Disaster for the country

The clouds were thick and thick, the sky was gray, and the heavy rain refused to fall. Xin Luoyi trampled on the fallen leaves in front of the courtyard and walked back and forth. Li Shanjian sat on the wooden stool outside the door and knocked on the wooden The table, once, once, again...

"My lord, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. It will heal after applying the medicine for about ten days. In the future, there will be no recurrence if there is no substantial injury." Wei Yi said. Roll it up and put it on a stone table aside.

Xin Luoyi held Li Shanjian's face and looked at it, and thanked Wei Yi after confirming that it was really all right.

"Are you really all right?" Li Shanjian asked, very calmly, as if asking how the weather was, it didn't look so cold at the moment, but with a very beautiful smile.

"It's all right." Wei Yi said: "Remember it's best not to have a fever in the future. If you get a fever, the temperature on your forehead will rise and your eyes will be affected. However, this time you have recovered. If you don't have that kind of particularly big The damage won't come back."

"Why do you only treat your eyes, but not other injuries?" Li Shanjian asked casually, her voice was flat and without waves.

"Why do you ask so many questions? It will be fine if your eyes are cured. Why are you so serious?"

Li Shanjian smiled: "What is your unfinished sentence?"

……

"If you lose your eyes, you will lose all the rights to see beauty. You seem to be a rich man, and you have used a lot of expensive medicines since you were young, so your eye disease is not too serious, unlike some people... ?”

……

Li Shanjian remembered that when he was at Wei Yi's house that day, he once heard Wei Yi say a sentence, which didn't have the second half, and he didn't take it seriously at the time. Don't ask about things that have nothing to do with me, but this sentence must have a heart-piercing past.

Wei Yi frowned, very displeased, Xin Luoyi saw it, sat in front of Li Shanzan, and didn't interrupt their conversation.

"Who is this 'someone' referring to? Why did you take me in and treat my eyes? Besides, your medical skills are not good, but your methods of treating eyes are superb. Even the 'Xinglin Yihu' Physician Hu is also deeply moved, what is this for, because you have become a doctor after a long illness? But your eyes have no problem, and you have no family, where did you become a doctor after a long illness?"

Wei Yi walked to the house displeased, poured a glass of water, handed it to Li Shanjian, and then to Xin Luoyi, and took a sip himself, with a very impatient voice: "What exactly do you want to ask? What?"

"Do you have a relative who lost both eyes due to eye disease and couldn't see the bustling world, so when you met me, you felt pity for me and helped me heal my eyes." Li Shanjian said calmly, he was about to drink water, Xin Luoyi suddenly stopped him, and he smiled at Xin Luoyi: "It's okay, the water here is still very sweet."

Xin Luoyi didn't care whether Li Shanzan agreed or not, he took a sip first, and then handed it to Li Shanzan. He was helping Li Shanzan to test the poison.

Li Shanzan shook her head helplessly and smiled wryly, while Wei Yi sneered from the side: "Your relationship is really good."

"Is there a person who has a very good relationship with you, so when you looked at us, you didn't envy us, but rather calmly, who is this person?" Li Shanzhi continued to ask: "Is this person? A blind man?"

With a sound of "bang", the cup in Wei Yi's hand fell to the ground. He looked at the quilt rolling and rolling on the ground in a daze. There is an unspeakable pain spreading, gradually flooding.

Li Shanjian listened and turned his head. He didn't know Wei Yi's expression at this time, even Xin Luoyi didn't know, because his whole body was covered in a layer of black cloth.

Wei Yi lowered his face: "You..."

Li Shanjian's face remained unchanged, his expression was very cold, he asked, "Young Master Wei, do you know Wei Qi, who is he?"

When Wei Yi heard the word "Wei Qi", his complexion twitched and his body trembled undetectably. Of course Li Shanjian couldn't see it, but Xin Luoyi's eyes were sharp and stared at him like fire: "He is doing it for you!" You take the blame."

Wei Yi stood up with a bang, and showed a very surprised tone in disbelief: "He...take the blame for me?"

"Yes, he is taking the blame for you." Xin Luoyi said, "He also took the punishment for you. Although it is only a top ten punishment, it is enough for him."

Wei Yi stood up angrily, pulled out the bamboo next to him and hit Xin Luoyi: "Why did you hit him with the board? He didn't do anything wrong..."

Xin Luoyi dodged immediately, and pulled Li Shanjian back. When the bamboo fell, he stepped on the bamboo, which was as stable as Mount Tai. Wei Yi couldn't move it, so he had to throw the bamboo away without saying a word.

"When I was standing outside to hear the trial, someone told me that Wei Qi had a younger brother, but he died in the fire six months ago. I vaguely guessed at that time that you were Wei Qi's younger brother. , It’s just that you are not your own, you were picked up by his parents, because Wei Qi’s eyes have problems since he was born. If you go down, you can only find him a support, and you, you were a child picked up by his parents outside. They taught you the technique of making puppets since you were a child, because your eyes are very good, and Wei Qi can't last a long time. Faced with one thing, it’s like I can’t practice archery, so Wei Qi’s parents passed on all the techniques of making puppets to you. Later, I think, Wei Qi’s eyes were blind later, or he You will not be blind now, he is the biggest regret in your life. In fact, your surname is not Wei, your surname is Wei. You did not die in the fire at that time, but lived incognito, but you dare not face Wei Qi. You, love your unrelated brother very much, right? But, why don't you dare to face him..."

"Don't you know everything? Why ask me?" Wei Yi said coldly.

"I think, in a certain way, Wei Qi is also the murderer, or he may not be the murderer. He set the fire. He wanted to burn you to death, but you didn't die." Li Shanzhi said coldly, This is someone else's story, he has no emotion, his voice is as cold as the palm of his hand, Xin Luoyi helped him to sit beside the stool, he pressed Xin Luoyi's hand to indicate that he was fine.

The leaves kept falling, falling all over the ground. With the drift of fallen leaves, all the stories had already started six months ago.

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In April of the 15th year of Jianyuan.

On that day, Wei Yi (Wei Yi) happily brought the puppet maker back home, and said to his brother standing in the dark: "Brother, we have money, and if we have money, I can make you eyes are healed."

Wei Qi stood in the darkness, the world was pitch-black, in fact, what difference does it make if it is black or not?He has been like this all his life, and he didn't want to make Wei Yi feel bad, so he smiled and said: "Okay, then, let's go to the mountain stream where we went when we were young and cut incense trees, and make dolls from the incense trees that we cut back. Xiang, this way we can sell more money, and the life of the two of us will be easier. When the time comes, take your sister Cai Cai over, and the three of us can be happy together."

Wei Yi didn't speak anymore, he hated Cai Cai very much, for no reason, because Cai Cai was the wife his parents found for Wei Qi. wife.

"Brother, you haven't thought about just the two of us in the future, don't add others, okay? I'll heal your eyes."

It can be said that Wei Yi tried his best to let Wei Qi see the world. He specially read books on eye treatment. As long as it can cure Wei Qi's eyes, he is really willing to do anything. At that time, Wei Qi didn't believe it. Yes, he didn't believe that Wei Yi could cure him, but he still agreed: "Okay, if you don't like it, just the two of us."

Wei Yi tried his best to cure Wei Qi's eyes. He thought that his brother still had a chance to survive. In order to cure Wei Qi's eye disease, he wasted too much effort from childhood to adulthood, even if it was really hopeless It doesn't matter, he doesn't dislike that his brother is blind, but on the other hand, he got the news that the so-called Cai Cai has been hooking up with the county magistrate, and that woman has been deceiving his brother from the beginning to the end. It's a pity that his innocent brother still has a deep affection for her. When Wei Qi came to look for this Cai Cai, he happened to meet the county magistrate doing something messy with this woman.

Not only was Cai Cai not ashamed, but instead she showed a kind of indifference, calling Wei Qi a blind man in front of everyone, and the county magistrate was afraid that his deeds would be revealed to the ears of his fat wife, and he would find someone to chase after her. Kill Wicky.

Wei Qi had his eyes cut by the sword light that time, and he completely lost his last hope. He had been blind for half his life, and this time he lost even the most basic hope.

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"You killed a total of seven people, these five corpses, and the county magistrate and Cai Cai, right?" Li Shanjian asked.

"Yes, I killed that woman. I skinned her. I threw her body in a cesspit. I used her skin to make a puppet. I didn't sell the puppet. I turned it into a kneeling puppet. Lie kneeling in the yard of my house, I want her to kneel and confess to my brother. That county magistrate, I didn’t kill him, I just gouged out his eyes and cut his tongue, he came home with an eye infection, died."

"But your brother found it..."

……

Wei Qi touched a pair of lifelike dolls, and he felt a bloody killing was going on with the touch.

So, that day, Wei Qi questioned Wei Yi: "You killed someone, right?"

Wei Qi didn't speak, the silence in the faint candlelight was really terrible, the fire crackled, he raised his head indifferently, and clenched his fists: "They should be damned."

"In this world, who deserves to die? Xiaoyi, that's two lives, you killed someone."

"Brother, let's go, let's leave here." Wei Yi said: "Let's leave here, let's go to places we haven't been to, the two of us will live together forever, brother, it doesn't matter if you can't see, You still have me……"

But Wei Qi shook her head in the end, smiling sadly and sadly: "Murder pays for our lives, where can we escape? It doesn't matter, brother will die with you, remember to lead the way for brother on the way to Huangquan."

The candlestick in the room was pushed down. That night, there was a loud wind, and the whole house was instantly burned by fire. Wei Yi pushed him out to save Wei Qi, but he was injured by the crossbeam. He almost fell into the fire in the fire. A little lost.

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"You didn't die, it was King Pingxi's subordinates who saved you, and you obeyed King Pingxi's orders, right? Did he ask you to kill someone?"

"On the one hand, it was called by King Pingxi, and on the other hand, I wanted to kill him. He told me that the more terrifying the death, the better, but I need the human skin to change face to see my brother."

Yes, all the clues are now connected. King Pingxi needed an excuse to protest to the court, so he ordered someone to create an unsolved case, forcing the court to send a prince to Pingcheng to investigate the case. If the negotiation fails, there will be a prince as a hostage. Once the war starts, the prince will surely die, that's why the crown prince and the Second Highness teamed up to trap Xin Luoyi, and the emperor sent Xin Luoyi to Pingcheng without hesitation, because the emperor always believed in the rumor when Xin Luoyi was born: unknown people.Feng Ye was still the person who knew the emperor best, and he was afraid that Xin Luoyi's domineering character would offend King Pingxi, so he asked the emperor for Li Shanzan to come with him.

"Don't you know that you have killed so many people, and once the incident is revealed, King Pingxi will hand you over to die?" Li Shanjian asked, "King Pingxi has military power in his hands, so even if we can announce the truth, we will not You can't do anything to him, not to mention, there are some truths that cannot be seen from the light of day."

"I know, but he saved me, I should pay him back his life, not to mention, I killed two people. I just want to see my brother, my brother is not as lucky as you, my family is poor, nothing Money can heal his eyes. He lost everything when he was eight years old. He is so beautiful and kind. From childhood to adulthood, every time my family buys a little meat for festivals, he always puts Give me some meat and vegetables in my own bowl. When I was making a puppet, he would talk to me in front of me, and he could tell many beautiful stories. Sometimes, my parents went to rich people to do long-term work, leaving For the next cold steamed bun, he will give me the extra part. He is not taller than me, and thinner than me. The family is finally able to buy a new dress for the child. He will give it all to me, and he will pick up my old clothes. Yes. Because he said that he can’t see, so he doesn’t need to go out to meet people, but my brother wants to go out to meet people, so he should dress better, so that only beautiful girls can see him.”

"Such a beautiful person, he has lost his eyes because he has no money, he can't see the world, but he still loves this world so much, he likes this world, likes all the beautiful things in this world, so I want to make the beautiful I want to make him feel good. Every time I peel off the human skin, I will meet him after I change the human skin into a disguise. See him, talk to him, he hasn’t seen all the beautiful things in this world yet, it’s okay, he has hands, I’ll pass everything to him through his fingers, so I want to wear a good-looking man Pi went to see him, talked with him, and let him touch me. Every time he finished touching me, he would be very happy and praised me for being good-looking, but he didn't know that there was a person under so many skins. It's his younger brother, the one who loves him the most in this world."

"That day, you didn't want to save me, but you wanted to kill me." As soon as Li Shanjian said these words, Xin Luoyi was terrified.

"Yes, you were in a coma, blood was all over your body, and you were so badly injured, but I have never seen anyone more beautiful than you. I brought you back, and the boiling water was already boiled. I was still thinking that if my brother knew a How happy he must be to talk to such a beautiful and good-looking person, he will definitely believe that there are more beautiful things in this world, so when I was about to pick your skin off, I found something ..."

Li Shanzan remained expressionless: "My eyes?"

"Yes, your eyes are exactly the same as my brother's. They are so beautiful, so distressing, and so clear. They are all eye diseases brought from the mother's womb. They all have exactly the same symptoms. When you start, there is a feeling of skinning my brother with your own hands. I am scared, my hands are soft, and I..." At this point, Wei Yi couldn't speak anymore, and he burst into tears. It's been a long time After a while, he continued: "The biggest regret in my life is that I didn't heal my brother's eyes, didn't let him see the world properly, didn't let him see enough beautiful things in this world, but I think this world is still fair. Yes, I think God deliberately asked me to save my regret on you. God thought I didn't cure my brother's eyes, so he asked me to make up for my fault on you, and I found that you were born rich , I have used a lot of expensive medicines since I was a child, and the eye disease is not serious, so I didn't kill you, I chose to cure your eyes."

Li Shanzang asked suspiciously: "Since you work for King Pingxi, why didn't you kill me? He probably asked you to kill me more than once, right?"

"When I brought you back, I didn't know who you were. I didn't know that you were the ones King Pingxi asked me to kill until someone called him 'Your Highness' at the posthouse." Wei Yi lowered his voice: "After that, I couldn't find a chance to kill you. Because I knew that I would be dead before I made a move."

"You can take this opportunity to do something on my eyes." Li Shanzang said blankly, "After that, didn't you come to the posthouse to help me change my medicine a few times?"

"I thought about it too, but when I thought about my brother, I couldn't do it. I always felt like I was doing something to my brother when I attacked your eyes. Moreover, there is an old imperial doctor here, and his medical skills are very superb. I There is no chance to do it, so I choose to continue to cure you, not for anything else, but because of my brother." Wei Yi sighed: "I have too much blood on my hands, and I bear several lives. You did a good deed. In fact, you are really lucky. If you didn’t have the same eye disease as my brother, if you didn’t have the same beautiful and clean eyes as him, you would have become one of those corpses at this time. a member."

Xin Luoyi trembled with fear, he felt that Li Shanjian should not have acted alone at that time, the world was really wrong, it was just a thought.

If it wasn't for Wei Yi's pure and unadulterated love for Wei Qi, Li Shanzhi would have died on the day of the assassination.

"I beg you, don't tell my brother that I'm back, is that okay?" Wei Yi almost cried.

"I think he already knows, so he is taking the blame for you. Your parents taught you the technique of making puppets. How could he not know? That's why he put on a show at the execution ground and changed his mind to take the blame for you. All the charges are on his own body." Xin Luoyi said: "He thinks you are the one who murdered, in order to let you live, he deliberately went to the mountain stream where the corpse was dumped, let us follow the vines to find him, and then let nature take its course Take the blame for you."

"I know, just lie to him. His younger brother died in that fire a long time ago. Instead of making him suffer again, it is better to deceive him like this. I don't want him to bear the sins of my life for me." , I don’t want him to experience the pain of losing me again.”

Wei Yi actually cried. He took off the black cloth covering his body, revealing his scarred body, all of which were burnt by the fire. It was devastated and horrifying, but two holes flowed out of those black hole-like eyes. Line clear and bright tears.

Xin Luoyi was terrified, he shook Li Shanjian's hand, helped him up, and said to Wei Yi, "I'll give you three days to see your brother, after three days, it will be your execution day." .”

Li Shanzhang couldn't fall asleep no matter what, and kept looking at the lonely moon outside the window. Life is really unpredictable. Wei Yi saved his life and cured his eye disease, but he sent him to the hospital with his own hands. guillotine.

Sometimes, after staying with Xin Luoyi for a long time, I feel concerned and have a little more tenderness.

Xin Luoyi was fast asleep, and now he was enjoying the spring breeze, how did he know that Li Shanjian couldn't fall asleep, so he reached out and touched his face, the hand was cold, as soon as he touched Xin Luoyi, Xin Luoyi woke up from the ice, staring at him Eyes on him.

When Li Shanzan touched his eyes, he quickly closed them. Li Shanzan thought he was asleep, so he turned around and fell asleep.

Xin Luoyi felt that Li Shanzhi was trying to make things difficult for him, so she kissed Li Shanzhi on the forehead, good guy, I didn't wake up...

Going down, the lips, still haven't woken up...

Emotional Li Shanzhi deliberately woke him up and went to sleep, who is Xin Luoyi, revenge must be revenged, he sniffed Li Shanjian's neck again, it was a smell, not a kiss, it was too fragrant, Unexpectedly, he took a bite, and Li Shanjian was in pain, woke up, turned around coldly, Xin Luoyi pretended to be asleep, lay on Li Shanjian's shoulder, and rubbed his neck, Li Shanjian was very itchy, so she moved a few inches inward, a little distance away from Xin Luoyi. Xin Luoyi has one advantage, he has to go up when there is difficulty, and if there is no difficulty, he has to go up when there is no difficulty, and he pretends to squeeze past .

He hugged Li Shanjian behind him, bit his ear, Li Shanjian shrank from itching, and said viciously in a hazy way: "Some things are best left in moderation."

Seeing that Li Shanjian woke up, Xin Luoyi was in a good mood, "You smell so fragrant, give me a bite."

When he leaned over to bite Li Shanzhi's ear, Li Shanzhi took advantage of the opportunity to press his cold hand against Xin Luoyi's skin, and when he was so cold, he pulled Li Shanzhi's hand under the quilt and stuck it to himself In his arms, it is not ordinary cold, so he is still willing to go around.

"I'll keep you warm."

After finishing speaking, he hugged Li Shanjian and held him in his arms, thin and soft. Li Shanjian didn't break away from him and let him sleep in his arms all night.

When he woke up the next day, Wei Yi came, and the guards put shackles on him immediately. He turned around and asked, "You said you would give me money, right? Does that still count?"

Xin Luoyi was taken aback for a moment, she was about to go to the guillotine, and she was still thinking about the money, so she looked at Li Shanjian, and said, "It counts."

"Help me give the money to my brother. I want 3000 taels, which is enough for him to live."

Li Shanjian said: "Okay, I'll give you 5000 taels to support him for the rest of his life, and I'll take it as a repayment for your life-saving grace."

No matter what reason Wei Yi saved him, he finally saved him and healed his eyes. For the richest family in the world, 5000 taels is a drop in the bucket, but for Wei Qi , but it is the guarantee for the rest of his life.

When Wei Qi came, Wei Yi stood in front of him, with scars all over his body and tears streaming down his face.

Xin Luoyi said: "The case has been clarified, and it has nothing to do with you."

Wei Qi showed an unbelievable face and said: "Yes, but my family can make puppets." At the end, he asked anxiously: "Who is the murderer?" With tears streaming down his face: "I... want to see him... "

He is right in front of you...

"He's an outsider, you don't know him, he's tall and burly, he's vicious, we can't hold on to such a death row prisoner, why do you see him? If he escapes from prison, where are we going? catch him"

Wei Qi showed an unbelievable face. His younger brother was neither tall nor fierce. He showed disappointment and affection, and then smiled bitterly. His eyes were dull, but they were very clear, without any impurities.

Xin Luoyi said: "Our hall used lynching on you the day before yesterday, and I will give you 5000 taels of silver as compensation, which will be counted as your hush-hush fee."

Xin Luoyi likes to settle accounts clearly. Wei Yi rescued Li Shanjian, healed his eyes, and took care of him for a whole night. In terms of emotion and reason, he can still pay this little money. After all, money is There is only one Li Shanzhi in the world who can make money back.

"No, no, my lord, it was my fault the day before yesterday. I am very grateful for your lord's return of my innocence." After finishing speaking, he turned to leave.

Xin Luoyi took a stack of silver bills and stuffed them into his hand, and gave him: "If you want to accept it, you can accept it. When will this hall stop talking. The son of the Li family kindly helped you, so you take this jade pendant. If you have any difficulties in life in the future, just find the shop under the name of Jiuxue Palace, and they can help you."

"Then thank you, Your Highness, thank you, son." Wei Qi knelt and thanked him, 5000 taels would allow him to spend the rest of his life in peace, at least he would not have to compete with dogs for food.

Wei Yi watched his brother walk out of sight, and he didn't say a word, but two lines of tears flowed from his sunken eyes, covering his face full of scars and mottled eyes.

"Que History. Control. Criminal Cases" once recorded: There was a strange case in Pingcheng - skinning and throwing away the corpse. The strangeness was not in the process of the case, but in the process of beheading.

According to records: after the criminal beheaded, the head was thrown in the air and rolled across the street to a blind man who was walking. A bold and curious person walked over to take a look, and the head opened its eyes, looking at the blind man tenderly... tears streaming down its face...

Since then, there has been a lunatic on the streets of Pingcheng, pulling passers-by to ask if they have seen his brother.

A passer-by asked: What does your younger brother look like?

The lunatic pulled a lifelike doll on his back, a very immature doll, the sun shines on it, ordinary and bright, he said: It looks like this! (The puppet is Wei Yi who was not burned by the fire)

Everyone shook their heads and left, and no one had ever seen his younger brother, but this lunatic was still looking for his younger brother, no matter the severe cold or heat, no matter the wind or rain, he always carried a lifelike doll on his back to find his younger brother... In the endless rest of my life, I have been searching...

We all know: this lunatic is a blind man!

The author has something to say:

small theater:

Miki Plum: Tell me about your hobbies?

Pear Sugi: no

Xin Luoyi: Rolling on the bed with my family, Shan Zan...

Miki Lizi: Your Highness, are you sure you don't want the ones in the water?Your wife likes to write about water...

Xin Luoyi: Okay, okay, but, can you make Shan Zan take the initiative...for example, kiss me, take off my clothes, wrap me up...

A certain person has been thrown into the Pacific Ocean by the prince to feed the fish...