Southerners

Chapter 123 Gentlemen grow old together 5

With a few words, Song Zhi sold herself out from the bottom of her family, sentenced herself to death, and at the same time picked Meng Huan clean.

Does Song Zhi hate Meng Huan?

I think I hate it.

I hate him for being arbitrary and domineering, disregarding his own wishes, and forcing himself to stay. Has Meng Huan given him less harm than love in recent years?

But Song Zhi didn't want Meng Huan to be implicated by her.

Yeluxi stared at Song Zhi with dark eyes, and did not speak for a long while.The two confessions did not match.

Meng Huan firmly claimed that the accusations against Song Zhi were all slander and conspiracy, and the evidence was forged.

Song Zhi pleaded guilty frankly.

Yeluxi has been an official for many years, but he has never seen such a case.

Thinking of the unsigned letter that inexplicably appeared on his desk, there was only a sentence of "someone wants to rob a prisoner, rob Song Zilan".

It's not that he didn't doubt the intentions of the people who came here, but he would rather believe it than not. Even in the middle of the night, Yeluxi brought people to check the situation.

I didn't expect to be caught by him.

This is not a good sign.This means that he has been used by others and has become a gun in the party struggle without knowing it.

"Is what you said true?" After a long time, Yeluxi asked in a deep voice, "If there is half a sentence that is false, don't blame me for being rude."

"Everything Song Zhi said is true." Song Zhi said.

Yeluxi tapped his fingers on the ebony table, and said leisurely: "But what you said is different from what your young master said."

"Which of the two of you is lying?"

"My lord!" Song Zhi hurriedly said, "Everything Song Zhi said is true!"

"Master, he...he was just deceived by me and mistrusted me, that's why he said that. He didn't intend to deceive adults."

Yeluxi lowered his eyes and looked at Song Zhi quietly, not letting go of every subtle expression on his face.

With his discerning eyesight, he could see that what Song Zhi said was definitely false, but which ones were false and which ones were true, he couldn't tell for the time being.

"Song Zilan," Yeluxi said solemnly, "Do you know what the consequences will be for what you said?"

He hated the puppet court of the Mongolian Yuan and the puppet court, and his heart was devoted to the dead Song Dynasty. Even Wen Tianxiang was executed. How could he, Song Zhi, survive?

"Yes..." Song Zhi leaned down very low, "Song Zhi knows."

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Yeluxi asked.

Who is not afraid of death?But whoever is alive is not greedy for life and afraid of death?But in this world, there are always things more important than life.

Song Zhi seemed to still have the temperature that Meng Huan had just left on her hand, so familiar and reassuring, but I'm sorry, no matter what, he couldn't stay by his side.

Even if he dies, he can't stay.

"Song Zhi wants to die."

In early summer, the evening breeze is cool, the shadows of the trees are shaking, and the cold moonlight shines in from the small window and falls on the small open space in front of the window.

The candlelight flickered, illuminating Song Zhi's face in a warm yellow, and his figure swayed on the cold ground.

Death... isn't that scary, is it?Song Zhi thought.

Living is always harder than dying.

When Yeluxi came out of the interrogation room, he rubbed the center of his brows, he was not young, and he was really tired after staying up all night.

Meng Huan is a member of the Mairijitai family and Boyan's son-in-law, he can't deal with it casually, no matter what he knows, he will make a noise over there.

He didn't call out Meng Huan's name in front of everyone just now, not because he was concerned about Meng Huan, but because he just cared about the face of the Tian family.

Your Majesty just proposed marriage to Meng Huan, referring to Boyan's precious daughter. With such an honor, Meng Huan should have a bright future. If such a thing happened suddenly, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of His Majesty the Emperor, saying that he doesn't know people well? what?

The so-called pure ministers are only loyal to His Majesty, loyal to their duties, not forming cliques for private interests, and not participating in party struggles.

The moment Yeluxi saw Meng Huan, he realized that he was being used. How could he follow the wishes of the people behind the scenes and make this matter so serious?

The overnight interrogation was precisely because he didn't want another accident to happen.

"My lord," the person next to him was an old man, with sharp eyesight and quick hands, rubbing his shoulders for him, "Do you want to go home to rest?"

"No," Yeluxi raised his hand, "I want to go to the palace to face the saint."

"Face Saint?"

"My lord is not..."

"Yes," Yeluxi knew what he meant, and said, "It is precisely because he cannot be used that he wants to stab His Majesty."

"Your Majesty is wise and has his own decision. This matter is of great importance, and I cannot handle it. It should be handed over to His Majesty for personal decision."

They wanted him to go to His Majesty, and he did, but whether things will develop according to those people's expectations is still uncertain.

At the beginning of this year, Cheng Jufu, the censor of Xingtai, was ordered to search and interview the relics of the Song Dynasty who lived in seclusion in the south of the Yangtze River, and more than [-] people were obtained.Zhao Zi'ang, who was at the top of the list, was also introduced into the palace alone to meet His Majesty, not to mention receiving a large reward, His Majesty even asked him to draft an edict for the establishment of the Minister of Ministers, entrusting him with important tasks.

With the precedent of Zhao Ziang and others, Song Zilan's ending has to be said twice.

After Yeluxi left, Song Zhi was imprisoned again, and additional special staff were assigned to strictly prevent any outsiders from entering.

Song Zhi didn't sleep all night and was exhausted. After returning to the prison, although it was cold, she quickly fell asleep.

In the dream, the mice squeaked non-stop, and Song Zhi did not sleep peacefully.

In a blink of an eye, it was Xiuniang who was staring at him again, her voice was crying like blood: "Young Master, Xiuniang wished she could die in Pujiang with Madam back then!"

With a resolute look on his young but old face, he turned his head and bumped into the beam.

Song Zhi was so frightened that she trembled all over, her hands and feet were cold, she cried and hugged Xiuniang's bloody body, and said, "I was wrong about Xiuniang, I was wrong."

What did he do wrong?

He shouldn't have met Meng Huan, shouldn't have fallen in love, and in retrospect, he shouldn't have survived at all.

Song Zhi contracted a cold, coughed desperately, had a fever, and babbled in a daze, but no one could diagnose and treat him.

The news of Meng Huan's imprisonment spread quickly and fell into the hands of those who should know.

Hu Duhu was guarding the city outside, and suddenly heard that his son had been arrested. This was his only son, his unique and precious son, and immediately rushed back to the capital.

Your Majesty is getting old, and he can't deal with many facts, and he has gone through many times in the early court.

After hearing Yeluxi's report, he was very depressed. First, he was angry with his sons and grandchildren, and when he was still alive, he hurriedly wanted to find a new home.

Second, I don’t understand, Song Du has been dead for seven years, why are there still so many Song people who are obsessed with obsession, and insist on guarding the incompetent Song court?

Turning around, he was distracted by other things and forgot about this one.

When Boyan and An Tong learned about this, they were also furious. Meng Huan actually disregarded his own life and future for the sake of a man, a Han, and clearly did not take Chuo Man seriously. It is really disappointing!

Boyan originally wanted to take his daughter back, but after hearing Chuoman's plea, he recalled that he still valued this young man, so he turned off the fire a little bit, and it happened that Hu Duhu also returned to Beijing, and the two met for a while .

Chuo Man didn't like Song Zhi's existence at all, and now she doesn't care about Song Zhi anymore. During the two days when Meng Huan was imprisoned, she ran to the general manager's mansion every day.

Soon, Meng Huan was fished out.

As Meng Huan, no one in the prison dared to treat him harshly, so he got out safely without suffering any crime.

Song Zhi was not so lucky.

After the weather got hotter, the wind and cold contracted did not cure, but it gradually recovered by itself.

Cold meals can still be swallowed, but summer meals are prone to spoilage.

It's not that Song Zhi dislikes these things and refuses to eat them, she just feels that being executed and being starved to death always die together, so it seems good to just die in prison like this.

When Meng Huan finally found a chance to visit Song Zhi, Song Zhi was already so hungry that she didn't know what to do.

A person who was so lively before, became thin and skinny, lying in the straw pile without a trace of vitality.

Meng Huan almost broke the general manager's office for this.

The prisoner died silently in the prison before the formal trial, and the law did not stipulate this. After the incident became serious, all the jailers guarding Song Zhi were punished.

This matter has also been officially put on the agenda.

After that day, Meng Huan searched the Meng Mansion, burned all the ambiguous papers left by Song Zhi, and dealt with those in Xingshun Hutong.

But Meng Huan didn't expect that the opponent didn't intend to achieve decisive results with Song Zhi at all, and aimed directly at him in the second step.

In May, most of the Dragon Boat Festival is very "lively", and a piece of gossip floats out like snowflakes.

"It's not too late to rebel!"

"I'm going to rebel soon!"

"Hey, have you heard that General Hazier and Yesu Buhua secretly exchanged..."

"Who did you hear?"

"Hey, it's spread all over the capital."

"You can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing, can General Hazier do it? His Majesty spoils him so much..."

"Don't you know, Hazier has fallen out of favor, and now he is stunned by a man, and he puts that man first in everything."

"Man, man...?"

"Isn't it! Hahahahahaha!..."

"That Miss Chuo Man..."

"You don't know, General Boyan and Prime Minister An Tong lost their temper!"

"Tsk, General Huduhu is going to break his heart. If he has more sons, it's fine, but he only has this one son..."

The three became tigers, and it didn't take long for the news of the rebellion. His Majesty only received the urgent military report at eight hundred miles this morning, and the whole capital knew it in a blink of an eye.

News always has to be half-truth and half-false to be believed. If you can't tell the truth, it doesn't take long for the conspiracy to be true. So is it true or false that Meng Huan gave him privately?Who can know?

An Tong originally planned to press the news and not report it to Tian Ting, but Boyan disagreed, and finally Shizu found out.

In the early dynasty, two of the three censors at Yushitai jointly wrote a letter to impeach Meng Huan, and they also took out the letter as evidence. There were some unclear contents in it, which seemed plausible, but the notes were indeed Meng Huan's.

The emperor immediately lost his temper, threw things all over the floor, regardless of whether it was true, first scolded Meng Huan bloodyly, and then pointed to Kuduhu's nose: "Look at the good son you taught! "

His Majesty firmly believed that where there is no wind, there are no waves, so he seized Meng Huan's post, banned his feet, and ordered: "Check, Hazier is not allowed to leave the mansion until the truth is found out."

At the end, the aged old emperor suddenly thought of the Han boy who was still locked in the prison, and said drowsily: "The one called Song Zilan last time..."

"What's going on?" He asked Meng Huan.

Meng Huan knelt under His Highness, with his head bowed extremely low, still insisting on his statement: "Returning to Your Majesty, that is also slander."

The old emperor snorted through his nose, and glanced at His Highness's silent civil and military officials with cold eyes, and was also a little suspicious in his heart: one thing after another, it seems that it is not that simple.

After the court, Meng Huan followed Hu Duhu to the outside of the hall, Boyan and An Tong were annoyed by him, snorted coldly, and walked very fast ahead.But they also saw that this time, the target of the mastermind behind the scenes might not be just Meng Huan.

Maybe... and Kuduhu, and even Boyan and An Tong...

The wolf's ambition is chilling.

"Master Hazier!" Walking down the high steps outside the hall, an anxious voice suddenly came from behind, "Master Hazier, please stay!"

Meng Huan stopped when he heard the sound, and looked back.

I saw a handsome man in his thirties, who was walking towards him quickly, holding up his clothes, still yelling, "Sir, please wait."

This person is actually Zhao Mengfu, styled Ziang, a Southern Song survivor who came from the south of the Yangtze River, the eleventh grandson of Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin, the direct descendant of Zhao Defang, the king of Qin, the authentic blood of the royal family of the Song court, and has recently won the favor of His Majesty.

The imperial edict he drafted for the establishment of Shangshu Province attracted His Majesty's great joy and high praise.

"Lord Zhao, why are you so anxious?" Meng Huan stopped and bowed to Zhao Mengfu.

Seeing that Zhao Mengfu had something to say, Hu Duhu and the others took a step first.

Zhao Mengfu was very polite, he returned the gift first, and saw that Hu Duhu and the others had walked away, so he asked: "Zhao wants to ask your lord about Song Zilan."

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Note: ⑴Zhao Ziang is Zhao Mengfu, everyone knows it, I won’t explain too much, Zhao Mengfu’s soy sauce will damage the image of a great writer, so I won’t write more, lest his fans come to me 233333

(1288) The Yesubuhua rebellion took place in 25, that is, in the [-]th year of the Yuan Dynasty. Two years later, it was brought forward here.

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