Broken Iron Clothes

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At night, there are many shadows of trees, and a few jackdaws flutter past in the air, and there is still silence.

The two stood in the alley without saying a word, but Yuan Mucheng didn't notice that Jiang Shiqing's ten fingers had begun to tremble unconsciously.Thin sweat oozes out, and the underwear is against his skin, chilling in the night wind.

Jiang Shiqing roughly calculated the time in his mind, and felt that something was wrong, but still pretended nothing happened, and replied: "I didn't expect the general to touch me to the bone after only hugging me once."

"I'm afraid I haven't hugged enough, otherwise why didn't I get some heartfelt words today."

Yuan Mucheng caught a glimpse of sweat oozing from his temples, and felt a little strange.

Jiang Shiqing endured the discomfort, and tried his best to keep his voice steady: "There are conditions for digging out your heart and lungs."

Yuan Mucheng observed carefully and said, "Let's listen."

"Another day." After Jiang Shiqing finished speaking, he wanted to leave.

"today."

Yuan Mucheng stepped in front of him, saw that Jiang Shiqing was still about to leave, and struck out again. Jiang Shiqing's body was weak, unable to block the palm, he took a few steps back, panting uncontrollably.

"Could it be that you were injured just now?" Yuan Mucheng looked at him, still a little at a loss, and wanted to take a closer look.

But before he met anyone, a horse came galloping from the end of the alley. At the same time, Xu Guo came from nowhere, drew his sword and separated Yuan Mucheng, jumped off a woman from the horse, and then rode the horse. He took Jiang Shiqing's hand and put him on the horse and took him away.

"Jidong Xuguo, deal with the aftermath!"

Gu Nanxing pulled up the reins, rode his horse out of the alley, and ran to the other side.

At this moment, He Xiao rushed over and saw Xu Guo and Ji Dong pointing at Yuan Mucheng with sabers, they also stood in front of Yuan Mucheng and drew their sabers.

"I told you to lure people away, why did you bring me two more?" Yuan Mucheng asked.

He Xiao said: "This kid is clever, so he went to fetch reinforcements."

Looking at the direction in which the horses were galloping, Yuan Mucheng chuckled lightly, and said to Xu Guo, "There are quite a few men by your master's side."

Ji Dong was dumbfounded by what he said, he hurriedly lowered his head to look at his attire, and retorted: "I...I am a woman!"

"What the girl said is true, offended." Yuan Mucheng raised his arm and pushed He Xiao's knife back into its sheath while speaking.

Seeing Yuan Mucheng stretch out his hand to separate He Xiao, Xu Guo gripped the handle of the knife tightly and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Yuan Mucheng took the money bag from He Xiao's hand and threw it into Xu Guo's arms: "Return it to you, I won't chase it."

After finishing speaking, he didn't talk anymore, turned around and left.

Xu Guo took the purse, and after confirming that Yuan Mucheng had walked out of the alley, he dragged Ji Dong to the direction where the horse disappeared.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Mucheng turned his head and said to He Xiao after stepping out of the alley, "I don't chase, you chase."

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On the other side, when the two arrived at Huimei Courtyard, Jiang Shiqing had lost consciousness, so Gu Nanxing had no choice but to drag him down from the horse.Zhong Dingshan, who had not been able to find any medicine in Aozhou and had just rushed back, was waiting in the courtyard. When he saw Jiang Shiqing almost fell off his horse, he cursed anxiously.

"Gu boy, Huai Chuan was thrown to death by you before he was poisoned, and he was bumped to death by a horse before he fell to death. I will be so angry that I will still count on you, my ancestor, to go to the grave to burn incense for me during the festival, right?!"

Zhong Dingshan slapped Gu Nanxing hard, and helped put Jiang Shiqing on Gu Nanxing's back.

Just as Jiang Shiqing lay down, he couldn't stop vomiting, and when tears came out of vomiting, he began to tremble all over again, convulsing intermittently.Zhong Dingshan ordered Gu Nanxing to boil the medicine, and he opened the cloth bag here to prepare the needle, but not long after he stabilized, Jiang Shiqing felt chills again, vomited acid water, and choked all the medicine poured in. come out.

Xu Guo and Ji Dong went to decoct the medicine again, taking turns sending fresh hot water into the house.

Although this kind of scene has been seen many times, every time Gu Nanxing sees Jiang Shiqing struggling, he can always remember what Jiang Shiqing said to Zhong Dingshan when they first met when they were dying: "Sir, save him first."

The vomited decoction soaked the mattress, and Zhong Dingshan was sweating profusely if he couldn't feed the medicine, but seeing that he vomited violently, he couldn't bear to feed him anymore.

Seeing that Zhong Dingshan hesitated, Gu Nanxing simply took the medicine bowl from him and poured it into Jiang Shiqing's mouth.

Jiang Huaichuan, you can't die, I still owe you a life.

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The decoction was still pouring into his mouth, Jiang Shiqing couldn't taste it, he just felt uncomfortable.Someone once pinched his mouth, but what was fed into him was a deadly thing.

At this moment, his mind was confused, as if he had many dreams, some were real and some were fake, but he couldn't tell the difference.

He seemed to be standing very high. When he looked down, he saw two feet hanging halfway above the city wall. The ice and snow on the edge had not yet melted. A group of black troops came on white waves. The leader was his father.

When people used to talk to him about his father and mother, they always praised his father as a brave prince and called his mother a noble eldest princess, but he was just an abandoned baby picked up by kindness, and was fortunate enough to be given a name.So he always looks up, humbly, cautiously, worrying about gain and loss.This was the first time he looked down at the army that Da Li was so proud of, and his heart was full of piety.

But he witnessed the ice and snow crumbling into blood red during the killing, the splashed blood stained his clothes, someone beside him was pierced in the throat by a sharp sword, and someone turned around and jumped off the high wall and fell to pieces, but he couldn't move.He couldn't feel when the rope was put on his waist, and when he was finally able to turn around to look, he was pushed down.

When he fell, he could only see his mother at the other end of the rope being wiped on the neck of the city wall, and the blood rolled down and flew into the air, all floating around him.

He was strangled so badly that he was dangling alone in mid-air but couldn't untie the knot.Finally, someone cut the rope, and he was caught. He raised his drooping eyelids, and saw someone swinging a knife at the back of the rescuer. He pushed the person away with all his strength, but his neck was exposed. Under the sharp edge.

He closed his eyes, only feeling the severe pain when the skin was broken.Dizzy with pain, trembling with pain.It was as if he had been pushed headfirst into the bloody water, his nose was full of fishy smell, his ears were so painful that he was about to suffocate.

"Huaichuan, Huaichuan..."

He was drowning in blood, but saw a ray of light, and someone waved to him on the shore.

The person who died was Lu Xianfeng.Someone said that to him.

Jiang Shiqing struggled to go upstream. If he wanted to live, he had to live.When Lu Xianfeng died, Jiang Shiqing had to live.

The cold and broken corpse fell beside him, and he survived alone in the blood, stubbornly fleeing upwards.He swam so exhausted his limbs that he finally got out of the water.

Jiang Shiqing choked suddenly, and slowly opened his eyes, but he was still confused, and his body was still trembling.Seeing that Jiang Shiqing was still awake, Zhong Dingshan who was guarding the bed hurriedly called his name: "Huaichuan..."

Jiang Yu kept watch all night, and just moved aside to take a nap, and woke up quickly after hearing the sound, and also called out together.

"...Sir." Jiang Shiqing's slack gaze slowly gathered, but his voice was hoarse.

"Boy Gu! Hot water, hurry up!" Zhong Dingshan shouted towards the door, and the three guards in the courtyard rushed over with a basin of water in their hands.

Seeing Zhong Dingshan, he said anxiously: "Water to drink! Three elm heads, after working for three days and three nights, can't tell the difference between a donkey and a wild dog?"

Jiang Yu patted Zhong Dingshan, and said, "Okay, Huaichuan still needs to rest, so please hold back your temper, and I'll do it."

After another half day, Jiang Shiqing's fever was gone and he was able to talk to him, and the other five people in Huimei Courtyard were finally relieved.

"It's over, it's over..." Zhong Dingshan patted Gu Nanxing and sighed.

Gu Nanxing was in a daze, and was swayed by him, almost knocked over the water basin at his feet, and was scolded unavoidably. Jiang Yu rushed over overnight, and didn't close his eyes much after arriving. He was really tired and lay down. Sleeping deeply beside the bed, Ji Dong was holding a live chicken in his hand, calling Xu Guo, who was chopping firewood, outside the yard.

Evil ghosts don't want to go back to hell after getting some smoke and fire from the human world, but ghosts are ghosts after all, and they still can't bask in the sun after peeling off their skin, so they can't live.

Jiang Shiqing listened carefully to the sound in his ears, slowly turned over, and buried half of his face in the quilt.

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In Prince Jingping's mansion, Yuan Mucheng raised his legs, flipping through the papers sent by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment with a distrustful expression. He Xiao, who had just returned, was talking about what he saw outside Huimei Courtyard these days.

"I wonder why he doesn't see anyone anymore. It turned out that he hid a house privately, but," Yuan Mucheng put his legs away, leaned against the table beside him, rubbed the tip of his nose uncomfortably, and asked, "Did he lie in there for three days?" Three days and three nights?"

He Xiao didn't close his eyes for three days, and he was a little tired, but he still spoke steadily: "In the past three days, I saw people coming in and out in a hurry, bringing out some blood from time to time, and the medicine didn't stop. Not badly hurt."

Yuan Mucheng looked down at his hands, and murmured: "I can't..."

After looking up and seeing He Xiao still looking at him, Yuan Mucheng coughed lightly and asked again: "Are you sure he's still alive?"

He Xiao nodded and said: "The people in the courtyard are relieved today, and nine times out of ten they have been rescued."

Yuan Mucheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine if you don't die."

After speaking, he stood up to get the cloak hanging on the side.

Seeing this, He Xiao asked, "Where is master going?"

Yuan Mucheng put on his coat and said: "The Ministry of War was given three days to rectify the guards, but Liang Yuanqing was also an unreliable master. He randomly pulled a few backs and wanted to put out the fire that burned to his feet. The Ministry of Punishments The chief judge of the first trial failed to coerce the interrogation, and after torturing the person half to death, he pushed it to Brother Lu, and I will go and have a look."

"I'm going to prepare the horse."

After He Xiao finished speaking, he turned and went out, but was held down by Yuan Mucheng's shoulder.

"It's none of your business, go back to your room and raise your spirits."

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The cloak carried the wind all the way, and Yuan Mucheng, who entered the prison department, felt slightly cold, and his feet felt cool when he walked, and the prison secretary and prison officials unconsciously gave way to him.

Yuan Mucheng acted cheerfully, walked straight to Lu Tianrui, and asked, "Brother Lu, how are you doing?"

Lu Tianrui sighed softly: "I heard that it was a sudden attack during the interrogation and injured a few jailers. As a result, the interrogator was tormented a lot, but I have already asked people from the Imperial Hospital to look at it, and I am hanged."

"Still didn't say anything?" Yuan Mucheng asked.

Lu Tianrui said helplessly: "I didn't say anything, I don't eat or drink, and I don't know who I'm ruining."

Yuan Mucheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Let me see?"

Lu Tianrui nodded: "Go."

The cell door was wide open, and Lai Chang glanced at it unhurriedly, only to see the jailer entering with meat and vegetable dishes.

Yuan Mucheng stepped in with a jug of water and two small cups between his fingers, glanced at the ground, and said to the jailer, "Put it on."

The prison guards put the plates and bowls all over the floor, and then retreated out, but to Lai Chang's surprise, not only was the cell door unlocked, but they didn't even leave a single gatekeeper behind.

"Not hungry, always thirsty."

Yuan Mucheng sat down on the floor as he spoke, filled up the water and then handed the cup to Lai Chang.

Lai Chang lowered his eyes to look at the water in the glass, and didn't take it for a while.

"It's not wine." Seeing that he didn't pick it up, Yuan Mucheng put the water glass on the ground in front of him and said, "You are too weak to drink."

"It's even more unnecessary to be afraid of being poisoned," Yuan Mucheng picked up the jug and poured himself a glass of water. After drinking, he held the cup upside down to indicate that there was no water in the cup.

"The big deal is death, why bother to suffer?"

Yuan Mucheng put his hands on his lap, and continued: "These inhuman crimes have been suffered a lot these days, but Brother Lai has not stepped into the gate of hell for a long time, but are you waiting for me?"

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Zhong Dingshan: word Lin Meng.Proficient in martial arts and medicine.Another gentleman of Jiang Shiqing taught him martial arts.