"At the second watch, I am tossing and turning with sorrow, and my dreams are hard to come by.
I remember the time when I slept on my gums and my brocade quilt was thick.
Now the reeds are the curtain, the earth is the pit, and the cold wind blows into the house.
The cold moon shines through the walls, and the eaves are light and the night is full of sorrow.
It's pitiful that my pillow is full of desolation, so I get up again and walk around the house..."
The babbling tune was still humming, but Wei Zhongxian's face had changed color.
Wei Zhongxian is down and out, but no matter how down he is, he has not yet reached a place where he can be ridiculed in the wilderness. This is Hejian Mansion, and there are people who dare to do this to him. Then when he comes to Fengyang, no matter who he is,
, you can even spit on him in front of him.
"Li Chaoqin!"
He shouted lowly at the door, with a ferocious expression on his face.
However, whenever he called, Li Chaoqin responded. This time, there was no response at all. Wei Zhongxian's eyes moved slightly, and he reached out to touch the gold-inlaid dagger in his arms.
This dagger was given to him by the late emperor and he had never used it. Holding it in his hand, Wei Zhongxian actually felt that his hand was trembling slightly.
The door creaked open, and a figure appeared outside. The wind blew the lights on the table swaying. Wei Zhongxian held the handle of the knife tightly, but did not have the courage to pull it out - the figure outside was not Li Chaoqin.
"It's me, Eunuch Wei!"
A gentle voice reached his ears, and the figure at the door moved. Under the light, he saw the other person's face clearly, and his heart suddenly relaxed slightly.
However, when he thought about the opponent's victory or defeat, his relaxed mood became tense again. Even between his legs, there was an uncontrollable urge to urinate. He pointed at the opponent's and made two loud sounds in his mouth.
, I was speechless for a moment!
"Don't be afraid!" Jiang Wan walked into the door, closed it behind her, refilled Wei Zhongxian's glass of wine and handed it to him: "Father-in-law, do you still remember me?"
Wei Zhongxian took the wine and drank it down in one gulp. He took a long breath of alcohol and felt a little better.
"Jiang Wan!"
He spoke word by word, and his voice was like a rusty knife cutting across an iron sheet, shrill and harsh.
"It's me!" Jiang Wan nodded slightly: "The person whom my father-in-law arranged to deliver news to my father-in-law in the capital may not be able to come. I can only come in person to deliver some news to my father-in-law! Then I will give him a ride!"
Wei Zhongxian's throat moved and he looked at Jiang Wan. Strangely enough, after a glass of wine, he calmed down at this time.
"Professor Jiang, I, Wei Zhongxian, have always loved you and even promoted you many times!" Wei Zhongxian said slowly: "I have nothing to say to you. You are a scholar and you should know how to repay kindness.
The truth!”
"Yes, Jiang Wan knows very well how Eunuch Wei treats me, Jiang Wan!" Jiang Wan said softly: "So, I am here tonight, not anyone else, to repay Eunuch Wei for his care!"
"Then you are really serious!" Wei Zhongxian's face turned pale slightly. It seemed that something had to be done until tonight. And Jiang Wan could appear in front of him at this time, which meant that all his luck was gone.
It has no meaning anymore.
"The emperor means how he plans to treat me!"
The little tune in his ears continued to hum, and Wei Zhongxian suddenly felt extremely irritated. He wished he could grab the person who was humming the tune and hack him to death with a machete.
"Arrest, jail, convict, behead? Or Ling Chi?" He glared at Jiang Wan and said word by word: "We are not people who are afraid of death, so just say it!"
"Your Majesty didn't say anything. If we really want to ask what His Majesty meant, it would be His Majesty's decree in front of everyone in the world!"
Jiang Wan said slowly: "Since you have been demoted to the imperial mausoleum of Zhongdu as Sixiang, then you can just go to Zhongdu. How can your Majesty's words be changed in the morning and evening..."
Wei Zhongxian's fierce face suddenly looked a little stunned, and then an extremely ugly smile appeared on his face: "Your Majesty really has no intention of taking back his will?"
Jiang Wan looked at him and nodded slightly.
As if his soul had returned to him, Wei Zhongxian's eyes were filled with light: "You just said that you would send me news from Beijing. Now I want to know what happened to the Holy Empress. If I write to His Majesty
, I beg your Majesty to let her live. Even if I, Wei Zhongxian, arrive in Zhongdu penniless, Wei Zhongxian will be willing to do so. Professor Jiang, do you think this is feasible?"
"It's too late!" Jiang Wan shook his head: "When the Hakka family harmed the late emperor's bloodline, they should have thought about what would happen to them. Eunuch Wei should also be valuable in this matter, so..."
"Hakka can also be regarded as his royal sister-in-law!" Wei Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, and gritted his teeth: "He can also do it..."
Jiang Wan just looked at him quietly, and even poured herself a glass of wine. He picked up the wine and smelled it, but did not drink it.
"What else does Eunuch Wei want to know?" He said slowly: "Jiang Wan will stay here tonight to get drunk with Eunuch Wei, and then send Eunuch Wei on his way. No matter what the world thinks of Eunuch Wei, Eunuch Wei will not take it seriously.
,Yes or no?"
"Shut up that guy who is singing outside the window!" Wei Zhongxian said: "I, Wei Zhongxian, am not considered a once-in-a-lifetime figure, but can be regarded as a person inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. Since you plan to chat with me, you have to use these little words.
The tactics disgust me!"
The sound outside the window stopped suddenly, and Jiang Wan shook his head. Naturally, he would not explain to Wei Zhongxian that the scholar singing outside the window was the one who lost his family because of Wei Zhongxian, so he specially waited here to compose this little song for him.
Everything is meaningless!
For Wei Zhongxian, for Jiang Wan, and even for the scholar outside the window, after tonight, everything about Wei Zhongxian becomes meaningless, so why bother explaining this!
"I, Wei Zhongxian, have probably known you all my life. Let me tell you about you!" Wei Zhongxian poured himself a glass of wine: "I'm actually quite curious about you, but when I first saw you, I didn't
I thought that you would be the last person I see in my life!"
"I'm actually not from this dynasty!" Jiang Wan looked at Wei Zhongxian and said softly: "No matter how evil Eunuch Wei is, whether he is loyal to the royal family, or even indecisive, hundreds of years later, it will be written in the book
It needs to be clear!”
He showed a smile: "I said, I am from a few hundred years in the future, Eunuch Wei, do you believe it?"
"I believe it!" Wei Zhongxian poured himself a large glass of wine: "At this time, you don't need to make up these words to deceive me. As long as you are happy, a glass of poisonous wine and a piece of white silk can solve the problem. Talking about these lies is unnecessary.
!”
"You will tell me this if you are not worried that I will tell you what you said again!" Wei Zhongxian took a deep breath: "Continue, I am very interested. Didn't you say you would stay with me tonight? It's still early before dawn.
Very, I want to know too many things, what happened after the Ming Dynasty, how long did Zhu Youjian have been the emperor, what happened to the slaves outside the customs, the refugees inside the customs, and what happened in the end..."
"Also, is it really written in the book hundreds of years later that I, Wei Zhongxian, will die here tonight..." He actually grinned: "I want to know all of this..."