Seduction

Chapter 104 The storm is coming, the storm is coming

"Look at you." The man took the scissors and patted Zhan Xingruo's face, "This is the only good place left." He snorted.Picking up a strand of Zhan Xingruo's hair, he casually cut it with scissors, and the hair fell in clusters. Two strong men stepped forward to cover Zhan Xingruo's mouth, and opened his jaw to prevent Zhan Xingruo from struggling.

The scissors were biting wantonly, and after a while, the waist-length hair became uneven.

The man brushed the stubble on Zhan Xingruo's face with a small brush, and saw that Zhan Xingruo was staring at him with red eyes.He smiled and waved his hand, and the people below brought over a bucket of oily swill.

Zhan Xingruo was covered with his mouth and nose tightly, but he could still smell the stench of swill.

The man also tightened his nose and waved his hands.

"Look at what I got on the military division, I'll wash it for you. There's no good water, so you'll make do with it?" He said, and the person next to him immediately walked towards Zhan Xingruo with the slop.

The July sun was extremely hot, Wu Zheng had been kneeling in front of the main hall for two hours, the old eunuch was holding an umbrella and delivering water, but Wu Zheng didn't want anything, no matter how much the old eunuch tried to persuade him, he just couldn't get up.

Wu Zheng's forehead bled unknowingly, even the coagulated blood was divided into several layers, his cheeks were oily from the sun, and the skin burst layer by layer, and the court clothes were soaked in sweat.

"Prince, your lips are white, get up." The old eunuch came over after a stick of incense, and found that Wu Zheng was really still here, "They all retreated. The emperor will not come out again." The old eunuch sighed, Fa squatted down to help Wu Zheng up, but he couldn't pull Wu Zheng up.

The old eunuch had been with the emperor for some years, and he grew up watching Wu Zheng. He looked up and saw Wu Zheng's head was covered with blood, just to beg Zhan Xingruo for mercy, but the emperor was so angry, how could he listen to him.

Before leaving, the emperor saw Wu Zheng following him, knowing that his son was very difficult, he specially ordered the old eunuch to send him away.

"Eunuch Li, since my father called you here, he must have seen me, so please help me and tell him to let the guards let me in." Wu Zheng grabbed Eunuch Li's sleeve instead.

"It's not that this old slave doesn't want to." Eunuch Li felt sorry for Wu Zheng, "This old slave speaks lightly, the emperor doesn't even listen to the crown prince, so how can he listen to what this old slave has to say?" Eunuch Li supported Wu Zheng, "Get up quickly, This big sun must be sunburned.

"Eunuch Li, when did the father become like this, he was not like this before..."

"Prince..." Eunuch Li paused, "Don't ask, now, at this moment, you'd better ask less."

"So many of you are surrounded by the emperor, and you have seen that he has done something wrong early on. Why didn't you stop him in time?" Wu Zheng asked.

"Prince, accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger. How many people have the courage of Master Zhan? Whether it is the law or the law, since ancient times, whoever touches it will lose his head." Eunuch Li said helplessly.

Wuzheng still didn't want to stand up, Eunuch Li shook his head, "The prince should hurry up and see Military Adviser Zhan as soon as possible. He won't see him when he is about to be executed. Hurry up and spend more time with him."

Wu Zheng was startled, then stood up with great effort, limped and walked towards the prison in a daze, halfway there he felt something was wrong, he should have prepared some good wine and food for Zhan Xingruo to see him off, and when he returned, he passed the hall again, Eunuch Li had already left, no one advised him to stop kneeling, Wu Zheng suddenly wanted to kneel down and continue pleading with Zhan Xingruo, in case the emperor saw Zhan Xingruo, he would not have to die.

But it was getting dark, of course he knew it would be futile to kneel like this, Wu Zheng stood in front of the empty hall, he didn't know who to cry to, who to ask for protection.The gods and demons of heaven and earth lost their meaning in an instant.He looked at the dragon chair on the main hall by himself, staring at it for a long time, the image of his father rubbing the dragon's head with his hands flashed in his mind, and the image of the people on it furiously wanting to execute Zhan Xingruo emerged.

Wu Zheng went over to the dragon chair by accident, reached out his hand to touch the dragon head, and then held it tightly.

Early in the morning of the third day, the sun's light hadn't become venomous yet, Wu Zheng went to the prison early, and when he opened the door, a faint light shone on Zhan Xingruo's eyes.He huddled into a ball and leaned against the corner of the wall, his eyes were piercing, like a hedgehog whose belly had been stripped to pieces.

With no contention, Zhan Xingruo closed his eyes again.

"A Li..." As soon as the door was opened, the stench of swill came over his face, the guard went to open the cell door, Wu Zheng came to him with wine, vegetables and clothes, calling his name in a trembling voice.

Zhan Xingruo turned his head away, swallowed, his voice was completely hoarse, "Don't come here."

"Ah Li...they..." Wu Zheng walked in front of Zhan Xingruo and knelt down. Zhan Xingruo's clothes had been torn into pieces, and the bloodstains on his body were shocking. There was a large black and red wound, and his clothes and rotten flesh were stuck together , sticky inextricably.

Wu Zheng stretched out his hand, wanting to help Zhan Xingruo fasten his hair, but Zhan Xingruo dodged it. With short shoulder-length hair and a voice like swallowing carbon, Wuzheng couldn't believe it was Zhan Xingruo, and it was even more difficult for him to imagine those What did people do to Zhan Xingruo, who tortured him like this is neither human nor ghost.

"Don't touch me." Zhan Xingruo lowered his head, his hair covered his eyes and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

Take it back without a fight.There was a long silence.

"Drinking?" Wu Zheng asked suddenly, putting down the food and drink.

Zhan Xingruo just raised his head, he nodded, Wuzheng handed over the poured wine, Zhan Xingruo drank it down, tears immediately overflowed, he gritted his teeth, trying not to let himself cry.

Wuzheng sees everything in his eyes.

More than ten years ago, at the Lantern Festival, Zhan Xingruo stood alone by the small river. With curiosity and dreams, he took the initiative to approach Zhan Xingruo. From that moment on, Zhan Xingruo's life was almost all about his memories.If the final death penalty is a river, Wu Zheng clenched his hands, then he pushed Zhan Xingruo down.

He also poured a glass of wine, and as soon as he raised his head, the strong wine entered his stomach, burning and churning vigorously.

"Can I change clothes?" Wu Wu asked.

"It's scabbed." Zhan Xingruo said, "I won't change it."

Wu Zheng didn't speak, and his eyes fell on Zhan Xingruo's wound again.

"What's the end result?"

"There is no result yet..." Wu Zheng said.

"There is no need to hide it from me at this time. If there is no result, those two people will definitely continue to beat me until I think it is."

Wu Zheng paused, knowing that his clumsy lies were vulnerable to Zhan Xingruo.

"I knew the result a long time ago. Did you intercede with the emperor?" Zhan Xingruo was indifferent. He looked at the wound on Wuzheng's forehead and asked.

"Yes." Wuzheng lowered his head, "But Father..."

"It's okay, it's all within my expectations." Zhan Xingruo leaned against the cell wall, "So is this a farewell wine?" He asked.

Wu Zheng looked into Zhan Xingruo's eyes with mixed feelings in his heart.

"Yes." Wu Zheng gritted his teeth and forced out a sound to answer.

"Okay." Zhan Xingruo smiled, "You must continue to fight, and if the world is peaceful in the future, burn a piece of paper and tell me." Zhan Xingruo said, Wuzheng was just drinking and didn't answer.

Zhan Xingruo lowered his head, thought for a while, and said, "I thought about it later, if Gu Qing asked about my whereabouts, you should tell him that I went back to the mountains and forests, married a wife and had children."

Suddenly mentioning Gu Qing, Wu Zheng smiled wryly. "And why?"

"For the sake of not suffering for the living." Zhan Xingruo shook his head and said, "He really thought that if I empathize with someone else, it would be better to start over. It's not much better than caring about a dead person."

Zhan Xingruo said, Wuzheng lowered his head.

As soon as the afternoon sun sets, he will no longer hear Zhan Xingruo's voice, and Zhan Xingruo will never have the chance to see the moon again, nor will he have the chance to smile at Gu Qing again, and he will be caught off guard before he can do many "again" it's over.

After the two had finished drinking, neither of them spoke to the other. Zhan Xingruo looked up at the small window that was covered, tears streaming down one line after another.

There was a moment of silence.The guard outside the door suddenly rushed in, "Report! Report! Report to the prince!"

Wu Zheng and Zhan Xingruo looked at him together, "What's wrong?" Wu Zheng frowned.

"The barbarian army has broken through the outer imperial city and is already heading in!"

"What!" Zhan Xingruo said together with Wu Zheng, "Wu Zheng, hurry up and call out the imperial guards!" Zhan Xingruo said.

"I understand." Wu Zheng said, just as he turned around, he looked back at Zhan Xingruo.

"Thank you for accompanying me all these years." Wu Zheng said.

Zhan Xingruo smiled and nodded.

"Me too," he said.

It is midsummer, and lotus flowers are blooming everywhere.

Zhang Xirao was lying on the window sill, looking at the lotus in the pond in a daze.Suddenly there was a frenzied knock on the door, which startled Zhang Xirao.

"Who is it?" she asked over her shoulder.

"It's me!" The young man who was going to let her out two days ago shouted eagerly.

Zhang Xirao hated this kind of answer the most, thinking "I know who you are", but before saying it out, she really recognized who it was.For some reason, the voice left a deep impression on her.

"You...what's the matter with you?" Zhang Xirao walked over and asked.

"Miss, just now I heard the master say that the army of barbarians has entered."

"The barbarian came in?" Zhang Xirao's nerves tensed up, and he leaned against the door.

"Then, what did father say, are you going to fight?"

"No." The young man looked even more anxious at this time, "Master, Master seems to say that he wants to let them in."

"What?" Zhang Xirao raised his voice, "Impossible! Don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The young man bowed his head and apologized.

"Wait a minute." Zhang Xirao said, a moment later, a key slipped out from the crack in the door.

"This, this is?" the young man picked up the key and asked in a daze.

"You stole it from me, don't you recognize it?" Zhang Xirao asked, "Let me out, I'll ask my father myself."