return to peace

"Didn't you say he died?!"

The fine obsidian inkstone was slammed to the ground, and the ink splashed, and the face of the young guard kneeling on the ground was smeared black.The Son of Heaven was furious, he had no time to wipe it, he lowered his head quietly, and said: "He was kicked into the sea with an arrow in the chest, so there was no way he could have survived. Besides, his body was found two days later."

"Are you sure that body is Ji Fan?"

"Chen...Chen was sure at the time. Because the corpse was covered with General Ji's clothes, the location of the wound can also be matched. Although the body is swollen from seawater, it can still be seen that the facial features are General Ji."

"Then now that Ji Fan is standing in front of you and me alive, how do you explain it? Could it be that you have seen a ghost?!"

The more Chu Zexi thought about it, the angrier he became, pacing back and forth, Wei Xi, who was kneeling on the ground, dared not argue.Suddenly, Chu Zexi slammed the table, gritted his teeth and said, "Since I didn't kill him before, now that he's here, let's kill him!"

Seeing the hostility on Chu Zexi's face, Wei Xi was secretly startled, hesitantly said: "But the national teacher..."

"Ji Fan is General Chen Guo, but he ambushed in Liangjing. What's his intention? Can't the widows not be able to interrogate him? Use a little punishment, interrogate him, and if he can't survive it, it's another story."

Wei Xi felt a little regretful, Ji Fantian was a genius, but he was still doomed.He sighed in his heart, but his face was still ruthless: "I will do it immediately."

"return!"

"Kings?"

Chu Zexi stared into his eyes, and said slowly: "Quick battle and quick decision."

Wei Xi's heart turned cold, and he said, "Yes."

Alcohol is not intoxicating, the more you drink, the colder your heart becomes, and the more you drink, the more sober you feel.

"My lord, don't drink, the imperial doctor said you can't drink alcohol." With a hand covering his cup, he raised his eyes and saw Lin Feng's worried eyes.He smiled lightly, pushed Lin Feng's hand away, and poured himself a full glass of wine.

"It's okay, just this once."

Lin Feng looked at him silently, drink after drink, and suddenly said: "My lord, go and see General Ji, he has been arrested and thrown into the prison."

The hand holding the cup stopped at his mouth, but for a moment, the cold liquid slipped into his throat, leaving only a burst of bitterness. "He is General Chen Guo, but he is lying in ambush in Liangjing, and he is thrown into the prison, as it should be."

"Young master, don't lie to yourself."

Chu Lingshang's heart suddenly ached, he clenched the cup tightly, took a deep breath, forced to suppress the sourness, and felt angry for no reason: "Lin Feng, why are you talking so much today?"

"Lin Feng can't bear to see Young Master in such pain."

Chen Lingshang finally put down his wine glass, rubbed his temples, and said with a light smile, "I'm not in pain. I was in Qucheng that day, and it was over."

"Lin Feng still said the same thing, young master, stop lying to yourself."

Chu Lingshang didn't speak any more, but stopped drinking in his glass.He rested his head on his hands, leaned on the stool, and closed his eyes.Seeing this, Lin Feng stopped talking, and silently took the cloak he put aside, and covered him.

"Lin Feng."

Before his hands left the cloak, he heard Chu Lingshang's voice suddenly, and there was a faint fragrance of plums mixed with the smell of wine in his nose. His heart moved and he got up quickly.

"Did you really receive the news of Ji Fan's death that day?" Chu Lingshang opened his eyes and looked at him.

With a slightly cold look in his eyes, Lin Feng's throbbing heart cooled down. "Yes, I did receive the news back then, and the spies reported that Ji Fan was indeed buried by King Chen himself."

"On the tenth day of December, you were not in the mansion, what did you do?"

"There are mistakes in the documents of the intelligence building, I went to check."

Chu Lingshang knew that he was lying, and once he lied to him, he would unconsciously clenched his hands slightly.He never reminded Lin Feng of this little move.

He closed his eyes and didn't expose him, but felt a little cold. "You arrange it. I will see him tomorrow morning."

"it is good."

He still made this difficult decision, after all, he wanted to see each other, but no, the knot in his heart couldn't be untied.

Chu Lingshang has always hated the solemn but icy and decayed dungeon.He got out of the carriage and saw Wei Xi coming out with a hurried expression on his face. Wei Xi seemed a little surprised when he saw him, but he still went forward to say hello.Chu Lingshang nodded lightly. He is not very familiar with the celebrity beside Chu Zexi. He was transferred from the secret guard by Chu Zexi, but he did not instigate Chu Zexi to do anything wrong. That's why Chu Lingshang didn't have a bad impression of him.

Lin Feng looked thoughtfully at Wei Xi's leaving back.

"Let's go."

When the guards in the sky prison saw the national teacher's jade card in Lin Feng's hand, they let him go without saying much.

"The national teacher wants to see General Chen Guoji." Lin Feng summoned the principal and ordered.

"Yes, please come with the national teacher and the younger one." The principal looked like he was in his 50s, but he had a smiling face in this man-eating place. He was very discerning, and immediately took them to the prison. walk around.

There are other prisoners in the prison. In the Royal Sky Prison, all the heinous criminals are locked up. Along the way, Chu Lingshang saw sinister eyes; There were also those who fell asleep halfway through, and when they heard something, they looked back at him. The atmosphere was oppressive and ominous.Ji Fan was locked in the innermost cell at the corner, and there was no one in the surrounding cells.Walking to the corner, Lin Feng said, "My lord, I'll wait for you right here."

"it is good."

Chu Lingzhang adjusted his emotions, prepared himself mentally, and followed the principal step by step.The cells on both sides were empty, except for the last cell, where there was a faint figure.

His hands and feet were chained, he was wearing a white prison uniform, his hair was loose, and he was sitting on the corner of the bed with his head down.Chu Lingshang's heart twitched fiercely, he pinched his own palm, and warned himself not to be soft-hearted.

The door was opened, and the principal retreated respectfully.Only then did Ji Fan in the corner raise his head, and his eyes met for a moment, as if it had been years.

In fact, they only separated for a year, but it seemed like decades had passed.Both sides were silent, not knowing how to speak, and finally it was Chu Lingshang who broke the silence of the room: "I'll come and listen to your explanation."

Hearing this, Ji Fan chuckled as if he had heard something particularly funny, but his eyes were red with a smile: "Wen Lin, Wen Lin, Chu Lingshang, Chu Lingshang, how can you be so cruel? When he said the word "ruthless", he hammered the ground heavily.

Chu Lingshang looked at his hand that was rubbed off suddenly, with a few bloody cuts winding on the back of his hand, feeling his heart was congested, and he was silent and unable to speak.

"When I first met you, I wanted to tell you everything. I came to you by my side. I thought you should be very happy, but you didn't. You turned around and left without giving me a chance to explain. I was caught in this place, I thought, you will come to find me when you go back and figure it out, but I waited for three days, but there is nothing." Ji Fan raised his red eyes, and asked so harshly before: "Ling Shang, do you really want to wait until I die before you forgive me?"

With the hands hidden in the sleeves of Chen Lingshang, the manicured and rounded nails pinched his palm fiercely.He took a deep breath, knelt down, looked at Ji Fan and said, "It's not that I don't believe it, I just don't believe it. However, Ji Fan, since I'm here today, I'm ready to believe everything you say, and I'll wait for you to give me an answer." explain."

His thin appearance was still handsome and elegant, but his frailty made people feel distressed. Ji Fan looked at Chu Lingshang in front of him, and in just one year, it seemed like a lifetime away.Suddenly, he asked aloud: "If, if you could have believed me unswervingly back then, none of this would have happened. We are both hurt because of distrust. If I say it now, I will always I love you like my life, believe it or not?"

"I believe."

"Do you believe it here?" Ji Fan put his hand on Chu Lingshang's heart, separated by a layer of clothes, it was what he wanted most.He looked into his eyes, trying to understand what he was thinking.

"I believe."

Ji Fan looked into his eyes, and his eye sockets became even more red.After watching for a long time, he stepped back, leaned against the wall, and whispered. "Okay, then I'll tell you everything."

"At the beginning, you and I agreed to meet in the outskirts of Qucheng. I went, but I was stopped by Chen Jingxuan on the way. He threatened me with my mother's life. If I went to see you, he sent someone to set Jingci on fire. Um. The incident happened suddenly, and I had no choice but to watch you stand in the snow for a day in the watchtower. At that time, I was under house arrest by him in the Qucheng County Yamen. Who would have thought that you would come to the door. You said , are you stupid, dare to break into Chen Guo's territory with Lin Feng and a few hidden guards, I will meet you in the flower hall, Chen Jingxuan will listen in the back hall, once I say something that shouldn't be said , your life, my mother’s life, are gone. I didn’t dare to bet, so I had to bear the pain and make a decision. When I saw you leave, it’s not an exaggeration to say that life is better than death.”

Chu Lingshang lowered his eyes, so why not him back then.

"You left, and I was taken back by Chen Jingxuan. He gave me Hua Gong San, and instigated King Chen to put me under house arrest on trumped-up charges. I sent a letter to the princess, but there was no reply."

"You wrote me a letter?" Chu Lingshang asked in surprise, if he had received that letter back then, he would have gone to save him.

"At the beginning, the princess asked King Chen to come and see me, so I gave her the letter."

"I did not receive it."

"Oh, I think so too. But that's the only chance I can fight for." He didn't say anything more, leaving it to Chu Lingshang to judge for himself.

When Chen Lingshang heard the words, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything.

Ji Fan lowered his eyes and continued: "Later, Xiao Yonghuan was the current Empress Chen, she gave me the antidote, and secretly sent someone to release me on the day King Chen ascended the throne."

Xiao Yonghuan, Chu Lingshang remembered, was the one who talked to Ji Fan on Yuquan Street. At that time, he was curious and asked Lin Feng to investigate.That woman likes Ji Fan.Without him, Ji Fan would marry a wife and have children, become famous, and live the life that every successful man should live.

"After I escaped, I went to Guhuo Mountain, but when I arrived, Jingci Temple was already in flames. I killed all the guards, but I still couldn't save my mother. Later I I know, she set the fire, because she didn't want to be my burden."

Ji Fan couldn't help taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and saw his lifeless mother lying in the tomb, he was a little bit speechless.Covered with warmth on the back of his hand, Ji Fan opened his eyes and saw Chen Lingshang put his hand on his, he still lowered his eyes and didn't look at him, but this action really comforted Ji Fan, he calmed down , continued: "I buried my mother with my own hands, so I came to you. I encountered chasing soldiers a few times on the way, so I had to fight head-to-head. When I arrived outside Liangjing City, I met a group of Xiliang masters. The leaders were very powerful. I I was stabbed by him and fell into the sea. Fortunately, I was rescued by a fisherman and survived the catastrophe. After I recovered from my injury, I came to find you, but I was stopped by Lin Feng many times without success. You. You also know what happened next."

After listening to it, Chu Lingshang remained silent.He naturally knew that the process was definitely not as easy as Ji Fan described. Along the way, he experienced the death of a loved one who was heartbroken, the fearful escape, and the serious injury falling into the sea. As for him, he would only look at himself and feel sorry for himself , felt ashamed, because of a misunderstanding, he ignored him and was extremely cruel. He used to think that Ji Fan was ruthless, but in the end, he was the only one who was really ruthless.

He clenched Ji Fan's hand tightly, it was hard to imagine how painful Ji Fan would be when he went through this, but he was not by his side, and even threw him in the prison for three days, ignoring him.

There were a lot of thoughts in his heart, and when he opened his mouth, he choked up: "I'm sorry."

Ji Fan's heart was sour, and he finally calmed down, because his eyes were red again because of his words.He said he didn't blame him, but how could the grievance and pain that had been held in his heart for so long dissipate by himself? He thought he would never forget how lonely he was lying in the grave that night, holding his mother's body. Desperate, at that time, he really, really wanted that Chu Lingshang could be by his side.

But all these disappeared in his "I'm sorry", he was his lover, and he couldn't bear to make him feel guilty.

"It's all over, am I fine now?"

Chu Lingshang shook his head, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the red rope on his wrist hidden in his sleeve: "Is this what Master Wujing left for you?"

Ji Fan gently stroked his wrist, as if he could imagine his mother's love when weaving the red rope: "Yes, she said that she left all the blessings in this life to me, and she will accompany me in heaven."

"Ling Yan, I am, I can't stand this kind of torture anymore."

Ji Fan's tone of mourning is more than heart-breaking, which made Chu Lingshang a little panicked. He knew that the two of them were hurting both physically and mentally this time. good?"

Ji Fan leaned back, stretched out his hand, held the corner of his mouth, and said weakly: "I can't bear to blame you, come here, let me hug you."

Suddenly, Chu Lingshang remembered the time when Ji Fan fell off the cliff, he ran to save him, and the two finally communicated with each other. He was lying on the bed weakly, and said the same sentence: "Come here, let me hug you .”

Chu Lingshang thought that a year of deliberate suppression would make him forget, but now he realizes that it's not that he forgot, it's that he just doesn't want to think about it.

He leaned over, Ji Fan hugged him, the tip of his nose was the familiar fragrance of plum blossoms, his heart, which had been deserted for a long time, finally settled down, after a year, he finally hugged him into his arms again.

He hugged him tighter again, and whispered in his ear: "It's great, I hugged you again. When I fell into the sea, I thought I was going to die. The only regret at the last moment is that I couldn't hug you again." once."

Chu Lingshang was buried in his neck, and the tip of his nose was Ji Fan's unique clear smell. Hearing this, he couldn't help shedding a line of tears. In front of him, he had never been strong enough.

"I won't put you in such danger again. In case there is such a moment, you have to remember that I will save you, so you have to persevere."

"Okay." Ji Fan buried his head in his hair and said in a low voice, "Ling Yan, I have no father, no mother, no home and no country, and I only have you."

Chu Lingshang felt a pain in his heart, as reserved as him, he still couldn't help expressing his feelings: "Don't be afraid, from now on, I will be with you, even if it's all over, I won't leave you."

"That's great. Lingshang, I..." Ji Fan's voice became softer as he spoke.

"what happened to you?"

Before he could answer, Chu Lingshang felt a weight on his shoulders, and he panicked: "Ji Fan, what's wrong with you?"

He hurriedly backed away to look at him, but saw Ji Fan's eyes were closed tightly, his face was pale, he immediately went to feel his pulse, weak and confused, then he went to touch his forehead, it was hot.

"Come on, come on!"

Lin Feng and the principal hurried in, and when they saw Ji Fan who was unconscious in Chen Lingshang's arms, they were all stunned.

"Go and call the imperial physician."

"Yes!" Seeing that Chen Lingshang was angry, the principal hurried away.

Lin Feng walked into Chu Lingshang, looked at Ji Fan in his arms, and said, "My lord, let me see General Ji."

When Chu Lingshang heard the words, he glanced at him, paused, and handed Ji Fan over to him.Lin Feng took Ji Fan's pulse, his expression changed, and then he slightly opened Ji Fan's lapel, and all he could see were bruises.Chu Lingshang's complexion also changed. He opened Ji Fan's clothes a little more, and there were bruises all over his body, as well as some fine and small scars. The scabbed wound on his chest was even more shocking.

Chu Lingshang's hand stroking Ji Fan's skin trembled, Lin Feng couldn't believe it, and said with difficulty: "I don't know, they actually... tortured General Ji."

With red eyes, Chen Ling closed Ji Fan's clothes, took off the cloak on his body, covered him, and hugged Ji Fan back again, saying only six words: "I want to take him home."

He picked up Ji Fan with some difficulty, Lin Feng wanted to take over, but he dodged him.

No matter how thin Ji Fan is, he still has the weight of a normal man.Chu Lingshang's body could not bear such a heavy burden, but he still stubbornly carried Ji Fan on his back, just like that, step by step, staggered out.

This is his Ji Fan, he wants to take him home personally.