Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Shi Qing ate a letter of false accusation
Litian Great Thousand World is a very ordinary, ordinary world.
Changguo, Yuezhang 15 years, Ji Chun March.
He Qizhou, in the guest courtyard of the front yard of Prince Anruo's mansion, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old with handsome features was lying sleepily on the imperial concubine's couch, squinting his eyes, looking up at the little girl. Peach blossoms are in full bloom in the small yard.
A piece of petals, with the spring breeze blowing, falling from the branches.The young man stretched out his hand to pick it up, but often the answer was empty, and the young man lowered his hand dejectedly. It could be seen that the young man was in a very low mood and was full of thoughts.
Lying under the peach tree is a young man wearing a robe of bamboo and moonlight, and the light pink petals are constantly falling, forming a picture scroll that is quiet, deserted, decadent, lazy, and somewhat depressed.
Suddenly, there was a sound of noisy footsteps, from far to near quickly, the door of the guest courtyard was pushed open from the outside, a middle-aged man in his forties dressed in Chinese clothes, a very heroic middle-aged man led a group of servants, angry He rushed in and shouted to the young man on the couch, "Chai Shiqing! You eat everything!"
The young man seemed to be startled by the sound, he stood up from the couch in a panic, looked at the middle-aged man in fine clothes who was rushing towards him, quickly restrained his emotions, brushed the petals that fell on the lapel, faintly He called out, "Third Uncle, why did you say that?"
The visitor is Chu Chengze's third son, Chu Yinghao, Prince Anruo.This person is in charge of the palace soldiers of the palace, and is responsible for the safety and defense of the palace.
Third Master Chu angrily took out a crumpled thing from his pocket, slapped Chai Shi on his face, and said coldly, "Look at what you've done! Still have the guts to ask?"
The boy didn't expect that Chu Yinghao started to strike as he spoke, and received a firm slap on the face. Chu Yinghao was a martial artist with great strength in his hands, and the boy didn't pay attention. ,He fell to the ground.
Regardless of the pain, the young man hurried to pick up the thing to read, but it was a letter of admonishment, and he saw his own handwriting on it.
Immediately, he understood where Chu Yinghao's anger came from. His heart relaxed at first, and then tightened again. He knew that there was nothing he could do about today's matter.
The sealant on the letter had been scraped off, Chu Yinghao obviously read the contents of the letter.The young man stood up, brushed the dust off his clothes, and said, "Third Uncle, it is one thing for the Chu family to save my mother and son, but people have their own ambitions and ways of doing things, so we don't conspire with each other. How can we talk about eating inside and outside? ?”
The young man was born a little frail, but he had a bookish air, and when he spoke, he also had a bookish air, although his tone was not sonorous, his words were sharp.
Chu Yinghao waved his hand and told his followers to retreat outside the door before he said harshly: "If it wasn't for our Anruo Palace, your mother and son would have already beheaded together with those pedantic members of the Chai family. How could it be your turn?" You bastard, talk about it?! You don’t want to repay, but falsely accuse us of treason, is this how you repay your kindness?”
The young man said: "False accusation? What is true in the letter? You are trying to usurp the dynasty. Such a disloyal and unrighteous thing, I, Chai Shi, is a descendant of Chai Daru. How can I join you... "
The young man seemed to be excited, and was about to quote the scriptures and explain to the third master Chu Yinghao in front of him what is the orthodox Confucianism of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.
Chu Yinghao, however, leaned into the young man's ear as if he had been stepped on, and said threateningly: "What plot to usurp the throne? We just take back what should belong to us!"
The young men confronted each other and said: "The emperor Tai-zu has a prosperous heir, at least there are more than a hundred descendants. If everyone thinks that the supreme position is what they deserve, wouldn't the world be in chaos? From now on, the family of heaven will kill each other. ..."
Chu Yinghao seemed to have been poked into pain again, and suppressed he shouted: "What are you talking about Tai-zu? Talking so far! Everyone in the world knows what happened back then, our Anruo Palace is different from other clans!"
The young man refused to budge, and argued against his voice: "What's the difference? If you missed it at the beginning, you will no longer be orthodox in the world. Now if you try to snatch it back, it is treason!"
Chu Yinghao was a martial artist, but he couldn't argue with this young man in words, so he was gasping for breath, and shouted: "Chai Shiqing, how long can you keep your mouth so hard? Bring it in!"
Two servants dragged a blood-stained, dying man from the courtyard, and threw it in front of the boy like a broken object.
When Chai Shiqing saw this person, he tried his best to maintain a calm and calm attitude, and immediately failed, his face changed drastically, and he squatted down quickly, ignoring the person's blood and scars, and half hugged the person in his arms, Anxiously shouting: "A Li! A Li!"
The man gasped in Chai Shiqing's arms with difficulty, opened and closed his mouth, bleeding, and tremblingly said: "Master, master, yes, yes... no, since... small..." He Ashamed and anxious, he passed out before finishing his sentence.
Chai Shiqing raised his head and glared fiercely at Chu Yinghao: "What did you do to Ah Li?!"
Seeing the anxious look of the young man, Chu Yinghao felt slightly relieved, and said with a sneer, "Your boy, what am I supposed to do to him?"
"Then why did he do this?"
Chu Yinghao suppressed his anger and said with a chuckle, "I'm asking you, what did you send him to do?"
Needless to say, he sent Sui Li to deliver the letter, but was stopped by Chu Yinghao.With Sui Li's loyalty to him, he must not be willing to tell the truth easily, Chu Yinghao must have punished Sui Li, Sui Li must not be able to survive, and he would say sorry to himself after handing over the letter.
When seeing Chai, Qing fell silent, Chu Yinghao said coldly: "My palace not only saved your mother and child, but also provided delicious food and drink for you, just like other princes in the palace, what can I do to you? Be loyal to the emperor! Don’t forget, it was the two people in that seat in Fengjing City who beheaded your entire family! You still want to be loyal to him? You are stupid!"
Chu Yinghao wondered if Chai Shiqing's head was lost in reading and reading, and he couldn't tell who was the enemy and who was the benefactor!
Chai Shi resisted and said: "Your family saved me, raised me and taught me. It is a small personal kindness. Loyalty to the emperor is the righteousness of the monarch and ministers! Small kindness does not hinder the righteousness..."
Chu Yinghao knew that he couldn't argue with Chai Shiqing, and he didn't come to argue with Chai Shiqing, so he leaned over to pick up the whistleblower letter, squeezed Chai Shiqing's jaw, and stuffed the letter into his mouth. He went in and shouted, "Eat it!"
Under Chu Yinghao's subordinates, Chai Shiqing had no power to resist at all, just "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" to spit out the letter.
Chu Yinghao scolded and said: "Chai Shiqing, even if you don't agree with what the palace is doing, you should see that our palace saved your mother and child, educated you, and you can protect yourself as wisely as possible, but you wrote a letter to falsely accuse us. I rescued a dog and raised it for more than ten years, and that dog still knows how to wag its tail at me, but you are so kind and revengeful, it’s really chilling!"
He pinched Chai Shiqing's mouth to prevent him from opening it, and said coldly, "Eat the letter you wrote yourself, and I'll pretend you never wrote it." He kept pinching Chai Shiqing until his face swelled and turned red. , When he was about to suffocate, he let go.
As soon as Chu Yinghao let go, Shi Qing immediately spat out the letter while coughing, and said pantingly: "If you dare to do it, I dare to say it. It's not that I ate the letter. These things can be treated as if they didn't happen Pass!"
Chu Yinghao said: "That's right, I just want you to treat everything in the letter as if it never happened, and rot in your stomach. In this way, I can pretend that you didn't write a false accusation letter, and I can let it go. "
Chai Shiqing felt that Chu Yinghao was crazy. The entire Anruo Palace's people in power were crazy. They dared to do something, hide their heads and show their tails, and called his report letter a false accusation letter. He looked at Chu Yinghao and persuaded: "Three Uncle, if you are so obsessed with obsession, you will only drag the entire An Ruo Palace into a place of eternal doom, wake up."
Chai Shiqing's compassionate and decisive tone angered Chu Yinghao even more, and he waved his hand and shouted, "Pull away!"
Immediately, several servants rushed forward, some held Chai Shiqing, some dragged the servant, and dragged the young servant out of Chai Shiqing's arms very rudely.
After being dragged like this, the boy woke up from the pain when he touched the wound on his body, looked at Chai Shiqing, his eyes were scattered and blurred, his lips were trembling, but he couldn't speak, it was obvious that the injury was very critical.
Chai Shiqing was suppressed by the servants, close at hand, but unable to protect him, he was so heartbroken that he yelled at Chu Yinghao: "Let him go, let him go, please doctor! The letter is from me, it doesn't matter." It's something else. Third Uncle is angry, come at me, don't vent your anger on a boy."
"Aiming at you?" Chu Yinghao immediately grasped Chai Shiqing's words, and said, "Okay. I want you to eat that letter and swear that you will rot the contents of the letter in your stomach. It's very simple." , After completing these two things, I will save him immediately. Whether you can save him or not is up to you."
Chai Shi was full of anger: "You, you, you are threatening, a gentleman will not do it!".
Chu Yinghao finally overwhelmed Chai Shiqing's stinking virtue, calmed down a little, and said: "Yes, I'm going to take you by surprise, what can you do with me? A gentleman is not a gentleman, just like that Bar."
Chu Yinghao pretended to be relaxed and kindly reminded again: "If you want to save him, you have to hurry up. I see, you boy may not survive for a while."
This little servant was bought by Chai Zhuoshi when he was 11 years old and moved to live alone in the outer courtyard.One year younger than Shi Qing, he has been by Shi Qing's side for six years.
The Chai family's mother and son live in Prince An Ruo's mansion, they don't have to worry about servants around them, but they are all sent by the prince's mansion, they are not serious masters, and the servants who serve them are not diligent enough, they often shirk their faces, point and scold Huai at every turn.The Chai family's mother and son had to spend extra money, so the servants did not move.
Looking at the entire Anruo Palace, apart from the Chai family's mother and son, only this young servant can be regarded as a member of the Chai family.When he served, he was very dedicated and loyal.
In the days of living under the fence, the company of a servant from the Chai family also brought Shi Qing a lot of spiritual comfort, so Shi Qing treated Sui Li very kindly.
Unexpectedly, I almost sent a letter from Sui Li, but I hurt Sui Li like this.Seeing Sui Li's miserable state, Shi Qing turned around a few times between saving people and being unyielding, but in the end the idea of saving people prevailed, and shouted: "Ah Li, hold on! I... I Call someone to save you."
He endured the humiliation that was about to overflow from his heart, picked up the letter that had just been spit out on the ground, and swallowed it forcefully, regardless of the dirt.
Perhaps it was too humiliating, or the letter paper scratched his throat, and he only poured down the firewood until his tears flowed down his cheeks.
That ink is the good ink provided by Prince An Ruo's Mansion for the buddies in the mansion. The writing is black and fragrant, and it is not easy to fade.But in the mouth, it is bitter and astringent, with a long aftertaste.
After swallowing the letter, Chai Shiqing opened his eyes wide and stared at Chu Yinghao. He didn't dare to speak, for fear that tears would fall when he opened his mouth.
Chu Yinghao sneered slowly and said: "It's very exciting to eat, delicious?"
Seeing that Chu Yinghao only cared about humiliating himself and didn't rush to ask for a doctor, Shi Qing was humiliated, but also humiliated and angry, and the tears in his eyes finally burst out.
Chu Yinghao laughed and said, "Why are you crying? Isn't Mr. Shi Qing very stubborn."
Shi Qing endured the humiliation that filled his heart, and while wiping his tears with his sleeves, he begged in a low voice: "Third Uncle, quickly ask the doctor to save Ah Li, at least he will save his life."
Everything is difficult at the beginning, it is difficult to ask for help, but once you do, it seems that it is not so difficult.
Now that Chu Yinghao had the upper hand, he was in a better mood, and he said slowly: "I still have to swear, don't try to get away with it. You have to swear, rot in your stomach the things mentioned in that letter, and don't let out a single word. .” He added, adding: “I swear on your mother.”
Shi Qing didn't even think about it, so she flatly refused: "No way!"
Ever since the Chai family was beheaded by the late emperor's decree, Shi Qing and his mother, the Zhuo family, depended on each other for life and lived in Prince Anruo's mansion.Shi Qing's mother is Shi Qing's only relative in this world, Shi Qing has always treated her with the utmost purity and filial piety, so how could she swear on her.
"Why not?"
"Swearing by your mother is a violation of human relations." Swearing by one's own mother is not only a great offense and blasphemy to the mother, but also conforms to the essence of Confucianism.
Chu Yinghao sneered and said: "It's just an oath, so how can you violate human relations? Of course, you have to swear with your closest and most important person to show your sincerity. As long as you keep the oath, your mother will be fine. Don't you Do you want to swear casually, and when I save your boy and get over this difficulty, you will try every means to secretly send a letter outside, falsely accusing us of treason?"
His tone became colder and colder, and finally he said coldly: "Chai Shiqing, let me tell you, don't treat others as fools, unless you swear by your mother today! Otherwise, don't talk about you boy, I'm afraid you..."
"Xiaoqing! Xiaoqing!" A young man's anxious cry came from a distance outside the door. Along with the cry, there were gasps and footsteps. It was obvious that a young man was running towards the guest house quickly. come over.
Upon hearing this, Chu Yinghao immediately ordered: "Close the door and don't let him in!" He turned his head to look at Shi Qing, and said coldly: "Don't think that Seventeen will be able to support you and rescue you!"
Shi Qing didn't move and said nothing, he secretly hoped that Chu Yuankai, the seventeenth son of the Chu family, would come to break the deadlock.He absolutely can't swear on his mother, he neither wants nor can; but, he also can't just sit back and die, he neither bears nor gives up; what should he choose?
Chu Yuankai came very quickly, and shouted: "Get out of the way! You dog slaves, dare to stand in my way! Qiu Wu, go kick the door!" He has not yet been canonized by the imperial court, but it is only a matter of time, so the servants and Qing guests in the mansion call him "Little Shizi, Xiaoshizi".
The little servant Qiuwu got the master's order and wanted to rush up and kick the door, but was stopped by several servants guarding the door hurriedly.
Qiu Wu pushed and fought with the servants, only he was weak and weak, he was suppressed by the servants, he couldn't even touch the door, so he shouted anxiously: "Little son, I can't beat it alone, call someone!"
Because Chu Yuankai went to school, he only took Qiuwu with him as a servant, and now he was so pale-faced, who should he call him?He respected his status, it was not easy to go up to fight with the servants, so he watched anxiously from the sidelines, and shouted: "Third Uncle, tell your people to stop! Bully the small with the big, bully the few with the more, what kind of elder do you look like?"
Chu Yinghao laughed: "Seventeen, when have you ever respected your third uncle?"
There are many grandchildren in the palace, and King An Ruo asked them to study Chinese or martial arts respectively.Unexpectedly, the children were divided into civil and military factions because of this, and they looked down on each other.
Chu Yuankai looked down on those brothers who wielded knives and guns, and even his third uncle who was a general.
Chu Yuankai was a gentleman, he had no words to answer Chu Yinghao's rhetorical question, so he had to bite the bullet and shout: "Third Uncle, open the door quickly, if you have something to say, don't embarrass Xiaoqing."
Chu Yinghao also had no intention of entanglement with the younger generation, so he ignored Chu Yuankai's noise, and looked at Shi Qing with a relaxed expression, he was not in a hurry, he could afford to wait.
Instead, he looked at Sui Li from time to time, and saw that Sui Li was being carried like a dead dog by two servants, if he could not hear Sui Li's weak and rapid panting, he would hardly have known whether he was dead or alive.
Shi Qing wanted to pounce on him, snatch Sui Li over and hug him, and make Sui Li feel better.However, as soon as he moved, he was restrained by two servants, one on the left and the other on the right, holding his arms instead and kneeling on the ground.
While struggling desperately, Shi Qing cried and begged, "Third Uncle, save Sui Li quickly, he is going to die!"
Chu Yinghao said slowly: "I have already said, whether to save him or not is up to you, not me. You are afraid that he will die, so hurry up and swear. If you hang around a little longer, if he dies, it will be your fault." Yes, no one to blame."
After hearing this, Chu Yuankai outside the door threatened Chu Yinghao with bluff: "Third Uncle, what did you do to Xiao Qing? If you don't open the door again, I'll tell my father to go!"
Chu Yinghao sneered and said: "Seventeen, you will use your father to scare me." Turning his head to look at Shi Qing, he said with a smile: "Xiao Shiqi wants to tell his father about you secretly sending false accusation letters, Such a good boy."
When Shi Qing heard Chu Yinghao's words, she realized that Chu Yinghao did not smuggle him in to the Prince of Chu or other people. Chu Yinghao only knew about it.
Yesterday, Shi Qing took the opportunity of the prince to test the knowledge of the prince's children, and expressed the Confucian thought of being loyal to the king and serving the country in front of the prince, implicitly implying that he had guessed the plot of Prince An Ruo's house, and advised him.
Shi Qing's discussion won the approval of the young children of the palace, but the older children of the palace were all strangely silent.
At that time, Shizi just smiled and twirled his beard, and even praised Shi Qing a few times, saying that he was eloquent.
After school, on the way, Shi Qing and Li were taken into the guest courtyard of the Wangfu and placed under house arrest. He said that the son of the world did not like firewood and devoted himself to serving the country when he was loyal to the emperor, which made him reflect on himself.
Shi Qing was a young man with a young heart, and he felt that the Confucian views he expressed were not wrong. After being placed under house arrest, he was not angry for a while, and wrote the letter of denunciation overnight, asking Sui Li to sneak out over the wall at night and send the letter to his grandfather. one of his disciples.
Not long after sending the letter, after Shi Qing calmed down, he regretted it—how could he be so impulsive and report on such an important matter regardless of the consequences?
Now the sage is taking An Ruo Wang's mansion to no avail. Didn't he hand over a knife?
Anyway, Prince Anruo's mansion is also kind to his mother and son, even if he wants to prevent Prince Chu from plotting against him, he should take the best way to protect the mansion, instead of reporting suddenly.
However, the letter had already been sent, and Shi Qing felt regretful and could do nothing, she couldn't show herself, and asked the palace to send someone to chase the letter back.Shi Qing absent-mindedly entrusted God's will: the letter was delivered, it was God's will, and if it was not delivered, it was also God's will.
That's why Shi Qing felt relieved when he saw Chu Yinghao's photo of the report letter on his face.
However, if Prince Chu or the Shizi find out about the fact that I secretly sent the report letter, it will definitely end in an even worse situation. This is a major event that endangers the safety and conspiracy of the palace. I am afraid that the palace will not let me off easily , Maybe it will implicate the mother.
It's the best thing that this matter is not causing trouble now.
Chu Yuankai obviously didn't understand the situation, and only focused on protecting Shi Qing. He couldn't restrain Chu Yinghao, so he wanted to move his father: "Don't be afraid, Xiao Qing, I'll find my father right away!"
Shi Qing hurriedly shouted: "Little Shizi, don't disturb Shizi! Third uncle didn't bully me."
The latter sentence "Third Uncle didn't bully me" was full of crying, and it sounded completely coerced by someone. Chu Yuankai was anxious and angry at the same time, since Shi Qing refused to let him complain, If you want to save Shi Qing, you can only rely on yourself.
However, his servant couldn't even touch the door, how could he break in?
In desperation, Chu Yuankai shouted: "Qiu Wu, come here, stop kicking the door."
In the guest house, Shi Qing watched Sui Li's aura, which was getting weaker and weaker, and felt very anxious, so he could only continue to beg Chu Yinghao: "Third Uncle, ask the doctor to save people, Sui Li is going to die! Although I can't use Mother made an oath, but she kept her word and never violated her oath, third uncle can rest assured."
Chu Yinghao said coldly: "I don't feel relieved, unless I swear by your mother!"
Here, Shi Qing hadn't made up his mind yet, when he suddenly heard a "Hi" from the wall of the guest courtyard, and saw Chu Yuankai turned over, and under the support of Qiu Wu, he was riding dangerously on the top of the wall.
Afraid of falling, Chu Yuankai leaned his body against the wall, grasping the tiles with both hands, ignoring fear and staining his clothes, and shouted: "Xiao Qing, what did Third Uncle tell you to swear? Swear on me, swear on me!"
He is Shi Qing's aunt and cousin, and he feels that he is the closest person around Shi Qing. Shi Qing can't swear on his mother, but of course he should swear on him.
Chu Yinghao clasped his hands, squinted at Chu Yuankai on the wall, and said with a smile: "Oh, our little Seventeen has learned to climb the wall." He joked in a very good mood: "Turn around, I will tell your father , Said that you have a lot of skills."
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