Broken Iron Clothes

======================

Not long after the imperial doctor left, Yuan Mucheng was still checking the temperature of the medicine bowl, but Liu Zhaoyu had already stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the bed, and dismissed the rest of the people in the dormitory first.

"Open the window to let in the wind." Liu Zhaoyu leaned against the raised pillow, his voice still a little weak.

The windows have been raised, and the coolness in the air wakes people up head-on, dispelling the dullness in the room.

"Before you went out, I promised that as long as you come back alive, I will bark like a dog."

Liu Zhaoyu's words came from behind his ears, Yuan Mucheng turned to look at him, and approached him again, with a long-lost mocking tone, said: "I didn't let you really call me, you are all a father, what do you look like?"

As if in the past, he felt that time had passed, and Liu Zhaoyu felt a little happy, but the joy that could not be retained soon disappeared with the wind, and he lowered his eyes and said: "Conceiving this child is just an expedient strategy. Let their mother and son suffer with me, and they will not be able to get rid of my name Liu Zhaoyu for the rest of their lives, I can't feel sorry for them."

Yuan Mucheng didn't say anything else, just passed the medicine bowl before the cold wind invaded the whole room: "The medicine is still warm, drink it."

Liu Zhaoyu was shaved thin, and the cheekbones on both cheeks have been highlighted a lot. Yuan Mucheng watched the man swallow the bitter medicine with a frown, and only asked seemingly unintentionally when he took the medicine bowl: "To be honest, you Do you blame me?"

"I can't blame anyone for the choice I made. Don't say these things anymore. If you still treat me as a brother, just help me with something," Liu Zhaoyu said, "Even if the Queen Mother makes mistakes, she is still my biological mother." , I don’t ask for anything else, I only hope that my second brother can forgive me and save her life, and in addition, I only hope that Concubine Chun and her unborn baby will be safe.”

He paused, then smiled lightly and said: "You can convey these words to the second brother for me. You know, I dare not look at him."

That smile seemed to have been soaked in soup, but it was all Liu Zhaoyu's true face that he no longer concealed.He was himself in front of Yuan Mucheng.

"Okay." Yuan Mucheng agreed. He knew that Liu Zhaoyu's heart knot had been entangled to death. He untied Liu Zhaoye's side, but also messed up Yan's side. Although the guilt towards his brother could be alleviated, other Emotions or this life can not be completely let go.

Hearing his answer, Liu Zhaoyu said again: "The dark guards are a team I built privately, and I have to ask you to inform Yi Qinchen that after receiving their salary, the dark guards should be disbanded in the future. Those who have not disclosed their identities There is no need to show it to others. After all, it is considered a regime change. As my people, they will always be targeted by various reasons in the future.

"There is one last thing. No one will pursue the case of Lichen Temple. This is the only thing I can do for Xianfeng. As for you, I'm sorry. After thinking about it, I didn't know what to leave for you What is suitable, even a good celebration banquet is too late to hold a big one for you, but I can only think of the bet with you when I was young, then it will be counted as I lost that game, and I will give you a good time."

Yuan Mucheng smiled lightly: "Very well, those fancy things at the banquet, to put it bluntly, are just entertainment for a group of people, and it's thankless to do it."

All of a sudden, the bed curtain was blown out of churning waves, the wind suddenly picked up, the sky was dark, and the gathered clouds would weigh down heavily.Liu Zhaoyu looked at the window where the wind came in, and still saw the fantasy scene in his mind last night, and unconsciously said: "When there is a wind, the sky becomes faster."

Yuan Mucheng sensed the chill before the wind and rain, got up and went to close the window: "It's windy outside, you lie down, I'll close the window first."

As the fork was put away, the sound of the wind was blocked out of the window, and the room was silent for a while, and the slack in the conversation seemed to have never existed, but Liu Zhaoyu looked at the back and laughed: "When I become the Supreme Emperor, I think Move to live in Shangxi Garden, where it is quiet, and I can't hear others laughing at me for being stupid or calling me ridiculous."

Feeling depressed, Yuan Mucheng touched the window lattice and didn't turn around for a long time, when he heard the person behind him calling him.

"Mucheng."

Liu Zhaoyu hadn't called him that for many years.

"I can't get out of this palace wall anymore. If you have freedom, don't rely on other people's comments to remember me. Take me to King Jingping and Marquis Jingfang, and I won't send you off when you leave in the future."

The house must be empty, so the voice sounds lonely, more desolate than in the barren mountains.Yuan Mucheng finally understood where the depression came from, and he gradually clenched his fists, never letting him force a smile.

"Liu Zhaoyu, don't do this with me, what can't you just say?"

Liu Zhaoyu was stunned by this tone for a moment, then suddenly laughed, and threw the pillow towards him: "What are you thinking, you don't have the title of prince, and no matter how much face you want, you won't be able to summon the Supreme Emperor to send you off."

Yuan Mucheng took the pillow, raised his head to confirm the authenticity of Liu Zhaoyu's smile, and then relaxed a little.

Liu Zhaoyu laughed again: "It's about to rain, Xianfeng should still be waiting for you, let's go, take an umbrella, the wind is cold, don't catch a cold." After saying that, he removed all the pillows behind him, and He stopped sitting and lay down on his back.

Yuan Mucheng left.

There was only a moment of silence in the sleeping hall again, Liu Zhaoyu tucked the thick quilt tightly, listening to the sound of falling rain, but his shoulders twitched slowly.The crystal clear notes that could not be stored slanted down from the bridge of the nose, and finally hid in the heavy rain.

-

The heavy cloud pressed down, and the long corridor was clouded by the rain. Yan Youqian slumped against the rain with his hands in shackles, but saw a figure in the emptiness.Liang Yuanqing raised his hand to signal the guards to stop, just waiting in the rain for the confrontation to end.

The rain slipped from the eaves of the umbrella and fell to the ground, Yan Youqian walked there step by step.

"How could I forget you just now, Lu Xianfeng, it was you who killed Ling Yong." Yan Youqian's face was soaked by the rain, but it also caught fire. toothy dog.

Jiang Shiqing stood on the spot holding an umbrella, only the hem of his clothes was wet from the splashing rain.

"Do you hate?" He asked indifferently, the handle of the umbrella in his hand was suddenly swung down.The umbrella turned upside down and fell, rolled to the ground and swayed, and the raindrops instantly covered Jiang Shiqing's head.

"He's my son, he's my son!"

Yan Youqian wanted to reach out and pull his skirt, but the shackles pushed him back a few steps. He looked at the expressionless face and gritted his teeth angrily, screaming more and more hateful.

"You dissected my flesh and blood and asked me if I hate you. How could you have the face to ask? Do you think that Ling Yong's death can be let go after Liu Zhaoye, Gu Qinghe, and Ling Yong's death? Those high-ranking and righteous people are extremely hypocritical. , How clean are you? Judging me with them, judging a father whose son was killed, but not judging the villain who killed other people's children, this is your fairness and justice! A coward who dares to plead guilty is just like you when you were a child, unsightly and filthy!"

Dirty.

With the rain falling all over his face, Jiang Shiqing listened to these words dully, and laughed contemptuously.

"Laugh at me dirty, where can you get clean? Yan Lingyong took the lead in bullying me in the Imperial Prison, conniving at Cen Yu to beat the people in Weixu Palace to death, and then secretly associated with human traffickers, secretly raising children. Covering up your beloved son and killing both human traffickers and child molesters. Have you ever confessed these crimes? If Yan Lingyong hadn't felt guilty, he wouldn't have fallen to the ground in surprise when he recognized me, and he wouldn't have been punished by me for shouting. Tongue-"

"Enough--" A tragic image flashed through his mind, but Yan Youqian could only shout to stop him.

"And then," Jiang Shiqing stepped forward, his chest already pressed against the shackles, he stepped forward and forced Yan Youqian back, "He wanted to beg for mercy but couldn't speak, and when he was desperate, he couldn't speak. I could only cry and climb on the ground, and in the end I still vomited blood, and died under the knife!"

"Enough!" Yan Youqian yelled loudly, "They are dead, but do you dare to say that none of them are at fault?! The subordinates who trespassed on the Imperial College to contradict the powerful, the human traffickers who worked secretly, the promiscuous molesters Tong, these ordinary people are lowly and lowly, just like you. You are a noble person, pretending to be avenging others, but in fact, because you remember the humiliation you suffered when you were a child, you killed my only son and ruined my family Consummation, I have no descendants, you are right!"

Jiang Shiqing said coldly: "Human life is equal to human life, how can there be a distinction between high and low! If Yan Lingyong hadn't been provoked first, if he hadn't been doing those child prostitution business, would there have been such hatred? After so many years, Yan Lingyong has been killed by you! You don't know what the teaching has become. If you have really had a little responsibility as a father these years, why did you end up here. So you better hate me, wish you could kill me but still want to see me live in glory, you Remember, it's all your fault."

The rain fell coldly and silently, but the sky was like thunder crashing through the sky. Yan Youqian slipped to the ground in that shock, and never stood up again.

"Lu Xianfeng!" Yan Youqian broke down in tears, "Even if I was wrong, even so, why don't you give me a little room to turn around, I only have him as the only child alive..."

Jiang Shiqing lowered his eyes to look at him, and it was colder than the ice that was frozen in the cold sky: "If you have revenge, you will pay for your life with your life. I only believe in this."

Yan Youqian cried out in grief, either because of everything that could have been redeemed but irreparable, or because he was still hating something.This corridor has accumulated too much wind and rain in the palace, and when the cry is incorporated into it and reverberates, it is as rare as accepting a storm.

The cold air in the rain penetrated from one end of the corridor to the other. Jiang Shiqing stood in it, as if being pierced by the wind. The coming body shook back.

"The chaos in the Prison Department has been cleared up, let's take the criminals over there." Yuan Mucheng ordered the guards not far away, and caged the prisoner to his side with a cloak.

Not long after, Yan Youqian was carried away by his personal guards, Yuan Mucheng wiped the rainwater from everywhere for him, and asked, "Is it cold?"

Jiang Shiqing squeezed into his arms, wiping away the wetness all over his body.

"It's cold." Jiang Shiqing warmed him, but the fishy smell from the execution ground still lingered on Yuan Mucheng's clothes. He was inexplicably not disgusted, but began to search for Yuan Mucheng's own smell from it, and finally found The man's neck was found, so he simply buried his face in it.

"Huai Chuan," Yuan Mucheng tapped the back of his head, his voice soft, "I came too late."

Jiang Shiqing also wet the side of his neck, but he just wanted to hug that person, to warm him up and hold him tight.

"Is your Majesty okay?" Jiang Shiqing asked.

Yuan Mucheng responded, "I'm awake, and I've taken the medicine."

Jiang Shiqing looked up at him: "Why don't I ask Mr. Lin Meng to come into the palace to take a look for him tomorrow? Mr. has seen all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases among the people, and he has more experience than the imperial doctors of the imperial hospital."

Yuan Mucheng lowered his head and pressed his forehead: "I've made you worry, and I need to trouble you, sir."

His forehead and heart were already hot, Jiang Shiqing was silent for a moment, only shook his head left and right when he was touching him, but suddenly shook his head violently, sweeping the rain on his face.Yuan Mucheng raised his head to avoid it, lifted his cloak and covered the man's head first, pressing it tightly against his chest.

"Is it wrong?" Yuan Mucheng lowered his head and asked him.

Jiang Shiqing couldn't find the light under the cloak, and recklessly searched for the exit, but in the end he could only reply in a muffled voice: "Wrong."

Yuan Mucheng left a gap for him: "Really?"

Jiang Shiqing poked his head out following the thin light, almost bumped into his lips, then put his arms around his neck by mistake, and kissed him: "Really."

Yuan Mucheng smiled, Jiang Shiqing looked at him, and finally calmed down after making a joke, and stretched out his fingers to wipe the rain on his face, and asked, "Are the people around you still guarding outside the hall?"

Yuan Mucheng knew that Jiang Yu was the one he wanted to ask the most, but he didn't bother to say it deliberately, and just said: "After your majesty woke up, everyone was busy. The Taiwei and the cabinet went to Yemen Village and gathered to discuss the matter of abdication. , the Sixth Department is also in order, and the imperial army just came back, and they are busy supporting the Criminal Department, and Yi Qinchen has disappeared, and I think he is looking for the acting leader surnamed Gu."

"It's just you and me." Jiang Shiqing stretched out his fingers and tapped his chest, and then tapped himself, "It's fishy and it's raining."

Yuan Mucheng touched the tip of his frozen red nose: "It's time to wash up, shall we go?"

"But now I want to do another thing." Jiang Shiqing pulled Yuan Mucheng closer, and his eyes met him with a smile.

Yuan Mucheng looked at him with a smile on his face, but his fingers were gradually climbed up, until the umbrella in his hand was taken, and the rain suddenly fell from the eyes, piercing their bodies.

The thrown umbrella fell into the rain, and when it stopped swinging, his fingers were gradually clasped in the cool rain. Jiang Shiqing asked him in the rain, "Run?"

Yuan Mucheng looked at him with a smile, but he was firm.

"run!"

The stagnant water kicked up and splashed in all directions, and two figures broke into the drizzle of the rain. They fled in the fortified palace walls, presumptuously in the restrained etiquette, and all the restraints were broken in the rain.

They will be free.