half life slave

Chapter 11 Heating

Making up his mind to die, Rong Yu was about to exert his strength when he suddenly heard a cold cut off.

The world seemed to quiet down in an instant, and even the guard who was holding him let go of his hand at this moment.

Shen Hui glanced coldly at the crowd, his eyes fell on his elder brother's face, and his four eyes intersected. The fierceness in his eyes made Shen Che tremble uncontrollably.

"During the confinement period, you dared to resist the decree and didn't obey it, and made a big fuss in the Chonghua Palace. Do you want to punish you alone?" Shen Hui's voice was not high, but he was not angry, "Seeing the prince and not paying homage, Have you forgotten all your etiquette?"

Although Shen Che was captured by that aura, he was unwilling to salute him in front of others. He raised his head and said loudly, "So what if you are the prince? After all, you are not the emperor! I want to see the emperor, why do you stop me from seeing him?" ?”

Instead of being angry, Shen Hui smiled, and lightly raised his hands, a group of imperial guards suddenly poured into the palace gate, and immediately surrounded the people brought by Shen Che.

"Why? You can mobilize the imperial guards, the guards of the Qianqing Gate, and the guards of the Shenwu Gate. These people are enough to encircle and suppress all the people in Jianfu Palace."

He turned around and didn't bother to look at the astonished and frustrated faces of Concubine Jia's mother and son, "You still don't understand the end of the world until today? You should feel lucky that your father didn't choose you. Even if this seat is given to you, you still don't have the ability to sit securely. "

Pulling one corner of his lips, he sneered, "Apart from cockfighting, lust, arrogance, what else do you have? On the contrary, I have been doing errands all these years, fighting with courtiers to save money for the treasury, and living in the misty land of Yunnan. Thinking hard about punishing corrupt officials, preparing troops and raising salaries in the bitter cold of Liaodong, what are you, the eldest son of the emperor, doing when you are doing these things alone? Are you pretending to be happy in front of your father? Playing the role of the eldest son of the benevolent and filial emperor in front of everyone? Are you messing around with the little servants in your palace? What ability do you have for this position? Now you want to see your father, but you still have a glimmer of fantasy. Gu Jinming will tell you, you just have to give up. .”

Seeing Shen Che dumbfounded, he smiled faintly with his hands behind his back, "Father will not see you. The order to ground you is his old man's oral order. Now that you resist the order and don't follow it, you can be punished. The reason is that Father is still ill. , let me spare you once. In the morning of the next day, you will honestly go to the feudal land according to the will, and become a rich and honorable idle king from now on. In this way, I will be benevolent to you."

After finishing speaking, he turned around abruptly, showing a murderous aura, "If you still dare to cause trouble, I will never let you go, and I will immediately send you to the clan's mansion for questioning with no courtesies! At that time, don't blame Gu Rurui The people who brought you now go back to Jianfu Palace, and don't step out of the palace gate."

The voice was still not high, but every word and sentence was loud, forcing Shen Che to take a few steps back, his face as white as paper.

The eldest son of the emperor originally held a good hand, but he was completely defeated by himself.

But even though he lost, he was still a donkey and did not put on airs. Shen Che stiffened his neck and said, "Now that you are in control of the power, I have nothing to do with it. I will just wait for my father, the emperor, to bow to Antai in the future, and see how arrogant you are!" ! I will go to the fief, so I won’t bother His Highness the Crown Prince.”

After finishing speaking sternly, he waved to his own soldiers in the courtyard, and everyone immediately followed behind him. Turning their heads and seeing Rong He who was still kneeling on the ground, Shen Che sneered with deep malice, "So we Brothers still have similarities, I thought you were such a clean and self-disciplined role model, but I didn't realize that you would be confused by such shameless eunuchs. I also advise you four words, so that you can do it yourself." After finishing speaking, without looking back, He walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

The palace finally calmed down, Shen Huiping retreated from the attendants, Huaifeng rushed forward to help Rong Yu up, pulled his arm and realized that his whole body was trembling faintly, supported him, and couldn't help sighing softly, "Why don't you It's so unlucky to meet such an unreasonable couple at this juncture, don't be afraid, it's all over." He said and supported him, and slowly entered the inner hall.

Rong Yu had been kneeling for a long time, his legs were numb, and his arm was forcibly grabbed again, and right now he was feeling sharp pain.Leaning half on Huaifeng's body, he knew that the danger was gone and he shouldn't act like this again, so he took deep breaths, hoping to regain some strength.

He didn't say a word, Huaifeng just thought he was stupefied, and he comforted him, "Fortunately, Fantine is smart, seeing that the situation is not good, I quickly sent someone to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to communicate. Hearing that something happened to you, I didn't even care about what the imperial doctor said, so I hurried back..."

Little did he know that these few words were heard by Rong Yu, which made him both horrified and shocked—of course he didn't think that this move showed that his status in Shen Hui's mind could surpass that of Emperor Shengping, but Shen Hui was able to put down the things at hand and rush Come to save him, for the members of the royal family who are used to being aloof, it is not hesitating to make an unimaginable breakthrough.

Trying to get out of Huaifeng's arms, he tried his best to stand still, bowed down and kowtowed, and melted all his gratitude into this kowtow, but his voice trembled, "Your Highness's life-saving grace, I will remember it in my heart, Yongzhi Don't forget."

A pair of warm and strong hands grabbed his arms that were propped on the ground, and then pulled him up forcefully.

Rong He raised his head, and saw Shen Hui's long and narrow phoenix eyes smiling, and there was even more pity in it, even though it disappeared in a flash.

It's too hypocritical to say that there is no emotion, and Rong Yu can't tell what is feeling in his heart, but his nose is a little astringent, and he stands up with the strength of Shen Hui's arm, and secretly finds it funny. Die without dignity, the sequelae of panic.

Shen Hui ordered the rest to wait to go out, and ordered Fantine to go to the dining room to prepare some soothing food, then pointed to the chair on the sagging side, and said casually, "Sit down."

As if he knew that Rong Yu would refuse, he added with a light smile, "There is no one else on the left or right, you should calm down when you are frightened." bloodstains.There was a stabbing pain in his heart for no reason. He didn't need to ask how the blood stains came from. A person who looked gentle and soft had the courage to kill himself in such a brutal way as biting his tongue.

Rong Yu lowered his head, just to cover up his hastily turned pale.When Shen Hui touched him, there seemed to be a little pity on his fingertips, but he didn't reject him, not at all.It's just that his legs became more and more sore, so he simply pleaded guilty and sat down on the chair.

I still remember that many years ago when he first learned the rules, the servant who was in charge of teaching etiquette repeatedly emphasized that the ranks of superiority and inferiority cannot be surpassed in the slightest. In these years, he has always abided by these etiquettes, not causing trouble for himself, nor giving help to others. Trouble for those who have passed him.

But strangely, at this moment, he suddenly didn't want to abide by it any more. On the contrary, he was willing to do his best to fulfill all Shen Hui's orders and requirements, even if he had already crossed the chasm-like gap between superiority and inferiority.

"Rong Yu, wait patiently, it won't take too long, everything will go as I wish."

In memory, this was the first time that Shen Hui called him by his name alone, without any instructions.It's very soft, with an imperceptible lingering, a bit like spring willows brushing on the cheeks, and it has a kind of warming feeling.

Since then, Shen Hui would take Rong Yu with him wherever he went, even if he went to visit the emperor in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he would ask him to accompany him.

But Shen Che finally set off for Xi'an Mansion reluctantly, having no choice but to do so.After so many years, he may not have the opportunity to return to this imperial city where he was born and raised, and the resentment and anger in his heart can be imagined.

But Rong Yu was a little envious of him. It was a secret wish he had always had to see the world outside the capital city, but it was a pity that it would be difficult for him to realize it in his whole life.

Standing on the tower of the Meridian Gate that day, Rong Yu looked down and looked back at Shen Che for the last time, all the nostalgia and unwillingness in his eyes slowly turned into sadness.Under the urging of the attendants several times, he sadly boarded the carriage and left in the dust.

Even if you are reluctant to give up, you still have to accept your fate, whether it is a nobleman, or a so-called ant like him.But because of the look back when he was about to leave, Rong Yu felt that he had no hatred for Shen Che.

In February of the 39th year of Shengping, a heavy snow fell for three days. The entire Forbidden City was covered in snowdrifts, and all the undercurrents and turbulence were temporarily covered under endless paleness.

In the evening, he went to serve the sick as usual, and Rong Yu stood outside the gate of the palace and waited. He thought that the Nuan Pavilion would be the same as before, silent because of the emperor's coma, but he didn't want Shen Hui to hear that Emperor Shengping was old and weak within a moment. the sound of.

It was like talking in sleep, or moaning, Shen Hui also heard it, and hurriedly moved closer and shouted, "Father..."

After a while, he heard the emperor whispering something again, Rong and subconsciously approached the window eaves, and listened to distinguish, in the low voice of disorder, he caught a name, the emperor was calling Che'er.

The warm pavilion quickly fell into silence again, and Rong Yu's heart suddenly beat tight.

After a burst of violent coughing, the emperor seemed to regain consciousness, and asked clearly, "Where's Cheer, why didn't you see him?"

Shen Hui responded to him gently, "Father, have you forgotten? Brother is already on his way to the fief. This is your order earlier."

There was a moment of silence, followed by heavy breathing, "Call him back, I, I want to see him..." This sentence obviously exhausted his remaining strength, and he began to pant quickly after speaking.

Half a stick of incense passed by, the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation opened slowly, Shen Hui walked out slowly, his face sinking like water, followed by Gao Qian with a mournful expression.

Close to Shen Hui, Gao Qian asked in a low voice, "The emperor's words...do you want to summon King Qin?"

Rong Yu couldn't help raising his eyes to look at him, because he could feel the uncontrollable panic in Gao Qian's voice.

Shen Hui stared at him suddenly, with sharp eyes, "No need, tell him to go further."

Gao Qian's expression was shocked by his decisive tone.

Without further words, Shen Hui walked down the steps quickly.Rong Yu had no choice but to follow closely behind, bowed his head and remained silent, but the cold air around Shen Hui made people tremble unconsciously.

Walking to the Chonghua Palace, Shen Hui suddenly stopped, and looking from the side, his jaw was trembling slightly.

Rong Yu knew that he wanted to talk, so he moved closer, but saw that he was about to speak a few times, and shook his head with a sneer, finally only uttered three words with difficulty, why.

The sharp protruding gums on his side face, Rong Yu knew that he was being ruthless, and he was also enduring it, and his heart suddenly felt sad - no matter how ruthless and old-fashioned he was outside, he was just a 15-year-old boy who longed for his father's love.

For this little sympathy, Rong Yu stretched out his hand to support Shen Hui, and held the cold fingertips in the cold wind, hoping to convey a little warmth and strength.