Jiang Qing

Bai Bingchen looked at him worriedly, wondering if he should reach out his hand.

He was so lonely and helpless, as if as long as he stretched out his hand, he could have him.But after hastily possessing him, how should he spend the time without himself alone.

At this moment, Bai Bingchen really wanted to be a selfish person, only thinking about the immediate pleasure and not thinking about any consequences, but he couldn't leave Mei Shao alone.

Just like the choice in front of him when the Cangshan case happened, fate brought him to another fork.

The cause of yesterday, the fruit of today.

If he hadn't made the decision to resist everything alone, he wouldn't have been able to protect Mei Shao's life, but he took that step, but he was doomed not to be able to stay with Mei Shao at this moment.

Destiny has always been harsh, and always puts people in a dilemma, and it is difficult to retreat. After repeated weighing and trade-offs, it is still not consummated in the end.

And such making things difficult never happened to him alone.

After a long silence, Bai Bingchen finally opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty didn't intend to execute King Jing. According to his crimes, he should be imprisoned for life. I was in King Jing's tent at that time, and Ling Che led troops into the tent. Knowing that the defeat was irreversible, Jue committed suicide in the tent, hoping that...his sister would be safe in life."

"I remember that it was Ling Che who killed Zhao Jue, and that's why His Majesty wanted to reward him for his meritorious deeds and keep him in court, but he refused."

"You also know Ling Che's thoughts on the eldest princess. If he hadn't been subject to the Marquis of Jinxi, and His Majesty had already obtained the enthronement decree at that time, maybe he would really invest in King Jing's account. Zhao Jue liked it. With that in mind, he gave Ling Che a military merit with his own death, in case one day, if His Majesty harms Zhao Jinghe, Ling Che can protect her." Bai Bingchen slowly told the little-known paragraph of the past.

King Jing chose to die to protect his younger sister, while Ling Che chose to hide everything so that Zhao Jinghe could live without worries.

This is their choice.

The choice they made was no different from Bai Bingchen's choice today.

"So, Zhao Jinghe doesn't know?" After listening to his narration, Mei Shao seemed to be blocked by something.

So Bai Bingchen was telling himself that everyone should be responsible for their own choices, just like when he chose to come to Pingdu to take revenge, even though he didn't know the truth at that time, he really vented all his anger on Bai Bingchen, so now The sadness and unwillingness can only be endured by myself.

Seeing his drooping eyebrows, Bai Bingchen suddenly had the urge to tell him everything. Before he could speak, the carriage suddenly bumped heavily, and then came to a sudden stop. Bai Bingchen became unstable and almost hit When he got on the wall of the carriage, he felt a hand stabilizing his forehead, and then he was pulled into an embrace.

The sudden stop of the carriage was too sudden. When Mei Shao realized what happened, he saw that Bai Bingchen was about to hit the wall of the carriage. The upper wall of the carriage stabilized his figure.

"What's going on?" Mei Shao asked sharply, turning to the direction of the driver.

The carriage finally stabilized, and the coachman was obviously angry when he heard Mei Shao's tone, he pulled the rein and hurriedly replied: "My lord, someone rushed out suddenly and stopped our carriage."

Mei Shao's hands tightened tightly, almost covering Bai Bingchen's entire head in his arms, making him a little out of breath.

At this time, the coachman outside did not get a response, and the hesitant voice sounded again.

Bai Bingchen was afraid that the coachman would see this scene when he lifted the curtain, so he quickly stretched out his hand and tugged at Mei Shao's sleeve.

Feeling the light tug of the cuff, Mei Shao lowered his head following his strength, touched his forehead, and asked with concern: "Did you hit him?"

He moved his hand away a little bit, and Bai Bingchen found that he could breathe. He moved away a little silently, but when he raised his head, he happened to touch his caring eyes, which reflected himself fully.

Bai Bingchen was startled for a moment, moved his eyes away, freed Mei Shao's hand, raised the carriage curtain on one side and asked Ning Kuan, "Who is it?"

"It's an old man, wearing..." Ning Kuan looked at it for a long time, but still couldn't describe whether he was wearing clothes or... a petition?

Without waiting for Ning Kuan's answer, Mei Shao simply walked to the front of the carriage and raised a corner of the curtain.

The convoy originally planned to pass through the city, so they deliberately chose the fastest way through the city, without notifying the local officials in advance, but now they were suddenly stopped in the street, and the driver was quite frightened.

From the opening of the curtain, Mei Shao could just see an old man about 70 years old kneeling in the middle, wearing a white cloth written with the blood of thousands of people. shocking.

Even though the old man was old, his kneeling body was still straight, his silver-white hair was combed meticulously, holding a case in both hands, his head slightly lowered forward, and sent the case over his head.

He didn't say a word, just knelt like this, no matter how much the servants who opened the way tried to persuade him, he didn't have the slightest momentum to move. Soon, many people gathered around to watch the excitement.

Bai Bingchen said something to Ning Kuan in a low voice, and he bent down to ask, the old man took advantage of the situation and raised his head, his compassionate eyes pierced through the car curtain, which shocked Mei Shao's heart.

"Teacher?" There was some uncertainty in his words, but as the old man raised his entire face, with grief and indignation in his eyes, he questioned the carriage, "The salary of eating the king does not understand the worries of the people, and it is useless to be a minister. Nowadays, there are so many vegetarians in the court of the Li Kingdom, and a vision from heaven, our century-old foundation of the Li Kingdom, is it doomed to this disaster!"

Mei Shao finally recognized that this old man was Zhang Huailiu, his mentor.

Enlightened in Lanzhou, Pingdu enlightened his wisdom, and Mei Shao’s poems, books, etiquette and righteousness were all taught by his words and deeds, until the Cangshan Incident, the Mei family was destroyed, Zhang Huailiu joined his students to write letters several times to no avail, disheartened, and returned to his ancestral home alone Benzhou pension.

Benzhou is located in the southeast, at the junction of the respective fiefdoms of the Marquis of Pingdong and Marquis of Nanyang.

Counting the distance from Benzhou to this place, Zhang Huailiu had known for a long time that the officials of the imperial court would pass by here, so he was stuck on this only way to complain.

Zhang Huailiu was old and knelt on the ground in the hot weather. After a while, his head was drenched with sweat, his lips were slightly peeled and dry, but he still held the case persistently, as if as long as the case was not accepted, he would I can't afford to kneel for a long time.

Facing his former mentor, Mei Shao was so moved beyond words, and was about to get out of the car to ask what happened, but was held down by Bai Bingchen.

"He didn't know it was you in the carriage."

His voice was calm and cautious, and Mei Shao could just touch his calm appearance when he turned around, adding a little peace to his restless heart.

"Only the state capital to be inspected knows the news of imperial officials' inspections of the states. How did he know that an imperial official passed by here? Chongjin, don't be impulsive, lest someone become a target."

While comforting Mei Shao, Bai Bingchen watched Ning Kuan take the pleading paper from Zhang Huailiu's hand.

After receiving it, Bai Bingchen found out that the pleadings were spread out quite a lot, most of which were the names and fingerprints of the petitioners, and it was written that the wealthy businessman in Benzhou agreed with the government to embezzle the people's land on the grounds of building official roads, and then rent it out to farmers for farming at a high price .

The farmers worked hard to cultivate, but the corn they got was barely enough to feed their hunger. With the pressure from the prefect of Benzhou, they tolerated it based on the character of officials not fighting against the people. People colluded together and doubled the grain handed in by the farmers.If the grain is harvested in this way, and this year's autumn harvest, many farmers in Benzhou will not have enough to eat and will die of starvation.

Looking at this confession, Bai Bingchen couldn't tell the truth from the falsehood for a while, but getting out of the car at this time, undoubtedly put this difficult matter of truth and falsehood to the public to solve it. If something happened, there was no way to turn it around room for.

After contemplating for a while, Bai Bingchen called Ning Kuan and whispered a few words. After Ning Kuan followed his words and whispered to Zhang Huailiu, Zhang Huailiu gave him a suspicious look, but finally stepped aside.

"Let's go." Bai Bingchen told the coachman.

Mei Shao didn't hear what he and Ning Kuan said clearly, seeing that he took the pleading paper and left without saying anything, she said anxiously: "Yanfang..."

Bai Bingchen gave him a reassuring look, and after waiting for a cup of tea, the convoy had already arrived in the woods on the outskirts of the city, so he stopped the car.

It was hot at noon, and when the car stopped, Bai Bingchen told them to rest on the spot, and he and Mei Shao got off the carriage and arrived at a deserted place.

"I remember your qinggong is not bad."

"what?"

"Go two miles to the east, and Ning Band will wait there with your teacher." Bai Bingchen folded the pleading paper slowly and put it in his arms, and entrusted him, "It's important to ask about the situation. Whether you check or not, don't give permission." talk."

"Aren't you going with me?"

Hearing this, Bai Bingchen laughed and said, "I asked Ning Kuan to tell him that he was willing to get out of the way temporarily when you were in the carriage. If you don't go, he must think that Ning Kuan is lying to him. With my body, when I get there , I guess everyone ran away."

Mei Shao didn't seem to believe it, and looked him up and down carefully.

"Why, you don't believe it, look... what are you doing!"

Bai Bingchen originally opened his arms to show him how tired his body was, but he was caught off guard by his waist and hugged him horizontally.

Mei Shao curled the corner of her mouth, easily turned him on the spot, and commented with great interest, "It's true... I can't bear the fatigue."

"But, you underestimated my body...and my lightness kung fu." The deep voice followed Mei Shao's low movements and breathed into Bai Bingchen's ears, and his earlobes turned red immediately.

"you......"

Before Bai Bingchen had time to say anything, Mei Shao had already soared into the air, tapped the branches a few times, and headed towards the east.

The sound of the wind whizzed past Bai Bingchen's face one after another, and he suddenly felt that he had returned to the time when he and Mei Shao were watching the moon on the roof. What to think about, just enjoy this moment of emptiness.

He gradually loosened the hand that was tightly gripping Mei Shao's clothes due to nervousness, and gently hugged his waist, indulging himself a little in the azure blue.

Knowing that Bai Bingchen was thin-skinned, when he was about to see a figure, Mei Shao put him down.

Suddenly stepping on the ground after weightlessness, Bai Bingchen felt unreal. He was still dazed, but Mei Shao had already lowered his head to help him straighten the wrinkled corners of his clothes, smooth out the broken hair on his head, and then stepped back a distance of one person. , said: "Let's go."

Not far away, in the gazebo for pedestrians to rest, Ning Kuan and Zhang Huailiu stood one by one.

Zhang Huailiu looked around anxiously, and when he saw Mei Shao approaching, tears of excitement flashed in his cloudy old eyes.

He stood up, his eyes did not move away from Mei Shao for a moment, until he walked in front of him.

"Chongjin...it's really you..."

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