half life slave

Chapter 123

The gate of the palace was opened again late at night, and the guard of the Xihua Gate delivered an order with a solemn face. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince summoned the admiral and eunuch to meet him in the Qianqing Palace.

When Rong Yu got the message, he stopped talking, and he didn't fall off the horse. He galloped directly along Tianjie Street to Qianqing Palace with his horse's belly.The sky is getting darker and darker, the wind is blowing, and the wind is blowing on the face, as cold as a knife, with a cold and damp smell. It seems that the capital will soon usher in a heavy snowfall all over the sky.

There were many servants standing in the dark at the gate of the palace, and they glanced at them at random, all of them shrunk their hands and feet, lowered their eyebrows and lowered their eyes, and the atmosphere was indescribably terrified.

Nearby is Crown Prince Luanjia, and the person standing beside him is changed from Deng Tuo to Sun Chuanxi.

Rong Yu dismounted from his horse, walked a few steps, and raised his hand towards the prince's sedan chair to salute, "Your Highness is disturbed in the middle of the night, and I will be punished with death."

Shen Yu didn't answer, didn't open his mouth to get up, just turned the stove in his hand idlely, let out a long and faint sigh, "The factory minister's words are too serious, why did it come to this? But he didn't fill the Heli Palace, and gathered a crowd to besiege the Dali Temple. These two items are really difficult to explain, and the factory minister will really create problems for him."

Rong Yu bowed again, "Since your highness said so, you should also think that Lu Feng was wronged. I thank your highness for handling him impartially and returning his innocence. Your highness is so impetuous in saving people's hearts that he broke the rules. Your highness, please issue an order to follow the law of the country. punish."

What he committed was a felony, and his words were willing to confess, but he was still calm and generous, as if he was proud of the world, and his words were as cold as ice. Such a situation was shocking, and everyone trembled in silence, wondering what would happen to the prince next Dispose of this unruly inner court palm print.

The scene still became a bit awkward. The two righteous masters, one bit his lip and thought about it, seemed to have a hard time making a choice;After a long silence, it was Shen Yu who burst out laughing first, turned his head and looked aside to express his joy, "Listen, he is using the rules to suppress Gu. Your palm prints are really polite people. Forget it, Gu originally wanted to Set up a rule, not to mention that the person involved doesn't appreciate it at all, so the orphan will have to be a villain for a while."

Sun Chuanxi hurriedly bowed in agreement, paused for a moment and said with a smile, "His Royal Highness, the factory owner... Although he violated some palace rules, he is after all trying to save people, and he is an internal assistant of the imperial court. This is a heavy punishment...of course it doesn't look good."

"That's very true, and you're right to remind me." Shen Yu nodded slowly, and glanced at Chuanxi with satisfaction, "I'd like to ask the person who knows the rules the most, factory minister, tell me, your own crime , how should the punishment conform to the rules?"

Leaving the palace without permission is a capital crime, and trespassing on Dali Temple is also a capital crime. It would not be an exaggeration to drag him out immediately and behead him. Tolerate or not to accept his words, he pushed the issue back to the prince in a calm manner, "Your Highness will punish you. Either chop or stick, all according to His Highness's orders."

Shen Yu clicked his tongue and looked at Chuanxi again. The latter understood, and hurriedly said, "The factory owner has always been kind-hearted, and this time he can't bear to see people being tortured. In fact, it's important to talk about things in the palace. Let’s turn it into a trivial matter, after all, it didn’t cause any trouble, isn’t it… His Highness might as well show mercy and give him a lighter punishment. What do you think?”

Shen Yu was noncommittal, looked up at the sky, raised his eyebrows and smiled teasingly, "The punishment should be lighter, otherwise the emperor will blame Gu when he comes back. The weather is really good, this winter's snow is about to fall , This is a sign of a good year. The factory minister stayed in Beijing for a slander, and he caught up with Xiangrui. Why don't you just feel the auspicious snow."

He smiled at Yan Yan, but his tone was icy cold, "Just ask the factory minister to kneel here until tomorrow morning, during which time he can think about his past with peace of mind."

Sure enough, it is not a heavy penalty, if you ignore the weather that is about to snow.Rong Yu bowed slightly to receive the order, and watched Sun Chuanxi help the prince to leave in the sedan chair. The latter didn't know if he really felt guilty, as if he didn't dare to look at him, and he tried his best to avoid looking at him from the beginning to the end.

The crowd around the Qianqing Gate also slowly dispersed. Some people passed by Rong and whispered softly, and more people quickened their pace to escape from the place of right and wrong.The servants who didn't want, didn't want, and didn't dare to look at the palm prints of the inner court who were punished still couldn't help but catch a glimpse of Lin Rongyu raising his cloak and dropping his knees on the bluestone slab in front of the steps.The silver clothes trailed the ground, and his figure was as straight as a pine tree. He looked as if he was going to kneel in the face of a difficult punishment, but he seemed to be in a good mood. He was here to enjoy the night of waiting for the first snow that was about to fall.

It was late at night, and the new wind was pouring in from all directions, and the palace people had already lit the horned lanterns under the eaves. The mist shrouded in red light, and in the mist, scattered small snowflakes drifted down with the wind.

There were hurried footsteps behind him, and he knew it was Lin Sheng without turning his head.

"What's the trouble with you!" He wailed, tilting his head and sighing heavily, "I said I shouldn't have let you come back, but you ran into someone's gun... It's such a cold day, if you kneel all night, you will definitely get sick tomorrow What the hell, how can I explain to Lord Long Live when I turn around?"

Seeing his remorseful and depressed look, Rong Yu just wanted to laugh, "It's just for one night, how can you be so delicate. Aren't you holding a crane cloak in your hand? So you know you love me."

Lin Sheng was so angry that he had no choice but to put his clothes on him first, then lifted the hem of the clothes, and knelt down beside him, "If you don't listen to persuasion, then I will accompany you. Anyway, Lord Long Live came back and found out that I didn’t serve him well, so he still has to punish me, so why not, I’ll punish myself in advance.”

Rong Yu was amused by these words, "Hurry up and go back and rest, and pick me up tomorrow Maoshi, if you don't come, I really can't go back."

Lin Sheng's eyes trembled, he bit his lip and looked at him with embarrassment, and sighed silently.Even though he knew what Rong Yu was telling the truth, he still stood up hard for a long time, "My lord, I'll go prepare you a hand stove and some wine to warm you up, just be patient for a while."

With a sob in his voice, he raised his hand to wipe his face hastily, sniffed, turned and ran away.

People walked away, and the surroundings became quiet again.The cold wind blows on the face, and the mind is clear.What he is doing now is probably called "relatives, enemies, and enemies".It was in vain to lay the groundwork so well before, but in the end it still followed other people's ways.But if he was asked to choose again, the result would probably be the same.

The snowflakes began to thicken, and the wind rolled the snowflakes into his eyes, making it hard to see for a while, and the surroundings were silent, except for the occasional pass by the palace servants from last night, and the bells they held in their hands swayed.

I moved my stiff knee, the knee was already soaked, no matter how much I tossed and turned, I could only touch the hard and damp stone slab.It turns out that this taste is really bad, Rong Yu couldn't help laughing at himself.

Lin Sheng kept the promise, and brought the stove and hot wine. He wanted to say a few more words, but couldn't stand the urging, so he reluctantly walked away.

The fire in the hand stove was gradually extinguished, and the residual heat could not be retained, it turned into a ball of ice cold, drinking the warm wine would only make people not feel cold for a while, and Rong He tightened the crane cloak on his body, so motionless Kneeling in the snow, it is really difficult to maintain the temperature of the body.

The snow kept falling, and soon it fell day by day. Before midnight, the snow on the ground had almost covered his knees. In the morning of tomorrow, the capital would be covered in snow again. Whether there is also falling snow, whether the strong wind on the top of the mountain will also blow people's faces.

His mind was wandering, so he moved his legs again, and the cold fresh snow stimulated his almost numb knees.Extremely bored, he began to look around at the majestic and solemn palace in front of him under the silence.

Although he has lived here for nearly 20 years, he has never had the opportunity to feel its overwhelming momentum when it is quiet and no one is around.The imperial power endowed it with absolute majesty, except for the emperor, anyone in the world is equally insignificant in front of it, just like at this moment, no matter whether he is willing to bend down or stand up to resist the car, he can't shake it in the slightest.

Thinking about this life, he has bent down under its feet for too long, and now he wants to struggle to stand up, wondering if he still has enough strength.It was obviously impossible for Shen Yu to tolerate him, and it would be equally difficult for Shen Hui to be caught in the middle of such a development. It was time to retreat bravely, but it was just Shen Hui's temper, I am afraid that he would not let go easily.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone behind me stepping on fresh snow, making crisp and clanging footsteps.

Rong Yu looked back and saw a court lady holding an umbrella, holding a food box in her hand, raising her legs with difficulty, walking towards him step by step.

Walking to his side, she squatted down and put the food box on the snow, then picked it up again as if afraid that the box would be cold, spread two towels on the ground, and then put the food box back on the ground. on it.

After finishing all this, she slowly put away the umbrella, revealing her head and face, and Rong Yu finally saw clearly that it was a round and somewhat charming young face, and then remembered that she was a palace servant serving in Xinuang Pavilion. People, Yu Ruorong.

"Mr. Factory, this servant will bring you some food and wine. It's important that you warm up." She whispered, breathing frostily, opened the food box, took out the wine jug, and handed it to Rong Yu.

With just the right temperature, Rong Yu smiled at her, "Xiao Yu, thank you, it's such a cold weather, I'm in trouble."

"Do you still remember me?" Yu Ruorong raised his eyes in surprise and asked.

Rong Yu nodded and said yes, "I have impressions of the people who served in front of the imperial court."

"Oh, then you must still remember that the servant girl dropped the teacup that day. Fortunately, you were the one who spoke for me. I never thanked you properly. I was thinking of finding a chance to kowtow to you. This life-saving grace is beyond heaven. ...It's a pity that this servant has nothing to repay you, so I can only send you something."

She spoke softly, talking in the silence, making the surroundings seem more and more empty and quiet.

Rong Yuying smiled, "Where is there any life-saving grace, even if I don't say anything, the emperor will not punish you for such a trivial matter. I accept the things, you go back, careful people will see that it will cause trouble."

But Yu Ruorong shook his head, "Your maidservant is not afraid of any trouble, what else can I do, just punish me again, and I didn't say that no one is allowed to come to see you. The maidservant is here, so I will talk to you, why don't you blame me?" stuffy."

Rong Yu couldn't help laughing, he is quite courageous if he doesn't see the little girl, but unfortunately he is not good at talking, and after a while he couldn't think of what to talk about.

She seemed to feel the same way, shaking her head and sighing softly, "What a pain you have to suffer. I'm afraid you won't be able to walk tomorrow. You'll still get sick on your leg, and it will inevitably hurt when it's rainy. You... Why do you have to save someone who hurt you?"

She didn't know what was going on, and Rong Yu didn't want to explain too much, she just said, "The Ministry of Punishment has acquitted the crime, and the crown prince has also pardoned him. One life should not be in vain."

"You have such a kind heart." She laughed softly, and felt helpless in a blink of an eye, "Oh, it's a pity that good people never get rewarded."

This is too frustrating to say, and he bowed his head, "Everyone has a heart of compassion. It is just saving lives, why bother to pay back, good or bad, it is just a matter of personal fate, there is no need to complain, and no need to envy .”

Seeing her blank eyes, Rong Yu raised his head and took a sip of the warm wine first, then turned the jug and smiled, "Whoever said that good people are not rewarded, I just said something casually that day, and you will write it down, today I will send wine and food to you." I keep warm, isn't this the kind of good relationship and the good fruit planted."

She hummed, turned her head to the side, and remained silent thoughtfully. After half a day, she smiled, with dimples on her cheeks, which made the smile that was originally full of gratitude become a bit sweet.

Seeing that it was getting late, Rong Yu continued to chase people away, "You should go back, stay and be careful of frostbite, then I'm sorry for you."

She was finally obedient, nodded in agreement, and asked Rong Yu to eat up the snack while it was hot, Fang got up and gave him a blessing, and walked slowly through the snow that was thicker than when he came. up.