Huaigui

The large prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was not used to detain those who committed crimes around the emperor. Gao Hong sent people to detain Lu Yi at the outermost part of the ghost prison.He might still have doubts, so he didn't kill Lu Yi directly.

When Gao Hong's people surrounded him, Lu Yi could have escaped. He is the best in the university, even Lin Shang is not as good as him.But Lu Yi was arrested without a fight and asked them to lock up his hands and feet. His arms stretched out and the shackles couldn't reach his neck, which prevented him from struggling to the greatest extent.

If he ran away, Gao Qian would be implicated immediately. Lu Yi knew it, and Gao Hong knew it too.

He was imprisoned in the ghost prison, and no one tortured him for the time being. Lu Yi had too many secrets in his hands, Gao Qian's, Gao Hong's...even the former emperor's.Even if he doesn't care about it himself, there will be people who want to bribe all parties to negotiate terms with him after the news is released.But Lu Yi didn't see anyone, and sat quietly in the prison all day, whether she was in a daze or in deep thought.

On the fifth day, Gao Hong finally came with bloodstains all over the place.

Lu Yi was imprisoned in the cell next to a cruel official. When Gao Hong came, he was being boiled by the jailer in a cauldron invented by himself.Maybe Gao Hong also thought he was too noisy, so he asked someone to escort Lu Yi to a separate interrogation room.

Dressed in prison clothes, with heavy shackles on her hands and feet but calm and composed, Lu Yi stood in front of Gao Hong, and after a while knelt down calmly to salute: "Master."

This was what he called Gao Hong at the beginning. After hearing this, Gao Hong was slightly moved, but thinking about what this person had done before and where he was arrested before he was detained, Gao Hong felt a pain in his heart.

He sat on the chair brought up by the jailer: "Fang Huai took your place, you should not be able to get out."

Lu Yi didn't show any expression, and nodded slightly.

Gao Hong frowned slightly, annoyed that he was so calm now that he was a prisoner.

Lu Yi is different from the others, he is his forever loyal servant, but that night when he heard one of Gao Qian's maids crying and confessing "Commander Lu comes here every night, the prince will feel better after seeing him", he almost bristle.

Back then, the boy Gao Che who stopped in front of the horse alone and said "willing to serve the prince" brought his sword into the Prince Yu's mansion.He asked Lu Yi to learn calligraphy, but Lu Yi refused, because if he could read and write, he might be used by others in the future; he asked Lu Yi to cultivate his trusted confidants, but Lu Yi also refused, explaining that all the hidden guards must be used by the prince.

So he handed over all the secrets of the secret guard and himself to Lu Yi, thinking conceitedly that even if he seized the world and couldn't keep it, Lu Yi would protect him and escape when he was on the verge of failure.

Gao Hong was totally wrong, he never expected that Lu Yi might leave early from the very beginning.

"When did you and Gao Qian meet?" Gao Hong asked angrily, he had already got the answer from Gao Qian and still didn't give up.

Lu Yi's eyes moved when she heard the name: "Before I know the master."

"Gao Qian said it was his scheme. He spent most of his life planning for me just for today. He is very proud-he taught you to enter the Yu Palace, and it was him who taught you to take over the secret guard for four years. Those things that I really believe He also taught you what you said, right?"

Lu Yi said: "Yes."

"Then he didn't teach you to kill me?"

"The kindness of knowledge and encounter must always be repaid."

"The kindness of knowing you?" Gao Hong repeated his words in a soft voice and suddenly became angry, "But I have raised you for 24 years! Even if you feed the dog, you are cooked! One by one... the Helan family rebelled against me, and the Gao family abandoned me , Helan Mingyue's chess piece is gone, it's not a problem, so far I have a good chance of winning——Lu Yi, you!"

Lu Yi said calmly: "The slave has failed his master, and he will die a terrible death."

In the ghost prison, these words stirred up thousands of waves like a stone, and there were endless wailing in the background, but Gao Hong felt that his surroundings were almost frozen.

He has been accused of infidelity and injustice for a whole year, and his administration has not been effective, but he never thought that he would fail completely, but at this moment, outside the dark cell, Gao Hong suddenly felt that he was at the end of his rope.

Otherwise, how could everyone either turn their backs on him, or never treat him sincerely in the first place?

Gao Hong smiled: "Okay, okay... my mother clan, brothers, servants... okay, you are all human, so am I not human?! Lu Yizhen might as well tell you that Gao Qian's time is running out , When I went to see him today, I was delirious and started talking crazy. How long do you think he can live?"

Lu Yi remained silent, her expression was extremely indifferent but her locked palms were clenched unconsciously.

Gao Hong said: "He and I have been fighting for a lifetime. I don't know whether he is crazy or stupid at the moment, but he took the initiative to mention you. He said that you didn't make a big mistake after all, and asked Zhen Nian to let you go in the past, but I did not agree. , but he said... Lu Yi, you have a good understanding with him, guess what he said?"

Lu Yi moistened her chapped lips and said nothing.

"He said, 'That is your commander, since you don't believe it, then kill him, otherwise you will not know how you died when disaster strikes in the future'—do you think I can listen to him?"

Lu Yi smiled weakly: "Master... why don't you listen to him."

Gao Hong stood up and raised Lu Yi's face with the toe of his boots, forcing him to look at him from bottom to top in an extremely humiliating posture: "Listen to him? I...don't let him do what he wants, I will torture you all! "

Lu Yi's eyes almost dripped blood.

After finding a way to make a cold person like Lu Yi emotionally fluctuate, Gao Hong was very satisfied with his expression: "Lu Yi, I will not kill you, nor will I torture you. But Gao Qian is different, he is my A thorn in his side, he has been against me for most of his life! I want you to watch him die step by step!"

After saying that, Gao Hong felt relieved, kicked him to the ground with all his strength, and walked away in a huff.

The two guards quickly helped Lu Yi into the cell. Gao Hong left the door and closed it. He fell to his knees and gradually closed his eyes.Clearly she should be cold-hearted, but Lu Yi was not at all at a loss, let alone sad.

Because the high potential still counts to this step.

Thousands of miles away, the bane has already begun to sprout.

Pingcheng.

The Waking of Insects is approaching, and Qingming is not far away.In the morning, Yuan Ying's nasal cavity felt hot when he took a shower, and the blood stains on his head were especially obvious when he removed the veil, which made his eyelids twitch.

This is Yuanying's sixth year in Pingcheng. It stands to reason that he should have gotten used to the drier climate here than Luoyang. Although the old capital is far away from the bustling city, it is even more peaceful than Luocheng. Yuanying has no reason to get angry.

He changed his clothes and walked out the door. Gao Lejun was standing on the porch holding his pregnant belly. Yuan Ying hurriedly stepped up when he saw it: "Princess is not resting in the room, what are you doing?"

Mr. Gao Le glanced at him, the arrogance of previous years was still there: "Why, is it because you are afraid that my body is precious and you will be distressed by the cold, or that I still have hatred in my heart and will take the opportunity to kill your descendants of the Yuan family?"

Yuanying listened a lot, and ignored her words with a gun and a stick, and took Gao Lejun with one hand to help her down the steps and walked all the way to the pond.In the green and flowing water, koi compete for fish food, and there is a faint tendency to bleed.

Mr. Gao Le was happy watching, and stopped his hand gesture to pat Yuan Ying: "You boring gourd, I am the only one who can bear it!"

"Yes, the princess has tolerated this minister for many years." Yuan Ying smiled, "Just walk around the mansion, the princess also knows that the current situation is special, and the minister is afraid of running around in danger."

Mr. Gao Le's face turned pale: "It's okay. Your post officer will report in the morning that they are docking at Linshui."

Yuan Ying was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized that what she said was satisfactory.

Gao Lejun continued: "Calculate the time, you can enter the city at dusk. You go to prepare, don't let Gao Jing see the joke of Pingcheng!"

After saying that, she didn't look at Yuanying, and called the maid to help her walk to the garden.Yuan Ying stood where she was, her heart beating wildly belatedly, even thinking that the past was all a dream of her own.

A year ago, the capital came to report that the abolished emperor was imprisoned to death. At that time, the whole world was accusing Gao Hong of not caring about his brothers and killing his relatives. The Grand Master Yuan Tan was convicted because of his words, and he was the first among them. Luoyang.

Ding of the Yuan family secretly brought out a letter from the grand master, asking Yuanying not to enter the capital again in this lifetime.

At that time, he realized how far Gao Jing had thought when he wanted to desperately persuade Mr. Gao Le to return to the former emperor's fief.

Not long after Gao Jing officially supervised the country, Mr. Gao Le wrote to return to the fiefdom.

In the eyes of everyone, this is an extremely absurd decision. Abandoning Yanliu, the imperial capital, and returning to the yellow sands of Pingcheng. Since then, there is no edict not to return it. This will undoubtedly isolate himself and Yuanying from the center of power.But Gao Jing quickly approved their letter, and Yuanying and Gao Lejun have been operating in Pingcheng ever since.

Pingcheng is the old capital, and it is also where Gao's mausoleum and ancestral temple are located.Firstly, Emperor Xiaowu enfeoffed this place to Mr. Gao Le, firstly to show his favor, and secondly, to let the princess have a place to live after she got married.

Unlike other states and counties, Pingcheng does not belong to any state, and there are no troops stationed around it.This place is surrounded by three prefectures, with direct access to Luoyang in the southwest, and guarding the land of Youyun in the north. Such a weak defense can make the four sides afraid, and even Gao Hong dare not act rashly because of the existence of Vermillion Bird Guard.

Suzaku is the emblem of the Gao clan, and the guard named after it is better known as the Pingcheng Tiewei.

At the founding of the country, the pro-military descendants of Emperor Daowu formed a unique inheritance system after generation after generation of cultivation. They were not transferred for any generals, nor ordered by the emperor's oral edicts. Only tokens could be transferred.

The leader has been passed down from generation to generation. He is the sword of the emperor and a tiger to check and balance all parties in Beining.

In the past, Suzaku defended the civil strife in the Yuwen clan, and dealt with Dongrouran and Duanbu's stragglers who harassed the border.But with the stability of the four directions, the imperial army was completed, and the military power was returned to the emperor. Suzaku guards were hidden behind the scenes, and they have not been moved for more than ten years.

Yuan Ying heard their legends when she was young, and thought that all the birds had already died.But when he saw it with his own eyes in Pingcheng, he realized that this iron army had never let up for half a day.

Now that Gao Jing is here, he escaped from the dead and escaped from the siege of Suzhou, and his proclamation has spread all over the world... Yuan Ying knew that he came here to seek the support of the iron guard leader Ran Yunyang.

But is the transfer certificate that he wrote in his mind true or false?

Yuan Ying didn't know.

At dusk that day, a team of only a few thousand people arrived on the west side of Pingcheng.

When Ouchi's hidden guard reported back, Gao Jing was wringing the water from the hem of his clothes, and he was in a hurry. In the last few days, it was raining and the river was high tide, and everyone was in a panic.But in the past year, Gao Jing has probably lost all the face in his life, and he can be at ease when he encounters any kind of collapse.

The secret guard said: "Your Majesty, there are horses and chariots ahead to pick you up. After negotiating with the subordinates, they found out that it was the son-in-law who came in person. Look...?"

Gao Jing inexplicably looked at He Lan Mingyue in a panic. The man was talking with Li Keshuang and didn't care about the return ahead. He beckoned the hidden guard to come over, and said in a low voice, "Go and call Master Yuan to deal with it." Just go back to the mansion and let the attendants and guards pick me up, don't come."

The hidden guard was puzzled: "This... the son-in-law just asked his subordinate to take a message. He was thinking about His Majesty's hard work all the way, and it was wet and cold on the water. He made a special trip to bring His Majesty ginger soup to warm up. Do you want to keep it?"

Gao Jing waved his hand impatiently: "Don't drink. Let him go back to the princess mansion and pretend he hasn't been here before."

The dark guard still didn't understand, but seeing Gao Jing's behavior, he had to obey, and left quickly.

The man had just left, Gao Jing turned his head and met A Mang with a teasing expression, just now he felt that there would be no more embarrassment, but now he couldn't hold back his face, and explained without silver 300 taels here: "It's not because I'm afraid..."

"That's enough, all this servant knows!" Amang smiled and helped Gao Jing sit on the side of the newly borrowed carriage, and said considerately, "Your Majesty, this servant didn't hear a single word that you said to that lord."

"It's not big or small!" Gao Jing scolded with a smile.

His voice fell on the front foot, and He Lan Mingyue walked towards the two of them on the back foot.

He Lan held the sword and looked around for a week without seeing anything suspicious: "Are Yuan Ying and his men coming to pick you up soon? They look sloppy, do you want to change clothes?"

Gao Jing was seated with Amang's support. The dampness on his body still made him very uncomfortable, but he saw that it was the same everywhere around him. He Lan Mingyue's boots might also pour out water, so he shook his hand: "No need, others They all came out of the cabin, and it might not be appropriate to take extra care of me."

He Lan Mingyue smiled: "Aren't you afraid that your brother-in-law will feel distressed when he sees it?"

He used to say a few yin and yang strange words, and Gao Jing just happened to be deaf, and he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes as if he didn't hear: "It's getting dark soon, brother Mingyue, let's march faster."

Gao Jing's eyes are not good, I don't know what He Lanmingyue thinks, but this is almost impossible for him.Sure enough, He Lan sighed softly when he heard this, and turned his head to let the whole army set off.

Aman drove him forward, and vaguely saw Helan Mingyue from the corner of the eye behind the Pingcheng guard in front of him, and said, "Your Majesty, my servant is bold, you first forgive my crime."

"My sister didn't just say one sentence, please."

"My maidservant just remembered something. What you tossed about at that time was not only a wound on Mingyue's heart, but also..." Gao Jing's side face suddenly tightened when he heard the words, and Aman clicked on it, "When we arrived in Pingcheng, it's just a sight to see." Knowing things... sooner or later, it will be resolved. You should think about how to tell Mingyue, he will be kind to you after leaving Suzhou, don't—"

Why didn't Gao Jing know what Amang said?

After a year of exhaustion and running around several times, he really forgot about it completely.

To him, Gao Sichan was nothing more than a sustenance by mistake, but how could a living human life be there, how could it be explained clearly in a few words?

He turned his head, Helan Mingyue was riding on a horse and chatting side by side with Tang Feiyi, he laughed while talking, and took the black feather arrow wrapped in Tang Feiyi's quiver with a riding whip and gestured in his hand.

Sensing Gao Jing's gaze, He Lan Mingyue frowned suspiciously and mouthed him, "What's the matter?"

Gao Jing denied it, and stared at his battered leg with his gaze back.

After meeting with Pingchengwei and walking forward for fifteen miles, the majestic city gate appeared, and the vicissitudes of the old capital finally arrived.