Tian Yan

"If it wasn't for him... how would I lose you..."

Cao Pi trapped him in the corner, Sima Yi felt oppressed, and had no choice but to push back Cao Pi's chest: "What are you doing, stay away from me!"

Cao Pi frowned, his expression could not be seen clearly under the backlight, Sima Yi could only feel his slightly rapid breathing: "Zhongda, I did all this for you, do you know?"

Sima Yi stared at Cao Pi for a moment as if he didn't know him, the corners of his mouth gradually raised, but the smile didn't fall into his pupils.

"So, I should thank you for poisoning Cao Chong and putting the blame on me. Do you think your father will kill me in a fit of anger, and let others not get what you can't get?" Sima Yi stood up straight, Slowly, he began to unbutton his shirt, "I'm disappointed, I'm not dead, but this evil skin still saved my life."

The clothes fell down on the shoulders, revealing a hideous sword wound on the white chest, and the healed scar was like a crimson evil dragon, entrenched on the thin chest.

"Thinking about this every day, I wonder if His Highness is so sick that he can't sleep?"

Cao Pi moved his eyes from Sima Yi's chest to his face, and Sima Yi noticed that his eyes had changed, becoming like a wild beast with an aggressive light.

"You should really keep your mouth shut."

Seeing him pull out a handkerchief from his sleeve, Sima Yi realized what Cao Pi was going to do, and Sima Yi didn't want to sit still, trying to break free from Cao Pi's shackles with all his hands and feet.

Cao Pi seemed to be really irritated by him, he took a few punches from Sima Yi, and directly grabbed his neck.

The strong sense of suffocation caused Sima Yi to lose his strength all of a sudden, his two hands clasped Cao Pi's iron-like wrist weakly, and his eyes turned black.

Cao Pi seemed to have no mercy, just looked at him coldly, at this moment Sima Yi almost thought he was going to die.

Cao Zihuan... In this life, are you and I destined to die like this...

All the love, resentment, pain, and memories, if you can't get it and can't let it go, it will turn into a jar of poisonous wine over time. It just depends on who can't help it first and drink this cup.

"don't want……"

Seeing him begging for mercy with lips, Cao Pi slowly let go of his hand, and Sima Yi immediately coughed heartbreakingly, and fell limply along the wall to the ground.

Cao Pi picked him up, threw him on the couch behind the screen, and tied his hands behind his back.

Sima Yi was powerless to struggle: "Cao Pi, don't make me look down on you!"

Cao Pi smiled coldly: "Zhongda, what do you think I'm going to do to you?"

As she said that, she lifted his concealed skirt with one hand, turned him over, and faced herself.

Cao Pi stretched out two cold fingers, stroking the scarlet scar on his chest.

Sima Yi shuddered all over and couldn't help trembling slightly.

Such a sensitive reaction made Cao Pi's face darken again, it was the imprint left by his father on this person.

He pinched Sima Yi's erect chest hard, and watched him show his painful expression with satisfaction. Cao Pi said coldly, "What a bitch, even the wound he left makes you so happy?"

Sima Yi couldn't take it anymore: "Cao Zihuan, you ungrateful thing, how could you treat me like this!"

Cao Pi sneered: "I know, you are just using me, and only I am sincere to you."

"You're crazy Cao Zihuan..."

Cao Pi took the candlestick over the desk slowly, and the candle flame danced, illuminating the world between them.

"I'm not crazy, it's you," Cao Pi leaned close to his ear and bit his earlobe, "You've been crazy since you came to me to cooperate with all your injuries. I'm Zhongda who has no plans , how can you not know the truth about raising tigers?"

The next moment, a sharp burning pain came from Sima Yi's chest, followed by a smell of burnt flesh.

Sima Yi yelled and almost fainted from the pain. Cao Pi imprisoned him in his arms with one hand, and still held the candlestick steadily with the other hand, bit by bit burning the scar on his chest that had healed for a long time.

Sima Yi tilted his head, almost unconsciously, and bit Cao Pi's shoulder, his mouth was bloody.

Yes, why didn't he expect it, or did he subconsciously still believe that Cao Pi would not be the next Cao Cao?

Really, so naive...

After this torture was over, Sima Yi had long been unable to shout, but just opened a pair of lifeless eyes.Sweat also broke out on Cao Pi's forehead, but he blew out the candle carefully, untied Sima Yi's hands, and laid him flat on the couch.

"You can't take medicine for the burn right away. I'll come see you tomorrow."

"Wolf cub..."

Cao Pi, who had already walked to the door, turned his head when he heard the sound, and by the dim light, he saw Sima Yi crying.

This was the first time he saw Sima Yi like this.

It's really unstoppable...

Cao Pi stood there for a long time, finally resisting the urge to come forward to wipe his tears, and gently closed the door.

Zhang Chunhua never appeared in front of him again, these days Cao Pi was serving soup and medicine for him.After Sima Yi woke up, his mental state was not as good as before, and he was no longer as strong as he was in the past. His wounds healed very slowly, and he was drowsy all day long.There was no previous resistance to Cao Pi. Cao Pi sometimes got up and deliberately fed him soup and medicine with his mouth, and he accepted it as ordered.

Unconsciously, more than half a month has passed, and Cao Pi has not come for a few days.Sima Yi put on the robe that he hadn't worn for a long time, and opened the window, the sky outside was gloomy and it seemed that it was going to rain.

Sima Yi had an ominous premonition in his heart, and went all the way to the Governor's Mansion, but only saw two glaring seals.

Kong Gui... Cao Pi finally attacked him.

Sima Yi stood in the wind, and the late spring wind blew on his body, but it brought a bit of coldness.

Cao Pi no longer needed his help. Since when did he act like an outsider, ignorant of what happened around him.

Such a passive feeling is different from the dark days before.

Someone hugged him from behind with a smile in his voice.

"You finally stopped pretending to be sick, what are you doing here?"

Sima Yi didn't struggle in vain, the burn on his chest had just scabbed over, struggling would only make him feel unbearable pain.

"What happened to Kong Gui?"

Cao Pi snorted softly in his ear, full of contempt, and then let go of Sima Yi: "Do you want to see him while he is still alive?"

Sima Yi's heart skipped a beat. Although he had long realized the ending, he still felt an inexplicable chill in his heart.Sima Yi closed his eyes and sighed: "What reason?"

Seeing him like this, Cao Pi felt rather unhappy: "Go to prison, you can ask him yourself."

After finishing speaking, he lost the enthusiasm of just now, turned around and left in a huff.

Sima Yi stood where he was, feeling chills in his bones. After a while, he raised his head numbly and walked towards the prison.

Sima Yi had never been imprisoned, even when he was implicated in Cao Chong's case, he escaped because of Cao Cao's desire for him.But Kong Gui, who had a similar encounter with him, ended up in this fate after Sheng Chong passed away.

Sima Yi finally understood, what was he fighting for for so long?He used to have an illusion, as if the entire court situation, including Cao Cao, was under his control.He even imagined that when Cao Cao understood all this, what kind of astonished expression would be left on him in the end.

Now he finally understands that what he has done so much is nothing more than driving tigers at the front door and wolves at the back door.He is even like those women in the harem, what he can grasp and use in his hands is only the illusory grace.

The jailer seemed to have been greeted a long time ago. Seeing Sima Yi's arrival, he didn't stop him, but directly lit a lamp for him to lead him to a prison door, where Kong Gui sat inside with shackles on his feet.

"Open the cell door."

The jailer was a little embarrassed: "He's a desperado, I'm afraid..."

Sima Yi took out a steel knife from his sleeve: "Do you think I'm a weak woman with no strength to restrain a chicken?"

The jailer had no choice but to give in, let Sima Yi in, then locked the cell door again, and stood not far away to stare.

Sima Yi heaved a sigh of relief and looked at Kong Gui.Kong Gui had obviously lost a lot of weight, there was a layer of black under his eyes, and stubble appeared on his sharp chin, but his eyes were still clear and compelling.

Sima Yi sat down opposite Kong Gui, who even smiled at him.

Sima Yi suddenly discovered that Kong Gui was really good-looking, and even in such a situation, he still showed an air of ease.

"He came empty-handed?" Kong Gui looked a little regretful, "I also thought that I could drink a pot of good wine and eat a bowl of braised pork belly in the end."

"You... like to eat fatty meat?" Sima Yi was a little surprised. He didn't know how Kong Gui, who was so refined and thin, would like such greasy food.

Kong Gui smiled at Quan as acquiescing, Sima Yi couldn't help feeling pity when he looked at him like this: "Jailor, jailer!"

"What's the matter, Mr. Sima?" The jailer rushed over immediately.

Sima Yi hurriedly took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, and handed it to the jailer: "Buy me a pot of wine and a pot of pork belly, and I'll treat the rest to tea."

The jailer weighed the weight of the silver, then stopped making a sound, and called another jailer to watch, but he went silently, and soon brought up the wine and meat.

"Why are you..." Sima Yi waited for Kong Gui to swallow a mouthful of meat in satisfaction before opening his mouth in thought.Kong Gui took a sip of the wine in satisfaction, and then reluctantly put down his chopsticks: "I haven't eaten this kind of meat for more than half a year."

Sima Yi was puzzled: "Didn't you still..."

Kong Gui smiled lightly: "You want to say, I didn't oppress the people, causing them to change their sons and eat them. How could I not even eat meat?"

Sima Yi was silent, Kong Gui poured himself a glass of wine, and drank it down: "A man's dying words are good, you can believe what I say, if you don't want to, just listen to it as a fun story. "

Sima Yi filled it up for him: "Okay."

"General Xiahou burned the bones by the river a few days ago, and then the court sent people down. I can see the clues. How could those nobles not know it. You have also seen it along the way. There are starving bones on Fengnian Road. You Where do you think all the food has gone?"

"It's not just the grain harvested from the borders of Yanzhou, but also the relief food allocated by the imperial court for disaster relief every year in Yanzhou?"

An angry chill flashed across Kong Gui's eyes: "Yanzhou's granaries are filled with white sand, and I have never seen even a shadow of the imperial court's disaster relief food."

Sima Yi was dumbfounded, Kong Gui closed his eyes slightly to calm down, and put a piece of meat into his mouth: "At first, I also wondered why there are still so many refugees who want to run out despite the bumper harvest every year. I only found out later that those kinds of The fields full of wheat don’t belong to the common people!”

"Since you already knew, why didn't you report it?" Sima Yi was puzzled.

Kong Gui suddenly looked up to the sky with a long smile: "Who knows, whether the notes I presented were detained before I left Yanzhou, or were detained by Your Majesty."

"So you have nothing to do. The surplus grain in the official warehouse is exhausted, so you can only open your own granary to release grain?" Sima Yi stood up abruptly, and turned over the pot of wine without thinking, "So why did you plead guilty? You are an upright official, Are you going to take such grievances to the grave?"

Kong Gui shook his head, but pointed at the jug of wine on the ground: "The wine is all spilled."

"What's the matter with drinking at this time!" Sima Yi was rarely excited, "I'll tell Cao Pi, it's not like that when he wants to avenge himself."

Kong Gui grabbed him and said, "You still don't understand why Cao Pi insisted on my death? If I don't die, I will always be the most high-sounding barrier for those nobles. If this balance is not broken, there will never be a clearing here." day!"

Sima Yi looked at him in surprise: "But the first thing I want is your life! Don't you feel wronged?"

Kong Gui smiled calmly: "I've lived a life that is worse than death these years, and finally being able to do this for him is the best ending."

"Does he... mean His Majesty?" Sima Yi muttered, with a wry smile on his lips, "Don't you know what he thinks of you?"

Kong Gui closed his eyes and leaned against the cold brick wall behind him: "You know, the day I startled his horse, he didn't let me raise my head to see my face at first, but he still dealt with the matter of stepping wheat fairly. From then on, I knew that he was worth my whole life to follow."

"No matter what he thinks of me, I can't help but break my heart back."

Sima Yi was silent, there seemed to be something stuck in his throat, a dull pain.

Kong Gui's brows frowned suddenly, and the next moment some blood gushed out from his mouth, splashing red on the ground.

"Poisonous! Poisonous!" Sima Yi was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground.

"Hehe..." Kong Gui tried his best to support himself, "I mean, where can such a poor Yanzhou get a bowl of meat so quickly... It turns out that it was prepared a long time ago..."

Sima Yi shook his head in horror: "It's not me..."

Kong Gui nodded: "I know it's not you, if you really have the heart, you will bring the meat here, why bother..."

Sima Yi was about to cry: "You know everything, but can he know what you did!"

Kong Gui gathered his mind that was about to slacken, and managed to breathe evenly: "Your Majesty is wise and powerful, of course...you will know how I died, and for whom..."

Sima Yi's tears finally fell when he heard this sentence, and Kong Gui's thin wrist also fell at the same time.

"Kong Gui, you are so stupid. Your Majesty is indeed wise and powerful, so you don't want to worry about these things..."

The prison door was suddenly opened, and a group of people wearing official uniforms came in. The leader was Cao Pi, who took a step forward to catch the crumbling Sima Yi.

"Don't worry, wine is not poisonous, I know you never eat fat."