Reincarnation of the powerful minister

"Eight Auspiciousness" galloped like flying in the empty street in the middle of the night. During the bumps, Su Yan's hat fell off, revealing a short hair that was very different from the rest of the world. He had no time to care about it. There was only one thought in his mind - where is Shen Qi?

He went to Beizhen Fusi.

Emperor Jinglong and Chu Yuan had quietly left the prison cell, and it is not known whether they have returned to Fengheju after the rain.Su Yan caught Gao Shuo, and immediately asked: "Where's Shen Qi?"

Gao Shuo saw that his face was not looking good, so he hurriedly replied truthfully: "When the emperor came, he happened to meet Mr. Shen fighting with Commander Chu, and ordered him to be arrested. Mr. Shen told the emperor to go to the dungeon to pay homage to the portrait of the late emperor, and bring you, Mr. Su, out along the way. left in a hurry."

Su Yan said: "You ask the Jinyiwei brothers to go through the entire Beizhen Fusi carefully to see if he is there? I will wait for your reply in the hall, go quickly."

Gao Shuo responded and was about to leave.Su Yan suddenly thought that Shen's mansion had been confiscated, and Qilang had no place to stay, so he might go to his house, so he called again: "Wait, send another team to my mansion to look for it."

Gao Shuo didn't dare to ask any more questions, he ordered his servants to make tea and serve fruit, and then went to arrange for people to search without mentioning it.

Su Yan couldn't be in the mood to eat fruit, so he forced himself to sit on a chair and wait anxiously.

After more than half an hour, Jin Yiwei, who was searching in the department, first reported the letter, saying that not only had he checked each room, but he had searched the roof and the cellar and found nothing.Su Yan slapped the handrail, and couldn't wait for Gao Shuo to report, so he rode on his horse and headed home.

He bumped into Gao Shuo in the front yard of the Su Mansion, Gao Shuo said, "I searched all over your lord's mansion but couldn't find it... Are you worried about being arrested by the court and hiding?"

The inside story of Shen Qi's surrender to the enemy, so far only he, the emperor, the young master, and Chu Yuan are the only ones who know.Su Yan didn't bother to explain clearly to Gao Shuo, but because of this, he also thought of a possibility - could he hide because of the addiction of the pill?If so, where can Qilang hide if he is not at his house?

Su Yan walked out of the house in a daze, stood on the steps and looked around blankly, his gaze stopped at the top of the wall surrounding the neighboring house.

On the top of the blue tiles on the white wall, two or three apricot branches protruding from the wall were broken, and many green apricots the size of copper coins fell to the base of the wall.It was the end of April, and there was still more than a month before the green apricots matured to the market. At this time, the apricots were so sour that it was hard to eat, and even children who were greedy would not steal them.There is only one possibility—someone climbed over the wall, but because of unsteady skill, the apricot branch was broken.

The neighboring house... Su Yan suddenly remembered that the neighboring house was the property of King Yu, and the deed was still in his hands!

When investigating the Baizhifang bombing case back then, in order to prevent the Vacuum Sect from being assassinated, King Yu paid a lot of money to buy his neighbor's house, and deliberately lost the deed of the big courtyard opposite the back door to Shen Qi in a bet. .Shen Qi took advantage of his second trip to Shaanxi to open up the back gate courtyard with his original small courtyard and renovate it, only then did Su's residence have the current scale.

Later, before King Yu got out of trouble and left Beijing, he sent someone to hand over the deeds and keys of the left and right empty houses to him.He didn't want it, but Yu Wang said: "Anyway, I don't plan to go back to Beijing. Do you want these two houses? If you really don't want to accept them, you should help take care of them as a neighbor, and I have already hired someone Regular maintenance will not tire you."

Speaking of this, Su Yan had no choice but to take care of him.But in the past two years, he was often not in Beijing, and he almost forgot.

Looking at the broken branches of green apricots on the wall of the neighboring house, Su Yan had a strong premonition in his heart - that was the trace left by Shen Qi!

She didn't want to be seen by him in the most embarrassing state, so she left Beizhen Fusi and refused to come to Su's residence.But she didn't want to be too far away from him, so she quietly hid in the neighboring house of Su's house, listening to and reading him through the wall.Such contradictions, such stubbornness, who else but Shichiro?

Su Yan turned around abruptly and walked back, shouting loudly: "Xiaobei! Xiaobei, go and get the key of the neighbor on the left!"

The doors and windows on the four walls were tightly closed, the door bolts were replaced with iron, and even the windows were all nailed with hardwood. There was no light in the room, and it was dark.

Shen Qi was using the handcuffs and shackles brought out from the imperial prison to fix herself to the wall post.His hands were shaking violently, and the iron chain fell to the masonry floor several times, and the crisp sound echoed in the dark and dead room, which was shocking to hear.

After finally locking the lock, he hesitated holding the key, and then threw it far away.

In order to win the trustees, he was forced to take black pills for nearly a year. From one pill for ten days at the beginning, it gradually shortened to seven, five, and three days, and now he takes it every day. trap.

Pills were never given too much, even if he was out on errands, Yi Zhe entrusted Mr. He to provide them regularly, and he had to take them on the spot while watching him.To this day, he only has one in his hand. After showing it to Su Yan in the edict, Su Yan threw it on the ground in a violent reaction, and told him that he would never allow this thing to exist in any corner of the Great Ming. .

This was the first time Shen Qi saw such pure hatred in Su Yan's eyes, so he crushed the last pill into shoe sole dust, even though he knew in his heart that his next attack was imminent.

He had seen the appearances of those authors, and they were even more brutal than the tortured criminals in the prison, and they were hardly humanlike.That is no longer pain in the true sense, but an extreme desire that destroys the mind. If it is not satisfied for a moment, it will fall into the animal realm for a moment, and it will never be reborn.

Shen Qi didn't know if he could maintain his rationality then, if not, at least he had to find a secret room to hide himself firmly, so as not to do anything to hurt Su Yan when he lost control.

He leaned against the wall post, sitting on the cold and hard brick floor, his whole body began to tremble, and the pain was like snakes crawling through the cracks in the flesh and bones.He drenched his clothes with sweat almost instantly, wrapped his arms tightly around his knees, his fingers clenched the fabric on his arms, and his joints rattled.

At this time, he heard footsteps and the knock on the door.

Of course the door couldn't be pushed open, so pushing turned into knocking and then smashing. At this moment, the voice he didn't want to hear the most sounded outside the door: "... Qilang! Is that you? I know you are in the house, open the door, I want to see you!"

With fingertips digging out bloodstains on his arms, Shen Qi felt that even his breath was spewing fire and poison, so he gritted his teeth and did not make a sound.

Su Yan smashed the door for a while, but there was no movement at the locked door, even the windows were sealed from the inside, and it was certain that Shen Qi was inside the room, but he couldn't get in.

While he was anxious, he heard a cold voice, the first half of the sentence seemed to be far above the sky, and the second half of the sentence was behind him: "My lord, this subordinate is back."

Su Yan turned around in surprise: "A Zhui?"

Jing Hongchao was dressed in gray clothes like mist, only wearing a hat and a sword, and appeared behind him lonely and unobtrusively.

"I saw flames rising towards the sky in the direction of the capital, and I was worried that the remnants of the chess players would counterattack. I really couldn't let go of the safety of my lord, so I came back early against the order."

"I came back just in time, can you open this door for me?" Su Yan asked for help.

Jing Hong chased towards the door, frowning slightly: "There is a person in the room, his strength is out of control, his breath is frenzied, adults should not get close... Uh, it's Shen Qi?"

Su Yan said: "He is ill. Ah Zhui, you can open the door for me, and I will go in and have a look at him. If he loses control, you will be by my side."

Master Su looked at him with pleading eyes, but Jing Hong couldn't catch up, and pointed out that the sword was empty at the crack of the door, and the door bolt inside was directly broken in two.Su Yan couldn't wait to push the door open and rushed in. Because the room was too dark, he almost fell on the threshold.

Jing Hongzhui held him with one hand, lit up the torch with the other, and flicked it towards the oil lamp on the table.

Su Yan finally saw Shen Qi who was surrounded by chains clearly, and called out with heartache: "Qilang—"

Shen Qi raised her face from the crook of her arms, her eyes were red and her expression was ferocious, just like the Yaksha Rakshasa in the picture book, she sternly shouted: "Get out! Get out!"

How could Su Yan be scared away by him, and rushed forward to hug her tightly.Shen Qi's body was scorching hot like a ball of fire, her muscles were tense like a tendon stretched to the limit, her clothes were all wet, Su Yan couldn't imagine the pain he was enduring at this moment, her eyes were wet, and she choked up and said: "Qilang , I know all about it. If you can hold back the desire to throw away that pill, you will be able to survive the attack, and I will accompany you..."

Shen Qi hissed: "Jing Hong chases... Take him away! Go far away!"

Jing Hongzhui doesn't know much about the efficacy of the "pill" that Su Yan said, but she has seen the scene where the Seven Killing Camp used the secret medicine to control the blood-eyed assassins, and she feels that Shen Qi is in danger at this time - not only herself is in danger, but also those who approach him It was also dangerous, so he stepped forward and grabbed Su Yan's wrist: "My lord, step back first, so as not to accidentally injure him. Let me see how he is."

Su Yan refused to leave, and only moved a little, freeing half of Jing Hongzhui's arm: "Achai, use your true energy to probe him."

Jing Hongzhui had no choice but to catch Shen Qi's veins, and said after a while: "His internal breathing is in chaos, his blood vessels are boiling, and he must be in excruciating pain before he calms down."

"How much pain?" Su Yan asked tremblingly, "How much pain does he have?"

Jing Hongzhui was silent for a while, and replied: "I can't say it. Maybe I have never experienced this kind of pain, even after staying in the Seven Killing Camp like a beast's lair for so many years."

Shen Qi seemed to have lost her breath, the floor tiles beside her were wet and dark, and it was covered in cold sweat dripping from her body.He tilted his head back as hard as he could, and pressed the back of his head against the wall stud, his voice was terribly hoarse: "It's, okay... just... a little more painful than grooming... a little..."

Su Yan's tears welled up in an instant.

When Shen Qilang was subjected to the torture of "washing up", he not only laughed without changing his face, but also reminded the executioner to hold the iron brush firmly-this kind of cruelty was passed down as a legend by the prison guards. The poisonous Guan Gong is not as good as he can bear the pain.When Su Yan heard those comments, his heart ached and he was amazed.

And the current situation is more than just "a little more painful"?How much endurance and self-control does he have to use to not wailing, screaming, rolling, cursing, self-harming like ordinary people, scratching his whole body to pieces, and hitting the wall dripping with blood?

Su Yan grabbed Jing Hongzhui's sleeve with a knife in his heart: "Achai, help him! Can you knock him out so that he won't be tortured..."

Jing Hong sighed, and stretched out her hand to touch Shen Qi's acupoints.Shen Qi seemed to be in a coma for a while, but it was only for a few seconds, then she let out a long and broken guttural sound, and opened her eyes again.

"He is in too much pain." Jing Hongzhui's voice revealed helplessness, "Even if he faints, he will wake up immediately from the pain."

"Then what should I do? Is it so tough? Is there no other way?"

Jing Hong thought about it, and shook her head: "Just now I tried to infuse zhenqi to see if it can calm the disorder, but the meridian in his body was convulsed, and he couldn't infuse it at all. The effect of this pill is extremely overbearing and weird. I can't think of a solution for the time being." way."

The iron chain between Shen Qi's hands and feet rattled, and she struggled to squeeze out a few words from the blood-stained teeth: "Go, don't care, me!" Su Yan whimpered almost in despair, and hugged Shen Qi tightly. Refusing to let go, he gritted his teeth and said, "Where are you, where am I? If you have the ability, you kill me. If you can't kill me, you have to let me suffer with you!"

"I, I'm, I'm really going to hurt you...kill you..." Blood and tears rolled down from the corners of Shen Qi's eyes, as if his eyes were torn apart, this was the first time he expressed his deepest fear in such a weak tone, "Qinghe... I know, I have a problem, I have... a bloodthirsty monster living in my heart... For you, I can resist the impulse, but this time... I'm afraid I can't help... you go... Follow him, don't look back at me..."

Su Yan cried more fiercely, but his voice calmed down abnormally.With tears streaming down his face silently, he said calmly: "I am not afraid that you will kill me, but I am afraid that you will kill yourself later. Shichiro, I want you to live for me."

"Ah Zhui, I'm sorry, you leave the house first and lock the door for us."

Jing Hongzhui was startled: "My lord, what are you going to do?"

"I want to stay with Shichiro, just the two of us. Ah Zhui, please, get out."

Jing Hongzhui is unwilling to obey such an order.No matter how sincere Shen Qi is to the lord, at this moment, it will be burnt into a raging fire that burns everything and a sharp blade that does not distinguish between the enemy and the lord. It is too dangerous for the lord to be in the same room with him. If Shen Qi loses control of her mind completely, the consequences will be disastrous .

Su Yan turned his head to look at Jing Hongzhui, the firm determination in his eyes was chilling, but his tone was soft and sincere, he said: "Azhui, the more you know me, the more you will understand me." , which one should I choose between my will and safety."

Jing Hong chased it very clearly.Just like when they returned from Nanjing, in order to achieve his will, Shen Qi finally chose to escort Zhu Helin away alone, instead of preventing him from taking the risk to distract his pursuers - that was so clear.

Mr. Su is tender and soft-hearted, Mr. Su says what he says.

Jing Hongzui closed her eyes solemnly, and when she opened them again, the brilliance in her eyes was as bright as a god, as if a peerless famous sword had been completely unsheathed, sweeping away the usual feeling of being back to basics.He got up and said: "I respect your will, and I will protect your safety. I will put my true energy to the extreme outside the house, if I feel that your life is in danger, I will kill Shen Qi with a sword before that. Even if My lord hates me for this, and I will not hesitate."

He swore an oath, walked out of the house with his sword in hand, and closed the door tightly.

This was the biggest concession that Jing Hongzhui could make, Su Yan felt a little ashamed of Ah Zhui, but at the moment his mind was on Shen Qi, and he could only focus on the urgent one first.

Shen Qi was struggling, as if she was fighting an invisible beast, but Su Yan was attached to her body, so even struggling, she tried her best to restrain herself, the iron chains strangled his wrists and ankles with bloodstains.

Su Yan saw the key in the corner, he hesitated for a moment, walked over to pick it up, and came back to try to open Shen Qi's handcuffs and shackles.

Shen Qi struggled violently, slammed the iron chain, and begged fiercely: "Don't, unlock it! Get out, get out!"

Su Yan was sweating all over, and removed his shackles: "If you want to tie yourself up, you can, but don't use iron chains, it will hurt your bones."

The moment Shen Qi broke free from the shackles, she slammed into Su Yan's body with uncontrollable force, knocking him back one after another, falling back on the coffee table, crushing the cups and pots.The pieces of porcelain pierced into the thin shirt and flesh, Su Yan endured the pain, got up and dragged Shen Qi onto the bed, pulled off the bed curtains and twisted them into ropes, and tied his stretched hands and feet to the four bedposts.