Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Qing Xing didn't care about being punished afterwards, wiped her tears and found a pot of red-hot charcoal, which instantly added some warmth to the damp and cold room.

As soon as the brazier was turned on, she was called away by an elderly servant woman.

Shen Qi rolled the quilt into a ball, unbuttoned her clothes and lay on her stomach, her back was bruised and purple with bruises intertwined, probably no less than thirty or forty spots, the swelling was shockingly shocking.He took out a bottle of Huoxuehuayusan from the bedside table, handed it to Shen Yan, and ordered: "Help me rub the blood stasis away."

"It will hurt." Shen Yan said with red eyes.

"I'm not afraid of pain." Shen Qi replied, "I just want to get well soon."

Shen Yan had no choice but to follow suit.Others are small and weak, and dare not use force with their hands, Shen Qi worried that kneading it in place would affect the absorption of the medicine, so she told him to take off his shoes and go to bed, and sat on his lower back, concentrating all his strength on his palms.

"Put hard, hurry up." Shen Qi bit her quilt, her forehead was covered with cold sweat, "Don't let Mother come back and see."

Shen Yan gritted his teeth and kneaded vigorously until he pushed the swollen long bloody scar into a colorful whole, and then he stopped panting.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of medicinal wine, Shen Qi loosened her jaw and let out a long breath.

Shen Yan was so tired that he fell to the side and lay on the bed beside him.

Shen Qi turned to look at her younger brother.Shen Yan's cheeks were flushed, his forehead was wet, and a few strands of hair stuck to his porcelain-white forehead, trembling slightly between breaths.

His heart was also trembling slightly, like a sprouting blade of grass, greenly, helplessly, and stubbornly pressing against the heavy stone slab above.

"Xiao Jiu, from now on we--"

Before she could finish speaking, Yao shi hurried into the room, Shen Qi quickly put on her coat before she opened the curtain and entered the inner room.

Shen Qi desperately refused to let her mother look at his back, saying that her younger brother had already been given medicine, and it was fine.Yao couldn't resist him, so she sat on the edge of the bed, touched his shoulders and cheeks, choked up and said: "Mother is useless, I can't protect you, and my son has suffered again..."

Shen Qi said: "Without mother protecting me, I would have died long ago."

No matter how weak Yao is, no matter how resigned he is, he is still a vine full of resilience in his heart. In order to feed the three little melons growing on the vine, he has to climb cliffs and sandy ground.All her hope is to bring up the three children to be big enough to take her to separate from the big house, and to escape from the sea of ​​suffering from now on.

Shen Minglu couldn't keep up with her mother's footsteps, so she came in a little slower, smelling the pungent smell of medicine, she was so frightened that she huddled in a corner and shed tears.

When she was a child, she was frightened by the wolf dog raised by the sixth brother. The dog tore and ate a servant's leg in front of her.After a serious illness, she suffered from the sequelae of taciturnity. She didn't like to talk or laugh, and trembled when she smelled blood and medicine.She is extremely afraid of dogs and dare not get too close to men, even her two brothers who grew up together are no exception.

Yao took her daughter into her arms and said worriedly: "Mother heard that you killed the servant who was holding the whip by mistake, Mrs. Shen is going to investigate, what should I do..."

Shen Qi said: "Mother, don't worry. She and her son have not spoiled enough servants who have signed the death contract? In the worst case, they will make a scene in front of their father, go to the government, and see if the government will take care of the big house and kill the concubine. "

Yao frowned: "Maybe the government will take care of it, but your father will lose face, and the entire Shen family will also be shamed and become a laughing stock in the streets. Especially your father is still sick and can't bear to be stimulated."

Shen Qi curled the corner of her mouth, revealing an almost cruel sneer, which made him look much more mature and sinister than boys of the same age. "So what? The Shen family doesn't treat us as human beings, so why should we treat it as a family. As for my father, I think it's more painful for him to die than to die."

Yao shi looked very sad, as if he didn't agree with his extremism, but also felt that he had not fulfilled his mother's duty, so he was not qualified to advise him.

Shen Qi was so irritated by her gaze, she turned around and lay down facing the wall, not answering anyone who spoke.

Yao had no choice but to coax her daughter, and went to the cupboard to get the jar of preserved linden nectar—it was cold, and the honey was frozen into white crystals, like ice cream, like fragrant snow, and when the jar was opened, it could smell sweet to the bones Qingfen.

She took a spoonful and put it in the bowl, after hesitating, she took another spoonful, melted it with warm water, and brought it to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi neither drank nor spoke.

Mrs. Yao wanted to rush to do something, but he didn't respond after persuading him for a while, knowing that his son's stubbornness would not be appreciated by anyone, so he had to figure it out for himself, so he had to put the bowl on the counter next to the bed, and after a few words, he would take it with him. Follow Shen Minglu to leave.

After the door was closed, Shen Qi sat up abruptly, looking at the direction in which Mother left.

There seems to be a trace of regret in his eyes, but it is also oppressive and cold, like a thorn forest beaten by severe frost, the texture is already sharp, and there is no room for bright colors.

"Why don't you go?" He asked Shen Yan who was sitting on the edge of the bed.

With a clean face and a cute expression, Shen Yan held the bowl of linden flower honey water in front of him, causing his anger to die before it was born.

Shen Qi stared at his little ninth brother, her eyes gradually softened, she lowered her head and took a sip from the rim of the bowl.

Something seemed wrong, vague thoughts flickered on and off like sparks, and he couldn't grasp them.

Shen Qi took another sip, the honey water was not unsweet, but it was not as sweet as it should be.This is a strange disappointment, I can't explain it, I don't know the reason.

He was slightly startled, and suddenly said to Shen Yan: "You drink."

Shen Yan shook his head: "Mother specially left it for you, I won't drink it."

Shen Qi pressed the mouth of the bowl to her younger brother's lips: "You must drink."

Shen Yan took a sip helplessly.The honey water dyed his light-colored lips thoroughly, like petals falling from a teacup.Shen Qi stared at the color of the water, and called out in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Jiu."

"Ok?"

"Xiao Jiu." He called again, with a trembling ending, "Xiao Jiu."

"Seventh brother?" Shen Yan was a little puzzled.

"...Call me Shichiro."

Shen Yan was taken aback, then smiled: "No, you are my seventh brother."

"——I'm not your brother!" Shen Qi yelled out this depression that came from nowhere.

Shen Yan frowned, and a faint look of embarrassment, rejection and patience appeared on his immature face: "But we are brothers."

Outrageous anger hit Shen Qi, he knocked the bowl to the ground, rushed over, crushed Shen Yan, and strangled the other's slender neck, "If I say no, I won't! Call Qilang, call quickly!"

Shen Yan's throat was suffocated from being pinched, his cheeks were flushed, and those moist eyes that were close at hand could vaguely glimpse the demeanor of the coming spring in the future.The strange thing is that there was no panic in his expression, he looked ignorant and meaningless, he opened his mouth and called "Qilang" obediently.When the tip of the tongue touches the lips and teeth lightly during pronunciation, it is a perfunctory way of judging the situation, and it is also a casual romance.

Shen Qi got her wish under the threat of violence, but she became even more angry and powerless, with an evil fire burning in her heart that could not find a target.

When Shen Yan coughed, he suddenly withdrew his hand, buried his face in his younger brother's neck, and let out a low and hoarse howl, like a trapped beast whose sharp claws could not tear the net open.

Shen Yan raised his arm, avoiding the wound on his back, and patted it on his shoulder: "Brother Seven, you knocked over the honey water, there's nothing to eat."

...I want to eat you!That trapped beast roared in Shen Qi's heart.It ate you alive, mouthful by mouthful, without any blood left.

After Mrs. Zheng calmed down, she really lost her temper and wanted to use the family law in the Shen family's ancestral hall to interrogate the rebellious son on behalf of Mr. Shen.

Parents beat their disobedient children to death in the ancestral hall, it is not considered as lynching, it is regarded as cleaning up the family.

Shen Qi refused to be arrested without a fight, so she asked Shen Yan to report to the police through the back door in advance, and hid her mother and younger sister in the cellar where the wine was stored. She was chased by a group of servants and rushed into Master Shen's bedroom.

He and Zheng scolded each other, pulled the curtains and threatened to set fire to the house. Lying on the bed, Shen experienced too much excitement, a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat, his eyes turned white, half of his body trembled, and he almost moaned on the spot.

If Mr. Shen died, the children could ask for a separation of the family, and the Zheng family would no longer be able to control them, so they had no choice but to call for first aid and ask a doctor to continue their lives.

There was a lot of flying around inside and outside the house, Shen Qi took the opportunity to slip away.

Master Shen finally regained his old life, but the stroke was even more severe, from hemiplegia to total paralysis, unable to speak a word, and became a living dead man who Zheng can play with.

The yamen guard came over, finished his lecture with a stern face, and left after saying, "It's hard for an honest official to break up housework."Shen Qi knew that the situation was even worse, Zheng Shi was afraid that she would jump over the wall, so she discussed with her mother to escape from Shen's house at night, so as not to be murdered by her.

Yao's redemption certificate is still in Master Shen's hands, fleeing from home means fleeing from nationality, Zheng can go to the Yamen to report and apply for arrest.

Shen Qi guessed that Zheng Shi was holding onto her redemption letter, so she tried every means to steal it.

Before she could steal it, something happened to Bamei.

Mrs. Zheng wants to marry her to the Chen family, a rice merchant with business contacts, and make her a concubine for Yuanwai Chen, who is in his fifties.On the same day when she was hired and received the bride price, she ordered someone to take Shen Minglu, who knew nothing, away from the well of the laundry well the next day.

After Mrs. Yao heard the news from the gossiping maid, she went hysterical for the first time like thunder, and rushed to Mrs. Zheng, scratching and shouting, "Minglu is only 11 years old! You marry her to a Poor old man, isn't this pushing her into the fire pit! You are all mothers, and you have a daughter yourself, with such a vicious heart, aren't you afraid of retribution for harming your virtue?"

The maids hurriedly pulled her away, and Zheng sneered: "You are an aunt, I am the mother, Minglu is my daughter, I can't treat her badly. The Chen family is well-off, and Chen Yuanwai died as his wife. Lu married in the past only to enjoy the blessings but not to be angry, and her seniority is high in the family, so what's wrong?"

Mrs. Yao was about to rush out to chase her daughter, but Mrs. Zheng ordered someone to restrain her and send her to the firewood room to be locked up.

When Shen Qi came back in the evening, she broke the door lock after hearing about this, and helped the collapsed Yao shi back to the west wing.He climbed over the wall with a hatchet and went to ask the Chen family to get Bamei back.

That night, he made the Chen family restless, and finally brought back the cold body of the eighth sister.

——Shen Minglu was afraid of men, if a man came close, she would cower and cry at least, and scream and struggle at worst.After being carried off the bridal sedan chair and taken to the Chen Mansion, the drug gradually lost its effect. She was terrified in an unfamiliar environment, and an old man with white beard and hair insisted on making out with her. After she cried and made a fuss, she was beaten. Under the circumstances, he stabbed his throat with the tip of a candle inserted in an iron candlestick and died.

The concubine bought with money committed suicide on the night of the wedding, and the Chen family felt that it was bad luck, but the concubine of the Shen family came to make trouble again, and Chen Yuan couldn't get annoyed, so he simply returned the body to him, intending to ask the Shen family for an explanation later.

Shen Qi's eyes were red, her face was as cold as cold iron, with a blood-stained and dried-up rusty hatchet pinned to her waist, she carried her sister home.

The moment Yao shi saw her daughter, she fainted on the spot.

Yao shi hugged her daughter's body and cried all day, but the water did not enter.The two sons accompanied her and did not persuade her to mourn.There is a lot of grief, but if the grief is not fully vented, it will be even more sad to forcibly restrain it.

After nightfall, Yao wiped away her tears and stopped crying.She took out her meager savings to let Shen Qi buy a coffin, put Shen Minglu in plain clothes, and hired someone to carry it to the cemetery of Xiangji Temple in the west of the city to be buried in the grave.

Shen Minglu was not buried in the Shen family.And the Shen family lost a young lady who was a concubine, and it was no different from usual. The master's house should eat and drink, and the servants should serve.

After a simple funeral, life seemed to return to normal.

Mrs. Zheng compensated two young and attractive maidservants to serve as concubines to Chen Yuanwai, and the matter was over.

Mr. Shen may know about the death of his youngest daughter, or he may not. Yao shi no longer cares.She heard that Mr. Shen had a bed sore, and the doctor told him to move the patient out to bask in the sun while the weather is fine tomorrow.

That night, she ordered two bowls of egg and shredded pork noodles, and changed the two sons into new clothes, watching them finish the noodles.

"Seventh brother, Xiaojiu is still young, and I will rely on you to take care of her in the future." Yao said softly, "From now on, you will be brothers of the same mother."

Shen Qi almost blurted out "We are not brothers", but gritted her teeth in front of her mother, and nodded.

Yao patted the children's heads and said, "Go to bed early when you are full, there are still many things to do tomorrow."

Shen Qi thought she was referring to the apportioned work, but soon he realized that he had misunderstood what mother meant.

Wearing a bright red dress, Mrs. Yao hanged herself on the porch in front of the main house with a piece of white silk.In the early morning, the sun shines on her red embroidered shoes that are hanging in the air, and they don't sway.

When Zheng opened the door, her pale hands full of cracks and frostbite happened to be facing her face.She slowly raised her head and saw Yao's eyes that were dying, she was so frightened that she let out a shrill scream——

At that time, the servant was putting Master Shen on the Luohan couch and carrying him out of the house.

The slender shadow hanging from the door was projected on his face, Shen Jing widened his cloudy old eyes in horror, and let out an excited panting sound like asthma from his throat.

Wearing a red dress when he committed suicide meant that he harbored resentment and hoped to turn into a ghost after death to seek revenge.

Shen experienced such a precarious body and spirit that he couldn't bear such a shock, so he let go on the same day.Zheng also suffered a serious illness from fright.

From the young lady to the aunt, the Shen family died one after another, and even Master Shen died immediately after. The mistress of the house fell ill, and the Shen family seemed to have collapsed more than half overnight.

The trees fell and the monkeys scattered, and many servants and maidservants stole the gold and silver from the house, as well as the contracts of prostitution, and fled to other places.Mrs. Zheng is troubled by nightmares of female ghosts killing her every night, and she doesn't care about them, let alone her concubine.

Shen Qi gained freedom, no one beat him or bullied him, but he lost even more: he lost his mother and younger sister who depended on each other, only one young brother remained.

He didn't want to treat Shen Yan as his younger brother, but his mother's last words before she died tightly bound him, strangled her flesh and bones day and night, reminding him that you are brothers.

Holding the half jar of linden nectar left by his mother, he wanted to scream and kill, but in the end he just took Shen Yan's hand and walked out of the Shen family's gate without looking back.

Shen Qi raised her younger brother by herself.

At the age of 15, he was recruited into Jinyiwei. Within two years, he took advantage of the opportunity of interrogating criminal officials to implicate the rich businessmen Zheng and Chen he had met, and made a big case of collusion between government and businessmen, dereliction of duty and perverting the law.The Zheng family and the Chen family were ransacked and beheaded. The Zheng family, who remarried after Shen experienced the death, thought she had escaped, but was accused by her family as an accomplice and imprisoned.Before she could be beheaded, she died strangely in prison. Her whole body was covered with bruises from whipping and holes made by spikes, her neck was tightly strangled by hemp rope, and her vertebrae were shattered inch by inch.

Shen Qi took revenge for herself, her mother and Bamei.

Later, he became a member of Jinyiwei Qianhu, but he never married a wife or started a family.He watched Shen Yan's inscription on the gold list, watched him become an official, and on the day he married the granddaughter of the chief minister of the dynasty, he got drunk like mud.

That night when she was ordered to hunt down the assassin who assassinated Feng Anhou, Shen Qi was still drunk, and received a sword from the opponent in the heart, and was seriously injured.

When his life was dying, he didn't want Shen Yan to know, so he hid under the opening of the Chengcheng Bridge, and randomly blocked the wound with the torn hem of his clothes.

The blood stained a large area of ​​the river red, like the red dress my mother wore before she died.

Yao's figure emerged from the river surface, with loose long hair, blue lips and white lips, and a deep bruise on the neck.Shen Minglu held her by the red dress, poked her head out from behind, she still looked like a timid little girl, with a deep hole in her throat still bleeding.

Shen Qi's eyes were instantly moist, and she called out in a low voice: "Mother."

Yao stepped forward, lovingly touched his cheek and shoulders, just like when he was a child, "Come with mother, our family can finally be reunited."

"Mother often said that all hardships in life will be rewarded at the end. But what about my reward?" Shen Qi looked at her and wanted to get up, but was held back by the strong unwillingness and nostalgia in her heart.He felt as if he had forgotten something, something more important than life.

Yao sighed softly: "Life is the superimposition of countless sufferings, and you will be relieved at the end. The so-called reward is nothing more than wishing for plums to quench your thirst and deceiving yourself and others. Let's go, child, go with your mother."

She gently took Shen Qi's hand and walked towards the dark river.

Shen Qi took a few steps in a daze, as the cold river water soaked his chest, he suddenly felt a sharp pain from the depths of his heart -

"Shichiro."

Who is calling him?

"I'm reciprocating, to repay your court staff for saving you."

Who did he save?Who was rescued again?

"I know you're not a good person..."

His hands were bloody, and there were many bones under his feet. He never expected to go to any other place besides hell after his death.

"From now on, you and I are brothers who have died. As long as you don't do things that are harmful to nature and devoid of conscience, I am willing to stab Qilang in both sides. From now on, we will share wealth and wealth together in adversity, and we will be friends for life, and we will never be divorced. "

He has no brothers and does not want brothers.He only had his mother and a younger sister. The younger sister died when he was 11 years old, and his mother died a few days later.

He has a deeply loved person who is the catastrophe of this life and the reward of this life. That person is... Who is it?

"My life, you call me a gentleman."

"You are already mine, and you can't escape for the rest of your life. Accept your fate."

"I haven't seen you for a long time, do you miss your husband?"

"My husband misses you too. One or two days is not enough, but a lifetime."

"Don't make a cold face, it's murderous, it's scary. Otherwise, I'm thinking of you even when I'm on a business trip, so I'll write to you?"

"Qichiro, don't make trouble."

In black and white, the words are like scratching the furnace:

The sky is far away and the earth is vast, and there are fireworks in the world, no one is you, and no one is not you.Shichiro, I miss you.

——Su Yan.His name is Su Yan, Su Qinghe.

He is my wife.

The never-forgotten suffering of youth, the unquenchable anger and the unsatisfactory desolation, so much resentment and incomprehension, all love parting, resentment and resentment, nothing to ask for... like fragments of broken time, like a blood-colored past The clouds and smoke dispersed one after another, and Shen Qi returned to the world as if waking up from a dream.