Jiang Qing

After a long silence, even the original lingering breath faded away, and Mei Shao did not wait for his response.

Losing interest all of a sudden, Mei Shao got off him with a sneer, took out the torch in his arms, and lit the candle on the desk.

A cluster of wobbly sparks gradually filled up the room, and only then did Mei Shao clearly see the mess on the bed.

His hands were imprisoned by the iron ring pulled out from the head of the bed, Bai Bingchen had already half sat up, his clothes were messy, revealing a large area of ​​skin on his chest, dark red marks mixed with blood, all the way down from his neck, very like an open Red plums in the snow.His hair was scattered, the tears in the corners of his eyes were still wet, the area around his eyes was reddish with dizziness, and there was a fiery anger in his eyes.

Seeing Bai Bingchen's tearful eyes glaring at him, Mei Shao's throat clenched. The satisfaction he had just obtained in this humiliation seemed to be no match for this angry look, which made people's hearts flutter.

Picking up the teapot on the desk and pouring himself a cup of tea, Mei Shao restrained his eyes from lingering on him.

There was a knock on the door.

"Master, what you asked for has been delivered."

"Bring it in."

With approval, Jian Shiliu pushed open the door and put down a stove, then retreated quietly without raising his head the whole time.

It looked like a blacksmith's furnace, but it was smaller, and the tongue of fire licked the furnace wall, heating up the closed room a lot in a short time.

Mei Shao threw a few incense grains into the hearth, and the quiet sandalwood fragrance mixed with carbon gas aggressively filled the small room.

After trying the charcoal fire in the furnace, Mei Shao took out a pair of silver rings from his bosom, and carefully wiped them with the light of the fire: "Your Majesty asked me to ask, how did Ling Concubine's waist plate end up in Lord Bai's residence."

Seeing that he was rubbing meticulously and attentively as if appreciating some rare treasure, Bai Bingchen was not surprised how the silver ring he put in the box fell into Mei Shao's hands, but just sneered: "The silver ring in my house is How did it get into your hands, how did Ling Che's waist card get into my house, it's just that someone has become a gentleman on Liangshang, but he still shouts "Stop the thief."

Mei Shao seemed to have never heard of his answer, as if he had put all his attention on the pair of silver rings. He rubbed them fondly for a while before he sneered and said, "You said it was yours?" He looked at him with a smile. With a glance, Mei Shao casually threw the silver ring that had been cleaned for a long time into the fire.

Bai Bingchen subconsciously wanted to lean over to take a look, but found that he was struggling to even lift his fingers. Then he realized that there was something wrong with the incense grains just now, but Mei Shao was not affected at all. He got up and sat by the bed, helping Bai Bingchen Putting the clothes together, he said softly: "Don't be afraid, it's just that there is a medicinal herb in the antidote for you. Being attracted by this fragrance will make people feel a little tired."

"In the 33rd year of Qinyuan, didn't you tell others that you liked me the most?" Mei Shao leaned on Bai Bingchen's chest, watching the fire engulfing the silver ring, with a trace of tenderness in his eyes, "For a stranger You can tell everyone, why can’t you tell me personally?”

Mei Shao's emotions changed too quickly, when he raised his head and looked at him with affectionate eyes, Bai Bingchen felt a chill growing behind his back.After carefully staring at Mei Shao's face that was close at hand for a while, Bai Bingchen asked pitifully, "Are you crazy?"

"If I hadn't been crazy and stupid back then, how could I have escaped from the prison alive?" Mei Shao's eyes turned scorching hot, staring fixedly at Bai Bingchen, "I've been crazy for a long time, but, why didn't you come out with me? Crazy? How can you be so honorable and rich when you step on someone else's position?"

In his calm pupils, Mei Shao can clearly see that he looks crazy. He hates Bai Bingchen's calm look the most. No matter you are hysterical, he will only look at you with a flat look , as if his pain was a child's farce in his eyes, which was not worth mentioning.

Obviously he is the one who is interrogating, but Mei Shao feels that he is being scrutinized by him. The pity in his eyes seems to peel off the outermost layer of his skin, revealing that he is still prostrate at Bai Bingchen's feet on that rainy night , so weak that he couldn't even grasp the hem of his clothes.

"Speak up!" Mei Shao grabbed Bai Bingchen's neck violently, looking at his flushed face and bewildered eyes, Mei Shao finally felt that he was a superior person, and he was holding this person's life in his hands, but He still wants to force Bai Bingchen to say that sentence, as if as long as he admits that he likes him in front of him, it means that he will completely kneel at his feet from body to soul.

"Okay, very good. Even if you die, you don't want to say yes?" Mei Shao increased the strength in her hands, and Bai Bingchen's rapid breathing accompanied by the sound of the fire burning was so sweet and moving.

With his hands tied, Bai Bingchen could only look up and be forced to bear all this. Gradually, he could only see the monstrous hatred in the eyes of the person in front of him in the blurred double image. Mei Shao really wanted to kill himself.

"Master." Jian Shiliu knocked on the door, as if he could tell something was wrong inside the house, and couldn't help but remind him.

Mei Shao seemed to be withdrawn from the distant memory, and slowly let go of his hand, Bai Bingchen suddenly bent down and coughed violently, his face was already slightly blue, and a thick red mark on his neck was particularly dazzling and scattered His hair covered his embarrassed posture.

He had never seen Bai Bingchen so miserable and vulnerable, and subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his face.

Seeing his outstretched hand from the corner of the eye, Bai Bingchen looked terrified, and immediately turned his head away, leaving Mei Shao's raised hand empty.

The room was silent for a while, only the hissing sound of the silver ring melting and Bai Bingchen's intermittent coughing.

Mei Shao looked at Bai Bingchen greedily, as if looking at a fragile porcelain, and finally saw a crack on its smooth and clean surface.He stubbornly stretched out his hand to caress Bai Bingchen's face, brushed away his messy hair, and stroked gently: "I'm sorry, I forgot to give you this. I remember when I gave you the silver ring, you liked it very much."

Mei Shao picked up the melted silver paste from the fire, took a rough mold, and put it beside the bed, "Now, I'll give it to you again."

Realizing what he was going to do, Bai Bingchen's eyes flashed disbelief: "What are you going to do?"

Seeing some other emotion in his eyes, Mei Shao smiled softly, stretched out his hand to grab his bare ankle, the warmth from his palm spread to his ankle, but Bai Bingchen felt cold in his heart, his eyes were obviously full of warmth. Smiling, but people can't help but look at the turbulent waves under that smile.

At the moment of life and death just now, someone outside stopped Mei Shao's actions, and Bai Bingchen knew that even if Zhao Zhen allowed him to avenge some personal revenge, he would never allow him to kill himself.

"Your Majesty does not allow you to use torture privately." Bai Bingchen couldn't help reminding, the person in front of him was so scary that people couldn't tell whether he was awake or not.

"It seems that I really can't let you die here." Mei Shao tilted her head and showed an innocent smile, "But it seems innocuous to cause a small injury to a disabled person's leg. Your Majesty will never blame me Is a lame man lame again?"

Feeling the coolness of his ankle, Mei Shao rubbed it intimately for a while, and then carefully put the mold on it when it was not so cold, stuck it on, and slowly poured the silver paste into the mold with a smile.

Even at the moment when the hot silver paste was poured through the mould, Bai Bingchen couldn't hold back his exclamation. Almost instantly, the burning pain on his feet turned into beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.He tried his best to bite his lip, the sharp pain in his ankle made him subconsciously want to kick it away, but Mei Shao held him tightly, and after a while, the air smelled of burning flesh faintly.

Seeing his biting his bleeding lip and suppressing the painful moan between his lips, seeing his contorted expression and the beads of sweat on his forehead, watching the blood oozing from the peeled off skin staining his fingertips, Mei Shao subconsciously He licked his lower lip, and the scene that he thought about day and night was finally in front of him. After a long time, such trivial torture was finally passed on to him from what he had endured in the prison.

When all the silver paste rolled into the mould, Bai Bingchen almost fainted. He felt his brain was confused by the severe pain, even if he told himself rationally that the more pain he suffered, the more excited Mei Shao would be, but the nerve pain The clenching of his teeth had no effect at all, and the pain he had endured was still suppressed and overflowing between his teeth.

Mei Shao is no longer the willful and indulgent young man in brocade clothes. He was soaked in hatred day and night. It was his hatred of Bai Bingchen as the support for his survival that made him dare to come back again and stand in front of him.

"Do you know it hurts too?" Mei Shao clamped his chin with his hands, forcing him to look directly at himself, "Tell me, when you were in Pingdu, on top of the Jinqueyu Tower in the past six years, when you were full of ambition, how could you Is there an old soul falling into a dream?"

Facing the questioning, Bai Bingchen forced a smile, gritted his teeth and replied, "They are all traitors, what's the pity?"

"Qian Huai, the eldest brother of the Qian family, is the most gentle and approachable person. When I was still in Pingdu, you were bullied in the school, and he was the one who stood up for you. And he died in the mid-autumn of the 36th year of Qinyuan, and he was still alive. The pregnant sister-in-law, all 15 people in the house died. Erlang Liu was the one we met in the wine shop. After learning that you were going to take part in the imperial examination, he didn’t show any disdain at all. He taught poetry, literature, literature and science, and he was regarded as your half-teacher. He died in the mid-autumn of the 36th year of Qinyuan, and his mother’s family who was thousands of miles away was not spared. Feng The youngest son of our family is the youngest among us. He was originally a broad-minded man. He died in the Mid-Autumn Festival of Qinyuan 36 at a young age. And my elder brother Mei Rui...they are all dead! The Liu family , the Qian family, the Feng family, and the Mei family, the building collapsed overnight. They are not cold names on the execution list, they are friends you and I have been together for three years. How did you get so cruel and kill them one by one? ?”

The words of Mei Shao's accusations resounded, the names he hid in his heart, the faces begging him to save him in his dreams, and they followed him for six years like a shadow, never leaving, always reminding him of his blood. Enemy of the sea.

"The 36th year of Qinyuan, the year of your weak crown." Bai Bingchen met his resentful eyes without evasion, and endured the pain to refute, "Mei Shao, have you only grown older in these years? The law is not merciful." No matter who he is, he is no bigger than the laws of heaven and kings. When the incident happened that year, the Qian family and the Mei family were the left and right armies and besieged Cangshan. Qian Huai and Mei Rui were the leaders. Liu Yongsi forged documents and transferred the forbidden army and the patrol battalion , his mother’s family, the Jiang’s family in Pizhou, used the name of celebrating the late emperor’s birthday, smuggled organizations into the capital one after another, and there are many evidences, which one wronged them! If you are not in Lanzhou, there is no evidence Participating in this matter, and Mei Guifei protecting her with death, you have already been with them in the underworld!"

"I'd rather be in Pingdu!" Mei Shao said angrily, "If it wasn't for your letter to trick me into going back to the capital, I would have gathered the old troops outside and suppressed the imperial city..."

"You dare!" Bai Bingchen stared at him with blazing eyes and said word by word: "As long as I live, you will not have the opportunity to be a treasonous minister in the old days or today!"

"You sick man, why can you control me?" Mei Shao's rationality has been completely burnt out, he just wants to suppress the flame pressure that Bai Bingchen said so clearly, even with the most despicable method.

He tore off Bai Bingchen's already flimsy clothes, his gaze was like a snake, lingering frivolously at the scenery under Bai Bingchen's clothes, he leaned over and smiled viciously: "Is it just because of your body and appearance?"

Mei Shao was very close to him, and Bai Bingchen could clearly see the black bead on his right ear, it was hit when Mei Shao was imprisoned in the Xunfang Pavilion as a criminal slave, and he still keeps it to this day.

"If you give yourself up, you can go back to the south obediently, and I won't be stingy." Having suffered the humiliation in the dark just now, Bai Bingchen is no longer angry because of his frivolous behavior, but puts on a look of "no matter what." "Jun Caixie" lingered in his ears, and his words were soft, but there was no emotion in his eyes, "After all, your complexion is even better, and I won't be at a disadvantage if you spend a whole night in spring. It's just that you are so obsessed with me, isn't it?" You have me in your heart? It's really sad to fall in love with your own father-killing enemy."

As the light words fell to the ears, Bai Bingchen's warm tongue followed, gently brushing his cool earrings, as if making a silent invitation.

The slightly numb trembling caused Mei Shao's heart to tremble, but the next moment he bounced back like avoiding a snake.The shady thoughts in his heart were suddenly expressed by him at this moment, and Mei Shao felt disgusted: "Master Bai is for the country and the people, and he really dedicated himself to death. It's just that the emperor doesn't care about your loyalty. If it wasn't for him, how could I have easily imprisoned you here to vent my personal anger."

Seeing him take half a step back, Bai Bingchen knew that he was disturbed, and instead he smiled complacently: "As a minister of the emperor, I believe that your Majesty has his unspeakable secrets about matters of loyalty to the emperor."

Hearing this, Mei Shao got up angrily, as if she didn't want to get close to him any more: "In this world, there are only courtiers who cry out for injustice, but no emperor who is wronged. If you speak so convincingly, you won't be afraid that the destruction of Cangshan Mountain will be a lesson from the past."

"What about you?" Bai Bingchen asked, "Although you were not in Pingdu back then, King Xie En witnessed the whole process. After holding the Burial Sword Villa in your hand, you must have secretly checked them one by one. If it weren't for their conclusive evidence, there is no Why do you need to listen to my own words about the slightest mistakes? What you have been unable to let go of is the truth of the year, or your guilt for not being able to die with them?"

Mei Shao was silent for a long time, and after a while, he heard his voice wafting out, but it was calling Jian Sixteen: "Notify Baifu to come and pick him up."

He staggered out like fleeing, not daring to turn around and respond.

Bai Bingchen was right, six years was enough for him to find out some things, even if he held the Burial Sword Villa in his hand, he still couldn't find out the slightest mistake.The crime of treason has been announced to the world, and it has long been a foregone conclusion.But he just didn't believe it, he didn't believe that his father, who taught himself etiquette, righteousness and shame, would be the mastermind of this big treason case, and he didn't believe that the brothers who shared the burden of the wind and rain were also rebellious ministers and rebels, let alone believe it. The old friends who have left behind the papers are despicable informers.

The usual evening conversations at home and singing in restaurants have finally become a dream, scattered without a trace.

Mei Shao stumbled and walked on the empty street, like a homeless ghost, until Lin Ruwei, who had followed behind him for a long time, stepped forward and said, "Master, the girl from the Chen family let go. You can do it tonight, do you want me to inform Yin Guijian now?"

He turned around, staring blankly, and said in a daze: "No, I'll go in person."

After speaking, he turned and left.

The torn cloth was hanging on his arm, swaying slightly with the wind, he was like a puppet doll with blood in his hands, staggering forward, lifeless.

Lin Ruwei glanced at the room where Mei Shao came out, it was still dimly lit, it was the only light in the night, but it made people afraid to go forward.

It was it that made a well-dressed interrogator come out in a state of dismay, distraught, and shattered into the darkness.