imperial psychologist

Chapter 481 Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road

In Dazhou, "spring prisoner" has a history.

Generally, severe punishments such as beheading and exile will be dealt with after autumn.

However, due to some unavoidable accidents, such as the approval of the Ministry of Punishment or other inevitable delays in procedures, some of the exiles' declarations for disposition were not officially approved until winter.

During the Shengyuan period, the founding emperor specially approved that all prisoners who entered the twelfth lunar month and were still being dealt with could wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the next year to leave even if the official document was issued.

It can be seen that the phrase "big Chinese New Year" holds true even here.

In the prison, Jin Yiwei took care of Bai Yi and Bai Shijun carefully—after all, they were different from other prisoners. The superiors ordered them not to be sent to the northern border, but they could be handed over to the locals when they were sent to Jiangzhou. Jin Yiwei guards.

Just make sure you don't let these two escape back.

The brocade guards originally guarded the two men as if they were facing an enemy, but then they gradually discovered that things seemed to be simpler than they imagined.

Much simpler.

Because Bai Shijun and Bai Yi, the old and the young, were basically inactive on weekdays.The two stayed quietly in their cell, staring blankly most of the time, not knowing what they were thinking.

Sometimes, there would be muffled cries in the cell in the middle of the night.

But to Jin Yiwei, it was nothing. They had seen the kind of prisoner who cried ghostly and howled all night. After entering the prison, it was good enough to cry if he had the strength.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Jin Yiwei was ordered to give Bai's father and son an extra meal. The two of them set aside a plate, took a little from their respective meals, and then asked Jin Yiwei for an extra pair of chopsticks.

Jin Yiwei found it troublesome and didn't want to take it, but the two of them insisted. Jin Yiwei looked at Bai Yi's ghost-like eyes, fearing that he would do something stupid in his rage, so he ran back with a straight face and took it again. Here comes a pair of chopsticks.

New Year's Eve dinner, so it's over.

……

In the poison prison, you can't hear the sound of the ground, and you can't see the sun. People don't know what time it is, so they can only maintain their work and rest according to the time of food delivery.

On the morning of the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the Jinyi guards opened the iron gate, dragged Bai Yi and Bai Shijun out of the cell, and threw them into the prison cart on the ground.

Whether it is Bai Yi or Bai Shijun, they are all broken at this time.

The two were locked underground for more than half a month. When they first came out, they were blinded by the bright light outside.

But the sting didn't last long.

The Jin Yiwei quickly stepped forward, directly covered the eyes of the two with cloth, and then sealed the mouth of the two - this was the emperor's order, so that nothing would happen to Bai Yi along the way.

Today is a cloudy day, but the cloud-filled sky is surprisingly bright.

The prisoners who were actually exiled had already put on their wooden shackles and ankle chains, and stood in a line outside.

The prison car of Bai Yi and Bai Shijun was at the back of the prisoners—strictly speaking, they were not considered criminals, and considering Bai Shijun's age, the prison gave them a car.

Considering that the car is ventilated on all sides, Jin Yiwei also provided extra blankets and cushions for the two of them, which is an unprecedented configuration for a prison car.

Every year when the prisoner leaves the city in spring, people from the city will come to watch - after all, sometimes there will be some very powerful people here, those big officials in the frontiers, and the small people who are promoted, who usually don't see each other, but they can see them at this time.

But once you've seen it, you know it's no different.Everyone carries one head on their shoulders, and after being tortured in prison, they often look more embarrassed than ordinary people.

"Hey, it's nothing more than a Beijing official with a few ranks."

People sigh like this, but when the next exile comes, everyone will still gather together to watch curiously.

But today's onlookers are obviously much larger than before.

Three years ago, Bai Shijun made this kind of oolong, and today he added Bai Yi, who often treats the common people in the imperial hospital—Jin Yiwei was prepared for this time, and he has been one-way since last night. All major entrances into the city were blocked.

But I didn't expect that there were still crowds of people all around.

The people in the city are not like the surrounding countryside, and there are not many people among them who seek Bai Shijun for medical treatment—but everyone has heard about the incident that Bai Sijun threw medicine into the lake some time ago.

Although most people have never seen her, and many people don't know what this Bo Ling looks like, but three years ago, because of the refugee case, she was appointed as a former imperial psychologist, which made the title "Bo Si Yao" almost changed. Become a household name.

Some time ago, the story of "Xiao Si Yao jumped to see Anhu in anger" became a new buzz in the streets and alleys.

Now that the father and son of the Bai family are imprisoned for no reason, the story behind this is really curious.

So everyone rushed to see what the real person in this legend looked like.

The people who didn't see the prison car squeezed forward desperately, and felt disappointed when they saw it——

The two people in the prison car were blindfolded and gagged, so they couldn't see anything at all.

The entire main road was just blocked by the people of Pingjing who came to watch the excitement.

When there were only one or two people coming, no one dared to challenge Jin Yiwei, but looking at the black head in front of him, the leader of Jin Yiwei who was riding a horse to escort the criminals, he only felt that he had one head and two big heads.

The carriage was at the end of the criminal queue, moving forward with difficulty and slowly.

Bai Yi leaned against the prison car, motionless.

He heard someone whistling around him, trying to get his attention like a circus.

Someone was calling his name loudly, and some of them were familiar to him—at least, Bai Yi could recognize the voice of the couple whose child was injured by firecrackers a while ago.

More voices are noisy and disorderly, who stepped on whose feet, who pushed whose shoulders...

Angrily shouting and scolding, watching the excitement and laughing...

Bai Yi only felt that these voices were noisy.

Closing his eyes, he suddenly remembered the night when he met An Hupan.

I thought of Bai Ling in a white dress, standing under the faint and bright lights.

Remembering him reaching out to Bo Ling and asking her if she wanted to dance.

Think of Bo Ling's smile, think of her hesitant and surprised answer.

"……I can not do it."

Bai Yi clenched his teeth again.

Bo Ling is gone, no one can understand his words, no one can catch up with his songs, and no one can understand his stubborn, even unreasonable insistence...

The prison car just walked forward unsteadily, until it drove to the next intersection.

From a high place, Yikang stood on a restaurant at the corner of the street, and saw from a distance that the prison van containing Bai Yi was slowly approaching.

"Okay." She turned her head and said to the people behind her, "Let those children go."

The crowd downstairs was noisy.

Yikang leaned against the window, silently watching the approaching prison car.

On both sides of the main road, a group of eight or nine-year-old children deftly walked through the crowd under the command of A Li, and gradually followed the team.

After a while, I don't know which child got up, and a thin voice suddenly came from the crowd——

"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are green grass and green sky..."

Bai Yi in the prison car was suddenly struck by lightning.

This ethereal, immature child's voice sang slowly amidst the noise of the crowd.

"The sound of the willow flute blows in the evening wind, and the mountains outside the sunset mountain..."

Yikang saw that Bai Yi in the prison car sat up straight almost immediately, grabbed the wooden rail beside him, and looked anxiously in the direction of the source of the sound.

At this moment, more children sang softly, and their voices lingered around the prison car, forming a clearer harmony.

"At the end of the sky, at the corner of the earth, half of my friends are scattered..."

"A jug of turbid wine to enjoy the rest of the day, don't dream about the cold tonight..."

Yikang just looked at the situation downstairs.

That Bai Yi, who was still sitting there paralyzed just now, was blushing, and his chest was heaving violently.

He couldn't make a clear sound, he could only whimper and hum along.

"...Life is rarely a happy gathering, but there are many partings."

This is Li Shutong's "Farewell".

Bai Yi burst into tears.

Berlin... Berlin must still be alive!

(End of this chapter)