After looking at the portrait for a while, Lao Chu fell asleep.
In the dream, he returned to his youth, using the sky as his quilt and the earth as his bed, applauding for love.
Ruyun's hair spread out, and Chu Qing's mother took off her Taoist robe and fell to the ground. The Taoist robe was wrapped in a phoenix-shaped jade pendant.
Chu Qing, who was in the next bedroom, also had a dream, but it was not an erotic dream.
In the dream, he was carrying a brick, and a group of people were standing in front of him, hunching their necks and crying. Everyone had a small note on their face, which said something about nobles, nobles, nobles, etc. These are big shots.
In the dream, Chu Qing was laughing wildly, and would slap anyone he didn't like, but suddenly a big fat man appeared, a big fat man with big shoulders and a round waist. The word "The Way of the World" was written on the note on his forehead, and he chased after him. Start beating.
The Chu family father and son slept soundly, but the other family, the Heng family, couldn't sleep all night.
In the prison of the Criminal Department, Hong Haishang was heartbroken and curled up in the corner of the cell, trembling.
The most important thing for a family is to be neat and tidy.
Hong Hai is still at the far end. Next door is his fat son Hong Gaozhi, and further to the right is his eldest nephew Hong Gaoda. Even some female relatives have been imprisoned in. Either the Hong family is prosperous, and there are more than thirty rooms on the bottom floor. The cell was almost completely occupied by his family.
There was a sound of footsteps, and Hiromi Shang quickly got up, grabbed the fence and shouted.
"Write a letter for me. Write a letter. I will get a good reward. I will get a good reward. I am the Minister, Right Minister. Come, come."
When he shouted, several members of the Han family next door also started shouting. They thought it was someone from Dali Temple or the Ministry of Punishment, and they shouted that they were wronged.
Suddenly, the prison was filled with shouts.
Hiroshi Shang was also shouting, but after shouting for a while, he suddenly heard a cry of pain. It seemed that several cells next door were opened, followed by screams. After a while, no one shouted anymore, and even the moans were faint. Not audible.
The footsteps slowly approached, and a tall figure stood at the door of the cell.
Han Haishang's knees weakened and he immediately fell to his knees: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty."
Chang Chengyou had an expressionless face and was wearing a black robe, with Sun An and several palace guards standing behind him.
Sun An took out the key to the prison. After the cell door was opened, the emperor walked in with his hands behind his back.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, please spare your life. I deserve death for my crime. Please spare your life, Your Majesty."
Hong Hai didn't have time to think about why the emperor appeared in the Penal Department prison in the middle of the night, he just begged for mercy.
Chang Chengyou looked down at Hiro Haishang and spoke calmly.
"I was able to sleep peacefully tonight, but the Taowu Palace is very comfortable."
Speaking of this, there was a smile on Chang Chengyou's lips: "I was in the Taowudian study room full of masterpieces. After appreciating the poems for a while, I went to the bedroom and lay on the bed. My whole body, Like falling into the clouds.”
After a pause, the smile on the corner of Chang Chengyou's mouth disappeared, and his voice remained calm.
"But I couldn't sleep because it was too comfortable. When I closed my eyes, I thought of something. I thought of Weijiang. I thought of Weijiang being full of refugees, hungry. I thought of those refugees, who were as homeless as wild dogs. From then on, I thought of Weijiang. From Weijiang to Chancheng, and from Chancheng to Anhua, there are more than 20,000 refugees. I don’t know how many people will starve to death on the way. These people are all my people."
Chang Chengyou smiled again, but this smile became more ferocious and sinister.
Lifting his leg, Chang Chengyou just kicked him slightly, without any force at all, and kicked Hiroshi Shang on the shoulder.
Hiro Haishang collapsed on the ground, crying and trembling.
Chang Chengyou squatted down and said quietly: "When I was still a prince, I guarded the border passes, the south and the north. I have been to both borders. You should know that I am different from other princes. I have killed People have killed many people."
Hiro Haishang didn't dare to look at the emperor, so he quickly got up and knelt on the ground again, kowtowing, but could not say a word.
"I stayed in Beibianguan for a long time. I remember that I was in Youcheng..." Chang Chengyou turned around and looked at Sun An: "Is it Youcheng?"
The old eunuch lowered his head and said softly: "Replying to Your Majesty, if you are talking about the Liangrong Rangers' sneak attack on Bian Town, then you are talking about Youcheng."
"Well, it's Youcheng."
Chang Chengyou looked at Kuang Haishang again and said: "There is a tribe in Liangrong that broke away from the Golden Wolf King of the Prairie. Without supplies for the winter, they attacked the border town. The 3,671 people are all mine. I remember very clearly that 3,671 people died in two counties and towns. After I got the news, I took my personal followers and rushed into the grassland. Go deep into the grassland and chase the rangers."
Chang Chengyou squatted down slightly and looked at the weeds on the ground. After a while, he raised his head and continued: "After chasing for nineteen days, we finally caught up. Eight hundred rangers were lighting a bonfire, singing and dancing. You know How did I do it?"
Hong Haishang was already in a daze, breathing heavily. It was clear that the emperor was just telling a story, but he felt as if the air had condensed and it was difficult to breathe.
"You probably don't know. The Supreme Emperor didn't tell me about this, and the generals at the border didn't dare to say it. After all, I was the prince back then."
Chang Chengyou picked up a weed, lightly tapped Hiroshi Shang's forehead, and said with a smile: "Eight hundred people, I picked their tendons and hamstrings."
Hiro Haishang was urinating like a column, and he hit his forehead heavily on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, please spare your life. Your Majesty, please spare your life. I am aware of my guilt. I am aware of my guilt."
"Listen to me." Chang Chengyou put down the weeds, stood up, and said in a calm tone: "You have never been to the grassland, so you probably don't know that there are wolves on the grassland. The wolves also know that winter is coming, and they need to eat and have a full meal. Yes, I didn’t kill the eight hundred rangers, but I knew that those crippled Liang bandits would be bitten by the wolves for several days before being dragged back to the cave by the wolves. With luck, that day His throat will be bitten open, and those who are unlucky will have to watch the mutilated corpses of their companions buried in the belly of the wolf. Do you know why I do this?"
Chang Chengyou asked and answered himself, and said calmly: "Because I knew at that time that I wanted to be the emperor, and I wanted to be the emperor. The people of Chang Dynasty are all my people. Whoever harms my son The people, I want to seek justice, 3,671 people, for these 3,671 people of the prosperous dynasty, I am willing to lead my own people and Qingqi deep into the grassland to kill and turn the world upside down, don't say..."
Speaking of this, Chang Chengyou said in a solemn tone: "You, Shang Guanghai, have harmed 20,000 people in Weijiang. Those people are all my people!"
"Chen, Chen..." Hong Haishang almost collapsed. Under Chang Chengyou's plain tone, his whole body went limp, and he just kowtowed and begged for mercy mechanically.
"If you don't die, I can't sleep. If the thief who harmed my people doesn't die, I can't sleep. But I am the emperor after all, and I sit on this throne after all, but I can't do it based on my temper. Mr. Hiroshi endured it. , in order for me to have a peaceful sleep, please bear with me."
After finishing speaking, Chang Chengyou slowly rolled up his sleeves and spread his palms.
Sun An took a long whip from Su Wei's hand, a long whip full of thorns, and handed it to the emperor's hand.
There was a "pop" sound, and the skin on Hiroshi Shang's cheeks was torn apart. Just as he howled miserably, the long whip struck him like a violent storm.
However, after seven or eight whips, Hiro Haishang's body was dripping with blood, and he fainted from the pain.
Chang Chengyou still looked as calm as ever, and said softly: "Wake him up, I want him to have a peaceful sleep."
