After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The rough cutting sound sounded dullly outside the hall.After a long time, Kang Wang came in with a dark face, holding a plate of broken gold and said: "The emperor is satisfied now?"

He had to be cut.When they were cutting gold and silver, the emperor sent many guards with knives to stand beside them in the name of protecting him.

The emperor asked Eunuch Li to go down to check. Eunuch Li checked for a while and said, "If you go back to the emperor, it is indeed pure gold."

"Okay!" the emperor applauded, "That's right, that's good, this is the 'artisan spirit' of the Northern Wei Dynasty! If so, then please ask King Kang to cut all the remaining gold and silver into scorpions! "

"Emperor! Don't bully people too much!" Kang Wang said angrily.

"Or, to put it simply, King Kang himself cut ten catties of silver into scorpions, and I will let go of the rest of the gold and silver." The emperor clapped his hands slowly and said, "How about it, does King Kang plan to give it to the widow... Cough, myself A face?"

"you!"

Kang Wang wanted to say something, but others had already surrounded him.One of them said with a fake smile: "Kang Kang, please."

"In order to ensure Kang Wang's safety, we are all guarding Kang Wang by the side, waiting for you to finish cutting!"

Kang Wang: ...

Under the difficult conditions of this kindness, King Kang could only cut money outside the door full of shame.Inside the door, the emperor heard the sound of "Kacha Kacha" outside, turned his head to look at Zhou Xun, and said triumphantly, "Look, isn't this slap in the face very refreshing!"

Zhou Xun: "...As expected of you."

Emperor: "Ahahahaha! This is me, the light of righteousness!"

As he spoke, he patted Zhou Xun on the shoulder: "And you are a partner of justice!"

Zhou Xun: ...

"Exactly, you are the Minister of Justice now! The partner of justice, the Minister of Justice!" The emperor was delighted, and showed a subtle smile again.

Zhou Xun: ...

"One day I will find out what exactly you are laughing at." Zhou Xun whispered in the emperor's ear.

After a long time, the guard came in again and said, "His Royal Highness Kang can't move anymore, but he still has four catties!"

"Let him continue to cut!" The emperor waved his big hand, "One knife is worth several thousand taels, which is more expensive than cutting cakes. With such kindness, I can only let him cut it!"

After a long time, Kang Wang finally walked in with a plate of silver slag covered with scars.

The scene inside the hall is different from the outside.He threw the silver plate on the table.The emperor glanced at it and said to Xiao Lizi, "You go to weigh it?"

After Xiao Lizi finished weighing, Hui reported: "Kang Wang is still a catty away!"

Kang Wang had no choice but to turn red and go out again.After going out and coming back, Xiao Lizi also said: "Kang Wang is still five taels away!"

Kang Wang went out again.When he came in again, he claimed that there was one or two missing.Seeing him come in, some people laughed softly: "Kang Wang, you are short of weight!"

"How can it be called lack of weight? Can the matter of King Kang be considered short of weight?" Xiao Lizi scolded.As he said that, he said again: "Kang Kang, you...please again?"

"I want to tell my brother, how dare you treat me!" Kang Wang glared at the emperor.

The emperor laughed: "Do you want to tell him that I force you to cut the silver into scorpion?"

Kang Wang: ...

This is so embarrassing! !

"Okay, okay, let's do it like this." The emperor waved his hand, "You gave the money, man, take it to you."

"...you have to keep your word!" Kang Wang said anxiously.

"Of course, not only what you say is true, but also free shipping. When you return to the Northern Wei Dynasty in a hurry, Zhou Cai will send you free shipping."

"Free shipping?" Kang Wang was a little confused, "What is free shipping?"

"It's the best express, the kind of express that will last forever, let him deliver it to you." The emperor grinned at him, "Okay, you can go back!"

Kang Wang was taken back to the post house in a daze.But Zhou Xun looked at the emperor and said to him, "Baishi Express?"

"It is the slowest courier with a transit time of a hundred lifetimes." The emperor said seriously, "I mean—"

Zhou Xun looked at him.

"Exile Zhou Cai to the Northern Wei Dynasty and let him walk by himself, it's free shipping!" The emperor patted him on the shoulder, "Hmph, who made him dare to bully my wife?"

When he heard the phrase "wife", Zhou Xun blushed and turned sideways.

"Besides, the courier will inevitably be beaten, beaten, and violently lost on the road. Don't worry, Zhou Caizhun will treat you subduedly." The emperor said, "However, there is actually one thing I don't understand."

"what's up?"

The emperor's voice was full of real confusion: "I originally kept Zhou Cai for you, thinking that you would kill him with your own hands in the future. Why did you just snatch a marriage and make him lose face? , put him in prison for a while, let him be sold to the Northern Wei Dynasty, exiled... and then disappeared? Well, it seems a bit much to say, but why didn't you kill him?"

"Letting someone like him live is more painful than letting him die directly." Zhou Xun said, "With his pretentious and arrogant personality, he will never die or admit that If I fail, I will definitely try my best to break free. If..."

——If one day he really wanted to die, but he couldn't.

That was the greatest destruction and revenge for him.

Thinking this way, Zhou Xun realized that there was a lot of hostility in his words.But the emperor just scratched his head and said: "I don't know much about this, if you want me, I'll just chop him up, but if you like it, let's do it like this!... That's right!"

He thought for a while, and then said: "Give him some oily fish, laxatives and the like along the way, let him only eat this all the way!"

Zhou Xun: "??? Oily fish?"

The emperor glanced at him subtly, his expression gradually froze.

"I have a friend who ate it," he said.

"Is this friend you're talking about..."

"No, this time it's really not me, it's really my friend, my brother!" The emperor was anxious, "Don't get me wrong!"

……

Zhou Cai hugged his knees and sat in the cell.

His face was withered, Zhou Xun's words lingered in his mind day by day during the ten days in prison.

"Am I really such a failed person?" He kept thinking, "If I don't fight, if I don't fight, will my life be better than now?"

Such thoughts haunted him like ghosts.Compared with these thoughts, the cockroaches and mice in the prison, the screams that tormented him to the point of neurasthenia, rough meals, and day and night interrogation... almost became the things that could release him from deeper pain. The consolation of shutting thinking down, though, was also pain, and it was the pain of shutting down his whole being, making him dull and vulgar.

In the cell next to his was a man with an old voice.He never paid attention to Zhou Cai, just nestled in the corner of the wall alone.And for some reason, every time Zhou Cai saw his figure, he felt a sense of fear from his heart.

Regarding this person's guilt, Zhou Cai didn't know very clearly.It seems that this person once broke into the royal hunting ground like crazy when the emperor was a teenager, babbling something in his mouth.He seriously offended several nobles, and even one noble got sick because of it, so he was regarded as a lunatic and locked up here from then on.

Zhou Cai has always been interested in people who have nothing to do with him.Maybe one day, the stories of those people can be used by him and become the secret he relies on to climb up.But for some reason, when he saw that person...he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to say a word to him.

He just stayed in the prison, groggy and confused, his mind was full of memories of his youthful vigor and current desolate situation.Gradually, the straw seemed to become a silk velvet quilt, the damp prison cell seemed to become a prosperous palace, and the unpleasant air seemed to become sandalwood burning in the Zhou Mansion every day... until he came back to his senses and saw himself When the "Osmanthus Cake" he ate turned out to be half a mouse, he screamed and woke up from the illusion that had lasted for several days.

And after the screams ended, he finally ushered in the person who picked him up.

It's Kang Wang.

Kang Wang came to pick him up.

When he heard about Kang Wang and Hongxue's past, he deliberately arranged their encounter in such a reenactment... Now it seems that he made the right bet!

He has to dress himself up better, and then recite some poems, that's right... King Kang likes the appearance of his wit the most.

"Mountains and rivers..." After the jailer left, he quickly cleaned up his messy hair with his hands, and wanted to chant a poem to describe the situation at this moment, but at this moment, he was stunned.

Mountains and rivers...then what?

mountains and rivers...

Shan heavy...

He can't remember!

He couldn't think of many things, his tongue seemed to be numb, and he could no longer speak nice words, and the salty taste of "Osmanthus Cake" in his fantasy still remained on his tongue.He pinched his throat, as if in this way he could recall those poems and proses, those brilliant tongues, which have been his reliance for survival for many years.

But he...

I can't remember it at all!

The footsteps in the corridor approached step by step.Zhou Cai looked at the world in front of him in panic, as if the world was spinning for a while.Seeing the flames in the corridor light up one after another, he suddenly shrank back, covering his head: "No——no..."

"No—I'm not trash—I didn't lose—I—"

He seemed to have finally gone crazy suddenly. The broken mouse was still around, but he was crying. At this moment, he heard a voice from the next cell.

"You're trash! You're trash!" The man with the old voice became hysterical for some reason. He threw himself in Zhou Cai's direction, but there was a railing in the middle, so he squeezed his face against the railing, As if squeezed out of shape, "Zhou Cai, you trash—"

"What happened?"

"He's gone crazy again—"

"Cuff him—bring Zhou Cai out!"

A chaotic voice sounded, and Zhou Cai couldn't remember what happened.When he saw that person, his mind went blank, and when he regained consciousness, he was already in the arms of a guard.

Kang Wang originally wanted to give him a hug—he wanted to welcome that young man who was as beautiful as a god even in prison.But he didn't expect that person to be like a lunatic, with disheveled hair, dirty face, and even a salty smell in his mouth.Faintly, he seemed to see the corpse of a mouse on the straw——

A bad association flashed through his mind, and he immediately pushed Zhou Cai away.

Zhou Cai was still trembling, and the old prisoner next door who suddenly went crazy was finally held down.Lu Xiandao looked at the filth in the prison, frowned slightly, and then said to Kang Wang: "Since people have seen it, His Highness Kang Wang can also leave."

Kang Wang originally thought that he would bring Zhou Cai out because he was here, but in the end he found a doctor for Zhou Cai and took good care of him for a whole day, but in the end...

left alone.

"Change Zhou Cai's cell, and he will be on his way to the Northern Wei Dynasty in a few days. Live a decent life these few days." Lu Xiandao ordered.

After entering the new cell, Zhou Cai was still shaking at a constant speed.The Jiang guards were puzzled by his weirdness, but they didn't take it to heart.

It wasn't until the dead of night that Zhou Cai grabbed his eye sockets and let out a horrified howl.

Just now, he saw the face of the disheveled man who looked like a lunatic and was locked in the deepest part of the cell!

——In this world, what is the thing that you are most familiar with, no matter how it changes, you can recognize it with daily familiarity, but others are not familiar with it?

Of course it is...

his own face!

That face is old, decadent, almost inhuman, with some scars, it is difficult for anyone to recognize it...

But that person's face...is so like...his own face after decades of aging!

……

Zhou Cai will be on the road in three days.After countless times of panic and madness, he was finally able to convince himself that it was his hallucination.

How could there be such a thing in the world, it must be his illusion.It was the hallucination caused by him being imprisoned in the cell all day long and fearing that it would only be like this!

After being able to convince himself of this, he was finally able to come out of the cell two days early.Kang Wang's money got the emperor's consent, and he can find some people... to say goodbye.

Yes, farewell.

When Zhou Cai came out of the cell, the first thing she saw was Zhou's mother.Thanks to him, the Zhou family came back from the Northwest, but Zhou's mother was the only one who came to see him.Zhou's father drank heavily every day and became unconscious, while Zhou's younger sister...

"Wanwan, she is in the capital now, and we can't talk about marriage." Mother Zhou said to him cautiously, "Now...she wants to go to the Northern Wei Dynasty with you, and mother also wants to go with her. look……"

"Go to the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

"Isn't your friend King Kang very affectionate and righteous? Besides, he is the prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Now we Jingguo can't stay any longer. If we go to the Northern Wei Dynasty, maybe there is still a chance to say something good to your sister." Marriage." Mother Zhou said.

Now that Zhou Cai is too busy to take care of himself, how can he have a chance to talk about marriage for Zhou Wanwan?What's more, if he said that, what would King Kang think of him?But before he had time to refuse, Zhou's mother said: "Wanwan has already talked about this matter with His Royal Highness Kang Wang, and His Highness Kang Wang also agreed, and wants to take us away together."

"Mom! How can you..."

"Don't talk about it, now we have no way out. Some time ago, the Ye family and Zhou family in Jiangzhou were liquidated, and all kinds of false accounts and illegal activities done in the past were found out. The Ye family wants to send Some money was bribed up, and it was actually the prime minister who ordered the thorough investigation of the clinker. Now the patriarch is also locked up for bribing the court officials. Seeing that the two families are about to be ransacked. Moreover, the old lady was so angry a few days ago I was in a coma on the bed, and according to the doctor, I would never wake up again. The matter of us embezzling the clan's money by relying on the old lady was also exposed. Now a few members of the Zhou family have come to Beijing to find us, so that we can Return the money... Our family is too busy to take care of themselves. What's more, if the government finds out that the Ye family and the Zhou family partnered to slander the Lin family, it will be even more serious. The only way now is to leave with His Royal Highness Kang Wang. Your father He will also go with us." When she said this, Zhou's mother showed a look of disgust, "He has been drinking in the restaurant for the past few days, and he will not come here today."

She said so much, but none of them were related to Zhou Cai.In the end, Zhou Cai was dumb and could only remain silent.

Zhou's mother left, and she and Zhou Wanwan wanted to leave together with King Kang's men.But Zhou Cai froze, and finally, accompanied by Jiang Wei, he went to find another person.

He couldn't go to the Yan Mansion, and in the capital, some decent people refused to see him.Whether it's the Protector's Mansion or the Xie Family.But Zhou Cai finally walked to the Fifth Prince's Mansion.

In fact, if his brain is still bright, Zhou Cai will definitely find out the clues - for ordinary prisoners, how could they have the opportunity to enter the banned Five Princes' Mansion?

But he couldn't think of these anymore.

He remembered that the Fifth Prince liked him—yes, he regarded him as a confidant.Thinking of this, Zhou Cai felt that there seemed to be some enthusiasm in his cold and numb heart.

In the past, he only regarded the fifth prince as his own trophy, a dog that came and went when he was called.The fifth prince always stood behind him pitifully, helping him, watching him share the heart with the emperor, and even found Zhou Xun as a fake substitute...

But now, he may only have the Fifth Prince.

Zhou Cai entered the palace, and the palace, which used to be full of flowers and brocades, has now withered, as if even its owner has withered to the point of losing the mood to take care of it.Zhou Cai walked in step by step, and what he saw was desolate.

He searched the entire palace, from the peach grove where he and the fifth prince admired the flowers together, to the tea pavilion where he drank tea with the fifth prince, to the study room where the two talked about poetry and painting... He searched all the places, even It's the kitchen, even if it's the Fifth Prince's bedroom.

In the end, he finally found the fifth prince in the last place.

The most unlikely place.

Zhou Xun's bedroom.

……

Zhou Cai went in step by step, and what he could smell was the soaring smell of alcohol.The man who seemed to have aged 20 years overnight was drinking wine glass by glass.One of his legs appeared to be broken, with a fake wooden foot below the knee, only the other remained.

The Fifth Prince saw him staggeringly, and suddenly smiled.

That smile is so pure, happy, and spotless.He looked at him with such gentle eyes, as if he saw a gentle old shadow of the world.

Zhou Cai's tears fell suddenly.

Until he heard the voice of the fifth prince.

"Axon, have you come to see me?"

Asun.

He called him... Asun.

He regarded him as... Zhou Xun? !

Zhou Cai walked over step by step, he held the fifth prince in his arms, and the fifth prince greedily burrowed into his arms.Zhou Cai held back his tears and said, "Ah Fen, Zhou Xun won't come. He climbed up to the emperor, so he won't come."

"..."

He kept talking, and finally said: "A Fen, look at me, I am A Cai, and now, only I come to see you. How did you become like this? Get yourself together..."

The Fifth Prince was in his arms, and seemed to have finally recognized him.He looked at him vaguely: "Are you Zhou Cai?"

Zhou Cai nodded with tears in his eyes.

until--

A vase was held by Rong Fen, and it was thrown into his face abruptly!

Zhou Cai covered his face and began to howl, blood flowed from his fingers.He no longer dared to imagine what was happening on his face at this moment, but felt a sharp pain in the corner of one side of his mouth—as if it was about to split open.But Rongfen didn't stop, he breathed out alcohol, grabbed his right hand, and inserted the tile in again!

"You are not Axun, you are Zhou Cai, you are not Axun, you are Zhou Cai... I am going to see Axun, and I want him to forgive me. After you die, he will forgive me..."

The Jiang guards rushed in, subdued the fifth prince, and took Zhou Cai out.

Zhou Cai was sent to Tai Hospital, but there was a long split scar on the right corner of his mouth forever.

Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a funny and ugly smile with a crooked mouth.

But what he didn't expect was that Kang Wang just came to take a hasty look at him after hearing that he had undergone such a drastic change.

Zhou Cai learned from others that Xiaoxue died.

Xiao Xue bought by King Kang, the former prince of the New Moon Kingdom, died.

He was locked in the room, Kang Wang said, to kill his temper, and no one was allowed to bring him food—unless he knelt down and begged him step by step.

But Xiaoxue was so sick that she couldn't even climb up.Kang Wang met Zhou Cai in prison that day, and he was restless when he came back, and drank all night.

Xiaoxue's body was cold that night—it was cold, but it wasn't cold.His room was on fire, and his guards went out to drink some wine secretly. Everyone knew that Xiaoxue was a slave that anyone could look down upon.

So he died, leaving only an unrecognizable corpse.

Kang Wang has been hugging the corpse for the past few days.Before Xiaoxue was born, he had never treated him well, but after his death, he went mad holding a corpse beyond recognition.It was not until five days later that the body stinks that he ordered someone to burn it to ashes, put it in his purse, and put it on himself.

It was also at that time that he decided to return to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Zhou's mother and Zhou Wanwan, on the other hand, rejoiced.

Enough with the joy and encouragement, we are about to set off on the third day.It was only then that they remembered Father Zhou who had been drinking in Yanyunfang all day, but both of them hated him and refused to look for him.

Unexpectedly, Father Zhou came back that night.

In the form of a corpse, it was placed beside Zhou's mother's pillow by someone unknown.

Father Zhou's death was absolutely unsafe, absolutely abnormal.His eyes were wide open until his death, as if he had seen something that frightened him.And Zhou's mother slept with this dead body unconsciously all night.

It stands to reason that this matter should be reported to the officials—but Zhou Wanwan stopped her mother.Now, a person from his hometown Zhou family has been looking for them.Second, if it continues, if the old matriarch dies, they will be inseparable from the great scene in order to keep their filial piety.Three, report to the officials, if they delay, King Kang will be heartbroken now, and may not wait for them and take them away.

So Zhou's father's body was thrown into the well in Zhou's mansion by the two of them.The Patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Bo, who used to be famous for a while, was calm, but now he just ended up like this.

No one buried him, no one buried him.Everyone only cares about their own success - including his wife and daughter.

Zhou's mother and daughter went on the road together with Kang Wang.And Zhou Cai, also in shackles, went on the road.He will have to walk for several months before he can reach the Northern Wei Dynasty.

But in Yanyunfang, the aroma continues to linger.

"When I went to see my cousin, his expression seemed to be in a dream—seeing his young cousin walking towards him with a smile. Then, he was so frightened that he went crazy. The wine was enough to damage his body, so I asked someone to castrate him and gave him a good time."

In the sarong, the woman said.

After a long time, she continued: "The people above said that it's almost time to start."

She was alone in the room, but she was talking to herself, lighting incense alone.

"The great revenge has been avenged? Where did the great revenge come from? The Lin family, my whole life, everything is bestowed by the royal family..." She whispered, "The royal family of the Jing Dynasty will never be destroyed, where did the great revenge come from? "

The smoke was thick, and she put incense on the tablets that filled the secret room.

……

At the beginning of the summer of this year, the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty went south.

This coming south was very sudden, it was originally stuck with the time when Kang Wang and his party left the country, and there was a time difference that was caught off guard.It stands to reason that Kang Wang should have left the territory by now.But because of the matter of Zhou's mother and daughter, an accident happened suddenly.The Zhou family's mother and daughter are worthy of the stars, so Kang Wang also stayed in Jingguo.

And the emperor quickly caught Zhou Cai back - he didn't have time to catch King Kang, but now King Kang can only hide in Jingguodong, unable to get out, and dare not show his face.

"It's free shipping and returns," the emperor complained, "Forget it, let's treat it as shipping insurance."

Zhou Xun smiled at him.

He looked out the window, and in the distance in the barracks, a young man was waving a spear.

His skin was as white as snow, and his eyes were the color of amber.