Jue stood outside the tent with his hands behind his back, looking at the occasional fireworks exploding in the sky, thinking of something, a soft, lovesick smile appeared in his eyes.

Really, the fireworks that Jinling watched with that person were the best.he thinks.