"Yes -" Mu Cang stepped forward and obeyed.
Inside the prison, the light was dim. Lin Xie looked at the bugs crawling back and forth on the haystacks and felt helpless. When had he, the eunuch in charge, ever suffered such humiliation?
He didn't know how Hua Jue was being held in another cell? I wonder if I still have the ability to save her life?
At this moment, the door of the sky prison rang, the iron chain was opened, and a group of guards guarding the sky prison walked in, one of them looked familiar to him.
Lin Xie squinted at the group of people and saw them opening the cell door and letting one of the guards walk in. The guard came in with a food box in his hand, and then the group closed the cell door and left. Go, leaving only the guard and him.
Lin Xie squinted at the slender guard in the dim light, and suddenly smiled and said: "I just said, why do you look so familiar? It turns out you are the coolie I met under the Xihua Bridge that day. What? I let you Go to Zhuilan Palace to find a job, did they arrange for you to come to the heavenly prison?"
Mu Cang sneered and said: "Fortunately, you remember me. I have never forgotten the way you were so arrogant and arrogant back then, Eunuch Lin! Now that you are in such a state of decline, I came here specially to see you and see how you turned into a lost dog. !”
After hearing this, Lin Xie laughed and said, "You, a guard, are so brave. How dare you speak to me, the chief eunuch, like this!"
Mu Cang squatted down, opened the food box, and then took out a jar of wine and an earthen bowl. Gululu began to pour wine for Lin Xie.
Lin Xie said: "I didn't expect that I would be in such trouble, and you still want to bring me wine. It's hard for you to remember my kindness to you that day!"
Mu Cang said:
"You are really thick-skinned! What you did to me that day was nothing more than charity from you as a big shot. You think people like me will always be dirt that cannot be helped, and will never be able to get ahead, right?"
"You said you would give me a chance to make a living in Zhuilan Palace, but you just wanted me to know the hardships of this struggle. From the bottom of your heart, you looked down on me and thought that I would never have a chance to get ahead. Now, you have become Now that you are a prisoner, it is hard to say whether you will be able to see the sun tomorrow... This bowl of wine is considered as a farewell drink from me!"
After Mu Cang finished speaking, he handed the wine to Lin Xie with a sneer, but Lin Xie was a good-tempered person, so he actually took it, opened his mouth to drink, and drank the taste of the wine in his mouth, sighing: "The wine is good. It’s a pity that the wine is served in an earthen bowl, which is very indecent. Did you do this on purpose?”
Seeing that he could not anger this damn prisoner, Mu Cang couldn't help but feel angry. He raised his hand and spilled half the bowl of wine onto Lin Xie's fair face.
He really couldn't see anyone being so comfortable in jail without even a scratch on their face.
The two looked at each other, as if to arouse anger.
Mu Cang angrily grabbed Lin Xie's collar and said angrily: "Let me ask you, what is your relationship with Hua Jue?"
"Hua Jue? What is her relationship with you? She makes you so angry!"
"I...don't worry, I'm asking you if you and Hua Jue are really together?"
"Oh...so you like Hua Jue?" Lin Xie smiled sarcastically.
He seemed to have been deliberately irritating Mu Cang. Mu Cang raised his fist and wanted to punch him, but the reason in his heart still made him hold back.
He gritted his teeth and said: "You eunuch, don't bring trouble to others, Hua Jue is a good girl! If she has nothing to do with you, you'd better make it clear to His Majesty!"
Lin Xie was grabbed by his collar, raised his head and said, "Do you think His Majesty will listen to me?"
"Of course, since you can achieve the position of chief eunuch, you can naturally persuade His Majesty not to punish Hua Jue. If you are a man, take all the responsibilities on yourself and don't let an innocent woman be implicated!"
"First of all, I am not a man, I am a eunuch. Secondly, why do you think Hua Jue has nothing to do with me?"
Lin Xie didn't know who sent Mu Cang, so he wouldn't be stupid enough to talk nonsense and end up harming Qingyi.
When Mu Cang heard this, he was so angry that he wanted to punch him again.
Seeing his repressive look, Lin Xie couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha! I think you are really not a man! All the women you like have given me mandarin duck brocade handkerchiefs. What do you think about the relationship between us? Will our relationship be innocent? She and I never thought of you when we were so affectionate and affectionate!"
Mu Cang was finally angered by Lin Xie's words. He punched Lin Xie hard on the left side of his face and hit his right eye with another punch, which immediately turned his eyes black and blue.
Lin Xie stretched out his hand to wipe the blood on the corner of his mouth with satisfaction, smiled and looked at Mu Cang: "This is how you look like a man!"
Mu Cang felt that Lin Xie was really evil. He hit him, but he smiled happily. He was such a damn monster, so he kicked him hard and turned around to leave.
Lin Xie was hit hard by his kick in the abdomen. He suddenly felt that his internal organs were torn apart. He spit out a mouthful of blood and spit it on the straw beside him.
He covered his painful stomach and said with a smile: "This kid is worthy of being called a hard worker, he really has some strength!"
Lin Xie had the chance to fight back against Mu Cang's attack, but he did not do so because he deliberately provoked Mu Cang to beat him. Only in this way could Lan Lin be heartbroken and let the matter go.
Sure enough, just as he predicted, Lan Lin couldn't hold back and finally came to Tianlao to see him.
When he came to the Tianlao, he was full of resentment, thinking of a hundred ways to scold Lin Xie, and wished he could crush this scourge in his teeth.
When he saw him, he was still thinking about how this boy would defend himself and how he would ask the aloof King Zhui Lan to forgive him. Unexpectedly, when he saw Lin Xie kneeling in front of him, he was already frightened to the point of death.
"Who made you like this? They dared to lynch you behind your back!"
Seeing that Lin Xie's right eye was beaten like a panda's eye, and it was as swollen as a walnut. The left side of his face was punched hard, and there were bruises and blood marks on the corner of his mouth.
And under his thin white prison clothes, he looked like a bunch of thin backs of a young boy, shivering in the cold winter. Lan Lin wanted to get rid of all the jailers in the sky prison.
"Is it you?"
Lan Lin suddenly turned around and looked at the guards standing behind him. Those guarding the prison were trembling with fear.
Lin Xie said feebly: "Your Majesty, it wasn't them, it was the slave who accidentally touched it."
Lan Lin stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, veins bulging on his forehead: "Did you accidentally touch it yourself? Could you have made yourself like this? You are a liar! Are you blind?"
Lin Xie thought to himself, you are actually no different from a blind man.
Lan Lin squatted down and reached out to touch the injured area on his cheek, but was afraid of hurting him.
Before he could say anything, the pain in Lin Xie's abdomen swept over him again. He couldn't help but spit a mouthful of blood on Lan Lin's dragon robe, then fainted and was carried into his arms. inside.
Lan Lin was shocked and hurriedly reached out to help him. He realized that his hands were extremely cold. Looking at the face that had been beaten beyond recognition, he felt even more distressed. He immediately took off the blue cloak he was wearing and pulled Lin Lin Xie completely wrapped him up and then hugged him up.
He turned back and roared at the jailers who were standing behind him, shivering with fear: "Go to the Royal Pharmacy Department to find Pharmacist Chen - go quickly -"
"yes--"
It is said that Lan Lin personally carried Lin Xie out of the prison that day and sent him to Yuqian Palace.
Queen Ye Nong never thought in her wildest dreams that a simple little guard she randomly sent would dare to beat Lin Xie like that. She not only admired Mu Cang's courage.
Although Lin Xie refused to admit that it was someone else who beat him to death, Lan Lin already knew that it must be someone from the Queen's faction who did it. However, he did not have sufficient evidence to prove it, so he had to give up.
He only hoped that Lin Xie could be safe and get through this difficult time smoothly.
Lan Lin was sitting on the dragon bed guarding Lin Xie. He drank the medicine prescribed by Pharmacist Chen but did not get better. He stretched out his hand to hold Lin Xie's hand, only to feel that he was really weak at the moment. His hand was as soft as cotton. strength.
Lan Lin asked Pharmacist Chen who was kneeling beside him: "I want to ask you, why did Eunuch Lin not wake up after taking the medicine you prescribed?"
Pharmacist Chen said: "Your Majesty, I just checked Eunuch Lin's pulse. He not only had external injuries, but also internal injuries, so he won't wake up for a while!"
"Not just external injuries, but also internal injuries? That queen is so disgusting! I must punish her severely!"
Just as he was about to stand up, Lin Xie's soft hand grabbed him. Lan Lin was startled and hurriedly sat down. Lin Xie's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he opened his eyes. At this time, his right eye was blurry due to congestion, and he could only look at Lan Lin's angry and pitiful look with his left eye.
He said weakly: "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with anyone else. Please don't vent your anger on the Queen!"
"Lin Xie, you have been beaten like this and you still say good things for her. If she hadn't done it, who else in the entire Zhuilan Palace would have the guts to go against Gu!"
Lan Lin was held by Lin Xie's hand, but he couldn't bear to let go of his hand to deal with the queen, and he couldn't swallow the resentment in his heart.
Lin Xie coughed a few times, and Lan Lin waved to Pharmacist Chen to step back. He held Lin Xie's hand tightly with both hands, gently stroked the whip mark left on the back of his hand with a riding crop that day, and said softly: "No matter what. Whatever you did, I will forgive you!"
After hearing this, Lin Xie felt his heart tremble, and felt something pierce deeply into his heart.
Everything he said to Lan Lin was false, but Lan Lin was true to him from beginning to end.
Only today did he understand that a person's sincerity is sometimes a sharp knife. No matter how hard a person's heart is, he will eventually pierce it bit by bit.
Lan Lin met his eyes, his eyes full of affection. His voice was even choked with sobs. He added, "I want to ask you, were you really having a tryst with Hua Jue at that time?"
Lin Xie nodded and said nothing.
Lan Lin sighed: "Gu knows that you are angry with Gu. Do you think Gu is blind and can't really see anything? Before looking for you, Gu first went to interrogate Hua Jue."
