Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

Gantang Village also originally built a dungeon.

When Mr. Ma took me to the past, he walked and said, "This dungeon has not been used for decades. But here is the ancestral temple of the Yan family, and the old man knows that there will never be a day of peace People like them will come to trouble sooner or later. "

I didn't say anything, just tickled my lips slightly.

He went to the front and opened an iron door. The creak sounded, and a lot of echoes were heard. I walked over and saw that the iron door was a stone staircase, leading to the ground, and the surroundings were already dark. It was getting light, and only a lantern in the hand of Mr. Ma gave a faint light, following the road that was not square enough in front of him.

The slate is very wet, and some corners even have thick moss, and several footprints are very obvious. Obviously, it was left when people were just pushed in today.

It seems that it has never been used.

The deeper you go down, the more you can smell a moist, cold smell. Although it is cool in a place like summer, it is another thing to stay long. After I walked the last step, I was completely in darkness. Only when Mr. Ma raised the lantern in his hand over his head, I saw a long gangway in front of me, straight to the end, iron cages on both sides, like Guan Beast The same.

I could not help frowning.

In fact, since it is a place where people are detained, it is naturally impossible for people to come in and enjoy the blessing, but seeing such an iron cage still makes me a little uncomfortable.

People, after all, are people, not beasts.

Seems to be seeing my mind, Father Ma said quietly: "Here, there is no other place to close people, and tools."

"Ok."

I didn't say anything, just nodded, and went behind him.

Along the way, I passed many empty cages, turned a corner, and walked to a cage. Mr. Ma said, "Here it is. Miss will talk to him. I will go to the door and call me when I am leaving. "

I nodded and he walked away carrying the lantern.

The surroundings were dark again, but it was not completely dark in front of the eyes, because the only difference between this and other cages was that a skylight was opened above the head. Although it was also blocked by a thick iron fence, the moon rose at this time. God, a faint moonlight fell from overhead.

However, with the exception of that light, the other places are really completely out of sight.

Where is Pei Yuanxiu?

I frowned slightly and stepped forward.

At this moment, there was a very small sound in the cage. A tall black shadow was behind the beam of light, and he took a step forward, and was just in the moonlight.

Immediately, a glimmer of light flashed before my eyes.

Pei Yuanxiu, he is still in white. Even in such a place, his cleanliness and purity are not impaired, especially when he stands in the moonlight, the faint glory reflected by his moonlight on his white shirt, like his whole People are glowing.

I froze for a moment, and his dark pupil looked straight at me.

...

For a time, the two were relatively speechless.

I, of course, came here because I wanted to say something to him, but when I really met, I had forgotten all those prepared speeches, just watching him stand in front of me so quietly, There is an indescribable, sour taste.

And he, although behind bars, seemed more comfortable than me.

I don't know how long he was silent, or he opened his mouth first: "You're here."

"……Ok."

"A little later than I thought."

"..."

"Can't you make up your mind?"

"……you know?"

I shuddered a little. To him, to the cold fact behind this sentence, he looked at me quietly, and even his eyelashes were slightly glowing in the moonlight, and his eyes seemed to be able to I see through it all.

The corner of his mouth evoked a slight arc, and said with a smile: "I know, the people in Xichuan should want to kill me now."

"..."

"But their wishes must be answered by you."

"..."

"and so--"

His eyelashes trembled very lightly, and even the dark pupils flashed a little light. He looked at me, calmer than he had just been, and even a little cold in his calmness.

"Are you here to kill me?"

My heart suddenly sank.

After saying that, he looked at me up and down for a while. I could not see the coldness and hostility. He only felt that he was abnormally quiet. After looking at me for a while, he said, "There is no poison, and I have a dagger . "

"..."

"You ... don't kill me?"

"..."

"Did so many people fail to convince you?"

"..."

Although he is being held here, it seems that he knows everything outside, those people will ask to kill him, and how they will persuade me.

My throat was slightly stubborn, silent for a long while, and finally spoke hard, "I ... haven't figured it out yet."

After I said this, I felt a little bit embarrassed. After seeing him in Xichuan, I have said this more than once. I know that hesitation is only a long night, and I understand every word that those people say to me. Let me make this decision for the sake of the bigger picture, even for me.

Even I knew it myself, kill him, a hundred!

but……

When I was confused, he smiled more indifferently: "You didn't think about it, it doesn't mean other people didn't think about it."

He even heard a little smile and a bit of coldness in his words, and I took a deep breath and looked up at him: "Yuan Xiu."

"Ok."

"I can't kill you."

"..."

"You know, even if everyone wants to kill you, I can't kill you."

"..."

"but--"

He looked at me, focused and quiet: "What do you want me to do?"

"..."

I hesitated, maybe I was still hesitating, but before I spoke again, he already chuckled and said, "You know, impossible."

"Why not?" I said, "You and him don't necessarily want you to die."

"..."

"At the time you were in Shengjing, you didn't go south, so you had a good life for so many years?"

"..."

"The world is so big, why do you have to be Beijing? You want the Golden Palace? You want that dragon chair?"

His eyes flickered a bit, but this time, I didn't wait for him to speak, and said eagerly: "I know that you have been a prince for decades. Everything has been lost, status, status, power, and nothing-that feeling may be really sad. "I was a little eager, and the voice of my voice was a little trembling, gasping slightly:" But you Aren't they alive after all that? "

"..."

"Is there anything more important than this?"

He looked at me motionlessly, and after listening to those words, he slightly lowered his eyelids, covering the blinking light in his eyes, and then I heard his dry voice ringing in the cage--

"Lightness, your memory in Hongyanlou is too deep."

"..."

"So, for you, living is more important than many things."

"..."

"But for people like us, being alive is just the beginning."

"..."

He looked up at me: "We can't just live."

I shuddered slightly: "So, will you die?"

He nodded heavily: "Yes."

I said, "That--"

"Either you kill me here, everything can end, and it will be safer and better than any ending you expect."

When he said this, a slight smile even appeared on his face: "Have you thought about it?"

"..."

"I thought about this ending."

"..."

"When I went south from Shengjing; When I plotted with Shen Gongyun; When I was in Jinling to build the water army camp defense; When I ordered Gu Ping to kill Yuanzhen ..."

"..."

"When I decided to kill Liu Qinghan!"

I trembled suddenly, as if there was a sudden cold wind coming from behind him, blowing my whole body cold head-on, and at this moment, a light cold emerged in front of my eyes, and the scene was painful and suffering Looked tormented.

I squeezed my hands slowly on the side.

He looked at me and said more calmly: "Besides the capital city, the Golden Temple, the dragon chair, I have been waiting for this ending."

"..."

"No complaints."

"..."

"Don't you think about this ending?"

"..."

"Did he not think about it? In his agony, on the verge of death?"

I clenched my fists, my fingertips were a little bit painful in the palms of my palms, I took a deep breath, and said, "He, never thought about it."

"..."

"He just told me how to protect himself."

"..."

"He didn't embarrass me, so I didn't embarrass myself."

He froze for a moment.

And I looked up at him, my eyes were sour as if tears were coming, and I choked and said, "Yuan Xiu, you may not end like this, you can choose something else."

"..."

"I beg you, give up?"

This time, Pei Yuanxiu was silent. Compared with the indifference and calmness just now, the dangling stitches that slowly appeared on his brows finally made me understand that his heart was also struggling and suffering.

I waited quietly for him.

I didn't know how long before he finally looked up and looked at me. When he spoke, his voice was a little soft, even gentle: "I also ask you one thing, you promise me."

"what's up?"

"If you want to kill me, you do it yourself."

"..."

"I don't want to die in the hands of others."

"..."

"I won't die in the hands of others."