The lucky star of rebirth

Chapter 73
Cheng Huaijin walked into the imperial prison, and first went to see several officials who were being tortured.

Among them, the head of the household department, who was born in a branch of Lu's family, was tied to a post and was being whipped. When the long barbed whip was thrown on him, he screamed in pain, and the thick blood with a fishy smell flowed down. With his naked upper body flowing down, he slowly fell to the ground, and dots of gorgeous flowers bloomed on the taupe ground.

"Have you recruited?" Cheng Huaijin asked Xiaoqi who was waving his whip.

The little flag put away the whip and came over to salute, and said with a smile: "I haven't recruited, but I think it will be recruited after a few more whips."

Cheng Huaijin waved his hand: "Go on, if he doesn't do it again, Ben Xian will teach you a few tricks."

The son of the side branch of the Lu family, who was panting heavily, wanted to scold Cheng Huaijin after hearing this, but he heard Cheng Huaijin say again: "Go and find some bundles of two kicks, one of them in this prison is counted as one." If you don’t confess, just put one in the backyard and set it on fire, this man is just like that rocket..."

Before he finished speaking, the Lu family's children were already trembling with fear, their hearts were as cold as the twelfth lunar month of winter, and they shouted: "I will recruit, I will recruit, don't use torture anymore, I will recruit all."

Cheng Huaijin sneered, and patted Xiaoqi on the shoulder: "Think more about new tricks. Just whipping the whip is tiring and ineffective. You see, this constitution teaches you this. It is easy and convenient, and the prisoner confesses quickly. How much trouble has been saved for us."

Xiao Qi really admired it to the extreme, and said with full respect: "What the commander taught me is that I wrote it down, and I will definitely think about new tricks in the future."

Cheng Huaijin glanced at the other officials again, ordered a few words before going inside, and when he reached the innermost and the largest cell, he saw Cheng Ping'an and Feng Rongrong sitting on the chairs of the cell, the two of them Everyone's eyes are full of horror, but they should not have been tortured. After all, their clothes are neat and their hair is not messed up.

Cheng Huaijin nodded in satisfaction after seeing it, and called a hundred households to give some instructions, and the hundred households responded, and after a while, several general banners took Cheng Ping'an and Feng Rongrong down respectively.

Cheng Pingan was terrified when he saw it, and roared: "You bastard, thanks to my trust in you, you actually, you don't miss the old feelings at all." He struggled desperately: "Let go of me, let me go, I It's the son of Duke Cheng, if you really beat me up, you won't be offended."

Feng Rongrong cried and shouted: "Cheng Lang save me, Cheng Lang save me..."

Cheng Huaijin looked at it coldly, and waved his hand: "Take it down."

A few more general flags came over and lifted the two of them up and left, throwing them into two small black rooms, one to the east and one to the west.

Seeing the two general banners tightly shut the doors of the two small black rooms, Cheng Huaijin went out, called a thousand households to give some instructions, and then took the badge and entered the palace.

It is said that after Emperor Qingfeng finished approving the papers, now that the sun has moved westward and the summer heat has subsided a little, Emperor Qingfeng has leisure time, taking a few favored concubines and beauties to wander around the imperial garden.

Just now I heard a beautiful woman finish playing the qin and wanted to say a few words of praise, then saw the chief eunuch Wei Mou walking over quickly, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Commander of Jin Yiwei asked to see him, saying that he has something very urgent."

"Important matter?" Emperor Qingfeng thought that today Cheng Huaijin should have gone to Ji's mansion to rob Ji Songxian and go out to play. At this moment, his son should be still outside, why did he come back, and there is something important to face Mr., could it be that he went out to play When something happened: "Hurry up and invite him to Qianqing Palace, I will be there soon."

"No." Wei Mou promised, and asked a little eunuch to trot all the way to invite Cheng Huaijin to Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Qingfeng bid farewell to the beauties in the harem, adjusted his clothes and set out to drive to the palace.

When he passed by, before Cheng Huaijin arrived, Emperor Qingfeng began to think about it, only saying what kind of event Cheng Huaijin could have?Is it some fan king who wants to rebel?Or what is going to happen with the connection of the family?
He was planning here, Cheng Huaijin, dressed in a silver dragon robe, Gao Guanbo, brought into the Qianqing Palace, and stood in the Qianqing Palace with a cold face, with a straight spine, really a beautiful tree facing the wind, with a beautiful appearance.

"What's the important thing?" Emperor Qingfeng was straightforward and said right away.

Cheng Huaijin walked over a few steps, and when he was only two or three feet away from Emperor Qingfeng, he reached out and took out something from his bosom and handed it to Emperor Qingfeng: "I happened to get an object when I went out for a walk today, I think you must like it very much. , I’ll bring it to you.”

Emperor Qingfeng stretched out his hand to pick it up a little foolishly, but felt that his hand was heavy, so he asked: "Is it jade?"

Peeling off the wrapped silk cloth, a ray of sunlight just shot in, and shot on the dark green transparent jade carving, on which the nine dragons hovered, as if with infinite majesty.

Emperor Qingfeng took a deep breath: "This, the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom? Is it the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom?"

Cheng Huaijin nodded: "I think it should be."

He pointed to the gold inlaid on the base of the jade seal and said: "It is rumored that Emperor Wen once quarreled with Prime Minister Ming during the previous dynasty, so he picked up something and threw it over, but what he didn't want to throw was the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and touched the corner of the jade seal. Emperor Wen was very distressed, so he inlaid it with gold, you see here it is inlaid with gold, and there are these seal carvings, besides..."

He turned the jade seal over, pointed to the handwriting on the base and the red and black ink pad on it: "The jade seal has been used since Emperor Wu of Qin. It is said that Emperor Wu is still black, so the ink pad that he wants to use should also be black. The colors used in the later dynasties were almost all red, and only then did the color of red with black appear."

He and his party said, Emperor Qingfeng and his party nodded, and Cheng Huaijin continued to explain: "When I was on the mountain, I saw the pattern of the Chuanguo Yuxi from the master's collection. This is almost exactly the same as the pattern in terms of shape and size. If there is such a piece of beautiful jade, it will be hard to find all over the country, so it should not be fake."

In this way, the Chuan Guo Yuxi should be true. Emperor Qingfeng burst into laughter when he heard it. He held the Chuan Guo Yuxi with pride in his chest: "Since the time of Taizu, I have been looking for the Chuan Guo Yuxi, but I have been looking for it for many years. I didn't see any shadows either, those aristocratic families looked down on the origin of the ancestors, and joked that the mud-legged ancestors of the ancestors were not worthy of sitting on the world. He was still thinking about the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and he only said that if he could secure the Jade Seal, he would be able to stabilize the country and block the mouths of the world. Later, both Emperor Taizong and Wen Zong secretly ordered people to look for it, but they couldn’t find it. I don’t think I got this Jade Seal.”

After laughing, Emperor Qingfeng carefully put away the jade seal, and said to Cheng Huaijin, "Thank you very much for this matter."

Cheng Huaijin waved his hand: "No need, it's useless for me to take this object. I can't eat or drink it. It's still a burden to keep at home. I'll give it to you naturally."

"Having said that, I don't thank you, I feel very sorry." Emperor Qingfeng thought that it was Cheng Huaijin who got the jade seal at a loss. What if someone else got it? If he made trouble again, he would not be able to sit securely in this world. If the Queen Mother got it... Emperor Qingfeng didn't even dare to think about it, the consequences would be too serious.

Cheng Huaijin smiled slightly: "I heard that there is a rare epiphyllum in the imperial garden that will bloom in a few days. If you want to thank me, you can give this flower to me."

Emperor Qingfeng waved his hand immediately: "Take it, take it, go quickly after you take it, that epiphyllum is my favorite thing, if you don't go sooner, I won't regret it."

Cheng Huaijin said goodbye with a smile and left, turned around and went to the Imperial Garden to find the exquisite epiphyllum, took it with her and left.

Wei Mou followed Cheng Huaijin all the time, holding flowers for him and sending them out of the palace. When he arrived at the gate of the palace, Cheng Huaijin said to Wei Mou: "Please tell Your Majesty, I will take Cheng Ping'an into imperial prison. If Cheng Guogong's mansion comes Complain and ask His Majesty to cover up for me."

After finishing speaking, he took the flowers in Wei Mou's hand and left quickly, coaxing Wei Mou into a cold sweat, and hurried to ventilate Emperor Qingfeng.

It is only said that Cheng Pingan spent a day and a night in the small dark room of the imperial prison. This day and night, he could only stay in a small, dark space, with no light in his eyes, no smell in his nose, and no sound in his ears. , and at the same time, it was stuffy and hot, he was sweating profusely, and his throat was extremely thirsty, but no one gave him a little water, let alone food.

In the evening of the next day, the gatekeeper went to open the door. As soon as the door was opened, there was a foul smell. It turned out that Cheng Pingan couldn't hold it back, so he could only pull all the excrement and urine in the house. The weather was so stuffy all night. How it tastes is naturally conceivable.

Cheng Ping'an's spirit collapsed after being locked in the room for a short time. In order to survive, he tore his clothes and tore a good piece of cotton silk into a mess. He lay in a smelly, dirty and embarrassed On the ground of the small black room, a pair of round eyes opened silently, if it wasn't for the breath in his nose, I really thought that he would die in peace.

When several small flags hurriedly carried him out, Cheng Pingan cried out, turned over and ran.

Several Jinyiwei Xiaoqi couldn't catch up, and Feng Rongrong was also released. She was even worse than Cheng Ping'an, and was carried by Jinyiwei's people on the door panel and walked around Jinling City and sent her back to Duke Cheng's mansion. .

Cheng Pingan was running around in the street like crazy. When the sun shone on his head, he heard the sounds of the crowd, and smelled the aroma of food from the small restaurants on the street, he was alive again. come over.

After finally calming down, Cheng Pingan found a clothing store and bought some clothes for him to change, and then asked someone to fix his hair, and then hired a car to go back to Duke Cheng's mansion.

It is said that during Cheng Ping's disappearance, Cheng Guogong naturally looked for him everywhere. Later, he heard that he and a concubine were taken into prison. Cheng Guogong was in a hurry. The license plate asks to see the driver.

Only when Cheng Guogong got the letter and went to see Emperor Qingfeng, the palace gate was closed, and Qingfeng Emperor naturally did not see him. Cheng Guogong had no choice but to wait for the dawn when the palace gate opened and handed over the waist card again. This time, Qingfeng Emperor Feng called him.

Cheng Guogong trembled slightly and entered the Qianqing Palace. When he saw Emperor Qingfeng, he knelt down on the ground, crying with snot and tears, looking very pitiful: "Please save the dog, the dog is loyal to your majesty." , I have never done anything detrimental to the country or the people, but yesterday Jin Yiwei took Quanzi and a concubine of Quanzi into the imperial prison, what will happen to my son, what will happen to my son, I can't say... Your Majesty, The old minister has only such a son at an old age, and he still needs to rely on him to take care of him until the end of his life. If he wants to have a good life, how will the old minister and his wife live."

(End of this chapter)